Anhui University of Technology should have been the most awesome university in the country at that time. However, in 1995, the state proposed the 211 construction project, focusing on the construction of about 100 universities, and the quota for each province was limited.

Chapter 23

1982, a lot of new people were joined by the automobile factory.

Some graduates from college students who have resumed the college entrance examination have been successively assigned to automobile factories, most of whom graduated from Anhui Institute of Technology. Anhui University of Technology should have been the most awesome university in the country at that time. However, in 1995, the state proposed the 211 construction project, focusing on the construction of about 100 universities, and the quota for each province was limited.

In order to maintain a precious 211 seats in Anhui Province, Anhui Institute of Technology was finally merged into Hefei University of Technology in 1997. However, during the years when this school existed, it did cultivate a lot of talents for the Chinese automobile industry. By the beginning of the 20th century, the senior executives of major auto companies across the country who emerged from this in decades were brilliant, known as the Whampoa Military Academy in the automotive industry.

There are also some because Hefei City is a provincial capital city. Many of the old college students who have been mobilized from other places to implement the intellectual policy are from famous domestic schools. For example, there is a couple named Zhuang Wujiu and Jiang Jingru. Both of them graduated from Tsinghua University . A few years later, her husband became the chief engineer of the automobile factory. After their eldest son Zhuangyuan came with them, he entered the children's school and became classmates with Zhang Bulun, and later became good friends.

The addition of these people has supplemented fresh blood for the technical research and development of automobile factories, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishery, coal forestry geological exploration, and all industries can basically develop special vehicles as long as they need them. During that time, every time Zhang Bulun went to the parking lot, he saw no longer the original truck , but also all kinds of strange vehicles, which were parked in a vast way. Zhang’s father, mother and their coworkers also work very hard and often work overtime. Sometimes there are Changbai shift , two shifts and three shifts. There are often slogans such as “work hard for 100 days” in the factory.

But even so, perhaps the Chinese automobile companies that have just stepped on the starting line have not yet grasped the pulse of the market at this time. Therefore, when facing the market, no matter how hard everyone works, everything can only be in a state of neither good nor bad, like a snail carrying a weight, staggering forward in difficulties.

This state lasted for ten years. During these ten years, the monthly income of each employee of the automobile factory was only enough to maintain basic expenses.

For a while, the workshop where Zhang's mother was in once had a bonus of 5 yuan for several months. The employees were annoyed and surrounded the workshop director and said, "Can you fight for it?" We will call you Lao Wu in the future. The workshop director was also embarrassed and swore in front of all the employees that the bonus would definitely increase next month. If it were not increased, I, the workshop director, would quit, and then went to the factory director angrily. After the second month, the workshop director did fulfill his promise and the bonus really increased, 5.50 cents.

Even though the income is weak, the employees of the automobile factory are still not stingy with their children and try every means to generate income to improve their lives.

Liu Fei's father is from Shanghai. He always takes the train back to Shanghai when he has time to find some fashionable things that are not easy to buy in Hefei to share with everyone, and he can also make some small difference to subsidize his family income. For a while, I often brought something called a fake collar to the factory.

The fake collar is an incomplete underwear in terms of appearance, just a collar that retains a little half of the upper part of the underwear. When worn inside the outerwear, the exposed collar part is exactly the same as the shirt. And this thing was once popular not only in automobile factories, but also in Hefei. The reason was that people's lives were relatively poor at that time, with low income and tight supply, so they needed tickets to buy many things. When it comes to buying clothing, in addition to being rich, you also have to have cloth tickets.

Textiles are basically also supplied in quantity. Before the New Year, most people rarely buy new clothes. Shirts are the best in clothing. Wearing them makes people look spiritual and decent. However, the price of shirts is relatively expensive and requires cloth tickets. In addition, the Chinese in that era did not wear suits, but were much more wearing Zhongshan suits. The collar was open, and the only thing that leaked was the small piece of the neck. So when people were poor, they thought about changing, and fake collars came into being.

Jin Qiang's father would go to the nearby production team to make some furniture for marriage when he was resting. Later, when he became famous and he was too busy, he often brought his apprentice and others to help. The owner who has worked is often more polite. In addition to the wages, he will also take out some salty goods from home pickles and insist on giving them. So Zhang Bulun has a lot of salty duck eggs in Jin Qiang for a while.

