Chapter 403 The Trend of the Times
Just before school started, the four members of the Xie family returned from Pengcheng by train.
Orange started his sophomore year courses. Perhaps inspired by this trip, he began to teach himself code and prepare to make some money.
She wants to take her family abroad for a real trip after she graduates.
The chocolate her mother brought back from the Sakura Country last time was delicious, not bitter at all.
The rice cooker I brought back is also very useful.
Sure enough, after Lin Xiaotong developed all the photos, a lot of people gathered at home.
Everyone gathered together to see Gao Xiulan’s “overseas travel photos”.
"Oh my god, Xiulan, why did Xiaotong take the photo of you so high?
Wow, there's such a tall tower behind this picture! It looks so majestic."
She couldn't control her voice even when her mouth was wide open. The sound was so loud that even Diao Yulian, who was washing diapers in the west room opposite, could hear it.
Yu Afen thought so too: "This one is also beautiful. It really looks like it was taken abroad."
Jin Qiaofeng looked at it and touched Gao Xiulan's elbow: "Just say that my little props are more useful."
Gao Xiulan placed the snacks she brought back from Pengcheng on the table and gave everyone a little.
"Yes, yes, I just posed like this and Xiaotong's camera took the picture in a few clicks."
Diao Yulian couldn't help but wash her hands and slipped to the east side: "The ticket is still 80? That's expensive!"
She looked at the ticket with Gao Xiulan's photo on it, and although she said that, she still felt envious.
With a new child at home, I can’t leave for a short time.
Yang Shujuan took a look and had some ideas in her mind.
Her husband, Mr. Xia, is retired now, so the two of them can go traveling to the south.
Jin Qiaofeng tasted the dried fruit and frowned slightly.
"This is dried jackfruit. Why does it taste a little weird?"
Lin Xiaotong explained: "Auntie, this is the taste of this fruit. Some people can't get used to it."
Of course some cats do too.
The two cats at home hid far away, unlike usual when they would run over, roll over, and show their soft bellies to ask for pats.
Xie Da Jiao ran outside and found a few old friends at the door of the third uncle's house.
Zhou Jianguo greeted him, "Hey, Old Xie, you're back? Why is your face so tanned?"
Xie Da Jiao said nothing, took out a pile of photos from his jacket pocket, placed them on the small table, and carefully spread out each one.
He raised his head and tapped the table with his fingers: "Look at this!"
Qian Baozhu took a look at the one in the middle and pulled it out.
I admired it from top to bottom and left to right several times, smacked my lips, and felt something was not right.
"Old Xie, why are your legs so short in this photo? Who took this photo for you? Isn't this a rip-off?"
Xie Da Jiao had a bad feeling and snatched it back in a second.
After watching it, smoke came out of his head and he gritted his teeth: "You little bastard, why did you develop this one too?"
Xia Yuanqing couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Jianguo shook his head. It was rare to see Old Xie showing off and making mistakes.
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In September 1995, Lin Xiaotong finally removed the word "professor" from her title and began to teach her first batch of doctoral students. Her research direction gradually shifted to constitutional and administrative law.
The most intuitive feeling of the promotion is that the numbers on the monthly pay slip have become more impressive, much higher than Xie Yi's salary.
The corresponding teaching tasks also became heavier. This year, the department head, Old Ji, finally retired honorably and helped take care of his lovely granddaughter in the staff quarters with his wife.
After Shen Tingyu took over his position, the Law Department's academic exchanges with foreign countries gradually increased, providing teachers and students with more opportunities for discussion and interaction.
In March 1996, Lin Xiaotong went to the United States as an international visiting scholar, bringing with her exchanged foreign currency and a long shopping list.
In late April, when Xie Yi went to pick up the plane, he looked at the several suitcases of different sizes and almost couldn't hold back.
It looks like he is going to purchase goods.
The two of them finally took a taxi back, and the trunk was almost full.
The experienced driver helped tie it to the roof of the car with a rope, and then drove into the alley in a swaggering manner.
In the same year, the job placement for college graduates began a new transformation, and was no longer a one-stop job placement by the school.
Some are happy about this change while others are sad.
There were signs of this happening in 1996, and in 1997 the state issued the "Interim Provisions on Employment of Graduates from Ordinary Institutions of Higher Education", encouraging college students to choose their own jobs and start their own businesses.
