"Those two comrades were called away by our comrades, they should have gone to participate in the work, I don't know the specific situation, you wait in the tent, it is estimated that someone will inform you"

The soldiers standing guard at the gate had a very good attitude, and explained the whereabouts of the two to Li Ping'an in a kind manner.

After knowing the specific whereabouts of the personnel, Li Ping'an relieved his heart, honestly obeyed the orders of the people and returned to the tent, waiting for the next task notice with peace of mind.

After staying in the tent for a morning, when Li Ping'an was bored and almost asleep, someone outside came in.

"Comrade, it's time for lunch, I'll bring you food, the food supply here in our base is more difficult, lunch is not very good, you can take care of it" The staff who greeted Li Ping'an in the morning walked in from outside with a lunch box in his hand, and handed it to Li Ping'an with a smile.

Glancing at the configuration of the staple food in the lunch box, the pickles of the dough and a small piece of canned meat, Li Ping'an was disgusted when he ate pickles during this time, but his face did not show it, he took the lunch box with a smile and said: "No, no, I am from the countryside, and the food in our base is a rare delicacy when I was a child."

"Okay, you can eat quickly, you have to hurry back later, you can't eat any hot meals on the way" The staff put down the meal with a smile, left this sentence and turned around and prepared to leave.

Hearing the news that he was about to leave, Li Ping'an hurriedly stopped the staff who delivered the meal: "Comrade, let me ask, will I go back later?" ”

"Yes, the truck is being unloaded now, and when the cargo on the truck is completely unloaded, you will leave with the convoy"

"Don't I have another job?"

The food delivery staff felt that Li Ping'an's question was very strange, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't your work done?" ”

Li Ping'an was confused by this, and he didn't understand what the other party meant at all.

After seeing Li Ping'an's question mark face, the food delivery staff opened his mouth and explained his work to Li Ping'an: "Comrade, your main job is to send that information over, now that the data leader has received it, then your task will naturally be completed, isn't it natural to go back now?" ”

"In this case, what about the two technicians from our factory this time, they should also go back with me, right?"

"They don't go back, we still need the two of them to stay and work for a while, this side has been arranged, and you can go back with the team when the time comes."

Yes, now Li Ping'an understands, what kind of bullshit team leader, he has become a human courier, and his main mission is to send confidential documents over, and then he can get out.

After waiting for only one person left in the tent, Li Ping'an's face darkened, and he sat on a stool and ate the lunch provided by the base.

Before arriving at the base, Li Ping'an always thought that he was taking the protagonist script, leaving his wife and newborn son, and traveling a long distance to Lop Nur, a place full of mystery, to turn the tide in this year's test explosion, help the building to fall, and then embark on the peak of life.

Who knew that in the end, he who stepped on the horse turned out to be a passerby, and he didn't even go into the inside of the Lop Nur base, but just walked around the door and had to follow the convoy back, which was really terrible.

After eating the lunch provided by the base, it didn't take long for the staff here to come to the tent to inform the team that the unloading had been completed.

The depressed Li Ping'an lifted his luggage and followed the staff to the convoy that had completed the unloading task and was ready to return.

After looking at the personnel of each factory who came with him, he found that only their own team leaders were left in each factory, and the other technicians all disappeared without a trace, looking at the depressed expressions on their faces, Li Ping'an's mood was much better.

There are a lot of personnel on the base who need to take the transport convoy back, so the number of people in the convoy on the way back has not decreased, but has increased a lot.

The journey back was very smooth, and there were no accidents except for two small sandstorms.

When the convoy returned to the city, it was already the fourth night, and it was still the original guest house, but this time because the confidential files had been docked, the guest house did not open a single room for Li Ping'an, this time it was a four-person room with the leaders of several other factories.

After half a month of convoy life, everyone was very tired, and after returning to the guest house to wash hastily, they each lay down on their own beds to rest and sleep.

Li Ping'an, who slept until dawn, picked up his camera and went out energetically to have a good experience of the cities in eastern Xinjiang in the sixties.

To say that this place is really rich in specialties, the supply and marketing cooperatives are rich in dried fruits, and there is no shortage of beef and mutton.

