Chapter 13 The 7th Rank Official in Front of the Prime Minister's Gate

The next day, Li Weidong and Zhao Hu followed the convoy of the transportation company to Pingzhou south.

Li Weidong sat in the co-pilot of an old Jiefang, and his body kept shaking with the body.

Young man, I'm the most reliable one in our team. Take my car and make sure you don't get motion sickness! The driver's voice sounded.

Hearing this, Li Weidong really wanted to go up and slap the driver twice, the car was shaking like this, but he was too embarrassed to say that he drove safely!

Fortunately, I didn't eat much in the morning, otherwise, all the soy milk fritters in my stomach would have been shaken out! Li Weidong thought to himself.

Of course, Lao Jiefang has no driving comfort, and the cockpit of Lao Jiefang is not a single seat, but a whole row of hard seats, not to mention any seat vibration reduction, coupled with the bad road conditions in the 1980s, Sitting in the old liberation is like shaking sesame oil.

Lao Jiefang also doesn't have a seat belt, and his body cannot be fixed on the seat. If he encounters some sharp bends, due to inertia, the whole person can't help rolling from one side of the seat to the other.

Drivers in the 1970s and 1980s basically suffered from gastric ptosis, just because they were tossing and turning all day, even the best stomach would sag.

Passing through a bumpy ramp, Li Weidong couldn't help but admire the driver when he saw the dazzling operation of the driver.

Driving Lao Jiefang is really a technical job. In Li Weidong's opinion, Lao Jiefang should be the car with the worst driving experience he has ever driven. Various anti-human designs are concentrated in Lao Jiefang's cab.

When the old Jiefang upshifts, there is no need to say more about the two-footed clutch. When downshifting, in addition to the two-footed clutch, you need to give the accelerator in the middle. The key is that the clutch pedal is still very heavy, and driving a car all day is more tiring than walking all day.

The old Jiefang's high and low beam control and horn are also under the feet. When driving, if you want to honk the horn, you have to stomp your feet, and if you want to turn on the high beam, you have to stomp your feet, so the driver's feet are basically in a busy state.

The driver's arms can't be idle either. Lao Jiefang has no steering assistance. Turning while carrying a load is a tough task. Most of the drivers who drive Lao Jiefang have developed a pair of unicorn arms.

When encountering some more complicated roadsides, you need to constantly increase and decrease gears, and you can see that the driver operates well. It feels like a future e-sports player, and the APM soars in the moment of battle.

Finally, when Lao Jiefang passed this complicated section, Li Weidong let out a sigh of relief, but the driver was still calm. For him, this kind of complicated section was nothing at all.

Little Li, can you drive? the driver asked.

If it were someone else, the driver would definitely not ask such a question. How can anyone in the auto repair workshop know how to drive?

However, Li Weidong is too young, so the driver master has this question.

Li Weidong nodded and replied, The car can be driven, but it is mainly a small car. If you liberate this kind of big car, I will be able to start.

At your age, it's not bad to be able to start. The driver's voice paused, and then said: I didn't realize that this liberation was difficult to drive, but I tried 140 two days ago, but it's better than this liberation. Much more. It's a pity, the good wheels are not available to me.

It won't take long, you can also change to 140. Li Weidong said with a smile.

According to Li Weidong's memory, two years later, in 1986, the second generation of Jiefang came out. At the same time, both FAW and the Second Automobile Group increased the annual output to more than 100,000 vehicles. It was also at that time that Qinghe Transportation Company began to replace trucks on a large scale.

By the mid-1990s, the old liberations in China were basically eliminated.

The driver's master was not optimistic about changing cars, he shook his head helplessly: I don't expect to change cars, I bought this car in 1980 and I have only driven it for four years, maybe I will retire. , it's not necessarily retired.

Li Weidong smiled,

But they didn't answer the call. The current Qinghe Transportation Company can even find Dodge trucks from World War II. There are many old Jiefang trucks that are more than 20 years old. A car will not be scrapped for 30 years. There is no hope for a new car.

Old Jiefang didn't even have a car radio, but chatting with the driver all the way, he was not lonely. When it was dark, Li Weidong finally arrived in Pingzhou.

From Qinghe to Pingzhou, the journey of more than 300 kilometers took nearly ten hours, which was not slow by the standards of the time.

Since it was already dark, the matter of returning the goods to the Red Star Rubber Factory could only wait until tomorrow, so Li Weidong and Zhao Hu directly stayed at the guest house of the Pingzhou Transportation Company.

In the 1980s, state-owned enterprises with a small scale would have a tertiary industry, of which guesthouses probably had the most in the tertiary industry.

Accommodation is second. The key is that the hostel will have a restaurant. Leaders can come here to eat and drink for whatever reason they want. All the money for drinks and meals is paid by the public. This hostel is the tertiary industry of their own unit. easy.

Li Weidong and Zhao Hu walked into the guest house of the Pingzhou Transportation Company. The two showed their work permits. The other party saw it as a system, and they didn't even need a letter of introduction, so they opened a room for them.

This is the benefit of state-owned enterprise employees. When they go to a place, as long as there is a guest house of this system, they will not sleep on the street.

This is especially true of the transportation system. Since the people in the transportation system often have to travel around the world, it is convenient for each other. You give convenience to others, and when you reach someone else's site, others will also give you convenience.

It is no exaggeration to say that with a work permit of a transportation company, as long as you can drive, you can find a place to live.

After resting overnight in the guest house, Li Weidong and Zhao Hu came to the Hongxing Rubber Factory early the next morning.

Standing in front of the gate of the Hongxing Rubber Factory, looking at the vehicles coming in and out, Zhao Hu looked like a douchebag and sighed: This Hongxing Rubber Factory is really impressive, even the gate is electric. Woolen cloth!

The two walked to the window of the guard room. Zhao Hu took out a letter of introduction from his arms and introduced himself: Comrade, we are from the Qinghe area transportation company.

The guard looked up at Zhao Hu, but ignored him.

Li Weidong immediately took out a cigarette and handed it over. The guard took the cigarette and asked, What unit?

Qinghe area transportation company. Zhao Hu replied, and handed over the letter of introduction at the same time.

The guard didn't read the letter of introduction at all, just took out a notebook: Register it!

After Zhao Hu completed the registration, he returned the book to the guard. The guard didn't look at it much, and said directly: Turn left in front, the first room on the first floor.

We're coming back...

Why so much nonsense, I've told you all, turn left ahead, the first room on the first floor! Won't it be divided between left and right?

Zhao Hu was halfway through speaking, but was interrupted by the guard.

The doorman said that Shu closed the window of the doorman's room and ignored them.

The seven-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate, and the guard of the second-level national enterprise is a cow!