Chapter 104: The First Taste of Shanghai-style Life
The dining car of the soft sleeper is different from the ordinary dining car, which can be understood as a small stove.
However, there is only one window in the dining compartment to eat, so it is a virtue to line up to eat.
Li Lu stretched her neck in front of her to look in, and when she saw it in advance, she could figure out what to eat when it was her turn.
The mentality of a little girl.
Today, she "bumped into" Wei Ping'an, assigned to a carriage, and could get along day and night for two and a half days, which made her always excited.
Unspeakable happiness.
Wei Ping'an stood behind her, keeping a distance of thirty centimeters.
Although he vaguely felt that Li Lu was a little special to him, as a family person, he was polite and polite.
A fragrant breeze came from behind him, and Wei Ping'an couldn't help but sniff it, a little familiar.
"Hey, Sister Chen, I didn't expect to meet you here......"
"It's you, where are you going?"
Chen Xueru was also inexplicably surprised when she saw Wei Ping'an.
I thought, how come their foreign affairs office still has a field officer?
I looked left and right, but I didn't see any foreigners.
"Oh, I'm going to Shanghai to do something. What about you? β
"I'm going to Shanghai to participate in a silk exhibition, and I'm going to Suzhou by the way."
Chen Xueru wants to do Yelena's business, Suzhou is the hometown of silk, and there is a silk domestic fair in Shanghai, she will definitely participate.
I just didn't expect to meet on the same train.
For Chen Xueru to be able to buy a soft sleeper ticket, Wei Ping'an is not unusual.
How to say that she is also a national capitalist, and she is still in the honeymoon period, and traveling to a sleeper is a must.
If you can buy a soft sleeper, there are certain channels and means.
"Are you here alone?"
"This is my friend Li Lu, the manager of the clothing department of the department store......"
"This is Boss Chen Xueru Chen, who opened a silk shop on the side of Dashilar."
Wei Ping'an is in carriages 2-5, and Chen Xueru's carriages are in compartments 3-8.
Unexpected surprise.
Chen Xueru's entourage is an old bookkeeper, so she also lacks a partner.
Two people can catch the bamboo pole, and three people can compete for the upper reaches and run fast.
Li Lu is also very happy.
Because she could see at a glance that Chen Xueru was older, and she also talked about her son, that is, she had a family.
Certainly not a threat.
Maybe I can help with the matchmaking.
Well, what is very certain is that Li Lu thinks too much.
Chen Xueru is a businessman and knows how to read words and emotions very well.
From the initial glance of turning her head to examine, she found that this girl named Li Lu should like Wei Ping'an.
After all, the appearance of a talented man and a woman is also suitable, and the way this girl looks at herself, she is like a little hen protecting a chicken, and she is hostile.
So Chen Xueru didn't mention her son in three sentences.
Sure enough, the little girl's attitude was much more harmonious.
I also asked myself to go to their carriage to play poker together.
This is a good opportunity to contact Wei Ping'an, even if her original idea is slim, but she doesn't fight or grab when she encounters something, that's not her Chen Xueru's style.
Although she has been divorced twice, Chen Xueru thinks that she is rich and beautiful, and she never feels that she is weaker than anyone.
Playing poker is a pastime, but it's also a technical job.
Wei Ping'an is a talented player, while Chen Xueru is habitually calculating......
Li Lu's cheeks are not big, and her forehead is not big, which belongs to the type of slap face.
So it's full of notes, and it's only 8 o'clock.
"Okay, let's play here today, we can continue to ...... tomorrow after resting."
Chen Xueru stretched her waist and outlined a proud S-shaped figure.
Wei Ping'an couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Li Lu didn't see it, she also forgot everything at this time, and her mind suddenly became confused.
Lonely men and widows, living in the same room, will only wake up in a dream and turn your head to see the scene of Brother Wei, tomorrow morning...... Realized?
It's unexpected, it's exciting, it's ...... Happiness.
When Chen Xueru left, she didn't know.
When Wei Ping'an went out and when he came back, she also didn't know.
When she reacted, Wei Ping'an called her twice and asked her to wash up before she came to her senses.
With a hot face down, he ran out, and it took a long time to push the door back into the carriage.
At night.
The train was clattering, and the lights had long since been turned off in the carriage.
Li Lu tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep.
She felt that the breath in the entire carriage was ambiguous, and every breath made the air flutter beautiful......
Even the snoring of Brother Wei on the other side seemed to be singing.
Sing a song of sweet and sincere confession.
The next day, when he woke up, Li Lu was full of energy.
Although I don't sleep much, I still feel refreshed.
Because when I opened my eyes, I saw Brother Wei writing on the small table.
It's so close that it feels like it's within reach.
"Brother Wei, good morning."
"Are you awake? I've made a meal, you go brush your teeth, come back and eat. β
"Huh? What time is it? β
"It's almost 9 o'clock......"
In fact, Chen Xueru greeted Wei Ping'an at breakfast.
