Chapter 227 Two in One
As soon as he entered the dormitory, Ding Guo was stunned.
Several roommates each had a book in their hands, and they were all engrossed in reading.
This silent learning atmosphere instantly became real and covered Ding Guo.
When eating, it was Wang Xinmai who rolled the roll by himself, but now everyone rolls it together, who are they trying to kill?
Hearing the noise, Gao Yuping looked up from her book and saw Ding Guo looking at the books in everyone's hands. She smiled and whispered, "I borrowed it from the library this morning..." Then she glanced at the slightly worn horseshoe watch she brought from her hometown, "At this time, if you hurry, you should be able to borrow it."
Ding Guo also lowered his voice unconsciously and said hurriedly: "I still have some unfinished books in my bag. I won't go over tonight. I'll go and take a look tomorrow."
Song Yan flipped through a page of the book and said, "We have to get there early. The library opens at 6:30 in the morning, but when we arrived at 6:30 this morning, there were no seats left."
Xu Erfei also raised her head and said, "There are too many people. It's as crowded as the cafeteria at lunch time. The glass at the door has been shattered."
Ding Guo nodded: "Thank you, I'll go there early tomorrow."
Wang Xinmai suddenly raised his head and asked about the outcome of the matter that Ding Guo had just dealt with.
Ding Guo explained the school's arrangements, and Wang Xinmai nodded, saying, "The school's speed of resolution was not bad, but in the final analysis, it was still not well prepared."
Ding Guo smiled and said casually, "It can't be helped. The college entrance examination has just been resumed, and the school is still exploring a lot of work. It will take a few days to adjust."
Wang Xinmai frowned and continued, "I don't agree with this reason. It has been several months since the college entrance examination was resumed. The school should have prepared a charter earlier on how many students to recruit and the daily quota for each student, instead of the current mess. It doesn't meet my expectations for a university."
Wang Xinmai felt that as a student representative who went to the school to report the situation, Ding Guo and others' attitude was a bit too relaxed, which was very unfair to those students who would not be able to have meals tonight.
I wonder if Ding Guo and others have the courage to point out the shortcomings of the school and criticize its inadequacies in its work.
Ding Guo was slightly stunned and looked over. Wang Xinmai's expression was very serious, with a firm disagreement, which was not directed at her as a person, but at the work situation of the school.
She thought about it and continued to express her opinion calmly: "What you said makes sense, but I think it also needs to be combined with the current reality. The development process of our entire society is developing, not already developed. So this development process requires the joint efforts of all parties to complete it. It is not a single process. Now it happens that all parties have shortcomings, and it takes a certain amount of time to gradually improve these shortcomings. We just happened to encounter a little flaw in the development process."
Give the school some time, this university will get better and better.
Wang Xinmai tilted his head and thought for a while, then continued, "I agree with what you said. The operation of a school is indeed not a single one, but I still disagree with the progress of the work of all parties. The country has given them sufficient time to prepare, but everyone has seen the current situation. It is really very chaotic and terrible. It has caused a lot of inconvenience to students!"
Ding Guo smiled and said, "Even if the country gives us time to prepare, some personnel appointments and transfer documents for teachers who need to be rehabilitated and return to school have to be sent down layer by layer. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, it takes time for the documents to arrive. When they arrive at the local level, they still need to be reviewed by local departments at all levels. The difficulty is beyond our imagination..."
The real problems caused by the general environment are difficult to become an ideal state in a short period of time.
The resumption of the college entrance examination is like getting a huge machine that has been shut down running again. However, this huge machine has already developed problems of varying sizes because it has been shut down for too long.
The machine needs maintenance, and maintenance takes time. This time cannot be repaired in a few months or a year or two.
But there are also many people who work hard, and the intact parts of the machine are doing their best to drive the machine to operate.
Even the resumption of the college entrance examination has encountered so many voices of opposition. Who can guarantee that everything will go smoothly during the process of repairing the machine?
No matter how hard all parties try, there will always be resistance. Those who work hard want to get on track as quickly as possible, but before that they must first offset the resistance.
The difficulties and hardships involved were beyond what Ding Guo and the others could imagine.
Wang Xinmai opened his mouth and wanted to say something else. Fearing that the two would start arguing if they continued talking, Song Yan and the others nervously advised: "Oh, okay, okay, the school is solving it. We are students, and our main task is to study hard, strive to get good grades, and live up to the country's expectations of us."
