Hello 1983

What if the bank turns yellow one day?

So, with some savings, it is safer to hide at home.

Everyone's philosophy is the same, no wonder the bank is relatively deserted.

In fact, it is not right to say that it is deserted. There is a small table at the entrance of the bank, and there is actually a tape recorder on the table.

Liu Qingshan listened attentively, he was calling on the general public to make deposits actively.

After getting closer, I found that there was a billboard standing in front of the table, with a cartoon drawn on it: in the middle was a big hen with the words "saving" written on it.

A few people walked in through the chicken's mouth holding banknotes; when they came out from behind, they held large items such as TV sets, washing machines, and tape recorders in their arms.

This bank also engages in false propaganda. Looking at the three gleaming items, people really have the urge to save.

Liu Qingshan led his grandfather in, facing a row of windows with iron bars, only a few customers were handling business there.

It was also the first time for Liu Qingshan to enter a bank in this era, and everything he saw was new.

There was no need to queue at all, and he found a free window to go up to, and looked into the counter, Liu Qingshan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

I saw an old craftsman sitting in the window, wearing a blue hat common in this era, with sleeves on his arms, and some coins, bills, ink pad boxes and so on.

Besides, there is an old abacus!

"Little comrade, save some money?"

The old master wearing flower glasses asked kindly.

Only then did Liu Qingshan look away, nodded, and silently took out three bundles of banknotes from the canvas bag.

At present, more than 500 yuan is considered a large amount of savings.

The old master couldn't help but take another look at this half-sized boy. These days, there are really not many people who can take out thousands of dollars at once.

Judging by his clothes, he is a countryman, but he looks very handsome, especially his eyes, which are very energetic.

The old master said in a slow voice: "Little comrade, do you want to live or die?"

The time of death is fixed.

"current."

Liu Qingshan replied without hesitation.

This money has to be spent one after another, and of course it cannot be deposited for a fixed period.

The master smiled: "Little comrade, if you are not in a hurry to spend, it is better to deposit a regular deposit. Now the annual deposit is fixed, and the interest rate is 11.5. Do you know what it is?"

11.5, isn't that a lot of money, so high?

Liu Qingshan was really shocked.

In other words, if he saves the 3000 yuan for a year, the interest alone will be several hundred, which is really enough to buy a TV.

But let's bear with it for now. Apart from treating his grandfather's illness, buying a dowry for his eldest sister, and improving his family's life, this money is also his start-up fund, so he can't lie in the bank and eat interest.

Liu Qingshan first deposited [-], and the passbook was in the name of his grandfather.

On the one hand, it is to respect grandpa, on the other hand, it is also because Liu Qingshan has not hand poked yet.

The hand stamp is a personal badge, made of plexiglass, with your own name engraved on the front.

At that time, there was no ID card, and a hand stamp represented my identity.

For example, when the production team distributes grain, collects grain for sale, and goes to the post office and credit union to handle business, they all need to be stamped with their hands.

If the post office remittance does not have a hand stamp, it will not be received at all.

Liu Qingshan encountered such a thing once when he was in college, and was finally forced to give up. He made a temporary stamp with a rubber, and then took out the money.

After the deposit was completed and the passbook was placed close to the old man, the two of them walked out of the bank in peace.

At the entrance of the bank, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but twitched his lips when he saw the cartoon of "the hen gets off the TV" just now: This advertisement is really not a fool.

Chapter 13 The Big World and the Big Things

The two left the bank and looked at the sun. It was almost noon.

Liu Qingshan looked around and couldn't help saying: "Master, the Agricultural University is in front, and Grandpa Wang's house seems to be nearby."

"Then go and see Lao Wang first, staying in a hotel is always a bit uneasy." Liu Shikui suggested.

You said that if you have no money and are light, you don’t worry about sleeping on the side of the road, but you don’t live in peace if you have money.

As he was walking, Liu Shikui suddenly remembered: "Qingshan, buy two bottles of good wine for your Grandpa Wang, he likes to have a drink."

It's not very polite to come to the door empty-handed, and Liu Qingshan can't go to a regular state-run store. Now he has money, but no tickets.

Right now it’s still a planned economy. You need tickets for what you buy. Meat tickets are needed to buy meat, grain tickets are used to buy food, cigarette tickets are needed to buy cigarettes, and industrial vouchers are needed to buy big items such as bicycles.

Even to buy a box of matches, you have to use a match ticket.

