Get on the train at 7 o'clock in the morning, sleep well, and arrive at Chengdu Station at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the next day. Playing cards, I passed quickly unconsciously, ate two meals of instant noodles, and finally stayed up until the lights went to bed.

The sleeper was short and narrow, and it was difficult for Geng Zhiyuan to lie on it and even turn over, and he couldn't stretch his legs and feet, so he couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, so he could only close his eyes and think nonsense: "Xiaoxiao doesn't know what to do at home, is she also thinking about me?" Alas! It would be nice to have a mobile phone, and you can call her at any time to tell her about the pain of lovesickness. ”

He then laughed at himself: "Although the price of a mobile phone has dropped a lot, it costs five or six thousand yuan for one phone, which is about to catch up with my annual salary, where can I afford it? Even if I can afford it, the phone bill plus roaming will cost one or two yuan a minute, and I am reluctant to play." Alas, it's still poor. If you have the money, you can fly and waste time on the train. ”

The cheapest plane ticket from Ningcheng to Chengdu is more than 700 yuan, and it takes more than an hour to fly in the air, which can be described as both convenient and fast. However, flying involves the issue of rank and treatment, and without the special approval of the dean, the six of them are not eligible to fly.

A hard sleeper ticket is more than 200 yuan, and the total cost of six people is more than 1,000 yuan, which is relatively cheaper than a take-off ticket. Anyway, there is time, and in the eyes of the leaders, it is very cost-effective to let employees spend more time and save some costs.

In the dark, with the regular clanging of the train and the rapid or slow snoring up and down, Geng Zhiyuan gradually fell asleep in lovesickness and nonsense.

In the early morning, Geng Zhiyuan had already woken up before five o'clock. There are two toilets in one sleeper for sixty or seventy people in the whole car, and the morning is the peak time for toilet use, and there is often a queue. Taking advantage of the fact that everyone hadn't gotten up at five o'clock, Geng Zhiyuan hurried to the toilet to solve the internal emergency.

Barely ate breakfast, stuffy and bored or by playing cards to stay up until noon, as approaching Chengdu Station, there are fewer and fewer passengers on the car, and the carriage is much cleaner. At more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the train finally arrived at the terminal Chengdu after being delayed for more than 40 minutes.

The group got out of the train station, took two taxis and went straight to the long-distance bus station, and finally caught the last long-distance bus to Yurong at half past five. Geng Zhiyuan dozed off not long after getting into the car, and when he woke up to sleep, it was already dark, and he finally arrived in Yurong at eight o'clock in the evening.

Yurong Chemical Group Company is not in Yurong City, but is located in Lanxi County, below Yurong City, and when Geng Zhiyuan and the others finally arrived at their destination, it was already more than 11 o'clock in the evening.

The continuous running for two days and two nights exhausted people's physical strength and energy, and even a young man like Geng Zhiyuan was exhausted. After completing the formalities and staying in the guest house of the group company, Geng Zhiyuan hurriedly took a shower, couldn't even care about eating, and fell asleep on the bed.

When the sun rose again the next day, the sleepy-eyed Geng Zhiyuan followed everyone to the guest house restaurant and finally ate a meal that was not instant noodles. Don't look at just some common steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and rice noodles, but they are delicious in your mouth, Geng Zhiyuan ate a round belly.

Yurong Chemical Group is a large provincial state-owned enterprise with seven or eight branches under its jurisdiction, and the nitric acid project is built in the Yurong Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant. At more than nine o'clock, the minibus sent by Yurong Nitrogen Fertilizer Factory rushed to the guest house to pick up Liang Guangyuan and his party, and after leaving the county seat, they turned around and drove into the mountains.

Liu Jun, a young technician from the technical department, was sent by the nitrogen fertilizer plant to greet them, who was about the same age as Geng Zhiyuan, and introduced in Sichuan Mandarin, which he could still understand: "We are all mountains here, and the factory is built on the mountain, far away from the county seat, and the conditions are relatively difficult. ”

Minibuses travel along the mountain road, the narrow and steep road is built by splitting the mountain, and the road is next to the cliff, and under the cliff is the fast-flowing Lanxi River.

Geng Zhiyuan looked at the abundant and choppy Lanxi River under his feet and sighed: "If this one accidentally falls, it will definitely be dead, and even the corpse may not be found." ”

More than an hour later, the minibus turned into a mountain col, and the factory area built near the mountain in front of it was hidden or visible. After entering the factory, Geng Zhiyuan found that the office buildings and factories of the Yurong Nitrogen Fertilizer Factory were all 60 or 70 years old Soviet-style buildings, although they were old but well maintained, still clean and tidy, without the slightest sign of dilapidation.

"From the appearance of the factory, we know the management level of this factory. Wang Ping whispered to Geng Zhiyuan: "Look at how clean this factory is! Look at the dirty and messy appearance of the fertilizer factory in Haibin County, it is no better than not knowing the gap." ”

"Dachang still has a foundation. Wang Xinghu interjected: "After all, the fertilizer factory in Haibin County is a small factory in the county, and its management level cannot be compared with other state-owned enterprises. ”

"That's!" Qi Yuanhao was old and well-informed, and sighed: "I have been to no less than thirty or forty factories, and generally speaking, the central enterprises are the best, followed by the provincial enterprises, and the county and city enterprises are relatively much worse. ”

"Can an individual boss build a chemical plant?" Geng Zhiyuan said disbelievingly.

