Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 84 Returning to Hometown for College Entrance Examination

Fang Mingche said: "Then there is no hope for Gu Zhiguang's legs?"

"There is little hope. Mr. Gu is trying to find a connection and wants to send the man to the Union Hospital for a checkup."

When it comes to connections, Fang Mingche has none. The only people he knows are those in the compound and the cooperative.

Oh, there is another one, Wang Dexian.

However, Grandpa Gu also recognized Wang Dexian. He was also very familiar with his mother and stepfather. They had been neighbors for decades.

He originally wanted to ask why they only wanted to send it to Union Hospital. Couldn’t they send it to 301 Hospital to have a look?
Suddenly I remembered that 301 should not be open to the public yet.

Fang Mingche did not ask about the follow-up of this matter for the time being.

The calendar turned to late June, and Fang Mingche prepared to go to the train station to buy a ticket back home.

Before leaving, he asked Song Quan, "Can you get me a letter of introduction that can buy a sleeper berth?"

Song Quan is a leader now.

But he shook his head. "In terms of administrative level, only the top leader of our cooperative is entitled to sleeper berths when on business trips. You are not an old man, otherwise you could apply for it in the name of an old artist."

Nowadays, air tickets can only be purchased at the county group level or above. Sleeper berths are better, and the department level is enough.

Of course, if you have connections, you can break the rules. But ordinary people can only buy hard seats or seats without seats, even if they have money.

Fang Mingche asked, "What about the scalper tickets? Have you ever heard of anyone being able to buy a sleeper berth?"

A hard seat costs 20-30 yuan, and a sleeper costs double that. If you buy a scalper ticket, you will have to pay the scalper's fee.

But if it can be done, I would rather lose money than suffer loss of people.

Song Quan said: "Nowadays, only section-level cadres who have something to do and have a letter of introduction from their work unit can buy sleeper berths. One letter of introduction corresponds to one sleeper berth ticket. Scalpers can only buy up all the hard seat tickets and then resell them to others."

Fang Mingche said, "Then I'll take a look on the spot to see if anyone is willing to let me pay more to change it."

Song Quan said nothing, it was hanging in the balance!

If the pregnancy is with an elderly, weak, sick or disabled person, it would probably be easier.

Nowadays, if you are a young and strong man with all your limbs intact, most people will refuse to work for you just because you pay more money.

Besides, compared with hard seats, sleeper berths are safer.

"You better hurry up and buy it. You can still buy seats a few days in advance. If you're late, there will only be standing room left!"

However, Song Quan got Fang Mingche a letter of introduction to Beijing. As a non-staff translator for the cooperative, he will return to Beijing with Lin Yan after remarrying.

Without a letter of introduction, he couldn't even buy a hard seat or even a stand-alone ticket.

The last time he went to Beijing, he wrote a letter of introduction under the pretext of bringing Yanyan to Beijing to see her mother. He also stayed in the capital for three or four months without returning.

Even if he didn't take Yanyan back this time, it would be impossible for him to get a letter of introduction with the same reason.

Then all you have to do is wait for the admission letter to arrive.

But staying at home for an extra month is a big loss.

He also promised that after the exam, he would teach the craftsmen to speak simple English.

Besides, Yanyan is still at her grandma and grandpa’s house.

Therefore, I must go back and take the exams and complete the remarriage procedures before I plan to go to BJ again.

As for Lin Yan, catching blind migrants and illegal residents are all aimed at farmers who move to the city.

As a person from the capital, she was not someone who would be arrested if she went to the countryside. She could buy train tickets relatively freely.

Fang Mingche went to buy the tickets in advance.

Yanyan wanted to follow, so when she saw her father walking out, she followed him.

Lin Yan saw it and hurriedly said, "Yanyan, come back."

"I'm going out for a walk with my dad."

Fang Mingche took her with him and said to Lin Yan, "You stay at home and review."

He was now strong enough to hold his daughter. He also bought a lollipop for Yanyan to hold in her mouth, so that she could stay longer.

Three cents a stick, more expensive than hard candy. On days when he couldn't go out to sell, Zhu Dahai would still take over. Five yuan a day, he was happy.

The father and daughter took the bus to the train station and queued up at the ticket office.

Nowadays, you can only buy tickets at the window, and the queues are very long.

Fang Mingche held his daughter in the queue for a while, thinking back to his previous life when he used his smartphone to buy tickets on 12306. He felt that this was a waste of time.

Scalper tickets add three or five yuan to the price. Shouldn’t he have bought the scalper tickets directly from the beginning?
Forget it, just take it as a break for your brain.

Because I went there a week in advance, I was able to buy a ticket with a seat.

However, he had to tell Yanyan before he left. Otherwise, he would definitely quarrel with her mother.

On the way back, Fang Mingche said, "Yanyan, do you know what we were doing just now?"

"Buy train tickets." Yanyan just heard everyone say this.

"Yes, buy a train ticket. Dad has to go back to his hometown for something, so you can stay with mom, grandma and grandpa in the capital."

Yanyan asked, "How long will it take to get back?"

"About three weeks."

Yanyan looked at her fingers, she couldn't count how many days that was. It just felt like a long time!
"Me too."

"Have you forgotten how uncomfortable it was to stay on the train for three days and two nights? When we came here, if we got off the train a little later, I was worried that you would cry. It was really too uncomfortable. Dad will be back after he finishes his work."

Yanyan naturally didn't remember it, but her father said he felt bad, and her mother was there too.

She finally agreed reluctantly.

He also asked: "Come back early."

"Ok."

On the 28th, Lin Yan took her daughter to the train station to see Fang Mingche off. Lin's mother also came with them.

Mother Lin said to Fang Mingche: "Go back and prepare for the exam with peace of mind. I will take good care of them."

"Okay, thank you Auntie."

"Thank you, we're family!"

It will be easy to go back this time.

Fang Mingche simply picked up two boxes and got into the car.

One contains a change of clothes and review materials that I want to look at again.

The other contains local specialties bought in the capital and clothes for parents, nephews and nieces.

Nowadays, a trip to the provincial capital is considered a long journey. Moreover, he stayed in the capital for four months.

You should bring something back to avoid being rude.

Some of the specialties were given to my cousin, who had asked me to bring some messages to him several times in the past few months. He also got a lot of cold looks from his old man.

In addition, he also bought a set of clothes for his cousin's daughter, as a thank you for the space suit and winter boots that his cousin had given Yanyan.

The style of the capital city is still very presentable when you take it back.

Without having to take care of his daughter, Fang Mingche really felt a lot more relaxed than when he first came here.

You still have to work hard and find a way to get a letter of introduction to buy a sleeper berth.

I don’t know when sleeper tickets and plane tickets will be available for purchase.

If possible, he really didn't want to waste three days on the train at the last minute. Economy class air tickets are only 180 yuan each now.

Three days passed in a flash, and Fang Mingche got off the train in the city of his hometown.

In four months, there has been no change in my hometown.

Even now, there are still few people setting up stalls. It’s still too far from the capital!

He went to the long-distance bus station and bought a ticket. There was another bus in the afternoon, and it would take him to the county town for three yuan.

(End of this chapter)