Before eating, Qi Shufang made a cameo appearance as a waitress in the restaurant.

The people who eat in the restaurant are not only the train staff, but also some passengers, they do not want to buy food in their own carriages, so they go to the restaurant to eat.

Qi Shufang and Li Hanwei sat together and bought a bottle of champagne for a dime, which was delicious and worth the money.

Zhang Xiaodie's first day at work, she couldn't sleep excitedly, she wore two pigtails, ran over to join in the fun, and a pair of bony eyes couldn't help glancing at the lunch box in front of Qi Shufang.

Then she had to work for more than four hours in a row, Qi Shufang's appetite was not small, and she never refused to wronged herself, so she spent five cents to buy a hot and fragrant meat, and poured the meat with juice on the rice bought for a dime and two taels of food stamps, and also made an egg drop soup, which was outrageously rich.

"Comrade Han Wei, Comrade Shufang, are you eating?" Thinking that his dinner was only a bowl of vegetable soup and a cornmeal nest, Zhang Xiaodie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her heart was a little sour, and she couldn't pull it off while staring at the lunch box.

"Why didn't you take a break, Comrade Fluttershy, you have to go to work at twelve!" Qi Shufang skillfully avoided the topic of eating.

"I can't sleep!" Zhang Xiaodie pursed her lips, plucked up her courage, and stretched out her hand to look at the table, "Comrade Shufang, you eat so well at night? Let me see, the meat! I heard that Chef Wang's meat in our restaurant is delicious! I see what you bought, wow! There are pork belly, sausages, eggs, meatballs, vegetarian chicken, and vegetables!" "These are the best things in the meat, and it would be even more perfect if there were chicken legs, pork ribs, and bean skin."

She thought that Qi Shufang would politely let her, but Qi Shufang said with a smile: "I just inquired about Chef Wang's best meat, if you want to eat it, hurry up and buy it, I remember that there is a small half pot!"

Supplies are scarce, food is precious, guests have to bring their own rations, and ordinary people will not stare at other people's food.

"Shufang, are you done eating?" Sister Wang came over to interrupt their conversation, and when she saw that Qi Shufang still had half of the food left in her lunch box, she urged, "Hurry up and eat." There is still half an hour before the next stop, it may be late, you go to the broadcast studio to help!"

Hey, and now you're a guest broadcaster?

Qi Shufang was very busy.

The train was delayed, arriving in Shanghai at 10:07.

Delays seem to be a common thing, only Zhang Xiaodie made a fuss and muttered about what to do if the passengers' time is delayed, except for Qi Shufang, who is hearing well, the others are arranging for the passengers to get off the bus, and they don't hear it.

When all the passengers got off the train and finished cleaning, it was almost a little sooner, because the train needed to be sent to the depot for maintenance, and just a few hours were not enough to complete the work, so we left for the city of Gupeng around half past four tomorrow. Overhauling the train is the job of the mechanic, and from now until two o'clock tomorrow it is basically the conductor's free time, which was said by Ma Tianlong.

Qi Shufang refused Zhang Xiaodie's invitation to go shopping together, turned around and bought a box of white cakes, and went to visit Li Lao and Granny Qi.

In Shanghai, they are the only acquaintances.

Who knew that when she arrived at Li's house, Li Lao and Granny Qi were receiving guests, and Qi Shufang felt that she was very unlucky.

Seeing her, Elder Li and Granny Qi were very happy.

"Shufang, when did you come to Shanghai? Come in, come in, it's very hot outside, look at you sweating profusely, come in and blow the fan, cool and cool." Granny Qi greeted her warmly.

"Mother-in-law, you have guests, so I won't go in. Qi Shufang sent a small cake and was about to leave.

Granny Qi grabbed her and didn't let go.

"Don't go, it's hard to come here, if I don't even give you saliva to drink, like that? Besides, I don't have any guests at home, it's my youngest daughter Li Qing who has just been transferred to Shanghai to come and see our old couple. I sent her quite a few of the dried game you sent us last time. Granny Qi dragged her into the house, was blowing the wind in front of the fan, and then introduced Qi Shufang to a middle-aged woman who was talking to Li Lao, "Xiaoqing, this is Comrade Qi Shufang I mentioned to you." ”

Li Qing turned her head, and Qi Shufang saw her appearance, and her heart moved.

