At that time, this job was still very leisurely. No one came to the scrap yard all year round, so he would sit in the small room drinking tea, learning to read characters and newspapers. He also got a salary, so it was very leisurely.
Things have changed since 1966. Houses in the town and the county are searched every day, and all the belongings are thrown into the scrap yard. There are several yards here every day.
The most thrown things are these books.
Those who came to throw things kept saying that these books were banned, so they threw all the books at him and even burned them.
Old man Sun suffered from illiteracy in his life, and books were expensive. At that time, people in the countryside might not own a book in their entire lives.
He felt sad to see the books being burned, so he stopped them and said that the books could be used to make fire and light the stove.
Those people wearing red armbands saw that Old Man Sun was a junkyard keeper and thought that he would not have the guts to hide these books, so they left all the books to Old Man Sun.
Old Man Sun had already determined that Tian Tian's family was not well off, and because of their past relationship, he did not ask Tian Tian for much money. For such a large pile of things, plus Tian Tian's box, he only charged Tian Tian five cents.
Tian Tian felt a little embarrassed, but she still left with her things on her back, thinking that she would bring some things for Old Man Sun next time she came.
Tian Tian left the scrap yard and found an empty dead end. She put all the books and small boxes in the backpack into the shell. Then she carried the backpack containing only the books to the place she had agreed to meet with Old Lady Tian.
It is now the time when the factory gets off work, and the road is full of workers going home for lunch.
Tian Tian, a little country girl, walked among them. The people around her were all wearing various factory uniforms, and she was a little nervous.
Tian Tian silently tightened the shoulder straps of the backpack and quickened her pace.
There were also patrol officers wearing red armbands passing by on the road. Perhaps because Tian Tian was very inconspicuous among the workers, no one noticed her.
People nowadays are actually quite vigilant. Patrols are constantly carried out in the county town every day to prevent spies and spies.
Especially since Northeast China is a heavy industrial base and is related to the development of the whole country, we should be more alert.
Although their county town is small, there are many factories of all sizes, such as machinery factories, pharmaceutical factories, light bulb factories, textile factories, machine tool factories, biscuit factories, and food factories.
Generally speaking, the factories in county towns are all related to people's livelihood.
There are even more important factories in the provincial capital, including electric machinery factories, aircraft manufacturing plants, automobile repair plants, chemical plants, etc. Each one is closely related to the country's development, and we must prevent them from causing sabotage.
Moreover, every large factory has small affiliated factories. For example, a steel plant has affiliated coking coal plants and iron plants.
The factories in their small county town are not so bad, with few affiliated factories, but basically every factory is interconnected. During the New Year and other festivals, the welfare benefits are that each factory exchanges products with each other.
The big factories in the provincial capital are also large in scale. Some people can live in the factories all their lives without having to leave. There are hospitals, cultural centers, cinemas, bathhouses, affiliated schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, and all facilities are complete.
The factories in the county town are no longer viable. The space is not big enough and they cannot build so many things. At most, they have housing for family members and a bathhouse. People still have to go to the county supply and marketing cooperative to buy things.
There are only three factories with affiliated schools, from primary school to high school, and most of the high school graduates can stay and work in the factory.
The original owner was attending an ordinary junior high school in the county, otherwise he would not have been affected so badly when the movement started and would have been suspended from school for a year.
The factory's affiliated school was the least affected.
After all, their parents are workers who work in factories and most of them know their backgrounds well. They have good family backgrounds and no problems with their status, so they can't cause any trouble.
Tian Tian arrived at the place she and Old Lady Tian had agreed upon, and sat obediently on a stone by the roadside waiting.
Watching a bicycle speeding past occasionally, Tian Tian, like the people around her, had envy in her eyes.
Today's bicycles are equivalent to Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the future. Not everyone can afford them.
It would be nice if I had a bicycle so I wouldn't have to walk so long back home.
Tian Tian sighed slowly. The bicycle was still far away from her.
Tian Tian stopped thinking about the imaginary bicycle and pressed her growling stomach with her hand. The important thing was to solve the problem at hand.
Just when Tian Tian was hesitating whether to take out a piece of compressed biscuit to fill her stomach, she saw Old Lady Tian walking towards her from a distance.
"Grandma!" Tian Tian jumped up excitedly and waved to Old Lady Tian.
When Old Mrs. Tian saw Tian Tian waiting there, she also quickened her pace.
When Tian Tian got closer, she could tell that something was wrong with Old Mrs. Tian. Her face was red, her eyes were flashing with a strange light, and she looked very excited.
He walked with hunched shoulders and his steps were very unsteady.
Old Mrs. Tian was a very strong person. When he was young, old man Tian went to the war, and she raised the three children in the family by herself.
In that war-torn era, being able to raise all the children was a matter of great pride, so Mrs. Tian always kept her back straight.
"Grandma! Why is your face so red? Are you tired?" Tian Tian asked worriedly.
"Red?"
Old Mrs. Tian touched her face, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, but then she suppressed it and said calmly, "It's nothing, maybe I left in a hurry, and I was afraid that you would get anxious waiting. You didn't wait long, did you?"
"No, I just got here too!" Tian Tian didn't doubt anything after hearing what Old Lady Tian said.
After walking for such a long time, she, a young person, would be exhausted, let alone someone as old as Mrs. Tian.
When Old Lady Tian lowered her head, she saw the backpack at Tian Tian's feet. "Where did you get this backpack?"
People here rarely carry backpacks, they usually use baskets, so the backpack at Tian Tian's feet is actually quite eye-catching, but it's tattered and has holes in it, so no one pays attention to it.
"Oh! I just went to the scrap yard and got a lot of blank notebooks. The old man saw that I didn't have anything to put them in, so he gave me a broken backpack."
After saying that, Tian Tian even lifted up the backpack and boasted, "Look, grandma, many of the notebooks in here are unused and clean. They are much cheaper than those sold at the supply and marketing cooperative!"
"Really? Are there really so many good notebooks in the scrap yard?" After hearing this, Old Mrs. Tian didn't feel embarrassed for Tian Tian, and excitedly took out a few notebooks to look at.
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