After the train traveled for more than an hour, the police on board came to the door.
Yan Jiecheng and others were chatting.
I saw two uniformed police officers walking to the door of the sleeper room and asking, "Who is Comrade Yan Jiecheng?"
When Yan Jiecheng saw this, he immediately said, "I am Yan Jiecheng. What can I do for you?"
The two of them stared at Yan Jiecheng and said, "We have registered you here as carrying a gun, so we need to cooperate in checking your ID and firearms."
After hearing this, Yan Jiecheng quickly took out his letter of introduction, transfer order, and gun certificate from his luggage and handed them to one of them.
He took out his Browning again, emptied the magazine, placed all the bullets and all the bullets on the small table of the train, and pushed them towards the police officer.
Yan Jiecheng didn't notice that just when he took out the Browning, the two policemen put their hands on their waists vigilantly.
Seeing Yan Jiecheng's actions, one of them continued to be on alert, while the other carefully checked the pistol number.
When they saw that the identity of the person and the gun were consistent, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
After returning the things to Yan Jiecheng, he said, "It's troublesome."
Yan Jiecheng said quickly: "It should be, it should be, thank you for your hard work."
"Well, if you're busy, we'll go check somewhere else." The two of them looked at Yan Jiecheng's ID and knew that Yan Jiecheng was an expert sent by their ministry to Gan Province, so they were naturally very polite.
Before they left, the two men warned them not to use pistols on the train. If anything happens, they would come to them.
Yan Jiecheng naturally came to the end.
After the two people left, the man named Tian was a little curious.
After all, he had touched a gun before.
It's just that I am working in the propaganda department, which is full of cultural people and are not so keen on firearms. Naturally, there are not many people with guns.
Seeing Yan Jiecheng riding in a car and carrying a gun, he was a little curious.
Seeing this situation, Yan Jiecheng showed him his gun permit.
He smiled and said, "This time we are going to a remote place for survey and design, so we brought it with us for self-defense."
Xiaotian understood it after hearing it.
He spent two years in the Propaganda Department and naturally knew that there were many bandits in the mountains after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although the bandits had been suppressed for many years, they have been basically eliminated now.
But there are still scattered stragglers running around in various mountainous areas.
Yan Jiecheng saw that this Xiaotian was not simple.
You must know that these days, hard sleeper carriages are not for casual use.
That must be a leader above the division level.
Needless to say, the two of them were, after all, the Iron Boss's men, so it was unjustifiable that they didn't have a hard bed.
But this Comrade Oda is obviously not of a high level, and he looks like he comes from a poor family, and he doesn't look like someone who is willing to spend money to buy a sleeper.
However, Yan Jiecheng didn't ask any more questions. Everyone has his or her own destiny, so why bother so much when we all meet by chance.
At noon, everyone is ready to eat.
No one went to the food truck either.
When everyone took out the food, Lao Xie and Yan Jiecheng looked at each other and smiled.
It turned out that both of them had steamed buns, eggs, and pickles.
Yan Jiecheng joked: "Don't look at me, I was going out, so my mother made it. Usually it's sweet potato and corn mush.
It can't be compared with a big business like you. "
Yan Jiecheng told the truth. Lao Xie himself had more than 110 yuan a month, and his wife also had more than 70 yuan.
The couple were both veteran members who joined the family before liberation. Now they are both high-income earners in the capital. There are no elderly people at home, just two children, so their lives are naturally good.
"Xiao Tian, I'll give you this steamed bun to eat. I brought a lot here, so I couldn't finish it and let it get spoiled on the way."
Lao Xie said to Tian Fujun.
After half a day, everyone got acquainted with each other and naturally knew their names.
Tian Fujun raised the sweet potato in his hand to signal, and said with a smile: "Thank you for being polite, brother. I'll deal with the sweet potato I roasted last night first."
Lao Xie no longer forced it, after all, they had almost finished talking.
Although Comrade Tian Fujun was born in a rural area, he still earns a salary of seventy or eighty yuan a month.
A few white flour steamed buns are not enough.
A few people had lunch and the conversation was lively. Tian Fujun was also a simple-minded person, so he and the two engineering professionals had a great time chatting with each other.
After a while, everyone no longer felt strange.
It means making friends with old friends.
Several people were chatting, and children would run around in the carriage from time to time.
During the chat, I learned that this Tian Fujun was not easy either.
Born in Tianjia Ge Lao, Shuangshui Village, Yuanxi County, Huangyuan Region in 1933, he later received enlightenment education at the free winter school run by Mr. Jin in his village, Jinjiawan.
In 1945, he was admitted to the Normal College of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and later joined the army.
After liberation, he worked as a clerk in the Financial and Economic Committee of the Huangyuan District Commissioner's Office, and was later promoted to head of the Statistics Section of the Commissioner's Office.
