More than 20 years ago, the city of Pingquan, where the Pingquan Administration is located, was just a small city with an urban population of less than 250,000, and the most luxurious building was the Pingquan Hotel, which was built in the center of the city, and was only five stories high. Standing on the roof of the main building of the Hiraisen Hotel, you can see not only the narrow streets crowded with bicycles, the bungalows that are as dense as matchboxes, but also the sparkling Yue River in the south of the city, which wraps around the city's neck like satin.

If you look to the west, in the western part of the city, there is a dense thick green, which is very different from the main color of the city's gray, which is where the Red Star Machinery Factory is located. Built in the early fifties, the Hongxing Machinery Factory is the pride of Pingquan City, a large factory under the central ministries and commissions, and its output value once accounted for half of the city's industrial output value. This large state-owned factory occupies an extremely large area, occupying almost one-sixth of the area of Pingquan City at that time. At that time, land acquisition was easy, and several villages were bulldozed with a piece of paper, and the villagers were either recruited into factories to become workers, or moved elsewhere, and a majestic enterprise stood on the western outskirts of the city.

The employees of the Red Star Factory always have an unconcealable sense of superiority in front of the citizens. From that red era, people with the dream of building the motherland came to Pingquan from all over the world and set up the Red Star Machinery Factory, and the workers naturally brought a variety of dialect accents to slowly integrate into a characteristic dialect in Pingquan - Mandarin with a northeast accent (most of the founding fathers of the Red Star Factory came from the Northeast), and the citizens of Pingquan called it the Red Star dialect. Walking down the street, as soon as you open your mouth, the red star people can easily recognize each other.

That afternoon, the six Red Star children all climbed to the top floor platform of the Hiraisen Hotel at the same time. They are actually two groups of people, but they are both classmates in the same grade of Red Star Children's Middle School. However, due to their family background and academic performance, they are not friends with each other. Sun Dunquan, Tao Tang, Zhou Hongyou and Xu Deguang are one group, and Luo Shaoxing and Tang Yikun are the other group. The former is a good student and is expected to win the modern imperial examination in a week. Zhou Hongyou, whose uncle is the manager of the Pingquan Hotel, made a small appointment with the three of them to the restaurant for a hard meal, and after being full of wine and food, they boarded the platform at the top of the main building, and came to point out the words of the country, and made a full prospect and imagination of their future life.

Among the four of them, Xu Deguang's homework is the best, and he has been "entrenched" in the top three of the grade, and he has not run away from Tsinghua University and Peking University. Zhou Hongyou and Tao Tang are both science students, and according to the teacher's analysis, there should be no problem with key universities. Sun Dunquan was the only liberal arts student, and his sights were on Nanjing University, because he had heard that the history department of Nanjing University was the strongest, and he had always liked history. But the teacher found it somewhat difficult to achieve his goal.

Luo Shaoxing and Tang Yikun are another kind of people. The two of them have given up the college entrance examination, and they also came to the Pingquan Hotel to eat and discuss the future, but they are completely different from those ideals. Tang Yikun was always thinking about all kinds of money-making ideas that were seriously unreliable in Luo Shaoxing's mind, reselling a calculator called 838, and going to the workers' club square to sell hula hoops at night...... Eighteen-year-old Tang Yikun has been in business for two years and has indeed made some money. Today's meal is naturally Tang Yikun's pocket. Because he discovered a secret, it is easy to make money by reselling treasury bills! If the capital is large enough and well-informed, the profits are extremely staggering. He asked his good friend Luo Shaoxing to dinner, because he wanted Luo Shaoxing to also participate. He knew that Luo Shaoxing's family was solid, and he had some relatives.

The change happened inadvertently, and no one could have expected it. When Tao Tang heard Tang Yikun and Luo Shaoxing on the other side of the balcony start to comment on Lu Qi, he finally couldn't help it. Lu Qi is the most beautiful girl in the class, and she is also the goddess that Tao Tang has had a crush on for two and a half years.

Luo Shaoxing was commenting on the beautiful girls in this grade, and he scoffed at Tang Yikun's aesthetics, "Zhou Lihua is a fart!" In addition to white skin, that is comparable to Lu Qi? Looking at her big cake face, she was disgusted, and she was angry, so she was white, and Lu Qi was no worse than her. ”

"Shut your foul mouth!" Tao Tang, who was squirting wine in his mouth, rushed to Luo Shaoxing angrily and grabbed Luo Shaoxing's collar, "You try Lu Qi again?" ”

"Lao Tzu likes to say who is who, I want you to care?" Luo Shaoxing struggled and didn't break free, "Tao Tang, don't provoke Lao Tzu to turn his face." He and Tao Tang actually know each other very well, and the two used to play basketball together.

In normal times, Tao Tang may not dare to challenge Luo Shaoxing, because Luo Shaoxing is a tyrant in Red Star No. 1. But after drinking a lot of liquor today, the situation is different.

A crisp slap slapped Tao Tang on his face, and several bright red fingerprints appeared.

