Fengcheng old events

Chapter 54

Liu Jinrong stood up, tidied his clothes, brushed his hair, and said, "Yes, I don't remember that time, my family is still in Zhuanghe."

Then she remembered something and was a little dazed.

The car body paused again, stopped on the edge of the platform, and the people in the car started to get off.

The conductor shook the big key and shouted: "It's the station, it's the station, the final station, Benxi, is here. Take your things and get off slowly one by one."

Going down the ladder to the platform, there are people everywhere, carrying big and small bags on their backs, rushing along the platform to the exit bridge.

Vigorous music came from an unknown loudspeaker: "The great leader...,... taught us..."

There was a smell of soot in the air, Liu Jinrong pulled the hem of Qingzhi’s clothes and walked out: “The last time I came here was when I was eight years old, with my mother and uncle, and there was no overpass at that time. Not so many people."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I don't know, I was still in the fort at that time, and that's how it was when I first came here."

Follow the crowd up and down the overpass. There are tall wall panels on both sides of the overpass to block the view, and you can't tell the difference between east, west and north, and follow the crowd.

There is no exit at this moment, and the road is just after getting off the overpass, and the crowd spreads out in all directions.The station was still the same old house, Liu Jinrong pulled Zhang Qingzhi's skirt and turned to look, even the words on the gate remained unchanged.

A row of red iron slogans was erected on the roof of the house, and many red flags were flying in the wind.

Zhang Qingzhi pointed to one side and said, "Are you hungry or not, go there to eat, you can find everything."

Liu Jinrong nodded, and the two walked sideways through the crowd to the alley on Zhanbei's side.

This is a patch of bungalows, messy and messy. They were originally built by private individuals to block the train station for business. Now they are all owned by the state, and various state-owned stores have been opened.Restaurants, snacks, hotels, information offices, police stations and so on.

Zhang Qingzhi took Liu Jinrong, who was looking left and right, into a state-owned restaurant, and asked Liu Jinrong to sit down. He went to buy a ticket, then waited at the checkout for a while, and brought over two bowls of wontons and ten shortbread.

Liu Jinrong swallowed unconsciously: "Can't finish eating?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "It's okay, I'll have to sit for several days to eat in the car."

Eating wontons with seaweed and small dried shrimps, and crispy shortbread, this is the most delicious and most valuable meal that Liu Jinrong has eaten in the past ten years. It is so delicious that she is a little reluctant to swallow it, so Want to chew in my mouth for a while.

Zhang Qingzhi drank the wontons in a few sips, ate two shortbread, and said: "After eating, let's go to the store and buy something to take with us. We must hurry up. The train to BJ will leave at night, so we have to wait." tomorrow."

Liu Jinrong immediately forgot about the delicious food and speeded up.

After eating, Zhang Qingzhi found yellow straw paper to wrap the remaining shortbread, wrapped it in plastic cloth and put it in a school bag, and the two of them came out and walked east.In the traffic flow, he crossed the luxurious and wide asphalt road in Liu Jinrong's eyes, and came to the side of the triangle with the bustling crowd.

By now the department store has been built.

Walking around inside, I bought two clothes, a skirt, shoes, and a pair of trousers for Liu Jinrong.

There are no underwear sellers at the moment, they are all wearing cotton pants made at home, and the biggest counter in the mall is also a fabric counter.

Liu Jinrong blushed and said, "Why buy me these things, you buy one too."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I don't need it, everything is issued in the army, and they are not allowed to wear anything else. You finally came out once."

Liu Jinrong said: "Then you, then you can't spend all the money, your parents won't blame me then."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I gave money at home. I usually don't spend money, and I can save [-] a year."

Liu Jinrong said: "It's really a lot. My family only counted less than 30 yuan for a year of planting."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "There is still food, and it can't be counted that way. The money in the city is more than that in the countryside, but there are also more places to spend money in the city."

Liu Jinrong said: "It's better than living in the countryside. It would be great if I could go to the city in the future."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "Yes, I can be assigned to the city after I leave the army, and then I will pick you up."

Liu Jinrong looked down at the clothes he was holding in his arms and laughed: "You, how long ago will you be fully discharged from the army?"

Zhang Qingzhi said, "I don't know either, I have to obey orders."

Liu Jinrong bit his lip and looked at the train station far away: "Is it time to catch up?"

Zhang Qingzhi looked at his watch: "Come on, are you still shopping?"

Liu Jinrong shook his head: "No, I'll spend all my money."

The two returned to the train station, Zhang Qingzhi went to buy a train ticket, and then went to a state-run restaurant to buy some boiled eggs and pancakes.Buying cakes these days is considered a relatively extravagant act, usually just a few steamed buns.As for eating on the train dining car, that is the qualification only for cadres.He is reimbursed.

There are sleeper berths these days, but they are only sold to cadres, and ordinary people are not eligible to take them, even if the carriages are empty.The one who asked for a letter of introduction from the unit.

Liu Jinrong looked at Zhang Qingzhi who had wrapped them in yellow straw paper and put them in his schoolbag, and asked, "Why do you buy these?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I see you like to eat pancakes. There are none on the train. Just buy some soup or vegetables on the train. If it is too cold, you can ask them to heat it up. There is a fixed time for eating on the train, and there will be no more after that." Yes, I can take a bite if I’m hungry. There will be hot water on this train.” He patted the enamel cylinder stuck on the schoolbag.

Liu Jinrong was a little happy, but also a little worried, and asked: "You used these food stamps, is it enough?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "There is no need for food stamps on the bus, as long as you have money, food stamps are only required in the city, I will count."

Liu Jinrong said: "It must be expensive, right?"

Zhang Qingzhi shook his head and said, "It's not expensive, meat and vegetables are only [-] cents, box lunch is [-] cents, and boiling water is free."

Liu Jinrong said in surprise: "Eight cents a dish is not expensive? How many dishes can you buy for more than ten yuan a month?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "It's not like eating every meal. The dishes on the car are delicious, and they are all master chefs. You will know when you taste them."

Before the 80s, the standard on the train dining car was quite high, because it was not open to ordinary people at that time, and only cadres and scholars entered the dining car, so there were corresponding requirements.The chefs on the dining car are real master chefs.

At that time, more than [-] kinds of dishes were provided, both Chinese and Western, and the color, smell and taste were definitely much better than ordinary restaurants.The price is not expensive, there was a pricing standard at that time, the cost was one yuan, and the selling price could not exceed one yuan and eight.

Roast beef with potatoes was a relatively expensive dish in that era, one piece for four.

Like fried chicken in sauce, fish fillets in vinegar, these are all one piece or two pieces.Vegetarian dishes cost 70 cents and [-] cents. In the [-]s, many people went to the dining car of the train to beat their teeth for sacrifice.It can save food stamps, and it is delicious.

Later, in the 80s, train restaurants began to open to ordinary people, and the variety of dishes became less and less, because it was not easy to store.Until the mid-80s, earthen refrigerators were used to store meat on trains, with a piece of ice placed on a layer of meat, and another piece of ice placed on another layer of meat.

By the end of the 80s, there were only a few dishes such as potatoes and cabbage on the dining car, and the price also increased as one wished.One month's salary is not enough to eat two meals in the car.

And also from that time on, the train dining car began to endorse unpalatable food, there is no most unpalatable, only more unpalatable.Expensive and unpalatable.

(End of this chapter)