Rebirth Night Talk

In the summer of [-], Song Changan invited Zhao Xuebing, Zhao Xuejun, Min Shun, and Wang Xi to the best hotel in the city for dinner.Early in the morning, Song Changan's second uncle, Song Loutang, drove a Santana sedan with a new foreign license plate that he bought himself to pick up Zhao Xuejun and the others.He came back this time to visit his elder brother who missed him very much, and to make up for the chaos caused by the Song family during the decadent period.

In the conflict between the Song family, Song Liaokuo beat Song Chang'an because of Song Loutang, and that was the first time Song Liaokuo beat a child.In the following year, the Song family father and son didn't speak much, and their relationship was as cold as a pair of strange neighbors.Early in the morning of the second day of the conflict, Song Loutang quietly left home.Since then, I have disappeared without a trace, but occasionally I will call back and say that the work of the unit is no longer done, and the formalities of suspension without pay have been completed.He wanted to wander around and go home after he had finished his mind.He said everything was fine and it would get better and better in the future.

This year Song Liaowang can be described as a shotgun change. He resigned from a small clerk in an idle unit and followed a few friends from the Corps without pay to stay in the sea. He used the old relationship in the family to become a "bad guy".

In the past few years, at the beginning of reform and opening up, the domestic economic system was not perfect. In order to alleviate the huge contradiction between commodity supply and demand, solve the shortage of goods supply and the shortage of social materials.Divide the same product into planned and unplanned two ways to sell.It is lower in the plan, and sold at a higher market price outside the plan.This is the "dual price system" that has been implemented in China for a period of time.

With the establishment of a new system, the society will always be uncomfortable. Song Liaowang and his group used their connections to get out the planned materials and resell them on the black market, from which they obtained a huge price difference. People who really got rich in the country.And their behavior, no matter how many times they resell and how much money they earn, is actually legal and allowed under the imperfect system.

So compared to Gao Juzi's capital, Song Liaowang had much more in his hands.His rising time was even shorter, and a new class was born in just an instant.In July 2000, Song Liaowang returned home quietly. After he came back in his private car, he brought back a lot of luxury goods for his nephew and niece. He put a Swiss watch on his brother Song Liaokuo as soon as they met. The watch is not the old Switzerland that cost a hundred dollars a few years ago.According to Song Liaowang himself, the watch was worth more than [-] yuan.All of a sudden, the Song family has a refrigerator, TV, washing machine, and the most fashionable furniture.

In one year, from a drunk to a successful man, this kind of rapid wealth can only appear in the early stage of reform and opening up, when the country's economic system is constantly improving, improving, and sound.Moreover, this phenomenon is not unique to China. In any country, in the initial stage of economic take-off, this kind of thing that takes advantage of system defects to get rich is extremely common and absolutely unavoidable. Progress means groping, failure, and perfection. Try again, fail again, perfect again...

Zhao Xuejun, his second brother, and Wang Xi crowded into the back seat of the car and sat obediently. The tape recorder in the car was playing softly the current pop songs.The teenagers smelled the smell of new car packaging in their noses, and heard what happened in the outside world in their ears, feeling yearning and fear inexplicably.Along the way, the talkative Song Liaowang told them a lot of stories about the veterans and sang songs... In his memory, perhaps the best years of his youth were there, the birch trees, the old wolf den, the black land, the young People... Song Loutang's singing tone at the moment is flying high.That tone of voice inevitably brought out another meaning. After all, fate also favored him once, and he succeeded.

Song Changan was very silent all the way, he was frightened by his second uncle's flattery and his father's fear of luxury goods.He just had a wait-and-see attitude of a teenager, with envy and doubts.Like the second uncle, he basically knows nothing. What he has most is the friendship of the old buddies who returned home from the Corps in the old yard at home.In the blink of an eye, he encountered the most suitable opportunity for him, he seized it, and entered the pace of the great era very neatly.The huge benefits brought by that complex social relationship also dazzled him, and made him re-examine the world.

Song Changan was thinking, and came to a conclusion that business is "the most appropriate time, seize the most appropriate opportunity".

Zhao Xuejun looked at the rapidly changing street scene on the street outside the window. In recent years, there are more and more shops, and the goods are gradually becoming more abundant.This year, the negative things brought about by the system changes have gradually extended to the homes of ordinary people.Panic buying, non-stop panic buying... Today is like yesterday, the streets are full of people, crowded in front of shops and non-staple food stores, carrying things home in boxes, bundles, and tricycles, and money is withdrawn from the bank like running water Come out and turn into all kinds of inexplicable things to buy home and hoard them.Even children's homework books, pencils, and erasers are unavoidable.

