Chapter 1: Go back in time and look confused

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The ancestor of the Han family was a big official.

The official is from the second grade, and the head of the household is the position. That was from the last century, and Mr. Han occasionally liked to take it out and chatter.

When I was young, I went to private school, and before the day of the longed-for gold list title came, I was first dragged on the street, went down with scissors, and cut my braids with a click.

Later, the family fell into the middle of the road, and came to the United States by boat, and after working hard for several years, he also had a place to live in Los Angeles, and now the family has a total of five people, crammed into a new house of more than 70 square meters.

The little knowledge I learned in the private school came in handy to some extent.

named his son Han Yuesong, and his grandson Han Chudong, all of which were good words found by the old man through the poems.

The neighbors knew that he was knowledgeable, and he was a good person on weekdays, and people often came to ask for a good name for the child.

Old man Han is a rare man, his full name is Han Shengen, in the past it was a "saint" word in the middle, but then the court was gone, and it always sounded a little uncomfortable, so he simply changed his name.

In the early years, he opened a Chinese medicine hall in this foreign country, but he was forced to close his doors more than ten years ago, because the white people did not believe in this set and felt that it was completely a livelihood for money and murder.

After that, I resold ginseng, fish maw, bird's nest, etc., and there were not only Chinese people in Chinatown, but also myself and Koreans who bought these, and I barely had to worry about it, but unfortunately more than half of the profits went into the landlord's pocket.

The body is okay, minor illnesses come to the door every three or five times, major illnesses have not been encountered, and I want to help future generations, and there are no plans to retire at present.

In recent days, the old man has been frowning.

Mainly because more than half a month ago, my baby grandson had a car accident, and the whole person became abnormal, nested in the room and was not happy to go out, and every time I saw it, I was in a daze.

His three-legged cat's medical skills were not on the table, and he chose to be sent to the hospital as soon as possible, with a cracked calf bone and a moderate concussion, and the problem was not too big.

So Old Man Han didn't pay much attention to it, he walked around as usual every day, and then guarded the dry goods store and waited for business to come to his door.

In the days to come, you can see the end at a glance, and there is not much hope.

Some old friends have been buried in the soil, and Mr. Han still wants to hold on for a few more years, so it is best to wait until his grandson also starts a family, finds a good job, and takes a beautiful and virtuous wife, and then he can leave with a smile even if he closes his eyes.

......

The old man didn't know what happened to his grandson, and his own son Han Yuesong, who was messing around in the police station, was even more unclear.

The man named Han Yuesong returned home at this moment, and saw that the young man on the bed was still lying down, and he didn't want to say angrily: "It's a big fart, why is it like this!" Either get up and read, or help your mother do some housework, don't think that if you hurt your leg, you don't have to continue to work, and you want me to support you until you are thirty years old?"

Seeing that his son ignored him again, he was angry and angry, but he didn't say anything serious, his expression was a little hateful, and he sat at the dinner table and poured himself a beer.

Han Chudong, who is only nineteen years old this year, used to belong to the kind of poor students who slept in class and made trouble after class, and of course he was not admitted to college, and it was difficult to even enter a community college.

It's no wonder he's so angry.

Some time ago, I just took care of the relationship, and I was looking for a job for my son at a friend's, but I didn't think that I would ride a bicycle and hit someone else on the third day of work.

Not to mention the loss of money, it is estimated that it is difficult to keep the job, and it will take a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, and you have to rest for a long time to heal.

Since he was a child, this son has disappointed Han Yuesong too many times, and now even the car accident can make him feel that this little rabbit cub is not angry, and he is worried about how to persuade his son to continue the exam and get a community college diploma.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

For Han Chudong, even the name "Han Chudong" is very unfamiliar.

The blow was so big that I didn't really recover for more than half a month, I wasn't a stranger to my grandparents, and suddenly became my own grandparents, and even my parents were changed, how could I accept it easily?!

I really hope that someone is joking with him and playing "Truman's world", but unfortunately, as the days go by, he finds that he has probably really crossed over.

After all, no matter how much you deceive yourself, it is impossible to change your appearance, and after looking in the mirror countless times, I finally accepted the fact that I had become someone else.

Recently, through TV and newspapers, Han Chudong has known that it is only 1973, an era when there are no mobile phones, no personal computers, antique classic cars on the street, and people are wearing strange clothes.

The Cold War is still ongoing, the XN Opera House has just been built, and the hometown successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb last month...... Just a few days ago, kung fu superstar Bruce Lee died suddenly at the home of an actress.

These were things that he could only see in history books, and they were unbelievable to him.

However, even if you think it's impossible, after more than ten days, it's time to slowly accept the reality.

