Show off your skills again

There are five of Zhou Bingkun's friends who have played well together over the years. Together with Zhou Bingkun, they are collectively referred to as "Six Little Gentlemen!"

Xiao Guoqing, Sun Qianchao, Zhou Bingkun, Cao Debao, Tang Xiangyang, Lu Chuan!

These five people include his childhood friends who grew up with him, and colleagues who worked together with him.

We all became acquainted, became close friends, and finally each married a wife and had children. This friendship has never faded.

This kind of pure friendship without substance is very precious in these difficult times.

Since the early 1970s, everyone has made an appointment to get together every year on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

In the past few years, several of them have begun to bring their girlfriends and wives to parties one after another. Although the number of people has increased, the party has never stopped.

This tradition lasted until 1977.

That is to say, this year, China began to resume the college entrance examination. Through their own efforts, Tang Xiangyang and Lu Chuan were admitted to different universities and started their new lives.

As for Xiao Guoqing, Sun Qianchao, Zhou Bingkun, and Cao Debao, these four people are all masters who don't like to study and continue to hang out in factories.

Starting from this year, the future of the six people will take a completely different destiny.

The lives of Tang Xiangyang and Lu Chuan began to move forward, but the lives of Xiao Guoqing and others were completely underestimated and finally reached a dead end!

The fate of these four people was very miserable in Zhou Bingkun's memory!

Sun Qianchao was seriously ill in middle age and had no money for medical treatment. In order not to burden his family, he chose to commit suicide by lying on the train!

Xiao Guoqing was later laid off. His father needed to take medicine all the year round. The pressure and burden of life made him breathless. His two sisters also did not get married as they wished. In the end, the family of nine squeezed into the nine-square-meter cabin and survived by eking out a living.

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Cao Debao's family is very poor. After getting married, he has been living in his wife Qiao Chunyan's house. He is considered a semi-son-in-law. The couple are both smart people. They live a comfortable life with their little calculations. However, the couple spends every day worrying about oil.

Salt, firewood, rice, still noisy!

As for Zhou Bingkun, the ending was just like that. He worked hard to raise his adopted son Zhou Nan, and even sent him to Tsinghua University. However, his biological father found him and directly corrupted the child with money.

Zhou Bingkun chose to let go for the sake of his child's future, and his biological father Luo Shibin chose to let Zhou Nan study abroad. As a result, on the eve of his return to the United States, he was shot and taken away by a black man for zero yuan!

Zhou Bingkun collapsed and went to Luo Shibin for the theory. As a result, he accidentally beat Luo Shibin to death. He got a silver bracelet and collected soap for nine years!

He also raised his second sister Zhou Rong's children for ten years, and served his parents with all his heart and soul for his eldest brother Zhou Bingyi. Almost the entire Zhou family's responsibilities fell on him.

In short, the second half of Zhou Bingkun's life was so miserable that it can be called a bitter history for middle-aged people!

If it hadn't been for Zheng Juan, who had been silently supporting him from behind, Zhou Bingkun's ending would have been even more tragic than this!

As for Lu Chuan and Tang Xiangyang, who were admitted to university, one became an engineer and the other entered politics. They both have bright futures.

And now, life has once again reached the crossroads of seventy-seven years!

Several people met at a state-owned hotel. Xiao Guoqing's wife Wu Qian works as a waiter in this hotel, so it is convenient for everyone to get together here.

When we arrived at the hotel, several other people had already arrived. Everyone was cracking melon seeds, their faces beaming with joy, and chatting about interesting things about the New Year.

A few people today have not experienced the cruelty of life. They rarely talk about the hardships of life, but talk about interesting things in life and work.

Chen Can's arrival caused several people to boo. Cao Debao's wife Qiao Chunyan even stood up, held Chen Can's hand affectionately, and asked him to tell him about repairing the radio for Xiao Guoqing.

Everyone was talking about this topic just now. When Xiao Guoqing talked about it, he was like dragons and phoenixes, and he praised Zhou Bingkun to the sky. But obviously, these people didn't believe that Zhou Bingkun had such ability.

Qiao Chunyan is Zhou Bingkun's neighbor. The two grew up together. Originally, Qiao Chunyan liked Zhou Bingkun, but Zhou Bingkun had no feelings for this woman, so he pushed his good brother Cao Debao to Qiao Chunyan.

Qiao Chunyan kept calling Zhou Bingkun brother, and he had a carefree personality. Even if Qiao Chunyan held Chen Can's hand, Cao Debao would not be jealous.

Chen Can was originally thinking about talking to a few people about electrical repairs today, but now that Xiao Guoqing had already talked to them, he immediately felt that this was an opportunity and sat down.

Qiao Chunyan quickly poured him a glass of water. Chen Can took a sip, put down the water glass, and then spoke.

"Everyone, I am announcing something today. From today on, please help me pay attention. If anyone around you needs to repair their radio or TV, you can come to me. Don't worry, I will charge you a friendly price!"

After Chen Can finished speaking enthusiastically, several other people, except Xiao Guoqing, looked at him with suspicion.

Cao Debao joked while eating melon seeds.

"Bingkun, if you can repair TVs, then I can definitely repair airplanes!"

The others burst out laughing, and the atmosphere was filled with joy!

