"Such a big color TV? I'm afraid it must be 18 inches, which factory has such good goods?"

"How can this washing machine have two buckets? And the electronic knob, not the timing knob!"

"What is this thing called? I don't recognize it. What is an air conditioner? Oh, it turned out to be an air conditioner, I felt it when I went to the Great Hall of the People for a meeting. ”

"Xiao Gu, your family has more face this time. ”

At night, every family had dinner, but the Gu family moved and moved the luggage, which once again made the neighbors in the same building curious.

Director Zheng of the Affiliated Hospital of the Medical University downstairs, Section Chief Xu of the Municipal Finance Bureau opposite the door, and Director You of the Benjie Police Station upstairs all rushed to watch without eating dinner.

Their three views and cognitions have also been refreshed again and again. Fortunately, everyone is used to the fact that the Gu family will show the potential to rise to another level every semester during the holidays.

All the neighbors felt that the Gu family was in this place, and it was estimated that they would have to change the map again if they lived in this place for less than a year......

Gu Biao didn't want to show off, but he was really impatient with the noise, so he could only supervise the tricycle master to carry things while explaining:

"The TV is Ben Sharp's, 18 inches. ”

"The double bucket is to wash one bucket and spin the other dry. This washing machine will also wash quickly and slowly, soak and delay washing, so your hands don't have to fall into the water at all. In fact, it's not new, Panasonic launched it three years ago, single-chip microcomputer controlled. ”

"Siemens air conditioners are now only available for window units, and the split copper pipes are temporarily out of stock. However, the window machine is also OK, the refrigeration is fierce, but the noise is a little noisy. ”

Sharp TVs, Panasonic washing machines, Siemens air conditioners, Sanyo rice cookers, Toshiba vacuum cleaners, Hitachi refrigerators, Sony video recorders, ......

Although Gu Biao doesn't want to buy Japanese goods, it's a pity that there are only Japanese goods in the foreign exchange store except for air conditioners.

Among these things, the one that makes the neighbors feel that it is "too much" and "not cost-effective" is the rice cooker, which is even less cost-effective than the original washing machine.

The housewives of all families did not understand: why should they just sit in the kitchen and read the newspaper, wait for the steam safety valve of the pressure cooker to turn, and then turn on the fire?

Just for the easy operation of "turning off the fire regularly", spend an extra $40 to buy imported goods?

And the most "trench" equipment is undoubtedly the Siemens air conditioner.

Today's German goods are all original from German workers, which is really expensive. The CIF price without tariffs is close to 800 marks. The punitive tariffs on imported luxury appliances are particularly high, with the final tax-inclusive price in foreign exchange shops exceeding $500.

Even more outrageous is the electricity bill for air conditioners.

With the advancement of science and technology, the efficiency of air conditioning is getting higher and higher, and the energy consumption per unit of cooling capacity will also decrease. Therefore, the air conditioner in the early 80s consumed a lot of electricity, and the compressor basically had no chance to stop when it was turned on.

In summer, if you turn on 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity overnight, that is 2 yuan, which is enough for three days of food expenses for ordinary small citizen families, which is simply a continuous bloodletting throughout the life cycle, and the better the quality of the machine, the more money you lose.

(Although the power grid is dark, it is also necessary to admit that electricity bills have basically not risen in recent years, and electricity bills were more expensive in the late 90s than in 201X.) Although the 80s were slightly lower than the 90s, it was based on conservative construction and often according to plan. ）

Until the mid-80s, air conditioning was not unreasonable as a welfare arrangement for high-ranking officials' private homes.

In other words, in the one-third of an acre of land in Qiantang, even the mayor's house is now without air conditioning, and only high-ranking officials can have it.

The effect of this eyeball pulling is relatively large.

As soon as the air conditioner is installed on the wall, the whole house is full of brilliance, and the two-bedroom and one-living room can live in the momentum of a small villa.

And the most incomprehensible thing for the neighbors is that now it is the Chinese New Year in February, the coldest time of the year, but the Gu family bought a single cold air conditioner at this point in time, and it was clear that they would not need it for half a year - is there anything more than this to declare "My family has no place to use it, how can I waste it"?

"Could it be that the last time Director Wu was better, the scar forgot the pain, and Director Gu didn't care about being looked at red?" Director Zheng was puzzled.

