Two dollars a day.

30 days is 60 dollars.

This is higher than the salary of a primary school teacher, and in old Shanghai, a salary of 60 yuan can definitely crush most of the working class.

Wang Changshou, a rich boy, obviously didn't know that a newsboy was very happy to earn three cents a day, and he didn't know that ordinary workers in old Shanghai couldn't earn twenty yuan a month.

Therefore, Wang Changshou gave a salary of two yuan a day.

Hearing that there were two yuan, Chen Qiang agreed without hesitation, he walked the streets and alleys to sell newspapers, even if he counted the sales of Fengyue tabloids at the gates of various schools, he could not earn two yuan a day.

Helping high school students tug-of-war is definitely much easier than selling newspapers.

A few days later, Wang Changshou found a set of vest shorts for Chen Qiang, the clothes were a little old, and they should be worn by a certain student. But it is 100% pure cotton products, and it is very comfortable to wear.

Another day later, Wang Changshou borrowed a pair of rubber shoes from Chen Qiang, of course, they were also worn by others, and they were more worn than clothes, and there were traces of re-sewing on them. Chen Qiang even guessed that this was simply picked up from the clothing appraisal shop.

……

On the day of the sports meeting, Chen Qiang came to Fudan High School.

The playground of Fudan High School is not large, there are almost no hardware facilities, and the runway is paved with cinders.

"It's been a long time since I've seen a cinder runway like this!" Chen Qiang couldn't help but walk on the runway and stepped on his feet, and then shook his head with some dissatisfaction, this cinder runway is a little too soft, and it is not flat enough, which is far worse than the cinder runway in later generations.

In 1896, when the first modern Olympic Games were held, the track was compacted with dirt, and the flatness of the surface and the uniformity of softness and hardness were very poor.

The first thing the runners who participate in the long-distance running do after the race is to wash their faces and wash the soil off their faces, otherwise each athlete will seem to have come out of a mine, and it is impossible to tell who is who.

It is also for this reason that at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the organizers set up the track and field track on a grassy field to avoid dust. But non-slip shoes on grass tracks are poor, and athletes are prone to injury.

In 1904, the cinder track was laid for the first time, and for the next 64 years, the cinder track was used for the Olympic Games. It's just that the technology of cinder runway is also improving, from simple cinder to cinder, sediment, lime, etc. are mixed in a certain proportion.

Plastic tracks were used for the first time at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, and it has only been since then that plastic tracks have become widespread and replaced cinder tracks.

Western countries have popularized plastic tracks in the seventies and eighties, and track and field has also entered the morale of great development at that time, and various track and field world records have been constantly refreshed.

In China, due to cost reasons, plastic runways only began to slowly become popular in the late nineties.

When Chen Qiang was an athlete, he still used the cinder track for training, so he was very familiar with the cinder track.

After getting familiar with it and running, Chen Qiang raised his head again and looked in all directions.

"It's really not a 400-meter standard runway." Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

With Chen Qiang's professional ability, he can tell at a glance whether it is a 400-meter standard runway.

This result has long been in Chen Qiang's speculation. At that time, in China, I am afraid that I could not find a standard runway of 400 meters.

In the first two National Games in old China, track and field still used the imperial "yard" as the unit of measurement, which means that the sprint at that time was not 100 meters and 200 meters, but 100 yards and 200 yards. Converted to that, 100 yards is equivalent to 91.44 meters.

At that time, the venue for the competition was not a special stadium, the first National Games of old China used the Nanjing Quanye Field, and the second National Games of old China was held directly at the Temple of Heaven. Anyone who has been to the Temple of Heaven Park knows that there is a long straight road.

In 1924, the 3rd National Games of old China began to adopt the "rice" system, and the competition venue at that time was the racecourse in Wuchang, and it was only after that National Games that China began to build professional stadiums.

At that time, the so-called professional stadium was not the standard stadium now, such as the Nanjing Central Stadium that was officially built in 1931, the track and field track was 500 meters per lap, and a 200-meter straight track was specially set up.

The 200-meter dash in the modern Olympics is half curve and half straight, and the person who designed the 200-meter straight at that time may have misunderstood athletics, and he probably thought that the 200-meter sprint was also going straight all the way, so he made a 200-meter straight.

Just imagine that the stadiums officially built by the government of the Republic of China are not 400-meter standard runways, and how can you expect the runway of a private middle school to be in line with international standards.

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Chen Qiang found Wang Changshou in the sports field, and Wang Changshou also introduced Chen Qiang to his companions.

"This is the person I found, his name is Chen Qiang, and the tricks of tug-of-war before were taught to me by him." Wang Changshou said.

"Isn't he the newsboy who sells newspapers at the school gate! Don't think I won't recognize you when I change my clothes! A voice suddenly rang out, and it was another teenager who spoke.

Chen Qiang looked back and saw that the young man who was talking was an old customer of his own, who had bought a lot of Fengyue tabloids.

"Zhuang Yonggang, you also bought newspapers from Chen Qiang?" Wang Changshou suddenly looked at the other party with a peculiar look.

was asked by Wang Changshou, and the young man named Zhuang Yonggang immediately reacted, this newsboy sells all Fengyue tabloids, and that thing is not visible in school. If you admit that you sell newspapers from the newsboy, doesn't it mean that you bought the Fengyue tabloid!

Zhuang Yongqiang suddenly had a feeling of being caught by the pigtails, he was weak at this time, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "I only saw him at the school gate, and I didn't buy newspapers from him." ”

"Yes, do you remember it so clearly just by meeting?" Wang Changshou looked at Zhuang Yongqiang with a smile.

"Well, maybe I'm mistaken." Zhuang Yongqiang decided that he would no longer be entangled with Wang Changshou on this issue, so he found an excuse to hide aside.

However, the conversation between Wang Changshou and Zhuang Yongqiang was heard by many classmates around. Several other classmates who had bought Fengyue tabloids from Chen Qiang also deliberately avoided them.

At this time, several participating students stood on the track.

"The final of the 100-meter sprint is about to begin, and when they're done, it's their turn to play the tug-of-war." Wang Changshou said.

Chen Qiang ran and looked, only to see five teenagers standing on the starting line.

The reason there are only five athletes is because the track is not wide enough to accommodate only five people.

In today's athletics competitions, sprints are run by eight people, whereas at the time, even in the Olympics, only six people ran together. A fifth-place finish in the race would have been a good mid-table result now, but it was second-to-last at the time.

Chen Qiang looked at the five contestants, and the one on the edge instantly attracted Chen Qiang's attention.

Chen Qiang sensitively noticed that this person's temperament was different from the other four people.

And this contestant did not hang a number plate, and his vest had two rows of words on his chest.

The row on the vest is relatively large, but it is Japanese: みなみまんしゅうてつどう.

Chen Qiang couldn't understand this line of words.

However, the line under the vest is in Chinese, and the font is smaller than Japanese.

"South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd."

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