Shang Wenquan’s words are not only his own voice, but also the voice of all Chinese workers in an era of drastic change.【】
I remember that at a Spring Festival gala more than ten years ago, a sketch once said, "The eighth-level fitter is equivalent to a senior intellectual!" This sentence caused everyone to laugh. Obviously, people had already understood it at that time.
This sentence was treated as a joke.
But in the 1960s and 1970s, this sentence couldn't be more correct.
In that era of planned economy, worker was a respected profession, because becoming a worker in a factory meant stable income, high wages, and high social status.
When girls choose a partner, their first choice is a national worker. Did you hear that, they are not simply workers, but they need to add a prefix in front of workers, called national workers! This is absolutely unimaginable now.
This shows the status of workers in the minds of the people at that time.
"Our country is a socialist country led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants." Workers, whether literate or not, know this sentence clearly stated in the Constitution.
Since they are all the leading class of the country, how can the status of workers not be high? But in the 1980s and 1990s, especially after entering the 1990s, this sentence slowly disappeared from people's lips.
Because at this time, soldiers have become "stinky soldiers", and workers have become "stinky workers". These dazzling professions in the past are no longer attractive, and have been replaced by big money, bad guys, and all kinds of experts who make money.
With the development of society, they gradually grew and became leaders in society.
Listening to Shang Wenquan angrily complaining about the decline of workers' social status, even to the point where they can't even look down on illness, Shen Tianlong was helpless. Although he sympathized with Shang Wenquan, he knew that what Shang Wenquan said was reality.
Now workers are no longer good, veterans are no longer good, and teachers are no longer good. People no longer evaluate a person based on the nature of the industry, but characterize a person based on the amount of money.
No matter how meaningful, noble or educational the industry you are engaged in is, if there is no money, all the halo will be in vain.
Since the 1990s, Chinese society has officially entered an era where those who hold scalpels are not as good as those who hold razors, and those who make atomic bombs are not as good as selling tea eggs. Of course, the golden period of prosperity for these small self-employed people will only be ten years, and ten years from now
, society has entered the era of fighting for fathers again, which is unexpected by people.
In short, the Chinese society in the 1990s was an era where whoever was rich was awesome and whoever was respected!
Shen Tianlong felt deeply about this, because Yang Qilang was a living example.
Compared with Shang Wenquan, Yang Qilang is living a very prosperous life now, and compared with other nouveau riche, Yang Qilang is young and handsome, just like a rich young man.
If such people are not respected, who will be respected?
According to previous sayings, Yang Qilang was a juvenile delinquent and a person who had been in prison. If we were still in the 1960s and 1970s, people like Yang Qilang would definitely not have an employer after they came out.
I'm afraid such a person can't even be called a wife.
But times must have changed. Although this era has its shortcomings, it has become more and more tolerant, and people have more and more opportunities. It is precisely because of the tolerant policy that Yang Qilang has become more and more tolerant outside.
Things got better and better, even to the point where Shen Tianlong and Er Huizi were surprised.
Compared with Shang Wenquan, the financial director who needs to steal iron to make a living, Yang Qilang is really awesome and understands things very well.
By the time it was 1992, Yang Qilang was no longer the stupid young man who used to slash people with a large knife because of a few pairs of skates.
At this time, he had green hair, a large gold chain as thick as his thumb, and wore tight jeans and a snow-white cotton shirt. The top three buttons of the shirt were unbuttoned, revealing a long and narrow scar. The shape of the chest should be as fashionable as possible or as uninhibited as possible.
Wild yet delicate, yet delicate yet ruthless, Yang Qilang is definitely the idol of thousands of girls in Hongqi City.
Shen Tianlong and Erhuizi were imprisoned at the same time, and after being imprisoned, Yang Qilang took over the store under Shen Tianlong's name and Erhuizi's bookstore chain at the same time.
Although Yang Qilang earned a low salary at Shen Tianlong's store, the store's financial situation was very good. That day, Yang Qilang rode a motorcycle to the prison to find Shen Tianlong.
"Brother Tianlong, we have a lot of money in the account of our store. Now when I go to buy goods, those people look down on me and look down on me when they see me driving a long-distance bus. Let's just buy a car." Yang Qi Lang asked Shen Tianlong for instructions.
"Just buy it if you have money in your account. Also, you don't need to ask me for instructions on these things in the future. That store belongs to you and Qiqi, you can make your own decisions." Shen Tianlong said.
