The annual graduation season.
Luggage packages can be seen everywhere in the dormitories of graduating students. As job assignments are approaching, everyone is about to go their separate ways.
Xu Yin's physics major has only seven girls in three classes. They are jokingly called the "seven fairies" by the outside department. They just fit into a dormitory, and she is the only one studying for graduate school, and she is recommended.
Really, the achievements in these four years are too remarkable.
As soon as she entered the freshman year, many freshmen were still in the adaptation stage. She entered the college laboratory with the design drawings of a solar farm machine, and was led by her professor to participate in a national key investment project to convert old and new kinetic energy.
In the next three years, I don’t know whether it was the laboratory that took her away, or she took her away from the laboratory. Everything related to solar energy - such as the portable farming machine that she came up with for her parents to work easily, and other things like the She knows everything about the solar generator that can survive power outages and the solar car design that was submitted recently.
Studying as a research fellow seemed to be an easy task for her, and even the Chinese Academy of Sciences wanted to recruit her to work there in advance.
Going in and out of the same dormitory, it seems that she has had a smooth life in the past four years, and even before she graduates, prestigious institutions like the Chinese Academy of Sciences are rushing to get her. As for the others, they can only wait for the school to arrange it - if they are lucky, they will be assigned a good institution. If you are unlucky, you may go to a poor place where the economy is far inferior to that of the imperial capital. How can you not be envious?
But it's only limited to envy. If the gap is too big, you can't even be jealous.
Dormitory director Ye Mei was helping Xu Yin pack her luggage and move to the dormitory of the institute, while sighing:
"Yinmei, I don't know when we will see each other again. Spring City is far away from here. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to come to the Imperial Capital again. If my child is admitted to a school in the Imperial Capital in the future, you have to help me. ah."
Xu Yin was thinking about which ones to take home and which ones to take to the dormitory. Before she could react, Chen Mei'e on the side chuckled and said:
"Boss, you are thinking too far ahead. You have just graduated and already want your children to go to college. Where is my brother-in-law? Did you catch him flying in the sky?"
Everyone in the dormitory was happy.
Ye Mei herself couldn't help but laugh: "I just said that, who asked us seven sisters to stay in the imperial capital? Who can I entrust her to?"
"Then it's possible to get admitted to Hehai. Why don't you leave it to me?" Lu Chunqun, who was assigned to the Hehai Machinery Factory, joked.
"That's right, that's right. No matter where my child goes in the future, as long as it's in the city where you are, I have to help him. The same goes for me. Your child can come to Chuncheng to study or live in my house."
A group of people laughed and made a fuss, and Xu Yin's luggage was packed.
She bought a train ticket for this evening and went home to visit her parents.
There was an industry seminar in late July, and her instructor asked her to follow her to attend. Then, as expected, she would follow her instructor into the laboratory.
Therefore, this summer vacation is not as enjoyable as two months, and it lasts for twenty days.
Most of the luggage was moved to the graduate dormitory, and I only had a duffel bag with a change of clothes in hand.
The expanded schoolbag has been lying in the system warehouse for most of the past few years. If I don't change it for four years, I am worried that my classmates will notice it.
And she was reluctant to spend thousands of energy points on other styles of expansion backpacks.
In the past four years, she earned some energy points by riding bicycles and driving tractors and farm machines for the agricultural college, which was enough to buy an expansion backpack.
But I just can’t bear it.
With those energy points, what’s not to do with it?
Wouldn’t it be delicious to add more watermelon seeds or other vegetable and fruit seeds to Dad?
Before leaving, I hugged my roommates one by one.
Ye Mei is right about one thing: this farewell is far away, and we don’t know how long it will take to see each other again.
The most common thing during the graduation season is the sadness of separation.
"I like traveling and will visit you when I have time." Xu Yin patted their shoulders.
In the past four years, she has been running away a lot.
In addition to going home during the winter and summer vacations, and during short holidays such as May Day and National Day, unless the professor takes me to the laboratory, I usually go to surrounding cities for sightseeing.
Firstly, let’s take a look at the northern towns in the early 1980s, and secondly, satisfy your collecting habit.
God knows where the world will greet her next.
Since the system warehouse is following her, it would be a fool not to make preparations.
When you encounter good supplies, stock them up. If you stock up too much, sell them appropriately to earn some pocket money.
In short, don’t treat yourself badly no matter where you are.
