◎First update◎

This year's college entrance examination has seen major reforms. The system of estimating scores first and then filling out applications has been implemented with great force, causing many candidates to complain.

Many people are not sure about their final scores at all, and are very nervous about estimating their scores and filling out their applications. This choice may determine their future fate, whether they will make the list or fail.

Many people hold a pen, cautiously and hesitantly, for fear that they might make a mistake in choosing the right major and ruin their entire lives.

Liang Baozhen knew what she was doing. She estimated her score to be 416 and directly applied to the Chinese Department of Peking University.

This is what she thought about when she was a sophomore in high school. Who among high school students with good grades doesn't have a dream of going to college? It was a pity that the college entrance examination was cancelled at that time, so she couldn't go to college. Even if there was a quota for the workers, peasants and soldiers' college, she might not be able to get a place.

Liang Baozhen, who had good Chinese grades and writing skills since childhood, wanted to study Chinese at Peking University.

I don’t know what the admission score line for Kyoto University is this year, but she has no other choice but this direction and goal.

After filling out the application form, Liang Baozhen rode her bicycle home. When passing by the West City Supply and Marketing Cooperative, she wanted to go in to see if there was any new fabric. Shanshan was still young, but she was getting old. She wanted to show the fabric to her child so that she could make a beautiful new dress for the New Year.

However, the streets were in a mess at the moment, with many pedestrians walking back and forth, and many people were running. Liang Baozhen was pushing her bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative opposite, when she was suddenly hit by a person running towards her. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and stepped back two steps in time. As a result, the person who almost hit her didn't even stop, but dodged and ran away in a hurry.

The street was filled with the sound of cursing. The old lady who was almost hit just now spat at the running figures, "Starving ghosts reincarnated!"

Liang Baozhen and her mother exchanged glances and smiled with empathy. They wondered why these people were running around on the street in broad daylight, as if there were wolves and tigers behind them.

"Move aside, there are profiteers ahead!"

"Get out of the way!"

"Get out of the way!"

A group of people wearing red armbands also rushed out and chased after the group of people who were running recklessly just now, but they disappeared in a moment.

"Oh, can we still catch him?"

"If we catch these profiteers, we'll send them to jail!"

Seeing that the red armbands were catching speculators, many people started to watch the fun again. Who doesn’t like to see bad guys being caught?

Liang Baozhen doesn't like to see it. Soon, the policy will be liberalized, and then everyone can slowly try to do business. Speculators will gradually become a grain of dust in the torrent of history.

In front of the crowded entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative, a man suddenly turned around and took a face to face with Liang Baozhen.

"Brother-in-law?"

Liang Baozhen ran into Song Jianguo for the first time in the city. The man was wearing a black coat, panting, with a pale face and sweat. "What's wrong with you?"

"Oh." Song Jianguo swallowed and finally let out a sigh of relief, "I just walked a little too fast and I'm a little tired."

"Have some water." Liang Baozhen saw that he was panting as if he had run wildly, his face was pale and his lips were blue, so she ran to buy him a bottle of soda, "Moisten your throat."

Song Jianguo nodded and took it. He had just been running all the way to avoid the red armbands, and now there seemed to be a rusty smell of blood in his throat. His heart was beating fast. He tried to calm down and took a few sips of soda before he felt a little better.

"Baozhen, I'll talk to you another day. I'm going home first." This is not a safe place. The red armbands may come back to look for people. He has to hurry up and leave.

"Okay, then go slower."

Liang Baozhen watched Song Jianguo leave, thinking of the swarm of speculators and red armbands who had just escaped. She looked at Song Jianguo's appearance again, shook her head, and felt that it was impossible.

My brother-in-law Song Jianguo is a man of integrity. No matter what happens, he would never do anything illegal, such as speculation. When he was in Damian Village, he criticized such behavior when talking to others.

Song Jianguo walked quickly back to the alley where his tube-shaped building was located. When there was no one around, he finally sat down on the ground with his legs gone limp. Cold sweat broke out on his body, and his hands and feet were weak. Thinking of the aura of the red armbands, he thought of a lot of things while running. If he was caught, he would be ruined, he would lose his job, his family would be over, and no one would respect him.

Fortunately, when he just rushed to the street, he saw a group of speculators fleeing in unison, so he simply separated from them. At this time, the faster he ran, the more conspicuous he would be. He pretended to buy something at the supply and marketing cooperative and blended into the crowd at the door, which made him safer.

However, all this was also thanks to the fact that the people in front almost bumped into people on the street. The scene was in chaos at the time, which gave me the opportunity to take advantage of it.

Song Jianguo took out a handful of bills from his trouser pocket. These were the money he earned from selling a bunch of things and stacks of bills on the black market. He picked through the things he had saved for a long time, and also borrowed a few meat and egg bills from his co-workers in the factory, as well as some match bills and shampoo cream bills. He sold the whole bunch of bills for more than 90 yuan.

A handful of money was crumpled together. Song Jianguo calculated the total amount. He borrowed some money privately from his eldest brother and third brother, and added the money he had saved before, and finally he had collected 300 yuan.

We can find Sun Kai tomorrow. Once we give him the money, the issue of the housing in the soda factory’s compound will be settled!

However, he couldn't go to this black market again. Today, the first time he went back, he encountered people with red armbands arresting people. At that moment, he wanted to die. Being chased by law enforcement officers on the street was really too embarrassing and too dangerous!

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Liang Baozhen rode her bicycle back home and parked it at the door. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Shanshan in her grandmother's arms, watching her father push her in a stroller.

Xu Shengjie had long been preparing to make a stroller for his daughter, but he only took action today.

