By the time they left Qin's house, Yu Xiangan's mouth was dry. It's not that he didn't drink water, but he kept talking and the water he replenished was consumed again.
Yu Xiangyan was not much better off, and nothing happened even after they returned. The college student from the Yu family came back. How much news did this make in this small county?
This has become something new that attracts people to watch.
If there are students in my family who are taking the college entrance examination, I hope they can give me some advice and share their experiences.
This is inevitable. We have been neighbors for so long, we can't chase each other away.
This is a bad attitude and it is easy to spread the word that you look down on your former neighbors and are arrogant.
When Yu Qingshan came back, he saw a crowd of people gathered around his house, making a lot of noise.
He wanted to come in but couldn't for a moment.
He was helpless, "Everyone, please make way, please make way."
He shouted out loud, and some people noticed, "Old Yu, you're back!"
"Your college student is back. He has great potential. You can just wait and enjoy the good life in the future!"
"You look so impressive, you are worthy of being a college student from the capital."
"Old Yu, you don't have to worry about anything anymore..."
A lot of envious words came up.
Yu Qingshan: "No, no, the child is still naive."
"You flatter me."
"They will become proud after hearing what you said. It's not good to be too proud."
…
After finally squeezing in, I took a look at my second son and his wife, and my youngest daughter, and my attention was drawn to the twins.
They are all adults now, and it’s enough that they don’t look thin.
This pair of grandchildren is different. They have grown so much. Look at the way they are pulling their mother's sleeves. They must be frightened by so many people. He opened his mouth to disperse the crowd: "Don't gather together. This child can't breathe. Spread out, spread out."
He said a lot of words before the people around him dispersed.
"Dad, you're back."
Seeing him, Yu Xiangan smiled with a look of relief on his face.
Yu Qingshan couldn't help laughing. Most people would feel happy to be surrounded and praised by so many people, but these people in his family seemed a little different.
After finally sending these neighbors away, Yu Xiangyan smiled bitterly: "Dad, don't you see how long we have been surrounded? Everyone likes to hear nice words, but if you say too much, it will be like Tang Monk chanting sutras."
Yu Xianghai grinned, "I can't listen to what you guys are saying even if I want to."
He had no chance of getting into university, so if he wanted to hear these nice words, he could only wait a few more years until his son and daughter were admitted. Only then would he have a chance to hear them.
Ye Qijiajia and he thought of a place. There was no hope for the two of them, but her son and daughter could, because they had uncles and aunts, and they also had this gene.
Yu Mingjie suddenly shuddered, as if something bad had happened. He looked left and right, scratched his head, wondering why he had such thoughts.
Yu Xiangan took a closer look at Yu Mingyao.
When Yu Mingyao was a child, she looked a bit like her older sister in this world. When she was little, she couldn't help but feel a little partial to her. Now that she has grown up a bit, she looks more like Ye Qijiajia, not so much alike, but she is still her niece.
Everyone else had left, leaving only her family, and she took out the things she had brought back.
She brought gifts for each of them. Yu Qingshan got a pen, Yu Xianghai got a five-star badge, Ye Qijia got a silk scarf with the Forbidden City printed on it, and Yu Mingjie and his three siblings each got a new piece of clothing.
Everyone can’t put it down.
Ye Qijia looked at the silk scarf and didn't dare to touch it directly. He rubbed it on his clothes a few times to see if there were any rough spots. Only after confirming that there were none did he touch it, for fear that he would accidentally damage the image on it.
Yu Qingshan was happy to receive the gift, but he said, "Where did you get so much money? You are still students. Although you have subsidies, you don't have much left every month. You have children there and they need to go to daycare. You have to spend money everywhere. Take it back and refund what you can."
Yu Xiangan said innocently: "Actually, I didn't spend much money. I made all the food for them in exchange for my labor. This is the benefit of having a skill."
Yu Qingshan was skeptical, "Can I get so many good things in exchange?"
"That's the capital, there are a lot of rich people, and there are a lot of people who like to enjoy life. Dad, think about it, if there are a few people in your family who get paid, and when the children grow up, someone can cook such delicious meals, wouldn't you be willing to pay a little price to give your family a meal?"
