Dreaming back to the 90s to help my dad catch a rival in love

Ma Zhiguo and his wife didn't get any favors from Ning's house, so they went to the factory the next day and made a fuss in the director's office.

It is said that the scene was ugly. Liu Meifang, who is so old, has no shame, lying in the corridor of the office, "cutting the ground", throwing herself around and saying that she won't get up if she doesn't give her a house. It's useless to persuade her .

Later, the factory manager couldn't stand it anymore, and went to the workshop to find four strong female workers, raised her hands and feet, and got rid of her.

"The director asked me to talk to me today. It's about Uncle Ma's house."

Under the light, the father and son sat facing each other, with dozens of new textbooks piled up on the table, and scissors, craft knife and paste beside them.

This morning was the last time he returned to school before school started. Ning Xiaobei stepped into the elementary school again after many years, brought back a bunch of textbooks for the new semester, and is now wrapping the books.

At this time, there were no ready-made book covers, and the Ning family was not willing to use colorful gift wrapping paper to wrap the book. They used calendar paper replaced last year.

It is very popular these days to send calendars to each other. At the end of the year, each factory will find a printing factory to print a batch of calendars with its own factory name, and let the salesmen distribute them everywhere as advertisements.

Among them, the most popular themes are Hong Kong celebrities, famous sports cars, and the landscapes of various places.

Madam Ning's bedside hangs the jade photos of Maggie Cheung and Zhong Chuhong. The old lady likes to see beauties, especially beauties in cheongsam.Ning Jianguo likes airplanes and cannons, as well as calendars of various ships.

On the other hand, Ning Xiaobei favored cats and dogs, and this time he also used cats and dogs' calendar paper to wrap the book.

He and Ning Jianguo cut together and chatted while wrapping books.

"Uncle Director, what are you talking about..."

Ning Xiaobei put down the scissors and looked at Ning Jianguo out of the corner of his eye.

Ning Jianguo tossed up and down with his skillful hands, wrapping the books tightly.

"Tell me to develop my style."

He sneered, the corners of his eyes slightly raised, and when the soft light illuminated him, he really looked like a jade tree facing the wind, even if he was only wearing a white cross-beam vest, he couldn't hide his handsomeness.

Hey, such a good-looking dad, and he can cook good dishes, why don't women like him?

It's all my fault for the oil bottle!It's still an unrelated oil bottle.

Ning Xiaobei felt sorry for himself.

"Then, what do you say, Dad?"

Ning Xiaobei asked cautiously.

He was really afraid that his father would be persuaded again this time, and he would "promote his style" again.

"I said, the younger sister of the Wu family in my alley works as a salesperson at the Friendship Store in Xuhui District."

Ning Jianguo answered irrelevant questions.

"what?"

Seeing his son's dumbfounded expression, Ning Jianguo laughed.

The "sister of the Wu family" that Ning Jianguo called was the daughter of Mrs. Ning's mahjong player, Wu Jiamu's mother, who lived at the entrance of the alley and was nicknamed "a flower in the alley".It is said that she also had a crush on Ning Jianguo back then, but after that...there was no later.

"In the past, if you went to the Friendship Store to buy things, you only need RMB. If you want to use foreign exchange certificates, don't you know?"

As Ning Jianguo spoke, he rubbed his fingers and thumbs together.

Ning Xiaobei nodded.

The name "Foreign Exchange Certificates" is not well known to those born in the 90s and 00s, and it can be regarded as a memory of a generation.

In the past, you could only go to the Friendship Store to accept foreign guests and overseas Chinese, and ordinary people couldn't even step in, unless your family has overseas connections, or you can get foreign exchange certificates from scalpers.

It's like a high-end foreign-related hotel that only accepts foreign guests. If Wu's mother's daughter can go to work in that kind of place, it's like smoke from the ancestral grave.

Although the country canceled the issuance of foreign exchange certificates after 95, the high prices of the Friendship Store still dissuaded most ordinary people, and it is still high above, like a cloud.

"As soon as I went in, the director invited me to drink coffee. Xiaobei, there is a saying, the coffee is really bad, is it a foreign Chinese medicine..."

Ning Xiaobei was already confused by what he heard, but Ning Jianguo wanted to get in on it.Seeing his son's urging eyes, Ning Jianguo finally gave up his appetite.

"I pointed to the coffee cup and told him that this gold-rimmed coffee cup can't be bought outside, and I bought it as a gift from the 'Nestlé Gift Box'. And that set of limited coffee gift boxes can only be bought in the Friendship Store, which is a special offer. "

Ning Xiaobei raised his head and smiled, his eyes were like two small moons.

He sort of got it.

"My sister from the Wu family told me. They sold three sets at the counter this month, and two of them were sold to the same person. One set was delivered to the director, and the other set was delivered to my house last Sunday. The door came, but I refused..."

"Dad..."

Ning Xiaobei couldn't help crying out in a low voice.

"That man's family is not difficult at all. The Wu family sister said that when he got the banknotes out of his wallet, the dozens of 'green skins' (old-style hundred-yuan bills) tied with rubber bands cost at least a few thousand. block."

Ning Jianguo smiled, raised his finger, and scratched Ning Xiaobei's nose.

