Dressed until the male god was young

The impact of Zhou Jiayu at this moment on Lu Ning is so great that it dilutes his astonishment about time travel.

"Ningning, it's time to eat!"

Just when he was facing the window and the wind was turbulent, the female voice that had just sounded in the back room came from behind again, this time accompanied by footsteps.

Lu Ning turned his head, and saw a middle-aged woman with a gentle and beautiful appearance, coming out with two plates of dishes, followed by a tall, thick, dark man with bowls and chopsticks.

The two came to this small living room from the inner room. The man took a folding square table next to the sofa and quickly opened it, placed it in the middle of the room, and dragged the three folding chairs against the wall to arrange it.

The woman put the food on the table and said, "Ningning, Mom made chicken soup and braised pork for you. You can eat more. You have only been here for more than a month, and you have lost weight. You just arrived at the new school. It's normal for the first monthly exam to be unsatisfactory, there must be an adaptation process, and don't put pressure on yourself."

The man smiled and nodded in agreement: "Your mother is right."

The woman's name is Song Chunmei, who is Lu Ning's biological mother, and the man is Lu Ning's stepfather, named Fang Zhigang.

Compared to him who became an orphan at the age of five or six, moved to the homes of his aunts and uncles, and grew up under the fence of others, this Lu Ning's life experience is not very good.He was born in a small town next to Yunjiang City. After his father died of illness a few years ago, his mother left him with his grandmother and came to Yunjiang to work and earn money.

When I was working as a temporary worker in the canteen of Yunjiang Machinery Factory, I was introduced to marry Fang Zhigang, a welder in the factory whose wife had died for many years.

After all, Yunjiang is the capital city of the province. Even though Yunjiang Machinery Factory is located in the urban-rural fringe, it is much easier than living in a small town.Originally, Song Chunmei had wanted to take her son over, but her son had been unwilling to leave his hometown until Grandma Lu Ning passed away a few months ago, and Lu Ning, who was underage, had to come to Yunjiang to live with his mother and stepfather.

This 17-year-old boy was originally introverted, but when he arrived in Yunjiang, no matter whether it was a new home or a new school, he was out of place and became more and more taciturn.

Song Chunmei is a simple woman from the countryside. She has been separated from her son for many years, and mother and son have grown very close. She has been at home for more than a month and has never even called her mother.She was afraid that she would not do well as a mother and make her son even more unhappy, so she was very cautious in front of Lu Ning.

As for Song Chunmei's current husband, Fang Zhigang, he has never been a father, he is honest and even dull, and he doesn't know how to get along with this stepson who obviously doesn't like her.

When the two were talking, one was white and the other black, with the same embarrassment written on them.

Lu Ning can feel that this little Lu Ning in the 90s does not reject his mother and stepfather, and can also feel that his mother and stepfather treat him well.It's just that I'm not used to the new environment, and because of my personality, I don't know how to get along with strangers, so I became this awkward way of getting along under the same roof.

And who is Lu Ning now?I was an orphan since I was a child, and I lived under the fence for many years. Although my uncles and aunts are good people, they are just ordinary working families after all. One more child is just one more burden. If I don’t complain about him at all in my heart, it must be a lie of.When he is old enough to live in school, he lives in school as long as he can. Even on weekends and holidays, he often stays in the dormitory under the pretext of studying at school.

Therefore, what he is best at is observing words and demeanor, making himself a child that the elders can rest assured and like.

In addition, the food on this table is really delicious, which makes him inexplicably feel the family warmth that has been missing for many years.

He bent his lips and smiled at his mother and stepfather, got up and walked to the table, and said, "It smells so good! I'm a little hungry."

Song Chunmei breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, and hurriedly filled a bowl of steaming white rice for her son, and placed it in front of him.

Lu Ning picked up the chopsticks, saw the couple still standing by the table, and said casually, "Mom Uncle Fang, you can eat too!"

Song Chunmei and Fang Zhigang smiled at each other as if flattered, and said in unison: "Well, we will eat too."

