Rebirth in the 90s: A Perfect Life

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Chapter 51
A huge sum of money

As the saying goes, if you have money in your pocket, you will not be worried. Together with her original savings, Xiaoyue now had a total of 32 yuan, which was all she had. The next morning, she took her belongings and rode away on her bike. Xiaoyue knew that her mother was following her from a distance, and only stopped following her after she had ridden across the bridge and reached the other side of the river.

Although I agreed happily yesterday, I was still unsure in my heart. After all, in my mother's eyes, I had never ridden a bicycle and had never learned how to ride one. She was worried and followed me out secretly. She was relieved when she saw that I could ride it quite skillfully.

Xiaoyue couldn't help laughing. I am still the same, I haven't changed at all. I always think of myself as a child. When I think about my previous life, I was over forty years old and so was I. What's more, I am not an adult yet.

The messy thoughts in her mind did not affect her speed. Xiaoyue pedaled very fast and rode towards the street in her memory. Heyan Road was not far from that street. After riding for twenty minutes, she saw the extremely busy entrance in front of her. From a distance, she could hear the sound of a tape recorder playing songs. In order to attract customers, they naturally played the most popular songs. At that time, the most popular ones were the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong, Luo Dayou and Zhang Yusheng of Taiwan, who were the most popular Hong Kong and Taiwan stars in the 1990s. There was a video store at the intersection. It was called a video store, but most of the items on the shelves were cassettes, and there were very few videotapes. After all, even if most families could afford tape recorders and televisions at that time, video recorders were expensive and were extremely luxurious items that were not affordable for ordinary working-class families. Therefore, video stores at that time basically sold cassettes, mainly albums of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, and the most popular ones sold the fastest. There were two external speakers at the door of the store, with the volume turned up to the maximum, and people from all across the street could hear them clearly.

The album played was Luo Dayou's, and the title song played on repeat was Love Song of the 90s. With your black eyes and your smiling face, I could never forget the change when you left...

The familiar melody overlapped with her memory, and for an instant Xiaoyue seemed to be pulled back to her previous life. In her previous life, she graduated from the third grade of junior high school and was able to get into a technical secondary school. Her parents probably thought that going to a technical secondary school was like having a stable job, and she wouldn't have to worry about anything for the rest of her life, so they stopped urging Xiaoyue to study and let her go out for a walk.

It just so happened that a new music and video store had opened across the street from Dashu Hutong. The owner was a young man in his early twenties, wearing a shirt and jeans. Every time he came in and out, he carried a wooden guitar. He didn't look handsome, but he became different immediately when he started playing the guitar. Music has such magical power.

The song that the young boss played the most was Love Song of the 1990s, singing as he played. At that time, Xiaoyue was mixed with a few older kids in Dashu Hutong, looking out the glass window of the music store with her chin raised, and thought that the young boss who played the piano was so handsome.

Unfortunately, the audio-visual store closed after only a few months of operation. I heard from old neighbors gossiping privately that the landlord heard about the road expansion and demolition project, and was afraid that there would be trouble if he rented out the house, so he simply took back the property, locked the door, and waited for the demolition.

However, even if the landlord had not taken the house back, the audio-visual store would not have lasted long. The area around Dashu Hutong was inhabited by the families of employees of the transportation factory. Although there was a building across the street where several senior leaders of the transportation factory lived, that area was all small second-floor buildings with sparse residents and a high level of quality and cultural heritage. Places like audio-visual stores would probably be seldom frequented, and the residents on the opposite side would usually be the residents on the opposite side. Although the large area of bungalows on the opposite side had a large population, they were all ordinary workers. If it had been okay in the past, now that the state-owned factories were all in recession, the transportation factory was secretly planning to lay off the first batch of employees, and people were panicking, fearing that they would have no food to eat after being laid off. Families were thrifty and wished they could make every penny count. How could they indulge their children to buy cassettes? Besides, many families didn't even have a tape recorder, so what was the point of buying cassettes?