Chapter 212 Chapter 212 Chapter 212...
Chapter 212
After estimating the scores, Wei Lei suggested going to Xi'an Jiaotong University, while Wei Lan suggested going to Shanghai Jiaotong University.
They both thought Weisheng was too young to go to college in their own city so they could take care of him nearby. At the same time, they both felt their alma mater was the best.
But Grandpa and Dad thought that Weisheng’s grades were good enough for him to attend Jinghua University in Beijing, so he should apply to Jinghua.
Grandma had no idea, but Mom took out the map and looked at the location on it.
It was a coincidence that if Weisheng went to college in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an would form a triangle. But it had to be said that geographically, Beijing was also the closest to their home.
Weisheng stretched out her little hand, indicating that she wanted to study veterinary medicine, and she would follow the arrangements as to where to study.
When she heard that Lao Geda wanted to study veterinary medicine, her elder sister Wei Lan tried to persuade him in various ways, saying that treating patients was a more promising career these days.
Her eldest brother Wei Lei also felt that the veterinary profession had a mediocre future and advised her to think again and not waste her good scores.
In the end, seeing that everyone in the family had their own opinions, Weisheng made the decision.
She decided to go to their Central Continent Agricultural University to study veterinary medicine.
The reason Weisheng gave was that her brothers and sisters were far away from home, so she couldn't go too far.
Her grandparents are aging and reluctant to leave their hometown, and her parents might not be willing to leave either. She chose to attend university in the province, firstly, to be close to home and reassure her elders, and secondly, to be able to more easily care for them after graduation, given that her job assignment wouldn't be out of town.
The reasons Weisheng gave were very powerful, at least Weilan and Weilei could not refute them at all.
Back when they were in college, they had winter and summer vacations, so they could go home twice a year. After graduation and getting jobs, although they had more money and could send money and gifts home more often, they could only come home for two days during the Lunar New Year, and then they would leave again after only three or five days. They say raising children is a way to provide for your old age, but they...
Thinking of this, the brother and sister instantly felt a strong sense of guilt.
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Zhongzhou Agricultural University is located in Shouyun City, which is only more than 400 kilometers away from Qingwa Town, and it only takes six or seven hours by train.
In the future, when train speeds are increased and highways are built, the travel time will be even shorter.
After deciding on the school and major, the only thing left is to determine the accompanying person.
Zhou Ruixue's tailor shop was doing very well, and Weilan often mailed clothing magazines and clothing patterns to Zhou Ruixue in Shanghai. If she went to Shouyun City to accompany her son to school, she would have to close the tailor shop, and the family would lose an income.
The family discussed it, and finally, grandparents accompanied Weisheng to Shouyun City.
After filling out their applications, Wei Lan and Wei Lei took a train to Shouyun City. Originally, the brother and sister wanted to help rent a yard closer to the school for their grandparents and old man to live in.
Unexpectedly, when they were renting a house, they happened to meet someone who wanted to sell his house. The brother and sister looked around and immediately gritted their teeth and scraped together the money to buy the house.
The location of the house is excellent. Not only is the house of the right size, but it also has front and back yards.
Entering from the front door, you will first see a small courtyard of more than 50 square meters. In the innermost part of the courtyard are three main rooms and two side rooms. Going out from the back door of the main room is the backyard.
The backyard was not big, only about 50 or 60 square meters, and there was nothing in it except two warehouses.
What the siblings liked best was that the front yard was very close to Zhongzhou Agricultural University, only a ten-minute walk away. And the back yard had a gate that led directly to another street.
That street not only has shops, hospitals, but also a vegetable market. Living here is not only convenient for daily life, but also a great location if Lao Geda really wants to open a veterinary hospital in the future.
Housing prices weren't high right now. Although Shouyun City was the provincial capital, it wasn't a developed area. Furthermore, their family had given them some money when they arrived. With some extra money of their own, they bought the yard for a relatively low price.
However, this time, the brother and sister spent most of the salary they had saved over the years.
Wei Lan felt that as the eldest sister, she had a duty to honor her elders and take care of her younger siblings. Wei Lei, on the other hand, believed that as the eldest son and the only son in the family, filial piety and caring for his sisters were his unconditional duties. If he hadn't been unable to come up with the money, he wouldn't have asked Wei Lan to pay.
At the same time, the siblings both believed that their younger sister, by staying in the province, was fulfilling her filial duty on their behalf, and that it was only right for them, as older siblings, to pay a little more.
Since passing the college entrance exam, the siblings haven't considered returning to the countryside. They've considered bringing their grandparents to the city if their careers improve. But as Weisheng said, leaving one's hometown is difficult, and their grandparents might not be willing to leave with them.
