After the postman left, they took their admission notices into the house and opened them together. The notices listed their names and majors, and indicated that the start of the semester would be September 1st.
"Now, we're just waiting for Haoming's acceptance letter to arrive, then everything will be fine." Looking at the acceptance letter in his son's hand, and then at the envious look in Huo Haoming's eyes, the old man sighed.
There was nothing he could do; he applied to the National Defense University in Shashi. After his results came out, he went for a physical examination. Because of his family's connection with Ruan Ruan and Huo Haocheng, his political background check went very quickly, and his admission notice should be on its way now.
His notification arrived three days later; similarly, Gu Jingming's and Ruan Shiya's notifications arrived around the same time.
Upon receiving the notification, the Gu family from Yuncheng and the Ruan family from Shenshi went to the military base to request leave. Gu Wenpeng and Ruan Chuanyan were both commanders in the military, so they needed to inform their superiors and then explain to the political commissar to arrange their work before they could leave. Ruan Chuanyan was fine; it only took one day to get from Shenshi to Beijing, but it would take three days to get from Yuncheng to Beijing. In order not to delay them on the way, Gu Wenpeng directly applied for a plane ticket and flew back, spending 68 yuan per person on the ticket.
They were picked up by Gu Jinghe's car.
The graduation banquet was scheduled for the day after their arrival.
Early that morning, after breakfast, everyone was wearing the new clothes that Ruan Ruan had given them and walked to the private restaurant. In addition to the Huo family, Ruan family, and Gu family, they also invited the Deng family, Lan family, Su family, He Yuwei's family, Lu Shuyan's family, and a few people from Huo Haocheng's team to celebrate together.
Lan Chaoxi originally wanted to take the exam, but her due date was in September. Su Yanqiu was worried, and her family was also worried, so they told her to take the exam next year.
At the dinner table, Grandpa Ruan held Grandpa Huo's hand and kept exclaiming, "Brother, you're really amazing! So many college students have come from your family all at once. We can't be more envious."
“That’s right, we old folks are not up to par at all…” Lan Zhiyu sighed. Back then, their family’s situation was similar to the Huo family’s. Given Huo Chunjiang’s military achievements at the time, they should have been on par with the Ruan and Gu families. However, what they did not expect was that he disappeared with his family as soon as the war ended.
We met again decades later.
Now, his family has 10 college students, not counting Huo Haocheng and Ruan Ruan. It can be said that no other prominent family in Beijing can compare to them.
"No, no, it's all thanks to the children's own hard work." Old Master Huo hadn't expected his family to be so fortunate this time. If you asked him why he had left with his family back then, he could only say it was all fate.
He couldn't say for sure who the Huo family relied on to get where they are today, but those who understood already knew.
Back then, he was able to survive on the battlefield thanks to Bai Shu. Later, he chose to withdraw, also because of Bai Shu. Half of the reason his family was able to adopt Ruan Ruan was because of Bai Shu. If he hadn't asked Huo Songhuai and his wife to help check on the old people, they wouldn't have met Ruan Ruan, let alone brought her back. Now it seems that the Huo family's adoption of Ruan Ruan was also Bai Shu's plan.
"Let's not talk about that. The children's future is up to them, but now is a time for celebration. Let's have a drink together and congratulate them on getting into their ideal universities." Grandpa Gu felt that Old Huo was right. It was all thanks to the children's hard work. Besides, they, the old folks, had all seen what they had accomplished over the years.
Moreover, he dared to say that these children's achievements in the future would certainly not be worse than theirs.
"Come on, let's toast!"
"cheers!"
After a few rounds of drinking, when the elders had drunk their fill, the younger generation began to drink.
"You guys are really something! You have no idea how envious everyone in our unit was after we heard that you all got into Peking University. The soldiers in our regiment have been surrounding Huo Haocheng every day, wanting to know how your family raised nine college students!"
"That's right, that's right. I also heard that Ruan Ruan is going to teach at Peking University. Is that true?" Ge Xiaotian didn't know where he heard this news from. Anyway, when he heard it, he thought it was impossible. How old is Ruan Ruan? She's only 22 years old this year. How could she go to teach at Peking University?
However, Ruan Ruan's name was not among the candidates from the Huo family, and many people were talking about it afterward, so he began to doubt the authenticity of the matter.
"Yes, that's true." Ruan Ruan didn't know why he suddenly asked about this, but since he asked, she would answer.
"Eat more vegetables." Huo Haocheng, who was standing next to her, saw that she wanted to pick up the sweet and sour pork on the other side, but then thought it was too far away and didn't want to move, so he put a piece of food in her bowl.
Ge Xiaotian, who received a clear answer, and several others who were unaware of the news were all stunned by the news.
"...This...this...is pretty impressive, congratulations, congratulations, hehe." Ge Xiaotian wanted to say something, but Huo Haocheng gave him a killer look, so he quickly withdrew what he was about to say and changed his words.
"Ha ha ha ha...."
Haha ^_^
The others burst out laughing. "Ge Xiaotian, you really don't learn your lesson! With Ruan Ruan's achievements today, it's obvious even to a fool that she would never be a student!"
"Exactly! With her incredible medical skills, anyone with a modicum of sense would ask her to teach them!"
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