The elders of the Mu and Qin families were also reluctant to let the children leave. They loved watching them run around and climb up and down every day.
Besides, there's a kindergarten in the compound, and the child will be starting primary school in two years. Can the education in the suburbs compare to that in the city?
Shao Baixin's wife seems to have improved a lot. Ever since Shao's two children asked Xu Xinning for help, Xu Xinning has also helped take care of her a few times.
Xu Xinning prepared some pills for her, and she took them every day without fail. However, Xu Xinning noticed that she was becoming more and more silent, and her eyes were always wary.
Xu Xinning felt there must be a reason for this. She believed that a couple who used to be so loving could not have become like this after a few years. However, it was their family matter, and she shouldn't ask too much. It wouldn't be good if people thought she was gossiping about their sore spots.
After the college entrance examination was reinstated, many educated youth returned to the city one after another. Some were admitted to universities, some were found jobs by their families, and some used some means to return.
With the large-scale return of educated youth to the cities, the urban population suddenly increased.
The city is still the same city, and the number of laborers needed in the city is still the same, so there is an excess of laborers.
With more unemployed people, the city's safety becomes a problem.
Since the reform and opening up, the number of self-employed individuals has increased, but due to the lack of regulation, there are many problems.
Shao Qifeng also returned in 1977 after passing the exam. Along with him, Yu Baozhu and her husband, as well as the other educated youth who went to the compound together, also passed the exam.
Shao Qifeng and Yu Baozhu had ample time to prepare, so all three of them did very well on the exam.
Shao Qifeng went to Kyoto University, Yu Baozhu went to medical school, which is the same school where Xu Xinning taught, and Yu Baozhu's husband went to Tsinghua University.
Yu Baozhu has not contacted the Yu family since she returned. With Shao Qifeng's help, the couple rented a house near the school. It was a large courtyard, and their house was at the very end of the courtyard, so the environment was still quite good.
The truth will eventually come out. Kyoto is not that big, and it's inevitable to run into acquaintances at the university. So, it wasn't long before Old Master Yu found out that Yu Baozhu and her husband had been admitted to university.
Grandpa Yu could do without his granddaughter who had gone to the countryside to get married, but he still cherished his college-educated granddaughter and grandson-in-law. After all, the Yu family wasn't very large; his eldest son had given him two grandsons, and his second son only had this one daughter.
The incident involving Yu Mei back then ultimately had an impact on the Yu family, and none of the Yu family members have accomplished anything in the past few years.
Therefore, Yu Baozhu and her husband's admission to university seemed to give the Yu family a glimmer of hope, and the gloom hanging over the Yu family seemed to be slowly receding.
Grandpa Yu repeatedly sent his orderly to find Yu Baozhu, but Yu Baozhu did not respond. She kept avoiding him and never returned to the Yu family home.
Even so, Grandpa Yu did not give up.
As he grew older, the Yu family would have to rely on the younger generation for the future. So, when Yu Baozhu and her husband were about to graduate, Old Master Yu took it upon himself to pull strings to help them get jobs in companies that satisfied him.
As Mr. Yu gets older, he becomes more pragmatic, and he makes the most of his resources.
Old Master Yu wanted to pave the way for his descendants while he was still alive, so that the Yu family could bring glory to their ancestors. That way, after he died, his descendants could be grateful to his memorial tablet and talk about his great achievements.
But Yu Baozhu and her husband never intended to stay in Kyoto. In a sense, Kyoto was always a painful place for Yu Baozhu. If it weren't for the good universities in Kyoto, she wouldn't have wanted to come back.
If they stayed in Kyoto, the Yu family would certainly not allow them to live in peace.
Their children stayed in the husband's hometown, where his relatives and connections were also located. Although they didn't have the same social standing as the Yu family, Yu Baozhu lived a comfortable and carefree life there.
Yu Baozhu's husband hesitated. He only knew that Yu Baozhu was from Kyoto, but he didn't expect her family to have such a background.
He had worked for many years and knew very well that with the help of the Yu family, his future path would be much easier.
Having lived together for several years, Yu Baozhu couldn't possibly be unaware of what her husband was thinking. So she had a deep conversation with him, and from then on, Yu Baozhu's husband gave up his desire to rely on the Yu family's power.
Can a family that values profit more than kinship really go the distance?
They were the first batch of university students in 1977, so the country arranged very good jobs for these graduates.
Yu Baozhu and her husband were eventually assigned to the provincial capital, the husband's hometown. He became a teacher at a university in the provincial capital, while Yu Baozhu went to work at the provincial people's hospital.
By the time Old Master Yu found out, it was already a done deal.
Grandpa Yu was so angry he was practically fuming, but he couldn't bring himself to ask someone to help redistribute the assets to Yu Baozhu and her husband.
Shao Qifeng studied law and went directly to the Kyoto Court after graduation.
After graduating from military academy, Mu Jinghuai and Mu Jingheng were promoted, and the Mu family's future looked bright.
Mu Jinghuai's current rank is already higher than Li Xiangyang's.
Li Xiangyang also registered for the college entrance examination that year, but unfortunately he hadn't studied for too long and was really overwhelmed, especially in mathematics, where his results were disastrous.
This has almost become Li Xiangyang's dark history.
Miao Yiya supported Li Xiangyang in continuing to take the exam, but Li Xiangyang said it was better not to embarrass himself again.
Although a diploma would brighten his future, his current rank was already quite high, and Li Xiangyang felt that with his abilities, he wouldn't be too bad off.
During summer vacation, Qin Yao and the others couldn't find time to go back to the compound, so Xu Xinning took the five children to their military base for a reunion.
Of course, Mu Jingheng, the tagalong, was also indispensable.
Several years ago, Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng learned from Qin Yao that Li Xiangyang had been transferred to Kyoto, and that Miao Yiya and Xiao Bao'er had also come to join the army. This made Xu Xinning very happy, and she bought a lot of things to take to them. Since then, they have never lost contact.
The five children loved visiting Mu Jinghuai's unit because after leaving the unit, they could follow their uncle (father) and participate in actual drills. If they were lucky, they could even watch people shoot guns and ride in tanks.
Every time they come, the children have a great time playing and getting into trouble is commonplace. So before they come, Xu Xinning laid down some rules, and this time the five of them were quite well-behaved.
The five children standing together looked like quintuplets, each one of them incredibly cute and adorable.
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