Chapter 069 Preparing for a Business Trip
Wen Jiajia told everyone which newspapers she wanted to order, and almost all departments in the factory ordered these newspapers.
It was the magazines that made Bai Ying a little embarrassed.
She said: "You guys have to go to the post office in person to order magazines. We don't have a budget for magazines here."
Wen Jiajia was surprised: "Does any other department in the factory subscribe to magazines?"
Bai Ying shook her head: "Currently, your department is the first to say that it wants to subscribe to the magazine."
Wen Jiajia couldn't help but frown: "Can I apply for it from above?"
If the factory doesn't allow you to order it, you can only go to the post office to order it. Whose money will be spent then?
Bai Ying thought for a moment and asked, "How about this? I'll ask for you, which magazines did you subscribe to?"
Wen Jiajia handed Bai Ying a piece of paper with the magazine title written on it. Bai Ying understood immediately: "Director Gao asked you to subscribe, right?"
"Yes." Wen Jiajia smiled, "I have never seen or even heard of these three books."
Bai Ying sighed: "Director Gao also wanted to subscribe to magazines when she was at the chemical plant. She went to the post office in person to order them. There was one magazine that was not even available at the post office, so Director Gao took the train to the newspaper office to order it."
Wen Jiajia was shocked: "There are magazines that cannot be ordered at the post office? How rare must they be."
Bai Ying laughed: "It's not uncommon. It's simply because Director Gao is the only customer of that magazine in the whole city, and he felt that it was not cost-effective to send a single magazine every month, so he refused." Who could have thought that Gao Yi would travel thousands of miles to the newspaper office.
Wen Jiajia thought to herself that Director Gao was a particularly sincere person.
In this case, she couldn't pin her hopes on Bai Ying, and had to go to the post office to ask herself.
The city post office was a bit far away, so Wen Jiajia had to go back to the office and report to Director Gao first.
Director Gao: "The factory didn't give us a budget?"
Wen Jiajia nodded.
Director Gao was speechless: "It's just a small amount of money. Did you not give it to me or did you forget it?"
She frowned and said, "Then go to the post office and ask. Order as many as you can. The money... can be reimbursed by the factory later."
Wen Jiajia nodded again, put her bag on her back, and rode her bike towards the post office.
If you want to go to the largest post office, you have to go across half the city. Of course, Wen Jiajia would not choose that one. She thought about it at the intersection and went to the branch post office a few blocks away.
The post office was very busy at this time, and even the branch post office had people coming in and out.
Wen Jiajia came to the counter and said, "Hello, comrade, I would like to order a few magazines. Can we order them here?"
"Of course. Which magazine would you like to order?"
"The Machinist and the Chlorine Industry."
“How many copies are there per issue?”
Wen Jiajia thought for a moment and said, "Two."
"... Two copies, I'm afraid it's not easy to send. There is a way to deal with The Machinist, you can order these two copies together with the Machinery Factory. But for Chlorine and Alkali Industry, no company in our city will order it for the moment. You can write a letter and see if they are willing to do it."
Wen Jiajia pinched her head and said, "Then please help me subscribe to "Mechanical Worker" first. Oh, and I also need all the issues published by "Mechanical Worker" this year."
"Okay, but it will take half a month to get it. If you are in a hurry, the machinery factory should also have it."
"Don't worry, thank you comrade!"
Finally, she got the order done and Wen Jiajia breathed a sigh of relief.
After returning, I told Bai Ying about this matter, and then talked to Director Gao.
Director Gao did not make it difficult for her. After all, she had to go to other people's doors to order a magazine back then, which shows that it was not easy to order a magazine at that time.
The weather was hot, and Wen Jiajia had been running around all morning, so she had a rare lack of appetite.
She went to a state-owned hotel and ordered a bowl of mung bean porridge.
Lan Lan brought green bean porridge and a dish of side dishes to her and whispered, "Why do I feel like you've been drained of energy after working all day? It's not like that at the pharmaceutical factory. It seems like working at a pharmaceutical factory is more comfortable."
Wen Jiajia leaned back in her chair: "Young comrade, this is the normal state of work." In a pharmaceutical factory, that's called a blessing.
Lan Lan curled her lips and said, "You are only one month older than me, who are you calling me little comrade? But your eyes are already tearful, if you keep doing this, it seems that there is nothing wrong with calling me little comrade."
