I wait for you to see through the scenery

At Zhou Yao's age at that time, he didn't have a deeper understanding of the wave after wave of nonsense that Tang Zheng threw at him.He felt that Tang Zheng was just jealous, so you were just jealous that Jiajia was nice to me.

Within two days, Chen Jia's dysentery passed away, his body recovered, and he quickly recovered his rough nature of not eating oil and salt, and not eating hard or soft food.

The group of people still returned to the previous state of eating, drinking and messing around, engaging in "big series" under the nose of the teacher in class, and playing football, playing cards, watching videos and buying snacks after school.In addition, Zhou Yao helped Chen Jia make up all the homework that was missed for a week despite his frequent dislike.

When Zhou Yao came back from school, he often had a scar on his face and a bruise on his leg. When he asked, he said that he was too crazy to play football at school and hit his head on the goal frame.

"Did you play football?" His father rarely noticed, and asked him quietly, "Didn't some classmates bully you?"

"How can it be!" Zhou Yao smiled nonchalantly, "Who would bully me? Who would dare?"

"That's right, it's enough to have a few good friends in school who can help each other." His father nodded.

This is the truth, Zhou Yao made two very close friends at school, one is Chen Jia and the other is Tang Zheng.Who dares to bully him?It's not bad for the three of them to dig a pit and bury someone else without a partnership.

Every time he practiced between classes, he would wander downstairs with Chen Jia, walk out of the teaching building, and walk onto the playground.After the exercise, follow the rhythm of "March of Athletes", and then walk back to the corridor...

He remembered and asked, "Have you bought a refrigerator?"

Chen Jia said, "Not yet, I'm going to buy it."

Zhou Yao asked: "Is it difficult to buy a refrigerator?"

Zhou Yao really didn't care about how to buy household appliances like refrigerators before.Chen Jia told him: "I heard from my mother that two days ago, their department allocated a ticket for the refrigerator, but she was unlucky and didn't get a ticket."

"It's just a matter of luck?" Zhou Yao exclaimed.

"My mother always loses when she plays mahjong at my grandma's house. She has always been unlucky and can't draw good cards." Chen Jia complained helplessly.

"Let me draw for my aunt! I'm very lucky!" Zhou Yao is optimistic, "My grandfather plays mahjong, and he always let me sit with him at the table, let me help him move the cards, and say that I am a boy The army is full of yang, and my hands are strong!"

If Zhou Yao's family buys a refrigerator, do they need industrial coupons or other receipts?No need.After all, after entering the 90s, the supply of industrial products was released, and the supply of goods in the market was abundant.For those who have enough money in their pockets, you can spend your own money to buy them in the electrical stores in the city; for those with some connections, you can get tickets through your connections and buy the more high-end brands you fancy.

A certain amount of industrial vouchers are also issued in the factory every year, and the administrative department distributes them to various departments and workshops.Sometimes, one core is allotted one electronic ticket, but dozens of people are eagerly waiting for the lottery!Domestic big brands and large home appliances are all ticket-based. If you want to buy imported brands, it is even more difficult. You need to buy them from places like the "Service Department for Overseas Personnel".

Zhou Yao's family will not be short of tickets.Zhou Yao heard it at home last time. The union chairman, Mr. Cai, and his wife, came to visit their house after the year, and said to his parents, "I have a ticket here. I will give you a ticket for the refrigerator."

The union chairman and his wife happened to be the deputy chief of the administrative department in the factory.

The official is not big, but useful.It is useful to be stuck in this kind of small job. I have a bunch of various industrial vouchers, commodity vouchers, and policy indicators in the unit in my hand, and I can send them to whoever I want.It can be used to improve the quality of life of one's own family, and can also be used to supplement relatives. Of course, it can also be used to dredge relationships and make friends.

However, Qu Liandi was unlucky and unwilling to beg for help, so she didn't get the refrigerator ticket.

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On the weekend of that week, Zhou Yao came to the small alley of the South Barracks again, just because he was on business, and he was still carrying a small black square nylon bag.

Carrying this small black bag in his hand is like a cadre in the unit who goes to the countryside for inspection, and walking around with his hands behind his back will make him more cadre-like.In Chen Jia's words: "Zhou Yao, you are always pretending to be a fake, just pretend and make yourself look old."

He happily came all the way to offer treasures, but Chen Jia was not at home.Qu Liandi was at home and greeted him warmly.Zhou Yao grinned grinningly: "No...it's fine, I'll play with Chen Jia."

Qu Liandi pointed swiftly: "Tang Zheng's house is in the courtyard next door, you go and look for him!"