Moreover, customs and accents vary from place to place, and the differences in language, culture, and cuisine are all there. When the young people first arrived, they felt uncomfortable everywhere, let alone the elderly. Gradually, they realized that letting their grandparents leave their hometown and live in a big city might not be something they could get used to.
But Qingwa Town and Shouyun City are only a few hundred miles apart and are in the same province. Maybe my grandparents and parents would prefer to live here.
But no matter what, after buying this yard, they, as brothers and sisters, felt that they had done their best, and the guilt in their hearts was much lighter.
The brother and sister brought their household registration book with them when they went out. Now that they bought a house and settled it, it was directly registered under Weisheng's name.
I bought a few locks and first changed the locks on the doors of the new courtyard. Then I cleaned up the house and the courtyard. After I had bought all the daily necessities, I locked the door and returned to Qingwa Town.
Because they only took a few days of leave, the brother and sister returned to Shanghai and Xi'an respectively after finishing these things.
Weisheng was certain he would pass the exam, so he wasn't as anxious and worried as the other candidates. He usually stayed in the village or in Zhou Ruixue's tailor shop.
In the past two years, the family bought a tractor. Having a tractor to help with farming can save a lot of manpower and time. However, every year during spring plowing and autumn harvest, Zhou Ruixue still closes the tailor shop and goes to the fields to help.
But Weisheng doesn't need it.
As the youngest in the family, she only needs to take care of herself when the adults at home cannot take care of her.
In this life, Weisheng hadn't revealed anything she'd learned, aside from being a better student. However, she still regularly used calming incense on her family, checked their pulses in the middle of the night, or took them to the medical building within the space for various physical examinations.
If you find any problems, give them an injection as soon as possible or feed them some medicine without making any noise.
By the way, Weisheng uses Lingquan water for the four elderly people in his family to detoxify them regularly.
Because Weisheng did it very secretly, Laowei's family didn't notice it, let alone others. So the people in the village and town all thought that Laowei's family had successful and filial children, and that they were in high spirits because of good things, which is why they looked healthy and full of energy.
That day, when Weisheng was hemming a pair of trousers in the tailor shop, Pangzhou and his mother came to the tailor shop.
Pang Ma wanted to make a dress in the same style as the one the model was wearing in front of the tailor shop window.
Zhou Ruixue stood up to measure Pang Ma's size, and while doing so, she remarked on how popular these skirts were. "...They're all new styles from Shanghai, and they're all in the magazines."
After hearing this, Pang Ma felt even more that she had good taste. After she was done, she asked Zhou Ruixue to look at the materials she brought.
Pang Zhou wasn't interested in any of this. If he hadn't known his mother was coming to the tailor shop, he wouldn't have followed her. When they arrived, he saw Wei Sheng was indeed there, so he went up to him and said, "I heard you took the college entrance exam this year? How did you do? Did you pass?"
After skipping a grade, Weisheng was no longer Pang Zhou's deskmate, but became a classmate of Pang Zhou's third brother Pang He. Pang He was a studious person, but he was not very talented in studying.
This year, the two took the college entrance examination together. Weisheng was certain he would get into university, while Panghe, on the other hand, had been anxious ever since the exam. Recently, not only did he have blisters on the corners of his mouth, but he also suffered from constipation.
As for Weisheng... in Pang Zhou's eyes, he was still so fair and clean, and looked so good in every way.
When Weisheng heard Pang Zhou ask this, he didn't tell the truth. Instead, he shook his head modestly and said, "I don't know. It should be OK. I'm still young anyway. If I don't pass, I can try again next year."
"That's right."
Pang Zhou thought about the fact that Weisheng was two years younger than him, and he agreed with Weisheng's words. "My parents said the same thing to my third brother, but my grandfather said that if my third brother doesn't pass the exam, he should go to a technical school and learn a skill like my second brother did."
Weisheng didn't say anything, after all, it was someone else's family business, but she still asked Pang Zhou in a casual tone whether he was going to take the high school entrance exam.
Pang Zhou rolled his eyes at Wei Sheng and said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "We're desk mates, but you really don't care what grade I'm in. Hey, maybe you didn't know that our junior high school has been changed to a three-year program."
Weisheng blinked and looked at Pang Zhou with a hint of sympathy, "I heard that high school will also be changed to three years in the future."
Pang Zhou: “…”
Pang Zhou felt that he was doing terrible in his studies.
