Chapter Seventy-Five: There Is Providence in the Dark
In the seventies and early eighties, the workers were generally poor, but basically happy.
They have no pressure and no thoughts, they live a relatively simple life, and they drink a little wine and play poker at night, which is also lively.
Now that the weather is getting hotter, most people like to move a small table and eat dinner outside.
When it gets dark, pull on an incandescent lamp, get together to four people and start playing poker, sometimes there are more than a dozen onlookers, and they may be scolded for their mouths, or they may break up because of the other party's foul quarrel.
During this time, there were very few people who gambled money, and a hundred households may not be able to find a pair of mahjong, and no one dared to play mahjong publicly.
The police station caught gambling very badly, and at this time, no one talked about human rights, and those who caught gambling money would basically let them carry the gambling tables to the streets, and there was a need for leaders of the work unit to lead people.
There is a positive side to everything, and there are some advantages to not protecting so-called privacy and not having to worry about "human rights".
When a person commits a crime and is escorted through the streets by the police, militia, and aunts of neighborhood committees, the crowd of onlookers points and points out who this is, and this feeling is even more deterrent than being detained for 15 days, and those who are often paraded in the streets are ashamed of themselves.
Colleagues and neighbors in the unit basically play "50k" or "40 points" when they get together, and no one plays "eggs" because this style of play has not yet become popular.
In another year or two, the number of people with TV sets will gradually appear, and then increase year by year, and the first people to own TV sets will be crowded, and watching TV will become the mainstream of entertainment.
In the evening, Huang Daozhou went out to deliver crayfish and went home not long after, Manager Liu warmly kept him for a drink, and he excused himself on the grounds that the child's uncle was waiting for dinner at home.
He sent a total of four, all of which were put down and returned, including Director Zhu and Manager Liu, all of whom had dinner in the yard without exception.
The alluring aroma of thirteen-spiced crayfish soon attracted their neighbors to take a look, and there were a few people who tried one or two, and it is estimated that there will be no fewer people who have saved their minds to buy a pot for a large family to taste after eating.
People are in good spirits when they are happy, and the zodiac has changed too much in the past few days, often humming songs and smiling all over his face.
At night, when pushing a bicycle to transport "rice covers" to the street, Huang Daozhou was no longer walking in a hurry with his head down, and he was happy to greet neighbors and acquaintances.
For three days in a row, instead of hiding across the street and watching his children, he parked his bicycle by the fence and waited.
After all, the practice stall is indeed too shabby, and Huang Daozhou still can't pull his face to sell tea eggs with his children.
Huang Han believes that it won't be long before the family really starts selling thirteen-spiced crayfish, and Huang Daozhou will definitely be able to accept greeting customers in the store.
There are more regular customers, tea eggs are better to sell, and Zhang Chunmei still comes to sing a song or two.
Huang Han once persuaded them not to come every day, but the little girl said that it was fun to help others, how could she fish for three days and dry the nets for two days?
Speechless! Huang Han could only stand them.
Huang Han's judgment was correct, "Olive Tree" and "See Cooking Smoke Again", two songs that are not easy to hear on the radio, have become popular, and no one has asked to listen to "Sister Looking for Brother Tears" and "Velvet Flower" in the past two days.
Is it going to be released again after a while "Sweet Honey" and "A Thousand Words"? Huang Han has been struggling, is it okay to sing such love songs at a young age?
Although he hadn't heard of these two songs causing trouble in the mainland, Huang Han was not sure and had been hesitating. Why don't you try "Tales of a Small Town"?
"Night Fragrance" and "He Rijun Come Again" can't be sung even if they are killed, they are traitor songs and pornographic songs that have been characterized by the government and have not yet been rehabilitated.
In the end, Huang Han decided not to think about it anymore, the business is easy to do now, and it is not too late to launch new songs when there is a problem!
On the way home, the little girl was a little weird, always stealing fun, and then looking at Huang Daozhou, she also felt that something was wrong.
Anyway, Huang Daozhou seems to be very proud, and he keeps making faces with the little girl.
It's abnormal! There must be a problem. Huang Han suddenly said, "Is Xiao Feng a good child?"
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Of course it is!"
"Does Xiao Feng listen to his brother and sister the most?"
"Uh-huh!"
"Do you like to wear a nice backpack to school?"
