Chapter 29 Unit Benefits in the 90s (Ask for Collection, Ask for Recommendation)
Another day, when Jia Lei came home at 5 o'clock after selling tea eggs, he found that there was a Hongqi car parked in front of his house, and many neighbors were standing on both sides of the road to watch, and some children who were particularly bold would sneak up and touch it carefully.
"Don't touch it, in case it breaks, our family can't afford to pay for it. "Parents with children scolded their own children who also wanted to go up and touch them.
Jia Lei also heard the three words "not allowed to touch" when he was a child, and it is estimated that everyone heard it when they were young.
In these years, there are very few cars on the road, the car that runs the most is Santana, and the only car in the textile factory is still an 86-year-old green military jeep, which is the color of the military kettle in the Anti-Japanese War film, and its upper half of the appearance is not a glossy paint but a kind of thing that I don't know what material.
All these strong contrasts make this black and smooth Hongqi sedan full of noble temperament, Jia Lei just glanced at it curiously, and went straight around it to his home. He lived in my big Kyoto in his last life, and he has never seen any luxury cars!
When I was poor in my previous life, I took advantage of the traffic jam and took a photo with a limited edition luxury car!!hum~~
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"You're classmate Jia Lei, right?" a young man in a suit and tie walked down from the Hongqi car and asked.
"I am, who are you?" asked Jia Lei. He recalled it carefully, and realized that he really didn't know him.
"I was sent by Mayor Zhao to deliver New Year's goods to you, my name is Lu Xiangluo, you can call me Uncle Lu. Secretary Lu said.
"Hello Uncle Lu!" Jia Lei entered the play in a second, completely like a good baby.
In other words, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of this surnamed Lu, Jia Lei would have almost forgotten that he still has a mayor's godfather. Although this mayor's godfather recognized it as a buy-one-get-one-free man when he hugged his thighs, this does not prevent him from borrowing light!
Why was he so stupid in the first place, he didn't lean on such a big tree, but he almost hit his head and bleed!
"Hey, I still haven't changed my mentality, and I still think that I am the otaku born in the eighth generation of poor peasants in my previous life. Jia Lei thought in his heart.
But let's say that, half a month has passed, this so-called godfather, that is, he didn't come to see himself or have any news, it seems that he didn't take himself to heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother to make a phone call, but just sent a driver to deliver something.
However, Jia Lei's principle is to take advantage of the cheap, and don't do anything sent to the door in vain!
So Jia Lei happily took out the key to open the door for them and waited to collect the things, Lu Xiangluo didn't do anything, just asked Wu Shi, the old driver, to open the trunk and move out the things assigned to Jia Lei, Jia Lei looked at it as just a box of Marshal Huang plus a box of citrus.
"This is the benefit that the municipal party committee has just issued this year! Your household registration relationship is linked to the municipal party committee, so everything issued by the municipal party committee will also be your share. Lu Xiangluo said that Jia Lei only understood what was going on after listening to it.
"It's almost the New Year, and the units are sending things! This is just the first batch of other things in two days, such as rice, oil, noodles, etc., don't buy them recently, the unit will send them. It has to be sent from now until the 29th of the lunar month!" Wu Shi, the old driver, helped to move things and kindly told him the rules of these units, so as not to buy too many things and waste them.
"Thank you, Master Wushi, for telling me this, I didn't even know that I was planning to do New Year's goods. Jia Lei said gratefully, Wu Shi smiled and put the fruit in the kitchen.
"By the way! The mayor asked me to tell you that you will have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in two days. Lu Xiangluo waited for Wu Shi, the old driver, to put everything away before he said, especially cold.
"I know, thank you godfather for me! Tell him that I will definitely go that day, and remember to help me take care of my godfather. Jia Lei didn't look at his face at all, but said to himself.
Since the things were delivered to Lu Xiangluo, he took his particularly spirited car and left, at this time the neighbors dared to surround him, and some knowledgeable people recognized that the license plate on the car was the license plate of the municipal party committee, so they asked Jia Lei what kind of person he was.
"The people from the city government sent someone to send me New Year's benefits, isn't my father a martyr! After he died, my relationship was hung up in the city, and the government would keep me in charge until I was 20 years old, so no matter what they did in the future, they would have my share. Jia Lei felt that there was nothing to say, so he told everyone the matter generously.
My son-in-law, a driver, can't eat all the things that the family sends every year, and he often sends me a lot. One of my father's neighbors said.
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To say that in the 80s and 90s, the most characteristic of the times was probably the various benefits issued by the units at that time, and even the house was a kind of welfare.
In the 90s, the New Year's welfare was paid, but the most desired thing for the employees of all units during the New Year.
At that time, the unit with the best welfare was the tobacco and alcohol company, and they would always give a lot of cigarettes, all kinds of alcohol, and candy that were particularly in demand during the New Year as unit benefits.
