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Chapter 198

In the evening, Wang Qiang came to the front yard.

"Auntie, is Li Lang at home?"

"Here. Li Lang, Wang Qiang is looking for you."

Li Lang, who came out of the room, looked at Wang Qiang curiously.

He and Wang Qiang haven't spoken to each other since the last educated youth gathering.He didn't expect that Wang Qiang would take the initiative to find him now.

"Wang Qiang, is there something wrong?"

Li Lang's expression showed no joy, embarrassment or resistance, just like facing an ordinary neighbor.

"Li Lang, I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Okay, let's talk outside."

After the two walked out of the courtyard, Wang Qiang said, "Walk with me?"

"Row."

The two of them walked casually on the street.

Wang Qiang glanced at Li Lang, and said with a straight face, "Li Lang, what kind of relationship do we have now?"

Li Lang replied naturally: "Classmates, neighbors."

Wang Qiang glanced at him again, with a little emotion in her eyes: "Okay, I will tell you a piece of news as a classmate or neighbor. Our country is about to resume the college entrance examination. I hope you can sign up for it."

As if afraid of Li Lang's misunderstanding, Wang Qiang immediately said: "I don't have other ideas. It's just because I know you are talented and I appreciate you. I don't want your talent to be wasted like this. I think you should find A stage that belongs to you."

Li Lang blurted out: "Thank you. However, going to university is not the path I want to take. I won't sign up."

Li Lang told Cheng Qianli that he would sign up, but that was just teasing Cheng Qianli.

Whether it is learning knowledge or a diploma, it is not necessary for him from the 21st century, and he does not want to be an official.

The reform and opening up is coming soon, and his life journey is in the business world.

Wang Qiang turned her head sideways and looked at Li Lang for a full three seconds, with a look of hatred in her eyes.

Her voice couldn't help but raise a little: "For us, going to college is the best opportunity to change your life. You don't want to go this way, do you still want to continue collecting your junk? This is the way you want to go ?”

Li Lang stopped, and Wang Qiang also stopped.

He looked at her who was looking at him, with a complicated smile on his face, and said in a calm tone: "Wang Qiang, what is your purpose for looking for me?"

Seeing the disgusting smile towards Li Lang, Wang Qiang became agitated: "Purpose? Of course I'm doing it for your own good. I hope you will be successful in the future. I don't want you to do nothing like this again."

Li Lang nodded, still smiling and said: "Well, so, you are here to persuade me, right?"

"Correct."

"However, as soon as you hear that I don't think according to your thinking and don't agree with your ideas, you want to force your ideas into my brain. Are you persuading me?"

Li Lang thought of helping Potty Hou and Hou Su'e to reconcile the father and daughter who had hated each other for many years.He felt that even if he and Wang Qiang were not lovers, they would not become enemies.

He remembered the sentence he said to Poor Hou: To be a person under Zhengyangmen, you must do things under Zhengyangmen.

A man under the Zhengyang sect should be more magnanimous.

Li Lang suddenly stretched out his right hand, put it on Wang Qiang's shoulder, and looked at her face.

Wang Qiang's body stiffened suddenly, her eyes flickered, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, but immediately her face turned serious again.

"Wang Qiang, anyway, thank you for coming to tell me the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination. I have my own ideas and pursuits, so you don't need to persuade me anymore. You work hard, I know you will be able to enter the university. "

Li Lang patted Wang Qiang's shoulder lightly and let go.

That's it?

Wang Qiang looked at him with extremely complicated eyes: "Why can't you listen to my persuasion once? I say so much, it's all for your own good."

Li Lang asked back: "Why can't you trust me, even once."

These words immediately hurt Wang Qiang.It reminded her of the educated youth party, the scene when she left.

She said angrily: "Could it be that you are willing to accept the rags of a lifetime? Do you just want to waste your time like this? Do you just want to accomplish nothing and be looked down upon by others?"

Li Lang held his forehead, feeling a headache.

coming.She is coming.Came sick with her princess.

As a traveler who knows the future trend, Li Lang understands that there is an obvious information gap between him and Wang Qiang.

Therefore, he can't blame her entirely for having such thoughts.

Li Lang said as calmly as possible: "The choice I made may not be understandable to you now, but you will understand in the future. Let's go, see you later."

"Li Lang, stop for me."