"Go away! Are you saying I'm old?" Wen Jiajia stood up, picked up the chopsticks and ate the porridge angrily.
After a moment, he looked up and blinked: "Are you really sad?"
"Yeah!" Lanlan covered her mouth and laughed.
Wen Jiajia's eyebrows drooped: "It's okay, just get through this period." She thought that she had to synthesize some skin care products.
"Oh, by the way," Wen Jiajia swallowed the porridge in her mouth, "Have you finished writing the list? What do you want to buy?"
Lan Lan exclaimed, and quickly took out a piece of paper from her pocket, saying with a smile, "Not much, just this!"
Wen Jiajia's eyes widened. This was not much, it almost filled up half of the paper.
She took it and looked at it carefully.
Fortunately, almost all of the things listed above can be bought in department stores, and most of them are what she also wants to buy, so they can be purchased together.
Besides, Haishi is not far from Linhe. Even if I can't bring it back, I can send it back. It will definitely arrive within a week.
"Okay, just prepare your money and wait," she said.
Lan Lan took out another dozen bills, counted them in front of her, and stuffed them into her pockets: "Refund if there's more and pay if there's less. I want to buy a lot of things, and I'm afraid you don't have enough."
That's fine.
Wen Jiajia looked around and stuffed it into her bag.
The side dishes made by Chef He are very good, including pickled bamboo shoots and pickled vegetable hearts. They are crunchy, sour and spicy, and especially appetizing.
She had been finishing her bowl of porridge reluctantly, but when her appetite improved, she served herself another bowl.
After eating, I took a short rest in the office and it was almost time to go to work again.
Wen Jiajia spent the entire afternoon in the workshop. As a bridge between R&D and the workshop, their office had to thoroughly understand both the workshop and R&D.
Seeing her like this, Liang Mu, the leader of the second group next door, also followed her example and stayed in the workshop.
"Comrade Wen, do you live outside the city?" he suddenly asked.
Wen Jiajia was watching the workers operating intently. She was stunned for a moment before nodding: "Yes."
Liang Mu asked, "Outskirts of the city gate closest to our factory?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Oh, that's all right. You'll have to hurry tomorrow, as the train station is quite far from where you are."
Wen Jiajia understood that this person just wanted to chat and deepen the relationship.
She smiled and said, "Yes, but there is nothing we can do about it."
In fact, she really doesn't need to rush tomorrow, because tomorrow is Wednesday, and every Wednesday the troop logistics will go to the train station to receive supplies, and it happens to be morning.
She was originally curious about why most of her family members would choose to take the train on Wednesdays. After asking others, she learned that there were rides on Wednesdays.
Liang Mu asked again: "Were you from the pharmaceutical factory next door?"
Wen Jiajia nodded: "What about you?"
"Oh, I'm from the Municipal Bureau of Industry, and I've applied to work here." Liang Mu said, with a somewhat complacent look on his face.
Wen Jiajia was a little surprised. If she were thinking this way, she would definitely not come.
The Municipal Bureau of Industry is a very good organization.
Liang Mu pointed to a man in blue clothes not far away and said, "Do you know where he is from?"
"I don't know." Wen Jiajia shook her head.
"Rongshan Medical College!" Liang Mu sighed twice and whispered, "The leaders of the bureau applied eight times, eight times in total! The leaders of the province were so annoyed that they went to Rongshan to beg for three or four days before they agreed to let Rongshan send a team to help us."
As Liang Mu spoke, he made the number eight with his hands, unable to hide the shock in his eyes.
"It is said that this person is a sixth-level worker of Rongshan. It takes at least ten years to train him. I don't know how the leaders managed to get him to send such a treasure to Rongshan. Sigh!"
"Oh, it is said that there is another team behind. 12 people have come so far, and there will be at least 10 more behind. In this way, one third of our workshop is supported by Rongshan Medical. No wonder Director Gao is so anxious all day long. If I were in their place, I would be anxious too. They are here to support us, and they will leave one day. Once they leave, our workshop will have to stop working."
“…”
Wen Jiajia's mouth opened and closed, her expression unnatural. She was not shocked by his words. Oh no, she was shocked by his words.
To be precise, I was not shocked by what he said, but by his courage.