It's no wonder that they don't trust Chen Can. This group of people has basically been commuting to and from get off work with Zhou Bingkun over the years. Everyone has a common circle of friends. They don't know who is from what kind of family.

Who among them doesn't know what Zhou Bingkun is?

Seeing everyone's attitude, Chen Can shook his head helplessly, wondering what reason he should find to convince them?

Just as I was thinking about it, an old aunt came over with dishes. After hearing the chatter of several people, she also came over and said.

"Oh, boy, can you really fix a TV?"

Chen Can heard the voice behind him and turned to look at the old aunt. Wu Qian, Xiao Guoqing's partner next to him, heard the voice and quickly stood up and introduced her.

"Bingkun, this is Sister Wang from the hotel. She usually takes good care of me. I said you can repair TVs. Sister Wang's TV has been broken for more than half a month. How about you help me check it out?"

Although Wu Qian didn't believe Chen Can, she thought that Sister Wang was a good person, so she still helped and said good things!

Chen Can was thinking about letting them see is believing, but he didn't expect that the opportunity would come so soon. Maybe he could make his first business!

So Chen Can coughed twice, stood up quickly and said.

"Sister Wang, that's okay! Why don't I go over and show you after dinner?"

Sister Wang immediately smiled and agreed.

When the others saw this, they immediately shouted that they would go and see Xiqi later!

Chen Can was full of confidence. He didn't expect that this first business would come so quickly!

Everyone ate this meal very quickly, everyone wanted to see Zhou Bingkun's skills.

Chen Can ate a few bites in a hurry and asked them to wait at the hotel. He hurried back home on his bicycle, took a brown tool bag from home, and hurried back again!

Since he decided to make extra money by repairing electrical appliances, Chen Can naturally would not go into battle unprepared. In the past few days, he went to several places and bought all the tools he needed to buy.

Even in order to buy some types of transistors that were not available on the market, Chen Can also relied on Cai Xiaoguang's relationship to go to the wireless factory to find some acquaintances and buy some in-house.

In this corner of the Northeast, it is almost a completely humane society. This is not only the case now, but will still be the case forty years later.

In fact, Zhou Bingkun's network of connections is not bad, but in the past, he would rather live in poverty than delve into those things.

Of course, Chen Can is not relying on those relationships to gain any benefits for himself, but he is just borrowing some favors. This kind of thing will not cause any loss to anyone.

In the past few days, Chen Can has bought all the maintenance tools and some common electronic components that he should prepare.

Although he has advanced electrical repair skills, he cannot repair a completely broken electrical appliance with his bare hands. The radio last time was just a small toy.

When they returned to the restaurant, no one had finished eating yet, so Chen Can immediately took a few more bites of hot food.

After everyone finished eating in a hurry, Sister Wang said hello and took Zhou Bingkun and others to her home.

Sister Wang's house is not far from the hotel, it only takes about ten minutes.

In this era, although there are many workers in the Northeast, not many can actually afford a TV.

Having a TV at home is also a status symbol. After all, TVs in this era are not only expensive, but also require TV tickets, which are really out of the reach of ordinary people.

But compared to other regions across the country, the TV penetration rate in Northeast China is definitely ahead of other places.

After decades of accumulation, many families have some electrical appliances. Although televisions are not common, many families have radios.

It is a pity that TV sets, which represent status, will be imported in large quantities in a few years with the reform and opening up. TV production lines that have been eliminated from abroad will be imported in large quantities, and then domestically produced TV sets will begin to enter thousands of households!

Sister Wang's husband is a small leader of a state-owned enterprise. The house at home is much better than the slums in the photo-ops. Although it has a one-bedroom and one-living room layout, the spacious and bright red brick building still makes everyone envious.

Sister Wang invited everyone into the room. At this time, everyone no longer wanted to joke around, and all looked at Chen Can.

Chen Can smiled and entered the room, and immediately saw the 12-inch black and white TV in the living room.

The 12-inch black and white TV set gave Chen Can the first impression that it was old-fashioned. In thirty years, the garbage collectors would be too lazy to pick this thing up, but now it is a good treasure.

The six little gentlemen looked at the TV with a certain amount of envy and longing.

Chen Can held the tool kit and started to get started without talking nonsense.

He first plugged in the power and turned on the TV, and a black and white snowflake appeared. What a classic picture!

After waiting for a while, a picture finally appeared on the TV. It should be a news promotional video. Unfortunately, the picture was blurry and the sound interference was severe. It was impossible to hear what was being said.

And after a while, the TV picture suddenly began to narrow, and the pictures on both sides disappeared, leaving only the center of the TV with a little picture, and the picture flickered on and off.

Others were confused and their first reaction was that the TV was broken!

Chen Can smiled. He already knew the problem without taking apart the TV.

Televisions in this era have various problems that are annoying. Many people’s televisions have some problems.

The most common problem is that when watching the TV, the images on the TV suddenly jump in various ways, the signal suddenly deteriorates, and snowflakes are flying all over the sky. There is interference in the signal, the sound is completely inaudible, and there is excessive noise and annoying buzzing.

dead!

Most people's solution is to give them a slap on the back, damn it!

Sister Wang brought a glass of water and handed it to Chen Can first. She looked at Chen Can with hesitant eyes, obviously waiting for Chen Can's answer!
To be continued...