Chapter 101

Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon.

If this sentence suddenly made the young men and women in the audience quiet down from their dazed, drowsy, listless and whispering state, and then they perked up and really started to take the speech of this senior sister who forgot which class she was from seriously.

Then for a professional soldier like Yan Lei, it almost pierced his top of the head and reached his soul.

Yan Lei heard every word of Qiao Wei in the whole speech clearly and understood the meaning of every word.

She told the boys and girls that the road ahead would inevitably be tortuous. For the country, it was all about groping forward. For individuals, it was more likely to be full of hardships and difficulties. She told the boys and girls not to lose faith no matter what the situation was. They should remember that they were a group of people who possessed knowledge in this country. They should not let themselves be drowned in hardship and forget what they had learned. She encouraged them not to give up learning no matter when, where or under what circumstances.

"If you go far away and leave your parents, you can only bring the least luggage."

"Then, bring the ideas of great people and your textbooks."

She described to the boys and girls a beautiful future, a rich and powerful country.

A country where American planes fly to the doorstep and the pilot dares to crash into it.

A country where knowledge changes life and the world.

He could understand every word, but her voice was so ethereal.

Yan Lei sat in the center of the first row of the stage, looking up at his wife. He felt that everyone else was blurry, only she was shining.

When the thunderous applause sounded in his ears, Yan Lei came back to his senses, and he followed suit and clapped.

Xiao Zhang sat next to him, clapping his hands until his palms turned red, but he still felt it was not enough. He had been in the army for several years, but he was as excited as the young men and women on the playground.

The school leaders on the stage were also shocked by the speech.

After the speech, the principal was supposed to say a few more words, but the principal was so moved that his throat choked. In the end, thousands of words turned into just one sentence: "Students! Study hard!"

There was another round of applause.

With everyone's witness, the principal used the official seal on the podium to poke and poke the ink pad again and again, and finally pressed it hard on the graduation certificate.

Amidst thunderous applause, the dropout student Qiao Wei received her high school diploma.

The ceremony was so ceremonial. Qiao Wei had her own graduation ceremony.

This made the time traveler feel a little scalp-tingling, and he could only respectfully accept his diploma from the principal with gratitude.

However, Qiao Wei thought that the guy would definitely like it. Just consider it as satisfying him.

But she glanced down and was surprised to find that the guy's face was gloomy, and he didn't even have the joy and anticipation before coming.

But she knew this man too well, and when their eyes met in the air, sparks flew in an instant.

Qiao Wei pursed her lips and could only look up and pretend to look at the sky.

What else could she do, in public.

When saying goodbye, Yan Lei shook hands with the principal and teacher Zhang again and again, and thanked them solemnly for giving Qiao Wei the opportunity to give this speech.

This time it was not a false official courtesy, his gratitude came from the heart.

The principal sighed: "I should thank Qiao Wei."

It is difficult for the school to have normal classes now. But today, he felt the atmosphere of the past from the students again.

The educator almost had tears in his eyes.

On the way back, Xiao Zhang kept sighing: "Oh, oh, I really can't believe it..."

Although he has also read Qiao Wei's articles, he knows rationally that Yan Tuan's wife is now a writer. But emotionally, because of work, he has dealt with Qiao Wei more than others, so he has a clearer impression of her past. Today's cognition and past impressions cannot be completely integrated.

Today, he said that he also wanted to listen carefully to his sister-in-law's speech, but it must be said that there was actually a hint of ridicule.

But he never expected that Qiao Wei's speech not only made his blood boil, but also made him full of yearning and longing for the future.

"I shouldn't learn to drive!" He slapped the steering wheel and said, "I should learn to fly a plane! If an American plane dares to come to our door, I will be the first to hit it!"

"Really, Captain! Captain? Captain, why don't you say anything?" Xiao Zhang glanced at Yan Lei in the co-pilot seat strangely. He

was even a little dissatisfied. His sister-in-law spoke so brilliantly today, but the captain didn't even praise her. Why was he so cold and indifferent.

Yan Lei said "um" perfunctorily.

He glanced at the rearview mirror.

In the mirror, Qiao Wei, who was sitting in the back car, was stroking Yan Xiang's head. As if they had telepathic connection, she raised her eyes and glanced at him in the rearview mirror.

Her eyes were full of affection, different from the firm look when she was giving a speech on the stage. She seemed to be smiling but not smiling, revealing cunning.

She saw through him.

Yan Lei felt a little hot at the base of his neck.

His whole body was hot.

He wanted to go home quickly.

"Is Xiang Xiang tired?" Xiao Zhang said again, "Why doesn't Xiang Xiang speak?"

Although he knew that Yan Xiang was a particularly well-behaved and quiet child, he was too quiet today. Why is he just like his father, a strange father and son.

"Yan Xiang? Tired?" The father finally remembered to care about his son.

"No." Yan Xiang said, "I was thinking about what mom said, the missiles, planes, and cannons, they are so powerful, are they all true?"

Qiao Wei touched his head and told him: "They are not that powerful now, so it depends on the older brothers and sisters and children like you to study hard and make them when you grow up. Catch up with Britain and the United States and defeat all imperialist paper tigers."

Yan Xiang said: "I don't want to go to kindergarten anymore, I want to go to school."

Everyone in the car laughed.

Xiao Zhang said, "If you go to school now, you will be bullied by those brats and cry."

Yan Lei said, "It's good to want to learn, but you have to be down-to-earth and wait until you are older."

Qiao Wei also said, "You are still young."

In fact, she knew that school was becoming less and less useful.

But it didn't matter. She kicked the cardboard box under her feet.

Yan Lei finally asked, "What is that?"

This man was absent-minded, but he finally noticed it.

