For the week that followed, everything was uneventful.

Gu Biao goes to class every day, and he learns English by himself.

After returning home in the evening, my father worked hard every night to deal with his technical plan report for the central commissioner. Occasionally, Gu Biao will come up with ideas and sort out the copywriting.

After all, my dad has only been working all these years, and he can't get it by asking him to write technical solutions or even papers.

Of course, Gu Biao has to take a hand, anyway, he has read so many books in his previous life, and he has written papers anyway, and his writing is always much better than that of a junior high school student like his father, and he knows more about his technical background.

The days were hard and uneventful.

It's either brown rice or solid steamed buns in the cafeteria, as well as vegetables with little oil and water.

At the beginning of Gu Biao's crossing, he thought that his father was because he had to raise two children, so he didn't have enough money to spend.

But after observing it for a while, he found that this was not the case.

That day, when my father was talking to Director Qin, he smoked the big front door.

How can a person who can afford to smoke a few cents a pack of big front doors be short of money?

In this era, the lowest part-time salary in the city was 8 yuan a month (only three or four hours a day) - for example, some high school students went to work part-time as lifeguards in several swimming pools in the city after school in the afternoon, or went to the traffic police team to sign up and work as an anti-pickpocket team on the bus (to catch thieves), all of which were 8 yuan.

As long as it is a full-time employee, even if it is an apprentice and an assistant policeman, the minimum is 16 yuan, and 24 yuan after becoming a regular. Every 8 yuan of the first level, 4 and a half yuan, according to the craft, years, performance of the salary increase.

Most of the 30-year-old family earners in society are only thirty or forty yuan a month.

And Gu Biao's father is an eighth-level fitter, and he is also the head of the technical section of the factory, so he has a salary of 120 yuan, which is worth 3 people from other families.

Moreover, Gu Biao felt that his family's large population was just an illusion caused by his habit of the 21st century.

It's really a horizontal comparison with the society, but it's not much. There are many families with three or four children, and they all have to rely on dozens of dollars to support them.

Therefore, the Gu family has not eaten meat for two years, not at all because there is not enough money, but because there are not enough tickets.

Under the planned economy, everything that is in short supply has to be ticketed.

This led to my dad picking and choosing everything to buy - anyway, there are 5 packs of cigarettes a month, and there is nothing to buy when the money is over, so if you want to smoke, you can smoke the front door.

A Phoenix brand bicycle is equivalent to half a year's salary of others, but Gu Biao can ride his father's bicycle and send a can of meat to his sister every month - this is equivalent to driving a Passat to deliver "Hungry" to people 30 years later.

In the past few days of communication with his father, Gu Biao gradually recalled that before his mother did not "draw a clear line" with her family, she was actually quite good at "speculating" housework.

My mother could always take the money, get all kinds of tickets from the neighbors who didn't have money, or go to the black market to buy high-priced meat.

It's a pity that the Gu family later became a frightened bird, for fear of being said that his ideological consciousness is not high, and his father didn't dare to go to the black market to buy meat for several years, for fear of being seen and grabbing the handle.

……

"I have to find a way to turn the family's money into meat to eat. It won't take a few years for the purchasing power of the RMB to depreciate, and this little money is not spent to improve life, and it is a waste to save it. ”

It's another day after school, and Gu Biao, who went home and was reading a book while waiting for dinner, thought so.

At this moment, the door of the courtyard opened, and there was a "bang", which was quite loud.

Gu Biao looked through the window, and sure enough, his father was back.

Dad almost shouted when he saw Gu Biao, but in the end he held back. His hands were clenched so tightly that he could see them from afar, clutching his diagonal satchel and staggering up the wooden stairs, creaking the floor.

After closing the door, Dad opened the satchel like a treasure and pulled out a stack of "Great Unity".

In this era, there is no 100-yuan bill, and the largest denomination of money is the "great unity" of 10 yuan.

Dozens of them.

Dad said excitedly: "Hey, your voice is softer, there are a total of 400 yuan here, which is more than three months' salary!

I showed the report you got for me and showed it to the commissioner in the ministry, and I thought it was good. They've taken the train back to BJ today. Later, if you want funds, equipment, and journals, you have the above scheduling. I also secretly went to the black market to buy half a pound of high-priced meat, let's have a good meal!"

Gu Biao didn't have much honor in the report, which was all expected by him. The only thing that excites me is being able to eat meat this week.

However, the father didn't know that his son had such a city government, and he didn't forget to take care of it: "The wealth is not exposed! Don't talk nonsense, be careful of being accused of our 'white dictatorship'!"

"Dad, don't worry, I'm measured. Gu Biao agreed calmly, while thinking in his heart:

It seems that his ability has finally been proven, and Dad is in a good mood today. Tell him that Mr. Yang does not recommend himself for further study, and it should be easier to pass......

Moreover, with the example of talking and laughing with Director Qin last time, Dad's confidence in our self-learning ability should have improved by a few levels, right?

So, he said, "Dad, I have something I want to tell you......"

Then, he told his father again what he had said to Teacher Yang.

It took him a full week to hold back until today's opportunity.