Chen Xueru was waiting there, and she hadn't eaten half of her breakfast for more than 20 minutes.
Then Wei Ping'an had a meal and came back after eating with Chen Xueru.
I wrote an article for more than an hour, and the level of completion was very high.
There are many articles that are out of place but have a very good core idea, and now the red flavor that Wei Ping'an can process is very appropriate.
From an outsider's point of view, it is the article that is natural, and the brilliant Brother Wei comes easily.
It's all a masterpiece.
made a big red face many times, and Li Lu seemed to be exercising the thickness of his face.
In the hope that we can achieve the goal of boldly pursuing Wei Ping'an.
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I got on the train from Beijing at 13 o'clock and arrived at Shanghai Railway Station, it was already past dinner.
Wei Ping'an said goodbye to Chen Xueru and Li Lu.
They turned out to be in the same direction, the same destination.
Traveling in a group can also be more reassuring.
Chen Xueru glanced at Wei Ping'an in surprise when she learned that Li Lu and Wei Ping'an had just met by chance.
A suppressed flame in the depths of his eyes showed signs of burning again.
Although it was night, there were quite a few people picking up at the station.
Pull the banner.
Energetic and enthusiastic.
Written are the words "Welcome to the delegation of Yenching University".
This was to pick up Professor Liu and Professor Li and three members of their entourage.
In the morning, in the car, the two old men took turns to fight, and they were also killed by Wei Ping'an, so they lost their armor, and now they have to pretend that they don't know each other.
Cui Gang walked past the pick-up group with Wei Ping'an, his eyes did not squint, and he didn't even express his curiosity.
Wei Ping'an decided to wait for the car and give Cui Gang an opinion.
In some details, we must be attentive and must do enough, and the details determine success or failure.
Otherwise, more than ten years later, going to Hong Kong to carry out a mission would not have crippled his teammates because the gas was not replenished.
The key is that teammate is still ......
Well, if you find a problem, you must correct it in time.
After all, human lives matter.
After Cui Gang received the task before, he determined their temporary address.
After leaving the station, I took Wei Ping'an and a few people to take the trolleybus, and after reversing twice, I came to a very green community.
Within the complex are thousands of houses resembling the collective farms of the Soviet Big Brother.
Two-storey brick and timber building.
From a distance, it looks dense and neat, standing on the small bridge by the river, you can vaguely see the park, hospital and other supporting facilities not far away.
It is not far behind the second-tier cities a few decades later.
Cui Gang led everyone all the way forward quickly, and came to a residence with familiarity.
The two-story structure has 5 households per floor, and one building can accommodate 10 households.
Cui Gang took everyone upstairs, on the far right side of the stairs, in the north corner of the communal kitchen, door to door.
On the north side of the staircase is the communal kitchen, the right side of the kitchen is a room, and the opposite door is another room, and a double-open wooden door with glass windows is specially installed on the right side of the kitchen, which is equivalent to the layout of two rooms and a small corridor.
The only slight flaw is that there is no indoor bathroom, and there is one bathroom shared by each of the 5 households on each floor, on the south side of the stairs on the left turn.
Cui Gang and Wei Ping'an lived in a south-facing room, with two one-meter-five beds, and the sheets and quilts seemed to have just been changed.
To the north are two bunk beds with two small long tables placed on top of each other.
"Okay, everyone hurry up and rest, let's go to Siping Road tomorrow morning for a turn......"
Go back to the south-facing house.
"Brother Cui, what am I going to do tomorrow?"
"You stay here to watch the house, buy some daily necessities by the way, remember to go downstairs to the water truck to pick up the water on time...... Oh, by the way, you're wandering around for lunch, and I'll bring you dinner......"
In this way, Wei Ping'an's first secrecy mission in his life began.
Every day, Cui Gang would go out with his teammates, sometimes coming back at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and sometimes getting it after nine o'clock in the evening.
Wei Ping'an felt like an ornament.
It's really an ornament.
I can't do anything, I don't have a sense of participation, it's more like I have changed places to do word research.
For two days, Wei Ping'an was bored indoors to "create" "Tunnel War", and when he was free, he went downstairs to visit the park and went to the cigarette paper shop to buy local cigarettes.
In this regard, Wei Ping'an is uniquely blessed.
Wei Ping'an felt that he came to Shanghai, and the biggest gain was to feel the joy of "no limit" purchase again.
Different from the system in the capital, the paper cigarette shops, some larger fruit shops, and non-staple food stores in the alleys all accept foreign exchange.
Moreover, it is very positive and enthusiastic.
On the first day he woke up, Wei Ping'an went downstairs to eat, and by the way, he walked around the mouth-shaped building called "Changbai Store".
After asking the salesman and learning the information that foreign exchange payment was possible, Wei Ping'an planned to buy a few packs of cigarettes.
It's also very expensive to work in the house.
The slogan of smokers in this era is: "One cloud, two nobles, three China, Ashima under Hongta Mountain".
