Chapter 159

Party School Alumni Association

Many people came to Beijing from the mining area this time.

Cashier Anna came to collect the money, factory manager He Min was in charge of escorting the wagons, while Yuan Hua and Gao Dayong, one was the director of the coarse spinning workshop and the other was the captain of the security team, were specially called for Chen Lina.

After all, few people go to places like Beijing nowadays, and there are houses to live in Beijing. The directors and small leaders of the workshops in the factory also take the opportunity of the fabrics arriving in Beijing to visit Beijing.

"He Min, can you please shut up? You and I have been divorced for four or five years. I can marry whoever I want to marry. What's your business? Besides, I never said I wanted to marry Gao Dayong. Why are you in such a hurry?" Yuan Hua was following behind and said as soon as he entered the door.

Chen Lina had dressed up and was ready to take her colleagues in the hairpin factory out to the park for a walk and a meal. Her sister was wearing a white tulle skirt and a small plastic hairpin with two little pigtails on her head. She looked so adorable.

"If Yuan Hua wants to remarry you, I would think she is crazy, but if she wants to marry our Captain Gao, I raise my hands in approval. He Min, stop making trouble. I am going to take you out to the park and eat roast duck today. If you can shut your mouth, we can go together. If you can't shut your mouth, you can go to Shanghai to sell cloth."

Beijing is so big that riding on the buses can drive people crazy.

Chen Lina went to the Party School once, and it took her an hour and a half to go back and forth on the bus. To go to Haidian, she had to change buses three times, and she would get lost if she was not careful. He Min certainly didn't want to go.

However, he ran into Gao Dayong and Yuan Hua together on the train to Beijing.

In the truck compartment, the two of them sat among the cloth. Yuan Hua was crying and Gao Dayong's eyes were also red.

He Min himself has an affair with the young wife on the farm all day long, but men, after all, have the mentality of only allowing officials to set fires, but not allowing ordinary people to light lamps.

When Yuan Hua was his wife, she was what she was called, pale and thin, because she had frequent miscarriages and cried every day. She was simply too ugly.

But now she is wearing a light red sunshirt and a white apron, and her skin looks so white and rosy.

Although He Min said that he had a complicated relationship with the farm's young wife, he had not thought about looking for another one since he was injured by Bao Manli. He only wanted to remarry Yuan Hua.

After all, one of them has such an outstanding son as He Junqiang.

"Gao Dayong, just eat. What are you laughing at? Are you very proud of cheating on me?"

It was noon, and everyone was eating mutton hotpot at Donglaishun. He Min had a problem with Gao Dayong, so she started to scold him, "You are the security captain, the gatekeeper, bring the food to the gate. This table is full of leaders, how dare you sit with us?"

Gao Dayong's face gradually turned cold and he slammed his fist on the table. After all, he was the Minister of Armed Forces' man. Now he was being ridiculed like this, which was really unbearable.

"Captain Gao, just eat your food and ignore He Min. Just think of it as a dog barking across from you," said Yuan Hua.

Chen Lina also glared at He Min and said, "Not only is he a dog, he's a mad dog. Yuan Hua has divorced you. Why can't people get married? What's the point of giving him such a name?"

The younger sister was the most obedient. There was some pickled garlic, so she gave one clove to Gao Dayong and one clove to He Min, probably meaning that she wanted them both to eat the pickled garlic and not to quarrel.

There was no way He Min would shut up.

All the women at the table sided with Gao Dayong, and he was almost going crazy with him.

"Yuan Hua, if you want to find a man better than me, that's fine. I wish you the best. But Gao Dayong is just a doorman. Well, his future is probably going to end as a doorman. I want to ask you, what do you want?"

He Min ate the gate one by one, took a big bite of the fried lamb tail, and then took a bite of the pickled garlic, the juice kept gushing out.

Seeing that juice was dripping from the corner of his mouth, his sister was particularly considerate and gave him a small towel to wipe it for him.

"You say, you say why don't you divorce me, I'll cure your illness, and we'll also give birth to a little girl like this, how nice it would be." He Min was despised by all the women at the table, only her younger sister didn't despise her, she grabbed her younger sister's hand, her eyes red.

"But you don't want to. You insist on marrying a gatekeeper. I'm not jealous of you getting married again. I just look down on Gao Dayong for being a gatekeeper."

"He Min, if you can't shut up, get out of here." Chen Lina slammed her chopsticks and yelled.

This is the lobby of Donglaishun. There aren't many people eating at noon, but many people are looking back.

"Noisy, noisy." The younger sister hurriedly covered He Min's mouth.

He Min became more and more sad. "Look at the women at your table. There is not one as sensible as Little Satellite. You never remember my kindness. You never think about how the wool textile factory would be what it is today without me. If I hadn't carried paint and materials all over the world, the wool textile factory wouldn't have the sales volume it has today."

