Quick Wear: Passerby A's Daily Life of Eating Watermelons

On October 1977, 10, the door to the college entrance examination was reopened.

Jiang Yue remembered that day, all the firecrackers in the city were sold out, and the good news excited the whole country.

Jiang Yue is already 23 years old. She only has a junior high school education and has not studied in these years, so she gave up the plan to take the college entrance examination. However, this does not mean that it has nothing to do with her. At this time, people looking for textbooks came to the recycling station following the smell. Jiang Yue was assigned by the stationmaster to be responsible for receiving these people.

Although there were new books available for purchase, there were too many people queuing and they could not buy them in a short time. Now there was not much time left before the college entrance examination and the children had no time to wait. Jiang Yue organized people to turn the pile of books upside down. After a whole day of searching, they finally found all the useful books. In fact, Jiang Yue had put a lot of books in there herself, and she had consciously collected them before. This was all the help she could provide.

After returning home, she learned another good news that her sister-in-law was successfully pregnant with their second child. Originally, they wanted to wait until the little one grew up a little before having a second child, but it happened so suddenly. Jiang Yue thought it was a good idea and waited for a few years until the family planning policy came into effect. It would have been quite troublesome to have a second child at that time.

After the reform and opening up in 1979, there were more street vendors on the streets. This was mainly because the children who had gone to the countryside to work had returned. There were not so many jobs for them at the moment, so many people quietly set up small stalls.

A lot of things happened this year. The biggest thing for the Jiang family was that Jiang's father and eldest brother Jiang Yue jointly bought a refrigerator and a TV. With the refrigerator, they can buy more vegetables and meat, and put the leftover vegetables in the refrigerator. In summer, they can buy more soda and popsicles. Jiang Ze and Xiao Donggua were smiling from ear to ear.

When they bought the refrigerator and TV, Jiang Yue didn't have to pay for them. However, Jiang Yue came home every day and it was as if she hadn't moved out, so they still had to pay for it. It was only three or four months' salary for Jiang Yue.

After entering the 80s, people's lives became much richer, and the days became more and more like the era that Jiang Yue was familiar with. This year, the protagonist and her mother-in-law, Aunt Wang, went south. After all, they were all reborn people, and they were very clear about their future development. No one else in the compound moved, and they were still a little worried.

However, Jiang Ma, who had a good relationship with Aunt Wang, was a little eager to do something, but was finally persuaded by Jiang Ba and the eldest brother to wait for her to come back and take a look, and then follow their lead after making sure there was no problem.

Three months later, the first batch of goods purchased by Aunt Wang was sold out. Seeing that she made money, Jiang Ma decisively followed Aunt Wang to purchase goods. As the people who made the second purchase made a lot of money, the other neighbors could not hold back either. Jiang Yue also took a leave and followed Jiang Ma to Guangzhou.

She didn't do it for the money, but mainly because Bai Ze was there and she had to find a 'boyfriend' for him. In the past two years, Jiang's mother couldn't hold back any longer and would ask Jiang Yue to attend any social gathering. Jiang Yue didn't dare to go home, but it was no use not going home now because everyone had come to the factory to look for her.

When we arrived in Guangzhou, we did some serious work first, and then visited the factory. Because of the experience from previous times, we got the goods smoothly this time. We planned to go shopping for the rest of the time. Since it was the first time for everyone, we went together to prevent any accidents and to take care of each other.

When passing by the barber shop, Jiang Yue went in to get her hair cut. She talked to the barber and asked her to do it according to what Jiang Yue said, which was the French lazy curl of later generations. It happened that her hair was just the right length and it would not work any shorter.

After perming her hair, she bought a white shirt, a denim top, jeans, and a pair of white sneakers. Jiang Yue's transformation was complete. The neighbors who were with her were stunned after she changed her clothes. In fact, the clothes did not quite meet Jiang Yue's expectations, as the color of the jeans was very dark, but Jiang Yue's good looks made up for it a little.

"They are really pretty, just like the people in the movie posters."

"Yes, yes, we can go make a movie now."

"Come on, come on, mom will take you to take some photos. This time we'll take them in color so they can be used when we go back for the blind date."

"...Mom, forget it."

"How can we just forget about it? Let's go, let's take some pictures and then go eat."

In the end, Jiang Yue couldn't stop Jiang Ma and was dragged by her to take a few photos. The photo studio wanted to use Jiang Yue's photos to attract customers, but Jiang Ma refused to agree no matter how they persuaded her. This kind of thing was a bit beyond her scope. If it was in Beijing, it would be fine, she could go and see it from time to time, but once she left this place, who knows what people would use it for.

After walking around for a day, they found a place to eat in the evening. Since they had earned money from the previous times, they were not as frugal as before and ordered a whole table of dishes. Jiang Yue looked at the stir-fried squid legs and crabs in front of them and tasted a few bites. They were pretty good, mainly because the ingredients were fresh and the cooking was not that bad.

The fried rice noodles with eggs tasted good. Maybe it was because I walked a lot today and I was a little hungry. After eating for a while, I felt a little thirsty. Jiang Yue asked who wanted a drink. Only three people out of seven or eight people wanted one. I guess they were reluctant to spend money. Jiang Yue thought about it and decided to have one bottle for each person, as if she was treating them.

Bai Ze happened to be there too, so their first acquaintance could be arranged. Jiang Yue walked back with eight bottles of drinks. She knew that Jiang Ma was watching her. When she was almost there, Jiang Yue pretended that she didn't hold the bottle firmly, and a bottle of drink fell down. When it was about to hit her foot, Bai Ze appeared and caught it.

"Are you okay?"

"No problem, thanks."

The two had just said a few words when Jiang Ma came over. Seeing Bai Ze's appearance, Jiang Ma wanted to make him her son-in-law.

"Young man, are you okay?"

"Auntie, I'm fine. Is this your daughter?"

"Yes, yes, yes, her name is Jiang Yue, she's 25 years old, and she's single. By the way, young man, do you have a girlfriend?"

Jiang Yue didn't expect Jiang's mother to be so direct. She quickly pulled the person away, but she still had to pretend.

"Auntie, my name is Bai Ze, I am also 25 years old this year, and I am also single."

"Haha, isn't this a coincidence? Have you eaten yet? There's no vacant seat now. Do you want to share a table?"

Bai Ze glanced at Jiang Yue, then turned to Jiang Ma and said, "Okay, Auntie, thank you for your help."

Seeing that this seemed promising, Jiang's mother pulled him back to the place where they had eaten. When other people saw Jiang's mother like this, they, the neighbors, knew what she was worried about and started to cooperate with her.

With the combined efforts of several people and the cooperation of Bai Ze, he explained the background clearly in a short while. Jiang Yue didn't expect that it would progress so smoothly. She even wrote several scripts, but she didn't expect that none of them would be used.