It's a pity for Yu Xiangyan. His cooking skills are okay, but compared with ordinary people, he has no advantage over chefs.
My sister's cooking skills are not inferior to any other chef.
It’s no wonder that they can live such a colorful life; they are capable.
"How long can you stay on vacation this time?"
They can't stay for very long. The winter vacation is less than a month long. After deducting the time on the road and the time to prepare and go back to do things, they can only stay here for six or seven days.
After the Chinese New Year, it’s almost time to go back.
Yu Xiangyan: "I'm going back to the Red Star Brigade tomorrow."
His two daughters and one son were there.
Yu Qingshan nodded: "You should go back. We will also go back to celebrate the New Year this year."
He definitely wanted to spend the New Year with his second son, so they simply went back together.
Anyway, there is a house to live in.
Yu Qingshan now goes back to the commune and the Red Star Brigade on his days off. He goes to the commune to visit Yu Xiangju and goes to the Red Star Brigade to visit his parents and his grandchildren. The second oldest child is not at home, so he has to help take care of him. They must be a little uneasy without their parents around.
Now that school is on vacation, there is no need to make a choice. Yu Xiangju is also in the Red Star Brigade, playing with a group of half-grown kids.
Yu Xiangan also understood Yu Xiangyan and Wen Ruzhen's eagerness to go back to see the children. The twins had never left her for more than a day since they grew up. She felt uncomfortable just imagining the separation for a few months. She was worried whether they would feel cold, hungry, injured, or bullied in a place where she couldn't see them.
I don't know anything and can only guess. It's really heartbreaking. I haven't seen Yu Xiangyan's children for half a year. The younger ones may have even forgotten who their parents are.
Yu Qingshan and Yu Xianghai cannot rest tomorrow. They both have work to do and are not very free, so they agreed that Yu Xiangyan and his friends will take Yu Mingjie and the other kids back to their hometown first, while Yu Qingshan and Yu Xianghai will go back together after the holiday.
Yu Xiangan saw Yu Xiangju, who had grown taller and looked like a young boy. His personality had also changed a bit, from being cheerful to being a little silent. When he saw Yu Xiangan coming back, his eyes sparkled with a familiar expression. He asked many questions excitedly, but in front of other people, he became silent again.
It seems that Zhao Qiaoniang's incident still had a significant impact on him.
After what happened, he grew from a heartless child into a teenager. He grew up, and growing up often comes at a price.
The changes in two or three years are not very obvious to adults, but the changes in children are huge, such as Yu Xiangju, Yu Mingjie, and Yu Xiangyan's three children.
Seeing their parents, the two older ones still remembered them, but were obviously unfamiliar with them. The youngest one could no longer recognize them. Curiously, he pulled Zhang Chahua's hand and asked her, "Who is this?"
Wen Ruzhen's eyes were red when she heard this. "I am your mother. Do you remember me? I went to school and traveled far away. Now I am back."
Yu Xiangan looked at these children and could only sigh in his heart that there is a difference between children raised by their mothers and those raised by their grandmothers or great-grandmothers.
In the past, Wen Ruzhen took good care of these three children, and they were relatively clean most of the time. But now they have grown darker and stronger, and their clothes are dirty. Now you can see that the youngest has mud marks on his back. I don’t know where he rolled in the mud. You can tell at a glance that he is very lively and free, but he is quite different from his original appearance.
Just like what is said in the jokes of later generations, when they were raised by their mothers, they were little princes and princesses wearing suits and skirts, but after being raised by their grandmothers for a while, they became little dogs like Cuihua wearing big flowered cotton jackets.
Back to the Red Star Brigade, there was actually not much difference, just a change of location, a different group of people surrounding them and saying all kinds of compliments, and the situation of drooling happened again.
Yu Xiangan was foresighted and specially printed out three extra copies of photos and information, one for his grandmother, one for Yu Qingshan, and the other for Yu Changyou and Zhang Chahua.
With these things, you can quietly leave while talking and give the space to the big guys who are talking enthusiastically.
Yu Changyou usually doesn't like to join in the fun, but at this time he was listening at the side with a smile on his face the whole time.