Fortunately, in the past two years, it has become a little more relaxed. With a small number of individual private businesses, you can buy some things without a ticket, but the price is a little higher.

Therefore, there was the theory of parity and bargaining at that time.

After finally buying two bottles of Laobaigan, and going back to get some mountain products, the father and father arrived at the gate of the Agricultural University.

After that Professor Wang returned to the city, he was rehired by the school and continued to exert his residual heat.

After inquiring about it with the guard, I went around to the family building of the Agricultural University behind the university. According to the house number, I finally found Professor Wang who lived on the third floor.

At that time, there were no iron-clad anti-theft doors, but wooden doors.

After knocking a few times and creaking, the door was pushed open, and a hale and hearty old man appeared in front of him, with his hair scrunch back and a pair of reading glasses.

This person is Professor Wang. I haven't seen him for a few years, and he looks a few years younger than in the village.

Professor Wang looked at Liu Qingshan in front of him, and asked with some doubts: "Which department are you a student from, and you didn't go home during the summer vacation?"

"Pharaoh!"

The grandfather behind heard the voice and couldn't help shouting.

Liu Qingshan hurriedly moved to the side, and Professor Wang on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned into surprise, and said loudly: "Old Liu!"

Two old people who add up to more than a hundred years old hug each other tightly.

Tears flashed in Professor Wang's eyes, and he kept patting Liu Shikui's back: "Old Liu, Lao Liu, it's great that you can come. In my dream, I often go back to Jiapigou, and I often see fellow villagers." what about them?"

This is definitely an expression of true feelings. The farmers are simple. When Professor Wang and his wife were sent down, they were often helped by the villagers.

Although they are not expensive things, a few eggs and a basket of vegetables are heart-warming.

Friends in need are the most precious!

A pair of old friends made out for a while, and then they separated. Professor Wang looked at Liu Qingshan and said with a smile: "You are a little boy, haha, you have grown up, be good!"

"Hello, Grandpa Wang!" Liu Qingshan also called out affectionately. When he was young, he often listened to stories told by this Grandpa Wang.

Moreover, learning a foreign language is still an excuse from him.

Entering the room, the furnishings are simple and solemn: two artificial leather single sofas, a coffee table in the middle, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers in the room.

There is a wall clock on the wall, and a picture of red plums, with branches like a twig, and the red plums are in full bloom. Liu Qingshan looked at the inscriptions and seals, and it turned out to be Guan Shanyue's work.

Sitting on the sofa, Professor Wang's wife, also wearing an apron, came out of the kitchen to say hello, with the same happy face.

Calling grandma, Liu Qingshan sent the mountain goods he brought into the kitchen.

His eyes lit up when he saw a few milky white egg shells in the garbage basket.

Grandma Wang also followed into the kitchen: "Grandpa Wang, you always tell me that you want to eat the mushrooms and fungus from Jiapigou."

"Grandma, life is better now than in the past two years. From now on, I will give you gifts every year."

Liu Qingshan knew that Grandma Wang was a kind and kind old lady, so she didn't care about her at all.

After chatting about the situation in the village and at home, Liu Qingshan asked: "Grandma Wang, you are eating foreign eggs. I should have brought some native eggs from home for you."

The so-called foreign eggs are the name for the eggs laid by the farmed laying hens at that time, so as to distinguish them from the native eggs in the countryside.

Grandma Wang said as she arranged the food, "It's your grandpa Wang's school that has introduced a batch of laying hens. They say they have high egg production and are planning to promote them."

Well, Liu Qingshan knew it well, and happily helped the old lady pick vegetables.

In the living room, the two old men were also having a heated conversation. Professor Wang was also very happy to learn that Jiapigou also divided the land into households last year, and everyone's motivation was mobilized.

Then, he became concerned about Liu Shikui's eyes again, and he was even happier when he learned that this time he was here to treat eye diseases.

"Xiao Shanzi has been filial since he was a child. In the afternoon, I'll help you contact the hospital. Old man, our country is getting better and better. You have to keep your eyes open and watch carefully."

At this time, Liu Qingshan came out of the kitchen, took a hot water bottle to refill the water for the two old people, and said by the way: "Grandpa Wang, I met a friend yesterday, and he said he introduced him to the general hospital of the factory."

"Oh, that's even better. The level of medical care at the factory is higher than that in the city." Professor Wang was even happier when he heard that.

