The meeting ended at 8 p.m., and the workers lined up in an orderly manner to receive the fruit.

The game development department, whether it's hardware or software, went home early. They are all foreigners, and it takes time and effort to go back home, and if they don't leave early, the Spring Festival will be over when they return home.

Before leaving, many people asked Dong Lao to talk to Yu Sheng, saying that when they came back, they would bring their families back, and asked Yu Sheng to arrange their lover's work and children's studies as agreed before.

The rest of my life said rest assured, it must be arranged when it comes to this.

In the 80s of the twentieth century, China was not as good as the later generations, and the concept of commercial housing was just emerging, and it was estimated that commercial housing could not be found in the whole country except for the capital Beijing.

Farmers living in rural areas have their own homesteads and can build their own houses, while those who live in towns generally arrange housing in units.

Because of the shortage of housing, the living conditions cannot be said to be good, even if it is not a bungalow, it is basically a tube building with a floor, a toilet and a kitchen.

In contrast, the price of rent is very low. The rent and electricity bill are only a few cents a month and less than a dollar, and the water bill is not worth money.

However, there are also bad points, such as transferring jobs, quitting and going to sea. It's not that it's over without paying, it's that I don't even have a place to live.

In this era, it is difficult to find a house to sell, and there are few people who rent a house. It is said that there are really people who go to the sea and sleep on the street with their families.

One of the conditions for Huaxia to attract those technicians was to provide housing. And their original work unit has also been coordinated by the higher authorities to let the families of these people who come to work in the Huaxia factory live for a few more months.

A few years ago, the Huaxia factory was built with a new design of the design institute, the residential building was spacious and bright, and the most important thing is that each household has its own kitchen and toilet.

Those technicians who got the keys to the new building before the old workers in the factory naturally wanted to take over all their families.

Before they left, everyone not only gave a year-end bonus red envelope for the rest of their lives, but also let them bring a few good cigarettes. After going back, if there are people with good skills, persuade them to come to work in the Huaxia factory.

A flamboyant technician shouted, let's return home. Coming to work in Huaxia Factory for a few months, it is more than the old guys who have worked for a few years, and it is estimated that they know that our life is red-eyed.

Hearing this, he smiled and nodded, this is the effect he is pursuing. Since this society is talking about money now, it is very generous to talk about money, people go to high places, and the treatment of Huaxia Factory is good, which will naturally attract capable people.

After queuing up to sign his name, press his handprint, and receive the money and fruit for the rest of his life, he returned home with two boxes of fruits, and sat on the chair with a little bared teeth.

Yu Tiecheng was speaking on the rostrum just now, and the rest of the middle-level and above-level leaders all stood on the rostrum, standing for several hours at a time, motionless, and their legs were almost unconscious.

It is said that I wanted to arrange seats, but the tables were all set up on the rostrum, and it was not good to sit bare, so I simply stood.

Yu Tiecheng also said with a smile that this can just reflect the spirit of concentricity of the Huaxia factory.

Yu Sheng was rubbing his legs and stomach, his mother Li Zizhen came in from outside the door, she pushed open the door and looked at Yu Sheng's appearance, so she quipped, "You haven't practiced for a long time, and your physical fitness has dropped a lot. ”

She said and picked up the kettle, "You rub it first, I'll boil some boiling water, or it will be difficult to find hot water when you get on the train." ”

"Mom, then don't wash it, it's troublesome." Yu Sheng said.

"How can I do it if I don't wash it, when I see grandpa, you are listless, he should count me and your father." Li Zizhen pushed open the door and went out.

That's right, the rest of the family will also go home for the New Year.

The train departs from Heilong-Jiang, passes through Shanqi, stops at Qingtai Station for one minute at 10:20, and arrives at Bei-Jingxi Station at 5:50.

There weren't a lot of people on the train, it was deserted, and the seats were barely full. It is far less crowded than the crowded situation of people crowding and crowding during the Spring Festival more than ten years later, with people drilling under the seats and people standing in the toilets.

Although last year, sociologist Professor Zhang Yulin first proposed the concept of migrant workers. However, the migrant workers he refers to are farmers who do not have urban hukou and work in local towns and villages. Instead of the rural migrant workers who are like migratory birds in a decade or so, they regularly migrate on a large scale across the land of China.

Therefore, the train on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1984 was not crowded.

In these days, the flow of people is not particularly frequent, and going out not only requires money, but also a letter of introduction, and without a letter of introduction, you can't even find a place to live.

If you want to work in other places, you need a temporary residence permit, and if you don't, you will be repatriated according to regulations, and in some places there are even cases of people being killed because of the quality of individual personnel in the law enforcement team.