She has a melon seed face, her skin is very white, her clothes are simple, and she has an aura that ordinary people do not have, she is well maintained, and her charm still exists, but she looks very haggard, Qi Shufang feels a little familiar, but suddenly she can't remember who she looks like, press this doubt, and smile at her, "Hello Comrade Li, I took the liberty to come to the door and make you smile." ”

Li Qing involuntarily frowned and looked Qi Shufang up and down.

Granny Qi said unhappily: "Xiaoqing, what kind of expression do you have? This is your way of hospitality? No one in our family neglects guests like you." The game sent by Shufang, you must have eaten a lot. ”

"No, no, I think the name is familiar. Li Qing hurriedly defended.

Familiar?

Elder Li and Granny Qi were interested at the same time and asked her where she had heard of this name.

"Maybe I'm misremembering. I have been in Guangzhou all these years, and I have just returned to Shanghai for two days, and today is the first time I have met Comrade Shufang, and there are quite a few people named Shufang. Li Qing shook her head and smiled, and did not answer her parents' questions directly, "Dad, Mom, I'll go wash my face first, and then find a house for my eldest sister tomorrow, clean up the house, and move in directly when my eldest sister comes." ”

Granny Qi waved her hand, "Go, go." Tomorrow I will go with you to look for a house, I know better than you about the situation in Shanghai. If you can't find a suitable one, you two will live at home for the time being, and then move out when the unit is divided. ”

"Okay. ”

Li Qing came out after washing her face, Granny Qi pulled Qi Shufang to ask long and short questions, and when she learned that she was now a train attendant, she couldn't help but smile, "It's really good, you think it will be convenient for Shanghai in the future." The meat you sent to our family in Shanghai last time has not been eaten, and every time I eat meat, I tell the old man that I don't know when I will see you again, but I didn't expect to see you so soon. ”

"It's too hot in summer, it's not the time to make air-dried meat, I'm going to work now, and it's not convenient to bring fresh game, so in autumn and winter, take advantage of the holiday to make air-dried meat, and I'll send you some more." ”

Granny Qi complained a little that she didn't speak properly, and she seemed to want air-dried meat.

Li Qing listened silently beside her, interjected and asked Qi Shufang's hometown, and after getting the exact answer, her attitude towards her suddenly became much warmer, "Mom, didn't I bring a watermelon here?" The weather is so hot, take it out and cut one for Comrade Shufang to relieve the heat." ”

"Yes, there is a watermelon, look at my memory!"

Granny Qi fished out the soaked green-skinned watermelon from the water in the basin, cut it in half on the square table, sand the black seeds, and then cut it into a crescent shape, handed it to Qi Shufang, and gave her daughter a piece.

Sweet!

Qi Shufang has eaten watermelon for the first time since she has traveled so far, it is really sweet to the heart, and it is very thirst-quenching, and the heat is gone.

Watermelons must be very difficult to buy, and after eating two pieces of watermelon, she shook her head and said that she would not eat them.

After eating watermelon, Li Lao asked about He Jianguo, Qi Shufang's face was full of sorrow, "He went to work before the end of the family leave, and there is no news so far, I don't know if he arrived at the place of work safely, and I don't know if he is okay now, the whole family is worried about death." My father-in-law said that when he was done with farm work, he would go to his work unit with my second uncle to ask. Because the last time I came to Shanghai, I was involved in Professor Jin's matter, and I was investigated, I don't know if it was because of this matter, and I didn't even have the opportunity to send a letter of peace. ”

"Which unit does Jianguo Xiaoyou work in?" asked Mr. Li as he wondered in his heart if there was anyone he knew in that unit, and if so, he could send a telegram to inquire.

Qi Shufang was a little hesitant, whether it was himself or the original owner, He Jianguo had told him that his place of work could not be spread out.

Among the workers who participated in the third-line construction, He Jianguo was relatively good, he could communicate with his family, there was family leave every year, and there were some confidential construction projects, and the workers could not contact their families, let alone go home to visit relatives. The reason why the details of the project, which spanned three or five years, have not been reported is that they are worried about leaks.

