On July 29, 1983, the twentieth day after the end of the college entrance examination.

Qingtai Port, Shanqi Province, fell off the list for the rest of his life.

The shadows of the trees were mottled, and they screamed noisily.

The rest of his life leaned against the thick trunk of the old locust tree, slightly bored and looked at the carefree and frolicking children not far away. He was waiting for Chen Jinnan and was going to go with him to the customs warehouse.

Looking up from afar, the rest of his body is well-proportioned, and the dark blue overalls make him quite capable.

took a closer look, and saw his energetic appearance, fair face, regular facial features, and a handsome young man.

This dress, this temperament, this looks, take it out and want to kiss, even if there is no bicycle, there will be girls willing to marry him.

"Shengzi, you're here." Before Chen Jinnan's angry voice fell, a strong arm hooked Yu Sheng's shoulder.

"Well, here, not long after I got back from school." Yu Sheng replied.

"The college entrance examination results are out? How did you do in the exam, is it enough to go to college? Chen Jinnan asked.

"I didn't get in, I didn't report well, I reported a lot of mountains, and my score was only a few points past the junior college line."

"It's nothing if you can't pass the exam, isn't there next year, your father is the factory director, and it's different from those who smash pots and sell iron to study and take the exam, it's nothing if you don't get in the exam for a year."

Yu Sheng nodded, he was an only child, and his father was the director of Qingtai Machinery No. 3 Factory. For him, going to university is more of a dream than an urgent need. Even if he didn't pass the exam for a few years, he had a way out, and it was a big deal to go back to the factory as a worker under his father's arrangement.

Thinking of this, he asked Chen Jinnan beside him, "What dreams do you have?" ”

"Huh? Dreams, I want to think about it......" Chen Jinnante scratched his head honestly and replied. "I want to pass the assessment and become a third-level worker, I want to divide a room in the factory, I want to marry a good-looking girl and give birth to a big fat boy...... Well...... For now, these are a few dreams. ”

“……”

The rest of my life was speechless, it was really a realistic dream.

"What is your dream of having a child?" Chen Jinnan asked rhetorically.

"My dream...... It's to do something big and make more people happy......" Yu Sheng replied.

His dream is very great, and it is because of this that he took the college entrance examination to enter the university, and his grandfather told him that knowledge changes his fate. He believes that having knowledge can not only change the fate of individuals, but also change the fate of more people and benefit more people.

"I believe that having a child will be able to achieve my dreams. Okay, it's almost time, it's time to go, or it's too late. Chen Jinnan let go of Yu Sheng's shoulders and said.

"Well, you have to hurry up, or someone will pick up all the good things. I got a cup last year, and this year I'm hoping to get a little radio. Yu Sheng hurriedly said.

The two of them continued to talk as they walked in the direction of the sea in the distance.

Today is the day when Qingtai Port Customs clears its inventory once a year.

After several years of reform and opening up, the number of mail sent to China through the port has been increasing. Most of them were delivered normally, while overdue customs duties and unidentified mail were piled up in the port's warehouses.

In order not to affect the normal operation of the port, these space-taking cargo mail will basically be cleaned once a year.

The mail that needs to be processed will be paid to the employees and their families at the port and customs at a very low price.

Chen Jinnan's mother worked in the port, and the rest of her life was stained with Chen Jinnan's light. in order to participate in this carnival-like "spoils" activity.

It is said that it is "sharing the spoils", but it is not true.

According to Chen Jinnan's fourth uncle, who traveled south and north, the way employees get mail is more like a gambling stone in Myanmar.

Parcels of mail are not allowed to be opened, one person chooses to leave, and the jade gold is happy to go, and it is full of stones and tatters, don't complain.

In fact, no one complains, it is a welfare, it is a cheap advantage, everyone is a pragmatist, no matter what happens, they can make the best use of it. If you open a cup, you can drink water, and if you open a foreign language jiàn, you can use it to wipe your butt even if you can't understand it.

A middle-aged man in navy blue overalls, looking excited, his hand holding the knife trembled slightly, and cut the tape attached to the mail.

Slowly lift the box.

"Alas......", the middle-aged man patted his thigh, hung his head in frustration, and his face was gloomy. The skin of his face, which had been tense due to nervousness, also became loose with this sigh.

Yu Sheng leaned over and took a look, and what this middle-aged uncle opened was a good-looking stone.

It is pale yellow in color with a metallic sheen and appears to be a sample of some kind of ore.

