Chapter 1 Rebirth 79
Fang Mingche woke up, a little confused.
Didn't he just die? His family should be preparing for his funeral.
He is a retired teacher, and the government will give him 30 months of basic salary as funeral expenses. It won't add burden to his daughter. He
should be a little well-off after the funeral.
In addition, his retirement salary is decent, and he has hundreds of thousands of savings. It is a small help to his middle-aged unemployed daughter.
He wanted to give it to her before, but she didn't take it.
He looked up and saw the linen mosquito net. Then he saw his hands, which had no age spots. Fang Mingche,
who was a little bit guessing, quickly lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and then felt a piercing chill. He quickly put on the military coat beside him.
He stood in front of the round mirror with a red plastic shell that was slightly larger than the palm of his hand and hung on the earth wall.
Yes, he really turned back to his youth! The movements of getting out of bed, dressing, and walking just now were also quite agile.
Moreover, isn't this the dormitory where he and A Yan lived in the village primary school?
Now it's time for him to look at the desk. The calendar above shows January 1, 1979.
So today is New Year's Day!
There are only four days left until the collective return of the educated youth in the previous life.
Only four days left!
His wife Lin Yan is an educated youth from BJ.
The two got married four years ago, and their daughter Fang Shuyan is already more than two years old.
In 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held from December 8 to 22.
After the meeting, the relevant departments adjusted the policy for educated youth: except for a few married educated youth who stayed in the local area for resettlement, most of the educated youth who went to the countryside were allowed to return to their original cities to re-arrange employment.
This means that all unmarried educated youth can return to the city unconditionally.
In the past few days, many married educated youth divorced directly in order to return to the city, and their children were left to their husbands or wives in the countryside. If both parties are educated youth, the children will be given to the locals.
In the previous life, Lin Yan gave up this opportunity to return to the city unconditionally and become a BJ person again.
She stayed and lived with a family of three.
This was once something that made Fang Mingche extremely fortunate and proud.
Lin Yan is tall and slender. She is a well-known flower of the educated youth!
Not long after she went to the countryside, some second-rate people had bad intentions. When doing farm work,
they took advantage of the fact that no one was around and pulled Lin Yan into the cornfield with her mouth covered. Fang Mingche is a math teacher in the village primary school. He passed by and rescued her in time.
He is only one year older than Lin Yan. At that time, he was 18 years old, just graduated from a normal school and started working.
After that, the two fell in love and got along well. No one dared to bully Lin Yan, a stranger, anymore.
Fang is a big family in the village.
Fang Mingche tried every means to get in touch with Principal Wu and got Lin Yan, who went to the countryside shortly after graduating from junior high school, to teach in the village primary school.
Junior high school education is considered a high level of education in the village.
As for him, a normal school student, that is the ceiling of education in the whole village.
In those days, being a teacher was the best way to get a job in the countryside besides going to the workers, peasants and soldiers university, being recruited to work in the city, and joining the army. First, the village recommended it, and then participated in the assessment before going to the normal school. In order not to waste the recommendation quota, Murakami must have selected the best recommendations.
During the class, you can get 10 full work points a day, which is much easier than working in the fields.
This is the motivation for Fang Mingche to study hard since he was a child: he doesn't want to face the loess and back to the sky.
But in his previous life, he only saw so far.
Who would have thought that the salary of teachers would become relatively meager throughout the 1980s and the first few years of the 1990s.
Their dual-income family has become a poor couple with many sorrows.
As for those educated youth who returned to BJ, they at least got a hukou, and their children could get a few dozen points less in the college entrance examination.
Those who got a house were even more different from them, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger.
At the end of 1997, Ayan died in a car accident.
If they had waited for another half a year, Premier Zhu would have given teachers a substantial salary increase!
From then on, teachers could have a good life. Especially compared with the laid-off workers at that time.
Unfortunately, Ayan didn't wait.
Such a tragedy should never be repeated in this life.
Just when he thought of this, someone opened the curtain and came in, saying with a smile: "Mingche, you're awake. What do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you."
After 27 years, Fang Mingche saw his beloved wife Lin Yan again. Lin Yan had two thick and long braids and was youthful and bright.
He rushed forward and hugged Lin Yan tightly in his arms. She choked up and said, "Ayan--"
Lin Yan reached out and hugged him back, and said with some amusement, "I said I wouldn't leave."
Fang Mingche loosened his hand a little, "No, Ayan, you have to go! Let's fake a divorce, and you go back to BJ."
Lin Yan was shocked and said, "What did you say?"
Although Mingche didn't stop her from taking the college entrance examination twice before, he was persuaded to take the exam with her.
But she knew that he actually felt that there was nothing wrong with his current life, and he didn't really want to change it.
He just went along with her, waiting for her to give up if she failed the exam.
After all, the admission rate of the college entrance examination is now surprisingly low. (In 1977, 5.7 million people entered the examination room, and in 1978, 5.9 million. A total of 401,000 college students were admitted in two times. The admission rate is 3.4%)
What's more, she wanted to go back to BJ, how easy is it?
He has always been reluctant to separate, and he would never say divorce.
Fang Mingche hugged Lin Yan and said, "Ah Yan, I saw the letter from my father-in-law. What the old man said makes sense: if you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. This opportunity is so rare! You have been in the countryside for eight or nine years, and he and my mother-in-law miss you. And my mother-in-law is sick! If you can go to BJ, it will be better for Yanyan's future. You go back to the city first to get a BJ hukou, and then continue to prepare for the college entrance examination. I will bring the children to BJ to find you!
The educated youth who did not take the opportunity to return to the city this time will basically be cut off from the hukou in big cities such as BJ and Shanghai for the rest of their lives.
Hukou in BJ and Shanghai is very valuable. Later, they were sold for 300,000 or 500,000 yuan each on the black market.
"But the admission rate of the college entrance examination is so low. "
What if?" What if I fail the exam?
There is still no free movement between urban and rural areas. Without a letter of introduction, it is impossible to travel far.
Even if I go, I cannot stay for long and must come back on specified days.
Otherwise, I will become a blind migrant.
(Blind migrants refer specifically to the surplus agricultural labor force or other people who escaped the household registration management at the time and spontaneously migrated to the city to make a living during the 30 years from 1953 to 1989.) If
blind migrants are discovered, they will be driven back to their hometowns by the police.
China has more than 800 million agricultural population. In the era of planned economy, if they move freely, it will cause a huge burden and even chaos to the social supply system.
"I am a secondary normal school student, and my academic qualifications are actually higher than yours. If you really want to take the exam, your chances are still relatively large. "
BJ has two well-known normal colleges, BJ Normal University and Capital Normal University.
The former is the leader among normal colleges in the country.
Fang Mingche knows his own limitations. He can't get in even if he tries to stand on tiptoe.
But Capital Normal University, he can try hard.
No, not just try hard. He will do his best to get into university in this life.
"Ayan, I trust you won't change your mind. Don't you trust that I will definitely come to you?"
(End of this chapter)
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