Chapter 161

The base has changed

Now that Nie Gong is here, I must introduce him to all the students.

Some people may not know Nie Gong, but everyone knows Nie Bozhao.

When Hu Su introduced him, everyone said they had heard a lot about him. After all, although he looked young, he was a pioneer in the oil industry.

Chen Lina forced Ji Huaishan to drink several glasses of wine, and he felt dizzy. He said he would not go to the bar and had to take the children home.

Others were fine. When they heard that Lina was going to take a train tomorrow, they all agreed to go to the train station together tomorrow morning and send her off first.

But Ji Huaishan started to act crazy again. He waved his hand and said, "No, there are fifteen people in the group. If any one of them is missing, I won't be happy in the bar tonight. Chen Lina must go."

"Since my family member said she doesn't want to go, please be understanding and we really won't go." As Nie Gong spoke, he brushed Ji Huaishan, who immediately grabbed Nie Gong's hand.

"Nie Gong, what if I don't agree? I've already made a big promise. Today, she doesn't belong to you, but to all of us classmates." It was half a joke, but Nie Gong must have hit him too lightly, and he didn't even realize it.

"Hey, are these two going to arm wrestle or something?" someone shouted.

"You have to bend it to the table, how can you just bend it like this? Come on, come on, let's take a look. You are a well-mannered worker, don't let our rough Ji Huaishan sprain his arm."

To be honest, Chen Lina had always heard that Nie Gong was good at arm wrestling, but she had never seen him arm wrestle.

Didn't he lose to Yu Lianhai last time? When she saw that Ji Huaishan was also a soldier, she thought that his physical fitness was probably not comparable to that of a craftsman. She was really afraid that Ji Huaishan would break the craftsman's wrist.

Unexpectedly, the man didn't seem to be using much strength and was still holding his sister with one hand. He suddenly exerted force with one wrist and pressed Ji Huaishan's arm to the table.

"Are you sober now, Comrade Ji Huaishan?" Nie Gong asked Ji Huaishan.

Ji Huaishan's mind was in a daze, with one of his hands firmly held by the worker. Perhaps he really didn't expect that the worker's hand was so strong, and he turned his hand over and wanted to turn over again.

Nie Gong exerted a little force and said, "If you are drunk, just get a room and sleep. Don't make a fuss." He used his big hand to firmly press Ji Huaishan's hand on the table, so that he could not move at all.

It's too embarrassing for a man in military uniform to be crushed to death on the table by an engineer.

Deng Dongya had just woken up and said, "Comrades, I am back to normal. Let's continue drinking."

Zhong Shante walked over considerately and pushed him down again. "Chen Lina's family came and just pushed Ji Huaishan down on the table with a wrist. I saw that he looked very bad. If you want to get up again, he will probably have to sit on the stool. Just lie down."

Deng Dongya whispered, "Did you say something bad about me in front of Xiao Chen's husband? We are just classmates joking, don't let it affect the relationship between the couple."

"I didn't say much. I just briefly told you how you have been trying to kidnap someone in the past six months." Zhong Shan was actually joking, but Deng Dongya took it seriously. He closed his eyes and said, "Okay, I'll continue to pretend to be drunk. You are the ones who are saying this to stir up trouble between the couple."

"Staff Officer Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't expect you to still be so handsome." Chen Lina was half drunk and walked up to him and shook his hand.

Yu Lianhai shook hands with him, and then he held out his own hands and said, "Nie Gong, look at what a soldier is. People like me are real people's fighters."

When I sat down in Yu Lianhai's room, I didn't expect that Gao Dayong, who had left in a hurry a while ago, was also there.

"Our military region is the main force. Lian Hai and I will continue to be partners. Secretary Chen, it seems that we can only go back to the security work of the wool textile factory after the war is over."

Chen Lina's mind was a little unclear, but she remembered that the self-defense counterattack seemed to have taken place in 1979. But now it is only 1978. Is the war going to start so soon?

"Be careful when you are on the battlefield. I remember many people died in self-defense counterattacks."

