Fengcheng old events

Chapter 215 Significant Improvement in Living Standards
After the exam, I waited for the start of junior high school.

The test results will not be announced, but only as the basis for class placement in the first year of junior high school.

Then no one cares about it. The other grades in the elementary school are still in class and there is no holiday. Zhang Xinglong and the others are equivalent to an extra vacation. They don't need to sell popsicles, and they can finally let themselves go.

This holiday, Liu Guixin finally became ruthless, and bought a TV, a Yellow River brand, [-]-inch black and white TV, so that the three brothers no longer had to brazenly go to other people's houses to mess with the TV.

The reason for buying a TV is that there are old people in the family, and it will relieve their boredom, and the second is that it is always annoying for children to go out to watch the TV. In other words, as a parent, it's hard to listen to.

There are four families on this floor. The two-bedroom house directly opposite Zhang’s house is surnamed Zuo, and the single room next to his house is for a young couple. The child is more than one year old and less than two years old. The male’s surname is Xing, and the female’s surname is Tian. It’s Nanshan Hospital. Dental doctor.

Zhang Xinglong, who is in another single room, does not know him, and has never seen him.The door is always locked and no one is seen.

Aunt Tian has a cheerful personality and gets along very well with Liu Guixin, and sometimes entrusts the child to Zhang Xinglong's home.

The conditions of the young couple are very good. They have TV recorders, washing machines and so on at home. Usually, Zhang Xinglong and Zhang Xingjun always run over to watch TV or listen to music.

No matter how sensible a child is, he is not an adult, because he is in such a particularly attractive thing as watching TV.

And when the young couple here are in a time of deep love, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts in time.Sometimes the two brothers watched TV and saw the TV station say nothing, and Aunt Tian over there urged me many times: "It's late, go home and go to sleep."

"It's okay, I'm not sleepy, just watch it later."

Then the young couple lay on the bed under the quilt and waited for the TV goodbye.

No one can bear it. Aunt Tian mentioned it to Liu Guixin twice as a joke. Liu Guixin didn't like it, but he was right.Just bite the bullet and buy one.

I bought all the TVs, and the washing machine is not bad. I have all the upstairs and downstairs, and I turn it around every day, so I bought one and brought it back.

At that time, the washing machine was still a single-tub, with no function other than washing, not even filling water, and had to manually fill it with water. However, this was also a big step forward.

Zhang Xinglong is the happiest. As he grows up, he does more and more work. Washing clothes is the most worrying thing. With a washing machine, although the big and heavy things still have to be washed by hand, it is not a little easier. .

In fact, Zhang Qingzhi did the most and the most tiring work at home, and it was impossible to overwhelm a child, but compared to Zhang Xingjun and Zhang Xingbing who didn't work, Zhang Xinglong often worked. 40%, compared with Zhang Qingzhi.

Except for making clothes and knitting sweaters, Liu Guixin doesn't do housework and has no time.Since going upstairs, she hasn't even cooked a meal.

The family has completely changed into a pattern where Liu Guixin is the outsider and Zhang Qing is the insider.

This side runs to Nanshan every day to make clothes, and Liu Guixin is not idle on the other side, starting to plan for a new business.

Before the end of this summer vacation, a new business at home started, selling fruit.

The popsicle cart was idle, so Zhang Qingzhi re-welded it and brought the cart back.The lining boards on the top, bottom, inside and outside have been done, and Liu Guixin is not very happy, thinking that he made it too bulky.It is also bulky indeed, although solid.

At this time, there were trucks running in the city in Nanfen, and there were fruit stalls in the street and Zhao's side, and they all needed to be stocked, so someone found a business opportunity and started to transport.

Together, the freight is shared equally, and there is a regular trip every day.Depart around [-]:[-] am and return at noon.

The place of delivery is at Yidongqiao Farmers and Fruits Wholesale Market in the city.Behind the train station.

The truck pulled people along the mountain road under the moonlight to the edge of the market and parked. Then everyone got out of the car to have breakfast, loaded the goods, and carried them back to load the car.

After the car is loaded, go back by yourself, and those who load the goods will go back by train or long-distance bus.When the car is full of goods, it cannot hold people.

The truck is full of loads and travels slowly on the mountain road. It will arrive at Nanfen after people, and then send them there one by one.

After the goods are unloaded, they have to be taken home to sort, clean up, pick out the bad ones, and then sort them into boxes before they can be sold.

Storage is also a problem. It needs to be dumped from time to time, just to move around, or it will be hot and rotten.Vegetables and fruits are 'alive' and breathe.

So the kitchen at home was occupied by fruits, with large boxes and small boxes piled on the left and right.

"This house is so set up that the water and coal carriers are too crowded. The factory now produces liquefied gas, what kind of gas is in a tank, and it is burned as coal. Many houses now make it. How about we get one too? No more burning coal."

"How much? Is it worth it?"

"A can costs about [-] yuan, and it is not worthwhile to replace it after it is used up. It has never been used. It is clean, and there is no need to carry water and coal, and there is no need to dig loess, and there is no smoke. Many homes now done."

Liu Guixin frowned and settled accounts in his heart, considering whether it would be more cost-effective to burn coal or burn pots.

Every penny of the family is the final decision made after such careful calculations. It is not stingy, nor frugal, but just a kind of helplessness.

Thrift is an indefinable concept, it is completely relative, it depends on your reference, and there is no specific scope and definition.The frugality of Chinese people often comes from the hardships of life.poor.

"Then, let's build one. Let's use it first. Didn't you say it's clean? If it's too expensive to use, it's still a coal stove. This stove won't be dismantled. Anyway, it's up to us to decide whether to replace it after it's used up." Does it count?"

"Well, it's up to you. There is a deposit for the can. If you don't want to use it, return the deposit and it will be refunded."

"Okay, let's get one."

"If you don't get a rice cooker anymore, it cooks rice quickly, and you don't have to worry about adding water to the rice pan, and you don't need to look at it if it's not mushy. Now you can't do without people."

"...It's okay, isn't it expensive?"

"I'll go and have a look tomorrow. Geng, the boss of my unit, just bought one. He's booing in class. I'll ask him tomorrow."

Doing business is becoming more and more popular, the market is becoming more and more active, people's consciousness and life are gradually changing, and living standards are also slowly and silently improving.That's what the 80s contributed.

Liu Guixin's fruit stand is at the crossroads, where Lao Chai's used to sell popsicles.The old man and his wife are too old, and they closed down their stalls this year, so they can't work anymore.

The market is very simple, just build a "stall" with bricks and prefabricated boards on the side of the road, and no one cares about it. They all spontaneously maintain the rules, and more people set up stalls: lay a plastic sheet on the ground or The paper shell will start working.

(End of this chapter)