rebirth against the times

Luo Jihua thought for a while and said: "Then let me tell you a story first. Let me first say that I heard this story from others, so don't rely on me."

After everyone's urging, the bearded man finally gave a deep look, and then spoke in his slightly silly and low voice: "What is the most corny pick-up line you have ever heard? What I have heard is: You look good

It has to be like a person."

The person who said this was an 80-year-old man. At that time, I was working in a restaurant. When I was serving food, I saw the old man chatting up an old lady of the same age. The old lady answered him: "Who do I look like?"

Said: "My wife." I didn't expect you are so old! She is so old and immoral, so wretched!

The old lady was also angry and said quickly: "Don't talk nonsense, I have a wife." After saying that, she got up and left.

The old man was determined to stop the old lady and said, "Don't leave yet. Listen to me tell a story. It's a story from our time." Out of curiosity, the old lady sat down.

The old man said: "I have a childhood friend named Zhuzi. Zhuzi was only 15 years old at that time. There was little food in those days. Zhuzi hit a pigeon with a slingshot and took it back to stew soup. As a result, Liu Xiaomei from the next village came over and was in a panic.

, something must have happened at home."

Zhuzi said: "Sister, don't be anxious, let's have a sip of soup first."

Liu Xiaomei took a sip of soup and finally calmed down. Then she said, "Have you seen my pigeons?"

Zhuzi was trembling with fright and did not dare to tell her the truth, so he comforted her and said, "Don't be sad. The pigeon must have lost its way and will come back in a few days."

The next day, Liu Xiaomei came again and suddenly saw a white thing flying in the sky.

Liu Xiaomei said in surprise: "Ah, my pigeon!"

Zhuzi said embarrassedly: "Those are my white underpants, they were blown away by the wind."

The little sister sighed and her eyes dimmed. Seeing the little sister like this, Zhu Zhu felt even more guilty, so he burned a potato for her.

Every day after that, the little sister would come to see her pigeons, and Zhuzi would cook something to appease her every time. The little sister was very satisfied with the food every time. Zhuzi began to look forward to cooking for the little sister, and he fell in love with her.

Sister, he feels even more guilty.

One day, as soon as the little girl entered the door, she saw Zhu Zhu standing in the yard waiting for her.

Zhuzi shouted excitedly: "Little sister, your pigeon has flown back!"

Before the little girl could reply, Zhuzi took out a gray pigeon from behind.

The little girl said: "My pigeons are white."

Zhuzi said: "The sun is so poisonous these days. Your white dove must have been tanned."

The younger sister shouted: "You think I'm stupid!"

Helpless, Zhu Zhu had no choice but to admit that the pigeon was eaten by him and he was willing to compensate her.

The little girl said: "Then you will cook for me for the rest of your life."

So, they started to fall in love. After a few years of marriage, Zhuzi realized that the younger sister had been lying to him. The pigeon was originally intended to be eaten by the younger sister, but before he could kill it, it flew away.

When my sister drank that bowl of soup, she knew it was her pigeon, but Zhu Zhu's cooking skills were so good.

——Later, she pretended to look for pigeons every day, but in fact she was eating and drinking, and ended up falling in love with Zhuzi. She pretended to be waiting for pigeons, but in fact she was waiting for Zhuzi to be attracted to her, and she waited.

…

The old man looked at the old lady and asked, "How about my story?"

The old lady said: "I'm so hungry after hearing this."

The old man smiled and said, "Then let me tell you another story."

50 years ago, I had a worker named Xiao Gao. He was the most powerful technician in the factory. His girlfriend was Fangfang. There were five golden flowers in our factory, and Fangfang was the sixth one. Xiao Gao was in the second workshop

, Fangfang is in the third workshop. They have a very good relationship, and it’s hard not to see each other for a minute. To them, being separated by a workshop is like a long-distance relationship.

Xiao Gao made up his mind to become the workshop director, so that he could freely shuttle between the two workshops and see Fangfang every moment. So Xiao Gao began to work hard to make progress. After many days and nights, the organization finally

I saw his efforts.

——So, he was sent to the northwest to support construction.

It was over now, and they really had a long-distance relationship. When leaving, Xiao Gao asked Fangfang to wait for him for two years, and then they would get married. As a result, when Xiao Gao arrived in the northwest, he was taken into the desert by the organization just after he entered the staff dormitory.

, joined a confidential project and cut off contact with the outside world.

It was four years since I left. Four years later, when Xiao Gao returned to the staff dormitory, he saw that the bed was piled with letters, all from Fangfang.

The first letter, "Comrade Xiao Gao, I miss you very much..."

