How to Thrive in the ’60s

In the evening, the sky turned gloomy again, and the north wind was blowing stronger and stronger. Pedestrians on the street either bowed their heads and sprinted against the wind, or bent down and stepped on their bicycles, hurriedly rushing home.

Yunshang and Gu Shinian stood opposite the state-run hotel, watching an army green truck approach from the end of the gray street, and then drove past the two of them at an unabated speed.

The car was crowded with steel mill workers, all wearing grey-blue workwear, with the words "Linyang Steel Works" printed on the back.

There are people beside me whispering:

"Huh? Where are these steel mill workers going?"

"It looks like he's heading west of the city. I guess he's meeting with the workers of a shoe factory or a textile factory."

"Is this trying to solve the problem of starting a family for steel mill workers before the aluminum plant is built?"

"Your news is behind! Our office Xiao Song made a news yesterday, saying that the province feels that the boundary of the west of the city is too small, and plans to build an aluminum plant in the Fenyang area..."

"What? Sister Li! Is this news reliable?"

"Why is it unreliable? Xiao Song's eldest brother is from the city's propaganda department. How can this news be wrong? Senior official Zhou went to Fenyang a few days ago to implement the construction of an aluminum plant."

"It's over, it's over now... My eldest brother will graduate from high school next year, and I plan to let him go to the aluminum factory. In the future, my job will be given to the second child. Now that the aluminum factory has been built in Fenyang, the eldest's job can be what to do..."

The voices of the two came intermittently along the wind, and Gu Shinian took this matter to heart.

If the province really wants to build an aluminum plant in the Fenyang area, Qinghe County, as a subordinate county in the Fenyang area, will also be within the scope of the aluminum plant's recruitment. .

It seems that he has to prepare in advance and take advantage of the opportunity to recruit workers in the aluminum factory to solve the problem of Yunshang's household registration.

Yun Chang was thinking of Yun Shuilian's work at this time.

Textile mills in Qinghe County are considered to be very profitable, and they are also very suitable for female workers. However, in the long run, a textile mill in a small county has no future at all.

The aluminum plant is different.

Just because the provincial leaders thought that the boundary of Linyang City was too small and built the aluminum plant in the Fenyang area, it can be seen that the aluminum plant is the key support unit in the province in the next few years.

After completion, the scale will not be small, maybe it will be like the Linyang Steel Plant, and finally develop a large living community such as schools and hospitals that belong to the aluminum plant.

If Yunshuilian can work in an aluminum factory, it will have a much brighter future than a textile factory...

The surroundings became quiet again, Yun Chang followed Gu Shinian to the state-run hotel opposite, and asked curiously,

"Second brother Gu, are you eating out today?"

Yun Chang felt that there were so many prepared meals in the space, and there was absolutely no need for the two of them to eat in a state-run restaurant. It was a waste of money and not necessarily suitable for taste.

Gu Shinian knew what Yun Chang was thinking, and dragged her as he walked:

"You have to eat at the state-run restaurant a few times, lest people ask you when you go back, you can't even tell what the state-run restaurant in the provincial capital is like and what food is in it."

The door of the state-run hotel was open, and there were seven or eight square tables inside. There were two tables of guests sitting by the window. One table was still waiting to be served, and the other table was burying their heads in their bowls, constantly smacking braised cabbage in their mouths. .

Sitting behind the counter of the hotel was a round and jade-like waiter, leaning against the counter, nibbling on melon seeds and stretching his neck, chatting with the chef in the back kitchen through the small window on the wall for uploading dishes.

Yun Chang was stunned for a moment. She has been in this world for so many days, and she has seen many people with sallow complexion and thin body. It is the first time she has seen such a healthy and rich waiter in front of her.

Gu Shinian pulled Yun Chang to stand in front of the counter and looked at the small blackboard next to Chuancaikou, which was written in chalk:

Available today:

Wheat flour steamed buns

Soup noodle five hair

Egg knife-cut noodles for nine cents

A piece of fried meat sauce noodles

Pork cabbage stuffed dumplings a piece (two)

Braised cabbage twenty-five cents

Slippery meat section (sold out)

...

I can tell,

The state-run restaurant in the provincial capital is also in short supply. The vegetables are only potatoes, cabbage, and white radish. The supply of meat and vegetables is also not abundant, and the only large meat dish is sold out.

Gu Shinian looked at it for a while, then asked Yun Chang what he meant, and said to the waiter, "Comrade, bring me two taels of dumplings and one wheat flour steamed bun."

The waiter glanced back at the two of them, and spread out his fleshy paws on the counter impatiently. After a few seconds, they shook a few times on the counter.

Yun Chang couldn't bear to look directly and turned his head to the side, thinking about the beautiful hands of the nurse's sister, so as to wash his eyes.

Gu Shinian didn't seem to think that the waiter would do this, he took out the money and bills and put them on the other side of the counter.

"Comrade, look at the amount of money and food stamps."

"Hey? Why are you so ignorant, little comrade? I have all my hands here, but you put it aside. Are you deliberately trying to be wicked, increasing the workload of the working class, or what..."

"Your hand is not a wallet, who knows what you want to do with it?"

Yun Chang couldn't see that others were talking about Gu Shinian, and before the waiter finished speaking, she immediately went back with her cheeks puffed up.

The waiter turned his head and looked at Yun Chang carefully, then rolled his eyes and slapped the table with his hand:

"You little girl, what's your attitude? You know this is..."

"What's wrong with my sister's attitude? We will be whatever your attitude is!"

Seeing that Yun Chang was startled by the loud noise of the waiter hitting the table, Gu Shinian was also angry, he pulled Yun Chang back into his arms, and replied to the waiter.

Yun Chang quickly poked his head out of Gu Shinian's arms, and said dignifiedly:

"Comrade, you have a problem with your thinking, and your work attitude of serving the people is not correct. You must correct it."

After speaking for a while, he added in a decent manner, "I will supervise you on behalf of the people to see if you have correct your thinking and correct your mistakes."

The waiter opened his mouth and looked at Yun Chang in a daze, without regaining his senses for a long time.

"puff!"

"Hahaha……"

The two people at the table by the window waiting to be served saw the dispute here in their eyes, and they couldn't help laughing when they saw Yun Chang standing on tiptoe, raising her little head to raise the bar with the waiter. Seeing Yun Chang frowning and looking over again, she quickly put away her smile and sat up in a serious manner.

The corners of Gu Shinian's lips couldn't help bending, he turned back and nodded to the two, and pulled Yun Chang to sit down at the empty table in the corner.

The two who were laughing just now looked back at Yunshang and Gu Shinian from time to time. After a while, one of the sixteen or seventeen-year-olds turned his head and called out to Gu Shinian:

"Hey! Little brother, we ordered the last piece of meat, bring your sister over to make a table."