Chapter 59: Nostalgia 1958
The sailboat goes down the river, the Dawang River is a tributary of the Huai River, the river water enters the river, and the ship also docks at the Jiangbei wharf, and the machine ship of larger tonnage is transported to the provincial capital.
In these years, there are no private cargo ships, the public-private partnership has been completed, and the only way to find a transport ship is to go to the port authority, but the whole country is making steel, and the ships of the port authority are busy transporting coke and iron ore, and there is no empty ship at all, and even if there is, it is only to free up a loading position, and it is inconvenient to carry out the plan.
So they temporarily stored the Dragon Ball in the dock yard, anyway, no one stole this thing, Liu Yanzhi's plan was to get a truck to leave Jiangbei by land at night, there were no cameras in the fifties, and they could completely let go of these chickens and dogs.
Since he has plenty of time, Liu Yanzhi allowed Liu Handong to go home and take a look twice, it is normal for people to do it, and he himself did not take the opportunity to visit his parents.
"I'm going to go for a walk, too." Ji Yuqian said.
"Be at your own convenience, be merciful everywhere, be careful of being caught as a hooligan." Liu Yanzhi did not miss every opportunity to ridicule Ji Yuqian, he wanted to let the other party know that in another time and space, he was the one who had the final say.
Before the disbandment, the three of them had a meal together, the food in the state-run Jiangbei Hotel tasted first-class, it was still the same as ten years ago, and the supply of ingredients was enough.
After the meal, Liu Handong went to the family courtyard of the Jiangbei Military Division, which is separated by a wall from the compound of the military division, and there are soldiers standing guard at the door, but the management is lax, as long as the person who wears the appearance of a dog, the sentry will not stop you, Liu Handong is wearing a meticulous Zhongshan suit, carrying a briefcase, looking like a cadre, easily enter the family courtyard, sit down on the side of the playground, and watch the children play games.
The playground is very simple, there is no rubber track, no football goal and basketball hoop, just a large open space flattened with stone grinders, and the two rows of bungalows on the side are the officers' dormitories, which was originally the military camp of the Kuomintang Jiangdong Traffic Police Corps, 49 years of the traffic police corps uprising, Jiangbei was peacefully liberated, the traffic police corps was reorganized into the People's Liberation Army, and his grandfather Liu Xiaoyong also changed from the colonel captain of the Kuomintang to the deputy commander of the Jiangbei Military Division of the People's Liberation Army, when he was awarded the title in 1956, because he was an uprising general, an underground party member, Only gave a lieutenant colonel rank, this matter is a knot in my grandfather's life, he became a colonel in the Kuomintang, and he was given a lieutenant colonel when he returned to his own side.
A group of half-grown children on the playground are playing games, they are divided into two sides, respectively playing the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese devils, playing the game of war, the children who play the Eighth Route Army are righteous and awe-inspiring, and their gestures are with the taste of Li Xiangyang, and the children who play the Japanese devils can pretend to be obscene and timid, with the image of the Eighth Route Army's tall and heroic, with wooden guns on both sides, and the devils will be eliminated in a blink of an eye.
The children were playing with great interest, Liu Handong watched with relish, and suddenly a group of women ran over, each calling out to their sons, first splitting their heads and covering their faces, complaining that the children had dirty and torn their clothes, and playing and fighting naturally inevitably crawled forward, crawling and rolling, and the boys were naughty by nature, which was nothing, but the women were just screaming, and their target was the children's toy guns.
This was a long-planned gun surrender campaign, because although the children's toy guns were mainly made of wood, the barrels and bolts on them were made of iron pipes and iron sheets.
The children couldn't fight their mothers, and in the howling of ghosts and wolves, whether it was the Eighth Road or the devils, the guns were confiscated, and the women steelmaking team members returned victoriously, but they met Deputy Commander Liu head-on.
Liu Handong recognized his grandfather at a glance, middle-aged Liu Xiaoyong wore a white-washed cotton plain cloth military uniform, the hat was decorated with a round army cockade, and the collar was a red army lieutenant colonel.
The women said hello to the deputy commander and wanted to leave, Liu Xiaoyong frowned and said, "Stop, what's going on?" ”
"Deputy Commander, we're also here to make steel." The women explained that they were all family members of officers, and they had nothing to do with their spare time to learn from local units and set up a blast furnace to make iron.
"Ridiculous, the big steel smelting lacks this kind of thing for children to have guns?" Liu Xiaoyong has a great temper, "The iron you have trained can't make guns and bullets at all, and it's not qualified to be a land mine." ”
"Give the guns back to the kids." The deputy commander gave a solemn order, the children cheered, and the women hung their heads and did not dare to say anything.
"When you go to the ordnance department, just say I approve it, get some bullet casings." Liu Xiao said bravely.
The women then laughed and returned satisfied.
Liu Handong didn't dare to alarm his grandfather, but watched Liu Xiaoyong walk to the side of the playground from a distance and pick up a three or four-year-old child, the child's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Liu Handong's childhood, it should be his father, Liu Kaihua, who died on the front line of Laoshan in the eighties.