Yu Lianhai and Gao Dayong opened their mouths wide enough to fit an egg in them, because they couldn't understand what Chen Lina was saying.

After hearing her talk about the self-defense counterattack, Nie Gong quickly explained, "She is drunk and probably talked nonsense. You should get some rest quickly. We have to leave."

Yu Lianhai said, "Nian Gong, wait a moment."

He rummaged through his bag and pulled out three large yellow croakers, saying, "I've traveled thousands of miles to send gold bars, and I've never seen anyone like you. Hurry up and take them back to buy flowers for your little satellite. Our friendship has nothing to do with the yellow croakers."

Gao Dayong was determined to confiscate the yellow croaker afterwards. When he heard that the worker had actually sent the yellow croaker to Yu Lianhai, he slapped him and said, "You intellectuals are sour in your bones. Take it away quickly. I hate these things the most."

But my sister was very generous. She didn't know what a gold bar was, so she took one for herself. But she insisted on giving one to Gao Dayong and Yu Lianhai respectively. She would cry if they didn't take one. There was no other way, so they both had to take one each.

The younger sister put the money in Julienhai's jacket pocket, patted him and pointed at his nose, which meant that he was not allowed to take it out. When Julienhai tried to take it out, the younger sister burst into tears.

Chen Lina was very dizzy. She pulled the worker and found that he seemed to have lost a lot of weight. She said, "It's the middle of the night. There should be a minivan outside. Go find one for us. Oh, I'm not drunk. I'm drunk because of the cigarettes of those men."

There are no taxis on the streets now, but there are minivans.

However, it was so late, the laborer certainly would not take Chen Lina back to the house where even the bed was packed.

He held his already asleep daughter in one hand and supported his wife with the other, got on the elevator, went up two floors, asked the waiter to get a room, helped Chen Lina in, and the whole family went to bed together.

"Oh my God, eighty dollars a night, Nie Bozhao, you are really greedy for money. How could you afford to book such a luxurious suite?" When Chen Lina woke up the next morning, she saw that she was sleeping in the most luxurious suite and she was about to go crazy.

After she finished bathing her sister, she also lay in the bathtub. "No, I will regret it if I don't take a bath before leaving." Eighty yuan! When she was in the Party School, the woolen textile factory only paid her one hundred and fifty yuan a month.

The laborer said, "Your salary has been reduced, but mine has been raised. I can now earn 250 yuan a month. Besides, we don't live here every day, so what's the big deal if we stay here for one night?"

"I think you are such an idiot. You have four children, Nie Bozhao. They all have to go to college and buy houses when they graduate. Do you know how much pressure this means for both of us?"

The younger sister disagreed with this and said "Meh!", thinking Chen Lina was stingy and nagging.

Chen Lina was angry and said, "Ni Weixing, I raised you for half a year, and he only saw you for half a day, why are you speaking for him?"

My sister was still naked. She hugged my father's feet and rocked to ask for clothes to put on.

"I'll help my sister get dressed, you hurry up, we have to go home to get our luggage." The two of them were fighting like they were at a war. They checked out of the hotel, ran back to Guo Bin's house to move their luggage, called a taxi, and hurried to the train station.

Well, none of the classmates who said they were going to see her off came. Instead, Deng Dongya got up early and stood in front of the train station.

"Chen Lina, this is my address. Remember to write to me often when you get back. I will visit your mine whenever I have time."

"If you don't agree to coordinate with me and start the transfer, don't even think about me writing to you." Chen Lina said, and went to the back of the long line.

"Chen Lina, I think that although you have your ideals, you don't have a clear understanding of the economic environment. What I want to tell you is that even though Umay is now an economic pilot city, its location also limits it. It can't become rich first like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

After all, it is far inland, and from the perspective of transportation conditions, you are destined to be less developed than us. And if you want to sell the cloth of your woolen textile factory to Shanghai, that is a foolish dream, because Shanghai is the real capital of light industry. "

"I didn't think Umayee could compete with Shenzhen and Shanghai, just like I didn't think our cloth could be sold in Shanghai. But what is our advantage? Our wool and cotton are the cheapest in the world.