Xu Erfei smiled and said, "That's right!"
Gao Yuping: "I'm reading. I need to borrow a few more books tomorrow. I borrowed too few..."
Wang Xinmai bit her lip, said nothing more, and lowered her head to start reading again.
Ding Guo smiled and said nothing more.
The two are not arguing, and they won't argue. It's just a debate on different cognitive opinions.
Ding Guo planned what to do tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we will go to the library to borrow books, then have a morning run organized by the class. After breakfast, the class will gather for some cleaning... It seems that there will be no classes tomorrow.
While everyone was reading, Ding Guo took his things and quietly went out to wash up, then drew some hot water. He came back and lightly climbed onto the bed. He took out from his bag... actually from his space a novel that he had bought and finished reading before, but then he remembered something and guiltily put it back in his pocket, then picked up an English review material from before and started reading.
Everyone is studying, but she, as the class monitor, is reading novels, which is really unacceptable.
Even though I have memorized the content of the English materials by heart, and even the punctuation marks are perfectly imprinted in my mind, I still have to pretend for the sake of my image.
Ding Guo piled the bedding behind him, leaned against the head of the bed, and read the English book that he had memorized by heart again.
The next morning, when Ding Guo heard the noise and opened her eyes, she was stunned for a moment before she realized that she was no longer at home. After getting up, there was no hot and fragrant breakfast, and there were no two children sleeping next to her. This was a university dormitory.
She is a student of Hua University!
But...it’s only five o’clock, only five o’clock!
Wang Xinmai had already put on his clothes, took the washbasin, towel, toothpaste and toothbrush, and went out quietly.
Song Yan woke up at some point and was leaning against the head of the bed reading a book.
Other roommates also got up one after another and prepared for morning reading.
Ding Guo stared at the slightly yellowish roof of the dormitory for a while, then sat up resignedly.
When she went out to wash up, she found that it was not only their dormitory that was curled up. The corridor and the open space downstairs were already filled with students standing in groups of three or four. Some were stretching their waists, some were reading books, and some were stretching their waists while reading.
After Ding Guo finished washing up, he had to go back to play character for a while, and everyone prepared to go to the library.
My roommates got up very early this morning and left the dormitory together at around 5:30.
When I arrived at the library, the line was already quite long.
Ding Guo and others also lined up.
At half past six, the door of the library opened. I don't know who started the chaos in the front, but the line broke up instantly and everyone rushed in.
Ding Guo immediately witnessed the situation that Xu Erfei described, where the glass of the door was broken.
She had good eyesight and could tell that the glass that had just been broken seemed to be newly replaced.
Given this frequency, the school has to set aside a special fund to replace the glass on the library door.
"Go, go, go, run faster. It will be harder to get in the later we get in." Gao Yuping urged, and Ding Guo jogged after her.
It was her first time to borrow books from the library, but she had already heard about the relevant procedures from her roommates.
Each person can borrow up to five books. Ding Guo borrowed five books at once. Given her reading efficiency, these five books would not last long.
Ding Guo squeezed in the crowd to choose and borrow books, and then squeezed out of the crowd. He bent down to pick up his shoes that were stepped on by someone, and walked woodenly to the open space on the side to wait for other roommates to come out.
Since we couldn't get a seat in the library, we went back to the dormitory to read. Later, when we gathered to participate in the class sports activities, the roommates all carried cross-body bags or cloth bags filled with lunch boxes.
Ding Guo also followed the local custom and carried a cross-body bag with an empty lunch box in it.
This situation is not an isolated case for 317. There are few students in the class who go out for a run without bringing lunch boxes.
It can only be said that this is the tacit understanding among college students of this era.
It's only been one day, but their tacit understanding has become so strong, it's terrifying.
After running, the physical education committee member Zhao Chunming just said to dismiss and he took the lead and rushed towards the cafeteria, followed by the others.
The order problem in the cafeteria could not be solved in one night, and it was still crowded and messy.
As usual, Ding Guo squeezed over with his roommates, quickly glanced at the window and the small blackboard hanging next to it, and ordered two vegetarian buns and a steamed bun.
Song Yan ordered five steamed buns in one go. She said, "I won't come to buy food at noon or in the evening. I'll save some time for reading."
Wang Xinmai followed suit and said, "I'll buy a few more steamed buns and go to the library at noon to see if I can get a seat."