"Director He is crazy. Sister Yuan is going to marry Captain Gao. What does this have to do with the wool textile factory? I think what you need now is not a meal, but to go to Anding Hospital."

"I really need to go to the hospital to get some medicine. Ouch, I have a headache. Is Anding Hospital far from here?" He Min failed to scold others, so she started pretending to be sick, in an attempt to gain any sympathy from the women at the table.

"Anting Hospital not only treats headaches, but also mental illnesses because it is a mental hospital." Anna glared at him and said.

Well, we finally finished our meal and didn’t fight.

When you arrive in Beijing, you must visit the Forbidden City first.

Even He Min, the factory director who has only come here once a month in the past six months, has not visited the large courtyard where the emperor lived in the old society because he is too busy.

We all walked out of Donglaishun and prepared to go to the Forbidden City.

Although Gao Dayong and Yuan Hua are older, no matter how old two people are, as long as they are in love, they can be considered a young couple.

"Don't pay attention to He Min, he is a lunatic. How about I give you two balls of cotton and you plug your ears with them?" Yuan Hua said.

Gao Dayong waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Come on, I asked you for a cup of hot water when I came out. You have a stomachache, so don't drink cold water. Remember to drink hot water at all times."

Don't be fooled by his tall and rough appearance. His wife, Captain Wu, was originally an artist.

Gao Dayong is able to serve a daughter-in-law who is good at literature and art. Although he appears rough on the outside, he is actually very delicate on the inside.

Yuan Hua took the cup of water, which contained wolfberries, longans and red dates. The water was not hot and tasted sweet.

"You stinky gatekeeper." He Min was still lingering around. While Chen Lina was buying the ticket, she stood on tiptoe and cursed Gao Dayong again.

He Min was only 1.7 meters tall, while Gao Dayong was a burly man who was almost 1.9 meters tall. He Min was so angry that she punched him. He Min was even proud of herself and said, "Go ahead, hit me. If you touch me, I will fall down. Then I will report it to the police and have the Palace Museum send someone to arrest you."

"Captain Gao, don't pay attention to him, he's just a little jerk." Yuan Hua said as he pushed him over.

"Yuan Hua, you could have been the factory director's wife, but now you can only marry a security captain. Just enjoy your life." He Min jumped up and said another sentence.

"What should we do? Our letter of introduction doesn't have the stamp of the autonomous region, so they won't sell us tickets." Anna came back with a pile of letters of introduction. "Secretary, it looks like we can't enter the Forbidden City. We have to go home."

"Why do they need a stamp from the autonomous region? Let me take a look." Gao Dayong took the letter of introduction and went to the ticket office.

"Comrade!"

"Dayong, it's you. Don't tell me, you need to buy a ticket to enter the Forbidden City, right?" The ticket office was a small window, and the ticket seller was a middle-aged woman. "I haven't seen you for many years, but you haven't changed. Come in quickly. Your dad happens to be here today."

"Which door at the back is open now?" Gao Dayong asked.

The ticket seller wrote a note, "This is the gate. The gatekeepers should be your old acquaintances. Hurry up and go."

"Minister Gao, you actually know the ticket seller at the Forbidden City?" Chen Lina was stunned.

Anna was also shocked. "How could someone put you in there directly? Don't tell me, your father is Pu Yi, right?"

It was reported in the newspaper that when Puyi wanted to enter the Forbidden City, the staff stopped him and wouldn't let him in. He said, "This is my home. Why are you not letting me in?"

The leaders heard about this and approved that Puyi could enter the Forbidden City directly without buying a ticket.

Gao Dayong saw Yuan Hua looking at him, and explained, "My father is a cultural relic restorer in the Forbidden City. When I was a soldier in Beijing, I often brought him meals. All the people here are my acquaintances."

He Min thought about it and said something offensively, "So what? Your father is repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City, but the Forbidden City is not yours. Our Director Chen has a house in Dazhalan. Do you have one?"

"No, our house is in Qingyun Hutong. It's not big, just three large bungalows. Now they are occupied by my parents and two children. I have my own home in Wumayi, so I don't need this."

What He Min coveted the most were Nie Gong’s two large courtyards in Beijing, especially the two rows of large bungalows in Dazhalan. She was simply jealous to death.

Now he was about to feel dizzy.

After entering the Forbidden City, he was so sad that he didn't know how to relieve it. He hugged his sister and comforted her.

The current Forbidden City is not as strict as it was in later times, with fences being set off everywhere. Of course, there are not many staff members. As for the dragon throne, you can sit on it as long as you can grab it.

After all, nowadays, workers, peasants and soldiers are the most important.

