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Chapter 1072: "Netizens" in the 80s

After school started, there were only four months left before the high school entrance exam. In order to create a good learning environment for Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan, Song Ying even lowered the tone of her voice when speaking. She could now calmly resolve matters that she would normally argue with others about.

The neighbors all thought she had changed her personality, and her friendliness towards her skyrocketed. If this had happened at the end of the year, she would probably have been awarded the title of advanced worker.

Huang Ling silently provided logistical supplies and always found ways to make various soups to supplement the nutrition of the two.

Zhuang Tunan studies very hard. When others are playing, he always closes the door and studies silently. Qin Hao hardly reviews and never takes notes in class, but he always ranks first in the grade in every exam.

Even Zhuang Chaoying had to retract his previous remarks.

“Genius really doesn’t need to work hard.”

Another person who doesn't need to work hard is Lin Dongzhe. Although he is not as smart as Qin Hao, he is much better than Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting. The reason why he has poor academic performance is that his mind is not on studying at all.

Before every exam, Lin Dongzhe could achieve good results as long as he paid a little attention and reviewed seriously for a period of time.

To this end, Qin Hao specially customized a set of rules for Lin Dongzhe. It was okay to play, and he could even play with Lin Dongzhe, but the prerequisite was that he needed to set aside an hour every day to study. During this hour, Lin Dongzhe needed to give 100% concentration. Once he was distracted, the play time would be deducted.

Gradually, Lin Dongzhe got used to this way. It was only an hour a day, and he still had a lot of time to play. Besides, Zhuang Tunan was so focused on studying that he had no time to pay attention to him. Zhuang Xiaoting and Wu Shanshan were girls and could not play with him. As for Xiaojun, he was just a little brat. If Qin Hao didn't play with him, he could only play by himself.

The key is that Qin Hao can always come up with some particularly fun games that Lin Dongzhe can't stop playing.

For example, in a game called "Monopoly", you can buy land and build houses, and you can also charge a certain toll when other parties pass by until they go bankrupt.

Lin Dongzhe has been smart since he was a child. In addition to the pocket money given by his parents, he also collected some waste materials himself, such as toothpaste tubes, exercise books, and even gave Zhuang Tunan's summer homework to other children to copy. Making money not only allows Lin Dongzhe to have money to read comic books, but also gives him a strong sense of self-identity.

The game of "Monopoly" perfectly meets Lin Dongzhe's two major needs, because as long as he wins once, Qin Hao will give him one dollar. Although Lin Dongzhe has won only a few times, this makes him unable to stop.

At first, Song Ying and Lin Wufeng also tried to play "Monopoly" with Lin Dongzhe. As a result, the couple, without exception, all went "bankrupt" in a very short period of time. After so many times, Lin Dongzhe no longer liked to play with them.

In Lin Dongzhe's words: Too bad, boring, I only compete with masters.

With Qin Hao supporting him, Lin Dongzhe's academic performance has been steadily improving. He even surpassed Zhuang Xiaoting in the midterm exam and ranked fifth in the whole grade. Song Ying once suspected that he had cheated, but then she thought, Lin Dongzhe did better than Zhuang Xiaoting, so who else could cheat for him?

"So, Lin Dongzhe has the opportunity to go to No. 1 Middle School. Does going to No. 1 Middle School mean that he can get into university?" Song Ying held the transcript in her hands, and couldn't help but make associations in her mind.

Lin Wufeng was more steady and privately sought Zhuang Chaoying's opinion.

Zhuang Chaoying's face looked a little strange. Qin Hao was fine, as anyone who won the national championship before the age of ten was definitely not an ordinary person. But in his impression, Lin Dongzhe was an absolute poor student. A few years ago, he was lying on the ground like a mud monkey, being chased around the yard by Song Ying.

How come his academic performance suddenly improved and even surpassed Zhuang Xiaoting.

"It's too early to talk about college now. After all, there are not many knowledge points in elementary school. With Haozi's help, Lin Dongzhe can still keep up. If he can still rank among the top in high school, then we can look forward to it."

As a result, when Song Ying heard this, she immediately expressed her opinion that from now on, if Zhuang Xiaoting did a number of exercise books, Lin Dongzhe would do a number of them.

However, when it came to the final exam, Lin Dongzhe's grades plummeted and fell directly to the lower average level, which instantly lowered Song Ying's expectations.

