Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

Saturday, the fourteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

noon.

Songshan High School.

After school, Deng Yunzhu and her fourth brother Deng Yunhua met and walked to the school parking shed together.

Although Deng Yunhua, like his second sister, was a bad student among his brothers, he still did not give up his studies due to the stimulation of his second and third brothers. He was successfully admitted to Songshan High School this year, which greatly relieved him. Take a breath.

Although his academic performance was not good and his father did not blame him too much, if he could not even go to high school, then he would really be shameless.

After all, the second sister, a college scumbag who dropped out of elementary school and returned to school, has gone to high school. No matter what, he can't be worse than the second sister, can he?

"Second aunt!"

"Fourth uncle!"

At this time, Deng Sibao from Shanggaohang Village and Deng Sida from Umeda Village were already waiting at the parking shed. When they saw Deng Yunzhu and his brother coming over, they said hello.

Every time she heard the name Second Aunt, Deng Yunzhu felt very helpless. She waved her hand feebly and said: "Let's go quickly. We won't go back to Bangjie this week. We will take the bus directly to Bobai. Let's go to the street first." Eat a bowl of noodles and then go back!"

"Oh well!"

Deng Sibao and Deng Star were not surprised when they heard this. The second aunt's family opened a big hotel in the county town. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is normal for the two of them to go to the county town to visit the Mid-Autumn Festival.

While waiting, the two of them got the bicycles out, and now they can get on the bike and leave.

Soon, they came to a noodle stall they often frequented.

Deng Yunzhu shouted directly: "Lady boss, cook us four bowls of noodles, just like before."

When the lady boss saw Deng Yunzhu, she said with a smile: "Okay, you guys sit down first, we'll be there soon."

For Deng Yunzhu, the customer, the proprietress's memory was too deep, because when this girl came to eat noodles, it cost 50 cents a bowl.

Although it is already 1985, for ordinary people, a bowl of noodles costing five cents is still too luxurious. Not many people are willing to eat like this. But this girl, who must be a student, eats like this every time she comes here. The boss lady thought It’s hard not to remember.

Soon, four bowls of noodles were cooked.

When it was served, it was steaming hot, with a layer of pork and offal on top, and a sauce plate to dip it in. The taste was really great.

They are all young people with strong digestion ability. The little breakfast they had in the morning has been digested completely. Now the four of them are hungry. As soon as the powder is served, they start eating quickly.

In less than ten minutes, you have a bowl full of powder, so comfortable!

After eating the noodles, Deng Sibao and Deng Sida rushed to pay the bill.

But with Deng Yunhua here, how could it be possible for them to foot the bill?

When he was in junior high school, due to the high living expenses and his bold personality, he was not willing to spend money. However, there were many younger brothers who followed him. He was a well-known "big brother" figure in the school. No one dared to provoke him, regardless of whether they knew his identity or not. .

Now that he is in high school, his living expenses are higher than in junior high school. Buying a few bowls of rice noodles is just a small thing for him.

Therefore, Deng Yunhua waved his hands very grandly and said: "Okay, don't argue. I'm your fourth uncle after all. Why don't you pay for a meal? I'll just give you the money." You guys should ride back quickly!”

Deng Yunzhu added: "Pay attention to safety on the road."

Deng Sibao and Deng Star looked at each other. Deng Yunhua was using seniority to suppress others, so they had no choice but to accept it.

After the two of them rode away and Deng Yunhua paid, the siblings went to the street entrance to wait for the passing car heading towards Bobai or Yulin.

While waiting for the bus, Deng Yunhua said: "Second sister, second brother has too much influence on our school. Do you feel it?"

Deng Yunzhu glanced at the fourth brother and said: "Isn't this nonsense? If it weren't for the second brother's great influence in the school, how would you have the chance to live in the teachers' dormitory now? You would have shared a dormitory with the male classmates in your class. ”

Because of last year's successful experience, when the fourth brother came to Songshan High School this year, Deng Yunzhu took him directly to the office to find the dean, and then successfully let Deng Yunhua live in the teachers' dormitory.

Deng Yunhua said: "Second sister, I know that second brother has a great influence in the school, but I didn't expect it to be so big. Our class teacher always uses him as an example. It has only been a long time since school started. I have heard him mention second brother at least thirty times. name."

Hearing this, Deng Yunzhu also sighed and said: "The second brother's name appears very frequently in our class. Not only the head teacher likes to mention it, but other teachers will also use the second brother as an example from time to time. This is the influence of Peking University students." Ah, before anyone can break the record of the second brother, it is estimated that every class of students will have to hear the name of the second brother for three years. "

Deng Yunhua said with a sad face: "Originally, it would be okay for the head teacher to mention my second brother's name, but the problem is that he already knows that my second brother and I are brothers. Every time he mentions my second brother, he looks at me with that meaningful look. It makes my scalp numb.”