Yu Sheng got on the train with his parents, because Huaxia Factory is a star enterprise in Qingtai, and because it provides a good traffic for Qingtai's railway, so when the secretary Xiao Zhao went to buy a ticket, the hard seat ticket was forcibly upgraded to a sleeper ticket by the stationmaster.

It's not easy to get the iron boss to give a face for upgrading to a sleeper ticket.

In the first two years, although Yu Tiecheng was also the head of a factory, he had never enjoyed this kind of treatment.

In these years, there are not many people who go far away, and even fewer who buy sleeper tickets.

Sleeper tickets are expensive, and they may not be available if you have money. Therefore, having a sleeper ticket can also be regarded as a status symbol.

The difference between hard seats and soft sleepers in trains in these years is a bit like economy class and first class on airplanes a few decades later, although according to the price on paper, the difference between the two is not much, at most two to three times.

But in reality, economy class is almost always discounted, and at the highest discount can even be ten times different from first class. Coupled with the fact that flying in the sky is not too long, most people will choose the economy class, which is relatively more cost-effective. Only those who are particularly concerned about comfort, and those who can be reimbursed, will buy first class. Therefore, to a certain extent, the first class cabin highlights the status of the passenger.

The location written on the ticket for the rest of his family is the upper berth, middle berth, and lower berth in the No. 8 carriage.

Yu Sheng entered the room and found that in addition to their three positions, there were two empty seats. There was a middle-aged man sitting on the bottom bunk of No. 2.

He was wearing a tunic and a Hero 212 fountain pen pinned to his chest pocket, looking like an intellectual.

Yu Tiecheng, Yu Sheng, and Li Zizhen, because their usual activities are in the factory, they are used to wearing tooling.

At the beginning, when they carried their bags into the room for the rest of their lives, the attitude of this intellectual can be described as cold. Although no nostrils reached the sky, they did not look directly at their family.

They didn't care for the rest of their lives, the family talked about some things in the factory that were not very important, and discussed how to talk to the old man about the things in the factory this year when they got to Beijing for a while.

The cold intellectual, who was sitting opposite and looking up at the sky, listened to Yu Tiecheng and Yu Sheng's mouths, and there was a United States for a while, a Japan for a while, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and tens of millions of yen on his lips, and his face gradually changed.

When he heard Yu Sheng's habitual shouting of Yu Tiecheng, the intellectual's expressionless face turned into a smile.

Taking advantage of the rest of his family's time to speak, the middle-aged man took out a box of mango cigarettes from his trouser pocket with a smile, shook one out and said to Yu Tiecheng, "You are the factory director?" ”

"Well, yes, what's wrong?" Yu Tiecheng looked at the knowledgeable middle-aged man and said, he saw the mango in the hands of the knowledgeable middle-aged, pushed it slightly, took out the Zhonghua given by the president of the Qingtai Construction Bank and said, "Pump mine." ”

"China is good, China is good, then you will be pumped." The middle-aged man respectfully took the cigarette, put his legs together a little, straightened his waist a little, and became a lot more restrained.

The middle-aged man of knowledge took the fire, first helped Yu Tiecheng light it, and then lit his own cigarette.

The two of them swallowed the clouds, and after a while, the elder in the knowledge exhaled, spit out a cigarette and said, "Your factory has business dealings with foreign countries and the United States?" ”

"Yes, but now the factory is mainly engaged in trade with Japan." Yu Tiecheng said.

"Oh...... I know...... That one...... Do you have a way for people to go to the United States......" said the middle-aged intellectual, somewhat hesitantly.

"This ...... I haven't tried it, I shouldn't have it, what's wrong? Yu Tiecheng asked rhetorically.

"Oh, that's right...... I want to immigrate to the United States. The middle-aged intellectuals were a little embarrassed at first, but they became proud as they spoke, "The United States is a country of freedom, a beacon of mankind, and the most advanced country in the world. I want to go to the United States, I want to be the United States, and I want to leave this dirty, backward, dictatorial ......"

The more knowledgeable middle-aged people talked, the more energetic they became, and they talked for more than half an hour.

For the rest of his life, he lay on the top bunk, looking down at the middle-aged man who was talking eloquently in the lower bunk, and listened to the United States in his mouth.

The great America in the mouth of the middle-aged in knowledge is much worse than the America in the mouth of Nick.

The United States in Nick's mouth is full of all kinds of trivial things, and the pastoral scenery accounts for more than the metropolitan cityscape.

And the Great America in the mouth of the middle-aged intellectual, and the United States in the mouth of Nick, are simply not the same country. Or rather, not like a country that would exist on Earth.

