Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 189 Business in the 80s

In Nanluogu Lane, there is an alley in front of the courtyard. As He Yuzhu walked home, he saw farmers selling vegetables and fruits on both sides of the alley. Most of these vegetables were home-cooked dishes, such as radishes, leeks, cabbage, cabbage, potatoes and so on. The fruits are also seasonal fruits.

But the quantity was large, and now the people of Sijiucheng finally had something to eat.

You may not know that just a year ago, people in Sijiucheng were facing a vegetable shortage. What is a vegetable shortage? It means there is no food to eat. The shelves of hundreds of vegetable shops in the city are empty. Sometimes there are only some potatoes and onions on the counter. , pumpkins for sale.

It’s rare to see cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes in season.The number of fresh vegetables on the market every day has dropped from 600 million jins in the middle of the year to less than 300 million jins. Excluding losses, each citizen can still eat less than half a jin of vegetables every day.

Moreover, this kind of vegetable shortage is getting more and more serious. In August and September, the average daily amount of vegetables on the market was nearly 200 million kilograms less than the normal demand.

Especially in late August, about 8 million kilograms of vegetables were put on the market every day in the suburbs, which was only one-third of the market demand.

At that time, the shelves of hundreds of vegetable shops across the city were empty.

Every morning or evening, people line up in front of vegetable shops waiting to buy vegetables. Occasionally, baskets of eggplants, beans, winter melons, cabbages and other fresh vegetables are brought in, and they are all snatched up.

What's especially hard is for "double-income earners" who don't have time to queue up to buy groceries.They reported that sometimes they couldn't buy any fresh vegetables for a week.

A decision was quickly made from above, which was to further open the city gates and give the green light without affecting traffic and city appearance, so as to provide convenience for vegetable farmers to enter Beijing.

Specifically, from May 5 of that year, vehicles, including cars and tractors, transporting vegetables into the city from the suburbs of this city and from other places can enter Beijing with vegetables, and no longer require proof of entry into the city from other places.

In this way, a large number of farmers can go to the city, and then a large number of vegetables can go directly to the city.

"Buy some, they are all top quality radishes."

"Little green vegetables, little green vegetables, three for a handful."

"Comrade, look at these tomatoes, they were picked just this morning."

He Yuzhu walked all the way, listening to the voices of the vendors on both sides, with a slight smile on his face. When He Yuzhu just walked into the courtyard, he saw the third uncle doing his own flowers and plants. The third uncle Yan Bugui has retired and is now working He wants to live a long life, but this Yanbu noble man has an old heart, and he still wants to continue doing it.

No, after seeing He Yuzhu, Yan Bugui immediately came up and said, "Zhuzhu, please let me go to your store to help."

The restaurant Yan Bugui was talking about was a private restaurant opened by He Yuzhu, specializing in Tan's cuisine. Ma Hua, Yu Haiyang and Yang Zhuangzhuang were in charge of it. After this private restaurant opened, it was very popular. After all, after it was opened, everyone was interested in it. Eating and drinking are all taken care of.

The food used to be terrible, but Tan's cuisine emphasizes luxury, and now it's open for business, so anyone who wants to discuss business likes to take it to He Yuzhu's private restaurant.

If you don't go to He Yuyu's private restaurant for a meal when discussing business, then you will be embarrassed to say that your business is big business.

And He Yuzhu is also a kind-hearted person. He invites many people from the courtyard to help in his private restaurant. He is paid 80 yuan a month, and the leftovers can also be taken home. Oops. This is a particularly good one. The salary, ten yuan a day in [-] was really a lot.

The third aunt and the first aunt are all in He Yuzhu's private restaurant, and Yan Bugui also wants to enter, so that he and his wife can earn [-] a month. This is Yan Bugui's dream.

"Third uncle, why are you here again?" He Yuzhu showed a wry smile: "I have already recruited the third aunt, and I can't recruit you anymore. You said that you are also a person who is looking after your old age. Your three sons and one daughter are all I’ll give you monthly living allowance, so why are you still taking this class?”