….

Letter 19, "Comrade Xiao Gao, I found a food stall on Jiefang Road. The food is very delicious. When you come back, we will eat together..."

….

Letter 38, "Comrade Xiao Gao, why haven't you replied? Have you developed a fighting friendship with other female comrades? I also want to develop a relationship with Xiao Li in the next workshop..."

Letter 39, "Comrade Xiao Gao, the last letter I sent was out of emotion and I lied to you. I have not had any contact with Comrade Xiao Li."

Xiao Gao opened the letters one after another, crying and laughing.

But he took out the last letter: "Comrade Xiao Gao, my mother introduced me to a partner. If you don't come back before the National Day this year, I will have to marry him..."

National Day? Xiao Gao was covered in cold sweat. It was mid-October and two weeks had passed since the National Day. He immediately went to catch the train and was so anxious that it took him two days to get back to his hometown. He rushed directly to Fangfang's house, but she was not there. Yes.

Ah, she was already married. He went to the food stall Fangfang mentioned in despair. He ordered a bowl of noodles and started crying while eating.

At this time, a familiar figure appeared in front of him. It was Fangfang, and she was looking at him with a smile. Later, Xiao Gao found out that Fangfang would come here every day to wait for him. On National Day, Xiao Gao did not show up again.

, Fangfang swore that she would never come here again. But she still came.

When there was only a wall between them, she could not survive a minute. When there were thousands of mountains and rivers between them, she survived for four years. She has been waiting for him to come back, and she has waited.

.

…

The old man said: "My story is finished."

The old lady nodded and said, "What a good story. Do you have any more?"

The old man continued: "Then let me tell you the story of an old couple."

The man’s name is Lao Wu... Lao Wu and his wife have been married for 40 years. In order to celebrate their wedding anniversary, their son signed up a tour group for them to go to the United States. Lao Wu was very excited and practiced English every day.

After practicing for two weeks, he only learned three sentences. When they arrived in the United States, the tour guide took them to Times Square for free activities. Lao Wu was very excited. He waved to foreigners when he saw them and kept saying: "Hello!"

Hello! Hello to all of you!" This was the first English sentence Lao Wu learned.

They watched and walked around, and Old Wu asked everything he saw, howmuch this? Howmuch that? This was the second English sentence Lao Wu learned.

Lao Wu was showing off his English all the way. As he walked, he found that his wife was missing. He was frightened and looked everywhere for him. In the crowded Times Square, a thin old Asian man appeared among the tall foreigners.

Zhongzhong was running around, shouting in an unfamiliar language, which seemed particularly abrupt. He visited every place they walked. From the theater to the square, from the square to the shopping mall. When he heard a dispute in a shopping mall, he walked forward

At first glance, it was my wife.

My wife was stuck in the shopping mall, clinging to a pillar and not letting go. There were several tall and strong security guards standing next to her, trying to pull her away. Old Wu rushed up to block his wife. He was very thin, but very strong. His wife was tight.

Holding Old Wu's arm tightly, he said excitedly: "Old Wu! Old Wu!"

Lao Wu yelled at the security guard: "Don't touch her! Mywife! Mywife!" This was the third English sentence Lao Wu had learned.

It turned out that after the old lady got lost, she stood there until the mall closed. When the security came to clear the place, she still hugged the pillar and refused to leave. Old Wu was worried and angry, why are you standing here stupidly?

The old lady said: "I don't know the road. I will just stand there and wait for you. I know you will definitely find me."

Yes, she has been standing there. This is the stupidest waiting and the most persistent trust. She has waited.

After listening to the story, the old lady was satisfied, so she said goodbye to the old man and went home.

…

I later chatted with the old man, and then I realized that the old man was telling a story about him and the old lady. The pillar in the story was him, Xiao Gao was him, and Old Wu was also him. The old lady who just left was named Liu Fangfang. Liu Xiaomei was her.

, Fangfang is her, and so is his wife. She is his wife. They met in the countryside when they were more than 10 years old. When they were in their 20s, they entered a factory together; later they got married and made an appointment to hold hands throughout this journey.

lifetime.

However, the old lady broke the appointment. Three years ago, the old lady suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and now she doesn't recognize anyone. The husband she always talked about sat in front of her every day, but she could no longer recognize him.

My wife comes to this restaurant every day, and the old man comes here every day to tell her stories and what happened between them in the past, hoping that one day he will remind the old lady of him. I asked cautiously: "What if she never remembers it?"

Woolen cloth?"

The old man said, "In the first half of my life, she was the one waiting for me. In the second half of my life, I will be the one waiting for her."

