Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Wan Feng believed that as long as Xu Meilin was willing to work hard, she would definitely be admitted to university.
If she failed the exam, he would find someone to tutor her and push her into university even if it meant she had to rely on others for recommendation.
Of course, it would be useless if she didn't work hard herself.
"Didn't your classmate Chen Wenxin get into university?"
When Xu Meilin said this, Wan Feng remembered that Chen Wenxin had indeed been admitted to a university in the capital.
It's neither Tsinghua nor Peking University, it seems to be a university of science and technology.
He had just left Jiangwei when the results were announced last summer, and then he forgot about it because he was so busy.
He had left a message offering to sponsor Chen Wenxin to go to college.
Although her family's current situation no longer requires his financial support, he still has to fulfill his promise.
"I hope you can be the second Chen Wenxin for Jiang Wei. As long as you work hard, there is nothing you can't do."
"Actually, I also want to take the test, but I just don't have the confidence."
"You can do it. Chen Wenxin's academic performance wasn't very outstanding when we were classmates, but she started to work hard in middle school and high school, and finally made it big."
"Thank you for encouraging me. I can give it a try."
Wan Feng felt relieved when he saw that Xu Meilin was interested.
It is not an easy thing to let go of Xu Meilin. If Luan Feng had not appeared in the middle, Wan Feng really planned to spend the rest of his life with Xu Meilin, and even the appearance of Zhang Xuan would not have any impact.
Although he had said before that he wanted to let go of the matter with Xu Meilin, some memories would sometimes naturally come to his mind, especially when he moved to Xiaoshutun, such memories would surface from time to time.
Now Wan Feng knew that he had really let it go.
He would not be so hypocritical as to treat Xu Meilin as his sister as in movies and novels. That was pure deception.
But I won’t develop her into a lover, just treat her as a friend in the future.
Jiang Ming and Liu You didn't know what the result of their conversation was, but they both burst into laughter.
Wan Feng bought a few gifts and decided to visit Chen Wenxin's house. After all, Chen Wenxin was the first college student in the Jiangwei Brigade and also his deskmate, so he had to visit.
Wan Feng greeted Jiang Ming and said he was going to visit him and asked him to stay at his house that night.
After leaving the shop, Wan Feng walked across the depression and arrived at Xiaonan Mountain.
There are now more than ten households in Xiaonanshan, far more than the original three families of Chen Cang, Jiang Li and Zhang Xian.
When I walked into Chen Wenxin's yard, Chen Wenxin's mother came out to greet me.
"Aunt! Happy New Year." Saying Happy New Year now is half a month late as it is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
"Oh, Xiao Wan, you are a rare guest now. You have high standards now. It has been a long time since you came to my aunt's house."
"Aunt, you are wrongly accusing me. I have been studying in Longjiang for the past two years. Although I came back during the period, I was always in a hurry. I didn't even visit my aunt's house during the Spring Festival this year."
Jiang Liga and Chen Cang's homes are next to each other. This year during the Chinese New Year, it was his father and mother who visited his aunt's, second aunt's and eldest uncle's homes, and he did not go to anyone's home.
"Sit inside."
"I came here mainly to see Wenxin. I was in Longjiang when Wenxin started college, but I didn't come to congratulate her. I even forgot about her when I came back. If someone hadn't asked me about it at the Xiaoshutun shop, I wouldn't have remembered it."
"Wenxin is sleeping in the west room, please go over there."
Chen Wenxin's mother accepted Wan Feng's gift and pointed to the door of the west room.
Wan Feng pushed the door and entered Chen Wenxin's room.
Chen Wenxin was sleeping on the kang in the west room, with a quilt covering her body.
But this sleeping position is very different. Normal people sleep with their heads either facing inward or outward, but this woman is lying sideways on the kang. What kind of sleeping position is this?
"Pig! It's dawn, wake up!"
The pig didn't wake up, it just turned over.
There happened to be crayons on the kang, probably belonging to Chen Wenxin's younger brother.
Wan Feng picked up a black crayon and drew a pig's head on Chen Wenxin's forehead.
As soon as he finished painting, Chen Wenxin opened his eyes and suddenly sat up. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Wan Feng.
"You scared me!"
Wan Feng gave her a mirror as a gift.
Chen Wenxin took the mirror and looked in it doubtfully. After three seconds, she said with a look of confusion: "Hateful!"
This guy actually drew a pig on her forehead, you are the pig!
"Tell me! What are you doing here?"
"I happened to be away from Jiangwei when you were in college. I didn't come back until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. So I came to see you."
"Haha, Wan Feng, your level of nonsense is really getting better and better than mine. How can you have the nerve to say that after coming back on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month and only now coming to see me?"
"Haven't you forgotten this? If someone hadn't asked me in Liu You's shop just now, I wouldn't have remembered it."
"I forgot you dared to say it so confidently, you guy."
Wan Feng pulled out 10,000 yuan from his pocket and threw it on the kang: "I said I would sponsor you to go to college. Although your family's financial situation doesn't require it now, I'm a man of my words. This money should be enough for you to get a master's degree."
"Our family is not short of money."
"I know your family is not short of money. Isn't this a little gift from my old classmate? If you don't accept it, we will have no contact in the future."
"Damn it, you're still so unreasonable."
"College students are not allowed to curse. How is your college life? Do you have any suitors?"
It was only then that Wan Feng found out that Chen Wenxin was admitted to a very famous science and technology university in the northwest, and many of the country's high-tech talents came from this university.
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