Chapter 5: You should get married!

It took Wang Licheng two weeks to master the mechanical maintenance skills of the original body.

This Saturday morning, my mother is going to my eldest sister's house. The eldest sister lives the farthest and it takes 30 minutes to walk.

He volunteered to take his mother there. Hang the things that I want to bring to my eldest sister on the bicycle and let my mother sit on it when I am ready.

It was learned from a dream that this was Wang Licheng's first time carrying his mother. When his father was alive, he drove his mother to and from get off work every day.

Last night he dreamed of Wang Licheng's childhood again.

In the spring of a certain year, my mother went to my uncle's house and my father took care of the four siblings at home.

In the afternoon, their father took them to the streets on a bicycle. It was their first time riding a bicycle. He and the third sister sat on the bar in front, huddling with their backs while the eldest and second sister sat on the back seat of the bicycle. The father rode the bike wobbly, making them scream in fright.

The year was '77 and bikes were still a rarity.

That vehicle seems to belong to Grandpa. Their family only has this bicycle. Usually only Grandpa can use it. That afternoon, their father just took them for a few laps on the road which made them happy for a long time.

The next Sunday I finished reading the books and notes, the TV was not good and I couldn't sleep so I had to go out for a walk.

When I walked to the entrance of the cinema, I found a few pool tables next to it. There is also a sign on the wall. It reads: Fifty cents a plate.

For Wang Licheng, whose monthly salary is in the early 100s, fifty cents a plate is not cheap.

"Young man, do you want to have a game? The one who loses the game will pay*." The middle-aged uncle sitting on the steps stood up and said to Wang Licheng.

"Okay, let's play a set." He played billiards for two years in his previous life, and entered the billiards club in his freshman year. Her level was considered to be above the level of the club. It doesn't hurt to play a game, and it's only fifty cents to lose.

The middle-aged uncle is the owner of this pool court. The pool table was shipped from Jiangcheng yesterday. On the first day of its opening today, many people watched it but no one was willing to try it. Seeing that Wang Licheng was a little interested, he took the initiative to talk to him for a game.

In fact, he doesn't know how to play this thing. He heard Jiangcheng's nephew said that billiards is very popular in Jiangcheng now. He was a little moved, so he bought three tables to try.

This billiard table is very expensive. It costs 500 Yuan for a table, plus shipping costs, a table is 520 Yuan. A plate is only fifty cents, and a table needs 1040 plates to return to the original.

He's been sitting here for a long time, he hasn't earned a penny and he's a little impatient and this is the scene where he talks to Wang Licheng for a game.

The uncle started first and slipped and the white ball didn't hit any balls before it slipped out 20 centimeters.

Wang Licheng put the white ball back to its original position.

"Young man, wait, what are you doing? You can't hold the ball with your hands."

Wang Licheng was stunned by what he said. What did the uncle mean; didn't he know the rules of billiards?

"The white ball doesn't touch any ball and needs to be put back in place to hit the opponent."

"Is that so? My nephew didn't tell me. We don't do what you said. It's too troublesome."

He guessed that the lad might be a connoisseur and he was probably right. But this thing is just to play with and if there are too many rules, who would be willing to play.

"Okay then, follow Uncle's rules."

He thought that Uncle was a master and he was ready to lose fifty cents but he didn't expect it to be a player who didn't even know how to play.

After the set was over the uncle only scored one goal and the white ball was missed several times.

While they were playing, two big boys came and also played billiards. The uncle told them the rules in the past and Wang Licheng knew that the uncle was the owner of this billiards court.

These days he always goes to the cinema after dinner. Since the last time he played with the boss like that, the strangers who played here continued the rule and the loser paid the table.

Billiards is still a new thing in Pucheng and there are very few people who know it. Wang Licheng will come to play a game when he has time to take advantage of his own advantages. Sometimes there are people who deliberately ask him to play with him, saying that they want to learn his skills.

"Brother Wang, your technique is so good, you can teach me again."

This is Chen Gouzu who is speaking. He has no official name. He only knows that his father's surname is Chen, and his mother keeps calling him Gouzu, the dog's leftover name.

Chen Gouzu is a posthumous child, and his mother refused to tell him how his father died. He had never seen his mother interact with his father's relatives and his mother was married from the next county. The mother and son are helpless in the village.

The year Chen Gouyu was born was the most difficult year for their mother and son; they relied on the village's relief for a whole year. Because the food he ate as a child was not nutritious, he did not grow up when he grew up. He is 18 years old this year and only 160 cm.

"This game of billiards requires a lot of play, practice makes perfect. You play here every night; don't you need to do your homework?"

Wang Licheng saw that he was only 1.6 meters tall and thought he was only a junior high school student.

"What is homework, can it make money?"

He only attended the first grade for one semester, and his family struggled to get enough to eat, so how could he have money to study.

"How old are you?" "You're

“Nineteen and you'll be twenty next year."

