Chapter 68: Xidan
Bai Ke searched for a while, and came to stand beside an old cadre with gray hair.
Bai Zong knew that his younger brother had some means, so he waited on the side.
After standing for a while, the old cadre looked down at Bai Ke.
"Children, this is the team of veteran cadres. ”
"I'm also an old cadre. ”
"Hahahaha, I'm afraid it's the future, you're a small cadre now. ”
"But I'm just buying a ticket for the future. ”
"When will it be?"
"Tomorrow. ”
"Oh, where are you going, where are your parents? ”
"I'm going to the fog, my dad is outside, and my brother is with me. ”
The old cadre looked up at Bai Zong not far away.
"You're trying to buy a sleeper ticket, right?"
"yes. ”
"But the sleeper is for the elderly and people who are not in good health. ”
"My father's health is not good, he has been doing revolutionary work for half his life, and his body is exhausted. ”
"Oh, what a filial child. What did your dad do?"
"I used to be a soldier, but now I'm a middle school teacher. ”
"Grandpa, who used to be a soldier, may be in the same army as your father. ”
Bai Ke shook his head: "No." My dad was in the army and my grandfather was in the navy. ”
The old cadre smiled and touched the badge on his chest: "The little guy is so smart." ”
In the blink of an eye, it was almost time for the old cadre, and he stretched out his big hand: "Come on, how many do you want to buy?"
Bai Zongzao watched this place closely, and at this time, an arrow came over and handed the money to the old cadre.
Bai Ke smiled happily: "Three, just have a sleeper." Hee-hee. ”
The train ticket is done, and Bai Ce wants to take his two sons to lunch.
Bai Ke was not in a hurry: "It's only eleven o'clock, let's find a hotel to settle down before eating." ”
Bai Ce also felt that it made sense, so he walked around the train station with his two sons, looking for a place to stay.
But after looking around, I didn't find a suitable one, mainly because there was no room for three people.
"It's better to go a little further, and when you go to Chongwenmen, you should be able to find a suitable one." Bai Ke couldn't help but remind.
Bai Ce was a little surprised: "You know that there are quite a few, like you have been here." ”
"That, I saw it on the map, the train station is not far from Chongwenmen. ”
The three of them came to Chongwenmen again, and sure enough, they quickly found a place to stay.
It's a semi-underground inn, and there happens to be a room with four beds and three empty beds.
And the bed that lived belonged to a purchaser from a foreign unit in Beijing, and he often didn't come back, so this room was the same as the one that his husband had chartered.
Charge according to the bed, only three yuan per person a night.
After settling down, the three of them went out to eat.
Just not far from the hotel, there is a shop that sells braised boiled fire.
The three of them sat down and ate sweating profusely.
Then Bai Ce said, "Where do you want to play?"
"Tiananmen. ”
"Xidan. ”
"Then let's go to Tiananmen Square first. ”
When he went to get in the car, he saw a stationery store on the side of the road.
Hurriedly called out to my father and brother: "Wait." ”
Bai Ke pulled Bai Zong towards the store, and Bai Ce had no choice but to follow.
As soon as they entered the store, the white customer went straight to the camera counter.
Bai Zong was more excited than Bai Ke, he looked at it happily for a while, and pointed to a Seagull 120: "This is good." ”
Bai Ce looked at the price tag, it cost more than 100 yuan, which was equivalent to a one-way ticket for his grandfather.
"I'll help you ...... when I raise my salary later."
"I'm rich. Bai Zong said, taking out more than a dozen sheets of great unity.
Under Bai Ce's stunned, Bai Zong bought the camera, and then went to the counter where the film was sold.
"How many to buy?" Looking at the SH brand black and white film on the counter, Bai Zong asked his younger brother.
Bai Ke raised his fist: "Ten." ”
Bai Ce couldn't help it: "Stinky boy, you haven't earned much in the past few months?"
