Reborn in the red age

Chapter 91 Educated Youth Returns to the City
After just saying goodbye to Mother Li and the others, Qingfeng Li finally started to care about the situation on the carriage. When he saw Hu Jiabao and Wang Xianglan sitting in the aisle, Qingfeng Li frowned.

"What's going on? You two didn't even grab a spot, right?"

The two looked at each other awkwardly and nodded.

Qingfeng Li held his forehead. Thinking about having to stand on the train to the northeast without a seat, Qingfeng Li felt his scalp numb.

This is a ticket bought at the station ticket office. There is no seat information on it. Whoever grabs the seat owns it. Looking at the seats filled with passengers, Li Qingfeng was worried and wondering how to get a seat. .

Just at this time, the ticket inspector came over from the connection between the carriages. After seeing that the ticket inspector was a young girl, Li Qingfeng narrowed his eyes and had an idea in his mind.

He quickly and enthusiastically stepped forward to help check the tickets. While helping, he kept chatting to the ticket inspector, chatting up and down, talking about the air in between. After the ticket inspection was completed, Qingfeng Li took advantage of the situation and complained to the ticket inspector. bitter.

The young girl was thin-skinned. When she heard that Qingfeng Li was going to get off the train in Heilongjiang Province, she thought it would be difficult to take such a long time, so she invited Qingfeng Li to rest in the flight attendant lounge.

Qingfeng Li waited for these words, pulled the two people who looked confused, carried large and small bags of luggage and followed the ticket inspector to the lounge.

When he came to the flight attendant lounge and saw so many little girls, Qingfeng Li began to talk nonsense about Dafa again, making all kinds of humorous jokes that would appear in later generations, making the girls cover their mouths in laughter.

In addition, Qingfeng Li was also very generous. He put melon seeds, biscuits, and canned fruits on top. He quickly became familiar with the girls. Many flight attendants came up to ask Qingfeng Li for his mailing address and wanted to be a pen pal with Qingfeng Li.

When it was time to go to bed in the evening, Qingfeng Li took the initiative to sleep in the aisle with his luggage on the grounds that it would not affect the rest of the flight attendants at night.

After eating and drinking all afternoon, the girls had no nerve to let Qingfeng Li go to sleep in the corridor. Soon someone went to find the train conductor and helped Qingfeng Li and the other three get three extra tickets for the hard sleeper train.

According to regulations, purchasing a hard sleeper ticket requires a letter of introduction from your employer. However, China is a humane society, and the letter of introduction is not a ticket like food stamps. It needs to be collected and handed over to the state.

If an acquaintance comes over and wants to buy a sleeper ticket, will he not be sold to him because he doesn’t have a letter of introduction?
After paying part of the extra money, Li Qingfeng took the ticket for the hard sleeper, said goodbye to all the flight attendants with gratitude, and left the lounge.

It's so comfortable to lie on a hard bed.

Hu Jiabao, who was lying on the upper bunk, stretched out his head and looked at Qingfeng Li with a look of admiration: "I said, Qingfeng Li, you are so awesome. You can change our hard seat into a sleeper berth so easily."

"It's just a hard sleep, it's nothing, it's nothing." Qingfeng Li rested his head on his arms, and there was a sense of pride in his words.

"Don't be modest. If it weren't for you, Jiabao and I would have been scolded by old noses all the way." Wang Xianglan interrupted, and after finishing speaking, she sighed: "This sleeper berth is really nice. I can sleep well on the train." Once you get some sleep, you don’t have to worry about being fooled while you’re asleep.”

Hearing this, Qingfeng Li became interested and jumped out of bed: "Why, have you ever been tricked by someone on the train?"

"I'm going to die, how could I have been played like a gangster? I always sleep with one eye open on the train." Wang Xianglan's face turned red at Qingfeng Li's words, and she glared at Qingfeng Li angrily before continuing. Said: "I saw someone being fooled."

"Have you called the police?"

Wang Xianglan smiled awkwardly and said nonchalantly: "I had just gone to the countryside at that time and was still young. I didn't dare to say anything when I saw it."

Qingfeng Li: "."

This sleeper berth is different from a hard seat. You can sleep comfortably until dawn, and you can brush your teeth and wash your face in the toilet in the morning.

During these days on the train, Qingfeng Li had to chat with the flight attendants every day. He would take this train again in the future and build a good relationship with them. Maybe he could get a hard sleeper next time he went home.

When the train arrived at the station, Li Qingfeng said goodbye to the flight attendants warmly, and then he waved coolly and got off the train under the lingering eyes of the flight attendants.

After another transfer, in the evening, Li Qingfeng and the others finally arrived at the Educated Youth Courtyard.

Looking at the dilapidated courtyard that he had not seen for a month, Li Qingfeng said with emotion: "The familiar smell, the familiar taste, I miss you so much."

Wang Xianglan, Hu Jiabao: Is this person not suffering from a serious illness?

The three came back and accepted the warm reception from everyone, and had a lively meal. When Qingfeng Li was packing his luggage in the evening, Hu Jiabao and Wang Xianglan called Qingfeng Li out.

"When we were on the train, I asked you to take things out alone. This is mine and Jiabao's share. They are all local specialties from home. You can keep them." Wang Xianglan held a bag full of items in her hand and smiled. He handed it to Qingfeng Li.