Her unspeakable secrets were all seen by Li Lao, "If you don't say it, forget it." ”

"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that he participated in the national construction project, and I don't know the specific location. ”

After He Jianguo came back, Qi Shufang realized that the letter he sent was not sent directly to his place of work, and after several stops in between, He Jianguo's work unit specially sent someone to the post office to pick up the letter and package, and then handed it over to the workers.

Li Lao immediately understood, "I know, this matter has to be kept secret." Don't worry too much, you girl, the people who can participate in the construction project have been reviewed a lot, and there is no problem with them, Jianguo Xiaoyou is not necessarily affected by Professor Jin, it may be transferred to a more confidential work place, or it is a deep mountain and old forest where communication is inconvenient, and you can't contact your family. ”

"I promise you. She also hoped that it would be so, and not be implicated by Professor Kim.

She didn't stay in Li's house for a long time, and soon said goodbye and left, and asked Li Lao and Granny Qi to stay, and finally Li Qing sent her out, and said with a smile on her face: "Comrade Shufang, my parents like you very much, I smiled very happily today, I and you are also familiar at first sight, and I often come to play when I have time, I will stay in Shanghai to work in the future, and I will invite you to be a guest when the residence is settled." ”

"Okay, okay. Qi Shufang was puzzled, but she was happy to make friends with the Li family, so she didn't refuse Li Qing's kindness.

Li Qing didn't mean to explain, and Qi Shufang didn't ask, but took advantage of the darkness to come to the vicinity of the old well that Ma Tianlong said.

Ma Tianlong always says that he is smart, what is the difference between things hidden in the wall of a well and hidden in an underground wall?

Tut!

The old well is covered with traces of time, the vermilion derrick and hemp rope have been eroded by wind and rain, Ma Tianlong said that the well is intact, in fact, the bottom of the well is deposited with silt, almost dried up, it is estimated that the city's residents use tap water. Qi Shufang stood on the well platform and looked down, the bottom was shallow with a layer of water, and the water surface was only two or three meters away from the well platform.

According to Ma Tianlong, the thing should be hidden six feet below the well platform.

How can you take something out without alarming people?

Rather than sneaking around, it is better to be above board, and the average person would not think that there is something hidden in the wall of the well anyway.

Let's do it quickly!

Thump!

The aluminum lunch box accidentally slipped out of her satchel when she leaned to look at the bottom of the well, fell into the well, and the tightly covered empty lunch box floated on the water, so anxious that she hurriedly visited several nearby households, borrowed a few strands of strong nylon rope and tied them around her waist, and then asked four young adults who came to help to pull the other end of the nylon rope on it, and went down to retrieve the lunch box herself.

Someone expressed their willingness to help go down to fish, but she politely declined.

Taking the opportunity of fishing for the lunch box, Qi Shufang let go of her spiritual power, blocked the view from above, and accurately picked out the copper brick with her right hand, which was hollow, and there was only a small golden box.

The boxes are all made of gold, which is really wealthy!

She quickly stuffed the heavy gold box into her satchel, put the copper bricks back in their place, and then sank a little to scoop up the lunch box.

"Thank you very much for your help, my lunch box has been fished up. After Qi Shufang came up, she untied the nylon rope and solemnly thanked everyone with her wet lunch box, don't look at the Shanghainese people are very arrogant, but they are also very humane, she said that her lunch box fell into the well, and someone immediately enthusiastically helped.

Resting on the train at night, Qi Shufang was inconvenient to open the gold box, so she took advantage of her colleagues' inattention to lock the gold box at the bottom of the rattan box. After that, she was very busy, neither during working hours nor during rest time, she didn't take out the gold box, and on the third day, she returned to Gupeng City, went home from work, and went to the cowshed at night to hand it over to Ma Tianlong.

"Is the thing still there?, and you managed to get it back?" Ma Tianlong was pleasantly surprised.

Professor Jin and Chen Sanchuan walked away to avoid suspicion, Qi Shufang nodded carelessly, "Take it back according to what you said, you can see for yourself if there is anything missing, after I got it, I was frightened along the way and didn't dare to open it." ”

Ma Tianlong listened and laughed.