Looks good but is useless.

For middle-aged people, this thing is less valuable than foreign language materials that can wipe their butts.

"Hello Uncle Li!"

Yu Sheng and Chen Jinnan said hello to Administrator Li, who was in charge of the warehouse, in unison.

"Good! Good! "Uncle Li's body is a little skinny. Some dirty and crumpled green security uniforms, not so too fit, looked empty. If he leaves Qingtai Port in this dress, someone will definitely treat him as a begging for food, not a storekeeper.

Administrator Li took the two tickets in Chen Jinnan's hand, drew a way with an oil pen, and said kindly, "Go in and pick up, pick some good things out this year." ”

"Hmmm! Uncle Li! The two of them replied sweetly, and under Uncle Li's smiling gaze, they burrowed into the sea of mail.

The warehouse is very tall but not empty, and mail packages of various sizes are neatly placed, and some places are a little messy, because someone has already picked them.

The rest of his life and the near south were separated, each looking for his own prey.

Yu Sheng took a small piece of mail, put it to his ear and shook it, judging what was in it according to the sound he heard and the weight he felt.

It looks like that, but it's not very accurate.

It seems that there is no small radio, and the rest of my life flipped through all the small emails, thinking with some disappointment.

Since you can't find the little radio you're looking for, just grab something.

After bending over and listening to the mail for the rest of his life, he stood up straight and looked out, and he decided which one had the edge of his eyes to choose.

Good! That's it! Lin Yan saw a medium-sized package and thought it was quite pleasing to the eye, so he chose this one.

This medium-sized mail package, although the volume is not very large, but it is very heavy, holding it to the door of the warehouse, Yu Sheng said to Uncle Li, "Just choose it." ”

The ticket was torn in half, and Uncle Li left half of it in the notebook as a stub, and the other half was returned to Yu Sheng, and at the same time handed him a knife.

The knife was old, covered in rust, and looked black. Yu Sheng held this non-sharp knife, as if using a saw, to cut the packaging of this mail.

When I lifted the lid of the cardboard box and saw the rest of my life inside, I felt that it was dark in front of me, because there was a stack of notebooks lying quietly inside.

Did I have two months of toilet paper? Yu Sheng felt that his luck this year was worse than last year, but last year was still a cup.

When the rest of his life tossed and opened the box, Chen Jinnan also chose the mail. The mail he selected, the small one, was particularly inconspicuous in his hand, and after going through the formalities at Uncle Li's place, he didn't use a knife, and directly tore open the package of the mail with brute force.

Yu Sheng leaned over to see that in the package that looked like it had been torn by a wild beast, there was an electronic watch with a pink wristband lying quietly.

"Kinnan, you've had a lot of luck this year. It's an electronic watch! Yu Sheng exclaimed.

Perhaps in a few years, low-quality electronic watches from Hong Kong will be spread all over the country's large and small shopping malls, and they will no longer be rare and high-end. But in 1983, electronic watches were still serious high-end goods. Take it out and sell it, which is more expensive than the high-end Seagull watch made in Tianjin.

After being happy for Chen Jinnan, he began to worry about himself for the rest of his life, and he held on to some hopes, hoping that the notebook would be new and blank, so that he could still use it.

When he picked up the top book with great hope and opened the cover, he saw the characters, and the characters on it were Chinese characters, and he knew them all. It was written as "Video Game Notepad".

"Electron? Game? "The rest of my life felt a little confused.

He probably understood what it was, and the watch that came out of the near south was an electronic watch. He also understands games, and the children in the factory play games.

However, when it comes together, he doesn't understand, what is a video game? Is it playing a game on a digital watch?

Then connect it with the words "notepad" at the end. Could it be that the content recorded in this book is all about this "video game"?

Yu Sheng was originally a curious person, and he suddenly felt that his vision was quite good, and he opened this stack of interesting notes.

"Giving birth, have you finished reading it? It's too late to go home and see again. Chen Jinnan reminded.

There are more and more people coming to the warehouse, and the originally empty warehouse is a little crowded, and the two of them stay here, which is indeed a bit redundant.

"Oh, okay, go back and see." The rest of his life came back to his senses and said.

"Goodbye, Uncle Li." The two of them said goodbye to Administrator Li in unison and walked back in the direction of the factory.

He didn't rush home for the rest of his life, he sat under the old locust tree and flipped through the "video game notebook" to see what was written here.