After receiving affirmative answers from their parents, the family rested for a day and then embarked on their journey again, but they didn't go far; they went to Xinshi, the county town below.
The county towns in the southern province each have their own unique characteristics. The most distinctive feature is probably that the dialects can vary from place to place. Even in just one city, Liu Yun knows no less than five different dialects. She hasn't been to many places yet, and there are even more that she doesn't know.
Of course, the mountains, lakes, and rivers here are also very distinctive.
Not only mountains and rivers, but also various scenic spots and historical sites, each place has its own unique characteristics.
I played until the fourteenth day of the first lunar month before going home. After all, the Lantern Festival was the next day, and I still had to go back. Besides, school started on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.
After having lunch on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the family of seven boarded the train back to Xiangshi.
After sending her child to school, Liu Yun had some free time again. However, since she had more money in her pocket, she didn't want to put all her money in the bank. After all, the interest rate was so high, there was no need to keep it all there. So Liu Yun got to work again.
First, I went to the bank and exchanged 10,000 yuan worth of gold, since the price of this stuff has risen much higher than the bank's interest rate.
Then came all sorts of gold and jade jewelry. I bought whatever I liked, knowing it would become more and more valuable in the future.
I'm happy with what I bought now, and I can cash it out whenever I need money in the future. It couldn't be more cost-effective.
Later, having nothing to do, he and Qiao Ying set their sights on houses and shops in Xiangshi.
The reason was that Qiao Ying saw that Shenyang's factory was on the right track, and her child had to go to school. She was idle at home and had nothing to do, so she wanted to find something to do. She thought about opening her own shop to try it out. After all, she was quite good at making desserts and she liked making them herself, so she decided to open a pastry shop.
So he asked Liu Yun to go and see if there was a suitable shop, and they planned to take over a suitable one to open a store.
Liu Yun figured that whether she was herding one sheep or a flock, it was all the same. So she decided to start looking for sheep herself. After all, she had money now, and buying a few more shops and houses wouldn't be a problem.
Although I own quite a few houses and shops, who would complain about having too many!
Following Qiao Ying's lead actually helped her buy quite a few suitable items.
The property wasn't going to be demolished or developed, and since I couldn't live in it all myself, I rented it all out again.
Since Qiao Ying opened her shop, Liu Yun has had another place to eat. Qiao Ying's pastries are really good, and her family loves them. Liu Yun goes there almost every day.
Qiao Ying wanted to get Liu Yun involved because she saw how much Liu Yun liked it, but Liu Yun refused.
Investing is fine, but working a regular job is unnecessary. With Qiao Ying and Shen Yang's abilities, they could easily open five or ten stores, let alone one, so they don't need her investment at all. Therefore, she won't get involved.
Although she doesn't get involved in running the shop, she can still patronize it and occasionally secretly learn new skills.
So I went there almost every day, either to buy things or to learn how to make pastries, to keep myself occupied, or I would stay at home every day to look after her space, her vegetable garden, orchard, and flower garden.
Time passed day by day, and soon it was 1982.
During this period, there was another dividend distribution. Now, many people have tried the reform and opening-up policy and seen the benefits. More and more people are going into business, and business is getting better and better.
So all businesses were thriving, and this time the electronics factory also received dividends. With an additional location, they received a substantial share this time.
Liu Yun's wallet, which hadn't completely emptied, swelled up again, and became quite bulging. After all, the electronics factory was doing very well, no less so than the clothing factory, and its profits were even much greater.
Many significant events have occurred this year. First, it was affirmed that various production responsibility systems, such as the household contract responsibility system, are production responsibility systems of the socialist collective economy.
As soon as this policy was implemented, the variety of goods in the market immediately increased, especially in the vegetable market, where supplies became increasingly abundant.
It's clear that people's lives are getting better and better.
Then there's family planning, which requires and encourages couples to have only one child, and strongly promotes late marriage and late childbirth, as well as eugenics.
Seeing this, Liu Yun still felt somewhat emotional, although she knew that the current population growth rate was indeed too fast and that it was necessary to control the rate of population growth.
But after the one-child policy, there was a push to have more children. Now it's one child, then it'll be two children, and before she transmigrated, she already had three children.
However, with the rapid development of the economy, people's living needs and requirements have also increased, and the pressure of living has increased. Few people are willing to have a third child, and even fewer have a second child. At this time, population aging is another problem.
The thing that made Liu Yun happiest this year was that sanitary napkins were finally available. She almost cried when she saw them on the market. You see, she had had enough of those red paper napkins. They say it takes three weeks to form a habit, but she still couldn't get used to this after more than ten years. How could she not be happy to finally have sanitary napkins to use?
There's another exciting and nerve-wracking thing: Liu Yun didn't have the energy to wander around during the first half of this year, after all, there were three high school seniors in her family taking the college entrance exam.
That's right, the triplets are in their final year of high school and will be taking the college entrance exam this year.
All three students in my family who took the college entrance exam studied humanities and natural sciences. The exams at that time were somewhat different from those in later generations.
Their main exam subjects are Chinese, mathematics, foreign language, and politics. Because they study humanities and natural sciences, that is, liberal arts, they also have to take history and geography exams.
Furthermore, a preliminary exam was held a month before this year's college entrance examination, which is normal and was added last year.
This system was designed to address the challenges posed by the increasing number of students taking the college entrance examination each year, thereby mitigating the difficulties in organizing and ensuring fairness in the examination.
However, this is also a very brutal selection process, and many candidates miss out on the college entrance examination as a result.
Liu Yun was quite nervous because only those who passed the preliminary exam could take the college entrance examination.
When their parents learned that the triplets were taking the college entrance exam, they made a special trip to come over.
Although judging from their mother's performance, the triplets should do well on the exam, and the triplets usually have excellent grades, Liu Yun still couldn't help but feel nervous.
Liu Yun breathed a sigh of relief after learning that she had passed the preliminary exam, but the college entrance exam was just around the corner.
Liu Yun wanted to cook them something nice to nourish them, but she was afraid of overdoing it and doing more harm than good. Fortunately, their family's meals were usually quite good.
However, this year's college entrance examination was postponed by a month, to July 7th, 8th, and 9th.
The dog days of summer in the south are no joke; they are extremely hot and humid, like a steamer.
Early July is the hottest and most humid period of the dog days of summer. Even electric fans are rare these days, let alone air conditioners, which adds another layer of difficulty to the college entrance examination.
This made Liu Yun extremely anxious; she had never been this nervous when she took the college entrance examination.
Fortunately, the triplets didn't seem to be under any pressure.
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