Chapter 118 Xiao Dingkun's Letter
On this day, Fubao and Gu Shengtian were preparing to go to school in the county town, but they happened to receive a notice from the commune saying that a breeding farm was recruiting workers.
A farm is not a good place. There is always a smell when raising livestock there. People with city household registration are not very willing to work there, so this kind of quota is only available to people from rural areas.
The commune obtained some quotas and allocated them to the village, and Chen Youfu got two places.
He shouted through the loudspeaker, calling for a meeting, and talked about two indicators of the farm.
Everyone was excited when they heard this. Everyone had kids around that age, so it was perfect! So everyone started asking what the requirements were and how to get in.
Chen Youfu tapped the table with his fingers. "Wait a minute, don't be anxious. Register one by one. They'll take their time to select."
But no matter what he said, everyone crowded to the front, trying desperately to be the first to register, and no one wanted to fall behind.
And among this group of people, Sheng Yin and Sheng Jin also came.
What Nie Laosan meant was that there was nothing wrong with registering. If you were selected, you would at least have commercial grain!
When it is Shengyin and Shengjin's turn, Shengyin lets Shengjin register first.
She was actually a little hesitant.
According to the trajectory of her previous life, the college entrance examination should have been resumed by now, and Shengjin would definitely be able to be admitted to a prestigious university. As long as she worked hard and relied on her innate advantages that many people did not even study hard for, she might also be able to be admitted to an ordinary school.
These days, let alone going to university, even if you go to a technical secondary school, you can be assigned to work in the county party committee after returning, which is far more than what you can get from working on a pig farm.
In heaven and on earth.
Shengjin didn't think much about it and went straight forward to register.
Shengyin hesitated for a while, but finally signed up.
What no one expected was that a few days later, the results came out and Shengjin was hired by the breeding farm.
When the news came, Nie Laosan's wife was overjoyed. She boasted to everyone she met, "Now that my family has made a fortune, we can eat commercial grain! A farm is a stable job. I heard there's all you can eat, all you can eat, all you can eat, delicious food and even take meat home whenever you want!"
"There will be more meat than I can eat at home!"
Shengjin himself was also very happy.
He is in his second year of high school and his academic performance is pretty good, but what does it matter if he does well in academics? His father was once caught in speculation and profiteering, so he definitely won't have the chance to be recommended to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. After another year of study, he will have to come back home to do farm work.
Now in his second year of high school, he can get his high school diploma and has been accepted by the breeding farm. He feels that his path is going smoothly.
Shengyin watched as his younger brother was selected while he himself was not, and he couldn't tell whether he felt disappointed or relieved.
She secretly planned in her heart that if her brother went to work on the farm and she continued to go to school, if the college entrance examination was relaxed, she would take it and hopefully get into university. If it was not relaxed, she would ask her brother to find a way to get into the farm as well, and she would not lose out.
At worst, I have my younger brother’s farm as a backup.
Thinking of this, she breathed a sigh of relief and went back to school.
In addition to Shengjin, the other person chosen was Chen Cuier.
Chen Cui'er didn't expect that she would be selected.
She was a little conflicted. Working in a breeding farm was not a good job, but the only jobs available to them in the countryside were working in breeding farms and slaughterhouses in mines. Working in mines seemed very hard, and she heard that there were dangers. But at least there were livestock in the breeding farms, and there was an internal processing price for buying meat, and she heard that meat tickets were not required.
So after some initial hesitation, she simply went to the farm.
Fubao was somewhat helpless about Chen Cui'er's choice.
She had a vague idea of what the future would be like. She felt that she should continue studying and persevere, and perhaps she would have a chance.
But she tried to persuade Chen Cui'er, but Chen Cui'er didn't listen.
Chen Cui'er was very determined. "After I go to the farm, I'll see if I can get a transfer to a better place in two years. Even if not, at least I have a stable job earning commercial grain. I'll ask my dad to help me find someone who earns commercial grain. My life won't be bad at all."