Song Chunmei filled the rice and sat down, put a piece of braised pork in Lu Ning's bowl, and said, "Ningning, look at the meat that mom cooked, is it delicious?"

Lu Ning unceremoniously picked up this piece of fat, thin, uniform and bright red pork belly, and put it in his mouth. I don't know if the pork meat of this era is more natural, or because his cheap mother's craftsmanship is too good, the meat is fat but not greasy. , delicious and soft, slightly sweet, melts in the mouth.

After Lu Ning made his own money, he had eaten a lot of good things, but he still felt that this was the best braised pork he had ever eaten.He praised without hesitation: "It's so delicious!"

Song Chunmei was overjoyed when she heard the words, and quickly picked up several chopstick dishes for him. Not to be outdone, Fang Zhigang brought a small bowl and filled him with a bowl of chicken soup.

Lu Ning looked at the hills of vegetables in his bowl, and felt warm and ironed in his heart, but couldn't help being a little funny: "Eat it yourself, don't worry about me."

With her simple wisdom and emotion, Song Chunmei felt that her son was opening his heart to her, her eyes were a little sore, she smiled and nodded, "Okay, okay."

Lu Ning took a few mouthfuls of food, and suddenly thought of the young man Zhou Jiayu who had given him a huge shock earlier. After thinking about it, he seemed to ask casually, "Mom, what did Zhou Jiayu do just now?"

It's rare for her son to take the initiative to talk to herself, so Song Chunmei naturally wanted to open up the chatterbox to him: "You said Jiayu, his family is two doors away from us, and he is less than two years older than you. This child's life is very hard. He Mom ran away with a Hong Kong boss a few years ago. His dad used to be a technician in the factory. Didn’t the factory reduce the number of workers in the past few years? Whether it is life or death, there are only Jiayu and two elderly people left in the family. At the beginning of last year, Jiayu's grandfather got cancer and spent more than half a year in the hospital. The money was spent like water. Jiayu looks muddled, but he is actually sensible My son, who finished his sophomore year in high school last year, came out to make money. Now he seems to be working with a big boss, and he earns his grandpa's medical expenses."

There are no secrets in Tongzilou.

Song Chunmei has only been in the machinery factory for three or four years, but the affairs of the neighbors and neighbors have long been clear.Zhou Jiayu's life experience was clearly described like a bean.

Hearing this, Lu Ning gave a slight pause to the wrist holding the chopsticks, and raised his head to ask, "You came out to make money after finishing your sophomore year in high school?"

Song Chunmei nodded and said, "I heard that Jiayu's grades were pretty good, right Lao Fang?"

Fang Zhigang, who was named, said in a hurry: "It seems to be pretty good. Originally, it should be no problem to get into a university."

Lu Ning frowned a pair of handsome eyebrows.

its not right!

Zhou Jiayu was indeed born in a poor family, but he is an outstanding student who graduated from the first school, Beijing University, and he is a well-deserved representative of the poor family.In interviews, the importance of learning is also always mentioned.Because of his own experience, he has been sponsoring poor students for many years. Those poor students like Lu Ning who received his sponsorship so that they can go to college smoothly need several thousand if not tens of thousands.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Ning has always regarded Beijing University as his goal in high school, but he accidentally caught a cold and had a fever during the college entrance examination, and finally failed in his performance and missed Beijing University.This is also one of his most regrettable things in the past twenty years.

How could Zhou Jiayu, who graduated from Peking University, be a dropout?

Seeing her son's frown, Song Chunmei thought it was because of his study, which touched the wound of his unsatisfactory monthly exam, and hurriedly said, "Ning Ning, you don't need to put too much pressure on yourself for college entrance examination. It's also good to take a college entrance examination at your own expense. Yes, your Uncle Song and I have saved money for you, so you don't have to worry."

"Yes, that's right," Fang Zhigang echoed repeatedly, "Self-financed colleges also include assignments. I see a lot of jobs assigned by self-funded colleges, which are similar to undergraduates."

Lu Ning grinned and said, "Mom, Uncle Song, you don't have to worry about my studies. I just transferred to another school and didn't get used to it. It doesn't matter if I fail a test. I don't feel pressured."