Wen Jiajia understood why Liang Mu, a man with a bright future, was "demoted" to the medical glass factory. It must be because he was too talkative.
I've only met her twice, but she's so annoying even to acquaintances like her can talk about the leader's gossip. It shows how much the leader hates her.
Wen Jiajia chuckled awkwardly and said, "That's good. Our factory has just started. Rongshan Medical Glass is one of the best medical glass factories in our country. With their help, we can get started faster, right? It's just that Rongshan is a bit far away."
"It's a bit far, but it's an honor to support a new factory. We can't give up just because it's far away."
Wen Jiajia: “…mmmm.”
"But, I think there is another reason." Liang Mu said in a low voice, covering his mouth with a notebook and tilting his head.
"What's the reason?"
"I think our place is good! Support is always from good places to bad places. Although our medical glass is just starting, what kind of place is Linhe? It's a land of fish and rice! Rongshan is in the southwest, and the food there is definitely not as much as here."
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes and said, "Don't say that in front of others. They are here to help out of kindness. You can't assume that about them."
Well, at this time there are indeed people who are willing to devote everything for the collective and the country.
After they come here, they work diligently, focusing on their actions rather than their heart. If others really hear about it, they will probably feel uncomfortable.
Liang Mu clapped his hands and said, "I just speak quickly, I don't mean any harm. I think even if they come here for the good environment we have, it's human nature."
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes at him again. That's how it is! It's human nature to pursue a good life.
She decided to stay away from Liang Mu. She couldn't let her precious brain be infected by him.
It's a rip off.
In the evening, Wen Jiajia rode her bike home with a large bag of noodles in the basket in front of the bike.
I bought the noodles from Master He. If I get off work late and don’t have time to cook rice, can I just cook the noodles and eat them?
It was almost seven o'clock when they got home. There was light coming through the kitchen window and Wen Jiajia saw Wei Dai's figure.
"You're actually at home today." Wen Jiajia leaned against the door, "I thought you wouldn't be back until midnight again!"
Wei Dai brought the dishes to the table: "You will be away on business for a few days, I have to come back to see you."
Wen Jiajia smiled: "Is there anything you need me to bring? It's not easy to go there, I can't waste it."
At this time, the number of holidays is so few that it makes people cry. It is impossible to find a long vacation to have fun, and we can only rely on business trips.
Wei Dai thought for a moment and said, "No. The wood planers in big cities can't be better than the ones we have at home, right?"
Wen Jiajia was speechless, "You are just thinking about your wood planer."
What you said is that you ask me to make cabinets and boxes for you every day.
Aren't all cabinets and boxes made from wood?
Wen Jiajia and hum went to wash their hands together.
Was she after the cabinet box... Really. It won't be so easy to cut down trees in a few decades. You will need to report when you cut down a tree. If you cut down an old book, you may end up in jail!
But it is not as easy to cut trees now as before. In the original owner's memory, when she was a child, her adoptive father would often go to the mountains outside the county town to cut trees. When she grew up a little, he did not allow anyone to go to cut trees anymore.
The original owner's adoptive father complained about this for a long time, almost every winter. Without the trees, the charcoal expenses would be much higher.
Everything in the house requires money, so the original owner would work extra diligently at this time and eat extra little every day, otherwise he would easily incur the anger of his adoptive parents.
As she thought about it, Wen Jiajia became unhappy again.
Wei Dai was always able to sense her mood changes, so he asked, "What's the matter? Okay, can you bring me a wood planer?"
Wen Jiajia glared at him and said, "You wish! If I say I don't have anything to bring, then I don't have anything to bring."
After a pause, he told the story of the original owner at his parents' home and snorted: "I don't know what happened to that family." It's better that they are not living well.
"When we have a holiday next year, we will go home to visit our relatives and we will find out." Wei Dai gave her a piece of fish belly meat with chopsticks. "Don't be angry. Didn't you say that getting angry at others will only harm your own life?"
Wen Jiajia choked, mashed the fish meat in the bowl, mixed it with the rice, and poured two spoonfuls of fish soup on the rice. The rice instantly became delicious, and she buried her head and ate two large bowls of it.
After dinner, the couple counted the money in the room.
Wen Jiajia thought for a moment, and finally took out a hundred yuan, "Just take this much money, if I have more, I will be scared all the way."
