Reborn in 1977

In the following days, Chen Fan went to the library every day, focusing on European history, religion, theology, and social customs.

Coincidentally, Professor Xu had given him a reading list with many books on European general history, philosophy, literature, and language, which he studied together to enrich the outline of the Western fantasy novel's social background.

He arrived on July 9th, spent a week finding a teacher for Liu Lu, and after waiting for him to finish researching, it was unknowingly the end of July.

During this time, besides researching, he spent the rest of his time at home, being lovey-dovey with his girlfriend.

To accompany him, Jiang Lili ran home from school every two or three days. It was only because it was summer vacation and she didn't have to attend classes or do experiments all day that she had this free time; otherwise, she wouldn't have had the chance to run back.

She just had to be especially careful to avoid her sister, and definitely couldn't let her find out, otherwise she would definitely tell her parents, and it would be completely over!

However, this kind of sneaky life made her feel a little excited, and she would be especially happy whenever they were the only two at home.

Ahem, it's not like they exercised every time; overexertion is not good for the body.

More often, the two of them snuggled together, Chen Fan holding a book and flipping through it, while Jiang Lili leaned on him, enjoying the rare time alone.

Chen Fan had incorporated his Kung Fu into his body, not to say he was immune to heat and cold, but it was not far off; even in the hot weather, hugging together, he rarely sweated.

Jiang Lili couldn't do it; even with an electric fan blowing next to her, she would soon break out in a sweat.

This point made Chen Fan admire her.

Although it is said that fragrant sweat makes the shirt cool, and a cool shirt makes the sweat fragrant, he felt that he couldn't bear to be hot and not let go.

… …

July 27th, Thursday.

Chen Fan finished reading the last page, put down the book, and stretched, "Finally finished reading."

Jiang Lili took the book from his hand and placed it on top of a pile of books on the table, all of which Chen Fan had borrowed from the library these days.

He went to the library almost every other day to return and borrow books. In about ten days, he had read more than a hundred books, covering all aspects of European society.

After arranging the books neatly, Jiang Lili asked curiously, "You read ten books a day, is it useful?"

Chen Fan put his arm around her shoulder and smiled, "I only pick out useful things from these books, I don't have to memorize all these books, of course it's fast. I read books during the day, and at night I copy the selected points into the computer, at most it's just organizing information, you can do it too."

This sentence was used to deal with his girlfriend. He can now basically achieve photographic memory. As long as he reads it a few more times, he can repeatedly deepen his memory and help him understand.

But it's not good to tell others about this kind of thing.

Although every now and then someone with a super memory pops up from somewhere, he doesn't want to be in the limelight, so naturally it's better to be steady.

Otherwise, in two years, he will be regarded as a Qigong master, and someone will ask him to go out to perform, that would be embarrassing.

As soon as he said it, Jiang Lili believed it, her eyes full of anticipation, "Then can you write a new book tomorrow?"

Chen Fan shook his head, "Not yet, I have to organize these materials into a background description first, and then write a novel outline based on this background, and finally start writing a new book."

He deliberately raised his hand and calculated with his fingers, "If there are no accidents, it should be almost 10 days."

Jiang Lili's eyes rolled slightly, she hugged his arm tightly, grinned and said, "I remember you can write more than 10,000 words a day at most. You said it's faster to use a computer, so can you finish writing a new book before school starts?"

Chen Fan reached out and touched his head, messing up her hair, "Do you want to be the first reader of the new book?"

Jiang Lili nodded lightly, "Yeah."

Chen Fan pursed his lips, "I definitely have no problem."

After a pause, he sighed faintly, "I'm just afraid that someone will descend from the sky and cut in!"

Jiang Lili was stunned for a moment, blinked her eyes, and quickly reacted, "Cousin?"

Chen Fan snorted and laughed twice, "Saying she's a cousin, looking at her appearance, she's not as mature as a cousin. She's just a crazy girl. I think she won't let you."

Jiang Lili pouted, but before she could speak, she chuckled, "Cousin is really interesting. She's almost 20 years old, and she's still innocent and childish, almost like a little girl."

Chen Fan shook his head gently, "She is well protected, and her family is rich and carefree. If she changes to another situation, she won't have this kind of personality."

