Chapter 1 Have I transmigrated?
Chapter 1 Have I transmigrated?
"Jiang Yang, I know you are very unwilling to get a divorce. I have seen all your efforts over the past three years, but there is nothing we can do about it."
"After you finish your college entrance exam, I will take you to Beijing. My dad will personally arrange a job for you as a way of repaying you for these three years."
"But the premise is that you have to be successful yourself, not to tarnish the reputation of our Su family, and even more so, not to bring shame to me, Su Jingtong."
"Did you hear that clearly?"
……
When Jiang Yang opened his eyes, his head was throbbing with pain, and he heard a woman's cold voice.
Immediately afterward, a faint scent of perfume wafted into Lin Yang's nose. He looked in the direction of the scent and saw a beautiful woman, around twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing a fashionable long dress, her hair up, arms crossed, staring at him expressionlessly.
This woman is very beautiful.
Very beautiful.
It's as if it stepped out of an old black and white photograph.
The unique innocence of the era, combined with the allure of her attire, was perfectly blended together.
"Have I traveled through time?"
Jiang Yang's head started to hurt again. He wondered if it was because he had been bragging and drinking all night with his business partners last night.
But fragmented memories in his mind made him feel that he was in another era.
Looking up, I saw a flat-roofed house with tiled roofs, and there was even chicken droppings inside...
On the table in front of me was a stack of brand-new black and white newspapers, which looked quite old.
Jiang Yang grabbed it and looked at it.
"On January 1 this year, the state decided to establish the Shekou Industrial Zone in the south."
"Today, the state issued its first individual business license."
"..."
"Damn, I actually time-traveled! It's 1979 now."
Jiang Yang put down the newspaper, his memories now fully integrated, but he still couldn't help but be shocked.
As the forefront of reform and opening up, 1979 was a golden age when everything was in ruins and everything was full of vitality.
Don't be fooled by the fact that people still use food coupons to eat now. Before long, people will be vying to become millionaires and start building high-rise buildings and hosting banquets.
"Am I really not dreaming?"
Jiang Yang pinched his arm.
It hurts.
As a future generation, a graduate of a prestigious university, and a business elite who emerged from the fiercely competitive market, Jiang Yang felt that this would be his era.
"Jiang Yang, did you even hear me when I spoke to you?"
"If you fail the college entrance exam, you'll be stuck farming in the countryside for the rest of your life."
"Don't expect me to help you in the future!"
In his excitement, the beautiful woman next to him, Su Jingtong, roared in anger.
She was very angry.
To be assigned a job in the city, especially in the capital, Beijing, is something that most rural men could only dream of.
Is this the attitude of Jiang Yang?
If it weren't for the fact that he had taken such good care of her over the past few years, Su Jingtong wouldn't have bothered with his pathetic behavior.
"The college entrance exam is in two days. Study hard, and you might be able to cram at the last minute."
Su Jingtong moved the newspaper aside, placed a stack of old textbooks that Jiang Yang had never seen before on the table, and gestured for Jiang Yang to take them.
At other times, she was rather indifferent to Jiang Yang, but she was very attentive to his studies.
Su Jingtong, born in Yandu, is the daughter of a high-ranking official and is also highly educated.
They were among the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977.
Originally, she and Jiang Yang were like two railway tracks, destined never to intersect. But in that era, there was a momentous event—the educated youth going to the countryside.
Three years ago, Su Jingtong and a group of classmates came to Jiangjia Village to support rural development.
Logically, he should have been able to return to the city after a few years, but things didn't go as planned.
Not long after Su Jingtong went to the countryside, her father was labeled a capitalist roader during a political movement. From then on, the Su family fell into ruin, and Su Jingtong's return to the city seemed a long way off.
I stayed in Jiangjia Village for three years.
At first, Su Jingtong was very enthusiastic and full of passion when she was sent to the countryside as an educated youth. However, she could neither do farm work nor adapt to rural life, and she had no way of dealing with the burly farmers.
Su Jingtong felt particularly disgusted whenever people in the countryside spat on the ground and swore at her.
But she couldn't return to the city, yet she still had to make a living. Helpless, Su Jingtong found a man she liked, whose family was decent, and who was honest and reliable to marry.
This person was Jiang Yang.
Jiang Yang, who lived in this era, had never seen such a beautiful fairy as Su Jingtong. He immediately agreed to the marriage and, true to his nature as a stingy man of this time, he endlessly tried to please Su Jingtong.
He attempted to use his passion to influence this ice goddess.
Even if the two had agreed before marriage that marriage was fine, but sleeping together was not, and helping with housework was fine, but serving the parents-in-law was not.
Jiang Yang's parents, of course, did not dare to let Su Jingtong, the daughter of a high-ranking official from the city, serve them.
Now that Su Jingtong's father has returned to work, it's time for Su Jingtong to return to the city.
However, her marriage with Jiang Yang also needs to come to an end!
"College Entrance Examination?"
Jiang Yang searched his memory and couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
This is the third year since the resumption of the college entrance examination. In this era, the college entrance examination has also opened a window for farmers to move to the city.
In the future, farmers who want to move to the city will have to pay a price that is not just a house.
Jiang Yang was indifferent to the divorce, but he was extremely enthusiastic about the college entrance examination.
Right now, getting into university is the most important thing.
It's important to know that the first batch of people who took the college entrance examination in China truly benefited from the academic qualifications, and they were mostly either rich or powerful.
Unlike Jiang Yang's era, where studying could actually change one's fate.
This is also why Su Jingtong made arranging a job a condition for divorce, and why she also insisted that he get into university.
It must be said that Su Jingtong was indeed thinking of herself in this regard.
Of course, it was also for her sake.
"This is way too easy..."
"Anyone who has completed nine years of compulsory education, even if they are an idiot, can pass the exam."
The moment Jiang Yang flipped through the textbook, he originally wanted to review, but he was immediately shocked.
The knowledge contained within is outrageously simple.
But soon, Jiang Yang realized that there was no nine-year compulsory education in this era.
Moreover, thanks to the last feudal dynasty's policy of keeping the people ignorant, even now, the vast majority of people are illiterate and can't even read many characters.
For Jiang Yang, who was a top student in his previous life, this was undoubtedly a cheat code!
"Haha."
Jiang Yang was overjoyed, threw down his textbook, and walked out looking up at the sky.
Study? What's the point of studying this?
"He's utterly hopeless!"
Seeing Jiang Yang's nonchalant attitude, Su Jingtong frowned again.
very angry.
Logically speaking, shouldn't Jiang Yang be studying hard now, trying to get into university and then begging himself not to get a divorce?
But what is he doing now?!
In the past, Jiang Yang always obeyed him, never going west when told to go east, although it was only under his own pressure that Jiang Yang went to study.
Could it be that the divorce has stunned him to the point of madness?
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