Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 195 Build the best video hall

Yu Ping is a very miserable boy. He is Yu Haitang’s youngest brother. Unlike his eldest brother Yu Haitang, this boy did not have a good time. Just when he was about to go to high school, he encountered the problem of sending students to the countryside. .

Following Yu Ping as the youngest son in the family, he went to the countryside.

To be honest, people like Yu Ping who were born in the 60s and caught up with the 70s are really a lucky but unfortunate generation.

When Yu Ping first entered high school, he was originally preparing to take the college entrance examination, but suddenly there were no colleges and all students had to go to rural areas to study. Yu Ping was just 17 years old that year.

The Sixth Red Guard Team of Huancheng Commune, Ruichang County, JX Province joined the team and settled in. Yu Ping and 12 other male and female educated youths formed a student class with a production team as a unit. They lived in a two-person room in a warehouse converted from adobe bricks and opened a warehouse collectively. One person was left behind for three days to carry water, cook rice, and feed the pigs.

In normal times, farm work such as growing vegetables on the private land, going up the mountain to chop firewood, carrying grain and milling rice, etc., are done together as a group, or individually, everyone shares the work points.

The way to learn from rural people is to teach by words and deeds. Students participate in the production and labor of rural villages, share the joys and sorrows with rural people, and become a labor force in the village. The village appoints an old farmer who is proficient in agricultural production and has strong labor skills to serve as our tutor. Provide help and guidance.

In the 70s, the situation in rural areas was "poor and desolate". There was no electricity, kerosene lamps were used for lighting at night, traffic was blocked, and there were no bicycles. The production conditions were extremely backward. Farming and planting crops relied entirely on manual labor on the shoulders and hands, and productivity was extremely low. Face Huang Shi and turn your back to the sky, fighting against heaven and earth for revolution.

The value of daily labor is calculated based on the maximum labor score evaluation standard of 10 points, which is about RMB 5 cents. More than 300 days of work a year, annual income does not exceed 150 yuan, meager income, lack of supplies, lack of medical care, food and clothing Quite poor, with extremely basic housing, food and transportation.

This is suffering. Looking back now, it is indeed suffering.

About ten years ago, this trend of going to rural areas to study began to stop. When students had the hope of returning to the city, they tried every means to leave the countryside. Some methods were reasonable, some were absurd, and some were pathetic. !

In the spring of 78, the authorities relaxed the conditions for students going to the countryside to return to the city due to health reasons and family difficulties. It was clearly stipulated that only children could return to the city, and those with multiple children sent to the countryside could take care of one of them back to the city.

At that time, most families had many children, and there were not many educated youths who met the conditions for returning to the city. But after all, the situation had been loosened, indicating that returning to the city was no longer a taboo, so many students actively looked for alternatives, and the most direct one was to get medical treatment and retire.

A student suffered a fracture while doing farm work. In order to return to the city, he took the fracture film to the doctor and said that he could not walk. The doctor knew that he had recovered and originally did not want to take care of it, but the student had a strong desire to return to the city. He refused to walk in the hospital and lay in the corridor. He said he had severe fracture sequelae and could not move at all. In the end, the doctor had no choice but to allow him to withdraw from the hospital.

In addition to those who use "special conditions" to achieve their goals, there are also some students who are willing to harm themselves in order to get medical treatment, such as scraping off match heads and eating them.

The matches at that time contained red phosphorus, which would cause serious stomach damage after being eaten. However, the effect of this serious injury was important. The person was taken to the hospital for rescue. The locals were afraid of an accident and did not dare to stay any longer, so they had to agree to return to the city.

Of course, sacrificing lifelong health for the opportunity to return home is not worth the gain in some people's eyes, so they choose a gentler method of struggle.

Some people wear only a single coat in the middle of winter and stand outside blowing the cold wind until they are hospitalized for several months. They also do heavy physical work during the day, such as carrying sacks, plowing fields, and planting rice. They do whatever they are tired of, and then force themselves not to sleep at night. Finally, He was so tired that he urinated blood. When the villagers saw that these people were too cruel, they were afraid of losing their lives and had no choice but to send them back sick.

People who don't have the guts to harm themselves can only find something wrong with themselves, and then try to improve themselves infinitely, hoping to gain sympathy from above.

There was a student who was tall, healthy, and seldom got sick. He wanted to go back to the city for medical treatment, but after much thought, the only problem with his "unsatisfactory" body was bedwetting when he was a child.

