Chapter 14: Identity
watched Li Jianguo pour out the noodles in the aluminum pot, add water, put them on the coal stove, and sit back at the table.
"Dad, eat steamed buns!" Li Yiming handed over a steamed bun and watched his father take it.
"Dad, you don't have to worry about me dropping out of school. ”
"Huh?" Li Jianguo looked at his son with a serious face and smiled, "I'm not bothered." ”
Motioning to the manuscripts: "I'm happy!"
Li Yiming didn't care whether his father was really annoyed or relieved, and said to himself: "I mean seriously, what I learn in school now, Chinese, you see what I wrote, the level should exceed the middle school standard, mathematics, arithmetic is no problem, equations are no problem, and I have also learned geometry,...
If you go deeper, you don't need it much in ordinary days, don't worry, I mean my life positioning will not be a technician. Even if I just write this, I can support myself and you, Dad, you eat steamed buns. ”
Li Jianguo smiled helplessly, put the bun in his mouth and took a bite, and snorted vaguely: "Your father doesn't need you to support him, I have a salary." You're going to do this in the future?"
Li Yiming looked at him with blank eyes, and stopped talking.
Li Jianguo sighed: "I'm not angry, and continued." ”
"Writers are still very popular now, but only now, and in a few decades, there will be people who can write books!"
"Really?"
"Really, everybody is using computers,... Well, it's a kind of machine, like a TV, connected to a keyboard, typed, and you can write it, so people in that era could write millions of words of novels, and they called them online texts, because they were placed on the Internet for people to read. ”
"Don't look at it at night??," Li Jianguo asked strangely.
Li Yiming picked up the pen and wrote a few words to show his father: "It is a communication technology." The Internet, in a few years, will appear in China, connected with a special line, and in 20 years, everyone will have a computer in front of them, everyone can communicate, and you can put the news on the Internet and watch it at any time... It's the same with novels... Everybody still has a smartphone!"
Li Jianguo put half of the bun in his mouth and forgot to bite it: "A few years is enough? I know the computer, and Rongcheng has it." Smartphones... What is it?"
"It's something that can be used as a phone call and a computer in your hand, and after 30 years, everyone can afford it!"
"Really?"
"yes, I looked at it, and the stories that came to my head were all thirty years later, well, it was about that time in 2017. Our country has undergone great changes!" Li Yiming looked fascinated.
Li Jianguo waved his hand: "Let's not say that the country is so big, you said that the stories were written by people thirty years later?
"I don't know how to get to my head," Li Yiming hesitated, "Maybe it's black technology?"
"Black... Technology?" Li Jianguo was stunned again.
"It's just amazing technology that you can't imagine, but that's not the point. Li Yiming waved his hand.
"Of course, this is the point, otherwise who knows if these things are true or false!" Li Jianguo said.
Li Yiming motioned for him to look at the pile of letterheads on the side.
"So what do you say the point is? ”
"The point is, you have to believe me!" Li Yiming said solemnly, and quickly added, "Don't doubt!"
Li Jianguo nodded: "Okay, you say it, I'll take it seriously." ”
"Well, a lot of people are writing that these people are thinking about living all over again because they don't live well... So they were resurrected by all kinds of deaths... Then some people will go treasure hunting, some people will do business, and some people will engage in high-tech ,... In fact, the main characters in every book usually do these things, oh, they usually start out with a little business to make their first pot of gold!"
Li Jianguo couldn't help it again, there were too many incomprehensible new words: "What is the first pot of gold?"
"The first pot of gold, that is, there is a theory that the first million is the most difficult thing to earn, and it is also said that the first million... But now it seems that it should be said that it is the first 10,000 yuan!"
Li Jianguo seems to understand whether he understands or not.
That's the way I want to communicate!
Listening is the first step to understanding!
Li Yiming took a sip of soup, thought about it, and then said: "Many old objects now will become very valuable in a few decades, such as stamps, monkey stamps issued in 80 years have been told by many stories, especially the kind of full page, which can be exchanged for a house in 20 years!"
Oh, at that time, there was commercial housing, housing prices were very high, and people had to borrow money from the bank to buy it, and they had to pay back decades of money......
But this is actually not good for the country, the house takes away all the money of the people, people have no money to buy things to consume, no one buys the things produced by the factory, they will go bankrupt, and the workers will lose their jobs... It's the economic downturn..."
Li Yiming said slowly according to the opinions he had sorted out, although he was only a thirteen-year-old child who had not yet entered the second grade of junior high school, but after being washed in his mind by these stories from thirty years later, his vision was far higher than that of people of this era.
Li Jianguo listened carefully and did not interrupt Li Yiming's words, he was also very interested in the future, it was the wish of his generation that the motherland should be rich and strong, and it was also a gene engraved in his bones.
Not only this generation, in order to strengthen the country and enrich the people, the Chinese have been sick for more than a hundred years!
But he also knows that there are some things that are useless to just say, and who knows how to change in the future!
If his son hadn't really written so many things, he would have thought his son was crazy!
But now, he believes it, believes that there is really a miracle happening to his son, and a wave of anger suddenly rises in his heart, to the post office, to the school, and the policeman, but in fact, he also knows that it is difficult to believe this kind of thing on anyone.
"The level of productivity in our country is relatively low, so as soon as it is opened, it can only be engaged in light industry, processing with supplied materials, many people have made a fortune in the past few years, it is because they have got commodities, or approvals, because these things are lacking in everyone, a complete seller's market, that is, people who have things are the most powerful, the most bullish!
After a few decades, it became a buyer's market, because there were too many things produced, and everyone picked them up to buy them, and some of them had to be given away... No one wants to send it yet!"
Li Jianguo felt that he had to slowly get used to the new words in his son's mouth.
"Isn't it awkward for you to say so many new words?" Li Jianguo couldn't help but ask.
"A little. But I seem to get used to it after watching it too much. ”