Bai Zong proudly took the film: "It's okay, do the project, and don't get a dead salary." ”
"Don't spend it indiscriminately, save it, and you will have to buy big items when you get married in the future." ”
"It's not a mess, I'm still getting married. ”
Then, with the approval of Bai Ke, Bai Zong bought another popular horse manure bag.
This horse manure bag is similar to the backpack of later generations, but it is cylindrical and the bottom of the bag is flat.
It's a bit like a farmer's bag of horse manure, so the common people have sarcastically called it a horse manure bag.
Along the way, Bai Zong kept fiddling with the camera, like a child getting a new toy.
Bai Ke actually knows a little bit about cameras, but he knows that his father also understands, so he doesn't interfere, just watching his father guide Bai Zong to use the camera.
Seeing his father and brother walking in front, gesturing and gesturing, Bai Ke couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.
In the previous life, Bai Ke felt that his brothers had basically failed to inherit his father's talent.
Ju Yinglun once said that Bai Ceqin is proficient in calligraphy and painting, although it is a beautiful word, but it is not a complete exaggeration.
Bai Ce not only has a good mathematical foundation, but also has a good level of Chinese, and each of the 300 Tang poems can be counted as a treasure, and even Song Ci can remember most of them.
Moreover, Bai Ce also has a little musical attainment, and he can play the harmonica, flute, erhu, and accordion proficiently.
Not to mention anything else, at his age, it is not easy to know staves.
Bai Ce can also draw.
He can basically draw sketches, watercolors, and oil paintings.
The level is not necessarily very professional, but at least it can be able to draw what it looks like.
But Bai Ke and his brothers, except for the second brother Bai Bin, who has a little mathematical talent, Bai Ke is somewhat interested in chemistry, and Bai Zong is almost semi-literate.
The eldest brother is the father. After the death of Bai Ce in the previous life, Bai Zong came down to work at the age of sixteen and worked as a stevedore for most of his life.
In the end, I got a lumbar muscle strain and was almost paralyzed in bed.
At the moment, it seems that my brother may not have no hobbies, but he has had a hard time in his previous life and has been suppressed.
When they arrived at Tiananmen Square, Bai Ke and his father were models, and Bai Zong hung a camera around his neck and posed with various POSS, taking photos left and right, as if he was the model.
After browsing in Tiananmen Square, the father and son went to Xidan again.
Bai Ce muttered: "What's so good to see in Xidan? It's better to go to Wangfujing." ”
In fact, white customers don't know what Xidan has to look at.
He only knew that during this period, there was still a unique landscape in Xidan.
It was a wall where people from all over the country would come and watch.
As soon as he got off the bus, Bai Ce's eyes straightened.
He was an intellectual after all, and he liked the feeling.
The walls of the street were plastered with big-character posters and small-character posters, and passers-by watched and read them.
There were intellectuals and people who looked like workers and peasants.
Bai Ce read with great interest, and waved his fist excitedly from time to time: "Well written!"
Bai Zong was not interested in these things at all, and he refused to even hold up the camera.
At the urging of Bai Ke, he raised his camera to record this historic picture.
There were also groups of people giving speeches or debating on the side of the posters.
A group of people are debating "two whatevers", and a group of people are "boycotting Japanese products".
Although many people argued with blushing and thick necks, everyone was civilized and polite, without any invective, and no one tried to stop others from expressing themselves.
This is really the best era, although it is fleeting, but it also fully shows that Chinese people have always had the gene of loving freedom and accommodating dissent.
Bai Ce couldn't help but join in the debate of "two whatevers", and his remarks attracted bursts of applause from other strangers.
Bai Ke hurriedly pulled his father aside: "Dad, you are an old athlete, why are you still involved in this kind of thing." ”
Only then did Bai Ce come to his senses: "That's right. ”
After the father and son left Xidan, they went to Wangfujing and other places to go around, and did not return to the hotel until it was dark.
The next day was the train at noon, so the three of them had a very calm time, and they got up at dawn, and then they wandered for a while before they came to the station.
Got on the train to the south.