In the darkness, Bai Ke felt that he was constantly falling, and there was an endless abyss below him.

He struggled desperately to wake up, and looked at his parents and older siblings who were sleeping beside him, and felt that all this was so unreal.

But the heavy urine bubbles made him feel real.

He hurriedly got down from the kang, put on his clothes, pulled his brother's shoes, and ran out of the door.

In the courtyard, Bai Ke was urinating happily.

The matter of wetting pants is a psychological reason on the one hand, and a physiological reason on the other hand.

He does have shorter urine bubbles than the average child.

If you drink water and porridge during the day, you will definitely get up in the middle of the night.

While peeing, Bai Ke thought to himself.

Since God has given this chance to be reborn, the first thing we have to do is to change the living conditions of our families.

The family's biggest problem right now is the housing situation.

It's just such a dilapidated house one and a half years old, and it's still borrowed from someone else.

If Bai Ke could have been reborn half a year earlier, he would definitely try to prevent this big move that spanned most of China.

Speaking of which, Bai Ke's entire family is half a local.

Because the hometown of Bai Ke's mother Qin Yongmei is not far from this Shazhou County, and it also belongs to the Blue City.

And Bai Ke's father, Bai Ce, can also be regarded as half of the Blue City people.

Bai Ce was admitted to the Fengtian Artillery School at the age of 18 and has been serving on an island in the Blue City since graduation.

Until he retired in 1970, he led the whole family back to his hometown in the south.

As a northerner, Qin Yongmei is not very accustomed to the humid weather in the south.

So, six years after the family returned to her hometown, she made a move that Bai Ke refused to forgive her for most of her life.

She privately took away the family's food relationship, household registration relationship and other information.

Let her third brother transfer the whole family back to Blue City and settle in Shazhou County.

It's all going on quietly.

When the order came down, Bai Ce was dumbfounded, and the whole family was dumbfounded.

At this time, Bai Ce was already the deputy director of a power plant in his hometown, his career had improved slightly, and his interpersonal relationships were like a fish in water.

Most importantly, this is his hometown, where his siblings and clan relatives are all located.

Whether his father fought at that time or not, Bai Ke's memory is already blurred.

But there are certainly no quarrels.

Because Bai Ce is a gentle person, when he is angry, he will only say: How can this be?

Then everyone around will laugh.

Even before Bai Ce's death, Qin Yongmei scolded loudly at every turn because of unsatisfactory work: "Little Nanban, hurry up and go back to your hometown!"

Bai Ce just smiled.

In his hometown, the housing conditions of the Bai Ke family are quite good.

Parents and children sleep separately, and Bai Ke and his brother and sister have their own small beds.

However, after the transfer, the unit here could not immediately solve the housing problem.

Qin Yongmei's third brother helped borrow this one-and-a-half-room house.

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What can an eight-year-old white customer solve a problem that adults can't solve?

The only way is to convince Bai Ce.

The current house is ridiculously cheap.

Six large tiled houses are only six or seven hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the money of three bicycles.

Not enough to buy a TV.

That being said, though.

At that time, the families who could come up with six or seven hundred yuan were even fewer than the families who could come up with millions of dollars 40 years later.

But Bai Ce can take it out, let alone six or seven hundred, six or seven thousand is not a problem.

First of all, when Bai Ce was a soldier, his salary was extremely high.

Regimental staff officers, two bars and one, plus various subsidies such as SH Island subsidies, with a monthly salary of 120 yuan.

What does this amount to?

At that time, the highest salary in society was the eighth-level master craftsman.

As the saying goes, an eighth-level master craftsman can support eight people.

And the monthly salary of the eighth-level master craftsman is more than 60 yuan.

Moreover, the army family, food, clothing, and all kinds of things are more provincial than the local province.

And that's not all.

At that time, there were two ways to retire cadres of the army.

One is reemployment, and the other is demobilization.

Transfers are similar to transfers, from troops to localities, and the ranks remain the same.

Demobilization is akin to voluntary departure, self-employment, and the disappearance of all ranks.

Therefore, the demobilization fee was much higher than the transfer fee, which was a bit unnatural in those days.

According to Bai Ce's level, his demobilization fee is as high as 6,000 yuan.

But Bai Ce's choice of demobilization was not because he was greedy for demobilization fees.

It's because of the willfulness.

At the age of 27, Bai Ce's military career reached the highest point of his life.

Regimental staff officer, two bars and one.

Walking on the street, the eyes of the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law are straight.

Once, when taking a bus in the Blue City, the young attendant looked at Bai Ce's shoulder card blankly, and blurted out when reporting the station: "Next stop, two bars and one!"

Later, the young flight attendant became the mother of the white customer.

But since then, Bai Ce's good fortune seems to have come to an end.

Seven or eight years have passed, and his rank has remained unchanged.

Higher-level leaders repeatedly said "mention, mention".

But wave after wave of superior leaders left, and Bai Ce always stood in place.

In the end, Bai Ce was angry and took the initiative to ask for demobilization.

When he returned to his hometown, he realized that his impulsive choice was not a big deal.

If you have connections in your hometown, you can still work instead of work and be promoted slowly.

In the last life, Bai Ke was too young to understand the doorway.

