Chapter 8: Two Awkward Neighborhoods
Tired of life and trapped in feelings, I let out my heart's content through alcohol during this period of time, venting my dissatisfaction and depression in my heart. To tell the truth, the problem of feelings is actually nothing, the people who should come will always come, and the people who should go are useless to stay, maybe at the next intersection, I will meet a better one, the feelings rely on the edge, and the word "edge" can solve the thousands of melancholy in the heart. However, the tiredness of man's life made me very confused, and we could only vent our dissatisfaction and resentment at the small gathering every weekend, but it was just to vent, and on Monday, we still stood on the podium and worked hard.
At that time, the state had a policy that required all localities to effectively solve the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers. Yes, at that time, the employees of the general state enterprises and institutions enjoyed the housing allocated by the unit to the workers, and later the housing reform policy was implemented, and individuals only needed to pay a small amount of money to convert the collective housing belonging to the unit into private real estate. No wonder we have been ranked as the "old nine" for thousands of years! Or "Stinky Old Nine"!! I have been working for so many years, and a staff member who belongs to a national official institution cannot catch up with the workers in the factory! They have free housing provided by the unit for them, and then individuals can enjoy the housing reform policy and enjoy their own houses with very little money, but I have never enjoyed such benefits, alas, "old nine" and "stinky old nine" live up to the name!
The national policy is good, and the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers has been thoroughly and effectively solved. However, when it was implemented at all levels and implemented in our district, the district leaders did not want to spend a penny, but it was difficult not to implement the state's principles and policies. They set aside a piece of land, a piece of land, and let us build our own houses according to the uniform pattern they had drawn, a small two-story building with a single house.
The land belongs to the state, for them, of course, it didn't cost a penny, the state requires to solve the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers, through layers of distribution, to them it has evolved into a solution to the problem of teachers' housing land, it is really a funny and helpless decision. It's like asking you to solve a person's eating problem, you just give him a pot, and then go around claiming that you have completely solved this person's eating problem. The logic of our leaders at that time is this logic, giving you a pot will completely solve your eating problem, as for firewood, rice, oil, salt, ginger, vinegar, tea, etc., they completely ignore it, and you can solve it yourself; Giving you a piece of land will completely solve the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers, as for reinforced cement, sand, bricks and other building materials are none of my business, you love to build or not, if you don't build a house in accordance with a unified style, it will be fined; If it is not completed within the stipulated construction period, the land will be repossessed.
But such a dirty decision has changed again when it comes to our competent department, they have not officially announced this decision to all teachers at all, nor have they explained that this policy is to solve the housing problem of all local primary and secondary school teachers, but only spread it in a small area, and the key is to spread the gossip everywhere: the house specifications are very high, the cost is very expensive, and the construction period is very tight, so you don't want this land without that economic strength! If you really can't afford to build it or don't complete it within the specified construction period, the land will be repossessed.
It's a really hilarious decision. In their eyes, it seems that giving you a pot is to solve your eating problem, but you must cook it according to the style of the meal I gave you, "cook rice and cook Australian dragon", the dish is very high-end, if you can't afford to buy rice and Australian dragon, or even if you have the financial strength to borrow money to buy rice and Australian dragon everywhere, but if it is not cooked within half an hour as I specified, I will still have to take back your pot at that time.
"Hold up the bold and starve to death the cowardly", some teachers who really don't have housing can only bite the bullet, so the list of the first batch of teachers who got the land was announced, and we were teased again! Word after mouth spread through the gossip that the house specifications are very high, the cost is very expensive, and the construction period is very tight, and we, the department heads and leaders, actually have a piece of land in their hands. The point is that what makes people feel angry and hateful is not because they have a piece of land, but because three of their leaders asked for land not for themselves, but for others. A leader's land was given to his daughter who had been married to another place for many years, a leader's land was given to his nephew, and another leader actually gave the land to his elementary school classmates!
When we, the teachers who felt teased, came to their senses, everyone rushed to the leader to apply for land, but at this time, the leader's words changed again, "The land is limited, and only those who meet the conditions can apply"! Dizzy, we've been teased again! To solve the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers, which is corresponding to the country's housing reform policy at that time, that is to say, there is no problem of limited land, the housing reform must be comprehensively solved, because in the future, the state will no longer provide the allocation of housing for the housing problem of the staff, after the housing reform, all the employees of the unit who need housing only go to buy commercial housing, and the formulation of this policy is to completely solve this problem, so that the state can vigorously promote the commercialization of housing, as long as it is a regular employee of the unit, Must enjoy the state's housing reform benefits.
In this way, many of our teachers who were teased did not apply for this piece of land that should have been owned by everyone, that is to say, many of our teachers did not enjoy the last and only housing reform dividend given to us by the state, and until now, they have not enjoyed it.
The construction site suddenly became busy, at that time, as long as there is a teacher with this piece of land, almost all day long is disgraced, everyone in order to save a few small money, after class, go straight to the construction site to move bricks and carry sand and cement, and when the class is too late to wipe the face and change clothes, go straight to the podium to teach the students, only those leaders are not so disgraced, they do not need to build their own hands.
The construction site was bustling with activity, with everyone showing their talents, some borrowing money everywhere, some sponsored by parents, and soon, independent two-story buildings were erected. Although the small building is not big, it can even be said to be a pigeon cage; The distance between the left and right buildings is very small, and when you open the window and stretch out your hand, you can effortlessly get the things that the neighbors put on the windowsill on the left and right; The distance between the front and back buildings is also very small, so that the ground floor does not see sunlight all year roundγγγγγγ But everyone is very happy, after all, if you have a home, you can live in peace and be happy.
Although such a two-story building is not big, the distance between the front and back and left and right buildings is very small, and there is no greenery, but because of its neatness and self-containedness, it has naturally become a scenery in our local area. When the time came for the leaders to show their political achievements, the city TV station came and made a short film; The city newspaper also came, took a few news pictures, and waited until the next day, the city TV news channel and the front page of the city newspaper reported how the leaders of our district implemented the state's policy on how to solve the housing problem of primary and secondary school teachers, how many yuan was invested, and the teachers lived in the new building with joy!
However, they don't know the sadness and helplessness behind these self-built house teachers, let alone that there are still many teachers who do not enjoy this benefit, but this does not prevent them from continuing to report and publicize.
However, the good times did not last long, we were teased again, not long after the completion of the teacher's self-built house, just behind the teacher's homestead near the root of the mountain in a sunny place, there is a community rising from the ground, an independent two-story villa group, the building distance is several times or even more than ten times that of the teacher's community, the area is at least two or three times that of the teacher's two-story building, the green area actually accounts for half of the community area, these teachers who are jubilant have not had time to be happy for a few days, instantly like the eggplant frost beaten by the frost, completely gone!
Because these two communities are next to each other, the contrast is sharp and strong, one is a group of villas for the rich, the other is a slum for the poor, and these high-end villas are actually allocated and newly built by the leaders of our district for their own housing!
Nearly 30 years later, the two communities still stand in sharp contrast and awkwardness.