Several black sidecars with "police" written on them came whizzing and stopped not far from the store. A dozen policemen wearing white shirts, blue trousers, and large-brimmed hats with red collar badges embroidered on their collars jumped off the tricycle and ran towards the station in a hurry.

"Oops! What's going on inside the station, so many cops are coming. The fat lady sitting behind the glass counter of the store heard the movement, leaned on the counter and leaned out her fat body to look at the waiting hall not far away.

Chen Xu leaned on his luggage pile, as if the murder cases that the police were going to investigate had nothing to do with him, he listened indifferently to the old songs released on the radio, shook his legs along the rhythm, and licked the mung bean popsicles with full concentration, licking out the sweet and fragrant beans embedded in the popsicles one by one.

Chen Xu took out a palm-sized film camera from his pocket, it was not lightweight, it was very textured in his hand, this camera was the spy camera that the girl used to secretly take design drawings. It's actually a bit too much to say that it's a spy camera, it's a German-made Lulai film rangefinder camera, and it uses ordinary Kodak film, which is very delicate and compact.

Chen Xu took her backpack after dealing with the girl, except for some cash, a change of clothes and a copy of Journey to the West, there was only this film camera and three used films.

It's a big camera, but there's a lot to be done with it, and if you can wash it out, you might find some information.

At this moment, a 212 jeep roared out of the intersection, the body was so dirty as if it had just been pulled out of the mud, the four tires were covered with yellow mud and weeds, and the body was also covered with mud spots, which caused passers-by to look sideways.

The jeep stopped abruptly not far from the store, and a middle-aged man in a green military uniform, a liberation soft hat, pull-back shoes, and a beard hurriedly got out of the car.

The middle-aged man rolled up his left sleeve and looked down at his watch, then stood beside the jeep and looked around with his anxious hand on the pergola, obviously looking for someone.

Chen Xu hurriedly stuffed the camera back into his pocket, as an intelligence officer's intuition, at the moment when the middle-aged man got out of the car, although the two had never met, but the family photo that Chen Xu brought to the Soviet Union before Tongguò was compared with the man in front of him, and now Chen Xu has already recognized this person as his eldest brother.

Chen Weiguo glanced at the crowded railway station square, looked left and right, and there was nothing worth noting in the square, except for a handsome posterior in a suit with six suitcases neatly placed next to the store not far away, and walked over with suspicion.

"Little Five...... Is that you? Chen Weiguo looked up and down at the bright-looking young man in front of him, and shouted with some lack of confidence.

When his youngest brother was sent to the Soviet Union, he was just in the third year of junior high school and was only 1.5 meters tall. When Chen Weiguo took Chen Xu all the way north to Inner Mongolia, he ruthlessly hugged the crying Chen Xu on the train to the Soviet Union in Manchuria, and then got off the train himself and let his little brother go abroad alone, he felt that he had lost something forever. Now seeing this young man with a strong figure who is half a head taller than himself, it is difficult to match the little brother who was less than his chest height back then.

"I just want to see when my eldest brother will recognize me, I haven't returned to China for five years, have I changed so much?" Chen Xu took off his toad glasses, showed a classic smile, and stretched out his arms to give his eldest brother a hug.

Chen Weiguo was stunned for a moment, the hesitation in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he laughed and stepped forward to hug Chen Xu. Then he held Chen Xu's arm and looked up and down at his brother, who had returned from studying abroad, and nodded again and again with teary eyes: "I've grown taller!" It's handsome! I almost didn't recognize you. ”

Chen Xu observed his eldest brother up close, although there was a happy expression on his face of reuniting after a long absence, in fact, when he saw the eldest brother he met for the first time walking towards him with a puzzled face, his nervous heart was beating wildly and almost jumped out of his throat, even the most dangerous battle in his previous life had never made him so nervous.

Chen Xu was an orphan in his previous life, and he had never experienced any family affection, and now he suddenly let him come into contact with this strange feeling, which really made him scared. He may not have any feelings for the Chen family, but the Chen family has real family affection for him, so he has to play this role enough even if he is acting.

After all, Chen Xu's current identity is the foundation of his foothold in this era, and this identity born in a powerful family is the most important foundation for his future plans. As the saying goes, there are people in the DPRK and China who are good officials, and there is no need to start all over again, which can invisibly save him a lot of trouble.