The wood was from old wooden tables taken down from the National Cotton Mill. Xu Shengjie reported this to the workshop manager, and several people in their workshop took some of the wood home. The pile of wooden tables had long been broken, having been stored in the warehouse for several years, and there were even some moldy spots on the surface.

But this did not pose a problem for Xu Shengjie. He carved out a few moldy spots and made them into inlays to make the joints fit. He cleaned and dried all the wood, and now it looks no different from new.

The stroller was made according to the size of three Shanshans, leaving more space for the children so that they can use it when they are one or two years old. There is a small rectangular wooden box on top with hollowed-out sides and four small wheels on the bottom. The wheels were also obtained by Xu Shengjie. He has a retired comrade who works in a transport team and deals with cars a lot. Some scrapped vehicles still have treasures and their parts can be used after being disassembled. So he got four wheels and installed them.

The cart is 1.5 meters high, and there is a handle on the diagonal back of the wooden box, which makes it convenient for adults to pull it and move it forward, backward, left and right.

This design was thought up by Liang Baozhen, but she also based it on the popular baby strollers of later generations. Therefore, the stroller amazed everyone in the compound as soon as it was made.

"Xiao Xu, you are so skillful."

"This cart is well made and can even move on its own!"

"That's great. You ladies are so lucky."

Liang Baozhen took Shanshan from her grandmother's hands, and held her in her arms as she watched her father remove the splinter. Because the child's skin was tender, Xu Shengjie examined this part very carefully for fear of hurting the child.

"Look what Daddy is doing?"

Shanshan didn't know whether she understood or not. Anyway, she didn't cry at this moment. She just stared at her father, or rather, at the wooden cart, with confusion in her big eyes.

"Okay, Xiaoya, bring Shanshan's sheets and quilt."

Xu Shengya had already prepared everything. She was waiting aside holding her little niece's quilt, and spread it neatly on the bed. She put a floral bed sheet underneath and folded the floral quilt in the corner. It looked warm and beautiful.

"Wow, this is our Shanshan's stroller. Look, is this Shanshan's quilt?" Liang Baozhen walked towards the stroller while holding the child, pointing at the floral quilt on it and interacting with the child.

Shanshan seemed to recognize the small quilt that she slept under every day, and she raised her little hand slightly as if she wanted to grab it.

"Come, daddy will carry you in." Seeing that his daughter was excited, Xu Shengjie took the child from his wife and carefully put the child in the stroller and laid him down.

The short Shanshan was lying in the stroller. As there was quite a lot of space reserved for her, the child only took up less than half of the length, so she could move freely. Her chubby legs tried hard to lift up, and her two little hands wanted to wave a few times. It was the first time she lay in the stroller, and what she saw was not the dark ceiling, but the blue sky and white clouds. Shanshan was happy and smiled, staring at the white clouds in the sky and laughing brightly.

"Let's go and push the cart." Liang Baozhen grabbed the handle of the cart and pushed it forward. The wheels started to turn. Xu Shengjie watched from the side and asked his wife to try turning in all directions to see if there was any problem.

When the cart started to move forward, Shanshan seemed to feel that her "bed" was actually moving! She was obviously excited, and her two chubby hands waved more vigorously, looking as white and plump as two lotus roots.

"It seems to be a bit stuck to the left." Liang Baozhen tried several directions.

Xu Shengjie squatted down to check the wheel, knocked it with a wrench, and adjusted the position. Then he continued to turn the direction, and it went smoothly whether moving forward or backward.

"Okay, it will be convenient for Shanshan to go out in the future."

Zhou Yun was very satisfied when she saw the cart made by her grandson. It saved time and effort. She also made two ropes for it. This was how she took care of her children before. She would use a cloth rope to tie the children on her back to make it easier for her to work.

"Grandma, that leash is also useful. It's convenient to use at home, and this is convenient for going out."

"Yes, I can push Shanshan out to play in the future. I think she is very happy. Look at her eyes rolling around, looking here and there. She is very interested."

Shanshan was lying quietly in the stroller, sucking her fingers with her little fists raised. She had no teeth yet, but she bit her gums and her little fists were covered with saliva.

"Hey, Shanshan is sucking her fingers!" Xu Shengya sighed in disgust and quickly complained to her sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, look, Shanshan's hands are all drooling."

Liang Baozhen was no longer surprised. The lady's hands were always drooling and no one could stop her from sucking them. Before she could do anything, Xu Shengjie quickly pried the lady's fist off and wiped her hands with a handkerchief.

"Sucking your thumb again? You do it every day, right?" Xu Shengjie thought of the camera. If only he had a camera at home, he would definitely take a picture of his daughter sucking her thumb and show it to her later.

Shanshan: “…” Shanshan didn’t understand anything and just wanted to continue sucking her thumb.

After finishing the cart, Xu Shengjie wanted to go to the big yard next door to return the tools, but as soon as he walked out, someone came back from the yard.

"Comrades! This is terrible!"

"What's wrong?"

Aunt Li and Zhang Rong came back from outside, ran into the yard in small steps, and shouted loudly, "There's a fight in the yard next door!"

"Li Dazhu's mother and his wife had a fight. They said his mother helped him find a mistress outside! Now his wife's family has brought people to the house, and both sides are bleeding!"

Crowd:?! It's still so lively!

Before Liang Baozhen could react, everyone in the yard had already run out. Even Xu Shengya didn't care about her family and ran out hand in hand with Song Xinhe and the others.

There are dozens of courtyard houses in the Yueya Hutong area, most of which have been transformed into large compound houses, housing a dozen households with dozens of people. If any family has a problem, quarrel or fight, it cannot be hidden from others.

Everyone in the alley knew that any little noise would cause a commotion. Now, as soon as Aunt Li shouted, everyone in the compound came over to watch the excitement.

The author has something to say:

Congratulations to Shanshan for getting a four-wheeler^O^