i was my mistake

"That's good too."

"Of course, that's already after the demolition twice."

The two chatted like this and walked into the teaching building.

There is an empty classroom on the first floor of the teaching building, which is specially used to pile up things like teaching materials and school uniforms, and it is also here for registration every time the school starts.

There were two desks in the classroom, and a few scattered students were queuing up with money.

One side is to register and the other side is to pay tuition fees.

The person in charge of the registration is the teaching director, an old man who is half bald and always does things very rigidly.

"Student ID card." When it was Wan Qing's turn, he still stretched out his hand with a serious face.

She touched the pocket of her skirt, and remembered that Ye Chen seemed to have put this thing there, so she quickly patted him on the shoulder and asked him to take off the schoolbag. and take out.

"Hey, here."

The dean looked Ye Chen and Wan Qing up and down, then silently looked away.

He didn't ask anything, just looked for her name in the booklet, then re-registered in another booklet, and finally tore a piece of paper to her.

It says the class and the floor corresponding to the class.

"next."

"here……"

"Well... people should always move forward, don't indulge in the sorrow of the past." He suddenly said a word of comfort, although his tone was still so cold, but his wrinkled face seemed to stretch a little, " Study hard so you won't let your mother down."

"Ah... good." Ye Chen was a little surprised, he didn't expect the dean to know about his family affairs.

"Go and pay your tuition."

"it is good……"

Wan Qing has already received the tuition fee receipt from the female teacher with a mole on the corner of her mouth—a total of [-] yuan, including tuition, books, and food expenses for a whole school year.

She ticked Wan Qing's name in the list, and then smiled slightly at her.

When many people first entered school, when they saw the bald old man, they would definitely guess that he was not the principal, but at least he was the dean. This is indeed the case, and many people would think that this female teacher is just an ordinary teacher. At most it's a class teacher or something.

But in fact, she is the principal of Yinjiang High School.

So even though his attitude was much better than that of the dean, Ye Chen still seemed a little nervous.

"Hi principal, I'll pay the tuition..."

"A total of one hundred and two this year."

"I'll pay." Wan Qing, carrying her wallet, took out a banknote with statues of the four great figures of Mao Zhou, Liu Zhu, and a two-yuan banknote that hadn't been eliminated in this era. This is the third version of the RMB, printed on it is a lathe worker who is concentrating on his work.

——There was still a smile on his face.

……

14. Visit the supermarket

Peace Square.

The earliest commercial complex in Wanqing's memory.

Although there were many deficiencies in planning, it was considered a central area in Gongshu District at that time.

But when she brought Ye Chen here, she was a little dumbfounded.

There is no so-called Peace Square, it is clearly a wasteland.

There are no major roads around, just narrow paths.

The office building built later in the distance is now also a cemetery.

In fact, the apartment they lived in was already on the edge of the city center, and beyond that, it was almost in such a dilapidated state.

City H is very small, within the true urban area, if you drive, you can get from one end to the other in a few 10 minutes.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be called the back garden of City S at that time.

It is indeed a city like a garden, small and delicate.

"...There's no supermarket here either."

"I don't remember it so clearly... It should take two years to start building." Wan Qing's long hair was a little disheveled by the wind, "Then go to Century Lianhua."

"There seems to be one near the apartment." Ye Chen remembered it quite clearly.

"Ah."

In fact, a few years ago, supermarkets were not called supermarkets. Everyone used to call them self-selection shopping malls, that is, there were all kinds of goods in them, and you could choose what you wanted to buy when you went in.

It is equivalent to the commercial complex of that era.

The difference is that it does not consist of many merchants.

I don't know when, everyone started to call them supermarkets, and slowly, this name became fixed.

After all, compared with the four words "optional shopping mall", "supermarket" is indeed much simpler.

So the two could only get on the bus and turn back.

"In the future, you can borrow a bicycle from any roadside, and you can ride there casually on this road."

"The future is really convenient."

"More than that, there are even car rentals. You can rent an electric car just by scanning the roadside."

"Electric vehicles? Is the future already green?"

"Do you really think electric cars are so green?" Wan Qing chuckled, "The pollution caused by battery manufacturing and disposal is no less than gasoline cars."

"Ah—the future, why didn't I travel to the future, but you went back to the past."

"Why do you travel to the future? You don't have any advantages. When I come back, I still have some memories in my mind."

"Then do you remember the lottery numbers?"

"Serious people don't remember that kind of stuff." Wan Qing rolled her eyes, "I haven't even bought a lottery ticket."

"Why don't you buy it?"

"Because it's impossible to hit."

"How do you know if you won't win if you don't buy it? What if you win?"

