On October 5, Yao Yuan set out early in the morning, took the shuttle bus and then the bus to the CPPCC Building. He found a breakfast stall nearby and spent one yuan to eat a bowl of tofu curd and a fried dough stick, and then ate under the shade of a tree in front of the building.
Sit down and wait.
The price rise is obvious. In the past two years, it cost 50 cents to eat a bowl of tofu pudding and a fried dough stick. This year, it costs one yuan. After entering the 1990s, people generally feel that many things are expensive and wages are not enough.
Dual-income families also clearly feel that their expenses are increasing, but their income has not changed.
There are growing calls for higher wage standards.
Cars drove into the CPPCC compound one after another, with Santana the most, followed by 212 Jeep, and finally V31 Pajero. The latter ones are all special cars for big leaders, deputy department-level leaders and bureau-level leaders with real power. Yao Yuan saw the end
Entering the compound were two Toyota MS132s, the eighth-generation Crown. They were absolute C-class luxury cars these days, crushing the Mercedes-Benz at this time.
It was obviously a special car belonging to two big men in the city.
Yao Yuan slowly sorted out his scattered memories. From the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in the first decade of the 21st century, the Nangang area was dominated by Japanese cars. A large number of Japanese cars imported in the 1990s have survived.
It's a very big market.
Take the v31 Pajero, for example. In a few years, this car will become the absolute main force in official vehicles in the Nangang area. From city leaders to township leaders, it will be a Pajero or a Crown.
In 1993, the local automobile factory will produce a variety of Japanese, European and American cars under the ckd model. This is an excellent opportunity for Yao Yuan. It is now December 1991, and there is still more than a year left, so he must do it as soon as possible.
Complete the preliminary preparation work.
Yao Yuan took the opportunity to buy imported sugar because he didn't have much time left.
After living for nearly sixty years in two lifetimes, what he lacked most was patience. However, in this era full of opportunities, his young heart still could not calm down.
While waiting for Yu Tieli for an hour, Yao Yuan made some mental arrangements for himself. He stood up, shook his numb legs, patted his butt, and straightened his coarse work clothes.
Yu Tieli drove out in the v31, and Yao Yuan strode over to open the door and get in the car, heading to the Agricultural Bank of China five kilometers away.
"Why are you wearing the work clothes of our administration? Where did you get them?" Yu Tieli looked at Yao Yuan.
This is the work clothes of Farm Administration Bureau cadres and is not available to ordinary employees.
"I found it at the scrap station," Yao Yuan said.
"Just make up your mind." Yu Tieli shook his head and said nothing.
I found it from the old man's scrap pile. It looked quite new at the time, so I kept it. I didn't expect it to come in handy today.
When he arrived at the gate of the Agricultural Bank of China, Yao Yuan said, "Brother Yu, please wait for me for a few minutes."
"I'm not in a hurry, you should take care of your business first." Yu Tieli said, waving his hands.
Yao Yuan went straight to Gao Jian's office and said straight to the point, "President Gao."
"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you that I will notify you as soon as there is news?" Gao Jian said.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "It's not about the loan. The leaders are here for a meeting today, so I stopped by to see you. By the way, is there no problem with the collateral verification?"
Gao Jian's attention was attracted by the words "come with the leader for a meeting". He stood up and poured a cup of tea for Yao Yuan. He said with a smile, "It should be no problem, but the normal procedures are indispensable. Seven hundred thousand
It’s not a small amount of money.”
He noticed Yao Yuan's work clothes and raised his eyebrows, "Xiao Yao, are you from the Farm Administration Bureau?"
Yao Yuan smiled and did not take advantage of the situation. Instead, he said, "Of course the procedure cannot be reduced, but the same procedure may take a day, sometimes it may take a month, or even a year, right?"
Gao Jian heard the implication. Wasn't it just a word from the leader?
After chatting for a while, without finishing a cup of tea, Yao Yuan stood up, rolled up his sleeves and showed his gold watch. He looked at the time and said, "I have to take the driver to pick up the leader, Mr. Gao, I
Waiting for your good news."
Then he waved his hand and left.
"I send you."
Gao Jian sent Yao Yuan downstairs and saw with his own eyes that Yao Yuan got into the v31. When he looked at the license plate number, he suddenly took a breath. He was not ignorant. This car costs RMB 300,000 to 400,000 per unit, and there are only RMB 5,000 in the entire Nangang area.
It is a special car only provided by the bosses of large enterprises such as mines, farm administrations, and port authorities, which can affect the regional GDP every minute. This car has just been launched, and even if you have money, you can't buy it. You still need channels.
Even the mayor sat in Santana's seat.
Thinking of Yao Yuan's cadre work clothes and the gold watch that looked so valuable at first sight, Gao Jian made up his mind and said secretly, "No wonder this kid is so courageous!"
