Chapter 211: Temporary Workers
Life comes and goes. Apex updates the fastest, both people are leaving the capital and some people are returning to the capital. But in fact, they are all homecomings.
On Sunday, April 15, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan got off their morning shifts and bought some food to go home to see their parents. I found that there were a lot of Mongolian specialties at home.
For example, brown sugar cubes with "Xiwuqi Dairy Factory" written on the wrapping paper, "milk skins" like dried lotus leaf cakes, and many fried foods called "Mongolian fruits".
These things look like small square bumps, but they have a sweet taste and a bite that looks like a fritter.
When I asked, I found out that the daring feelings were brought back from Inner Mongolia by Bian Jiangong and Su Jin.
The family told Hong Yanwu that the pair of brothers and sisters who had been in Inner Mongolia for eight years had finally gone through the procedures for returning to the city, and it had been almost seven or eight days since they returned home. And through Aunt Bian's "operation", both of them have already gone to work.
It's just that the work is also a temporary worker at the service mouth, one in the snack bar and the other in the bathhouse.
The family also said that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan had not returned to Furuli in the past few days, and Bian Jiangong and Su Jin kept inquiring about them.
Hearing the news, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan didn't rush to leave that day, and planned to meet with Bian Jiangong and Su Jin, and then invite them out for a meal and have a good chat.
Unexpectedly, Bian Jiangong and Su Jin hadn't gotten off work in the afternoon. The eldest brother, Hong Yan, rushed back from outside first. And I also took the bicycle camel back with a brand new packaging washing machine.
It was in March this year, the first single-cylinder washing machine produced in China.
"Jingcheng Washing Machine Factory" named it "Bailan" brand, and the model is Bailan 1 type 13. The price of the department store is 298 yuan.
Seeing that the eldest brother Hong Yan kept his promise, he consciously volunteered and really bought the washing machine. Hong Yanwu was happy.
"Boss, you're really talking. Originally, I was still worried that if you want to speak, I will pay for this matter myself. But let me ask you, do you feel sorry for our mother, or do you feel sorry for your sister-in-law?"
Unexpectedly, after Hong Yanzheng set up the bicycle, he raised his eyebrows.
"You don't tell me cheap things! You kid is lying about the news! I ask you, didn't you say that there is no washing powder? I didn't dare to buy this washing machine when the department store came out last month. Ask someone to find laundry detergent first. But when I inquired later, basically every chemical store had it. They made it in 1966. 'Panda brand' is not expensive, a pound and a bag of five cents and five, and two bags can be used for a month and a half. Your words are not scored......"
"Oh, can't you? There's no washing machine, so there's laundry detergent first?"
Hong Yanwu vaguely sloppy eyes.
Actually, it's no wonder. Because residents usually buy soap in grocery stores. And he is purely contemporary, completely treating the grocery store as a supermarket.
When he saw that there was no grocery store, he thought it was not. Where do you think, things are so clearly divided these days, and laundry detergent is sold in chemical stores.
"You can't do it yet? You're going to make me lose my adulthood, and I'm going to be a waste of time! I'm quite skeptical of your words now, is this washing machine clean? Don't let me spend so much money in vain to buy another ornament! What do you think you can do with this thing?......?
Hong Yan was unrelenting, there were a lot of strange words, and then he counted down another sentence.
"Are you still watching? Hong Sanye, can we have some eyesight? I thank you for helping ...... handle."
Hong Yanwu hurriedly passed over, and unloaded things with his eldest brother while acting as a guarantee.
"Oh, my eldest brother, you can rest assured, with it, I guarantee that the hands of our women are free, and the hands of my mother and sister-in-law will never have a hole in winter......"
In the process of carrying the washing machine box into the house together, Hong Yanzheng snorted again.
"Your words are too watery, I will believe half of them at most......"
Hong Yanwu has a hippie smile. "I'm content with that. You didn't believe it before......"
Hey, these two brothers are so poor and teasing, and the washing machine has entered the Hong family's house again.
Then I unpacked the boxes, installed the washing machine, and got out of the house to get some water and try it, and it was five o'clock in the afternoon. Bian Jiangong went home from work first.
His unit is quite close to his home, just in the "Pen'er Hutong", which is only 100 meters away, and he works in the back kitchen of the "Limin Snack Bar".
To say that the nature of this snack bar is actually similar to "Tianxingju", only making breakfast and lunch, but the specifications are more than a star and a half worse than "Tianxingju".
Because there is no old-fashioned store here, and it is too small, there are only three tables in the whole room.
It remains the same all year round, and only operates six kinds of food, oil cakes, fried ghosts, sugar ears, flatbreads, fried cakes and bean porridge. All of them add up to five people.
Bian Jiangong was reluctantly placed purely for the sake of the face of the street office. Basically, there is no work for him to do, except for wiping tables, chairs and benches, he can only be responsible for watching the pot of fried oil cakes in the morning and the pot of bean porridge at noon.
