The Pentium Era - South to North

At 5:40 in the morning, He Hongmei arrived downstairs at Zhang Chen's house. Zhang Chen heard the sound of the car and walked to the corridor to take a look. He saw He Hongmei's white Charlie parked outside the courtyard gate.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao hurried downstairs. He Hongmei sent Xiao Zhao to the stall first, and then they set off.

Yesterday afternoon, Zhang Chen went to a newsstand outside and bought a "Driver's National Highway Atlas". He sat in the passenger seat and acted as a navigation guide, directing He Hongmei to leave Hangzhou from mid-level to the direction of the junction of Jiaxing and Huzhou. Set off.

When they arrived at National Highway 320, He Hongmei looked at Zhang Chen who was nestled in the passenger seat and told him to fasten his seat belt.

"what?"

"I'm taking off."

Zhang Chen found the seat belt, but before he could buckle it, He Hongmei stepped on the accelerator. Zhang Chen fell backward, then rushed forward, and his head almost hit the console in front of him.

"Are you crazy?" Zhang Chen cursed.

He Hongmei giggled and shouted: "I haven't woken up yet, so I can wake up quickly."

As she spoke, she rolled down the car window a little, letting in the wind.

The speed of the car was getting faster and faster. Zhang Chen looked at the dashboard and saw that it had already reached 100 yards. The Xiali was a little drifting in kilometers. Fortunately, at this time in the morning, there were not many cars on the national highway, and National Highway 320 had just started. After reconstruction, a two-way four-lane road was built with an isolation strip in the middle.

When He Hongmei saw a car in front of her, she accelerated and passed it quickly. Zhang Chen shouted, "Aren't you sad that you didn't pass it?"

"You like to follow others and eat shit, but I don't like it. As long as there is a car in front of me, I will definitely pass it."

"Then do you know that as long as you are on a kilometer, there will always be a car in front of you, and you will never be able to overtake it?"

He Hongmei was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "I don't care, unless it doesn't let me see it, and if I see it, I will surpass it."

As he was talking, there was a black Audi 200 in front of him, driving slowly. He Hongmei cursed, "Audi, if you circle too many circles, I will pass you."

She increased her power and passed the Audi from the left.

The Audi car probably noticed He Hongmei's challenge, and the driver was not convinced. He thought to himself, even a Xiali like you dared to overtake my Audi. It instantly accelerated the car and overtook him immediately.

He Hongmei regained her energy. She leaned forward, stared straight ahead, and accelerated the car. She was faster, and the Audi in front was also faster. The two cars were chasing each other on the road. The speed of the cars had already exceeded 100 yards. The car was in Jumping on the asphalt.

Zhang Chen's face turned pale with fright, and he quickly reached out and grabbed the handle on the front window glass.

"Oops!" He Hongmei shouted something, but Zhang Chen didn't hear it clearly and asked:

"What did you say?"

"It would be great if you were a big fat guy, then we could still speed up." She knew that her car was light and she couldn't speed up anymore.

Seeing that he could no longer catch up, He Hongmei let out a breath and slowed down the car angrily.

Zhang Chen teased her: "Chasing me, why don't you chase me?"

"I am hungry!"

He Hongmei yelled for directions and turned the car to the side of the road. There was a four-way intersection in front of her. When she turned in, there were restaurants on the side of the road. Zhang Chen laughed.

The two of them went to a noodle shop and ordered two bowls of noodles. He Hongmei told the boss, "Make it spicy, make it spicy. Add a lot of spice to me."

When the noodles came, the boss had already added a lot of spicy sauce. He Hongmei didn't think it was enough, so he added a lot more spicy sauce. After a few mouthfuls, sweat and tears came down together. She looked at Zhang Chen and said with tears in her eyes, "Okay, okay, now." Completely awake.

Zhang Chen almost laughed out loud.

He Hongmei looked at him and said, "Smile, eat more so you can hold my car down."

"Why are you still going crazy?"

"Of course, you're scared?"

Zhang Chen shook his head and said, "I'm not afraid, I just don't understand."

"What don't you understand?"

"I don't understand you people who like racing. You are not in a hurry, but on the road, you always like to race. It doesn't matter if you race for ten more minutes. When you reach the destination and there is nothing urgent, when you get off the car, you are still not at the East Railway Station. When we stand at West Railway Station, we either sit there stupidly, sitting for half a day, and we find it boring to sit there. Why do you want to take these ten minutes on the road?"

He Hongmei giggled and nodded at herself with her chopsticks: "Me, me, me, Master, I am just such a person. I idle around all day, and I don't have anything urgent to do anywhere. But I just like to drive fast, and my hands and feet feel itchy as soon as I get in the car. , it’s impossible not to be happy.”

After finishing the noodles, the two of them stood up and prepared to leave. When paying the bill, Zhang Chen asked the boss, where is this place?

The boss told him that it was Shuangta Village in Wuzhen, Tongxiang.

Zhang Chen was surprised, so fast? In this way, if we drive a little further, we will leave Zhejiang and reach the boundary of Wujiang County below Suzhou.

A large body of water appeared on the left side of the car. Zhang Chen and He Hongmei said that this was Taihu Lake.

"Taihu Lake is beautiful, Taihu Lake is beautiful, that's what the song says, but I haven't seen Taihu Lake yet!"

He Hongmei shouted and slowed down the car. When they arrived at an open space next to a mulberry forest, they stopped the car. The two got out of the car and walked through the lush green mulberry forest to the lake. The morning sun had already risen, covering the thin The fog has cleared from the lake. Looking to the left, to the right, and to the front, all I can see is the golden light of the lake.