Wei Ping'an saw a salesman placing two cans of iron pipes on the second layer of the glass on the counter.
It's a round, 50-count kind......
"Comrade, how much is this cigarette?"
"50 Chinese iron can filters, 1.5 yuan ......"
Well, the price is expensive and cheap.
For the average person in this era, it is expensive.
For him, who carries a knife by the box, it is cheap and frustrating.
The filter nozzle is 20 pieces of 5 cents a pack, and the peony filter nozzle is 20 pieces of 4 cents and 8 cents......
According to the salesperson, the filter cigarettes are the first batch, which is a new product trial-produced by the Shanghai Cigarette Factory, and he is very interested in explaining to Wei Ping'an the benefits of cigarettes with a filter - not pulling his throat.
When you come to Shanghai on a business trip, you can't buy nothing.
Anyway, if you are idle, you can just take a stroll and buy some small souvenirs.
Zero-copy alabaster, buy;
estimated the figure of the family and bought several sweaters;
Knowing that Wei Ping'an could settle in foreign exchange, the director ran out and specially asked Wei Ping'an how many cigarettes he planned to buy......
rushed out and temporarily "dispatched" two boxes from another store.
A box is two cans, a can of 50 sticks.
The cigarettes were in strips, only 6 were complete, and there was a large half of the box that was unpacked and sold 4.
Wei Ping'an almost forgot that he could still sell cigarettes in bulk these years.
The short shopping allowed Wei Ping'an to enjoy the feeling of being able to buy items without a ticket.
If it weren't for the fact that he still had a home in the capital, a daughter-in-law and children, he really wanted to stay here.
At least he could breathe the taste of freedom for the past few years.
But thinking of the honeymoon period after a few years, Wei Ping'an also shuddered.
This dangerous thought was decisively extinguished.
When Wei Ping'an returned to his residence, he was carrying a bag of fruit in his hand and a Wanli cigarette in his arm.
It's the kind with red letters on a yellow background and a picture of a black sedan underneath.
In the evening, Cui Gang and the others came back early today.
"Brother Cui, I'm very happy today, is there any good news?"
"I've contacted the other party, and I'll go to Huizhong Hotel tomorrow morning, and I should be able to get the information smoothly."
"Well, I didn't feel like I had done anything this time, and I didn't help at all."
"I guess the above means that you can follow, familiarize yourself with the process, and feel the atmosphere. You're an intellectual, you're a baby bump, how can you really follow that kind of thing that licks blood from the tip of a knife......"
Cui Gang is the same old thing over and over.
Wei Ping'an also has no problem with this hob meat.
"When I came back, I followed the upper side to ask for instructions, tomorrow we will set off together, if everything goes well, a few of us will go first with the materials, and you will go to Professor Li and Professor Liu...... When the time comes, I will return to Beijing with them. β
"This ......"
"The stakes are high, Old Wei, we are familiar with each other in private, but you must act according to orders in this kind of matter."
"Understood. I execute. β
Wei Ping'an really couldn't think of the need to stay here and join the two professors.
"By the way, the old chief asked me to give you a message."
"Huh? The old chief is the old military leader...... Belch...... Uncle Wu? β
Cui Gang's smile froze, and then he continued to smile: "Almost...... He just hopes that you can take care of Comrade Li Lu by the way, after all, she is a girl, and this journey is still a bit dangerous......"
"Oh."
This is...... Jobbery?
Or is it a Shenma situation?
However, it is also a matter of piggybacking, and Wei Ping'an will naturally not deliberately refuse.
A person who has a daughter-in-law, or a person who is about to become a father of a child, no one knows about himself, right?
Li Lu knows.
Nothing was said all night.
When I woke up in the morning, under the leadership of Cui Gang, everyone packed up the beds and daily necessities, and almost returned to their original positions.
In just these three days, the neighborhood didn't have anything special.
Because Changbai No. 1 and No. 2 villages are also called "20,000 villages", they are all inhabited by 20,000 households of workers who have moved back.
There are all kinds of people in the world, and all kinds of relatives and friends come and go in a hurry.
Although the upstairs and downstairs collective kitchens will also make neighbors familiar with each other, the mobility is too large, and the core style of the Beijing courtyard is still very different.
In Wei Ping'an's view, the use of this stronghold is like a homestay.
The group "checked out" and went straight to Huizhong Hotel.
It is worth mentioning that I don't know when Cui Gang and they actually got a silver-green car.
"Brother Cui, it's okay, it's all in the car."
"Our own production, the Phoenix brand car, the maximum speed can reach 105 kilometers per hour, the four-cylinder engine, is the first domestic car in Shanghai......"
"It's very comfortable to sit, but I don't know when I can drive one privately."
Cui Gang, the co-pilot, turned his head and stared at Wei Ping'an several times like a monster.
Finally gave a hard thumbs up.
"If you want to say it, you cultural people dare to think about it."
Lack of commuter passes...... ennnnnβ¦β¦
(End of chapter)