Chapter 1 Chen Qi
Only when people get older do they realize that sometimes having a good **** is also a way of showing off.
In 1979, it was spring.
Chen Qiti picked up his pants and walked out of the public toilet in Menzhang Alley, drawing circles with satisfaction.
Because he had just had a good shit, his excretion was smooth, and he was in a good mood. His 19-year-old heart was beating blood and pulse forcefully, and the unopened corpus cavernosum was getting ready to move due to the pressure in the abdominal cavity—a feeling he hadn’t seen in a long time!
Nine o''clock in the morning.
It was past working hours and the alley was very quiet.
This is a 100-meter-long and three-meter-wide small alley, inconspicuously hidden in Dashilar. But 30 years ago, it was a famous snack street, with Fushunzhai’s soy sauce beef and Ruibinlou’s braised pork belly. , Kang''s old tofu, rice cake money, Paodu Feng, Baozi Yang, etc., together with Dashilan, they have become the most prosperous place in the capital.
Chen Qi walked a few steps and arrived at the door of Courtyard No. 12. A sign was nailed on the door: Xinhua Bookstore Dormitory.
It used to be Zhang Henshui''s residence. It had seven inner courtyards, which were extremely spacious. Zhang Henshui lived here for three years and wrote "The Golden Fen Family". Later, he went to Nanjing, and the courtyard changed hands several times and was turned into a dormitory.
The dormitory is naturally irregular.
Dozens of households share water, and there are privately built coal sheds and utility rooms everywhere, with pots, pans, chickens and dog scraps all day long. The so-called fireworks in the world are condescending comments based on your financial strength. If you are in the fireworks, you will never think it is beautiful...
Chen Qi couldn''t get used to living in this poor place. Both his parents were at work. He entered the house, washed his hands and rubbed his face. The mirror with the "Eastern Red" pattern reflected the appearance of a young man.
Her hair is not parted as is popular at the moment, but is cut very short, each strand looks like a standing thorn. Her eyes are very bright, and her lips are slightly thin, which adds a bit of rebelliousness to this handsome face. She is about 178cm tall. In this era, It''s very high.
How high is it?
Aaron Kwok is about 165, Andy Lau is 169, Jacky Cheung is 173, and Ming Lai is really tall at 179. If you think the other three are quite tall, it’s because they wear special heightening pads in their shoes all year round...
"Chen Qi?"
"Chen Qi?"
Suddenly there was a shout outside the door, and a girl ran in. She had short ear-length hair, an apple-like face, rough skin, and was tall. She was wearing old gray cotton clothes and a pair of black-faced and red-soled cloth shoes. There are at least 41.
"Why are you still dawdling? Let''s go to the meeting!"
"I don''t want to go."
He was so lazy that he wanted to lie down for a while.
"If you continue to do this, I will criticize you. Why did you become a passive and decadent backward element when you returned to the city? Comrade Chen Qi, cheer up, don''t give up on yourself just because of temporary difficulties. The organization will arrange work for us!"
"Comrade Huang Zhanying, don''t miss our revolutionary friendship, just let me fall..."
"Stop talking nonsense and let''s go!"
Huang Zhanying''s voice was louder and his strength was stronger, so he picked him up.
Chen Qi had no choice but to slowly put on his coat and a pair of black cloth shoes with red soles.
They each rode on the 28 big bars and slipped out of the alley first. When they looked up, they saw the revitalizing Dashilar. After twists and turns, they arrived at Zhushikou Street, and then all the way east. The capital city in 1979 seemed like an old photo. Passed by.
The sky is gray, and the streets are particularly wide due to the sparse traffic. Bicycles are walking majestically in the middle. The buildings on both sides are low and dilapidated, densely covered with telephone poles and wires. The crowd is also dark, blue, gray, and military green. , only the white uniforms of the police officers added a touch of brightness.
On both sides of the road, people are planting trees every once in a while.
Two years ago, the United Nations Environment Program announced that Beijing is a city on the edge of desertification in the world.
This is a fact, because the sandstorm in spring was so severe, and this year there was another yellow sand storm. It is designated as Arbor Day.
This is the first year that poplar trees are being planted all over the city, so in the following springs there will not only be sandstorms, but also poplar catkins and willow catkins...
The two rode for about 5 kilometers and arrived at the east side of the Temple of Heaven, where a building stood:
Chongwen District Workers Club!
"So many people?"
"This group of unemployed young people are here!"
"That''s called unemployment!"
"Hmm, unemployed, unemployed... I dare to invent new words these days."
Chen Qi secretly muttered, seeing a sea of ??people in front of him, it was impossible to squeeze in. The men and women were all young, each looked more sad than the other, and the other wore more shabby clothes. They looked around from time to time, waiting for the club to open.
Huang Zhanying was an E person and didn''t know what social fear was. He grabbed a thin young man wearing glasses and asked: "Comrade, we have just arrived. Have you heard any news?"
"I actually heard something..."
The other party was also very enthusiastic and lowered his voice and said: "I heard that our batch is a pilot. We will be targeted first to build a production service cooperative."
