Sheng Xiping knew what his mother was worried about, so he quickly comforted her.

"Oh, right, I also brought some things back. I'll take them out and distribute them to everyone tomorrow."

When you go on a long trip, especially to Harbin, you have to bring back some local specialties, right?

There were just too many people at home at the moment, and Sheng Xiping had brought back a lot of food.

It's not that anyone is stingy or anything, but with so many people in this room, who should I give to and who shouldn't? If I give to everyone, how much will be enough to go around? So I can only hide it and not take it out yet.

Zhang Shuzhen nodded, without saying anything more.

At this moment, the other people in the room started asking around about Sheng Xiping's departure.

"Hey Xiping, what's the school your wife and brother went to like? I heard it's a pretty big university. How big is it? How does it compare to our forest farm?"

For most people living in the valley, the forest farm is the most familiar place, followed by the Songjiang River.

Perhaps they also traveled thousands of miles from their hometown back then, but so many years have passed, and everything about their hometown has become blurred in their memories. Only this forest farm in front of them is the most real and familiar place.

"Yes, they're all much bigger than our forest farm. Xi'an's school is even bigger than the one in our Songjianghe Town," Sheng Xiping said after thinking for a moment, using this analogy.

"Wow, that's a big one? If Xi'an goes to school there, he must have to walk a long way every day?"

The crowd gasped in astonishment. If a school was that big, how big must Ice City be? They simply couldn't imagine.

"Yeah, more or less, but not necessarily. Each department is different, and there are only a few places to have classes."

If I don't have anything else to do, I probably won't walk around the entire campus.

Given Sheng Xi'an's personality, he'd probably spend all his time in class, the cafeteria, the dorm, and the library. It's possible that he wouldn't have explored the entire campus by the time he finished four years of university.

"Xi'an is really doing well, going out to see the world."

"You brats, why can't you learn from others? Go to university and study abroad, wouldn't that be great? We'd be proud of you!"

Many people glanced at their own unruly children and were immediately filled with anger. They all started scolding their kids.

A group of children were engrossed in listening to the radio when they were suddenly scolded for no reason. The children blinked innocently, completely bewildered.

When the parents saw this, they couldn't help but sigh. With kids like this, how could they expect them to get into university and bring honor to the family?

Around eight o'clock, Sheng Xinyu got sleepy and started whining and fussing.

Zhang Shuzhen quickly called Sheng Yunfang to make milk powder for Xinyu, and then asked Sheng Yunfei to come over and make the bed for him.

Those who came to listen to the radio saw this and wisely got up to say goodbye and leave.

Some children were reluctant to leave, but their parents would grab their ears and drag them away.

After everyone else had left, Sheng Xikang came over from the west room with his book.

Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, Sheng Xikang has been studying hard, often reading and doing exercises until late at night.

Especially after Sheng Xi'an and Zhou Qinglan received their university admission notices, Sheng Xikang was spurred on and became inseparable from his books.

The school textbooks haven't been revised yet; they still contain the same old knowledge, which might not be enough for the college entrance examination.

The teachers at Qianchuan Forest Farm also had limited skills and could only teach a limited number of students.

Fortunately, the math, physics and chemistry self-study series that Sheng Xiping bought was excellent. It contained classic problem types, explanations for each problem, and practice exercises.

Sheng Xikang now spends all his time reading and doing exercises, except when he's eating, sleeping, or sleeping.

There were too many people at home in the evening, and it was too noisy, so Sheng Xikang went to his brother and sister-in-law's room to read.

After those people left, he returned to the east room to continue reading and doing exercises until the power went out at the forest farm, at which point he finally went to sleep and rested.

Before five o'clock in the morning, Sheng Xikang got up to recite his lessons.

Sheng Xikang was more quick-witted and intelligent than Sheng Xi'an, and his academic performance was always good.

I used to think that studying was useless and there was no future in it. No matter how well I studied, I would still have to go to the mountains to become an educated youth, so I was unwilling to study hard.

Now that the college entrance examination has been reinstated, and that good grades can lead to university admission and a chance to escape this impoverished mountain village, Sheng Xikang was immediately motivated and put all his effort into his studies.

I hope to be like my sister-in-law and second brother, get into a good university, and have a bright future.

When Zhou Qinglan is at home, her second child sleeps with her mother at night, while her eldest child sleeps with his grandmother.

Now that Zhou Qinglan has gone to school, it's really quite a strain for Zhang Shuzhen to take care of the two children.

So Sheng Xiping carried the sleeping Xinhua back to the west room. He cuddled his eldest son to sleep, while Sheng Xinyu stayed with his grandmother. Zhang Shuzhen had to do all the feeding and diaper changing at night.

Fortunately, Sheng Xinhua is older now and doesn't need to get up to pee in the middle of the night. Sheng Xiping hugs his soft, chubby son and sleeps soundly until dawn.

When Sheng Xinhua woke up in the morning, I quickly took him to pee, and then changed his clothes when we got back.

During the day, Zhang Shuzhen stayed home to look after the two children, and Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei helped with things like washing clothes and cooking after school.

If Sheng Xiping isn't working, he tries to help his mother as much as possible so she won't get too tired.

A few days later, Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu gradually got used to it and stopped crying for their mother so much.

Sheng Xinyu resigned himself to drinking the milk powder. Zhou Mingyuan asked someone to buy good milk powder from Tonghua, and several bags were delivered every now and then, so Sheng Xinyu never lacked food.

That day, Sheng Xiping was on the day shift. He was in the security office in the morning when someone suddenly pushed the door open and came in.

"Xiping, hurry up, Principal Wang from the school wants to see you. Your youngest son is leading a fight at school, and he wants you to go and handle it."

Sheng Xiping was stunned when he heard this. His youngest son had gotten into a fight?

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