Simultaneous time travel starts from the flower age

Chapter 1: A flourishing start?

My name is Zhang Fan, and I’m 28 years old this year. Thanks to my ancestors, I was born with a noble surname. Perhaps it was because of this that I finally caught the last time-travel bus at the end of 2023.

But if possible, can you please not use the dump truck next time? I didn’t feel anything at the time!
But afterwards I felt myself being torn into pieces, and every piece of flesh was trembling with pain. Even if it was only for a few seconds I could still feel the pain, it was excruciatingly painful!
It has been 20 years since Zhang Fan traveled to this world. It is said that when the dean picked him up, there was a piece of jade in his cradle with the word "Fan" engraved on it.

If Zhang Fan hadn't seen other children also having jade pendants engraved with words like "Ping'an", "Hao" and "Dong", he would definitely have believed this!
But it’s okay, it has the same name as my previous life, but this jade is probably not a real jade.

It is said that the day the dean picked up Zhang Fan was a night in the cold winter of 1968. He happened to be drinking wine with his friends that night. In those depressing times, adults drank to relieve their sorrows.

The dean was walking in a small alley in Nanqiao Town when suddenly a bright light flashed before his eyes. The space in front of him seemed to crack open, which made his eyes so bright that he could not open them for a long time. Before he could open his eyes, he heard a child crying.

Zhang Fan thought that the dean had drunk too much that night and it was just an illusion.

He had clearly traveled through time a few months earlier, so how could it be so mysterious? Besides, how could he not know when he uttered the words, "Hello, strange ceiling?"

Moreover, as a time traveler, his appearance could never be so plain and simple!
If there hadn't been the purple air coming from the east for 30,000 miles, there should have been flowers falling from the sky, like a spring breeze coming overnight, and the whole of Shanghai would have been in ruins. An FX zone should have been covered with spring flowers in the cold winter.

However, there are some even more incredible things. The dean once talked about this after drinking too much wine. At that time, his eyes were stinging and he vaguely saw a lot of people in the gaps of light and shadow. He always felt that Zhang Fan was an alien!
It's really scary when you think about it carefully. Zhang Fan feels that this is not a good thing!

He just wanted to live a good life in this era. With decades of advanced knowledge, he could at least become a landlord no matter how bad his reading comprehension was.

Now it is 1988, Longguo Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, No. 101 Xikang Road, JA District, Shanghai.

Zhang Fan was walking into the bank with a bag in his hand. Passersby could vaguely see the colorful money in the bag. It turned out to be the treasury notes that not many people were reselling at that time.

Have you watched Ride the Waves? Have you watched Rebirth 1988? Have you watched Return to 1990?
Haven’t you read the old novel above?
Well, Fan Hua, I've seen Hu Ge's performance.
Electric vacuum, treasury rolls, 414, do you remember?

If you don’t even know this, then you are really lying.

In the JA District Business Department, Li Hongmei, a teller who was about to get off work, became excited immediately when she saw Zhang Fan walk in. This was a distinguished guest who had come early in the morning with a huge sum of tens of thousands of yuan to buy treasury coupons.

As a teller, Li Hongmei must be very good at mental arithmetic. In the beginning, she bought at 102 yuan and sold at 110 yuan. After half a month, even if she buys at 104 yuan and sells at 112 yuan now, she has made nearly yuan. One person's daily income can equal her income for two or three months.

What's more, the young man in front of him was one of the first people in Shanghai to try something new, and he solved the urgent problem of their sales department at that time.

Zhang Fan is very sweet-talker and calls her sister and brother whenever they meet. How could she possibly forget him?

If it weren't for the fact that her younger sister was not so good looking, she would have wanted to introduce a girl to Zhang Fan.

Li Hongmei only regrets that she was born 20 years too early. However, there are many people in the hospital who want to introduce her to a girl. She thinks that she may not be able to win the competition since she is 20 years younger.

How could she know that Zhang Fan took advantage of the time difference and the convenience of purchasing work in the orphanage to secretly embezzle 10000 yuan of the orphanage's funds. He would go out in the morning to buy low and sell high in the afternoon, and finally settle the purchase money on a monthly basis.

"Hey, Xiaofan, you're here again. It looks like you made a lot of money today. Come to my place in the evening. Your aunt will ask you to steam crabs together."

This is Grandpa Huang, the doorman. Where does the news come from these days? Apart from the tobacco and alcohol shops that have a lot of traffic, the old men in the sales department have the best relationships.

"Uncle Huang, please forget it. You asked me to go eat crabs last week, but Aunt Huang dragged me to show me more than ten photos. She talked for half the night. I have to go to Sister Hong to do something. I have to go back to the hospital tonight. I'll do it next time, okay?"

Zhang Fan was also depressed. The uncles and aunts were too enthusiastic, not to mention that this person was a good person and was sought out for blind dates everywhere.

Zhang Fan saw that it was almost time to get off work, so it would be inconvenient to ask people to leave work to do their work.

"Hello, Sister Hong. I almost delayed your get off work again. There are 183 photos here in total. Thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Fan just felt relieved. After finishing this deal, he could quit his job at the orphanage and officially go into business. Using public money all the time, in this day and age, even if you are a time traveler who is loved by everyone, you can't help but feel scared.

I bought it this morning at 104 yuan and sold it at 112, totaling 283 lots. Excluding the 10000 yuan I paid back to the orphanage, I still have a little over 20000 yuan left.

I can quit my job at the orphanage and start planning.

But he still remembered that at that time, except for major foreign trade cities like Shanghai, treasury coupons were almost impossible to sell in business departments in other places.

