Era: 1979 From mountain man to richest man

Chapter 39: Connections and letting go
Song Chaoyang looked at the pen in his hand and glanced at Chen Jiangtao with some confusion.

This eldest brother didn’t drink, so why did he get so drunk?

The pen he sent over is the very famous Hero brand pen at the moment.

Judging from the style, it is still relatively expensive.

The pen cap reads: Hero Silver 100 14K gold pen.

Nowadays, the hero pen has become a unique symbol of intellectuals and a hot-selling commodity in this era.

Giving a pen as a gift is usually very formal.

With your own expectations and blessings.

But this brother just gave me such an expensive pen as a gift not long after he met me.

Song Chaoyang didn't know what to say.

As if seeing Song Chaoyang's confusion, Chen Jiangtao smiled at him and said:

"This pen is a prize given out by my work unit. I keep it on my body as a decoration when I have nothing to do."

"On weekdays, I use another one for writing."

"I don't mean to give it to you. You helped me today, and we both get along very well. I pride myself on being good at judging people. I think... you should be able to get into college!"

"So, think of this pen as my blessing to you, as my gratitude to repay you, or as my admiration for your noble character, but just take it with confidence!"

"This is my heart, brother!"

After listening to Chen Jiangtao's words, Song Chaoyang thought for a while and did not shirk. Instead, he cupped his hands towards Chen Jiangtao:
"Thank you, Brother Chen!"

"Hahaha, easy to say." Chen Jiangtao laughed.

In fact, Chen Jiangtao didn't say the most important thing. He felt a different temperament from Song Chaoyang than most young people.

Chen Jiangtao, who has been working in the work unit for many years and has traveled all over the province, has met countless people.

He felt that his eyes had been perfected.

If most people chatted in front of him for a few words, he would be able to get a rough idea of ​​the person.

But after chatting with Song Chaoyang for a while today, he felt that the young man in front of him was definitely not as simple as he appeared.

Although he was wearing patched clothes, his conversation was really not like that of ordinary mountain people.

He has met many mountain residents or students of the same age as him.

He had never seen someone with such a special temperament as Song Chaoyang.

So he dared to conclude that this young man's achievements would not be too bad.

If you give a pen as a gift, you might even be able to have a romantic relationship in the future.

In the past thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, who knows what achievements this young man will have in the future?

The two of them continued eating for a while, and Chen Jiangtao even went to cook a dish himself.

By the time all three of them were full, there were still a lot of dishes left on the table.

Chen Jiangtao and Song Chaoyang chatted for a while about reform and opening up, and Song Chaoyang expressed some of his own opinions. These alone made Chen Jiangtao look at him with admiration.

This made him value Song Chaoyang more and more.

If someone hadn't told him later that it was time to collect the tiger skins and bones, he would have really looked like he didn't want to leave.

Then Chen Jiangtao brought a few more lunch boxes, packed the meat and vegetables directly, and put them all into Song Chaoyang's backpack.

Not only that, I heard that Song Chaoyang wanted to buy some meat and offal back here.

Without saying a word, he took out the meat stamps from his body, cut off 20 pounds of meat, two pork loins, a pair of pork livers, and ten pounds of pork suet in his own name and gave them to Song Chaoyang.

Then before leaving, he also mentioned the time when he would come here next time.

It was agreed that Song Chaoyang would come over to have a get-together at that time.

The level of enthusiasm made people around him mistakenly think that Song Chaoyang was a long-lost relative of Chen Jiangtao.

Walking out of the food station, the Gastrodia gastrodia in the backpack was exchanged for 128 yuan, and he also packed several lunch boxes, twenty kilograms of pork, two pork loin, a pair of pork liver, and ten kilograms of pork suet.

And a Hero pen.

And I also met Chen Jiangtao, the deputy section chief of the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative, a medium-sized company.

Judging from his current situation, it can be said that he has gained a lot.

Is it true that luck has gotten better after the family separation?

Or is it that good people are rewarded with good things?
Song Chaoyang didn't know what to say.

The little girl had a great time eating today, and her belly was full.

Song Chaoyang took her to go shopping in the market.

I bought pencils, notebooks and ink and other school supplies.

There are also noodles, vermicelli, sugar, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.

and soap for cleaning.

These things alone really don’t cost much.

Money is really useful these days.

Finally, when Song Chaoyang wanted to buy some new pairs of shoes for several people in his family, he was stopped by the little girl.

"Brother, it's summer for us, so it's okay if we don't wear shoes." "Don't you want to keep the money to repair the house, and then go to college without work? Let's save some money."