Zhou Yao said in his heart, shit... it's very nourishing, you kid.

Turning the corner at the entrance of the alley, on the side of the street where people come and go, Zhou Yao saw those two people.Chen Jia and Tang Zheng probably collected a lot of cardboard, or large-sized paper packaging boxes for electrical appliances and furniture from the nearby Hutong area, and then folded and flattened all the packaging boxes, and tied them into bundles. Bundles, loaded on tricycles.

Chen Jia took off all his sweaters and didn't think it was too cold, so he put on a slightly old white turtleneck autumn jacket, exhaling a lot of white air.It must have been washed too many times, the white autumn clothes are no longer pure white, and the cuffs are frayed.

"Hey, what are you two doing?" Zhou Yao hurried over and asked.

Maybe it was quite an accident to meet Zhou Yao again, Chen Jia rolled his eyes, didn't you see it?

Chen Jia looked away and said, "Sell these for money."

A small mountain was piled up on the flatbed truck, and the pile of waste paper shells in Tang Zheng's house was estimated to have accumulated for a long time, and they were bundled up and sold at once.Then, one of the two people pedaled a tricycle, and the other helped push it with difficulty behind, and went to the public waste collection station a few stops away.

Zhou Yao immediately turned to the back of the cart and helped push the cart.

Tang Zheng was riding on the tricycle, looked back, and was extremely disgusted: "Oh, Zhou Yao, don't push, you can't push, you stand aside!"

"Why don't you just push a cart," Zhou Yao said, "I can push it."

Tang Zheng pedaled all the way and turned around to hurt him: "Look at your young master wearing a leather jacket, it's clean, how can you push a tricycle? You are the one who should take a car!"

Zhou Yao: "Oh."

Tang Zheng said: "At the very least, you should also ride a motorcycle to visit our alley, right? Let those of us who ride three wheels keep their eyes open."

Zhou Yao turned his head and whispered to Chen Jia: "Look at how narrow-minded he is, didn't I just wear a leather jacket with a fur collar! What's wrong with me?"

Chen Jia couldn't help laughing: "He's just narrow-minded, don't bother with him."

Tang Zheng heard it all, turned around and pointed at the two of them viciously, hum.

Zhou Yao stared at the profile of Chen Jia's head buried in the cart all the way, and suddenly realized that someone wearing a high-necked autumn jacket can be very handsome, especially stylish.

The temperament of "fan'er" is exclusive to an era, and boys are particularly concerned about it, but not everyone can have it, it's innate.For example, the members of the Black Panther band who sang "A Place to Shame", on the cover of the cassette, have long hair, wear jeans, and don't smile. They are very stylish, and young people rush to imitate them.The two bums at the door of the video store on the street also have long hair like the Black Panthers, and tight jeans, like two upside-down mop strips, and the low-rise pants can't cover them. The big flower pants, dregs dripping from the hair, very rustic.

The administrator of the waste toll station didn't have a good attitude towards them: "Two cents each."

Tang Zheng frowned immediately: "Isn't it fifty cents each? It's still fifty cents each!"

"It's only two cents... This cardboard, how can it be fifty cents..." The other party muttered.

"Such a big box, it's just, should, should, five, ten, and money, what are you trying to do to me?" Tang Zheng asked coldly, "Do you think I don't know the price?"

The other party just looked at them as students and thought they didn't understand prices.Chen Jia leaned on the tricycle with one hand, tilted his head and said, "You give fifty cents when others come, why should you give us twenty cents?"

"Success," Chen Jia stared at the other party, "Then we'll wait here and see how much you can buy someone else's today, and see who else comes."

Chen Jian's eyes clearly meant that you made me unable to do this business, so let's stay here and see who else dares to come today, and see who else you can do business with.

Tang Zheng was still sitting on the seat of the tricycle, holding a chain lock wrapped in plastic skin in his hand, knocking on the metal handlebar one by one.

The people at the waste collection station looked at Chen Jia and Tang Zheng's eyes up and down, their expressions were not quite right, who are they...

It is absolutely true to say that three-year-olds look old and seven-year-olds look old.The other party guessed from this moment that the boys from the alley in front of them will definitely not be kind in the future and cannot be provoked.

Zhou Yao took a good look at the situation, and hurried over to sing a blush: "Oh, uncle, you can count it as fifty cents for us. We are so tired after pushing us all the way here. If we don't give enough money, we will definitely not be willing to leave. Let's all go. I won’t go back!…You can search everywhere and sell these things. You can earn a few cents each. My uncle also does this. I know you can make some money if you sell them. Don’t fool us Kid!... How much do you earn every month? In addition to your salary, you can also earn extra, at least a hundred or tens of dollars more? You can also drive a bus to go out, just this car, you A 'Golden Cup'..."

