Chapter 18 Section 17

I dangled around with my arms dangling, and as time passed, I gradually got used to living with one hand.One day my uncle called me: "Lu Xiaolu, I haven't given you the money yet. I agreed to send it to you." If it was someone else's money, I would have spent it long ago. I dare not spend his money. He would strip off his trousers and come to my door to ask for debts.I took the two thousand yuan to find him. Since my grandma passed away, my uncle has monopolized two big houses, aged prematurely, went bankrupt, unilaterally announced his retirement, and lived a happy life waiting to die.He still follows the ethos of the self-employed in the city in the late 1980s, wearing a patterned and striped pajamas, lying on the recliner, looking up to the sky with satisfaction.I also looked up and saw the leaves and white clouds above the yard, and teased: "Uncle, last time you asked me to shovel coal, you are so free now, why don't you shovel coal yourself?" He took a sip and said, "I'm already successful and famous, so I don't need to struggle anymore. You are different. Shoveling coal is good for you."

"Your store has been confiscated." I said. "I have already earned all the money I should have earned, and I still have more than 100,000 in bank deposits. I have the right to lie down." My uncle said, "As for the video store you mentioned, let me tell you that the VCD era has come. No one will rent video tapes anymore. I gave the video store to that woman. Now she is losing money every day, and she is so worried, but she is not willing to burn the video tapes in that room and spend money to buy VCDs. She doesn't have the economic IQ, she just spreads her thighs and plays fairy dance."

"From what you mean, are you planning to rent out VCDs?" "No rental. VCDs are very expensive, and now is the most profitable time. I plan to sell discs." I shook my head and didn't take it seriously.Of course my uncle is right. He is very business minded. Over a long period of time, he has predicted various economic trends, such as reselling food stamps, selling cigarettes, selling clothing, reselling chemical raw materials, and buying original stocks. , opened schools and factories, organized demolition teams, and even sold guns and drugs.His world is full of opportunities. Since 1979, he has told his relatives who work in various state-owned enterprises in his family. The relatives are terrified and wait for him to make a fortune.However, he did not seize too many opportunities-he proved from two directions that the world is colorful and the world is changing too fast.

I found a lot of VCD discs at my uncle's house, but I don't have a machine, so I don't know how he can watch them.My uncle said: "With your two thousand yuan, I can buy a machine." I thought to myself, the so-called more than 100,000 yuan in the bank is probably another fart. He is used to deceiving people, but in fact he has already gone bankrupt. I still remember when I was in technical school, my uncle opened a video store. At that time, most people with video recorders at home were rich and trendy. They were not satisfied with feature films on cable TV, nor did they bother to be in a dirty video room. Had a blast, had to get an on-demand system at home, and while the tapes were terrible (many were ripped), that was enough to set them apart, they had a mysterious self-contained world in which my uncle was a magician.During those years, he was well respected, and his Hong Kong and Hollywood action films were always amazing. In the dark where the sun never shines, he also lent some porn for free, won the Beyond Magician He is almost a magician, he can be said to be the most powerful necromancer, he makes people want to die.I once borrowed two boxes, but I didn't dare to read them at his house (my grandma is still alive), so I had to take them to my classmates' house, and seven or eight of them got together to open their eyes.In that coarse-grained work that has faded after countless reprints, the young girl Ai Iijima used her body image to polish a group of teenagers into crystal clear and smooth.I remember this because I wanted to know what a woman was like so much that I reached a point I would never forget.Ai Iijima faded coarse grain. (After she died, I think she became a starry sky with coarse grains, a naked nebula.) However, the era of video tapes suddenly disappeared, just like the economic crisis suddenly came, and clearer VCDs swept the world. This time China caught up With a global pace, there will be no off-duty work in the future, and even more movies than Americans, because here are all pirated copies, which are cheap and affordable.Later, I met a sister who studied film. When she was young, she saved more than a thousand videotapes. Later, she scrapped them all and changed them to VCDs. Later, she changed them to DVDs and Blu-rays. She didn’t stop until the era of Internet downloads came. .Later she went to Germany, and the Germans saw her turn on the computer as a Chinese, and immediately warned her not to download things illegally, as doing so in Germany would lead to imprisonment.So she went back to traditional movie theaters.This is very similar to the changes of the times that I have experienced. In order to gain a sense of reality, the past things and thoughts must be scrapped completely, completely, inside and out.