Then, Ding Guo discovered that except for her who prepared three meals a day and punched in at the cafeteria, her roommates had reduced the time they spent going to the cafeteria, squeezing together to get food, and then returning to the dormitory.
Ding Guo wanted to follow the crowd, but her picky appetite and photographic memory made her feel...it would be better not to follow the crowd.
She is a little bit pretentious and doesn't want to suffer for nothing.
The morning was spent busy cleaning.
At noon, the roommates went back to the dormitory or to the library. Ding Guo rode away on his bike, turned around for a while, and finally found an empty place. He slipped both himself and his bike into the space and breathed a sigh of relief.
Covered in dirt, taking a bath, washing clothes, and eating.
There was still some roast duck she had stockpiled in her space, which still had the taste of being just out of the pot.
There was also previously baked bread, steamed buns and rice, all still hot, so you could eat whatever you wanted.
There are also stir-fried vegetables. Just open one and you will find both meat and vegetarian options.
Finally, we had some fruit after the meal, including strawberries, oranges, grapes and bananas to satisfy our cravings.
There was plenty of time, so Ding Guo strolled around in the space, admiring the vitality of the black soil. After making sure that there was no one outside, he slipped out.
Three days later, she and Qi Guiqin went to collect the scholarships for their class and distributed them to their classmates one by one.
Depending on the family income, scholarships are distributed at a rate ranging from five or six yuan to twenty yuan. Most of them are directly converted into meal tickets and vegetable tickets, leaving only a small amount of money for students to buy stationery.
If there are students whose families are particularly poor, there will be additional subsidies.
Ding Guo's own amount was neither high nor low, just fifteen yuan.
It should be that he only referred to Pei Che's allowance in the military academy. Pei Che's current allowance is indeed not high, and he did not refer to his parents-in-law's.
Otherwise, if she had really taken the reference, her scholarship would definitely have been at the minimum standard.
Maybe the school leaders were worried that the money from her parents-in-law would not be spent on her as a daughter-in-law.
After receiving the scholarship, the class became lively.
Most of the students planned to go out to buy stationery and daily necessities, but a very small number of students were eager to cook their own meals in a state-owned restaurant outside.
There are also some students who do not participate in the above two topics at all. They have no plans to buy stationery or go out for food and drinks.
Like Song Yan, she received a higher subsidy than Ding Guo. She planned to keep half of it and find someone to exchange the other half for money to send back to her hometown to subsidize her family.
There was a market price for exchanging meal tickets and food coupons for money in college. Some students whose families were particularly well-off only had a few dollars, which was not enough to cover their food for a month, so they had to ask other students for money to exchange for meal tickets and food coupons.
As soon as the scholarships were distributed, this kind of small transaction had already quietly begun.
There is today, and there will be more in the future, and the market will be better towards the end of the month.
"My parents-in-law are in poor health and can't earn many work points, so they rely on my husband and my two brothers-in-law. I also have a son to support..."
When talking about family matters, Song Yan also looked worried.
This is also the reason why she only ate steamed buns in the past two days.
Wang Aihua, who also wants to subsidize her family, has already started writing and drawing in a notebook and has written down her life plan for the next month.
Xu Erfei quietly asked Ding Guo: "What about you? Where are your two kids?"
Ding Guo pushed his parents-in-law and said with a smile, "There are my parents-in-law."
So we stopped discussing this topic.
Everyone has their own life to live, and Ding Guo will not point fingers at other people's lives.
Her roommates did not ask her to keep up with them, nor did they accuse her of not being frugal enough or not making more time to study. Ding Guo would not point out whether her roommates' lifestyle was reasonable.
Now that school has officially started, Ding Guo has also straightened out the rhythm of his life in college.
I get up early to read in the morning. As a class monitor, I still have to save my reputation.
She listened carefully in class and handled some chores in the class. During this time, she helped classmates who brought their children to school to consult whether they could send their children to the nursery provided by the school faculty and staff. She also helped Qi Guiqin mediate a couple’s conflict.
The main purpose is to protect Wang Aiguo from being beaten less, and to supervise Qi Guiqin to be more careful with her words. After all, she is a class leader, and it will have a bad impact if she scolds him too harshly.
As the student living committee member, Qi Guiqin was sought out by many classmates, and she helped mediate two dormitory conflicts.
Putting these aside, Ding Guo sometimes goes to the cafeteria to punch in on time, and sometimes sneaks out to cook for himself at noon.
