Nothing was said all night.

At seven o'clock in the morning the next day, the train arrived in Xi'an, a thousand-year-old city!

This night, Chen Qingdong and Liu Zhaolin almost didn't close their eyes, and Shen Chao, who played a half-night card with the group of migrant workers, squeezed together with them and slept for half the night.

After getting off the train, Shen Chao also sighed and said: "Today with these migrant workers to play cards and sleep, it really makes me feel like I have returned to the time when I was a soldier, at that time, every time we went home, so many people crowded together, playing cards, drinking, bragging, sleeping!

Chen Qingdong has never been a soldier, but when he was in college, every time he took the train during the winter and summer vacations, he was crowded with many classmates, and he also played cards, drank beer, and chatted.

So after listening to Shen Chao's words, Chen Qingdong couldn't help but sigh.

Chen Qingdong has been very fond of historical knowledge since he was a child, and he studied Chinese in college, so he has always liked and respected Xi'an, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, and when he was in college, he once came to Xi'an with several classmates during a May Day holiday, and also went to some famous attractions including the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Terracotta Warriors of the First Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the ruins of Daming Palace, and the ruins of Weiyang Palace, and he also deeply felt the weight of Xi'an!

It's just that the last time he came to Xi'an, he had limited time and experience, and his feelings about many historical sites were not too profound, so when he set foot on the land of Xi'an again, he thought to himself that if this trip to Lanzhou could successfully complete the task, he would definitely stay in Xi'an for another day or two on the return trip, and feel the historical sites that he had been to.

In addition, his sister Chen Yuan is also studying in Xi'an, due to various reasons, he has not seen his sister for more than a year, and he thinks that he must see his sister on the return trip.

Because they were in a hurry to go to Lanzhou, they didn't stop in Xi'an, and went directly to the window to buy the earliest ticket to Lanzhou, and found that it was only more than half an hour before the driving time, so they didn't even eat and went into the waiting room.

It wasn't until they got on the train to Lanzhou that they each ate a bowl of instant noodles and drank a few cans of beer in the carriage, while Liu Zhaolin always looked preoccupied, a bowl of instant noodles was just picked up and thrown there casually, but several cans of beer were drunk.

They were still in a green car, stopping and stopping along the way, stopping several times to give way, and it took nearly ten hours to finally reach Lanzhou.

At the beginning, Chen Qingdong was still in the mood to look at the rough landforms and beautiful scenery of northwest China through the car window, but after all, he didn't sleep all night, and the carriage was very crowded, although there was a seat, but he could barely stretch his legs, he was really enough, and Chen Qingdong also slept vaguely for a while under the exhaustion.

When I arrived at the Lanzhou Railway Station, it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, and the weather was not very good, it was still drizzling, and the sky was very dark.

After getting off the train, Chen Qingdong felt that his body was about to fall apart!

It was impossible to accomplish anything today, so they took a taxi to Xigu District and found a hotel that looked good to stay. Because Xigu District is adjacent to Yongdeng County, and the state-owned Xinlin Farm mentioned by Liu Zhaolin is in the south of Yongdeng County, not far from Xigu District.

They did not live directly in Yongdeng County, but chose Xigu District because Shen Chao said that he had a comrade-in-arms who was in the same platoon at the time and was now engaged in engineering in Xigu District.

It's just that Shen Chao has not been in contact with that comrade-in-arms in the past two or three years, and it will take a little effort to find him.

The three of them have not had a good rest all day, and they have not eaten well, after settling down in the place of accommodation, they simply took a hot shower, changed their clothes, and the three of them came to the outside of the hotel, and found a small restaurant that sells Lanzhou ramen, and asked for three bowls of ramen, and asked for a few catties of beef, roast mutton and other hard dishes, and ate a hot meal!

Then, they asked Liu Zhaolin to go back to the hotel to rest first, while Chen Qingdong and Shen Chao went to find Shen Chao's comrade-in-arms named Cao Jiuqing and set up a relationship with him in advance, just in case of emergency. In addition, they also hope to learn something about the Xinlin farm from Cao Jiuqing.

After all, Lanzhou is so big, and Cao Jiuqing is in business, although he may not be in the same line, but he knows something about Xinlin Farm, or through his friends, he knows something about Xinlin Farm, and even acquaintances work in Xinlin Farm, which is very possible.

Before going to Xinlin Farm tomorrow to discuss business, the more you know about the situation of Xinlin Farm, the better!

After sending Liu Zhaolin back to the hotel, Chen Qingdong and Shen Chao were smoking cigarettes and waiting for a taxi at the door of the hotel.

I don't know if it's because of the bad weather today, or because the place where they live is a bit remote, or if there are too few taxis in Lanzhou, they waited in front of the hotel for seven or eight minutes without seeing a taxi coming.