"I'm sorry, but you look young and I took you as a junior high school student."

"It’s okay, many people are like this and it's because I'm short." He was smaller than the same age since he was a child, and he listened to teasing and ridicules a lot, and he had learned to not care at all.

"Come on, I'll teach you some tricks." On this day, he made his first friend after 90 years. They only play football and don't talk about the past. He could see that Chen Gouzuo was a man with a story.

When Wang Licheng is at work, he likes to chat with the master of the original body the most. His master is 47 years old and will be 48 years old this year. He went to the countryside, went to university, and went to the capital.

The master likes to tell them about some things that happened when he went to the countryside. Those apprentices and the original body don't like to hear this. Every time the master starts to tell them, they will leave for excuses.

The current Wang Licheng is different; he is full of curiosity about the things of that era. After several chats, he found that the master is very powerful and understands everything.

The master also told him a lot of things about the capital. During his careful listening, he noticed that when the master talked about the capital, Jinghua University was the most talked about. The master is not a local; he said that he was sent to the rural area of Pucheng in 1975. In 1978, he was admitted to university and went to the capital.

He didn't understand why his master came back to Pucheng, a small county town, after finishing university. He remembered that the master had told the original body before that he was from Jiangnan. He felt that there were many mysteries in the master. What made a man with knowledge and talents stay in a factory in a small county as an ordinary technical maintenance worker.

Every weekend during this period, either the mother goes to the sisters' house or the sisters go back to their parents' house. He slept in at home in the morning and went out to play billiards in the afternoon.

Today is his fifth weekend in 1990. He wanted to go out to play ball after lunch, as he always did.

"Licheng, don't go out today, wait for your sister and the others to come over."

"Come here, isn't mom at home? I'll be fine if I don’t stay at home."

"Your sister and the others have something to tell you."

After one o'clock, the three sisters came to his house one after another and also brought all his nephews.

Wang Licheng's eldest sister, Wang Chunmei, gave birth to a daughter and a son. The eldest daughter is Wu Ling, who is 7 years old this year, and the youngest son is Wu Chao, who is 5 years old this year.

The second sister's name is Wang Xiamei, and she has only one son, Yang Bo, who is 6 years old this year.

The eldest sister violated the family planning policy in order to give birth to a young son, and almost lost her job. In the end, she found a relationship and was fined 500 Yuan.

The eldest sister's children and the second sister's children are sitting in the living room watching TV together. Mom was holding little Peng Jian from the third sister's house, and he was pulled into Mom's room by several sisters.

"Licheng, you will be 25 years old this year, it's time to find a daughter-in-law." The elder sister Wang Chunmei spoke first.

He only turned 24 in December last year, and it is only June, which is a year and a half older than his past self.

No, his focus seems to be wrong. How is it possible to ask him to find a wife?

He has only been here for a month, and he doesn't know anyone, so he is looking for someone to be his daughter-in-law.

"Well, wait a minute!" I dragged on and said.

"When will we wait? The year before last was because we were impatient and didn't consider your feelings. It's been so long now and now that my mother is old, I hope you can get married and help you take care of your children."

"I want to be free in love." I don't want to be arranged in an arranged marriage.

He was embarrassed to say that.

"Who won't let you fall in love freely, do you have a favorite girl now?"

"No."

"Then what kind of girl do you like, I will introduce you to your second and third sisters to help you with your staff."

Even before you have a partner, you are thinking about free love. Over the years, I haven't seen my younger brother who is interested in any girl. They don't hurry up. When my younger brother comes slowly, the flowers are all thankful.

"Can I find it myself?" The

Blind date sounded terrifying. In the past, one out of ten posts was a blind date object. He didn't want to be the object of others' complaints.

Besides, he is also a handsome guy now, what if he is entangled by a blind date.

Needless to say, he thought too much. It wasn't because he had never had a blind date, but he was first frightened by those posts on the Internet.

"Haven't you been looking for it yourself all these years? I haven't seen you find it before."

Yuan Shen's resistance to marriage wasn't just the reason why his father just had an accident. Li Lanfang's sudden marriage hit him hard, making him lose confidence in his relationship and fear marriage.

Over the years, there were several people in the factory who wanted to help him introduce him, but he rejected them one by one.

He somewhat understands Wang Licheng, but does not agree with his approach. If it was him, he would question Li Lanfang before she got married, why she got married suddenly, and what their relationship for more than a year was. This is Wang Licheng's version of Li Lanfang's love. Why grieve alone without asking for an answer.

There is also a version of revenge on her. Go to Li Lanfang on the second day of her wedding, ask her why, and deliberately let her new husband hear their conversation.

Of course, the latter version is just a black-bellied idea. Even he really wants to do it, he can't do it.

Finally, under his repeated assurances, his sisters gave up the idea of introducing him now.

"Remember what you just said, this year, you must bring someone home for Mom to see."

• It’s a two person game, the losing party pays.

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