Song Chunmei thought about the night before yesterday, when she saw the report card of the first monthly exam of the third year of high school brought back by her son, she got No. 6 in the class.The son naturally knew very well that he had been depressed for the past two days.Now seeing him smiling and saying nothing, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "That's good, that's good."

Lu Ning took a sip of the delicious chicken soup, smacked his tongue in satisfaction, and said casually, "I will work hard to get into Beijing University."

"Ah?" Song Chunmei and Fang Zhigang looked at him with wide eyes.

"I said I'm trying to get into Peking University."

Song Chunmei hurriedly picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in his bowl, cleared her throat, and said with a sneer, "Ning Ning, for the college entrance examination, just do your best, don't push yourself too much."

It was only then that Lu Ning realized that this little Lu Ning came from an underdeveloped small town. Although his grades were good, he was only a general among the dwarfs in the small town.At Yunjiang Machinery Factory Junior High School, the number of students who are admitted to undergraduate courses every year can be counted on one hand. Occasionally, when a key undergraduate is awarded, the whole factory will beat gongs and drums to celebrate.For a top university like Peking University, this has never happened in the past ten years since the college entrance examination was resumed.

To Song Chunmei and Fang Zhigang, he said that he was going to be admitted to Beijing University, which was as unbelievable as hearing that he was going to heaven. They even suspected that because he failed the monthly exam, he was so stimulated that he lost his mind.

Lu Ning didn't want to say more, just smiled and said softly: "Mom, I know it well."

If it comes, it will be safe, time travel has become a reality, why not use this opportunity to make up for the regrets of the past.He had already missed out on Beijing University once, so of course he had to make good use of it this time and walk into Zhou Jiayu's alma mater in an open and honest manner.

only……

Thinking of Zhou Jiayu, he couldn't help frowning again.

The gentle and refined Zhou Jiayu was not only a ruffian in his youth, he even dropped out of high school after finishing his sophomore year.

Where the hell is going wrong?

In the age before computers and smartphones, the only entertainment in modern times is television.The Fang family is poor, and they still have a [-]-inch black and white TV.The installed cable TV can only receive less than ten TV stations.

After the meal, everyone washes up, and the family of three sits on the sofa and starts watching TV. This is a rare moment for hard-working people in this era to relax—of course, if they are made to cry by the sensational Qiong Yao drama, it is also considered relaxation.

Lu Ning watched the popular Qiong Yao drama "Grass by the Green River" on the black and white TV with a dull face. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Song Chunmei who was about to snot and tear, and Fang Zhigang who wiped his eyes from time to time.

This is really a simple and kind middle-aged couple.

Because Lu Ning's bed was in the living room, Song Chunmei and Fang Zhi had just finished watching two episodes of the TV series, before ten o'clock, they went back to the inner bedroom and gave him the small living room.

Although Lu Ning has already lived in a big house with his own efforts, he has rich experience in being the head of the department. When he was young, he went to the house of his uncle and aunt. Because there are not enough rooms, he mostly sleeps in the living room, and he doesn’t even have his own bed. , Every night, I temporarily make a bed on the sofa.

Sleeping on a clean and tidy single bed now is nothing special.

His mother, Song Chunmei, should be a virtuous woman who knows how to live. Not only does she cook well, but the quilt on her son's bed is also very clean and comfortable. Today is a sunny day.

The only thing that is not suitable is the layout of the room in this tube building, there are two rooms inside and outside, but because the balcony is connected to the inner room, and the toilet is separated from the balcony, Lu Ning has to go through Song Chunmei to go to the toilet. and Fang Zhigang's bedroom.

Although the couple hung a curtain at the end of the bed, it was still somewhat inconvenient.

He went to the toilet before going to bed, so he didn't dare to drink any more water, and planned to go to bed early.However, for the first time, even though he has accepted the fact that he has traveled through time, it is still difficult for him to calm down while lying in the soft bed.

For a while, he thought about his current identity, and for a while, he thought of the boy Zhou Jiayu he met in the evening.

