My 1991

The bedroom is very basic.

An old-fashioned wooden bed, an old desk, a bench, and a two-door wardrobe with peeling paint that could not be distinguished from its age were all in the room.

The environment is pretty good, not too bad either. The only decoration is the beach New Year painting on the wall - The Rat Gets Married.

Meng Qingchi tried to buy him some new furniture several times, but he declined. He was embarrassed to bother others too much, and he was also afraid that he would not be able to pay for it if it was damaged. After all, he was only the temporary owner of this home.

This was his inexplicable stubbornness at a young age.

In other words, he is afraid that others will treat him too well and he will not be able to repay them.

If it hadn't been for the fact that he had been suffering from neurasthenia due to excessive mental stress in the past few years. Hearing the snoring and grinding of teeth in the dormitory would easily lead to insomnia all night long and affect his studies. He would rather live in the school dormitory than go out to mess around.

The desk has three drawers from left to right.

Lu An took out the key from his trousers and inserted it into the keyhole, turned it hard to the right, and opened the lock. Then he hooked his finger on the rusty copper ring and pulled it gently, revealing the drawer on the far left.

It's full of books and exam papers.

His eyes swept over a pile of books and test papers. Lu An, who had calmed down, took out a yellowed book "The Ordinary World" from the bottom. This book was handed over from his uncle Lu Xueping when he was young. Favorite reading.

The stories in the book resonated with him and have inspired him to forge ahead all these years.

Rubbing the cover with his right hand for a moment, he opened the pages.

On page 20, there is 2 yuan.

On pages 24, 28, and 32, find 5 yuan each.

On page 36, there is a 10 yuan note.

On pages 44 and 48, there is a 50 banknote hidden respectively.

Spread the banknotes in a row on the table, gathering 7 banknotes in total, totaling 127 yuan.

Putting the 10 yuan he just received together, the accumulated amount reached 137 yuan. This was the richest deposit in his high school career.

Half of it is the "rent" contributed by Lu Xueping, and part is what is left after deducting room, board, tuition and miscellaneous expenses from the scholarship each semester.

In addition, part of it is earned from setting up stalls.

Yes, just setting up a stall.

Every time he returned from summer vacation, he would bring some dried wild mushrooms from the village to sell in the city.

Because he is afraid of being embarrassed and being known by familiar people, he usually stays away from Guifei Lane and No. 1 Middle School, choosing to set up a stall in the west of the city on the other side of the river.

Even though he was so cautious, he was still recognized by a female classmate in the class, which made him nervous for a while.

Fortunately, the female classmate didn't make any publicity afterwards, and he gradually forgot about it.

It was only 137 yuan, which was far from enough to buy a sewing machine for her sister. Lu An looked down at the money, and scenes of bad things automatically appeared in his mind.

He originally had a pretty good family, but things changed after just a few tastes of happiness.

His old father was once a top student at Wuhan University in that era. He single-handedly got rid of his poor status as a rural person, established the iron rice bowl of the country, and was admired by the villagers.

At that time, this was a huge event in the village. To celebrate, an open-air movie was held in Daoguping for three nights. The whole village, men, women, old and young, came to watch the movie with small stools.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The old father was an angry young man who lost his job due to some special reasons and was sent back to his hometown. From then on, I was depressed and frustrated. Later, I was mixed up and disappeared.

His mother was originally from the city, and the two knew each other and fell in love with each other when his father was at his most promising. When her family fell into decline, she chose love and returned to the countryside. Her father's death devastated her, and she eventually fell ill under the dual pressure of spirit and poverty.

Lu An has an eldest sister, Lu Yan, who became the breadwinner of the family after graduating from elementary school. She took on the burden of taking care of her younger siblings by herself. Now working as an apprentice in a tailor shop in town, her biggest wish is to have a sewing machine of her own.

The eldest sister is talented and hard-working, but she has not yet gotten married at the age of 22. This is a rare thing in an era where early marriage and early childbearing are common. There was a lot of gossip behind the scenes.

It stands to reason that given Lu Yan's conditions, it would not be difficult to find a man to live with. Many young men in and outside the village have expressed their love for him. But most people were frightened away by her two troublesome siblings.

No one is rich these days. Every bowl of rice and every penny spent has to be tightened, and life is miserable. Who would be willing to take advantage of them and help support two outsiders?

Lu An's sister is Song Jia, her uncle's daughter, and is studying in the third grade of junior high school in the town this year.

I remember that when my old father was still alive, one day my uncle came to the door in the middle of the night, left his several-year-old sister Song Jia with his brother-in-law and left, never to return.

Later, I learned from my mother's will that my aunt was a fashionable Xiangjiang native and later went to RB for her ideals. My uncle went to RB to look for her, but there was no news at all.

Thinking of this uncle whom he had not seen for many years, Lu An rarely blamed him and just sighed deeply. This uncle's life at RB was not going well. For some unknown reason, his right hand, which he relied on for painting, was completely broken.

Later Lu An asked about the reason, but his uncle seemed to avoid it and never mentioned it to anyone.

In addition, he has two aunts, both of whom are farmers, but very nice people. It is because of these two aunts that the old Lu family was able to survive the most difficult period.

The current messy situation at home makes Lu An want to cry without any tears, and she does not have the courage to live a heroic life and start over again.

