"At that time, it must have been difficult, and I had to endure the strange eyes of others." Fang Monan said, and remembered when his grandmother's steamed bun stall was pointed at.

"This day is lived by ourselves, and other people's strange eyes are nothing, and our hearts are clear. And the most difficult difficulty to overcome, is the problem of applying for a business license, after more than half a year, there is still no news, the tea stall belongs to the town collective, not the state-run collective, the mother raised, no one cares. For the delay in the approval of the business license, the younger brother and the two of them took turns to squat in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and they couldn't be busy because they didn't have time, so they mobilized the family and took turns to help, but the reason given by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau was that there was no precedent before. ”

Uncle An remembered the past and laughed, "Hehe...... The little brother who caught the affordable, how could he be willing to let the tea stall yellow, that is, eight horses can't pull it back. ”

"And then!" Fang Menan asked.

Uncle An tapped his index finger lightly on his knee and said, "Later! The solution to this problem is to keep paying fines, but just pay fines, still make money, and finally until the street office came forward to find the district government to coordinate, I remember at the end of 79, the next business license, the little brother was excited and didn't sleep all night, although the business license was temporary. At that time, there was no license specifically for this new type of urban collective enterprise, and the scope of business was tea business. And then ......"

"Jingle Bell......" The phone rang, "Mine!" Uncle An picked up the phone, "Little brother! Dine! Don't mind if I bring two more friends! ”

Uncle An looked out the car window, "It's there in ten minutes." ”

Uncle An hung up the phone and said to Xiong Baochun, "How about going to dinner." Let me also do my best to be a landlord, and besides, you don't want to hear the story, the little brother is the party! ”

"Uncle An, you borrow flowers to offer Buddha, you are so slippery!" Fang Menan quipped.

"Why not!" Uncle An said like a child, "Compared with my younger brother, I am very poor. ”

"Hehe......" Fang Menan took out his mobile phone to call Paul, and he didn't go back until dinner.

"Where are we going now?" Fang Menan asked.

"Go to the Tang Dynasty!" Uncle An said.

Xiong Baochun drove directly to the Tang Dynasty, and after entering the box, a gentle and successful middle-aged man stood up, very similar to Uncle An!

"Little brother. This is the doctor you often talk about. I've admired the name for a long time! Brother An said with a smile.

Fang Monan scratched her head in embarrassment, she can say that she has admired the name for a long time, that is too hypocritical! This is the first time I have heard Uncle An introduce his family.

There is, "on the way to come." Uncle An is introducing Uncle An's great achievements! Fang Monan said with a dry smile.

"Ghost girl. The brain is spinning pretty fast. Uncle An pursed his lips and snickered. said in her heart that since she said so, Uncle An would not expose her unkindly.

Uncle An briefly introduced Xiong Baochun again. He was once a patient.

The four of them sat down, and the dishes came up like flowing water, spicy but not choking yellow throat, fat but not greasy kumquat peel braised pork, dense braised rabbit head, stewed beef brisket with tomato and red wine, braised yellow fish, brandy roasted stir-fried pork, secret chicken wing tiramisu, and bay leaf tiger prawns.

The first hot dish is only hot, what is called choking yellow throat. Right, it's hot when you smell it, fragrant! The oil is still boiling, but there is no sizzling sound, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a steak, not a yellow throat, don't be frightened by the name.

Uncle An looked red and glamorous, and his scalp was numb, "Little brother, how do you order Sichuan food, spicy or not, it's not too hot in summer." ”

"Little brother, these are all improved Sichuan dishes, not too spicy, very fragrant." Little Brother An pouted and said, "Little brother, am I such an unobtrusive person!" ”

Uncle An tasted it, and sure enough, as he said, it was fragrant but not spicy, and it was the best to eat.

There is no banquet without wine, but there is Fang Monan here, and Xiong Baochun is driving again, so he ordered a bottle of red wine, and the two brothers are casual.

Everyone chatted while eating, "My little brother didn't say anything bad about me!" Brother An raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"No, Uncle An is talking about your history!" Fang Menan said with a smile.

"Listen to my little brother's nonsense! Still history? Brother An said humbly, but the pride in his eyes could not be erased.

"Where did my little brother go?" Little Brother An was also interested.

"Speaking of the first day you opened, you made sixty dollars, and after half a year you got the license, and since then it has been out of control." Uncle An smiled, "Okay, let's let the master say it next!" ”

Brother An smiled proudly, "Next, it didn't take long for the scale of the tea stall to start growing little by little, and more and more unemployed young people joined the youth tea club. The tea stall business is very prosperous, one person can earn 50 yuan a month, and at that time, the average salary of regular workers was only about 30 yuan to 40 yuan. Still, in the first few years, there were people who kept leaving. A young intellectual, who had returned to the city and wanted to leave the tea house, said that no matter how much money he made, he always felt that he was half a cut shorter than the people who worked in the state-owned factory, and he couldn't hold his head up.

