Chapter 046: Reaching the Peak of Life
July 3, 1991.
In the early morning, the fire-like sun began to scorch the city mercilessly, as if to evaporate the water in the city, and the whole city was roasted lazily.
In this kind of hellish weather, the only people who can still be active are probably the students who are on summer vacation.
For Liu Siqi, a third-year high school graduate, he has been in a very bad mood since the list was released a few days ago.
This year, there are 3.5 million candidates for the national college entrance examination, and 560,000 are admitted, and Liu Siqi is one of the nearly 3 million unsuccessful army of five-sixths who have been brushed down.
I don't want to see people, I don't want to go out to play, I don't even want to eat popsicles, and I sleep at home with my head covered every day!
It rained a few days ago, but today it's too hot, although the electric fan is on, but I woke up early in the morning, sweating.
"Fuck! God is against me!"
Liu Siqi was angry, scolded his mother, got up to brush his teeth and wash his face, and turned on the 22-inch color TV in the room as usual.
In fact, the conditions of his family are very good, his father is self-employed, opened a hardware store, in the mid-80s, it was a 10,000 yuan household, and now he has an annual income of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, his mother works in a state-owned bicycle factory, deputy secretary of the party committee, and the family is not short of money, and he is not worried about not being admitted to college Liu Siqi has no job in the future.
But the work arranged by his parents is not even looked down on by Liu Siqi!
Going to work as a worker in a factory, doing those repetitive and boring mechanical tasks on the production line every day, smelling of sweat and smelling of sweat, smoking and drinking with a group of workers who can't read a basket of big characters, that's what I should do as a high school graduate?!
Or sit in the office?
If he wants, he can arrange to enter the party committee office of the factory, which is a relaxed place, reading, drinking tea and reading newspapers every day, and getting money on a monthly basis.
That's not good, I, Liu Siqi, am a new youth in the new era of socialism, how can I waste my life like those old guys!
The old lady can't arrange it, but the old man hopes that he will go to the store to learn to do business, he has read books, his brain is active, and the young man is energetic, so he can help a lot. What's more, the country has focused on economic development in recent years, and the future 'money' is unlimited!
Regarding Dad's 'expectations', Liu Siqi has one word: vulgar!
Two words: vulgar!
Three words: vulgar!
I am a high school student, an intellectual, who has been studying for so many years, so that I want to make a few stinky money, and give up my ideals for money?
What doesn't exist, doesn't exist for a lifetime!
Like many pampered young people since childhood, 18-year-old Liu Siqi is still very naïve, with low eyes and low ambitions, big ambitions and sparse talents, this one can't look down, that one doesn't want to do it, and his mind is full of grand ideal blueprints for the future!
If you really ask him what specific ideals he has, he can't say.
In the past, the dream was to go to university, become a college student, and then become a scientist!
But now it seems that this is not realistic.
The college entrance examination was brushed, and he could repeat his studies and work hard by a few points, like him, he was worse than 80 points, even he knew it himself, no play!
Liu Siqi feels that he is now like the protagonist of the Chinese version of "The Troubles of Young Werther" on the bedside, full of bitterness, depression, irritability, and confusion!
Since June, several provinces such as Anhui and Jiangsu have continued to rain heavily, and the water level has risen to the highest level in 50 years, which has caused large-scale floods, and the state has urgently issued the "National Flood Prevention Regulations," and groups of PLA soldiers are rushing to the front line of flood fighting and rescue in green military vehicles.
Looking at the turbid flood on the TV, Liu Siqi suddenly thought of a poem in Beidao.
All.
"Everything is fate, everything is a cloud of smoke, everything is the beginning without an ending, everything is a fleeting pursuit, all joy has no smile, all outbursts have a moment of tranquility, all death has a long echo...... Ah, life, why are you so cruel to me, am I destined to be a mediocre person in this life!'
Thinking about it, I have mixed feelings, I feel that my life is too cruel, there is no hope, there is no future, why should God torture myself like this.
Thinking that he had experienced so much pain that ordinary people could not understand, and that he had survived tenaciously, Liu Siqi was almost moved to cry by himself.
was hypocritical, and I listened to a commotion downstairs.
"What the hell!" was interrupted from his performance, Liu Siqi was annoyed, and pushed open the window to look out.
A wave of heat rushed in and almost made him faint.
Looking condescendingly, whether it is the yard or the street, many people are looking up and pointing at the sky.
He squinted, and subconsciously looked up at the sky.
I saw that not far away in the sky, in the direction of the sun, a huge flying object appeared, slowly flying towards this side!
"Huh?" he rubbed his eyes and looked closely.
It's an airship!
Because the airship does not fly high, it is only more than 50 meters above the ground, which is about the same as the tallest building in the city, so it is very large.
There were also two long streamers dragged underneath the airship.
Slowly crossing the sky, when passing over Liu Siqi's house, Liu Siqi clearly saw the two rows of red letters on the streamer that were bigger than people.
'New Era English School, One-stop Fulfillment of Your Dream of Going Abroad'
'The new era goes to the world, helping you climb the pinnacle of life'
There is also a small tail in the middle, '7.7 at 8 o'clock in the evening, meet at the city stadium, life will be different from now on'
On both sides of the airship, it is also printed with a large font '7.7 at eight o'clock in the evening, the city stadium is free English preaching'
Liu Siqi looked up at the sky with his neck up, his eyes were always glued to the airship, until the airship was far away, and there was only a small point left, he came back to his senses and rubbed his somewhat sour neck!
My mind was full of the words on the airship.
'To the world', 'The pinnacle of life', 'Life is different from now on'......
After being in the room for a while, he suddenly jumped up, grabbed the phone, brushed the wheel and turned it six times, and broadcast six numbers.
"Hey, Dad, I want to learn English, I want to go abroad!"
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On July 3, 1991, two almost identical airships appeared in the sky over Binhai City, flying at low altitude, pulling long banners, one from south to north, one from east to west, and finally drew a cross over Binhai City.
The words of the New Era English Tutorial School, together with the airship, have entered the field of vision of the entire coastal city.
The common people craned their necks below to watch the excitement, which made Liang Yifei and Wang self-defense bitter.
He took an airship in two of them and went up to the sky early in the morning.
The sun was so hot that the sun shone in from the side, and I couldn't hide from it, and at the end of the day, the yellow skin became red skin, and the red skin began to peel again.
Liang Yifei is better, his physique has been honed in prison and is already very solid, in the prison in the summer, he carries a high temperature of 40 degrees and smashes stones, which can really kill people alive, in comparison, the wind blowing in the sky is more like an outing.
Wang couldn't defend himself, before going to heaven, he was wearing a big pants vest, like a hairless bare pig, and after coming down, he was red, and his head seemed to be still steaming, like a roasted suckling pig, panting.
"Oh my God, Boss Liang, your money is too hard to earn, I almost died in the sky!"