After Luo Fei finished the last class of the first day after being reborn, the sun in the summer of 1998 gradually set in the western sky, and as soon as the bell rang for the end of Lucheng Middle School, whether it was a fast class or a slow class, whether it was a boy or a girl, they all flapped their wings and flew outside the school like a bird breaking free from the cage.

Luo Fei is no exception, after being reborn, he is the same as in his previous life, advancing and retreating with Kevin, the two of them walked out of the classroom together after school, Luo Fei was about to walk towards the familiar school gate, but was pulled by Kevin.

"Where are you going?"

Luo Fei was a little confused, and pointed to the school gate and said:

"Go home, aren't you going here?"

With a look of disbelief on his face, Kevin asked rhetorically:

"You're just walking home?"

Luo Fei said with a blank face:

"If you don't go, do you want to take the bus?"

Kevin looked at Luo Fei from top to bottom a few times, as if he had seen him for the first time, and said suspiciously:

"You took the wrong medicine today, didn't you ride your bicycle home, you don't want your car?"

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A minute later, Luo Fei stood in the bicycle shed of Lucheng Middle School, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar black Phoenix brand mountain bike, and a sense of absurdity of time travel arose.

Bicycle, this term, once played an extremely important role in the life of Chinese, in the last century of extreme scarcity, bicycle is the best assistant for Chinese travel, but with the continuous rise of the country's industrial level, as well as the growth of the national economy and income, motorcycles, cars gradually replaced the status of bicycles.

The only opportunity for the resurgence of this term is the "shared bicycle" craze set off by some Internet entrepreneurs more than ten years ago...... The variety and endless emergence of bicycles have brought unprecedented attention and use to bicycles, which are about to enter history.

It's just that the power of capital comes and goes quickly.

After the tide passed, those players who were originally naked swimmers showed their true colors, and the "shared bicycle", which was respected as one of the representatives of the new economy, soon became an outcast in the capital market due to problems and scandals such as broken capital chains, misappropriation of deposits, and occupation of public resources.

With the ebb and flow of the "bike-sharing" craze, the bicycle that was once noisy for a while has been beaten back to its original shape, and it has also returned to its positioning as one of the supplementary means of public transportation.

However, in 1998, in this small eastern county, bicycles were still the best way for these middle-of-the-road middle school students from modest backgrounds to get around.

But for Luo Fei, who has just been reborn, he has not touched bicycles for a long time in his previous life, and he has more high-quality means of transportation after his successful entrepreneurship, and he does not need or have the opportunity to pedal that kind of civilian bicycle again.

Therefore, when Luo Fei stepped on this Phoenix mountain bike for some years, he was uncomfortable at first, and he almost rubbed Kevin with a few slips, but the reborn young body soon stimulated the part of Luo Fei's mind about cycling skills.

As the wheels continued to roll forward, Luo Fei's movements on the bicycle began to become proficient, which made him more interested in riding a bicycle, and he began to be dissatisfied with the regular riding method, learning Kevin's wild and uninhibited appearance, pedaling the bicycle quickly, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Lucheng County.

Looking at the familiar old streets and old scenes that are constantly passing by, feeling the salty summer breeze blowing in my face, I feel a wonderful feeling of stepping on the track of time, and the bicycle handle in my hand is the steering wheel that drives time back.

In Luo Fei's heart, he felt that he must be handsome now, and he even thought of the scenes of those idol dramas in his previous life.

The boy in white rode a bicycle, holding the freshly picked flowers in his mouth, walked through the streets and alleys, stopped at the door of his beloved girl's house, and confessed loudly to the girl upstairs, and then the girl walked down with a smile like a flower, took the flowers he sent, sat on the back seat of the bicycle, and ran to the distance of happiness together.

But the reality is that Luo Fei and Kevin are wearing the school uniforms of Lucheng Middle School that do not fit very well, they are neither white nor floating, and in the eyes of passers-by, these two big boys who ride bicycles fast look like poor students who don't study seriously.

The two older boys, with their two long legs, quickly rode their bikes to the house where Kevin lived.

Kevin's hometown is a town under the jurisdiction of Lucheng County, so he lived with relatives during high school.

Luo Fei's home is on the same road as Kevin, but the house where Kevin lives is closer to the school, so after saying goodbye downstairs at Kevin's house, Luo Fei pedals his bicycle on the road alone.

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Although he rode alone on the road, Luo Fei did not forget the way home.

In the previous life, Lucheng County had already been annexed by the expanding Oudong City and became a district of Oudong City, and the pattern of small county towns was also broken by various commercial real estate, high-end communities, and cultural and creative centers.

However, in the summer of 1998, the street pattern of Lucheng County still retains the pattern set in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the Luming River, a tributary of the Oudong River, passes through the city, naturally dividing Lucheng into two patterns: Dongcheng and Xicheng.

Dongcheng is the earliest residential area, where there are important public units such as the county government, the county court, the county hospital, and the county middle school, the streets are straight and neat, and the residences are standardized and tidy, with the style of the imitation Soviet-style city in the 60s of the last century.

Most of the people living in Dongcheng were residents who ate public meals, and they were either the descendants of cadres and their families of various organs and units of the county government, or employees of hospitals, schools and other public institutions, and the most unfortunate were the employees of state-owned enterprises who were not very prosperous at that time.

Xicheng, which is separated by a stream, was originally just a barren and salty land near the beach, and was originally inhabited by farmers in the suburban area, but since the reform and opening up, a large number of family factories and village enterprises have sprung up here, and they have gradually become lively.

In order to meet the needs of development, Lucheng County has successively expanded the area of Xicheng through land reclamation in the past 20 years, and has also attracted many farmers from subordinate towns and towns to the city, as well as migrant workers from other places who come to Lucheng, so the population of Xicheng has not only increased several times in 20 years, but also surpassed the original Dongcheng in terms of economic aggregate.

However, although the population and economy are dominant, Xicheng still lags behind Dongcheng in terms of human settlements. Due to backward and untimely planning, a large number of self-built houses are mixed with simple factory buildings, where the white smoke of the factories and the smoke of the residents' cooking are indistinguishable from each other, and the trucks transporting goods and the toy cars of three-year-olds run side by side...... These scenes, which seemed absurd to later generations, coexisted very harmoniously in Lucheng County in 1998.

Just like China in the decades before the reform and opening up, everything is based on economic development as the first priority, and everything is so vibrant, waiting for people to work hard and create. People in this era are not so gentle, not so calm, they care more about those practical things, and they don't have so much leisure to think about those metaphysical things.

Luo Fei didn't have time to think about this at the moment, because while he was riding his bicycle, he was constantly searching and verifying the way home in his mind.

Wang's shoe-making factory, Li's belt factory, Zhang's shirt factory, Qian's lighter factory...... These signs, which looked simple and rough in later generations, were so familiar and familiar in Luo Fei's eyes.

Because only he knows that these small village factories have also emerged in the future, industry giants with products all over the country, and a number of well-known brands and enterprises in the country have emerged.

Like all witnesses with a priori abilities, Luo Fei drove past these dusty traces of the past in his memory with a little sigh and sentimentality, and found the home where he had lived for more than 20 years in his previous life at the end of a road full of snacks and fast food restaurants.

Looking at the rusty iron gate outside the courtyard of his old home, the somewhat faded red brick walls with ivy, and the warm, dim incandescent light shining through the windows, Luo Fei couldn't help but think of a classic movie line.

"1997 is behind and I miss it. ”