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In front of the train station are the ticket and exit gates. There is a seven- or eight-meter-wide passage on the east side of the cement brick-paved square, and it is an empty place to enter, and if you want to find the entrance and waiting room, you must turn here to see it. The waiting room is at the innermost end of the empty field, and the door opens to the east, facing a few tall poplar trees. Just now, Hong Yanwu was blasted out by the attendant from here.

This railway station is actually quite famous, because it was later the most important high-speed rail hub in the country - Jingcheng South Railway Station, and it was only in 1988 that it was officially renamed. Similar to Hong Yanwu's memory, the current Yongdingmen Railway Station is still a backward and chaotic old station, and the public facilities are quite backward.

If you look at it, the most intuitive feeling now is that the railway station building is low and the glass is dirty. Not to mention that the ticket window is just a row of small wooden windows, and even the waiting room looks like a simple tin canopy, as long as you stand outside it, you can see the high overpass inside the station.

In addition, not only are the floor tiles on the square broken, but the paint on the iron fence is almost peeling off. On the surrounding brick walls, there are many places that collapse and lack of bricks and tiles. There is also a special phenomenon here, that is, there are still many remnants of the "movement" period on the broken brick walls. Those big-character posters posted on the wall, I don't know if they were secretly torn off as waste paper because they had experienced too much wind and rain, or because they were secretly torn off as waste paper, and most of them were torn apart and moved by the wind. And in addition to these, the square is also free for tourists to squat and lie down and litter as they please, without anyone interfering.

No one wants to believe that such a chaotic place is less than 10 kilometers from Tiananmen Square. But in fact, this objective situation has always existed. To put it mildly, this is all because Yongdingmen Station was determined to be a temporary station when it was built, and it has hardly been renovated in the following 30 years.

However, it is precisely because Yongdingmen Station specializes in issuing slow trains and temporary cars, and it is the most civilian station in Beijing, so only trains from here will stop at Chadian Station.

Chadian Station is actually the most unpopular third-class station on the Jingshan Railway, so simple that there is no platform. There are no fast trains, and the slow trains only stop for two minutes, and most of the people who go up and down there are labor camps and family members who are going to visit. The reason why this small station exists is entirely because of the nearby "Qinghe Farm".

The labor camp, known as the "Qinghe Farm", was the first large-scale labor camp in the new society, and was originally founded for the training of agents of the Three People's Party. The word "Qinghe" in its name does not actually refer to the river, but to the meaning of "Qingqing River water cleanses the soul". "Qinghe Farm" is actually the most formal name, but because you have to get on and off at Chadian Station, everyone is still used to calling it the Chadian Labor Reform Team.

A year ago, Hong Yanwu was escorted to Qinghe Farm by car from here. In the same way, he also had to take this slow train from Chadian Station back to Beijing. In fact, as of yesterday, he had spent three hundred and eighty-eight days at Qinghe Farm.

"Woo-!"

There was a long shrill sound, and a loud whistle was heard from the station. It's an old-fashioned steam locomotive, full of power and passion.

Hong Yanwu was awakened by the deafening whistle and stopped facing the glass window in a daze. He put away the certificate of dismissal, the certificate of leave, and the stubs of the train ticket, and then began to count all his belongings.

Unexpectedly, a brown-red banknote printed with the pattern of a steelworker had just been pulled out, which made him distracted again.

He will never forget that the five yuan was given to him by Captain Xue before he sent him on the train.

Captain Xue is the discipline of Chadian, and the family is very difficult, and the family lives on the old man's salary alone. He knew that in order to squeeze out five yuan, the old man didn't know how many days he had to gnaw on the pickles, so he would never accept it. But Captain Xue didn't allow him to refuse, saying that he didn't want him to have other ideas because he had no money. He held down his hand and shoved the money into him.

In addition, because Captain Xue was afraid that he would encounter some trouble on the road that could not be solved, he deliberately left him the phone number of the farm in the upper left corner of the "steelmaker" in advance, in a blank place, "26110-9".

He really didn't know what to say about all this, so he could only ask Uncle Xue to bow deeply to Old Captain Xue.

Perhaps it was a pity that he was sent to labor re-education with adults at a young age, but this kind-hearted old man really took care of him during his more than a year of labor re-education. To be honest, he never thought that Uncle Xue was a policeman, he was simply a kind-hearted old man, a rare and commendable kind-hearted man with smiling eyebrows and smiling eyes. Uncle Xue is no worse than a real father to him. This time, he returned to Beijing because of the help of Captain Xue, and the field director granted him an extra eight days of leave and gave him up to 15 days of family leave. And on the morning of the day he returned to Beijing, it was also this old man who sent him to the station like a son.