She has been to the grassland closest to the imperial capital, and tasted and bought many grassland specialties. Cheese, milk slices, and beef and mutton were the most popular.
In the system warehouse lay a steaming roasted whole lamb, as well as hundreds of kilograms of beef and mutton, both raw and cooked.
I have been to the busy Jinshi Port, tasted the twists, steamed buns, pancakes and fruits there, and bought many sea crabs, Pipi shrimps, tongue soles, white pomfrets, and giant prawns that are not seen in Houhai Village;
I also visited Chengde, the favorite summer resort of ancient emperors, and stocked up on a batch of delicious and hunger-resistant donkey rolls, flower rose cakes, and cakes made with mineral water and almonds. It is said that in ancient times, only emperors, concubines, and princes could eat them. Almond syrup that only nobles can afford;
I have also been to Luancheng Ancient Town, where the donkey meat barbecue is a must-have, as well as donkey hide gelatin, lotus leaf chicken, braised chicken, and sheep intestine soup. If you are tired of it, try the local pickles...
In short, she has visited almost all the tourist towns around the imperial capital in the past four years.
Apart from buying some gifts for my parents, the rest of the bonuses and scholarships given by the school are basically used on this.
It’s unclear whether other people’s college careers are fulfilling. Anyway, her four years of college were fulfilling and satisfying.
Next, I want to go to the south for a visit, but I don’t know if the instructor is willing to give her a long vacation.
"Yinmei, come to Hehai during your next vacation. I'll take you to eat Hehai's special snacks!" Lu Qunchun said.
Others also invited Xu Yin to the city where they worked.
"Okay, okay." Xu Yin agreed, "When the holiday comes, as long as I don't go home, I will go to your place. Just don't bother me then."
After exchanging pleasantries, Xu Yin said goodbye to them.
…
Xujiacun has changed a lot in the past four years.
Every household raises rice flower fish and has two crops of rice a year, and the rice flower fish also harvests two crops.
Other villages were jealous and started raising them the next year, but unfortunately they were not as plump and tender as those raised in Xujiacun.
The same goes for sandy watermelons. Other villages and towns obviously have sandy land, and they obviously follow the example of Mr. Xu and use pond mud to fertilize, but the watermelons grown are not as delicious as those in Xujiacun.
Gradually, rice fish and watermelon became the characteristics of Xujia Village.
Whenever rice fish and watermelon are ripe, countless buyers rush to the village to buy them.
The villagers of Xujia Village sold the things in the fields without even leaving the village.
Including rice - early rice, a symbiosis between rice and fish, is soft and fragrant, nourishes the stomach and is easy to digest; late rice is crystal clear, soft and waxy in taste, and is many times better than ordinary local rice sold in the market.
Even if the purchase price is five cents or ten cents higher, there are still people buying it.
Xujia Village became the first village in Pingyang County to become wealthy.
The government saw the potential of Xujia Village. After receiving the road construction task assigned by the superiors the following year, Xujia Village was given priority to build a hardened cement road that ran through the entire village and directly connected to the county and town.
After that, the output from the fields in Xujiacun became more marketable.
Xujiacun has become a famous first-rich village in Pingyang County. So far, it has been rated as a model village for two consecutive years.
If Xujia Village was the first to become rich in Pingyang County, then the old Xu family was the first to become rich in Xujia Village.
An exquisite two-story foreign-style building stands on the north side of the hardened cement road, with a blue brick courtyard wall, a red painted gate, and two gold and silver osmanthus trees at the door.
This was built the year before last.
Originally, they could build a new house in the first year of raising rice flower fish, but they suddenly contracted twenty acres of sandy land. Xu's mother was worried that the seeds would be lost and the harvest would be lost, so she saved up money and was reluctant to build the house.
Unexpectedly, the following summer, the watermelons on the 20 acres of sandy land were sold out, and the rice fish on the three acres of paddy fields also had a bumper harvest. The old Xu family stood out and became the first 10,000-yuan household in Xujia Village.
Who is content with renovating an old house when they have a lot of money in their pocket? The western-style building with red bricks and black tiles was directly torn down.
A protruding balcony is also designed on the second floor, with part of the center extended to form a large terrace - a good place to enjoy the cool air in summer.
The original main house and side rooms were replaced by three large two-story buildings. The foundation was half a meter higher than the courtyard, and three steps were set up to prevent rainwater from pouring back during heavy rains.
The yard has been poured with cement. When the rice matures, you no longer have to rush to the drying field to grab a seat. You can dry it at your doorstep.