The second best benefit is the sales system under the department store, and their strength lies in the wide variety of things. Basically, relying on the welfare of the unit, many salesmen never have to buy daily necessities by themselves.
Then, at the back of the list are the public institutions and tertiary industry companies under the customs units at all levels, and they are basically the families of various units, and their welfare is naturally not bad.
As for the state-owned enterprises that were the largest at that time, they could only pay benefits to the employees of their own units according to the benefits of each factory, and anyway, when it came to the Chinese New Year, each unit would pay benefits.
Mind you! I'm talking about each!
Even private restaurants in the streets and alleys, and township enterprises in the countryside have to be issued. Unless it is a particularly bad loss or the boss is particularly picky, and the bad one is not issued! Almost all the country pays benefits during the Chinese New Year.
Units with good benefits will have oily hair and flesh!
Units with poor efficiency will send what they have!
When the people who came to see the excitement were almost gone, Jia Lei took out an apple from the box and wiped it with the sleeve of his clothes without washing it with water.
Jia Lei was an adult in the shell, and he couldn't do the thing of eating alone for a group of children to watch, so he directly opened the box and gave each of the seven or eight children in the house a Marshal Huang.
Jia Lei was not so generous to the adults in the house, he picked out a few scarred apples and took them to the kitchen to be washed. Then dig down the broken area with a knife and then cut it, divide it into four or five petals, and put it in a special fruit bowl and serve it out. Don't call him stingy, there are thirty or forty people in the room.
In those days, when ordinary families ate fruits distributed by their units, was this how they ate? They were not allowed to eat the good ones, but they were only allowed to eat the bad ones first
"You can't ask me again after you've eaten this!" Jia Lei said fiercely to the other children, and all the adults and children in the room who heard it did not say anything against it.
The mouth is busy eating, how can there be time to object!
Besides, except for children who are really ignorant, who will open their mouths to ask others for food-
"Jia Lei, anyway, you have so many apples here, you can't eat them alone, it's better to give me two more and I'll take them home to my Xiaobao to eat!"
"I'm not the only one in my family, but also my third aunt. Besides, I don't have a lot of apples, so I ate at least twenty of them this time, and the small half box is gone. Jia Lei couldn't wipe his face and politely refused.
"Since the apples are not enough to eat, then you can bring me two oranges to taste, you and my family Qianqian are still classmates, so you should bring her two oranges to taste." The woman said.
"No, the orange can't be opened! I still have to keep it as a gift for my godmother's family, my godmother, you know? Jia Lei shook his hand and played a trump card to reject her.
Hehe!!The face is so big, I actually opened my mouth to ask for two apples. You must know that apples are a specialty of the north, and it is not easy to travel thousands of miles to the pearl, after all, it is very inconvenient to have fewer cars and traffic at this time in the 90s. In the local area, the price of apples is several times that of oranges, so far as to say to her—
"Auntie, I remember that Qianqian said that she likes to eat peanuts very much, I'll go grab a handful for you. Jia Lei said.
After Qianqian's rebirth, he had seen her a few times, and he didn't know if she liked to eat peanuts, but peanuts were definitely not what her three-year-old little bully brother liked to eat, and he couldn't bite it! Maybe in this way Qianqian could eat what she gave in that patriarchal home.
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"Xiao Lei, come and open the door for me!" Sanni shouted as she stood outside the door. Jia Lei hurriedly opened the door for her, but as soon as she opened the door, she saw two big radishes and four cabbages, these things were almost twenty pounds, I really don't know how she got them back.
"Today, the factory will distribute benefits to one person, one radish and two cabbages, and I will take your share back. Sanni said happily.
"I'm not from the factory, how can I still be given benefits?" asked Jia Lei.
"Why aren't you from the factory, there are rules in the factory. All employees and their families who are injured at work and are disabled to death, as well as retired workers, are considered to be in the factory, and you also have a share of the benefits paid during the New Year's holidays. Sanni said.
"But I have already received a benefit from the municipal party committee this morning, and it would be a repetition to give it again. Jia Lei said.
"If the municipal party committee has given it to you, the factory can't be left behind, otherwise our common sense will not become a backward element. It's not a valuable thing anyway, and no one cares about that. Sanni said.
When Jia Lei heard that this was indeed the case, he didn't refute it anymore, so he didn't think there was such a thing, but he didn't expect that Sanni was thinking about it when he went to bed at night.
"You don't know, many factories in the neighborhood are also distributing benefits today, and the instrument factory next door to us not only distributes pork but also tobacco and alcohol. Much better than the cabbage and radish in our factory. Sanni said with special envy.
"You are all in the same factory, why are there so many things in the factory next door?" Jia Lei asked curiously.
"We have more than 20,000 people in our textile factory, and only 2,000 people in the instrument factory next door. The benefits of our two families are about the same, but there are naturally more things in the factory than people in the factory, and more than 20,000 people in our factory can't afford anything other than cabbage and radish!" Sanni sighed.