That Year Flowers Bloomed 1981

This is an era where getting into college means soaring to great heights, an era where opportunities abound for rapid success, and also an era where genuine, unwavering emotions still exist;

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Chapter 77: The Preliminary Exam is also the College Entrance Exam (Additional Updates, Please Vote)

Chapter 77: The Preliminary Exam is also the College Entrance Exam (Additional Updates, Please Vote)

"Xiao Ye, have you ever seen high heels? Real high heels, just like the ones in the movies.

If a woman wears them, her calves will be stretched and straight, which looks really good. I bought three pairs for my wife, but she fell twice."

“Hahahahaha~”

"Brother Xiaoye, you know what, we have seen that in Yangcheng. It is that. I wanted to spend thirty yuan to try it, but I was beaten up by Brother Peng."

“Hahahahaha~”

"If I don't beat you up, you won't even know how you died. Do you know what a honey trap is?

If you can't control your belt in the future, stay at home and don't go out and embarrass yourself."

“Hahahahaha~”

"I'm not like you, Brother Peng. You have a wife, and a full man doesn't know the hunger of a hungry man. I've only touched my mother's hand since I was a child, and I don't know what women are like."

"Drink your wine, you useless thing. If you work hard, you won't have to worry about not having a wife.

Next year, or at most the year after, we can each get an electric donkey and pick any flowers from dozens of towns in Qingshui County."

"I don't want flowers. I'm not cow dung!"

“Hahahaha~”

In the small warehouse of the Second Grain Store, people were enjoying wine and meat.

The four "heroes" who had ventured into Guangdong Province returned victoriously. They patted their chests and stamped their feet in jubilation, spitting everywhere and boasting to the sky, showing off to Li Ye for a long time.

They were not simply trying to show off, but wanted to share with Li Ye the "world" they had seen outside.

However, Li Ye smiled without saying anything, nodded slightly, and looked calm and composed, which made Jin Peng and others a little "unsatisfied".

Because after they came back, they just flashed their high heels and boasted a lot, and the group of younger brothers who were making candies at home were all stunned and drooling.

Even the silly Wang Jianqiang held on to Jin Peng's sleeve tightly, and demanded with tears and snot that he must be taken along next time.

But why is Li Ye so calm?

hiss~~

Jin Peng suddenly had a very bad idea.

[Is it possible that Xiao Ye is no longer interested in women because of that bad woman Lu Jingyao? ]

Of course, it was fortunate that Jin Peng did not say this to Li Ye's face. If he had said it, Li Ye would have spit in his face.

Why are you wearing those high heels and floral dresses? Are you showing off to me?

Have you seen Lei's long legs? Have you seen DJ's high heels?

Can you imagine a young lady of eighteen or nineteen years old doing the splits while holding a steel pipe?

I have seen them all, and they are still alive.

I haven’t even introduced the teachers to you yet!

If you had seen the abilities of these teachers, you wouldn’t be able to last more than a few days and would all go see an experienced Chinese doctor.

Of course, Li Ye did not mean to look down on these brothers.

Just look at Li Dayong who was listening intently and didn’t realize it until the cigarette butt burned his hand, and you will understand that the young people of this era are truly “naive”.

In the entire small warehouse, only Hao Jian could remain calm.

He looked at Li Ye who was listening quietly without any disturbance, and quickly raised his wine glass.

"Brother Li Ye, let's have a drink. You can do whatever you want. I'll drink it!"

Hao Jian drank a small 2-liang bowl of 45-degree Fangzi liquor in one gulp.

Li Ye did the same, but he drank beer that cost three cents a bottle.

Hao Jian and his companions came back more than a month late. It is now March in the lunar calendar and April in the solar calendar.

The college entrance examination pre-examination is about to begin, and he is under a lot of pressure every day. Getting drunk is absolutely not an option for him.

Hao Jian put down his wine glass, bared his teeth, quickly ate a bite of food to suppress the smell of alcohol, and then opened up the conversation with emotion.

"Brother Xiaoye, to be honest with you, a year ago, I looked at the people around me and thought they were a bunch of fools. I, Hao Jian, was the genius of the world and the hero of the hidden world."