One day Lao Yang called me to Xiao Su's house and saw a newly bought audio equipment with VCD function.Lao Yang bought the machine with money, and since becoming a pesticide salesman, Lao Yang has earned money.I asked him, "Why don't you put it in your own home?" Lao Yang said don't mention it. On the day I bought the VCD, the daughter of Mrs. Wan's house upstairs happened to see it. She went into his bedroom for three days and carried a bunch of discs. , all Hong Kong and Taiwan romance films.This girl is about to graduate from technical secondary school, has no job, no boyfriend, and has a lot of time and mood.Lao Yang could only let her watch the film in the bedroom, and he glanced at it himself, and found it very boring. Among them was "Fallen Angels" directed by Wong Kar-wai, which was also very boring. Suddenly, when he saw Li Jiaxin masturbating, he groaned with resentment , both of them were stunned. (Lao Yang said that the girl must have masturbated too, otherwise she wouldn’t understand.) Later, even Lao Yang’s father lay on the crack of the door to watch the situation, thinking that the girl was using porn to seduce Lao Yang—this is terrible, Mrs. Wan Laid off, Lao Wan is on sick leave, the girl has no job, if Yang Chi really sleeps with her, Wan's family can come to Yang's for dinner.Lao Yang's father didn't dare to disturb the girl. He was afraid that she would shout, so he rushed out and pulled the electric switch at home.The girl took the disc and slipped away.

Both Xiaosu and I burst out laughing.I said, "I want to watch that movie too." Lao Yang turned on the TV, plugged in the VCD, and explained, "When the switch is pulled down, the movie won't come out, and the girl ran away. So the movie is always there." Inside the machine." We hurriedly got together and took the time to watch Li Jiaxin masturbate.After watching for a while, Xiao Su suddenly sighed and walked away. "He's a virgin, he can't look at this." Lao Yang explained again, stretching out two fingers and making a nosebleed gesture at me.

Since then, I have become a disc fan, watching movies at Xiaosu's house every day, and continue to recover from my injuries.Naturally, the job search was put on hold, and I felt that I had become a literary artist all of a sudden. There were people playing mahjong everywhere, and my way of entertainment was very different from others.After setting an example, until the new century, the whole of China is watching movies at home. This is a later story. I went to find my uncle again, and his disc store had opened, and I almost laughed out loud when I went to see it.He borrowed a corner of a shoe store run by a friend, and used two cardboard boxes to set up a small counter to sell discs.It was a very lively and dilapidated city entrance, with traffic jams, pedestrians running around, small restaurants and individual clothing stalls everywhere, and not a single policeman in sight, which is very suitable for fishing in troubled waters.In front of my uncle's booth, there are all buttocks, all pouted and picking dishes.When he saw me, he immediately dragged me over, asked me to take care of the dish stand for him for a while, and then ran to the toilet by himself.

Soon an old man came and looked at me anxiously, but didn't speak.I was busy doing business and introducing videos, but the old man couldn't bear it anymore, he grabbed me and asked, "Where is the original stall owner?" "Go to the bathroom, that's my uncle." "My disc is set, he has to give it to me." The old man said mysteriously. I knew it when I saw the dark circles under his eyes.When my uncle came over, he pulled the old man into the alley at the back of the shoe store, gave him a bag of discs, and he left solemnly.I said, "He can eat meat tonight." My uncle said, "How can he have meat? It's just up to people to eat meat."

In the videotape era, my uncle didn't sell this kind of thing, only a few copies circulated in a small circle.Because the control was tight at that time, the crime of selling yellow belts was very serious, and the "severe crackdown" and "elimination of spiritual pollution" on the wheel could be very severe.In the era of VCD, my uncle finally started this business. According to the national law, he must be sentenced, but the streets are full of people who sell pornography, and they are all from other places. The probability of being caught is very small.The police generally don't like to take care of such fluffy things. They have to "sweep pornography and illegal activities" before they focus on rectification.My uncle knew a lot of policemen and was well-informed. Later, all the disc sellers on that street regarded my uncle as a news tree.

My uncle settled an account for me and made me admire him.The price in 1997: the purchase price of ordinary films is 8 yuan (two discs), and the selling price is 15 yuan. It's a little bit of a rip-off, selling for forty-five yuan, and if you meet a very, very, very hungry person, you can buy 20 films at once, and you can get a 10% discount.The profit margin is much higher than that of normal discs.Marx said that for a profit of 200%, capitalists can die.Not to mention capitalists, I would rather die.There is no exception.I said, "In that case, why don't you just sell pornography exclusively."

