Chapter 36 Report
Gao Jialin had enough money to take a flight. Tickets now cost dozens of yuan each, and he was willing to spend the money. Unfortunately, even if he had money, the airline would not sell him a ticket, so he was not eligible to take the flight.
There were no trains either. The country planned to build a railway from Xi'an to northern Shaanxi in 1973. However, due to lack of funds and other reasons, it was not completed and opened to traffic until 1991. Even when Gao Jialin graduated, he was unable to take a ride on it.
So if he wanted to go to Shanghai to study at university, he could only take a bus to Yinxia, and then take a bus from Yinxia to Xi'an. With the current road conditions and car speeds, it would take a day and a night to get there.
Ma Yue and his team arrived so quickly because they had a good car and the drivers could take turns, so they could rest while the car did. Gao Jialin was riding a bus, which was slow, and the driver also had to eat and rest, so naturally he was slow.
Fortunately, he won the reward of physical enhancement in the lottery in the last world, otherwise, just the journey in the car would be enough to make Gao Jialin collapse.
After arriving in Xi'an, Gao Jialin had to change trains and it took another day and night to get to Shanghai. By the time he got off the train, he was exhausted.
He couldn't help but feel lucky that he was in northern Shaanxi. If he was born in Xinjiang and wanted to study in Shanghai, it would take half a month just to get there, and he would forget about going home during the winter vacation. Otherwise, he would have to travel for half a month by car, and have to leave just after eating noodles when he got home. What a waste of time.
Rubbing his numb legs, Gao Jialin stood up, took his luggage, and followed the crowd out of the train station.
Outside the exit, there were many people holding signs with the names of different schools. Gao Jialin's eyes lingered on the Jiaotong University sign for a long time. He thought, "I'm too late. If I had been earlier, I could have been admitted to Jiaotong University and become his junior!" The differences between the schools can be seen from the styles and positions of these signs, as well as the expressions of the students holding the signs. Fudan University and Jiaotong University were in the middle, and the students holding the signs looked the most impressive.
Tongji University, South China Normal University, and Huali University are slightly lower, followed by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai International Studies University. The Shanghai Pujiang University where Gao Jialin is going to study is even further away.
It doesn’t matter. It’s not like I haven’t studied at a 985 university. What I want most is the identity of a college student. It doesn’t matter which university I go to. Gao Jialin could only comfort himself in this way and then walked to the sign of Pujiang College to show his identity.
Someone immediately took him to the reception point, took out the notice and checked it. A senior brother came over and helped him put his luggage on the bus. "Wow, you have so little luggage. Get on the bus and sit for a while. It will leave in ten minutes!"
Looking around, the carriage is full of joyful college freshmen. There are not many parents who send them to register. It is not that the parents do not want to send their children, but the cost of going out is relatively high now, and most families cannot afford it, so they can only let their children go to school by themselves.
Soon, the bus started. Everyone looked at the prosperous scene of Shanghai through the window, exclaiming in admiration from time to time. It was the first time for many of them to see so many buildings and cars, not to mention the fashionable young girls on the street.
Gao Jialin was not interested in the car building and was only focused on looking at the girls. It must be said that although the girls nowadays dressed a little rustically, their natural beauty was really fascinating.
The train station is in Jing'an, Pujiang College is in Songjiang, and the bus took more than an hour to arrive. These out-of-town students had the chance to enjoy the prosperity of Shanghai. They were delighted to think that they would spend the next four years in this city.
When they arrived at the school, the seniors in charge of picking them up took them to the reporting points of the various departments, showed their notification letters and various documents, and then the seniors took them and their luggage to the dormitory on a tricycle. When they arrived at the dormitory door, they saw that the dormitory number was very consistent with Gao Jialin's temperament - 404.
The dormitory is for eight people, with four bunk beds. There are several cabinets near the door for them to store their personal belongings, and two tables in the middle can be used for reading and doing homework.
At this time, there were already four people in the dormitory. They were all dressed very smartly and were obviously students from relatively well-off families. In the TV series, they looked down on Gao Shuangxing at first.
Gao Jialin was not too worried. If he couldn't even handle a few little bastards, wouldn't it be a waste of time to work in the central government? He greeted them generously, "Hello, classmates. My name is Gao Jialin. I'm from Kuanzhou County, Yinxia District, northern Shaanxi. I'm very happy to spend the next four years with you in 404!"
An important reason why Gao Shuangxing was looked down upon was that he was not confident enough and usually behaved a little timidly. This was because he was an impostor, could not keep up with the studies, and came from a poor place. It was inevitable that he felt inferior when he met these classmates.
Gao Jialin did not have this problem. His generous performance quickly won the favor of his roommates. They introduced themselves one by one. Jiang Ming, Hu Xiang and Ma Chuanjie were all Shanghai natives, and Yang Zhengtai was from Suzhou, also a student from a big city.
This is not surprising. Nowadays, people have narrower channels for obtaining information and it is more inconvenient to go out, so when applying for university, they often consider colleges that are closer to home and more familiar to them.
After getting to know each other, Gao Jialin started to make his bed. He was lucky because college students nowadays were still used to sleeping on the lower bunk and the most comfortable upper bunk by the window was still available, so he just happened to occupy it.
"Jia Lin, why did you only bring so few things? I see you don't even have a thick piece of clothing. What will you do when it gets cold?" Hu Xiang asked curiously.
"To come to Shanghai from my hometown, I had to take a bus for a day and a night, and then a train for a day and a night. It would be too troublesome to bring too much luggage, so I just brought less. As for clothes, there are so many stores in Shanghai that I will definitely not get cold! I can just go buy some when it gets cold!"
"Then your family's financial situation is quite good!" Ma Chuanjie said with a hint of sarcasm. He is a local. When has Shanghai Ning ever cared about others showing off their financial situation in front of him?
"My family has been farmers for eight generations, and we were very poor! I just got lucky recently and earned some royalties from publishing an article!"
"Manuscript fees? You can actually publish articles now?" As soon as these words came out, the other four roommates were immediately shocked.
The 1980s was the golden age for writers, with high incomes, high social status, and being welcomed everywhere. These students were all studying in the Chinese department, so how could they not be excited when they heard that their roommate had published an article?
"It was also my good luck that a reporter from the Education News came to interview me and asked me to write an article!"
"A reporter's interview? What on earth did you do?" The roommates were shocked.
"It's nothing big. I just wrote a letter to the capital, recruited a special task force, and sent our county magistrate to jail!" Gao Jialin said lightly.
Dormitory 404 suddenly became silent and the children were stunned.
Gao Jialin laughed secretly in his heart, you little brats, can't I deal with you?
Thanks to Lazy Lazy Sheep for the reward. There will be another chapter later.
(End of this chapter)
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