Right now, Bai Ke thought about it carefully, his father didn't dare to say that there were 10,000 or 20,000, and there should still be 18,000.

Otherwise, after Bai Ce's death, Qin Yongmei pulled her four children alone, not to mention a lot of food and clothing, and her living standard was also above average.

But an eight-year-old child wants to convince his father to buy a house, this task is too difficult.

The next day, after school, Bai Ke waited for his father to come back.

When his father came back and picked up the small basket and was about to go out to buy vegetables, Bai Ke hurriedly followed.

"Dad, I'll go with you. ”

As soon as he didn't pay attention, the white guest who was screaming and screaming slipped out.

Bai Ce walked a few steps and suddenly remembered, "Ge Laozi, when did you learn to speak Mandarin?"

"I learned from a Yanjing classmate in our class, and I always speak the blue dialect that others can't understand. ”

"Okay!" Bai Ce touched Bai Ke's head.

Seeing that it was not far from the democratic store, Bai Ke hurriedly said, "Dad, let's buy a house." ”

Bai Ce was stunned for a moment, and looked at Bai Ke: "What are you going to do when you buy a house?" Don't we have a place to live?"

"It's too narrow. There is no place to study at night. ”

"You can learn from the kitchen counter. ”

"And what about my brother? What if I delay my studies and can't get into college?"

"Going to college?"

Bai Ce was stunned.

Only then did Bai Ke remember that the college entrance examination had not yet been resumed at this time.

"I mean, I'm going to have to take a culture class when I go to work in the future......"

"Didn't I tell you the story of digging into the wall and stealing the light?

"But ......"

"Alright, alright, adults and children don't care. ”

Bai Ce was obviously a little impatient.

Dad is actually gentle and generous enough.

In this era, how dare a son talk to his father like this, if there is half a sentence out of tune, his father would have already slapped him.

An eight-year-old convincing his parents to buy a house is not impossible in the eyes of Bai Ke.

As long as they show themselves to be outsmarter than theirs, they have the potential to be convinced.

But this display of wisdom must take its course and be within the scope of the parents' understanding.

For example, if you tell them that in 40 years a house will go up 1,000 times, they will only treat you as a psychopath.

At dinner in the evening, the news was broadcast on the radio, and Bai Ke listened attentively, and then asked excitedly: "Dad, did you say that the Gang of Four is going to fall?"

Bai Ce's face changed in fright: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

Then stand up and close the door tightly.

Bai Ce is an intellectual, and he usually likes to listen to the news and read newspapers.

For the future, he can naturally foresee seven, seven, eight, eight.

Therefore, Bai Ke's so-called foresight will inevitably impress him.

Qin Yongmei pouted: "Regardless of his four-person gang of five, it's about our people's, our people just have food, drink, and a house to live in." ”

"Yes, when they fall, we can live in big houses, one room for each person. ”

Bai Ning also pouted on the side: "Nonsense, it's good to have one person in one room and one bed for one person." ”

The eldest brother Bai Zong touched Bai Ke's head and smiled: "Wait until communism is realized, haha." ”

When Bai Ke was still about to spit at the stars, he looked up and found that Bai Ce glanced at him with a serious expression.

Suddenly screamed badly.

It's so proud, how can it be directly pulled to the house, doesn't this reveal the intention?

Bai Ce is so smart that it is impossible not to notice it.

When the time comes, it will be self-defeating and troublesome.

Bai Ke hurriedly pulled the topic elsewhere.

"I think...... After the fall, the policy of intellectuals will definitely be implemented......"

Bai Ce was very happy: "Yes, so you have to study hard." ”

Qin Yongmei began to pout again: "What's the use of reading more, you see that your father doesn't even know how to plate the stove, and he can't pull a clothesline crooked." I've read Datun books and been an officer for decades, but now I don't earn as much as I do. Is there a use for reading books?"

Bai Ke really wanted to jump up and slap his mother.

At the beginning, you were a small flight attendant, and you couldn't even count a few cents.

After marrying your father, you eat and drink spicy food, and sit at home as an official wife.

Why didn't you complain then?

In the last life, Bai Ke resented his mother for most of his life, thinking that if his mother was kind to his father, his father would not die young and die in a foreign land.

hates the house and Wu, and Bai Ke is also full of disgust for the vast majority of women in the world because of his resentment towards his mother.

But now, Bai Ke has gathered the wisdom of the two worlds, and it is impossible to be so simple and rude.

He felt guilty in his mother's heart, and she felt ashamed that she had transferred the whole family from the south to the north without saying hello.

It's just that she has a strong personality and is unwilling to show weakness in front of her children and even her husband.

I have to regain my dignity in my mouth.

Sure enough, without saying a few words, Qin Yongmei began to talk again: "Your father and I are happy, if you stay in the south, I don't know which mountain village and wild store to die." ”

Bai Ke still couldn't help it: "As you said, there are no living people in the south." ”

Hearing Bai Ke say this, his brother and sister couldn't help laughing.

Even the second brother Bai Bin, who has always been taciturn, laughed.

Qin Yongmei was a little annoyed: "Xiao Nanban! Just talk to you! Hurry up and eat, Lao Tzu still has to work after eating." ”