Zhuang Xiaoting performed normally and ranked in the top ten in the grade, which made Zhuang Chaoying secretly relieved. Qin Hao alone would be fine, but adding Lin Dongzhe might undermine the self-confidence of both children.

After the small test comes the high school entrance exam.

Qin Hao ranked first in the grade in total score, and Zhuang Tunan also got a good result that was in the top five in the grade. Both of them were directly admitted to the high school department of No. 1 Middle School.

On the day the results came out, Song Ying took Huang Ling to buy red silk and hung a slogan on the wall of the courtyard.

In Song Ying's words, she had been enduring in silence for more than four months and usually didn't even dare to speak loudly. Now that she finally got good grades, she couldn't show off, otherwise she would be suffocating.

During the summer vacation, Song Ying and Huang Ling's logistical work tasks were reduced a lot, and they finally had some free time.

There is a saying that goes, one of the body and soul must always be on the road. When you have free time, the gaps in your spiritual world need to be filled with spiritual food.

So, the magazines that Qin Hao borrowed from the library became a pastime for Song Ying and Huang Ling during their free time at work.

At one point, Song Ying and Huang Ling were no longer interested in watching TV.

Compared with the long-winded speeches on TV, the articles in the magazine focus more on the expression of "personal emotions". This has completely opened the door to a new world for Song Ying and Huang Ling, who have been educated that "the collective is more important than the individual".

"These articles are so well written, the sentences are beautiful, and the stories are interesting." Song Ying only graduated from junior high school, so she can't say specifically what's good about them. The most profound feeling these articles gave her was a kind of resonance: it turns out that outside of the collective, I am still an individual, a person with flesh and blood.

Huang Ling was often moved to tears while reading. For those who had lived through the era of big-character posters, educated youth literature, scar literature, and poetry were simply a dimensionality-reducing blow.

During the summer vacation, Qin Hao only stayed at home for half a month, and then reported to the Jiangsu Sports Bureau to prepare for the 1980 National Go Championship. Last time, Qin Hao received a special recommendation from the Chinese Chess Academy and participated in the competition on his own behalf.

It is said that when the leader of Jiangsu Sports Bureau learned that Qin Hao was from Suzhou, he was very depressed and called the leader of Suzhou Chess Academy over and scolded him severely.

So, this time when Qin Hao just had his summer vacation, the Jiangsu Sports Bureau kept calling Qin Hao, fearing that he would participate in the competition as an individual again.

The neighbors in the Cotton Mill Family Lane are no longer surprised by Qin Hao's participation in the Go championship, and they are no longer as excited as before when they occasionally see news about Qin Hao on TV.

As expected, Qin Hao won the national championship again. This time, the opponent he defeated was not Nie Weiping, but an equally young player, Liu Xiaoguang, who was only 20 years old.

Originally, the Chinese Chess Academy was planning to recruit Qin Hao to participate in the World Amateur Go Championship, but Qin Hao refused on the grounds of "busy studies."

In an amateur Go competition, participants from other countries are either retired players or not professional players at all. Such a competition is really boring, and the key is that the prize money is not high.

After the National Day, the news reported that Chinese players lost the World Amateur Go Championship, which caused an uproar.

"These people are too weak, aren't they? This Imamura Fumiaki is already 76 years old, and a group of professional chess players can't beat a 76-year-old man. It's a shame."

"You can't say that. After all, Japanese Go is really amazing."

"Humph, what's so great about that? What can an amateur competition tell us? If they are capable, let their professional chess players compete with our top players."

"Ahem, the six top-notch Japanese chess players have never lost a game."

"…That was in the past. Didn't we have a very talented kid recently? What was his name…"

"Qin Hao!"

"Yes, it's this kid. He won two championships in a row and the National Games. If he plays, maybe he can win."

Qin Hao didn't know that his popularity had increased again due to this World Amateur Go Championship, and he was still leisurely enjoying his high school campus life in the early 80s.

The Education Bureau recently issued a document saying that it would break down the gender divide and allow students of the opposite sex to get along normally, under the premise of strictly prohibiting school drills...

In response to this, all the teaching staff of No. 1 Middle School had wry smiles on their faces after the meeting.

Under the tremendous pressure of the college entrance examination, the single cramming education and the boring sea of ​​questions make students physically and mentally exhausted. In addition, children of this age are beginning to fall in love, and there are still some fish that slip through the net even if they are strictly guarded. Wouldn't it be adding fuel to the fire to "open the floodgates" at this time?

