Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 131 Commuter Train

Seeing that Chen Weidong was determined, Liu Xueting knew that her man would not change his decision easily, so she could only nod and remind Chen Weidong to be careful on the road.

Then Chen Weidong planned to say something to Shitou Bingzi and the others. After all, he would need them to take him there tomorrow, and they had to get up early, and they hadn't even taken two steps yet.

Sanni, Sini and Wuni walked with their short legs to Chen Weidong and asked in a baby voice, "Dad, where are we going?"

"Go visit Uncle Shitou and Uncle Bingzi!"

"I also need to go!"

"I also need to go!"

The two little kids, Si Ni and Wu Ni, shouted immediately.

Even though I had just beaten up the two little kids, they were only aggrieved for a few minutes, and now they came over to stuff my face again.

Chen Weidong smiled, raised his hand, let Sanni ride on his shoulders, and picked up the other two little kids. The three little kids hung on him like three koalas.

"Woo woo woo ~ go out and play!"

into the night.

Liu Xueting was holding a nylon bag in her hand, which was bulging with things.

"Everything is packed!"

"Well, what time do you leave tomorrow?"

Liu Xueting asked with concern.

"Leave early in the morning!"

"Then I'll get up early and cook for you tomorrow!"

……

The next day.

The sky is brightening.

Chen Weidong got up early, drove out the donkey cart, put on the sled, and loaded the luggage.

Shitou and Bingzi will follow later, but they will only send Chen Weidong to the county town and then drive the donkey cart back.

"Weidong, be careful! Come back early."

Just as Chen Weidong was about to leave, Liu Xueting, holding Da Ni and Er Ni's hands, came over and reminded them again. The two older girls had woken up, but the other four younger girls were still sleeping soundly.

"Xue Ting, I'm just going to Hajiang City. It's not a life-and-death farewell! I'll be back in a few days."

Chen Weidong touched Liu Xueting's hair and said gently.

"Bah! Bah! You are not allowed to say such unlucky words. The children and I will be waiting for you to come back." Liu Xueting said gently.

"Dad, come back soon."

"dad……"

The two little girls didn't know where Chen Weidong was going, they only knew that their father was going out.

"Big Ni, Second Ni, take good care of your sisters at home! Daddy will bring you some delicious food when he comes back!"

Chen Weidong touched the two little girls' heads and said lovingly.

"it is good!"

"So good!"

Liu Xueting smiled and her expression softened.

……

These days, there are long-distance buses from Hesong County to Hajiang City. It usually takes six or seven hours to get to Hajiang City.
It just snowed a while ago, and although the heavy snow has stopped for a few days, long-distance buses still cannot run, so Chen Weidong can only take the train.

Transportation was inconvenient these days. There was no railway station in Heishong County, only one in Linhai County, south of Heishong County. Chen Weidong could only go to Linhai County in a roundabout way.

After Shitou and Bingzi sent Chen Weidong to the county town, Chen Weidong let them leave.

Then Chen Weidong got on a hand tractor, which was specially used to pull people. The tractor was already full of people. Chen Weidong found a seat and sat down, carrying a nylon bag.

After waiting for a while, the tractor started moving with a rumbling sound.

About an hour later, the hand tractor pulled the group to a train station.

After a greeting, Chen Weidong and a few others got off the train. This was not the Linhai County Railway Station.

It is a stopover station for the train. Chen Weidong still needs to take the train to reach Linhai County.

The train is a Northeast Forest Train. You should know that there are many forest farms in Northeast China.

The "small train" was built in the Northeast Forest Region to transport felled trees in the forest.

However, they are not available everywhere. Only large forest farms have such forest trains for transporting wood and picking up employees for commuting. There is a large forest farm in Linhai County.

When we arrived at the small train station, we just happened to catch a commuter train heading to the county forestry bureau.

It was just a coincidence that Chen Weidong happened to catch this kind of frequent train, which only had two runs a day, so he had to wait until tomorrow. It shows how troublesome it is to go out these days.

Then Chen Weidong bought a ticket and took the commuter bus to the county town.

There were quite a few people on the train, so Chen Weidong found a seat and sat down. People came up one after another, and soon the small carriage of the train was full.

With a whistle, the train started moving.
Chen Weidong was admiring the scenery outside the car window. This kind of primitive scenery would no longer be seen in ten years or so.

By the late 1980s and early 1990s, China began large-scale construction.

China's speed is beginning to show its power, and many of these original landscapes have disappeared.

About an hour later, Chen Weidong arrived at the county town!

The station for the forest farm train was outside the city. Chen Weidong walked into the county town and took the train to the other side.

The houses in Linhai County are mainly bungalows. There are very few buildings, even the county government compound is bungalows, only the county party committee guesthouse is a three-story building, and the supply and marketing cooperative is a two-story building.

The street he was walking on now was the main street of the county. There were actually only two main streets in the entire county, one east-west road and the other north-south road.