As for breakfast, in order to squeeze out more time for studying, the roommates discussed together and decided to send one person to the cafeteria to buy breakfast every day, and the order was based on the roommates' ages.
Song Yan is the oldest in 317 and is 27 years old this year; Gao Yuping is the same age as Ding Guo, but two months older, so she is the second oldest.
Ding Guo is the third oldest, Xu Erfei is the fourth, Wang Aihua is the fifth, and Wang Xinmai is the youngest, ranking sixth.
Song Yan is also everyone's default dormitory head.
Except for Ding Guo, everyone else buys breakfast for almost three meals a day.
However, during this period, Wang Aihua experienced hypoglycemia. Her roommates put down their textbooks and went back to the cafeteria together to order some dishes and soup to improve their meals and replenish their nutrition.
Ding Guo did not interfere in the lives of her roommates, but she was not so cold-blooded as to be outrageous. She grabbed a handful of fruit candies and shared them with several roommates.
Those who had local specialties gave her some in return, and those roommates who had nothing to give back also chose to help Ding Guo get hot water as a way of giving back.
Overall, Ding Guo felt that he got along pretty well with his roommates.
Time passed quickly and it was the weekend. Ding Guo said goodbye to the dormitory manager and Qi Guiqin, and rushed back to Zizhu Bridge like lightning.
I was eager to go home, but I didn't forget to take some things from the space and hang them on the handlebars, but I didn't dare to take too much.
It's okay when I'm busy, but as soon as I have a little free time, I start thinking about the two little guys.
When she arrived at the door of her house and just got out of the car, a small black shadow rushed out, circling around her, twisting its waist wildly and swinging its tail like a propeller, and its nose kept sniffing around, sniffing so quickly that it sneezed several times in a row.
"Not in white!"
I haven't seen him for a week, and even I feel that he looks more handsome.
Pushing the cart into the house, Dabao and Xiaobao were playing with two wooden cars in the yard.
Uncle and aunt were watching with smiles on their faces.
Ding Guo's heart softened instantly, his eyes swelled slightly, and he smiled and called softly: "Dabao, Xiaobao..." and then called his third uncle and third aunt.
Dabao and Xiaobao, who were playing over there, were stunned for a moment. When they saw who it was, they screamed excitedly like a whistle: "Mom——"
He immediately dropped the car and ran towards Ding Guo.
He ran up to me, and before his excited expression had faded away, his little mouth pouted and he burst into tears.
Ding Guo didn't care whether there was dust on his clothes. He bent down and held the two little ones in his arms.
Aunt Qiao and Wang Chunhua came out of the kitchen when they heard the noise and said with a smile, "Guoguo is back!"
Peng Guihua sighed: "Finally, I have a holiday."
Ding Guo kissed Dabao and Xiaobao on their soft cheeks. The two little ones still had tears on their faces. They stared at their old mother aggrievedly for a while, then broke free from their mother's arms together, turned around and walked into the house.
As the mother of two children, of course I can understand their little expressions.
This is angry.
You can kiss as much as you want and cry as much as you want, but you still have to be angry when it’s time to be angry.
Ding Guo chased in with both sadness and amusement, calling the kids "Dabao" on the left and "Xiaobao" on the right, making all kinds of funny faces to coax them.
After coaxing for a long time, the mother and her two children finally restored the best and most intimate relationship in the world.
The two kids didn't want to look for anyone but their mother. They both wanted Ding Guo to hold them. Ding Guo was very strong and could hold one in each hand without any effort. He held them in his arms and walked around in circles in the yard, talking to his uncle and aunt, and asking about Dabao and Xiaobao's situation over the past week.
Peng Guihua said helplessly: "Don't tell me, you are just curious. If I really tell you, you, as a mother, will feel uncomfortable."
Everything was fine on the first day, as Ding Guo had been separated from the two kids for a short period of time before.
On the second day, he started looking for his mother. It was okay if we all coaxed him together and did other things to distract his attention. But on the third day, if no one watched him, he would run out the door, still mumbling about looking for his mother.
Then they cried for a few times and everyone had to coax them. They also taught them how to tear off the calendar posters, saying that whichever poster they tore off their mother would come back.
"Dabao and Xiaobao are very smart. I only told them once to tear off the calendar posters, and they remembered it. Every morning they would wake up, point at the calendar posters, and ask people to pick them up and tear them."
