Reborn in the red age

Chapter 123 Returning to Beijing
After writing a couplet, the whole family fell silent. In the end, Li's father secretly went out to buy a couplet and pasted it up.

During this year's Spring Festival, Li's father and Li's mother did not go to work normally, but spent the New Year at home with the whole family.

Since January 79, when a national daily newspaper published a letter from a reader titled "Why there is no holiday during the Spring Festival?", the policy of no holiday during the Spring Festival that has lasted for more than ten years has been slightly relaxed.

In the past, people were not allowed to take leave during the Spring Festival. As soon as the report was published, someone tentatively asked for three days of leave. After it was approved by the factory, the county factory was happy, and a large number of workers asked for leave. Father Li and mother Li Taking advantage of the situation, I also took three days off.

There are four women in the family, so the job of making dumplings will naturally not fall on Qingfeng Li like last year.

Qingfeng Li also had the treatment of being an uncle at home. At this time, Qingfeng Li, his father Li, and Mr. Li closed the door and closed the curtains in the back room, secretly playing mahjong.

"Touch yourself, give money, give money."

Pushing the mahjong in front of him on the table, Qingfeng Li grinned and stretched out his hand to ask the three of them for money.

Mother Li, who was sitting next to her, had a dark face. While giving money, she whispered: "Keep your voice down, don't let the neighbors hear it. It would be terrible if someone finds out."

"I understand," Li Qingfeng nodded quietly while collecting the money.

In later generations, Mahjong was regarded as the quintessence of the nation, but in these days it was explicitly prohibited and could not be shown to the public.

Since the nationwide ban on playing mahjong in 55, mahjong has become extinct in the country, but in fact, some people have been playing it secretly, and mahjong has become completely extinct.

It wasn't until the policy began to loosen that mahjong reappeared. It was played secretly with a few friends, not in public. The mahjong in Li's mother's hand was secretly made by Li's father last year.

Playing mahjong is addictive, and Qingfeng Li will also play mahjong in later generations. He hasn't played mahjong for many years. This time he suddenly sat down on the mahjong table again and felt that he couldn't stop at all.

It wasn't until the sister-in-law urged Boss Li to go back that the four of them ended today's card game with unsatisfied feelings.

It felt like not long after I lay down, there was a deafening sound of firecrackers in my ears. I opened my drowsy eyes, looked out the dark window, turned over and continued to sleep.

"Wake up, go to the courtyard and set off the firecrackers"

Before his consciousness fell into sleep, Mother Li opened the door and walked in, urging Qingfeng Li to get up quickly and set off the firecrackers.

Qingfeng Li, who was deeply sleepy, was not willing to go out and suffer the cold. He curled up and vaguely refused to go, and asked Li's mother to ask Li's father to light firecrackers.

Mother Li was not one to be vague about setting off the cannons at midnight. Seeing that Qingfeng Li couldn't afford it, she took off Qingfeng Li's quilt and took him away. She waited until Qingfeng Li went to the door to set off the cannons before returning it to him. .

Since the quilt was gone, it was impossible to stay in bed any longer. Qingfeng Li could only put on his military coat, tremblingly picked up his kerosene lighter, and lit the firecrackers that Li's mother had prepared in the courtyard.

After all this trouble, Qingfeng Li was no longer sleepy. After getting dressed, he and his two sisters, who had been awakened by Li's mother, were warming themselves by the stove, listening to Li's father's snoring.

New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. As local aborigines, the Li family has many relatives. Starting at dawn at seven o'clock, the entire Li family went out and walked towards the uncle's house in the cold morning wind.

After a trip to pay New Year greetings, Qingfeng Li's knees felt a little painful, and he kowtowed a lot with his father all morning.

The standard procedure for New Year greetings these days is to say two auspicious words before entering the door, followed by kowtows, three kowtows for the living elders, and four kowtows to the portraits of the deceased elders.

The New Year greetings were not fruitless. I received a lot of red envelopes along the way. According to the current custom, I had red envelopes before I got married. Although they were not much, only a dime or two, it was still meaningful.

The older generation doesn't know how to make money, so the red envelopes given to the younger generation are all the children's daily filial piety, and the ten cents are also a blessing to the younger generation.

This year I didn’t go to the black market at home. I had enough money, so there was no need to take this risk again.

After staying at home until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Qingfeng couldn't stay any longer. Thinking about buying a house for Li Hongmei, Qingfeng Li simply packed up and went back to school.

After sending a telegram to Hu Jiabao to explain the situation, and saying goodbye to the Li family at a station, Qingfeng Li carried his luggage and boarded the train.

It was not back-to-school time, the train was not crowded, and Qingfeng Li successfully found an empty seat.

After getting off the train at Sijiucheng Railway Station, Li Qingfeng found a small alley and stuffed all his luggage into the space. He took a three-wheeler and went straight to Mishi Alley according to the address given by Wang Weimin.

"Master, stop, that's all."