The essence of a county is concentrated on these two streets. To be precise, they should be on the east-west streets.

Various government agencies, public institutions, and commercial shops such as supply and marketing cooperatives are concentrated on the east-west streets.

The North and South Streets are the residential quarters for the staff of various government agencies, administrative institutions and public institutions.

Further out are some small streets, where the family compounds of various factories and scattered residents live.

Arriving at the train station,
Chen Weidong took out the letter of introduction and bought a train ticket to Hajiang City.

At around 1:00 p.m., there was a train ticket available to Hajiang City.

Chen Weidong first had a meal at a restaurant near the train station.

The taste was OK. Although the train station was chaotic at that time, there were no blind people who came to cause trouble. The main reason was that Chen Weidong was a man in his sixties who had been reborn. His personality was not like that of a young man, and he knew better what it meant to keep wealth private.

He also doesn't like pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face, or playing the game of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. He just pursues stability.

Therefore, he kept all the large-denomination banknotes close to his body, and those left outside were divided into several pockets.

Each time he took out just three or five dollars and some scattered bills.

In this way, some unnecessary troubles can be avoided.

After dinner, I saw that it was almost time, so I went to the train station.

The train starts checking tickets.

There were quite a few people, lining up in a long line, and crowded into the station.

Crowds of people.

Finally squeezed into the platform.

I saw the train coming from a distance, and the sound of clanging came from far away.

It's too noisy on the train.

There are people everywhere.

Chen Weidong bought a hard sleeper. These days, ordinary people cannot afford soft sleepers. Only people who have reached a certain level can buy them.

The train had not started for a while when Chen Weidong heard a commotion coming from the next carriage.

"Who the hell stole my money?! Come forward!"

"If I catch him, I have to beat him to death!"

"It's twenty yuan! Hurry! Check everything for me! I've written my name on the money, you can't escape!"

Listened carefully.

It turned out that it was a middle-aged man who put the money in his pocket and held it tightly all the way.

Unexpectedly, when he got on the bus, it was so crowded that the thief cut open the bottom of his pocket with a razor blade and took away the money.

When he found it, his pockets were empty and his clothes had holes in them.

There was a huge uproar at the moment.

Several conductors went.

Neither of them are fun-loving people.

After a while, the noise subsided, and a sound of footsteps dispersed.

"Excuse me, comrade, could you please sit here for a moment?"

Hearing the voice, Chen Weidong looked up.

What I saw was a pretty and juicy little girl.

She had two pigtails, wore a big cotton-padded jacket, and had a very lively smile.

When looking at people, his eyes flicker.

It’s easy to be disarming.

however

Chen Weidong smiled politely and distantly: "No!"

Little girl: "???"

Her face changed, and she seemed a little aggrieved.
"Can you squeeze in and let me sit for a while? It's too tiring to stand, comrade. Can you give me a hand, please?"

I have to say that the little girl's expression was very well captured.

Poor Chu Chu, extremely aggrieved.

If this were an ordinary man, he would definitely agree.

but.

But she happened to meet Chen Weidong,

When Chen Weidong was riding in a train in his previous life, he often encountered such women wandering around in the carriages.

Lower your defensiveness, and then bring one or two so-called brothers over. They will call each other big brothers, hold you and coax you, just call you brother-in-law!
Then someone suggested playing cards.

Good guy.

Cruel is really cruel.

It will make you lose all your pockets.

Of course, there are even more cruel ones.

"I'm sorry, I'm too big to squeeze in."

Chen Weidong clearly refused.

The little girl pursed her lips, obviously unwilling to do so.

But when I saw the patched nylon bag next to Chen Weidong, I thought he should also be a farmer from the village.

Not much money.

She was relieved and went to another carriage with a smile on her face.

……

After about two hours, in the evening, Chen Weidong arrived in Hajiang City.

The city is much more prosperous.
Especially when Chen Weidong arrived in Hajiang City, it was just the time when all units were off work, so there were naturally more people on the road. People walking and riding bicycles swarmed on the not very wide street, forming a long river of people.

The bicycle bells rang clear and crisply, passing by pedestrians with a tinkle, leaving a group of people standing there in envy.

Although the number of bicycles in this era is not as large as in the 1950s and 1960s, the per capita ownership rate is less than 20%.

On average, each household owns less than one bicycle, so naturally, owning a bicycle is something that many people envy.

There are buses and cars passing by on the main road, and horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, ox carts and cars are driving on the road in harmony.

Of course, as long as you ignore the car horns, it is still very harmonious.

Then Chen Weidong stopped a three-wheeled vehicle and went to the Hajiang City Medicinal Materials Company.

The full name of Hajiang Medicinal Materials Company is Hajiang City No. 1 Medicinal Materials Company. Due to its reputation, it is also called Hajiang Medicinal Materials Company. In fact, there is not only one Hajiang City Medicinal Materials Company.

(End of this chapter)