Daily life in the courtyard

Chapter 103 The First Taste of Shanghai Style Life

The dining car of the soft sleeper is different from the ordinary dining car, and can be understood as a small stove.

However, there are only a few windows in the dining car, so it is a virtue to line up for meals.

Li Lu stretched her neck in front of her and looked in. If she saw it in advance, she could figure out what to eat when it was her turn.

The mentality of a little girl.

Today I "ran into" Wei Ping'an and was assigned to a car, and we could spend two and a half days together day and night, which kept her excited.

An indescribable sense of happiness.

Wei Pingan stood behind her, keeping a distance of thirty centimeters.

Although he also vaguely felt that Li Lu was a little special to him, but as a family man, it was more than courtesy when she was in love.

A gust of fragrant wind came from behind, and Wei Pingan couldn't help sniffing, it was a bit familiar.

"Hi, sister Chen, I didn't expect to meet you here..."

"It's you, where are you going?"

Chen Xueru was also inexplicably surprised to see Wei Pingan.

I thought to myself, why do their foreign affairs offices still go out to work?
I looked around, but I didn't see any foreigners.

"Oh, I'm going to Shanghai to do something. Where's you?"

"I'm going to Shanghai to participate in a silk exhibition, and I'm going to Suzhou by the way."

Chen Xueru wants to do Elena's business, Suzhou is the hometown of silk, and there is a silk domestic sales association in Shanghai, she will definitely participate.

I just didn't expect to meet on the same train.

Wei Ping'an is not surprised that Chen Xueru can buy a soft sleeper ticket.

After all, she is also a national capitalist, and she is still in the honeymoon period, so a sleeper is a must.

If you can buy a soft sleeper, you have certain channels and means.

"Are you here alone?"

"This is my friend Li Lu, the manager of the clothing department of the department store..."

"This is Chen Xueru, Boss Chen, who runs a silk and satin shop over at Dashilan."

Wei Ping'an and the others are in carriages 2-5, and Chen Xueru's is in carriages 3-8.

unexpected surprise.

Chen Xueru's entourage is an old accountant, so she also lacks a partner.

Two people connect the bamboo pole, and three people can compete for the top and run fast.

Li Lu was also very happy.

Because she could tell at a glance that Chen Xueru was older, and her son was also mentioned in the words, so he had a family.

Certainly not a threat.

Maybe it can help to match up.

Well, it is very certain that Li Lu is thinking too much.

Chen Xueru is a businessman and knows how to read words and expressions.

From the moment she turned her head to look at each other, she realized that this girl named Li Lu probably liked Wei Ping'an.

After all, male talent and female appearance are also suitable, and this girl looks at her like a little hen guarding chickens, with hostility.

So Chen Xueru mentioned her son in less than three sentences.

Sure enough, the little girl's attitude became much more harmonious.

He also asked himself to go to their carriage to play poker together.

This is a very good opportunity to get in touch with Wei Ping'an, even if her original idea was bleak, but not to fight or grab when things happen, that's not her style of Chen Xueru.

Although she has been divorced twice, Chen Xueru considers herself rich and beautiful, and never feels that she is weaker than anyone else.

Playing poker is a kind of pastime, but it is also a technical job.

Wei Pingan is a talented player, while Chen Xueru is habitually calculating...

Li Lu's cheeks are not big, and her forehead is not too big, which belongs to the type of slap face.

So it was covered with notes, but it was only 8 o'clock.

"Okay, let's stop here today, rest up and let's continue tomorrow..."

Chen Xueru stretched her waist, outlining a proud S-shaped figure.

Wei Pingan couldn't help swallowing.

Li Lu didn't see it, and she forgot everything at this moment, and her mind suddenly went blank.

Lonely man and widow, living together in the same room, only in the dream can the scene of waking up and turning around to see Big Brother Wei, tomorrow morning... come true?

So unexpected, so excited, so...happiness.

She didn't know when Chen Xueru left.

She also didn't know when Wei Ping'an went out and when he came back.

When she realized it, it was Wei Pingan who called her twice and told her to wash up before she recovered.

He rushed out with his hot face down, and it took a long while before he opened the door and returned to the carriage.

night.

The train was going bang and bang, and the lights in the carriage had already been turned off.

Li Lu tossed and turned, but couldn't fall asleep.

She felt that the atmosphere in the entire carriage was full of ambiguity, and every breath made the air float with charm...

Even Brother Wei's snoring sounds like singing.

Sing a song of sweet and sincere confession.

The next day, when Li Lu woke up, she was full of energy.

Although sleep less, but still refreshed.

Because when he opened his eyes, he saw Big Brother Wei lying on the small table writing something.

It's so close, it feels like it's within reach.

"Brother Wei, good morning."

"Are you awake? I made a meal, you go and brush your teeth, come back and eat."

"Ah? What time is it?"

"It's almost 9 o'clock..."

In fact, Chen Xueru greeted Wei Pingan during breakfast.