He returned to the office with his thoughts on his mind. He took out the loan contract, signed it, and went to the president to sign it.
The gold watch Yao Yuan is wearing is a fake, copper-plated, but it is not cheap. It sells for more than 100, but it is definitely not expensive jewelry. His father was awarded the May Day Model Worker in the county two years ago.
The prize was this watch. Dad kept it like a treasure, but Yao Yuan secretly took it out to make a show.
"I'm not in a hurry, I'll take you home." Yu Tieli said while smoking a cigarette and turning the steering wheel.
Yao Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Send me back to school."
"OK."
v31 arrived at the gate of NPU in a hurry. Yao Yuan insisted on getting off the car outside the gate. Yu Tieli could only listen to him and made an appointment to have a drink together in a few days. The two waved goodbye.
Xihai University of Technology was originally a mechanical engineering college directly under the Ministry of Machinery. It was later transferred to the local government and was directly under the Ministry of Education. The level of the university under the ministry has not changed. It is a top-ranked key engineering university. The administrative level of the president is one level higher than that of the mayor of Nangang.
Level, a proper deputy department.
This school is small in scale, with just over 5,000 students enrolled. In terms of difficulty of admission, it is not far behind top universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University. If Yao Yuan is not the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Xihai County, it will still be a bit difficult to get into this school.
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The reason why NPU is great is that most of the students who graduated from this school are assigned to work in national ministries and commissions. In the eyes of local people, that is "officials in the center of the imperial court" and cadres in Beijing. Only a few are relatively poor.
Only some students will be assigned to large central enterprises, large state-owned enterprises, and lower-level provinces and cities.
Although it is no longer under the Mechanical Department, and the Mechanical Department has long since ceased to exist, the brand of the school is still very strong, and it is the Whampoa Military Academy in the mechanical industry.
In his previous life, Yao Yuan was assigned to work in a research institute under a large central enterprise after graduating from this school. The unit later changed several times, and the research institute became a research center, then a research institute, and he was promoted along the way. He also became a director level from an ordinary technical researcher.
A researcher, he has billions of research funds and several national-level research projects at his disposal all year round.
In a few years, after the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities, NPU was unavoidable. In just a few years, four campuses were built, and the number of students on campus reached more than 40,000. After the distribution system disappeared in the long history of history, the school gradually declined.
It has been reduced to a second-rate industrial college and will regain its glory after 2020. Unfortunately, it will never return to its former peak.
What a pity.
Walking along the main road, the tall coconut trees on both sides grew randomly. The pictures in his memory overlapped with the pictures he saw at this time. Only then did Yao Yuan truly feel the huge gap between the times.
"Dingling bell~"
A women's bicycle came from behind. Yao Yuan leaned toward the roadside. The bicycle stopped in front of Yao Yuan. The woman riding the bicycle was wearing a sleeveless dress, a pony tail raised, a pair of white shoes under her feet, and a light yellow hat.
The straw hat had a bow on it, and Yao Yuan's eyes lit up.
The woman got out of the car and looked back and smiled.
Yao Yuan immediately stopped and stared blankly.
This is probably the feeling people get from paintings.
Lin Shuting, English teacher.
"Yao Yuan? It's really you." Lin Shuting said.
Yao Yuan calmed down and walked over, "Hello, little sister."
Lin Shuting was startled, "What did you say?"
"Little sister, you will always be the little sister in my heart." Yao Yuan said with a smile.
At the 20th anniversary party of graduation in a previous life, Lin Shuting, who was nearly fifty years old at the time, looked no different from a girl in her twenties. She was a perfect goddess of frozen age, which made all the female classmates who were already out of shape shout that God is unfair.
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Lin Shuting's face suddenly turned red. She felt that this title seemed frivolous, but it was fine in the literal sense. It felt weird. She said angrily, "Call me Teacher Lin."
"Okay, Teacher Lin." Yao Yuan smiled again. Lin Shuting was only twenty-three years old and only started working this semester.
Lin Shuting looked at Yao Yuan and asked, "Why are you wearing work clothes? This seems to be the work clothes of the Farm Administration Bureau, right?"
"Yes, I found it from the garbage dump. It's quite new." Yao Yuan said and swept away the non-existent dust on the clothes hem.
Lin Shuting was heartbroken and said, "It's quite new. Why didn't you go home? I remember your home is in Xihai."
"When I have nothing to do at home, I just go out for a walk and find something to do." Yao Yuan said casually. It was true that he came out to do something, but he didn't want to talk about his sugar business.
But to Lin Shuting's ears, it meant something else - her family had financial difficulties and she worked odd jobs to earn food expenses during the holidays. Although college students now still receive food subsidies, prices have risen sharply in the past two years, and food costs more than ten yuan a month.