Tao Tang reacted extremely quickly and smashed Luo Shaoxing in the stomach with a punch.

"** dare to do it!" Tang Yikun pounced and kicked Tao Tang.

And so the fight began. Two to four, in fact, two to two, Luo Shaoxing to Tao Tang, Tang Yikun to Sun Dunquan. The timid Xu Deguang and Zhou Hongyou are just pulling the strings.

The four teenagers didn't expect to commit a murder. In the scuffle, Xu Deguang, who was pulling the rack, was squeezed off the half-person-high guardrail and fell straight into the cement square in front of the main building of the hotel like a sack, killing him on the spot. The life of a top student who is very promising to be admitted to a top school in China has unexpectedly withered.

This was the "702" case that caused a sensation in Hiraizumi at that time. As a result, Luo Shaoxing was sentenced to three years in prison for negligent wounding. Tao Tang was detained for ten days and missed the college entrance examination that year.

Twenty-five years have passed. The "702" case has long been forgotten in the hearts of the people of Pingquan, except for Xu Deguang, who unfortunately died, and the other five parties have embarked on different life paths.

Today, Zhou Hongyou is the deputy mayor of Pingquan City in charge of municipal planning, transportation, and urban construction, and has become a powerful figure in Pingquan City.

Tang Yikun, who showed his business talent early, really did an amazing career, and since the beginning of reselling electronic calculators in Lingnan in the south, Tang Yikun has created the East Lake Industrial Group with a total annual sales of tens of billions. His Donghu Industrial marketing scale and profits and taxes are already the first private enterprises in the province, and Tang Yikun is at the top of the food chain in Pingquan City.

Tao Tang, who went to university for a year due to the "702" case, entered a ministry in Yanjing after graduation, and after several promotions, he is now the director of the political research office of the headquarters of the brilliant group restructured and established by a central ministry and commission. If you count the level, it is only higher than Zhou Hongyou. Today, however, the central enterprises directly managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) are at least superficially decoupled from the civil service rank.

Luo Shaoxing, who was imprisoned for the "702" incident, squatted in prison for three years before being released, and after being released from prison, he first made a small deal with Tang Yikun's funding, and a few years later he was involved in a major gun trafficking case and was imprisoned again, and his wife divorced him because of this. This time he squatted for another three years, and after being free again, he completely took refuge in Tang Yikun, and is now the head of the security department of the East Lake Real Estate Company. The East Lake Real Estate Company has gone public, and its executives are notoriously well paid, and Luo Shaoxing is also a figure in Pingquan.

Compared with the above, Sun Dunquan, who was also high-spirited back then, was much worse. may be due to stage fright, or it may be the impact of the "720" incident, Sun Dunquan's first college entrance examination smashed the pot. Not to mention NTU, I didn't even have enough college lines (the college entrance examination enrollment rate was still very low in the eighties). I had no choice but to repeat it. He listened to Tao Tang's persuasion, and went to the city No. 8 Middle School with Tao Tang to repeat his studies for a year, although the arts and sciences were different, but they deepened their friendship with each other. However, Tao Tang was admitted to Fudan the following year, but Sun Dunquan's grades were still very unsatisfactory, just past the undergraduate line. He was a little disheartened, so he casually attended a teacher's college, and after graduation, he returned to Red Star Middle School as a history teacher, but he couldn't get used to the principal's style, and repeatedly clashed with the principal. At that time, the Red Star Children's Middle School had not yet been handed over to the local area, so the principal kicked him out of the school for an excuse, handed it back to the company's personnel department, and was sent to the workshop as a boring worker for two years. Because his articles were well written, he was transferred to the Propaganda Department as a factory newspaper editor. Sun Dunquan became cynical because of this, and always had a bad relationship with the leader, and finally took advantage of the policy of reducing staff and increasing efficiency, received a settlement fee and terminated the labor relationship with the company, and became a freelance writer. First, he used the relationship he established in the factory newspaper to write some tofu articles for the literary supplement of the "Pingquan Evening News", and later found that being an online writer is also a good career, and he even wrote three popular historical online novels. However, his home is still in Hongxing, and his wife was his colleague in Hongxing No. 1 Middle School, and now Hongxing No. 1 Middle School has been handed over to the Municipal Education Bureau as a whole.

The "702" incident also has a protagonist -- Lu Qi, who did not bear any responsibility for the incident, is now the deputy director of the development planning department of the Red Star Company. Although it is not as popular as the protagonists of the "702" incident, he is also a successful person among the children of Red Star. Today's Hongxing Factory has lost its former glory with the passage of time, and the average income of its employees has fallen below the average salary line in Pingquan City. However, as a middle-level division of Red Star, Lu Qi's income is not low, in addition to the normal salary, there is also a lot of performance at the end of the year. At the beginning, Red Star Company was a pilot unit for salary reform determined by the headquarters, and in the eyes of ordinary employees of Red Star Company, the biggest achievement was to open up the income difference between the cadres and the masses.