Holding the eldest brother just now, feeling the body temperature emanating from his brother's body, under the gaze of the eldest brother's loving eyes, Chen Xu, an adult old soul, felt an inexplicable sense of relief, and the restless emotions after the killing no longer needed to be deliberately suppressed, and naturally calmed down.

Chen Xu suddenly felt that maybe he didn't need to act at all, and there would be no problem if he acted according to his original character! Although his character is very tough and stubborn, no matter how bad his character is, I believe that his family will accommodate him.

When Chen Xu was on the train, he thought about at least 10,000 ways to have a dialogue and exchange after meeting his relatives, so as not to reveal his identity and be revealed. With enough drills, Chen Xu originally thought that he would talk eloquently and heat up the atmosphere of reunion of relatives after a long absence.

How did he know that he really saw his eldest brother, only to realize that in addition to smirking, he was speechless and didn't know what to say.

Chen Xu is the fifth oldest in the family, and there are three older brothers and a second sister. However, the third and fourth children stepped on the bare wires and became an electric ghost, and the other fell into the well and became a short-lived ghost, and only the eldest brother Chen Weiguo, the second sister Chen Xinhua and Chen Xu were left in the Chen family.

It is said that when Chen Xu was born, his family was afraid that he would have an accident like the third and fourth children, and through the guidance of the fortune teller, he took a single name "Xu", which means that the rising sun is unstoppable!

Only Chen Xu knows that his predecessor still hasn't escaped the fate of his untimely death, and if he doesn't have his possession, the family is afraid that they can only receive a box of ashes.

Perhaps because he can't forget the grief of the departure of his two younger brothers, Chen Weiguo loves the youngest Chen Xu very much, and makes an older brother more dutiful than his father.

Seeing that his younger brother had been standing with a smile but not speaking, Chen Weiguo said guiltily: "Oops! My little five has changed in the end, and he is much more stable. used to stick to my eldest brother like a fart every day, and my mouth was so greedy that I wanted sugar particles to eat every day, but now I'm an adult. ”

Chen Weiguo saw his younger brother standing there and didn't speak, he was very unfamiliar with him, and he was no longer as affectionate and clingy as he was back then. I couldn't help but complain about my grandfather and father, who insisted on sending my younger brother who was still in junior high school to the Soviet Union to study and learn technology. Now that he has returned from school, his playful brother will never come back.

The two brothers looked at each other relatively wordless for a while, and in order to hide their embarrassment, Chen Weiguo asked Nunu in his mouth towards the six delicate large suitcases piled up next to him, "Are these all your luggage?" That's a lot! It's not tiring to bring back so many things from Moscow. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Chen Xu to answer, he directly stepped forward and lifted two suitcases and stuffed them into the back seat of the jeep.

Chen Xu immediately stepped forward to help, Chen Weiguo waved his hand and said, "You are tired of taking the train for so long, sit in front of the train, let me do these things." ”

"It's okay, I just woke up after sleeping on the train for a long time and wasn't tired at all, and the two of us moved faster."

As they spoke, the two brothers quickly stuffed all their suitcases into the back seat, and the car started to drive through the city and go home.

Along the way, Chen Xu kept asking about the situation of his family, and tried his best to obtain information about the Chen family. In addition to answering, the eldest brother Chen Weiguo also asked with interest some foreign experiences, and unconsciously the strangeness of the two brothers disappeared a lot.

"Xiao Wu, compared to foreign countries, we are much behind here!" As the car passed through Wuyi Square in the center of Pingxiang, Chen Weiguo deliberately slowed down.

Looking from the square, there are no tall buildings more than ten floors around. On one side of the street, there are mostly cloth and clothing stores, or supply and marketing cooperatives selling groceries, and the signboards are also painted, and it is rare to see neon signs. Occasionally, you can see some self-employed households opening shops, and the sprouts of reform and opening up have begun to emerge.

China in this era was not the nouveau riche infrastructure maniac of later generations, with skyscrapers built in big cities, and cement roads and street lamps in the countryside reached the door of the house. And now! Even the central main roads of Pingxiang City, the provincial capital, are poor and unpaved with asphalt, but potholes and cracked cement pavement, and the chrysanthemums are bumped tightly when sitting in the car. The sky over the city was littered with ragged wires, like a mess of staves.

