Siheyuan: Superintendent at the beginning, wife Reba!

--Whose cadre cannot withstand this test?

After hearing what Zhang Chengfei said, Liu Haizhong's face suddenly became a little ugly. Although his monthly salary is more than 70, which is the third highest salary in the courtyard. But there are three children at home, and they all have to marry wives, and they also have to take care of the family's food, drink, and toilet, so let him spend a lot of money on gifts? It would be better to take his life! !

So after thinking about it, he gave Zhang Chengfei a dollar and a half and asked him to bring shortbread for him. As for the Chinese ham that Zhang Chengfei mentioned, not to mention that he was reluctant to buy it, even if he was willing to buy it, he felt that the old Biden, the workshop director, was not worthy of it! ! ! !

After sending Liu Haizhong away, Zhang Chengfei returned to the back room and saw the old lady packing her luggage on the kang.

Zhang Chengfei smoked a cigarette and watched from the side, muttering not to bring so many things with him. He would not be going there for a few days, and it was too hot in the south to wear thick clothes.

But Grandma Zhang glanced at him sideways, "Can you stop talking nonsense? When you have nothing to do, go and collect your letters of introduction, national food stamps and so on. Bring more money and tickets for poor families to get rich."

Zhang Chengfei sighed. After the New Year, he was already 23 years old and was about to marry a wife. However, this old lady always treated him as a child...

......

There was nothing to say all night. Early the next morning, Zhang Chengfei and Qin Zhiming met and rushed to Qianmen Railway Station. Qianmen Railway Station, also called Zhengyangmen East Railway Station, was built by the British before liberation and is a standard European-style building. Ahead of the train station is the most prosperous Qianmen commercial district in this era.

Zhang Chengfei and the two arrived at the station, picked up their tickets, and boarded the mottled and shabby green leather train. In this era, there were few trains, many tickets without seats, and the carriages were crowded with people.

Zhang Chengfei and Zhang Chengfei struggled to find their own seats in the crowded corridor and sat down. Because they were on a temporary mission and were short of time, they could not buy a sleeper berth, so they only had seat tickets.

Zhang Chengfei's seat was by the window. After putting his luggage away, he took out some cooked food and a bottle of liquor from his carry-on bag, which was actually the system market.

Qin Zhiming sat next to him and was taking out a bag of peanuts from his bag. When he saw the braised beef and roast chicken he took out, he was stunned and said, "I said Da Fei, what you got is so good, it makes me I was too embarrassed to take out the things I brought.”

"Virtue!" Zhang Chengfei glanced at him sideways, tore off a chicken leg and handed it over, "What are you pretending to be? You can eat and drink for free, you are having a lot of fun, right?"

Qin Zhiming just said a few polite words, but he was not angry when Zhang Chengfei exposed him. He happily took out two large enamel jars and poured a whole bottle of liquor evenly into the two enamel jars. .

He handed one of the enamel jars to Zhang Chengfei, then took the chicken legs and said, "Come and drink!!!"

Zhang Chengfei picked up the enamel jar and clinked glasses with him, saying, "Drink!!"

It’s not that they are corrupt or not doing their job properly. In fact, the speed of green trains in this era is only 35-50 kilometers per hour. From Sijiu City to Jiahua, they have to stay on this train for more than 30 hours. They can't find anything else to do without eating or drinking.

The two of them just ate for a while, drank for a while, and slept on their stomachs for a while from time to time. Unknowingly, they gradually became farther and farther away from Sijiu City.

For dinner, the two of them bought lunch boxes on the train. In this era, the lunch boxes were all rice. Put rice and water in the aluminum lunch box and steam it directly. There are different dishes on top, meat dishes are more expensive, and rice is only [-] cents. Vegetarian dishes are cheap and cost nine cents with rice.

Since business trips can be reimbursed anyway, Zhang Chengfei and Qin Zhiming unanimously chose braised pork with rice.

After eating and drinking, Qin Zhiming lay down and slept again. Zhang Chengfei may have slept too much during the day, so he couldn't sleep now and turned to look out the car window.

After a day's journey, it was evening, and the train had arrived at a small city in Anhui Province.

At this time, the train stopped to make way for other cars. On the track nearby, a freight train hauling coal was slowly passing by.

Zhang Chengfei saw many children in rags carrying large iron buckets that were disproportionate to their thin bodies, running desperately after the train and picking up coal cores that fell from the train.

Some moved neatly, climbing directly onto the edge of the car and poking hard at the coal with a manure rake. As the coal rolled down, his friends swarmed up to grab the loot.

The truck was running faster and faster, and the children's iron buckets were not filled with much, but they could not catch up with the train, so they could only shake their heads and sigh at the train. Zhang Chengfei looked at their sad faces, and felt a sense of sourness in his heart.

The truck finally disappeared, and the children immediately turned around and swarmed toward the passenger car next to them. Zhang Chengfei was very surprised and murmured to himself, "This is a passenger bus, what are they doing here?"

He was mumbling to himself, but a man in his 60s sitting opposite him explained to him leisurely,

"Passenger cars are also steam engines, and the front end of the car is also burning coal, and it is high-quality coal. The person who adds coal is called the stoker, and they are responsible for adding coal to the stove with a shovel..."

The old man told Zhang Chengfei that to add coal to the stove, he must first shovel a shovel full of coal, quickly turn around with the coal, step on the pedal with one foot, let the two furnace doors open, and then look at the appropriate position to send the coal in. .

The work of adding coal is very tiring. As long as the train is running, the work of adding coal cannot stop. And we must follow the principle of small amounts and multiple times, and the amount should not be too much each time. All positions in the furnace must be added, no one can be left out, and the cycle continues like this.

When the fire reaches a certain point, the fireman holds the handle of the grate and shakes it back and forth vigorously. When the furnace makes a regular chirping sound and the coal cores fall on the train track, this step is called furnace shaking.

"Those children chased the bus because they wanted to pick up the coal cores that fell when the stove was shaken..."

"The temperature of newly dropped coal cores is very high and can even ignite wooden sleepers... Some kind-hearted firemen, out of pity for children in winter, will deliberately shake some raw ones down before burning them. of coal.”

After the old man finished speaking, as if to confirm what he said, a lot of unburned coal was poured down from the bus Zhang Chengfei was riding. This made the children ecstatic, and they immediately rushed forward, took out the small iron grapples from the basket, and pulled the burning coal cores and live coals in their direction.

Seeing this, the old man sighed silently, "Beyond the Forty-Nine Cities, people's lives are even more difficult..."

Zhang Chengfei also sighed, turned around and noticed that a man did not have an iron bucket. He walked directly across the train track, strode to the wheel drive lever of the passenger car, smeared lubricant on his bald head with his hands.

Zhang Chengfei looked strange and put his head out to ask, "Hey, what are you doing?"

The man wiped the dirty lubricant on his head and turned to answer him, "Home remedy, this thing can cure dysentery."

Zhang Chengfei opened his mouth and wanted to say that it was actually not expensive to go to the hospital to treat leprosy. But after looking at the man's rags and shoes with his big toe exposed, the words rolled around his lips but did not come out.

The train hummed and started again, and the children immediately dispersed like birds and beasts.

Before the car started, Zhang Chengfei took out an iron box of ointment from his pocket, scratched off the production date, and threw it at the man's feet. "Don't use that one, use this one."

--He just got this ointment from the system vegetable market. As for why there is this thing in the vegetable market? Don't ask, he doesn't know either.

Zhengyangmen East Railway Station was built in the 29th year of Guangxu and opened in the 32nd year of Guangxu.