The staff at the scrap yard had Zhou Yao scolding them, and they were about to be called bald.Why does this boy talk so much, why can't he keep his mouth shut!

Could Uncle Zhou Yao do this?Collect waste?

Not at all.

His uncle resigned from the factory at that time, and started dumping industrial waste and tertiary products, which is what the saying goes.The things they searched for ranged from machine tool parts to scrap steel, and then to wood from forest farms in Northeast China. Those things were much more valuable and made a lot of money, but the principle was the same as collecting waste products to make money.These days, the three religions and nine streams are all the same way to make money.

The people at the waste station counted the number of paper shells, bypassed Chen Jia and Tang Zheng, and gave Zhou Yao a large amount of ten-cent bills, and hurriedly sent them away. They really didn't want to take a second look at the two bad boys—the eyes were so terrified that they lied.

Sometimes Chen Jia looks at people with creepy eyes.Of course, he looked at outsiders with one kind of eyes, but when he looked at Zhou Yao, he consciously switched to another kind of eyes.

Zhou Yao handed over the money to Chen Jia, and Chen Jia gave all the money to Tang Zheng.

"Oh, you just...helped him work for nothing?!" Zhou Yao stared.

"En." Chen Jia nodded, what do you think?

"Then I, am I helping you with the work for nothing?" Zhou Yao said.

"Then I have to treat you to something?" Chen Jia asked back.

Zhou Yao was speechless.

Chen Jia smiled coolly, and stretched out her arms to wrap his arms around him: "Would you like some popsicles, please?"

"..."

"Forget it, forget it, you don't need a treat, I'll buy it myself."

"I'll take it. Which do you want? A snowman or a pair of sticks?"

"You bought it for me, and I bought another one for you?"

"Is there something wrong with you?"

"Then you buy double sticks, double sticks! Break apart and eat one stick!" Zhou Yao said.

Chen Jia obediently bought a pair of sticks, one for each of them.

Tang Zheng rode a flatbed bike on the road with great fanfare, and had already ridden back. "You don't invite Tang Zheng to eat..." Zhou Yao glanced at the other party.

"There are no three sticks to sell." Chen Jia gave him five words, and his mind was as simple as that.

Zhou Yao was amused.

Yes, there are only two sticks, so why not sell three sticks?

It wasn't that Tang Zheng was being narrow-minded, it was him who was being narrow-minded. The "double sticks" can only be him and Chen Jia.

This is how people interact with each other. Threesomes, "three", is a relatively sensitive number.If two people play friends, the brothers are good and there is no conflict.If there are four or five people, the relationship with each other will be weaker, and there will be no major conflicts when everyone plays together.Even if there are three people, there will always be two people who are attracted to each other and have a closer relationship, while the other person feels alienated and seems to be rejected.

Zhou Yao was particularly concerned about whether he would be alienated and rejected by those two people, because Chen Jia and Tang Zheng were indeed poor little cabbages struggling to grow up in the trenches; while he himself always seemed to be a big carrot sticking out from the opposite hill. seedlings.Everyone originally lived on different hills, but he was bewitched by the rebellious psychology of young people, the pursuit of brotherhood in his youth, or simply because he was strongly attracted by the boy Chen Jia, so he desperately wanted to attack the opposite hill. I can't wait to put a flagpole on top of Chen Jia's head, with the word "Zhou" hanging on it!

Not to mention that the boy doesn't care about this, but he also cares about it. What he thinks about all day long is "who in the class gets married with whom" or "who doesn't get married with whom"!One acre of land in front of them is just such a big deal, otherwise they can still care about reform and opening up, social progress, and national affairs?

Walking in the alley with Zhou Yao in his arms, Chen Jia took the initiative to say, "Tang Zheng has been staring at you and talking hurtfully recently, and he feels a little uncomfortable with you."

"What happened to me?" Zhou Yao was immediately displeased.

Chen Jia hesitated for a moment, and then told the truth: "Last time you had an accident in the factory and you were burned by high-pressure steam... His father was punished, and three months' money was deducted."

"Ah?!" Zhou Yao really didn't know this happened.

No one talked to him about it, and it seems that it has nothing to do with him. In short, someone recited a negligence and lax internal handling of AWOL for this trivial matter. Fortunately, no major losses were caused, but three months were still deducted. bonus allowance.

