National Tide 1980

Su Jin's life was saved.

When he was born twenty-five years ago, the first surprise to everyone in the delivery room was that he didn't cry.

The doctor who was responsible for delivering the baby immediately started strangling him.

The intensity used is quite enough to express the excitement.

But it was no use, Su Jin's heartbeat stopped and even his breathing stopped.

And when the doctor tried almost all stimulation methods, he almost told his exhausted mother and father waiting outside the news of the little life's death.

Fortunately, the nurse who took him away discovered the suspicion and saved the mistake in time.

After waiting for a long time, the nurse found that the child still had body temperature, although he was very weak.

So what happened next was that the doctor reiterated his careful examination and finally detected a weak heartbeat.

In this way, Su Jin finally survived dangerously.

But what the old people often say, "If you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later," this sentence doesn't seem to have taken effect on him.

On the contrary, this doom seems to make sense.

It's like he shouldn't have come into this world, and his fate has always been miserable.

The first was polio when he was three years old.

Although the neighbor introduced a famous old Chinese medicine doctor, the treatment was effective and there were no major sequelae.

But it also made Su Jin's lower limbs develop slowly and were far less strong than other children.

It wasn't until the age of five that he regained the ability to walk normally through acupuncture and exercise.

When he was nine years old, his mother died in childbirth.

Moreover, he also left a little girl named Su Xiu in the family, who was waiting to be fed.

Immediately following the special years, not only the workplace of Su Jin's father Su Shenzhen, Raymond Clothing Store, was ordered to be disbanded by his superiors.

Moreover, the cheongsam craftsmanship passed down by the Su family from generation to generation, made by Guang Chusi of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has no use since then.

After that, Su Shenzhen was assigned to the Kunqu Opera Troupe, and changed from a serious tailor who made clothes to a tinker who repaired costumes.

He no longer had any extra money, and his income plummeted.

As a result, even the young Su Jin had to do whatever he could to make bedclothes, choose thread, glue paper boxes, and pick up garbage.

I help my father earn childcare fees for my sister and buy dried cake powder.

After his father took his sister home, he had to act as a nanny and take care of her.

That's it, until I was sixteen.

Su Jin, like many of his peers, left the city and went to the countryside.

I stayed in a remote place for six years.

It was not until August 1979 that he finally returned to the capital and resettled his household registration in No. 1, Shitou Hutong, Meishi Street.

But finding a job has undoubtedly become a huge problem.

After waiting at home for more than half a year, the street finally arranged a job for him.

Go to the Qinghuachi Bathhouse at the corner of the street to get a pedicure.

Maybe it's because he is too sensitive to smells, or the psychological suggestion is too strong.

This job made Su Jin quite uncomfortable, and she always felt that her hands always had a strange smell.

But his poor family background left him with no choice and no choice.

He had to force himself to show off his dirty feet to others every day.

So much so that he ended up with a special habit: he liked to wash his hands every day when he had nothing to do.

And you must use chopsticks to eat anything and never touch it with your hands.

However, this is not over yet, it has just been two years of a slightly more stable life.

God seemed to hate their family and brought disaster once again.

Su Jin's father, Su Shenzhen, actually suffered from severe nephritis and had to be discharged from the work unit.

A disease like this not only requires rest, but also requires expensive medication, which is extremely expensive.

However, the Kunqu Opera Troupe is not a large and wealthy organization.

Since the early 1980s, due to the huge increase in medical costs.

The hospital has also canceled its accounting. For medical treatment, employees need to advance the medical expenses themselves and then seek reimbursement from the unit.

Therefore, there is the question of whether reimbursement can be made in a timely manner and whether it can be reimbursed in full.

Needless to say, since her father was ill and her sister was still studying, all the burden of the Su family's life suddenly fell on Su Jin alone.

No matter whether he has a way or whether he can find a way, he must bear it, bear it for his family, and find a way to survive for his relatives.

So just like he had done countless times when facing crises in life, Su Jin took practical action.

The "Liaoyuan Day and Night Store" on Qianmen Street, which is open 24 hours a day, has an extra diligent porter every night.

After the goods were moved, there was a figure rummaging through waste paper and old bottles on the streets at midnight.

It's a pity that manpower is sometimes poor, and not all efforts will necessarily be rewarded with sufficient returns.

Even Su Jin strives for every opportunity to make money and does not hesitate to spend all his energy and time in exchange for money.

But the money he earned was still too little, far from enough to cover his father's medical treatment and the family's expenses.

I can only fill the hole by talking to acquaintances and going to blood stations to donate blood.

Finally one time, he fainted while changing into work clothes in the Tsinghua Pool Bathhouse.

As a result, the blood donation receipt and money in his hand were exposed in front of his master and colleague Bian Jianjun because he did not have time to put them into the locker.

The two of them were shocked when they saw it, and they took him to the bunk in the bathhouse to rest.

Bian Jianjun hurriedly went to get a teapot of hot water, while the master brought him sugar cakes to replenish his physical strength.

"Are you stupid? Why have you reached this point? Why didn't you tell me that you were short of money?"

Listening to the master's scolding and taking the cake, Su Jin was moved, but he really couldn't open his mouth anymore.

Because rescuing people cannot help them become poor.

He had already borrowed fifty yuan from his master, and twenty yuan from Bian Jianjun.

He had spoken to almost all the other colleagues in the bathhouse and owed money to others to a greater or lesser extent.

Since he clearly knew that his father's incurable disease was a bottomless pit, he was unable to repay these debts.

How could you be so embarrassed to ask someone about borrowing money?

But what was unexpected was what Bian Jianjun said.

"Brother, I can see that you are a strong person, and you must have really encountered difficulties. Otherwise, you would never be working as a temporary worker outside, and you would drink poison to quench your thirst and exchange your life for money. I'll give it to you How about an idea? If you weren't afraid of losing face and having to hang out with a bunch of old ladies every day, you might be able to earn a lot more money than you do now."

"Of course that's good, Brother Bian, I...I'm not afraid. Tell me what you want me to do..."

Su Jin definitely said this from the heart, because life is very practical.

He has already come this far, why should he care about face?

That's too luxurious. It's only true that you can make more money to survive.

"Don't you know how to do tailor's work because it's not a skill inherited from your family? How about just doing this? Are you willing?"

"Aren't you kidding me? You want me to be a tailor? I don't have the skills of my father, and I can't make ready-made clothes. At most, I can sew and mend, put buttons on people, mend holes, shrink trouser legs and so on. of……"

"Hey, don't be polite, don't be polite. It's enough to sew and mend. The few times you do it, you're better than my wife and my mother. Don't you know how to use a sewing machine? Just know how to use it."

In order to eliminate Su Jin's concerns, Bian Jianjun explained in more detail.

"That's what happened. Our neighbor in the courtyard is now a manager of a foreign clothing company. Recently, he is going to set up a sewing club with our street. He plans to help female comrades whose family financial conditions are more difficult to find odd jobs in their spare time. .”

"I heard from my mother that we have found a house now, and we may open the business in a few days. The work to be done after the opening is actually to give some clothes, remove stitches, nail buttons, correct defects and so on, and press pieces It’s money. It costs about two or three cents a piece.”

"Let me tell you, it only costs 50 cents for you to be a porter a night, so you might as well go there and give it a try. I'll say hello to my mother and it will work. It's easier than working as a porter after all."

"Besides, my neighbor got tens of thousands of pieces of clothes from the sea. As long as you are willing and quick, you can earn any amount of money. He has five or six pieces in one night, and eight out of ten pieces. My son is also him. Do as much or as little as you like, you think about it?"