Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

After leaving his sister's house, Cao Zhiqiang took the car directly back to Chiguang Machinery Factory.

Next, Cao Zhiqiang went to Section Chief Zhang and stated that his work was over and he wanted to return to the provincial capital.

In response, Section Chief Zhang casually tried to persuade Cao Zhiqiang, but when he saw that Cao Zhiqiang was determined to leave, he took him to see the factory director.

Originally, the factory director wanted to have a farewell banquet with Cao Zhiqiang, but this time, Cao Zhiqiang refused to stay for the banquet and insisted on leaving immediately.

Cao Zhiqiang also said that if Chiguang Factory cannot send a car, he can also take a bus.

Since it was said that the factory director could no longer persuade him to stay, he agreed to Cao Zhiqiang’s departure.

After all, no matter how you say it, Cao Zhiqiang is not their employee, he is an outsider. If he wants to leave, they can't stop him.

In this way, even though it is still raining lightly in the sky, Chiguang Factory still specially dispatched a Shanghai brand car to take Cao Zhiqiang back to the provincial capital.

Silent all the way, Cao Zhiqiang returned to Weihong Machinery Factory in the provincial capital smoothly.

After returning to Weihong Machinery Factory, Cao Zhiqiang first went to report to Director Zhou and asked for two letters of introduction to purchase airplane tickets.

Since there was one more letter of introduction to be issued, Director Zhou naturally wanted to ask about the situation.

Of course Cao Zhiqiang couldn't tell the truth, he just said vaguely that he would take more people back to Peking with him this time.

Upon hearing this, Director Zhou quickly opened a blank letter of introduction without asking who he was bringing. He just signed it, but did not write down the destination or the person who purchased the ticket.

Although only one letter of introduction was issued, according to Director Zhou’s explanation, this is enough and there is no need to open more.

Because a letter of introduction is just a ticket purchase voucher issued by the unit, it does not mean that one letter of introduction can only buy one ticket, but one letter of introduction can also buy several tickets.

If multiple people are going to the same destination together, a letter of introduction is enough.

Only when traveling to different destinations at one time do you need multiple letters of introduction.

In other words, after Director Zhou provided a blank letter of introduction, Cao Zhiqiang only had to fill in the destination and the number of tickets purchased. Cao Zhiqiang could write these himself.

After receiving the letter of introduction, Cao Zhiqiang refused the reception banquet proposed by Director Zhou on the excuse that he was too tired, saying only that he wanted to rest early.

But this time, Cao Zhiqiang refused Factory Director Zhou's arrangement and insisted on living outside instead of staying in the guest house inside the factory.

The reason is very simple. The guest house inside the factory is crowded, making it inconvenient for Cao Zhiqiang to secretly take away Qinghong.

After all, Weihong Machinery Factory and Chiguang Machinery Factory are brothers, so there is still a possibility that the news will leak out.

Seeing Cao Zhiqiang's determination, Director Zhou had no choice but to write another letter of introduction and ask Cao Zhiqiang to stay in the best hotel here - the No. 3 Guest House in the provincial capital!

This third guest house, despite its bad name, is actually the best hotel in Guiyang.

Because the predecessor of this third guest house was the most luxurious hotel in Guiyang - Jinqiao Hotel!

Overall, in terms of living environment and various facilities, the Third Guest House is the best. Most foreign guests and leaders come here to stay.

Even now, this third guest house is not open to the public.

Now if you want to live here, you still need a letter of introduction, and only leaders from government agencies or large state-owned enterprises, or foreign guests with special status and overseas Chinese, ordinary people cannot stay, not even if you have money.

If this place wants to be fully opened, that will happen later.

Originally, Director Zhou wanted to reimburse Cao Zhiqiang for his accommodation expenses, but this time, Cao Zhiqiang still firmly refused.

In other words, as long as Cao Zhiqiang provides a letter of introduction to the third guest house, the accommodation fee will not be reimbursed. Cao Zhiqiang will pay for it himself.

This is mainly because I don't want to cause too much trouble.

Because Cao Zhiqiang understands very well that some advantages can be taken advantage of, but some advantages cannot be taken advantage of, especially if he is not short of money.

After checking into the third guest house, Cao Zhiqiang went directly to the airport to buy a plane ticket early the next morning.

You have to buy air tickets early, especially direct flights to Beijing. There are not many of them now. It’s good to have them once or twice a week.

What surprised Cao Zhiqiang was that it was easy to buy a plane ticket in the capital, but here, you actually have to queue up to buy a plane ticket.

