Li Weidong returned to the auto repair workshop, found his "28 bars" in the bicycle shed, and rode back to the family home of the transportation company.

The family home of the transportation company is actually a large area of tiled houses.

In the early 80s, the tube building was only prepared in big cities, after all, the Qinghe area is not Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and there is not even a decent tube building, even if it is a state-owned enterprise worker, it can only live in a large tile house.

Li Weidong's family has three tiled houses, which are in good condition in the family courtyard of the transportation company. This is also thanks to the fact that Li Dengke is a veteran figure of the transportation company, and he can be assigned to these three large tiled houses according to his seniority.

When Li Weidong returned home, his mother Zhou Xiuchun had already prepared dinner, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, and a plate of pickles.

Although there was no meat at all at this dinner, when Li Weidong tasted his mother's cooking skills again, tears couldn't help rolling in his eyes.

The mother chattered while eating, which was nothing more than some short trivial matters in the parents, even the neighbor's cat was lost for a month and came back with a big belly, and she could talk for three or five minutes.

Father Li Dengke poured a small cup of locally produced Qinghe Daqu, took a small sip of it, and the aftertaste seemed to be chirping, while his younger brother Li Weimin next to him kept stuffing vegetables into his mouth, as if he was reincarnated as a starving ghost.

Looking at this scene, Li Weidong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if several sisters also came back, the family would have a reunion dinner, how good it would be!

Mr. and Mrs. Li Dengke had a total of six children, which could be regarded as a response to the call of "many people with great strength" at that time.

For people born in the fifties and sixties, it is normal to have four or five brothers and sisters, if you only have two or three children, it is considered to have few children, and only children are as rare as giant pandas in that era.

Li Weidong has four older sisters, a younger brother, the first three sisters are all married, and the fourth sister was assigned to work in a small county town 50 kilometers away after graduating from junior high school, and can only come back once a month. And his younger brother Li Weimin is now in the first grade of junior high school, and he is a scumbag.

The people of the previous generation inevitably had the idea of preferring sons over daughters, Li Dengke gave birth to four daughters in a row, and it was only in the fifth that Li Weidong was born, a son, who naturally took care of Li Weidong in every way, and the four sisters also had a posture of "helping younger brothers", but everyone was poor in that era, and there were no material conditions for wanting to "help younger brothers".

After dinner, Li Weimin, the younger brother of the scumbag, ran out with a cigarette and played with fox friends and dogs. His father, Li Dengko, turned on the radio and leaned back in his chair.

At that time, although there was already a black-and-white TV, Li Weidong's family's economic conditions still couldn't afford to buy that thing, and it was already very good to have a radio to listen to.

"Hatoyama has a banquet, make friends with me, thousands of cups, and will entertain ......"

An excerpt from the Peking Opera "Red Lantern" sounded on the radio, and Li Dengke hummed along while beating the beat with his hands.

Li Weidong helped his mother clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Weidong, I'm tired from a day in the workshop, go into the house and change my clothes, and I'll wash them for you. Mother said with a loving face.

Li Weidong nodded, and went back to the back room to change out of the dark blue overalls.

The furnishings in the room were both familiar and unfamiliar, Li Weidong looked at his young self in the mirror, and was stunned for a while.

"I took this mirror with me when I moved later, and when I moved the second time, I couldn't find it. ”

Li Weidong let out a long sigh, he suddenly became confused about his future.

"Supposedly, I, a reborn person who knows history well, should easily become a billionaire!" Li Weidong muttered to himself.

But when it was his turn, he really couldn't think of any good way to make money for a while.

"Go to the post office and buy a bunch of monkey tickets? Not to mention that the monkey tickets were issued in 1980, can they still be bought now? Even waiting for the price of monkey tickets to rise is more than 20 years later.

I'm afraid I'll be beaten to death by my father! I, a regular employee of a large state-owned enterprise, can't afford to lose that person.

I don't have that capital yet, and the wind of the '83 crackdown has just blown, and if I try to engage in that thing, I may be arrested as speculation, and if I don't make any money, I will be imprisoned for a few more years, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Li Weidong let out a long sigh helplessly.

In the nineties, saying that a person is self-employed means that the person has made a lot of money, and there will be many people who will envy it. And in the eighties, especially in the early eighties, "self-employed" was definitely a derogatory term.

In the early 80s, self-employed people were synonymous with unemployed youth, even re-education through labor, and were incompatible with mainstream society.

For the employees of state-owned enterprises, the thing of "self-employed" is even more dazzling to look at.

In the family homes of state-owned enterprises, if the children of any family become self-employed, it will simply be a shame for the whole family, and the parents will not be able to raise their heads in front of others.

If you are a rural person, if you go to the city to set up a stall and make money, you will be regarded as the hope of the whole village, but if you are a child of a state-owned enterprise, if you go to set up a stall, it will definitely be a shame for the whole factory.

Therefore, the children of employees of state-owned enterprises would rather go to state-owned enterprises as temporary workers than to practice stalls and become self-employed.

What's more, Li Weidong himself is a regular employee of a state-owned enterprise, and it is even more unrealistic to be a self-employed person.

It's like what is written in a rebirth novel, reborn back to the late 70s and early 80s, starting a business, following the spring breeze of reform and opening up, developing all the way, rushing out of Asia, going to the world, mixing into the world's top 500 in a few years, entering the Forbes list, and calling Bill Gates and Jobs brothers, that is even more nonsense.

In China in the early 80s, except for the special economic zones, there was no soil for the survival of private enterprises. Although the policy has been gradually liberalized, it was after all an era of transition from a planned economy to a market economy, and the planned economy still occupied a dominant position.

This means that almost all the means of production are allocated in a planned way. State-owned enterprises will take most of the means of production, and the rest will be taken by the collective enterprises, and it is impossible for private enterprises to obtain the planned means of production.

For example, electricity, energy, transportation, land, infrastructure, etc., are also given priority to state-owned enterprises, and then collective enterprises, and private enterprises cannot get anything.

Without electricity, energy, land, transportation, and even raw materials, how can private enterprises survive?

Throughout the 80s, the private economy was almost always developing in the mode of small workshops, such as fried melon seeds and hot sauce, which almost did not occupy the means of production and would not be stuck by various "plans".

In 1984, when he went to the sea to do business, he could probably only be like the early Wenzhou merchants, carrying a large bag of small commodities and shuttling between various cities.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong couldn't help but curse secretly: "Rebirth novels are all nonsense! Lao Tzu is reborn, but he still has to continue to live in a state-owned enterprise!"