Chapter 70: Educated Youths and Cricket Jars (Addition)
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Every year on June 1, it is a big festival for Hong Tao, this is his birthday, and it is also Children's Day, which is a double happiness. In this era, June Day is not a holiday, but activities are organized by the school, and for every elementary school student, this day is equally important, because the annual joining ceremony is held on this day.
The Young Pioneers, the Young Pioneers, commonly known as the Red Soldiers, were the honor that every primary school student looked forward to back then. In fact, they did not know what this triangular red cloth meant, although each Young Pioneer had to carry a red scarf on his back for the origin and symbol, but it was only a mechanical recitation. Whether you understand it or not, it is every child's dream to be a glorious red soldier, even if you are recognized as a bad boy, you are very envious when you watch others join the team.
As far as Hong Tao's table this year is concerned, Hong Xiaobing must be no play, although the grades are not good, but the popularity is too poor, and a large number of teachers are eager to put a black cloth on him. Jin Yue joined the team in the first batch, not only wearing a red scarf, but also a square armband on his arm, and a red strip of cloth on a white background. This is the legendary squad leader, and there are two strips of red cloth on the top, which is the squadron leader, and there can be up to three strips of red cloth, which is the captain.
"Don't you have a red scarf either?" Although he is no longer in the same class, Zhang Dajiang still runs to the table tennis table after class, after a year of exercise, his weight does not seem to have increased much, and his running has made great progress. And he also asked his family to buy him a new big knife racket, and his skills in table tennis are increasing day by day, and he can already pull the ball against Hong Tao. It seems that the sentence is right, if God closes a door to you, it will open a window, Zhang Dajiang is slightly weaker intellectually, but he is still very talented in playing table tennis, at least Jin Yue can't beat him.
"Do you see that I look like I wear a red scarf? Do you envy them for wearing a red scarf, do you want to wear them?" Hong Tao pointed to his nose with a racket.
"My grandfather said that those who wear red scarves are good children...... "Zhang Dajiang would carry his grandfather out whenever he encountered a problem that he couldn't think of.
"Your grandfather said half a sentence less, I don't believe you went back today to ask him, there is still half a sentence in the second half, and those who don't wear red scarves are not necessarily bad boys, such as you and me, are we two bad boys?" Hong Tao knew that Da Jiang also wanted to wear a red scarf, and there was nothing a normal child didn't want to bring.
"No!" Zhang Dajiang replied to this question very dryly.
"That's not it, sooner or later, let's have it, ball!" Hong Tao is very good at enlightening Zhang Dajiang, and he can't be reasonable, he can't understand it, the best way is to use words to make him dizzy, and then give an obvious and reasonable explanation, he believed. Of course, this method can't be used by others, only the people he trusts will really believe it, and he doesn't believe it if others say it.
In July, there was a big thing in the alley of Hong Tao's grandmother's house, and 66 continued to come back with a lot of strangers, all young people around 2o years old, almost every courtyard had them, and two of Hong Tao's grandmother's yards also came back. Hong Tao has an impression of these two people, one of them is the eldest son of the Tai family in the courtyard, and the other is the son of the Sun family who lives in the highest part of the courtyard.
The sons are back, and they don't have to go anymore, whether it is the family or the neighbors, they are happy for them, and in the evening, grandma also specially made a pot of meat and vegetables, and sent it to those two families, which is a little heart. But one night later, Hong Tao heard his grandmother and a few old ladies picking vegetables and chewing their tongues together, and they talked about their work problems.
The two of them left without even finishing high school, and now they only have junior Chinese when they come back, and the educated youth who come back in the street are not only the two of them, almost everyone in every alley and every yard has returned, both men and women, most of them are in this situation, where there are so many jobs that can be arranged, you can only go to the household registration first, and then leave the relationship on the street, waiting for the street to slowly figure out a way.
It cannot be said that there is no way to do it in the streets, because these educated youths who have returned to the city are all young people, and they can arrange some jobs such as sanitation workers, large neighborhood collective units, and temporary factory workers, but the number of places is limited, and they can only solve the work problems of some people. In fact, even if there are enough places, most of the educated youths who return to the city are reluctant to go, who wants to dig the land for several years, finally come back, and then pick up a broom and a dung spoon to sweep the streets? Or go to work as a low-class temporary worker?
