Chapter 4: Starting from Living off Parents in the s

Before 1980, Haidian was positioned as an agricultural area. It was the non-staple food base for the entire Yanjing area, providing a large amount of fruits and vegetables to the capital.

Therefore, on both sides of Baiyi Road, which will be the future Zhongguancun Avenue, there are still large areas of woods, wilderness and cemeteries from time to time.

Go north along Baiyi Road, then arrive at Dongdayuan, turn west, pass the old alleys such as Qianguan Hutong and Dajing Hutong, and you will reach the prosperous commercial area of ​​HD District.

The large mansion of Yangshi Lei's family, which often appears in period novels, is located in this area, and it consists of several large courtyards.

In later generations, this entire area became the West District of Zhongguancun, and all the old alleys were demolished.

After twisting and turning through these old alleys and passing Laohudong Hutong, you will reach the center of Haidian Town.

Haidian Department Store, Christian Church, and many other shops are all in this area.

Li Changhe did not rush to the department store, but rode his bicycle to the Xinhua Bookstore on North Street first.

Although Haidian will be the country's leading base for science, education, culture, and health books in the future, there is only one Xinhua Bookstore on Beida Street in the HD district today.

Next to the Xinhua Bookstore, there is a special area for checking bicycles, and it costs five cents per time.

Li Changhe paid the money, received the ticket, and locked the car!
Then he walked into the Xinhua Bookstore of this era.

"Comrade, would you like to buy some books?"

After coming in, a salesperson asked indifferently.

Unlike the bustling grain stores and grocery stores, bookstores in this era are actually still very deserted.

Everyone knows the reason: intellectuals are very much excluded.

"I want a collection of great men's works. And if you have any previous high school textbooks, give me one!"

Li Changhe said softly.

The salesperson looked at Li Changhe with some surprise.

It is normal to have a collection of works by great men. Which young person these days doesn’t want to have one?
But high school textbooks are different, after all, high schools have been suspended for many years.

"The Great Men's Anthology is easy to find, but the high school textbooks you mentioned, I'll have to go to the warehouse to find them, and I guess they're all from ten years ago."

"Little comrade, what are you looking for these books for?"

The salesperson looked at Li Changhe with some suspicion. If this had happened two years ago, his request would have been easily reported.

"I just came back from the educated youth camp, and the district can't arrange a job for me for the time being. I want to review what I learned before, so that I can do a better job in construction when I get a job."

Li Changhe explained casually.

"Are you an educated youth returning to the city?"

The salesperson's eyes changed slightly when he looked at Li Changhe. Most of the educated youth returning to the city these days did not follow a regular path, and some people thought they were deserters, which was shameful.

"Well, I was over there repairing a reservoir when I fell into the mountains while rescuing someone and was injured. The commune leaders approved my medical retirement!"

Li Changhe explained it seriously. He had to explain it because some things in this era were very serious!

As expected, when the salesperson heard that Li Changhe had retired due to illness while saving someone, his look changed again. His original contempt disappeared, and a look of admiration appeared on his face, and he smiled a little more.

"I see, you are great, little comrade."

"Well, let me take you to the warehouse to look for it. I remember there was a batch of backlogged books there that haven't been processed yet!"

"Thank you so much!"

Afterwards, the salesperson took Li Changhe to the warehouse at the back and searched carefully inside.

"found it!"

"These are the last batch of high school textbooks in 65, including mathematics, Chinese, politics, geography, etc."

"May I?"

The saleswoman pointed at a group of dusty books on the ground and said to Li Changhe.

"Okay, that's great!"

Li Changhe squatted down and took a look, then inadvertently glanced to the side and saw another set of books.

Self-study series of books on mathematics, physics and chemistry

Published January 1964

When Li Changhe saw the title of this book, he knew that this would be the famous college entrance examination book in the future, and it was also the first original edition in the 1960s.

"Big sister, can you give me a set of this math, physics and chemistry self-study series?"

"No problem, then you can take one!"

The saleswoman agreed without hesitation. After all, they were just books in stock and she would sell as many as she could.

Then, Li Changhe came to the front carrying a heavy stack of books.

These textbooks were generally priced at 8 to cents each, and there were more than books in total, which cost Li Changhe yuan. Then Li Changhe spent another cents to buy a big bag and put the books in it.