Zhang Chen squinted his eyes and put his right hand in front of his forehead to block the sun. He looked left and right along the lakeshore. He walked along a field beside the lake and towards the end of the mulberry forest on the right, a plant as tall as a person. He Hongmei turned to look. , I don’t know what he is going to do.

Zhang Chen walked to the plant, turned around, and excitedly waved to He Hongmei, shouting, "Come on, come on."

He Hongmei walked over and saw the plants standing densely one by one. The branches below were bare. Only when they reached the top did they open up leaves that were about the same size as mulberry leaves, but they were not mulberry leaves. , the mulberry leaves are smooth and shiny, these leaves are hairy, and there are fluffy flower seeds among the branches and leaves.

"This is Ramie!" Zhang Chen shouted excitedly.

"Really, have we found Ramie Bu's mother?" He Hongmei was also excited.

Zhang Chen burst into laughter, what metaphor? After He Hongmei finished shouting, she herself felt that it was not very appropriate and stood there laughing.

"Ramie can be harvested three times a year, and now is the third season, which is about to mature." Zhang Chen and He Hongmei said.

"Then we can find the factory that makes linen as long as we stay here and see who comes to take it away?"

Zhang Chen suppressed his laughter and nodded: "Yes, do you want me to set up a tent for you?"

"No, there's no place to even take a shower here."

"You can jump into Taihu Lake."

"Hey, I won't do it. I can't swim and I will drown." He Hongmei shook her head and said, "No, how do you know them?"

"In my hometown of Yongcheng, there were ramies everywhere when we were young. We used to hide and seek in them, but now they are all gone."

The two people got in the car and continued on their way. At around nine o'clock, they arrived in the urban area of ​​Jiangyin, but the factory they were looking for was not in the urban area of ​​Jiangyin, but in a small town called Mudu.

When he arrived in Jiangyin, Zhang Chen felt as if he had arrived in Keqiao. The many factory buildings he saw along the way looked like textile factory buildings.

What is different from Keqiao is that the factory area here is not covered with thick steam pipelines and towering cylindrical steel structure buildings like Mr. Ni and others. It seems that this place is light textile, but it is not like Mr. Ni and others. The company produces polyester yarn.

The factory they were looking for was outside Mudu Town. It was not very large in scale. It was located along a newly built cement roadside with three or four other factories. Outside the factory area was the rice field.

Maybe it was because they came by car. After the people in the communication room asked about their purpose, they called in and directly called the sales section chief from the factory. At the same time, they opened the iron door and let their car drive inside. The yard stopped.

As soon as the two people got off the car, a middle-aged man came towards them and introduced himself as Section Chief Yang. Section Chief Yang asked them if they wanted to visit first?

Zhang Chen said yes.

Section Chief Yang took them to the weaving workshop first. They had just approached it and before they entered the door of the workshop, they heard the noisy noise unique to textile factories coming from the workshop.

Walking into the workshop, the light in the workshop was bright. What surprised Zhang Chen was that this textile workshop was not like what they had seen in movies and TV. There were rows of textile machines that were taller than people. The machine operator wearing a white hat kept walking back and forth in front of the machine. From time to time, he needed to reach out to connect the connectors or replace the shuttles one by one.

The machines here are lying side by side, and each machine is weaving cloth automatically. The workers in blue overalls do not have to keep changing shuttles one by one. They move between several machines, constantly Looking at the cloth on the machine in a hurry is more like taking a walk.

Section Chief Yang told them that these were all rapier looms. Zhang Chen saw that each machine was weaving natural linen. He understood that the wick strips and slub hemp they were using now were Woven on such a machine.

Section Chief Yang took them to the finished product warehouse, where there were piles of fabrics. What made Zhang Chen and He Hongmei a little disappointed was that they did not see the yarn-dyed linen that He Hongmei mentioned, and all the linen and ramie fabrics produced by their factory. , all of natural color, this kind of fabric can be used for shirts, pants and dresses in spring and summer.

But if you want to use it to make cotton-padded clothes in winter, the color is too plain, so it is obviously not suitable.

They brought two pieces of sample cloth and put them on the back seat. After saying goodbye to Section Chief Yang, the two of them walked towards the city of Jiangyin. At first, no one said anything while sitting in the car, and they felt a little frustrated. feel.

"It's not without gain. When it comes time to make spring and summer clothes, the fabrics here can still be used. I already have several dress styles in my mind."

As Zhang Chen spoke, He Hongmei said "hmm" and kept nodding.

Zhang Chen opened the "Driver's National Highway Atlas" and asked He Hongmei, are you hungry?

He Hongmei said no.

"Okay, then we'll have lunch in Zhangjiagang."

He Hongmei said yes.

Zhangjiagang City is a county-level city under Suzhou City. It borders the Yellow Sea to the east. Zhangjiagang City is named after the natural port Zhangjiagang. It has the Yangtze River to the north, Suzhou and Wuxi City to the south, Changshu to the southeast, and Jiangyin to the west of Zhangjiagang. .

It is only more than thirty kilometers from Jiangyin to Zhangjiagang.

He Hongmei smiled. She originally wanted to say that it was time to fart so close, but the words came out and it became time to eat an ice cream.

Zhang Chen laughed and said, "If you eat such a big ice cream, you won't need me to become fat. You will become fat yourself."

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