Unloading the burden in his heart, Yuan Liang walked very slowly on the way back to school.

The 28 bars on the road rang with crisp bells, and there was the muffled roar of motorcycles in my ears from time to time. People come and go, the line is in a hurry, it seems that from this time on, the rhythm of Pujiang is faster than other cities in China.

While Yuan Liang was looking at the flowers, he was also summarizing the gains and losses of his previous life in his heart.

When he returns to his freshman year and his life restarts, he will definitely not be able to live a mediocre life like in his previous life.

However, the current situation is not encouraging.

Without the support of tutoring work, with the 100 yuan of living expenses given by his parents in his pocket, Yuan Liang was a little powerless even if he had any ideas.

Back at school, Yuan Liang went to the cafeteria to deal with it briefly.

Since there was no self-study at Jiaotong University on Saturday, several people in the dormitory were in the dormitory, except for Huangchuan, whose home is in Pujiang.

As soon as he entered the door, Yuan Liang saw Wei Kang, Sheng Liangcai and Li Hanchang playing poker boringly. Only Wu Rongshan, who came from Shu Province, was lying on the bed holding a copy of "The Wealth of Nations" and watched it with relish.

"Teacher Yuan, I came back so early, and I didn't have anything to do with your little beautiful student?" Wei Kang is still as cheap as he always remembers.

"Do I need to leave the big fish pond of the school and run to abuse other people's minors?" Yuan Liang put down the bag, glanced at the card game of the three people, and patted Li Hanchang on the shoulder, "Do you have a steel hammer on your body, change a few for me, I'll go downstairs and make a call." ”

Along the way, he was thinking about the things of his previous life, and when he arrived in the bedroom, Yuan Liang remembered to call home.

Who knew that Li Hanchang turned his head and looked puzzled, "Aren't steel hammers and paper money the same?" Lao Wei has a phone card there, and it is cheaper to use a phone card. ”

When Wei Kang heard this, he took out the phone card from his pocket, "Don't put it with the key, it's hard to get in trouble when the time comes." ”

Yuan Liang took the delicate card printed with the Huangpu River in front of him, looked at it carefully for a while, and reacted instantly.

The development of the magnetic card industry, or the magnetic card public telephone industry, Yuan Liang, who lives in this era, is still clearer.

It was at the beginning of 88 that magnetic card telephones began to appear on the streets of Shencheng.

Most of the early magnetic card public telephones in China were magnetic card telephones imported by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications from Murata Zhushi Company, which began to be used and popularized in the early 90s.

At this time, the telephone magnetic card was very different from the magnetic card in most people's impressions.

To be precise, it was the magnetic card at this time that deviated the later IC card.

Although magnetic cards and IC cards are two products with the same function, in principle, they are completely different.

The magnetic card uses a digital magnetic record to realize the recharge and deduction of the phone bill, which is the same working principle as the well-known tape and floppy disk.

IC card, on the other hand, is an integrated circuit memory chip.

Compared with the defects of magnetic cards such as easy demagnetization, small storage capacity, and easy to be deciphered, IC cards are much superior to magnetic cards in terms of performance.

However, the domestic IC card telephone, until the beginning of June this year, Yanjing Telecom Bureau and the British GPT company reached a consensus to carry out the first IC card telephone network experiment, before entering the domestic market.

As for popularity, that will be a few years away. At present, most of the public telephone booths on the roadside in Pujiang are magnetic card phones.

The reason why Yuan Liang looked for Li Hanchang to exchange steel was also because of the deviation in his memory after many years.

At this time, it is easy to charge dozens or hundreds of yuan to apply for a phone card, and Yuan Liang can't call a few times a semester, plus the living expenses are not sufficient, so he didn't do it.

Without a calling card, using coins to make calls became Yuan Liang's first choice, which is why he asked Li Hanchang to change the steel trowel.

However, after Li Hanchang's reminder, Yuan Liang remembered that in Pujiang in 94, coin-operated telephones had not been popularized at all.

Although coin-operated telephones appeared early, due to technical reasons, coin-operated telephones have not been widely used in China.

Pujiang's coin-operated telephone is the introduction of Taiwan Province desktop coin-operated telephone technology in 92 years, through the cooperation with the United States UUT company, the first Hanxian coin-operated telephone in Pujiang was produced.

It was not until the second half of 93 that this coin-operated telephone was allowed to enter the network and began to be put on the streets of Pujiang one after another.

Yuan Liang remembers that when he was a junior in college, the school did a survey on the telephone market.

At the end of 93, there were only 25 coin-operated telephones in the entire Pujiang Province. But in '94, the coin-operated telephone market showed a blowout, and in '94 alone, it skyrocketed by more than 3,000 units.

By the time he was a junior in the second half of '95, the number soared to more than 8,000 units.

As a supplement to the magnetic card telephone, the coin-operated telephone is actually very popular with some users.

There is no need to apply for a phone card that costs dozens of dollars at one time, and there is no need to ask others to borrow a card to make a call. The card is in arrears, as long as you have money in your pocket, you can exchange a few coins to call, which is far less troublesome than a magnetic card phone.

Although it is a bit painful to stand in front of the telephone while making a phone while watching the numbers on the small screen continue to put coins, it is undeniable that in the era when most wireless communications still rely on BB machines, coin-operated telephones are undoubtedly an inevitable trend in the development of the communication industry to the sinking market.

Walking to the phone booth downstairs in the dormitory with the phone card, Yuan Liang thought about it for a while.

Returning to his freshman year with a vision beyond the times, Yuan Liang suddenly found that life was full of outlets.

