Chapter 5: Maybe I Can
Hu Xuefeng looked at the children who gathered in line to buy popsicles in front of the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, and suddenly felt that maybe this was his first pot of gold.
Hu Xuefeng just noticed that the refrigerator of the supply and marketing cooperatives was full of old popsicles of the same brand, and there was nothing else, and the three words of ice cream just now gave him inspiration like lightning, and he suddenly thought that maybe he could make an ice cream and then promote it to the market......
But soon, Hu Xuefeng denied his idea with a wry smile.
Because the reality is very cruel, the Hu family does not have a refrigerator, so even if he can make some simple ice cream, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.
Buying a refrigerator?
This idea flashed in Hu Xuefeng's brain, but he knew that buying a refrigerator was even more fantastical for him at the moment, no money, he couldn't afford it, this was the reality.
Hu Xuefeng knows the situation at home, his father Hu Zhengguo's monthly salary is 120 yuan, and his mother Zheng Xiuli's monthly salary is 50 yuan, and the combined monthly income of the two is only 170 yuan, and this 170 yuan also includes rice tickets, cloth tickets, oil tickets, and meat tickets, and the real monetary salary is more than 100 yuan.
The Hu family has three children, the eldest sister Hu Xuemei and not mention it first, after all, they have worked, but Hu Xuefeng and his sister Hu Xuelan are still studying, and the two children have to spend some money every month, although Hu Xuefeng's grandparents are in Zhanjiang's hometown, they also have to be filial, as for the grandparents and grandmothers, although they don't have to give money every month, but they still need to bring gifts to visit during the New Year's holidays.
How much does a refrigerator cost?
Hu Xuefeng recalled it, and came up with a figure full of sighs: more than six hundred to more than seven hundred.
Moreover, this is only the price of a small household refrigerator, if it is a large commercial freezer, the price must be thousands, and this thing is still priceless, want to buy, in addition to having money, there must be a approval, if not, even if you have money, you can't buy it, after all, this is still in the era of planned economy, the whole of China, the output of refrigerators is only tens of thousands!
In other words, Hu Zhengguo and Zheng Xiuli have saved more than a year's salary, which is enough to buy a refrigerator, and it is also a small Xiaoice box for the family!
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!
Hu Xuefeng sighed, killed the remaining popsicles in one bite, put away the money-making method he had finally come up with, and prepared to go home!
"Bang!"
Before Hu Xuefeng took a step, he suddenly heard a muffled sound, followed by a scorching smell, and before he came back to his senses, he heard the children queuing up to buy popsicles at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Run, the fridge is going to blow up......"
I don't know if it was the bear child who roared, and more than a dozen hairy children were scattered in an instant, and even Hu Xuelan took a step, preparing to escape from the scene of the "explosion".
"Brother, run, the refrigerator is going to explode!"
Hu Xuelan was about to pull Hu Xuefeng away, but the little girl was obviously frightened by the muffled noise just now and the scorching smell in the air, and her face was a little pale.
"You go back first, and my brother stays and has a look. ”
After all, Hu Xuefeng has lived for two lifetimes, what kind of strange and lively people have not been encountered, just now he has already reacted, as expected, the refrigerator for supply and marketing should be broken!
Hu Xuelan obviously didn't dare to stay, seeing that a little friend at the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives was gone, she remembered that she still had to go to school in the afternoon, and while spreading her feet and running in the direction of the school, she didn't forget to turn around and say, "Brother, just stand under the tree and watch the excitement for a while, don't come to the front, be careful of the explosion!"
Hu Xuefeng's face was full of black lines in an instant, what did she say, this girl, was completely unscientific, and she didn't care about the mood of the employees of other supply and marketing cooperatives.
Sure enough, several supply and marketing cooperatives workers who were frightened by the sudden "explosion" of the refrigerator, and then heard the "enthusiastic" instructions of Hu Xuelan's classmates, they were all frightened and took a few steps back, and a female comrade was even more frightened to hit the shelves.
Hu Xuefeng couldn't bear to look at it, and couldn't help thinking in his heart, the supply and marketing cooperatives were too unlucky today, and there were accidents one after another, probably avoid "trade" today.
There was nothing to do left and right, Hu Xuefeng simply sat down to watch the excitement, but his gloating appearance fell in the eyes of the employees of the supply and marketing cooperative, and they all felt annoying.
However, how can several employees of the supply and marketing cooperatives still have time to care about Hu Xuefeng at this time, the refrigerator suddenly smoked and burned out, this is a big thing, a few female comrades who are arrogant on weekdays, like ants on a hot pot, shouting around the refrigerator that is still smoking, obviously shirking each other's responsibilities.
The refrigerator of several thousand yuan was broken, which was a big deal, and the staff of the supply and marketing cooperatives were helpless, so they had to call the director of the supply and marketing cooperatives and report the situation.
On the other end of the phone, Luo Dawei, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, who was talking about the supply, heard that the imported Hitachi refrigerator that the store had just bought burned out, and he didn't care about negotiating business, so he hurried back, and when Luo Dawei returned to the supply and marketing cooperative, the refrigerator had been broken for more than an hour, but fortunately there was still some air conditioning in the freezer, otherwise the hundreds of popsicles in it would have melted.
After all, Luo Dawei is a leader, he has experienced a lot of things, he saw that the refrigerator was broken, and he knew that this was not the time to be held responsible, so Luo Dawei dialed the phone of the maintenance department of the LW District Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and asked the maintenance department to send a worker who can repair the refrigerator to come over for emergency repairs as soon as possible.
A quarter of an hour later, Hu Xuefeng saw a maintenance worker with a tool kit running over in a hurry, and when he saw someone coming, Hu Xuefeng was happy, isn't this his uncle Zheng Xiutong?
"Uncle?" In front of his maternal uncle, Hu Xuefeng didn't dare to take it big, so he stepped forward to say hello as soon as possible.
"Hey, Xiaofeng, are you there? I heard your mother say that you were hit by a car, how about it, it's not a big problem, right?" Zheng Xiutong wiped a handful of sweat, greeted his nephew, and walked into the supply and marketing cooperatives to inquire about the situation.
"Master Zheng, you are here, take a look at the situation, this refrigerator has only been bought back for less than a month, why did it suddenly burn out?" Luo Dawei was already sweating profusely.
"Xiao Feng, you wait for a while!" Zheng Xiutong also knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't care about chatting with his eldest nephew, so he took out his tools and looked around the refrigerator, but after checking around, Zheng Xiutong's brows furrowed, "Director Luo, this problem is a little tricky, look, can you let me take the refrigerator apart and take a look?"
"Take it apart?"
Luo Dawei hurriedly shook his head and said, "Master Zheng, I'm afraid this won't work, this machine is imported, and there are more than a dozen units in the entire Yangcheng area, what if you break it?"
Luo Dawei is obviously not at ease, after all, this refrigerator is imported, and there is a problem now, if it is dismantled again, he, the director of the store department, cannot afford it.
"Can't be dismantled? I'm afraid this ......" Zheng Xiutong also felt very troubled, this was not allowed to be dismantled, he couldn't find the problem, even if he wanted to repair it, he couldn't do anything.
Just when Luo Dawei, Zheng Xiutong and all the employees of the supply and marketing cooperatives were helpless, Hu Xuefeng stepped forward and looked at it for a while, and suddenly said, "Uncle, maybe I can do it!"