Return To 1977 Chapter 584: Flowing Fire in July
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On July 1, 1980, the national postal system officially began to implement the postal code system.
In major post offices in Beijing, when customers held envelopes and curiously observed the new small red squares on them, no one noticed that there were very few "monkey tickets" on the counter, and there were no more A full page ticket.
No one will know that this easy wealth is about to completely slip through their fingers.
On July 4, following the successful export commodities exhibition held in Hong Kong. For the first time, products from Taiwan appeared in the "department store" in Beijing, mainly including electric fans, televisions, tape recorders, watches, folding umbrellas, etc.
And this day was also the day when Hong Yanwu calculated the value of the "red envelope".
According to his own statistics, counting several cities together, the final cost totaled more than 30,000 yuan. What fell into his pocket were 4,863 full-page monkey tickets and 100 for fun. of loose votes.
This is almost the same as the goal he set himself. It is equivalent to eating one-tenth of the stamps in this set. Based on historical prices, these stamps will cost 7.3 billion in the future. Could he still be beautiful?
So he got drunk that day. And in order to commemorate this great victory of great significance to the times, he also wrote a letter expressing his feelings while drinking. Then I specially affixed a four-party "monkey ticket" and stuffed it into the mailbox, preparing to send it to myself as a souvenir.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, when the postman delivered this letter to the east courtyard of Guanyin Yuan, he happened to catch up with Hong Yanzheng coming home from get off work, and the letter fell directly into Hong Yanzheng's hands. .
As soon as Hong Yanzheng got the letter, he not only recognized Hong Yanwu's handwriting immediately, but was also angered by the stamp on the letter.
Because that’s only three cents and two cents! At that time, the postage for sending a letter to the same city was four cents, while the postage for other places was only eight cents. You can’t spend it like this even if you have money!
The boss felt awkward and opened the letter when he went back. As a result, seeing this made my forehead get angry and my temper suddenly got worse!
Okay! I'm sorry that Hong Yanwu only wrote one crooked poem.
"There was a loud bang in the sky, and I made a brilliant appearance. I blamed my drunkenness and immorality for tearing up the national imperial list - a commemoration of the year of Hong Yan, Wu and Geng Shen."
Isn’t this enough to hold you over after you’ve eaten enough? It's obviously a deliberate waste of money!
Come on, the one who "teared up the emperor's list" will be punished in this world as soon as he returns home tonight. Hong Yanwu was indeed scolded by his elder brother for his "drunken immorality".
Fortunately, the value of monkey votes has not yet been recognized by society. Otherwise, Hong Yanwu would have to scold Hong Yanwu for a whole year if he knew that this four-party alliance could earn 60,000 yuan in the future.
There is an idiom called "Flowing Fire in July", and many people think it describes the hot weather. But in fact, it's just the opposite. The real meaning of this word is that the big Mars moves westward and the weather turns cooler.
And in July of this year in Beijing, on the fourth day when the Beijing City Government officially released the "Trial Measures for Profit Retention of State-Owned Enterprises", the release of a movie did bring some relief to the unbearably hot summer. Cool feeling. That is my country's first tourism scenery movie - "Love in Lushan Mountain".
The storyline of this movie is not too complicated. Zhou Jun, a Chinese-American girl, was visiting Mount Lushan when she met Geng Hua, a young and enterprising man from Mainland China. The two fell in love at first sight. Later, due to frequent contact between the two, there were rumors that Geng Huali had foreign connections, which made Zhou Yun reluctantly leave.
Five years later, as the reform became more and more intense, Zhou Yun came to the mainland again and found Geng Hua, who was already a graduate student, and planned to marry him. But Zhou Jun's father was a retired officer of the Kuomintang, and he and Geng Hua's father were once mortal enemies on the battlefield. This incident then became an obstacle for both men.
In the end, after repeated painful thinking, the two fathers finally agreed to the marriage. Zhou Jun's parents also returned to the mainland from the United States, and they had a perfect ending of "they lived a beautiful and happy life from then on".
In fact, the reason why this movie became the most loved by the audience at that time was that it suddenly caused a stir in the hearts of thousands of young men and women. In addition to the outstanding appearance and on-point performances of the pair of young actors Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin. There were two other reasons that seemed shocking at the time.
One is Zhang Yu’s bold kiss on Guo Kaimin in the film, which broke the forbidden zone of domestic movies for many years. Created the first kiss on screen in the Republic.
The other is that Zhang Yu changed forty-three sets of costumes in the film, making "Romance in Lushan" an almost unprecedented film with the most fashionable costumes displayed by the heroine.
As a result, Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin became recognized as a screen couple because of this movie. They became popular idols sought after by countless audiences and became the dream lovers of young men and women.
What is of more practical significance is that in addition to the first example of the effectiveness of product placement, Lushan Scenic Area has seen a huge increase in tourists and has become the most attractive scenic spot in the future. This movie also seems to have taught a generation how to fall in love.