My uncle said: "Then the police will come to me soon. After all, I have a fixed place of business. I have to stand on the overpass to sell pornographic films. When the police come, I have to run. I am old and have a broken leg. I ran away." Not fast. You can." I said, "My arm was broken too." "It's just right if you have a broken hand. Those who specialize in pornography are like this. They have incomplete features, disabled limbs, or they just want to hold a child." My uncle said, "Like your usual ugly crab shell, who would dare to ask you to buy pornography? What if you are selling fakes?" "There are fake ones?" "When I played it at home, I found out that it was a martial arts movie. It was too hard. It was very disappointing. I didn't dare to turn around and trouble you." If you use martial arts movies to pretend to be pornographic discs, I calculated that the profit rate is 1,000%.It's not easy for people who buy pornography. They don't have a happy sex life, or don't have it at all. We can't trap those desperate people. My uncle pushed me to walk around the streets, which is of course a bad idea, and my mother would have killed him if he knew about it.My mother would rather I shovel coal.But I had a thought at that time, I had to save some money to buy a train ticket to find Baozhu.I already owe Yang Chi and Xiao Su hundreds of dollars, and I have too few friends, so I can't find anyone else to borrow from.The 400% profit makes me jealous. I invest 200 yuan and sell it quickly. With the capital turnover rate and high profit, I can earn 2,000 yuan a month (accounting is not in vain). I asked my uncle, "Can you sell me some porn?" My uncle said: "Yes, you can wholesale from me, 15 yuan per disc, pay in cash, and start batching from 20." I said, "You're too good at business, right? I'm your nephew. Take a few discs and sell them. If I can't sell them, I'll come back and settle the bill with you." "What if you are captured?" "Fuck. Ten yuan a piece, I'll pay in cash, right?" "Don't do it, you can buy the goods yourself." My uncle said, "I don't want to do your business either. You look fierce, but you are actually the most cowardly. You were very cowardly when you were in kindergarten. If I supply you, you will be punished." If you catch me in, you will be the first to confess me." "You're a fucking coward!" I yelled angrily.
My uncle gave me an address, almost impersonal, in a small city fifty kilometers away, and I had to take a coach to get there.In view of my broken hand, Xiao Su agreed to accompany me, but Yang Chi went to Huashui County again at that time, but he couldn't find anyone. On the day I went, it rained lightly, and the sky could not be brightened, staying at five or six o'clock in the morning.A brand new bus, the dark blue windows made the outside scenery even more gloomy, and there were not many people in the bus.Before we sat down, there was a middle-aged man holding an ear pick and standing in the aisle picking his ears.Xiao Su stopped very cautiously, and only walked to the seat after he finished digging and sat down. "What does that mean?" I asked. Xiao Su whispered that in his hometown, there are often such people who pick their ears near the train station.You walk by him, you don’t know whether you hit him or he hit you, anyway, he will fall down, bleeding from an ear, saying that you poked his ear pick into his brain, at this time Seven or eight people will come around and ask you to pay that person thousands of dollars to see a doctor. It is impossible for you to slip away.Xiao Su is very wary of people who pick their ears on the street. I was stunned.Xiao Su said that there are too many places to run, and she is a little suspicious, but in fact, this is not good.I asked Xiao Su if this was something he had personally experienced.Xiao Su said that what happened when she returned home during the Spring Festival, she was blackmailed thousands of times as soon as she got off the train.There are all kinds of deceptions in the local area, ranging from wrapping potatoes in preserved eggs to investing thousands of dollars. In fact, this is the case all over the country, not just his hometown. We talked a little more about Lao Yang.Although the pesticide salesman can earn some money, the risk is very high. Not long ago, a salesman in the factory went to other places to deliver goods, charged a truckload of pesticides, and went to the company to collect the money. The local boss treated the salesman to a meal. , and then said that we would go to the bank to withdraw money together. When we arrived at the bank at four o'clock in the afternoon, we found that it was closed.The salesman turned around and found that the accompanying person had slipped away. Knowing that something was wrong, he rushed to the company to see that the truck was still there, the pesticides were gone, and the company was gone, just like Liaozhai.The salesman had no choice but to go back to the factory. According to the Japanese rules, he should commit suicide by caesarean section. According to the Chinese rules, he had no choice but to call the police and let him be laid off.This kind of thing abounds, and it is not surprising to say it, but it is often lamented that the IQ of the deceived is too low, and they look at a very simple question, but