Fubao stopped talking after hearing Chen Cuier's plan.
She had previously discovered that Chen Cui'er's values were very different from hers in terms of marriage, the future, and plans for herself.
Fubao loves reading and yearns for the love in the books, but Chen Cuier sees through everything and always says she wants to find a partner who grows commercial grain.
This is not about who has the right or wrong idea. It just means that different personalities lead to different choices, and the final paths are ultimately different.
Fubao stopped trying to persuade Chen Cuier. Instead, he used the little pocket money he had saved to buy a scarf for Chen Cuier as a blessing.
Chen Cui'er thought about how many years of being good classmates and good friends were about to part ways and go their separate ways. She almost cried, but finally wiped her tears and said, "Fubao, you are sometimes silly and don't think too much. Don't worry, I'm going to the farm to see if they still need anyone. I will find a way to recruit you and let you eat commercial grain."
Fubao pursed his lips and smiled: "Okay!"
She had a vague feeling about what the future would be like, but she was not sure, after all, she was not a god.
If she really has to go home to work on the farm, she hopes she can be hired.
When they returned to school this year, Fubao and Gu Shengtian discovered that there were not many classmates left. Many of them gave up studying after making sure they could get a high school diploma and began to seek other ways out. Some of them were originally from the county town, and their parents ate commercial grain, so they could take over their parents' jobs and work in factories, which was considered a good future.
There were only a few people in the classroom. The teacher came in, looked around, sighed, and then started teaching.
It was the third year of high school, and everyone was in a state of panic. Not only others, but even Gu Shengtian began to think: "Actually, it would be great if I could be recruited as a worker, or see if there is any opportunity to recruit soldiers."
It would be nice to be a soldier like my brother!
Fubao advised Gu Shengtian: "Brother Shengtian, there's no point in being anxious now. If there really is a job opening, we can go and sign up. It's also good to study while signing up."
Fubao's words made sense, but Gu Shengtian looked at her, shook his head and sighed: "Fubao, you are always so calm and methodical in everything you do, but I can't be like you."
This little sister was cute and silly when she was little. Now she has grown up. Although she may not be very smart, her words and actions are well-thought-out.
You can say she is naive or that she is wise but appears foolish, but once she makes up her mind about something, she will not change her mind easily.
For example, when everyone else is distracted, she can continue to read attentively.
Maybe it’s because I heard chanting in a nunnery when I was a child, so my voice is different from that of ordinary people.
Gu Shengtian is already seventeen years old. At the age of seventeen, he began to think about his future, his life, and the world.
Fubao sighed softly in his heart.
Chen Cui'er and she have a good relationship, but they are not relatives. If there is really no way out in the future, she will not be able to be responsible for Chen Cui'er's life, so she cannot persuade her forcefully. Chen Cui'er has made up her mind, and she has no choice.
But Brother Shengtian is different.
Since Brother Shengtian didn't study hard, she would nag him and force him to study hard.
So she put down the book and said to Gu Shengtian solemnly: "Brother Shengtian, let's have a good talk after dinner."
Gu Shengtian: “…”
He is afraid. Is it not okay if he is afraid?
What he feared most was that Fubao would have a "good talk" with him.
That would be even more terrifying than being scolded by his parents and grandmother! !
——
Faced with this phenomenon of people's unrest, Fubao wrote his helplessness in a letter to Xiao Dingkun.
In fact, Fubao's memory of Xiao Dingkun's appearance is a little vague now. After all, she was only six years old when Xiao Dingkun left. Eleven years are enough to erase Xiao Dingkun's face from Fubao's memory.
But precisely because she had forgotten what Xiao Dingkun looked like, she trusted him even more, as if he were her life mentor, and she was used to telling him everything.
Whether it was useful or not, she wrote it down in a letter first. After finishing it, she felt relieved.
In fact, Xiao Dingkun is very busy now.