"By the way, sister, do we have any newspapers or magazines here now?"

Li Changhe asked again.

"They are all over there, take a look. What do you want to buy?"

The saleswoman pointed casually and Li Changhe walked over to look.

There are quite a lot of newspapers, but fewer publications.

As for magazines, there are even fewer. Some of the famous magazines in the future, such as "Harvest", "Contemporary", and "Yenching Literature", are missing. I guess they have not resumed publication yet.

Li Changhe felt that the only magazine he could submit his work to was People's Literature.

That’s right, his intention in reading the magazine was to find a channel for submission.

Li Changhe took a few newspapers and a copy of People's Literature to the counter and paid another 3 cents.

"Sister, I think we don't have many magazines here!"

Li Changhe asked casually.

The saleswoman curled her lips and said, "There aren't many books like this to begin with. They've been out of stock for a long time. It was only last year that People's Literature started selling them again."

"But it's useless. There's no money for writing articles. Who would write them except those people in the editorial department?"

After listening to this, Li Changhe felt a chill in his heart. It was bad. The plan could not keep up with the changes.

"Sister, I'll leave these books here for a while while I go to the department store in front to buy some things, and then come back to get them, okay?"

"Go ahead, put it here and I'll watch it for you!"

The bookstore doesn't have much business right now, so a few of the sales clerks are just chatting here and looking around.

Afterwards, Li Changhe came to the department store. Various goods were displayed on both sides of the long corridor.

Li Changhe came to the stationery area and first bought two pens and two bottles of ink, one black and one blue!
Then I bought toothpaste, toothbrush and some daily necessities. Finally, I went shopping and bought a pound of White Rabbit milk candy with the candy coupons my mother gave me.

There are not many snacks to eat these days, so buy some candies and chew them!
As for cigarettes, he had no smoking habit in his previous life, and he had no plans to start smoking in this life.

After packing up his things, Li Changhe went to get the books and then rode his bike home.

Sure enough, plans cannot keep up with changes!

His original plan was to review the textbooks at home in the next few months and write some articles to earn some money.

After all, he was a full-time online writer in his previous life, and writing novels was his job that came easily to him.

He didn't have any literary dreams, he just wanted to use his royalties to make some money for himself.

In fact, this is the safest way to make money in this era, and the returns are also good.

He knew very well that the reform and opening up would become more and more liberal as time went on. In the first few years of the reform and opening up, especially before 82, the upper class was groping in the dark, and there would be almost no changes for the common people at the lower class.

The crime of speculation and profiteering is quite serious.

According to what the saleswoman said, it seems that the country's reform on royalties has not yet begun.

In this case, Li Changhe thought about it and could only change his thinking.

It's a good opportunity to use this period of time to learn some characters and review the textbooks.

I practice calligraphy because I used simplified characters in my previous life.

But in this era, Li Changhe discovered that many simplified and traditional characters are still used interchangeably.

Some simplified characters from the previous life do not appear today, so Li Changhe must correct his writing habits.

Otherwise, if you have to write simplified characters that no one recognizes during the exam, that would be a big mistake.

As for textbooks, the knowledge in the textbooks of the 1960s and 1970s is different from that of later generations after all. Li Changhe had searched for college entrance examination information of that era in his previous life, which was one of the reasons why he decided to take the college entrance examination.

The reason for searching for information was very simple. He had a dispute with a fellow reader in the discussion area. The two debated each other on the information of the college entrance examination that year, and each of them presented information.
The result was naturally nothing, but Li Changhe still remembered some of the information he had looked up that year.

For example, he remembered that the topic of the Chinese composition exam at Yenching this year was "My Year in XX".

He also read the essay "My Year of Fighting" which was published in People's Daily at that time.

In addition, he knew that this year's first college entrance examination was set by each province nationwide, so some questions were simple and some were difficult, but overall they were relatively simple.

However, it seems that the original plan to make money through literature will have to wait.

However, Li Changhe estimated that he could not wait for long, after all, he remembered that some of the scar literature had been published in 77.

Li Changhe estimated that it would probably only take one or two months, and it was a good time to practice calligraphy seriously.

Next, I have to go home and discuss with my mom about living off her for a while!
Soon, Li Changhe rode his bicycle back home excitedly.

(End of this chapter)