First update
"What's the good news? Do you have any sympathy? Jin Hao is usually a good person. He should forgive others when he can."
"He didn't hurt anyone, so he shouldn't be guilty of this."
There are many people in the school who speak up for Jin Hao, both men and women. Women are more sympathetic, while men are more gloating. Women are more tolerant after all, and they think that Jin Hao is talented and his future should not be ruined because of some problems in his personal lifestyle.
Qin Yao: "Wait until your husband flirts with another woman and talks about love and romance. Then you can talk about tolerance. It won't hurt if the knife cuts someone else."
"Qin Yao, why do you speak so gently to them? Why don't you just scold them directly? They are just mean. How can you talk to such a man forbearance?" Sun Yang spoke roughly and with a fiery tone, which was completely different from her poems full of delicate emotions.
This guy's style of being a person and writing poetry is completely different. Now it's like he has a firecracker hanging from his mouth and he can fire at anyone.
It was quite strange that Sun Yang helped Qin Yao to scold Jin Hao, as if she didn't care at all about the quarrel between her and Qin Yao before, which made Qin Yao suspect that she was actually a fool.
Qin Yao: “…”
You poetesses have such strange tempers!
Xu Zhehua, on the surface, seems to be a very independent woman with her own ideas, but she is confused in her feelings. As for Sun Yang, it seems that she wanders among a group of men, laughing and scolding with them, but she doesn't care much about any one of them.
Not to mention now, Qin Yao felt that Sun Yang focused all his attention on her.
After talking everyone around him away, Sun Yang walked towards Qin Yao, raised his chin high, with a few freckles under his eyes. Her skin was very delicate, so even if there were freckles, they were not very obvious. "Does your journal need my poems? Your journal has so many beauty-related things, probably to please female readers, right? I guess most of the readers are female, and I am a female poet, so the poems I write must be liked by female readers."
Qin Yao laughed: "You are just bragging about yourself."
Sun Yang snorted coldly, "Love or not."
"No thanks." Comrade Xiao Qin was very ruthless and would not tolerate such a spoiled person. Their journal did not need Sun Yang's manuscript, so there was no need.
Sun Yang was so angry at her decisive rejection that he almost couldn't breathe. "Okay, okay, don't think I'm interested in you. I'm just curious if there are any talented people in your journal editorial department? Are there people who study art or human figure? Otherwise, why do you have so many dressing tips? Who came up with these ideas?"
Of course, these were all Qin Yao's ideas. She had experienced the era of self-media and learned a lot of beauty techniques from many beauty bloggers. Applying them in today's era is simply an overwhelming victory.
Fashion is a cycle. Just follow the fashion, whether it is hairstyle, clothing, or lipstick color. It is just like a popular game among primary school students, with a new style every now and then, in a cycle.
However, bell-bottoms and leggings were popular for a period of time in the 1980s, especially in the late 1980s. Every woman, regardless of height, weight or body shape, had a pair of leggings. Qin Yao thought that instead of opening a clothing design brand, it would be better to open a pants factory directly, first making bell-bottoms and then leggings, and making money all the way from the 1980s to the 1990s. Bell-bottoms and leggings of various colors were popular pants styles in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. A person's home may not have anything else, but must have a pair of bell-bottoms and a pair of leggings.
She specialized in selling pants, leading the fashion trends and making a lot of money. Because they were pants, they didn't require complicated designs and Qin Yao could draw them herself. She knew a lot of pants styles.
Qin Yao recorded this way of making money in a notebook. When private factories are allowed in the future, she will set up a pants factory or cooperate with others to create a pants brand and make some quick money.
"It was an idea proposed by a neighbor of mine. She loves beauty very much." Qin Yao casually replied to Sun Yang.
Sun Yang: "I knew it wasn't you. How could I know her?"
"It's fate."
Qin Yao was not interested in talking to Sun Yang anymore. She left after saying this, leaving Sun Yang there furious. She stomped her feet. It was so infuriating! She was so angry that she didn't want to write poetry anymore. She wanted to rewrite a novel. Doesn't Qin Yao like novels?
When she finishes writing a good novel in the future, she will make Qin Yao kneel down and beg her to write for her! Pooh!