"His wife also told our Wu family sister that her man resells seafood in the Tongchuan Road market, and the daily bills are horrifyingly large. She said that her family bought a commercial house last year. It has two bedrooms and one living room. You can watch it from the balcony. to the Huangpu River. Oh, if this kind of person is considered a "difficult household", then my family really doesn't know where the difficulties are. There are three members of my family, and I am the only labor force. The old lady is too old, and the kid is too young. Little Bei said, is what Dad said reasonable?"

"Dad, cow! One hundred points"

Ning Xiaobei stretched out both hands, showing two thumbs to Ning Jianguo.

"What did the director say?"

"He said 'I see.'"

Ning Jianguo imitated the director, and began to speak in an official tone, "But Comrade Xiao Ning, I hope you don't publicize this matter... I will find a way to solve the old horse's matter and the house matter. You Go back to work in peace."

Really bureaucratic.

Ning Xiaobei curled his lips and refused to comment.

"Just wait, Xiaobei. We can move to a new house as early as next year. By then, you won't have to clean the toilet every morning."

He said, pinching his nose.

Ning Xiaobei couldn't help but also nodded.

Without this welfare housing, their family would have to wait until the end of 2000 to live in the public housing allocated after demolition.

And that time, my father once again carried forward the style, gave up the house on the ground floor to a neighbor with an elderly family, and chose to live on the sixth floor—that is the sixth floor without an elevator.

Thank goodness for being able to liberate now a few years earlier.

The new book was packed soon, and Ning Xiaobei put the books that will be used on the first day of school into his schoolbag with Ultraman printed on the blue background according to the newly issued curriculum schedule.

"Xiaobei, go to the living room and watch TV with grandma for a while."

Ning Jianguo picked up the cattail fan and slapped it twice, then said towards the stairs.

In the main room is a color TV set from Fourteen Villages, which Ning Jianguo bought with the TV tickets issued by the factory a few years ago.In the beginning, not many people in the alleys could afford color TVs, and everyone watched black and white TVs.Every night, the neighbors would bring their own benches to Ning's house to watch TV.Especially in summer, Ning Jianguo simply moved the TV to the yard and watched it with everyone.

In the past two years, more and more people bought color TVs, and no one came to his house specially to watch TV.Moreover, the [-]-inch TV set in his house is also outdated, and it is popular to buy Japanese electrical appliances now, with large screens of more than [-] inches at every turn, and fashionable gadgets such as VCRs.

Ning Jianguo has saved a lot of money over the years. He plans to dispose of all these old electrical appliances and replace them with new ones after moving to his new home this time, so that Xiaobei and the old lady can live more comfortably.

"I don't want to watch TV. I'll just read a book for a while."

Ning Xiaobei shook his head, took a magazine from Ning Jianguo's bookshelf, and walked towards the attic stairs.

To say that the hottest TV series in this summer vacation is the Shanghai language version of "Nie Debt". Mrs. Ning chases the TV series every day, and she has to exchange experiences with her neighbors when playing mahjong the next day.

The TV told the story of several Yunnan children who came to Shanghai to find their educated youth fathers, which aroused great repercussions from Shanghai residents, who cried and laughed every day following the plot on TV.

At night, the singing of "Beautiful Xishuangbanna, I can't keep my father" floated from the windows of every household in the alley.

Although Ning Jianguo is not an educated youth, he has never been to Yunnan to jump in the queue.But after graduating from junior high school, he went to Heilongjiang to serve as a soldier.Not long after being demobilized, he went there again and brought Xiao Bei back.

After the TV broadcast, some joking uncles and aunts in the alley often approached Ning Xiaobei to make jokes, asking him if it was his father's "debt" made in the north.

In that "real world", the young and introverted Ning Xiaobei was so angry that under the fidgeting of the unscrupulous adults, he ran to Ning Jianguo with snot and tears, and asked him who his mother was. Who asked Ning Jianguo so much that he had nothing to say.

Now to do it again, facing the same problem, Xiao Ning, who is already an "old ghost", raised his chin and said innocently, "Uncle, I don't know if I am a 'debt'. Uncle, why don't you ask me?" Ask yourself if you have 'external flower arrangements'. Life corruption is a very serious problem, and if the unit finds out, you will be fired."

Seeing that other people are little ghosts, those neighbors who have no morals have no choice but to retreat.Secretly scolding the Ning family's little red guy for looking gentle, but in fact his mouth is as poisonous as his grandma's.

Ning Xiaobei climbed onto the bed, opened the magazine, spread it on his chest, put his hands behind his head, and kept shaking his calves.

Solving the problem of welfare housing is only the first step, and there are too many things to do next.

For example, Dad's job problem, the shoe factory will close down soon, what about Ning Jianguo's establishment?

And there is...

Ning Xiaobei gritted his teeth and let out a long sigh.

He is a big man in his 30s, and he has gone to elementary school again.And having to spend a whole year with a bunch of school chickens is really scary just thinking about it.

The author has something to say:

I checked, and the TV series "The Debt" should have been released in 1995, but I postponed it by a year for the sake of the plot.Please ignore this bug~~

Here's wishing everyone a happy National Day in advance~~