Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Trend
The time entered the scorching July of 1978. Vertices are updated the fastest
Perhaps because of the irritable temper of the season, at the beginning of the month, the Republic made two very fiery decisions in diplomacy.
First, on 3 July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to the Vietnamese Government. It was notified that because of the incident in which Vietnam followed the Soviet Union and expelled overseas Chinese in large numbers, it stopped its economic and technical assistance to Vietnam and transferred back our engineers and technicians who were still working in Vietnam.
Second, on July 7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to the Albanian Embassy in China for similar reasons, informing it that it had reneged on the assistance agreement between the two sides due to the aggravation of Albania. The Republic ceases all economic and military assistance to it and repatriates all assistance specialists and students in Afghanistan.
These two events marked another major shift in the foreign policy of the Republic. Since then, he has embarked on a unique development path between the two camps in the world.
However, contrary to the grim international situation, in the people of our country, the common people who have tasted some freedom again have indeed presented a new atmosphere full of vitality.
Perhaps it is because they have been imprisoned and suppressed for too long, people's pursuit of a new life and their yearning for beautiful things have completely erupted almost instantly through restless emotions.
This month, the women who have changed the most in their appearance.
They began to flock to department stores, choosing fabrics from a limited supply in an attempt to break the uniformity and monotony that had lasted for decades in the Republic.
In addition, the new fashionable curls and electric perms in Beijing have also made the barber shop the place with the longest queue.
Despite the fact that the perm has to sit under the huge ironing machine for hours, the women still flock to it.
No matter how handsome or ugly, everyone is looking forward to wearing colorful plastic styling hair curls on their heads, and they regard perming long wavy hair as a high-end enjoyment of today's aroma bath.
In terms of culture and entertainment, young singer Zheng Xulan became famous in one fell swoop because she sang the episode "Sun Island" in the TV scenery film "Summer in Harbin".
At the same time, along with the fresh wind conveyed by this official song, Teresa Teng, who has already crossed the ocean through smuggling fishing boats and "enemy radio" in private, has also become popular in a wider area of the mainland.
Contemporary young people who are heroic and gentle cannot resist this temptation at all, and their ears that are accustomed to hearing false and empty "ambitious songs" are nothing less than fairy music outside the sky. was captured by Teresa Teng in the air.
This is an exciting new aesthetic feeling, and people find that in addition to pride, there is also a lot of tenderness to express. The various encounters and subtle emotions of life, such as depression, melancholy, loss, expectation, etc., are so tactfully and appropriately expressed, vividly and vividly.
For Teresa Teng, many people have felt hungry and thirsty, feverish and "feverish". Because at that time, her singing was not only an aesthetic experience, but even soothed many people's spiritual wounds and scars.
It was from this period that Teresa Teng's songs had a profound impact on the development of mainland pop music in the future, and her singing became the vane of a whole generation of mainland singers and songwriting. It can be called the enlightener of China's pop music scene.
In addition to music, there are also movies.
Although there were very few new domestic films in 1978, the number of imported dubbed films increased exponentially, filling the lack of demand in the film market.
Following the release of Romania's "Cars Action" in June, Britain's "Tragedy on the Nile", and North Korea's "Among the Conspirators", the first film on the schedule in July was the American science fiction film "Future World", followed by North Korea's "Rooted in the Earth" and "Comrades-in-Arms Reunion", as well as "Les Miserables" co-produced by the GDR, France, and Italy.
These excellent movies have undoubtedly added another fire to the already in full swing movie-watching craze.
Due to the people's thirst for culture, movie tickets are in extreme supply. The Minister of Culture had to personally negotiate with the major organs and the internal auditoriums of factories and mines in the capital, asking them to open to the outside world in order to solve the problem of the lack of cinemas.
The Vice Premier of the State Council also pointed out that "under the current situation that the state cannot invest heavily in the construction of theaters and cinemas. The best way to do this is to open the auditorium and the club to the public. ”
Therefore, after investigation and consultation, and in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Ministry of Culture and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, the first batch of more than a dozen internal auditoriums in Beijing were opened to the public.