Compared to before Yu Xiangan left, his back was hunched and he was thinner. He looked like a skinny old man, which was heartbreaking to see. He had aged so much.
Zhang Chahua looks better, she has a stronger foundation.
The two of them are not doing any work now, they just stay at home to help look after the children and prevent them from doing anything naughty.
After Yu Xiangan and the others left, he asked him, "Grandpa, have you drunk the tonic wine I gave you before? Don't be reluctant to drink it, just drink a small cup before going to bed."
Hearing her ask, Yu Changyou said cheerfully, "I'm drinking, I'm drinking. Look, the amount of wine has decreased a lot. If I hadn't drunk it, it wouldn't have changed."
He was happy, of course he was happy, this was a show of concern for him, ginseng wine was such an expensive thing, but it was given to him just like that, I don't know how many people envied him, some old friends were scolded as old men by the younger generation because they could not work and only wasted food rations, in comparison, he was really enjoying himself.
"Grandpa, just remember to drink it. I brought another one back this time. Don't worry if you finish it. I still have more. This ginseng is not very old and not that expensive."
This thing is good for health and is good for older people to drink. She also gave it to her grandparents.
Zhang Chahua watched this scene and stroked the hands of the twins. "You two are so good-looking. Your skin and appearance are so good. You have inherited the best qualities of your parents. You can become college students just like them in the future!"
Looking at them, Zhang Chahua was also very proud. These were her children and grandchildren, and they had her blood.
They celebrated the New Year here, and Yu Xiangan walked around the place.
In two or three years, the Red Star Brigade developed better than before. Yu Shunwen believed that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Even though he was unable to get more cement, he still paved the road with stones.
It is relatively convenient for them to get stones here. They live by the river and it doesn't take much effort to pick up some stones by the river and move them here. But they have cars and cows. If this road is repaired, not only them but also future children will benefit. They have also expanded the primary school. The school here has been expanded before, and it will be a big deal once the college entrance examination is resumed this year. More people will send their children to school.
Now, a small group of people with the top academic qualifications in their village are working as teachers here. Some of them have a regular position, while others do not. The treatment is pretty good.
The learning atmosphere is also very strong.
During the Chinese New Year, some people came to ask questions. These were people who did not pass the exam last year and were still working hard, including Yu Manyu.
Speaking of Yu Manyu, Yu Xiangan could only send his blessings silently. He told his family that if given a year, he would take the college entrance examination again. If he could pass, he would go to school, if not, he would work hard at home.
His family agreed, and when Yu Xiangyan and Yu Xiangan came back, many of his questions were answered. When Yu Xiangan answered his questions, he looked at the red bloodshot in his eyes and felt very complicated. Love makes people crazy.
Generally speaking, this is a good thing. If he can be admitted to university, it is indeed a great joy in this era. If not, he has already tried his best and will not feel regretful when he looks back on it in the future.
The question he asked showed his level. He has been working hard in the past few months. Although his foundation is poor, he has caught up a lot now. If he continues to maintain his performance, he will have a chance to take the college entrance examination in June.
The New Year was undoubtedly a lively time, with everyone gathered together, but in the midst of all the laughter and merriment, Yu Xiangan found that he missed Lin Chuanbai. He didn't notice it when they were always together, but now that he hadn't seen him for a while, he missed him a lot. Sometimes he would naturally say, "Pour me a glass of water."
"Come and take a look."
"You said this..."
After I said this, I realized that person was not around me, and I felt lost.
If I could go back to before I traveled through time, I couldn't imagine myself living in this era, starting a family with someone, and giving birth to twins.
Now she has gotten used to it, life here is not bad.
Before returning to the capital, Yu Xiangan visited the homes of his former friends and acquaintances, including Deputy Director Wang, Yan Yuzhen, Gao Yimei, and others.
Meeting again after such a long time is naturally a bit of a sigh. Everyone has their own lives and has been separated from each other for a while, but no one knows when we will meet again.
They took the train back to the capital. Lin Chuanbai was waiting for them at the station entrance holding a big sign. When he saw them, he rushed over and hugged the two children. Everyone around him looked at them sideways, and he let them go, "You're finally back!"
The twins also missed their father very much. When they saw him, they hugged him and didn't want to let go.