The subsidy is simply not enough. In addition, Yao Yuan has to find clothes from garbage dumps, and the result is obvious.
Lin Shuting pushed the cart and Yao Yuan toward the library and asked, "We only have a few days during the vacation. What did you find to do?"
"It's nothing, so I just went back to school and planned to go to the library to read." Yao Yuan said.
Lin Shuting gently shook her thin lips and said, "How about I contact the Student Affairs Office for you and find a work-study position in the school. There should be one in the cafeteria and library."
"No, no, no, no." Yao Yuan refused quickly. He wanted to say that he was not short of money, but felt it was too high-profile, so he could only refuse abruptly, "It's really not necessary. I understand, Teacher Lin."
Lin Shuting thought it was his pride that was causing trouble, so she didn't persist and said, "Okay, if you have any difficulties, come to me anytime. I'm your teacher."
"I will definitely find you." Yao Yuan stared into Lin Shuting's eyes.
Lin Shuting was startled and looked away. Why did this student suddenly become different? His gaze was too bold. Is this still the boring gourd-like top student?
"I'm leaving first. Don't forget to go to class the day after tomorrow." Lin Shuting pushed her bicycle and rode off, feeling confused for no reason.
Yao Yuan looked at Lin Shuting's retreating back, the corners of his mouth slowly raised, and he was in a good mood. This era is so beautiful!
"Yao Yuan? Hey! Nerd!"
Accompanied by the roar of the motorcycle, the Honda men's motorcycle crossed directly in front of Yao Yuan. The driver was Chen Jiahao, wearing a floral shirt and jeans and wearing toad glasses. Sitting in the back seat was the goddess in the eyes of most boys, sophomore sister Zhang Xiaoqi.
Tights, bell-bottom trousers, and toad glasses on top of a peaked cap.
"Hey! Why is the No. 1 Scholar dressed up like this? Hey, where did you steal the Farm Administration's work clothes?" Chen Jiahao set up the car and looked Yao Yuan up and down.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "I found it in the trash."
Chen Jiahao jumped back exaggeratedly, "What? Digging it out of the trash? I said Yao Yuan, you are too embarrassing for our Western Polytechnic University! Why are you digging through the trash like a beggar?"
His voice was loud, which attracted the attention of the students who were passing by, and they all pointed in this direction.
Yao Yuan smiled slightly, without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
Zhang Xiaoqi stood there with her arms folded. Although she didn't say anything, the disgust on her face was clearly visible. She secretly cursed herself for being blind. Why did she take the initiative to write a love poem to such a person in the first place!
What a shame!
In Yao Yuan's eyes, Chen Jiahao's behavior was like that of a child who gets a toy and shows it off everywhere. He didn't take it to heart at all. He would be really stupid if he really cared about it.
He smiled and asked, "What are you doing?"
Chen Jiahao patted the seat and said, "Didn't I just buy a motorcycle? I'm taking Xiaoqi for a ride. This motorcycle today is really good, with good power and good suspension."
"Yes, motorcycles made by Honda are still good." Yao Yuan agreed.
Chen Jiahao felt uncomfortable in his heart. He imagined that when Yao Yuan saw him and Zhang Xiaoqi so close together, with a motorcycle worth more than 10,000 yuan under his crotch, he should be angry, envious, jealous and hateful. Why is he like this now?
What about the performance of "Yeah, yeah, everything you said is right"?
"This car costs more than 10,000 yuan, and even a household with 10,000 yuan cannot afford it." Chen Jiahao said with great pride.
Yao Yuan nodded slightly again, "Well, I heard you can't buy it even if you have money, you have to have connections."
"Yes, yes..." Chen Jiahao blurted out before he felt something was wrong. Hey, why did I end up agreeing with him? This script is wrong!
Yao Yuan said, "Jiahao, Xiaoqi, you guys have fun, I'm leaving first."
Looking at Yao Yao's leaving figure, Chen Jiahao suddenly felt a breath of relief in his heart, like a fist hitting cotton, it was so uncomfortable!
"Yao Yuan, wait!"
Zhang Xiaoqi suddenly caught up with him.
Yao Yuan stopped, Zhang Xiaoqi stood in front of him, glared at Chen Jiahao who was about to come over, and then stared at Yao Yuan, who also looked at her seriously.
To be fair, Zhang Xiaoqi is indeed a beauty, with a tall figure and exquisite facial features. She is an original goddess that will hardly be seen twenty years later. She is also a talented woman, and she is even sweeter with the intellectual beauty unique to this era.
"Yao Yuan, there are some things I want to make clear to you." Zhang Xiaoqi said seriously.
Yao Yuan was confused, "Huh?"
Zhang Xiaoqi said, "It's impossible for us, so don't show such a face!"