In addition, it has changed the past method of selling tickets in an organized manner, and all tickets are sold publicly. It finally alleviated the problem of difficulty in buying tickets for some audiences.
In short, change is all-encompassing, and extremely rapid.
Although government agencies, major units, factories, and schools are inevitably resistant to the emergence of some new things, and even once strictly required the "fashion pioneers" under their command to review and "rectify".
But after all, the official is the official, the society is the society, and all kinds of popular winds still can't stop blowing momentum.
Naturally, in the midst of this trend, Hong Yanwu's personal life will inevitably be affected by various aspects.
For example, women love beauty and have the desire to chase fashion, and "sugar heart" is no exception.
Hong Yanwu is not like most men in this era, for fear that his daughter-in-law or girlfriend will show off and spend money. Not only did he prohibit "Sugar Heart" from being enthusiastic about dressing up, but he even supported it.
In his words, if you don't dress up at the best age, do you have to wait until you are old?
So he helped pick out the fabric, he gave ideas on the style of the skirt, and even helped get several pairs of high heels and sandals. coaxed the "sugar heart" to feel beautiful in his heart, and became more and more obsessed with the feeling of being cared for by his lover.
It's just that Hong Yanwu resolutely forbids the only thing of burning his hair. He really thinks that the messy "chicken nest head" is too ugly, and it is completely the product of being an acting hairdresser. It's far worse than the big twist braid of "Sugar Heart".
So he repeatedly begged "Sugar Heart" not to ruin her own perfect image. He also said that the perm potion is not good for the body, and it is not too late to perm the hair after the barber's skills and techniques are improved in the future.
In this way, sweet words and bitter begging, "Sugar Heart" softened, and had to restrain his desire for a makeover, and chose to give up for love.
But I have to say that Hong Yanwu's aesthetics are still very correct.
"Sugar Heart" watched "Thorn Mei" swaggering through the market for several days with her hair dancing like a golden snake, but she became more and more satisfied with Hong Yanwu's opinion, and was a little glad that she didn't catch this trend.
As for the popularity of Teresa Teng's songs, it is nothing new to the people around Hong Yanwu.
As the saying goes, the building near the water gets the moon first. Since Hong Yanwu helped "Sugar Heart" eat the "Overseas Personnel Service Department", the rudder owners under him, who want to get a "brick" recorder, is naturally not a difficult task.
So don't talk about "Sugar Heart", "Thorn Plum", "Little Cheese", or Hong Yanru and Su Xiu, the two girls, even "Naughty Child", "Little Daughter-in-law", "Little Baizi" These pure masters, for the popular songs of Teresa Teng, such as "Sweet Honey", "Story of a Small Town", and "He Rijun Comes Again", everyone can do it as soon as they open their mouths, and the song will not leave their mouths.
It's just a pity that there are too few songs coming in, and how to listen to them is only one or two tapes. After a long time, everyone can sing, and it seems a little boring.
But what made "Sugar Heart" another unexpected. It's Hong Yanwu who has a new pastime.
He began to use Teresa Teng's songs as soundtracks to teach her to dance, "Slow Three Waltzes", "Slow Four Blues", and even "Pingsi Square Ballroom Dance" that Yang Yi had not yet created.
So there was no one in the park, or at the house of "Aunt Bao", the two of them hugged each other closer and closer, and the more they hugged, the more sticky they became. In the end, I hugged and cuddled, and I was mouth to mouth, face to face.
Young men and women, **. If it weren't for the fact that "Sugar Heart" is really rational enough and has enough means to unswervingly guard the girl's last line of defense. I'm afraid that Hong Yanwu would have succeeded and took the opportunity to make "cooked rice".
Of course, the two of them will also stay with Chen Liquan a lot of the time. In order to make it easier for Chen Liquan to find a girlfriend, Hong Yanwu will also teach Chen Liquan to dance, and "Sugar Heart" will also act as a dance partner very generously.
