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....
“Ding ding ding! Ding ding ding!”
Wan Feng's pager rang again. He picked it up and began to sweat.
This time he remembered that this was Zhang Xuan's paging station phone number.
Sometimes he is afraid of Zhang Xuan's calls.
He didn't want to go back. If Zhang Xuan questioned him, he would say he was outside and had no phone.
But think about it, this is not an excuse. Can you just lie outside all the time?
If Zhang Xuan asks him what it means that he didn’t page me back when he got home, how would he answer?
After much hesitation, I finally picked up the phone.
"Hey! Who called me?" Wan Feng pretended to be crazy.
"Asshole! I'm jealous again!" Zhang Xuan's voice came from the other end of the phone.
But today the voice was not sharp, and even seemed to contain some joking elements.
Wan Feng is so depressed, can you please stop being jealous?
"I'm asking, have you planted a spy around me or installed a bug? How come you know everything about me? Can you do that?"
Zhang Xuan's giggles could be heard from the other end of the phone.
"I'm just reminding you, don't forget me at any time! You can't even celebrate my birthday. If you forget me, you'll be guilty."
What the hell was this? He was thinking about her while he was doing that. What did Luan Feng think?
"I didn't forget! Isn't your birthday still a few months away? What's the point of reminding me now?"
"I just wanted to talk to you. I don't know why, but I feel so depressed."
This is not a good sign. Could this woman be suffering from depression?
"Zhang Xuan! I haven't forgotten you, really! But I don't know what to do now."
"I know you're having a hard time! Okay, I won't bother you anymore."
Zhang Xuan sighed softly after hanging up the phone.
She understood Wan Feng's feelings very well, just like she did now.
There are some things she doesn't want to think about and doesn't dare to think about. Now she can only use work to forget everything.
But the mind is a strange thing. The more she doesn't want to touch something, the more her brain automatically brings up someone, making her upset.
She had a deep understanding of the poem "It is impossible to cut it off and the tangled mess is still there".
Sometimes she didn't want to go on like this. She wanted to leave here and go somewhere else to forget the past.
She felt sorry for Luan Feng. When she lived in Luan Feng's house, Luan Feng's parents treated her like their own daughter.
Luan Feng had nothing to say to her.
It was she who intervened between Wan Feng and Luan Feng, and she felt that she should leave.
At least now I can leave without anyone noticing and it's decent, but if I leave in the future I might end up in disgrace.
Who knows what will happen in the future?
This was the reason why she decided to go and make a movie at the end of last year. If Wan Feng had not objected at that time, she would have gone without hesitation. Once she left, she might never come back.
At that time, she had already made up her mind that even if she left and never came back, there would never be another man in her life.
She planned to work outside for a few years. If she couldn't make it, she would return to Wu County, open a small business, and live the rest of her life alone.
When she made this request to Wan Feng, she said it with a feeling of being as cold as the wind and the Yi River.
But as soon as Wan Feng tried to keep her, she felt that her rock-hard determination had vanished in an instant.
At that moment she realized that she really could not live without him in this life.
But what if I can’t leave her? How should I deal with it?
Zhang Xuan stared blankly out the window, feeling extremely confused.
While Zhang Xuan was in a state of confusion, Wan Feng was in a good mood.
Because Wan Shouwu is here, it’s already July, and the trip to Lussel is about to begin.
This is a deal.
Wan Feng provided the tour group with air tickets and food and accommodation in Brussels for no less than seven days. The tour group gave Wan Feng two places to visit Brussels and helped Wan Feng solve the visa problem.
The people reported by Wan Feng were him and Han Guangjia.
European society is definitely not as peaceful as the Western media portrays it to be, with thieves and gangsters everywhere.
Bilishi has never been a united country, but a country with extremely strong racial discrimination.
The Flemish in the north and the Walloons in the south have never been on the same page. It is no exaggeration to say that they are as incompatible as water and fire.
Add to that the immigrants from the Black Continent, and this country may appear peaceful on the surface, but who knows how chaotic it is behind the scenes.
Nowhere is this contradiction more apparent than in the country's football team.
If you watch the games of this national team carefully, you can find many clues.
Wan Feng felt that it would be more accurate to bring Han Guangjia with him to such a country.
Han Guang's son is now four or five months old. He has already crawled on the kang, even faster than a frightened cockroach.
Logically, Han Guang's family should be watching over his son, but this time when he goes abroad, especially to Western Europe, he must follow.
Wan Shouwu came here to take Wan Feng with him.
Wan Feng and Han Guangjia packed up and said goodbye to their families before following Wan Shouwu to the capital.
The first thing Wanfeng did in the capital was to exchange rice for yuan.
The euro was not issued until 1999, and now the only currency in common use in the Western world is the US dollar.
This time when going to Brussels, Wan Feng expects to bring at least 100,000 US dollars.
However, he only exchanged less than 60,000 Mi Yuan at the bank, so he had to exchange another 60,000 on the black market.
In this way, he spent 600,000 Chinese yuan for 120,000 yuan.
The day before departure, Wan Feng took Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu to a restaurant for dinner, during which Wan Feng raised questions about the semiconductor market in Shanghai.
"Cheng Gong told me that the Shanghai semiconductor market is at a standstill. I'd like to know how much truth there is in this information."
As soon as Wan Feng brought up this issue, Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu, who were originally chatting and laughing, both became serious.
"It's true. There's nothing we can do about it. This is our national policy right now. While many other countries are vigorously developing semiconductors, we're doing the opposite and cutting back on our spending. Now, let alone Shanghai, even here in Beijing, apart from retaining some companies, the rest will probably have to find their own way out. If there's no way out, they'll have to shut down, and it won't be until the end of next year. Sigh!"
Wan Shouwu sighed, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.
Although this is a decision that is like drinking poison to quench thirst, what can these little people do in the face of the general trend?
"I want to go to Shanghai to recruit semiconductor talent. I wonder if the policy allows it?"
Wan Feng's suggestion made Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu's eyes light up.
Once these companies go bankrupt and close down, those scientific research talents will have to find their own way out.
If things go wrong, scientists may end up setting up stalls again. However, if a private entrepreneur like Wan Feng takes them in, not only can the fire be preserved, but it may even emit a dazzling flame.
But then their eyes dimmed.
"If we only recruit high-level talent, that's not going to be enough. Unless you can also buy those factories, then maybe that's still possible."
Wan Feng shook his head. "We're just a private enterprise. Now a private enterprise is merging with a state-owned enterprise. I don't want to get involved in this mess. So is there a compromise?"
Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu looked at each other.