This is strange. It is said that there are more flights in Beijing, so if you have to queue up to buy tickets, it is only in Beijing that you queue up.

After asking, I found out that this is not Peking. You can't buy air tickets every day. Instead, you can buy tickets once a week. If you can't buy one during that time, you have to wait until next week, or next week.

One round.

To put it bluntly, there are too few flights here, so tickets are sold regularly and stopped when the time is up. It is a bit similar to hunger marketing, but different.

The result is that it is difficult to buy a plane ticket here, and you have to queue up. But if you really wait for you to get on the plane, there may not be many passengers on the plane, and there will not be enough seats at all.

Cao Zhiqiang was also lucky. When he came, he happened to be selling tickets, and he came quite early, so as long as he queued up carefully, he should have a chance to get in.

Cao Zhiqiang didn't have time to queue up, so he wanted to find a scalper or something to jump in line.

But after asking around, I found out that there are no scalpers to buy air tickets here?

Also, the key to buying air tickets nowadays is a letter of introduction from your employer. Only those who can issue a letter of introduction can buy tickets.

And how can a scalper get a bunch of letters of introduction from an employer? Even if he did, the ticket sellers are not blind or stupid.

What to do if there are no scalpers?

Do we really have to wait in line?

What's going on? That's what ordinary people do. We're Master Chou. Can Master Chou use ordinary methods?

Ever since, Cao Zhiqiang decided to use his "money power".

The ability to use money cannot be used indiscriminately, and it is impossible to buy a seat directly from the person who bought the ticket in front of you.

If he dared to directly buy someone to jump in line, he would definitely be kicked out this year.

After all, this was 1983, and my ability to make money was not as good as it would be in later years. Many times, even if you have money, it’s not easy to use it, especially in this situation of queuing up.

But this is not a problem for Cao Zhiqiang.

Next, he targeted a middle-aged man with glasses who was in front of the queue. There were only three people in front of him. He would soon buy a ticket.

The reason why I chose him was because he was wearing a suit and had oil on his head, and he looked like a philistine at first glance.

So, Cao Zhiqiang pretended to be an acquaintance of his, trotted over with a smile, and patted him on the shoulder: "Oh, you are here, you make it easy for me to find, you forgot your things."

When the other party was stunned and turned back to look at Cao Zhiqiang, Cao Zhiqiang had already smiled and handed over the work certificate, the ticket purchase introduction letter, and the two solidarity sheets.

After sending it, Cao Zhiqiang blinked: "Boss, I'm Xiao Cao. You just received a letter of introduction. I sent it to you. You were too careless. How can you fix it without this?

If you join the queue and can’t buy a ticket, isn’t it a waste of time waiting in line?”

At this point, Cao Zhiqiang approached the other party and whispered: "Comrade, do me a favor and buy a ticket for me. These twenty are yours, and I will give you thirty as a gift when the matter is completed."

When the other party heard this, he lowered his head and looked at the letter of introduction in his hand, as well as the corner of the two big unity stickers underneath the letter of introduction, and rolled his eyes: "Ah, I understand, thank you very much, Xiao Cao."

"You're welcome." Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "If you're busy, I'll wait for you over there."

After saying that, Cao Zhiqiang walked aside and waited with a smile.

Soon, the middle-aged man in a suit bought the ticket and walked over to Cao Zhiqiang without waiting for Cao Zhiqiang to say hello.

Immediately afterwards, the other party handed over Cao Zhiqiang’s employer certificate, a letter of introduction for purchasing tickets, and two airplane tickets.

Cao Zhiqiang took it with a smile and handed the other party three pieces of Great Unity. At this point, it was clear.

They nodded to each other, then left without saying anything.

Using this method, Cao Zhiqiang quickly bought a plane ticket without having to wait in line until the afternoon.

After spending a lot of effort to buy a plane ticket, Cao Zhiqiang returned to the guest house and rested for two days.

By the afternoon of the third day, Cao Zhiqiang could no longer bear it and started the official elopement operation.

The reason is very simple. The fourth day is the day when the flight is coming, so he must bring the people here tonight, and then directly take the flight back to Peking tomorrow.

First, Cao Zhiqiang found the manager of the No. 3 Guest House and asked the manager to arrange a car because he was going on a long trip.

At this time, the Third Guesthouse of Guizhou Province was still a state-owned unit, and it also had its own cars, and there were a lot of them, and the grades were not low, including Hongqi cars and Shanghai cars.

