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She was indeed feeling happy. Ever since she turned 18 after the [Three Years of Natural Disasters], the free market in the country had been promoted and opened up. She had never been so happy since she graduated from junior high school. Wan County was a new town in Jiangnan, and it was very prosperous. It was a land of fish and rice with mountains and lakes. Therefore, she was like a prisoner who had been pardoned and enjoyed herself here.
At that time, the ordinary people in Wan County were occupied by the left-leaning people (including the grassroots party organizations in Director Wang) and under the policy of "three red flags"(the general line, the Great Leap Forward, and the people's commons). Part of the production and life were not as prosperous as in the early days of the liberation. Many capable people with lofty ideals went to the provincial capital, Steel City, Rice City, and other large industrial cities in the recruitment and recruitment process, or went to the local industrial Urban area to find employment. All of a sudden, thousands of agricultural population poured into large, medium, and small cities! However, after 1963, the Party Central Committee's six-character policy of 'adjust, consolidate, and improve' was introduced. Following the emergence of the urban free market and the implementation of policies such as the allocation of private land in rural areas, workers from Beijing, Shanghai, and as small as Wan County began to be demoted again.
In particular, the largest county-level state-owned textile factory in Wan County, which had thousands of people under the Great Leap Forward, was the first to be demoted. The old class monitor Niu Zhigai and other students were also demoted from the Wan County Iron and Steel Factory. This famous Jiangnan city of the Great Leap Forward, which had been famous for its steel industry for a while, had also started to stop production and rectify various enterprises. In fact, compared with the neighboring provinces, cities, counties, and towns, the people of Wan County Town were generally in dire straits.
Even after this move, Xing Zhong had accompanied Jian Mei around the town, but she still felt that it was an ancient and prosperous county town that she had never seen before! And some of the people she met (excluding her father's students who had registered for Wan County Normal University from her hometown and her male classmates) seemed to have endless money and were spending it freely. Some of them came from the free market, some were locals who did business, and so on. They were relatives and friends of Xingzhong.
Back then, the girlfriends that Xingzhong had introduced to her in the small town were all dressed very beautifully. When they stretched out their hands, they were fair and tender (she always felt that her peasant background was too dark). They did not show any signs of hard work, and they were always smiling. From the beginning to the end, they did not talk about stupid things like how difficult their lives were. As for the man Jianmei met, oh-how exciting! They were completely different from the men in her hometown. They had always been fighting for time to watch movies, dramas, circus performances, and listen to local flower drum performances with her. Everyone kept complimenting her and praising her, as if she was a beauty that everyone was vying for.
Those men were as rough and active as Xing Zhong. Their eyes were always alert, as though they were accustomed to the dangers of the mountains; They seemed to have no past or future. Sometimes, Jian Mei would casually ask them about what they had done in the past and where they were, but they would always be vague and unwilling to tell her. Jian Mei found this very strange. When she was in Shandong Province, whenever she met a newcomer, she would first tell them about her family background and resume.
Although these people were boorish, they were all taciturn and always had to weigh their words carefully. Sometimes, when Xingzhong was alone and chatting with his friends, Jian Mei would listen in the next room and hear them laugh loudly. They said many words that she did not understand and mentioned many unfamiliar names. The rice market, Steel City, provincial capital, bamboo and wood checkpoints, cracking down on speculation and pretending to be dead in coffins--in fact, hiding cigarettes and so on were all related to the embargoed goods at that time--they all wanted to avoid the sight of checkpoints, and so on. After Jianmei moved into the city, she still felt that these topics were inexplicable!
However, their attitudes were polite, their clothes were beautiful and fashionable, and they were obviously very polite to Jian Mei. Therefore, Jian Mei felt that these good friends who were in high spirits were all indifferent. At the same time, they were no exception. Their families all had tall houses, beautiful and affordable bicycles, flatbeds, sewing machines, and televisions. Student Jiang Er also had a single-lens black-and-white film camera. He traveled to the countryside and made a living by taking photos!
In addition, these exhilarated boyfriends often invited her and her husband to ride a bike, eat vegetables, attend "Da Ha" wedding ceremonies, and family entertainment activities such as singing revolutionary songs, dancing invitation dances, performing arts ensembles, etc. So Jian Mei quickly fell in love with them. When he saw that she liked them, he was happy to do anything, whether it was drawing portraits or doing voluntary work.
"I know you'll gladly accept my friends, like them!”After saying that, he laughed out loud.
"Why not?" Jian Mei had always been suspicious when she saw him laugh.
"Their classmates and friends are not like my tall female classmates who work in the court, nor are they like my male classmate Niu Zhigai. He is a first-class person who went to the Normal University to retake his studies, but a second-class and third-class businessman! None of them had a fixed salary. I admired their perseverance in 'self-reliance', which surpassed mine. However, they were all risk-takers, the so-called new aristocrats of the capitalist class. Some of these people had been doing black market business in the free market for the past two years. He had made a fortune from tobacco, sugar, and so on. They are self-employed like me, without any official state-owned or collective units. They rely solely on their skills and talent to earn legal money to survive. Some of them had had shady dealings with the former Second Labor. But now that the free market has been partially opened up and we've made a small fortune, I wonder if the Four Purities Movement will be reorganized again? It's still hard to say!"
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