"You've helped me so much, how can I not trust you? If you really want to steal it, I won't doubt you if it's gone. Besides, it's been a long time, at least what I hid more than twenty years ago, and I don't remember what I hid at the beginning, only a few gold bars and a piece of jadeite. ”

In fact, there are not only gold bars and jadeite, but also a women's diamond ring with a white gold background and three loose diamonds.

Under the light of the flashlight, the open gold box flowed with a bright light.

The diamond ring is as large as a pigeon's egg, and two circles of white diamonds set off a blue diamond, which is bright in color and pure in texture.

A piece of green jadeite, which is larger than the palm and has a thickness of inches, is turquoise and crystal clear, and without any carving, you can still see the luster of moisture, as if a clear green water is flowing in front of you.

The two gold bricks are about four inches long and about five minutes wide, and they are engraved with the words weight, purity and number, Ma Tianlong picked it up and looked at it, put it back, and looked at it, with a nonchavalent face, "This is the big yellow croaker commonly known in Shanghai, a piece of ten taels." I remember that when the gold was taken to the bank, one tael could be exchanged for one hundred yuan, and a large yellow croaker was a thousand yuan. ”

After Ma Tianlong finished speaking, he picked up the jadeite and stroked it for a while, and sighed: "I bought this piece of material for 30,000 yuan, and if you ask a skilled craftsman to carve a set of jewelry, it can be sold for at least 50,000 yuan!" Now the jadeite is worthless, it's a pity!"

Qi Shufang listened quietly, although the gold, silver and jewelry were good, they were far less important than food.

"At that time, the upward and downward effects, the high-grade jadeite was more valuable, and a fire oil diamond was more expensive than jadeite, and it was scarce, and it was all priced in gold. Don't underestimate this little ring, foreign goods, the best South African blue diamonds, either six carats or seven carats, I don't remember the specifics, but I remember the price, it cost me five hundred taels of gold! The remaining diamonds also reached the standard of fire oil diamonds, how much money was bought, I really can't remember!" Ma Tianlong's tone was quite proud.

Qi Shufang pouted: "In addition to gold that can be exchanged for money, you can't even exchange a bag of rice noodles for these jade diamonds, unless you can meet someone who is as knowledgeable as you." ”

Ma Tianlong was suddenly devastated.

"You can't help but tell the truth? The truth you say makes me feel a kind of sadness at the end of a hero, as if my whole life is a joke, and I can't eat or drink what I hide. Ma Tianlong, who compared himself to a hero, directly pushed the golden box in front of Qi Shufang, "Give, give, give, give it to you." Again, if you guarantee that I will be well fed and clothed in my old age, I will be satisfied, and when I am in a good mood, I may tell you the location of other things, and promise that you will eat and drink for the rest of your life. ”

Qi Shufang accepted it unceremoniously and calmly accepted Ma Tianlong's temptation.

Things are dead things in Ma Tianlong's hands, and they can't be exchanged for food and clothing, and if they are exchanged for money, they may lead to a catastrophe, but in their own hands, they can be stored until the price rises decades later.

Qi Shufang still had a few hundred yuan in her hand, enough to buy them clothes and bedding, so she buried the gold box in the mountains.

The location where the gold box is buried is not in the same place as the clay pot, the three holes of the cunning rabbit!

She had three days of rest, but she couldn't be idle at all, and the spring corn and peanuts had to wait for more than half a month to be harvested, so she hurried to Gupeng City to find a house. She is alone, and her work schedule is relatively relaxed, she works three days and rests for three days, and if it weren't for the fact that she had a place to put her bicycle, there was really no need to rent a house.

The housing of people in the city is very tight, they don't have enough to live in, how can they rent it, and Qi Shufang still wants to rent a house near the train station, it's simply impossible!

She wandered around the city of Gupeng for two days, but could not find a suitable house, so she had to go to work first.

At the beginning of the month, the railway bureau paid her salary, and her monthly salary was twenty-six yuan seven.

Qi Shufang learned that the wage standard is uniformly formulated by the state, and all localities can only implement it, and cannot change the wage standard at will, nor does she have the right to decide the wage standard by itself.