they answer it wrong. I said, "It's still safe to be a laboratory technician." Xiao Su looked at me and stopped talking.I said: "I don't mean to be shabby for you." Xiao Su said: "I really think it's a waste of youth to be in a pesticide factory. I want to take the postgraduate entrance examination next year and go back to Beijing." I said: "You are right, Daicheng is nothing Meaning. But you’re gone, what about the dog?” Xiao Su said, “It’s a troublesome thing. My cousin gave birth to a son. She was happy and raised a big dog. Now this pug belongs to me completely. I want What's the use of it, why don't I give it to you." I said, "I can't even support myself." After driving for more than an hour, the car stopped in a desolate place.Xiao Su looked ahead and said, "There are car bandits and road tyrants." All the people in the car suddenly became nervous. The driver opened the car door, and two wet people came up. One stood at the car door, the other raised his hand and counted the heads, and said, "There are a little less people. Let's pay one hundred each." I have to explain that it was 1997, the most rampant era of car bandits and road tyrants in China.There are their figures on every road. I used to think that they would always exist. One day when I was on the road, I was too old to be able to restrain the chicken, or I just forgot to bring money, and they robbed them and killed them. Throw it on the side of the road.As long as you go out, you will inevitably encounter them.Some of them are bandits, some are simply poor peasants with rusty knives, but poor peasants with rusty knives are just as likely to kill you without mercy.Once, I saw a poor man with a disheveled face and a kitchen knife blocking the dilapidated road and robbing all passing vehicles.Speaking of it, it was really an era when everyone could go to the street to collect tickets with a kitchen knife, and the joy was dead. Xiaosu and I paid for it.That person took the money, and didn't even bother to look at me. In his heart, he must think that I dare not resist, and I really dare not, my arm is broken.That's certainly a good reason, and in fact, even if I didn't break my hand, I wouldn't want to be stabbed by a desperado for a hundred dollars.The car drove for ten minutes, and the robber said, "Stop." The driver obeyed, and they jumped out of the car and left.I said to the driver: "Please, can you stop parking next time?" The driver said: "I can't help it. I run this line every day. There are old and young at home." The fellow car said: "I think You fucking colluded with them to steal money." The driver said: "Don't say that, or I will stop again and call them up, and you can ask me clearly?" The people in the same car didn't dare to say anything, and waited for the car to drive out. After a while, he yelled again and again, the driver seemed deaf and dumb. The car stopped in the city and arrived at the station. Xiao Su and I stood in the drizzle to identify the direction.This small town is not as large as Dai City, but the atmosphere is extremely wild. There are solid buildings everywhere, and each building is a huge commodity wholesale market. Billboards in the rain are like overturned poker, hanging flags Forced into view with the banner.In this kind of weather, Daicheng is deserted and cold, like a girl with a cold, and the place where I stopped seems to have taken the wrong medicine. Stars and models on countless billboards stared at us condescendingly, we asked for directions, but no one knew where the place was, but Xiao Su seemed to have a keen sense of smell, pointing to a black building in the distance and said: "It seems to be there. " Xiao Su is a lucky person. When we walked into that building, we saw all VCD discs.That wasn't actually the address my uncle gave me, but we got it right.Xiao Su picked out the disc, and I pulled him away. "Aren't you going to buy?" "That's not what I'm going into." In fact, I have never told Xiao Su that what I want to buy is pornography, pornography, and contraband.My main concern is that he's a virgin and won't be able to handle this.At this time, a long-haired girl walked up to Xiao Su and whispered, "Want a porn disc?" She was quite good-looking, wearing a short skirt, and had a pair of big breasts, rubbing against Xiao Su's arm.Xiao Su's arm seemed to be shot, so she quickly said, "No, no, no." When it was on, she felt strange, looked down and said: "Oh, you have a plaster cast, no wonder it is so hard." I thought to myself, damn it, is it hard or not, it makes people feel a little embarrassed.This girl talks too wildly. We followed her up the stairs to the fifth floor, only to find it empty and poorly lit.The girl is very talkative, she first introduced her product advantages to us: You have found the right person, my disc is the best in this building.Then she said: Hey, looking at the two of you, you really don't look like wholesalers. "What's that like?" I asked. "Like a retail customer." I turned my head and didn't react.Xiao Su whispered, "She's scolding us." "It means we're both sexually depressed like watching porn?" "yes." "I don't look like you, you do." The girl led us into a long corridor with windows on both sides, making it a little brighter.I went around again, went to a room, opened a scrapped