There are a lot of thieves these days, and without surveillance everywhere, it would be hard to find something even if it was stolen. Wen Jiajia felt unsafe carrying so much money.
Wei Dai: "Where's the ticket?"
Wen Jiajia: "Except for the food coupons and meat coupons, take everything else."
Wei Dai joked: "Aren't you afraid that the ticket will be stolen?"
Wen Jiajia: "The ticket is small! And I didn't bring much money, just to make room for the ticket."
She took out the clothes she was going to wear tomorrow, turned out the inner pocket to show Wei Dai, and said proudly, "I sewed it, take a look at it."
There is a pocket and three buttons on the inside of the clothes, and most importantly, the stitches are so tight that they cannot be seen from the front of the clothes.
Wei Dai turned the clothes over and over and looked at them: "Amazing!"
Wen Jiajia went over and kissed him. This man was very emotionally generous and could always make Wen Jiajia happy at critical moments.
Although they had been separated for a few days, they were both very passionate that night.
The next day, Wen Jiajia woke up before dawn. Wei Dai woke up earlier than her. When she opened the door, Wei Dai was about to go to the cafeteria to buy breakfast.
"Buy more, I'll take it with me for lunch." Wen Jiajia said, rubbing his eyes.
She yawned and almost cried.
I’m so sleepy. I want to lie down again.
The two girls were still sleeping soundly. Wen Jiajia put the iron box on the top shelf of the cabinet where Wen Chun and Wen Xuan could reach it. There were butterfly cakes and biscuits in it, enough for the two sisters to eat for the next few days.
She quickly washed up and put her toothbrush, toothbrush cup and toothpaste in the suitcase. She had put the towels away yesterday and specially cut a piece of new cloth to use as a towel.
Then boil some water, let it sit for a while, and then pour it into the kettle when it reaches 60 to 70 degrees.
Finally, they used the remaining charcoal fire to boil milk. When the milk was boiling, Wei Dai came back with breakfast.
Breakfast is packed in a lunch box and an oiled paper bag. The lunch box contains what you will eat in the morning, and the oiled paper bag contains what you will eat on the road.
I opened the lunch box and saw, wow! It was so full.
Wen Jiajia was puzzled: "What time do you have food in the cafeteria? There are buns and fried dumplings. You have to get up at three or four in the morning to work."
Is it so hard to be a cook?
"Also, the earlier you get up, the more food you can eat. Today's breakfast is so sumptuous that I'm a little scared."
Wei Dai: "You wish. I brought some meat and flour yesterday and asked Lao Li to help make this."
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "Wei Dai, you are so nice."
“…”
Wei Dai was helpless. "Eat now. The convoy is about to leave. It will leave at 6:30 at the latest."
"Oh, okay, okay. It's only five o'clock now, so we can make it in time." Wen Jiajia ate half a bun in one bite, filling her mouth.
The buns are filled with dried bamboo shoots and meat.
The dried bamboo shoots taste like spring bamboo shoots. They are dried in the sun this year and have no worm eyes. They have the fragrance of dried bamboo shoots but without the moldy smell of bamboo shoots that have been stored for a long time.
There are also leeks in it, and finally diced pork.
The buns that Lao Li made today were actually cooked-stuffed buns, which means the stuffing was fried before being wrapped in buns. The taste of the buns made in this way is completely different from those with raw stuffing.
When raw stuffing is steamed, it will clump together, but steamed stuffing will not. It will just be scattered.
It tastes more delicious and not so greasy.
The steamed buns were really to her liking, so Wen Jiajia ate two in one go before moving on to the fried dumplings.
The fried dumplings are filled with leeks and eggs, oh, and some are also filled with leeks and pork.
Wen Jiajia likes both. She loves the taste of leeks, but isn’t it inappropriate to eat things stuffed with leeks in the car?
Thinking about this, she immediately took out the fried dumplings from the oil paper bag and said, "I'll just take the buns, you can keep the dumplings."
It was six o'clock and daybreak.
The family area gradually became lively, with the sound of doors opening creaking one after another.
Wen Jiajia came to the gate of the unit with her luggage and waved to Wei Dai: "Go back, see you in a few days!"
Wei Dai said reluctantly: "Be careful on the road! Be alert! Follow your leader closely and don't fall behind."
Oh, how could she not know this?
Wen Jiajia nodded patiently: "Okay."
