Counterattack 1988

Chapter 16 Hierarchy is a wall of air, invisible but existing

In this era, the trust between people is far better than that of later generations.

Wang Lin also had the grace to save Shen Xue's life.

When she talked about family affairs, she had no scruples.

It's really a spring breeze to be with a beauty!
Listening to her speak softly, the conversation itself was a pleasure.

After listening to Shen Xue's talk about family affairs, Wang Lin felt that he shouldn't accept her watch.

A watch is two hundred yuan less, which is equivalent to two or three months of Shen Xue's salary!

Grandma Shen Xue only has a meager retirement salary, and Shen Xue herself only has a monthly salary of 85 yuan.

Now that the price of goods is soaring, Shen Xue must not have enough money at home.

However, if she returned the watch to her, she would definitely not accept it.

From her behavior of returning the table and entertaining guests, it can be seen that she is a very kind person, and she is also a person who refuses to owe favors.

When Grandma Shen Xue went upstairs and Shen Xue was packing up the dishes, Wang Lin took out two hundred dollars and quietly pressed them under the porcelain teapot on the table, then said goodbye and left.

Shen Xue shouted: "Comrade Wang Lin, wait a moment, I'll take you back!"

"No need!" Wang Lin said, "I still have something to go to the nearby shopping mall."

Shen Xue sent him downstairs and shook hands with him again: "Comrade Wang Lin, goodbye!"

Wang Lin is a smart person, but also a sensitive person.

He could see that in this contact, Shen Xue was polite enough to him, but it was only gratitude to his benefactor, and kindness to comrades, without any other feelings.

One meal is also a reward for his life-saving grace!
The intersection of the two people, maybe that's the end of it?

Wang Lin summoned up his courage and asked, "Shen Xue, are you free tonight? Shall we watch a movie together?"

Shen Xue lightly brushed her hair and smiled slightly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Wang Lin, I have to rehearse tonight."

Say "Comrade" and you will be turned away thousands of miles away!
"It's okay, then I'm leaving!"

"See you!"

Shen Xue turned around and entered the small courtyard without hesitation.

A burst of melancholy surged in Wang Lin's heart.

He clearly knew the imperfect ending of this woman's future, but he was powerless to change it.

Not to mention changing the trajectory of her life, he didn't even have a chance to get close to her!
He took the initiative to send out the invitation just now, in fact, he was probing. She refused very clearly, and left no room for maneuver, let alone gave Wang Lin any hope!
Because she didn't even leave a perfunctory word like "Let's talk about it later when I have time!"
Wang Lin and Shen Xue are too far apart!
This distance is not only the distance, but also the distance between occupations!It's the gap between the two people's education, experience, circle, cultural attributes, etc.!

Normally, a pillar of a song and dance troupe and an ordinary mechanic can never meet!

Shen Xue would not look down on workers, and it was okay to be friends.

But if she is asked to date a worker, fall in love, marry and have children, and spend the rest of her life together, she will never accept it!

Classes are like air walls, invisible but existing, cutting off the communication between so many people!

Wang Lin has a deep understanding of this.

He also didn't think unrealistically that he could win the heart with just one contact.

Even if you are gold, you have to wait until you stand out and shine, so that people can appreciate your beauty and value!
For now, his external image, everything he showed, is enough not to make her hate him.

Wang Lin came to a department store.

He wandered around casually, and was shocked by the "high-priced goods" in front of him!

In this era, wages are not high, but prices are unattainable.

A color TV is 1350 yuan, a double-cylinder washing machine is 357 yuan, a Shuanglu brand double-door refrigerator is 1260 yuan, Pioneer brand audio is 2112 yuan, and a three-piece genuine CD opera is priced at 360 yuan!
These ordinary things are expensive for the working class, and some of them have to be supplied by tickets, or even by quotas for people going abroad or overseas remittance vouchers.

For some materials that are in short supply, if you have money and tickets, you may not be able to buy them immediately, and you have to wait in line.

But no matter what age, there will always be a "rich class".

What's more, it has been almost ten years since the reform and opening up!

There are still many people who get rich first.

Like this price breakthrough, the prices of various materials have skyrocketed, and there are still people snapping up them.

In some state-run stores, as long as the TV has a picture, as long as the electric fan can be turned, they will be bought.

Wang Lin found the watch counter, where there is a repair point for watches.

He took out his watch and handed it to the watch repairer.

The master glanced at it and said, "What a fine watch! Why is it broken like this?"

"The new watch, I accidentally dropped it before I put it on. Master, how much does it cost to fix it?" Wang Lin asked.

"twenty!"

"So expensive? Why don't you just change the glass cover?"