And this person happened to be Tang Zheng's father, Tang Xuebing, who was a watchman in the first workshop. He was not very popular at ordinary times. He was on duty by ringing the bell at the back door of the factory every day, and earned a small amount of money every month.This person was sloppy at work, smoked, drank, was distracted and absent from work, so he was demerited.Just because he is an old man in the factory and holds the iron rice bowl of a regular employee, he cannot be fired casually.

In the words of Tang Zheng's private complaints: Anyone can just stay where they are honestly, why should Zhou Yao go to our factory and make a fuss?He should just go in and out in a car, who let him walk in on two legs?Can he be regarded as a member of our factory? !

Zhou Yao pouted, muttered a few words, and kicked under the wall of the alley.

He lowered his head and said, "Then I'm quite sorry for them, did you deduct their money?"

"It's okay, don't be as knowledgeable as him." Chen Jia smiled instead, and pressed his forehead hard, "It's like that in their house, they deduct 30 yuan a month, and they have no money to buy sesame oil and rice! No Fa'er compares with your family.

"I helped him collect waste paper shells and glass bottles for a few days, and sell them for some money. Sometimes helping others move gas tanks can also make money. Those people are too lazy to go to the gas station to change tanks, so they come to me and Tang Zheng Go move, move a few cans every week... I will try to make up for this little money, and he won't be angry with you.

"Tang Zheng is a cheap-mouthed person, he speaks loudly and is rude, but in fact he is quite nice."

Chen Jia spoke slowly one sentence at a time, it was rare for him to talk so much.He and Zhou Yao stood face to face by the wall, very close to each other, his gaze crossed Zhou Yao's face, and he looked towards the entrance of the alley in the distance, watching the scene of the willow trees being stripped by melting ice and snow.

Chen Jia can talk, but he doesn't usually talk, he is too lazy to talk, or he just doesn't find the right person to talk.

Zhou Yao almost forgot why he came here today, or Chen Jia said to him: "You carry a small black bag, are you stupid? Just like the people in the sales department of our factory, they carry a black bag all day Go out to do some work, you're a bitch."

Zhou Yao looked embarrassed, and quickly took out the things in the little black bag, which were a few bills: "I wanted to give it to your mother, so I'll give it to you!"

"What?" Chen Jia wondered.

"I can buy a refrigerator!" Zhou Yao said.

At first, Chen Jia thought, did Yaoyao give up the refrigerator tickets he got at the work unit to his family?After a closer look, it was not the kind of refrigerator ticket issued by the factory, but a list that you can go to the "Study Abroad Service Center" through the back door to pick up the goods directly.This is not an official bill or document. In short, whoever can get a relationship can buy those large electrical appliances of imported brands.

Chen Jia looked very complicated at that moment, looked at him, and was silent for a long time, probably very moved...

"Didn't you secretly take it from your parents?" Chen Jia asked.

"I didn't steal it!" Zhou Yao said seriously, "I just asked directly! I just said that I want to give Chen Jia's mother a 'note' to buy a refrigerator, is that okay? My parents agreed, why not? ah?"

"Our family has a surplus, we have three notes, and our family doesn't need to buy three refrigerators! Could it be that one is in the dining room, one is in the kitchen, and another is in our toilet? What's the use of having so many, why not For you?" Zhou Yao spoke eloquently.

"And the quality is better. They are all imported from Japan. You can choose whether you want Hitachi or Toshiba."

There was a small expression on the corner of Chen Jia's mouth, he was actually feeling very uncomfortable, and smiled: "What do you think, our family can afford imported refrigerators..."

"It's actually not expensive, just take the note." Zhou Yao said, "My dad said, this note is for you to sell at the original price, not from second-hand dealers outside. Hitachi imports, what is it with our domestic 'Snowflake'? Yes, in fact, the price is about the same, and the quality is not bad! Absolutely cold!...Won't let you have diarrhea again!"

His expression and mood of presenting treasures were exactly the same as the expression and tone of the deputy chief of the administrative department when he delivered refrigerator tickets to their home. He was so excited that he was so moved, it was ridiculous.

Chen Jia put one arm around Zhou Yao's waist and hugged him under the wall.The two hugged each other jokingly, stroked each other's hair, tugged and tugged, and made some cheap moves...

At that time, I felt why Yaoyao was so warm.Smart, caring, Yaoyao is so nice.

Those were also the lowest years in Chen Jia's life, and it happened that in such years, he was fortunate to know Zhou Yao.

In his future, in the future, year after year, I am afraid that he will never go back to those years of poverty, desolation, and embarrassment.Therefore, the people he meets in the future will never be as important as Zhou Yao.

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