Someone with some medical knowledge gave some advice: "The professional term for bedwetting is enuresis. It is also a disease and cannot be diagnosed."

With this sentence, the student's wish to return to the city was fulfilled.

He went to the hospital and told the doctor about his problems. The doctor didn't want to talk to him, but he couldn't stand the educated youth's sweet talk and took some gifts. Finally, the doctor wrote a medical record for him and he returned home smoothly.

A 1.8-meter tall young man said that he still wets the bed. This is something that hurts his self-esteem. Even if it is false, it is difficult to say it out loud. But in order to go home, face and dignity are not important at all.

When students returned to the city back then, besides quitting or pretending to be sick, there was another way to take their place.

Some students' parents work in enterprises and institutions. Once retirement creates a vacancy, their children can go to work in their institutions.

However, it is an ideal situation for one to retire and the other to take over. In most families with many children, parents retire in sequence, so it often leaves parents in a dilemma as to who should take over first. The mother of a male student has reached retirement age. Since she has two children at home, the mother is going to give the replacement spot to her sister first. Because her sister is already 30 years old and is still in the country and has not been married. If she waits any longer, she will become an old girl, which may be delayed for a lifetime.

But the male student's girlfriend is unwilling. She has been waiting in the city for several years and is in her 20s. If the male educated youth cannot come back to replace his mother this time, he will have to wait for his father to retire, and his father is still 7 or 8 years away from retirement. After [-] years, it was unrealistic to ask his girlfriend to wait for such a long time. Later, the male student told his parents that if he was not allowed to go back, he would definitely blow off with his girlfriend, and he would not be able to live without his girlfriend. The parents were afraid that their son would commit suicide, so together they could only let their father retire early, and the two children took up two positions and returned to the city.

For most students, having no emotional debt in the countryside and being able to replace their parents and return to the city is considered good luck. A considerable number of educated youths have an emotional debt when they go to the countryside.

In the 90s, there was a very influential TV series "Debt", which told the story of a group of Shanghai students who joined the queue at a farm in Yunnan and returned to the city. Many of them gave birth to their children in the countryside.

According to the return-to-urban policy back then, students who got married in the countryside were not allowed to return to the city. Therefore, some students who had started families and started careers in the countryside succumbed to the temptation of returning to the city and resolutely severed ties with their poor wives in the countryside and abandoned their wives and children.

Xiao Liu, a student from Shanghai, once jumped in the queue in Jiangxi. He fell in love with a local girl. This girl was beautiful, hard-working, simple, and had all the qualities of a perfect wife.

But when the wave of students returning began, the relationship between the two changed. Xiao Liu hoped to go home, and their love would end in vain.

Before leaving, Xiao Liu had dinner at the girl's house. The girl's father said: "Whether two people are destined or not, God has the final say. Xiao Liu is leaving. If you are really destined, you will meet again in the future. If there is no fate, that's it. Bar."

Decades later, it became popular among students to return to the places where they went to the countryside. They called it their "second hometown." Many students who joined Xiao Liu in the past returned, but Xiao Liu did not go. I want to know how the girl is doing, but I also understand that people can go back, but their hearts can't go back, and everything is no longer what it was before.

For students, returning to the city is only the first step to change their personal destiny. How should they start their lives after returning to the big city?

This is an important question that has to be thought about.

How should these students make up for the ten years of blankness in the city? And now they have caught up with the spring breeze of opening up. The originally closed city has become very different. Now small businesses and all kinds of new things have begun to open in the city. Constantly impacting the city.

Disco, ballroom dancing, toad mirrors, bell-bottom pants, video recorders. There were so many things that these students had not seen in ten years, which made these students who had just returned to the city dumbfounded.

When Yu Ping came back, the housing situation at home was not tight, but Yu Ping's work had not been implemented, because Yu Ping was already married at this time, and he came back with his wife, and his wife was a gangster, so Yu Ping In order to solve the job placement problem as soon as possible, Ping visited the resettlement office for students returning to the city again and again. The people there refused to let Yu Ping enter their office several times because they saw that Yu Ping was wearing shabby clothes.
In particular, a person named Director Li would always close the door to his office every time he saw Yu Ping. Yu Ping had been depressed so many times because of this.
Later, Yu Ping stopped smoking and drinking. He paid 200 yuan behind his wife's back and quietly went to Director Li to make a confession. Director Li patted Yu Ping on the shoulder and said, "You will still cause trouble!"

