The exchange meeting in Shanghai is actually an exchange meeting for extracurricular education work experience.

Today's students, in addition to learning from textbooks, also need to participate in school and farming activities.

To learn farming means to go to the factory and live and eat with the workers, doing the same work; to learn agriculture means to participate in rural production activities, which are mostly held on Saturdays.

Director Qin said: "More than 60 schools participated in this activity, and each school sent two representatives. The main purpose was to learn from the experience at the conference and apply it to their own schools."

"You will speak, and you just need to take notes. I plan to have you and Teacher Liu attend together."

Teacher Liu is an old teacher who teaches Chinese and is almost fifty years old.

To put it bluntly, this activity is just a formality. After returning, we will do some things like "opening a school" to show others. It can be regarded as a relatively leisurely business trip.

Xu Sui nodded, "Okay."

When it was time for lunch at noon, she was called to the cafeteria by Teacher Liu.

Teacher Liu was a very thin woman, but her face didn't have too many wrinkles, but had a few spots. She was very gentle in what she said and did. Xu Sui had had a lot of contact with her before, and knew that she was quite popular in the school and taught very well.

Teacher Liu smiled, her voice soft and warm, "I heard from Director Qin that we are going to Shanghai on a business trip together. Our school will reimburse the expenses of the business trip. I will arrange the tickets and accommodation. I have already bought the boat tickets for Saturday night. Do you want us to meet at the pier when you see it?"

"It's at the pier, please, Teacher Liu." Xu Sui smiled and asked, "Teacher Liu, have you participated in similar activities before?"

"I have been a teacher for more than 20 years, and I have participated in several activities before." Teacher Liu shook his head and chuckled, "But those were all serious exchanges about teaching. This is the first time I have participated in an event of this nature."

The situation in recent years is not as tense as it was in the 1960s, but the education sector is still in chaos. "Criticizing Lin and Confucius" and "Criticizing Legalism and Confucianism" are popular now. The people at the top make demands, and the people below do a decent job, but in fact the cultural level of management is not high.

A while ago, an official came to the school to give a speech criticizing Confucius, and he just read out "Do not do to others what you would have them do to you." Many students wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.

Teacher Liu had been working for so many years and wanted to continue her job in peace and stability. As required by her superiors, she asked her students to write a poem criticizing Confucius every month. She did not expect that she would now have to participate in an off-campus education exchange meeting.

Perhaps because she was afraid that Xu Sui would be nervous, she comforted her, "We are just going to take a look around. Just listen carefully to what others say and write it down. The rest is up to you."

Xu Sui didn't feel anything. She knew that in a few years, this chaos would end. After all, it was still very curious to take a look at the big cities of this era.

After asking the experienced teacher Liu what to prepare, the two chatted for a while and then separated in the cafeteria after dinner. Their offices were in the same room.

When Xu Sui returned to the office, the well-informed teacher looked over and asked, "Teacher Xu, are you going on a business trip to Shanghai?"

Hearing this, the other person looked over immediately.

Xu Sui: "Yes, I'll go there this weekend."

The teacher came over and said, "Please bring me a plate of Peony brand buttons. I saw them in a magazine, but unfortunately they are not sold on our island."

After she finished speaking, the other person rolled his eyes and said, "Teacher Xu, I would like to trouble you to bring me a..."

The island has all the necessary supplies, but it takes a long time to bring in new and fashionable items.

Xu Sui understood their needs well enough, so she took out her notebook and wrote them down.

The first teacher said in front of everyone: "Teacher Xu, I don't have any money with me today. I will give you the money tomorrow."

She smiled sympathetically and said, "We teachers only earn that little. You can bring things to everyone, but I won't let you pay for it all by yourself."

Xu Sui followed suit and smiled generously: "Okay, I've only been working for two months, I really don't have that much money."

No matter what the others were thinking, they all said they would bring the money to her tomorrow. She had enough money on her, so she gave it to Xu Sui at the beginning.

She brought one and then said that she helped to bring it.

Xu Sui put the money away and said, "I'll write it down. If I don't buy it by then, I'll return it to you when I come back."

The teachers in the same office as her more or less asked her to help carry some things, not big ones, which was very convenient.

As for the male teacher who was thinking about her boyfriend, he had already applied to move to another office a few days after he found out about her boyfriend.

After all, Xu Sui gave her a cold face, and the teacher in the office deliberately mocked her.

When you want to hurt someone, you are thick-skinned, but when you are ridiculed, you become angry.

After work, Xu Sui told Lu Chenghuai that she was going on a business trip to Shanghai. "I'll leave this Saturday night and probably arrive in Shanghai on Sunday night, and then I'll leave next Wednesday and come back."

The exchange meeting lasted two days, mainly because of the time spent on the journey. After all, it takes an overnight ferry ride from the island to the mainland.

Lu Chenghuai held her hand and said, "Be careful on the road. Is there anything you want to buy? The shopping malls in Shanghai are very big."

Xu Sui thought for a moment and said, "I don't know yet. Let's wait and see when we get there. But I feel like I'm missing something."

She actually has very low material desires, and she is content with just the clothes and shoes.

But the next afternoon, Lu Chenghuai still stuffed a roll of grain coupons into her pocket.

"You female comrades should all like nice clothes. You can go to Shanghai to look at tweed coats. They have the most fashionable styles in Hong Kong." Lu Chenghuai said seriously, "Or you can buy other things, such as a radio, so that you can get news from the outside world and listen to it when you are bored."

"I wanted you to buy me a red scarf. I regret not giving it to you this time."

Xu Sui didn't know the number, but she knew that there were at least several hundred bills in this roll.

She took it back and said, "I won't take it. It's too much."

If someone sent her some food or cloth, she would accept it, and would give Lu Chenghuai a gift in return after paying him the salary.

But she must have received such a large sum of money without permission, as many families don't even have a few hundred dollars in savings.

Lu Chenghuai was willing to accept it, "You can put it down as you like. My current monthly salary is 140 yuan. My previous income was very low and I basically had no expenses. This amount of money is not a big sum for me."

"I earn money to spend on the people I love. I like you, so I want to be good to you and I want you to stop worrying about anything. I will be very happy if you accept the things I give you, because I think that this is the only way you can accept them. You are willing to accept them now because you think our relationship is still close enough.

"Sui Sui, if you are willing, I would rather give you my passbook and all my savings."