refrigerator, and there were packs of plastic bags full of dishes. "The minimum batch is fifty, the wholesale price is ten yuan, and the retail price is thirty yuan. They are all genuine, and I will not deceive you. European and American or Japanese, you decide." "Isn't the retail price forty?" I asked. "The price was lowered last week," the girl said shaking her head, "Now the streets are full of DVD sellers." In such a short time, my profits fell by a third.These days, I am also like a farmer, and must rush to harvest in autumn.I asked her if the wholesale price could be cheaper.She refused, saying that once this thing is banned, it cannot be produced, and the wholesale price will not only not fall, but will rise, just like drugs.Her questions and answers are sophisticated, it seems that she has been in this line for a long time.Obviously, the big breasts just now confused me, making me mistakenly think that there is a pornographic relationship between me and her, but in fact we are just a business relationship. Xiao Su's face was flushed red all the time, with an embarrassed smile on her face.Afterwards, I deliberately laughed at him, Guixiang has produced the kind of liars who knocked out their ears and fell to the ground, why would you be embarrassed when you see pornographic discs, this is not like a talented student in Guixiang.Xiao Su said: "I have nothing to do with my hometown. I lived in Daicheng when I was young, and went to Beijing to study at university when I grew up." I said, "Haven't you seen pornography in Beijing?" Xiao Su said: "I watched a video tape once when I was in college, but there is no disc." He really saw it, and it shouldn't be so rare.Xiao Su said, don’t mention it, it was in the video room of the university. One night, a classmate took him in, and pornographic tapes were secretly playing inside, and many boys sat down to watch.He felt that this thing was harmful to his physical and mental health, and wanted to sneak away, but as a man, he always had an instinct to learn from bad things, even if it was curiosity.So we sat down to watch together, but unexpectedly, after reading the beginning, someone reported it, and the people in charge of the school rushed in to search, and all the boys were taken away, and they took off their belts and hung them around their necks like they were prisoners. The pair of hand trousers is very ugly to eat.The leader was fired the next day, and the rest of the staff waited for a report to name and criticize, including Xiao Su's name. The usually polite child, who looked so well educated, suddenly became a sex maniac watching pornographic videos.After that, I never dared to touch that thing again. I'm only interested in another question. "Have you read the beginning? How much is the beginning? Have you stripped it all?" "That movie was stripped from the beginning." "Is it plugged in?" "Not yet." Xiao Su laughed. "You can watch the whole set when you go home tonight." I said with a wicked smile. I bought fifty discs that day, invested all of my only five hundred dollars, and gave up my fame for the first time.The big-breasted girl liked my boldness and Xiaosu's shyness very much. She even gave me two discs, saying that these are very beautiful, and they cannot be bought or sold.I thought it was her starring role, but when I went home, I almost went crazy, it was two men.Reminiscent of her looking at me and Xiaosu with malicious eyes at that time, she must have thought that we were in that kind of relationship.It's his eldest sister's. I later approached her for wholesale.I shipped very quickly, which is my good luck. In the first half of my life, this business was the only one that was smooth sailing, but unfortunately it was illegal.The big-breasted girl got acquainted with me, so she asked, "Why didn't that guy come last time?" I said, I was scared by you, and I went home to watch the two men spoofing on the DVD, what are you doing.She said: "Just kidding." She later told me a lot of her own stories. She was abandoned by one man, two men, three men, and finally she lost her mind and ran to Here to wholesale yellow discs.She also does tertiary films, and she doesn't shy away from the two men's out-of-the-ordinary stuff. She thinks it's good, and it's a kind of revenge to lead the men to bad. "Not really," I said. "You're the one who brings good news to men." "Really." She was a little complacent, and then looked at my face, and felt that I was shabby for her, so she said, "Everyone, you have also brought the gospel to men. This sacrifice is too great, let me tell you, the big porn seller Some of them are women, do you know why?" I shook my head, I don't know. "Because men can't help but watch movies. You are a wholesaler. Every movie is the same. You have to watch each one. Hehe, you will become a cripple." She is a good person, and she often tells me: watch less, take care of your health, watch for a long time, when you don't even want to watch, you won't fall in love with any girl.At this time, I discovered that she was not a girl, but a very sensible mature woman.But I never told her, in fact, I put the disc at Xiao Su's house, and no one cares about him.As for whether Xiao Su watched all the pornographic films, I don't know.It was true that he got into trouble later on.