Life 1984

Chapter 53
Li Yunhai took Shen Xiulan into the Yinyuan Restaurant.

The business in the store was surprisingly good, and there were many bicycles parked at the door.

The business hours are written on the door, and they are open from [-]pm to [-]am.

Li Yunhai clicked his tongue twice, thinking that people in provincial cities really like to live overnight!

Most restaurants close at [-]pm at most.

The night market here is open until midnight.

"The food in this shop is very expensive." Shen Xiulan saw the decoration of this shop and knew that it was of high quality. She said softly, "Yunhai, let's go to Yang Yuxing to eat noodles."

She has been frugal since she was a child. She just spent ten yuan on lipstick. She felt that it was extravagant and wasteful, and she was unwilling to spend more.

"When you come to the night market, of course you want to eat something different!" After Li Yunhai finished speaking, seeing her standing still, he took her hand and came to the store to find a seat to sit down. He ordered a braised food platter and a Earthen pot spareribs soup, a spicy snail, and two fried rice noodles.

The meat and vegetables here cost one yuan each, and a bowl of fried rice noodles with eggs costs [-] cents.

Shen Xiulan shouted vigorously: "Enough! Enough! You ordered too many dishes! The food here is so expensive, it costs several yuan! Just order two bowls of fried rice noodles and that's enough!"

While waiting for the food, she asked Li Yunhai: "When will you go back to the county to work? I didn't even dare to tell my parents. If they knew that you were still self-employed by setting up a street stall in the provincial capital, they would be even more opposed to us being together. .”

Li Yunhai was silent for a moment, then said slowly but firmly: "Xiulan, I don't want to go to the machine factory to work anymore."

Shen Xiulan rested her right elbow on the table, supported her chin, looked at Li Yunhai, and said, "I know you want to stay in the provincial capital, but it's hard to find a job in the provincial capital. If I can get into the Commerce Bureau, my dad Mom has exhausted all connections. The most important thing is the policy issue, the distribution of graduates, and where to go. Unless there is a unit in the provincial capital that can hire you under special circumstances."

Li Yunhai said calmly: "Xiulan, I am not looking for an employer anymore. I want to be self-employed."

Shen Xiulan seemed to have heard some incredible news. She suddenly opened her eyes wide, put down her right hand, couldn't help but grabbed Li Yunhai's hand, and said eagerly: "No way! Yunhai, how can you stop working? You don't want to be a Are you a national worker?”

Li Yunhai turned around, held her soft and slender hand, and said: "Xiulan, look at this popular night market, and then look at this packed restaurant, what does this mean? It means that the individual economy is booming! I I just saw the sign hanging at the door of the store that the business hours have been changed to three in the morning! But the previous state-owned hotels closed at nine in the evening. What does this mean? It means that society is becoming more and more open!"

Shen Xiulan just shook her head and said anxiously: "Yunhai, those who are self-employed are all people without legitimate jobs. Don't you just want to get ahead and become a national worker by reading so many books?"

Li Yunhai patted the back of her hand and said: "Xiulan, let me tell you, even the self-employed people setting up stalls outside will become the first to get rich! A piece of clothing costs more than ten or 20 yuan in Huacheng. Money can be sold for 50 to 100 yuan in the night market here! The purchase price of the lipstick we just bought may only be a few cents!"

Shen Xiulan was stunned when she heard this. She had never done business before and had no business acumen or ideas. Her thinking and habits of buying things were still at the stage of planned distribution and state-owned sales.In state-owned stores where purchases are made with vouchers, all items are clearly marked with prices. Citizens, let alone bargaining, have to look at the salesperson's face even if they are willing to pay for something.She had never considered, how much does an item cost?How much money can you make?
Li Yunhai told her that in this era, as long as you dare to set up a street stall, you can make money and become the first to become rich.In fact, this is also true. The first people who set up stalls in Xizhou Night Market all made money. Some took advantage of the east wind to go abroad, and some held a large amount of capital and started stock trading in the 90s, entering another golden trend. .

Shen Xiulan said sincerely: "Yunhai, you can make money by working, and you can support your family. We both have jobs, just like my parents, and we can live a good life without worrying about food and clothing. No matter how much money we make, we still have What’s the use?”

In an era when houses were distributed and electrical appliances, food, oil, and bicycles had to be purchased with tickets, no matter how much money you had, you could not buy a house or a car.In Shen Xiulan's view, it is good to have enough money. No matter how much money you have, it will not be of much use.

The life Shen Xiulan wants to live is the stable life of her father's generation. Both husband and wife are state employees. They receive wages, food stamps and various receipts on time every month, and then carry the basket and push the cart to the designated grain store. Buying grain for [-] cents per catty and eating pork for [-] cents per catty a few times a month is already a happy life.

She could not imagine that within a few years, this society would undergo earth-shaking changes!
Social productivity will be further liberated, materials will be further enriched, all kinds of indispensable certificates will disappear from the stage of history, houses and cars can be purchased with tickets, workers’ iron rice bowls will no longer be iron, and the status of self-employed people will be significantly improved.People move from poverty to wealth, and people's happiness must be measured by the weight of banknotes.

Li Yunhai has experienced it all.

When a person suffers a huge setback, he will start his life from scratch.

If I had to do it again, of course I would make different choices.

Li Yunhai said excitedly: "Xiulan, this is an era of fireworks and poetry, an era of openness and tolerance, full of sentiments, an era of free and unrestrained thoughts. We are lucky to be born in this great era. In the era of peace, society has experienced more than 30 years of Haiyanheqing, and has encountered the great opportunity of reform and opening up. I don’t want to stay in that small broken factory in the county all my life. I want to break out of a broad world and make something. A career worthy of our time."

Shen Xiulan was stunned. She looked at Li Yunhai in front of her as if she didn't recognize him.

This man has become different!

He was so energetic!There is a kind of heroic spirit that is confident that in 200 years of life, one will be able to swim three thousand miles away, there is a kind of heroic spirit that even though tens of millions of people have died, there is a kind of heroic temperament that the people of Hunan dare to be the first and the first in the world!
But, but!
Not a national worker?

Is it really possible?
Shen Xiulan frowned her slender eyebrows like willow leaves, and her plump chest heaved with excitement. She could not understand Li Yunhai's idea of ​​a vast world. She only cared about the small world of two people, and said: "Yunhai, you don't have a job, you If we don’t become national workers, what will we do? My parents will definitely object to us being together! Don’t you want to be with me? "

Li Yunhai smiled slightly: "Xiulan, I did this just to be with you better. If I go back to the county to work, then you and I will be separated. The loneliest people are often not single men, but The kind of man who obviously has a wife but lives a widowed life. He obviously has a home but cannot enjoy the warmth. He obviously has a wife but cannot hold her to sleep. There is no porridge cooked in the morning, no light left in the middle of the night, and no upset. He showed no concern when he was wronged, nor was he comforted when he was wronged."

Hearing these words, Shen Xiulan felt as if she heard thunder and lightning or sudden storm. She was completely unable to react. She was shocked and helpless.She felt pity for Li Yunhai, but she couldn't imagine if Li Yunhai really stopped being a national worker and her future with him would be a good one or a disaster!
She felt like a leaf, floating on the vast ocean with huge waves, not knowing where to go?
Li Yunhai saw her hesitation and asked with a hint of uneasiness: "Xiulan, if I really become a self-employed person, don't you want to be with me anymore?"

If he dared to ask such a question, he was already prepared.

No matter what answer Shen Xiulan gives, Li Yunhai will not change his decision!
After all, you have to choose the path of life by yourself, and you have to take every step by yourself.

(End of this chapter)