Except for a small number of special groups, the vast majority of the summer graduates in 1998 chose to work freely.
The other side of canceling graduation assignments is that university tuition fees will be charged, university enrollment will expand, and the college entrance examination admission rate will increase.
Although there are no children in the compound who are taking the college entrance examination this year, nothing major has happened in the alley recently.
This matter was also kept as a topic of conversation, and everyone gathered together from time to time to discuss it.
Diao Yulian was a little worried: "It's okay to need money to go to college, but why is there no guaranteed job placement?"
Her daughter Mingzhu is still young, and she doesn’t know what the rules will be in the future.
Before this, going to college didn't cost money but instead earned money.
Every year, the government allocates a prescribed standard of education funds to the school account based on the number of students.
A student receives a food allowance of more than 20 yuan per month, and a meat allowance of a few yuan per quarter.
Even the round-trip transportation and food allowance for graduation internship can be applied for reimbursement from the college.
For girls like Orange, their family basically didn't have to pay for their four years of college expenses.
Guan Lamei was a little worried when she heard her say that.
This is so terrible. It ruins my mood for eating meat.
"With so many people admitted to universities this year, won't the streets be filled with college students by the time Tangyuan goes to college?"
Yu Afen frowned when she heard this: "That shouldn't be the case, right?"
Tangyuan's grades aren't very good, and it's unlikely he'll even be able to get into a junior college.
Fortunately, Qian Yu and Donggua enrolled their child in interest classes when he was young, preparing to develop in the direction of dance to see if he could become an art student.
Gao Xiulan threw a small dried fish to Daju, and while the cat was eating, she used a comb to smooth its fur.
"Don't you forget that what our country lacks the least is people?"
Orange graduated in 1997 and caught the last job assignment, but he refused.
Xiaotong and Xie Yi also respected the child's own wishes and did not interfere too much.
Chengzi took the initiative to hand in a plan, and Lin Xiaotong took out the family's small treasury after reading it.
He took out a portion of the rent, the couple's salary, and the family's previous savings and gave it to his daughter for her to use as she pleased.
When they grow up and have full wings, the sky is the place they yearn for.
Some people seek stability, some people like an uncertain life, and these are all normal.
Gao Xiulan heard about it, discussed it with Xie Dajiao, and gave her eldest granddaughter 10,000 yuan.
Jing Qian and Wei Jianyuan found out about it and came over to give Chengzi some money, and this time they succeeded in tearing it apart again.
Orange wrote down all the "loving investments" he received in a small notebook, preparing to distribute the profits when he made money.
After graduation, Chengzi formed a studio with several college classmates. Now he types on a big computer every day, and no one knows what he is tinkering with.
Diao Yulian yelled anxiously, "But isn't this still family planning? Who knows, when we have fewer children in the future, we can just go to any university."
It is said that a person's character is judged by his childhood. Her daughter Mingzhu looks like her daughter-in-law Nana, but her personality is a bit like Wu Jiabao.
Before the child started school, she and Wu Shengli were already worried about the child's future academic performance.
Jin Qiaofeng runs a matchmaking agency and spends all day dealing with marriages, so she has some experience.
"It's hard to say. Nowadays, couples who want to get married are not very happy about having children. Anyway, they can only have one.
What if everyone stops having children? Will family planning still work?
After 1995, residents' living standards improved.
After the cancellation of coupons, commodity prices continued to rise and the purchasing power of currency was no longer as high as before.
Not to mention anything else, now if you go out on the street with a coin in your pocket, you wouldn't dare walk from one end of the street to the other.
In the past, anyone with a few cents in their pocket was considered a big shot.
Diao Yulian said distressedly: "Raising a child is really expensive nowadays. A can of milk powder costs a fortune."
I feel a little lucky that there is only one child in the family, otherwise I really couldn't afford to raise him.
Looking at Gao Xiulan, he said, "Oh, by the way, do you know what Jia Yuhe's daughter Jia Zhenzhen is doing?"
Yu Afen came over and said, "What did you do? Tell me quickly, don't keep me in suspense."
He opened his mouth wide and stuffed a handful of peeled melon seeds into his mouth generously.
"That's right, you always keep me in suspense. If you do that again next time, I won't play with you."
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