Half a year later, Yu Ping's job was confirmed. Yu Ping was assigned to work at Xinhua Bookstore not far from home, with a monthly salary of less than 50 yuan. Yu Ping's wife was still a gangster, working in a snack bar.

This was some time ago, when Yu Ping and his wife had a child. In order to register their future children, Yu Haitang found He Yuzhu and told him about his younger brother. This made He Yuzhu very angry. He didn't understand why Yu Haitang Haitang would not have told herself these things earlier.

Yu Haitang said that this was her father and mother's idea, because the Yu family's parents felt that the eldest son of their family was already too troublesome to He Yuzhu. If they bothered He Yuzhu again with the matter of their youngest son, and He Yuzhu was also very busy, so there was no need. Too focused on family matters.

Soon, He Yuzhu worked hard and solved the problem of Yu Ping's wife's illegal account in less than two days. This is a kind of unequal ability. Yu Ping tried his best to do something, but he couldn't do it at all. There is no ability to do it, but for He Yuzhu, this matter is just a matter of ease.

At this time, Yu Ping also began to admire and be grateful to He Yuzhu. He Yuzhu talked about opening a video hall today. Yu Ping immediately seized this opportunity and offered to show He Yuzhu the door, because Yu Ping believed that he could show it to He Yuzhu. The door is better than the job in my hands now.

Sure enough, after Yu Ping finished speaking, several people from the Yan family started fighting. Fortunately, He Yuzhu smiled and told everyone that everyone had a share and there was no need to fight.

He Yuzhu looked at everyone with a smile and said: "We are all related, so I will be more generous to you. I won't let you show me the door, so I will pay for you to rent a house and provide a video recorder. Video tape, and you hire people, I will give you a basic salary of [-] months, and then I will give you [-]%.

In addition to your basic salary, if you earn one thousand a day, you will get a share of two hundred, and if you earn one hundred, you will get a share of twenty. "

“Ouch.!

Brother Zhuzhu, becoming a brother-in-law with you will make me laugh out of my dreams, so you can rest assured. Yu Li and I will run the video hall well and I promise not to let you down. "

Yan Jiecheng was the first to happily raise his glass to He Yuzhu.

"Me too!" Yan Jiefang followed his brother and said hehely: "Brother Zhuzi, don't worry, our family will definitely follow you. As long as you say a word, we can do anything you ask us to do."

"exactly!"

Yan Jiefang's words caused everyone present to nod in unison.

He Yuzhu also laughed, and that's it. He Yuzhu started to open a video parlor. In fact, it is not that difficult to open a video parlor. You only need to go to the cultural department to apply for a cultural business license, and then go to the health department to apply for a health license, and then bring Just take these things and go to the industrial and commercial department to apply for a business license.

He Yuzhu got four houses in one go.

Yu Ping and his wife's family, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li's family, Yan Jiecheng and his wife's family, and there is another family that He Yuyu wants. She wants to show it to the younger brothers and sisters of Zhang Zhiping's family.

He Yuzhu agreed without saying anything.

He Yuzhu's video studio is different from other video studios. The video studio that impressed me most in the 80s, apart from the audio tapes, was the video studio.

The equipment of this kind of video hall is extremely simple. It doesn't matter how big or small the house is, as long as it is close to the street. The inside is even simpler. It only needs a table that can hold a 14-inch color TV and a video recorder. Of course, there is also an audience seat. They were all small stools with no numbers. Whoever came in could grab them, and those who couldn't grab them had to stand and watch.

He Yuzhu's video room has the largest color TV, and the benches are all custom-made sofas. It is also divided into a non-smoking area and a couples area, which is completely incomparable with these garbage video rooms.

In other video halls, the house is narrow and dark. On a hot day, the whole room smells of sweat plus some indescribable weird smells. There is no toilet in the video hall. The only way to solve the problem is to use an earthen urn half buried in the soil in the backyard. inside.

The worst and most interesting thing in the video room is that everyone has to stand to watch the video, because everyone else is standing, and you have to do the same. People who are short can only see the TV through the gap between their heads in the front.

That's not watching videos, that's looking for trouble. He Yuzhu wants to create a comfortable environment for watching videos, and he also wants to make his own place a high-end place, not to compare with those low-level video halls.

Therefore, He Yuzhu invested nearly 10 yuan in his own video hall in the early stage. With such investment, the video hall created is definitely the best. This is where He Yuzhu is most confident.

(End of this chapter)