Chapter Twenty-Three: The New Generation of the Eighties

Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu looked at each other, there was a difference of twenty-three years between 1984 and 2007! Didn't the party love the country and swear that it could accurately grasp the time of crossing, why did it put such a big oolong.

"I wasn't there in 1984." Guan Lu panicked, "I'm not familiar with life, what should we do." ”

Liu Yanzhi comforted her: "It's a big deal to go back in a circle." ”

Guan Lu cried: "I'm not afraid if I can go back, 2007 can be made into 1984, and I don't know what year I will go back to." ”

Liu Yanzhi said: "It's useless to cry, let's go to the city, find a place to live, and think about how to go abroad." ”

The road to the city was long, seemingly endless, and the two walked for half an hour on the gravel dirt road without encountering a single motor.

Guan Lu maintains physical exercise all year round, and her physical fitness is okay, but exercise and trekking are two different things, she stood still and said that she must take the car.

"You go to the village and rent a tractor." Guan Lu said, "Time is precious, and we can't afford to delay. ”

Liu Yanzhi spread his hands: "What do I take to rent a car?" ”

"Isn't there a fund, both RMB and US dollars."

Liu Yanzhi opened the travel bag, and there was a large stack of red 100 yuan bills, which was the fifth set of renminbi issued in 1999, and the third set of renminbi was still in use in 1984, with a maximum face value of 10 yuan, which was equivalent to waste paper.

Guan Lu pursed her lips and sat down on the side of the road, when she suddenly saw a green Beijing Jeep 212 driving in the distance.

The Beijing Jeep stopped, and the driver asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm sorry, we're college students, and we got lost in Cuiwei Mountain, can you give us a ride." Guan Lu pretended to be pitiful and said, Liu Yanzhi lowered his head in shame, a doctor is a doctor, if you lie or not, you can come when you open your mouth.

The driver did not dare to call the shots, turned around and said a few words, and the person sitting in the back seat sent a message and asked them to come up.

Guan Lu motioned for Liu Yan to sit in the front row, she happily went to the back seat, the seat of the Beijing jeep was covered with bamboo mats, cool and comfortable, sitting next to an old man, a short-sleeved shirt with white lapels, silver-gray trousers, leather sandals, a folding fan in her hand, and a silver shining Hitachi electronic watch on her wrist.

The old man's gray hair was meticulously combed back, and he asked with a smile, "Are the two classmates studying art?" ”

Liu Yanzhi didn't dare to speak, he was not as good as Guan Lu in terms of nonsense.

Guan Lu really lived up to expectations, and opened his mouth to come: "Yes, we are from the Academy of Fine Arts, and we came to the mountains to collect wind, and the bicycle was stolen by people, and we can't go back." ”

The driver interjected: "Then you have to report it quickly, the loss of the bicycle is a big deal." ”

Guan Lu was afraid of causing trouble, so he hurriedly said: "It's just a bicycle, so I won't cause trouble to the public security organs." ”

The driver said: "You are generous, but the criminals are cheap, don't worry, reporting the crime will not delay the matter, do you know who is sitting in the car?" ”

The old man said: "Xiao Li, talk a lot!" ”

The driver was reprimanded and did not dare to speak again.

The old man and Yan Yuese chatted with Guan Lu about some art topics, Guan Lu answered fluently, without mistakes, there were few vehicles on the road, the speed was very fast, and they arrived at the edge of the city in twenty minutes, Guan Lu knew it in his heart, and declined the suggestion to send them to the gate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and got off on the side of the road.

The jeep drove away, Guan Lu was still waving goodbye, and said with emotion: "There were many good people in the eighties." ”

In the car, the driver asked the old man: "Secretary Xu, these two people are a little suspicious." ”

The old man, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, opened his eyes, took the canned bottle covered with wool, took a sip of strong tea, and asked, "Oh? ”

"I said I was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, but I didn't take a paintbrush or a paintclip, and I didn't report the case if I lost my bicycle, why is it so rich, something is wrong."

The old man smiled faintly: "How can there be so many suspicious, it's not the era of class struggle, two young people are in love, and they are afraid that the school will catch them, so they don't want to make a noise, now there are more people with overseas connections, bicycle recorders and other electrical appliances are very common, even video recorders are not unusual." ”

The driver said: "That's, my daughter-in-law has nagged many times, I want to buy a dual-card tape recorder, I carry it when I go on an outing, how grand and how magnificent, but unfortunately with the supply of tickets, there are only a few tickets for our provincial political and legal committee, and it is not my turn." ”

The old man laughed: "You little ghosts have been eroded by bourgeois hedonistic thoughts. ”

……

Liu Yanzhi is a post-70s generation, experienced the 80s, but Guan Lu is the first time to see the real 80s, in 1984 in Omi City, blue sky and white clouds, clean streets, looking at the past there are no high-rise buildings, only a gray cement building, wooden telephone poles stand on the side of the road, and a row of chirping sparrows are parked on the wires.

"Quiet city, passionate times." Guan Lu suddenly became serious, as if to reflect her words, a Jiefang truck drove by, full of young people, singing cheerful songs to the accompaniment of music.