In my last life, I was also a 211 professor, and my salary was not low. In addition, I have painting skills, and I can sell hundreds of thousands or millions of paintings a year during my middle-aged and elderly years. In my spare time, I can do all kinds of things, practice boxing, play chess, collect rent, and tease those The charm is still there, and those little days will be as pleasant as possible.

But now, thinking about fighting his way out of poverty and poverty, he felt panicked even if he thought about it for a second.

I just had a meal and a glass of wine with a confidante, and didn't have time to do anything extraordinary. Why did God let this thief come back and suffer this crime?

Silently he put the money into the pages of the book, put the book back in the drawer, locked it, and lay down on the bed.

In his last life, he had everything going smoothly and lived relatively comfortably, but he owed too much to his family. Could it be that God wanted him to be reborn to make up for it?

Thinking of his eldest sister who was delayed and his younger sister who was about to be delayed, he felt irritated for no reason. He suddenly felt that he could no longer sit still and wait for death. In this era of being full of opportunities, you can smell the smell of money with just a sniff.

I have to earn money to fulfill my eldest sister's wish, buy her a sewing machine, prepare a dowry for her so that she can marry happily in the future; I also have to prepare tuition fees for my younger sister, so that she can't finish her freshman year of high school like she did in her previous life. Dropped out of school and went to work.

It was his lifelong regret that Song Jia dropped out of school, because her grades had always been very good.

He was very anxious to make money and didn't want to wait any longer, but he tried hard to dig out gold ingots from his memory, and in 1991 he also remembered a Hainan real estate property.

But Hainan is far away, and we don’t have the time and capital yet.

You can't drop out of school to make money, right?

Having experienced future generations, I will naturally not be so short-sighted. Academic qualifications may not determine a person's upper limit, but they can basically represent a person's lower limit.

What's more, a college degree is so precious these days.

Putting aside this unrealistic opportunity, Luan began to analyze himself.

In my previous life, apart from my main job of teaching, my earliest part-time job was stock trading with my colleagues.

how to say?

Maybe it was because he entered the industry relatively early, maybe because he was steady-minded, or maybe because he was lazy. After buying the stocks, he often left them there and ignored them. As a result, he actually earned more than those economics professors who taught futures and stock trading.

Although I have made a lot of money, when it comes to how sophisticated the technology is, it does not exist, and the domestic stock market is still being piloted, so the idea of ​​​​making money in this way is not feasible for the time being.

Stocks didn't work, so he naturally thought of painting.

Influenced by the family education of his mother and uncle since childhood, Lu An has been interested in painting since he can remember, and he is quite talented. However, due to family reasons, he was unable to continue this hobby when he was young.

It wasn't until I became a university teacher and met a teacher majoring in art at the same school that I picked up this hobby again.

When he first proposed to learn painting from his friend, this is what his friend said to him: If you rely on this to make money, I advise you not to bother; if you want to improve the overall level of painting, then you learn from me.

Unexpectedly, he really became famous after learning this. When his friend's paintings were still priced at 20,000 to 30,000 a pair, he had already become better than his master. Don't ask if the unit price is less than 500,000.

Of course, learning to paint is a long process. It took him 20 years to achieve this achievement without any shortage of money.

It is precisely because he is knowledgeable about painting that he deeply understands how deep the water in this industry is.

Let’s put it this way, whether a painter’s paintings are valuable or not depends on two basic points.

One is the level of painting.

The second is fame.

Especially the second point is crucial. If the painter is not famous, no matter how high his skill is, it will be difficult to sell it at a good price, or even not sell it at all.

In other words, art is generally promoted by the bosses in the circle. If the bosses say your painting is good, it will be valuable. If the bosses say it is not good, it will not be valuable. If you hold an art exhibition without the support of the bosses, you will not be famous, and you will not be able to pay for it at your own expense.

In his previous life, he was able to rise rapidly in this industry. In addition to his own difficulties, he also met noble people.

When his thoughts came to this, Lu An was instantly frustrated. Now let alone fame, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford the most common expenses of paper and pen.

He had a lot of skills, but he couldn't get any cash. The more he thought about it, the more bored he became, as if he was drowning in water, so bored that he couldn't breathe.

What should we do?

Is it really like Lu Xueping, who is not stingy, relying on this face that makes women unable to close their legs to make a living?

"Dong dong dong!"

Just as he was lying there feeling melancholy, there was a knock on the door outside the yard.

"Dong dong dong! Luan, open the door."

This is, this is Meng Qingchi's voice. The confused Lu An realized it at this time and hurriedly got out of bed and walked out.

After leaving the main room and crossing the yard, Lu An grabbed the latch of the crossbar and pulled it aside. With a "squeak" sound, he opened the door.

At this time, Meng Qingchi was standing outside the door, wearing a small green floral dress, with a soft face, a pair of sleeping phoenix eyes, and an oval face, like a woman in an ancient painting.

This is a very beautiful woman. According to the original words of matchmaker Wu at No. 3 Guifei Lane, Meng Qingchi's character and beauty can marry a provincial cadre.

Carrying a woven bag and walking into the yard, her thin transparent high-heeled sandals made a soft clicking sound on the stone slabs. Meng Qingchi looked around in the yard, and for a while, the wind was quiet and the flowers were fragrant.

This scene is an autumn memory that will forever linger with Lu Ann.

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