Sail across the sea

Chapter 67 Then I'll Take One
"Gao Fan, Gao Fan! Here it is!"

Renqiao Railway Station.As soon as Gao Fan got out of the car door, he heard someone calling him loudly, and then saw three men rushing towards him at a speed of [-] meters, which made the faces of the passengers beside him turn pale.

Is this to pick up the station, or to rob?
Gao Fan muttered something in his heart, before he could say anything, he felt a gust of wind blowing towards his face, and the bag in his hand had already been in someone else's hand.

"Hey... Old Chen, you can easily be misunderstood by others, okay?"

Gao Fan looked at Chen Xingquan who was panting in front of him, and said helplessly.

"We made a mistake. You said you were in the third car, and we thought you were in the front. Who knew that this train was hanging upside down."

Chen Xingquan handed the bag he had snatched to a young man next to him, including introducing Gao Fan:

"This is my dad, and this is my cousin Ke Shuilong, just call him Aaron."

"It's Gao...Gao classmate."

Chen Xingquan's father, Chen Linfa, greeted Gao Fan timidly. For a while, he didn't know how to address Gao Fan, and finally he came up with a nondescript "Classmate Gao".

"Hello, Uncle Chen." Gao Fan called Chen Linfa generously, and said, "You are like Brother Chen, just call me by my name. And, Brother Long, just call me by my name too."

Ke Shuilong is the young man carrying the bag, he looks less than 20 years old, he looks naive, far less lively than Chen Xingquan.Hearing Gao Fan calling him Brother Long, he scratched his head and said with a smile:
"You should call me Aaron. I've grown up so much, no one has called me brother yet."

"It's fine." Gao Fan didn't worry about this problem. He looked at everyone and said, "It's such a hot day, thank you for your hard work. I originally told Brother Chen not to pick it up. I am so old and I can't find it." Are you going to Yanzhou?"

"I want to pick it up, I want to pick it up." Chen Linfa said, "You are from the city, and you are not familiar with our rural areas. It is so far away, it is nothing for us to pick it up. I told Xingquan to let him go to Maolin to pick it up. You, he said you would not."

"Haha, this is really unnecessary." Gao Fan said, "Actually, my dad also helped me contact an acquaintance to pick me up, hey, that's it, he's here."

Everyone looked back and saw a young man dressed in city clothes walking towards them holding a cardboard sign with the words "Jie Cang Tang Gao Fan" impressively on that sign.Gao Fan knew that this must be someone arranged by Deng Youliang.

"Is it Comrade Gao Fan?"

The man came in front of the crowd, glanced at them, and finally fixed his gaze on Gao Fan and asked.

Gao Yiping asked Deng Youliang to arrange someone to pick him up at the station, and explained Gao Fan's age, height and other characteristics in advance.The pick-up employee scanned the platform, only to find that Gao Fan was qualified, so he ran over.

Gao Fan nodded and said, "I'm Gao Fan, are you someone arranged by Director Deng?"

"Yes, yes, I work for Renqiao Chemical Fertilizer Factory. My name is Wang Yong. You can call me Xiao Wang."

There was an exaggerated smile on the man's face, and he stretched out his hand to help Gao Fan carry the bag. After a closer look, he found that Gao Fan didn't have a bag in his hand, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

"Brother Wang has worked hard." Gao Fan said politely.

Wang Yong looked at Chen Xingquan and the others, and asked hesitantly, "Are they... are you together?"

Gao Fan said, "These are all my friends from Renqiao, and they are also here to pick me up."

"Oh." Wang Yong glanced at the crowd, and judged their identities from their clothing and skin color, so he didn't bother to greet them, but said to Gao Fan:
"Comrade Gao, Director Deng has already arranged a room for you in our factory's guest house, and he will invite you to dinner in person in the evening. Our factory's small car is waiting outside, look..."

Speaking of this, he looked at Chen Xingquan and his group, and stopped talking.

When Deng Youliang arranged for Wang Yong to pick him up at the station, he made it clear that Gao Fan was the son of the director of a fertilizer factory in Maolin, and he was here to play in Renqiao.Although Wang Yong knew Gao Fan's identity, he didn't dare to neglect him at all.The son of the director of the foreign factory is also a guest of the factory, and the factory office is responsible for picking up and sending off work, and must be respectful to all guests.

However, for Chen Xingquan and his group, Wang Yong can't be polite.These people were obviously peasants from the countryside. Although they looked like they had made a small fortune, at least one of them wore a watch on their wrist.But farmers are farmers, and they have no status in front of factory cadres like him.

He didn't need to think about how to treat these peasants, everything could be arranged by Gao Fan.

Gao Fan thought for a while, then turned to Chen Linfa and said, "Uncle Chen, Director Deng is my father's friend. He made an arrangement. I will definitely visit him. I will live in Renqiao tonight. Go to Yanzhou tomorrow.

"Is this good? You and Aaron go back first, and leave Brother Chen to wait for me here. Brother Chen and I will go to Yanzhou together tomorrow."

Chen Linfa and Chen Xingquan exchanged glances, then nodded and said, "That's fine, I'll go back and make arrangements. Gao Fan, tell me what you like to eat, and I'll have someone prepare it first. You can go there tomorrow, at least eight Plate eight bowls."

"Ha, then I'll just wait." Gao Fan said with a smile, "I'm not picky about food, I can eat anything."

"Okay then, let's go first."

Chen Linfa left with Ke Shuilong, and Gao Fan's bag returned to Chen Xingquan's hands.Wang Yong hesitated for a while, and made a gesture to take the bag from Chen Xingquan, but Chen Xingquan couldn't see his fakeness.Instead of handing the bag to Wang Yong, he took out the cigarette case, popped out a cigarette and handed it to Wang Yong.

"No, no, no... oh, okay, then I'll smoke one."

Wang Yong reflexively said politely, and he was relieved when he saw that what the other party handed over was actually a peony with a mouth.He reached out to take the cigarette, and took out a kerosene lighter from his pocket, motioning to Chen Xingquan to light his cigarette.

A farmer who wears a watch and can take out a bag of peonies with a mouth at any time is definitely different from ordinary farmers. At least it is worthy of Wang Yong's goodwill.

In the past two years, the national policy has been liberalized, and many farmers in Renqiao have made a fortune in business, and their income is higher than that of factory workers like them.The factory workers were sour in their hearts, cursing words like "upstarts", but their attitudes were much more polite to these rich farmers.

In the final analysis, identity and economic status match.In the past, the high status of workers was also because they were able to receive monthly wages, and they were much richer than farmers who planed their food in the soil.

Chen Xingquan gave Gao Fan the cigarette again, and Gao Fan waved his hand to indicate that he would not, and Chen Xingquan did not force it.He took out a cigarette himself and put it in his mouth, lit the cigarette with the fire that Wang Yong handed over, and exchanged a few words with Wang Yong, and everyone seemed very harmonious for a while.

(End of this chapter)