Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 121 The Untimely Grass

The border gates decades later are all tall and magnificent, and the first generation of gates in Finhe City was built on a dirt road leading to the border.

There are concrete piers on each side of the dirt road, and one of the concrete piers is equipped with a cast iron stop bar, which is exactly the same as the stop bar that can be raised and lowered at the railway crossing.

Wang Weidong, Yao Qiming and another person were undergoing strict inspections before leaving the country. The three of them did not bring much, and the inspection was completed quickly.

At this time, the border officers handed back the three people's documents to the three of them, and motioned them to go out and walk to the opposite side.

This scene is like exchanging prisoners of war or espionage personnel between two countries in the movie.

The gear lever was raised slowly, and the three of them walked through the gear lever nervously. When they got under the gear lever, Wang Weidong turned his head and waved to Ou Xiaoyang, who was tens of meters away.

The three of them still have one hurdle to pass, which is the inspection by the border personnel on the opposite side. Wang Weidong has already seen a few people wearing big green caps on the opposite side looking at them more than ten meters away.

"Where are you going?" asked the middle-aged man who was leaving the country together.

"Vladivostok." Wang Weidong answered briefly.

"I'm going to Shuangchengzi. We exchange apples for [-] kilograms of salmon." The middle-aged man replied.

Even after 100 years, the Chinese are still used to calling the place names there by their Chinese names.

After a simple conversation, he walked more than ten meters and stood in front of the other side's border inspection and internal affairs personnel.

Hearing a hurried Russian, although Wang Weidong couldn't understand what was said, he had an urge to raise his hands immediately.

Three people were brought inside for inspection.

Three people were in charge of checking Wang Weidong, one checking his documents, one checking his body, and the other checking his luggage. Wang Weidong, who was 1.7 meters five, felt that he was already tall, but he still looked thin and small in front of the three tall and burly people.

It is now [-], not a few years later, when thousands of troops crossed the border with huge bags. If Wang Weidong is wearing two or three chicken feather down jackets and carrying a large bag of pigskin jackets, the inspectors must be like It was looking at him like a monster and rubbing him on the ground.

Although the trade has resumed, the two countries are still vigilant. Wang Weidong is here for formal trade this time. He doesn't want to make troubles, so he only brought a few items that are urgently needed here.

The inspection lasted seven or eight minutes before it ended.

"Vladivostok?" an officer asked Wang Weidong.

"Yes, we were sent to Vladivostok for trade exchanges. We are together, and I am his translator." Yao Qiming replied for Wang Weidong.

The captain officer looked at the three people and nodded for a while and said: "You can only go to your destination by car, from Grodekovo to Ussuriysk and Vladivostok by car, I will send you Go to the bus station."

The undeveloped city of Finhe is small, and Grodekovo, opposite it, is even smaller.Wang Weidong felt that it was not much larger than a village in China.

A second lieutenant took the three of them and did not go straight into Grodekovo, but walked around the town and stood where the cars were waiting.

After a while, a woman with a turban came over and stood with the four of them, as if waiting for a bus.

There is a railway in Grodekovo, but due to the low demand now, the utilization rate of the railway is very low.Most of the time to get to Ussuriysk, which is a hundred kilometers away, you have to rely on a car.

The second lieutenant took out two pieces of printing paper and handed them to Wang Weidong and Yao Qiming respectively, but not to the middle-aged man who was crossing the border with them.

Yao Qiming looked at the content on the printed paper and said: "At present, Vladivostok is still a closed area as a military port, and outsiders are generally not allowed to enter casually. We were only granted permission to enter through economic and trade communication outside the province, but we are not allowed to walk around casually, let alone approach Military area, or you will bear the consequences!"

Wang Weidong nodded. He understood that the destination of the middle-aged man was Shuangchengzi, so there was no need for such a warning.

A bus with an oval top came, and a car came so soon, which surprised Wang Weidong, as if it was specially prepared for them.

The four got on the car one after another, and the second lieutenant officer nodded and smiled at the four of them, including the woman who got on the car together, when he watched them leave.

The bus didn't leave right away.

The middle-aged man took the initiative to tell Wang Weidong and Yao Qiming: "It costs five rubles and twenty kopecks per person to go to Shuangchengzi."

Wang Weidong hastily took out the money and held out two fingers to the driver, and then pointed to Yao Qiming.

The driver billed the four people separately in a very formal way, and watched the four people sit down and start the car.With the sound of popping and shaking, the car headed southeast.

Wang Weidong felt that the quality of this bus was not as good as that made in China. It was noisy and the body vibrated constantly.

Yao Qiming has been very excited since he set foot on this land again. He turned his head to look out the window and sighed, "These houses are so beautiful."

In the 80s, brick houses were rarely seen in rural China, but here the houses painted in different colors are tall and beautiful.

Wang Weidong also turned his head and looked out the window and said, "Yes, it's really beautiful!"

Turning his head to the side, Wang Weidong saw the middle-aged woman sitting behind them smiling out of the corner of his eye.

The bus is driving on the road, with endless crop fields and forests on both sides.Most of the farmland has been harvested. It may be due to diet. Most of the stubble left in the field should be wheat.

In the Northeast, wheat harvesting begins in late July.The latitude here is the same as in the northeast, and the harvest time of wheat should be the same.

The bus drove for dozens of miles, and what appeared outside the window was a piece of grass, fluffy grass floating in the air!
In a large crop field, there is a piece of green.

It is already early October, and the fields of crops are still green, which is very unusual.

The middle-aged man sitting in front has been here several times, and he explained with a look of familiarity: "There are too many weeds in the wheat field. Even if you harvest it, you can't get much food, so it is abandoned. After the rain Afterwards, the grains on the wheat germinated again!"

That's why they can see a large patch of green.

In China, it is unimaginable that there are so many weeds in the crop fields, and it is even more unimaginable that the crops are not harvested after they are mature!

Wang Weidong and Yao Qiming both faced the car window and looked outside.

Wang Weidong noticed that the middle-aged woman sitting behind him also lost her smile.

Yao Qiming murmured, "It wasn't like this when I passed by here before."

The bus traveled for more than two hours to Shuangchengzi, which is Ussuriysk.Originally, two castles on both sides of the Ussuri River were connected together and finally developed into a city.

"I've never been to Vladivostok, but I think you guys need to go to the train station. Shuangchengzi is not far from Vladivostok, so you should be there in a short time," said the middle-aged man.

(End of this chapter)