The joys and sorrows of pigs are not the same, Yao Yuan only thinks they are noisy.
Um?
He scratched his head, as if something was wrong.
It is now the summer of August 2001, and I am squatting in front of an ICBC, watching a pig truck slowly drive away.
Of course, on this afternoon when the sun was shining and the breeze was not dry, he was not squatting on the roadside to watch the pigs...well, he was just watching the pigs.
Because it’s so boring. There are no smart phones, no Weibo, no Bilibili, no happy rumor-refuting offices, and no live broadcasts or girls doing coquettish dances. Life is no fun.
I thought about how I had worked hard for half my life and finally bought a house in the kitchen area. I was on a blind date and was reborn before I could live in Rehu Kacha...
What a rush! What a rush!
Yao Yuan touched his hair, which cost at least 80,000 yuan in the hair transplant era, straightened out his belly without a trace of fat, felt the abundant energy of the big pendulum in his crotch, and sighed obediently:
"Forget it! For the sake of being 21 years old."
This is Yao Yuan's hometown, a remote northeastern town.
Diagonally across from him is a small square, where stands a gray building with the vicissitudes of time, with a banner from last month hanging at the door:
"Warm congratulations to BJ on his successful bid for the Olympics!"
It was the only cinema in the city. Old cinemas were auditorium-style, with two floors and a large screen. It could watch movies and perform shows, and could easily seat thousands of people.
I have watched various movies organized by the school, various literary reports, prison inmate performances, and Li Lizhen's "Peach".
That was still far away, oh no, in the late 1990s, a movie theater that was about to close down openly posted a poster outside saying "No entry for those under 18 years old!"
I had just received my ID card, and I wanted to punch the conductor on the nose.
These days, teachers in Japan are not yet familiar with each other, and boys’ dream lovers are all in Hong Kong. Although porn has been available through pirated discs, the taste in the cinema is very different.
Unfortunately, it was abandoned later. The small town experienced the embarrassment of not having a cinema for many years, and finally opened one on the top floor of a comprehensive shopping mall. This was already an era of rapid development of urban and rural cinemas.
"Didi!"
A car painted with armed escorts slowly came over and called out to him twice. Yao Yuan moved sideways like a crab to make way for him. Two men with guns jumped out of the car and glanced at him coldly. They judged that this lazy man was as lazy as
The old dog guy is not aggressive at all.
Yao Yuan's eyes followed the cash box into the bank, and he couldn't help lamenting the savings he had made in his previous life. He dug into his trouser pockets and found a total of 32.5 yuan.
A 50-cent coin, a 2-yuan note, the green one, with ethnic minority sisters on the front and Nantian Yizhu on the back... Some children have never seen it before.
Look at myself again. She wears short sleeves, big pants, and instep-exposed sandals, and looks like a street kid.
"Hey, there is nothing but youth."
"Nothing is done, go home, go home!"
He patted his butt and stood up, headed west from ICBC, turned a few corners, and stopped at the entrance of a high school family home about ten minutes later.
He didn't go upstairs, but entered the canteen at the door and said, "Make a call!"
These days, most canteens have public phones, and local calls usually cost 50 cents per minute.
Yao Yuan dialed the landline at home and said concisely: "Hello? Mom, I'm downstairs, come down!"
After hanging up the phone, I browsed the shelves for a long time and picked up a bottle of the most familiar Master Kong iced black tea. It had a brand new packaging and it said "full of ice power".
The memory comes to mind, and I don't know the past and present. It should be that Master Kong invited Ren Xianqi to be the spokesperson and filmed a very popular commercial. The song was called "Full of Ice".
Question: To what extent did all the talented people become famous back then?
Answer: He has played Yang Guo, Linghu Chong and Chu Liuxiang.
"Tsk tsk!"
Yao Yuan complained in his heart, and after waiting for a while, his parents came down.