This mystery will not be finally solved until the third day of the Lunar New Year.

After tidying up the house, Gu Biao looked at the three old things that had been replaced and worried:

"Sister, what should I do with this panda? I've only watched it for a year, and it's a pity to throw it away, and we don't have any relatives to send it." The single-barrel washing machine is also useless, and it can only be washed but not shaken. ”

"Do you want to give it to Ma Feng's family?" Gu Min tentatively proposed.

"This idea is good," Gu Yuxian affirmed in principle, "but Ma Feng's family is also rich now, and these are all domestic goods, not imported, Ma Feng probably doesn't want to-this way, aren't Yang Hao and Lu Yunda, who helped us with game consoles, also locals, and they are also your classmates, do you know the address? Send them to their house for New Year's greetings." ”

"This is a good idea, they only got a total of 20,000 yuan, they should be reluctant to buy too good electrical appliances, and get some benefits to win people's hearts. Gu Min nodded in approval, and thought about it again, "Lu Yunda's family is from the Municipal Electronics Factory, and he originally produced TVs, so it would be better to give him a washing machine." TV set to Yang proud. ”

The thing was going to be delivered to the blade, and as soon as the sister and brother put it together, they decided so happily.

So Yang and Lu met Miss Christmas on Chinese New Year's Eve who escorted a tricycle to the door to deliver TV/washing machines, and they were quite excited.

Their parents were shocked when they heard that Gu Min was their son's classmate, but they sent such a valuable thing to the door, and they thought that Gu Min was their son's object, and almost offered Gu Min delicious food and drink. If Gu Biao hadn't gone with him, everything would have been really hard to explain.

And the neighbors of the Gu family once again expressed their understanding of this kind of broad handwriting: the TV and washing machine only took a year, and they were disgusted and given away...... It's ......

In the eyes of people at that time, these things were designed to be used for at least 10 years, and they had to be desperately repaired and rescued when their life was up.

……

The sound of firecrackers is one year old.

The Spring Festival has passed in a blink of an eye.

Now there are still 3 years before the first official Spring Festival Gala, and the number of TV sets in the country is only 6 million, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, you can only listen to a few festive songs on the central station.

Fortunately, the Gu family has the Sony video recorder they just bought.

And the last time Gu Biao went to Hollywood, he brought back a lot of original American film and television videos pending review. (Not only wool belts, but also other reasons.) Of course, you can't look at the wool belt on Chinese New Year's Eve. ）

But even if it's hairless, it's mouth-watering enough.

Upstairs, the child of Director You's family, who is the son of the head of the police station, hangs down like a thief, quickly picks up the windowsill of the Gu family, and peeks out of the window to watch the Gu family play the videotape. Not afraid of the height of the third floor.

After discovering this situation, Gu Biao, who couldn't cry or laugh, was afraid of an accident, so he could only open the door and allow the neighbors to come in and watch.

Then on the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, the Gu family was jammed with New Year's greetings from morning to night.

All the guests who came in under the pretense of New Year's greetings did not want to leave, and refused to stand up after grabbing a seat to sit down, and finally developed to bring their own chairs from home.

In addition to neighbors, gradually there are subordinates in the factory who come to pay New Year's greetings to the deputy factory director.

An 18-inch Sharp TV, a Sony VCR, an American large-scale tape, who has ever seen it!

Especially when Gu Min was away, the group of visitors asked Gu Biao to play the American swimsuit pageant out of sight.

It's all jumpsuits, not even bikinis, and it's serious. But the guys who kept rewinding to see the key points wore out snowflake ideas.

In addition to "I haven't seen the world", what else can Gu Biao complain about?

It was already the morning of the third day of the new year, and Gu Xiao really couldn't quench the enthusiasm of his neighbors, and he was embarrassed to say the emotionally hurtful eviction order during the New Year - after all, people opened their mouths to Wishing you prosperity, academic success, and smooth career, how can they be kind to chase people?

If it was usual, Gu Biao would have gotten people out a long time ago.

The only thing he can do is to let his sister sit in charge, so that everyone can watch as serious as possible.

Then he took a tricycle himself to pick up people at the train station.