Although they mostly grabbed a handful, fortunately there were adults to guide them and help them peel off one, and the two children tore it together. After tearing it, they stared at the calendar for a while, muttering, "Mom, come back!"
I'm just looking forward to my mother coming back.
Even though Ding Guo was not a person who showed his emotions, he had tears in his eyes after listening to her and kissed her sweet spot left and right.
The sound of bicycles clinking was heard at the gate, and Dazhu pushed the bicycle in.
Also coming with him was Aunt Qiao's son Su Dongshan.
Uncle and Aunt also had beaming joy on their faces.
Aunt Qiao was surprised for a moment, then went over and greeted her son happily.
While Ding Guo continued to hug and kiss the two kids, she chatted with Dazhu and Su Dongshan about the start of school.
After this conversation, I found that the course progress in Ding Guo's department was relatively smooth.
At least the teachers for basic courses are in place, but there are still some teachers at the normal school who are not in place yet and will be temporarily replaced by other teachers.
Some classes haven't started yet, so I'm taking other classes first.
"Our math class hasn't started yet, and our math teacher went to the hospital right after returning to the city." Ding Dazhu whispered, "He hurt himself from working so hard, and he's sick!"
He was also rehabilitated from the place where he was sent down.
Ding Guo said: "Every school has teachers transferred back to the city, and the situation will get better and better."
It's not just Huazhong University that is in chaos, all schools are like this.
There are also universities that were brought back from other places this year.
After a period of smoothing things out, all schools will be back on track.
Ding Guo had previously asked Dazhu to ask Su Dongshan to come along.
Aunt Qiao is helping to take care of the two children at home, so it is not very convenient for her to go home. She must be concerned about her son's situation at school. Seeing him and asking him a few questions makes her feel at ease.
Invite Su Dongshan to come and have dinner together, and then let Su Dongshan go home after dinner. His father must be thinking about him too.
Aunt Qiao was indeed very grateful for Ding Guo's arrangement.
Although feudal superstitions are not allowed nowadays, she just feels that she is lucky to have met such a good boss.
The scholarships from the Normal University have also arrived. Dazhu's standard is higher than Ding Guo's, but Su Dongshan's standard is one dollar lower than Ding Guo's.
Peng Guihua and the others were puzzled as to why the subsidies were different, so Ding Guo explained the evaluation criteria.
The higher the income of both parents, the lower the scholarship standard; conversely, the higher the scholarship standard.
Students with special difficulties will receive additional hardship allowances.
Aunt Qiao: "Will the school investigate?"
Su Dongshan shook his head: "I don't know. Anyway, it's the students who asked, so let them report it themselves."
He reported it truthfully.
No one knows whether the school will investigate, but Ding Guo knows for sure that it will not. What a huge workload that would be.
The order in schools is still chaotic nowadays. How can we spare the time to investigate the actual situation of students?
It all depends on the students' self-awareness.
When dinner was almost ready, the sound of a bicycle was heard at the door again. Shao Xunping came back from get off work.
"mom!"
Seeing Ding Guo, Shao Xunping immediately smiled and asked, "Are you on vacation?"
Ding Guo nodded.
Shao Xunping hadn't even parked the car yet but she had already asked about the start of school, classes, etc. She was very concerned about everything.
The next day at noon, Yu Shaofen came and brought some canned food, toys bought from Shandong Province for the two babies, and some Shandong specialties.
Yu Shaofen went along to see Yu Qian off.
Knowing that Ding Guo would be at home today, Saturday, I came to see him, asked about his situation, and talked about Yu Qian's reporting process and school matters.
On Sunday, Peng Guihua and Ding Zhicheng left reluctantly.
Ding Guo and Da Zhu sent the old couple to the train together. Before getting off the train, Ding Guo took out a paper package wrapped in newspaper and stuffed it into Third Aunt's arms. It was the rubber-soled shoes he bought for Third Uncle and Third Aunt from the system mall.
Peng Guihua was stunned, and when she lowered her head to look, Ding Guo hurriedly pushed Dazhu out of the car.
When my third uncle and aunt came, they carried two bags of grain. Ding Guo had been at school these days, and it would have been unreasonable if he brought back too many things, so he bought a pair of shoes for each of them.
At the same time, she also took into consideration that she is a student now and has no official salary. If she buys too many things, her Third Aunt will have to pay her back sooner or later. Two pairs of shoes are just right, neither more nor less.
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