Deng Yunzhu said sympathetically: "You are doing well, but now I live with our English teacher, and she always has to give me extra lessons. My head is about to explode."

At this point, the two scumbag siblings looked at each other, both of them feeling sorry for each other.

…

The next day.

Mid-Autumn Festival.

The bright moon hangs high.

Deng Shirong celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with his son, daughter-in-law, and nephews on the rooftop of Suifeng Hotel.

The table and stools were naturally brought up from the first floor of the hotel. At this time, there were grapes, apples, pears and other fruits on the table, as well as some taro and several bundles of moon cakes.

The packaging of these mooncakes is naturally not as fancy as that of later generations. There is a red square "advertising paper" stuck on the outside of the oil paper, with the words "Mid-Autumn Mooncake" and the manufacturer's name printed on it, and then tied with thick hemp rope. Mooncakes of this era.

Today’s mooncakes are classic with white sugar filling, as shown below:

It’s not that the mooncake with this stuffing is delicious. In fact, this mooncake with sugar filling is not that delicious. The reason why it is called a classic is because it is a relatively common mooncake in this era, and such as lotus paste, Moon cakes with bean paste filling are not affordable for ordinary people.

Of course, most people can't afford it, but Deng Shirong's family can certainly afford it, so the table is filled with mooncakes such as lotus paste, bean paste, five kernels, and coconut paste.

At this time, Deng Shirong was burning incense to the moon and offering sacrifices to the Moon Palace Fairy.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Bozhou is not as rich as other places. They just put taro, fruits and moon cakes, burn incense to worship the Moon Palace Fairy, then eat moon cakes to admire the moon, and reunite with their families to chat. It is considered a Mid-Autumn Festival.

There are also some urbanites who know how to enjoy themselves. Their families will bring moon cakes, fruits, soda drinks and cassette players to the park or the countryside to enjoy the moon and spend the night happily.

Deng Shirong was not very interested in this. It would be nice to take his family to admire the moon on the roof.

At most, I just want to learn from later generations and have a free barbecue on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

But this is quite a lot of work, because unlike in later generations, everything needed for barbecue is sold in supermarkets. If you want to have a barbecue in this era, you have to prepare everything yourself. When the grandchildren grow up, you can Take them to do it, forget it now, too lazy to bother.

While eating moon cakes, Bu Dashi asked: "Uncle, when Suifeng Hotel opened, you hired people to beat gongs and hold billboards all over the streets, so that everyone in the county knew that Yongjia would be here the day after tomorrow. When the supermarket opens, don’t you plan to hold a parade with gongs and billboards like before?”

Deng Shirong shook his head and said with a smile: "We didn't have a foundation here at the beginning, so the new opening of this hotel would naturally be very lively and let everyone in the county know about it. Now that we have a foundation in the county, there is no need to do this again. It’s enough to just hang the opening banner at the door and put out a few firecrackers.”

Deng Yuntai answered: "There are more than a thousand people from our Deng family. When the business opens, we will naturally tell them that if we want to buy anything, we can come here to buy it. There are also brothers over there in Xincun who will also let the clan go." If people inform us, we won’t have to worry about having no customers.”

Bu Dashi said: "That's true. There are more than a thousand tribesmen. With their leadership, the supermarket business will definitely become prosperous soon."

Liu Aihong, who was pregnant with her belly, sighed with emotion: "Uncle, this supermarket you built is so novel. Since ancient times, when customers go shopping, sellers have brought everything they need to them. Now in this supermarket, you can take whatever you like. Then I go to the cashier to pay. This is the first time I’ve heard of this way of buying things.”

In fact, there was a supermarket in Shanghai last year, but the news in this era was relatively closed. Unlike later generations when the Internet was developed, the whole world could know about anything that happened.

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "I didn't invent this. There were supermarkets like this in the United States decades ago."

Deng Yuntai couldn't help but sigh: "The United States is really powerful. I don't know when our country will catch up with others."

Deng Shirong said: "Our country is also developing rapidly now. I believe that in a few decades there will be a day when it surpasses the United States."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy. Our country is so poor now and our technology is not developed."

Deng Yuntai shook his head, looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "The United States was able to send people to the moon more than ten years ago. The gap between our country's technology and others is really too big. And our current living standards may not be as good as others’ living standards a hundred years ago!”

Deng Yunzhen was also convinced: "The United States is really powerful. It is incredible that it can send people to the moon."

Zhang Xiuping nodded and sighed: "The gap between us and others is indeed too big!"

