Li Liang's home is in the south of the county, called Hek County, located in the southwest of Huaxia Guojiang Province, in a hilly area. Before the liberation, it was part of the Red Soviet District, and a number of old Red Army troops also went out of the county that year, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were also about 10 founding lieutenant generals and major generals, but they were not as famous as the general county next door.

In the 80s, Hek County is still very backward, there is only one main road in the county called Jiefang Road, as the name suggests, it is the road built after liberation, and it is also the only asphalt road in the center of the county, it has been a long time, the street is relatively dilapidated, and the road surface is also potholed.

Walking with my sister on Jiefang Street, there are some low-rise bungalow shops on both sides of the street, early in June, the aisles on both sides of the road have been covered with vegetable baskets and broken sacks of surrounding farmers, and there are bustling residents and surrounding farmers buying and selling vegetables everywhere; Li Liang followed behind his sister and walked on the street to observe it deliberately, and found that people at this time were generally dressed in blue and earth colors, and there were many patches on their clothes, and there were also some vegetables on their faces, so it was obvious that this was an era of material poverty.

Hek County is a large agricultural county, at this time the policy of package production to households is only carried out in a small range in Hui'an and other provinces, and it will not be until the beginning of 1981 that it will be fully rolled out at the national level. The vegetable farmers around the county can only use their spare time to grow some vegetables and fruits in their own fields, raise chickens and accumulate some eggs that they are reluctant to eat, and harvest them to be sold in the county market to earn a little meager income.

But even then, residents can only buy vegetables and eggs that don't need to be used for meat. If you want to buy fatty pork and a tooth festival, you can only go to a state-run grocery store and buy it with a ticket. At this time, the state implemented a policy of unified purchase and sales, and important agricultural and sideline materials such as pigs, cattle and sheep could only be purchased and sold by the state.

If any peasant says that my pigs are raised and they need to be killed and sold for money, I am sorry, but I can only sell them to the state-run supply and marketing cooperatives, and then the supply and marketing cooperatives' non-staple food stores will sell them in a unified manner; some peasants who are more bold only dare to secretly sell some pigs to subsidize their families when they kill their own pigs during the Chinese New Year, and it is very risky to buy and sell freely at this time.

Li Liang looked at the scene of the old street in his memory and felt extremely cordial. In his memory, a few years later, the Hek County government built a new street on the north side of Jiefang Avenue: Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Avenue. Each other, the county government and various administrative units have moved to the newly built government compound, and Jiefang Street has been completely reduced to an old street, leaving only some old handicraft shops, pots and pans and other local specialty shops still remain in the old street.

Li Liang was looking around at the scenery of the old street as he walked, and suddenly a sweet voice came from behind him: "Li Liang, wait for me!" Li Liang and his sister turned around and saw that there was a girl about the same age as himself standing about 10 meters behind him, with a melon seed face, delicate eyebrows, crooked corners of her mouth, and a schoolbag on her shoulder, looking at herself and smiling.

The girl walked straight up to Li Liang's sister and brother, and shouted sweetly: "Sister Li Meng is good!"

Li Mengle took the girl's hand and said, "Chenchen, have you had breakfast?"

The girl responded: "I've eaten, Sister Li Meng, did you send Li Liang to school today?"

Li Meng said: "Well, Liangzi was fighting at school last week and didn't want to go to school. Chenchen, you have to help me supervise him at school, if he dares to fight or skip school again, you can come back and tell me. ”

Chen Chen raised his little fist and raised, and said, "Okay, Sister Li Meng, don't worry!" After speaking, she looked at Li Liang demonstratively, "Li Liang, did you hear it, you must listen to me at school in the future, otherwise I will tell Sister Li Meng." ”

Li Liang looked at Chenchen's delicate face, smiled strangely, and exclaimed in a strange voice: "Okay~~~~" The girl in front of him is named Zhang Chen, who is a classmate and tablemate of Li Liang's junior high school at this time. When I returned to 80 years, I was also happy to see the young, pure and delicate appearance of my wife in later generations.

Later, after graduating from Li Liang's normal school, he entered the township primary school as a teacher, and later was promoted to the township government, and has been working in the township for more than ten years. After marrying Zhang Chen, she worked in the county post and telecommunications bureau, and after having a child, she has always been a father and a mother, and she has trained her son very well, and was admitted to the National People's Congress in 08.

Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, more than a dozen students are admitted to various colleges and universities every year, which is rare for a small city high school, so some wealthy families in the surrounding districts and counties are very happy to send their children to Hekang No. 1 Middle School to study.

The gate of Hekang No. 1 Middle School is in the north of Dongtou Road on Jiefang Street, the school gate is not high, it is made of iron pipes, you can see the scenery of the school at a glance when you stand at the door, and there is a gray sign "Hek County No. 1 Middle School" hanging next to the gate. The school gate is generally not open, and students enter and exit through the communication room next to the gate, which also doubles as a barber room. At this time, it was school time, and students entered the school in twos and threes.

Li Liang and his sister followed Zhang Chen into the school and came to their classroom. The campus of Hekang No. 1 Middle School is very large, and there is a large playground from the gate, which was converted into a basketball court a few years later. On the north side of the large playground is a square flag-raising platform, and every Monday morning, all teachers and students of the school gather on the playground to raise the national flag and listen to the speeches of the principal and outstanding student representatives.

Behind the flag-raising stand is a series of three rows of bungalows, each row of 15 rooms, the first row is the junior high school classroom, the three grades of the junior high school have 5 classes in each grade, and the second row is the high school, the layout is the same as the junior high school. The third row is the student dormitory, where many children from various towns come to the county seat to go to school.