The division of jobs formulated by the state is very detailed, and there are thousands of jobs in the country, each of which has a fixed wage.

Workers in different industries have different wage standard levels, the workers in the production line are one to eight wage standards, the lowest wage is the first level worker, the highest is the eighth grade worker, the higher the level higher the salary. Broadcasters, cooks, projectionists, and telephone operators in the service industry are all from level 1 to ten, police officers are level 1 to 13, health personnel are level 1 to 21, technicians are level 1 to 18, and government staff are level 1 to 30.

The country is divided into 11 types of wage areas, with a class of wage areas as the benchmark, and the wage standard will be increased by 3 percent for each higher category, mainly to take care of remote areas or difficult areas. Beijing is a six-category area, Shanghai is an eight-category area, and the wage standards of various industries in Shanghai are a little higher than Beijing's. The areas with the highest wage standards are Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places, which are 11 types of wage areas.

Southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu belong to a province, but the level of the wage area in the north and south is different, some cities in southern Jiangsu are divided into four types of regions, and most of the cities in northern Jiangsu are five or six types of areas, which is a special phenomenon.

Gupeng City is considered a five-class area, and according to the salary standard of service personnel, Qi Shufang gets a ten-level salary.

Flight attendants, like broadcasters and cooks, belong to the staff in the service industry, and the salary standard is from one to ten, and according to the five types of regions, the ten-level salary is twenty-six yuan seven.

Even if Qi Shufang joined the company through the back door, it is impossible to have a higher salary than Zhang Xiaodie and others.

If it is in the six-category area, the same conductor gets a ten-level salary, it should be twenty-seven yuan and five, which is eight cents more than Qi Shufang.

Don't underestimate these eight cents, eight cents can buy a pound of meat or a pound of eggs, a pound of oil, seven or eight pounds of cornmeal, five or six pounds of rice, and a sweatshirt......

Gupeng City is not more developed than Beijing and Shanghai? Why is it divided into five types of areas? Zhejiang is a second-class region, and Anhui is a third-class region, and Qi Shufang, who has read the payroll, is a little confused about the conditions for dividing the wage zones.

She got more than twenty-six dollars and seven dollars.

She had a women's health bill on her payslip, which was five cents, and a three-dollar allowance.

She found that Sister Wang's payroll had one more type than herself, in addition to women's health expenses and allowances, there was also a nanny fee, and other colleagues' payslips included maternity expenses, some childcare fees and medical care fees, and so on. However, they have to pay rent for living in a public house, not for nothing, and they have to pay for their own water and electricity bills.

As the wages were paid, the street issued 30 catties of grain stamps, which were 21 catties of grain, 6 catties of rice and 3 catties of flour. At present, it is a month of one pound of meat, half a pound of edible sugar, five taels of peanut oil, one pound of eggs, a tube of toothpaste, half a piece of soap, etc., which is similar to Shanghai's regulations, according to the household is to issue two pieces of soap or two packs of laundry detergent, according to the head is half a piece of soap or half a pack of laundry detergent.

There is also a cloth ticket with a denomination of three inches.

Qi Shufang took the cloth ticket and looked at it, what is the three-inch cloth ticket enough for? Do you buy a handkerchief? Twelve months is three feet six, if you want to make a piece of clothing, the cloth ticket saved for a year is not enough.

All tickets will be void upon expiration.

Each ticket has a validity period, especially the egg ticket, which is allocated according to the quota, if you don't use it in this quarter, you can't use it in the next quarter, because eggs may not be supplied in the next quarter.

Qi Shufang had long wanted to eat peanut oil, so on a day off, she rushed to the grocery store with canned food bottles.

There is a long queue at the entrance of the grocery store, and the bustle is no less than that of the old Huaiguo.

When there were three or four people in front of Qi Shufang, it meant that she was almost at the counter.

The middle-aged woman in front of her also came to get oil, but she didn't take the oil jar or see the oil bottle, but held the bowl, took out a ball of oil cotton yarn from the bowl and handed it to the salesman, handing over an oil ticket and money, "At this time, the special oil ticket for the cadres in the countryside will be handed over to my family for dinner at my house, I don't have a non-staple food book, you look at it and give me oil!"