He didn't know how long he had to wait, but he would keep waiting. "You look like the same person." This sentence was actually what the old lady had said to him before. On the day of their reunion, he was eating noodles at the stall.

While eating and crying, suddenly a familiar voice came out. "You look like the same person." Xiao Gao raised his head and found that it was Fangfang. Xiao Gao cried even harder and said, "Who do you look like?"

Fangfang said, my husband.

Xiao Gao was stunned, and Fangfang continued: "I have asked the organization for permission, and the organization has approved our marriage. You will go with me to go through the formalities tomorrow, and you are not allowed to run away again."

"You look like a person." I originally thought this was the most clichéd way to strike up a conversation, but unexpectedly it was the most affectionate confession.

One day, the old lady came as usual and sat down. I counted the time and it was almost time for the old man to arrive. At this time, the door was pushed open and it was not him who came in. It was a young man who looked very similar to the old man and had a big chest.

Wearing a white flower on his front, he sat opposite the old lady. The young man said, "Grandma, let me tell you a story."

My heart sank. The old man who sat in the same position, faced the same people, and told the same stories every day, rain or shine, was gone.

He waited for several years, wanting to wait for her to look at him and show her familiar smile. However, in the end he still didn't wait. In this impetuous and fast era, we are really impatient. It takes 3 minutes to make instant noodles, which we think is too long.

Long; a TV series is 30 minutes long, we have to fast forward. However, we are willing to spend three to five years, or even a lifetime, to wait for someone. Proust said in "In Search of Lost Time", even though we know that there is no hope anymore

, we are still looking forward to waiting for a little movement and a little sound.

The old lady looked at the young man. She looked at his face in trance and confusion.

"Young man, you look like a human being."

…

At this point, the story has been told. Everyone felt heavy in their hearts, but they were moved by something. At this time, Xiao Zhen broke everyone's silence: "Okay, I don't think we need to vote, let's all have a drink.

"

No one had any objections, they all took the wine glasses and drank in one gulp. "Okay, let's see who is laughing."

Cao An, like the master of ceremonies at an event, immediately threw out the sieve in his hand, and then counted the points starting from the beard: "Oh, it's Sister Zhen." The number of points on the sieve happened to be at Li Zhen's position.

Li Zhen smiled awkwardly and said: "Oh, I don't have any story. I'd better drink as a penalty."

After saying that, he reached for a glass of wine and drank it slowly.

"Oh, this is so boring." Cao An said regretfully.

Just when Li Zhen was going to get the second glass of wine, Bai Shuo got the glass first and said, "Sister Zhen has already drank two glasses in a row. Let me help her drink the rest." After that, he drank one glass and then

He picked up another cup and drank it down in one gulp.

The sieve continued to rotate. According to the points, the next one should be Zhang Minxian. Zhang Minxian also looked embarrassed. Zhuzhu came to the rescue and said: "We still fine the bar." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to get the wine. Now everyone was not happy, and Cao An was even more reluctant.

Rao.

At this time, Minxian stopped Zhuzhu's movement of holding the wine glass and said, "Since the stories that Beard has heard count, let me also tell a story about what I encountered."

About last year before the National Day holiday, our company launched an event. If you recharge your phone bill with RMB 200, you will receive a RMB 200 official website shopping voucher. With this RMB 200 shopping voucher, you can purchase any product on our company's official website after the event.

, and used as a cash deduction. Our department is responsible for the promotion of this event.

In those days, a young woman came to the business hall almost every day to recharge 200-400 yuan for different numbers. She also recharged more than a dozen numbers, and sometimes even more than 30 numbers. Over the course of a few days,

I roughly calculated that she had recharged a total of about 50,000 yuan for more than 200 numbers. Of course, she also received shopping coupons of the same value. Then within a few days, our colleagues discovered that someone was selling us in large quantities.

The company's shopping voucher, a shopping voucher with a face value of 200, only sells for about 150 yuan. This situation suddenly appeared, which attracted the attention of the company leaders, and the things on our company's official website are all of good quality and will never be sold.

There are fakes, but the price is definitely not as favorable as what is on the market. It is about 10% more expensive than the price of the same item on the market. But if you buy a 200 yuan shopping voucher for 150 yuan, you can exchange it for the corresponding product at our company.

, still very cost-effective.

So the company leaders chose to call the police in order to find out the matter. Soon the police caught the suspect who sold the company's shopping vouchers. It was the woman who came to recharge the phone every day. Later, after interrogation, it was learned that the woman was originally from our company.

Below is a temporary employee of a small private contracting business hall. However, at that time, this activity was directly linked to the official website activities of the head office, and the activity was not delegated to those small private business halls.