Liu Xiaoyong hugged his son, a father's expression appeared on his face, and he went home full of happiness, Liu Handong stood up and saluted his grandfather's back.
As the sun set, the children on the playground launched a new round of charge, and the black smoke billowed from the earthen blast furnace in the distance.
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Ji Yuqian's interest is cultural relics, Jiangbei is the second largest city in Jiangdong, not many years after it was built, although it lacks heritage, but during the Kuomintang period, there were many rich and cultural people, the cultural and entertainment industry was relatively developed, there were many antique shops in the early years, and after the public-private partnership, it became a public cultural relics store, and the revolutionary masses were busy with production and construction every day, how could they have time to play this, so the store was empty, and there was only one customer.
"Comrade, what do you want to consign?" The salesman came over with a feather duster and asked, judging from his many years of work experience, this person should be here to sell things instead of buying things, the cultural relics store has the role of a consignment store, and the calligraphy and paintings, jewelry and jade, imported watches, cufflinks and brooches collected by the elite white-collar workers in the old society are not used in the new society, and they are worried at home, so it is better to sell them for money.
"I'll take a look." Ji Yuqian smiled and said, he is handsome, has a good temperament, and dresses very well, the salesman is also from the old society, watching people put dishes is a basic skill, and it can be seen that Ji Yuqian is not an ordinary working person, so he will follow him.
Ji Yuqian has a wide range of hobbies, and has studied calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, there are no good things in this cultural relics store, just a painting of Zhang Daqian can be considered to be in the eyes of the law, another piece of Tian Huangshi's seal, a large piece of Hetian mutton fat white jade seed material is very cost-effective.
"This, and this, I want it." Ji Yuqian pointed to a few things he liked, and took out his wallet, which was full of banknotes, and the price of calligraphy and painting was not high, only two hundred yuan, Tian Huangshi's seal was only one hundred yuan, and Hetian seeds were the cheapest, only ten yuan.
"Comrade, may I ask which unit you belong to?" The salesman couldn't help but be vigilant, this business was inevitably too big, he took out the registration book, "You have to register the unit when you buy things." ”
Ji Yuqian took out a small red book, showed a mouthful of white teeth and said with a smile: "I'm a reporter from Huaijiang Daily, do you have a problem?" ”
The class struggle of the salesman was very tight, and after registering the customer's unit and name, he saw Ji Yuqian go out, and when he returned, he called the police station and reported the suspicious situation to the above.
Ten minutes later, a public security officer came on a bicycle, inquired carefully about the situation, praised the salesman and said: "You have to be vigilant at all times, this person who claims to be a reporter is carrying a large amount of cash, and we cannot rule out the possibility of a spy of the United States and Chiang, and we will immediately start to verify and investigate." ”
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Liu Yanzhi didn't go anywhere, just sat by the river and blew the wind, his sixth sense was very sensitive, he always felt that this mission was too smooth, and it seemed that a pair of eyes were quietly staring at him.
He jerked his head back, and in the distance, a lone crow was staring at him, and in a blink of an eye, it spread its wings and quacked and flew away.
When the rendezvous time came, Ji Yuqian and Liu Handong came back at the same time, and the three of them acted collectively, stole a brand-new Jiefang brand truck from the Jiangbei City Transportation Company, and drove all the way to the dock.
A pitch-black crow landed on the tarpaulin of the carriage, its eyes shining with an eerie light.
The truck drove for three hours, and when it was about to reach Omi, the car stopped on the shore, Liu Yanzhi moved the dragon balls down, rolled them to the riverside and threw them into the water, and marked the precise latitude and longitude with instruments, they did not have the ability to bring such a large volume of dragon balls back to the base time and space, so they could only hide them first, and then take them after a few decades.
The task was completed, everyone was in a much more relaxed mood, singing and driving back to Cuiwei Mountain, and in the distance in the trees, the crow appeared again, flashing its wings, and a miserable bird cry sounded in the dark night.
The crossing team abandoned the truck near Cuiwei Mountain, hiked up the mountain, sat in the crossing cabin, and returned to the starting point in 2018 in an instant.
Without further ado, Liu Yanzhi immediately reported the specific location of the hidden Dragon Ball, and the party sent personnel to salvage it, but found nothing.
Something went wrong.
The three members of the crossing group all rushed to the riverside and repeatedly confirmed that this was indeed the location of the Dragon Ball, and there would be no mistake.
"Could it be that someone cut off his beard?" Liu Yanzhi pondered, "I always feel that there are a pair of eyes staring at me, it may be true. ”
Everyone is creepy, this speculation is very scary, if there is another force that can accurately detect the whereabouts of the crossing group and respond to it, then everything the organization does is a waste of energy.
The villagers reported that in 1993, several foreigners came here and salvaged an iron lump from the river and took it away.
The villager who broke the news, Lao Wang, was in his fifties, and he was a strong guy twenty-five years ago, and he happily recalled the past events of that year, and the memory was so deep that he even remembered the names of foreigners.
"It's a doctor, Dr. Jones." The villagers dipped their fingers in the spittle, pointing at the money that the party patriotic gave him.
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