Gao Dayong led Chen Lina and a few others and walked forward. They didn't know where they ended up, but they saw a few particularly smart old gentlemen who were renovating a study room in a large house.

Gao's father looks exactly like Gao Dayong, but he doesn't look old at all. They look like brothers.

His son was originally the head of the armed forces, but now he has become a security captain. Gao's father did not seem depressed, and he comforted him by saying, "It's a job no matter what position you are in. My salary can support Dabao and Xiaobao, so you can just do your job without worry."

"Uncle's monthly salary is probably not low," Chen Lina asked.

Gao's father did the math and said, "With the subsidy, it's about 50 yuan, which is considered a high salary in Beijing."

In fact, Gao Dayong is a security captain in the frontier and earns more than his father. However, the older generation is simple and has fewer demands in life, so their salary requirements are not as high as those of young people.

Now that we have Gao Fu, it will be fun.

In the palaces, you can tell which one is where the eunuchs lived, which one is where the Empress Dowager Cixi lived, and which one is where Emperor Guangxu once lived.

After strolling around until around five in the afternoon, Gao's father put up a sign outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony saying it was under renovation and cleared out all the visitors.

They were repairers of cultural relics and had cameras. Besides, Ren Gao's father was a very good photographer. Compared with him, He Min's skills were as poor as it could be.

"Who among you wants to sit on it? That's a dragon chair. Go up and I'll take a picture of you." Gao's father said with a smile.

Gao Dayong was standing at one side with his arms folded, and he said, "He Min, come on, let my dad take two photos of you."

"Forget it, forget it. You can't just sit here randomly. If you want to get on, do it yourself. I won't go up." He Min waved her hands, not daring to do so.

I was afraid that Master Guangxu would come and strangle me in the middle of the night.

Anna was not afraid. She hugged her sister and said, "Let's go, satellite. Let's sit on it and let Grandpa Gao take a picture of us."

After taking pictures of Anna and her sister, the sister was adorable. There were 32 negatives in a roll of film. Gao's father put the sister alone on the dragon chair and took two more pictures.

My younger sister didn’t even know where she was sitting or what she was holding. In short, it was the Empress Dowager Cixi’s bed, the Empress Dowager Dong’s mirror, and Emperor Guangxu’s desk.

In short, my sister chewed on Emperor Guangxu's four treasures of the study, Empress Dowager Cixi's bonsai, and almost peed on the head of Emperor Qianlong's bed. We strolled around until eight o'clock in the evening, and only then did we come out of the Forbidden City with sore feet and weak legs.

Even so, what they visited was less than one-third of the Forbidden City.

Finally, Chen Lina put her hands on her hips and concluded, "It's not easy to be an emperor."

With such a large place and having to run around to sleep with concubines every day, Chen Lina felt that if she were the emperor, she would die of exhaustion on the way to sleep with concubines.

After leaving the Forbidden City, Gao's father insisted on inviting Chen Lina and her group to his home for dinner.

Well, why don't we go to Gao's house? He Min really didn't know that the three rooms Gao Dayong mentioned actually consisted of four bedrooms and a large living room in his grandmother's house. She didn't expect that Gao Dayong was also the owner of the house.

The two sons, who are a little older than Nie Weimin, were serving meals and wiping the table. They were obviously sensible children.

He Min felt sour and angry. She was eating the fried noodles from Gao Dayong's house, and then she saw Yuan Hua, who looked like she was about to become the hostess. She and Gao Dayong had never been separated from each other. She was so angry that a bowl of noodles was stuck in her heart and her stomach felt uncomfortable.

Just then, after finishing dinner at Gao's house, everyone sat outside drinking tea, eating watermelon and listening to Gao's father continue to talk about the history of the Forbidden City, when someone knocked on the door.

"Comrade Gao Dayong, we finally found you." Two soldiers came in and saluted. One of them said, "We are from the Chengdu Military Region."

"Hello, comrade. Is this a personal matter or an organizational matter?" Gao Dayong also stood up and saluted.

"Comrade Gao Dayong, the Chengdu Military Region has an urgent mission and needs to urgently recruit you to go to the military region and wait for further instructions."

"Yes." Gao Dayong then asked, "When do we set out?"

"Right now." The two soldiers said, "This is an emergency transfer order. You may have to go to the battlefield. We are waiting for you. Say goodbye to your family."

Gao Dayong had not yet told his two sons that he had found a stepmother for them. Looking at Yuan Hua again, she also stood up and looked at him.

"Dabao, Xiaobao, first of all, Dad has to apologize to you. I haven't taken good care of you all these years. I'm also sorry to your mother. I didn't take good care of her and let her go to prison." Gao Dayong paused, pulled Yuan Hua to stand up, and said, "Dad is planning to start a new family. This is your Aunt Yuan Hua. She will remarry Dad and form a new family. Dad originally wanted to tell you slowly.