Thinking of this, Sun Yang even lost his enthusiasm for writing poetry. Instead, he devoted all his attention to writing novels, and even lost his love for Yuan Qun's poetry.
When he started to delve into writing novels, time passed faster. In order to study and write novels, Sun Yang began to read more foreign classics. After reading so much, his enthusiasm for Yuan Qun faded, and he no longer rushed to show his affection to him. He found that he had long been tired of reading his poems. Although Yuan Qun's poems were good, they were all in the same style. How could it be as happy and colorful as swimming in the ocean of classics?
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The calendar tore off the last page of 1978, and a new calendar appeared. Time entered 1979, a year of great changes and the first year of reform and opening up. The tide of the times began to roll.
New Year's Day has passed in the Gregorian calendar, but it is not yet the Spring Festival in the lunar calendar. This year's New Year's Eve is not in February, but at the end of January. After an early New Year, new year goods have to be prepared early. This is a warm winter.
Huge changes have begun since the end of 1977 and 1978. Of course, the fastest changing area is in Guangdong Province, because it is close to Hong Kong Island and is also the frontier of reform and opening up. It is also the place where changes are the fastest. It is the "window".
After the decision to open up, foreign goods will flood into the mainland market like a storm. This is an opportunity, but also a challenge. At the same time, it will also bring a lot of despair to people. In the future, many state-owned enterprises will no longer be able to live comfortably as before, but will have to face competition from all sides. There are foreign-funded enterprises, private enterprises... some are happy, while others are sad.
For the people, it is a good thing. There are visibly more goods on the market. In the past, during the Chinese New Year, the New Year goods sold in department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives were all the same few things. But now it is different. This year alone, there are dozens of new snacks, and ordinary children are very happy.
There are several kinds of fresh chocolate snacks, such as chocolate bars and chocolate sandwiches. In addition to these, the cola that is popular among fat otakus has also returned to the public eye.
Coke has been out of the domestic market for many years, but now it's back on the market at 40 cents a bottle. Qin Yao bought a few bottles for her children, but the response was mediocre. At present, people in China don't like to drink Coke, and various domestic beverage brands have not been squeezed out by foreign capital. There will be more than a decade of spring for various private enterprises in the next ten years.
The changes in Guangzhou during this warm winter are faster than those in the capital, just like the opening of a floodgate. Every day, a large number of foreign goods enter the market through customs. Many of them enter the customs openly, but even more are smuggled in. The market has become extremely lively, and consumers' enthusiasm has become extremely fanatical.
In the past, people had money but could not buy anything. Many families had saved thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, but apart from building a house and getting married, they had basically no way to spend the money. Everyone in society saved money, and the money was used to "hold weddings," "funerals" and "build houses," as if these were the only three major events in life.
What other expenses are there? Basically there are none. If you want to buy one, you need a ticket!
That’s great now. No tickets are required for foreign goods! As long as you have money, you can buy everything.
"I used to think that the money in my hand was just like waste paper and had no use at all. Now I realize that having money is really good."
"Money can buy so many things! My tape recorder is imported. I don't need a ticket, and I also get a free tape of Teresa Teng. The songs sound so sweet, I only dare to play them secretly at home."
"What's so secretive about this? You sound like you've never heard this on Hong Kong Island TV before."
"This money is really precious!"
Many family members who know how to make ends meet have saved a lot of money. Even those who don't know how to make ends meet have some money. As long as the family burden is not too heavy, it is easy for a dual-income family to save money.
They know how to live. They raise their own chickens and ducks, and grow their own vegetables. Apart from buying clothes during the festivals, they basically don't have any opportunities to spend big money. They can save a lot of money if they save a month.
Even if they know that saving money is not of much use, many women with the Rat attribute will choose to save money. Their husbands are officers now and can be allocated houses, but what about their future sons? If you have to pay for building a house for them or for the bride price, you will have to save several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars. If you have many sons in your family, you will have to save even more.
Even if you build a house in the village, it will cost several thousand yuan, and no one can predict what will happen in the future.
"Now there are more than a dozen kinds of soaps, and they are in unlimited supply. Yes, unlimited supply..." Qin Yao was talking on the phone with her best friend Chen Baozhen. The two hadn't been in touch for a long time. They relied on the phone to talk for a long time, and they were all talking about changes in the market.