"But when I met you, brother Ono, I had been in the provincial capital for less than half a year and I felt like a frog in a well."

"But when we arrived in Guangzhou and saw the commercial hotspot you mentioned, we realized that we were not even frogs, but at most ants in the cracks of the ground."

Hao Jian laughed at himself and continued, "Brother Xiaoye, you don't know that when I met Guo Donglun, it was just like when I met you.

I really can't understand why there are so many monsters in this world. Why didn't you get struck by thunder on the second day of February?"

“Hahahahaha~~”

Li Dayong, Jin Peng and others nearby all laughed.

Hao Jian's words were undoubtedly a flattery of Li Ye, saying that he was a monster with boundless magical powers.

But Li Ye's expression was unusually strange, and he looked at Hao Jian with an unfriendly look.

[Since I started dating you, I haven't touched you even once. Have you forgotten my ability to break bricks with one hand? You still want to chop me? I'll chop you first!]

Hao Jian immediately realized that something was wrong with Li Ye, and he said, "I was wrong, I was wrong. Xiao Ye, you are a deity, and you are in the same group as the thunder god in the sky. I just think that Guo Donglun is not a simple person."

The lame young man that Hao Jian met at the Yangcheng Machine Repair Factory was called Guo Donglun.

At that time, after he proposed the request to Hao Jian of "not spending a penny and splitting the profits 50-50", Hao Jian was unable to make the decision on his own, so he had to quickly send a telegram to Li Ye for instructions.

Li Ye quickly called back: "Ask him if he has connections in the Light Industry Bureau or in the foreign trade system. If he does, then agree to it. After all, the channels we build in the future will be our own, so it's not a loss."

As a result, Hao Jian went back to try to negotiate with the lame man, who was very careful and said lightly: "I can get you a business license."

Oh shit, Hao Jian almost agreed to it at that time.

A "blind migrant" like him knows too well the importance of a business license.

But Hao Jian still telegraphed Li Ye again, asking him as the major shareholder to make the decision.

After all, in Hao Jian's opinion, Guo Donglun was "too evil".

After Li Ye got the news, he also thought for a while.

Hao Jian and others' desire for business licenses is due to their lack of understanding of major historical events. In the eyes of a time traveler like Li Ye who has seen through the fog, business licenses will be worthless in a few years at most.

In 1980, the first individual business license in China was issued for a small department store. However, the process from application to approval of this license took more than a year and was full of uncertainty.

In 1984, the first private enterprise in China was established. In the same year, Lenovo Group, Haier Group, Vanke, Delixi, TCL, Jianlibao and others were also established.

This development speed is very fast.

But in early 1982, it was not necessarily easy to get an individual business license at will, even at the forefront of reform and opening up.

Moreover, if he had this license, it would be of great help to Li Ye's plan to make money.

Hao Jian and others are making hemp candy near Qingshui County. This is an agricultural product, and the nature of it is that it is produced and sold by the local people, so the local talents are thriving.

But dealing in clothing means the middlemen make a profit from the price difference.

Isn’t this perfectly linked to “speculation and profiteering”?

If there was an official business license in Yangcheng, there would be room for operation, which would basically fill the biggest loophole of Li Ye's startup group.

So Li Ye agreed to Guo Donglun's conditions.

Guo Donglun was indeed capable. In less than a month, he obtained the license, prepared the supply of goods, and arranged the transportation.

Then, Hao Jian and others impatiently shipped the goods back to Dongshan provincial capital, and then came back to report the good news to Li Ye.

"Here, this is a copy of the business license. I left the original with Sanshui. He lives on Gaudi Street and he doesn't feel safe without a license."

Hao Jian gave Li Ye a license.

Li Ye took it and took a look. It was No. XX, XX Clothing Wholesale Market, XX Clothing Wholesale Department.

The registrant’s name above is “Jin Peng”.

This was the result of discussion between Hao Jian and Jin Peng. It was impossible for Li Ye to take the lead in this. Hao Jian took the initiative to give it to Jin Peng, but Li Ye was not going to ask whether this "initiative" was voluntary or forced.

Given Jin Peng's ruthlessness, if Hao Jian dared to have any evil intentions, the short knife he carried with him would probably come in handy.