But now Dad has an urgent mission, so I'll tell you in advance. She will live in the Umayyad mining area, and we'll have the wedding when Dad returns from his mission. Then, we can get together as a family, okay?"

People from the Chengdu Military Region were still waiting outside. Since it was an urgent mission, Gao Dayong didn't say anything. Chen Lina took the people in the factory and of course resigned first.

As for Yuan Hua, Gao's father persuaded her to stay at Gao's house for a day, which could be regarded as a way for her to adapt to her future married life in advance.

Qingyun Hutong is not far from Dazhalan.

So, everyone prepared to take a walk in the alleys of Beijing and walk back.

The summer night breeze is cool and feels quite comfortable.

"You stinky gatekeeper, you've been a security guard all your life. Director He, if you didn't curse all the way today, would our Captain Gao have to deal with a security captain in the mining area?" Anna turned around and asked as they walked.

He Min was angry for a long time, then she stomped her feet, left Anna and Chen Lina, and walked away alone.

Anna and Chen Lina looked at each other and burst into laughter.

As usual, there is a class reunion before graduation from the Party School.

During the winter, because Ms. Chen was taking care of her children, she never had a meal or sat with her classmates, no matter how many times they invited her.

Look, it’s graduation time.

She had already bought her return train ticket, cleaned the house, and returned all the hard beds to her neighbors. She was just waiting to check out Guo Bin.

Studying at the Party School is paid, and with the part-time job she received as a patent bonus of more than 20,000 yuan, Miss Chen is not short of money now.

I took my sister to Wangfujing a few times on the weekend and bought her some beautiful skirts. Plus, it’s been a year since she gave birth to her baby and her figure has completely recovered. She can put on little skirts and her figure hasn’t changed much. Confidence and beauty have returned to her.

Look, she’s bringing her younger sister with her, and she’s also getting ready to have fun with her classmates.

Moreover, she has a lot to discuss with several classmates about the development of the mining area and business matters.

After all, all of her classmates were top leaders in various provinces, cities, or major military regions.

Half a year of classmate friendship is no joke. Who among us has not had homework supervised by Chen Lina, and who among us has not drunk the boiled water prepared by Chen Lina?

The gathering place was the former Liuguo Hotel, now the Huafeng Hotel.

Oh, when Miss Chen is in the best mood, she puts on a beautiful dress, perms her beautiful hair, dresses herself up beautifully, and attends a party where she is the only one who looks the most beautiful.

"Wow, this is your daughter. Why have you never brought her to school?" Ji Huaishan was working as a greeter at the hotel gate. He saw Chen Lina being brought in by a car. When she got out of the car, she was holding a doll in her arms that was as white as milk, with round eyes and a mouth so big that it could hold an egg.

"Hello, uncle." My sister is very clever with words. She could call me mom at the age of six months.

"Oh my god, you're so young, and you already know how to call me uncle." Ji Huaishan said, stretching out his arms and saying, "Come, give uncle a hug, okay?"

"No." The beautiful girl was very arrogant and turned around immediately.

Who would believe it if someone said she was just a little over one year old?

There were fifteen students and five teachers in a large private room. As soon as Chen Lina entered, everyone became excited.

Oh, what is that called? When beautiful women go out to fight, they will be the center of attention wherever they go.

But compared to Chen Lina, my sister is the focus of the whole audience.

Look, several teachers are holding out their hands, "Come on, Lina, let us hold your little girl. You are so cruel. We have been in school for half a year and you haven't even brought her to school to show her to us."

The younger sister nestled in Chen Lina's arms, hugged her neck tightly, and looked like she didn't want anyone to hug her.

At this time, other parents would have hugged their children even if they cried for the sake of the teachers and classmates' face. After all, the teachers in her party school were all leaders of powerful units.

Every one of them who goes out is the type that can be on TV.

But Chen Lina didn't think so. Her sister rarely went out and was timid and introverted. If someone held her, the child would be very scared. So, she said frankly, "She is shy, so I can hold her. You can watch, but I guess she won't be happy if you hold her."

Well, Deng Dongya walked in, stood at the back with his hands in his pockets, stared at his sister for a long time, and then said, "Call me uncle!"

"Dongya, your voice is so loud that it scared our little satellite. The child hasn't seen anyone in the past six months and is very timid." Hu Su said.

"Lina, what's so good about the Umayyad mining area? Come with me to Shanghai. Shanghai is now a major economic zone. I will fully support you and let you develop your wool and garment business. What do you think?"

Well, now that we have graduated, everyone has to go back to their original positions. However, for the development of their respective regions, the students are trying their best to attract talents to their own positions.

Well, my sister looked at everyone curiously with her two round grape-like eyes.

The graduation dinner for the party school classmates has begun.