If you don't go, you can only stay idle at home, at this time most ordinary families are not rich, and the family is not a child, and the housing is also tight, even if the brothers and sisters, sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law do not give them a white eye, they themselves are not happy. But they really can't do it, they want knowledge without knowledge, diploma without diploma, capital without capital, even if they have capital, their brains that are still in the planned economy are not enough.
But these people are no longer the same as when they first left home, if they were just a group of blood-soaked little wolf dogs, now they are hungry wolves who have seen blood. The harsh environment of going to the mountains and going to the countryside not only exercised the willpower of these urban children, but also taught them the instinct to live in a harsh environment, and fighting and stealing things are no longer a problem.
Some of them who understand better and have better brains began to pick up their textbooks and prepare to review their homework and go to university. But most people either don't have the brain, or they can't see the long-term, once they lose the hope of life, they will give up on themselves, so with the wave of educated youths returning to the city, followed by the urgency of social security, and finally caused a big movement.
Hong Tao understands these truths in his heart, and he also knows the context of things, but unfortunately he is just a child, even if he is an adult now, there is no good way to change the status quo. After all, this is not a matter of one family, this is the problem of the whole society, if he can really change the whole society, then he no longer needs to live in the hutongs, but should move to the south of the Beihai Sea to work.
He has no ability to intervene in the course of history, but he has a way to make his life a little more comfortable and happy. Since coming to this era, he has been looking for an entertainment project that is not only in line with the identity of a child, but also in line with his actual mental age, but unfortunately he has never found it, but this problem has been inadvertently solved by him. One day, when he was visiting the consignment store in Dongsi, he suddenly appeared a good thing, a set to be exact, this thing is called a cricket jar.
Cricket jars, as the name suggests, are the things of raising crickets and fighting crickets. Crickets are crickets, this thing can be regarded as an entertainment project suitable for all ages, Hong Tao has played it in his previous life, but like other things, it is just a shallow taste, and it is not deep. And now he happened to have nothing to do, and after seeing this set of cricket jars, he immediately had an idea that he should play with them in the depths, so he planned to buy these jars and go home.
"Uncle, please show me these jars. Hong Tao lay on the glass counter, calling the salesman inside, the service attitude of the state-owned unit is a hard injury, those salespeople are all the same as the uncle, as long as the leader is not here, none of them like to care.
"Bang dang...... Bang Dang...... Bang Dang...... Bang Dang...... Boom!" After five crunching sounds, three large, two small and five cans were thrown onto the counter by the salesman, who was not afraid to smash the glass on the counter. Hong Tao has long been accustomed to this service attitude, there is no way at all, if you are more serious in this era, then unless you don't go shopping, otherwise go to a quarrel.
"Oh, young man, this jar can't be thrown like this, it's a pity that the good things are all ruined!" Before Hong Tao could stretch out his hand, with a scream, an old man rushed from behind him, touched the five jars one by one, and then shook his head and let go.
"Uncle, you know cricket jars, can you help me see, are these jars worth it for me to buy?" Hong Tao looked at the old man carefully, he was wearing a pair of black spun silk crotchless pants, not a belt tied around his waist, but a cloth belt, a sauce-colored gauze cardigan on his upper body, a pair of open shoes on his feet, and snow-white socks.
This dress has a special style in Beijing, called the lower nine streams, which refers to the people who are engaged in the work of masters, yacha, scales, matchmakers, pawns, time demons, thieves, thieves, high platforms, blowing, circus, pushing, pools, back rubbing, repairing, matching, prostitutes, dog beating, selling oil, pedicures, shaving heads, carrying food, tailors, excellent, drummers, witches, great gods, bangs, operas, and selling sugar. In fact, this is not a purely derogatory term, but a word used to distinguish the hierarchy, and the meaning of saying that others are migrant workers in later generations, and later it became a scolding word when it was spoken.
However, this is all the rhetoric of the early years, and in the 7th and 8o years, people who dress so standard are already very rare, and the vast majority of them are old people, who are not used to the new clothes and pants, and still maintain the attire of the Republic of China.
Crotch-free pants are a kind of pants without a waistband, commonly known as face pockets, the trouser legs are particularly fat, the waist of the pants is larger, and there is no elastic band, wearing it is like a pocket, and this kind of pants has no belt loops, can not wear a belt, can only be the waist of the pants left and right, and then tie it with a cloth belt, or tie a wide large plate belt.
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