Return To 1977 Chapter 450: Complaining

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Life comes and goes. Some people are leaving the capital, while others are returning to the capital. But in fact they are all returning home.

On Sunday, April 15, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan got off the morning shift, bought some food and went home to see their parents. I suddenly discovered that there are many Mongolian specialties at home.

For example, brown sugar cubes with "Xiwu Banner Dairy Factory" written on the wrapping paper, "Naipizi" like dried lotus leaf cakes, and many fried foods called "Mongolian fruits".

These things look like small square lumps, but they taste sweet and chewy like fried dough sticks.

After asking, I found out that Bian Jiangong and Su Jin brought Qingqing back from Inner Mongolia.

The family told Hong Yanwu and the others that the brothers, who had been working in Inner Mongolia for eight years, had finally gone through the procedures to return to the city, and it had been almost seven or eight days since their return. And through Aunt Bian's "operation", both of them have gone to work.

It's just that the jobs they work are also temporary workers at the service counter, one in the snack bar and the other in the bathhouse.

The family also said that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan have not been back to Furuli these days, and Bian Jiangong and Su Jinke are always asking about them.

After hearing the news, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan were not in a hurry to leave that day. They planned to meet Bian Jiangong and Su Jin, and then invite them out for a meal and have a good chat.

Unexpectedly, Bian Jiangong and Su Jin hadn't gotten off work yet in the afternoon. The eldest brother Hong Yan came back from outside first. And he also brought back a brand new washing machine with a bicycle.

That was the first single-cylinder washing machine produced in my country in March this year.

"Jingcheng Washing Machine Factory" named it "Bailan" brand, and the model is Bailan Type I⒔. The price in the department store is 298 yuan.

Seeing that my eldest brother Hong Yanzheng kept his promise, he voluntarily bought the washing machine. Hong Yanwu was happy.

"Boss, you really keep your word. Originally, I was worried that you would keep your word and I would pay for this myself. But let me ask you, do you feel sorry for our mother or not? Sister-in-law?"

Unexpectedly, after Hong Yanzheng set the bicycle upright, he would frown.

"Don't talk cheaply to me! You lied about the news! Let me ask you, didn't you say you didn't have any washing powder? I didn't dare to buy this washing machine when it came out in the department store last month. I'll ask people around for it first. I was looking for washing powder. But when I inquired about it later, I found out that almost every chemical store has produced this product since 1966. It’s not expensive at only 50 cents per pound, and I can use two bags. One and a half months. Does your words make sense?"

"Huh? You can't, right? If you don't have a washing machine, why do you need washing powder first?"

Hong Yanwu looked vaguely careless.

In fact, it’s no wonder. Because residents usually buy soap at grocery stores. But his thinking is purely contemporary, and he completely treats the non-staple food store as a supermarket.

When he saw that it was not available in the grocery store, he thought it was really not available. No one would have imagined that things are so clearly differentiated these days, and washing powder is sold in chemical stores.

"Not yet? You're embarrassing me, it's just a waste of time! I'm quite doubting your words now. Can this washing machine wash clothes cleanly? Don't let me spend so much money on another decoration. ! What do you think this thing can be used for? ..."

Hong Yan was very stubborn and said a lot of strange things, and then followed up with another scolding sentence.

"Are you still watching? Mr. Hong, can we have some insight? Thank you, come and help..."

Hong Yanwu hurriedly walked over, unloading things with his elder brother and making sure at the same time.

"Oh! My brother, don't worry. With it, I guarantee that the hands of the women in our family will be free, and the hands of my mother and sister-in-law will never have holes in the winter..."

While carrying the washing machine box into the house, Hong Yanzheng snorted again.

"Your words are too watery, I can only believe half of them..."

Hong Yanwu smiled playfully. "I am already satisfied with this. You didn't believe it at all before..."

Hey, these two brothers were so poor that the washing machine entered the Hong family's house again.

Then I unpacked the boxes, installed the washing machine, and then went out to connect the water and test it. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. Bian Jiangong went home from get off work first.

His workplace is quite close to his home. He works as a cook at the "Limin Snack Bar" in "Pun'er Hutong" which is only a hundred meters away.

In terms of the nature of this snack bar, it is actually similar to "Tianxingju". It only serves breakfast and lunch, but its specifications are more than one and a half stars worse than "Tianxingju".

Because this place is not a long-established restaurant, it is also too small, with only three tables in the whole room.

It remains the same all year round and only sells six kinds of food, namely fried cakes, fried ghosts, sugar ears, flatbreads, fried cakes and bean porridge. There are only five people in total.

Bian Jiangong was placed there purely for the sake of the street office. There was basically no work for him. Apart from cleaning the tables, chairs and benches, he had to be responsible for the frying pan making fried dough cakes in the morning and the bean porridge cooking pot at noon.