"Zhuzi, Zhuzi, I have nothing to do at home. I know you are kind-hearted, so just arrange for a man to work for me. I heard from my old lady that there is a job looking after the icehouse, which costs 300 yuan a month. I'm here to show you. If you don't see well, you can resign. If I succeed, you will kill me." Yan Bugui directly held He Yuzhu's hand firmly. If He Yuzhu didn't agree, he would Unwilling to let He Yuzhu go, He Yuzhu laughed speechlessly and could only nod his head and said: "Okay, okay, you go and try it!"

"Hey!" Yan Bugui immediately became happy when He Yuzhu agreed.

At the same time, two more people walked into the courtyard. Both of them were wearing suits and leather shoes, and each had a toad mirror on their face.

Hey, this is the standard outfit for businessmen in the 80s, and this toad mirror was made popular by a TV series.

In the 80s, there were very few homes with TV sets in Sijiucheng. Usually, if a home had a TV, neighbors would come to watch it and bring their own benches and chairs.A room full of people sat together, watching TV and discussing, having a great time.

I have to say that the relationship between neighbors at that time was really good, unlike now where people living on the same doorstep never interact with each other.

It was also in this year that a science fiction drama "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" quietly appeared on the TV screen every Thursday night after the 8 o'clock news broadcast without any publicity notice.

This made the audience feel very fresh. After all, it was the first time they saw "foreigners", especially "foreigners from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean". This aroused people's collective curiosity and desire to explore.

Therefore, although looking back now, the show has rough graphics and clichéd stories, at the time, it created a sensation that attracted thousands of people to watch it.

At that time, those young people who could not hide their love for beauty often needed a pair of bell-bottom pants, a tight floral shirt, and a pair of toad sunglasses, which were almost considered "standard equipment". If you add a "double speaker" A tape recorder, that basically counts as "working together".

But at that time, wearing bell bottoms and toad glasses to "swagger around the market" in such a dress was not accepted by everyone. Often "serious people" would judge young people dressed in this way as "backward youths" and "backward elements" need to be saved and inspired by "advanced youth" with upright faces.

That’s why old ladies with small feet went around the streets wielding scissors to hunt down bell-bottoms and confiscated toad glasses.Now that I think about it, it’s a joke.

Of course, businessmen cannot wear bell-bottom pants and tape recorders. They basically wear suits and leather shoes, but they must bring toad glasses. At this time, the two businessmen who walked into the courtyard were none other than Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao.What needs to be explained here is that Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong have now restored their relationship as good friends. Of course, their relationship as good friends is only based on business.

Xu Damao is no longer the deputy director of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. Just two years ago, Director Li committed a crime and fell directly. However, Director Li is very powerful. He has his father-in-law protecting him. Although he committed a crime, he was not surprised. Came down without any danger.

As soon as Director Li came down, Xu Damao could only follow him in despair. There was nothing about He Yuzhu here, so there was no direct conflict between He Yuzhu and Xu Damao.

However, later He Yuzhu also left the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, and then started his own business. First, He Yuzhu's seed frying workshop was built, and the movie theaters in the 80s have been revived.

Especially children are very obsessed with movies.

The movies that children at that time liked to watch most were not only martial arts movies, but also war movies and spy movies.After dinner every day, I finish my homework hurriedly, and then several children will meet and run out to play.

It's pitiful to say that Sijiu City is only so big, and there are too few places to play, not to mention entertainment projects. It can be said that there is no choice except the auditorium or the cinema.

In the 80s, the price of a movie ticket was only two cents. After buying the movie ticket, the only thing to do was to buy some sunflower seeds, peanuts and other things to eat. Therefore, the speculation business was very good at that time.

With a daily turnover of over a thousand yuan, He Yuzhu started his first business. After the first business started, He Yuzhu started his second business.

That's He's private kitchen.

You have to know that planning controls were relaxed overnight in the 80s, and the government began to relax restrictions on the private economy and self-employed people. The demand of ordinary people also increased, but the supply was insufficient. It was an era of economic shortage that you don’t quite understand. It’s called a seller’s market. , as long as you have the goods, you don’t have to worry about selling.

So it seemed like overnight, everyone started doing business.

Those who had no money started to set up street stalls, and those who had money started to do reselling.

At the beginning, the most popular items for resale were TV sets, especially color TV sets. In those days when there were no set-top boxes or remote controls, changing channels was all about turning a button, which could only receive 8 channels at most.

The TV signal is very weak, so a receiving antenna must be installed outdoors.