When he was in fifth grade, just as he was about to start junior high, the school system was changed from five to six years, giving him another year of schooling. He finally made it to junior high, but then the system was changed from two years to three. If high school were to be changed to three years again by the time he entered it, not only would he have three more years of schooling than Weisheng, but even compared to his third brother, he would still have three more years.
Just tell me, what is going on?
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Pang Ma talked with Zhou Ruixue for a while, then left the cloth and wages and asked Pang Zhou to leave.
After Pang Zhou left, Zhou Ruixue casually asked what Weisheng and Pang Zhou had talked about, and why Pang Zhou looked like a frost-bitten eggplant when he left.
Weisheng knew Zhou Ruixue was just chatting casually, not trying to control him enough to pry into anything. So when she asked, he repeated what he had just said to Pang Zhou.
Zhou Ruixue, who didn't quite understand why the country made such a change, asked Pang He about his academic performance again, wanting to know whether the child could pass the exam.
Weisheng tilted his head and thought for a while, then shook his head at Zhou Ruixue, saying that it was unlikely.
As expected, on the day when Wei Sheng became the top scorer in the Zhongzhou provincial college entrance examination, the Pang family also learned that Pang He had failed the exam.
In 1987, except for Shanghai, which set its own exam papers, all other regions used a unified exam paper. When the college entrance examination results came out, Weisheng was not only the top scorer in his province of Zhongzhou, but also the top scorer in the entire country.
As soon as the results came out, Weisheng sent a telegram to his brothers and sisters who were far away in Shanghai and Xi'an.
'The results are out, first in the country.'
Originally, Weisheng could have called, but thinking that this was a happy event, sending a telegram would allow Weilan and Weilei, who were working at the unit, to get the attention of their leaders, so he sent the telegram.
Within two days, the telegram was delivered to Wei Lan and Wei Lei's workplaces. Then the good news spread from the mailroom to the entire workplace.
In an era when the value of being a college student was still very high, the value of being the top scorer in the college entrance examination was also very high. Using one's own college entrance examination results to help one's older brothers and sisters gain a sense of presence was also considered an interactive interaction between siblings.
After sending the telegram, Weisheng took five photos wearing five new clothes designed by Zhou Ruixue and sewn by her.
I took the photos in my space, and then I used my computer to retouch them, making sure every detail was beautiful, before I enlarged and printed them out.
Later, he used his pocket money to buy a few photo frames and hung the enlarged photos in the tailor shop.
Weisheng was already pretty and lovely, and after putting on new clothes that suited her taste and retouching them, he looked like a child star on TV. Ever since the photo was posted, Zhou Ruixue's tailor shop has been flooded with orders.
However, school was about to start, and even though Zhou Ruixue had received many orders, she still went with Wei Shi'an to send her grandparents and Wei Sheng to Shouyun City.
The five people took a lot of things to Shouyun City, and then hired a donkey cart at the train station to go to their new home.
The house had been cleaned by Wei Lan and her brother before. Although there was a layer of dust on it, it was very easy to clean up.
After Wei Shi'an and Zhou Ruixue helped the two elderly and one child in the family settle down, they accompanied Weisheng to register at school.
Since there was no tuition fee to go to university at that time, the admission process was relatively simple. After Weisheng started classes, Wei Shi'an and Zhou Ruixue returned to Qingwa Town.
Zhongzhou Agricultural University doesn't require students to live on campus, and because Weisheng is young and has an elder family member accompanying her, she's allowed to commute to school. But her age is a factor, so the teachers and classmates at the school are quite considerate of her.
Meanwhile, although they no longer needed coupons to buy vegetables or meat, Grandpa and Grandma had cleared the open space in their front and back yards since arriving in Shouyun City. Because it was the wrong season, the back yard was planted entirely with cabbage and radishes, while the front yard was only planted with vegetables that had a shorter growing season.
Not only that, grandpa and grandma also raised five hens in the yard.
The school had two days off on October 1st, National Day, but there were only half-day classes the day before, so Weisheng and his grandparents took the train back to Qingwa Town that afternoon, preparing to celebrate the holiday with Wei Shian and Zhou Ruixue, and to help with the autumn harvest.
Although I didn’t do much work, the sense of participation was quite satisfying.
At the end of the holiday, they didn't need anyone to see them off, and the old and young took the train back to Shouyun City by themselves.
There was only one day off for New Year’s Day, but after New Year’s Day it was the end of the semester, so grandpa and grandma decided to wait until Weisheng finished his final exam before going home.
Weisheng had a background in veterinary medicine, and her medical skills were somewhat similar, so when she started studying veterinary courses, the teachers and professors who were worried about her being too young felt at ease.
Once the final exam results come out, teachers and professors will feel more at ease.
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