So, my cloth costs much less than yours, and you can connect with the international market, but I want the entire inland market. I want you to open a special train to Shanghai, not to sell cloth to Shanghai, but from Inner Mongolia to Beijing, Tangshan, Tianjin, and then to the Northeast. It's a huge market. Do you understand? We have never been competing on the same channel. "

When Deng Dongya heard what Chen Lina said, his eyes suddenly lit up.

In fact, he wanted to bring her to Shanghai because of her abilities and ideas.

But for the sake of her job and her family, she didn't even consider his tempting plan.

It is very important to connect with the international market, but the large inland market also has very strong purchasing power. At this sentence, Deng Dongya heard that Chen Lina's thoughts were far more profound than his.

As for him, apart from making jokes, to be honest, he had never thought about having a serious discussion with her about financial planning. Now thinking about it, he felt a little regretful. He underestimated her and did not regard her as a comrade, but just a friend to chat with.

Deng Dongya felt very regretful and wanted to talk to her more, but now it was time for Chen Lina and Nie Gong to enter the station when they lined up.

"Let me put it this way. I will try my best to run a special train. Once things go well in Shanghai, I will definitely go to Umayee to find you." Deng Dongya said, waving his hand.

Before Chen Lina turned around to say goodbye, she was already escorted into the station lobby.

In fact, she had always thought that Deng Dongya was a good person to befriend. However, he was always hanging out with Ji Huaishan, who was a bit disrespectful to women, so she had never talked to him much.

If she was right, sooner or later, Deng Dongya would go to the mining area to find her. Shanghai at the beginning of the reform and opening up was like a high-speed train, and she had to take that express train to make some money.

After all, it seems that Nie Gong will never go into the adult entertainment industry in his life, and living a life of constant tension is not what Chen Lina wants.

And if anyone really wanted to help the people in the mining area make money, it had to be Deng Dongya.

Finally we got on the train, one in the lower berth and one in the middle berth. My sister didn't know that she had taken a train half a year ago. When she saw the train start moving, her eyes lit up.

Two big round eyes stared out the window without blinking.

After waiting for a while, we entered the tunnel, so all the lights in the car were turned on. She exclaimed again, and sat in the worker's arms, with her ears erect like a rabbit, staring out the window intently.

"This is your daughter, she's so pretty." A woman in her fifties working in the shop opposite said with a smile.

"Where are you going? I'm going to Hohhot to see my sister. She was sent to work in the countryside there. She came back to the city two years ago and got married there. She refused to come back. She tells me every day how beautiful the grassland is. I'm thinking, what place can be better than Beijing? Let's talk, right?" The woman kept nagging.

Chen Lina didn't think so. "You guys are in Beijing, so your yard shouldn't be that big. If you were in Hohhot, maybe your sister would have a big yard too."

"Although my house is just a tiny one now, that's Beijing. She did tell me that she has a big yard in Inner Mongolia, but how can that be compared?"

Chen Lina said, "People pursue different things. I think a big yard is better than a small house, but some people think a small house in the city is better. It depends on the person."

"Anyway, I just don't like this place. Tell me, is there any place in the world that can compare to Beijing? You guys don't have a house in Beijing. If you did, you definitely wouldn't want to live in this big desert. Am I right?"

Nie Gong and Chen Lina looked at each other and smiled, but said nothing.

Fortunately, when we arrived in Hohhot, this talkative woman got off the bus.

Otherwise, Chen Lina would be driven crazy by her noise.

Children are more adaptable than adults. After sitting on the train for three consecutive days, the worker's eyes were wide open, but his sister was still very nice.

When the worker was holding her and spinning around, someone gave her a White Rabbit milk candy.

Good guy, a piece of candy opened the door to a new world in her life.

After eating the candy, she thought that people must eat candy instead of milk.

