Chapter Seventy-One: Communication Difficulties
Before the Chinese New Year, Ou Xiaoyang gave Wang Weidong more than a dozen catties of unknown species of marine fish, these fish are nothing to people decades later, but they are still very rare for people at that time. In particular, these fish were obtained by Ou Xiaoyang from the foreign trade department.
"Can the Black Province still be exported now?" Wang Weidong asked.
"Of course, last year, our country exported a lot of grain to the country in the north through Hei Province, and these fish were imported from that country." Ou Xiaoyang replied.
The country to the north, though vast but short of food, especially for fodder, is now slowly beginning and growing rapidly.
The Northeast is the breadbasket of the country, so a large amount of agricultural products such as corn and soybean meal are exported to the northern country through the black province.
The three of them spent the New Year in Harbin very cleanly, and there was no need to go to various homes to pay New Year's greetings and receive people who continued to visit their homes for the New Year as they did in the Xiangyang Chemical Factory.
On the second day of junior high school, the department store had opened in advance, and Wang Weidong took Chen Jihong and the two of them to go shopping.
Walking to the second floor, Wang Weidong heard the roar of motorcycles.
There are hundreds of people crowded near the motorcycle counter! One by one, they craned their necks to watch the salesman start a small motorcycle.
This small motorcycle with only 49cc is now the dream of countless young people.
Although the motorcycle is small, the sound after starting is not small, and it emits a strong smell of gasoline.
More than a hundred people drooled as they looked at the little red motorcycle.
Wang Weidong actually saw Sui Youzhi behind the crowd. Now Sui Youzhi can't see anything else at all, and he only has that plus zero motorcycle in his eyes!
Sui Youzhi looked at the red motorcycle, just like a young man looked at a Ferrari sports car decades later.
Wang Weidong was not interested in the addition of zero motorcycles, he pulled Chen Jihong and turned around and left.
If you want to die quickly, buy it with a kick! This is the concluding language of people when they look back. It is said that the first generation of people who bought motorcycles lost a lot of money within a few years.
In the evening, Wang Weidong rushed to the factory to be on duty, he locked the door inside, walked around the workshop and warehouse, and then wanted to watch TV in the office for a while, and then went to sleep.
As soon as he walked into the office, Wang Weidong heard a knock on the door.
When he walked out, he heard Ou Xiaoyang say loudly: "Weidong, open the door!" ”
"You still run around at night during the Chinese New Year, and your father doesn't scold you?" Wang Weidong said as he opened the door.
When he opened the door, he found that there was a person standing behind Ou Xiaoyang, Ou Xiaoyang's eldest brother Ou Xiaojun.
Ou Xiaoyang lifted the cloth bag in his hand, and there was a rattling sound inside.
"My brother and I have nothing to do with you for a drink at night." Ou Xiaoyang said.
The three of them walked into the office, and Ou Xiaoyang put the bottles of big green sticks in the cloth bag on the desk.
"Chief Ou has come all the way home for the New Year? You must be very busy when you get home, how did you get to me? Wang Weidong asked.
I was transferred to Shencheng for a year, and after I came back, my friends and comrades in the past must have been overwhelmed with invitations to dinner.
"It's not the section chief, it's the section chief now!" Ou Xiaoyang said with a smile.
"There are a lot of people who invite me to dinner, but it's not interesting to always brag at the dinner table, so Xiaoyang suggested that the three of them here have a casual chat together." Ou Xiaojun said with a smile.
There are also a few red sausages and a bag of fried peanuts on the desk.
Biting the cap of the beer bottle, there is no foam at all, the weather is too cold for the gas to lock in the wine and not volatilize.
Three people sat down, and one of them took a big green stick, and he looked up and killed half of the bottle.
Ou Xiaojun pinched a peanut with his hand and put it in his mouth, chewing it and said: "It seems that your small factory is not bad, and I heard that the Zhujiang brand radios produced in Guangdong Province are also selling very well." ”
"The broad masses of the people need us." Ou Xiaoyang said.
"A few months ago, our cadres went to HK to investigate," said Ou Xiaojun and took a bite of the red sausage, while Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang waited to continue.
Nowadays, there are more foreign movies, and people go to the cinema not only to watch the storyline of the movie, but also to the clothes, leather shoes, especially the telephone, television, and cars, which are reflected in the movie.
Everyone yearns for a life of good food, good clothing, a telephone, a color TV, and a car.
It took a long time for Ou Xiaojun to continue: "It's very touching, and it's overwhelming." ”
"See the radio?" Wang Weidong asked with a smile.
Ou Xiaojun didn't expect Wang Weidong to ask this question, he thought about it very seriously and replied: "We went to places like exchange banks and factories, and we didn't seem to see a radio in these places, maybe they have them at home." But life is good, the radio is an embellishment, and if you don't need it, you won't buy it, and it's not a must-have for marriage like we have here. ”
"When we get better, the radio is nothing, how many people listen to the radio if there is a TV at home? But it was still early. Ou Xiaoyang said.
"When I first arrived there, I felt that the building was really high, and when I entered the building and took the elevator, my ears were very uncomfortable, and when I sat down to talk, I felt that it was difficult to communicate." Ou Xiaojun said.
"The people there don't speak Mandarin, so of course you can't understand it." Ou Xiaoyang said.
Ou Xiaojun shook his head and said: "That's not what I said, that is, they also have difficulties in communicating in Mandarin. The ideas and concepts are completely different, and there is a bit of a donkey's lips not the horse's mouth when talking to each other. ”
He touched the clothes that were still plain on his body and said, "You see, the clothes I wear may also be worn on many people from all walks of life, and people who don't know me when they walk on the street don't know what I do." But by looking at what a person is wearing, I can roughly tell what he does, especially how much money he has! ”
Ou Xiaoyang didn't understand the meaning of the eldest brother's words, but Wang Weidong understood.
"The economy is developed there, but the gap between the rich and the poor is much wider than ours here." Wang Weidong said.
The boss lives in a luxury car in a suit, while the workers who make money for him can only live in a pigeon coop.
Ou Xiaojun must have seen this, he felt confused in his heart, and even more uncomfortable.
"I came back and heard from my mother that your factory donated 2,000 to the nursing home, and I think you two are doing a good job. At present, people's thinking and concepts have not changed, and it is still necessary to do more such things. Ou Xiaojun said.
He ignored the 1,000 yuan donated to the veteran cadre activity center.
Only by doing more such things can we calm down some people's inadaptability and hostility towards people like Wang Wei and Eastern Europe Xiaoyang.
"Only if you have money can you donate money, and if the two of us are poor, we can't do anything." Wang Weidong said in his words.
Ou Xiaojun looked at Wang Weidong with a smile, he thought about it and then nodded slightly.