Think about it, Aunt Bian's own son, the descendant of industrial workers with red roots. The work is worse than that of Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan. It can be seen that the current employment situation is arduous.
Sure enough, as soon as Bian Jiangong saw Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, he first went home and took two Mongolian knives with leather sheaths and silver ornaments and gave them to them.
The cow coaxed and told them that it was called "Hutuga". The steel fire is good, the blade is sharp, and they can catch up with the "fish intestine sword", which was specially brought back to them.
This is followed by a complaint. Begin to strongly express dissatisfaction with work.
"Xiao Wu, Izumiko, seriously. Su Jin and I really have to thank you. Because when it's critical, you really have to talk about something. As soon as the corps system in Inner Mongolia was abolished in the 75th year of the war, the leaders of the national farms were much darker than the cadres of the troops in those years. If you hadn't kept sending money and goods during these two Spring Festivals, where would we have been able to get through so many joints......?
"It's just that we're back a step later than the rest of the country. Now there is a sea of people waiting to find a job in the capital. For children from ordinary families like us, there are basically only two ways out. One is to work as a temporary coolie worker, and the other is to work in a street factory with poor working conditions, low wages and poor welfare benefits. But there are still a lot of people who can't take their turns. If it weren't for my mother and the people in the street office who could talk, Su Jin and I wouldn't even have this temporary worker......
"Hey, anyway, our generation of young people is considered to have fallen into blood mold. As soon as we were sensible, we caught up with the 'movement', which was the golden age of schooling, and we had to be re-educated in the wilderness. If you want to think about it, we are actually not as good as you, you have only suffered for three years and returned to Beijing. The nature of our work is exactly the same. I knew I had gone out to fight back then, so maybe I would have been less offended. It's been eight years, and I've finally come back, and I've switched to drinking the northwest wind. I figured out that the reason why we were coaxed out back then was because there weren't so many people in the city. Look at the pot, just look at the pot, sixteen yuan a month, it's better than doing nothing! I'm a big man, I can't eat the food at home for nothing......
"Su Jin, Su Jin's work is even more fucked. He earns two dollars less than me, don't you know why? He's in my brother's bathhouse, and he gives people stinky feet every day. Nor did he know that he was so lacking in virtue, and suggested in the newspaper that the traditional service of the bathhouse should be restored. As a result, as soon as Su Jin reported, he was arrested by the leader and forcibly assigned to learn pedicure. Now he washes his hands every day. We are still trained by cow dung, sheep dung, and horse dung. That's not good, the smell of people is still different from that of animals. He himself felt that he would never be able to eat without washing his bald skin every day. And I even use chopsticks to eat steamed buns, and I don't touch my hands at all......"
As he was talking, Su Jin also entered the courtyard. As soon as I heard the voice from afar, I knew that this was about him.
He couldn't help but smile wryly, "Gonggong, don't spread it around for me." I don't want to hide it, who has to tell who you loudspeaker, so loud that even the Western Courtyard can hear it......
Bian Jiangong was embarrassed, and stroked the back of his head. "Am I just talking to our own brothers, and they can laugh at you?"
Hong Yanwu hurriedly picked up the stubble. "No, come on, two brothers, since they're back, let's stop standing and talking, Izumi and I will catch you up. Let's go down to the restaurant and talk while we drink? Let's go back and talk to the family, and let's leave our things behind......
Bian Jiangong was overjoyed when he heard it, but Su Jin was a little unable to wipe his face.
"Don't mind, it's not appropriate for you to break the bank. Let's wait for us to pay our salary, and then we'll have a treat. However, as for the money and things you borrowed from us, we have to pay it back slowly......
When Hong Yanwu heard this, he hurriedly stopped him.
"What are you talking about! What are you talking about! You mention this, it's boring! Just rush at our family for so many years, just rush us to live in the same courtyard, can't you get through this little thing? I don't want it yet, don't you feel such a big burden in your heart......
Bian Jiangong also said. "Su Jin, you are really! You should remember it in your heart, and you will be fake if you put it on your lips! Why do you come back, your heart and eyes are narrow? You can't even bear this little thing, and you don't have the strength to set the horse and the wolf in Inner Mongolia at all! Ba Le Monster, Ba Le Monster! You are simply a horse with eggs, and your chew is too heavy. The ears of the exhausted are too heavy......"
(Note: Ba Le Wei, Mongolian language, meaning "no, no")
After saying a Mongolian proverb, he said half-jokingly, "Let's be free and easy, just listen to Xiao Wu, and eat his big family! Their family can make a fortune now, and we are the first in Furuli, and we will definitely not be able to eat him!"
Hong Yanwu also laughed. "Yes, it's still Bian Laosan's pleasure! Su Jin is disappointed, and he has to be punished today...... What will we punish him? Hey, yes, we'll punish him for eating roast duck......."
"Huh?" As soon as he finished speaking, Su Jin looked at his hand and immediately turned green!
"Hahaha......" The other three all laughed.