The United States in his mouth is prosperous and rich, and even the poorest people live far better than the Chinese. There is no exploitation, no oppression, living and working in peace and contentment, and everyone has what he wants. It's not so much the best country in the world as it is the kingdom of heaven on earth.

"Can you listen to me?" Yu Tiecheng waited for the middle-aged knowledge, and when he took out the water cup to drink, he handed a cigarette and said.

"You say." The middle-aged man hurriedly put down the water glass and took the cigarette with both hands.

"You want to immigrate to this matter, although I have the heart, but I really can't help. You see that our factory is a small factory in Shanqi Province, although it has some business dealings with the United States, but the immigration matter, really can't help, sorry, sorry. Yu Tiecheng said politely.

"Alas, it's okay, it's okay, you're serious." The middle-aged intellectuals were a little depressed, "Alas, I don't know the United States, do you need a high school teacher like me?"

I heard that the curriculum in the United States is easy and tight, and there are so many people who easily go to college, you say how smart they are. If you look at the Chinese students, they have to study to the death, and only a few of them have been admitted to universities. Alas, stupid, this is the gap. ”

Middle-aged intellectuals seem to have opened up the conversation box and chattered endlessly.

When Yu Tiecheng first started, he was still habitually listening, nodding from time to time. But after an hour, the intellectuals were still talking, and Yu Tiecheng closed his eyes and began to close his eyes to recuperate.

The train had been running for two hours, and it was pitch black outside the window, and there was nothing to see. The train attendant carries a kettle and delivers hot water to the passengers.

The middle-aged man who was talking non-stop just now, saw the conductor knocking on the door and coming in, and immediately changed to his cold face, nostrils turned to the sky, and looked at people with his chin.

After the flight attendant poured the water and went out, he reverted to a slightly flattering appearance, and regardless of whether anyone listened or not, he talked to himself about why he went to Bei-Beijing and what he was doing there. It's as if he wants to tell all the things that have happened since he was born.

The rest of his life was dazed on his stomach on the top bunk, and the train shook slightly, making him feel a little drunk. Half-asleep and half-awake, he listened to the words of the middle-aged knowledge, don't look at what he said so subtlely, so tactfully, in fact, translated into human words, that is, he wants to find someone to go to the United States through a relationship.

Listening to the meaning of his words, he is old and young, his wife is also a high school teacher, and his son is about to graduate in the fourth year of junior high this year.

For the rest of my life, I really don't understand what kind of feelings it is to make my family's life better, but want to leave my family and immigrate alone.

Is this the power of faith?

The sudden wind and snow delayed the train that was supposed to arrive at Beijing-Beijing at 5:50 for more than half an hour, and the train arrived at Beijing-West Railway Station at 6:24.

Yu Sheng wrapped his military coat tightly and got off the train with Yu Tiecheng and Li Zizhen. Before getting off the car, the middle-aged man had always wanted Yu Tiecheng's contact information, but Yu Tiecheng never gave it.

After walking for about ten minutes, when I arrived at the exit of the station, I immediately saw a sign held high, very eye-catching, with the words "Yu Tiecheng" written on it.

Yu Sheng followed Yu Tiecheng towards that side, holding the sign was Yu Sheng's grandfather's orderly, surnamed Bai, as for what it was called, Yu Sheng has never been clear.

Yu Tiecheng walked over without greetings, chatted a little, and then got into the Bei-Beijing 212 jeep parked on the side of the road.

It was very cold in the car, and after driving for more than 40 minutes, when we arrived at the gate of the compound, the guards on both sides saluted, and the white soldiers drove the Bei-Jingjeep in.

This scene is familiar, and I will see it every year after coming back for the rest of my life. Although he has lived here for a few years, he does not know exactly where this place is in Beijing.

He remembers that when he lived here, it was like a small city. The infrastructure is complete, not only a children's school, but also an auditorium. Basically, there are no special needs, which can be met around the compound, and there is no need to go further away.

Therefore, for the rest of my life, I don't know where this is in Beijing.

Although it is already the New Year today, because it has snowed a lot, you can see a lot of soldiers in military uniforms clearing the snow in the compound.

Along the way, these soldiers who cleared the snow saw the jeep driven by the white orderlies, and they all stopped what they were doing and saluted.

Bai Qinbing parked the car, Yu Sheng got out of the car with his parents, and a few steps further, it was where Yu Sheng's grandfather lived.

Yu Sheng looked at everything familiar, walked in the front, opened the door, saw a young old man in the hall, and shouted, "Grandpa! ”

(A new book will be sent tomorrow, asking for support) (To be continued.) )