As soon as Li Qingfeng arrived at Mishi Alley, he saw Wang Weimin, who was wearing a military coat with his sleeves rolled up, walking forward with his companions, and quickly asked the tricycle rider to stop.After getting off the tricycle, he shouted Wang Weimin's name and waved to him.

Wang Weimin, who was walking forward sullenly, heard someone calling his name. He looked in the direction of the sound and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. After confirming that the person calling him was Qingfeng Li, he grinned excitedly. Run and pounce on him.

"Brother, why are you here?"

"Let go, I haven't seen you for a year. Why are you so strong? I was almost knocked over by you." Qingfeng Li had not done farm work in the past year, and his body was a little weak. He was almost knocked to the ground by this punch.

Wang Weimin let go of Qingfeng Li and touched his head sheepishly: "I haven't seen you for a year, so I'm a little excited."

After rubbing his chest, which was a little sore from being hit by this kid, Qingfeng Li punched him angrily: "You haven't eaten yet? Let's go to the next restaurant and let's have a good chat."

"Hey, okay, okay," Wang Weimin smiled and nodded in agreement, and then walked forward with Qingfeng Li.

After taking just two steps, Wang Weimin stopped for a moment and quickly ran back two steps. The friend who was with him said a few words before running over again.

Walking on the road to the state-owned hotel, Li Qingfeng asked curiously: "What are you doing? Why did you come back so late at noon?"

"I'm going to make money. I help people line up in department stores to buy TV sets, washing machines, etc. If I'm lucky, I can earn one yuan a day," Wang Weimin said casually.

Hearing this, Qingfeng Li became interested: "Can you earn one yuan by helping people queue up? What is the situation? Please tell me in detail."

"You can't make money every day. Isn't this TV set and washing machine limited in quantity? We can sell as many units as we want in a day and it will end when they are sold out. We come here early every day and queue up. If we can still buy the machine when it is our turn, we will If you give up your seat to someone who can't buy it later, people will usually give you a dollar."

Li Qingfeng nodded clearly. Isn't this the scalper of later generations? They have already taken shape in this year. The wisdom of Chinese people should not be underestimated. They can find opportunities to make money at any time.

Next, Li Qingfeng chatted with Wang Weimin about other things. As for work, he didn't ask about it. How difficult is it to work these days? There are still many educated youth who returned to the city last year who have not been assigned jobs.

Wang Weimin's family situation is not very good, otherwise he would have just come back and not even had two days' rest, so he would be anxious to go out and make money, and he would only be able to get a job.

After finding a random state-owned restaurant, Li Qingfeng ordered two dishes and a bottle of Erguotou, and the two started chatting.

Wang Weimin learned from Wang Weimin that after Li Qingfeng left, there were old bachelors in the village who saw that there were no educated youths in the educated youth spot, so they had a twisted idea and wanted to take advantage of Wu Xiangqian.

Before she could take action, Wu Xiangqian noticed it and reported the matter to the captain. This time the captain was not ambiguous and called the old bachelor over and gave him a good lesson.

After the educated youths were allowed to return home years ago, the captain did not stop the three of them and simply let all three of them return to the city.

After listening to Wang Weimin's story, Li Qingfeng sighed repeatedly. It was his luck to work under the little old man who went to the countryside to work under the team leader. Although he has some small problems and likes to favor people in his own village, he is still a good person. At least he has no Bullying the educated youths like myself.

After drinking a bottle of wine, Li Qingfeng looked at Wang Weimin, whose face was a little red, and thought about how to arrange for his little brother.

No matter what, Wang Weimin has been his little brother for more than two years, and he cannot be ignored no matter what.

After thinking about it for a while, I didn't have any good ideas. After much deliberation, it was more suitable for my younger sister Li Hongmei to make money by assembling TV sets.

There is a strange thing these days. As early as the early 70s, the country promoted individuals to assemble radios and televisions.

The workers were also given a lot of books on assembling TVs and radios. In the first two years, they could also receive some components for assembling radios and TVs for free.

Nowadays, various accessories are very cheap. After entering 79, the components required for various assembly are no longer so difficult to buy, and the price has always been very cheap. The cost of assembling a TV by an individual is within [-], and radios are even cheaper. You can assemble a radio with just a few blocks.

According to normal industrial production procedures, the price of streamlined finished products should be much cheaper than individual assembly. However, in China, a finished TV sells for several hundred yuan, while a complete set of TV components only sells for a few dozen yuan. Qingfeng Li never quite understood this.

With the reform and opening up this year, you can try to set up a home appliance service agency in the street, open the door to accept home appliance repair work openly, and privately accept some "commissions" for assembling TV sets.

There have always been private stores that repair home appliances. All you need to do is register on the street. This is how the car repair stalls on the street came to be. As long as you have skills, you can open by reporting to the street.

If the home appliance service agency successfully reports, Wang Weimin will be asked to come forward to take over the business, and the maintenance and assembly work can be handed over to Hao Aiguo and Li Sanxi.

This not only helped his little brother find a serious job, but also helped Hao Aiguo and the others earn money to support their family, killing three birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)