Time flies very fast, and in the blink of an eye it is early 1982. Sun Qianchao is about to graduate in his senior year. After these years of unremitting efforts, his work unit has been determined.
Under the strong recommendation of Gao Liren, the former head teacher who has now been promoted to the deputy director of the history department, he successfully stayed at the school to teach. At the same time, he was admitted to Gao's graduate school, which was equivalent to part-time work-study.
This means that there is an acute shortage of teachers now, and it is basically impossible to stay in school after graduating from a bachelor's degree.
Because the school will officially be on winter vacation in a few days, six roommates living under the same roof met for a breakup meal at a restaurant near the school.
After three drinks and five dishes, Sun Qianchao stood up, held the wine glass, and glanced at the people on the table.
He said with a somewhat uncomfortable expression: "Everyone, four years have passed so quickly!"
"The six of us will soon go our separate ways. Zheng Xu and I are still in Jichun. It is fate that we all know each other. No matter where we go, I hope we will not forget this friendship as classmates!"
Li Penglong, who is not a good drinker, burst into tears when he heard this.
While crying, she choked up and said: "I really can't bear to leave you all. You have always taken care of me all these years and treat me like your own brother~"
"Okay Penglong, you have graduated this time. When you return to Ice City, no one will call you a kid anymore~" Jiang Hao from Ludong smiled and joked.
The nickname "Boy Chicken" has accompanied Li Penglong for nearly four years because he has never found a partner.
At this time, Zheng Xu, who was sitting next to him, also said jokingly: "Speaking of which, you are really quite capable. There are so many junior girls in our school, and I really admire you for not being single~"
"Go away~" Li Penglong became a little angry.
He was still a little sad at first, but it disappeared as soon as he heard this. He didn't want to be single, but he couldn't help but blush even when talking to girls, let alone confessing his feelings.
Everyone laughed: "Hahaha~"
As everyone knows, this is basically the last time we can get together like this, so we drank until very late, and even Sun Qichao, who has a good drinker, drank a little too much.
The relationship has indeed been going well in the past few years. Although there are bumps and bumps sometimes, except for Li Penglong, they are all adults. Unlike fresh graduates, they will restrain themselves in everything they encounter.
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A few days later, the school officially had a holiday. Sun Qianchao and Zheng Xu, who lived in Jichun, drove four roommates to the train station in a car.
Li Fenglong, who was sitting in the back row, said angrily: "Master Zheng, you are so secretive. We have lived together for four years, and I didn't know that your father was the head of the house until a few days ago!"
That's right, when Zheng Xu was drinking a few days ago, he confessed to himself that he had drunk too much. Of course, it was because of the alcohol. Seeing that he had graduated, there was no point in hiding it anymore.
"Can you blame me? You didn't ask before?" Zheng Xu said with a smile while driving.
The car he borrowed was of course not a benefit, it was just an ordinary 212 Jeep. He had been assigned to the commercial office and even became the section chief as soon as he arrived.
Sitting in the co-pilot was Jiang Hao, a big man from Ludong in 185. He smiled and interjected: "Master Zheng, I guessed that your kid has some background before, but I didn't expect it to be so profound!"
"You guys are definitely leaving early. We should give this kid a good beating. Who let him lie to us for four years~" Sun Qianchao, who was also crowded in the back row, said with a smile.
Hu Ying, who was assigned to a local school in northern Hebei as the vice principal, also echoed.
"What a mistake. It's hard to ask for leave now, otherwise you will have to bleed heavily~"
Having a car is convenient. As we chatted, we arrived at the train station. Since our destinations were all different, we bid farewell to our roommates one by one.
It was almost getting dark, and finally only the youngest Li Penglong was left. His home was relatively close, in Bingcheng, Heilongjiang Province next door. This boy was lucky, because the local area was in urgent need of educated talents, so he was directly assigned to the job. With heavy responsibility.
Sometimes age is an advantage, and your future is absolutely limitless, and you will definitely become someone who often appears in the news.
Sun Ganchao patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, it's not far away. If you have nothing to do in the future, come to Jichun to play with your brother. I will also ask your sister-in-law to make you some meat slices to eat~"
"Brother Qichao, Brother Xu, if you come to Bingcheng in the future, you must come to me~" Li Penglong hugged his two brothers very emotionally.
The three eastern provinces are not separated from each other, and the three of them are considered fellow villagers, so the normal relationship is naturally the best.
Here Zheng Xu patted the youngest brother in the dormitory on the back, laughed and cursed: "The train is coming soon, get out of here!"
"This is such a long distance. If I'm free from now on, I'll just hit the gas and drive the car to find you!"
After bidding farewell to his roommate, on the way back, Sun Qianchao slumped in the passenger seat. He was exhausted. He had not been able to rest for a whole day.
Zheng Xu said while driving: "What do you think about catching up?"
"Why don't you just stay in school? Why don't I tell my old man and you can come to our work? What's so good about this school? The salary is only that small and there's no room allocation!"
"As you know, I don't have any great ambitions, so I just plan to find a leisurely job to hang out for the rest of my life. At the very least, a university teacher has the dignity to speak out!"
"As for the house, I forgot to tell you. I bought it a long time ago. Yu Hong and the children have moved there for several months. It's near the school!"
"Damn it, why did you ask me to go back to school? I thought you were going to get something, but you went home directly. You hid it too deeply~" Zheng Xu's tone was filled with emotion. resentment.
In the past few days, because I didn't tell anyone about my family background in advance, I was blackmailed by my roommates for countless meals. I almost paid for three meals a day.
This bastard is lucky enough to have bought a house quietly. If he had told this earlier, wouldn't someone have shared the firepower?
Sun Qianchao laughed unkindly: "Hahaha!"
"If I had told you in advance, we would be the ones bleeding heavily. As the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist. Besides, Brother Xu, your legs are thick, so it's okay to bleed a little. But I'm different. I still rely on my wife to support you!"
"Do you think I believe it?" Zheng Xu said, holding the steering wheel with his left hand and facing the co-pilot with his right hand, silently making an OK gesture.
"What do you mean?" Sun Qianchao didn't understand.
Zheng Xu explained angrily: "Three big meals at the Fuqiang Hotel near the school are over, otherwise I will definitely not let you go!"
"Okay, okay, let's just say that, don't say it for three times. The relationship between us two brothers can't be better after four or five times!"
But despite Sun Qianchao's words, who pays the bill depends on the specific situation. For example, if Zheng Xu doesn't drink well, if he drinks too much and insists on paying the bill, he can't stop it, can he?
Soon we arrived at Sun Qunchao's house, which he bought for 2,800 yuan this summer. It has two floors, a building area of 220 square meters, and a small courtyard of about 100 square meters.
Zheng Xu, who got off the car together, swallowed in surprise when he saw this, and then looked furious.
"Your grandson is catching up, but you are still crying about poverty. I definitely said it was less, it should be 30 meals!"
"I'm so embarrassed. Come in and warm yourself up. This car is good. It's just that there's air leaking everywhere. I'm freezing all the way..."
(PS: Brothers, is it expensive to buy a small second floor for 2800?)
(End of chapter)
