Chapter 2 I don’t want to empty the urinal


    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?"


    "I don''t 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 worried, 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, and 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. In 1978, the National Science Conference was held, 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 "Travel in China". 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?"


    "Anyway, I don''t need you, I can do it on my own." "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 either 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 washes in the big bathtub, and the other two people 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 toilets to empty them - 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 a severe shortage of materials. You need a ticket to buy anything. You can''t buy it without a ticket even if you have 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 hint of spring. Chen Qi sat at the table and flipped through the "Geographical Atlas", which introduced many famous mountains, rivers, topography and landforms of the motherland.


    What was said in the meeting was unclear to others, but he knew it very well.


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


    This idea is correct. In 1949, there were 73,000 service industry 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. With this group of people on top, we don''t have to worry about having nothing to eat.


    The birth of collective enterprises is to solve the problem of employment. Property rights have always been vague and there are a lot of problems left over from history. But in the capital, it is better than the self-employed. The development of self-employed in the capital is relatively slow, and next year will be the first year.


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


    As for the long-term plan, in the early stages of reform, there are only a few paths:


    Either pretend to be a cultured person and play scar literature, or find a job to survive, or go down south to become a traitor and get rich first and then die, or engage in film and television to attract Gong Xue, Zhu Lin, Li Jianqun, Tao Huimin, He Qing, Chen Hong, Lin Fangbing...


    Of course he has to do what he is good at.


    "Speaking of which, this is a good time to rebel against Tiangang... But those days are too far away. I''ll leave this shabby alley first. I don''t want to empty the toilet anymore."


    Chen Qi''s mind fell to the ground, and he suddenly felt relaxed. He flipped through it and found a page with beautiful scenery and majestic cliffs.


    "Lushan?"


    He was happy and nodded: "I was born to be a fairy cave, with infinite scenery on the dangerous peak... Lushan Mountain is a good place!"


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