"Fuck, Sister Tianfeng was closer to me than my own mother back then. If I took over this store, would I still be a human being? This company belongs to you, and I will hand it over to you when you come out. Even though you are my brother, this matter No discussion allowed!" Yang Qilang turned around and left after leaving one sentence.
Less than a week after returning from prison, Yang Qilang spent more than 200,000 yuan on an imported off-road vehicle!
While helping Shen Tianlong take care of his business, Yang Qilang of Erhuizi's bookstore was not left behind either.
Yang Qilang has been very close to his second brother since he was a child. Now that the second brother has entered, those bookstores are the second brother's hard work. How can Yang Qilang not take care of them carefully?
But the way Yang Qilang managed the bookstores made Er Huizi very dissatisfied, and the two brothers even had a big quarrel over this.
"Second brother, I have purchased some of your bookstores," Yang Qilang said.
"Hey, how many are there?" Erhuizi was a man who loved books. When he heard that Yang Qilang dared to sell his own bookstore, he puffed his beard and stared in anger.
"Uh..., not many." Yang Qilang hesitated, refusing to tell the truth.
Less than a year after taking over Erhuizi's bookstore, Yang Qilang sold out almost three-quarters of the bookstore. These bookstores were Erhuizi's hard work. How could he dare to tell the truth?
If he makes his second brother angry again, Yang Qilang won't be able to explain.
After Yang Qilang sold the bookstore, he used the money to expand the remaining bookstore by more than ten square meters and renovate it. With the remaining money, he bought all the TV sets.
Not only did he buy a TV, Yang Qilang even bought a video recorder.
At this point, Erchaizi's bookstore is still a bookstore on the surface, but after entering the bookstore, you pass through a secret door and inside is the video room.
A 21-inch TV, a few tattered long wooden stools with backrests, dim lights, and a variety of video tapes constitute the paradise of more than 70% of adolescent boys in this Hongqi City.
In the years to come, the video recorders were replaced by VCDs, and the video tapes were replaced by compact discs. The boys who had experienced in the video hall were replaced one after another, and the video hall was also developing with the times.
More than ten years later, at a gathering with friends, the grown-up Chen Weidong suddenly shouted "Boss, change the disc!" This simple sentence made everyone burst into tears because of this sentence.
It brought back those old boys' memories of their boyhood.
The post-80s generation in Hongqi City, represented by Chen Weidong, met Hong Kong and Taiwan stars such as Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, and Chow Yun-fat in the video hall of Yang Qilang and Erhuizi, and most of them masturbated in this video hall in their lives.
First time tube.
Because the video hall not only has videos of police, criminals, and gangsters, but also better-looking movies. For these boys with extremely strong hormone secretion in adolescence, the so-called better-looking movies are pornographic movies.
Of course, Yang Qilang worked hard to find these pornographic films from other places.
"Xiao Qi, showing that kind of movie in our video hall is already too much. Why do you keep selling the store? Do you still want to expand the scale?" Qiqi Ge asked.
"Yes, in my ideal, a truly high-end video studio should be made into a small private room, with a bed in each private room, and only two people can lie on the bed, and then some medicines such as Ant Dali Pills are added, then
Business is guaranteed to be booming!”
"Think about it, those young people have a place to do their business, and it's cheaper than a hotel. They can rotate a couple in two hours. This makes money. Besides, if we do this, these people who are trying to find partners will not be able to do it.
Be grateful to me, I am doing a good deed."
As soon as Yang Qilang mentioned his long-term plan for the video hall, he became extremely excited. He boasted proudly to Qiqige, suddenly ignoring that Qiqige's face was getting more and more ugly.
"Shameless!" Qiqige spat and said angrily
"Why are you so shameless? When we were hooking up, we could only run to the mountains. It was still winter at the time, and the temperature in our area meant that I had strong firepower. How about trying someone else? Don't let his thing freeze off.
That's weird." Yang Qilang still spoke plausibly, completely ignoring that Qiqige's eyes were already burning.
In short, Yang Qilang was running Tianlong Trading Company and managing Erhuizi's bookstore and video hall at the same time. He became prosperous and became a trend-setter in the market.
In short, no matter who you are, you have to eat, sleep, and live your life. This is the fundamental! Different people have different ways of living. Don’t envy anyone, and don’t belittle anyone, because the world is inherently colorful.