1979 Golden Age

Every particle of dust of the times falls on an individual's head, like a sharp sickle.

At the end of the meeting, the crowd was not as eager and crowded as when they entered, but like a stream of water with insufficient water pressure, slow and stagnant. They went to the mountains and countryside at their best years and spent hard years. When they returned to the city, they had no jobs. Everyone's face was marked with confusion and worry, and they didn't know what the future would hold.

Huang Zhanying also became silent and rode awkwardly. After a while, he said, "What positions do you think we will be assigned?"

"do not know."

"You're not worried at all?"

"Didn't you say that the street will visit you? Just wait at home and we will know when the time comes."

"..."

Huang Zhanying stared at him without blinking, and suddenly said: "I noticed that you have become very strange recently. You used to be very preoccupied, and everything you thought about was written on your face. Why are you so heartless now?"

"At 19 years old, it's time to be more mature and free-spirited, isn't it?"

Chen Qi casually fooled him and said, "I'm going to the bookstore, are you going?"

"I won't go. I'll find someone else to find out more about the situation."

"Then I'll leave first!"

He waved his hand, kicked off his feet, and the Erba bar returned to the big fence with sparks, lightning, and thunder.

Dashilan is less than 300 meters from the east entrance to the west entrance, but it brings together the most exquisite things in the capital, including Donglaishun, Tongrentang, Neiliansheng's cloth shoes, Ruifuxiang's silks and satins, Zhang Yiyuan's tea, Liubiju's pickles, Daguan Tower movies, Tianhuizhai's snuff, etc. However, during the flood of humanity, these time-honored brands have all changed their names and are still being restored one after another.

In addition, there is still a theater called Guangde Building, where a guy named Guo Degang will perform a few years later.

Xinhua Bookstore is also in Dashilan, only 100 meters away from Menzhan Hutong, and you can go to work immediately after leaving home. The Xinhua Bookstore Head Office is a state-owned enterprise at the department and bureau level. Stores in municipalities, districts/counties are equivalent to subsidiaries or branches.

Chen Qi parked the car and took a look inside. There were many people inside, picking around the shelves of social science books.

A few years ago, bookstores were only allowed to sell nine categories of books, six of which were works by revolutionary leaders. The National Science Conference was held in 1978, and the number of social science books gradually increased. Actually, what’s so good about this thing? But people were also hungry and thirsty.

A little girl was holding a "Geographical Atlas" and reading it with gusto, and there was an old man who looked like an intellectual, and he was actually reading the English version of "China Travel". There are also some periodicals and magazines that publish novels that are even more popular. People pounce on them, just like Gorky pounced on bread...

Chen Qi quietly got behind a woman and shouted loudly: "Mom!"

"Oh my god! That brat scared me to death!"

The woman turned around, she was in her forties, still slim and charming, it was her mother Yu Xiuli.

"Have you finished the meeting?"

"It's over."

"come over……"

She pulled Chen Qi out, went to the corner, and asked, "What did you say?"

"I heard that the general idea is to focus on collective cooperatives to accommodate unemployed young people like us."

"A collective cooperative? This is not possible..."

Yu Xiuli frowned and said: "Hey, we also received a notice that our children can take over. Your dad is a salesman and works outside all day long. I am relatively stable in the store. Why don't I retire early and free up a position for you? ”

"You are only in your forties, why are you retiring so early? Square dancing with the old lady?"

"What dance?"

"I don't need you anyway, I can do it myself."

"It's okay! The collective unit is inferior to others and earns less. It will be difficult to find a partner in the future."

"But I'm handsome, so I'll have no problem finding a partner!"

He was confident, and Yu Xiuli greatly agreed. There was nothing he could do about it, his son was indeed handsome!

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. We'll talk about it tonight..."

Chen Qi didn't want to talk about it here, so he said instead: "Mom, I think that "Geographical Atlas" is quite good. Buy one for me and I'll read it when I get home."

"You can read casual books in just one day!"

Yu Xiuli said, but still entered the store, and soon came out with a "Geographical Atlas" and said: "Don't run around when you get home. When your father comes back tonight, we will discuss it carefully."

…………

This large courtyard contains 7 inner courtyards.

Chen Qi's family is inside, which is about 20 square meters. His parents live in the inner room, and a bed is set up for him in the outer room.

There is no kang, so we burn briquettes in the winter, and there are power outages from time to time. To take a shower, we have to go to a bathhouse or wash at home. It’s troublesome at home. We have to boil three pots of water in a row, one pot for each person. One person sits in the house and takes a bath in the big bath, while the other two sit outside. Wait.

The toilets are also public, and every family prepares a urinal for use when they get up at night. When they get up in the morning, they run to the public toilet to empty it - Faye Wong has done this, and it means that she also wakes up at night, huh.

Xinhua Bookstore is a good unit, but it cannot compare with big factories. The workers in big factories are the envy of everyone. They take care of everything from birth to death. Chen Qi's family of three, both parents earn money, with a total monthly income of about 100 yuan, and there is no pressure in life. Some colleagues have an old man above them and three or four children below them, and that’s called hard work.

The current price level is 0.19 yuan per catty for rice, 0.75 yuan per catty for pork, and 0.03 yuan per catty for cabbage... The key is insufficient supply and extreme shortage of materials. You need tickets to buy anything. You can't buy it without tickets and money.

There is too much to say about tickets, so I won’t go into details.

It was already noon.

The sun finally broke through the gray-yellow clouds, shining into the house with a bit of spring. Chen Qi sat at the table, flipping through the "Geographical Atlas" casually, which introduced many famous mountains and rivers, landforms and so on in the motherland.

Others were confused about what was said in the meeting, but he was very clear.

That is to let these people enter collective enterprises, repair furniture, make clothes, make popcorn, open a canteen, in short, find a job.

This idea is correct. In 1949, there were 73,000 service outlets in Beijing, but now there are only more than 10,000. At the same time, the population has increased, and the living needs are far from being met. It just so happens that there are these people to take over, and there is no worry about having no food to eat.

The birth of collective enterprises is to solve employment problems. Property rights have always been vague, and there are a lot of historical problems. But in Beijing, it is better than individual households. The development of individual households in Beijing is relatively slow, and next year will be the first year.

Others reject collective enterprises, but he can go anywhere, anyway, it is a temporary place to stay.

As for long-term plans, in the early days of reform and opening up, there were only a few options:

Either pretend to be a cultured person and write scar literature, or find a job to stay at, or go south to become a trader to get rich first and then get rich later, or do film and television to flirt with Gong Xue, Zhu Lin, Li Jianqun, Tao Huimin, He Qing, Chen Hong, Lin Fangbing...

Of course, he would do what he is good at.

"Speaking of which, this is a good time to turn the tables... But those are too far away, I will leave this broken alley first, I don't want to empty the urinal."

Chen Qi's mind was relieved, and he flipped the page casually, turning to a page with beautiful scenery and steep and spectacular scenery.

"Lushan?"

He smiled and nodded: "There is a fairy cave in the sky, and the infinite scenery is on the dangerous peaks... Lushan is a good place!"

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