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At Kunshan Railway Station, because it is not the normal time for ticket trains, there are no other passengers on the platform, except for the workers at several stations. Outside the wooden fence at the entrance and exit of the station, there were a few children, looking curiously at the train that had just stopped on the platform. When more than 20 energetic Red Army soldiers with short guns on their waists came down from the train and scattered on the platform, expanding their chests and twisting their waists as if they were doing a normal relaxing action, the children's eyes suddenly flashed with envy and admiration.

"Hello Uncle Red Army of the Celestial Empire, can you help us shoot a bird?" The children clung to the wooden fence and pointed to the waists of the Red Army soldiers, screaming innocently and happily.

"Good, good! Syllable! The soldiers who approached were also laughing, and they danced towards the hand in the shape of a gun, "Hehe, guns and bullets are very expensive, and you can't beat birds, you have to keep them to fight demons and Russian devils." As he said and did this, the soldier's eyes were sharply scanning the surrounding Qiē.

Zheng Nan, who stepped out of the carriage, widened his chest a few times, listened to the conversation between the soldiers and the children not far away, and also smiled, but soon, doubts appeared on his face again, "Hmm...... Why don't the children go to school? ”

"Today is Sunday, the day of school break." Lu Jing reminded with a smile.

"Oh, yes, yes, it's Sunday, look at my brain, it's too confused." Zheng Nan raised his hand and knocked on his skull, turned around and took two deep breaths at the breeze from the previous freight cars, "Hehe, it's so fragrant!" ”

"Yes, the fragrance of this tree is really refreshing." Qi Nong also admired with the same feelings.

"Yes, the words 'refreshing' are absolutely best placed here." Zheng Nan stretched out his thumb and praised.

"Vice chairman......" Lu Jingshun just called out, and immediately covered her mouth again, a pair of beautiful eyes subconsciously looked around, and when she saw the "vicious" gaze of the guard chief Li Meng a few steps away, her face flushed with embarrassment. The decision to take the train back to Tianjing was a temporary decision, and the stations along the way did not know the details, otherwise they would not have attached these two carriages to the back of a train that sent goods. In this case, the identity of the vice chairman cannot be lightly exposed, after all, the personal safety of the vice chairman must be taken into account.

"Well, something?" Zheng Nan didn't think about it so much, looked at Lu Jing's weird appearance, and asked puzzledly.

"Hmm...... Hmm......" Lu Jing smiled lightly, and pointed to the freight car in front of her with her hand covering her mouth, "I just want to ask, we have forests everywhere, and they are inexhaustible, but why do we have to exchange these things overseas?" Wouldn't it be better to be able to get more gold and silver back? ”

"You......" Zheng Nan smiled and nodded Lu Jing, "If you want to say that you can't live, I still really underestimate you, fortunately, you still know that gold and silver are good things." ”

"Originally, even if you live at home, you should save more gold and silver for emergencies?" Lu Jing shook his head.

"I didn't say it's wrong to save money," Zheng Nan looked at Qi Nong who was smiling, and then turned his head to look at Lu Jing, "But ah, it's not like when you have money and you can have a qiē." ”

Seeing that Lu Jing was still a little puzzled, Zheng Nan walked towards the stationmaster's duty room at the station, and said, "Don't say that there are many things in this world that are not renewable, just talk about your so-called inexhaustible forests, the Celestial Empire is in a period of renewal of all things, and all kinds of construction are inseparable from forests." Building houses, people building fires for warmth, cooking, building railways, etc., how can they leave the forest? You must know that it is not possible for a tree to grow from a seedling to a mature tree in one or two years, it takes many years. Isn't it often said that the predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade, blindly felling, no matter how many trees there are, there will always be a time when they are cut down, what should the descendants do? ”

"I understand," Lu Jing looked at the vice chairman and nodded, "For the happiness of future generations, not only must you save money, but also accumulate something that you can use." ”

"Clever!" Zheng Nan patted Lu Jing on the shoulder, "Learn to use what you can make at any time to exchange and accumulate things that you need to keep for a long time." If someone is willing to sell, you naturally have to hurry up and buy it, haven't you heard of strange goods? Sooner or later, you will know that what seems ordinary today will become wealth. The abacus can't always be in the present, but in the long run, this is the real life. ”

In the station duty room, on two benches, one sits Qi Nong and Lu Jing, and the other sits Zheng Nan and the stationmaster of Kunshan Station. In order not to disturb the loudspeakers on the wall of the inner room, the two attendants who receive the train operation from the upper and lower stations at any time and immediately make a diary of the operation, the conversation in the outhouse is as low as possible.