Hong Yanwu still remembers the scene when Captain Xue sent him on the train back to Beijing.

On March 21, that is, this morning, the moment the train had just stopped, he jumped on it with an arrow step.

But before the train started, Captain Xue, who had been with him for more than half an hour, was shivering while still repeatedly telling him. "Don't make Mom and Dad angry, don't make trouble when you go back. Learn well and remember for a long time. ”

As soon as he thought of this, the corners of Hong Yanwu's eyes were a little wet, and he quickly rubbed the back of his hand.

In his previous life, he was a white-eyed wolf, which made the old man hurt himself in vain. This time, he must listen to Uncle Xue's words.

In his previous life, after this vacation, according to the regulations, he should have returned to the farm for employment. His hukou will also officially settle in Chadian, and he will completely lose his qualification to be a native of the capital.

But after he returned to Beijing last time, he did not return home at all, nor did he return to the farm to work, but wandered in society for two years. It was because of this choice that he and his father had lifelong regrets.

And this time, he will never let the old things happen again.

Hong Yanwu slipped his nose and counted down.

This "steelmaking five yuan" is actually the largest denomination banknote in his hand. Besides, all he had left in his hand was some cents and cents.

Not to mention, I haven't seen these tickets in a long time. And the freshest of these coins he looked at was the green five-cent note. Not to mention the pattern of warships on the face of the ticket, he almost forgot that even the banknotes of this denomination existed in the world.

In fact, there are three types of paper cents, one cent, two cents and five cents, all of which belong to the second set of renminbi issued in 1955. Since most of the second set of renminbi has been recycled and discontinued, only this small amount of paper cents is still in normal circulation in the market. In fact, this kind of small cent currency can still be seen until the third set of renminbi is withdrawn from circulation, but at that time only the most common yellow cent note remained.

Soon, the remaining scattered coins ran out. There are three banknotes of five cents and five cents, and the other is a steel bouncy of one and a cent. Together with the five-yuan ticket, there are a total of eight yuan, six cents and eight cents, and this is all the cash on him. Not to mention, this is quite auspicious.

After counting the money and food stamps.

People living in the 21st century are free to buy food, but in this era, food stamps are almost mandatory to buy any food, and later generations have described food stamps as "food passports" and others as "second currency". In fact, food stamps are far more important than real currency, and should be called "survival passport" and "first currency". If you don't have food stamps, even if you have more money, you can starve people to death. This is definitely a special case of the ticket years.

The food stamps in Hong Yanwu's hands were all issued by Chadian Farm. Although the farm has long been out of the capital, it is still under the management of the Beijing Labor Reform Bureau, so the tickets issued are all Beijing grain stamps, but there is no problem that it cannot be used in other places. He had to rely on these tickets to fill his stomach during his family vacation.

Speaking of which, food stamps, which are less than half the size of a matchbox, are more diverse than the renminbi. This is all because people's diet at that time was divided into staple foods more than non-staple foods, and non-staple foods were mainly green vegetables. Therefore, people have no oil and water in their stomachs, which leads to a large demand for food. And there are more coarse grains than fine grains in the food supply. So the food stamps have become varied. Taking the capital as an example, the supply ratio at this time is 20% rice, 40% white flour, and 40% cornmeal, which is jokingly called "two white and one yellow" by the common people.

Hong Yanwu counted a total of 12 catties and 3 taels of food stamps. Among them, the rice ticket is one and a half catties, the face ticket is five catties and one tael, and the rest are coarse grain stamps. In addition, there is also a two-tael fuel ticket, which is not used to fill the car with gasoline in later generations, but to go to the grain store to buy cooking oil.

As for the old key......

Hong Yanwu really can't remember.

These two cigarette butts?

Go, what the hell.

Hong Yanwu shook his hand, flicked off the two cigarette farts without hesitation, and only put half a box of matches back in his pocket. But as soon as he threw it away, he remembered.

Not to mention, when he was in re-education through labor, he really had this hobby.

It turned out that Hong Yanwu at that time liked to clean the office for the correctional cadres the most, and he was praised for his positive attitude. But his purpose is not so simple, the real reason is because he is staring at the cigarette butt and clean letter paper in the dustpan. In order to break out the tobacco in the cigarette butt and make a "cigarette roll" that is "twisted" by hand, commonly known as a "cannon".