"How can it be so simple! You can't clean it here? And the watch hands have to be replaced. Twenty yuan is the lowest price. If you don't believe me, go to other places to ask the price, I'm afraid it's more expensive than mine! Comrade , is your watch repaired or not?"

"build!"

In less than five minutes, the watch was repaired.

Wang Lindao: "Master, you earn too much money, right? Twenty yuan in a few minutes! It's equivalent to my weekly salary!"

The watch repairer smiled: "The main reason is that the accessories are expensive, so I only earn [-] cents for the craftsmanship."

Wang Lin didn't believe his nonsense, but he couldn't help it. Who told someone to be skilled?

He took the watch and compared it with the new one Shen Xue bought. It was just as accurate, but the glass cover of the repaired watch was extraordinarily white and shiny.

"Master, do you have a female watch on the counter? I'll exchange this watch for a female watch!" Wang Lin said.

"Change to a female watch? Yes, but you have to pay more."

"How much?"

"thirty!"

"Thirty? With the maintenance fee, it's fifty! Isn't this too dark?" Wang Lin was really heartbroken, half a month's salary!
"Comrade, there is no way. Although your watch is new, it has been repaired. We can only sell it at a reduced price. Counting your thirty yuan depreciation fee, it is already very cheap. Do you want to change it?" ?”

"Change!" Wang Lin took out the money again and exchanged for a Shanghai brand female watch.

This is a new style with a calendar and day, which is very exquisite.

Wang Lin put the watch Shen Xue gave him on his hand, and went shopping nearby.

There is a commercial street nearby, with small stalls on both sides, selling everything, most of which are fashionable clothes, silk stockings, leather shoes, hairpins, etc. sold from Guangzhou.

When Wang Lin saw a stall selling long dresses, he couldn't help but stop and linger.

The stall owner was a girl, holding a meter stick in her hand, and greeted him warmly: "Comrade, buy a skirt for your lover!"

"Hehe, how do you know that I have a lover?" Wang Lin laughed.

"You are handsome, and you are a worker in a textile factory. For a man like you, finding a lover is too easy!" The stall owner said with a grin, "How tall is your wife? she likes!"

The stall owner is very good at complimenting people, Wang Lin was very pleased with his words, and said with a smile: "My wife is 98 meters tall and weighs about [-] pounds. She is slimmer than you and has a better figure than you."

"Oh, comrade, praise her if you praise her, why are you hurting me?" The stall owner smiled, hung the meter stick around his neck, and pointed to a long lilac green skirt: "This skirt is good, this It’s long-sleeved, and you can wear it in this kind of weather, and you can wear it with a small leather jacket or a denim jacket.”

"green?"

"Red men and green women! Women look very handsome in green! Especially women with fair skin, wearing green skirts is even more eye-catching."

"how much is it?"

"I usually sell this skirt for 35 yuan a piece, but today I see that you and I have a relationship, so I will sell you 25 yuan!"

"So expensive?"

"Comrade, look at this fabric! Look at this tag! This is a real Hong Kong product, not a Guangzhou product. Look at this style, how fashionable it is! Isn't it? It's hard to buy a thousand dollars. Smile, these dozens of dollars can buy you It’s even more cost-effective if your lover likes it!”

"Hehe, return the goods from Hong Kong!" Wang Lin smiled, "Ten yuan, can you sell it?"

"Ten yuan? Comrade, you really know how to joke!" The stall owner looked aggrieved, but there was a sly smile in his eyes, "Another five yuan! I'll sell you for fifteen yuan."

Wang Lin didn't know how much the dress was worth, but he could calculate the price.

Prices were not low in the 80s.

Many people miss the low prices in the past, but they are actually expressing their wrong feelings.

The factory where Wang Lin works has excellent benefits and benefits. The salary is only 80 yuan. The price of eggs is 1.5 yuan per catty before the price increase, and the price of meat is 1.75 yuan per catty. Let’s talk about the price. Thirty years later, even in the two years when swine fever broke out, the price of meat rose to 35 yuan per catty, which is only 1988 times higher than the price of meat in [-].

According to relevant data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 1988, the average per capita income of urban residents in my country was 1119 yuan for living expenses, while in 2019, the disposable income of urban residents was 42359 yuan. The data has increased by 37.8 times!
From the comparison of these two sets of data, which era is better can be seen clearly at a glance.

Based on a 20-fold increase, this dress will sell for 200 yuan in the future, which should be about the same. After all, this is a street stall, not a big brand.

This is also the reason why Wang Lin counter-offered ten yuan.

"It's only ten yuan. If you don't sell it, I'll leave." Wang Lin made a gesture to leave.

As soon as he lifted his foot, his arm was grabbed by the stall owner.

