The ferry separated from the barge and turned around to head north.
"Melon seeds are a dime a packet!"
"Peanuts are a dime and a half packet!"
"Jiangcheng Evening News, Cultural News, Southern Weekend, China Television News, Modern and Ancient Legends, Novel Monthly!"
Vendors selling melon seeds and peanuts and uncles selling newspapers and magazines came up on the boat, shouting enthusiastically.
In this era, young people are eager for knowledge, and many people read books and newspapers. In a few years, Jiangcheng Morning News, Chujiang Golden News and Chujiang Metropolis News will be published, and even more people will read books and newspapers.
Every time you get off the ship, melon seed shells and peanut shells can be seen everywhere on the deck. Spitting and throwing garbage are the living habits of people in this era.
Don't be surprised.
"Grandpas and grandma!"
"Dear uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, younger brothers and sisters! I come from Hebei Province and come to your place to beg for food! The rich will support you with money, and the poor will support you with personal support!"
A familiar figure appeared in front of him, a young busker that Sun Jian had seen on the ferry many times, and a thin father. Every time he got off the ship, he could see the father and son leaning on the protrusion outside the engine room on the first floor.
While Sun Jian was sitting in his seat, cleaning up the fruits of his son's labor with a smile on his face, after the performance, he took out one penny for the first time, then two cents a few times, and then five cents.
Then he took out another dime, twenty cents, or fifty cents. If there was no place to sit, he wouldn't give him a penny. There were several groups of buskers on the ferry, all with accents from Hebei and Yu provinces.
Snap! Snap!
The young man took off his short coat and put it on the protruding platform outside the turbine, revealing his chest like a washboard. He was afraid of hitting his chest with his left and right hands! He picked up an iron ball with a diameter of three centimeters and knocked it against the iron pillar. The metal collided with a clear sound.
sound.
"I will perform a piece of hard qigong passed down from our ancestors for everyone. I put this iron ball in my mouth, swallow it, and then spit it out with one breath!"
"I'll disinfect the iron ball first!"
"Poof! Poof!"
Two mouthfuls of saliva were spat on the somewhat rusty iron ball, and a pair of small black hands spread the saliva evenly!
ha!
The boy yelled!
Stand on horseback! Tighten your belt! Open your mouth, put the iron ball into your mouth, close your mouth, stretch your neck, move your hands down, and raise your neck!
Pick up a rusty steel bar and knock it on the iron pillar, and there will be a clang!
About one meter of steel bar wrapped around the boy's neck, and he suddenly blushed and felt his neck thicken!
Snap! Snap!
Making fists with both hands and bowing, the young man stretched out his small hand to the passengers on the seat. A thin middle-aged man was holding an open cardboard box, and someone threw a few cents into it.
Snap! Snap!
The young man clenched his hands into fists, bowed, and walked to the next passenger...
In this day and age, no one will reward one yuan. The average salary of Jiangcheng cadres and workers is only about 60 yuan, and a ferry ride only costs 1.5 cents!
After going around, there was a pile of one-cent, two-cent, five-cent and dime coins and banknotes in the box.
After the passengers on the seats have been rewarded, they will come towards the standing passengers. Those who do not want to reward usually stay away or turn their backs to the two of them.
Snap! Snap!
The young man and his son walked towards Sun Jian. The young man clenched his hands into fists and bowed! He raised a pair of expectant eyes and looked at the slender and calm-looking Sun Jian.
"thanks, thanks!"
Sun Jian looked into the young man's eyes, nodded slightly with approval, and gently put down a five-cent coin. The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he bowed in thanks!
Watching the young father and son go away, Sun Jian's mentality this time was completely different from before. In the past, he was a little disgusted. In the eyes of medical students, he thought that the father and son were cheating money. Today, he admires them.
At this time, the country was still relatively poor. Food stamps and oil stamps were used to regulate the circulation of grain and oil, prices were used to regulate the purchase and storage of grain and oil, and agriculture was used to subsidize industry. There was a big difference between urban and rural areas. Rural people believed that hardship was a sign of bad birth. There were still many poor and remote areas where they encountered
When natural disasters occur, people will go hungry and have to go out to beg for food in order to survive!
Unlike in previous lives, begging has become a profession, using children, the elderly and the disabled as props in order to make money!
The father and son performed juggling for more than 150 people for nearly ten minutes and earned 2 or 3 yuan. If they perform twice a day, they can earn more than 100 yuan a month, which can support a large family and live in society.
The people at the bottom support themselves and their families with their own hands and reduce the burden on the country. They deserve respect!
Sun Jian could give them one yuan, or even ten yuan, but he would not give it.
When rice rises, rice falls against rice!
After Sun Jian gets rich, he will try his best to help those in need around him. This is his ambition after his rebirth!
Toot…
The sound of the whistle woke Sun Jian up from his thoughts. He looked up and saw the dark south bank, and the brightly lit Steel City Pier appeared in front of him. He didn't have a watch. He got off work at five o'clock and went from W Hospital to Z Hospital. He also washed his clothes. According to the weather,
Estimated, around 7:30!
Sun Jian needs to get used to not having a cell phone or a watch to tell time!
Want to buy another watch? Eighty-five yuan is too expensive. How to explain to your parents? The watch fell off?
In this era, most industrial products on the market are priced by the state, and companies have no independent pricing power.
Outside the gate of Jiangcheng Health School, smuggled electronic watches and calculators have already appeared on the market. Eight-yuan and ten-yuan electronic watches have begun to become popular among technical secondary school students.
When is the time to buy a ten-yuan electronic watch? Dr. Sun, who is used to wearing a mechanical watch worth tens of thousands of dollars, still feels embarrassed and is not used to it. He thinks it is childish and would rather not wear it!
The face is that of eighteen-year-old Sun Jian, who is young and energetic, and the mentality is that of fifty-three-year-old Professor Sun, who is wise and steady.
In this era, Jianggang's dual-income families usually have three or four children. When I was young, the conditions at home were similar. Your family ate tofu and cabbage, while my family ate cabbage and tofu. We wore patched clothes, and the eldest brother didn't laugh at the second brother!
My parents work all year round, and there is no old man to help me. They can't take care of them. The eldest child takes care of the second child, and the second child takes the third child. They are all free-range, and they go to and from school by themselves. The parents are not off work, and a group of children all have a door key hanging on their chest, lying on the ground.
You can play in the mud for more than an hour and don't go home until dark.
After the internship, his grandson's parents didn't know if he would go home this weekend. He had no way of telling his parents what time he would come back. If he didn't go home, his parents wouldn't worry.
Regardless of whether she goes home or not, Sun's mother will leave a large bowl of food for Sun Jian and cover it with the bowl to keep it warm.
In this era, Jiangcheng Health School only had one outside line, and the caller had to switch in and out through an analog program-controlled switchboard. General hospitals only had two outside lines, and the incoming and outgoing calls were manually switched.
Only the factory director's office has a telephone number in the workplace of the grandson's parents. It takes ten minutes to walk to the factory director's office from where his parents work. Sun Jian doesn't know the phone number? He has never called in his previous life. This chapter has been completed!