This was what Qiao Wei had asked Teacher Zhang for before she came. She originally just wanted to get a diploma, but after getting in touch with Teacher Zhang, she suddenly thought of asking the teacher for help.

At that time, Xinhua Bookstore had not yet taken on the tutoring business. School textbooks were very difficult to buy outside, and the only way to buy them was through the school's channels.

Qiao Wei had also borrowed the textbooks of the children of Director Zhao's family for Yan Xiang to read. But his family are all elementary school students, and they only have elementary school textbooks, and the pages are so rotten that they are falling off.

Before Qiao Wei returned it, she wrapped the book cover with calendar paper, otherwise it would be really unreadable.

Sister Yang still felt a little sorry for the paper. Calendar paper is hard and is best used to cut shoe patterns. It would be a pity to use it to wrap books.

Qiao Wei has never had the chance to find middle school textbooks, and there is no middle school in Xiahekou. She originally wanted to find a set from a middle school in the county, but she didn't know anyone there and had to find connections.

This time, Yan Lei forced her to contact her alma mater, so she saved the process of finding connections and directly asked the original owner's former class teacher.

There is nothing else in the school, but there are a lot of old textbooks. Teacher Zhang got her a complete set of junior high and high school textbooks.

"Textbooks." Qiao Wei said, "Teacher Zhang helped me. Xiangxiang can read it later, and you can read it too. If you learn math, physics and chemistry well, you won't be afraid to travel around the world."

Xiao Zhang suddenly realized.

No wonder the team leader is so quiet. It's really stressful to marry a cultured wife, and you have to be forced to study.

It's a bit scary.

He looked at Team Leader Yan with sympathy.

Captain Yan: "?"

After returning home, Yan Lei took off his coat and said to Yan Xiang: "Xiang Xiang, go find Jun..."

Qiao Wei kicked him directly.

Yan Lei also remembered the last time Yan Xiang talked nonsense at Captain Zhao's house, and changed his words: "Go find your Ma Da's Qiang..."

Qiao Wei pushed him away directly: "Go away!" Yan

Lei rubbed his nose and argued: "Boys, go out and run more, it's healthy!"

Qiao Wei rolled her eyes at him, took the box over and opened it: "Xiang Xiang, come here."

There are books on all subjects, a whole box.

"First look at the junior high school ones, then the high school ones." Qiao Wei said, "When you finish looking at them all, tell mom which subject you are more interested in, okay?"

Even a genius must have input before there can be output.

A genius cannot be made to start with boiling water and observing apples falling.

To build a tall building, you have to lay the foundation first.

This is a good idea, and it has to be her!

Yan Lei was happy. Because Yan Xiang really loves reading, he can read for a long time, quietly, and doesn't care about his surroundings.

"Xiangxiang, study hard! Dad will give you candy after you finish!" The father above started to make blind promises again.

Reading and eating candy are both Yan Xiang's favorites, and he happily agreed.

"Can you please stop spoiling the child!" Mom refused.

You have to protect the children's teeth.

But mom was weak and was dragged by dad to the west room.

He just closed the door.

Yan Xiang got the junior high school math book and just took a quick look at it, and he found it very interesting.

These formulas attracted him more than fairy tales about princes and princesses.

But for some reason the wooden door of the west room always made noises, creaking and banging. Yan Xiang watched for a while, and the noise of the door became louder.

The child had to get up and close the door of the east room.

Well, the world is much quieter, the formula is so interesting.

At the end of November, Lu Manman and Lieutenant Li got married.

In those days of food shortage, there were no banquets. Everyone had a good time in the new house and distributed wedding candies, which was the ceremony.

But the bride was the daughter of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative after all, and she wore a red turtleneck sweater and a red double-breasted cashmere coat. It

was bright red inside and bright red outside.

Many young ladies who came to the wedding were envious and their eyes turned red. I heard that the cashmere coat was bought from Shanghai. Who else could have gotten this except the Lu family?

There was no point in being jealous.

Captain Li was serving in the army, and his relatives and elders were not around. For people like them, the wedding was hosted by the leaders. He invited the regiment commander Yan Lei to host his wedding.

Everyone looked at it and thought, wow, the host and the groom were both very handsome.

The bride's dowry was also rich, and her family had a lot of dowry.

There were several quilts, some thin and some thick.

The wedding candy was also more decent than that of other families, and there was even chocolate in it, and the children were scrambling for it. The younger adults also secretly hid the chocolate and were reluctant to eat it.

In short, it was an enviable marriage with a perfect match of talent and beauty.

After the wedding was over, most of the guests left. The bride dragged the host's wife into the house to whisper.

"This is for you." Lu Manman took out a cashmere coat from the cabinet that was exactly the same style as the one she was wearing, but hers was mahogany and this one was black. "Don't give me money. What money do you need to give me? Don't be so formal with me."

Qiao Wei scolded her, "What are you doing?"

Lu Manman stuffed it into her hand and said, "Just keep it."

"Actually, the camel color is the best looking." She was a little regretful, "but it was too difficult to get. In the end, I only got this black one for you. It would be better if it was camel color. On the contrary, my red one is not that difficult to get."

"Of course. It's only for the bride." Qiao Wei said with a smile, "Those of us who have been married for many years are embarrassed to wear red. Black is also good-looking. I like black."

Black can be matched with everything. It is so rare for people in the town to get such a cashmere coat from Shanghai. Only the director of the supply and marketing cooperative has this ability.

Qiao Wei went back and told Yan Lei: "It's too expensive. I gave her money, but she refused."

Yan Lei said: "It's okay."

Not long after, Lieutenant Li was promoted to battalion commander, replacing the dismissed battalion commander and becoming the youngest battalion commander in the military region.

Those who questioned whether the company commander was qualified to apply for military housing were silenced.