Rebirth 80: Start by earning money to build a brick house

After returning home, Zhang Ziming no longer needs to go to the fields to earn work points, and he doesn't plan to go there in the next few days. He has more important things to do now, which is to earn the money for traveling south first.

After returning home and saying hello to his parents, Zhang Ziming took a coarse-grain steamed bun and entered his and his brother's room, regardless of what his parents muttered.

I got my brother's pen and straw paper and was ready to write.

Yes, Zhang Ziming's idea was very cultural. Zhang Ziming wanted to use his own memory in later generations to write a novel and submit it to a newspaper for serialization.

Zhang Ziming thought that before he was reborn, he had read many novels, movies, and TV series, so he would find a short story that he was most familiar with and had read it many times and write it.

There should be nothing wrong with writing a novel and then submitting it, right?

Besides, if you write a novel that is only available in later generations, it should be very popular nowadays.

After all, in 1980, there were not many recreational activities at all, otherwise there would not be so many children in every household.

In 1980, it cannot be said that there was no television, but that there was no electricity at all in the village.

Zhang Ziming remembers very clearly that the Bottle Village where he lived was only electrified in the second half of 1983. In the first few years of the electricity supply, there were frequent power outages, which was not stable at all.

Of course, the conditions in the county will be better, but there are still very few people with TVs. In most families, it would be good to have a radio.

Not only is there a problem of no electricity, but in my village, there are very few candles and more kerosene lamps.

Fortunately, there is a condition that is conducive to writing novels for me, that is, my younger brother now lives on campus. In 1980, many junior high schools did so.

At this time, there was only one junior high school in each commune, and the brigade I was in was more than ten miles away from the commune. Generally, only those who were relatively close to the school did not live on campus, while the rest lived on campus and went home once a week.

This allowed him to have a relatively quiet writing environment. After clearing the table, Zhang Ziming began to write from memory.

The ideal is full, the reality is cruel.

I obviously have these storylines in my head, but why can’t I write them out?Even after writing it, why does it still feel so awkward and uncoordinated?

After writing a few pieces of paper from memory, Zhang Ziming stopped.

Zhang Ziming thought to himself that he had to straighten out the plots of these stories and connect them carefully, otherwise it would be like many short stories and it would not be a systematic novel.

It's one thing to keep the storyline in mind, but it's another thing to write it out. Fortunately, Zhang Ziming has attended high school for two years, so he still has some basic knowledge.

But Zhang Ziming changed the names of the characters in the novel he planned to write, and also changed the plot. Of course, some of them were really unclear.

Why did he do this? Zhang Ziming didn't want his rebirth to affect the writing of the following authors. Otherwise, if he had written it in advance, how would they write it when the time comes?

Zhang Ziming had faith in his heart to support him, but he never stopped. From time to time, he would revise chapters from scratch, just like a real writer.

During dinner, Zhang Ziming didn't even go out to eat. He just took the steamed buns and went back to the house to continue eating and writing. He had the kind of concentration mentioned in the elementary school textbook "Eating Ink".

Even my sister who is in elementary school said this:

"What is my brother doing? Are you so serious? Do you want to prepare for the college entrance examination?"

Zhang Ziming woke up again when he heard what the sister in the outer room said.

Yes, it is 1980, and the country has long resumed the college entrance examination. At this time, millions of students are preparing to continue taking the college entrance examination.

Some take the college entrance examination for several consecutive years in order to have a good future.

Once you are admitted to university, you can study with state subsidies. You don’t have to pay for your meals even if you have a small appetite, and you can even save subsidies to support your family.

After graduating from college, all jobs will be assigned, regardless of where they will be assigned. They will all be assigned with status, and they will receive a salary every month. This is a serious guarantee of income during droughts and floods.

These days, whoever has studied in high school doesn’t want to change their destiny by passing the college entrance examination.

Moreover, in the college entrance examination team, there are even those who have only attended junior high school and not even high school. Therefore, your destiny is in your own hands. When you cherish it, that is the time to change.

However, Zhang Ziming does not want to take the college entrance examination. His family still needs to be supported by himself. If he is not at home, he will support himself.

Whether his younger siblings can continue to study is a question. What Zhang Ziming thinks is that as long as his younger siblings can take the college entrance examination on time, it will be fine.

However, Zhang Ziming was not thinking about himself or his younger brothers and sisters at this time, but Lin Yuxin, who had studied in high school for two years like him.

Now he is a private teacher in their village, but a private school is a private school after all, so he still has to work in the fields from time to time.

Moreover, at the end of 1980, the state also issued a notice to reduce the proportion of private teachers and gradually increase the proportion of public teachers. It is not that easy to convert from private to public. Anyway, Zhang Ziming feels that the difficulty of converting from private to public is no less difficult than the college entrance examination.

At this time, private teachers mainly relied on local collectives to raise their salaries plus state subsidies. The state subsidy was about 10 yuan a month, but the amount of local collectives' self-raised funds varied from place to place.

For example, in Dalinzhai Primary School where Lin Yuxin lives, part of the local collective's self-raised funds may only be a few yuan each month.

Lin Yuxin earns a total of more than 20 yuan a month, and she has to pay part of it to the brigade so that she can exchange it for corresponding work points. After converting into work points, she can get food from the brigade, so she can't save a few yuan on hand. money.

At this time, Zhang Ziming's idea was to persuade Lin Yuxin to take the college entrance examination. With his skills as a private teacher, he had never left the textbooks, so he should have hope of getting into college.

Although he has not made any money yet, he will soon raise the travel expenses. After collecting enough travel expenses, he will be able to take care of his own family and Lin Yuxin's family by selling the sapphires on hand. Lin Yuxin can rest assured and bold. Just go to college.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ziming decided to persuade Lin Yuxin tomorrow. Thinking that he had not met Lin Yuxin since he was reborn, he suddenly burst into tears.