"Like?"
"Do you like to lie to your brother and sister?"
"No, I never lie!"
"Why have you been stealing silly music today?"
The little girl opened her mouth and stammered, "I, I ......"
"Ahem......" Huang Daozhou suddenly coughed, interrupting the conversation between Huang Han and the little girl.
Huang Han even thought that the little girl and Huang Daozhou had something to hide from him, and said: "Dad, you don't smoke, I've never heard you cough, you want to cover up!"
"I just choked on the wind, what is there to cover up?"
Saying that Huang Daozhou is still desperately holding back his laughter, his son is too rebellious during this time, Huang Daozhou is under a lot of pressure, and today he saw that his son, who is better than a monkey, was deceived by himself, and Huang Daozhou was actually full of a sense of accomplishment.
The situation is like this, when Zhang Fangfen was about to cook tea eggs today, she found that there was a pool of soup on the table where the aluminum pot was placed.
She hurriedly poured out the soup in an enamel basin, took the aluminum pot to the courtyard, and took a closer look at the sun.
It should be that the frequency of use this month is too high, and this old aluminum pot can't hold it, and trachoma appears at the bottom of the pot.
Shengdou small people will live, and it is necessary to be diligent and thrifty.
It costs about ten yuan to buy a new aluminum pot according to the size, and it costs only a quarter of the price of a new pot to replace a bad aluminum pot with a bottom, and the service life of the new pot bottom will not be much worse than that of a new pot.
The family urgently needed boiled eggs in an aluminum pot, and Huang Daozhou was assigned by Zhang Fangfen to go to the street corner to find a stall to knock on the aluminum pot and change the bottom of the pot with the key.
It doesn't matter if Huang Daozhou has no experience, the lame man who repairs the pot at the street corner is a local, and he does business at an honest price, and basically does not bargain with others.
The lame man looked at the size of the bottom of the pot and asked Huang Daozhou whether he was going to use three pieces of two cents for the bottom of the pot or two pieces of seven or two pieces of two for the new pot bottom.
Huang Daozhou didn't understand! But he thought that his aluminum pot had to boil eggs every day, and the quality should not be bad, so he should pick a good one and buy it, so he directly chose three pieces of two cents at the bottom of the pot.
Later, I learned that the difference in the price of the new pot base has nothing to do with the quality at all, but is determined according to the size of the ingredients.
If you choose two pieces of two cents of the bottom of the pot, after replacing it, it is about the same as the original aluminum pot volume, but the bottom of the pot with three pieces of two cents is replaced, the height is three inches higher than the original aluminum pot, and the volume is more than three percent.
This accident made Huang Daozhou feel that there was providence in the dark, and he used to suggest boiling more tea eggs to sell, but Huang Han refused on the grounds that it was too eye-catching to install two aluminum pots.
Now this old aluminum pot with the bottom of the pot has been replaced, and more than 200 eggs are put into the pot, because it is placed in the "rice cover", others can't see it at all.
Selling hot tea eggs at night, under normal circumstances, Huang Xin and Huang Han take eggs to customers to collect money, and the little girl gives change to others.
After all, the little girl is young, and the hot tea eggs are too hot in her hand.
In order to exercise the little girl's arithmetic ability, she counted the tea eggs boiled every day, and when she went home at night during this time, she counted the money and food stamps.
This afternoon, she found that there were as many as two hundred and four tea eggs, and she looked at the aluminum pot that was much taller.
Participating in business every day, even a few more times than Huang Han, of course the little girl knows that the more tea eggs are sold, the more money the family makes.
Huang Daozhou told the little girl that she must not say, just to see when Huang Han will be able to discover this little secret.
The aluminum pot was placed in the "rice cover" early, and Huang Han couldn't see the bottom of the shiny new pot.
To be honest, it only takes a while to sell tea eggs now, and there are three people selling them, and Huang Han really can't feel it when he sells more than fifty more.
It's just that it's too funny to join forces with my father to deceive my brother and sister, and the little girl laughs low, and she always can't help but laugh, and she is too uncomfortable.
Huang Daozhou saw that the little girl was about to tell the truth, so he pretended to be serious and said: "Xiaofeng is doing well in business today, and there are two aunts who praise you for your sweetness! Come to Daddy and let Daddy kiss him." ”
It's so obvious, there must be a story!