But if you want to really ride the wind, you must penetrate into each subdivided industry, understand the current status of its development, and be able to measure the development potential of these industries with a future perspective.

And the coin-operated telephone is a rare opportunity for Yuan Liang right now.

This kind of telephone that can be repaid in one or two months after installation, you don't need to keep it every day, you just need to take the time to get the coins back and make the phone bill sufficient.

This is indeed a very good choice for Yuan Liang, who is still in school.

However, whether the coin-operated telephone is open to private ownership, Yuan Liang is not very clear.

When he came to the phone booth, Yuan Liang dialed the phone in his father's factory, but the news from the other side of the phone made him a little worried.

Yuan Liang knew that his father was laid off during this time, but he didn't know what day it was, but he didn't expect that his father had already left the paper mill before he arrived at school.

I'm afraid that the matter of my father's layoff has been decided during the Chinese New Year, otherwise the paper mill staff on the phone would not have answered so simply, but I didn't know about the school I had just come to from home.

Putting his hand in his trouser pocket and touching the pile of change that his mother stuffed into him, Yuan Liang's mood suddenly became a little heavy.

As Jiang Weihua expected, the two years of 94 and 95 were the peak of the laid-off workers of state-owned enterprises in Hunan Province, and although the sales channels of the paper mill where his father worked were not bad, due to the backwardness of technology, it had gradually lost its competitiveness.

Not surprisingly, the paper mill would collapse completely four years later and become a memory for my father's generation.

After being laid off, the father had to bear the pressure of three children going to school, and after wandering the streets for several months, he finally had no choice but to pick up the butcher's knife and became a glorious pig slaughterer.

Reborn, if Yuan Liang wants to say that he owes something, the first choice must be his parents and family who are thousands of miles away.

In my last life, I studied for a long time, but I don't know how much burden I have added to my family in the past six years.

During the six years he was studying in Pujiang, his father didn't even buy a decent set of clothes, and he wore his paper mill work clothes all day long in the slaughterhouse.

He remembers that once he took Jiang Ning back and met his parents who were selling vegetables at the vegetable market, and he almost failed to recognize his parents, who had become older.

At that time, he thought that it would be fine when the work was done.

But what followed was that Jiang Ning was pregnant, then got married, bought a house, and settled in Pujiang.

Later, after the divorce, he returned to Hunan Province with his children, but he brought more worries to his parents.

Taking a slight breath, Yuan Liang was speechless for a while.

Since he had done it all over again, he would never repeat the mistakes of his previous life.

Back in the dormitory, Yuan Liang wrote a letter to his home.

My father's factory could not be contacted, and there were not many ways to get in touch, and the village did not install the first telephone until the next year.

Yuan Liang originally planned to send it to the second child, but after thinking about it, he sent it to his younger sister who was still in junior high school.

With the character of not returning home for 20 days and half a month, the letter does not know when it will be delivered to his parents.

The content of the letter is not complicated, it is just to ask his parents not to send him living expenses anymore.

"Yuan Liang, are you free tomorrow, Huang Chuan contacted a girl's dormitory in the School of Foreign Languages for a friendship, do you want to go?" Before he finished writing his letter, the cards of Wei Kang, Sheng Liangcai and Li Hanchang next to him were scattered.

"There is time, how much is one person?"

Wei Kang, who had just put down the card, immediately came up, "I wanted to tell you, but I didn't expect you to be really free, not much, one person out of ten yuan, go to the restaurant outside to gather, it is considered to be acquaintance." ”

Although Wei Kang thinks it's not much, in this era when the average monthly salary in Pujiang is only 600 yuan, ten yuan is the living expenses of a student of Jiaotong University for nearly a week.

"That's okay, but I may not be free until later, where are you set, I'll come over then."

"You're going to make up for your little beauty again?"

Yuan Liang put down his pen, handed the phone card on the table to Wei Kang, and shook his head, "I quit my tutor, and I plan to go outside tomorrow to find out if there is any suitable part-time job." But the tutor asked me to recommend someone to go over, and since you have a friendship tomorrow, I'll go over and ask by the way. ”

"It's such a good tutor job, why did you quit?" Wu Rongshan, who was holding "The Wealth of Nations", poked his head out of the upper bunk.

"That's it, if you want to say anything else, I heard Lao Wei say that your student is a rare little beauty, and you don't plan to train it to be our school sister or something?" Li Hanchang on the side also agreed.

"Yuan Liang, since people let you recommend people to come over, and the fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders, don't you consider considering how many of our brothers there are?" Wei Kang immediately stepped forward and grabbed Yuan Liang's shoulders.

"Get out of the way, others are recruiting tutors, don't be perverts." Even if Jiang Weihua was not looking for a girl, Yuan Liang would not recommend his acquaintances.

He looked up at Wu Rongshan on the upper bunk, "Jiang Ning's family said that as long as girls." ”

Wu Rongshan spit out a mouthful of Trump, "It's okay, I still have two students in my hands, one in the morning and one in the afternoon on weekends, even if you let me go, I can't squeeze out time." ”

At this time, the weekend has just begun the system of "two days off - single day off", and in many cases, the weekend refers to only Sunday.

In the bedroom, the conditions of him and Wu Rongshan were relatively ordinary, and Wei Kang and Li Hanchang only paid attention to Jiang Ning. Yuan Liang knew that Wu Rongshan was concerned about this well-paid tutoring job.

After a few jokes, Yuan Liang finished writing the letter, stuffed it into the envelope, and then went to bed, but his mind was thinking about the coin-operated telephone.