My father's name is Yao Yuemin. He wears glasses, has slightly curly hair, and has a lively face. He is good at talking about the past and the present in class, making nonsense.
My mother's name is Yuan Liping. She is a little fat in her middle age, and has majestic features. Her special move is to quietly appear at the back door of the classroom and crush the whole audience with her domineering look.
Yes, both of them are high school teachers, one teaches Chinese and the other teaches mathematics.
You know, you make more money teaching math.
Before the education and training industry was completely wiped out, a good teacher could earn hundreds of thousands of yuan by giving tutoring lessons to high school students during a holiday. However, in this era, based on the level of schools and prices here, a student can earn about a few hundred yuan.
The family conditions are pretty good, his parents are doting on him, and he is never short of material things. Yao Yuan is also quite successful and has been admitted to a university in the capital.
When Yuan Liping saw her son, her eyes instantly softened and she said, "Where have you been?"
“Walking around, I want to watch a movie and it’s not open yet.”
"That shabby movie theater is almost closed, so why open the door?"
"Why did you chop it off?"
"The government has no money, so it will sell the land. I heard that it will build a building."
"Residential building?"
"It seems so. I'm just wondering how many people there are in the city. Who can live in so many buildings?"
"No matter who lives there, housing prices will definitely rise."
"Pull it down. If it rises again, can it still go up to the sky?"
Yao Yuemin showed his disdain for housing prices, and Yao Yuan shrugged. Wouldn't you be scared to death if you knew that the average price of houses here would be 7,000?
He stretched out his hand to hail a taxi, a small Alto. It had no meter, and it didn't even have one 20 years later. It initially cost 3 yuan for a taxi within the county, but later it went up to 6 yuan.
"To Xiaolan Village."
"15!"
Needless to say, these are all fixed prices.
The three people got into the car, started it slowly, and drove on the streets where private cars were still relatively rare, passing by scenes of old street scenes that looked like film images.
It's been a few days since Yao Yuan came back, but he still hasn't seen enough, or maybe he's still getting used to it.
Adapt to this rough and rapid advancement era.
Yao Yuemin was sitting in the back, but he was still thinking about the topic just now, and suddenly said: "Xiaoyuan, how much is the house price in Beijing?"
"Defined by location and community, there are some with two to three thousand, and some with over ten thousand."
"Where is the newspaper office where you interned?"
"Here is Chaoyang..."
Yao Yuan was a little excited. In his previous life, his parents did mention the matter of buying a house in the capital, but in the end they dropped the matter. One reason is that he did not stay in the capital to work, and the other reason is that many people in this era really don't care about houses.
Just like in this small town, you can buy a house for tens of thousands of dollars, as long as you have the hands and feet, you can achieve it.
What kind of mortgage! It’s just needed! It’s a loan! It’s a job! It’s a lie down! None of these heart-wrenching concepts are there!
Yuan Liping heard this and said, "What do you want to do, buy a house for Xiaoyuan?"
"Let me ask, if he stays in Beijing to work in the future, he can't always rent an apartment, right?"
"It's so far away from Beijing. It would be better to take the civil service exam when I come back, or find a job in a state-owned enterprise."
"When I come back, I'm going back to Shencheng. I can't go home. Is there any good job here... Well, it's not enough for a few years anyway. Let's wait and see."
"..."
Yao Yuan leaned against the car window and cried in the wind. "Don't wait, you will go to heaven as soon as you wait!"
It doesn’t mean that you have to buy a house now. You’ll be reborn and still can’t earn a house? The key is that buying now gives you a sense of accomplishment! A sense of accomplishment of picking up the pieces!
If you spend 200 million yuan to buy a blue and white porcelain, it may not be a big deal, but if you spend 200 yuan to pick up a blue and white porcelain, it will definitely produce a twisted pleasure.
He rubbed his chin and made a note in the little notebook in his mind. Not being able to pick it up was even more uncomfortable than losing money.