He tossed and turned silently in the dark.The couple in the middle hadn't fallen asleep, probably because they didn't hear him anymore and thought they were asleep, so they started talking in a low voice.

There is a transom window on the wooden door separating the inside and outside, and the sound insulation effect is almost zero.There are no secrets between neighbors in Tongzilou, and there is no privacy in a small family.

Lu Ning didn't want to eavesdrop on the couple's pillow talk, but he was forced to hear it clearly.

"I heard from them that at the end of the year the factory will have a batch of unemployed lists coming out."

"Don't worry, even if I'm really laid off, I'll do more odd jobs at worst, and I will never let you and Ningning suffer with me."

"It's enough to have your words, now your salary plus my working money, life is no problem, but Ning Ningruo really can only be admitted to a self-financed college, that is a big expense, I have to pay more for him Save some. Now that you have a salary, you can save the money from setting up a stall at night. I am afraid that if you are on the waiting list in this batch of factories, if you lose your salary, it will not be so easy to find a part-time job in a short time."

"The efficiency of the factory is not good now, and layoffs will happen sooner or later, but I am the most skilled welder in the factory, and it may not be my turn in a while. Let's find a way out slowly, don't worry too much."

"Hey, in fact, we could have made some money from the stall at night, but the hooligans who were struck by lightning that day had to collect protection fees every three days, and less than half of the money they earned went into their pockets. Don't pay it, and make trouble every day. Can't do it."

"Yeah, no one cares."

The two spoke a few more words in a low voice, and gradually their voices disappeared. After a while, a low snore sounded.

Lu Ning stared at the dark ceiling with wide eyes. Because of the memory of little Lu Ning, he originally thought that this was a small family that was not rich but had a good life. Unexpectedly, the calm surface was facing the big family. crisis.

It is now 1992. Although the term laid-off has not been widely used, after the reform and opening up, state-owned enterprises with low efficiency and frequent triangular debts have to embark on the road of restructuring.In order to reduce the burden, state-owned enterprises began to reduce staff from the end of the 80s. At the beginning, they used the name of suspension without pay and waiting for work in the factory. In essence, they were laid off.It was not until two or three years later that the first round of layoffs officially hit, and the iron rice bowls of millions of state-owned enterprise workers were broken, and the word laid-off was seen everywhere.

Lu Ning had no concept of Yunjiang Machinery Factory. In the [-]s, almost every city had a few large state-owned factories like this, but in the later market economy, most of them were eliminated. According to the Zhou family As mentioned in the interview, this state-owned factory will close down in a few years.

The elimination of low-efficiency state-owned factories plays a vital role in the country's economic development, but for the vast number of laid-off workers, it is a disaster in life.When he was a child, he saw many laid-off workers who were so poor that their livelihood was a problem, and they even went to the vegetable market to pick up rotten leaves.

Now that Lu Ning's new home is about to face the crisis of being laid off, even if Fang Zhigang doesn't leave this time, he will lose his job sooner or later.

According to the information he now knows, Song Chunmei, who used to be a temporary worker in the canteen of the factory, was fired during the downsizing last year, and has been doing odd jobs everywhere since then. Recently, she worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant during the day and went to a nearby night market street at night Wonton stalls.

Lu Ning didn't know how her business was doing, but according to what she just said, the business was good at first, but there were hooligans collecting protection fees.

In today's era, the economy has just taken off, society is undergoing tremendous changes, law and order is far worse than in later generations, blind people can be seen everywhere, and local hooligans are a major scourge to society.

There is a crisis of layoffs, and protection fees are charged for setting up a stall. This honest and kind-hearted couple is facing financial problems.

But for Lu Ning, it is the early stage of the golden 30 years of economic development in the motherland. Not only is there gold everywhere, but there are business opportunities everywhere. A person like him who came from later generations knows too well which industry can make money.

Therefore, the problems that Song Chunmei and Fang Zhigang were worried about should not be a problem for him at all.

The author has something to say:

Lu Ning: I want to follow in the footsteps of Ouxiang to go to Peking University.

Idol; I dropped out of school~~ Manual pat

PS Gong will go to college, don't worry.