Seeing that his sons and daughters-in-law were a little frustrated, Deng Shirong actually understood, because Chinese people in this era are very lacking in self-confidence.

Especially in the face of powerful countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union, many Chinese people feel inferior. They feel that the gap with others is too big and that it is impossible to catch up with others.

This is also the main reason why many countries have worked hard to cultivate talents who never come back once they go abroad. Compared with those who have made great achievements abroad but want to come back to serve the motherland, such people are really different. Like a clown.

Deng Shirong, who has experienced later generations, is naturally full of confidence in the motherland. The great achievements made by the motherland in more than 40 years of reform and opening up have attracted the attention of the whole world.

However, in our country, this is not called a rise, but a revival.

Thinking of some inspiring words from later generations, Deng Shirong took it and said: "Don't be so pessimistic. Our Chinese nation has a long history of five thousand years and has been standing on top of the world since ancient times.

Five thousand years ago, we faced the same flood as the Egyptians.

Four thousand years ago, we played with bronze just like the ancient Babylonians.

Three thousand years ago, we thought about philosophy just like the Greeks did.

Two thousand years ago, we were fighting wars just like the Romans.

A thousand years ago we were as rich as the Arabs.

Now, our country is undergoing reform and opening up, and its development can be said to be changing with each passing day. Sooner or later, we will be able to compete with the United States.

So, for the past five thousand years, we have been playing chess on the world's chessboard, but our opponents have changed several rounds. "

As soon as these words came out, many students at the scene didn't understand what they meant, but they felt that they were so awesome.

Deng Yunsong, a top student, immediately understood the meaning of his father's words. He clapped his legs with excitement and said, "Dad, you summed it up so well. You are absolutely right. Our country has always been leading the world." , it was only because of the incompetence of the Qing government that it was humiliated for nearly a hundred years.

But now we have stood up again, and the millennium has arrived, and the country will surely usher in a great renaissance, and it will definitely not be worse than the United States. "

Deng Yuntai was also a high school student after all, and he quickly understood the meaning of his father's words, and was equally excited.

Immediately afterwards, Deng Yunzhen, Zhang Xiuping, Deng Yunzhu, Deng Yunhua and others also figured it out one after another, and it was like being injected with chicken blood.

It can be said that anyone who has feelings for our country will be excited when hearing such inspiring words.

Only Bu Dashi, Liu Aihong, Chen Bangguo, Chen Bangli, Chen Bangfeng and others looked at each other. They could hear that their uncle (uncle) was saying that the Chinese nation has been awesome since ancient times, but they did not understand the examples that their uncle (uncle) gave. .

I saw my old cousins ​​discussing this matter excitedly, but as a result they couldn't connect a single sentence. For the first time, I regretted why I didn't study hard in the first place...

…

In a blink of an eye, the National Day of 1985 is here.

This day is a happy day for the opening of Yongjia Supermarket.

Early in the morning, after casually eating a bowl of noodles at a noodle stall, Deng Shirong and his daughter-in-law came over to prepare for the opening, instructing supermarket employees to hang the banners they had prepared before from the third floor one by one.

After hanging the banners, the employees got into their positions and were ready to welcome customers to the door.

At the same time, the firecrackers are also ready. Just wait for the auspicious time to set off the firecrackers and announce the official opening of the supermarket.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Nayedeng clan members who had received the news in advance also rushed over.

Although they don't know what a supermarket is yet, this is the clan leader's business, so of course they have to come over to praise and boost the popularity.

It has to be said that people have a herd mentality. With the arrival of thousands of people from the Naye Deng clan, the entrance of Suifeng Hotel was bustling with people. Coupled with the red banner hanging from the third floor, it was natural that people would follow the crowd. Attracting those who pass by here.

When these passers-by came closer and took a look, they found that the hanging banners read:

"Tenglong Passenger Transport Company warmly congratulates Yongjia Supermarket on its successful opening and business is booming!"

"Deng's Real Estate warmly congratulates Yongjia Supermarket on its successful opening, bringing wealth from all directions!"

"Sanye Xincun warmly congratulates Yongjia Supermarket on its successful opening and its abundant financial resources!"

"Yongjia Supermarket is the first self-selected shopping mall in our county. There are more than a thousand products in the store with clearly marked prices, so you can pick and choose."

"You can get whatever you want. All products are open to customers. If you are not satisfied, you can exchange them at any time without looking at anyone's face."

“It’s a whole new shopping experience, and everyone who’s tried it says it’s good.”

"..."

Looking at these banners, the curiosity of passers-by was aroused!

At 8:18, with the sound of firecrackers, Deng Shirong announced the official opening of Yongjia Supermarket.

As a result, the curious passers-by followed the crowd upstairs, and one of them was He Lanying who came out to exercise.