To the east of the large playground is the school office building, which is a small three-story building, where middle and high school teachers work on the first and second floors, and the third floor is the office of the school leaders. Adjacent to the office building is the auditorium and cafeteria, where students usually eat, and when the school has an assembly, it becomes an auditorium.

There are also several bungalows behind the office building, where the teachers' dormitories are located. Some single teachers and teachers who have just gotten married and don't have a house live here. Behind the teacher's dormitory is a pond and two pig houses, and usually the canteen has some leftovers and swill, and the logistics staff of the canteen will gather these things here to raise pigs and feed fish. Every year one or two days before the winter vacation, the school will organize the staff to fish and kill pigs in the dry pond, this day is the day of joy for the whole school every year, the school canteen will also provide teachers and students with a free fish meal, and the extra fish and meat school will be distributed to the teachers and staff on vacation.

By 2008, the large playground had been upgraded to a large plastic track and sports field, the fish pond and pig barn had disappeared, and the teachers no longer lived in the school's staff dormitory but lived in the school's fund-raising room.

Li Liang and Zhang Chen were in the second year of junior high school at this time, and in the third class of the second year of junior high school, they were in the 8th room of the first row of classrooms in order, basically behind the flag-raising platform. Therefore, every time the flag is raised, almost all the students in their class are the fastest to walk to the playground. Looking in from the window, most of the students were already sitting in the classroom at this time, and some of the workers were already immersed in reading, and the playful were still playing. The teacher hadn't arrived yet, and the classroom seemed a little noisy.

"Okay sister, I've arrived at school, go back quickly!" Li Liang didn't want his classmates to see his sister send him over.

Zhang Chen understood Li Liang's thoughts, and said with a smile on the side: "Yes, Sister Li Meng, go back quickly, I will supervise Li Liang." ”

Li Meng said: "Okay, Liangzi, Chenchen, then I'll go to work in the hospital, I don't have time to go home at noon, you can eat in the school cafeteria at noon." As he spoke, he stuffed a dollar and a pound of food stamps into Li Liang's hand.

Li Liang's parents were busy with work in the factory, and they usually ate in the factory canteen at noon. At noon, Li Meng usually cooks for Li Liang at home, and when Li Meng has no time to cook, Li Meng will give Li Liang some money and food stamps to let him eat in the school cafeteria. After graduating from the health school, Li Meng entered the county people's hospital as a nurse with a salary of only 40 yuan a month, and Li Liang's parents worked for more than 10 years, and their salary was only more than 80 yuan a month.

Li Liang watched his sister walk through the playground, out of the school gate, and followed Zhang Chen into the classroom. The two were at the same table and sat in the middle of the third row.

Suddenly returning to the second classroom of junior high school, Li Liang was completely unimpressed, and looked around, only a dozen or so students who worked around the county in later generations were more familiar, and they often had small gatherings. Some of the other students have been working in other places for a long time, and some have been farming in rural areas, and they have little intersection of work and life in later generations.

At this time, the radio suddenly sounded on the playground, and suddenly, the students in the classroom ran in the direction of the playground. Li Liangleng sat on the stool for a while and did not get up.

Zhang Chen pushed Li Liang's shoulder: "Li Liang, get up and go to the playground, it's time to raise the flag!"

Only then did Li Liang react, today is Monday, and it is the time for the weekly flag-raising ceremony.

He and Zhang Chen hurriedly ran to the location of their class, and at this time, the fast classmates had already begun to line up. There are usually two teams in each class, with girls in the front and boys in the back. Li Liang squeezed into the boys' team behind, and at this time, a boy who was not tall and wearing a short-sleeved suit that did not fit well, obviously a modified factory uniform of his father's generation, patted Li Liang's shoulder: "Li Liang, you are finally here!"

This boy's name is Wang Chao, he is Li Liang's best friend, he studies well, and he is relatively clever. In my memory, he was admitted to the provincial police academy in the high school entrance examination next year, and stayed in the provincial capital as a small police officer after graduation. Every time I go back to the county, I will ask Li Liang to drink together, and I have been friends for decades.

Li Liang punched him in the chest and said, "You kid, why don't you come to my house to look for me in the morning?" Wang Chao's home is not far from Li Liang's house, and they often go to school together.

Wang Chao said: "My dad sent me to school by the way when he went to work today, so he didn't look for you!" Wang Chao's father Wang Fugui works at the county water plant, which is in the easternmost part of the site, and he has to pass by the gate of No. 1 Middle School, so sometimes Wang Chao will follow his father to school.

While talking, the playground was already full of people, and the homeroom teachers of each class stood in front of the team of their classes, shouting for everyone to quiet down and line up. Li Liang's homeroom teacher, Wang Na, is a woman in her 50s, with a round face, not tall, and a good temper.

Soon, the national anthem sounded, and more than 1,000 people in the big playground raised their right hands and began to sing the national anthem to the music of the national anthem. After the flag-raising ceremony, as usual, the principal's speech and the speech of the outstanding student representative, the student representative who spoke today is a senior in the third year of high school, today is June 9th, there is less than a month to take the college entrance examination, the senior's speech is always around how to study hard and strive for good results in the college entrance examination.

As a reborn person, Li Liang feels quite interesting, especially since he has been reborn in 16 years, he is in his 50s, and he has experienced most of his life, and he just feels extremely strange and cordial to everything in front of him.