I was thinking that I could buy some local specialties to take back, Li Ping'an went over to inquire, come on, don't think about this specialty, the dried fruits here or something have to be bought with tickets, it's useless for you to hold the money alone, no one sells you.

Moreover, the probability of using national food stamps in this place is not large, except for normal eating and drinking, national food stamps are of no other use.

The local area is vast and sparsely populated, in the case of underdeveloped transportation, few people go to other places, the national food stamps can only be used as food stamps, there is no other additional use, and the people here do not exchange with you at all.

Just when Li Ping'an was drooling as he looked at the dried fruit pastries placed in the supply and marketing cooperative, a little boy wearing local clothes came over and whispered in Li Ping'an's ear in Chinese with a thick accent: "Comrade from other places, do you want to buy maren candy?" ”

Maren candy is the name of the locals, and the people in the mainland habitually call it "cut cake", that's right, it is the legendary knife Jianlin tears, two knives Jiacheng heartbreak, three knives Ma Yun collapsed, and four knives turned into decadent that cut cake.

Hearing this kid say this, Li Ping'an immediately knew what this kid was doing, took his eyes off the cake-cutting, looked the kid up and down, and said quietly: "Yes, but I don't have your local pastry ticket."

"I know where you can buy marline candy without a pastry ticket, but the price is a bit expensive, comrade, you can come with me if you want."

The young man left this sentence and walked out of the pastry shop as if nothing had happened.

Looking at the guy's back, Li Ping'an smiled, put away his camera, put his hands into his pockets, and walked slowly not far behind the guy.

After walking for about ten minutes, the guy stopped in front of a small courtyard, glanced at Li Ping'an, and strode into the courtyard.

Standing at the door and hesitating for a while, Li Ping'an loaded the pistol in the warehouse, and then walked into the courtyard vigilantly.

Standing in the middle of the yard and seeing a few little female dolls still playing in the yard, Li Ping'an let down his vigilance slightly.

Ahmat saw Li Ping'an standing in the courtyard and did not enter the inner room, he knew that he was not at ease with himself, and he did not make an invitation, so he took the initiative to take out a half-meter-long complete cut cake from the inner room and put it on the table in the courtyard, took out a knife and cut off a piece and handed it to Li Ping'an, and said with a smile: "Comrade, my name is Ahmat, this is our own maren candy, the materials are very solid, not worse than the things in the pastry shop, you can taste it"

"You don't need to taste it, you can see that this thing tastes similar when you look at the shiny syrup on it, just say the price, how do you sell this?"

It is indispensable to go out to defend against people, Li Ping'an waved his hand and did not pick up the cut cake handed over by Ahmat, on other people's territory, it is better not to eat what people handed over, in case it is adulterated with drugs for you, even if it is unlikely, there is no need to take this risk.

"The pastry shop sells a piece of 8 cents and 5 pounds, and we also need pastry tickets, we sell two yuan and 3 cents a pound, no tickets, comrades are affordable, you can take a look at the materials we use" Hearing Li Ping'an ask for the price, Ahmat tried his best to sell his cut cake to Li Ping'an in order to make this business.

Li Ping'an stepped forward to observe the materials on the cut cake that had just been cut, and after looking at the cross-section that was cut full of walnut kernels, raisins, cashew nuts, almonds, melon seeds and other nuts, Li Ping'an showed a satisfied smile: "Your materials are really solid, yes, I am very satisfied, I want all this piece, you can quote directly."

"What? Whole. All wants? Comrade, you're not kidding, are you? Ahmat heard that Li Ping had asked for this whole piece of cake, and a shocked smile appeared on his face, and he said in disbelief.

"Yes, you heard it right, I'm not kidding, I really want it all, you just say the price, I'll give the money now"

"Okay, distinguished guest, I'll give you the price now"

Seeing that Li Ping'an was not joking, Ahmat showed a surprised smile on his face, and hurriedly ran back to the house to get the scale to calculate the price.

Don't look at the volume of this cut cake, the weight is really not light, the guy weighed it, a total of eighty-four pounds.