Dad Zhang often carried the net after work, brought his own bait with him, and went to the nearby pond to catch shrimps. Sometimes he would catch old turtles if he was lucky. So Zhang Bulun's family kept fish and shrimps. Zhang's father, who couldn't finish eating, would go to the factory gate to find a place to sell it at one time. Once, the money for selling shrimp was higher than his monthly salary, which made Zhang's father so happy that he didn't fall asleep all night.

In the memories of Zhang Bulun and Jin Xiaobao, their parents have never let them suffer any losses in their food since childhood. Although the salary is not high and it is impossible to guarantee big fish and meat every day, after Zhang’s mother’s skillful arrangement, there will always be delicious food all year round.

Chapter 24

Before Qingming Festival, Zhang's mother would go to the vegetable market and find a very cheap snail to buy a few kilograms. Keep the purchased snails in clean water for a few days. Drop a few drops of sesame oil when changing the water every day. After the impurities in the stomach are spit out, use a visor to clamp the snails off the butt. On the day when the snails are burned, it is always a very happy day for the two brothers Zhang Bulun.

Every time she waits until the oil in the pot is 70% hot, her mother Zhang will first add green onions, ginger, garlic cloves, and peppers to stir-fry. When she pours the snails into the hot pot, she will hear a slithering sound, and then the aroma of various onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns and peppers will quickly spread at home. After stir-frying quickly, add cooking wine and soy sauce and stir-fry well. Listen to the sound of the shovel shaving in the pot, the deliciousness is made bit by bit. There is a secret for Zhang’s mother to cook this dish to be delicious. The proportion of peppers is just right, which can not only remove the fishy smell without covering up the stalks. A large pot of snails will always make the two brothers Zhang Bulun work hard to the point of not wanting to watch TV.

The summer is hot, and sometimes I buy a few watermelons at home. After eating the watermelon, Zhang's mother would dig the red flesh little by little with a small spoon, then wash the watermelon peel and process it into thin slices or thin strips, and then put it in a large glass bottle to marinate it with seasonings. When the family drinks porridge in summer evenings, drizzle the pickled watermelon peel with sesame oil and taste it with porridge. It is salty, tender, crispy and fragrant.

At the intersection of summer and autumn, if the Zhang Bulun brothers want to eat another classic specialty dish from Zhang’s mother, they often need to take a chance, because the ingredients in this dish are often sometimes missing. Every time I go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, I occasionally encounter two or three sneaky people in the corner of the vegetable market, looking nervous and looking around. When you see someone coming, you will come forward and ask in a low voice: "Do you want any frogs?" If you encounter someone who wants to buy them, you will take them to a secluded place, take out a long list of snow-white frogs hidden in your coat and quickly complete the deal. The price is not expensive, it only looks like a few cents.

Of course, people who sell frogs do not encounter them every day. It is risky to do this. At that time, if you are caught, you will be severely punished. Therefore, if you see someone wearing a blue top and a red armband, you will not wait for the other party to shout, "What are you doing?" Frog sellers often turn around and slip faster than rabbits. When they are in a panic, they sometimes even abandon the frog in their hands.

When she returned home, Zhang's mother cleaned the frogs, put the cut shredded ginger, garlic slices, red peppers and other seasonings into the oil pan to stir-fry until fragrant, then put the frogs in a golden state on both sides, then add salt, sugar, soy sauce, and MSG, pour in almost the water that flooded the frogs, cover the pot and simmer for a while, then put the pot. A red starch is bright, salty, fresh and fragrant, and the aroma is savory. Every time Zhang’s mother cooks this dish, Zhang Bulun and Jin Xiaobao must watch it on the spot, and they are drooling and looking forward to having a satisfying taste.

The deliciousness of braised frog made Zhang Bulun and Jin Xiaobao smiled every time. After the frog slowly reached the bottom, they would use chopsticks to search the soup on the plate repeatedly, always hoping for a miracle to appear to see if they could find some missing frog legs , looking like they were still unsatisfied.