Xiao Dingkun has resigned from his original machinery factory and started his own business. From what Xiao Dingkun said, his main business is to recycle some obsolete equipment from the state-owned machinery factory, and after transformation and processing, make them into agricultural machinery products and then sell them.
At the beginning, he used other people's processing plants for processing and had to pay them processing fees. Now that the business has grown slowly, he has acquired the processing plants himself and will expand the scale in the future.
He has become rich and seems to have a lot of money.
However, Xiao Dingkun did not seem to care much about these achievements. At least, between the lines, there was no tone of his father's "life is better now that we have become rich and we are not short of money". Instead, he began to plan to export those machines abroad, saying that he wanted to open a new company called Import and Export Trading Company.
Based on Yi Fubao's experience, she doesn't quite understand what an "import and export trading company" is.
However, she knew that now we need to improve and open up. Improvement means internal improvement, and opening up means opening up to the outside world. Since this is what the leaders above have advocated, Xiao Dingkun doing this can be regarded as following the trend of the times.
In her simple and simplistic student thinking, anything that conforms to the trend of the times is a good thing.
Because he was busy setting up this "import and export trading company", Xiao Dingkun was very busy and often traveled all over the country. He said that he had accumulated a pile of train tickets. Xiao Dingkun was so busy that he often failed to receive Fubao's letters in time, so Fubao didn't expect Xiao Dingkun to reply to his letters quickly.
But what Fubao didn't expect was that Xiao Dingkun actually replied.
In fact, over the years, although Fubao often told Xiao Dingkun about some of her little troubles, he rarely told her directly and rudely what to do.
In most cases, he would analyze her problem and then offer several possible suggestions.
But this time, his attitude was firm.
"Of course you have to keep studying. Don't be greedy for job opportunities. They're not good. You can't do them."
After hearing this, Fubao couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.
She thought so in her heart, but when she tried to persuade Gu Shengtian, she couldn't help but doubt herself. However, she was still happy that Xiao Dingkun could support her so firmly.
She continued to read and saw Xiao Dingkun's flamboyant handwriting: "Wait until you graduate from high school and see how things go. If it really doesn't work out, you can come to City B."
He didn't say what he was going to City B for.
But this is enough to make Fubao feel at ease.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered the fluctuations in her heart after Chen Cui'er mentioned Li Jianbai more than two years ago.
At that time, Chen Cui'er talked about how great Li Jianbai was, but she felt that it was impossible, absolutely impossible.
For some unknown reason, she thought of Xiao Dingkun and wanted to ask him for a photo.
But it was torn off later.
She couldn't say such words.
When I think about it now, my heart skips a beat.
She closed her eyes.
In fact, she didn't really want to know what he looked like now.
It's good to keep a certain distance between us. When the face is too clear, perhaps the feeling of being a gentle and reliable life mentor will disappear.
With a soft smile, she carefully folded his letter, placed it in an envelope, and then put it in a small wooden box.
In the following days, she calmed down more, studied, and exercised, and persisted every day even though there were fewer and fewer people in the classroom.
As for Gu Shengtian, under her various pressures, of course he could only follow her to study.
When only she, Gu Shengtian and Shengyin were left in the classroom, shocking news came.
The Ministry of Education held a national college admissions work conference in City B and decided to resume the national college entrance examination, which had been suspended for 12 years, to select talents to go to university through a unified examination and admission based on merit.
In short, now that the college entrance examination has been resumed, everyone has a chance.
When the news came out, everyone went crazy.
Not to mention the students, even the teachers were excited. They jumped up, their eyes shining and their bodies full of hope.
The college entrance examination is a college entrance examination that everyone can try. As long as you can get good grades, you can go to university.
Going to college means changing your destiny!
You can walk from the countryside to the county town, from a small county town to a big city, and escape the fate of being exposed to the loess in the Northern Dynasties.
When Fubao and Gu Shengtian heard the news, they were of course overjoyed!
