After lunch, Lu Mingzhi directly asked his secretary to take the four of them to the guest house of the Education Commission, so that they could have a good rest first, and then they could go to see the night view of the capital in the evening.

The secretary took four people to the guest house of the Education Commission not far away, and asked for two double rooms, Liu Donglai and Wang Kang Kang a room, Liu Lang and his mother a room, this kind of double room is very "luxurious", each room has a "Feiyue" brand eighteen-inch color TV, and a separate bathroom, which is actually a flush toilet, this kind of high-end goods let Liu Donglai, Wang Kang Kang and Xu Wenxiu were really eye-opening, and when they asked the service staff, they knew that this kind of double room is generally not open to the public, and it is specially for foreign guests.

This kind of color TV is really different from the black and white TV, the characters in it are all colorful, although there are only four channels, but it also makes a few people watch it over and over again, and even forget to rest, only Liu Lang fell asleep on the bed after washing up, and slept until more than four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Son, get up, let's go out for a walk!"

Liu Lang, who was still in a daze, was woken up by his mother.

"Where are we going?"

Liu Lang rubbed his eyes and asked.

"This place is not far from Tiananmen, let's go to Tiananmen!"

Mother said.

"What's so nice about Tiananmen!"

Liu Lang muttered in his heart, in his previous life, he had not been to the capital, and after more than twenty or thirty years, it was very troublesome to enter this huge square, and he had to carry out various inspections and could not carry prohibited items, so every time he came to the capital, he rarely came to Tiananmen, and the most interesting places in the capital for him should be those ancient alleys.

Although Liu Lang was a little reluctant, he sat up, washed his face after putting on his clothes, and his spirits were also lifted.

"Okay, let's go!"

Liu Donglai and Wang Kangkang were waiting for the two of them at the door.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Xu Wenxiu led Liu Lang out as well.

Saijo Hutong is not very far from the center of the capital, less than 20 minutes by bus, when a few people get off the bus, look up and see the majestic castle tower that symbolizes the supreme power of the country, in the center of the castle tower hangs a huge portrait of a great man, with blazing eyes, looking at this ancient capital.

"This is the Tian'an Gate Tower! It's spectacular!"

Liu Donglai, Xu Wenxiu and Wang Kangkang stood at the foot of the city tower for the first time, feeling the majestic atmosphere, and they were very excited.

"How many people, don't you take a picture?

A man with a camera immediately walked over and asked.

"Photo, photo, how much?"

Liu Donglai asked.

"Two dollars a piece!"

"What? Two bucks?"

Several people were taken aback by the "expensive" price.

"Oh, I'm a color photo, it's instant, it's not expensive, you have to ask you three dollars for other places. ”

The person taking the picture said repeatedly.

The most expensive photo in Fucheng is only three cents, of course, there are very few color photos in Fucheng in eighty-three years, only one photo studio can take them, but even a color photo is only five cents, which is good, directly two yuan, equivalent to Liu Donglai's salary for two days.

A few people looked at each other, let's take a photo, it's too expensive! If you don't take a photo, you can't help but think about it when you come to the capital.

"Photo, photo, the price of this place in the capital, let's also let it out!"

Wang Kang Kang has now figured it out, when he arrives in the capital, everything is expensive anyway, but fortunately, he has a few hundred yuan of "public money", and he is really reluctant to pay for it himself.

Liu Donglai hugged his son, Xu Wenxiu stood next to him, and a family of three had their backs to the city tower.

"Laugh at all!"

After a crisp sound, a group photo was permanently frozen.

Wang Kang Kang also took a photo alone, and then four people took a group photo, three photos cost six yuan, and a week's salary was thrown in.

Five minutes later, the photo was washed out, and Xu Wenxiu took it in her hand and looked at it, this was the first color photo in her life.

After taking pictures, a few people strolled around the square.

The most conspicuous thing on the square is naturally the huge and majestic Monument to the People's Heroes.

"Son, this is the Monument to the People's Heroes, we can live a good life now, it is this group of people's heroes who have won the world, you have to remember these people. ”

Liu Donglai taught Liu Langdao.

Liu Lang raised his head and saw the inscription of the great man engraved on the monument: the people's heroes are immortal, there are many people around who stop in front, everyone has a solemn look on their faces, no matter who it is, in front of this monument, they will think of the rain of bullets and bullets, and think of countless heroes who threw their heads and spilled blood.

It is already nearly evening, and the lanterns on Tiananmen Square have been lit up, illuminating the whole square as if it were day, many people are walking in the square, but there are still many young people who look like eighteen or nineteen-year-old students sitting on the ground reading books with the help of the light of the lanterns, and some have set up a small table and bench to write various topics.

"By the way, these should be students preparing for the college entrance examination. ”

Liu Lang reacted.

It is now the end of May of 83, and the college entrance examination will kick off in another month.

In China, the college entrance examination is a major event for every student, and in some cases it is even a fateful event, if you are admitted to a national key university, it is equivalent to a carp jumping over the dragon gate, if you are not admitted to the university, then life will become bleak.

However, there is still a big difference between this era and Liu Lang's era of college students, in the early eighties, there were more than 100,000 students who could be admitted to college every year, and they stood out among millions of candidates.

And in the ninety-ninth year, that is, the year of their college entrance examination, the college entrance examination began to expand on a large scale, from less than one million per year to millions of people per year, just like currency, the number will naturally depreciate, and in the next century, the most in the society are college students, and in the employment season, countless young people will appear at the job fair, in order to find a job are squeezed out, their goal is just to find a favorite job, but in the end how many people can achieve this small goal?

The advantage of university enrollment expansion is that everyone can receive a better education, but the same problem is not small, that is, the teaching quality of many universities has greatly declined, and the courses taught are very backward, such as Liu Lang's university in his previous life, he studied architecture, and the professional courses are barely enough, at least after graduation, he can build a building or something, but many other courses are far behind the times, he still remembers that there is a military theory course, the teacher even taught the military theory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, saying that it is necessary to fight a protracted war, and by mobilizing the strength of the broad masses of the people to let the enemy fall into the vast sea of people's war。

Damn, when you were still digging tunnels, other people's atomic bombs flew in, and you couldn't dodge; when you were planting in the rear, people flew an atomic bomb, and there wasn't a single hair left, how could you fight a protracted war?

Not advocating technology and relying only on the old way, this kind of thinking is simply stuck in the "ancient" era, and it is strange that this kind of course can still be alive.

Of course, the reform of the country is an all-round reform, and the economy, politics, and even education all need to be reformed, and the education reform must depend on the economic and political reform, and China's education still has a long way to go.