"Uncle Liu, Uncle Li, please sit down a little longer, I'm going up!"
After finishing the meal and saying hello, Sun Jian went upstairs with the bowl.
After more than twenty minutes of warm-up, the adults didn't notice any changes in him? Jingo's timidity disappeared. When he came back last Saturday, he also chatted with the adults in the same way. After eating, he went up to take a shower and change clothes.
Mother would come down, so she didn't bring the armchair and cattail leaf fan up.
In 1956, Jianggang was launched. In order to solve the problem of the first batch of Jianggang builders having no houses to live in as soon as possible, within two years, one street and 11th street were built in Luojiadun, all with three-story red buildings and wooden floors. and inner balcony.
The three-story red building was designed by Soviet experts. It focused on keeping warm and saving energy. There was obviously insufficient ventilation and lighting. There was no living room. Every twelve red buildings formed a neighborhood and were arranged in a rectangular shape. Each red building had three floors, and three families lived on each floor. .
The cement staircase is in the middle. The total area on the left and right sides is about the same. They share the corridor. On the right side of the first floor is a house with two and a half bedrooms and a living room. On the left side is a second apartment with one bedroom and a living room.
The Li family occupies a two-bedroom and a half-living room on the right side of the second floor. The Sun family occupies a one-bedroom and one-living room on the left side of the stairs on the second floor. The neighbor is also Uncle Huang, a colleague of his parents.
The cement floor on the first floor is a bit humid during the rainy season. The third floor is worried about roof leakage, so the second floor is the best choice for residents.
Uncle Li is the oldest person in this building, and Sun's father is the oldest person in each room.
The floors on the second and third floors were made of wood and covered with planks. At that time, there was a lot of waste and there was a lack of cement and steel bars, but there was no shortage of wood. The roof was also made of wood and covered with red tiles, red bricks and red tiles. , one red building after another rises from the ground; the dormitories of Jiangcheng Health School are also made of the same material, and the dormitories of Jiangcheng Staff Medical College are also made of the same material. Most of the houses built in the 1950s are like this.
These red buildings are prone to fire. Sun's father told Sun Jian that in the 1960s, a fire suddenly broke out in the red building in the 11th neighborhood during the day. Then the water supply was cut off, and three red buildings were burned down before his eyes! After learning from the experience, the residents became particularly careful when using fire in the future, and no major fires have occurred since then.
The wooden floor is moisture-proof, but if a basin of water is accidentally splashed on the floor, the downstairs will become a water curtain hole. Twenty-seven years have passed since these red buildings were built. When adults step on them, they will make a crunching sound, which can be heard downstairs. It is very clear that if there are children jumping upstairs, dust will fall downstairs, and the sound insulation effect is not good. A quarrel downstairs will be heard clearly upstairs. Loud conversations in the middle of the night can be heard upstairs and downstairs.
Two years later, when the Sun family moved to another house, they asked the employees of the Jianggang Housing Management Office to shovel off the plaster on their heads and re-scrape the plaster. The wooden floors were also re-scraped and painted. The house was repainted before they moved in. .
The Red Building is the property of Jianggang. The Sun family only has the right to live in it. Sun's father does not need to pay for repairs. He has to pay for the decoration himself. There is no need to pay property fees, but he needs to pay rent and sanitation fees, as well as water and electricity bills. Later, after the gas pipeline was installed, the gas fee was added.
After graduating from technical secondary school, my family started using a gas stove. The gas was produced by Jianggang's coking, but I still like to use a coal stove when making soup to save gas.
Today, with rapid changes, Jianggang's profits are booming. Jianggang supports 300,000 to 400,000 people, with food and drink, hospitals and schools, and supplies distributed in all seasons. The Sun family's two-employee family does not need to buy new year's goods during the Chinese New Year. The factory provides them with everything. Get ready. Jiangcheng is famous for its good welfare. Enterprises run the society and many things are free.
Last year during the Chinese New Year, during the winter vacation, Sun Jian and Sun Yuan went to pick up the New Year supplies (two portions), including four pounds of beef, two chickens, four pounds of lean meat, two pounds of pork belly, two pounds of minced meat, four cans of canned meat, twenty A preserved egg and a pound of yuba.
In the 1990s, after the housing reform, the Sun family began to pay property fees.
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"Brother!"
The door was open and she heard the footsteps of her eldest brother. Sun Yuan, with wet hair, used a cattail leaf fan to drive away mosquitoes. He opened the screen door, took the bowl from his eldest brother, put it in his mother's hand, and then lay on the desk to do his homework and listened. With the sound of running water, Sun Shun took a cold shower in the toilet.
In this era, ordinary households did not yet use water heaters.
They boil water and take hot baths. Sun's father and grandson's mother are all covered in gray and sweat when they go to work. They come back from hot baths in the factory. In winter, Sun Jian's three brothers and sisters sometimes follow their parents to the factory to take hot baths. , bathhouse pool, and showers.
Although it was not the hot summer yet, Sun's father and his two sons had already started taking cold baths. Sun's mother and Yuanyuan heated hot water on the stove and sat in the bathtub to wash.
The ceiling fan in the living room whirred.
After closing the screen door and turning around, everything in front of me was exactly the same as when I came back last weekend, but Sun Jian's mentality had changed!
The entrance is the living room and dining room, as well as the room of the three brothers and sisters. It is about 18 square meters. There is a chest of drawers against the wall in front, a 14-inch Yingge brand black and white TV in the middle, and a pedestal on the left side of the TV. The clock and the pendulum made a tinkling sound; a high and low iron bed was placed against the wall on the right side. My father welded it with leftover materials in the factory and covered it with fir boards. On the top was a single bunk for Sun Yuan to sleep, and below. The double bunk where Sun Jian and Sun Shun slept was like that for most families with one bedroom and one living room and multiple children.
There is a square table in the middle next to the bed, and there are five square stools under the table (five more are placed in the parents' bedroom). It serves as a dining table, and when covered with a newspaper, it becomes Sun Yuan's desk.
There is a wardrobe near the bed, where the three siblings put their clothes.
There is a desk under the window to the right of the door. This is where Sun Shun studied. If Sun Shun was not out from school, Sun Yuan would do his homework there. It was on this desk that Sun Jian studied and passed the technical secondary school. , the paint on the desk began to peel off.
To the left is a small kitchen by the door, with the range hood facing the corridor. Next to it is a toilet and shower room that can only hold a bathtub, and the air outlet faces the stairs.
The bedroom inside is the parents' room, and there is an inner balcony to the north for drying clothes. Outside is Gangcheng No. 7 Road, a two-way two-lane. In this era, there were very few motor vehicles, and not many cars could pass by in one night.
The Lotus brand single-cylinder washing machine is placed outside the toilet.
The Sun family does not yet have a refrigerator. Firstly, it consumes too much electricity. Secondly, it is too expensive. Thirdly, it is not very useful. Now the Sun family only eats meat three times a week and only makes soup once at the end of the month. How can they have extra chicken, duck, and fish to freeze? Buying groceries and cooking meals every day are estimated based on the number of people. The more parents have is time, the less is money! He won't buy a bunch of vegetables at once, and there won't be any extra leftovers. Even if Sun Jian doesn't go home on the weekend, he will use an enamel basin, add about two centimeters of cold water, and put the leftovers into his enamel face. The basin is immersed in water and covered with gauze to prevent mice from eating it and prevent it from going rancid.
