Chapter 5: Missed blind date opportunity!
"Hey, Changhe, you bought so many things?"

As soon as Li Changhe stopped his bicycle, he heard a surprised voice asking questions from the corridor behind him.

Li Changhe turned around and saw that it was Zhu Lin's mother, Aunt Liu.

"Hello, Aunt Liu. I just happened to be going out to relocate my household registration, and I stopped by the department store to buy some household items!"

"Come on, let me help you!"

"Wow, it's so heavy!"

Aunt Liu helped Li Changhe take the bag of books at the back, but she never expected that the weight was beyond her imagination.

"What did you buy?"

"Let me do it, Aunt Liu. I'm going to Xinhua Bookstore to buy some books!"

Li Changhe took the bag from Aunt Liu and held it in his hand easily.

Knowing the weight, Liu Shuwan did not pick it up again, but asked: "Changhe, did the commune arrange a job for you when you came back?"

"I told you to wait for me until a suitable position is found to assign me to a position!"

Liu Shuwan shook her head when she heard this: "You are such a naive child!"

"People are constantly returning to the city now. Can this job wait?"

"You need to run around more. If not, ask your dad to go to the school and find one to arrange for you!"

“Good jobs don’t wait for anyone!”

"I know. Thanks for the reminder, Aunt Liu. I'll go to the commune and ask more often!"

Li Changhe nodded and agreed.

He couldn't say that he didn't want to work in the factory at all. After all, these days, no matter what you do, you can't look down on the working class.

"Aunt Liu, I'll go up first!"

"go Go!"

Looking at Li Changhe's back as he walked in, Liu Shuwan shook her head again.

This kid looks good, but a little nerdy, just like his dad.

Originally, she liked Li Changhe very much, but now, she is a little hesitant.

She thought she should wait and see Li Changhe's work arrangements.

Regardless of how well the arrangement is, it should at least be a worker's organization.

Linlin and others have graduated, and they are college students and have the cadre status.

There is no need to rush these few days, just observe and see.

Liu Shuwan made a new decision in her mind.

At this time, Li Changhe didn't know what he had missed invisibly.

Li Changhe, carrying a large bag of things upstairs, arrived at the door of his home, took out his key, opened the door, and walked in.

Mother Shen Yuxiu also went to work. After all, Li Lishan was an associate professor at Yenching Institute of Technology, so Shen Yuxiu was also assigned to the school's logistics department.

After all, there has been chaos within the school for so many years, and after things have been put right, there are still many vacancies.

After Li Changhe entered the house, he first put out the books and placed them on the balcony to dry in the sun.

After all, they have been piled up in the warehouse for so many years, it's good enough that they haven't been eaten by rats.

Then, he took out a copybook of fountain pen calligraphy, which was the "Fountain Pen Regular Script Calligraphy Copybook" published by the Magic City Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House in 72.

The content mainly consists of revolutionary modern Peking operas such as "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", "The Red Lantern" and "Sha Jia Bang".

Afterwards, he filled the pen with ink, sat in front of the table and began to imitate seriously.

There is no other way. Practicing calligraphy is the basis of all Li Changhe’s future plans.

For a person born in the 1990s, he did practice penmanship for a period of time when he was in elementary school, but his handwriting was not very good.

Later, including when he became a full-time coder, he typed on the computer or even used voice input, and he no longer had the habit of writing Chinese characters by hand.

But things are different in this era. Penmanship is the basis of all writing work. Whether Li Changhe is taking the college entrance examination or creating literature in the future, he has to write a lot.

Especially when you are writing articles, if they are ugly, no editor would like to read them.

Good penmanship is definitely a plus!

After practicing his calligraphy with a fountain pen for more than an hour, Li Changhe stood up and stretched his wrists.

After resting for about ten minutes, I took out the high school textbooks and started reading.

Among these, mathematics is the easiest for him.

Although he couldn't be called a genius in his previous life, he was among the top ten in his class at school and had fought his way out of a province that was a hell for the college entrance examination.

Chinese is relatively troublesome because Chinese textbooks are very different from later Chinese textbooks, including the excerpts of ancient Chinese texts.

The most troublesome subject is politics. The current political textbooks are completely different from those in the future. In Li Changhe's opinion, this subject must be reviewed as a priority.

Secondly, geography and history were simpler for him, and he did not know much knowledge in them. This could be considered the limitation of the times.

As for physics and chemistry, he didn't even look at it. After all, he had already decided to apply for liberal arts in the college entrance examination.

