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 has now become somewhat famous in "Zuo Cun". Not only did his senior chef praise him for his talent and solid basic skills. He has also been recognized by some important customers.
For example, the wife of the ambassador of the Hungarian Embassy, a female diplomat, 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 no longer let others make clothes.
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Not to mention anything else, in terms of "making sizes", only Su Jin can make the striped fabrics match up perfectly on the shoulders and neckline. 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 enough.
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 sought after.
And Bian Jiangong's experience was even more rewarding after all the hardships.
After completing two months of training in the driver training class, this guy successfully passed the car test. After reporting to Shouqi, starting from August 1st, this guy also joined the taxi-hailing phone number 55, 5678, waiting for customers.
Come to your door to act like an uncle.
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 window and door locks are manual, and there is no power steering or power brakes. The most advanced configuration is a radio. Due to poor assembly technology, it makes a squeaking noise when driving.
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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 do they treat the drivers to drinks and cigarettes, they also treat them to meals.
Because it is not easy to find a taxi driven by Ken La. If you really have a lot of things to do and are reluctant to rent a taxi, you will definitely have to pay for your smile. They will try their best to persuade you to stay, because they are afraid that the driver will not like to wait and is very enthusiastic.
Needless to say, the income of a taxi driver is really high. After only two days of work, Bian Jiangong figured it out. The oil and gas of this job is only a lot more than what Hong Yanwu said.
Moreover, 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 drove to and from get off work every day, which was a big deal in the eyes of the neighbors in Fululi. 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 looking at the crowded streets with many young people doing nothing, Su Jin and Bian Jiangong not only feel lucky, but also deepen their 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 craftsmanship was the most effective. When Wang Yunlin gave the piece of material for "Tang Xin'er", Hong Yanwu came to ask Su Jin to make the clothes for him.
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 need to talk about the direct improvement of economic consumption caused by these 400,000 people.
In Beijing in 1979, every day seemed to start with crowds.
At the bus station, at 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 street often costs money, even if 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 these in your pocket,
The most basic consumption is inevitable.
Not to mention that most of these educated young people returning to the city are unemployed, but their parents are employed. Therefore, cinemas and restaurants that can satisfy their mental poverty and gastrointestinal hunger have become the biggest beneficiaries.
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.
Regardless of weekends or weekdays, we get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, sometimes play at 8 o'clock, and go on to 12 o'clock in the evening. There are a total of 12 to 13 shows, and there is basically no rest time for the machines in between.
Under such circumstances, the thrilling film "Gunshots from the Secret Service" attracted 600 million viewers to the theater. This film also became one of the most popular domestic films before the martial arts action film "Shaolin Temple" was released.
Box office benchmark.
Although no one has calculated specific figures on the box office contribution of unemployed young people, the fact that the theaters are full 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 Wind" together.
In this realistic and satirical cross talk work, the author labels the matter of building connections and getting involved just to buy two pancakes as unhealthy.
It may sound a bit over the top 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 large restaurants can still provide a more comfortable dining environment. However, the smaller the restaurant, the more people there are. The sales of fried pancakes and mustard noodles have increased sharply. The phenomenon of crowded restaurants with few restaurants has completely become a sign of the times.
For Hong Yanwu, the impact of these two social situations is both good and bad.
What's worse is that it becomes difficult for him to eat out.
The "Xinguang Restaurant" in front of his house that he often went to also became overcrowded, and it was useless to even recognize people. Because the people in the queue were standing deep among 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 and back kitchen staff of "Xinguang Restaurant" were even more resentful. Both the waiters and the master chefs were very dissatisfied with the deterioration in work comfort and cursed every day.
This kind of anger was naturally transferred to the customers, but even so, absolutely no one was picky about the restaurant's environment.
Because these days, people's concept of eating is to eat. Even the big blue-rimmed bowls and spoons in restaurants, and all the tableware are scratched, and you can hurt your mouth if you are not careful.
Of course, riding a bus, 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 seemed that even the air to breathe became scarce.
In order to thank the book friend "Xiao Ben's Dad" for his encouragement and support, an additional chapter will be added at 17:50 p.m.