"Dad, I miss you too!"
"Dad, Dad, I miss you."
Lin Chuanbai: "I don't want to be abandoned by you again in the future."
The family returned home talking and laughing. After two days of idleness at home, they finally recovered their energy.
It's 1978, and Yu Xiangan is looking forward to an exciting year.
During this year, many things happened in their original world, such as the reform and opening up of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the household contract responsibility system, and the return of educated youth to the city.
As for the educated youth returning to the city, there are actually signs of this happening. In the vicinity, Yu Xiangan saw quite a few young men and women who looked unfamiliar. They should be the educated youth who had been sent to the countryside before and came back for the Chinese New Year. Then they stayed here and were unwilling to go back.
If you want to take the college entrance examination, you should naturally come back to the city to gain more knowledge and have more opportunities.
Yu Xiangan also clearly felt the change when he went to buy groceries. The things that he could only buy secretly on the black market before, he now found sellers much more frequently.
They went to the countryside as educated youth. At that time, their families generally had many people and they probably had little living space. In order to avoid being looked down upon, they had to find ways to make a living.
Starting a small business has low capital and is not as hopeless as recruiting workers, so it is the choice many people make out of desperation.
Yu Xiangan: I welcome it!
I hope this day will come sooner.
However, in the early days, this was undoubtedly stressful, and everyone was sneaking around like thieves. It took time to change. In the 1980s, self-employed individuals became legal and formal. Except for a few millionaires, there were still many people who looked down on self-employed individuals and would be criticized.
There is still a long way to go before I can appear in front of people openly.
When he returned to the classroom at the beginning of the school term, Yu Xiangan discovered many changes.
I don't know whether this change is good or bad.
Everyone became more energetic, and many students paid more attention to dressing up.
When hearing Liu Mingyue talking about movie stars and their makeup and lipstick, Yu Xiangan gave her a homemade DIY lipstick. It was a light red, everyday and suitable for daily use. The ones sold were too red. Nowadays, people are generally more conservative. They have to think twice before wearing a bright color. How many people dare to go out with bright red on? But this one is different. If you don't pay attention, you will just think that it is this color naturally. It looks very beautiful. Liu Mingyue tried it and liked it very much.
"Xiao An, I won't be polite to you, and you don't have to be polite to me either. I brought a lot of local specialties for the New Year, take these!"
Yu Xiangan took a look at it and found that it was not a very expensive item, so she accepted it: "Okay, given our relationship, if I'm polite to you, wouldn't that be giving you an advantage? I provide after-sales service. If you run out of it or it breaks, tell me and I'll give you another one."
"Oh, that's incredible! I'll remember that."
Ke Manyun didn't notice it at first, but after seeing her using it, she went to the department store to look, but didn't see it, so she asked where she bought it.
Only then did she find out that it was given to her by Yu Xiangan.
She lowered her head in disappointment at the time, "Why did she give it to you and not to me? Aren't we friends?"
Liu Mingyue frowned immediately after hearing this.
If she didn't ask for it, what would it be? Besides, the relationship between the two of them was even better. She also heard Yu Xiangan say that it was tiring to get along with Ke Manyun. If the relationship was not good enough, wouldn't it be normal for her not to give it to him?
She didn't think there was a problem before, because she had a sister-in-law with the same personality, and she would lower her voice when she saw people. But now, she felt that there was a reason why Xiao An and her had an average relationship.
And how should she respond to this? She laughed, "This thing is hard to come by, and I was just talking at the time. Have you looked in the department store? They also have lipsticks."
Ke Manyun: "...the ones without color don't look good."
Liu Mingyue: “…”
Why is she so stubborn?
What reassures Yu Xiangan is that although everyone pays more attention to their appearance, they still maintain their enthusiasm for learning. No one is careless and no one has ever skipped classes.
But there were also farces.
A young woman brought her child to the school and said that she had lost contact with her husband since he came to school. She was worried, so she brought her child to the school.
She waited at the school gate for a while, but no one showed up, so she stopped the school leader and knelt down in front of everyone. Many students saw this scene, and it quickly spread throughout the school.
