National Tide 1980.

Chapter 9 Harvest

On this day, Ning Weimin was frequently despised by others for the first time on his way home.

Because he took too many copper pieces, about fifty pounds, all of which were packed in his broken sack.

Even before he got into the car, he had already stuffed the dirty work clothes, torn straw hat, cotton-padded shoes, and two-tooth hooks back into the canvas bag.

He also washed his face with water from a military kettle.

Others can still tell who he really is.

Especially when they were on the road, the conductor watched Ning Weimin get on the bus with a heavy sack.

As soon as the sack was put on the car, it was still jingling, and it almost froze on the spot.

In other words, he was worried that Ning Weimin was a young man.

And seeing that he took the initiative to show the monthly pass and bought an extra ticket for his sack, the conductor didn't shoot him down.

As for the passengers in the car, they all avoided Ning Weimin like flies.

For nothing else, just because of the garbage dump smell from his sack, which was quite obvious.

Let's put it this way, compared to those cynical Ah Fei with long hair, toad mirrors, in the documentary "Car Ride" released this year.Ning Weimin, who had already tried his best to stay out of the way, seemed to be even more annoying.

Almost everyone is thinking, why do you still take the bus when you pick up junk?

Are you still sitting on the Great Road that runs through Chang'an Avenue?

Does it look good to you?

Wouldn't it be nice to save yourself a couple of dollars with your legs?

Isn't this unintentional to confuse everyone?

However, Ning Weimin himself did not show any dissatisfaction, nor did he bother to savor other people's scorn.

For one, the conductors of buses these days are absolutely not to be provoked.

They have low income and no sense of service.

I have to be in the car every day, and there is no fun in life, and there is nothing left in my life that I have to do is quarrel with passengers.

Don't look at the fact that they will always announce the name of the station in a sleepy tone with something in their mouth, which makes it unpleasant to hear.

But whoever dares to show any signs of provocation, they will choke you with words that are several times clearer than the news station.

At this point, don't talk back.

If you talk back, they will wait for you in baskets of words, and train you like a rainstorm.

It's pouring on you until you are soaked all over and run away.

Once, Ning Weimin just dared to ask a question about how many stops are there to so-and-so.

It made the conductor annoyed, and immediately rolled his eyes.

"Are you deaf or deaf? Didn't you hear me when I called the station? It's the next station, get up quickly, that seat is so comfortable?"

A lesson from the past, why did he bother to touch the bad luck instead of taking this immediate loss?

As for the second one, don't look at the conductor being so good, the other passengers despise him so much.

But Ning Weimin didn't really care.

Because self-esteem and self-confidence come from oneself, a mute feels beautiful when he eats wontons.

Even though he was picking up rubbish, he dared to put a crazy word here.

No one in this car has money in his pocket worth more than his sack.

That's more than 50 catties of copper, and more than [-]% of it is purple. How much does it cost!

Therefore, on the way from Jianguo Road to Wangfujing, Ning Weimin couldn't calculate his own income, and there was no time to spare.

His face was looking out the window, looking at the beautiful scenery on the street, all he thought about was how much he had earned today.

Well, the ones I picked up by myself could sell for about eighteen or nineteen.

But after such an ups and downs, it was replaced by red copper, and the price difference was six yuan more in vain.

And then the forty catties of copper picked up later, and a little bit of brass was scraped off, and I could earn another 40 yuan.

Such a rough calculation, I have earned more than 60.

I rely on, co-authoring today's day is three days on weekdays.

No no no... that's still too easy.

Because the most wise thing I have today is the idea of ​​buying a watch that popped up.

The old boy "General" must never have imagined that there are places like trust stores in the city that specialize in consignment and selling second-hand goods.

Watches there are not only cheap, but also do not require tickets.

Well, I remember following old man Kang to the store to see his old friend when the New Year was over.

There is a Shanghai brand watch that is probably new, which is quite suitable, and it seems to only sell for 82 yuan.

I'm going to pick up the watch repair shop, and I'll play a "tiger job". I will send it to the "General" tomorrow as a new one.

This is equivalent to adding another 38 yuan in profit.

With that in mind, I could earn a small hundred in one day.

Haha, I really am a genius, ask the world who is competing with each other!

In this way, I was happy and happy, one was not paying attention, and my stomach was full of gas, and I was really happy to fart.

The sound of "Pfft" was particularly clear.

It is inevitable that he will attract more contempt for him...

But to be honest, in fact, I really can't blame Ning Weimin for being so stinky, blame him for being so smug, and blame him for being so blind.

Mainly because he had suffered too much during the days when he came back, and he was completely moving forward with humiliation and humiliation.

To be honest, the most money he had in his pocket was the last time he sold blood to save people in the hospital.

As a result, the 60 yuan was returned to the hospital without heating it up.

Afterwards, it was just eggs, brown sugar, and millet porridge. There was nothing meaty.

It's like confinement, and it's even shared with Old Man Kang.

He usually eats three meals a day, and he has already given him an unhealthy belly.