He studied in the Statistics Department of Renmin University in 1954, and was later chosen by the propaganda department in 1957 to stay. Now he has decided to go back and build his hometown.
Yan Jiecheng and Lao Xie both admired his approach, especially Lao Xie who taught him a lot of experience.
Yan Jiecheng asked with a smile: "Brother Tian, where will you be assigned when you go back this time?"
Tian Fujun said with a smile: "I was assigned to the Huangyuan Office and was said to be the deputy director of the office."
Yan Jiecheng was also speechless. Tian Fujun, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, was also a swindler. Now Lao Xie's face turned green.
Tian Fujun is already a deputy director-level cadre at a young age, and he is still there to teach others how to behave.
Fortunately, Lao Xie enjoys regular treatment as a technician, otherwise he would be really embarrassed.
Fortunately, the train arrived at the International Village and stopped at the platform.
Lao Xie quickly opened the car window and asked everyone to get hot water.
There was no hot water on Yan Jiecheng's train. At every stop, there was a staff member on the platform carrying a large iron bucket with a long spout to pour water into the large teapots that the passengers stuck out from the windows.
After fetching water, Yan Jiecheng saw some sales stalls on the platform.
One of them was selling donkey meat for barbecue, and he suddenly felt like he could eat a donkey.
He has no other hobbies except eating.
I greeted the two of them and got off the car.
I ordered four pieces of donkey meat to be grilled and paid for it. Yan Jiecheng lit a cigarette on the platform and smoked quietly.
In addition to people getting on and off the platform, there were also some shopping like him, and many people came down to get some fresh air.
They waited until the staff blew the whistle before they got on the bus.
"Here, whoever sees you has a share, one for each of you and two for me."
Yan Jiecheng put the donkey meat wrapped in paper on the small table and said.
Lao Xie couldn't do it either. He picked up one and said, "Then I have to thank the director. Xiaotian, don't be polite either."
Seeing that Tian Fujun was still hesitating, he added: "Hey, you don't know how difficult it is to eat from our director. Our director is famous for being a tough guy."
"Eat, eat, brother Tian, I'm waiting for you to treat me to biangbiang noodles when I go to Qindi."
Seeing this, Tian Fujun was not polite and said with a smile: "Then I won't be polite either."
A few people were having a good time when the flight attendant came with three people.
"There are three more sleepers here, just enough for your family of three." After that, he left.
"Professor Cai, what a coincidence, why are you here?" Yan Jiecheng saw that the visitor turned out to be an acquaintance, Professor Cai from Jiaotong University.
"Director Xiao Yan, where are you going?" Professor Cai wore a pair of round glasses and looked at Yan Jiecheng with a look of surprise.
"Hey, stop talking, let's help you pack your luggage first."
After Yan Jiecheng finished speaking, he quickly helped put the luggage.
Professor Cai brought his wife and daughter. The little girl was seven or eight years old. She was very delicate and looked like Professor Cai.
Mrs. Cai seems to be an intellectual, about thirty years old.
After packing their luggage, the few of them sat on the lower bunk and chatted.
"Director Xiao Yan, have you been transferred to Gansu Province too?" Professor Cai asked.
Yan Jiecheng nodded and said, "Yes. Teacher Xie and I have been transferred there, and we don't know how long we will stay."
Mrs. Cai said: "We can't come back, we have to move the whole family."
Yan Jiecheng and Lao Xie looked at each other and said, "Professor Cai, are you two going to support the construction of Jincheng Railway College?"
The reason why Yan Jiecheng asked this was because
Three years ago, the Government Affairs Council decided to move Tangshan Railway College to Jincheng to establish a school.
At that time, the school site was surveyed in Anning District, Jincheng City, and construction of some school buildings was officially started. Later, it was not moved due to some reasons.
Last year, the headquarters reported to superiors for approval and determined the teachers and equipment needed by Jincheng Railway Academy, which will be supported by the two railway academies in Tangshan and Beijing.
So Yan Jiecheng thought Professor Cai was another group of supporters.
Professor Cai smiled and said, "That's not true, but it's almost the same."
Then he told everyone the origin.
It turns out that in January this year, Jincheng Railway College applied to the headquarters to establish the Jincheng Railway Science Institute.
He is the supporting scientific research and technical personnel.
His wife and children were at International Village, so they got on the bus here.
Yan Jiecheng and Lao Xie also sighed when they heard this.
Only then did Yan Jiecheng say that the two of them were supporting the construction of the project.
Professor Cai became interested after hearing this, and Yan Jiecheng simply took out the information.
The three of them spread out on the berth to study.
One moment he said that the biggest problem of this project was the earthwork, and the other moment he thought that the loess layer was soft and flood control must be done well.
Several people were talking enthusiastically there, and Mrs. Cai was not surprised.
Tian Fujun is a man of action and was listening with interest.