"Auntie, Happy New Year. As soon as Su Ping and Xiao Sui arrived at the exit of the station, Gu Biao came up with a very sweet mouth.

"Happy New Year to each other. Su Ping glanced at the rickshaw and was slightly surprised, but it quickly returned to normal.

In 80 years, there was no taxi business in Qiantang, while Hujiang already had. Therefore, it is not that the Gu family is reluctant to spend money, but that the urban infrastructure is like this. Su Ping just changed to a new environment and didn't adapt to it.

As soon as she arrived at the community where the Gu family lived, Su Ping was shocked by the crowded crowd of New Year's greetings.

There is only a small house of two bedrooms and one living room of fifty square meters, and it is full of twenty or thirty visitors!

Because everyone was staring at the TV, Su Ping naturally wanted not to notice the 18-inch Sharp and Sony's VCRs. The big logo indicates that all of these are imported Japanese products.

However, fortunately, the composition of the visitors has been replaced by middle-level cadres in Daddy's unit, and Gu Biao is still quite deterrent.

"I'm sorry to let me make room for Aunt Su. As soon as Gu Biao spoke, the two section chiefs who were sitting there looking at the tape immediately said respectfully that they still had something to do and took their leave.

"Auntie, don't be disgusted, my family has a lot of New Year's guests. ”

"Where's your dad?"

"My dad is now the director of the factory, and he has a heavy task of earning foreign exchange, so he will go to work on the third day of the new year, and will come back at noon to accompany you in a while. Gu Biao's answer was very appropriate, and he immediately sketched the image of a national cadre who is full of opportunities.

Su Ping listened, and her impression also changed considerably.

After all, during the summer vacation last year, her understanding of Gu Biao's family was still vaguely stuck in the concept of "worker family". I just felt that Gu Biao himself was very capable, and he jumped out of the door.

Now it seems that he has a bit of a family background, and even his father is not a "worker" but a "factory director".

"Are these your relatives? Su Ping smiled decently, and got up to say hello one by one.

And the guests who come to rub the ribbon in the name of New Year's greetings, how can they not see the clue at this moment.

Seeing that it was Gu Ao's mother-in-law who came to check the household registration, she hurriedly helped to say good things in awe.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, we are all soldiers under the hands of Director Gu, this is out of admiration, come to pay homage to the New Year on the third day of the Lunar New Year. ”

"In fact, we are all going to work soon, the factory is tight, and the factory director is working overtime, so how can we be embarrassed to be idle. Walked away. ”

Then they scattered as birds and beasts.

Su Ping is an actor and has acted in movies for 18 years, so her eye for words and emotions is naturally very old-fashioned. No amount of hypocrisy can escape her eyes. But it was precisely because of this that she could see that all the cadres in the factory were convinced by Gu Yong from the bottom of their hearts, and she couldn't help but be amazed.

Today's state-owned enterprise factory directors can make their subordinates afraid or superficially submissive, which is very easy. But because the distribution of benefits will always offend some people, it is very difficult to convince everyone completely.

Unless it is an extremely hard-working person who can make the cake in the factory bigger, there is no need to bother with the division, and everyone benefits.

At least Su Ping hasn't seen it in all these years.

"You don't have any other relatives in your family, are all people from your father's unit coming to pay New Year's greetings?" Su Ping was quite surprised when she saw that the building was completely empty.

"I have an uncle who is building a third line in Shu Province. My mother has no relatives at all - my grandfather was a *** general, who fled to Wanwan back then, and now he has passed away, and my uncle can't be contacted.

When I first joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the leaders reviewed my information and said that after the Yangmingshan car accident, because of the purge of the Shilin Residence, my uncle was promoted and transferred to the official residence to drive, but it is not clear now. ”

This is a typical car and house, and if Xiao Sui marries into the door, there is no mother-in-law to suppress it.

At most, there is a sister-in-law, but Gu Min is the same age as Xiao Sui, so she should get along very well. What's more, Gu Min's situation is that he will get married within a year or two after graduation.

While thinking in her heart, Su Ping raised her eyes and saw the window air conditioner installed after the hole was punched in the wall, and she was in awe again.

This is the treatment of high-ranking officials, plus a 10-meter radius of Pengzi's glowing halo.

People who dare to openly install air conditioners do not dare to do it unless they have a very thick background.