He Tingjun nodded: "Yes, what I put was a telegram."
Yun Qiao said "Oh" and asked, "Who sent it?"
He Tingjun explained, "I asked my comrade in Shenyang to help me buy a washing machine. I finally got some news recently. He sent me a telegram to let me know."
"washing machine?!!"
Yun Qiao couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this.
She suspected she had misheard, "Are you sure you want to buy a washing machine?"
In her prints, washing machines only entered people's lives in the early 1980s.
In her previous life, she had bought a washing machine after 1980, when Pan Zhiyuan had made his first fortune in the business world. She remembered it clearly: it was a Jingcheng Bailan horizontal bar model, and it cost a full 1099 yuan!
And it’s only the 1970s…
By the way, in 1970, were there any domestically produced washing machines in China?
He Tingjun smiled and said, "You heard it right, it's a washing machine."
"It's getting cold. Winters here in Songjiang are freezing cold, and clothes are thick. Even for a man like me, washing and wringing clothes is a struggle. And if I'm away on a mission, how are you going to wash them?" He Tingjun explained. "So I want to buy a washing machine for my home. That way, I won't have to worry about washing thick clothes in the winter."
Although He Tingjun didn't understand, every word he said was for her consideration.
Yun Qiao felt warm inside and murmured, "Isn't it hard to buy a washing machine?"
“It’s not easy to buy.”
He Tingjun did not try to hide the difficulty.
"I originally asked someone to buy one in Harbin, but the department stores there didn't have any home washing machines, so if I wanted to order one, I could only order large ones for work. One took up two or three square meters, and when it was running, it made a buzzing sound within a radius of fifty or ten meters. I immediately thought this wouldn't work; it was too noisy and completely unsuitable for home use."
He Tingjun gestured to Yun Qiao about the size of the washing machine. At this point, he smiled and said thankfully, "I was about to give up, but two days before the wedding, my comrade went on a business trip to Shenyang. He happened to hear that the Shenyang Daily Electrical Appliance Research Institute, which developed my country's first washing machine, had also developed the country's first small household washing machine. As soon as he heard the news, he immediately sent me a telegram."
He Tingjun showed the telegram to Yun Qiao.
Yun Qiao took it and took a look, and found that it was true.
However, due to the high cost of sending telegrams, as they were charged by the word, this telegram was written in a very short manner.
Although the telegram was short, it contained everything that needed to be written.
The Shenyang Household Electrical Appliances Research Institute developed a small washing machine called Songling, with a single aluminum cylinder. It cost two hundred and ten yuan, and one washing machine ticket or twenty business coupons were required.
Because this type of household washing machine has only been in mass production for a few months, there are very few machines on the market, and most of the washing machine tickets are distributed to senior cadres of major government agencies in Shenyang. Ordinary people have no idea about this, so this new thing about washing clothes has only spread in a small range in Shenyang, and people outside don’t know about it yet.
Looking at the telegram, Yun Qiao felt a little moved.
Technology changes life. When it’s cold out, who doesn’t want to have a washing machine at home!
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