What is the situation? Qi Shufang stared at the oil cotton yarn tightly.

"0.2 taels of soybean oil? It's really troublesome, so we can't save a few more oil tickets to come and make oil? The salesman frowned, collected the money and tickets, weighed the balance with the bowl of oil cotton yarn in front of him, wrote down the weight, and then dipped it into the small oil barrel prepared separately next to it and dipped it in the oil, took it out and weighed it again, estimated that the weight was exceeded, she pinched the oil cotton yarn, squeezed out a few drops of oil into the oil drum, and weighed it again, this time it should be 0.2 taels of weight, and the score was exactly the same, before handing it to the customer.

The woman, with a beaming face, carefully held it in her hand and left the counter.

Qi Shufang was an eye-opener.

That piece of oil cotton yarn seems to be still in my own home, and I will wash it and send it to others, and it is special for oiling!

After the woman had left, it was her turn, and she hurried forward.

Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and wine are all supplied by this counter, and the bulk ones are placed in the iron barrel sand jar, she handed over the non-staple food book, oil ticket and washed canned bottles in turn, and raised her head and said: "Beat half a catty of peanut oil!" Hey, it's dozens of times better than the previous one!

The salesman collected the ticket and the money, registered it in the non-staple food book, turned around and picked up the funnel for selling oil and inserted it into the mouth of the can, then lifted one of the three wooden grapes hanging on the mouth of the oil drum, scooped out the oil, filled it with a grape, waited for a while, the oil in the grape no longer overflowed, and then moved horizontally to the top of the funnel and fell down, flowing into the bottle smoothly.

After making the oil, Qi Shufang walked around the counters of the grocery store, lined up to buy a pound of tofu, and spent eight cents.

Go home and stew tofu with peanut oil!

After eating a meal of green vegetables and tofu beautifully, Qi Shufang was washing the dishes, and someone informed her to go to the post office to get the remittance slip.

Qi Shufang naturally thought of He Jianguo again, hurriedly arrived at the post office, got the remittance slip, and couldn't help but show a little disappointment, it was still not He Jianguo, but Mu Xuexun, who actually sent her a thousand yuan!

God, a thousand, what a lot of money!

Even if Qi Shufang once had so much money, she couldn't help but take a breath, she was scared.

The Mu family's handwriting is also too big.

Along with the remittance slip, there was also a letter and a heavy package, the letter was written by Mu Xuexun, saying that she had already returned home safely to reunite with her relatives, and then said that although the money and the contents of the package were not as good as Qi Shufang's kindness to her, but they were the hearts of her family, please be sure to accept it.

Mu Xuexun was wearing Qi Shufang's clothes and shoes when she left, and the package contained two sets of clothes, shoes and socks she gave Qi Shufang, as well as a few pieces of fabric, some preserved fruits and candies, and so on.

A few days after Qi Shufang received the property, Zhan Renhuai's family couldn't find Mu Xuexun, and officially tore his face with Qi Mazi.

Qi Mazi went out several times this year and brought back a lot of women, and he had the money to buy people and sell people, so if he didn't have a backer, how could it be smooth sailing? First of all, he had to have a letter of introduction when he went out. Therefore, Qi Mazi was not afraid of Zhan Renhuai at all, how could the money be returned to Zhan Renhuai when it was in his hands? The person lost it in Zhan Renhuai's hands, not him.

At this moment, someone suddenly reported Qi Mazi's human trafficking, Zhan Renhuai bought and sold human beings, and before everyone could react, they were all arrested, implicating many people who traded with Qi Mazi.

When Qi Shufang came back from work for three days, she heard that Qi Mazi, Zhan Renhuai and others had been sentenced to death.

In the era when hooliganism was sentenced to death, their crimes were still excessive, and they were not unjustly sentenced.

He Jianxia and these people were also affected, if it weren't for the wife they bought, she insisted that she was not a human trafficker, and she was willing to marry, but she was afraid that she would also fall into the same fate as Zhan Renhuai.

He Jianxia escaped, and his parents were so good to Zhong Cuifang.