"Oh, comrade, you are so good at bargaining! I have never sold such a low price, and today is really the first time! Do you want to buy a pair of glass stockings? It costs two yuan a pair!"

"Two yuan a pair? Buy one get one free!"

"Oh, you gay man, you can bargain better than women comrades! Forget it, forget it, you are a regular customer, two pairs for two dollars, I'll sell you."

Wang Lin paid the money, carried the bag, and continued walking. When he passed a clothing stall, a woman grabbed him and asked with a smile, "Comrade, how much did you pay for this dress?"

"What's the matter?" Wang Lin saw the same skirt on her stall, and asked, "How much do you sell for?"

"Nine yuan and eight!" The woman gestured, "It must be cheaper than what you bought, right?"

Wang Lin's mood suddenly turned bad.

The woman smiled and said, "Comrade, come to my place to buy next time! My clothes are cheap!"

Wang Lin immediately understood that this was her salesmanship.

She knew that Wang Lin had already bought the dress, and it was impossible to buy the same dress again. She also knew the base price of the dress, so she deliberately lowered the price to make it appear that everything in her stall was cheap. The main reason was to attract Wang Lin's business in the future. , Maybe next time he will be more ruthless than anyone else!

Even if Wang Lin really bought it for another [-] yuan, she would definitely be able to sell it, and the big deal would be to earn [-] cents less!Then, through speaking skills, let Wang Lin buy other products.

All of these small stalls are not simple, they are full of routines!

Wang Lin thought to himself, the 80s were not pure or simple!
I want to go back to 2021!

He looked at his watch and saw that it was getting late, so he went back to work in the factory.

As soon as he arrived at the machine repair class, Zhao Weiguo called him to do something: "Wang Lin, there are several machines in the printing and dyeing workshop that need maintenance."

"I'm not free." Wang Lin said lazily. He didn't have a lunch break at noon. He was depressed at the moment and just wanted to be lazy.

"Are you free? What's your business?"

"Assistant Zhou from the factory office asked me to go! If you don't believe me, call the factory office and ask Assistant Zhou!"

"Zhou, assistant?"

With Zhao Weiguo's courage, he didn't dare to call Assistant Zhou for verification!

Zhao Weiguo stared at Wang Lin fiercely, and said to Wu Dazhuang, "Da Zhuang, take a few people to repair it!"

Wu Dazhuang is an honest man. In enterprises and public institutions, honest people are the ones who are ordered and dominated.He responded, took a few people and left the workshop.

Wang Lin found a chair and sat down, leaning against the wall to sleep.

Zhao Weiguo was so angry that he ran up to Wang Lin, knocked on the wall, and asked loudly, "Wang Lin, didn't you say that Assistant Zhou wanted to see you? Why don't you go? You're still slacking off here. Playing slippery and falling asleep?"

Wang Lindao: "Squad leader, I don't know when Assistant Zhou will look for me. I have to wait here, don't I?"

"You, you! Your behavior is seriously disorganized and undisciplined! Do you believe that I will withhold your bonus?"

"I believe it! You lost so much money to me, you feel uncomfortable and want to take revenge on me, I can understand. If you want to deduct my bonus, just report it! See if the above agrees!"

"Okay, Wang Lin, your wings are hard, aren't you? Don't think that you can stand sideways in the mechanic repair class just because you won a prize in the competition! I'm the monitor of the mechanic repair class!"

Wang Lin was really not afraid of Zhao Weiguo. He sneered and said, "Hold a chicken feather as an arrow! Isn't this what the machine repair class has always been like? Do what you have to do, and rest when you have nothing to do! Aren't you doing nothing here?"

There are so many workers in the class watching!
What is the majesty of Zhao Weiguo's squad leader?

"Wang Lin!" Zhao Weiguo acted like a squad leader, "Sun Xiaoshuai on the night shift will be transferred to the daytime, so you can switch shifts with him! Don't you want to sleep? The night shift is easy, you can sleep as you please!"

"I'm sorry, I won't change! You can find someone else! I'm newly married, and logically speaking, I'm going on my honeymoon now! It's very rare for me to be able to carry forward the spirit of hard work and persist in working here. I I also want to contribute to the country's great family planning cause, so I can't work night shifts!"

"It's not up to you to decide! It's my right to be the squad leader!"

"You tune back, anyway, I don't agree!"

Zhao Weiguo is about to fly into a rage!

He pointed at Wang Lin and said, "I can't control you, you idiot? Starting tomorrow, you have to work the night shift! That's it! Let me see who dares to object! If you don't work the night shift, you will be absent from work." !"

Wang Lin said calmly: "As you like! Just don't disturb my rest now!"

(End of this chapter)