Originally, he, Fubao and that strange Shengyin were the only ones left in the classroom. But as soon as the news came out, his former classmates ran back frantically, each expressing their desire to go back to school and study again.
Some of them had lost their books long ago, and some couldn't even find a pen at home, but they all started to study.
Of course, they are still pretty good, at least they have just left school not long ago, while some people don’t even have any review materials at home, but they also say that they want to take the college entrance examination.
Overnight, all the books related to the college entrance examination in Xinhua Bookstore were sold out. Some people borrowed books everywhere, including from students in school and from everyone they knew.
This year's college entrance examination is scheduled for June, but it is already April, so there are only two months of preparation time.
Two months is too short a time for those who haven't touched a textbook in years.
After Shengjin heard the news, she regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. She worked at the farm during the day and studied all night long. Shengyin was relieved because she had expected it and had been studying hard.
As for the other people in the village, Chen Cui'er was disappointed for a while after hearing the news. After some hesitation, she came to find Fubao and said, "Fubao, I want to study with you too. Give it a try. Maybe you can pass the exam."
That’s exactly what Fubao was thinking, so he quickly lent his review notes for this section to Chen Cuier.
Chen Cui'er took the notes and burst into tears.
These notes are really detailed. With them, if she studies hard, she still has a good chance of getting into university.
She hugged Fubao with emotion: "Fubao, you are so, so good to me!"
Why is Chen Cui'er so grateful for a note? Because at this time it is like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge, it is the time to decide fate. Everyone is participating in this competition together. If you squeeze through, others will have no chance, so it can be said to be a life-and-death struggle.
Fubao was willing to lend her his notes at this time, which really showed his thoughtfulness towards her.
At this time, the educated youth in the village also went crazy and started to take out their textbooks to study, but where did they get the textbooks? So they started to find ways to borrow them.
Fubao lent his set of textbooks to Su Wanru, and she and Gu Shengtian used one set. Su Wanru was so grateful that she didn't know what to say.
Two years ago, she watched Huo Jinyun leave. She was desperate and felt that she would never have the chance to leave in this lifetime.
But now, a huge opportunity is right in front of her.
As long as she studies hard and passes the exam, she can leave and go to college.
She is already twenty-seven years old, but so what? At twenty-seven, she can still go to college and still ask the world for her lost ten years of youth.
Su Wanru began to study frantically with the textbook used by Fubao in her arms. Without candles, she used a kerosene lamp. A bean-sized kerosene lamp was the light for her study. She was so tired from teaching during the day that her mouth was dry and her tongue was parched, so she tried her best to seize the time to study at night.
Everyone was like a wound-up clock, trying their best to seize this opportunity, and Fubao was no exception.
She reviewed the lessons she had learned in an orderly manner, and she actually had a clear idea of them.
Seeing Su Wanru, she thought of Xiao Dingkun, so she wrote to him, "Brother Dingkun, do you want to give it a try? Maybe you can get into university?"
Xiao Dingkun's reply was concise: "My import and export trading company has been successfully prepared and has already successfully negotiated its first export transaction. I'm currently in the process of applying for export quotas from the Foreign Trade Bureau. This is exactly what I want to do. If I go to university, I will still do this after graduation."
Fubao: “…”
She suddenly felt that what Brother Dingkun said was absolutely right.
Brother Dingkun is a very goal-oriented person who has a clear purpose in everything he does.
He has already achieved a very successful career, and going back to school at this time would just be a waste of time.
Along with the reply came a thick stack of review materials.
Fubao didn't take it seriously at first, but when he opened it and took a look, he was shocked. These review materials actually contained all the college entrance examination questions from the beginning of the college entrance examination system until it was stopped twelve years ago. In addition, there were some English review materials that were absolutely unavailable in the county.
This information is so precious.
You have to know that these days, many people find it difficult to even get textbooks, let alone such detailed review materials.