The soldiers who were traveling with him laughed at Wei Dai, saying, "You are so reluctant to leave. It's only a few days, so why are you so reluctant to leave?"
Wei Dai asked him: "That's not the case. A wifeless person like you can't understand how I feel right now."
"Hey! That's too much. You're poking my scar."
As he said this, the man jumped into the car and shouted to the front: "Xiaobei, drive quickly and let the exhaust gas go to Wei Dai."
With a loud bang, the car started.
Wen Jiajia covered her mouth and laughed, then waved to Wei Dai: "Goodbye!"
"Have a safe trip." Wei Dai shouted.
——
The train was really fast and we arrived at the train station just after seven o'clock.
It seemed like they had arrived a little early, so Wen Jiajia could only sit next to the ticket office and wait.
A few decades later, high-speed rail stations will be home to various brand stores, offering a wide variety of food.
At this time, there was actually.
But the station itself sells it. There is a food stall on the platform of the train station. What does it sell? It sells steamed cakes.
Each pancake was five cents, which was a bit expensive according to the market price, but it didn't require food coupons, and 20 pancakes only cost one dollar.
It’s enough for two meals for the whole family!
If there was no restriction that people cannot buy biscuits if they don't take the train, I'm afraid many people would have to wait for this food stall to buy biscuits every day. No matter what era, there are always people with money in their pockets.
The sun was rising, and the golden sunlight broke through the clouds and shone on Wen Jiajia.
Wen Jiajia squinted her eyes and felt a little sleepy.
The area around the railway station is always bustling with people coming and going on the streets. Many state-owned hotels and guest houses are located here.
It was breakfast time, and the streets were even filled with steam from steamers.
Liang Mu arrived before Director Gao and asked Wen Jiajia, "Comrade Wen, have you eaten yet?"
Wen Jiajia was so sleepy that she was dozing off. How could she notice whether he had come or not?
He spoke to you suddenly, shocking Wen Jiajia so much that she almost fell to the ground.
"I ate, I ate." Wen Jiajia covered her mouth and yawned, with tears in her eyes.
Liang Mu said: "Hey, I haven't eaten yet. I plan to go in and buy some steamed buns later. The steamed buns at the railway station are very good, chewy but not loose. I also brought some salted vegetables with me, which can be eaten with the steamed buns..."
Wen Jiajia wanted to cover her ears.
Fortunately, Director Gao came jogging over before she covered her ears.
"Come in quickly. I changed the ticket to 45 cents." She said, and then looked at her watch. "It's almost forty minutes."
Wen Jiajia was shocked. She really felt that Director Gao was unreliable a little bit.
A nice guy made an appointment to meet at the station at 8 o'clock, but without telling the other party, he changed the ticket to 7:45.
It’s a good thing that she and Liang Mu arrived first, otherwise there would be big problems.
The three of them rushed into the station. Liang Mu's steamed buns were out of stock. People who wanted to buy steamed buns surrounded the food stall, and he didn't have time to queue.
Fortunately, the train station in Linhe City was quite small at that time, and it took less than two minutes to get from the ticket office to the platform.
Get in the car and find your seat.
As soon as I sat down, the train whistle sounded, and then the door was closed with a beep.
Liang Mu stared at the pancake stand, drooling. At this moment, his stomach growled at an inopportune moment.
Director Gao asked him, "Did you not eat?"
Liang Mu nodded awkwardly.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Liang Mu was almost angry. Why did you say it earlier? He came early just to stand on the stage and buy steamed buns.
Director Gao took out a steamed bun from his bag and said, "Fill your stomach with it."
Liang Mu's indignant expression that was about to appear on his face was retracted, "Thank you, Director!"
Wen Jiajia hesitated for a moment, opened her backpack, and took out a bun from the oil-paper bag: "I also brought dry food."
…She actually didn’t want to give it to him, after all, she really loved bamboo shoots and meat buns, and she and Liang Mu weren’t that close. But the director had given it to her, so if she didn’t give it to him, then she’d better not take out the buns to eat during the rest of her trip.
If she didn’t eat it, Wen Jiajia would be even more reluctant to let it go.
Liang Mu thanked him repeatedly, "Comrade Wen, you are so kind."
"You're welcome." Wen Jiajia touched her arm and got goosebumps all over her body.
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