March 1979 was an ordinary day for ordinary people. Although the Spring Festival had passed, there were still a few snowflakes in the drizzle.
Snowflakes come and go without a trace, often turning into snow water before they even hit the ground, nourishing the land of the Loess Plateau.
In such weather, there were not many pedestrians on the city streets. Unless they are going to work, everyone would rather stay at home than go out to the rain and cold. Such a small county town seems to have lost its former vitality at this time, just like the weather at this time is as bleak.
However, a high school in Yangping County was extremely busy at this moment.
The reason for the excitement in the school is not complicated. get out of class has ended and it is lunch time.
As soon as the doors of the classes of each grade in the school were opened, a large number of male and female student dolls ran out in a chaotic manner. They talked and laughed and ran through mud and water to the school cafeteria. Because it was raining, the originally dry and flat loess soil was instantly trampled into a mudflat by the chaotic crowd.
At the entrance of the cafeteria on campus, there are now more than a dozen lines lined up according to classes.
Judging from the dark crowd in the queue, most of them come from rural areas, and their faces and bodies have more or less traces of manual labor. Except for a few families who are really in need and whose clothes are very rustic, most of the 'scholars' are fairly well-dressed.
Although most people in poor rural areas currently have little food and clothing, since their children go to big places to study, parents have to give them some clothes that they can wear to meet people even though they are suffering.
Of course, there are a few in this team who are very well-dressed, not to mention their clothes. Just looking at the shiny watches on their hands, you can tell that their living conditions are not comparable to those of ordinary farm children. These students have good living conditions, good nutrition, and are well-dressed. Standing among the children of farmers, they stand out from the crowd. The gap is huge.
The waiter in the cafeteria is busy distributing meals to everyone. Everyone's meals were registered and paid for yesterday, so the procedure is not complicated.
Due to limited conditions, from a modern perspective, the food in the cafeteria is not very appetizing. Even in the school cafeteria, the dishes are still mainly potatoes, cabbage and vermicelli, with some sliced meat here and there, and each portion costs 30 cents.
It is still the beginning of spring, and the school has the conditions to cook good meals. A few months ago, the students only ate meals with clear soup and little water, and there was not much oily smell.
At this time, only students from urban families could afford to use lunch boxes. Most of the children from farm families were carrying lunch boxes, but in fact it was not an exaggeration to say they were washbasins.
As for the staple food, it is divided into three categories, namely white flour steamed buns, corn flour steamed buns and black multi-grain steamed buns; white, yellow and black, the color shows a difference; students jokingly call them Europe, Asia and Africa.
"Auntie, give me two multigrain steamed buns."
Jiang Yulou held a bowl in one hand and talked to the rice cook in front of him with a smile.
The cook looked at the boy in front of her with a complicated expression and sighed: "You are still a young man who is still growing up. You only eat two multi-grain steamed buns every day. Can you be full?"
Jiang Yulou didn't answer, just touched his nose and smiled honestly.
After finishing his meal, Jiang Yulou found a seat in the cafeteria and sat down.
Looking at the food in front of him, his nose felt sour and he almost cried.
It had been several days since he was reborn, but he still hadn't fully adapted to his current life.
No one understands the hardships of this era better than him. He had already retired before his rebirth. It was still very troublesome for the soul of an old man to pretend to be a young man.
In his previous life, he graduated from a county high school and was assigned to teach in a county primary school after graduation.
It's a pity that his score in the college entrance examination was not high and he was unable to go to university. If he had successfully passed the exam and got a college diploma, he would have been able to fly to the branch.
And the woman he loves most...
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.
In his previous life, Jiang Yulou always felt that his talents were not appreciated, and he liked to read all kinds of books, such as literary magazines, domestic and foreign novels, etc.
It can be said that most of his salary is spent on this.
After working for only a few years, he got married through someone's introduction.
There was no relationship between the two after the marriage. After the second year of marriage, the elementary school was closed and he lost his job. Conflict broke out between the couple and his wife even abandoned him and ran away with someone else.
This also became a pain in his heart.
He did not marry again for many years.
Firstly, he still had his first love in his heart, and secondly, it was also because he was completely disappointed in the marriage.
After giving up on love, he jumped into the big wave and started working in the publishing industry, where he also prospered.
Before his rebirth, he was already a famous book dealer in China.
There is no shortage of money, and there is no shortage of women.
However, who would have thought that he would return to this turbulent time.
In this era, let alone a wealthy life, having enough to eat is a luxury.
Jiang Yulou's family conditions are very poor, and it is really difficult to go to this school. Youngsters like him, who are seventeen or eighteen years old, are at the age where they can eat and drink. But he could only eat two multigrain steamed buns per meal.
This is not a place where people will be over-nourished a few decades from now and occasionally eat cereals for a change. This multigrain steamed bun really has no nutrition, and it's so hard that it makes your throat ache if you swallow it.
When he first traveled through time, he really couldn't eat. After all, his appetite had been whetted by the delicacies of later generations, but after two hungry meals...it tasted so good!
It’s just that I can’t get enough of these two multigrain black steamed buns.
Based on his appetite, he needs at least four or five of these black guys in one meal. Now this little bit of eating is just about not starving people to death.
To be honest, the food he is eating now has no oil or water at all, and he is already severely malnourished.
Rural students these days only have half a day to study in school. The rest of the time is either spent on the road or going home to farm.
The daily work is unshakable, from the time I return home after eating to having dinner. This period of time was the most difficult for Jiang Yulou. Until it was time to eat, all he felt was that his eyes were dazzled, his world was spinning, and his thoughts were completely gone. He could only pick up the chopsticks to eat with difficulty and mechanically.
I’m really half-educated and half-farmer.
Life is almost crushing him, and he has no time to plan for the future.
It is really not easy for the family to allow a junior student like him to go to high school in the county town without earning a living. In order to let him go to school, the eldest brother didn't even take the junior high school entrance examination. He went home to work in farming at the age of thirteen. How could he have any additional demands on them now?
My parents are over 50 years old, with old arms and legs, and cannot earn a few work points. As he grows older, his food and clothing expenses increase, and the cost of attending high school is not small.
While Jiang Yulou was eating multigrain steamed buns like chewing wax, a newspaper on the tabletop caught his attention.