According to her account, after learning that our company had this activity, she immediately conducted a survey and learned that many people did not want to buy the products on the official website because most of them were relatively expensive electronic products such as mobile phones and computers.

Everything is worth thousands of yuan. Even if you have a few hundred shopping coupons, you still need to make up a lot of money. If you recharge thousands of yuan of phone bills at one time, it is obviously not cost-effective. But if you recharge the phone bills, you will get free money.

For the same amount of phone bills, everyone is more willing to accept it.

At the same time, she also learned that many people were unwilling to recharge as much as 200 at a time, but it was still acceptable if they recharged 100. So she changed our company's plan herself and typed it in their business hall privately.

Recharge 100 yuan of phone credit and get 100 yuan of phone credit as a promotion. At the same time, she also went to communities, schools, and factories to promote it. In a few days, she achieved the same effect as before.

Maybe you will wonder, what are the benefits of her doing this? This is actually how she operates. When someone gives her 100 yuan, she will use 100 yuan to recharge 200 yuan for others. In this way, the promised transaction is completed. At the same time, she can

She received a 200 yuan shopping voucher from our company, which means she spent 100 yuan in exchange for a 200 yuan shopping voucher from our company. After the event, she looked for people who needed to buy the corresponding products and sold the shopping vouchers.

As you can see, if you buy a 2,000 yuan Motorola mobile phone from our company, it only costs 1,800 yuan on the market, but if you buy a 2,000 yuan shopping voucher for 1,500 yuan, you can just exchange it for a mobile phone.

The same Motorola mobile phone is 300 yuan cheaper than the discounted price on the market, not to mention the quality is more guaranteed. So her shopping vouchers were sold out quickly. But she can earn 50 yuan from each 200 yuan shopping voucher.

With a 50,000 yuan shopping voucher, she could earn 12,500 yuan. In other words, she made more than 10,000 yuan in just a few days by taking advantage of our company's activities and our company's business hall.

"This little girl is really a talent!" Bai Shuo said thoughtfully.

"Then what happened to this woman? She won't go to jail, right?" Cao An asked.

Minxian continued: "That's not serious. She just took advantage of our company's loopholes. The police saw that the matter involved was not serious, so they did not deal with it and let the company handle it on its own. But in the end, the company still took her

She was fired from the business office and her bonus for the month was deducted."

"What? Your company actually deducted bonuses and fired such a talented person. In any case, he can help your company increase the turnover of 50,000 yuan." Liang Ying said with some indignation.

"Haha, it's a common problem in your state-owned enterprises." Bai Shuo helped Liang Ying make up for it.

Minxian was also quite embarrassed and said: "But the company leaders insist on dealing with it seriously, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Cao An saw that Minxian was a little embarrassed and immediately said: "Sister-in-law, we are not blaming you, but you can't make the decision in this matter. By the way, what is that woman's name?"

"I heard that this woman's husband left her and ran away, and it's not easy for her to take care of the child alone. She seems to be called Xiao Lin."

"Huh? This name sounds familiar." Bai Shuo murmured.

Cao An suddenly asked: "Hey, sister-in-law, is she a woman about twenty-four or five years old, about one meter six, fat and with big breasts?"

Minxian was stunned for a moment: "Well, it's almost the same, but I don't think she's too fat, she's just plump."

Bai Shuo also reflected at this time: "Ah, Fatty, you mean it might be the sales manager of Hongwan?"

"That's right, Brother Geng, it's that neighbor with big breasts who keeps making eyes at you."

"Ahem, I don't think anyone is looking at me." Bai Shuo was almost choked by Cao An's words and couldn't even breathe.

"Okay, actually this story tells us a truth, that is, if the commodity is lower than the market price, a situation will occur to restore its original value. Now those scalpers who resell tickets and wool gangs in the financial market,

Financial analysts, actually the same thing is true. But this story is quite enlightening, I think it passes the test." Bai Shuo quickly looked around to talk to him, raised his glass, and everyone else raised their glasses and drank it all.

.

At this time, Cao An's sieve was thrown into Liang Ying's count again. Bai Shuo saw that Liang Ying was silent, just taking small sips of the wine, and suddenly said to Liang Ying: "Young Master Liang, I have been

I think you are also a person with stories. After such a long time, would you like to tell us your own story?"

Liang Ying thought for a moment, then smiled slightly, and slowly pushed the empty cup in her hand towards the beard, her eyes gradually became deep, with a look like "I have a story, do you have wine?"

(This chapter borrows some of my personal favorite stories and uses the plot to share them with you. I hope you like them.)?