Chapter 106

When you reach middle age, leaving your hometown is something that requires courage.

Chen Lanjun did not expect Zheng Mei to make a decision the next day and go south with her. After all, thinking takes time.

After staying at home for two days and eating the pepper fried pork cooked by her father and the chestnut chicken stewed by her mother, she boarded the train back, carrying a clean pesticide and fertilizer bag filled with yellow grapefruits - Zheng Mei insisted that she take it.

“Eat on the way, and bring back to your classmates if you can’t finish it.”

After returning to school, each of my roommates received a big grapefruit.

The situation is just like the colder weather, not good.

From time to time, there are news in the newspapers saying that the "hardware king" or "electrical appliance king" in a certain place was arrested on charges of speculation.

After seeing this news, some radical students were indignant: "We talked about reform and opening up, but now we are arresting self-employed people. Where is the freedom?"

As we talked, we began to express our feelings, "We should speed up our English learning and go abroad! There is real equality there..."

…… ……

The world is in turmoil, and Chen Lanjun just wants to sleep.

At this tense time, it is better to be still than to move. Plus, I have been too exhausted in the first half of the year, running around between two places for my career. I just took this opportunity to rest and treat it as a long vacation.

After returning to school, Chen Lanjun attended classes when it was time, and went to the teahouse to have breakfast when she didn't have classes. Otherwise, she would go to Xinhua Bookstore to pick out some teaching materials for her younger sister and send them back... She was just like an ordinary female college student of that era.

At the beginning and end of every month, she would receive a letter from Hong Kong, sent by Shao Qinghe.

The letter was not long. Shao Qinghe was not a talkative person. He simply talked about his recent situation and asked after her. He also occasionally wrote about her shop in Hong Kong.

"I went to your snack shop twice after it opened, and saw many customers each time. It's strange that I was happier than when I made money myself..."

At the end of the letter, I always add "I miss you."

Sometimes he would send a photo along with the letter, saying that he was afraid that she would forget what he looked like.

The photo was obviously taken carefully. With his back to the sea, Shao Qinghe was wearing a suit and had his hair slicked back, looking like a movie star poster.

Chen Lanjun smiled when she saw it, because on the back of the photo was written in pen: "I believe the male classmates around you won't be as pretty as this."

She was so happy that she laughed for a long time before stopping.

I'm in a good mood all day long.

On the weekend, I went to a photo studio, took two photos, and sent them to him along with the reply letter.

In November, something big happened.

In the afternoon, half an hour before the end of get out of class, there was a faint commotion in the classroom. Chen Lanjun whispered to the dormitory head sitting next to her: "What's going on?"

The dormitory head lowered his voice and said, "The final between our volleyball team and the Japanese is about to begin."

Chen Lanjun suddenly realized that she had almost forgotten the memory of this period. This was probably the first time that the women's volleyball team won the championship, and then it would usher in the glorious era of "five consecutive championships".

This class was taught by homeroom teacher Yin Yu, who noticed the students' eagerness to make a move.

Putting down the chalk, Teacher Yin Yu adjusted her glasses and said, "Everyone is very impatient today."

It was suddenly quiet.

The students looked at each other, afraid that this was a sign of the teacher getting angry.

After a minute, Teacher Yin Yu suddenly smiled and said, "Since everyone's minds are not in the classroom, let's focus on things outside the classroom."

She hurried out of the classroom, and when she came back, she actually brought a radio.

The classroom exploded with a loud "wow".

"Teacher, do you want us to listen to the competition together?"

"Yes," said Teacher Yin Yu as she adjusted the radio, "To be honest, I want to watch it, too."

A burst of laughter rang out.

"It's nothing funny. When I was studying abroad, my foreign classmates also took sports competitions very seriously and some even skipped classes to watch them," explained teacher Yin Yu.

A boy who longed to go abroad asked: "Teacher, why are you willing to come back? There are so many people who want to go abroad but can't."

This is indeed the inner thought of some people. Some people have discussed it before. It is really "stupid" for Yin Yudu to come back after getting a doctorate degree abroad.

Yin Yu curled the corners of his mouth and said, "Let's listen to the game first."

After tuning in, the radio emitted a buzzing sound, followed by two clicks. The clear and melodious voice immediately filled the entire classroom:

"Hello, audience friends, this is the final of the third Women's Volleyball World Cup, the Chinese team is playing against the host Japan team..."

Even though she already knew the ending, Chen Lanjun was still as passionate as everyone else.

The radio not only attracted the attention of the whole class, but gradually, many people gathered outside the classroom door, listening attentively. They were excited when they won and regretful when they lost.

When the score was tied at 2-2, the radio was shouting: "The score is very tense, and the fifth round of the decisive game will begin - the fifth round -"

There was a pause, and then the radio suddenly went silent!

"What the hell?"

"Why is there suddenly no sound?"