Young people are rushing to imitate the plots in the movie. From then on, they no longer just talk about work and ideals in their love letters, but also give each other "revolutionary salutes." But there are more euphemistic expressions of affection.
But what is even more unbelievable is that plots similar to those in movies actually appear in life.
And the most amazing thing is that not only did this example happen to Hong Yanwu in real life, but the male protagonist in the love story was Hong Yanwu's second brother, Hong Yanwen.
So how did this true portrayal of "Lushan Love" happen?
In fact, to find out the root cause, we still have to find Hong Yanwu.
As we said before, when Hong Yanwu and "Tang Xin'er" were eating the "duty-free quota for overseas travel" in the Wangfujing "Department Building", they often tried their best to sneak into the "Xinhua Bookstore Internal Publishing Group" in Dongdanertiao, Wangfujing. Pretend to be a high-ranking official's son and buy all kinds of "leather books".
Hong Yanwu is not a stingy person. The "banned books" he bought will not just be read by himself. The scope is very wide. In addition to his own family, he would also give it to Chang Xianzhang and lend it to his neighbors Shui Qing and Shui Lan.
Among these people, Hong Yanwen is certainly the most convenient and least vain. When he goes home once a week, he takes some books and takes them back to school to read.
But didn't something happen to "Tang Xin'er" later? Hong Yanwu had no intention of getting any more books. So since October last year, there has been no source of new books, and Hong Yanwen's spiritual food has gradually stopped.
But you must know that for people of Hong Yanwen's generation who grew up in the "movement", the meaning of books is extraordinary. Their affection for books is unparalleled by any generation.
This is caused by the times. Because they have just learned a little bit about things, and it is when they are learning and cultivating hobbies, "exercise" comes, and they can't do anything at once.
Learn to paint, the cost is too high. Whether it is Western painting or Chinese painting, you have to spend money to buy paper and pen. It’s better to learn music, it’s a one-time investment, so I just gritted my teeth and bought it. But the most important thing is that teachers are hard to find.
Because apart from the fact that teachers privately recruit students, they are suspected of running a black club. In addition, almost all the gadgets have become "fengzixiu" things, making it impossible for others to teach them.
Even if we only teach revolutionary themes, something might go wrong if we are not careful. There is also the risk of being charged with a crime. Then who would be willing to do such a thankless thing?
Thus, in this social context of general cultural hunger, ~IndoMTL.com~ has become the "hobby" of most people, especially literary books.
Later, when they went to the mountains and countryside, under such harsh conditions far away from their hometown, and under the circumstances of suffering all kinds of life hardships, many people’s spiritual world often relied on one or two novels that had been read countless times, and The Count of Monte Cristo. , Jean Valjean, Gadfly and other characters who live in the novel support it.
That is why people of this generation will study eagerly once they are admitted to college, which will lead to the "reading craze" in the whole society in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and will emerge from them like Shu Ting, Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Poets like Liang Xiaobin, Jiang He, Shizhi, Mang Ke, and Wang Guozhen. And writers like Liu Xinwu, Liang Xiaosheng, Yue Erhe, Tie Ning, Lu Yao, Mo Yan, and Du Liang.
Because not only do they believe that knowledge can change their destiny, books also cover almost their entire spiritual world. It can be completely equated with the soul.
Now that you know this, you can understand what happens next.
Hong Yanwen, whose appetite has been whetted by Hong Yanwu, is addicted to books. He will definitely try his best to continue to get all kinds of "leather books" that he has no way to get, to satisfy his "needs" for survival.
Hong Yanwen's method is very simple. He just waits outside the "Internal Book Publishing Group" in Dongdan Ertiao every Sunday, and chooses opportunities to discuss with the young customers who come out.
He volunteered to reward him with money, either asking someone to buy a few books for him, or asking someone to transfer the book he had just bought.
His method really works, because he can make extra money without any effort, and there must be someone willing to help him. But don’t forget that the young people who come in and out of here are all children of different families.
Not to mention those kids who have high standards, they also grew up in an environment lacking parental care and training. Very few people know what humility and courtesy are. Most of them are like wild wolf cubs, they just know that they will take advantage of the bargain, but the bargain is not enough.
In addition, Hong Yanwen is a conscientious nerd, so the price he pays to achieve his goals is often outrageously high.
He spent a few yuan to buy a book that cost a few cents. You can also buy a copy for ten dollars. He even agreed to spend twenty or thirty yuan to treat a group of people to a meal of hot mutton for a few books. It's really a bad idea to be tricked.
But fortunately, Hong Yanwen really loves books. As long as he doesn't run away in vain, he is happy when he can buy a book he likes and never cares about the financial gains and losses. He himself didn't care.
In addition, he is not short of money, since his family received the refund compensation. It has always been forced upon him by his parents, brothers and sisters, and he also received subsidies from the state to go to college. Altogether, there is at least a hundred yuan in “income” every month. So in terms of economic conditions, it's completely enough for him to mess up like this.
Of course, if he is gone for a long time, he will inevitably attract the attention of the staff. Within a few weeks of this, he had aroused the curiosity of the heroine.