Once, when eating this dish, Jin Xiaobao, who was always polite and hospitality, even turned against the little guests who came to visit her home. Aunt Wang from the archives room of the factory often takes her son Zhu Kewei to Zhang Bulun’s parents to play on weekends. One day, she was lucky and asked Zhang’s mother to buy a frog. At noon, Zhang's mother showed off her skills and cooked a few dishes. When the final dish was steaming on the table, the three children who were still talking and laughing just now remained silent and started to feast. After several times of slapping, Jin Xiaobao found that he could not rob Zhu Kewei. He was so angry that he pushed his chopsticks on the table and pouted: "Why are you so good at eating? You just eat your legs but not your body!" At that time, Zhu Kewei was so embarrassed.

Zhu Kewei went to Australia after graduating from college. When he met his brother Zhang Bu occasionally, he would talk about this matter. He always sighed: "That is the taste of childhood!"

Zhang's unruly impression is that Zhang's mother is not only good at cooking, but also good at using various cheap ingredients for reasonable matching. One winter, the road was blocked with heavy snow, and the various meat and vegetables they supplied were not transported to the factory. Even if you encounter sporadic vendors with vegetables in their hands, the prices were surprisingly high. As a result, Zhang's mother used the only little pork left at home, plus radish , cabbage, tofu fruit, etc., and then combined with Shanghai silk soup ingredients, and made several hot pots in different ways. The whole family ate it deliciously until a week later, the vegetable market returned to normal.

Zhang Bulun, who is in the second grade, has known a lot of words and especially likes reading books. The villain's books at home have been reading them many times. So every semester, I can't wait to look for the stories when I get the new Chinese textbook every semester. Wang Erxiao, Xiaoyingxiu Yulai, Lei Feng, and Lenin, read it with relish. Unfortunately, most of the stories in the textbooks are not many and they are very simple. I finished reading it in a short while, which made Zhang Bulun very unhappy.

Seeing that his son likes reading so much, Zhang's mother gritted her teeth and ordered the whole year of "Children's Literature". So Zhang Bulun's spring came. When each issue came, he didn't even want to write his homework. He finished reading it in a hurry. When he read the wonderful things, he couldn't help laughing. Seeing this, Jin Xiaobao would definitely come forward and pester his brother to tell him the stories in the book. Zhang Bulun’s favorite are two little mice named Shuke and Beta . One is flying an airplane and the other is driving a tank, and a pair of brothers and sisters named Pipilu and Lu Xixi. The story of each issue is quite exciting and the process and ending are beyond his expectations. Because it is a serial, after reading each episode, I am eagerly waiting for the next episode to arrive quickly. The author of these stories, Zheng Yuanjie, Several years later, also started a magazine called "The King of Fairy Tales".

On weekends, as before, Zhang's father and mother would ride their bicycles to take Zhang Bulun's brothers to Xiaoyaojin and Baohe Park to play. After dinner, they would often go to Xinhua Bookstore to help Zhang Bulun buy some extracurricular books, such as "365 Nights", "One Thousand and One Nights", "Five Thousand Years" and so on. But there is no mine at home, so you are only allowed to buy one at a time.Therefore, Zhang Bulun often falls into a boring situation of shortage of books after reading it in one breath.

So he looked forward to the arrival of the holiday.
Every winter and summer vacation, Zhang Bulun would stay at his grandmother's house for a while, and then Zhang's mother would give him some pocket money. As soon as he entered my grandmother's house and put down his schoolbag, Zhang Bulun would hurried to the roadside in the direction of the nearby motor factory, because there were often people setting up small book stalls there. The rent is very cheap and there are a lot of books. You can read it for five cents, no matter how long it takes. Every time, Zhang Bulun reads more than a dozen books one afternoon, and then goes home reluctantly under the setting sun.

Another reason why Zhang Bulun likes to go back to his grandmother's house is because his uncle Captain Jin. The young Captain Jin had already started working at that time and was doing well in the unit. He had a lot of money in his pocket, and he looked like a person who got rich first. So I often take Zhang Bulun to a restaurant to eat some delicious food. In addition, as long as I hear my neighbors say that there are no good movies, no matter how far or near, I will definitely take Zhang Bulun and go there happily. Once, it really caught up with a sensational blockbuster at that time. (To be continued)