Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 1 Li Jiankun

Wanghai County.

A small county in southeastern Zhejiang.

In late autumn, it was a cold night, and the cold wind carried the mottled smell of the old era and thickened the streets and alleys.

Twill jackets, plain cotton jackets, self-knitted sweaters, all in black, white and blue, with an occasional touch of imitation military green, are definitely the top fashions of this year.

Compared with the dignity of the people in Chengguan, the old people from the countryside are much uglier. Most of them are thinly dressed and timid, making them particularly easy to identify.

Now, the attention of people on Red Candle Road is attracted by something different.

Ming Ming was wearing a patched thin coat, with his trousers rolled down to his calves, no socks, and Jiefang shoes that symmetrically exposed his toes.

How can we take the step of not recognizing our relatives?
When he put his hands in his pockets and looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle, when he walked past an "imitation military green" person, the other person stared at him -

Where does your pride come from?

The corner of Li Jiankun's mouth curled up, trying to find a sense of superiority from his buddy?

Nonsence!

I asked my friend if he wanted [-] shares of Moutai and three apartments in Hangzhou. Hey, I can’t think about it.

You said this was just a matter of having a few drinks and taking a hot bath.

Although I have regained my youth, it is hard to feel the loss of everything I have worked hard for for many years.

Hute wanted to smoke a cigarette.

There is no need to touch the pocket anymore, it is almost bald, and only a yellow "Liberation Car" is left.

One cent at face value.

Most children in the future have never seen it, let alone know that there are "Jinggangshan" with three yuan, "yurt" with 5000 yuan, and even "Zhande City" with [-] yuan.

But don’t underestimate the purchasing power of a penny.

You know, working in a commune production team these days, a strong labor force can only count ten work points a day, which is equivalent to RMB [-] cents.

What can a penny buy?

A piece of fruit candy, an envelope, a bicycle valve skin, a pound of vegetables... went to the sea.

Of course, buying a pack of economical cigarettes is not enough.

Besides, there are no cigarette tickets.

Materials are scarce these days, so everything must be planned, and unified purchasing and marketing are implemented. Everything is inseparable from tickets.

You need food stamps to eat, cloth stamps to dress, meat stamps to buy meat, bathing stamps to take a bath... you need urine stamps to grab excrement and excrement.

The farmers don’t have it yet.

In rural areas, people eat from a big pot and don’t need food stamps. Every year, the brigade goes out of their way to issue cloth tickets, thread tickets and match tickets. If you need other tickets, you can only go shopping for them.

Li Jiankun is descended from three generations of poor farmers.

From the perspective of the main theme, this status is extremely glorious, as the saying goes, the poorer you are, the more glorious you are.

But, it’s just a mouthful of spiritual food.

"Jingle bell~"

"Come on, coal cart, watch carefully, don't get your clothes dirty!"

"Selling newspapers, selling fresh newspapers, International Table Tennis Invitational Tournament, Guo Yuehua won the men's singles championship!"

Walking around and looking around, I suddenly returned to this era, as if I had entered frames of old film. The colors were hazy, and even the sound had a sense of distortion.

Watching this era from TV series and seeing it with your own eyes are completely different things.

On the streets, stilted buildings and red brick houses are mixed with each other. Cement is still a very luxury industrial product. Most brick houses are built with lime sand.

Next to the dilapidated road curb, wooden poles were scattered and swaying, and overhead wires were tangled like a spider web.

Cars are rarely seen on the road. If there are any, they are green trucks. There is no traffic command post. Instead, there is a three-meter-high security post at the roundabout in the center of the county.

The people inside wearing white uniforms are not the navy.

Without stopping, Li Jiankun arrived at the meeting point he had made an appointment with someone——

County Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

The two guys came out of school today, planning to find something very important.

But it mainly depends on the one who has not yet appeared.

Li Jiankun just guessed that that thing had long since disappeared from the market.