In the past, if the price of a bicycle was increased, the Politburo had to hold a meeting to discuss it before making a decision.Now the price has been reformed. Over the past year, newspapers and related reports have been saying that the price has been reformed, that it will be in line with international standards, and that everything will be liberalized.Common people don't understand what price reform is.At this time, there is no Internet, and thousands of media outlets to explain them.Moreover, the overall education level of the current citizens is not high.They don't understand the obscure explanations and instructions in the newspaper.For them, liberalization of reform and price liberalization means rising prices.A must buy, an absolute must buy...

It's only July, and the price of non-staple food has risen by more than half.At home, at school, there are news of panic buying everywhere every day.For the teenagers who have no money in their hands, price liberalization and price reform are irrelevant to them, but to their parents, their neighbors, and their relatives, dressing and eating are the most important things in life. Basic basic.

In May, following reports of a national leader's speech, the prices of meat, eggs, sugar, and vegetables were completely liberalized.Some daily non-staple foods turned out to be a price per day.Min Shun's mother bought 100 catties of soy sauce and hoarded more than [-] catties of salt in the past few days. The family eats this and that every day, and every day is like Chinese New Year.Even Gao Juzi bought three hundred catties of eggs, and the eggs would go bad if they couldn't eat them, what should I do?Gao Juzi went to buy a few large water tanks for drinking water, and marinated five large tanks of salted eggs.

Zhao Xuejun has nothing to do with his mother's current behavior.There is no way to stop it, because this trend is the same all over the country, and it will end around the end of the year.For Zhao Xuejun this year, the newly issued treasury bills are the most important.He didn't dare to tell his family what would happen to the treasury bills in the future, so he could only quietly ask Min Shun's parents to deal with them because it was inconvenient for his family and he didn't dare to buy them in large quantities.This money will become a basic fund for his future life, the beginning of everything, for which Zhao Xuejun has planned for a long time.

The group arrived at Wanlin Hotel and asked for the best private room. Song Loutang ordered the best dishes for them. During the dinner, he gave each of the group a rare electronic watch.Song Changan finally showed a smile on his face, and finally he was able to pretend to be listening carefully.After all, children are easy to please.

After dinner, Song Loutang sent the children home. The first ones he sent were Zhao Xuejun and Wang Xi. When the car arrived outside Lao Chang's big courtyard, they met Zhao Jianguo and Song Liaokuo again.

This group of people stood on the street chatting for a while, Lao Chang pushed a tricycle, bought a dozen or so large watermelons and returned home.When he saw people gathered in front of his house, he was immediately very happy: "Oh, oh... I've already regretted it, come in quickly, we celebrate the New Year today."

In this way, this group of people crowded into Lao Chang's yard.In the past few days, Gao Juzi sent Lao Chang half a pig of pork, countless oils, salts, sauces and vinegars, melons, fruits, pears, peaches, rice and white noodles, which he piled up in a small room.She didn't have room in her own home, and she didn't dare to put it away, so she piled it here.

"Oh, oh, what is this? I was walking on the street and saw everyone shopping. I bought it by accident. Hey, half my life was wasted." Lao Chang held a kitchen knife , While cutting the watermelon, he laughed at himself.

Min Shun and the others laughed, but Zhao Jianguo and Song Liaokuo smiled wryly. These days, the negative things brought about by the panic-buying trend made them unwilling to neglect them. Based on the spirit above, they made plans one after another to maintain local stability.What should be done, has been done.But when they go home, their family members are also members of the general public, and they also have to live and survive. The phrase "start with me" is really too difficult, too difficult to implement.Feeling bored, the two wanted to come to Lao Chang's place to hide and be quiet.

"If you look at the United States and Hong Kong, there are such things there." Song Liaowang felt that he could already be equal to his brother, so he was the first to speak, expressing extreme indignation and disdain for the current social phenomenon Gu.

"That's right, people in our country will join in the fun, hum!" Zhao Xuebing added.

"Those people have no quality and are crazy."

"You go to Beijing, go to Guangzhou to see, defecate everywhere, spit everywhere, what's the matter?"