Li Ye returned the license to Hao Jian, because it would definitely be needed in the following bulk cargo process.

Then, Li Ye asked calmly: "Where is the official seal?"

Hao Jian took out a small square wooden box from his arms with a "holy face".

Li Ye took it and took a look at it, then wiped the box vigorously and said, "The box looks good, where did you get it from?"

Hao Jian smiled and said, "I bought it at a flea market when I was free in Yangcheng. I think only this box is worthy of this official seal."

Li Ye smiled, opened it and looked at the official seal, then casually put it in his pocket.

Hao Jian's eyelids twitched as he watched.

Official seal! This is an official seal from 1982. Do you know what it means?

Travel all over the world!

Only a letter of introduction with an official seal is effective.

In Hao Jian's eyes, this official seal is a sacred right.

But Li Ye put the money in his pocket and had no complaints.

"Xiao Ye, we are going to meet up with Guo Donglun's people in the next few days, and then we will start distributing the goods. Do you think we should be on guard?"

Jin Peng watched Hao Jian complete the handover of the official seal intently before he started talking to Li Ye about his ideas.

"Who are you guarding against? Guo Donglun?" Li Ye said calmly, "He is in charge of supply, and we are in charge of channels. We will act accordingly. If he crosses the line, we will part ways."

Jin Peng nodded and said solemnly: "That Guo Donglun is not simple. We prepared the goods, shipped them, and applied for licenses in Yangcheng, but he never showed up and didn't let us know who his relationship was.

Every time we need him, he makes arrangements and asks us to find specific people to handle the matter. We don't know his details, so in Yangcheng, won't everything depend on his mood? "

"Oh, it's all the same! When outsiders come to our territory, don't they have to look at our faces?"

Li Ye smiled and said nothing more.

They are all local tyrants, but they just play at a higher level.

Qingshui County is a small place with simple relationships, which cannot be compared with the complicated and tangled relationships in Yangcheng. Besides, Li Ye’s current network level is not that high.

He just relied on his advanced knowledge and vision to avoid wrong dead ends, stay away from man-eating traps, and take advantage of the situation to develop in secret.

An important part of development is the college entrance examination.

After eating and drinking, when everyone was leaving the table, Hao Jian said something to Li Ye in a doubtful tone.

"But I always feel that Guo Donglun doesn't take our big deal seriously, as if he's just joking around."

Li Ye nodded, thoughtfully.

[Well, maybe he was just bored sitting in his wheelchair and playing a game.]

But isn't it the same for Li Ye?

. . . . . . . . .

In early May, Hao Jian and Jin Peng finally got the goods from the train station and began to distribute them carefully, little by little.

Li Ye also focused on preparing for the first round of the 1982 college entrance examination - the preliminary examination.

China's college entrance examination pre-test system, which began in 1981 and ended in 1989, was designed to alleviate the enormous pressure of college entrance examination judges.

In those years when everything was in ruins, too many people were trying to take the college entrance examination, but the relevant institutions had limited capacity to handle it, so this cruel early screening system was established.

In a plain area like Qingshui County, which is densely populated and has a large number of candidates, more than two-thirds of the candidates are selected in one round of preliminary examinations.

In other words, more than two-thirds of the candidates are not qualified to enter the official examination hall of the college entrance examination.

Think about it! After studying hard for more than ten years, in the end, you are not even qualified to write your name on the college entrance examination paper. Isn’t that cruel?

Therefore, even though everyone in the eight-member group led by Li Ye had the ability to be in the top ten in the class, when the preliminary exam came, they still asked Li Ye with trepidation.

"Li Ye, do we also need to control our scores during the pre-exam?"

"Yes, Li Ye, how do we control this score? What is the appropriate score?"

This time, Li Ye didn't know how to answer.

He can't say that even if you miss one or two subjects, you can still pass the preliminary exam, right?

The pre-examination is also the college entrance examination.

In this one-time elimination promotion tournament, if one makes a mistake, it can affect someone's life forever.

In the end, Li Ye could only use himself as a demonstration.

"I can't give you any guidance, but if the difficulty of the pre-test is similar to the normal joint test, I will control it to around 300 points. It's up to you."

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(End of this chapter)