Liu Mingyue said with disdain: "That guy is a talented student in the Chinese department! Pah, what a hypocritical thing, he still said that he is not married. You don't know, although they didn't make it clear, but he is close to a female classmate, and others say they are dating, but the result is that the child is already two! He didn't write to anyone for such a long time, and everyone didn't understand what he meant. Isn't it just that he got into university and felt successful, and didn't want the wife he married when he went to the countryside to work in the production team? No matter how good his knowledge is, it's useless if he doesn't have good character!"
Yu Xiangan agreed: "That's right. If the person next to you can do this, and can even tear your own flesh and blood apart, how can there be a closer relationship? If this is no longer useful, will you still go back and step on it?"
"That's right. It's better to make a fuss. We should let the people around the great talent see his true face!" Liu Mingyue was still angry. Seeing Ke Manyun huddled aside with a pale face and not speaking, she called her, "Manyun, Manyun, you look so pale. What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Ke Manyun finally came back to her senses: "Ah? What, you called me?"
"Yes, you look so pale, are you feeling unwell?"
Ke Manyun touched her stomach and spoke in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "Yes, I felt a dull pain here when I woke up this morning, and it's even worse now."
"Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier? Go see a doctor."
She smiled weakly: "No, this is an old problem. I can just make a bowl of sugar water and drink it when I get home."
Looking at her leaving back, Yu Xiangan seemed to be thinking about something.
She was really not feeling well. I didn't notice anything wrong with her before she talked about this. If she was pretending, then there would be a story behind it.
Thinking of this, her eyes flashed: "Does she still often follow you?"
Liu Mingyue nodded: "She is too shy. When she talks to others, she doesn't say a word for a long time. Even if she speaks, her voice is very low. How can she make any friends like this?"
After hesitating for a while, Liu Mingyue still didn't mention what Ke Manyun said last time.
If I say this, there will definitely be some opinions.
What she said behind my back sounded like she was making fun of someone.
Yu Xiangan: "... Well, I think she can't do this. Now we are studying, we are all classmates, and no one minds taking care of her. But what about when she starts working in the future? Will you be able to tell me anything? Who knows where she will work in the future, what do you think?"
Liu Mingyue slapped her forehead and said, "You are right. After she starts working, she must change her temper."
"Okay, don't say I said that, and don't get involved too much. Just to mention, she is an adult. At this age, if she were in the countryside, many people would be mothers."
Liu Mingyue thought of herself: "When I was her age, I had already given birth to my first child."
Yu Xiangan told Lin Chuanbai about this matter, and Lin Chuanbai also sighed: "Such a thing happened in my school. It didn't happen last semester. I guess it was because no one went back home during the Chinese New Year and there was no news. It broke out all of a sudden. There are still many people who didn't break out. It's not that such a thing didn't happen, but the abandoned people don't have the capital or courage to look for others." If it's far away, the travel expenses will cost dozens of yuan.
Ordinary farmers don’t have that much savings. Even if they do, they save it for their children’s marriage, birth, illness and death.
I usually eat sweet potatoes and wild vegetables, and I don’t want to eat an extra egg, but I want to spend dozens of dollars to get an answer that has already been guessed. It’s too extravagant.
Yu Xiangan was silent.
Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Lin Chuanbai mentioned something to cheer her up. "My teacher found me today and asked me to be his assistant. There will be no salary, but there will be food coupons as a subsidy. If the laboratory produces results, I can also get a share of the money. It doesn't matter if there is no salary, and the food coupons are also okay. The main thing is that I can also use the laboratory equipment."
Yu Xiangan smiled at first, then he remembered the prices of the equipment in the laboratory and suddenly he couldn't laugh anymore.
She thought she was already wealthy, a small wealthy woman, but the reality that the equipment prices started at five figures and she had to empty her savings to only buy equipment accessories made her realize who she was.
She is a poor person, so she should stop thinking too much about other people's affairs and just take care of herself first.
Why do you want to buy it?
Put yourself in her shoes. She wants the kitchenware because this is her assistant. Doesn’t Lin Chuanbai want his assistant?
As long as you have the ability, you naturally want to be equipped with it.
Still have to work hard!
Lin Chuanbai: ...
Why does it feel like my wife is suddenly even more unhappy?
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