Having lived together for more than a year, we both know each other's temperament. They are both fastidious people who are not willing to take advantage of others. Qingfeng Li did not refuse and took the net bag over. After saying a few polite words, they each replied. house to sleep.When we got up the next morning, the three people who were going home this time needed to go to the village to meet with the team leader, not only to pay New Year greetings, but also to tell the team leader that the three of us were back.

When Hu Jiabao saw the gift Li Qingfeng prepared for the captain, he frowned and said, "Why did you just take two apples? These were picked on the mountain a year ago, right? Is it appropriate to come to our door like this during the Chinese New Year?"

"It's very appropriate. The two apples are a cover. Otherwise, the whole village will know that I went to give a gift to the captain. The hard currency is in my bag." As he said this, Qingfeng Li patted the bag and heard the sound of hitting a hard object. The sound looks like a box of cans.

The two of them thought about it and realized that what Li Qingfeng said made sense, so they quickly put the gifts they had prepared into their bags, and one of them took an apple picked from the mountain two years ago from the table.

The three of them were wrapped tightly and walked together towards the captain's home.

When the brigade captain's wife saw Qingfeng Li, a smile appeared on her face, and she welcomed the three of them into the door enthusiastically: "Hey, you three are back? Come in, come in, your uncle was talking about you yesterday, come back today "

"Aunt, there's no need to say hello. I come here often. Go and get busy. I just arrived yesterday and I wanted to come over today to wish you and my uncle a happy new year." Li Qingfeng smiled and held his hands towards the captain's wife.

After entering the house, the first thing they did was to put the box of canned pork in their satchel on the table, and the other two followed Qingfeng Li's lead and took out the food.

"Hey, hey, look at you three, you can come as soon as you come. Why are you bringing things with you? Don't do this next time."

"Aren't we here to pay New Year greetings? Who would have the nerve to come empty-handed? Don't worry, I will definitely come empty-handed next time."

"Okay, okay, it's better to be empty-handed."

Qingfeng Li had a smile on his face, but he was complaining in his heart. Why did he come empty-handed?Next time I come empty-handed, can you let me in?

The captain was not at home, and the three of them did not stay at the captain's house for too long. The main reason was that the captain's wife didn't even bring peanuts and melon seeds. She just brought a bowl of hot water to each other. It was obvious that she didn't want the three of them to stay too long. It would be easy for them to stay for a long time. Not welcome.

With the fall of those four people and the improvement of the domestic economy, the US$43 billion owed in previous years has basically been paid off. A lot of job opportunities have been added in the city, and the quota for a group of educated youths to return to the city has been released.

Not long after the New Year, the brigade captain came back from a trip to the commune and came to the educated youth courtyard. He informed the educated youths that there were five places in the brigade to return to the city, and asked Zhou Yongjun and other old educated youths to write applications and submit them to him.

After learning that they could return to the city, the two female educated youths Wang Xianglan and Zhao Haixia were so excited that they hugged each other and cried on the spot. The other three men did not hesitate to give in. The elders cried and laughed, and Qingfeng Li kept pouting.

Zhou Yongjun and the other five were really unlucky. They went to the countryside before the introduction of Western investment in 71.

In 72-73, the urban economy was overheating, and they did not have enough years to go to the countryside to return to the city.

After finally surviving in the countryside until 74, I had enough time in the countryside to return to the city. Then the third financial crisis hit, and a large number of labor forces in the city needed to move to the countryside.

Another large number of people are going to the countryside, and it was not until this year that they had the chance to return to the city.

Counting the time, it has been six years since the five of them went to the countryside. How many six years can there be in life?Among them, those who returned to the city and those who got married in the countryside, only five of them were left among the dozen or so.

After the five people's applications for returning to the city were submitted, they quickly received approval from the commune leaders. Looking at their names on the list of returning to the city, the five people cried together again.

When Zhou Yongjun and the other five came back from the commune after completing the formalities for returning to the city, each of them took out a lot of money. They bought wine and meat in the commune, and treated everyone to a good meal at the small courtyard for educated youth.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Zhou Yongjun, who was usually very steady, hugged Qingfeng Li's neck and said drunkenly: "Brother Li, we are going back to the city soon. Once the five of us leave, you three men will be the only ones left in our small courtyard for educated youth. From now on, Be careful in the team and don’t let others bully you.”

"Don't worry, I can't stand the bullying. I've been here for more than a year. I know what the people in the village are like. You can go with ease. I'm here to wish you a bright future and a happy life after you return to the city." Li Qingfeng did not treat Zhou Yongjun's words as drunken talk, and said it very seriously.

Early the next morning, everyone in the Educated Youth Courtyard got up early and went to the train station to see the five old educated youths off.

Under the envious eyes of several people except Li Qingfeng, the train drove slowly until it disappeared from everyone's sight.

After the train disappeared for a long time, Ma Wenhui put down her right hand that had been waving, sighed deeply, and said with disappointment: "The five of them have been waiting for six years to come back to the city. We don't know how long we have to wait. Year"

No one answered Ma Wenhui's question. After the train disappeared, everyone wrapped up their clothes and walked down the platform lonely.

(End of this chapter)