Jiang Lili pursed her lips, and immediately thought of herself, the smile on her face faded a little, but she still said, "This is her luck, this kind of personality is actually quite good, at least I like it very much."

Chen Fan tightened his arm around her, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, and smiled, "I still like you like this, gentle as an orchid, elegant as a chrysanthemum."

Jiang Lili's pretty face turned red immediately, and she leaned in his arms with a smile.

Just as the two were warming up, the doorbell rang suddenly.

Not only that, but there was also a loud shouting outside the door, "Old Chen, open the door, open the door quickly."

Chen Fan was quite surprised, and looked down at Jiang Lili, "Did you tell them?"

Jiang Lili shook her head immediately, "No."

After a pause, she explained, "Before school started, didn't you introduce Brother An to several careers that could both make money and develop relationships and increase qualifications? After school started, he started to implement them, and later he became very busy. Except for Sister Ying who has been here twice, Brother An has never been here once. I haven't seen them for two or three months, I don't know how they know you are in Shanghai."

Chen Fan patted her shoulder, waited for her to get up before standing up, and said with a smile, "It's normal for Lao An not to come, it's not normal if he comes. Let's go, let's go down."

Before he could turn around, the voice outside the door rang again, "Old Chen, Old Chen, don't play dead, I know you're inside, open the door, open the door quickly, … …"

Chen Fan poked his head out of the window unhappily, "Calling for souls, here it comes, wait."

The two went downstairs, Jiang Lili turned around and went to the kitchen, while Chen Fan went outside to open the door.

As soon as he opened the small door, An Quan's big pancake face leaned in, still looking around, "In broad daylight, calling you and you don't respond, what are you doing?"

Chen Fan rolled his eyes, then his pupils shrank, and he smiled at Yu Keying, "Sister Ying, looking at you like this, are you pregnant?"

Yu Keying walked in holding the iron door with one hand, and holding her slightly bulging belly with the other, with an unstoppable smile on her face, "Just 4 months, the expected date of delivery is at the end of the year."

Chen Fan laughed heartily, turned his head to look at An Quan, and gave a thumbs up, "Brother An, awesome!"

An Quan proudly put his hands on his hips, his forehead raised high, "That's right."

He was really proud. He bought a house and went to college this year, and he was doing well in school. He took a ride on the bandwagon and earned a lot of money, both openly and secretly.

The most important thing is that he finally dared to have a child this year, and he had it as soon as he wanted it, without any delay. He can definitely be regarded as a winner in life.

Yu Keying walked in and saw the van parked in the shade of the tree on the side at first glance, and couldn't help but be curious, "Is this the van you designed?"

Chen Fan nodded and smiled, "Did Lili tell you? This car was also launched this month. The Shanghai Writers Association wanted to buy a few, so I bought one by the way and registered it under their unit's name, but I'm actually using it myself."

The smile on An Quan's face froze suddenly, "This is your car?"

He walked over and looked at the car window, turned his head and asked, "How much did it cost to buy?"

Chen Fan gestured, "Not expensive. Eighteen thousand."

An Quan's face visibly darkened, "Damn, I worked hard day and night for half a year, and only earned more than 10,000 yuan. You actually spent 18,000 yuan to buy a car?"

Before Chen Fan could speak, Yu Keying glared at him, "Are you not convinced or what? Don't you know that Xiaofan spent 30,000 yuan to buy this bungalow?"

An Quan's shoulders slumped, and he said helplessly, "Are houses and cars the same? !"

He turned his head and went to look at the car again, muttering in his heart, I really want it!

This car must be able to hold a lot of goods.

At this time, Jiang Lili walked out of the door and shouted with a smile, "Aren't you all coming in?"

Yu Keying immediately walked over quickly, "Here it comes, here it comes. Lili, I miss you so much."

Jiang Lili also saw her slightly bulging belly, and quickly greeted her, took her hand, "Sister Ying, are you pregnant?"

The two women talked and entered the house, Chen Fan shook his head at An Quan, "Let's go in. You can't drive anyway, it's useless to look at it."

An Quan raised his eyebrows slightly, "I'm going to learn to drive tomorrow!"

Chen Fan stepped inside and looked at him in surprise, "Do you have connections to learn to drive?"

