After the Yan family sisters and brothers confirmed the request, they returned to Hui Province for the New Year.

Xiao Sui left specific contact information for Gu Biao, including the office phone number of their Shudu Military Region Art Troupe, so that Gu Biao could notify her at any time after the result was obtained.

Gu Biao agreed, and then sent the Yan family sisters and brothers on the train.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival, on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, the Gu family's father and son, siblings and brothers, successfully got the keys and moved into a new house.

It was a house that had only been completed and hastily renovated a few years ago, and it was not suitable for such a quick move by the standards of later generations. However, there is no formaldehyde chemical coating now, and the so-called decoration is just a brush of lime, so it doesn't matter.

No latex finishes, no wallpaper, no wooden floors, not even tiles. The wall is lime wall, and the ground is concrete.

However, Gu Biao, who was accustomed to the anti-formaldehyde thinking of later generations, spent a few yuan to buy a large bag of bamboo charcoal at the flower and bird market before moving in (there was no concept of activated carbon at that time, only charcoal burned with bamboo), as well as seven or eight pots of bamboo and vine potted plants.

During the whole housewarming process, my sister Gu Min was the most confused. Because she didn't experience the scene of her brother talking and laughing with Director Chen that day.

So I can't imagine how my younger brother asked for the house with his three-inch tongue and bragging about it, or the best house in the factory.

The only thing she can do is clean happily. Dozens of buckets of water were connected to the front and back, and the inside and outside were scrubbed repeatedly.

In Gu's eyes, the hygienic conditions of the new home are still not very good: the toilet has only one squatting pit, and it is a cement pit, and it will be difficult to renovate the flush toilet in the future.

There are only two faucets in the family, and the one in the toilet has no sink, which is buried directly in the wall, and you have to use this to flush the toilet (you have to connect the rubber hose yourself when you shower).

The faucet in the kitchen is equipped with a cement sink, and it is also the only place in the family that is tiled, but unfortunately the kitchen itself is not independent, but placed at the door of the living room. In the era when there was no range hood, it was necessary to open the window for ventilation, and Gu Biao estimated that when cooking food, it would definitely make the house smoky.

However, these difficulties fell in the eyes of my sister, and they were not a matter at all: "Whoever asked you to fry vegetables is in a big oil pot! It's not good to boil, if you want to eat braised pork with oil and water, it's also boiled, how can you let the oil evaporate in vain!"

Gu Biao was right when he thought about it.

Who is willing to let the oil evaporate now, if the equipment of the range hood is really allowed to appear in advance after 15 years, it is estimated that the bottom workers will pour out the waste oil accumulated in the clear tank again to cook.

Gu Biao knew the extra troubles caused by "moving from the compound to the tube building", so he did not have a sense of belonging to the new house to the level of "worship", but only a place to sleep, rest and watch TV. However, my sister's fanaticism obviously ignores these shortcomings.

Nowadays, in addition to national leaders, even high-ranking officials and officials feel that living in a tube building has only advantages and no harm, and it is a symbol of status.

In the end, Gu Biao couldn't see it, and persuaded her sister to rest: "Sister, it's almost enough, don't be tired." Seeing that your clothes are all dirty like this, before the department store is closed, let's go buy the washing machine and put it on. Just moved to a new house, so much dirty stuff to wash. ”

Unexpectedly, Gu Min refused: "You can't wash your clothes by hand at night, I've been here for so many years." I haven't packed up my things, and where is the washing machine so big and heavy? If you have this time, you might as well buy a TV set first, because you are in college, and you haven't watched TV. It's not too late to clean up and buy a washing machine after the New Year. ”

Gu Biao once again felt the difference in values.

This time, though, he chose to persevere.

My sister can think that housework is not worth much, and entertainment is worth it, he can't think so.

In the end, before the department store closed, he dragged his sister together, hired a human tricycle, and pulled a single-cylinder washing machine back.

Because it is domestic, it only cost 800 yuan. However, there is no automatic control program, it is estimated that there is no money to carry a single-chip microcomputer, the motor only has a first-level agitation speed, there is no spinning function, and you have to screw it yourself after washing. (It will take another six or seven years for the fully automatic ones to be localized, and at present, they can only buy Panasonic with foreign exchange.) ）

But it's this kind of washing machine, when it is carried upstairs, it still causes a lot of noise.

In the same unit and downstairs, among the residents are civil servants of the municipal government, technical backbone doctors of the city's first hospital, and middle and high-level cadres of large enterprises, steel factories and steam turbine factories with the best efficiency in the city. However, these people still haven't thought of using their spare money to buy washing machines.

A deputy director of the steam turbine factory, who was originally the richest person in the building, had already bought a domestic black-and-white television from the Jinmen Radio Factory. But he still lets his wife do the laundry with a washboard while watching TV - his wife is still happy to wash the clothes by hand in exchange for having a TV to watch.

"Who is this? I actually bought a washing machine on the first day I moved in? Tsk, I'm too lazy, I want to keep my fingers from touching the spring water. ”

"I heard that he is a technical cadre of the oxygen generator factory. ”

"The efficiency of the oxygen concentrator factory is so good now? No, the last time I went to the city for a meeting, I saw several colleagues from the oxygen concentrator factory. ”

In everyone's attention, the master of the pedaling tricycle walked like a fly, carrying a heavy washing machine, and staggered up to the third floor-

Originally, the delivery car money was said to be three cents, but when he went downstairs, Gu Biao added two cents to him, saying that it was a total of five cents, and asked him to find a way to get it upstairs and install it.