Chen Xueru was waiting there, and she hadn't eaten half of a breakfast for more than 20 minutes.

Then Wei Pingan had a meal and came back after eating with Chen Xueru.

I wrote the article for more than an hour, and the degree of completion is very high.

There are many articles that are out of date but have a good core idea. The red flavor that Wei Pingan can now process is very appropriate.

From the perspective of outsiders, it seems that the writing is natural, and the literary and eloquent brother Wei can do it at his fingertips.

All excellent works.

Having blushed many times, Li Lu seemed to be exercising her thick skin.

In order to achieve the goal of boldly pursuing Wei Ping'an.

……

I got on the train from Beijing at 13:[-], and when I arrived at Shanghai Station, it was already past the time for dinner.

Wei Pingan said goodbye to Chen Xueru and Li Lu.

They turned out to be in the same direction, with the same destination.

Traveling with a companion can also be more reassuring.

When Chen Xueru learned that Li Lu and Wei Ping'an had just met by chance, she took a surprised look at Wei Ping'an.

A suppressed flame in the depths of his eyes showed signs of burning again.

Although it was night, there were quite a few people picking up at the station.

Pull the banner.

Full of energy and enthusiasm.

It says welcome to the Yenching University delegation.

This is to pick up Professor Liu, Professor Li and three entourages.

In the morning, the two old men took turns in the car and were killed by Wei Pingan, so now they have to pretend not to know each other.

Cui Gang and Wei Pingan walked past the pick-up group with Wei Pingan and others without looking sideways, without even showing curiosity.

Wei Pingan decided to wait in the car and give Cui Gang an opinion.

In some details, you must pay attention to it, and you must do it well. The details determine success or failure.

Otherwise, after more than ten years, going to Hong Kong to perform missions will not cheat teammates because the gas has not been replenished.

The key teammate is still...

Well, if you find a problem, you must correct it in time.

After all, life is at stake.

After Cui Gang received the task before, he confirmed their temporary residence address.

When they got out of the station, they took Wei Pingan and the others to take a trolleybus. After reversing twice, they came to a very green community.

There are thousands of residential buildings similar to the collective farms of the Soviet Union’s Big Brother in the community.

Two-story building of brick and wood structure.

From a distance, it looks dense and neat. Standing on the small bridge by the river, you can vaguely see parks, hospitals and other supporting facilities not far away.

It is no different from the second-tier cities decades later.

Cui Gang led everyone to walk quickly all the way, and came to a house familiar with the way.

Two-storey structure, 5 households on each floor, 10 households can live in one building.

Cui Gang took everyone upstairs, the far right side of the stairs, two rooms opposite each other in the north corner of the shared kitchen.

On the north side of the right turn of the stairs is the public kitchen. There is one room on the right side of the kitchen and another room on the opposite door. A double wooden door with glass windows is specially installed on the right side of the kitchen, which is equivalent to the layout of two rooms and one corridor.

The only slight flaw is that there is no indoor bathroom, and there is one bathroom shared by 5 households on each floor, which is on the south side of the left turn of the stairs.

Cui Gang and Wei Ping'an lived in a south-facing room with two 1.5-meter-large beds, and the sheets and quilts looked like they had just been changed.

To the north are two bunk beds, and there are two small long tables between the beds.

"Okay, everyone hurry up and rest, let's go to Siping Road for a walk tomorrow morning..."

Go back to the south facing house.

"Brother Cui, what am I going to do tomorrow?"

"You stay here to look after the house, buy some daily necessities, and remember to pick up the water from the water truck downstairs... Oh, yes, you can fool yourself around for lunch, and I'll bring you dinner ..."

In this way, Wei Ping'an's first secret mission in his life began.

Every day, Cui Gang would lead his team members out, and sometimes he would come back at four or five in the afternoon, and sometimes he would come back after nine in the evening.

Wei Pingan felt like a decoration.

It is indeed a decoration.

I can't do anything, and I don't feel a sense of participation. It's more like doing text research in another place.

For two days, Wei Pingan was bored indoors "creating" "Tunnel Warfare". When he was free, he went downstairs to the park and went to the cigarette paper shop to buy local cigarettes.

In this respect, Wei Ping'an is uniquely endowed.

Wei Pingan feels that the biggest gain he has gained from coming to Shanghai is to feel the joy of "unlimited" shopping again.

Different from the system in the capital, cigarette shops in the lanes, some larger fruit shops, and non-staple food shops all accept foreign exchange.

Moreover, very positive and enthusiastic.

On the first day after waking up, Wei Pingan went downstairs to eat, and by the way, he took a stroll around the word-shaped building called "Changbai Store".

After asking the salesperson and learning that foreign exchange payment is available, Wei Pingan planned to buy a few packs of cigarettes.

It is also very exhausting to create while bored in the house.

The slogan of smokers in this era is: "One cloud, two expensive, three Chinese, Ashima under the Hongta Mountain".