There are no driving schools now, learning to drive a car can only wait for the unit to allocate quotas. Can a student like him get a learning quota?

An Quan took two quick steps to his side, grabbed his arm, and said in a low voice, "Guess what my school does?"

Chen Fan rolled his eyes slightly, "Does your school still have a relationship with the automobile unit?"

An Quan's university is Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Needless to say, most of the majors in this school are related to transportation.

For example, there are majors related to transportation tools such as airplanes, trains, cars, and ships.

But that was before.

In the early days of the founding of the country, in order to coordinate resources, many adjustments were made to the majors of many schools.

Among them, Shanghai Jiao Tong University received the College of Science of National Jinan University, the Department of Aeronautics of Zhejiang University, the Department of Aeronautics of Nanjing University, and the Department of Civil Engineering of Fudan University.

Then, the Department of Shipping Management of the School of Management was split off and merged into Shanghai Maritime College, which was later merged into Dalian Maritime College, which is now Dalian Maritime University.

After that, the Department of Transportation Management of the School of Management was merged into Northern Jiaotong University, the Department of Financial Management was merged into Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, which later became Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and the Department of Textile was merged into East China Institute of Textile Technology, um, which is the school Jiang Lili is currently attending.

The automobile-related majors had already been merged into Changchun Automobile Tractor Institute in 1954, so Shanghai Jiao Tong University at this time did not have any majors directly related to automobiles. However, out of management needs, some finance and economics majors were restored.

If there is anything that can be related to automobiles, it is that students majoring in mechanical engineering can also work in automobile factories.

Chen Fan looked at An Quan, "So you got in touch with the mechanical engineering department?"

An Quan snorted pretentiously, "What do you mean 'got in touch'? I am also a popular figure in the school, okay? I can even speak in front of the school leaders."

Shoes off, enter the door, sit down.

Jiang Lili served two bowls of mung bean soup and placed them on the table, "This was cooked this morning, have some to cool off."

Then she smiled at Yu Keying, "Sister Ying, I didn't know you were pregnant, I'll go to the kitchen to heat it up for you."

Chen Fan waved his hand while sitting aside, "It's okay to drink a little."

Then he beckoned to Yu Keying, "Sister Ying, let me take your pulse."

Yu Keying did not hesitate and directly stretched out her hand. Chen Fan placed his fingers on her wrist, and after a few seconds, he signaled her to take it back and smiled, "It's okay, very healthy, you can drink a little."

Jiang Lili then served another bowl and placed it in front of her.

An Quan picked up the bowl of soup and asked in surprise, "When did you buy a refrigerator? Who gave you the ticket?"

Old Chen's connections are in the Jiangnan Writers Association, even if he is capable, he can't intercept other people's refrigerator tickets in Shanghai, right?

You must know that refrigerators are scarce goods now, and the supply really can't meet the demand. If the supply is not increased, it will take at least three to five years to buy a refrigerator.

Chen Fan leaned on the back of the chair, shaking his legs triumphantly, "What ticket do you need? Just take the Overseas Chinese Remittance Certificate and go directly to the foreign-related store to buy it."

Although most of the Overseas Chinese Remittance Certificates from the last time's royalties were exchanged, he still had more than a thousand yuan left in his hand.

A few days ago, seeing the two sisters sweating every day from the heat, he ran out and bought a refrigerator to freeze some cold drinks to cool off.

An Quan angrily drank a mouthful of mung bean soup, exhaled comfortably, then put down the bowl and sighed, "I thought that through this half-year of hard work, I could catch up a little bit, but you are already using Overseas Chinese Remittance Certificates. Why did Quan and Fan both have to be born!"

Chen Fan slowly took a sip of the soup and immediately corrected him, "The surname He has nothing to do with me."

An Quan was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, he couldn't help but laugh and cry, "What a mess."

Yu Keying also understood what Chen Fan meant at this time, and almost spat out a mouthful of mung bean soup. She took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth and shouted at Jiang Lili, "Control your man."

Jiang Lili raised her hand with a smile, "I can't control him."

Yu Keying shook her head helplessly, "You, you are completely eaten by him, you will suffer a big loss sooner or later."

Jiang Lili turned to look at Chen Fan, her eyes full of love, "Then I am willing."