After making the milk powder, the person turned his head and said "Sugar."

The worker had no choice but to find a Big White Rabbit to coax the baby into eating, and then fed him milk. Finally, he was willing to drink.

But the next time there was no sugar, his little mouth pouted and I couldn't get milk in at all.

Chen Lina didn't care. She pulled her sister aside and talked about how eating candy was bad for teeth and that her baby teeth would turn black. Her sister looked like she saw through the world and ignored her. She just said that she would not drink milk without candy, and would drink milk obediently after eating candy.

It seemed that Chen Lina was not afraid of those three naughty boys at all, but now, she is tortured by a little girl and has no way to deal with it.

So, when the next train stopped, the worker took the opportunity to take a break at the station and quickly got off the train. He then bought a bag of White Rabbit milk candies from the people selling things on the platform.

Well, my younger sister is not easier to please than her brothers. She wouldn’t let mommy put the candy away. She dragged it herself and put it at the corner of the bed. Then she kept watch over it by herself and didn’t eat much. However, she had to be seen at all times, as if she was preventing mommy and daddy from eating it.

"People say the younger one is always the most disobedient. I think so." Chen Lina was angry. She pretended to be angry, pushed her sister and said, "Okay, from now on, give this child to Dad. I don't want her anymore."

When the younger sister heard that her mother didn't want her anymore, she became frightened in a second. She immediately took out a candy from the plastic bag, climbed on Chen Lina's head, turned around, and was ready to feed her.

When it comes to pleasing others, she is straightforward and even more attentive than Nie Weijiang.

Chen Lina ignored him, closed her eyes and continued to pretend to sleep until her sister handed her a bag of candy. Then she hugged her sister. Little boy, you want to fight with your mother, aren't you asking for trouble?

We got off the train in Uruguay. The jeep was parked at the train station. It hadn't been used for a long time and was a little dirty. I cleaned off the sand, got into the jeep, and drove to the base in one go.

"Oh, I haven't seen you for half a year, and your new office building is already up?" Chen Lina said, looking at the new building covered with white tiles from a distance.

Nie Gong said, "Yes, now I have to renovate my laboratory. The mining area has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in our laboratory. From now on, that six-story building is all mine."

Sure enough, the old office building was being tiled. From the outside, the silver tiles had a futuristic, technological feel under the blue sky and bright sunshine.

Of course, this means that he has to recruit more students. In addition to his own usual research and development, he also has to train more talents like him for the Republic.

After entering the base, Chen Lina was quite puzzled because she didn't see Nie Weimin and his brothers.

"Don't they know I'm coming back today?" she asked.

"I know." said the worker.

"Then why didn't anyone come to pick me up, Nian Gong? Have you found a new stepmother for them, or have they grown up now and gotten used to the days of herding sheep without anyone to take care of them? So when they heard that I was back, they all hid themselves." Chen Lina became more and more puzzled.

It's only been half a year. After all, they are not your biological children. So you're just forgetting about them after they've left?

The car stopped at the door of his house, but the worker hadn't gotten out yet. He pointed at Chen Zili's house next door and said, "When you were away, the mining area was actually not peaceful at all.

First of all, the oil thieves are now so rampant that they are lawless. They are not just stealing oil anymore. Sometimes they even beat our drivers, stealing the oil from trucks, and even dare to engage in gunfights with the police."

The oil thieves in the mining areas are like psoriasis, a part of history that cannot be erased.

Chen Lina carried her sister out of the car and pushed open the door. It was pretty much as she had imagined. The firewood was scattered all over the yard like a dog had pulled it over. The vegetable garden was also deserted. She had half-drawn the curtains in the house, so they probably had never been washed.

In short, this is the home of an old bachelor.

Although my sister was born here, she treated herself as a guest and let my father hold her and turn her around, saying "I like it."

Well, compared to those narrow little buildings in Beijing, my sister prefers this spacious yard, the warm sunshine, the tall date trees, and the grape trellises with many grapes growing on the corners of the wall.