The topic quickly turned to Liu Qingshan. After answering some questions from Professor Wang, Liu Qingshan asked: "Grandpa Wang, just now grandma said that your school has newly introduced laying hens, and my family is also trying to raise chickens. , if it is raised well, it will be promoted in Jiapigou."

Professor Wang looked at the young man cheerfully. Unexpectedly, a child in the village was quite knowledgeable.

You know, most of the farmers these days don't have this kind of awareness. In their concept, it is to plant one-third of an acre of land at home, raise ten or eight chickens, and exchange some money for oil and salt.

This kind of good thing must be supported. Professor Wang nodded without hesitation, and agreed: "When you and grandpa go back, I will bring a batch of chicks and catch two breeder chickens for you."

There are also breeder chickens, which are really equivalent to the hen holding the golden egg.

Liu Qingshan, who was overjoyed, followed up and asked: "Grandpa Wang, does your school have any books on plastic greenhouses? I still want to do this."

He is not a big man and has a lot of ambitions, which is also a good thing, and he must be supported. Professor Wang nodded again.

"Also, Grandpa Wang, we have a lot of depressions in Jiapigou. We have planted crops, but the harvest is also poor. I wonder if we can change the dry fields into paddy fields and try planting rice, but we also lack technical support."

Liu Qingshan is really not polite, one question after another.

Professor Wang also became more surprised the more he listened, and finally pointed at Liu Qingshan and said with a smile: "Good boy, you are not here to see me, an old man, but to search my house!"

Let's talk, let's laugh, let's do business.

Professor Wang stopped treating Liu Qingshan as a big boy, and asked him to move a bench to sit beside him, and then said, "Xiao Shanzi, these ideas of yours are very good. The chairman said back then that the world is vast and there is a lot to do."

Liu Qingshan nodded and echoed: "Yes, Grandpa Wang, our country has reformed and opened up now, the city has changed a lot, and the development of the countryside must also keep up."

"The main business and the side business must be done together, especially the side business. If it is done well, the big guy's life will be more and more prosperous."

"Haha, you kid, you don't want to be the village party secretary of Jiapigou, right? This theory sounds like a set." Professor Wang couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard that.

Then, he looked at Liu Shikui enviously: "Old Liu, there are successors in your family."

Of course, the grandfather is also happy with his beard. As an old man, the happiest thing is that the offspring will have a future, but he has to be modest: "Xiao Shanzi just graduated from junior high school this year, and I don't know if he can be admitted to high school."

Professor Wang said without hesitation: "Look at this kid's cleverness, he must be fine."

Liu Qingshan hurriedly climbed up the pole: "It's not because Grandpa Wang taught me well back then, laying a good foundation for me."

Hearing this, Liu Shikui also got excited: "It's no big deal, old Wang, if you hadn't taught Xiao Shanzi to speak English back then, how could this kid speak foreign languages? No, this morning, he even rescued a foreign guest." .”

Then, he narrated the matter roughly, which made Professor Wang speechless again and again, but he was also a little bit haunted.

I taught this child English back then. I remember teaching Chinese Pinyin?

Well, I guess I forgot it over the years. As soon as this person gets old, his memory starts to decline.

Professor Wang made up his mind, and looked at Liu Qingshan with a closer look: After all, he is still half a student.

Liu Qingshan was also very happy in his heart: This time it is considered a complete comeback.

Only to hear Professor Wang go on to say: "Chicken raising and greenhouses are fine. As for the rice planting you mentioned, our school has not yet launched this subject."

"Because the growth cycle of rice is relatively long, there are many difficulties in growing rice in the cold region of Northeast China."

Professor Wang pondered for a while, and then added: "However, in the past few years, the dry-culture and sparse planting technology of rice has been done very well. Especially the old Xu and Xu Yirong in Heilongjiang Province are experts in this field."

"At that time, I will write you a letter of introduction. If you are free, you can ask Mr. Xu for advice."

Xu Yirong!

Hearing this name, Liu Qingshan couldn't help being in awe.As the saying goes: Longping in the south and Rong in the north.

Mr. Xu is an expert of rice in cold regions, but his reputation is not obvious. As people say: out of a hundred people who eat rice, 99 may not know who Xu Yirong is; There will be 99 people who know Xu Yirong!

For such an old expert, Liu Qingshan is really in awe, because he really eats the rice made by others.

"Okay, okay, let's talk later, let's eat first." Grandma Wang came out of the kitchen, her mouth open.

Liu Qingshan quickly got up and stood aside, helping to serve the dishes from the kitchen.