Return To 1977 Chapter 491: Hungry
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Compared with the unemployed young people under Yin Shengxi, and compared with the two sons of Guo Peiji and Liu Guixian, Su Jin and Bian Jiangong are undoubtedly super lucky.
After working for more than two months, Su Jin is now well-known in "Zo Cun". Not only does his old master praise him for his talent and solid basic skills. He has also received recognition from some important customers.
For example, the ambassador’s wife and a female diplomat from the Hungarian Embassy, a reporter from Reuters in China, and two female cadres from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since they asked him to make clothes, they will never let anyone else make clothes. Made clothes.
Not to mention anything else, in the whole "making size", only Su Jin can make the striped fabrics match the shoulders and neckline perfectly, and only Su Jin can cut the clothes to the most suitable size. One inch more is not too much, and one inch less is not too much. .
This kind of exquisiteness is exactly what northerners lack most, but there is no female customer who doesn’t love it. Su Jin is naturally popular.
As for Bian Jiangong, it was even more rewarding after all the hardships.
After completing two months of training in the driver's training class, this guy successfully passed the driving test. After Shouqi reported it, starting from August 1, this kid also joined the ranks of waiting for customers to come to the car-hailing phone number 5678, waiting for customers to come to their door.
The car Bian Jiangong was assigned was a second-hand "Warsaw M20".
To be honest, Warsaw cars have low technology content and poor configuration levels. All windows and door locks are manual, and there are no power steering or power brakes. The most advanced configuration is a radio. Due to poor assembly workmanship, the abnormal creaking noise is inevitable when driving.
However, although the quality is not very good, because there are very few cars at this time, customers are very polite to the drivers, begging grandpa and grandma. Not only did the driver get a drink and a cigarette, he also offered a meal.
Because it’s not easy to find Kenla’s taxi. If you really have a lot of things to do and are reluctant to rent a car, you will definitely have to pay for your smile. They will try their best to persuade me to stay, because they are afraid that the driver will not like to wait and is very enthusiastic.
Needless to say, the income of taxi drivers is really high. After only two days of work, Bian Jiangong figured it out. The oil and water in this job is much more than what Hong Yanwu said.
And in the country at that time, the car itself was a symbol of extraordinary status. According to the level, the county magistrate was not qualified to be equipped with a Warsaw car.
Bian Jiangong drives to and from get off work every day, which in the eyes of the neighbors in Fululi is simply awesome. This made Aunt Bian so happy that she couldn't even open her eyes for a whole week.
So now looking at how proud their family members are, and seeing the crowded streets with many young people doing nothing, Su Jin and Bian Jiangong feel lucky. It deepened my gratitude to Hong Yanwu.
Fortunately, Hong Yanwu was also very polite to them, and obviously did not treat them as outsiders.
Needless to say, Su Jin’s skills are the most effective. Hong Yanwu came to ask Su Jin to make clothes for the piece of material Wang Yunlin gave to her as a gift.
Hong Yanwu also used the car driven by Bian Jiangong for free. He took Chen Liquan and "Tang Xin'er" in the car and went to the Summer Palace together.
These two things finally made Su Jin and Bian Jiangong feel more comfortable.
Sometimes people are like this. For people who have given them great help, they are afraid that the other person will not give them a chance to repay them.
After talking about the role of the difficult survival situation of 400,000 people in promoting the reform of the economic system, next we have to talk about the direct improvement of economic consumption by these 400,000 people.
In Beijing in 1979, every day seemed to start with crowds.
At the bus station, on the subway platform, in the department store... even buying breakfast is overcrowded.
Because as long as these unemployed young people have nothing to do every day, they will inevitably go to the streets together.
Going out on the streets often costs money, whether it’s a big bowl of tea for two cents, a bus ticket for five cents, mustard noodles for ten cents, or a movie ticket for fifteen cents... as long as you have it in your pocket Yes, these most basic consumptions are inevitable.
Although most of these educated young people returning to the city are unemployed, their parents are employed. Therefore, movie theaters and restaurants that can satisfy their mental poverty and gastrointestinal hunger have become the biggest beneficiaries respectively.
The movie box office in the summer of 1979 showed unprecedented rapid growth, making every theater in Beijing extremely busy.
In order to receive as many audiences as possible, each theater has increased the number of screenings according to its own conditions.
Whether it is weekends or weekdays, we get up at nine o'clock in the morning, sometimes eight o'clock, and continue until twelve o'clock in the evening. There will be a total of twelve to thirteen games, and there is basically no rest time for the machine in between
Under such circumstances, the thrilling film "Gunshots of the Secret Service" attracted 600 million viewers into the theater. This film also became a box office benchmark for domestic films before the martial arts action film "Shaolin Temple" was released.
Although no one has calculated specific figures on the box office contribution of unemployed young people, the essential phenomenon of full theaters can explain everything.
Because in this era of absolute uniformity, it is impossible for people with jobs to go to the cinema during working hours.
The same principle applies in restaurants.
In 1979, crosstalk actors Gao Yingpei and Fan Zhenyu recorded a crosstalk work called "Unhealthy Style" together.
In this realistic and satirical cross talk work, the author labels the things of building relationships and arrogance just to buy two pancakes as unhealthy.
It sounds like something is on the line today. But one fact that can be determined from this cross talk is that in the late 1970s, the phenomenon of queuing up to eat in restaurants became more and more serious.
Needless to say, this is also due to the large number of educated youth who returned to the city.
The proof is that well-known restaurants can still provide a more comfortable dining environment. But the smaller the restaurant, the more people there are. The sales of fried pancakes and pickled mustard noodles have increased sharply. The phenomenon of more people and fewer restaurants has completely become a sign of the times.
For Hong Yanwu, the impact of these two social situations is both good and bad.
Too bad, it becomes harder for him to eat out.
The "Xinguang Restaurant" in front of his home that he often went to also became overcrowded, and it was useless to even meet people. Because the people in line stood behind the diners, stepping on the beams on the stool legs.
In this case, it is difficult to install a socket for him.
Compared with him, the front office and back kitchen of "Xinguang Restaurant" were even more resentful. Both the waiters and the master chefs were very dissatisfied with the deterioration of work comfort and cursed every day.
This kind of anger is naturally transferred to the customers, but even so, absolutely no one is picky about the restaurant's environment.
Because these days, people’s concept of eating is to eat. Even the big blue-rimmed bowls, spoons, and all the cutlery in the restaurant were scratched, and I didn't dare to criticize them even if I didn't pay attention and could hurt my mouth.
Of course, riding in a car, bathing, and shopping are also affected by this. In the capital, for the first time, people felt the embarrassment caused by the sudden population explosion. It seems that even the air to breathe has become scarce.