"Is the battery out?"

A sound of sorrow and complaint.

Teacher Yin Yu tapped the radio, but there was still no response. She immediately walked out and said, "I'll go get a new battery and try."

She quickly got a new battery and replaced it, but there was still no sound.

The students started shouting again.

Yin Yu frowned, wondering whether to repair it or borrow a new radio, when he saw a female student raise her hand.

"Teacher, can I take it apart and have a look?"

The person who spoke was Chen Lanjun.

Yin Yu knew that this student was quite active in social activities, but his academic performance was average. He was a little skeptical, so he said, "Then you give it a try. I'll go out and see if there's another radio I can borrow."

Having said that, he quickly walked back to the staff room and tried to borrow another teacher's radio.

But it was the time of the women's volleyball final, and almost every radio was in use. Yin Yu persuaded a familiar colleague to bring a radio to the classroom and listen with his classmates.

The teacher didn't want to miss a single moment, so he listened to the game attentively even while holding a radio. When he was going up the stairs, he would have almost fallen if Yin Yu hadn't helped him.

However, when the two of them hurried to the classroom door with the radio in hand, they heard the commentator's voice: "The ball is now passed..."

The teacher holding the radio asked in confusion, "Hey, isn't this a sound?"

Chen Lanjun, who was beside the radio, looked over and explained, "The metal inside had some poor contact. I added a drop of lubricant and it's fine now."

"You have strong hands-on skills." Yin Yu praised Chen Lanjun. I didn't expect that this student's paper score was average, but his practical skills were okay.

Chen Lanjun smiled. After all, she was also engaged in OEM of this kind of electronic products before her rebirth. She could still diagnose and solve some simple faults.

The incident was resolved and everyone continued to listen to the game.

"The score is now 15-15, the Japanese team spiked the ball! It was a heavy spike! We scooped it up! The block was successful!"

"The Japanese team spiked the ball again... We blocked the ball and scored! 17 to 15! We turned defeat into victory!"

"We are the champions! We won!"

Along with the lecturer's excited and somewhat hoarse shouts, loud cheers broke out inside and outside the classroom and throughout the entire campus.

The whole country is boiling.

There were cheers everywhere, and even a string of firecrackers came from somewhere, crackling, making it even more lively than the Chinese New Year.

Even the boy who asked the teacher why he didn't stay abroad had tears in his eyes and kept saying, "We won."

Chen Lanjun was equally excited, with many feelings in her heart. This victory came at the right time. In the long-term repression and unclear situation, it aroused the national pride of countless Chinese people. Moreover, this was just the beginning. Next, the women's volleyball team would win five consecutive championships.

She tilted her head and saw Yin Yu smiling at the podium, and then she understood why she didn't answer the classmate's question before, but instead let everyone watch the game first.

The game itself, as well as everyone's anticipation and ecstasy for it, is already the answer.

After her excitement subsided a little, another thought suddenly came to Chen Lanjun's mind -

The women's volleyball team's victory is also an east wind that can send people to the sky.

Without caring about anything else, Chen Lanjun quietly walked out of the classroom, rode her bicycle to find Tong Tong from the Fourth Food Factory.

The people were ecstatic, and along the way, in every street and alley, there were people cheering.

Even in the residential area where Tongtong lives, some people were setting off firecrackers, and the air was filled with the smell of sulfur filled with joy.

Amid cheers and praises from near and far, Chen Lanjun knocked on Tong Tong's door.

The door opened, and Tong Tong looked surprised:

"Sister Lan, why are you here? Oh, did you watch TV? The women's volleyball team won the championship! We beat Japan, hahahahaha..."

"Yes, I know."

Different from Tong Tong's face full of excitement and joy, Chen Lanjun seemed calmer.

There was excitement on her face, but this excitement was not just for the women's volleyball team that won the championship.

Chen Lanjun said: "It is because the women's volleyball team won the championship that I came to see you, and also Pang Xiaopeng, shall we have a meeting together?"

"Ah? What?"

"I'll explain it to Xiao Peng when he gets here."

"Oh, okay."

Tong Tong didn't understand. It was of course a good thing that the women's volleyball team won the championship, but why did they have to hold a meeting?

Women's volleyball team... seems to have nothing to do with them?

How strange.

But since Sister Lan did this, she must have her reasons.

Out of unconditional trust in Chen Lanjun, Tong Tong immediately put on a coat, sat on the back seat of Chen Lanjun's bicycle, and went to find Pang Xiaopeng.

After the three of them met, they went to the house under the banyan tree to hold a meeting.

Chen Lanjun got straight to the point: "The women's volleyball team winning the championship is a national event. In the next five years at least, sports events will attract the attention of the people of the country and even the world."

She raised her hands with an extremely confident posture, and her eyes were faintly shining.

“So, we need to develop a sports drink right away.”