National Tide 1980.

Chapter 3 Destination

Go east from Fan'er Hutong, within 200 meters is Qianmen Street.

On the east side of the road of the Dabei Photo Studio and the post office, which are still temporarily titled "Xinjingcheng", are the 202 and 203 bus stop signs for Ning Weimin to take.

Coincidentally, Ning Weimin just walked out of the alley.

I found a bus shaped like a bread coming from the far south of the road.

He made a quick decision and ran away.

When he ran under the stop sign, the blue "Skoda" just arrived.

Sure enough, the number displayed on the sign on the front of the car is "203".

Because it is the first car, there are not many people in the car.

Under the stop sign, there was no one waiting for the bus except Ning Weimin.

It's a little later, maybe I missed it.

The correct move made Ning Weimin extremely gratified.

He got in the car and showed his monthly pass, then he found a seat by the window and sat down.

But to be honest, in this era, the capital in the early hours of the morning is really nothing to see.

Even the most well-known core business district in Beijing, Qianmen Street, is the same.

You know, people's way of life is too simple at this time, and public facilities are too backward.

There are no convenience stores, no neon lights, no display screens, and no overpasses on the street.

The connection method of the wires is all on the surface, like a spider web connected in the air through the wooden poles.

The crosswalks are as rough as lines drawn for children's "hopscotch", and the traffic lights are much simpler than later generations.

Even the roads are narrow, and a four-lane street is already wide.

Through Wutu's car window glass, there were actually only street lamps, flickering faintly like fireflies.

As for the shops on both sides of the road.

Except that the former site of Zhengyang Building in the West Grinding Plant was transformed into a day and night dining hall, it is still open to receive passengers from the railway station, showing a little dim light that represents the meaning of acceptance.

All the rest of the shops, doors and windows are all tightly seamed, hanging wooden shutters, quietly poking in the darkness.

It's hard to read the name of the store.

Even the tall and majestic front door building, before dawn, can only show the dead silence like blue-gray, lifeless.

It is said to be the capital of the 80s, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like the capital of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Only when Route 203 passes through the Great Leader Memorial Hall, the Monument to the People's Heroes, and Tiananmen Square from south to north, and turns to Chang'an Avenue, will it show the momentum of the capital of the new society.

The roads here are wide and regular, the lanterns are always bright, the trees on both sides are towering, and there are many Soviet-style buildings, which make the most central location of the capital extremely solemn and majestic.

Accompanied by the gradually lit sky, the music of "The East is Red" came from the Beijing Railway Station, and all kinds of motor vehicles finally appeared.

Volga, liberation, 212 jeep, three jumpers...

In addition, there were scattered people riding bicycles to catch the morning shift, and tricycle drivers who were the main force of urban transportation at that time, riding flat tricycles to pull goods.

It brings this country's most famous avenue to life in just one click.

It's a pity that such a wonderful and decent scene is only limited to the journey from Tiananmen to the Friendship Store.

When Ning Weimin got out of the car at the Wangfujing intersection, reversed the car and got on the Dayi Road. Once he passed Yonganli, he was finished again.

Because at this time the Jianguomen overpass has just been completed.

The Jianguomen area, except for a limited number of buildings, is flat.

This is the boundary between the city and the outside of the city in this era.

Once beyond this point, even if you leave the city, there is not even a buffered urban-rural border.

If you want to see a large-scale building again, you can only wait for the car to drive to the Dabei Kiln.

The well-known CBD area in later generations is still the industrial base of the capital.

There is not a single high-rise building, there are only one self-contained system, like the factory area of ​​a closed small kingdom.

But even here, it was still not Ning Weimin's final destination.

After getting out of the car, he had to make another trip to the suburban long-distance 304 to sit on five stops, and then walk for one kilometer.

Because the place he was going to was actually the largest open-air garbage dump in the eastern suburbs of the capital.

And his occupation is a scavenger who eats by picking up rubbish.

So this also explains why he got up so early to hurry.

Not only because of the long distance, but also because he was afraid that the neighbors would chat up and ask questions.

Even the equipment for work, he stuffed it into a big bag, for fear that others would see it.

As hard as it sounds, it's a shameful choice.

In fact, it is Ning Weimin's only choice at present, and it is also the best choice.

Not for anything else, but because of the limitations of the times.

You must know that Ning Weimin's understanding of this era is completely derived from film and television dramas, rebirth novels and imagination.

He prides himself on having emotional intelligence and qualities that have been honed by society, with a golden finger that travels through time and space, and has a way of turning a little bit of stone into gold.

I think that in such a golden age where opportunities are everywhere, isn't it a matter of minutes if you want to exploit a loophole to make a fortune?