"Cooperative? That''s a collective unit!"
Huang Zhanying''s eyes widened, and his already big eyeballs seemed to pop out, and he lowered his voice: "No, the wages in the collective unit are low, the treatment is poor, there are no benefits, and you are laughed at." "Hey, you are here with me. The family still looked great and upright, why did it suddenly become reality?" Chen Qidao.
"If it were a formal unit, I would be willing to clean the toilet even if it was arranged for me. A collective unit is not formal. Don''t laugh at me. The same goes for you. Can your parents afford that shame?"
"I don''t care..."
Just as he was talking, the crowd started to commotion, pushing forward in waves, and some shouted to maintain order, but the club opened its doors.
Huang Zhanying pulled him and rushed in, like Zhang Fei. He didn''t fall behind and finally entered. Inside was a hall that could accommodate a thousand people. It had two floors. There was a stage in front, where activities could be held and performances could be held. Movie.
Holding a banner: "On-site briefing by the government on solving the employment problem of unemployed youth!"
The two found a place to sit down.
Not long after, several leaders came to the stage to formally hold a meeting.
At the beginning of 1979, 20 million people were waiting for employment across the country, including more than 10 million educated youths, 2.3 million idle urban laborers, and 1.05 million college and technical secondary school graduates and demobilized servicemen... The situation in Beijing was particularly difficult, with 400,000 unemployed young people, with an average of 2.7 households per household. One person is unemployed.
This ratio is terrible!
Even scarier than the post-epidemic era.
Many people have a stereotype about this era, that is, if you study well, you can kill people after graduating from a technical secondary school, and you will be assigned... Yes, you will be assigned, but the premise is that there must be so many positions.
Sending people to the mountains and countryside began in the 1950s, essentially to relieve the employment pressure caused by the first birth peak.
Afterwards, these educated youth returned to the city, which coincided with the second population peak, creating a large number of unemployed youth. This group of people is young and energetic, has no jobs, hangs around the city all day, and fights, which is a very unstable factor.
Therefore, job placement is the country’s top priority this year.
The leader on the stage talked a lot. Chen Qi listened and realized that there were actually three points:
Allow parents to retire early and let their children take over their jobs.
Each agency and unit contracts a certain number of unemployed young people, and can recruit long-term temporary workers. It is advocated that two people can do the work of one person, and the food of three people can be eaten by five people.
Develop the collective ownership economy, open up more opportunities, and relax the employment environment.
"Children take over, temporary workers, fish at work, flexible employment...Hey, it turns out the source is here!"
"The service industry across the country has basically been scrapped. Of course there is a shortage of jobs. The service industry needs to be restored!"
"The third population peak came in the late 1990s, and then universities expanded their enrollment... It was still simple in later generations, with live streaming, takeout, and online ride-hailing all in one step."
Chen Qi was happy, but he couldn''t help but feel sad when he thought about future generations, and sighed quietly.
"Oh, I''ll pay for the skit!"
"I, a successful man with a net worth of tens of millions, am going to empty the urinal in this shabby alley. Where can I go to reason with him?"
Yes, he was certainly an outsider in this era.
To be honest, he didn’t want to come at all. How wonderful the future is. There is WIFI, Bilibili, Douyin, takeout, and high-speed rail. Prostitutes don’t have to go out to place orders on their mobile phones. They are available across the country. Even Xiaomi is building cars. Lei Jun will open the car door for you with his own hands...
Chen Qi lived to be in his forties in his previous life. He was a hard-core netizen who had been making bricks online since the BBS era. He worked part-time when he was young and later started his own business. He is also the number one person on Weibo. His short video matrix has a combined fan base of over 10 million, and he has invested in I have worked in movies and TV series, brought goods to live broadcasts, slept with Internet celebrities and cosplayers, and am better than the best. The key is not to be a bully for others.
The journey has been full of ups and downs, and she finally got through the epidemic. The overall situation is not good. People all over the country know that Jia Ling has lost weight.
He is just bad at making money, and others are even worse at making money. Not only is there a capital backer behind his bad luck.
In short, big companies have a monopoly, and small companies are getting harder and harder to earn money. He fell into the A-share market, failed his stud skit, and ended up here after being depressed and having a drink.
Both parents were employees of Xinhua Bookstore, and they had a little sister who died in infancy. The original owner went to join the queue after graduating from middle school. Huang Zhanying was a revolutionary comrade, and his parents also worked at Xinhua Bookstore. They lived in a compound and had a younger brother.
After returning to the city, the original owner took many exams but failed, and became an unemployed young man.
“Priority should be given to those who are older and have been unemployed for a long time!”
"After today''s meeting, street cadres will visit door to door to establish production service cooperatives to ensure that every unemployed youth can find a job..."
"Please believe in the organization, and at the same time, you must change your thinking. Times are changing. We have established diplomatic relations with the United States! Besides, there is no high or low position, and no job is high or low. You can contribute to the motherland and contribute to the four modernizations wherever you are. !”
The leaders on the stage spoke loudly, but the people below were at a loss.
"ha…"
Chen Qi yawned.
(End of chapter)