The place where Lu Xiaokun lived used to be a hat factory in the street, which was discontinued a few years ago, and Lu Xiaokun's father and the street director were cousins and brothers, and the cousin saw that the cousin's family who came back to the city did not have a nest, so he used his right to arrange Lu Xiaokun's family here, and gave a high-sounding reason to the outside world, giving the street a free look at the factory.

Zhang Jiaming noticed that this courtyard was 100 square meters and had five or six bungalows, except for leaving two small rooms for Lu Xiaokun's family to live in, the remaining rooms were stacked with sewing equipment and the backlog of products produced before, and there were some chickens and ducks in a row of cages against the wall.

Zhang Jiaming pointed to a simple barbell with stones tied to both ends of a wooden stick on the ground, and asked, "Lu Xiaokun, are you still lifting a barbell?" ”

Lu Xiaokun replied: "Exercise and defend yourself!" ”

Zhang Jiaming smiled, "Lu Xiaokun, you are also a child born in New China and grew up under the red flag, how can your consciousness be so low?" ”

Lu Xiaokun also smiled, "If you want to defend the motherland, you have to defend yourself first, right?" If I don't train my body well, I would have to be down by a few bear children in the neighborhood. ”

Zhang Jiaming said in his heart that Brother Kun has had such lofty ambitions since he was a child, no wonder he will fight all over Yangjiang when he grows up.

"Xiaokun, why didn't you see your father and mother?" Zhang Jiaming asked.

"My dad works in Yangjiang No. 2 Construction and has to work overtime on the construction site every day, and my mom sells eggs and duck eggs at the door of the vegetable market every day, and the two of them have to come back late every day." Lu Xiaokun replied.

"Oh." Zhang Jiaming nodded and put the backpack on a cement slab.

Lu Xiaokun glanced at Zhang Jiaming's schoolbag enviously and said, "Jiaming, I see that you will be a person who can make a big difference in the future, and the younger brother will follow you in the future!" ”

Is there any mistake? In the future, your brother Kun will be the big brother who drags and cools the sky in the realm of Yangjiang, okay?

Lu Xiaokun brought a basket of peanuts, put them on the cement slab and said, "Big brother eats peanuts, my mother only fried them this morning, they are crispy and fragrant." I'll feed the chickens and ducks first, or my mom will have to scold me again when she comes back. ”

The eighties are the era of China's take-off, there are opportunities everywhere, many business tycoons are in this period to get the first pot of gold, Zhang Jiaming also thought of a lot of money-making business, but in the end he was denied, although he is a middle-aged uncle's psychology, but it is the body of a nine-year-old child! His parents would never let him quit school and start business at such a young age.

But it doesn't matter, we can use our spare time to make a lot of money. Hearing the sound of "crackling" firecrackers from time to time outside, Zhang Jiaming knew that the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rat was approaching, and his idea of using the Spring Festival to make money gradually became clear.

In the eighties, there was no ban on firecrackers, as long as you had money, you bought a truckload of firecrackers and set off them on the side of the road for a night, and no one interfered with you, at that time, the people still had a strong Spring Festival feeling in their hearts, regardless of whether they had money or not, they always had to put two firecrackers during the Spring Festival, and one firecracker was set off at midnight in the Chinese New Year's Eve, called welcoming the God of Wealth, and the next morning after getting up, another firecracker was put on, called sending the God of Wealth.

Firecrackers have been set off sporadically since more than half a month before the Spring Festival, and as the Spring Festival approaches, the density of firecrackers will increase significantly day by day, until the peak reaches midnight in the Chinese New Year's Eve, when a Reuters reporter flew over a city at midnight in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and he described in the article that the entire city was shrouded in golden light at that moment.

After the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the number of people setting off firecrackers is also decreasing day by day, but on the day of the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, which is also called the small year, a small peak of firecrackers will be ushered in again, and at this point, the activity of setting off firecrackers is basically over.

Zhang Jiaming has already totaled, he is January 23 official winter vacation, February 19 officially started, just to be able to fully catch up with the entire firecracker sales season, if done well, this winter vacation should be no problem to earn 10,000 yuan.

In the early 80s, the 10,000-yuan households were much rarer than the million-dollar households and 10-million-yuan households 20 or 30 years later, and there were not many people doing business in society at that time. During this period, the average worker in the state-owned factory only paid 40 or 50 yuan a month, and after a year, he did not eat or drink about 600 yuan, and the salary of a zero-hour worker was much less, and 10,000 yuan was an unattainable amount for a working family, and only those who came from that era could realize it.

The reason why Zhang Jiaming chose to sell firecrackers during the Spring Festival, in addition to the reason of time, is also because he remembers that there is a classmate's father who drives a locomotive, and every year during the Spring Festival, he will bring some firecrackers from other places, the firecrackers are not good at first glance, and they are smaller than the firecrackers sold on the street, but they are much louder than the big firecrackers sold on the street, and if they are set off at night, they will emit lightning-like lightning, so this kind of firecrackers are also called electric light cannons, and they are basically not sold on the market in Yangjiang. Zhang Jiaming thought that if this kind of firecracker could be introduced to the Yangjiang market, it should be the only business for scorpion, and there is really no reason for the business to be unpopular!

"Jiaming, let's play for a while and shoot foreign paintings, shall we?" After Lu Xiaokun finished feeding the chickens and ducks, he came over with a stack of foreign paintings the size of business cards in his hand.

During this period, animation works had not yet been born in the mainland market, and foreign paintings were all based on characters from the storytelling "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Yang Jiajiang", "Water Margin" and "Yue Fei" played on the radio.

For Zhang Jiaming, who is a small ghost, he is really not interested in this kind of game played by young children, but in order to avoid dampening Brother Kun's young heart, he had to lower his IQ and show an interested attitude, "Okay, good!" I haven't played in a long time. ”

"Jiaming, how long has it been since you played with foreign paintings?" Lu Xiaokun asked.

I'm going to say I haven't played for thirty years, Brother Kun, do you believe it?

Zhang Jiaming replied with a smile: "I haven't played for almost thirty days." ”

In order to end this boring game as soon as possible, Zhang Jiaming deliberately only lost but did not win, and after a while, Zhang Jiaming lost all the foreign paintings in his hand.

"Alas!" Lu Xiaokun sighed and said, "Jiaming, your level is really poor!" ”

Seeing that it was not early, Zhang Jiaming patted his mud paws and said, "Xiaokun, it's getting dark, I have to go home, let's play another day, okay?" ”

"Okay!" Lu Xiaokun turned around and went into his kitchen to take out seven or eight chicken and duck eggs, and stuffed them into Zhang Jiaming's schoolbag, which was called a meeting gift for the eldest brother.

Standing at the door of Lu Xiaokun's house, Zhang Jiaming suddenly remembered something and asked, "Xiaokun, tell me the truth, which girl in our class do you like the most?" ”

Lu Xiaokun was stunned for a moment, and then became a little shy.

Zhang Jiaming decided to throw bricks and set up a trick for Lu Xiaokun to tell the truth, so he made up and said: "I like Ma Hui in our class, what about you, Xiaokun?" ”

Lu Xiaokun squirmed, and finally said, "I like Lin Na." ”

Zhang Jiaming patted Lu Xiaokun on the shoulder, thinking to himself, could it be that in her previous life, Lin Na really became the woman of the eldest brother in front of her?