——
She didn't want to keep this information to herself, so she distributed it to her classmates and asked them to quickly copy it by hand. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw the information.
They couldn't believe that Fubao was willing to share such valuable review materials for everyone to copy.
Fubao was very calm about this: "The college entrance examination is a fair competition. I also hope that you can get more opportunities."
At this time, no one knew what to say to express gratitude. Words are powerless, and we can only remember this kindness in our hearts.
Fubao's information was quickly copied and circulated, and she even specially copied a copy for Su Wanru, who was even more excited when she got the information.
Although Su Wanru has been teaching in elementary school all these years, she has never left the textbooks, so her feel is better than others. Now that she has the information, she is even more powerful. She herself feels that she has a better grasp of the subject than others.
After being circulated and copied many times in the school, this information finally came into Shengyin's hands.
When Shengyin got the information, he was very surprised and had mixed feelings.
She was selfish, and she admitted it.
Even for her own twin brother, she knew that the college entrance examination would be relaxed soon, but she never thought of dissuading him from going to the farm, because she wanted Shengjin to go to the farm to open a backup retreat for her.
She is so selfish.
But Fubao, why was she so generous? Why did she contribute such precious information without hesitation and pass it into her hands?
Shengyin has hated Fubao since his rebirth and would seize any opportunity to harm Fubao without hesitation.
But now, she suddenly felt confused.
What on earth is Fubao thinking about?
So in the evening of that day, she followed Fubao and asked him about him.
She looked up at Fubao and said, "If I were you, I would hide this information and never show it to anyone."
Fu Bao glanced at her indifferently: "So you are not me."
Shengyin suddenly felt unhappy. She felt that Fubao's eyes were full of pride. That pride was like a sunny day in June. It was dazzling and uncomfortable for her.
Shengyin sneered, "If I get this information and I pass the exam but you don't, won't you feel bad then?"
Fubao laughed when he heard this: "Shengyin, you have always been against me since we were little. You always think you are ahead of me in every aspect and smarter than me, but when have you ever been better than me?"
Shengyin narrowed his eyes.
Fubao: "I am sharing this information so that I am not afraid of others doing better than me, because others have achieved good results through their own efforts. I will only congratulate and admire them, but not be jealous. If I do better than others with this information, then there is nothing glorious about my victory. As for you——"
Fu Bao said calmly, "Even if I give you this information, you still won't be able to get into university. I'm letting you see this information just so you can accept your defeat with a clear conscience."
Shengyin stared at Fubao; "Why do you say that? You, you——"
She gritted her teeth and finally asked the question she had been wondering for years: "Are you reborn? Do you still remember things from your previous life?"
Fubao raised an eyebrow and looked at Shengyin in surprise. "So you remember your past life? What was it like? Was it a miserable life, so that now you are always filled with resentment?"
In fact, she had been suspicious since she was very young, but she had no evidence and was too lazy to care.
Now I accidentally know the truth.
Shengyin's worries were exposed by Fubao, and he frowned and looked at Fubao: "What about you, right? You don't know? You don't know about your past life?"
She quickly calmed down, thought about it, and suddenly realized something.
The last time Huo Jinze met Fubao, Fubao didn't react at all. She seemed very unfamiliar with Huo Jinze. It was obvious that Fubao didn't remember anything from her previous life.
As long as you don’t remember anything about your previous life, you will have the upper hand.
No matter what Fubao was thinking, as long as she couldn't get close to Huo Jinze in this life and Huo Jinze didn't fall in love with Fubao at first sight, then she still had hope.
No matter what, the one who is now communicating with Huo Jinze is himself, not Fubao.
I have already gained the upper hand.
Thinking of this, Shengyin looked at Fubao, who still knew nothing about this, and smiled.
She decided to write a letter to Huo Jinze tonight and tell her how the fellow villager named Fubao got the information but didn't let her see it.
Maybe Huo Jinze can help her get better information?
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