Chapter 1: Back to 1984
Bumpy trail, 6 green leather bus on.
A man in an army green backpack and a coarse linen uniform fell asleep with his eyes closed.
A conductor in an army green hat shouted in a loud voice.
"I've arrived at the department store in front, and those who haven't bought tickets should hurry up and make up for the tickets, and the bookkeepers will hand over the security guards to me!"
"Hey, buddy, don't sleep, hurry up, do you want to hit the security guard or pay the money?"
In a burst of shouting, Sun Zhi woke up with hazy eyes.
He almost slept again, and after more than a month of overtime to catch up with the schedule, he was already physically and mentally exhausted, and he even suspected that he was going to die suddenly.
"It's time for the International Trade Center, isn't it?" He rubbed his eyes, and suddenly realized that everything in front of him was gone.
The original clean and bright No. 313 double-decker bus has become dilapidated at this time, and the passenger lady who wears headphones and stockings on weekdays and shows her long legs has now become a group of big sisters wearing green uniforms or colorful clothes, and there are large and small burdens on the ground, and even - and green onions?
He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen something wrong.
"Guomao? What Guomao? In front is a department store. ”
Looking out the window, it was completely different from what he remembered.
The original traffic was busy, and the Gaoqiao overpass has now turned into a country road, with potholes on both sides of the road, crowded with all kinds of small carts, with all kinds of agricultural and sideline products, sweet potatoes, potatoes, green onions, beans -
After so many years of drifting north, it was the first time he saw this kind of scene, and he even wondered if he had taken the wrong car and came to the film and television base?
"Hurry up, either pay the money, make a slip, or get out!"
"Pay the money, I'll pay the money!"
Sun Zhi hurriedly took out the green bag and took out a fifty yuan sheet from it.
But in the next second, he was even more stunned.
The 50 yuan pattern in front of me has become the Yellow River Estuary Waterfall, which is the previous generation of RMB issued in 1980!
In a hurry, he handed over the money to the conductor, and at this moment, the eyes of all the passengers on the bus instantly stared at him.
These people looked at him with the same gaze.
"Grass, take the bus with fifty yuan, are you showing off your wealth with me here?"
"Let me tell you, the person I look down on the most is people like you, who have two great money, right?"
Immediately afterwards, the passengers present also began to point their fingers secretly and discuss with Sun Zhi.
Fifty bucks? Rich? How do you think about it, why don't you take sides?
Only then did he see a few large words sprayed with white paint next to the driver's seat: 1 point for fare.
Penny on the bus?
What kind of price is this?
"Dude, I really don't have any change, or you can find change?"
"I can't find it!"
The conductor stared at the fifty dollars.
"Then forget it, don't look for it."
He said it lightly, and then the audience was even more sensational.
"Don't look for it?"
"That's fifty dollars!"
The conductor's eyes widened, "You're not kidding me?" ”
Sun Zhi shook his head and said with a blank face: "Isn't it just fifty yuan, if you can't find it, forget it, just ask for a ticket for the whole car." ”
"You don't have to talk without remorse!"
"No repentance."
When the words fell, the conductor instantly changed his face, and immediately became flattering from the disdain just now, and said: "This big brother, we are all regular bus companies, and this money will not be charged to you in vain, so that the fifty yuan will be your permanent ticket, and you will take the sixth road in the future, forever free, we will not take advantage of you, what do you think?" ”
Sun Zhi waved his hand, looking at the eyes around him, and the surprised expression of the conductor, he realized that this was not a film and television base.
He was born again.
As can be seen from the slogan on the bus stop along the way, it is 1984, and he is on the bus in 1984.
As he guessed, after a month of overtime, he finally died suddenly on the bus, but miraculously, he was reborn in 1984, Sun Zhi with the same name and surname as himself.
A large number of memories flooded into his mind, and he learned about Sun Zhi's life.
Sun Zhi, a candy factory worker, and his daughter-in-law, a laid-off female worker in a textile factory, have also laid off workers in this prospect of economic turmoil. After being unemployed for more than a month, Sun Zhi planned to go to the city to join the second uncle's family who was doing business, and did odd jobs to subsidize the family, and was a typical honest person.
"Brother, the fare of our bus is a penny, so how much is a pound of pork now?"
"Pork? That thing is precious, there is a food shortage this year, pork has to be almost two cents a catty, and our family has not opened meat for half a year. ”
The conductor was excited, with the fifty yuan, according to the current market price, he was about to buy a few old sows, you know, his monthly salary is only more than two yuan, and fifty yuan is enough for his salary for two years. The surrounding passengers looked at the conductor with envy, and he hurriedly put the money in his pocket, for fear that someone would rob him when he got off the train.
You know, the security here is not good, and there are a lot of petty thefts.
After Sun Zhi listened, a smile of joy appeared on his face.
In his bag, there were 50,000 yuan.
The 50,000 yuan was originally a kickback for Party A's project manager in the morning, but I didn't expect to die on the bus, and the 50,000 yuan was exchanged for the old version of RMB in the same denomination.
In the era when pork cost two cents a pound, what could you do with 50,000 yuan?
Now he can't say that he is the richest man in the village, right?
He naturally understands the truth that wealth is not exposed, and the reason for the generous shot at the beginning is because he doesn't understand the current situation, if he reveals the money now, he can't guarantee whether there will be people in the car who will target him and kill people and goods.
When he got off the bus, the conductor clenched his hands tightly, looking excited and tears in his eyes.
"Big brother, my name is Wang Xiaocong, I am an employee of the public group, I live in the princess's grave, you will know as soon as you ask, if there is anything, look for me at any time, my brother must be in front of the saddle!"
At that time, there were no mobile phones, and even pagers were not popular, so everyone could basically only report their own homes.
After getting off the bus.
He followed the address on the note to the department store.
Sun Zhi has a second uncle, who is his father's younger brother, who went to work in the city more than ten years ago and met a woman in the city.
With the help of a rich woman, he rented a counter in a department store, sold leather shoes, and earned the money of those 'high-end people'.
Leather shoes are a luxury in this era, a casual pair costs one or two yuan, and the more expensive ones even cost five or six yuan a pair, and the monthly salary of ordinary people is not enough to buy a pair of shoes. The people who deal with him are basically the middle class of society, and the middle class who can't earn thirty or twenty yuan a month dare not enter the door.
When he got to the door, he saw a fat woman through the window, and a man was spitting down.