Wei Pingan saw a salesman placing two cans of Zhonghua on the second glass of the counter.

It's round, the kind packed with 50 pieces...

"Comrade, how much are these cigarettes?"

"50 pieces of Chinese tin can filters, 1.5 yuan..."

Well, the price is both expensive and cheap.

For ordinary people in this era, it is very expensive.

For him, who is carrying a box of dollars, it is crazy cheap.

滤咀中华20支5毛一包，牡丹滤咀20支4毛8……

Introduced by the salesperson, the filter cigarettes are the first batch, a new product trial-produced by the Shanghai Tobacco Factory, and they are very interested in explaining to Wei Pingan the benefits of cigarettes with filters - they don't drag their throats.

When you come to Shanghai for a business trip, you can’t buy nothing.

Anyway, I have nothing to do when I'm free, so I just stroll around and buy some small specialties.

Zero copy cream, buy;
Estimating the size of the family members, I bought several sweaters;

Knowing that Wei Pingan can use foreign exchange for settlement, the director ran out and specifically asked Wei Pingan how many cigarettes he planned to buy...

So I rushed out and temporarily "dispatched" two boxes from another store.

There are two cans in a box, 50 sticks in a can.

Cigarettes come in sticks, only 6 are complete, and there are more than half a box of four that are sold off.

Wei Pingan almost forgot that it is still possible to sell loose cigarettes these days.

The short shopping allowed Wei Pingan to enjoy the feeling of being able to purchase items without a ticket.

If it wasn't for the fact that there is still a family in the capital, a wife and children, he really wants to stay here.

At least in the past few years he can breathe the taste of freedom.

But thinking of what will happen to those national capitalists after the honeymoon period in a few years, Wei Pingan also shudders.

Resolutely put an end to this dangerous idea.

When Wei Pingan returned to his residence, he was carrying a bag of fruit in his hand and a pack of Wanli cigarettes in his arm.

It's the one with red letters on a yellow background and a picture of a black car underneath.

In the evening, Cui Gang and the others came back very early today.

"Brother Cui, I'm very happy today. Is there any good news?"

"We have contacted the other party. Go to Huizhong Hotel tomorrow morning, and we should be able to get the information smoothly."

"Hey, this trip, I feel like I didn't do anything, and I didn't help at all."

"I guess the meaning above is to let you follow along, familiarize yourself with the process, and get a feel for the atmosphere. You are an intellectual, you are a baby bump, how can you really follow and participate in that kind of blood-licking thing..."

Cui Gang tosses and turns over and over again.

Wei Ping'an has nothing to do with this hob meat.

"When I came back, I asked my superiors for instructions. We will set off together tomorrow. If everything goes well, we will leave first with the documents. You can go to Professor Li and Professor Liu...and return to Beijing with them when the time comes."

"This one……"

"The matter is of great importance, Old Wei, we are familiar with each other in private, but you must obey orders in this kind of matter."

"Understood. I will execute."

Wei Pingan really couldn't think of any reason why he had to stay here and meet the two professors.

"By the way, the old chief asked me to give you a word."

"Ah? Old chief, is it old Wutou... er... Uncle Wu?"

Cui Gang's smile froze, and then he continued to laugh: "It's almost the same... He just hopes that you can take care of Comrade Li Lu by the way. After all, she is a girl, and this journey is still a bit dangerous..."

"Oh."

This is...fake public affairs for personal gain?
Or is it a horse situation?

But it's just a matter of piggybacking, and Wei Ping'an will naturally not deliberately refuse.

Whether he has a daughter-in-law or is about to become the father of a child, there is no one who knows himself about this, right?
Li Lu knew it.

Silent all night.

After waking up early in the morning, under the leadership of Cui Gang, everyone cleaned up the beds and daily necessities, and almost returned to their original positions.

In the past three days, the neighbors have nothing special.

Because Changbai No. [-] and No. [-] villages are also called "Twenty Thousand Villages", they live in [-] households of workers who have moved back.

There are all kinds of people from all over the world, and all kinds of relatives and friends come and go in a hurry.

Although the collective kitchen upstairs and downstairs will also make the neighbors greet each other familiarly, but the fluidity is too large, and it is still very different from the core style of the Beijing courtyard.

In Wei Ping'an's view, this stronghold is used like a homestay.

The group "checked out" and went straight to Huizhong Hotel.

It is worth mentioning that at some point Cui Gang and the others got a silver-green car.

"Brother Cui, it's ok, I'm already driving a car."

"We make our own, the Phoenix brand sedan, with a top speed of 105 kilometers per hour and a four-cylinder engine. It is the first domestically produced sedan in Shanghai..."

"It's very comfortable to sit on, but I don't know when I can drive one privately."

Cui Gang, the co-pilot, turned his head and stared at Wei Pingan several times like a monster.

Finally, he gave a thumbs up fiercely.

"If you want to say it, you cultural people dare to think."

　Lack of monthly pass...ennnnn...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)