However, the documents from the Education Bureau had to be followed, so the teachers had no choice but to choose a stupid solution: strengthen patrols and patrol any place in the No. 1 Middle School campus where two people could hide.

Even the cotton mill attached middle school where Zhuang Chaoying worked was no exception, and he often had to work until very late.

At first, Song Ying was a little worried about whether Qin Hao would fall in love too early, but Lin Wufeng's words woke her up.

"Haozi is at least three years younger than their classmates."

Song Ying then realized that Qin Hao was three years younger than Zhuang Tunan. Why would a twelve-year-old kid be in love?

It has to be said that the teachers' strict prevention and control did have a certain effect. The small flame of desire for the opposite sex that had just been ignited by a middle school student was extinguished before he could even flutter a few more times.

Therefore, many students choose to relieve stress by making pen pals. Both parties obtain each other's contact information through newspapers, magazines, etc. After exchanging a few letters, if they can keep chatting, they can develop into regular pen pals.

Of course, there are also "flirtatious" people. Qin Hao's desk mate maintains pen pal relationships with many people and writes several letters almost every week, but I don't know if the contents of the letters are similar.

At first, Qin Hao had no intention of making any pen pals until he saw a familiar address in a magazine.

So Qin Hao tried to send a letter to this address.

A week later, the postman stopped at the gate of the courtyard on his bicycle: "There is a letter signed: Xiaoxiang Yeyu, is it here?"

"Xiaoxiang Yeyu? How can someone have such a strange name?"

Lin Dongzhe blurted out mocking words, and then he saw Qin Hao stepped forward to take the envelope and glanced at him. The smile on Lin Dongzhe's face froze instantly.

Back in the inner room, Qin Hao opened the envelope. The handwriting on the letter was very beautiful and neat, and it should be written by a girl.

The girl's pen name was Muzi. She first praised Qin Hao's beautiful handwriting, asked him how he practiced and how long he had practiced, and then talked about his views on poetry and magazines.

"Muzi, his surname is Li, and he lives here, so they should be the same person, right?" Qin Hao wrote a letter back to the other party, and then sent Lin Dongzhe to buy a stamp and send it out. Of course, the errand fee was indispensable.

In the next few weeks, Qin Hao received letters from the other party every week. At first, they talked about art, but gradually, the other party began to talk about some issues in life.

Judging from some information revealed by the other party, it should be "Li Jia".

Qin Hao would write back to her, encouraging her and giving her some advice. Over time, the frequency of their correspondence increased from one letter a week to three times a week.

Until a period of time later, there was no news from Li Jia. Just when Qin Hao was puzzled, he received another letter from her. Only then did he know why Li Jia suddenly "lost contact". She had no money to buy stamps.

According to Li Jia, her parents were educated youth from Shanghai who went to Heilongjiang. They got married in Heilongjiang and gave birth to Li Jia and her younger brother Li Wen. When Li Jia was just learning to speak, she first learned Shanghainese. Her family bought a radio and listened to Yue Opera the most.

After the policy was relaxed a few years ago, her parents sent her to live with her grandparents in Shanghai. However, the small, cramped, and unsoundproof house of only 20 square meters was already crowded with five people, including her grandparents, uncle, aunt, and cousin. She could only sleep in the kitchen at night.

Qin Hao did not use too many words to comfort her, but shared his experiences in the past few years, and then put ten stamps with a face value of eight cents in the letter paper.

Lin Dongzhe was stopped by Song Ying just as he was about to go out to mail a letter. She had noticed Qin Hao's unusual behavior over such a long time, but without Qin Hao's permission, she had never opened Qin Hao's letters.

"Aunt Song, don't worry. Haozi just made a pen pal. High school is stressful, and many people in our class have pen pals."

When Song Ying saw that she was caught by Zhuang Tunan, she was at a loss for a moment, but Lin Dongzhe's words instantly eased her embarrassment.

"Brother Tunan, why don't you have any pen pals?"

Zhuang Tunan rolled his eyes. He didn't have the time to make pen pals now. He studied very hard but could only see Qin Hao's back. If he continued to waste his time on these things, it would be like what Qin Hao said, he wouldn't even be able to see his back.

A week later, Qin Hao received another reply from Li Jia, and returned all the ten stamps he had sent last time intact.

After that, the frequency of correspondence between the two sides returned to once a week. (End of this chapter)