Chapter Fifty-Four: The Snake of the Land
1996, in the 90s of the last century, was a year with an extremely lack of zài feeling.
In the memory of Lin Yang's previous life, 1996 was a bit shaky, but it was not a turbulent year.
It's the kind of year that comes back a little vaguely years later, but it's still worth remembering.
This year, Lin Yang's Feipeng brother and Xiaoshuang sister happened to graduate from junior high school, and like in the previous life, Li Feipeng went to Guanggu Dongguan for development after graduation, and Xie Xiaoshuang was admitted to the only key high school in the county - Fengcheng High School.
In the 90s, the middle school candidates outside the county seat of the county, who could be admitted to Fengcheng High School, were among the best in the local area.
This situation only improved in the mid-to-late 90s.
At this stage, a large number of primary and secondary school teachers from Hunan poured into Guangzhou, Guangdong, east, west and north, and other regions, which also brought more comprehensive and excellent teachers to the students.
If you are fat, you must eat less, and if you are ugly, you should read more.
Reading more books while you're young is not a bad thing.
Thanks to his grandfather Lin Hanchi, who is a retired teacher, the family has a lot of books.
The bad thing is that the collection of books at home is all the books that Grandpa Lin, a large number of old people, like, love. Except for a few easy-to-understand novels such as Qian Zhongshu's "The Siege of the City" and Shen Congwen's "Border City", the rest of the books are either "Chinese Couplet Calligraphy Classics", "Couplets of Spring Couplets", "Liweng Rhyme", or "Feng Shui Compass", "Liao Zhai Zhiyi" and other ethereal feng shui metaphysical books.
Frankly speaking, for this kind of folk miscellaneous books, in his previous life, Lin Yang really couldn't arouse the slightest interest.
But fortunately, at this time and that time, Lin Yang now really has no books to read, so he can only bite the bullet and try to study them well......
But Lin Yang has always been very grateful to his grandfather, grandpa let him read and write since he was a child, his parents went out to do business, and when he was a child, Lin Yang and his sisters and sisters were brought up by his grandparents.
Grandpa Lin personally likes to read books, and Grandma Lin also likes to study six. Combine. Color code newspaper, sometimes, they are very annoyed Lin Yang to annoy him, so they threw Lin Yang a bunch of picture albums, he began to read books from that time, and most of the peasant children of the same age are playing in the countryside with mud, the most impressive is that when he was in the third grade, the library of Zhushi Primary School was renovated, he poured about 60 books, filled a snakeskin bag and threw it to Lin Yang, that may be the happiest summer vacation for Lin Yang in his previous life, and then junior high school and high school, teachers and parents are not allowed to read extracurricular books, he is sneaking to read.
"Lin Yang, come here...... Help grandma see, is this 7? Grandma Lin held a magnifying glass in her right hand, squinted at a pair of presbyopia, and stared intently at the small print on the code.
Lin Yang put down the "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" in his hand, glanced at the code newspaper casually, and said angrily: "Yes, grandma, it's just a 7 character."
As expected, that night, Grandma Lin smashed 5 yuan on the number "7".
Six. Combine. The lottery itself is legal and it is the only legal lottery in Hong Kong and is one of the few to get the Hong Kong government. One of the gambling permitted by the government to be legally conducted. For various reasons, "VI. Combine. Lottery "was broken,It has risen a variety of ways to play,When you go to the lottery station to buy lottery tickets,Even if you win four or five numbers, you may not earn a few dollars,But if you buy it in an illegal circle,Not to mention the **,Even an ordinary number can also make money.
Of course, whether the lottery is legal or illegal, the most critical reason is to see if it has a political situation. Taxes are paid. In fact, in the final analysis, their essence is gambling, but the lottery often has a prize of four or five million because the difficulty coefficient is too big, so few people are among them, like a mirror and a moon, and naturally there will not be too many people addicted; And the folk six. Combine. Color,It's just a change of tricks.,His difficulty coefficient is much lower.,It seems that the profit is also large.,It makes people feel more hopeful and realistic.。
Code Newspaper, as the name suggests, is a study of six. Combine. The newspaper of color ** is a newspaper that violates the law and violates the law, due to the high risk, the circulation and printing volume is small, and the sales price is several times higher than that of ordinary newspapers, and it may not be sold without booking in advance.
At that time, the public. An is not so strict, the entire Zhushi Village, whether rich or poor, almost every household has someone involved in the "six. Combine. Gambling, a bad atmosphere that threatens social stability, is spreading rapidly in the countryside.
As far as Lin Yang knew, in his previous life, there were several families in Zhushi Village who became bankrupt because of gambling on this.
Of course, in general, playing this, most people have lost money, but most of them choose to swallow in their stomachs, and they don't want to make a noise at all, gamblers naturally don't like to talk about losing money, unless they brag about it, otherwise, how much money the loser loses, others can't know.
When you win, the whole village knows about someone's feat, and when you lose, it disappears, as if the world has evaporated.
In previous lives, as long as the elderly in the village had a few dollars in their pockets, they would participate in gambling, which was a contagious atmosphere like a virus. Lin Yang naturally knew that his grandparents liked to gamble on this, but he was not surprised, and he also knew that he couldn't change their desire to gamble no matter what, but fortunately, the grandparents themselves didn't have much savings, and the amount invested each time was not much.
In Lin Yang's view, the only one who really achieves "small gambling pleasure" is probably his grandparents, and the two of them naturally don't want to have a "big gamble and hurt their bodies", the key is ...... The conditions of the family, there is no money for them to squander, and they are not willful.
There are several dealers in Zhushi Village who are responsible for writing codes, and Lin Wanfu, the "Wanbo" who lives opposite Lin Yang's house, is one of them.
Six. Combine. When Cai was going crazy in the countryside, Lin Wanfu and his wife Li Xiufang quit their ready-to-wear store in Guangzhou and devoted themselves to the super profiteering of writing codes.
Lin Wanfu is not really a behind-the-scenes dealer, he is just a rich porter, responsible for reporting the villagers' purchase code lists to guò landlines, and reporting them to the behind-the-scenes dealers in other villages, and then he is making huge profits from them.
According to the situation at that time, the person who wrote the code, as long as he received 1000 yuan of gambling money, he could get a profit of 100 yuan from the dealer.
It's hard for Lin Wanfu not to get rich!
What comforted Lin Yang was that, like in his previous life, his parents were one of the very few parents in the village who did not participate in gambling.
It's a pity that this is an era of laughing at the poor and not at the prostitute.
Lin Shizhong and Zhang Meilan, the two couples, have always kept to themselves and worked diligently, but they do not have the ability to win people's hearts like Lin Wanfu, with a little money on hand and other powerful people in the village to interact with each other, coupled with his own strong and arrogant personality, he finally became the "tyrant of a village" in Zhushi Village.
Sometimes, the world is so crazy and noisy that we can't tell what's right and what's wrong.
"If I secretly report Lin Wanfu, is it for the people? Or is it for one's own selfish desires? Lin Yang couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Sadly, he still thinks too much after all.