"Childish." Wan Qing squinted at him, leaned over, and saw the bus approaching not far away, "Stop making noise, get on the bus."

The buses of this era are actually very different from the buses of the future.

First of all, it is not that big, it looks square, like a simple iron box.

Generally, blue or white paint will be written on it, and the number plate is a fixed piece of thick cardboard, which is usually pasted on the upper left corner of the front windshield.

There is only one door for getting on and off the bus, and there will always be a conductor sitting by the door. Some charge a fixed fee, while others charge based on distance.

For example, the bus that Ye Chen and Wan Qing took was only open in the urban area, and it charged a fixed fare.

—Twenty-five cents a person.

Compared with the wages of this era, it is not too cheap.

If you have to commute by bus every day, you will also spend a lot of money.

Ye Chen handed over a golden five-cent coin with gears and ears of wheat printed on it, and the latter glanced at it, then tore off two thin red paper notes.

Today's date is written on it, and the lower left corner has been torn off, which means that it cannot be used again.

The door could no longer be opened and closed automatically. When the car started, the flight attendant skillfully pulled the thick rope hanging on the door, and it shut obediently with a bang.

It takes about five or six minutes by car. Although the road is very narrow, there are not many cars after all, so the road is fairly smooth.

The most important thing is that there are very few damn traffic lights.

In the shaking and bumping, Ye Chen saw the huge light sign of Century Lianhua from a distance, and there was even a very technological screen hanging on the front wall, on which various advertisements were playing back and forth.

Although from Wan Qing's point of view, the screen is actually very small, about [-] inches, and the resolution is very low, the screen is full of mosaic-like dots.

But Ye Chen still watched with relish.

—even if it’s just an advertisement.

"Don't look, get out of the car."

"Huh? Oh - yes, we are going to the supermarket."

Ye Chen quickly stood up and walked to the side of the car.

"Stop!" the flight attendant yelled.

The driver slowly braked the car in front of the crude platform, and then opened the door with a 'crash'.

Besides the two of them, several other passengers also got off at this stop.

After all, it is the largest supermarket nearby.

There was an endless stream of people coming and going at the door.

The greeters are even handsome men and beautiful women.

Although it is already 1996, if you want to work in the supermarket, you still have to make some connections.

The wages here are higher than those in factories, and the work is relatively easy. More importantly, the benefits are not less.

Even a cashier can stand upright in front of others and say that this is a decent job.

After all, the cashiers in this day and age have to operate the machines, and it is really not so easy for the uneducated to learn.

——The so-called cultured people in this era are actually people who have graduated from elementary school or junior high school.

After a few decades, those who come out to work with this level of education are generally called illiterate.

"Era, what a ruthless thing, sifting out countless people..." Wan Qing walked into the supermarket swaggeringly, with her hands on the back of her head and her legs outstretched.

Everything here is tidy and clean, even though the weather has cooled down a lot, the air conditioner is still turned on inside.

"Hiss...it's so cold."

"Are you okay?" Ye Chen looked around, and pushed a shopping cart from the side, "Do some big shopping today? Otherwise, you won't have much time to shop after school."

"It's a lot during the holidays, but I really need to buy more daily necessities." Wan Qing brushed her hair and walked up the escalator first.

This is a large supermarket with three floors. The first floor is full of fresh food, and the second floor is some long-life food, as well as rice noodles and oil.

Half of the entire second floor is for selling appliances.

From small razors and hair dryers to large refrigerators and washing machines, and even expensive mobile phones and branded pagers, you can buy them here.

Wan Qing's priority target is not the two floors, but the third floor: the daily necessities area.

She dragged Ye Chen to the various women's products, and Ye Chen blushed in fright, leaning back, unwilling to go inside no matter what.

"What are you doing?"

"You, you go and buy it yourself, I, I will wait for you outside..."

"For you to be shy." Wan Qing looked at him contemptuously, "As for you."

"But look at those... they are all..."

She turned her head and looked, and there were rows and rows of shelves full of women's underwear. After all, they were commodities, so they were all displayed in a 'very high-profile' manner.

In fact, it is very common to hang on the shelf.

A shopping guide even came forward with a smile and asked Wan Qing what she needed to buy: "We have the thinnest and most form-fitting ones here. Winter is coming, so we can buy some warm ones to go home..."

"No, no, I'll buy sanitary napkins." Wan Qing let go of Ye Chen's hand and waved lightly, "I'll buy sanitary napkins."

"Oh, sanitary napkins, the shelf that goes inside."

"it is good."

She didn't bother to care about him right now, so she let him stand outside in embarrassment, and walked in quickly by herself.

From Ye Chen's point of view, it was as if she had walked into a forest of wine and meat...