Yu Weimin: "Okay, then call Shang Zhiheng, and the three of us will go there."
The distance from Shannan County to Jinshi and Beijing is basically the same.
The three of them got letters of introduction, and Qin Zhiheng bought a sleeper ticket through some unknown means.
This brings us to the difficulty of buying tickets these days. Not only do you need a letter of introduction or work ID, but even getting a sleeper berth isn't easy.
Hard sleeper tickets can usually only be purchased by the company through connections.
You must reach a certain level before you can buy a soft sleeper.
Of course, in this less affluent age, many people try to save as much as possible. They buy a seat ticket and wait until they reach their destination.
But Qin Zhiheng knew that his wife and father-in-law's family, although they seemed carefree on the surface, had high demands on the quality of life.
Just look at the specially built kang at home and the food and daily necessities to know.
Qin Zhiheng asked someone to buy a hard sleeper, so he didn't have to squeeze in the hard seats and could lie down when he was tired.
There are four beds in their partition. They bought two lower bunks and one upper bunk, so there is still one upper bunk left.
Just as the three of them settled in, another person on the upper bunk also got on the train.
He was a middle-aged man with a young man beside him.
The young man saw Yu Weimin sitting on a lower bunk, and Yu You and Qin Zhiheng sitting on a lower bunk.
He said to You and his wife, "You two, our leader's back is not very good, and it is inconvenient for him to climb up and down. Can you change the bunk for our leader?"
As the bodyguard of a senior leader, Xiao Yang felt that he was not doing his job well.
Their leader, Pei Zhengye, had just returned from a business trip, and who would have thought that there were no berths left in the soft sleeper berth, and only one upper berth in the hard sleeper berth.
But Mayor Pei was unwilling to reveal his identity and just bought a ticket and got on the train.
Seeing the man's sincere attitude and the middle-aged man's more refined demeanor, Yu You didn't hesitate and said readily, "Okay, let's switch."
The two of them ran straight to Yu Weimin's bed and sat down.
Pei Zhengye reacted and smiled: "Are you three together?"
Yu You replied: "Uncle, this is my dad, and this is my partner."
It turned out to be a family of three, which was even more strange, because not many people would be willing to buy three sleeper tickets.
"You've been working hard these past few days. Go to your seat and rest for a while." Pei Zhengye sent the young man away and then asked casually, "Where are you going?"
Yu Weimin: "Let's go to Jinshi. Brother, my name is Yu Weimin, what's your last name?"
Pei Zhengye smiled and said, "My name is Pei Zhengye. What a coincidence! I'm also going to Jinshi. What are you guys doing there?"
In that era, household registration management was very strict, population mobility was almost zero, and people generally did not travel far unless necessary.
Yu Weimin: "I want to go to the port to take a look."
Pei Zhengye was obviously more interested. After all, who would go to the port for fun?
"Can I ask why you guys are going to the port?"
Yu Weimin: "I heard that Jinshi is expanding its port. The commune has some agricultural and sideline products and wants to see if we can export them. And at the same time, earn some foreign exchange for the country."
Pei Zhengye... When did the people in the commune below become so knowledgeable? They even know that the country is short of foreign exchange.
Also, they had only started building the port half a month ago, how could the news have spread so quickly?
Xiao Yang just got some hot water and thought Yu Weimin was bragging.
"Nowadays, the common people are lucky enough to be self-sufficient. Everyone is hungry. What agricultural and sideline products can your commune produce?"
Qin Zhiheng: "Little brother, the situation in each commune is different, so we can't generalize."
Pei Zhengye also rebuked, "Xiao Yang, don't talk nonsense. Brother Weimin, this kid is young and his words are irrelevant. Please don't mind it."
Yu Weimin: "What's the big deal? Our commune is different. We've developed a collective economy this year, and we have a lot to offer."
Pei Zhengye: "What's there anywhere?"
Yu Weimin: "There are fish, pork, chicken, duck, soybean oil, and mushrooms."
Xiao Yang couldn't hold it in any longer: "Uncle, this is for export. If there are less, there won't be enough to load the goods. I'm afraid the few we raise in the village won't be enough."
A village raises a dozen pigs and wants to export them. Is that funny?
Yu Weimin... this kid is a bit stubborn. Well, let him learn some new lessons!
They have a collective economy. Take pigs for example. If a family raises two pigs, that’s hundreds of pigs.
"Fifty thousand pounds of fish a year, four hundred pigs, two thousand chickens and ducks, and mushrooms are also indispensable. The amount of soybean oil is uncertain, depending on how much beans we have left."
This time not only Xiao Yang, but even Pei Zhengye was shocked.
Pei Zhengye: "Are you serious? Can a commune produce so many things every year?"
Yu Weimin pointed at himself calmly and said, "Other communes may not be able to do this, but ours is perfectly fine."
Yu You...her dad is showing off.
Pei Zhengye was worried about exporting to Tianjin Port. There simply wasn't enough capacity left.
If the materials that should have been supplied to the supply and marketing cooperatives and meat processing plants were exported, it would be stealing food from the people.
Pei Zhengye said, "Then I'll show you a clear way. All the goods from Tianjin Port go through the Jinshi Food Import and Export Company."
Yu Weimin: "This is important news. It turns out that locals know more about this."
I didn't expect to meet someone knowledgeable about the train.
As they were talking, it was time for lunch. Xiao Yang went to get his food. Yu You started unpacking things from his backpack.
A can of her mother's meat sauce, eight white flour pancakes, an aluminum lunch box filled with tea eggs, and a lunch box of garlic and spicy cucumber sticks.
Yu You spread a piece of newspaper on the bed and put the things away one by one.
Pei Zhengye...
His eyes kept looking over there.
Although the ingredients are good, it’s not that I can’t eat it myself. The main thing is that the taste is so damn delicious.
Suddenly I felt that the lunch box in my hand no longer smelled good!
Xiao Yang also swallowed greedily. This is unjust! These three people brought too much with them when they went out. How come their food was better than what the boss eats?
Yu Weimin saw this and called them over: "Come and eat together. My wife makes big pancakes, which are enough for us to eat."
They were really big. Cao Xiu felt it was troublesome to eat them one by one on the train. The baked ones were the size of a face plate and one was enough to fill her up.
Pei Zhengye wanted to refuse, but the person had already walked past.
The salty and fragrant meat sauce goes well with rice, the spicy and sour cucumber strips are very refreshing, and the tea eggs have a unique meaty aroma.
Having eaten well in recent years, Yu Weimin, Qin Zhiheng and Yu You have no shortage of oil and water in their stomachs. Each of them is full after eating one.
The remaining five pancakes all went into the mouths of Pei Zhengye and Xiao Yang.
Not only that, they each ate two tea eggs, which perfectly demonstrated the appetite of people in the 1970s.
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