After going up to the second floor, what came into view was a dazzling array of products. Sure enough, as the banner said, there were at least a thousand kinds of products. He Lanying entered the supermarket through the door with the entrance written on it with great interest.

"Welcome, this is the shopping basket of our supermarket. Customers who need it can pick one up and put the products they are satisfied with into the shopping basket. This is more convenient!"

After hearing the introduction from the supermarket employees, the customers who entered the supermarket took a shopping basket out of curiosity, and then walked towards the rows of shelves filled with products.

He Lanying was naturally one of them. She followed the signs to the food area with her shopping basket. There were no noodles at home. She originally planned to buy some noodles after exercising. Since she accidentally entered this supermarket, let's take a look at the noodles here. What price was it sold for?

If the price is right, just buy it here.

Soon, He Lanying came to the shelf dedicated to noodles. She looked at the bundles of noodles with different thicknesses and weights. The prices were posted on the shelves. She nodded repeatedly. The prices were clearly marked on the bundles of noodles. How much it costs is clearly written on it.

He Lanying chose a kind of noodles that she often eats at home. Seeing that the price was a little cheaper than usual, she happily took a few bundles and put them in the shopping basket.

Immediately, he wandered around the food area and other areas.

"Hey, this canned fruit is quite cheap. I bought it!"

"Hey, these biscuits are also cheaper than other places. I bought them!"

"Tsk, this toothpaste is also good. I don't seem to have much at home, so I bought it!"

"...I bought it!"

When He Lanying entered the supermarket, it was like Zhu Bajie returning to Gao Laozhuang. What a freedom!

Various products were clearly marked with prices and she could choose whatever she wanted. She didn't need to look at the impatient look on the salesperson's face. It was her first time experiencing the joy of shopping and she couldn't stop at all.

I don’t know how long it took, but when He Lanying picked another product and planned to put it in the shopping basket, she realized that the shopping basket was full!

So, He Lanying happily went to the checkout counter with her full harvest.

There, there was already a queue. Fortunately, there were ten people at the cashier counter, so we didn’t have to wait too long. After only queuing for two minutes, it was He Lanying’s turn!

Take out each item from the shopping basket. Those who need to be weighed will have a dedicated person responsible for weighing them. Those who do not need to be weighed will directly calculate the price. In less than a minute, the lady in charge of the checkout will use a calculator to calculate the price. The total price of the product.

After He Lanying paid, the cashier girl took out a plastic bag, put all the goods she purchased, and then handed it to her.

It is now 1985. Although plastic bags are not as widely used as in later generations, residents in the county have basically seen or used them, so it is not unusual to see plastic bags, but it is a little surprising. Yongjia Supermarkets also provide free plastic bags to customers.

He Lanying walked out of the supermarket with a large bag full of items. When she went downstairs, she gradually came back to her senses. She just wanted to go into the supermarket to see the excitement. At most, she just bought a bunch of noodles and went back. She really never thought about buying them. Something else.

As a result, I bought a big bag full of it and went back...

At this moment, if He Lanying knew how to use the language of later generations, she would definitely say - this supermarket is poisonous!

However, He Lanying is not the first customer to have such feelings, nor is she the last.

After entering the supermarket and enjoying this unfettered shopping experience, customers who originally just wanted to come in to watch the excitement or just want to buy a needle or a box of matches couldn't help but start making purchases and unknowingly filled their shopping baskets. full.

When he came out after paying the bill and calmed down, he smiled bitterly.

Not to mention these normal customers, even those members of the Deng clan who originally came just to show off to the leader of the clan, couldn't help but start shopping after entering the supermarket. The attraction of free shopping in supermarkets to people of this generation is really It's too big.

As time goes by, more and more customers come after hearing the news.

As soon as these customers entered the supermarket, they had a strange feeling. It felt great to be able to make their own purchases without having to go through others. This was an experience they had never had before as a customer thousands of times.

So, as if the goods in the supermarket are free, they stuffed them into the shopping basket one by one.

There were actually long queues at all ten checkout counters. The business was so booming that Deng Yuntai, Zhang Xiuping, Deng Yunzhen and others were dumbfounded.

Even Deng Shirong, who was mentally prepared, was shocked by the spending power of customers.

Before the morning was over, some shelves were emptied by customers. Deng Yuntai immediately led his employees to restock the shelves.

At this time, the role of the warehouse on the third floor is revealed.

Because the larger the purchase quantity, the cheaper the price, so when the supermarket opened this time, with the financial support from his father, Deng Yuntai's purchase volume increased. Now the third floor is stacked with various goods worth hundreds of thousands. There is no need to worry about running out of goods within a certain period of time.