Knowing that his temper was not very good, Li Lang didn't want to continue talking, and the two quarreled again, so they wanted to end the conversation quickly.

But Wang Qiang refused to let him go.

"Li Lang, during this time, I have thought a lot about the things between us."

"At the educated youth gathering, you said that we have come to this point because I don't trust you enough."

"But now I want to ask you, are you honest enough with me? You don't tell me many things, how can you let me believe you?"

"You said before that I didn't ask you why, but I will give you a chance now, tell me why you don't want to take the college entrance examination, why you want to collect trash."

"As long as you can tell a reason, I will, I will apologize to you."

Wang Qiang seemed to muster up a lot of courage before saying the word "apology".Li Lang didn't know what to say for a moment.

The purpose of collecting tatters is to collect antiques.But in this era, playing with antiques is playing with things and losing one's ambitions, and it is not doing business properly.

can not say.

Why not take the college entrance examination?
Because the reform and opening up is about to begin, individuals can do business by then.And doing business is the best opportunity for ordinary people in this era to change their destiny.

But how did you, Li Lang, know?
Guess.

How do you know you guessed right?Are you crazy to place fate on an unfounded guess?
I'm a time traveler... Come on.Still can't say.

Li Lang, who had always been calm and composed, was a little embarrassed in front of Wang Qiang for the first time.

"Would you believe me if I said that I was struck by lightning one day and could suddenly predict the future?"

Wang Qiang wanted to laugh and get angry at the same time, and finally suppressed her emotions: "I think your head was caught by the door."

"Just kidding. Well, I'll just tell you."

"Throughout history, no matter which dynasty, after the country is stable, it is necessary to promote commercial development for the sake of people's livelihood."

"Taking history as a mirror, now that our country has stabilized, the next step should be to vigorously develop the economy, and even encourage individuals to do business..."

Wang Qiang was anxious, and said in a low voice: "You are crazy. You dare to say such a thing. You are capitalist thinking, and if people hear it, big things will happen."

"Even if the country vigorously develops the economy, don't we personally have to go to work? Enterprises belong to the country."

Li Lang: "History can tell us a lot. Let me ask you, during the Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China, when the economic strength was the strongest, were individuals allowed to do business?"

Wang Qiang said angrily, "My historical knowledge is not as good as yours, so I don't know."

Li Lang: "The answer is yes. I'm betting. I'm betting that in the near future, the state will allow individuals to..."

Seeing that Wang Qiang almost rushed over to cover her mouth in a hurry, Li Lang mouthed the word "business".

"Using your own future and destiny to gamble on an empty chance, you are crazy. Besides, what does this have to do with whether you take the college entrance examination or not, and whether you collect trash?"

"Of course. Many people look down on me for collecting rags, but with my current income, I really look down on them. I'm laying the foundation for future business."

"Moreover, I am a self-employed self-employed worker, and I am honored to have contributed to the country's employment difficulties."

"You are such a talented person, it's an honor for you to collect trash? So what if you make a little more money by collecting trash? I can't see you like this. You look complacent while not doing your job properly. I don't know what it means."

Yes, Comrade Wang Qiang had another attack.

Li Lang looked at Wang Qiang with a serious face: "Are you here to persuade me? Or are you here to quarrel with me? If you want to quarrel, I have to remind you, three of you can't quarrel with me."

Wang Qiang's face was rounded by Li Lang's anger.

"I shouldn't have come to you. Li Lang, just do it, and be careful to put yourself in prison. If I care about you in the future, my surname will not be Su."

Li Lang said calmly, "You know what? When you're angry, you're like a hag."

"roll."

Wang Qiang obviously told Li Lang to get out, but in the end she was so angry that she got out first.

I don't know if she was angry at Li Lang, or at herself...

Li Lang looked at her back, shook his head helplessly and sighed.

He wanted to be a magnanimous man from the Zhengyang sect, and become a friendly neighbor with Wang Qiang, but Comrade Wang Qiang's strength would not allow it.

Li Lang suddenly remembered Tang Bohu's "Song of Peach Blossom Temple".

"People laugh at me too crazy, I can't see through laughing at others."

Wang Qiang?Just let her go with the wind...

The communication between Wang Qiang and Li Lang ended in failure again.

She knew very well in her heart that if she was admitted to university, the distance between her and Li Lang would be even further.