Daddy's shocked reaction when he first heard it was bigger than that of Teacher Yang: "You are a little deflated three! I don't want to study just after a snack! Labor and management will kill you!"

As he spoke, he began to untie his belt again.

Fortunately, Gu Biao had already prepared, and said like a cannon while waving his hand to protect his face: "Dad, listen to my explanation, I think it is very likely that the college entrance examination will be resumed this year!

In the face of his father, his only advantage is that he can say more things that he can't say to Teacher Yang and Ma Feng.

In front of other close relatives and friends, Gu Biao said at most, "I think it is possible to resume the exam above."

But if you talk to your father, you can say in detail, "I think it's very likely that it will recover this year." ”

Because he believes that his father will not betray him, even if the prediction is accurate, there is no risk of being sliced and studied.

The impulsive father was finally persuaded, walked back and forth anxiously, and tortured: "Say, what are you judging on?"

Gu Biao breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly Amway: "By this year's enrollment season, it has been almost a year since the alternation of power, and the winners and losers must always be divided." The ancient emperor still wanted to open Enke, how could he let go of such an important opportunity to attract people's hearts?

Besides, I went to the city library to read a few English periodicals, and there were also sociology-related analyses, and many foreign economists said this - you also know how powerful those foreigners are, you can deal with the central commissioners, don't you just rely on following the prophetic knowledge of foreigners!"

This last sentence played a key role.

Daddy has just received a great benefit, and emotionally inclined to believe in the omnipotence of foreigners.

The city library does have some books in English. Dad doesn't know English, and he doesn't know what to write, but he can't figure out what other sources of information Gu Biao might have, so he believes it.

"That's it, I'll believe you, let's go and burn the meat first, and we'll talk about it after eating. ”

Two hours later, half a catty of braised pork was eaten by the father and son, and even the oil soup was wiped clean with rice

After the meat was eaten, Dad did not forget to instigate the chewed pork bones to suck the bone marrow dry. While sucking, he instructed Gu Biao:

"Since you are so sure that you will resume the exam, even if you go to the countryside, you must really study hard. If there are any books and textbooks that can be used in exams, you can find a way to inquire by yourself, and I will give you money to buy them! Alas, these days, there is only one thing left to buy books without tickets, and you can buy them if you have money.

When you deliver meat to your sister next week, bring her a set too, tell her your judgment, and let her earn less work and study more, after all, she has studied in high school seriously, and the exam is always more sure than you. If you have a heart or not, maybe you can really give our family a college student...... But you have to keep her secret, no one can say anything. It is not a small crime to spread the policies of the central government. ”

Obviously, in the eyes of my father, Gu Min, who has studied in high school for more than a year, has a better future than Gu Biao.

Gu Biao didn't want to explain anything, so let's use the results to prove it.

Daddy is willing to listen to him, and the most critical step is in the past.

……

When he went to school the next day, his father gave Gu Biao 10 pieces of pocket money for unity very trustingly.

Perhaps this is the trust that Gu Biao won by helping him solve the technical ideas of the helium making machine and dealing with the commissioners in the ministry.

As for how to spend the money, Dad only has one sentence: All things that can be used in the reading exam are limited to 100 yuan, just spend it!

That's a huge amount of money, equivalent to half a year's salary for an apprentice.

However, if you want to study for the college entrance examination on your own, such a budget is necessary.

Although books are one of the few things that can be bought without tickets and money alone, the price of books is very expensive compared to people's income.

For example, at present, the most authoritative high school science self-study textbook is called "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series", a set of 10 volumes, and the new books cost 2 yuan per volume, and it costs more than half a month's salary to buy them all.

Even if a small number of educated youths find this set of books from the scrap recycling station, they have to spend seven or eight cents a copy to ask for the repurchase of waste products.

The reason why Gu Biao knows this set of books is because it is so famous, and decades later it appeared in the TV series "Deng Weiren in the Turning Point of History", as an important plot in the plot of "Resuming the College Entrance Examination".

In the TV series, there is a plot of real people and real events, saying that in the examination area of a prefecture-level city in Hui Province that year, after the college entrance examination results came out, 4 of the top 20 people were educated youths from Hujiang.

And the only thing that these 4 Hujiang educated youths have in common is that they all have a set of "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series" brought from their hometown in Hujiang.

There is also a girl among these 4 people, because after getting the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, knowing that another boy had this set of tutoring books in his hand, he immediately decided to become his girlfriend, so he shared the secret book of martial arts.

The pair of educated youths who were in the line of fire later took advantage of this good result to successfully return to their hometown and go to Jiaotong University, and later stayed in school and became a famous professor husband and wife of Jiaotong University.

The reason for this situation is that the examination in 77 was organized too hastily, and the teachers of science papers in many provinces did not have an outline, so they directly compared the questions from this set of tutorial books.

In the case that everyone does not review enough and is rushed to the examination room by an emergency raid, the gap between those with and without tutoring books is naturally very huge.

People who have this set of books can score 100 points more than others in the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry combined, how can they compare.

When Gu Biao watched a TV series in his last life and saw this plot, he sighed secretly: Where is this "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series"?

And now that he has money, of course, he has to get the "Nine Yin True Scripture" at any cost.