Suddenly, a long trolleybus drove by, with two large pigtails on the roof connected to the electrical wires above the street, occasionally flashing purple electric sparks and making a "pop" explosion.

The most interesting thing for Chen Xujue is that this bus is actually an extended version, in order to carry more passengers, an extra carriage is added to the back, and the two carriages are connected by black telescopic canvas.

This is probably the characteristic of this era!

"It's okay! It's all pretty much the same. No matter how good a foreign country is, it is not as kind as coming from home. Chen Xu really didn't know how to answer, at this time, whether it was Moscow, New York, and Tokyo, the urban construction of these countries has basically been completed, and now China's reform and opening up has just begun, and there is no way to save a few money in his pocket, and there is no way to compare with those countries.

Although Pingxiang City is a provincial capital, it has not yet carried out large-scale urban construction like in later generations, and the urban area is not very large.

The jeep went all the way, and soon went out of the city to the suburbs, and the cement road became a cinder road, and even the cinder road was not paved farther away, and it was directly the original gravel yellow mud road.

After driving along the yellow mud dirt road for about ten minutes, I saw a red brick wall with no end in sight in front of me.

The car drove along the root of the wall, and Chen Weiguo said to Nunu at the wall: "Xiao Wu, this is the No. 1 Machinery Factory in the South, do you remember when you liked to come here to play when you were young?" However, the efficiency of the factory has not been good over the years, and it has relied on the production of some by-products to earn some money, and in the past few years, you have not been the eldest brother and I have become the deputy factory director, and I have worked hard to eat for thousands of mouths in the factory every day. I have been looking forward to your return from the Soviet Union for a long time, you have been studying abroad for so many years, you are a technical backbone everywhere, and you are rushing to get talents wherever you go. However, the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, I will arrange a position for you soon, can you come to the factory to help the eldest brother? ”

"It's certain that I will work in the factory, but my grandfather is still the factory director and has not retired? He was over 80 years old before I went to the Soviet Union! Also, I left this place for too long, and I don't remember a lot of things, big brother, you drive the car in, I want to go in and have a look. Chen Xu turned his head and stared at the high wall, as an intelligence officer, he knew a lot about domestic heavy industry enterprises, but he now did not have the slightest impression of this "No. 1 Machinery Factory in the South", and it was estimated that in the state-owned enterprise changes in the first ten years, it was either closed down or merged.

Chen Xu's grandfather, Chen Hu, was born in the Republic of China and went to the Soviet Union to study, but he gave up school halfway and returned to China to participate in the revolution, using what he had learned to organize manpower to make guns and cannons for the troops. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he became an official in the department, and with the launch of the First Five-Year Plan of the country, the Soviet Union helped New China establish 156 industrial projects. And Chen Hu was one of the people who went to the Soviet Union with the delegation to negotiate, and a friend he had a very good relationship with when he was studying abroad was already a high-level member of the CPSU, so it was easier to speak.

Relying on this relationship, Chen Hu won a complete set of tank production lines and supporting facilities for the country. With these equipment, Chen Hu established the first machinery factory in Jiangnan from scratch, adding the most important piece of business to the national military industry.

It is worth mentioning that this tank production line has a rather peculiar origin, it was dismantled from the German industrial area after the victory of the Soviet army in World War II. However, the Soviet Union's heavy industry and military industry have a very strong ability to restore themselves completely, and they can already explode a sea of tanks in the war, and the tanks that were decommissioned after the war are piled up and dismantled, so where is there any need to build a new tank factory. In addition, the tank production line dismantled from Germany did not match the Soviet Union's own industrial system, and this line was piled up in warehouses and not used.

And Chen Hu went all the way to the Soviet Union to ask his old classmate for help, and the high-ranking old classmate poured a few bottles of Moutai, and sold the rusty tank production line in the legion warehouse to Chen Hu at a very low price because of favors. Because it was an off-the-table deal, the production line was not included in the 156 projects built with Soviet assistance, and was only a small project.

