Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Wan Feng and Han Guangjia had dinner at Li You's house and stayed there overnight.
The next day, after leaving Li You's house, Wan Feng went to the vocational high school.
He didn't know any students in the entire vocational high school, but he also didn't know many of the teachers. Many of his former teachers had been transferred, gone into business, or retired, so there were only a few he knew left.
After learning that Yu Guo had gone into business and moved to an unknown place, Wan Feng felt regretful.
Among his high school teachers, Yu Guo left the best impression on him, but it was a pity that he couldn't find him. If he could find him, he would help him find a way to get rich.
Wan Feng invited the remaining teachers he knew to a meal at a small, not-so-formal restaurant at Xiao Wu's house.
This small restaurant doesn't have many vegetables, but it has a lot of meat.
That's a whole table of meat.
After lunch, we set out from Xiao Wu's house and visited He Xiao's house when passing Fulaerji.
In winter, He Yanfei lived in the clothes and only came back once every few days, so He Xiao didn't know that Wan Feng had come.
The two hugged each other warmly when they met. Wan Feng had dinner at He Xiao's house and stayed here overnight.
Since his wife was not at home, He Xiao had to cook a few dishes himself.
"Brother Bengbeng, are you at ease when your wife isn't home? Aren't you afraid she'll find someone to help you?"
He Xiao smiled helplessly: "Why do you still talk like that?"
To be honest, He Xiao's cooking skills are limited to the stage of being cooked, and the taste is either too bland or too salty.
Fortunately, there are salty and light flavors that can be mixed together, otherwise it would be terrible.
He Xiao was still conducting primitive barter trade with the Soviets on the other side of the river under the guise of fishing.
"Don't the border guards on both sides care?"
Xiaowujia Border Station is only five miles away from Fulaerji. It is impossible not to see these underground transactions from the border station's watchtower.
"It seems like border control isn't very strict right now. Even if we're caught during inspections, their belongings are confiscated and we're fined."
No wonder He Xiao did this.
After working with Wan Feng in Heihe for two years, He Xiao is very familiar with barter trade.
“How many years can you paddle in a year?”
"Not much, about 30,000 or 40,000."
"It's not bad. He Yanfei earns another 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year at the garment factory. Your family can be considered a first-class life here."
He Yanfei is a senior executive in Zhang Juan's clothing factory and is also her aunt. In addition to her salary, Zhang Juan will give her an extra 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year.
"Will you come here again in the future? Didn't you say that the China-Suzhou border trade would reopen around 1992?" He Xiao asked.
"I will come, but not necessarily to do business. The Sino-Soviet border trade will definitely open. When it reopens, you can use my previous channel to continue doing business with the Russians."
He Xiao nodded.
The channels that Wan Feng had previously opened within the Soviet Union were still very powerful.
That night, the three of them lay on the warm kang in He Xiao's house and chatted until late at night with the lights off.
Recalling every little thing about their time in Heihe, the three of them laughed creepily from time to time.
On the morning of the 6th, Wan Feng said goodbye to Han Guangjia and He Xiao and drove to Heihe. They drove into Heihe City at around 11 o'clock in the morning.
The base that Yang Jianguo rented for the convoy in Heihe was actually the base they used to trade with the Soviets.
After Wan Feng left, this base was handed over to Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao. The two of them didn't take it seriously and rented it out to some outsiders who did odd jobs in Heihe.
In winter, all the outsiders went home and the place became vacant again, so it was rented by Yang Jianguo.
To say it is renting is actually the same as borrowing.
Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao asked for ten yuan, just a symbolic amount.
When the convoy arrived, Yang Jianguo and Zhao Gang had already hired a boiler operator and bought coal, which not only solved the heating problem but also hired someone to cook.
It can be said that the logistical support is very good.
After having lunch at the base, Wan Feng walked around the base with his hands behind his back, and everything that happened in the past came to his mind vividly.
When Wan Feng revisited the old place, he felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
The rabbit turns around the hillside, turns around and around back to its nest, and this time I have come back again.
In the following days, almost all of the team's experimental vehicles were pulled to the ice surface of Longjiang for adaptability testing.
The bumpy surface of the Longjiang River is very suitable for these experimental vehicles to run on.
The team will stay in Heihe for a month, and when it is the coldest, they will set off to Mohe, the northernmost tip of China, for extreme testing.
After the test is completed, go home.
The team conducted tests one by one on the surface of the Longjiang River as planned, and Wan Feng began his search journey the day after arriving in Heihe.
If he wants to solve the team's worries, he needs to take action himself.
Wang Zhonghai and Yang Pao, these two useless guys, are planning to gallop on the road of entertainment to death.
These two guys have done nothing in Heihe over the years, except running dance halls, karaoke halls and game halls, and they also opened two restaurants each in the troubled area.
Then they just guarded this little piece of land and waited for death.
When these two guys saw Wan Feng coming, they rushed to pull Wan Feng to their restaurant to eat, and they almost got into a fight.
If Qin Suzhen hadn't chosen Wang Zhonghai's restaurant, the two of them might have fought to a bloody pulp.
Qin Suzhen was brought here by Wan Feng.
Today he will first get together with his old brothers and sisters, and tomorrow he will go to find Qu Yang, and then Qu Yang will take him to find Zheng Chaoyang.
His convoy will stay here for two months, so of course he has to say hello to the public security personnel.
"Brother! Life is so boring when you are not here. I always feel like something is missing." After drinking a glass of wine, Yang Pao began to complain.
Wang Zhonghai had the same feeling.
You see, this person is not tired at all. He is born in a blessed environment but does not know how to appreciate it.
He said it was boring to just lie down and make money all day long. Isn't this just a light punishment?
Wan Feng still said the same thing, giving each person ten acres of paddy fields and asking them to plant rice. After one day, they all knew how wonderful it was to sit there every day.
"Brother! You've started building cars now? Oh my! I can't compare to you. When we were playing with game consoles to entertain the kids, you were already building cars to fool the adults."
What are you talking about? What do you mean by fooling the adults?
Wan Feng didn't bother to deal with the two idiots and turned to Qin Suzhen: "Sister! How's your paging station doing now?"
"Don't even mention it. I saw Zhang Xuan making money, so I got excited and decided to open a paging station. But once I got it up and running, I realized how complicated it was. I had to deal with paperwork, find someone with computer skills, and then the station opened but had no customers to serve. I had to promote it myself, and it's been a chore for over six months."
Qin Suzhen described the story vividly, and Wan Feng laughed as he listened.
“So how many households are there now?”
"Alas! More than a thousand households."
More than a thousand households? Barely enough to break even.