Parallel time and space, spring 1983, Beijing, DC District, Nanluogu Lane.
A young man wearing a simple blue work uniform was pushing a rusty old bicycle slowly and leisurely through the streets, heading straight to the gate of an old-looking courtyard house.
The main reason why I choose to push my bicycle instead of riding a bicycle is that the bicycle is too old and the things on it are too many and too expensive.
The bicycle basket is filled with fresh vegetables and glass bottles of canned beer.
Hanging on the handlebar was a strip of pork belly weighing two to three kilograms.
On the back seat, there was also a cardboard box of a radio tape tied with a rope.
Along the way, pedestrians passed by, men and women, old and young.
Everyone looked at the young man pushing the bicycle and couldn't help showing a look of envy.
However, neither of us envied each other's rusty bicycle.
It’s not that I envy the can of beer in the basket or the strip of pork belly on the handlebar.
It's not even because the man is tall, fair and upright.
They were envious of the radio box tied with a rope on the back seat.
The packaging box looked like a new, unopened box, and there was a high probability that it contained a real tape recorder.
In this day and age, the radio cassette player is one of the four new items, a symbol of nobility, luxury and taste!
For those who don’t know the product, after looking at the picture on the box, they only know that this recorder has four speakers, which is very high-end and fashionable.
Those who know the product know that this is a Shanghai brand l-400 portable recorder.
The first prize winner in last year's first national tape recorder quality competition, it is a truly high-quality domestic product.
It is said that this recorder has better sound than many imported recorders.
This cassette recorder is not only famous, but most importantly, it is expensive and scarce.
Normally, if you go to the mall to buy a tape recorder like this, it will cost you 340 yuan, and you will also need an industrial roll.
But because production is limited and demand exceeds supply, you basically can't get it through this normal way of purchasing.
The most reliable way is to go to Drum Tower and Longfu Temple and buy it from private scalpers with extra money.
The average market transaction price of private transactions is about 400 yuan, and industrial coupons are also required.
In an era when the average monthly salary was only 40 yuan, that was nearly a year’s salary for ordinary people!
Therefore, at this time, someone can buy such a cassette recorder, and tie it to the back seat of a bicycle and parade it through the streets. Is it not enviable?
In response to this, the man pushing the cart had a very calm expression, and he did not appear particularly domineering or arrogant because of those overt or covert envious glances.
This is not a deliberate act, but because in his eyes, these things are nothing at all.
After all, he has seen and played with more high-end and advanced gadgets than this, so he is really not surprised.
The man pushing the cart is called Cao Zhiqiang.
He is 19 years old, of Chinese ethnicity, 1.85 meters tall and weighs 69 kilograms.
She has unibrows, peach blossom eyes, a big oval face and a high nose bridge, and her skin is so white that it would make the sun angry.
Judging from the standards of this era, this is a standard and classic pretty boy, or a naughty boy.
If we talk about facial features, this is a typical peach blossom face.
Pan is handsome and handsome, but his words and deeds always seem a bit frivolous and not like a good person.
For example, he likes to narrow his eyes and smile crookedly at people, and his eyebrows always move back and forth inadvertently.
When he had something to do or nothing, he would shrug his shoulders and spread his hands, and would often say "hehe", "ah oh", "wow", "hum", "dwarf" and other strange modal words.
It gives the impression that he is always mocking others, or trying to hook up with others.
It's very unseemly.
Even if he always says that he doesn't mean it, it's because the other person is overthinking it.
But I don’t know why, but when many people see his careless look, they always have the urge to beat him up.
It's definitely not because the female companion next to them can't help but peek at him.
In fact, these are nothing, they are all minor problems.
The real big problem is this.
He is a time traveler.
Yes, the current Cao Zhiqiang is no longer the original Cao Zhiqiang.
He is a traveler from a parallel time and space. His soul comes from the earth in the 21st century of the parallel time and space. He is not a native of this time and space.
It has been almost three months since he traveled through time.
In fact, when he first came through, he was still a little confused.
However, he soon understood.
He was not reborn into the past time and space in his memory, but into the parallel world in "Love in the Courtyard".
However, the courtyard world he traveled to was not the mid-1960s, but the early 1980s.
To be precise, it was the beginning of 1983 AD.
At this time, Qin Huairu and Shazhu had obtained the certificate, got married, and really lived together.
Banggen, Xiaodang, Huaihua and others have all grown up.
Huaihua is still unemployed at home, while Xiaodang has become a primary school teacher.
As for Brother Banggeng, who has the dual attributes of a thief and a white-eyed wolf, he now has a good job driving for the boss. Among the young people in his twenties and thirties in the courtyard, he is currently the best one.
On the contrary, it was Xu Damao who was beaten to the end because of his performance in Qi Feng during those ten years.
Nowadays, he is just an ordinary ticket collector in a movie theater. It is impossible for him to work as a projectionist and go to the countryside to show movies to make extra money. However, he still has some old connections and has a lot of savings.
At the same time, Xu Damao's wife Qin Jingru had already been locked in a cold war with Xu Damao because she accidentally exposed her fake pregnancy in public.
Nowadays, the relationship between the two parties has been broken for many years. They have a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. They always argue for a divorce, but the divorce has never been achieved due to various practical reasons.
Fortunately, Qin Jingru was protected by her brother-in-law. She would call her brother-in-law whenever anything happened, and Xu Damao did not dare to hit Qin Jingru again.
The three elders in the courtyard are all older, and after the reform, they no longer do the same things, so the three elders are no longer the ones who have the final say in the courtyard.
However, the three uncles still have a certain prestige, and for many people, their words are of little use.
The deaf old lady had passed away long ago, and the house was unexpectedly left to Sha Zhu, also known as He Yuzhu.
Currently, He Yuzhu and Qin Huairu live in this apartment. They are currently living in this apartment.
Also, there was a big earthquake in the courtyard, so the third uncle and the second uncle took the opportunity to build many earthquake houses privately.
Others quickly followed suit, so now there are many more houses in the courtyard than before, and they look much more messy and cramped.
However, as times change, many residents' units have been divided into rooms, so some people have moved out of the courtyard.
After all, in this period, a large courtyard like this where the whole hospital shares one faucet, has no separate bathroom, and has to go out to use the public restroom and empty the toilet. It is inconvenient, has many people living in it, and has almost no privacy. It is not a place that everyone likes.
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What everyone likes is the kind of unit building with separate running water and bathroom.
Not everyone has the foresight to see how horribly high the price of courtyard houses will be in the future. Most people only look at the present.
So now, although the number of houses in the courtyard has increased, the number of people has decreased. It is no longer the original more than 20 households with more than 100 people, but only a dozen households with more than 60 people, but it is still the same.
The accommodation is full.
After talking about others, let’s talk about Cao Zhiqiang.