My 1991

Lu An once heard an old shuttle bus driver say that these days there are fixed pickpocket gangs committing crimes on every route.

Every time a driver sees a pickpocket blocking the road to get on the bus on time, he doesn't dare not stop.

The most conscientious people can remind passengers: don’t sleep, be careful of pickpockets, and take care of your belongings.

On the way back, Lu An summarized today's inspection: There are four major categories of food, clothing, housing and transportation that make money. The three categories of food, clothing, housing and transportation can be given up.

He is self-aware, either because he has insufficient relevant abilities, or because he has insufficient capital, or is restricted by other conditions.

But he didn't gain anything.

Through the visit, Lu An discovered two interesting phenomena.

The first interesting phenomenon was: he actually saw a girl drawing sketches and portraits at the entrance of the Royal Concubine Hotel.

Lu An stood behind the girl for more than ten minutes and basically judged that the girl was a student at an art technical school and her family should be well-off. There were more than ten bottles of different types of acrylic paints in her carry-on bag.

In the Baoqing student circle, a popular jingle goes like this:

One is stupid, the other is evil, night school is rich in little broken shoes;

Weavers are poor, wealth is rich, and American schools are better than tigresses.

The corresponding ones are: the girls in the first middle school are all nerds; the girls in the second middle school are evil, they can read and are also weird.

Let’s not talk about night school. There are mostly women in society, so hanging out in bars, falling in love, and having abortions are commonplace.

The girls in Textile Middle School are poor, while the girls in Finance and Economics Middle School have rich families.

Finally, the female students in arts and crafts schools are both "breasted" and evil. Girls with big breasts and good looks often carry a utility knife in their hands. It’s really hard for men.

Lu An watched for a while and sighed: The girl's sketches focused too much on lines and structure, without interspersion, and lacked artistic conception. With such a talent, learning art is a waste of time. She and her acrylic paints need my comfort.

The second interesting phenomenon is: any business on the street that focuses on craftsmanship often does very good business.

Such as cobblers, street tailors, barbers, repair shops

When it came to the repair shop, Lu An spontaneously thought of repairing bicycles, a skill he knew well.

Lu Xueping's brother Lu Xueyou is an old fitter at a state-owned chemical factory in the west of the city. When he has nothing to do at work, he likes to sneak out and set up a stall to repair bicycles.

After the college entrance examination in my previous life, when I learned that Lu An was worried about college expenses, the uncle once asked him to help repair bicycles. He could earn a few yuan a day, or dozens of dollars more, and he had never been in the air force.

The reason why the car repair business is so easy to do is that the most common means of transportation for people to travel these days is bicycles.

Especially those employees of state-owned enterprises such as cigarette factories, chemical factories, saccharin factories, pesticide factories, feed mills and textile factories, almost everyone has a bicycle.

The saying "our country is a kingdom of bicycles" is really not a lie.

Are there any bicycle repairmen on the road?

Yes, of course.

But most of them, like my cousin Jacky Lu, are technicians in state-owned enterprises who are restless at work and come here to make extra money.

For this reason, Lu An has already thought of ways to deal with them.

If you are doing car repairs by yourself, if there is an ignorant repairman nearby who competes with him for his territory, he will report it to the other company. Do you think you want a job that will give you an iron job? Or are you just looking for this little money?

It is now 1991, the wave of layoffs has not yet begun, and workers still have a high status in society.

At this time, no one was aware that great changes would soon come. The country would implement reforms of state-owned enterprises and lay off workers.

In the traditional thinking of working-class families, jobs in state-owned enterprises are the most precious, they are family heirlooms, they are iron rice bowls that can be passed on to future generations, and they are meat and potatoes.

Let's put it this way, if you were a worker in a state-owned enterprise in the past thirty years, you could find a wife even if you were ugly and ugly. That's how popular you are in the dating market.

Therefore, if he was offended by the land grabbing, he would definitely be punished as soon as he reported it.

…

It was very late when I got home.

Except for a few older bachelors who were sneaking out to find girls, the only workers in the alley who returned from the night shift were very quiet.

After walking for several hours, sweating all over, and cleaning up the house, Lu An found a change of clothes and prepared to take a shower.

Since Guifei Lane has an old-fashioned layout, there is no high-end design like a shower room. Every household has to find its own way to take a bath.

A private courtyard like Lu An's is okay. In this weather, you can just stand in the courtyard and get water from the well to take a shower. It's very convenient.

The neighboring houses No. 7 and No. 10 are both 4-story tall towers, so taking a bath is very difficult. There is no running water and no downpipe. The kitchen is in the large public room on the first floor. Cold and hot water for bathing have to be carried up in aluminum buckets. Every household has a wooden round bathtub. After washing, use an iron ladle to scoop out the dirty water. Scoop it back into the aluminum bucket, carry it outside and dump it. The whole process is cumbersome and complicated, more troublesome than having an affair.

Wearing plastic white sandals and big underpants, Lu An took his first bath after his rebirth.

Buckets of heart-chilling cold water were poured over my head, and my whole body felt an indescribable refreshing feeling. It was so comfortable that I felt almost dead.

Suddenly, Lu An, who was picking up the fourth bucket of water and preparing to rinse it for the last time, recalled what?

Suddenly he turned around and looked at the third room on the second floor of House No. 10, and found a face on the window. It was Widow Zhang, who was about 35 years old.

In the silence, the two of them looked at each other in the air, their gazes frozen at this moment, suffocating violently.

It's killing people! This terrifying scene almost fainted Lu An.

Sure enough, he has been peeping at himself, but he didn't make a sound. In the dark night, the face was like a photo hanging behind the window glass, swishing miserably.

After Lu An recovered, he took a deep breath, placed the aluminum bucket across his crotch, and calmed down.

Shout: "Aunt Zhang, you are so mean! You have to pay me!"

"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and a broken bowl was thrown from the second floor into the yard, smashing into countless pieces.

Lu An quickly took a few steps back with quick eyes and hands, and shouted upward again: "Double!"

Widow Zhang remained silent, sneered silently through the glass window, closed the curtains, turned off the lights, and then brushed off her clothes, hiding her merits and fame.

Damn, I have never seen such a confident voyeur, he is so arrogant!

At this moment, a head popped out from the third floor of House No. 10 and shouted loudly: "Lu An, Widow Zhang has been coveting you for a long time, just obey her!"

"Get lost!!!"

Before Lu An could speak, Widow Zhang's fierce voice had already pierced the sky, scaring the big head on the third floor to shrink back quickly.

"Hahaha!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of malicious laughter throughout the Imperial Concubine Lane.

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These two chapters are considered transitional chapters, setting a tone to lead to the people and events that follow.

Another note: In March, I tried my best to restore the humanistic atmosphere of that era. Whether it was life or making money, we pursued a pragmatic approach. Learn the lessons from the previous book, making money from this book will be closer to your life.

Finally, I hope that I can write an interesting story as expected. I hope everyone will like it and support it.