The school quickly notified Liu Meiling to attend class.
Bai Yajing also inquired and learned that Qian Fangfang had been sent back to her hometown, and a new entry had been added to her file.
She made a direct call to the Shanghai Municipal Office for the Educated Youth.
Even though the restrictions on returning to the city are not as strict now, and educated youth can return to the city through various means, Qian Fangfang is different. Her father is in prison, and her stepmother divorced her father overnight and took her younger brother back to her parents' home.
It would be difficult for her to return to the city. She has no job, cannot take the college entrance exam, and no one in the city would accept her. She can only stay in the countryside.
The house suddenly felt quiet again. Lin Huan had been admitted to the teachers' college she had always dreamed of. Bai Yajing had taken her there, worried that she wouldn't have enough money, and even gave her a hundred yuan, since she wouldn't be able to work once she went to university.
She also returned to work at the hospital after her leave ended, and went to school to attend classes during her vacation.
(On-the-job learning: Some employees participate in full-time or part-time learning with the approval of their employer. During the learning period, if they are still employees of the employer, their original employer will continue to pay their salary. This was feasible in some employers in the 1970s.)
She is so busy every day that she goes between school, hospital, and home.
The third child and Liu Liu have both gone to school at the military school. Xiao Che is also busy, so now it's just his maternal grandparents and Xiao Ying at home.
The two elderly people spend their days chatting, playing chess, and taking walks at each other's houses when they are bored; their lives are quite leisurely.
She also heard from Xiao's mother that Grandpa Xiao thought highly of Xiao Yanqing, and that Xiao Yanqing was always taken to his side during his holidays.
Bai Yajing knew that the old man was grooming his successor.
After all, Xiao Che is now pretty much on the path of politics.
The Xiao family's foundation lies in the military, and the old man cannot give it up.
Life goes on busily.
In the early spring of 1979, the chill of winter in the north had not yet completely faded.
The cold wind was still howling when Xiao Che hurriedly returned home.
Bai Yajing stood in the room, her fingers lightly patting the freshly ironed military uniform.
The poplar trees outside the window have sprouted tender buds, swaying gently in the breeze, as if silently telling a story.
"Jingjing, stop what you're doing and come sit down for a while."
Xiao Che wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder. His scent was a mixture of soap and sunshine, a smell that Bai Ya Jing Jing was most familiar with and found most comforting.
"Check again to see if anything is missing." Bai Yajing's voice trembled slightly as she forced herself to focus on her workâputting the folded shirts, socks, and towels one by one into the already bulging military backpack.
Xiao Che sighed, released his wife, and turned to take an iron box from the bottom shelf of the dresser.
He opened the box and picked up the wedding photo of the two of them taken at the photo studio. In the photo, Bai Yajing had two braids and was smiling shyly and happily.
"I'll take this with me," he said, carefully tucking the photo into the small notebook he carried with him.
Bai Yajing paused for a moment, her eyes welling up with tears.
She quickly lowered her head, pretending to adjust the straps of her backpack, so that her husband wouldn't see the tears that were about to well up in her eyes.
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