Qi Yuanhao smiled kindly: "Xiao Geng is still young, and there are many rich people now, especially in the south. Besides, you can take out a loan to build a factory, as long as you buy a piece of land, you can use it as a mortgage and raise a part of the funds yourself. ”

A new chemical plant requires at least tens of millions of yuan, and Geng Zhiyuan has not been in the society for too long, and it is impossible to imagine that a person can have such great financial resources and ambitions.

They were received by Deng Maoguo, the deputy director of the Yurong Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant, who was in charge of the project. After Deng Maoguo sent the car, he summoned thirty or forty people from relevant departments such as nitric acid workshop, technical department, infrastructure department, construction unit, installation unit, and supervision unit to sit in the conference room, waiting for the design institute to conduct technical exchanges.

It took less than a week for the factory to get the process, electrical, and instrument drawings, so there were no specific questions, but there were many civil engineering problems encountered in the early construction, and a bunch of people surrounded Wang Xinghu and asked non-stop.

Geng Zhiyuan was too young, no one came to communicate with him, and when he saw that Wang Ping was also idle, he asked quietly: "Wang Gong, let's finish it?"

Wang Ping said with a smile: "They haven't looked at the drawings carefully, so what can they do? ”

"And when can we go back?"

"I guess tomorrow, write a meeting minutes in the afternoon, and look at the scene. I'll be able to go back tomorrow. Wang Ping picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.

It took two days to get here, and the problem was solved in one day, and it took another two days to rush back, and all the time was wasted on the road. Geng Zhiyuan sighed: "Time is all wasted on the road, you should take a plane." It takes only three days to fly back and forth. ”

"Three days?" Wang Ping said with a smile: "Two days will do." On the first day, I took a plane to Chengdu at noon, and I came here by car in the afternoon. After the meeting the next day, the plane returned to Ningcheng at 11 o'clock in the evening. It's not going to be done in two days?"

"It's too late, right?" Geng Zhiyuan thought for a while and said, "We have to go to the city first, and then go to Chengdu......"

"No!" Wang Ping shook his head and said: "The factory will send a car to Chengdu directly from here, and it will take three hours to get to the airport at most." ”

"It's good, it's fast and convenient, it's a lot easier, and it's less sinful. Geng Zhiyuan agreed.

Wang Ping sighed: "Alas, the plane is good, but unfortunately we are not qualified to take it." I called and asked, the ticket at 11 o'clock is only about 500 yuan, and the cheapest can reach more than 400, which is more expensive than a sleeper ticket, and it is not too expensive. It's a pity that the hospital won't let it, it's a pity......"

Geng Zhiyuan had never been on a plane before, and said yearningly: "I don't know what it's like to take a plane? ”

Wang Ping smiled and said: "I haven't sat in the design institute for more than ten years, if you want to sit, you have to at least mix to the level of vice president." ”

"That's what I thought about......," Geng Zhiyuan said in his heart, "I am also the vice president, I am content to be a design manager, and the vice president is something that I can't even think of." ”

Wang Ping is worthy of being an old comrade, and his prediction is not wrong at all. In the afternoon, after looking at the scene and signing the minutes of the meeting, the factory sent a car to send them back to the guest house. Early the next morning, the factory sent a minibus to send them to Chengdu Railway Station.

Chengdu Railway Station is crowded with people, crowded with people, and the large number of people makes Geng Zhiyuan dizzy. Liang Guangyuan handed over the luggage to Geng Zhiyuan, and squeezed to the ticket window with all his strength to ask, the train to Ningcheng direction, all the sleeper hard seat tickets were sold out within three days, and only the non-seat tickets were sold.

A non-seated ticket means that six people have to stand for more than 30 hours, and who wants to suffer this crime if they give the design institute a fee? Qi Yuanhao is experienced, and he asked a scalper-looking person to ask about it, but he was also told that there was no ticket, unless he waited two days.

What should I do? I can't go back if I want to. Jiang Jihang suggested: "No, let's go to Chongqing first, and take a passenger ferry down the river, which is a little longer." ”

"It's too troublesome!" Wang Ping said: "It's better to wait for a ticket here for such a toss." ”

Everyone said a word, no one had a good idea, everyone looked at Liang Guangyuan, and he finally decided what to do.

"Let's find a place to stay. Liang Guangyuan said: "I'll talk about it tomorrow depending on the situation." ”

Staying in Chengdu for the time being is exactly what Geng Zhiyuan wants, and he has long wanted to take the opportunity of this business trip to Chengdu to visit his younger brother at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, so he was secretly happy to hear Liang Guangyuan's decision.

The hotel near the railway station is expensive and chaotic, only Qi Yuanhao has been to Chengdu among the six people, so he took everyone out of the station and lived in a familiar three-star hotel in Qingyang District.

At about half past three in the afternoon, Geng Zhiwei got out of the professional class and walked out of the classroom with his girlfriend Luo Yalan. Out of the classroom, the two were about to go downstairs holding hands, when they suddenly heard someone shouting in the corridor: "Geng Zhiwei!"

Geng Zhiwei turned his head to look, only to see his brother Geng Zhiyuan standing in the corridor waving to him.

"Brother, why are you here?" Geng Zhiwei said with surprise and joy.

Geng Zhiyuan glanced at the petite and lovely girl beside him and said, "I'm on a business trip to Chengdu, so I'll come to see you by the way." What is this ......?"

"Oh, this is my girlfriend Luo Yalan. Geng Zhiwei pulled his girlfriend and said, "Xiaoya, this is my brother, my brother." ”

"Big brother, hello!" Luo Yalan smiled and called out generously.