A wooden pole about 5 or 6 meters high has a metal aluminum grate fixed on the top, and a special wire is pulled into the house to connect to the TV.Some people use "fishbone antennas" made of copper sticks. What's more, they can also use cans to make their own antennas. There are all kinds of antennas.The image on the TV in the house was unstable and appeared intermittently. It was often snowflakes accompanied by noise. It was really scary to see the critical moment.

At this time, someone needs to go outside and keep turning the antenna. People in the house look at the TV and shout "Turn! Turn!"

When the weather is bad, it's stormy outside, let alone the signal, so in the past, you had to check the weather to watch TV.It is precisely because of this rarity that those days when there is TV to watch are even more impressive. Classic films such as "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic", "Slave Girl", "Volleyball Players" and "Blood Doubt" have become the memories of a generation.

Although there are not many program channels, I always enjoy watching them when I sit in front of the TV.

The most annoying thing is Tuesday afternoon, from 1 to 6 o'clock, because icons of various colors appear on all channels due to maintenance.

So TVs are really very profitable. As long as you have a TV, you don’t have to worry about selling it, and you don’t have to worry about not having money to make money. Of course, in addition to TVs, toad mirrors, electronic watches, bell-bottom pants, and steel, Coal, etc. Some people have these, and some people collect them.

There is a saying that goes, out of a billion people, [-] million are down, and there are [-] million still looking for it.

Originally, this was a good thing, because it could revitalize the economy. However, sometimes good intentions can also lead to bad things. There were too many commodities that were liberalized, and the state-owned enterprises were unable to control and control the goods necessary to stabilize the market and stabilize prices. For products, the status of the main channel has declined; and there are many branches of government, each working independently, no distinction between politics and business, blurring identities, too many, too many, and too many companies, which inevitably leads to problems with irregularities in business behavior, scope, and price. It can even lead to counterfeiting, violations of law and discipline, and chaos.

Issuing short invoices, buying short and selling short; buying and selling; some materials are not stored, invoices are changed hands many times, and the invoices are overpriced at every level, driving up prices, making huge profits, selling inferior goods, harming the interests of consumers; some are offering bribes, accepting bribes, unfair distribution, and seeking personal gain. Disrupt the economic order and breed corruption.

Some criminals take advantage of the overheating economy, the sharp contradiction between supply and demand, and the huge disparity between planned prices and market prices to engage in power-for-money transactions, take advantage of the dual-track price system, and sometimes sell low-priced goods on the market. , and sometimes turn the goods in the market into cheap goods. Through this "evaluation to negotiation" or "negotiation to negotiation", they profit from it, make a lot of money, and become a nouveau riche.

The businessmen who are suddenly springing up now are all because of this reason. Of course, this kind of thing will not last forever. Soon, the higher authorities will safeguard fairness as soon as possible, and the lawbreakers will be punished one by one. Catch, but as long as you stop in time, there will still be many nouveau riche.

He Yuzhu used this time to open a private restaurant for those who wanted to discuss business. Not to mention it became an instant hit and became the most popular place to discuss business in Sijiu City.

He Yuzhu has become a successful businessman. He makes money just by staying at home every day. This scene also aroused the envy, jealousy and hatred of Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong. Then the whole city went to sea. Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong also happened to come down from the Red Star Steel Rolling Plant. Now that they have no jobs, they have devoted themselves to business in the city.

These two people are still lucky. The first business they did was the coal business. Not to mention, after the two of them cooperated, they really made some money, at least 4 to [-] yuan.

At this time, the two of them were completely interested in business. Every day, each of them wore a black suit and went out with a toad mirror to talk to people about business. However, to be honest, the money now is really too much. It's easy to make money. Basically anyone with some brains can make money. As long as you don't mess around, you will definitely gain something.

As Liu Haizhong became richer and richer, his sons came back with licking their faces and wanted to live with Liu Haizhong.

After the two of them entered the door, Xu Damao smiled slightly, and then he saw some people coming in behind him. Each of these people carried a color TV box in their hands. After Yan Bugui saw it, he was very surprised and asked: "Da Mao. Do you want to buy it?" Color TV?”

"Haha...!" Liu Haizhong laughed loudly: "Da Mao and I each have one. Third uncle, please come to my house to watch color TV when you have time. The programs on color TV and black and white TV are different."

(End of this chapter)