Han Chudong was originally surnamed Han, and was sent to Peking University as a provincial champion, and then came to California Polytechnic University to study abroad, from a master's degree to a doctorate, and in 2014, he stayed until the beginning of July 2019, and was just about to return to China to accept a good job with an annual salary of one million plus dividends.

Looking back, he couldn't figure out which memory was real.

According to the calculation of time, in this era, his father in his previous life was still running around in open crotch pants, why did he return to the seventies?

For the umpteenth time, he looked sideways into the mirror.

I was finally able to smile a little on my face, thinking that fortunately it wasn't all bad, at least I was young and more handsome.

I didn't plan to get out of bed, and once I got out of bed, it meant that I had to have direct contact with those strange "family members" and say something that confused him, but people had three urgencies, and felt that their bladder was about to explode, so they still got up at this moment, sat on the edge of the bed and took crutches.

1.8 meters tall, more nutrition at this age, maybe you can grow up two or three centimeters more, holding a cane with one hand, your right leg can't be forced, and you walk with a limp.

Passing by the dining table, Daddy Han didn't mean to help, but mocked: "Take a bath more, can't your legs touch the water, can't your hair?" You can smell the bad smell, don't come to eat if you don't take a bath!"

If it was in the past, Han Chudong would definitely talk back, but at this time, he only stopped and replied: "I know, I'll wash it later, the water heater ...... Where's the hot water?"

"Kitchen, what a fool?"

"Oh. ”

Seeing that he continued to limp and walked to the small kitchen first, Father Han wondered about this, muttering how this kid was so obedient.

In the past, the father and son quarreled almost every day, but now there is no contradiction, but it makes him very uncomfortable.

After solving the physiological problem, take the clothes before the water boils, the two-bedroom house, the kitchen is small, and the bathroom is also small.

There is also a small attic of five square meters on the top, with a small roof of more than 20 square meters, the price is to climb six flights of stairs to go home, and the old couple lives in the attic on weekdays.

I haven't taken a bath for a long time, and the smell is really similar to rancid, and there is a smell of plaster.

Avoid letting the injured leg touch the water, wash and scrub to refresh.

He was very hungry, and since he was ready to adapt to the situation, Han Chudong didn't plan to continue to avoid his family, so he didn't say a word about the good meal, sat opposite the strange father, and told: "Can you lend me some money, I want to go out in the afternoon and go to the bookstore." ”

Hearing this, all his previous good attitude turned into premeditated.

Daddy Han thinks this is normal, no wonder he is obedient, it turns out that he is short of money to spend, and his eyes are suddenly not good.

When I paid for it, I said: "The excuse of going to the bookstore is a bit old, I want to play arcade games, and I'm not a student, you can do whatever you want, but don't embarrass me, or you'll feel good! Don't touch the poison, stay away from fights or anything, if I get a reason to get caught and expel you from the house, even if your grandparents protect it, it's useless, do you hear?"

Han Chudong thought about what kind of impression he had in his mind before, when he was a son, he should have the consciousness of being a son, and he was silent for a few seconds, and then nodded obediently.

Inexplicably, I felt a sense of humiliation, and I was taught a lesson, and I only got six dollars in exchange.

There is a discrepancy between memory and reality, he thinks that six dollars is very little, but in fact it is a lot, and the average salary of Americans in these years is only more than 500 dollars a month.

The word "average" is enough to explain many problems, and many people simply don't make so much money.

Take Han Yuesong, who is a small management in the police station, for example, his monthly salary is only more than 390 US dollars, and sometimes he can earn some extra oil and water.

In total, they can earn five or six hundred dollars a month, and their purchasing power is about the same as five or six thousand dollars in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

So life is not worried, after all, the old woman who is nearly seventy years old can still earn money by doing some manual work, and the whole family is working hard to make money except for Han Chudong, who is an idler, and is barely a middle-class family, which is quite good among the Chinese community near Chinatown.

In the early seventies, the status of Chinese Americans improved slightly, and some celebrities in the upper echelons of society appeared, mainly due to the change of the trend of the times.

This year, the United States and the big countries on the other side of the Pacific are in a "honeymoon period," and the owner of the Oval Office in February last year just made an unprecedented official visit to the other side of the strait, and left behind a beautiful talk of ping-pong diplomacy.

This change in attitude directly affected the United States, the "Chinese Exclusion Act" has long been terminated, and there is even a Chinese billionaire named Wang An in Massachusetts, who made a fortune by selling so-called "computers" and now has a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In these days, most people don't even know what a computer looks like, and even if they know, they can only imagine a huge and strange machine, which is more used in the military field and the popularity of civilian use...... Hardly.

So people still love to read, TV stations and periodicals and magazines are still having a good time, and the ice rinks and billiards clubs are just as good......

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