Old Mrs. Tian couldn't help but confirm, "Are you telling the truth? Are you really a college student now?"
"Yes! Grandma! I'm a serious college student now!"
"Didn't you just finish your exams less than half a month ago? How come we know you were admitted to university so soon?" Tian Tian was happy and confused.
It felt like it had only been a few days since Tian Yuan finished his exams, but he not only found out which university he was admitted to, but he even came back. Tian Yuan should have known the result about ten days later. Now it's not like the future when all the information is counted online. Just to mail the scores or test papers would take a long time.
Even if the school where Tian Yuan is taking the exam is in the same province as them, it would still take a long time to travel back and forth.
"We go to the school we want to take the exam, and after we finish the exam and get the results, we can come back directly." Tian Yuan explained.
It is impossible to hold that kind of large-scale examination now and gather everyone together. Each military academy can only set its own questions and then the candidates take the exam.
The exam not only tests written knowledge, but also the training received in the army. Only if you achieve excellent results in both will you be admitted.
"Then didn't you receive the letter we wrote back to you?" Chen Guihua asked.
"You guys replied to my letter?!" Tian Yuan said, "I didn't receive it. If the army can return it, that's fine. If not, I won't receive it. I'll go directly to school when school starts."
"But didn't you read the letter I sent you last time, which had my address at the time written on it?"
Although the address he sent the letter from was not the address of his school, the letter could still be sent to him according to the address on the letter.
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
They opened the letter easily, and no one expected that the address of the letter this time would be another one, so none of them looked at it.
The postman who helped them send the letters was familiar with them and he didn't even ask them to remember the address and just sent the letters directly. They didn't think about it at all.
"It's okay!" Old Mrs. Tian said, "The letter was lost, so let it be. Anyway, we didn't write anything in the letter. We just asked if you were doing well. Now you are standing in front of us, so there is no need to look at the letter. Let's not talk about it anymore."
"Now Tian Yuan has been admitted to university. This is a happy thing." Old Mrs. Tian slapped her thigh and said happily, "My Tian family now has a college student. Tian Yuan, you are really promising! I will prepare paper money and go to the mountain with your father to burn some paper. I will also tell our Tian family's ancestors about this!"
After saying this, Old Mrs. Tian turned around and went out to look for Tian Lisong.
"Grandma!" Tian Yuan quickly reached out and held onto Old Lady Tian. "No need to burn paper money. Right now our team is fighting tooth and nail for a worker-peasant-soldier college student. Now that they know that I've been admitted to college, they may have some bad intentions. Let's just keep it quiet and don't make it too public!"
Nowadays, the investigation of background is very strict. Although their family has been poor peasants for three generations, someone might be jealous and make up a crime for them and report them.
If he really gets eliminated because of this incident, Tian Yuan will have no place to cry, so he should keep a low profile.
When Old Lady Tian heard this, she felt that what Tian Yuan said was right. "Then let's not burn paper. Let's kill a chicken and stew it tonight. Then tell others that I'm happy that you're back, and I wanted to kill a chicken to nourish your body."
When she heard that they were going to eat chicken, Chen Guihua's eyes became brighter than light bulbs. She turned around and looked at Tian Yuan expectantly. No wonder she agreed on Tian Yuan's behalf.
Ever since the three children went to school, life has become much tighter. During the Chinese New Year, Old Mrs. Tian asked for less meat. With so many people in the family, they could only eat one or two bites a day. The usual eggs were no longer available. This was very unbearable for Chen Guihua.
"I don't need the milk. The chickens at home are for laying eggs. You don't have to kill them for me. Besides, the food at school is pretty good during the time I'm taking exams, and I can eat meat every day." As everyone expected, Tian Yuan still refused.
The light in Chen Guihua's eyes went out instantly.
"What you eat in school is what you eat in school, and what grandma makes for you is what grandma makes for you. Aren't they different? Just wait, grandma will go boil water and kill the chicken." She did what she said. After she finished drinking, Grandma Tian went to boil water immediately.
"You should take this opportunity to have a rest. You must be exhausted after carrying so many things back. Just go to sleep and you don't have to worry about things at home." Before going to boil water, Old Lady Tian did not forget to let Tian Yuan take a rest.
Tian Yuan brought back all his things from the army. He was carrying a lot of things on his back, and he just piled them all on the ground, and they haven't been sorted out yet.
Moreover, he had been on the train for several days and his body was full of a smell, sour, smelly, and of cigarettes.
Tian Tian was standing next to Tian Yuan and was choked by the smoke.
"Brother, go change your clothes and take a rest. I'll go help grandma." Tian Tian urged Tian Yuan to change his clothes and ran to help.
Chen Guihua and Lin Meiyu also went over to work.
Tian Yuan thought that he would sweat a lot if he packed his luggage, so he might as well finish all the work first, and then go to Hetao to take a shower and change clothes. Then he packed all the luggage he brought back, and he also took back the luggage from his quarters in the army.
There wasn't much originally, but once the bed and luggage were added, it looked like a lot of stuff.
Before Tian Yuan had finished packing his things, Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin came back. They took Tian Yuan aside and asked him questions for a long time. When the news was confirmed, they patted Tian Yuan on the shoulders and praised him for his promising future.
While waiting for Tian Yuan to finish packing everything, he was sweating again.
He took two sets of clean clothes and a bar of soap, said goodbye to Old Mrs. Tian and the others, and went to the river to take a bath.
It is now early August and the sun is very strong at noon. Even though Tian Yuan went there a little late, the water is still very warm.
Tian Yuan came to Hetaozi, where many men from his team would take a bath. Especially when the weather was hot, there were many children soaking in the river.
So ordinary women don’t go here, and everyone feels more at ease taking a bath here.
There were quite a few men soaking in the Hetao, who were taking a bath after a day's work. Everyone was quite surprised to see Tian Yuan.
"Tian Yuan? When did you come back? Why didn't you tell me?" Gu Zhao was also soaking in the Hetao.
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