After this batch of equipment went around half the world to New China, after Chen Hu's painstaking management, it finally achieved the current "No. 1 Machinery Factory in the South"!

"The old man has a hard body, maybe he will live longer than all of us, and no one can take away his position as the factory director." Chen Weiguo laughed, slapped the steering wheel, turned the jeep into the gate, and continued: "Let's go home first!" I've got the dishes at home and I'm waiting for you to go back and open the chopsticks! ”

Chen Xu has already entered the machinery factory, where can Chen Xu still take care of eating, for him work is the most important thing, directly patted his eldest brother on the shoulder and said: "Don't be in a hurry to eat!" I learned so many technologies in the Soviet Union and waited to come back and show my strengths, big brother, you haven't gone abroad, I don't know what the rapid development of science and technology outside has become, and I have to race against time now without delay. ”

Seeing that his younger brother Yan Sù didn't look like he was joking, Chen Weiguo glanced at the home of the factory dormitory building not far away, and had to helplessly turn the steering wheel and drive the jeep to a tall arched building with gray tiles and white walls.

Just now in the car, Chen Xu found that this machinery factory was much bigger than he imagined. Looking at the past, there are dozens of tall buildings in the entire factory area, which really surprised Chen Xu. So many factories are not just a tank production line, it must be a relatively complete tank production system. Although it was a World War II tank manufacturing system, it could not have been used to produce German Tiger tanks, but unfortunately it is now somewhat outdated.

But the victory is that it is well-equipped, and this factory was established during the First Five-Year Plan, and the workers in the factory should have become masters after decades! Machinery and equipment can be bought as long as there is money, but skilled technicians need real time to train.

According to the description of Brother Tongguò, although the efficiency of the machinery factory is not very good, it is still operating. The air in the factory area is filled with the characteristic smell of engine oil and steel, and from the large semicircular window of the nearest factory, you can see the workers walking back and forth between the dark machine tools, the forging press, the drilling rig, the crane make a piercing grinding sound, and the ground shakes from time to time.

Especially when he entered the factory gate, Chen Xu saw dozens of tractors parked in the open space at the factory gate, but none of the tanks were seen.

The two got out of the jeep, Chen Weiguo pointed to the nearest round-arched red brick building, and said loudly: "This is the final assembly workshop in the factory, and the parts produced from all over the country will eventually be gathered here and assembled into tanks." ”

"Where's the tank?" Chen Xu turned around and looked around, and saw some rusty load-bearing wheels and tattered tracks under the corner of the wall in the distance, but he didn't see any of the real steel turtles.

Chen Weiguo's face turned red, he lowered his head and coughed twice, and said embarrassedly: "The factory is not profitable now, the army does not place orders, and the main business of the factory in the past two years is to make tractors......

Seeing the steel monster of the tank, Chen Xu was a little disappointed, but he quickly adjusted his feelings, strode in front and got into the assembly workshop, and as soon as he entered the door, a suffocating engine oil rushed to his face, and then he was dumbfounded!

He had never seen such a dark factory floor!

If it weren't for the fact that there were several finished walk-behind tractors parked at the door, Chen Xu couldn't believe that such a dilapidated factory full of scattered wires, oil pipes, and water pipes, and black and greasy everywhere was actually the final assembly workshop of the tank factory.

He casually wiped his hand on the nearest iron railing, his hands were covered with oil and dust, and his face was even more lost.

In Chen Xu's impression, the workshop of the modern tank factory he has been to is smooth and flawless, and the floor will be cleaned every one or two hours, which is basically dust-free and cleaner than a five-star hotel.

Chen Xu patted his forehead helplessly, took out a pen and a palm-sized notebook from his underwear pocket, and wrote in a low voice: "Clean and standardized factory production environment is the first priority!" Workers do not have uniform work clothes, and safety regulations are not seen. ”

Chen Weiguo watched his younger brother write and draw in the small notebook, and his face suddenly showed joy. In the end, he is the deputy factory director, and it is obvious from Chen Xu's muttering that his younger brother seems to be rectifying this factory!

Chen Xu has indeed regarded this factory as his starting place, his grandfather is the factory director, and his eldest brother is the deputy factory director, and his grandfather should arrange a reasonable position for him at that time, so that he can devote himself to his work.