Gu Biao was thinking that even if he couldn't lift it, he could still share some money for others to help. Who knew that the rickshaw master heard that he could earn two cents by carrying the washing machine up to the third floor, so he flew up the same. Leaving countless curious onlookers who heard the movement, as well as the legends of the Gu family.

After everything was settled, Gu Min watched the dirty clothes spin around automatically, and even though it was such a monotonous cleaning action, he still shed tears.

While buying a washing machine, Gu Biao bought two bottles of alabaster in a department store: "Sister, don't wash your clothes in the future, let's rub some alabaster in winter." ”

A young girl who is less than 20 years old has a broken hand, which is really regrettable.

The family could afford alabaster and petroleum jelly skin oil, but Gu Min often had to go into the water and wash it off when he wiped it, so he was reluctant to wipe it. Looking at her brother's newly bought alabaster, she couldn't help but hug her brother's head and sobbed silently.

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The Gu family is in a warm and quiet environment, after the Spring Festival, and bought a TV after the year (anyway, there is no Spring Festival Gala now, not bad for these few days), although they can only watch one channel, my father and sister still watch it very happily, and they refuse to let go of even a few advertisements, so they have to stare at it every second.

Because of the economic strength shown by the Gu family, new neighbors have come to visit more or less. Dad is also very polite, and whoever comes to the door will give some snacks from Zhizhai for everyone to overeat.

People in the 80s still maintain the habit of being neighbors, even if they move into the tube building, they still have to move around like the compound. However, because the identities of the surrounding neighbors have come up, whether it is a top three chief physician, a cadre of a state-owned enterprise or a municipal government official, they all have some money, and they will not be jealous of exposing others casually.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, although the winter vacation is not over yet, some government agencies have already begun to work (there is no Golden Week). Schools are also starting to be manned.

Gu Wei contacted Ye Wei according to the contact information left by Ye Kun and confirmed that the other party had returned to China, he felt that some things were not clear on the phone, so he made an appointment to go back to school in advance and go to the capital to meet her.

Dad and sister were very dissatisfied with Gu Biao's lack of rest during the winter vacation, but they knew that he had a lot of business, so they didn't stop him. Dad also secretly helped him line up to buy a train ticket.

"Go back to the capital and study hard. If you have the opportunity to intern, be steady, don't be too protruding to take credit from others and commit taboos. You, even if you are young, you don't know how high the sky is! Sometimes progress is not something that can be exchanged by merit, and you also have to spend a sedan chair to carry people!"

Before leaving, Dad and his sister sent Gu Biao to the train station with a big bag and a small bag, and Dad didn't forget to teach him life experience, so that Gu Biao didn't swell too much.

"When you get to school, don't forget to share a little of these snacks with everyone, but don't divide them publicly, run from dormitory to dormitory, and take advantage of the lack of people. Otherwise, it will be too flamboyant and it will make you show off your wealth. "My sister can't help but persuade her.

"Dad, sister, I know it all. Okay, go back quickly, it's cold. Gu Biao found a window seat, and then promised the father and daughter on the platform to let them hurry back.

The whole day and a half of the bunk, stopping dozens of stops on the way, especially when I arrived at Hujiang, I had to spend two hours waiting for the change of direction and the new locomotive. When I arrived in Jinling, I had to queue up, and when it was my turn to cross the river, it was the first time that Gu Biao felt the difficulty of the train in this era-

The last time he came back with the Prince's special train, he could have spent at least a third less time on the road. (Staying and traveling is not counted)

However, those passengers who did not take a ticket and got on the train at a small city station halfway were also uncomplaining, and it seemed that they had been standing for 30 hours and then swayed.

After returning to the capital, he went to the dormitory to go through the formalities, and Gu Wei learned that although Ye Kun had returned to China, he did not live on campus. He inevitably made another two-cent city call and asked Ye Su to find a place to meet.

Because it was winter and it was too cold, Ye Xuan chose to stay in the café on the first floor of the Friendship Hotel.

The first time he saw Ye Kun again, Gu Biao felt that his eyes lit up and he was shocked.

Ye Kun, who has just returned from the United States, has completely changed her appearance in her makeup, and it seems that the experience of following the leader's visit and carrying bags with her classmates has also opened her eyes a lot, and even her aesthetics have changed a lot.

It's a pity that Gu Biao came to her for a request.

"Student Ye, I have a favor I want to ask you for help - I have a friend who is in the army art troupe system in the south, and his writing level is also very good. She wanted to sign up to be a war correspondent on the front line...... I don't have any friends from other troops, so I thought of you......"

Ye Kun's face flushed slightly, as if he was excited that Gu Wei finally had a request for her.

However, she did not directly and recklessly agree, but with an instinctive thought in her mind, she asked in a ghostly manner: "I owe you, of course I should pay it back." Your friends are my friends, I don't know...... Is it a man or a woman?"

"Female ......"