"In another twenty years, we will meet in a small boat, and the warm wind will blow gently...... It belongs to you, it belongs to me, it belongs to our new generation in the eighties. ”

The two walked through the streets, did not know where to go, unconsciously walked to the most prosperous central street, the traffic police in white uniforms and red collar badges stood in the middle of the road to direct traffic, the vehicles were vintage cars, there were domestic Shanghai brand cars, imported Soviet Volga, Japanese crown taxis, more bicycles and pedestrians, eighty-four Omi citizens were not as rustic as imagined, flower shirts, jeans, tight T-shirts were available, fashionable young people carried Sanyo brand double card and four horn tape recorders, Walking down the street wearing toad glasses, deafening songs resounded through the streets.

"Hey, what an old song, they listen to Liu Wenzheng's song." Guan Lu said happily.

Liu Yanzhi said: "Don't worry about Liu Wenzheng, we have to find a way to make a living." ”

The two of them had no money or documents, and they didn't even have the next meal, Guan Lu said with a sad face: "How to make money, you can't rob it." ”

Liu Yan looked left and right, and saw a few guys sneaking around at the gate of the bank in the distance, and he had a plan in his heart.

Jiangdong Province People's Bank of China is a building in the Republic of China period, in the early years as Citibank Jiangdong Branch, after the liberation has been the location of the People's Bank, in 1984 the People's Bank of China is not a central bank in the pure sense, but a savings bank open to ordinary people, after the reform and opening up, the people's external contacts increased, overseas remittances, seafarers' salaries, etc. involved in foreign exchange business, so a group of scalpers gathered at the door of the bank all year round.

Liu Yanzhi walked to the door of the bank with Guan Lu, and immediately a young scalper came up and asked, "Friend, do you want dollars?" ”

"I have dollars and want to exchange them for RMB." Liu Yan lifted the travel bag in his hand.

"One to five." Scalpers said.

"Yes." Liu Yanzhi nodded.

"How many do you have?" The scalper took out his cigarette and handed it over, "Friend, come a good friend." ”

Liu Yanzhi refused the cigarette and patted the heavy travel bag: "I can eat as much as you want." ”

The scalper pushed the color-changing tea glasses on the bridge of his nose, and looked at Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu carefully, this pair of men and women are very well dressed, and their temperament is different from that of ordinary Jinjiang people, maybe they are Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, overseas Chinese and the like, he nodded, and pointed to the alley next to the bank: "Let's go there." ”

When the three of them came to the alley, the scalper accosted him: "Friend, look at your face, where did you come from?" ”

"We're from the United States." Guan Lu answered for Liu Yanzhi.

"Where is the United States, New York?" The scalper showed a look of infinite yearning.

Suddenly, an angry roar came: "Don't move!" "The police in white police uniforms descended from heaven and blocked them in the alley.

Liu Yanzhi grabbed Guan Lu and fled, a young policeman in front of him rushed over to catch him, he deftly dodged, tripped under his feet, and the policeman fell on his stomach.

When the police chased them out, the figures of a man and a woman were gone, so they had to go back to get angry with the scalper, and the young policeman grabbed the scalper's neck and beat him violently: "Zhang Jiafu, you have repeatedly taught you not to change, you are speculative, reselling foreign exchange, why didn't you get into the arrest last year." ”

The old man on the side said: "National Day, take him back to the office and clean it up." ”

……

In the remote boulevard, Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu were shocked, and it would be over if they fell into the hands of the public security this year, without identity certificates, and with huge sums of money, nine out of ten would be treated as Taiwan spies.

Guan Lu was so tired that he was panting, his mouth was dry, and he suddenly saw a small shiny dot on the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up, it was an aluminum five-cent coin, with ears of wheat surrounded by the words "Wu Fen", the year 1975 below, and the national emblem and the words of the People's Republic of China on the back.

"Money!" Guan Lu was pleasantly surprised.

In the distance, there was a shout: "Cream popsicles, five cents a piece." ”

Guan Lu looked at Liu Yanzhi with an inquiring gaze, and the latter shook his head.

"Give me five cents, and I have a way to conjure up more money." Liu Yanzhi took the coin from Guan Lu's hand.

"I see how you can make money and not let me eat popsicles." Guan Lu said hatefully, and followed Liu Yan straight forward, beside a flowerbed shaded by green trees, surrounded by more than a dozen big girls and young men in their early twenties, their English was catchy, but Guan Lu frowned, their pronunciation was extremely non-standard, typical Omi English.

Liu Yanzhi said: "You wait for me here for half an hour, and I'll go change money." ”

"What's going on, you're not going to rob it, are you?" Guan Lu lowered her voice and said, "In the eighties, the crackdown was so severe that peeking into the women's toilet would be sentenced to death, and robbery would be shot." ”

"Don't worry, I won't break the law." Liu Yanzhi pushed the bag containing the money to her, turned around and left.

On the bustling central street, a red bus drove into the platform, passengers crowded at the front door, and the young female conductor shouted with a ticket holder: "Get off first and then get on, the passengers who come up have bought tickets." ”

On the platform, the thirteen-year-old boy Wei Shengwen stared at the crowd, quickly determined the goal, threw away the cigarette butt, put the gown on his arm, and walked to the door.

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