Even if you missed the last chance in 1979 for non-graduates to go to college, you should be able to live well.

Unfortunately, imagination is just imagination after all.

As someone who doesn't know enough about this era.

Ning Weimin couldn't accurately measure how much restriction this unfamiliar era had.

The inevitable mistake of optimism is made.

Yes, those place names and signs.

They began to change back to their old place names and old brand names.

"Dongfeng Market" was changed back to "Dongan Market", and "Jingcheng Roast Duck Restaurant" took the lead in restoring the plaque of "Judequan".

Young people even wore trendy flared trousers, and girls had their hair permed into curls.

These are clear signs that positive life changes are about to take place.

But then again, this is only a superficial change.

Real inner change does not happen overnight, it requires a very slow and difficult process.

In fact, since the reform has just begun, the ecological environment of the society at this time is still abiding by the rules of the planned economic system.

The reality did not provide Ning Weimin with any space to flex his muscles and write a personal legend.

The old forces and concepts are still deeply ingrained in people's hearts.

First of all, let’s talk about business. There are no legal self-employed people in this year.

There are some people who do petty business, and there are even people who are bold enough to push their carts to Tiananmen Square and blatantly sell Bian radishes.

But there is one thing, don't run into "office" people.

Otherwise, you will have to leave without food, and your things will be confiscated, confiscated, and fined.

Of course, there are also people doing things about food stamps, industrial vouchers, and overseas remittance vouchers.

But the charge is even heavier. Reselling tickets involves the fundamentals of the country's economy and is already a criminal offense.

If you are really caught, it will not be a matter of staying in the number for a few days, and it will take at least two years to start.

If you want to eat a hospital or a train station, being a scalper is also useless.

These years, the ticket system is strictly enforced, limiting the floating population.

Hospitals in the capital are still serving local people, and they will not reach the point where they cannot be registered.

Hospital visits are a triple bill system, and no one is willing to spend money on an expert number.

As for the travelers on business trips, almost all of them are government-affiliated, and they must use a letter of introduction to buy train tickets.

Who will buy high-priced tickets?You can't get reimbursed if you buy it.

To say that the only feasible way in this regard, I am afraid it is to resell some movie tickets or performance tickets.

But to do this, one is that the profit is thin, and the other is that it is a bit late.

Movie theaters and theaters already have Maoshen from all walks of life demarcating their spheres of influence.

Where are these people so annoying?

Outsiders havetily stretched out their hands, and even the lightest ones had to be beaten, and if they didn’t get it right, they would be spent.

As for stamps, no one cares, and private transactions are also prosperous.

It is a pity that most stamp collectors trade stamps for stamps they do not own.

At this time, philately is philately, and still maintains a great purity.

There are not many cases where people really use a lot of money to buy cherished tickets.

What's especially urgent is that the monkey tickets have been issued at this time.

The full-page "Golden Monkey Banknotes" were left unattended at the post office counter.

But for Ning Weimin, whose pocket was cleaner than his face, he could see it, but couldn't eat it.

How urgent is this?

It was a kind of heart-wrenching torture.

To put it bluntly, it is like a blind person, if you are born invisible, that's all.

What is red and what is green, I don't know, it's not uncomfortable.

I'm afraid that half way is blind.

How bright the red is and how fresh the green is, he fully understood in his heart.

That's what it feels like to bang your head against the wall.

Of course, it was precisely because of this that Ning Weimin took the next step and thought about going to work.

I feel that in order to buy monkey tickets, it is not impossible to find a reason to do it temporarily.

Even if it is a temporary worker, even if the salary is more than ten yuan a month.

As long as he gets his hands to plan the expenses, it is enough for him to get two full-page tickets every month.

A full page of 150 million to 180 million, working for a month, is equivalent to saving 300 million, worth it.

Regrettably, this path of compromise is not feasible.

The vegetable wholesale station outside Yongdingmen had found a stevedore once.

The street also recommended Ning Weimin to go there.

But when people saw Ning Weimin's Peking Opera-like image, they returned him.

I disliked him for being too thin and weak, and he was not as good as an old lady doing this job.

After that, Ning Weimin never got any news about the work arrangement.

To put it bluntly, under the huge employment pressure of the 700 million educated youths who have returned to cities across the country.

Even the incinerators of the crematorium, the street sweepers of the sanitation bureau, and the diggers have become competitive jobs.

A bitter child like Ning Weimin, who didn't find a job when he had a mother, has now become a rootless grass, isn't it even more difficult?

In this way, Ning Weimin is powerful and has nowhere to go.

Those grand plans about the future are almost simmering in his stomach.

After thinking about it, in order to catch the Wangwang given by God... No, the monkey ticket spree.

It seems that picking up junk is the way to go.

(End of this chapter)