Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 30 Time is Money
Duan Yun is not afraid of how Tian Feng will deal with him in the future. After all, he was also a factory technician in his previous life. It would be fine if he deliberately made things difficult for some new workers. You don't need to worry at all.

At best, Tian Feng will speak ill of himself to the leader behind his back, but the workshop leader has a bad impression of Duan Yun, but Duan Yun is a regular worker. As long as he doesn't make a big mistake, no one can do anything to him.

Compared with these trivial matters in the factory, Duan Yun is more concerned about the electrical repair business that he has just started.

Today is Sunday, and Duan Yun has not received a shift change notice. That is to say, he does not have to work during the day today and tomorrow. For Duan Yun, he can just go to the door to repair the electrical appliances that his sister found for him two days ago. 's business.

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Back home, Duan Yun made up for a morning's sleep, woke up at noon and went to the water room to wipe his face, and suddenly felt refreshed.

After lunch, Duan Yun took the address list for electrical repairs, a multimeter, an electric soldering iron and some other components and tools for repair, and began to wander around the entire factory.

As for the price of repairs, Duan Yun is all about seeing people and collecting money, mainly due to several factors.

Basically, when Duan Yun came to repair electrical appliances, he first looked at the furniture and electrical appliances in the house. In addition, Duan Yun chatted with the owner and asked about their work income, etc., and finally had a base for the asking price.

If the household has complete household appliances, and there is a three-turn sound, Duan Yun will ask for a higher price. If it is a dual-employee, Duan Yun will also add a little more to the price, and when it comes to that kind of family with ordinary or even a little difficult family, Duan Yun will charge a little less.

As for the kind of lonely old man whose life is particularly difficult, Duan Yun also charges a cost price of one or two yuan. If there is no replacement part, he simply does not need the money.

In the final analysis, they all work in a factory, looking up and not looking down, so Duan Yun sometimes earns a little less and it doesn’t matter.

Even so, by the time Duan Yun came home for dinner at seven o'clock in the evening, he already had more than 140 yuan in his pocket!
If Duan Yun can repair all the radios that his sister brought over today, plus the 300 yuan he earned a few days ago, Duan Yun's net worth has reached 500 yuan now!

This amount of money is equivalent to a full year's salary of an ordinary worker in a factory.

For a whole afternoon, Duan Yun almost broke his legs. The whole factory area was not big or small, and sometimes he came to the door and fluttered empty. Just walking wasted a lot of time.

time is money.

Especially now that door-to-door repairs are only available on weekends and Sundays, if you can save time wasted on the road, you can make more money by repairing one more household, so at this time, Duan Yun urgently needs to buy a bicycle.

Duan Yun originally planned to buy a bicycle for his mother and sister, but now it seems that he needs to equip himself with a bicycle first. As for the plan to buy a bicycle for his mother and sister, he can only postpone it until he makes enough money when.

Now a permanent 28 bike costs 160 yuan, plus the high-priced purchase of industrial coupons, the total budget is around 240 yuan.

In addition to the bicycle, Duan Yun is in urgent need of a watch.

When Duan Yun was in the factory, there was a wall clock on the workshop wall, and he could see the time as soon as he looked up.

And now, when Duan Yun is doing maintenance business during the day, he can only estimate the approximate time by looking at the weather. Basically, he goes home for dinner as soon as it gets dark, which is very inconvenient.

So Duan Yun plans to buy both of these things tomorrow and Sunday.

The family of three sat at the dinner table for dinner, and Duan Fang served a bowl of rice for her mother and Duan Yun.

The family's food has been significantly more abundant these days than before. The meat slices that Duan Yun made last time have not been eaten yet. My sister, Duan Fang, is very careful. The meat is marinated with salt so that it can sit for a while longer.

"Mom, let's discuss something with you." Duan Yun put a mouthful of food in his mouth, looked up and said to his mother.

"whats the matter?"

"That's it." Duan Yun put down the tableware and said solemnly, "I plan to go to the city tomorrow to buy a bicycle."

"You want to buy a bicycle?" Mother Gao Xiuzhi was surprised when she heard the words.

Buying a bicycle in the past two years is definitely a big deal for ordinary families.

You must know that many people buy such expensive things when their children are about to get married. After all, this is one of the 'three big things'.

Although it is said that the gear factory has achieved good results in the past two years, basically as long as they are regular employees, every family has bicycles, but many of them are old and dilapidated cars, and some are assembled with defective parts, so buy now A new permanent bicycle is still a very eye-catching thing in the factory area, and the neighbors will come to watch.

Gao Xiuzhi is an old-fashioned person. In those two years, everyone was addicted to saving money. He also knew that his son had made some money now, but she still hoped that his son could save the money and use it at a critical time.

"That's right, I'll buy a permanent one after I think about it, so that it will save a lot of time and convenience for me to go to work and visit other people's homes to repair electrical appliances in the future." Duan Yun said, looking directly at his mother.

"Xiaoyun, buying a bicycle is a big deal. I know you've made some money now, but you'll still be spending more money in the future..."

"Mom, I don't need to take a penny from home to buy a car." Duan Yun said, took out the prepared eight unity cards from his pocket, put them in front of his mother and said: "I have made some money recently. You take 80 yuan, it is my living expenses for the family..."

"I can't use that much, this is too much money." Gao Xiuzhi shook her head after glancing at the money on the table.

You know, before Duan Yun returned to the city, the living expenses of Gao Xiuzhi and Duan Fang's mother and daughter were only about 20 yuan a month, which seemed okay, but Duan Yun wanted to give her 80 yuan a month as living expenses. Days that I could never have imagined before.

"Mom, you have to take this money. Go back and buy some good clothes and delicious food for Xiaofang." Duan Yun put the money in his mother's hands and said, "Why do I make money? I just want us to live like What's the matter, otherwise what's the use of making money for me?"

"Xiaoyun..." The mother's expression was a little touched.

"The other thing, think about it, the young worker in the factory doesn't have a bicycle now? Let's not talk about the distance of the factory at home and the things that are not needed, just say that your son chases the same girl with other guys with bicycles, what do you say? Who will the girl see?"

Duan Yun knew that the last time her mother told her about her relationship hurt her self-esteem, so she deliberately said such words to provoke her mother.

"Buy! This bike must be bought!"

Sure enough, after hearing Duan Yun's words, Gao Xiuzhi said emotionally.

(End of this chapter)