"That's quality, that's our quality."

"Hey, I'm so ashamed of the people of this country."

Immediately, the point of conversation was opened. In the yard, the children began to express their opinions in one go. The adults explained based on the righteousness of the country, and the teenagers counterattacked based on the situation abroad.The back-and-forth fights against each other led to a quarrel.Zhao Xuejun didn't speak, and put watermelon in a plate.

"Bang Dang!" There was a crisp sound in the yard, and Lao Chang threw the kitchen knife on the ground forcefully, turned around and entered the house.

The lively children who had been arguing at first fell silent. Everyone looked at each other with puzzled and embarrassed faces. They didn't know what wrong words they said to offend this always gentle old man.

After some churning sounds came from the room, Lao Chang raised the curtain and came out with a book in his hand.Zhao Xuejun knew that book, "Modern Chinese History", one of his textbooks.

Lao Chang angrily threw the book on the floor, pointed there, and said with trembling fingers: "It's not that I don't know, I don't understand. You usually go to school, go to work, read books and newspapers, and you have seen the dog's belly? Why are they rushing to buy? Don’t you think it’s embarrassing for you both to be Chinese? Look carefully, if you understand, you will understand! Don’t you understand? It’s okay, just ask me, I know, I explain, I clear……"

Zhao Xuejun went over to support Lao Chang's trembling body, and said in a gentle voice: "Godfather, don't be angry, sit down first. We don't understand, you say, let's listen. Aren't we here for advice? If you don't talk , Aren’t we going to make mistakes like this in the future?”

Wang Xi quickly moved the bench over and put it under Lao Chang's butt.Zhao Jianguo and Song Liaokuo looked at each other and sat quietly outside the circle.

After picking up the book on the ground, Wang Xi put the book in front of Lao Chang: "Uncle, tell me, don't be angry, we are listening."

There was an unexplainable anger, which slowly dissipated amidst the soft words of the godson and the pleadings accompanied by a smiling face.Lao Chang touched the cover of the book, sighed and said: "I don't like to talk about modern history, it is a history of shame. You talk about panic buying, and say that the quality of Chinese people is low, and you lose the face of high-quality people. .I snapped it up too. I knew it was okay so I snapped it up. I know why, hey... Let me tell you, if you want to listen, just sit down and listen, if you don’t want to listen, just go, I don’t blame you , you just treat me as a bad old man and fart, don't mind it."

"No, no, Uncle Chang, I'd like to hear you imitating antiques. You say, we won't interrupt." Min Shun nodded fiercely and fawned. He is the most rare thing about this old man. He is full of books, as if he will always say Not all the same.

The old man often knocks on the table with his fingers and looks at the people in the yard. These people include state officials, students, and business people. An explanation, in their environment, will lead to different results. He organized a good After a while, he said: "I'm just a family's opinion. I saw it, thought about it, and thought about it. There is also a conclusion that belongs to Chang Yu. So, after listening, you have to think about it according to your own situation. I said Cannot be true, only for reference.

You see the common people robbing things, you see them destroying the stability of the country, you see them follow blindly, and you feel that you are calm and high-minded, so you are different from them, right?Touch your chest, dare you say it’s not like this? "

Zhao Xuejun nodded: "Well, I think so. I know they are wrong. I feel very contemptuous."

"Heh... Junjun, you may be right to think so. Do you remember the pride of our country that I told you before? The pride that goes deep into the bone marrow, the pride that keeps us from bending under the trample of any power .”

"I remember, you said that we must be proud of our culture, our history, and our pride."

"Then... Let me tell you, what we lost." Lao Chang dipped in a little water and wrote two words on the table: "Vitality".

"Vitality?" Zhao Xuejun was puzzled.

"Yes, vitality. The original pride has changed because of the loss of this vitality... Because of this vitality, the roots of the entire nation were extinguished and reorganized with tears of humiliation. Before, I didn't like to say, But this happened, I have to talk about it. You have to be human, you have to be human clearly, and you can’t follow the crowd in a muddle.

We all know how a person's personality is formed, inborn blood, parents, social environment, school, and self-cultivation. All these factors are combined together, that is you Personality, that personality is you.You do what your personality drives you to do.Some things you understand on your own, and some things are brought to you by the genetic habits that you carry in your bones.