In pilot cities for treasury bond sales such as Anhui and Jiangxi, the selling price of 95 or 94 yuan is much higher.

Actually, at first Zhang Fan thought that he just traveled to this era, but a few days ago when he was rewinding the books, he met a stock dealer at the entrance of the business department who wanted to collect his treasury bonds. It was nothing strange, as there were quite a few people doing this business in Shanghai at that time. What surprised him was that this guy was called Stamp Li. Isn't that a coincidence? It was prosperous. I've seen it before, it's very beautiful!
Zhang Fan felt that he had to take advantage of this opportunity to make some money with them.

There are only a few things that I know clearly. If I join the Bao fleet in the future, I might even be able to be a landlord by the Huangpu River while the housing prices in Shanghai are only 4 or 5 yuan. Thinking about this, I feel so happy. Bao is definitely a man of destiny!
Take advantage of the opportunity to earn some capital and complete the original accumulation of capital. By the way, if you have the chance, you must invest in green bubbles and shake them.

But he had something to do today, so Stamp Li seemed to have pulled a young man into the nearby store, and after selling the goods, he returned to the orphanage first.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when we got back to the orphanage. To be honest, the bus is always crowded no matter what time it is, with always many people, and you still have to keep your passbook in your pocket tightly.

Zhang Fan entered the orphanage and went straight to the finance office.

All the accounts have been checked and the money has been settled. The dean also informed the personnel department early in the morning and the procedures were completed quickly. I can go back to have a rest and sleep and leave early tomorrow morning.

But before leaving, I have to go find the old dean to drink some old wine.

Speaking of which, the old dean is also a remarkable person, his real name is Chen Pingan!
I heard that he was also a returned scholar when he was young. He was able to protect the orphanage safely for ten years. He worked diligently and was a great philanthropist!
Dean Chen actually knew about what Zhang Fan had done recently. Although some people gossiped about him, he was still relieved that he had watched him grow up and nothing had gone wrong!
It would be great to have the capital to go out and venture out, but how can I really not worry?

"Think it over. If you really want to go into business, I know you are a capable person, Xiaofan, but the outside world is turbulent, with each wave higher than the last. Although you won't become rich and powerful if you stay in the hospital, it will be considered stable."

The old man is very happy that the child he has grown up with is now capable of making a name for himself, but worry is inevitable.

"Our Nanqiao Town Welfare House will always be your home. You can come back anytime you want."

"Grandpa, what you said is really ridiculous. The New Year is almost here, but you still don't allow me to come back to honor you. Tonight, I, Xiao Fanzi, will accompany you to drink some old wine."

As Zhang Fan spoke, he quickly took out two pots of old wine and placed them on the table.

"It's getting late. If you don't rest, I, an old man, must rest. Besides, don't you have to catch an early train tomorrow to trade your treasury bond code?"

Nothing can be hidden from Dean Chen. After saying that, Dean Chen picked up the wine on the table and sniffed it. He was a little intoxicated. He waved his hand and signaled Zhang Fan to go back. "It will be different outside in the future. You have to bear it on your own today."

Director Chen knows very well what the children from the welfare home can do. To put it bluntly, even if they go to work as workers at Hongkou Wharf, others may not accept them.

But at least Zhang Fan was not in trouble and even made some money. He was trading treasury bonds. If you were trading stocks or something else, you would probably be sent to the police station by the dean on the same day.

Over the past few decades, we have become accustomed to partings. Children in this orphanage come and go, so there is no sadness of parting. The eagle on the cliff just watches the eaglets fight their way into the distance.

Zhang Fan also knew in his heart that if Dean Chen hadn't pressured him, this matter would have been exposed long ago.

He wouldn't dare to do this without Dean Chen, but of course he did this because he understood it better.

Dean Chen has been used to having no desires or demands over the years. He just wants these children to grow up and become self-reliant, and that's all. A true mass worker does not seek rewards.

Zhang Fan returned to the dormitory, lay on the bed, his eyes looking at the ceiling, his mind was full of thoughts about the money rolling in from all directions. He did not pay attention to the time, he closed his eyes, his thoughts instantly sank to the bottom, and he fell asleep.

Zhang Fan was confused when he woke up from a daze. He had heard of oxygen poisoning in his previous life. Could it be that he was poisoned while sleeping and traveled through time?

The surroundings are gray and the place is in ruins. One can vaguely guess that this place seemed to be an ancient city in the past. The road underfoot looks like a bluestone road, and one can vaguely see its former prosperity.

Walking along the bluestone road in the ruins towards the city center, Zhang Fan guessed that there should have been quite a few shops in the city. He estimated that he could recognize the remains of inns and shops. The fog dissipated more as he went deeper.

"Coffee shop?!" The further he walked, the wider his field of vision became. Zhang Fan looked at the open space in front of him and couldn't help but be shocked. "What the hell is this bookstore?"

I looked up at the sky, which was still white. Is there any sky here? In the visible range, there were only two stores, glass curtain walls and neon signs, except for the ruins.

But what is there to be afraid of? He has read countless books, so even if he doesn’t have a golden finger, he will become one.

Zhang Fan walked into the coffee shop. The name of the coffee shop was quite nice. There was a coffee shop inside. Zhang Fan had a feeling that something was waiting for him inside.

Before Zhang Fan pushed the door open, the door of the coffee shop opened first.

"You're back so soon. There's no movement outside for the time being. Now that you're back, we can protect ourselves!"

The man was wearing leather armor, with a sword hanging from his waist. He pushed the door open and hugged Zhang Fan directly.

In a trance, Zhang Fan was shocked. This person looked exactly like him!
　Hope someone likes it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)