"Distinguished guest, this piece of maren candy has a total of eighty-four catties, two yuan and three cents per catty, a total of 193.2 yuan, I will wipe you a change, you only need to pay me 193 yuan" made such a loud voice, Ahmat's face smiled like a flower, and offered to wipe Li Ping'an's zero.

Hearing that Ahmat was going to wipe himself with zero, Li Ping'an, who was going to take 190 out of the warehouse, heard that this guy only wiped himself 2 cents, Li Ping'an raised his head with a strange expression, and couldn't help but complain: "You are really big."

"Distinguished guests, our cost is very high, don't make any money, you look at our materials, and the things in the pastry shop are exactly the same, we sell outside is much more expensive than the pastry shop buys" Ahmat also knew that his erasure was too much, worried that Li Ping'an and himself would make a price, and hurriedly complained about his own cost.

"Okay, okay, you don't have to complain to me, I don't bargain with you, this is 193 yuan, you quickly divide this big piece into small pieces, I can take it away"

"Alright, distinguished guest, I'll help you cut the markernel into small pieces right now."

Ahmat took the money from Li Ping'an's hand, quickly picked up the knife next to him, and neatly cut the whole cake into small pieces.

After Ahmat cut the cake into small pieces, Li Ping'an picked up a small piece of cut cake and put it in his mouth to taste it.

Don't say it, don't really say it, this thing is expensive, this thing is really delicious, even if the cake is hacked on the Internet in later generations, but no one said that he was unpalatable, which makes sense.

Carrying a big bag sent by Ahmat, Li Ping'an carried all the cut cakes on his shoulders, and left here in a chic manner in Ahmat's respectful farewell.

Walking around the corner of the intersection, Li Ping'an found a place where no one was, put all the cut cakes into the warehouse, and then took the camera in his hand again and continued to walk along the exotic street.

When it was almost lunch time, Li Ping'an originally wanted to go to the state-run restaurant to experience the local specialties, but considering that there might be something wrong with the reception, he could only dispel this idea and reluctantly walked in the direction of the guest house.

"Hey, Section Chief Li, you can be regarded as back, this time to go out is really not short, Director Jiang of the Ministry of Metallurgy has asked people to come to you a few times, you have not been there, hurry up, come with me to see Director Jiang"

As soon as he entered the guest house, he saw Kong Guangxing, who was in the same room as him, walking over quickly, and he was about to leave with Li Ping'an's arm anxiously.

Li Ping'an, who originally thought that there was something urgent, was ready to rush over, but when he heard that Jiang Enmin was looking for him, he immediately stopped panicking, what can this drunkard do to find himself, it is nothing more than that after the matter is over, the alcohol addiction has come up, and he wants to find himself to drink.

"Hey, don't worry, Director Jiang is in a hurry? If it's not urgent, I'll put my things in my room and see him again."

Kong Guangxing was stunned when he heard Li Ping'an's words, what is the situation, the big leader of the Ministry of Metallurgy came to see you as a section chief, if you don't hurry over, you even have to go back to the room to put things, this is too unconscious, Kong Guangxing wants to ask you how you became the section chief?

In the end, Li Ping'an's idea of going back to put things was still unsuccessful, and he was dragged to the door of Jiang Enmin's room by Kong Guangxing, who was in a hurry to perform.

When Kong Guangxing knocked on the door, he thought the same as Li Ping'an, it was really this drunkard's addiction to alcohol, and he wanted to drag Li Ping'an to drink.

At noon, Jiang Enmin saved up a bureau, a total of five or six people, except for Li Ping'an and Kong Guangxing, who were rubbing rice, the rest were all comrades from the Ministry of Metallurgy who came to Dongjiang on a business trip.

Under the leadership of Jiang Enmin, the group found a state-run restaurant and drank happily, but they were about to take the return train in the evening, and everyone suppressed the amount of alcohol and did not drink too much.

At the dinner table, some Jiang Enmin put his arms around Li Ping'an's neck and told him that when he went back, he must get into his carriage and continue to drink on the train back.

(End of chapter)