Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Han Guang's family was worried that Liang Hongying would laugh so recklessly that her kidneys would fall off... oh no, they were worried that she would lose her child.
So don't let her laugh out loud.
Liang Hongying didn't care about that. I laughed to my heart's content before I said anything. So, Han Guangjia looked at her and didn't let her laugh.
At the critical moment, he covered Liang Hongying's mouth.
"Why do you always cover my mouth?" Liang Hongying pushed Han Guangjia's big hand away.
Wan Feng thought it was better to leave. If Liang Hongying laughed again because of what he said, and if the child laughed out loud, Han Guangjia would beat him to death.
After saying goodbye to Han Guang and his wife, he went straight into Xu Bin's entertainment room.
As soon as he entered the entertainment hall, Wan Feng shouted, "Fuck!" This guy is so loud with drums and gongs and there are so many people...
This guy piled up a whole room of things as if they were free.
The 120-square-meter house was filled with people except for the 30 game consoles.
How many people don’t know that wherever their eyes pass, they see people of all sizes.
Among them, children and teenagers make up the majority.
During the Chinese New Year, everyone has some money in their pockets, and they want to show off their money, so they all go to the game hall.
Everyone had a few game coins in their hands, and some children simply grabbed a handful and wriggled around in the crowd like loaches, not afraid of being stepped on by adults.
Wan Feng accidentally saw Chen Tianci taking pictures on a machine with great enthusiasm.
I leaned over and took a look over his shoulder.
Chen Tianci, this useless guy, was playing Contra. There were a bunch of game coins piled up on the machine, and he would put one in when all the players died.
Almost everyone who had a Subor or played video game consoles in the 1990s knows the game Contra.
However, there are still big differences between the arcade version of Contra and the Contra ported to the game console, both in terms of graphics and difficulty.
Wan Feng curled his lips when he saw that Chen Tianci could pass a level with less than ten game coins.
The kid is scratching his ass, his hands are stinky!
Wan Feng didn't even say hello to Chen Tianci. He turned and walked into the bar and pulled Xu Meilin, who was sitting alone at the bar, to the side.
"You don't even give up your seat when my brother comes. You are becoming more and more ignorant."
Xu Meilin was very angry. There was an empty stool there, but someone insisted on snatching it from her.
Wan Feng grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and ate them while asking, "Did your brother go upstairs to eat?"
Xu Meilin was silent and angrily.
Her family eats dinner late, and it was dinner time at this time. Xu Bin was obviously having dinner upstairs.
"Little girl, you'll be eighteen this year, right? Are you feeling your first love?"
Xu Meilin rolled her eyes at Wan Feng and said, "You are the one who is in love!"
In her previous life, Xu Meilin started dating Wan Feng when she was eighteen years old, and they separated four years later.
Alas! It seems that Xu Meilin and I are really not destined to be together. In both of my lives, I have never been able to be with her.
I don’t know which bastard has gotten the chance to marry this beautiful girl in her life.
"Tell me, brother! Is there anyone pursuing you?"
Xu Meilin blushed: "I'm still young."
"Eighteen is still a kid, over ten years ago, you'd have had a child, honestly, was there anyone pursuing you?"
Xu Meilin shook her head.
"Is this true?"
"Of course it's true."
"Are these guys blind? Our Meilin is so beautiful and yet no one is chasing her. Oh! It's over. I'm afraid you're going to bring disgrace to the family."
The first half of the sentence was good, but the second half went astray.
Xu Meilin is depressed.
"How's your computer skills going? Oh, by the way, you said last time you wanted to work in our factory. Have you gone yet?"
Xu Meilin wanted to cry: "Brother! I have been working in your factory for more than three months, and now you ask me if I have been there?"
Ah! Is this true?
"You've been gone for three months? How much do you get paid per month?"
"One hundred and fifty!"
"It's not low! Who ordered it for you?"
Normally, new workers in the factory have to go through a three-month training and probation period, and their salary is only half of that of ordinary workers.
Xu Meilin: This is obviously not an apprentice's salary.
Xu Meilin looked at Wan Feng warily: "You don't think the price you gave me is too high, do you?"
"How is that possible? After all, I watched you grow up, so it doesn't matter if I give you more."
Xu Meilin wanted to cry again, so she ran to her and acted like a senior.
"What department are you in?"
"I'm working under Engineer Gu, responsible for disassembling and researching computer chips. Engineer Gu told me and seven or eight other people to specialize in disassembling and researching the wiring processing of these chips."
Is Gu Hongzhong now reserving talents for future chip processing and manufacturing?
"Have you found anything?"
"We disassembled some chips available in the market and found that these foreign chips are not that sophisticated. Some chips are just so-so. If we were to make our own, we might be able to do better than them."
Holy shit! This woman is going to become a spirit!
Even though the chips in the late 1980s were crude and simple in manufacturing, it wasn't something that could be made just like that.
Let me think about it!
Before the 1990s, photolithography machines had not yet been invented, and at that time, making chips did not seem to require any high-tech means.
Maybe these people can really do it.
"If you really have a talent for computers, work hard! I won't treat you unfairly. I'll assign you a department to focus on research and give you generous bonuses."
Xu Meilin made a face at Wan Feng, meaning, I don’t believe it.
Xu Bin's little mouth came down with a shiny greasy look, and there was a piece of chive leaf on his cheek.
"Is your family having scrambled eggs with leeks tonight?"
"My sister told you?"
"I didn't say that."
"Then how do you know that my family eats scrambled eggs with leeks?" Xu Bin sat down next to Wan Feng, took out a pack of Dunhill and gave it to Wan Feng.
The leeks have been eaten up to the cheeks, what's so strange about that?
"Have you learned to smoke?" Wan Feng asked after glancing at the cigarette.
He has made great progress. Not only has he learned to smoke, he now smokes foreign cigarettes.
"It's boring sitting here every day, so I just started smoking when I had nothing to do."
Wan Feng didn't ask for the cigarette: "Listen to me and give it up now while you're not addicted. Smoking is definitely not a good thing."
"I saw everyone else smoking so I decided to join in the fun."
"Let me enumerate the harmful effects of smoking. The visible ones are the money spent and the cough. If you smoke too much the night before, you'll feel shortness of breath the next morning, with a thick, black phlegm stuck in your throat. You'll cough for ages before you can expel it. These are the visible side effects. The invisible side effects are enormous, damaging the lungs and respiratory tract. You might not notice them when you're young, but after age 60, the cough becomes a constant. Furthermore, men are more likely to develop prostate cancer in old age. I'm not trying to scare you, but 90 percent of those who get this disease are middle-aged or older men, and 80 percent of those cases are related to smoking."
"Really?" Xu Bin was skeptical.
Of course it's true.