There was a horse next door. My sister turned her eyes and stared at the horse and refused to let go.

The yard of Chen Zili's house next door was as messy as Nie Gong's, and the door was locked, so it seemed that no one lived there.

"Don't look at it, Zili's family is not at home."

"Where have their family gone again, Nie Gong? I've only been away for half a year, why do I feel like so much has changed?" Chen Lina asked Nie Gong again.

The worker paused and said, "That's why your sons weren't waiting for you at home. Sister Wang's two nephews were hanging out in the mining area. Fourteen or fifteen-year-old young men with oily hair also joined the oil stealing team. Not only that, they also hooked up with Chen Tiantian, saying they wanted to send her out to work, and then kidnapped her. She hasn't been found yet."

"So where is Sister Wang's family?"

"Sister Wang had a heart attack, so Chen Zili sent her back to her hometown. Zili is going to look for Tiantian. Your two sons said every day that they wanted to go to the mining area to catch those oil thieves and look for Tiantian. I had no choice but to send them to the farm and let your brother-in-law keep them locked up. Otherwise, I'm afraid they will really become gangsters like you said."

But that's what happened.

Just as she was talking, there was a rumbling sound of a tractor outside. Chen Lina stopped sweeping and looked outside. Before she could react, she felt herself being thrown back and smelled a foul smell. Erdan, who was almost as tall as her, suddenly hugged her and yelled, "Mom!"

The sound was so loud that Chen Lina's ears were buzzing.

As soon as Nie Weimin entered the door, he went to look for his sister.

Chen Lina took a quick look and saw that the child was now almost as tall as a worker. She had to crane her neck to see him. She thought that he had grown a lot in the past six months.

By the way, she hasn’t met Sandan yet.

To be honest, even if children are born from the same mother, there are always differences in distance and proximity. When she was in Beijing, she never dreamed of Nie Weimin and Erdan, but she often dreamed of Sandan.

I always dream of myself giving birth to a child with tears in my eyes.

Look, Sandan was the last one to come in.

He was dressed very neatly, wearing white canvas shoes, a white shirt and black pants. It was obvious that when she was not around, Sandan was the only one who still paid attention to hygiene.

With his head tilted and two bunches of grapes in his hands, Sandan looked at Chen Lina for a long time with a smile, then came over and said, "Mom, I really miss you so much."

Chen Lina thought to herself, that's right, if you think something, you should say it out loud, if you love someone, you should say it out loud.

Otherwise, my youth and sweat would have been wasted in vain during the seven years at the frontier.

Shanghai, she thought to herself, I rejected Shanghai and handsome guys like Tang Guoqiang and came back here.

In August, fruits and vegetables are abundant. Wang Hongbing not only brought fat rabbits, chickens, and ducks, but also a variety of vegetables and fruits such as bell peppers, pumpkins, and cucumbers.

It’s because Tiantian was kidnapped that Nie Weimin seemed very unhappy.

Chen Lina didn't know the specific situation yet, and didn't know how to comfort him, so she asked, "Wei Min, have you been eating well recently?"

"Don't mention it. When you were here, we just had meals. When you're not here, all we brothers want is to stay alive." He said it very fluently.

"Okay, today I'm going to stir-fry some bell peppers with mutton, roast a rabbit, and then deep-fry a big chicken leg for you, how about that?" Chen Lina said.

Erdan's eyes sparkled as if he had eaten all the mice in the village and was still hungry for three months. "Mom, I missed you so much that I really didn't sleep last night."

"Are you thinking about the meal I cooked?" Chen Lina said, "Hurry up and chop some wood."

She handed the bell pepper basket to Nie Weimin and asked him to pick bell peppers for her. Then she asked, "Tiantian, what's going on? I guess you know better than others, otherwise you wouldn't be so depressed. Can you tell me about it?"

Nie Weimin, a 14-year-old boy, was picking a sweet potato. Suddenly, his eyes turned red and he called out softly, "Mom!"

The child must have something to hide, but is too embarrassed to continue speaking.