That is, ten days ago, I really arrived at the eastern suburbs garbage dump, and my living standard improved slightly.

But he didn't have any money in his hand.

Because he has his own purpose to make money, when he has money, he is worried about going to the post office and spends all the money he can spend on buying precious monkey tickets.

I worked for ten days, bought it every day, and saved twelve full-page tickets.

For this matter, old man Kang has a big opinion, saying that his brain is sick, and his money is wasted on things that are not worth eating and drinking.

No way, after all, he is from the two worlds. This old man has limited thinking and does not agree with the investment concept of stamps.

So speaking, those happy days of drinking Maotai, steaming sauna, playing mahjong, and ordering lobster in the past life are too far away from him.

Just like the memory of 100 years, it has almost faded and disappeared completely.

Now, when he sees Pan Hong Braised Pork, he can't wait to die of gluttony, and he feels pitiful.

Besides, how high is the gold content of 100 yuan these days?

At this time, the average living cost per person in Beijing was only about ten yuan per month.

An adult's monthly salary of dozens of yuan can basically support a family of three.

Even after 2010, there was a professor of Beijing Normal University who specifically evaluated the gold content of the "80-yuan households" that appeared in the [-]s, and published an authoritative academic research report on this.

The professor believes that with the erosion of inflation in the past 30 years, the 1 yuan in that year is basically equivalent to the current "255 million"!

If measured by this standard, the 1980 yuan in [-] is at least equivalent to today's [-] yuan, or even more.

If you can earn this amount in one day, no one will be so happy, right?

The most important thing is that money is secondary, and the sense of achievement is more important.

You know, this is the first time in this life that Ning Weimin has successfully turned his ingenuity into cash income.

The excitement, self-confidence, excitement, and triumph brought by this business completely dispelled his discomfort with this era.

It is no less than the joy of his previous life when he mastered the skill of scratching and stamping cancelled tickets and modifying them into new ones, and he successfully shot them for the first time.

To put it bluntly, the emotions have been suppressed for too long, and it is rare to see a little sunshine, so naturally it will be brilliant.

As a sultry person who is basically irrelevant to advanced tastes.

He could restrain himself, and he was already very low-key without twisting his butt and shouting "oh, yeah".

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Going out is easy, going back is hard.

The process of Ning Weimin entering the house was a bit long-winded, because he had a lot of things to do.

The first thing, of course, is to go to the waste collection station of the material recycling company with the heavy sack to sell copper.

Since he went to the Eastern Suburbs Garbage Dump, Ning Weimin's frequent visit has always been the Baiziwan Purchase Station.

For nothing else, although I don't want to be "black" by the eastern suburbs waste station, it is convenient to be as close as possible.

But today, he changed the rules of the past. He went out of his way to take the bus back to the junkyard at the front door.

Just because this is the home court in front of the house, he knows the rules of the people inside and will not treat him badly.

Sure enough, in the days of selling waste paper, the "Tao Lao Liu" I knew was not a black hand.

After checking the quality of the magnet, and putting the thing on the scale, I will happily give the money according to the weight and specification.

Although I am quite amazed by the quantity and weight of copper pieces,

But "Old Lao Liu" didn't die, begging Bailai to ask where these things came from.

After all, it's not new, and it's too messy. At a glance, you can see that there is no problem with the source.

In this way, 190 three and four yuan was successfully passed into Ning Weimin's hands, which is really worthy of his sweaty head.

The second thing to do, of course, is to get a watch for the "general" and buy things for the blind.

The trust store at Qianmen is on the west side of Qianmen Street, next to the bicycle shop.

To Ning Weimin's surprise, the 82 yuan Shanghai brand watch in the store was gone and had already been sold.

In the counter, there is only a piece of [-]% new peacock from Dandong.

The price is lower, only seventy.

Although it looks obviously a lot older and there are many scratches on the watch, it doesn't matter.

As long as there is nothing wrong with the movement, it will be fine.

Ning Weimin bought it with confidence.

According to the plan, as soon as he left the trust store on his front foot, he turned his back foot into the Hendry Watch Shop, which is still called "Morning Bell".

Then I spent [-] yuan to pick a brand new watch cover, and spent another [-] yuan for polishing and cleaning.

In just over [-] minutes, the watchmaker was able to make the watch look brand new.

The craftsmanship of the famous shop master is not a blow.

As long as the back cover is not opened, no one can see that this watch is old.

It's more than enough to pass the "General" level.

Of course, Ning Weimin did not delay in the waiting process.

First, I went to the grocery store and department store to buy other things that the blind streamers wanted.

I also bought some food for myself and old man Kang.

Finally crossed the road and made a trip to the post office.

Before closing, he bought seventeen full-page monkey tickets in one go, and then came back to pick up the watch.

After all these things were done, it also appeared at six o'clock in the evening.

Going home again at this time, it can really be called a perfect ending.

Don't ask, looking at Ning Weimin at this time, the joy on his face came from his heart.

Although hungry and tired, but also relaxed and happy.

(End of this chapter)