Think about it, Aunt Bian’s biological son is a descendant of an industrial worker with a good reputation. The work is worse than that of Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan. This shows how difficult the current employment situation is.

Sure enough, when Bian Jiangong saw Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, he went home and took out two Mongolian knives with leather sheaths and silver jewelry and gave them to them.

Niu coaxingly told them that this thing is called "Kutuga". The steel fire is good and the blade is as sharp as the "Fish Gut Sword". It was brought back to them specially.

What followed was a series of complaints. Begin to strongly express dissatisfaction with your job.

"Xiao Wu, Quanzi, to be honest. Su Jin and I really have to thank you. Because no matter what you do, at critical moments, you really have to talk about things. Since the formation of the Corps in Inner Mongolia was abolished in 1975, the National Farm The leadership is much worse than the army cadres back then. If it weren’t for you who kept sending money and gifts during these two Spring Festivals, how could we brothers have opened up so many joints..."

"It's just that we came back late compared with the rest of the country. What bad luck! There are so many people waiting to find jobs in Beijing now. Children from ordinary families like us basically have only two ways out. One. One is to work as a temporary laborer, with poor working conditions, low wages, and poor welfare benefits. But there are still many people who can't get the job. Go grab it! If my mother hadn’t been able to talk to the people at the street office, Su Jin and I wouldn’t even have been working as temporary workers..."

"Hey, anyway, our generation of young people is quite unlucky. We caught up with the 'movement' as soon as we were sensible. It was the golden age of schooling, and we had to be sent to the wilderness for re-education. To have a Thinking about it, we are actually not as good as you. You only suffered for three years and then returned to Beijing. The nature of our work now is exactly the same. If I had known that I had gone out to fight, I might have suffered less for eight years. It's easy to get back, and I'm going to drink the northwest wind again. I understand that the reason why we were coaxed out was because there were not enough people in the city! It depends on the pot, it's sixteen yuan a month. , it’s better than doing nothing! I’m a big man, I can’t just eat at home for free...”

"Su Jin? Su Jin's job is even worse. Not to mention earning two yuan less than me, do you know what he is doing? He is in my brother's bathhouse, complimenting others every day. It's not like he knows that It was unethical, and the newspaper suggested that the traditional services of the bathhouse should be restored. As soon as Su Jin reported it, his husband was arrested and forced to learn pedicure. Now he has no time to wash his hands every day. , exercised with horse dung. That's not good either. The smell of humans is still different from that of animals. He himself feels that he can't eat without washing his hands every day, and he even uses chopsticks to eat steamed buns. No hands touched at all..."

While he was talking, Su Jin also entered the courtyard. As soon as I heard the voice from a distance, I knew it was about him.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Jiang Gong, please don't spread it around. Is this a glorious thing? I want to hide it but I can't. With that big speaker of yours, you have to talk to who. You can't stop shouting. You can hear it in the west courtyard..."

Bian Jiangong was embarrassed and rubbed the back of his head. "Aren't I just chatting with our own brothers? How can they laugh at you?"

Hong Yanwu quickly stretched out his stubble. "That's impossible! Come on, brothers, since we are both back, let's not stand around chatting. I and Izumi will take care of you. How about we go to a restaurant and chat while drinking? Let's go back and tell our families. , put down our things and leave now..."

Bian Jiangong was overjoyed when he heard it, but Su Jin was a bit embarrassed.

"Don't bother me, it's not appropriate to ask you to spend money again. Let's wait until we pay our wages, and we will treat you then. However, as for the money and things you borrowed from us, in our current situation, we have to pay it back slowly... …”

When Hong Yanwu heard this, he quickly stopped him with words.

"What are you talking about! What are you talking about! You are a foreigner! You are boring to mention this! Just because of the friendship between our families for so many years, just because we live in the same courtyard, this matter is still Can’t you make it? I don’t want it anymore, don’t be so burdened..."

Bian Jiangong also said. "Su Jin, you are so serious! You should remember it in your heart, but you are lying when you say it! Why are you so narrow-minded when you come back? You can't even bear this little thing, and you don't care about it at all. You are trying to trick a wolf in Inner Mongolia! Monster Ba Le, Monster Ba Le! You are such a lazy horse, and your ears are too heavy for an exhausted person..."

(Note: Baleguai, Mongolian, means "no, no")

After saying a Mongolian proverb, he added half-jokingly, "Let's be free and easy, just listen to Xiao Wu and eat from his rich family! Their family has made a fortune now, we Fu Rulidi The whole family will definitely have enough to eat!”

Hong Yanwu also laughed. "Yes, Bian Laosan is still happy! Su Jin is a spoiler, he has to be punished today! As a punishment... what should he be punished for? Oh, that's right! Let's punish him with roast duck..."

"Huh?" As soon as he finished saying this, Su Jin looked at his hands and immediately turned green!

"Hahaha..." The other three people laughed.