Running home, Wang Qiang, who shut herself in the room and was sulking, had a thought in her heart: Maybe, the love between Li Lang and love, kindness or resentment, that's all for now... right?

……

On October 1977, 10, the state-run media published an editorial titled "Doing a Good Job in College Enrollment Is the Hope of the People of the Whole Country," reporting important news about the resumption of the college entrance examination.

This has greatly mobilized the learning enthusiasm of the majority of young people, forming a reading climax that has never been seen in more than ten years.

In order to study with peace of mind, Cheng Qianli asked for a month's leave from work, and moved out of the courtyard to live with relatives.

Although he is not in the courtyard, whenever he thinks that Li Lang will also take the college entrance examination, he is very irritable.

The girl he likes just likes Li Lang.

He can play the piano, and wants to make a splash in front of a group of old classmates and educated youths, especially in front of Wang Qiang. Who knows that Li Lang can also play the piano, and his level is much higher than his.And slapped him hard in the face.

He felt that he was obviously better than Li Lang, so why did Li Lang make more money than him?

Before the fight touched Li Lang's clothes, he was beaten to the ground.

Now, Li Lang has actually become his competitor in the university entrance examination.

"Li Lang, I'm not finished with you. I will definitely trample you under my feet and crush you to death."

The name Li Lang became Cheng Qianli's heart demon.

……

One month later, about 570 million young people across the country took part in the college entrance examination, and colleges and universities selected 27.3 students from them.

The acceptance rate was only 4.8%.

Wang Qiang in the courtyard has become a member of this [-]%.The Su family toasted at home to celebrate Wang Qiang's admission to normal university.

As for Cheng Qianli's house, the atmosphere was depressing.Cheng Qianli failed the ranking.

Cheng Qianli's father: "I told you earlier that there are many people taking the college entrance examination, you must take some snacks. But what about you?"

Cheng Qianli's face was terribly gloomy.

He thought that in the past month, he hadn't been able to calm down and study because of Li Lang.He remembered this grudge in his heart.Li Lang really didn't know that his negative influence on Cheng Qianli was so deep that he became his demon.

In this small courtyard, because of the college entrance examination, some people like it and others worry about it.

Li Lang didn't care about these things at all, he was fighting wits and courage with Poor Hou.

It turned out that both of them had heard the news that the wall of Wang's courtyard near Dashilan had collapsed due to disrepair.

The Wang family found a copper unicorn from the broken wall, which was not too small and weighed more than ten catties.

Qilin has been known as an auspicious beast since ancient times, and it is often used as a town house.

The Wang family has experienced the influence of the previous years, and they don't believe in Fengshui or town houses. They plan to sell the copper unicorn and buy meat for some money.

Poor Hou and Li Lang came to Wang's house one after another.As soon as the two met, the atmosphere was tense.

Poor Hou is also a wonderful person, he can give Li Lang the incomparably precious box written by Qianlong himself with a wave of his hand.

But when collecting antiques, once they met Li Lang, they would not give in, and they would face each other sharply.

The two had fought several times, with each winning and losing, and Li Lang won a little more.

The two of them pretended to be spectators and whispered to each other.

"Boy, I've always wanted to accept a unicorn, this time you let me, next time I won't fight with you, how about it?"

"Your family clearly has a pair of unicorns from the early Qing Dynasty. Your play is fake. Judging from the style of this unicorn, it is likely to be from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. If you are tempted, I am also tempted. Everyone depends on their own abilities."

Tattered Hou's acting was seen through, but his face didn't blush and his heart didn't beat. He said calmly: "If you let me this time, I will take you to the market tonight. I guarantee that your harvest will be much bigger than this unicorn."

"What market?"

"You can understand it as a ghost market. There are many good things. You can figure it out."

"Ghost market? Didn't it disappear during the turmoil a few years ago?"

"It's not the ghost market like before... Don't talk nonsense, make a decision quickly."

"promise you."

……

Without Li Lang's intervention, Poorhou could easily buy the copper unicorn at a low price.

Li Lang followed him to Potty Hou's house, and listened to Potty Hou talking about the market.

"Those who worked in the puppet government before did not end well in the previous ten years. Many people did not survive."

"Their family members, because of their bad background, can't find a decent job now. Many people, like me, make a living by picking up junk."

"Some people couldn't bear it anymore, so they exchanged some old objects hidden at home for money, food stamps and meat tickets."

(End of this chapter)