If you want to use a private car, your employer will usually reimburse you, but here, Cao Zhiqiang pays for it himself.

Of course, the manager likes Cao Zhiqiang's out-of-pocket behavior. After all, out-of-pocket payments are made immediately, unlike reimbursement by the employer, which usually requires a year and a half to be paid in arrears.

So, under Cao Zhiqiang's money offensive, the manager happily gave Cao Zhi a Shanghai car.

Well, Shanghai Car has the highest authority. After all, Cao Zhiqiang has no special status and is not of a high level, so he cannot send a Hongqi car.

But Cao Zhiqiang doesn't care about this, as long as he has a car.

After getting into the car, Cao Zhiqiang asked the driver to go straight to the county hospital where Qinghong was located.

Originally, the driver was not happy when he heard that he had to travel such a long distance, but when Cao Zhiqiang directly gave the driver thirty yuan, the driver immediately said nothing and just put into gear and started walking!

By the time Cao Zhiqiang returned to the county seat, the sky had darkened.

After that, Cao Zhiqiang took the driver to a restaurant in the city to have a good meal. After he had eaten and drank enough, and saw that the time was already eight o'clock in the evening, he asked the driver to drive him to the county hospital.

At this time, light rain began to fall in the sky in the county town again, but this still could not stop Cao Zhiqiang's enthusiasm.

After asking the driver to park the car aside, Cao Zhiqiang came to Qinghong's ward by a familiar route.

After arriving outside the ward, Cao Zhiqiang did not enter immediately. Instead, he first asked the nurse on duty here if there was anyone outside the room.

After hearing that the patient was the only one in the room, Cao Zhiqiang breathed a sigh of relief and then opened the door and entered.

After hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Qinghong reacted immediately, looked back, and immediately put down the book in her hand in surprise: "Is it you? You, are you here?"

"Yes, I'm here." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled and took the initiative to walk forward, "How are you, are you feeling better recently?"

Qinghong smiled: "It's much better. I've been living here for the past few days. I eat, drink and sleep well. I just read books and take a walk when I have nothing to do. It's pretty good."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Where are your parents, have they come to see you?"

Qinghong lowered her face, pursed her lips and said, "Mom comes to see me every day, and dad, he came once.

But when dad came, he just looked at me from a distance and didn't talk to me.

Although I haven't spoken to my father, I can see that he seems to regret it.

But I still can't forgive my dad.

So, so..."

Speaking of this, Qinghong shook her head and then continued: "In short, after dad came once, he never came again, at least he never entered the ward.

Also, although my mother comes every day, she rarely talks to me. She just stays with me and looks at me, as if she is keeping an eye on me.

I, actually, I don’t know what to say to them, and besides, I don’t really want to see them.”

Having said this, Qinghong raised her head, looked at Cao Zhiqiang steadily and said, "Take me away quickly. I really don't want to stay here anymore. I can't breathe here."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, walked over and held Qinghong's hand.

Qinghong subconsciously twitched her hand, but after finding that it didn't twitch, she let Cao Zhiqiang hold his hand, but lowered her head shyly, not daring to look at Cao Zhiqiang.

Seeing her expression, Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, while gently stroking Qinghong's hand, he asked softly: "I ask you again, are you really determined to go with me? Do you know what this means?

What?"

Qinghong was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Cao Zhiqiang steadily: "I know what this means, but, but, I, I am willing.

I said, as long as you take me away, I will be your woman and I will never break my promise."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled softly and said: "Be my woman? That is not a simple thing. Are you really mentally prepared?"

"It's done!" Qinghong nodded, took a deep breath and said, "It's reached this point, no matter what you do to me in the future, I will accept it.

Anyway, no matter how bad it is, it's still better than staying here.

And, and I believe you, you, you will be good to me."

"Confirm for the last time, do you really not regret it?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

"No regrets!" Qinghong shook her head with firm eyes.

Cao Zhiqiang nodded and said: "Remember what you said today!"

"Well, I have thought about it very clearly." Qinghong continued with firm eyes, "I will never regret following you!"

"All right."

Cao Zhiqiang stood up, walked to the side and picked up the guitar, then turned around and looked at Qinghong.

"I can assure you here that the decision you make today is a wise decision, because I will be good to you and will not let you regret it!"

Wu Qinghong also stood up, raised her head and looked at Cao Zhiqiang carefully, and then nodded: "I, I believe you!"

Cao Zhiqiang then put the guitar on his back, smiled and extended his right hand to Qinghong: "In that case, then come with me, let's fly away together to start a new life!"