In life, people come and go. Some people want to leave the capital and some return 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. They suddenly discovered that there were a lot of 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 about it, I found out that Bian Jiangong and Su Jin had brought them back from Inner Mongolia.
The family told Hong Yanwu and the others that the two brothers, who had been working in Inner Mongolia for eight years, had finally gone through the procedures to return to the city. It had been almost seven or eight days since they returned home. And through Aunt Bian's "operation", both of them had gone to work.
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It's just that the jobs they work are also temporary workers at the service counter, one is in the snack bar and the other is in the bathhouse.
The family also said that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan had not been back to Furuli in the past few days, and Bian Jiangong and Su Jinke were 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 had not gotten off work in the afternoon. The eldest brother Hong Yan came back from outside first. 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 department stores is 298 yuan.
Seeing that his eldest brother Hong Yanzheng kept his promise and bought the washing machine voluntarily, 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 your sister-in-law?
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Unexpectedly, after Hong Yanzheng set up the bicycle, 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 asked people everywhere to find washing powder.
But when I inquired later, I found that almost every chemical store has it. They have been producing this stuff since 1966. The 'Panda brand' is not expensive at all. It costs 55 cents per pound. Two bags can last us a month and a half.
Do your words make sense or not..."
"Ah? You can't, right? If you don't have a washing machine, you need washing powder first?"
Hong Yanwu was vague and careless.
In fact, this is no wonder. Because residents usually buy soap at grocery stores. But he is purely a contemporary thinker and treats grocery stores as supermarkets.
When he saw that there wasn't any in the grocery store, he thought it really wasn't there. How could he 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 delaying things! I'm quite doubting your words now. Can this washing machine wash clothes cleanly? Don't let me spend so much money to buy another decoration! What do you mean?
What can you do with this thing? Use it as a rice vat?..."
Hong Yanzheng was very reluctant and said a lot of strange words, and then he followed up with another scolding sentence.
"Are you still just 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 acting as security.
"Ouch! Don't worry, my eldest brother. With it, I guarantee that the women in our family will have their hands free, and my mother and sister-in-law's hands will never have any 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 box, installed the washing machine, and went out of the house 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, and 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 can't be said to be a long-established restaurant, and it's too small. There are only three tables in the whole room.
It remains the same all year round, and only sells six types of food: fried cakes, fried ghosts, sugar ears, flatbreads, fried cakes and bean porridge. The total number of employees is only five.
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 could only be responsible for the frying pan in the morning and the bean porridge pan at noon.
Think about it, Aunt Bian's biological son, a descendant of an industrial worker with a prosperous background, has a worse job than 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 coaxedly told them that this thing was called "Kutuga". The steel was good at fire and the blade was as sharp as the "Fish Gut Sword". It was brought back to them specially.
What followed was a series of complaints. He began to strongly express his dissatisfaction with the work.
"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 leaders of the National Farm are comparable
The army cadres were much more gangstered 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? We still wouldn't be able to come back..."
"It's just that we came back a step later than the rest of the country. What bad luck! There are so many people looking for jobs in Beijing now. Children from ordinary families like us basically have only two ways out. One is to become a
Temporary laborers go to work in street factories with poor working conditions, low wages, and poor welfare benefits. But there are still many people who can't get the job. There are eighteen people fighting for one position!
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 temporary workers..."
"Hey, anyway, our generation of young people is quite unlucky. We caught up with the 'movement' as soon as we were young. It was the golden age of schooling. We had to be sent to the wilderness for re-education. If you think about it, we
In fact, you are 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 only known that I had gone out to fight back then, I might have suffered less. It has been eight years and it is not easy to get back.
Now, I've switched to drinking the northwest wind again. I figured it out. They coaxed us out back then just because the city couldn't accommodate so many people. No way! It depends on the pot. Sixteen yuan a month is better than
It's okay to be strong! I'm a big man, I can't just eat at home for free..."
"Su Jin? Su Jin's job is even worse. He earns two yuan less than me. Do you know what he's doing? He's in my brother's bathhouse, praising his stinky feet every day. He's not that wicked.
The newspaper suggested that the traditional services of the bathhouse should be restored. As soon as Su Jin reported it, his husband was arrested by the leaders and forcibly assigned to learn pedicure. Now he washes his hands every day. We still pass by cow dung, sheep dung, and horse dung.
It's the result of exercise. That doesn't work, the smell of humans is still different from that of animals. He himself feels that he has a diaphragm. If he doesn't wash his hands every day, he will never be able to eat. Moreover, he even uses chopsticks to eat steamed buns, and his hands are a little thin.
Don’t touch…”
Just as he was talking, Su Jin also entered the courtyard. When he heard the voice from a distance, he 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 tell everyone. You can even shout in the West Courtyard."
hear……"
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 hurriedly stretched out his stubble. "That's impossible! Come on, brothers, since we are both back, let's not stand around chatting. Quanzi and I will take care of you. How about we go to a restaurant and have a drink while chatting? Let's all go back.
Tell your family, leave your things and leave now..."
Bian Jiangong was overjoyed when he heard it, but Su Jin was a little embarrassed.
"Don't bother me, it's not appropriate to ask you to spend money again. Let's wait until we pay our wages. 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..."
Upon hearing this, Hong Yanwu quickly stopped him with words.
"What are you talking about? What are you talking about? You're a foreigner, aren't you? It's boring for you to mention this! Just because of the friendship between our families for so many years, just because we live in the same courtyard, this is not enough
I don’t want it anymore, don’t put such a heavy burden on your heart..."
Bian Jiangong also said, "Su Jin, you are so serious! You should remember it in your heart, but you will lie just by saying it! Why are you so narrow-minded when you come back? You can't even worry about this little thing.
Come on, you don’t have the energy to trap a wolf in Inner Mongolia! Bale monster, Bale monster! You are simply a lazy horse, and the bit is too heavy. The ears of an exhausted person are also too heavy..."
(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, and we are the first family in Furu.
He will never be exhausted!"
Hong Yanwu also laughed. "Yes, Bian Laosan is still happy! Su Jin is a spoiler, and 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..."
"Ah?" As soon as he finished saying this, Su Jin looked at his hands and immediately turned green!
"Hahaha..." The other three people laughed.
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