Yu Keying raised her hands to surrender, then stood up holding the sofa armrest, "Forget it, don't talk about this, it's annoying to hear. Let's go, take me to the study, see if you have bought any good things."

Jiang Lili immediately got up to support her and walked upstairs together, "Sister Ying, you came at the right time today, there really are good things, have you ever seen a personal computer? There is one in Xiaofan's room."

Yu Keying's face was full of surprise, "Computer? Aren't those things very big? Can a room fit one?"

After the two women went upstairs, An Quan took out a cigarette, threw one to Chen Fan, put one in his mouth, lit it and took a hard puff, "Since she became pregnant, I have to avoid smoking, saying that the smoke is not good for adults and children, it's killing me."

Chen Fan took out a lighter to light it, looked at him and smiled, "This is called a sweet burden."

An Quan shook his head and smiled, "It really is, worthy of being a great writer, the expression is different."

He took two more puffs before slowing down and said with a smile, "This morning I went to the Literary Publishing House to discuss helping to guide the publication of the school magazine. I happened to meet your sister-in-law and heard that you came to Shanghai, so I brought Keying over to see you."

Saying that, he pointed at Chen Fan, "You are also a friend who forgets friends when you see beauty. You came and didn't say a word, I had to come to your door in person."

Chen Fan flicked the ash and smiled, "I heard Lili say that you are busy all day long, how can I bother you for no reason? Wouldn't that delay your progress?"

"What progress."

An Quan shook his head and said to him, "I just make a little money, compared to you, it's not worth mentioning."

After a pause, he said with a light smile, "But don't say, the few suggestions you gave me before the start of school, after the start of school, I immediately wrote a report and submitted it, and soon got the support of the school leaders. During this time, it can be considered as slowly opening up the situation and developing."

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Oh? Sounds not bad?"

The corners of An Quan's mouth grew wider and wider, "It's okay. When I first entered school, the student loan system had not been officially implemented, and some poor students had problems with their lives. My report was submitted and quickly received the attention of the school leaders. Work-study programs and cooperative sideline societies with Chongming Island farms were quickly implemented."

He turned to look at Chen Fan, smiling from ear to ear, "These projects quickly helped those students solve their livelihood problems, and I am also qualified to participate because I am the leader.

I followed your method and found a few returned educated youths who had no jobs to cooperate with. I purchased goods from the sideline society at a low price, and then added a little money to wholesale them to those educated youths, and let them take the letters of introduction from the street office to sell in crowded places such as docks and stations. After a few months, I also saved a lot of money, and finally I don't have to worry about money anymore."

The student loan, which is almost well-known in later generations, that is, going to college without spending money and getting money, was not universally implemented at the beginning.

The resumption of the college entrance examination last year was too hasty, and in the previous regulations on student loans, because the admitted students tended to be workers and farmers, they could receive wages from their original units. In fact, a large part of them were not eligible to receive student loans, and only a very small number could receive student loans.

In this way, among the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, those who needed help did not receive the help of student loans in time.

It was not until the second half of this year, that is, when the students of the Class of '78 entered school, that student loans were restored in a timely manner, basically covering 70-80% of the students. Even so, there were highs and lows, and it was not completely the same.

As for the remaining 20-30%, either they were paid to go to work, that is, they originally had a unit, belonged to on-the-job employees, and their wages were paid by the original unit, so naturally they did not need student loans.

The last part was those with better family conditions, such as parents who were employees or even cadres, who were not subject to student loans.

In this case, there will be poor students in An Quan's mouth who cannot even guarantee their lives.

And the school has the obligation to help poor students. At this time, An Quan submitted a work-study report, and the school set up the stage, and the students sang the opera on their own, which was naturally supported very smoothly.

Chen Fan was not interested in these, but asked curiously, "How much did you earn?"

An Quan glanced at him, spit out a puff of smoke lightly, but did not hide it, "Less than 5 months, I only earned more than 10,000, and I still can't afford your van."

Chen Fan put the cigarette in his mouth, raised his hand and clapped lightly, "Not bad, Lao An, on average, it's 100 a day, a monthly salary of 3,000, enough to be a white-collar worker."

The standard for white-collar workers around 2000 was only a monthly salary of 3,000. Lao An can be considered 20 years ahead of the times.