While waiting for the train, Chen Qingdong asked: "Brother Chao, on the train, you said that your comrade-in-arms is not easy to find, and those comrades-in-arms in Lanzhou may not be able to find him, what is going on?"

Shen Chao said with a smile: "At that time, I was guarding Liu Zhaolin, looking at his lost and depressed appearance, I was afraid of scaring him, so I didn't mention it much." Actually, that's what happened. Cao Jiuqing and I are a group of troops, and the two of us are still in a platoon. Cao Jiuqing was very young when he entered the army, maybe just over sixteen years old, he looked thin and small, like a bean sprout, but his appearance was clear and beautiful, and he could confuse girls. ”

At that time, there was a bad atmosphere in our troops, that is, veterans liked to bully new recruits, and they often asked recruits to wash their clothes and fold quilts, and they had to honor them for the delicious food they brought from home. And that's not all, sometimes they beat people. In fact, there is no reason, it is to play with recruits, and almost all recruits have been beaten, and I have been beaten several times. ”

"At that time, I saw that everyone was beaten, and I thought that this was a rule in the army, so I didn't take it seriously, and I was beaten, and I didn't care if I was rough and thick-skinned! I still thought that when I stayed up for a year, next year I would become a veteran, and I would be able to fight as a new soldier!"

However, Cao Jiuqing, this kid is not willing to be beaten in vain, every time the veteran beats him, he fights back. However, he was so thin that he had no one to help him, and there were many veterans, so every time he fought back, he had to be beaten up very much! Those veterans were also very experienced in beating people, and they only hit their bodies without slapping their faces, and Cao Jiuqing was often bruised and purple! However, this kid was very bad, and when he was beaten, he would never complain to our platoon commander, but would find a way to find a place by himself. ”

"One night, when I was washing my hair in the bathroom, I met a few veterans with a bad reputation beating me, and it was Cao Jiuqing who was beaten. I never fought back because I was beaten so often, so they didn't beat me after a long time. I didn't know that they were beating Cao Jiuqing at the time, and when I saw the beating, I joined in the excitement and surrounded him, and then I saw Cao Jiuqing who was huddled in the corner, holding his head, and being trampled on by several veterans!"

"Usually, when I encounter this situation, I never meddle in my affairs, and I don't know what kind of nerves I had that day, and suddenly I couldn't stand it anymore, so I rushed up and pushed away those veterans, and told them to stop fighting. As a result, I was also beaten up. ”

"However, because I accompanied Cao Jiuqing to suffer this beating, Cao Jiuqing, who never talked to others very often, regarded me as a friend, invited me to drink the beer he hid, and talked to me about the reason why he became a soldier. Qingdong, if you listen to the reason why he became a soldier, you will definitely have to scold this kid for being a scumbag. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Chao couldn't help laughing.

After listening to Shen Chao's words, Chen Qingdong was already very interested in this Cao Jiuqing with a distinct personality, so he said with a smile: "Is it? Brother Chao, you can talk about it." ”

Shen Chao threw the cigarette butt into the drain accurately, and then said: "This kid told me that he soaked a salsa in school, and 'salsa' means beautiful woman in Lanzhou dialect, and the two of them got along quickly." Then the two bold little children of the thieves rented a house outside and did everything. As a result, this kid also got other girls pregnant. However, this kid is not the kind of soft egg who evades responsibility as soon as something happens, after he got other girls pregnant, he didn't give anyone to anyone, stole a sum of money directly from home, and then eloped with other girls. ”

Chen Qingdong also laughed: "Dare to do this at the age of sixteen, what a cow!"

"Yes!" Shen Chao also sighed, "But they were caught by the adults in the family within a few days of eloping." Cao Jiuqing's father was so angry that he let the girl have a baby, and lost a lot of money to their family, and then in a fit of anger, he sent Cao Jiuqing to the army. ”

"So that's the case!" Chen Qingdong said, "I think Cao Jiuqing is okay, quite responsible, in the end, the girl had a fetus, and he entered the army, and he can't control it, after all, he is still a child." It's okay, it's not scum. ”

Shen Chao said with a smile: "After I heard him say this, I scolded him for a long time! This stinky boy, I almost became a father at the age of sixteen, and when I was sixteen years old, I still peed and mud, and I didn't understand anything!"

Chen Qindong smiled: "Brother Chao, are you jealous of others?"

"Grass, if you want to talk about jealousy, it's really fucking a little jealous!" Shen Chao said bluntly.

Chen Qingdong laughed and said: "Brother Chao, what happened later? He was beaten so many times by veterans in the army, did he finally win back this game?"