Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 71 Communication Difficulties
Before the Chinese New Year, Ou Xiaoyang gave Wang Weidong more than a dozen catties of unknown species of sea fish. These fish are nothing to people decades later, but they were still very rare to people at that time.Especially these fish were obtained by Ou Xiaoyang from the foreign trade department.

"Can Black Province still export?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Of course, last year our country exported a lot of food to the country in the north through the Black Province, and these fish were imported from that country." Ou Xiaoyang replied.

Although the country in the north has a vast area, it lacks food, especially food for feed. Now the trade between the two countries has slowly started and is growing rapidly.

The Northeast is the country's granary, so a large amount of agricultural products such as corn and soybean meal are exported to the northern country through the Black Province.

It is very clean for the three of them to celebrate the New Year in Harbin. They don’t need to go to various houses to pay New Year’s greetings and receive people who come to their homes for New Year’s greetings like they used to celebrate the New Year at Xiangyang Chemical Factory. Wang Weidong proposed to send 50 yuan to his parents and Chen Jihong’s parents. That's it.

On the day of the second day of junior high school, the department store opened early, and Wang Weidong took Chen Jihong to go shopping.

When he reached the second floor, Wang Weidong heard the roar of a motorcycle.

Hundreds of people were crowded near the motorcycle counter!One by one, they craned their necks to watch the salesman start a small motorcycle.

This small motorcycle with only 49CC is now the dream lover of countless young people.

Although the motorcycle is small, the sound after starting is not small, and it emits a strong smell of gasoline.

More than 100 people looked at the little red motorcycle and salivated.

Wang Weidong saw Sui Youzhi behind the crowd.Now Sui Youzhi can't see anything else at all, the only thing in his eyes is the plus zero motorcycle!

Sui Youzhi looked at the little red motorcycle like a young man would look at a Ferrari decades later.

Wang Weidong was not interested in Jialing motorcycles, so he pulled Chen Jihong around and left.

If you want to die quickly, kick it with your feet!This is the summarizing language people use when they look back.It is said that the first generation of people who bought motorcycles lost a lot of money within a few years.

In the evening, Wang Weidong rushed to the factory to be on duty. He locked the door inside and walked around the workshop and warehouse before wanting to watch TV in the office for a while and then sleep.

As soon as Wang Weidong entered the office, he heard a knock on the door.

When he came out, he heard Ou Xiaoyang say loudly: "Weidong, open the door!"

"It's Chinese New Year and you still come out to run around at night, your dad won't scold you?" Wang Weidong said as he opened the door.

When he opened the door, he found a person standing behind Ou Xiaoyang, Ou Xiaoyang's elder brother Ou Xiaojun.

Ou Xiaoyang lifted the cloth bag in his hand, and there was a rattling sound inside.

"My brother and I have nothing to ask you for a drink at night." Ou Xiaoyang said.

The three of them walked into the office, and Ou Xiaoyang put the bottles of big green sticks in the cloth bag on the desk.

"Chief Ou traveled all the way home for the New Year? You must be very busy when you get home, why did you come to my place?" Wang Weidong asked.

I was transferred to Shencheng for a year, and when I came back, my past friends and comrades invited me to dinner. I must be overwhelmed.

"It's not the chief, it's the chief now!" Ou Xiaoyang said with a smile.

"Many people have invited me to dinner, but it's no fun to brag and flatter me all the time at the dinner table, so Xiaoyang suggested that the three of you come here and have a casual chat." Ou Xiaojun said with a smile.

There are also several red sausages and a bag of fried peanuts on the desk.

Bite open the cap of the beer bottle, there is no foam at all, the weather is too cold, the gas is locked in the wine and cannot evaporate.

Three people sat down and one person raised his head with a big green stick and killed half a bottle.

Ou Xiaojun picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth while chewing and said: "It seems that your small factory is not bad, and the Pearl River brand radios produced in Guangdong Province are said to be selling well."

"The masses of the people need us." Ou Xiaoyang said.

"We cadres visited HK a few months ago," Ou Xiaojun picked up the red sausage and took a bite, while Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang waited to continue talking.

There are more and more foreign movies now. When people go to the movie theater, besides watching the storyline of the movie, they are also very interested in the clothes, leather shoes, especially phones, TVs and cars that are reflected in the movies.

Everyone yearns for a life of good food, good clothes, good family, telephone, color TV, and cars.

It took a long time for Ou Xiaojun to continue, "I'm so touched, I can't handle it."

"Did you see the radio?" Wang Weidong asked with a smile.

Ou Xiaojun did not expect that Wang Weidong would ask this question. He thought about it seriously and answered: "We went to places like exchanges, banks and factories. It seems that we didn't see radios in these places. Maybe they have them at home. But life is better. , The radio is just an embellishment, if you don’t need it, you won’t buy it, it’s not a must for marriage like we do here.”

"When we live well, the radio is nothing. How many people still listen to the radio if there is a TV at home? But that day is still early." Ou Xiaoyang said.

"When I first arrived there, I felt that the building was really high. When I entered the building and took the elevator, my ears felt very uncomfortable. When I sat down and talked, I felt that communication was difficult." Ou Xiaojun said.

"The people there don't speak Mandarin, so of course you don't understand it." Ou Xiaoyang said.

Ou Xiaojun shook his head and said, "That's not what I mean, it's that they also have difficulty communicating in Mandarin. Their ideas and concepts are completely different, and there is something wrong with talking to each other."

He touched his still plain clothes and said: "Look, the clothes I wear may also be worn by many people from all walks of life. People who don't know me on the street don't know what I do. But in I can roughly tell what a person does by looking at what he is wearing there, especially how much money he has!"

Ou Xiaoyang didn't understand what the elder brother said, but Wang Weidong did.

"The economy there is developed, but the gap between rich and poor is much larger than here." Wang Weidong said.

The boss lives in a villa in a luxury car in a suit and leather shoes, while the workers who make money for him can only live in a pigeon cage with food and clothing.

Ou Xiaojun must have seen this, he was confused and even more uncomfortable.

"I came back and heard from my mother that your factory donated [-] yuan to the nursing home. I think you two have done a good job. Now that people's ideas have not changed, we still need to do more of this kind of thing." Ou Xiaojun said.

He ignored the 1000 yuan donated to the veteran cadre activity center.

Only by doing more things like this can we calm down some people's incompatibility and hostility towards people like Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang.

"Only those who have money can donate money. If the two of us are poor, there is nothing we can do." Wang Weidong said with something in his words.

Ou Xiaojun looked at Wang Weidong with a smile, he thought for a while and then nodded slightly.

(End of this chapter)