In a harmonious and humorous conversation, they talked about the great contribution of this groundbreaking transportation artery to the thriving cause of the Celestial Empire, the honor and pride of being one of the first batch of railway workers of the Celestial Empire, and the arduous responsibility that everyone must assume in order to protect the lives and property of the country and the people and to ensure that this artery can run safely, smoothly and quickly......

During the conversation, the stationmaster, who was nearly forty years old and wore the same style as the Red Army uniform of the Celestial Empire, but had been changed to a black uniform, introduced to the amiable Tianjing guest in front of him the tragic experience of a pair of sick parents who had lost their land and were forced to live in a temporary thatched hut at the Pujiang Wharf in Shanghai. It also tells the happy process of becoming a qualified railway worker after the recovery of Shanghai, after a dock worker, after hard cultural and business learning.

“…… It was the Celestial Empire that made me an upright person, and I could only repay the grace of the Celestial Empire if I worked diligently. The stationmaster said from the bottom of his heart.

Zheng Nan listened carefully to the stationmaster's narration, and he found that the simple man in front of him, who was not a stout man, often rubbed his chest gently or unconsciously during the conversation. "That's right, we all have to use our own diligence to contribute to the Celestial Empire." As he spoke, he looked at the stationmaster with concern, "What, is your body a little uncomfortable?" ”

"Hehe, it's not." The stationmaster looked down at the hand rubbing his chest and smiled, "It's an old problem, it's still the root of the old illness caused by the exhaustion of a few mouthfuls of blood when I was unloading the cargo boxes for the British at the dock, and my chest tightened when I was excited." It's okay. ”

"Oh, don't be careless, the body is the capital of the revolution and the guarantee of work. You should go to the hospital often for check-ups, and then ask your family to do more good things to replenish and replenish, and you will soon be fully recovered. Zheng Nan smiled and patted the stationmaster's leg, "How about the old brother, the old parents and sister-in-law at home must be good, right?" ”

"Alas, the poor old lady is not blessed, she has not been able to see the good days of today." The stationmaster shook his head with regret, and immediately, he looked at the guests of Tianjing with a smile, "Hello Dad, it's a good time, Shanghai has just been recovered, and under the care of the Celestial Empire, many years of old illness have been treated, and now the body is stiff." No, at the beginning of the year, the station gave me two rooms, and my father also moved over, saving me from worrying about it. When I get home, I can eat the food made by my father. ”

Speaking of this, the stationmaster saw that there were still doubts in the eyes of the guests, and smiled, "I used to be poor, and no one was willing to enter our rotten house that was not as good as the pig's nest, but then it was good, but there was less time, and it was a lot older, this ......"

"Hehe......" Zheng Nan smiled and looked at Lu Jing.

As soon as the stationmaster said that he was a bachelor, what did you look at me? Lu Jing smiled unnaturally.

"When you work well, your life should be perfect. You have to be careful in this regard, they all say that it is a radish and a pit, and it has been delayed for a long time, hehe, but there will be no you. Zheng Nan teased the blushing stationmaster, "I forgot to ask, the current salary is okay, right?" Prices here shouldn't be too high, right? ”

"Hehe, if I had never dreamed of it." The stationmaster proudly stretched out a slap, "The average salary of three silver dollars, plus the stationmaster's allowance, duty and other expenses, there must be a total of five silver dollars per month." If I had put all this money in my early years, I would have been able to go back to my hometown and buy a few acres of land. Now if we buy rice in Kunshan, one silver dollar and one quintal, and five quintals of rice, we can't eat it for a year? I couldn't eat pork if I wanted to eat it before, but now I can eat it, hehe, you can buy a pound of copper coins for just a dime. As for seasonal vegetables, they are all counted with the smallest copper coins (cents). Alas, it's really, think about it, I've caught up with the income of a county master of the Qing Demon at the beginning. ”

"Yes, as long as we all work together, everyone's income will be higher and higher." Zheng Nan nodded.

"Of course......"

"The bus will leave my station on time on May 15, please be ready to pick it up......" At this moment, a voice from the speaker in the back room interrupted the stationmaster's enthusiastic words. The stationmaster stood up, straightened the hat on his head, and bowed his hand apologetically to the guest, "The bus is about to enter the station, I have to hurry up and prepare for the pick-up." As soon as the train arrives, your car will be ready to go. ”

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