Song Chaoyang thought about it, and now he has more than 400 yuan including the old lady's money.

However, if you want to buy a homestead and then build a brick house, there is still a big difference.

The first reason why he wanted to build a house was, of course, to get away from his grandparents and uncle's family.

Secondly, there is another reason: the house is really dilapidated now.

The cracks in the wall are one palm wide.

A proper dilapidated house.

Now that the weather is dry, I can't see anything. The biggest problem is that there is some air leakage from the gaps in the wall.

But if it does rain, the house will be in danger.

Maybe if the wind gets stronger or the rain gets stronger, the house will collapse.

It's dangerous for people to live in it.

For the safety of myself and my family, this house also needs to be renovated.

Otherwise, the current money would have been enough for him to be out of work for a year.

When it was almost noon when he and the little girl were shopping, Song Chaoyang went to Wei Hongbing's house with five kilograms of noodles, three kilograms of sugar-oiled fruits, one kilogram of twists, and one kilogram of sugar.

This person will also be one of his connections in the future. Song Chaoyang cannot leave empty-handed when he comes to visit him for the first time.

When they arrived at the family building of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, Wei Hongbing had been waiting for them for a while.

Seeing Song Chaoyang carrying a lot of gifts, Wei Hongbing felt embarrassed.

However, it is not surprising that there are many people in Li, and Wei Hongbing has a better impression of Song Chaoyang.

Even Wei Hongbing's mother and younger sister had a very good impression of Song Chaoyang.

They had a big meal before that. At noon, Song Chaoyang and the little girl ate in a very polite manner.

After a few bites I felt like I couldn't hold it anymore.

Wei Hongbing couldn't help but sigh that Song Chaoyang was so gentle.

After finishing the meal, Mrs. Wei Hongbing stuffed Song Chaoyang with a dozen homemade salted duck eggs and about twenty kilograms of boiled peanuts to take away.

Let him come back when he has time.

Wei Hongbing went to see off Song Chaoyang and the others. Before leaving, Song Chaoyang asked Wei Hongbing for the newspapers of the past few months.

There are a lot of waste newspapers like this in their post office.

Wei Hongbing thought Song Chaoyang was going to take it back to build a wall, so he wanted to get more for him, but Song Chaoyang just told him that he wanted to see some of the content on it, not to build a wall.

After hearing this, Wei Hongbing gave up and only gave him a set of quarterly newspapers.

Then Song Chaoyang and the little girl headed home with most of the goods in their baskets.

On the way back, I met a relative who was my father's cousin. Song Chaoyang and the others should also call him cousin or uncle according to their ranking.

His family lived not far from Hongqi Commune. When he saw Song Chaoyang and Song Yu, he was the first to say hello.

I said yes, I will go visit Song Chaoyang’s grandparents in a while.

Song Chaoyang didn't say anything about the family separation, he just agreed with a smile.

There was no chatting on the road this time, and the backpacks were much lighter, so we walked back faster than in the morning. It took the brother and sister a little more than an hour to reach Qingsong Bay.

When I arrived at the door, I found that no one had locked the door.

Song Chaoyang opened the door and put down his things, and later saw lunch left for them on the table.

It's about three o'clock in the afternoon, and my father, mother, and second brother should go to work.

First, he took out everything from the backpack, and then Song Chaoyang prepared to marinate the pork with salt.

If it is not pickled, it must be eaten immediately, otherwise it will spoil quickly.

Twenty pounds of pork obviously cannot be eaten at one time.

So it must be marinated.

The little girl on the other side was not idle either. She ran to light a fire and boil water in preparation for her father, mother and brother to have a drink when they returned from work.

While they were busy, they heard the militiamen from the production team outside announcing:

"The brigade was notified that there is still half an hour to release water from the people's canals. Each production team will check whether there are any problems in the field ridges."

Hearing this voice, the little girl on the side asked Song Chaoyang:
"Third brother, is our team buying water again?"

Song Chaoyang thought of last night's precognitive dream. Kong Yun had brought it to the people from the Armed Forces Department and notified the militia platoon leaders of each brigade to hold a meeting.

Maybe it's finished by now.

He thought that the release of water was probably related to this.

So Song Chaoyang said to the little girl:
“It’s not necessarily us who bought the water, maybe it was people from Yangjiagou who bought it.”

The little girl blinked, not quite believing that the unreasonable Yangjiagou would buy water for them from Qingsong Bay, but looking at the look on the third brother's face, she thought about it and thought it was possible.

After all, the third brother took her to eat the most meat in her life today.

He is so capable, so what he said must make sense.

(End of this chapter)