The farm does not allow the upbringing to smoke, and Hong Yanwu can only smoke this hand-rolled "cannon" to get addicted to smoking. No one knew about this, and he didn't even tell Chen Liquan for the sake of secrecy.

He didn't feel embarrassed about smoking cigarette butts. When to do something, it is better than others who don't smoke and smoke. And through this incident, he also learned that the correctional cadres smoked cigarette butts very short, which made him pity them more than himself. The two cigarette farts that were thrown away are probably the "souvenirs" he hid on his body.

In short, his current fortune has been counted. There are a total of eight yuan, six cents and eight cents, a total of 12 catties and 3 taels of food stamps, 2 taels of oil stamps, half a box of matches, and a key......

Oh, no. Hong Yanwu suddenly remembered that there was a roll of cover on the ground in the square behind him.

He turned around and searched all the way back, only to find that there were only cigarette butts and confetti in place, and the dirty, broken, oily and twisted cover, but at this time it was gone.

Was it thrown away by the garbage sweeper, or was it taken away by someone else? Will anyone want this thing?

Gotta lose it, throw it away. He simply gave up looking.

The climate in Beijing in 1977 was not as good as that of later generations, with fewer buildings and fewer cars, and there was no greenhouse effect, and it was very cold at the end of March. A little wind blew, like a knife. Hong Yanwu couldn't help but shudder, and he was really a little trembling.

He did not wear the black clothes and trousers of the labor camp, and the smock on the outside of the cotton jacket and cotton pants was a white-washed people's uniform. His buttocks, knees, and elbows were patched, and he wore a pair of large shabby black cotton dimples on his feet, and the upper of his shoes was already exposed cotton. If it is put aside for thirty years, his dress is definitely a magic weapon that the beggar gang does not pass on, and it is not possible to mix with a six-bag disciple, but it is not noticeable in this era. He stood in the square, like a leaf in the green grass, inconspicuous.

It's no surprise that patching clothes is all too common in this age of lack of food and clothing. "Three years of the new, three years of the old, and another three years of mending the seams", this was the standard of living in the society at that time. Everyone is soaked in sweat and patched, and everyone leads the trend of simplicity together.

In addition, the "Ten Year Movement" also led to the "unification" of the clothing of the Republic, and the people of the whole country were the same. When it comes to clothing colors, almost all of them are blue (including blue-black), army green (including army yellow) and gray. The clothing styles are just military civilian clothes, cadre uniforms, and work clothes (youth clothes). These clothes can be said to have swept the country, and are worn by both men and women. And because of this politicized clothing fashion that obliterates individuality, the people of the Republic are ridiculed by Westerners as the cookie-cutter "blue ants".

Perhaps many post-80s and post-90s generations will feel very earthy and ridiculous when they see this scene. From their point of view, the capital has simply become a city occupied by beggars, and all the people in these years are comparable to "Brother Sharp". But in this special era, everyone is like that. Plain clothing is an honor, but also a kind of helplessness. This is the reason for the big time, not the problem of any one person.

Hong Yanwu tightened his padded jacket and began to look left and right, identifying the direction and looking for the way.

This is the old railway station more than 30 years ago, people coming and going on bicycles, passengers either carrying luggage or carrying beds in their hands, hurrying past him, everyone's face looks so distant and so close.

Although all this in front of him was ordinary, it was like a dream to him. When he thought that he was in 2012 not long ago, how could he not be apprehensive, how could he not be excited?

That moist feeling in his eyes came again, and he couldn't help but want to shout in his heart.

In 1977, I Hong Yanwu came back again!

But as soon as he clenched his fists, a particularly sensational sentence somehow popped up in his mind.

Why do I always have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land so much......

He immediately felt the urge to roll on the dirty ground. So that the soil of my hometown and the land of my hometown can get close to me.

In the cold wind, his eyes were red and his nose was twitched, like a naughty child, wronged by his father's punishment.

At this time, a long-lost bungalow courtyard inevitably jumped out of his heart.

East Courtyard No. 2 of Phorew.

As soon as he thought of home, he immediately felt a warm excitement all over his body. There are his relatives there, his parents and sister who are still alive, and his brothers who still regard him as his younger brother, and even Chen Liquan is still alive and well.

Go home, I'm going home.

Yes, go home right away.