Chapter 85: Happy New Year
The time without work passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was New Year's Eve. That morning, Wu Daming, whom I had not seen since returning from the reservoir, came to the educated youth site carrying two kilograms of glutinous rice noodles and ten eggs.
"Brother Daming, what are you doing?" Kang Mingyuan looked at him in confusion. Although they had interacted with each other before, they had never exchanged gifts. Two kilograms of glutinous rice noodles and ten eggs were not gifts in his opinion, but in this rural area, not everyone could easily give them such gifts.
"Mingyuan, Yimo, Qiao Mo, I know you are from Donghai. I came here to ask about the situation of Donghai University of Technology." Wu Daming said with an embarrassed smile.
He will go to Donghai University of Technology after the Chinese New Year, but he knows nothing about the school, oh, the whole Donghai, so he came here to find out some information.
"Donghai University of Technology is in Hedong. Yimo and I have never been there, so we don't know much about it." Kang Mingyuan thought for two minutes before he remembered where Donghai University of Technology was, but he was not familiar with the place and had no acquaintances there.
"Donghai University of Technology is in Hedong. It is located on the bank of Lanpu River. The specific coordinates are No. 12 Pudong Road. After you get off the train, take bus No. XX. After the bus crosses the river, go one stop to get off at Pudong Road intersection. Walk east for two hundred meters and there is a crossroads. Turn south and walk about three hundred meters and you will see the university gate." Seeing that they were not familiar with Donghai University of Technology, Qiao Mo had to take over the conversation.
"Can a bus cross a river?" Wu Daming asked in surprise. Don't blame him for being ignorant. He really didn't know that a bus could cross a river.
"Well, there's a pier there, and the bus will go directly to the ferry, which will take you across the river." Qiao Mo nodded. "As for the school, I don't know anyone there. My mom used to have a few friends, but they've all been transferred."
Some of those people had a keen sense of smell and left school to work in factories when they found things were not going well. Some of them went to the countryside to support rural construction after the movement began.
"I know, thank you Qiao Mo." After hearing what Qiao Mo said, Wu Daming knew which direction to go. At least he wouldn't be in the dark after getting off the bus and couldn't even tell the direction.
"Momo, how do you know so much about Donghai University of Technology? You seem to live in Hexi too, right?" Han asked curiously.
Qiao Mo glanced at him and said, "My mother used to teach at a middle school near Gongda, and my house is also over there. How could I not be familiar with it?"
"I only know that your father works at the Donghai Iron and Steel Plant. I originally thought that you lived near the steel plant." Han Yimi said with a smile. He really didn't know that Qiao Mo also had real estate in Hedong.
"Yes, I live here, but my mother lived near the University of Science and Technology before she passed away," Qiao Mo explained.
Before she was ten years old, she lived with her mother in her own home. Her father commuted to work and would only live in the family quarters near the steel plant when he had time or when her mother was on vacation.
"Daming, if you want to go to school in Donghai, come and learn to speak Donghai dialect with us these few days. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for you to go out in the future." Kang Mingyuan decided to help him and repay the kindness he had shown them when he sent the two brothers to the infirmary.
"Thank you so much." Wu Daming expressed his gratitude. He heard from his brother that people from Donghai were particularly xenophobic and their dialect was difficult to understand. If he and Kang Mingyuan learned the Donghai dialect, it would be much easier for them to communicate with others in the future and they would be able to integrate into the city more quickly.
Once you move to a big city, you will definitely try to stay there. If you can't listen to or speak the local dialect, it will definitely be inconvenient to live there, and it will be even more difficult to integrate into the community.
After seeing Wu Daming off, Qiao Mo began to prepare lunch. They had New Year's Eve dinner in the afternoon, so the lunch was relatively simple. He just cooked a pot of rice, stewed a pot of radish with wild boar bones, and made some homemade tofu.
These days, many people in the brigade made tofu for the New Year, and Qiao Mo also exchanged some for soybeans. She not only fried tofu, but also made moldy tofu, leaving only a few pieces to eat in the next few days.
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