As for what it is, the big speaker outside the supply and marketing cooperative has revealed the mystery:

“…This year, major reforms have been carried out in the enrollment work of colleges and universities. Workers, farmers, educated youth who have gone to the mountains and countryside or returned to their hometowns, demobilized soldiers, cadres, and recent high school graduates who meet the enrollment requirements can voluntarily sign up… "It's 1977, early November.

No news is more important than this.

The resumption of the college entrance examination after a ten-year absence is both exciting and hasty. There is only more than a month left before the exam.

But Li Jiankun, a recent high school graduate, didn't even have a review material.
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I squatted under the roof of the Soviet-style County Supply and Marketing Cooperative for about half an hour.

The friend finally showed up.

A [-]-year-old bike that is [-]% new does not have the coolness of a libertine, nor the arrogance of a pretty girl who rings the bell on purpose.

The results are obvious.

"Jiankun, it's gone!

"My uncle said that there were a few old books at home, but they were borrowed half a month ago."

Next to Li Jiankun, there was a dejected guy.

His appearance was largely not because he didn't review the materials himself, but because he failed to get them for Li Jiankun.

Originally, he had no intention of taking the exam at all. He was purely encouraged by Li Jiankun.

Otherwise, with his father's connections in two commune and team companies, it wouldn't be a big problem to act when the news first started.

Isn't it because Li Jiankun didn't make the trip?

The fair and clean young man's surname is Wang, and he has an unconventional name called "Shanhe".

Why do you say that?

This name is too big for a rural area.

As long as you call it "river", it's okay, but it can only represent water. What is the concept of mountains and rivers?

That is the country, the world!
But it's obvious that this guy can hold his own.He said he didn't believe it, but Li Jiankun always felt that Wang Shanhe had great wisdom, and his wisdom seemed like foolishness.

If a person does not fight or grab, he may have many things or not, but in the end he will have everything.

Can you say that such people are not smart?
The two grew up in the same village. Later, Wang's father started a commune enterprise and moved the family to the town for the convenience of work.

Wang Shanhe parked his bicycle and said with a sad face:

"Jiankun, to be honest, I still don't believe it. With our level, even if we get the review materials, we can make a difference by just chewing on them for a month? Is it that simple?"

Li Jiankun said to you in his heart, "Don't take me with you. After all, my brother has been around for a few more decades and is easy to kill."

Having said that, if it were this time in the previous life, there would indeed be very little ink in the stomach.

He wants to learn, but no one is teaching him.

Let’s just talk about their school. The usual schedule for a day is to read the newspaper in the morning, participate in collective labor in the afternoon, and then go to bed when it gets dark.

Learn a hammer!

Li Jiankun continued to encourage him. This kid really didn't take the exam in his previous life. Who knows what the result will be.

"What do you think? Don't we all have enough time to review? Let me tell you, the questions will definitely not be too difficult. Now we have to train talents, understand? If you dare to take the exam, you will be successful."

Not only is it not difficult.

In the Internet era, someone posted the college entrance examination papers from various places in 1977. A bunch of people couldn't help but burst into tears and sighed:
"It turns out that Qingbei was once so approachable, but if I were to go back..."

Give your grandma a leg!

Regardless of the background of the times and educational characteristics, do you look down on your father’s generation?

Hey~ But, my brother really came back.

Are you saying it's irritating?
The keyboard warriors were probably exhausted. They analyzed these test papers diligently and came up with the comprehensive evaluation:

Science, first and second grade level.

Liberal arts, except mathematics, at primary school level.

Mathematics, this is a dad!

Li Jiankun was naturally picky and prepared to take the liberal arts exam. Decades of life experience and a thorough understanding of the general environment gave him confidence in language, politics, and geo-history.

But he couldn't handle junior high school mathematics...

Let me cover my face.

Mathematics is a major subject, and it deserves a full 100 points.

I can't afford to lose it.

(End of this chapter)