It's the Chinese New Year, and many things have been liberalized. First, small items like soap and washing powder became available, and many foreign brands appeared. Domestic soaps also don't require tickets, and all are now liberalized for supply. This year, many kinds of commodities have been liberalized for supply.
Some places, such as major meat-producing provinces like Sichuan, had long liberalized the supply of pork. Especially during the Chinese New Year, there was so much meat that it could not be sold out, and in the end, meat tickets were no longer needed, and the meat tickets were in name only.
The country is too big, and different provinces have different changes. For example, there are many large granary counties with good natural conditions of water and heat. Would it be useful to implement food coupons there? It doesn't have much effect. After every household in the village pays their public grain, there is a lot of surplus grain. How can they not let people exchange it for money? Eventually, they were all replaced with sewing machines and bicycles. These big items of the past have become commonplace.
Chen Baozhen: "The child is so happy now. You brought snacks for my daughter. She eats so much that her belly is full. A girl of such a young age actually has a belly full of fat intestines. As a mother, I...sigh."
Of course, what Chen Baozhen said was exaggerated. It was normal for a girl of a few years old to have a big belly. She would just be rounder than other children.
Her mother-in-law even wanted to raise her granddaughter into a fat girl, the fatter she was, the more blessed she would be.
"Now she's asking for walnut chocolate again. She also loves plum candy and keeps it in her mouth every day. If you don't let her eat, she'll make a fuss again. Old Gao is such a black-hearted man. He gives his daughter everything she wants. What kind of food will she eat in the future?"
Qin Yao smiled: "Be careful of rotten teeth, and don't fall for Lao Gao's trick. He lets you play the good guy in front of his daughter and he plays the bad guy. In the end, you become the bad guy and he becomes the good guy."
"You, Aunt Qin, are the worst." Chen Baozhen snorted. "You sent her so many snacks and let this little mouse fall into the rice jar. Now listen to what this guy said. He said he wanted to be Aunt Qin's daughter."
Qin Yao was surprised and said, "Isn't this my goddaughter?"
"I want to be your biological daughter!"
"I've fallen into your trap. You, the godmother, are good, and his father is good. But I, the biological mother, am bad because I don't give her snacks."
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Qin Yao and Chen Baozhen, two best friends, talked on the phone for a long time. When they went upstairs to go home, they regretted that there was no phone at home. It was inconvenient to make a call in the phone room because someone was listening and they couldn't say anything too private.
People in the 1960s and 1970s had no private space of their own, and everyone was afraid of being the odd one out in the crowd.
Not having any private space is a very painful torture.
Before Qin Yao opened the door to her room, she found that Chen Xiaoyun from next door had bought a lot of things again. "Again?"
"Cheap! Xiao Qin, it's such a fresh thing, and so cheap!" Chen Xiaoyun whispered stealthily.
"Look, look, look, I bought a lot of good things. I also bought chicken feed from abroad. Why is this stuff so cheap? It's also made of grain, and people can eat it, but why..." Chen Xiaoyun had a strange look on her face. Normally, raising chickens with grain is quite expensive, but the so-called "feed" shipped from abroad is too cheap. Feeding chickens with this stuff doesn't cost much money a month.
Even if she was not good at math, she could calculate the huge difference in cost between feeding chickens with grain and feeding them with feed.
Qin Yao was stunned: "You also bought feed? You bought so much feed?"
She knew that Chen Xiaoyun next door had become addicted to spending money recently. Don't think that young people in the future will be obsessed with consumerism. Now that the commodity market has just been opened, the demand that has been suppressed for many years has suddenly exploded. There are countless people like Chen Xiaoyun who are so busy that they can't control their hands at all.
See this bargain today and buy it! If you see that thing is cheap tomorrow, buy it! It's funny to see him slapping his thigh while buying things.
Except for imported electrical appliances, such as color TVs and refrigerators, other imported goods are cheap, such as soaps and shampoos. Small items are cheaper than each other and no tickets are required.
I felt that everything was cheap and I was making a profit by buying them, but when I got home and counted them carefully, I realized that I had spent so much money.
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