At the end of August, Qi Baokang finally came back from Qingfeng Forest Farm, and his home was almost cleaned up.

He said that in the summer vacation, he helped harvest autumn vegetables and dried fish, but later caught a cold again, so he didn't come back in time.

Qi Youheng snorted, and didn't even sweep the corners of his eyes. Lu Xiuzhi sighed, "Go wash your face, what time did you eat?" ”

Qi Baoan and Shen Mengxi sat in the living room, and they only shouted "Second brother is back" and continued to watch TV.

Qi Baokang's college entrance examination results were very bad, and he didn't even get into the last choice, and he was very frustrated. In the past, he thought it was good to be a soldier and a worker, but now, he wants to go out and go to school.

At Qingfeng Forest Farm, he heard a Shanghai educated youth talk about the prosperity of Shanghai, saying that China is very big and the world is also very big, that his parents had stayed abroad and been to Europe, and that the trees in the south were different from those in the north, and that the diet was also different, and that many people in the south had started to do business and had made a lot of money.

He was fascinated.

On the afternoon of the day I returned to the county, I went to the school to talk to the teacher for a long time, and when I came back, I said to my parents, "I want to repeat my studies for another year!" ”

"What?" Qi Youheng and his wife were stunned, "Repeat? ”

"It's the third year of high school and the university entrance exam."

"Can you get in another year? Didn't you ask yourself, was that the piece of material? Qi Youheng slapped his chopsticks on the dining table.

"If I can't pass the exam next year, I'll die!" Qi Baokang looked at his father's gaze, raised his head, bit his lip and said, "Dad! I definitely want to study hard, I don't want to be a soldier, I don't want to be a worker, I want to go to school, go to university in Shanghai in the future, and become a cadre in the future! ”

"What's so bad about being a soldier? In the future, I will also be a soldier! Qi security interjected, and in exchange for Lu Xiuzhi knocking on the head of chopsticks.

Qi Youheng and his family were relatively speechless, and they didn't have the heart to eat. In fact, Qi Youheng has already contacted the unit, and his son will soon be able to go to work in the traffic police force.

At night, the two lay on the kang and discussed for a long time, and Shen Mengxi, who slept on the same kang with them, heard Lu Xiuzhi say in a daze: "Otherwise, give the second child another chance." ”

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With the help of the forestry bureaus of various counties, the first residential building area in Jiayang County was completed in mid-October.

At this time, Jiayang was already frozen, and many jobs could not be stretched, and the workers suffered some crimes. Fortunately, the bricklayer's work was completed before the freeze, and only the work of the upper window and the pankang was left behind.

There are 20 buildings in this area, and 240 families live in this area, and people affectionately call this building area the aid building.

These buildings, in fact, are two-story "townhouses", but the units are very small, each upstairs and downstairs is only 50 square meters, and the housing management office is uniformly distributed to the young people who have just married in each unit. Although it was a new house that had just been built, no one had done any decoration, painted the walls, laid a floor, and moved in.

There is no collective heating in the county, and it is generally a large chimney per unit, which is heated by boilers. The aid building does not even have a large boiler, only a kang and a fire wall in the bedroom on the first floor, and the upstairs can only be baked by the hot air downstairs.

Even so, people are still very envious, after all, they live in a building.

Shen Mengxi followed Lu Xiuzhi to visit her colleague's house.

That Aunt Feng had just gotten married, and her family lived in Building No. 6, and she was very proud of drawing such an auspicious number.

Rounding through several buildings and passing a public toilet, there were five or six young women lined up outside, all wearing hats and gloves, chatting with white mouths.

These buildings, one of the twelve households, each household is only a narrow door and one window, a narrow and long small courtyard, and a coal shed occupies one-third.

When I entered the house, it was the kitchen, and in addition to the stairs, there were two stoves in the kitchen, and if the dining table was propped up, it would hardly be able to turn around.

Lu Xiuzhi admired enviously, "How good! Feng! Upstairs and downstairs! ”

After speaking, he took off his shoes and went upstairs to take a look.

This Aunt Feng obviously received many guests who visited, and she generously let them visit to their heart's content, and also helped Shen Mengxi take off her shoes and carry her to the stairs painted with red paint, "Baozhu, you go and see it too!" ”

Lu Xiuzhi stood at the window and looked out, "How good! See far away! After speaking, he sighed, "It would be good if our family could live here, this place is for you to live in, and the older ones outside will give you a few brothers to live in, and my treasure bead can also have its own room!" ”

There is a double bed in the room that was praised by Lu Xiuzhi, covered with a red bedspread, with big red happy words on the wall, and there is no heating equipment upstairs.

When she got home, Lu Xiuzhi sighed with Qi Youheng, "Let me tell you, Xiao Feng's family is really good!" ”

Qi Youheng asked his daughter: "Is Aunt Feng's house good, do you want to live in a building?" ”

Shen Mengxi shook his head, "It's not good, it's too small." ”

Qi Youheng laughed, "Your mother, it's good to look at other people's things!" ”

Shen Mengxi suddenly had a heart to promote narrowness, "It's not at all!" ”

Qi Youheng looked at his daughter suspiciously: "What?" ”

"My mom says her husband is the best!"

Qi Youheng was choked by his own saliva and coughed, Lu Xiuzhi patted him on the back, his face flushed, and he blamed his little daughter, "You kid is talking nonsense!" When did I say that! ”

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The Spring Festival of 1985 was particularly late, and on February 20, it was rushed to the rainy season, which was called "rain pouring spring". The Lantern Festival rushed to the stinging solar term again.

Old Man Qi said again and again, this year must be a special year!

It doesn't matter whether others are special or not, it is indeed an extraordinary year for Qi Baoan. He finally found the flowers and reached a certain new height.

During the winter vacation, Qi Baoan, Han Dong, Wei Dajun and other six people cleared a large piece of ice on the river, borrowed the school's ice blades to skate, and Shen Mengxi was so greedy that she couldn't wear all the skates, so she could only sit and climb the plow, or slip out of the skate. The ice attracted a lot of people to watch, and the six people were out of the limelight. One day came a 50-year-old teacher, she was the first batch of educated youths who came to Jiayang in the 50s, she had studied junior college, her skating posture was beautiful, better than Qi Bao'an, these wild roads I don't know how many times, she also instructed them to make their own clubs, play ice hockey. Ice hockey doesn't need skates, and suddenly there are many teenagers on the river, shouting and rolling and crawling to play ice hockey, which is very lively.

After playing for more than a week, as more people joined, they gradually got tired again.

came up with a new way to play, and a few people walked towards Jiang Xin to explore the border!

As a result, they were discovered by the sentries on the watchtower, and a team of border guards quickly dispatched them, and while chasing, they shouted through loudspeakers to stop. Several teenagers reflexively scattered and ran away, "Bang! "Two shots, the border guards fired warning shots.

Several teenagers finally realized that they were in trouble, and they were so frightened that they raised their hands in surrender. All six people were pushed and shoved to the Sixth Regiment, and their buttocks didn't know how many kicks they were kicked, Shang Lin was clever, pointing at Qi Security and shouting: "His father is from the Public Security Bureau, don't beat us!" "Next, although I didn't give any good face, I didn't get beaten anyway.

But crossing the line was a big deal, and they were interrogated separately, written in, and signed.

In the end, it was confirmed that it was the child's idle poverty toss, so that the parents came forward to claim it, and Qi Youheng explained for a few days, accompanied the smiling face, and wrote a guarantee, so he took the child back.

There is no doubt that every kid who came home received a hot belt.