Unexpectedly, Chen Liquan really couldn't let go, and at the beginning, he really suffered a lot from "Sugar Heart".
In fact, he is not like most people, he always likes to step on the feet of his female companions, but his feet always appear in inexplicable positions, so that "Sugar Heart" repeatedly mixes garlic under his feet. In the end, he was really afraid that he would fall down, so "Sugar Heart" had to lower his head and jump with him.
Later, Chen Liquan finally learned and told the truth. He told them that he was probably in habit, and that as soon as someone moved his steps in front of him, he would inevitably subconsciously want to stretch out his feet and knock them down.
These words startled "Sugar Heart", but Hong Yanwu laughed. He also gloated that he had seen it a long time ago.
Angry "sugar heart" teeth itching. For the first time in his life, he used violence against people and pinched Hong Yanwu severely. Split all your nails.
However, what benefits Hong Yanwu the most must be the continued popularity of the film market.
Because in addition to allowing his family to entertain and understand the outside world, the movie provides him and "Sugar Heart" with a place where they can cuddle and hug in the dark. It can also bring him the most direct and lucrative profits.
In June, Hong Yanwu's manpower had reached more than 150 people, controlling 19 movie theaters in three urban districts. Basically, half of the theaters in the capital are included.
The eleven newly added cinemas are mostly the best cinemas in the center of Beijing. There is simply no reason not to make a windfall.
So at the beginning of July, a general ledger was collected, and the harvest was called a scary.
Overall, it achieved a gross profit of 114,000 yuan. According to this figure, it has caught up with the benefits of a medium-sized factory.
After first issuing a "group award" of 20,000 yuan and a "salary" of nearly 10,000 yuan, and then removing 18,000 yuan of "protection money" for "Xiao Leizi", "Eight Forks" and "small landlords", there are still 66,000 yuan left.
So Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan's final profit was 37,000. The rest of the money was all given to the "middle-level cadres" to pay "dividends".
This month, nine "old men" received a dividend of 2,000 yuan, and eleven newly promoted boys received 1,000 yuan each. It's another win-win carnival!
But Hong Yanwu was not dizzy because of this, he keenly discovered a very bad phenomenon.
That is, in front of the movie theaters and in the movies, thefts began to occur frequently. In particular, the newly occupied 11 theaters in the northern city are the most serious.
There are not only the reasons why some of his own subordinates can't bear the loneliness and begin to sprout and want to take advantage of this to relieve the itching of their hands, but also the reasons why the subordinates of the various players in Nancheng and the local "playing Youfei" have taken a fancy to this prosperous scene and want to fish in troubled waters to make a fortune.
Hong Yanwu is well aware of the truth that "a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed in an anthill" and will never tolerate it. He took the opportunity of sharing the money to hold a meeting with all the players in Nancheng and his "middle-level cadres".
There is only one theme, each restraining his subordinates, working together to clean up pickpocketing, and returning the market to a peaceful world.
Hong Yanwu's attitude is very firm, and he must not let these rat-like flies and dogs attract the "thunder" and ruin everyone's long-term interests.
So in the history of the capital, for the first time, a "fight" action initiated by the "players" of "raising Buddha, eating Buddha, and owning Buddha" was opened.
I really have to say that there is nothing more ruthless and accurate than catching a thief.
Some people were grabbed by the wrist as soon as they reached out. Some people were covered when they went to the toilet to "split leaves". There are also people who were arrested when they "skimmed the bag" and "preached the two immortals". As soon as more talents met each other, they were politely persuaded by acquaintances in advance.
In just three or five days, after Hong Yanwu successively fired seven or eight of his subordinates, and after more than 30 "Buddhas" from all walks of life were broken off and their palms were pierced by knives, all thefts were swept away and completely eliminated.
The speed is so fast, the efficiency is high, and the punishment is so strict that if the "pickpocketing team" of the Beijing Public Security Bureau learns about it, they will only be dumbfounded and ashamed.