Seriously, at that time, when some people had parent-teacher conferences, the children were secretive when they filled in the parental duties.

Alas! In fact, to put it bluntly, everyone is reluctant to do this job, because they feel that selling tea is not a serious business, so they will do it here for the time being, and then leave directly when they have the opportunity, 80% of people have this mentality.

Because it is not a state-owned factory, the tea house still encountered a lot of trouble, small hooligans made trouble, and big dung trucks hit the stalls, which happened from time to time. ”

Uncle An patted Little Brother An on the shoulder and said, "So I admire you very much!" Really little brother, brother doesn't tell lies, I thought you would retreat and withdraw! ”

"In the words of my partner, who is more than ten years older than me, he said: "I have dragged my family with me, and some of my children have reached school age, and they have been away from the city for seven or eight years, and now they don't even have a livelihood to earn a living, so you can understand why I persist." Little Brother An said with infinite emotion, "It's the old and the young, it's hard for you to drink the northwest wind if you don't do it!" There are no words that are more real than recognizing reality. ”

"Speaking of which, I have to thank our father, who asked for help everywhere, and sent someone to kneel, little brother! Didn't you see that scene, do I dare to pick on it? Then I'm sorry Dad! Brother An said and drank all the red wine in the glass in front of him.

"I'm sorry for the sadness that made you sad." Fang Menan said embarrassedly.

Junior Brother An bowed his hand and said with a sneer, "Looking back now, it really doesn't matter, people!" Only by crossing that hurdle, there is really no flame mountain that cannot be passed. ”

Uncle An patted his hand understandingly, and he said that the younger brother had a temper tantrum, and then he didn't know why he was treated as a serious businessman. Business is getting bigger and bigger, and the more you do it, the higher your vision.

Uncle An changed the topic and said, "I remember that at the end of the year you got the license, you made a net profit of 110,000 yuan, and the business scope of the change was not only selling the items specified in the business license, although the tea stall still sold tea for 2 cents." ”

"That's right! At that time, the two-card tape recorder was selling well, and the goods we brought back from Pengcheng were always snatched up, and the stores were crowded, and the street police station also sent police to maintain order. When Brother An talked about the good times of the year, he couldn't hide his pride.

"It's really impermanent, life is like a play, and I'm lucky compared to others." Brother An said abruptly.

"yes!"

There was silence for a while.

When the educated youth returned to the city, so many people poured into the city at once, which stimulated social contradictions; However, because of their older age and the fact that they belonged to the foreign population in the city at that time, their status was basically equivalent to that of today's wage earners, so most of the people who returned to the city could only work at the lowest level and do odd jobs in the factories run by the streets, and few of them had the opportunity to enter a formal unit and have a decent job.

Well, in the subsequent institutional reform, most of the factories closed down, and as a result, they were laid off, and they lost their jobs when their children needed school fees, when they needed jobs; For families, one or two educated youths who return to the city need living space, and for a long time, when the educated youths come back as relatives from other places, their families will no longer divide a permanent residence for them, so the return of educated youths to their hometowns has stimulated family conflicts. This is what happened after the educated youth entered the city.

So who would have thought about the place where they left?

A large number of educated youths returned to the city, so many well-functioning farms, forest farms, schools, and attached factories that had invested a lot of material resources and a lot of mental and physical strength of the educated youth, suddenly became barren because there were no people, and the economic forests grew well, but there was no manpower to harvest them. The equipment was bought, but no one would use it, the houses were built, but no one lived in them, and many villages, farms, and forest farms were a mess, and it was impossible to clean up the wolves.

As a result, the frontier is still the frontier, the countryside is still the countryside, and the gap between urban and rural areas is still irreconcilably widening.

Alas! A long sigh!

"As the old saying goes, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, I am very grateful that we have a super discerning father in our family!" Brother An broke the silence with a smile.

Uncle An pursed his lips and snickered, "How can our dad have vision!" Our dad has worked hard all his life, and he is the most simple person. In his eyes, he can't hide idlers, rather than letting you hatch eggs at home, it is better to support yourself, neither stealing nor robbing, it is better than recruiting cats and dogs, and causing trouble everywhere. ”

Little Brother An thought about it and smiled, "So! There is a carrot to lure, and the effect is better than any spur. ”

"Hehe......"

While eating and chatting, after dinner, out of the box, Brother An said, "Little brother, how do I think the club is much more 'pure' now, I was not here during this time, at the foot of the imperial city, something happened that I didn't know." ”

"Puff ......" Fang Monan pursed his lips and snickered, how could his subtext not hide dirt and dirt!

"I'm talking about going home."

After a long goodbye to the park, they each left. (To be continued......)

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