When we look at history books, it is written like this in modern history.The Eight-Power Allied Forces came, the Qing Dynasty fell, and the Republic of China came. The emperor became a puppet. Warlords from all over the country beat me and I beat you.The new regime has risen, the Northern Expedition has begun, the Japanese devils have come, the Chinese nation has fallen, the three eastern provinces have been lost, Nanjing has been destroyed, the Anti-Japanese War has been fought, the civil war has broken out, New China has been established, and the ten-year catastrophe has come and gone... ...Is this the order? "

"Yes, that's right." Song Liaokuo replied.

The old man pointed outside the door: "Let me ask you a question, after what happened in the history books, what did the common people outside do? In the past 200 years, your ancestors, your grandpas, grandpa's grandpa , father's father, what are they doing? Amidst the constant changes of the superstructure, amidst unstoppable natural and man-made disasters, what are they doing...?

Let me tell you, it has been more than 100 years... All their lives, all the sufferings they have encountered, they have no way to resist, their only means is to buy things and hoard them, to find all the hopes that can be collected and hoard them, the purpose of all actions Just one, just to survive.

The suffering Chinese people under the influence of this superstructure have been panic buying and hoarding year after year... When the country is ruined, the family is dead, and the family is displaced, a piece of food in the stomach One breath, one breath of arrogance, replaced by a wave of sincerity and fear, no longer trusting the world, no longer trusting the country, they live unsafely, and the harm of this insecurity means liberation and stability... How many years have you been raising them? I won't be back for a while.

After losing the vitality of the nation with the historical turmoil, the common people are as frightened as a mouse... hoarding, buying, and thinking of ways to store some tiny hopes.For the sake of the family, for the country, and for the sake of survival, we must hoard things and live.For the sake of future generations, we must also save some food and materials to survive, all in order not to starve to death, not to die in battle, not to be implicated to death by innocent people, or bullied to death.The hoarding behavior of the poorest people in our entire nation has been carried out for more than 100 years, and it has become a national habit.

This habit of hoarding like a mouse has become a living habit of the people of this nation who have been broken with pride, family and blood, with tears, humiliation and unwillingness to stay.Everyone is trembling with a part of temptation, a part of mistrust, a part of involuntary, and a way that they can't explain clearly.

They will rob now, and they will rob again in the future.A person will heal after being injured, but the wound is on the body, no matter how well the recovery is, there will be scars. This kind of habit is the scar of the national humiliation, and the scars that cannot be recovered after hundreds of years!

So, don't tell my old man that the quality of the Chinese is low, not as good as the foreign system, and the level of education received by those people abroad is not as high.

Let me ask you, in foreign countries, those countries that don’t even have history, if you count them all, that country has suffered so much humiliation and so many crimes in less than 200 years!

The rise of a big country, when a big country rises, there will always be a stage of inadaptability in the process of its rise. This is a stage of national recovery, a day for the whole nation to recuperate and recuperate from injuries.What hurt?Heart-breaking.Keep it in my heart, the most humiliating, most disturbing, and most frightening heartache, the one that is torn, pus bleeds, and hurts into my heart.It is engraved in the bones, in the blood, in the soul!

Don't laugh at it, don't despise it, you are denying your own existence, you are denying the existence of your ancestors.Now that you have been born and survived, why don’t you think that it has only been so many years since the founding of the country, that the generation of your ancestors has never suffered from hunger, never escaped famine, and that family’s door has never been trampled by invaders.

Even so, do you dare to despise the ordinary people living among you?Don't you feel ashamed?The task of restoring national character is not ours. We are old and serve you food and drink. We are not despised by you bastards. The backbone we lost needs you to slowly find it. We are going to die, we are going to die I died with the experience of suffering and humiliation. I am really worried. One day, after those histories really become exam questions in textbooks, what will you masters of this country think?How will your descendants change this country?

Don't laugh at us, you have no right to laugh, you don't understand what we have suffered.Hey, the rise of a great power is easier said than done..."

After finishing speaking, Lao Chang stood up, entered the room tremblingly, closed the door, he cried, and the old tears flowed down... He shut the people in this courtyard out, hid himself and cried.

"Let's go, old Zhao, go back to work at the unit, you should leave too, go back and think about it...we all have to think about it." Song Liaokuo stood up and said to the people in the yard.

Outside the block, panic buying is still happening, and the loudspeaker at the entrance of the store is playing the most popular music of this year: "Sister, you go forward boldly...go forward...don't look back...head..."