The three of them discussed from noon to evening, and Yan Jiecheng wrote more than ten pages of notes. After all, a group of people can think more thoughtfully than one person.
"Okay, we three engineers, it's getting late, let's take a moment and prepare for dinner."
When it got dark outside, Mrs. Cai reminded her.
When the three of them saw that it was getting dark, they put away the materials and each took out food and started dinner.
Wow, the time on the train was long and boring, but several people were able to talk together.
At noon on the third day, the food brought by several people was gone. Fortunately, they were all high-income people.
Lao Xie proposed to have a dinner at the dining car, which was unanimously agreed by everyone.
The group of people passed through several carriages and finally arrived at the dining car.
The food truck was kept very clean.
The diners were all well-dressed, and at first glance they were all intellectuals or cadres.
Lao Xie skillfully asked the flight attendant for the recipe and ordered shredded pork with Beijing sauce.
After handing the recipe to Professor Cai, Professor Chen also ordered a few casually.
After several people finished ordering, Yan Jiecheng asked with a smile: "Teacher Xie, you are very skilled. There is actually a recipe on this car."
Lao Xie said: “I used to travel a lot on business, and I knew that they all had a copy of the book issued by the headquarters in their cars.
These dishes are made strictly in accordance with this regulation.
These recipes have one thing in common: the dishes are all within the jurisdiction of their railroad.
For example, this brochure from Shudi Road Bureau mainly focuses on Sichuan cuisine.
However, the Yuzhang Road Bureau cookbook also contains many Ganjiang dishes, such as dragon head cakes, glutinous rice chicken, raw fried glutinous rice, etc.
If these railways cross provinces, they will integrate delicacies from various places.
We took a bus from Beijing Bureau, so as you can see, most of the dishes here are Beijing or Shandong cuisine. "
Yan Jiecheng nodded repeatedly.
Sure enough, these good things will be gone in future generations.
However, he also understands that since the household registration system was implemented in 1958, it is inconvenient for most people to go out and require letters of introduction.
Generally, those who can take the train are those with employers, and most of them are on business.
Besides, these days, senior experts and cultural celebrities are the guests of the dining car, while ordinary people dare not enter the dining car.
But this dish is too rich.
Nowadays, food is tight, and some small restaurants in Sijiu City do not have such a complete range of dishes.
It has to be said that the state’s support for special industries under the supply system is not insignificant.
Yan Jiecheng couldn't help but think of the interesting things he heard about flying in his previous life.
At that time, it was rumored that when flying, the food on the plane would be made by chefs, and there would be endless Moutai.
Seeing Yan Jiecheng's interest, Mrs. Cai also said: "I used to drive a shuttle bus from Shu. Their buses have many high-end dishes, including checkerboard fish maw, osmanthus scallops, shredded sea cucumbers with flowers, dry-roasted shark's fin, and snowflake chicken cheese." , shredded orchid chicken, sea cucumber with liver oil, etc., they are all top-notch famous dishes in Sichuan cuisine.”
After hearing what Mrs. Cai said, Yan Jiecheng was a little surprised.
He had only eaten dishes like these a few times in later generations, either when wealthy friends were getting married or for some special banquets.
He couldn't afford it himself.
Yan Jiecheng was a little silent. In this era of poverty and material scarcity, the food in the dining car is still so rich.
It made him feel very complicated.
Yan Jiecheng didn't even think about it. Knowledge was so valuable these days. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, intellectuals were favored.
The salary of the five of them is more than 600, which is equivalent to the sum of the 20 households in the courtyard.
He just stayed at the bottom for a long time in his past and present lives. He has not had enough to eat, but he cannot see the suffering in the world.
After all, Mrs. Cai is a woman and has a delicate temperament. She can immediately tell what Yan Jiecheng is thinking.
He smiled and said: “In this case, many people wrote to the railway bureau headquarters, demanding that the standards of train meals be lowered.
The reply at that time probably had two meanings.
The first is that foreigners do not like these things and cannot exchange them for foreign exchange. People with high incomes do not consume them. What about those who make a living from this?
The second is that most scholars and experts are older, and they are very motivated to build the country. They start working as soon as they get off the train, without much rest. If they don't eat well, they will all get sick. "
After taking a look at Yan Jiecheng, Mrs. Cai smiled again and said, "Of course, they didn't expect there to be an expert as young as Director Yan."
After speaking, he sighed: "I thought that Lao Cai and I were already young, but I didn't expect that there were people outside of us."
After Yan Jiecheng heard this, it was settled and he no longer struggled.
After a while, the food was served, and Yan Jiecheng ate steamed buns and pickles for two days.
Seeing the steaming meal, Yan Jiecheng immediately put aside these messy thoughts.
A few people chatted while eating.
Professor Cai even talked about the past of studying abroad with his wife.
That was in 1950, when they graduated from Huaqing University. After many rounds of review, they were finally qualified to study abroad at Big Brother.