He has a clear understanding of his own strengths. History, geography and Chinese are his strong points, especially with the added knowledge of later generations.

Mathematics is pretty good, but the weakness is politics. I don’t have enough knowledge and need to memorize a lot.

As for physical chemistry, he didn't study science in his previous life, and he wouldn't start from scratch in this life. He didn't plan to do research in science and engineering. As for what he didn't understand in the future, there was an associate professor of science and engineering in his family.

At noon, Li Changhe went into the kitchen and made himself something to eat.

In fact, Shen Yuxiu gave him food coupons and money so that he could go out for a good meal at noon.

However, Li Changhe was not so extravagant. He still had the meat buns from breakfast, so he fried an egg and made do with it.

After eating, Li Changhe picked up the newspaper again and sat in the living room to read.

If he wanted to keep an eye on the changes in actions in this era, he had to rely on newspapers as a source of information.

After taking a few glances and finding no interesting titles, Li Changhe picked up the magazine People's Literature and began scanning it.

This is to prepare for the next code.

Although he knew what kind of scar literature would be popular in the next few years, the style preferences of each magazine were different after all.

Just like the editors of novel platforms in later generations, each editor has his or her own preferred style, and even each website has its own flourishing style.

What Li Changhe has to do is to cater to the needs of the platform. It is normal for a manuscript to be popular on one platform but be rejected on another platform.

Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" was rejected several times by the editor, and it is said that the editor was an acquaintance.

This kind of situation is even more common in later generations. It is very common for many novels to be rejected by one editor but become popular under the work of other editors.

As a veteran online writer, Li Changhe doesn't think that he will be successful just by writing award-winning works from his previous life.

Many works bear the mark of the times.

In this era of great change, some points in novels may not be suitable even after a year or two.

Some creative plots could be written in 81, but would not be suitable to be written in 77, four years ago.

This is the limitation of the times.

After reading the People's Literature magazine in his hand, Li Changhe had a preliminary understanding of the magazine's current style.

The above articles currently have a common theme, which is the criticism of some things that happened in previous years.

This gave him some ideas in his mind.

Before they knew it, it was dark and the sound of a door opening was heard outside. Then Li Lishan and Shen Yuxiu returned home together.

"Changhe, have you eaten yet? I'll go cook!"

As soon as Shen Yuxiu entered the room, she asked with concern.

"Don't worry, I'm not hungry yet, Mom, you take a rest first."

"Dad, I have a math problem, can you help me solve it?"

Li Changhe was reading a math book in the afternoon, comparing it with the "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry", and there were some points that he really didn't understand.

Li Lishan was a little surprised to see Li Changhe take out a math book.

"Changhe, do you want to learn mathematics?"

"I'm not studying math. I just bought some textbooks today to catch up on the knowledge I missed in the past few years."

"After all, I fell behind too much back then!"

"I went to the commune today to ask, and my job cannot be arranged immediately. I have to wait and see. I think it will take some time."

"I want to take this opportunity to study at home and catch up on the knowledge I missed."

Li Changhe said seriously.

"Okay, Changhe, it's great that you have this idea. No matter when, learning is the most worthwhile thing to do."

After listening to it, Li Lishan couldn't help but praise it.

In fact, being in his position, he is more informed of some news and knows that the higher-ups seem to want to make changes now.

However, many things are still uncertain, so he can't say anything now to avoid giving Li Changhe too high expectations.

"During this period of time, I may have to eat and drink for free at home."

Li Changhe expressed his intention of living off his parents in a somewhat euphemistic way.

When Shen Yuxiu heard this, she immediately said to Li Changhe in dissatisfaction: "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? How can you eat and drink for free just by following your parents?"

"Besides, with your father and I's salary, can't we support you alone?"

Shen Yuxiu is also a cadre. Although her salary is not as high as Li Lishan's, it is also set at the standard of a 16th-level deputy section chief, with a monthly salary of 110.5 yuan.

In other words, a combined monthly salary of more than 300 yuan for two people is definitely a high-income group in this era.

In fact, many people claim that the Republic of China was good to intellectuals, but New China is actually not bad either.

Apart from those years when certain reasons were involved, the treatment of intellectuals has always been very high as determined by the state.

With his mother's approval, Li Changhe naturally felt relieved.

In the following days, Li Changhe entered a state of seclusion at home.

Practice calligraphy, review lessons, recite quotations from great men, and start typing according to the ideas in your mind.

A month passed in a flash.

In April 1977, Li Changhe, who had just bought the People's Daily from outside, finally saw a piece of exciting news in the newspaper.

(End of this chapter)