The ancient well was changed from the original throw-a-bucket type to a push-type type. A cement sink was installed not far from the well for convenient washing of vegetables.
Entering the building, the whole west room is designed as a granary. The windows are relatively small and are more than two and a half meters above the ground, ensuring dryness and ventilation in the warehouse.
The main room is a large living room that is transparent from north to south. It has a four-person couch made of solid wood and fabric cushions, two sets of single sofas, a large coffee table made of the same color wood, and a set of multi-functional food cabinets against the wall, displaying items from Xu Yin’s travels. Decorations as well as tobacco, alcohol, candies, etc. for entertaining guests.
On the chest of drawers facing the sofa, there is the latest Panda TV set. Even though it is only 17 inches, it is already the largest on the market.
The number of people in Xujiacun who can afford this TV cannot be counted on the palm of their hand.
In other villages, there are still only a few owners of 14-inch TVs.
Behind the building is still the private land of the old Xu family, but the plan was redesigned when building a new house: a clean path paved with cobblestones leads from the building to the backyard, dividing the backyard into two halves, with a dazzling vegetable garden to the east and chickens and ducks to the west. Shed and tool room.
The traditional latrines have been converted into biogas pools. When you come here, there is no longer an inexplicable smell that always permeates the area.
Not far from the backyard is her family's rice field. Although it is only four acres, as she becomes more and more experienced in rice fish farming and all rice seeds are replaced with hybrid rice, the yield per mu has almost doubled.
The number of rice fish fish cultured has also expanded from the original three to four hundred fish per mu to about 800 fish today.
No matter how much, it's not impossible, but Xu Yin feels that an acre of land filled with fish may not be a good thing for the fish's ecological environment.
On the 20 acres of sandy land contracted by the old Xu family, the annual watermelon yield per mu has increased from 8,000 jins in the first year to 15,000 jins now, making the old Xu family the first ten thousand-yuan household in the village. How could no one be jealous of this unique and luxurious bungalow?
But who made everyone dislike this barren sandy land where no grass can grow? When Father Xu contracted the contract, he secretly laughed at him, wishing that he could contract it for a few more years so that every household could get some money. Now, even if there is a clamor to redistribute the fields, these twenty acres of sandy land will not be included in the classification. A contract written in black and white is no child’s play.
"Jinhua, your girl Yin graduated this year, right? Where is her job assigned? She graduated from a key university, so she won't go back to Pingyang, right?"
Xu's mother came to the rice field early in the morning to see the rice fish as usual, and met Li Laogen's mother-in-law.
"My family, Yin Yin, has been recommended to graduate school, and she still needs to continue her studies. She has work early." Xu's mother puffed up her chest proudly.
"What? You still want to go to school? Isn't university the highest level of education?"
"Who said that? There are others above. In addition to graduate students and doctoral students, what else is there? I don't remember, but there must be some. Otherwise, what is the meaning of endless learning?"
Li Laogen's mother-in-law clucked her tongue after hearing this: "Dear boy! Does your family, Yinyin, want to continue reading? How much will it cost?"
It is not easy to raise a college student, and the old Xu family still has to support their daughter to continue her education.
"Yinyin studied well, and the school waived her tuition, and in turn gave her various bonuses and subsidies. During the four years of college, not only did she not spend any money from her family, but she also bought things for her family. She bought the TV set for her. When I came back, I said I wanted to buy a washing machine for my home, but I scolded her."
While she was scolding, Xu's mother's expression didn't mean she was scolding at all. On the contrary, she was very proud.
Whose child is as mature as her Yinyin? Not only does it cost nothing to go to college, you also make money!
Xu Laogen’s mother-in-law: “…”
This is the first time I heard that not only does it cost nothing to study, but it also brings money back home.
But what could she say? But it's okay to praise it.
Having said that, the daughter of the old Xu family is indeed promising. Not only is she good at studying, but she also provides a living for the family to make money. She came up with the rice flower fish, and she also came up with the sand fertilization method. Without her, Xujiacun would not have the current development momentum.
"Aunt Jinhua——"
Across two acres of land, someone's daughter-in-law was calling her.
"What's going on?"
Xu's mother raised her voice and asked.
"Your Yinyin is back!"
"What? Yinyin is back?" Xu's mother immediately ran home.
Li Laogen's mother-in-law also followed.
She originally wanted to test Geng Jinhua's tone and see where Xu Yin was assigned. If she returns to Pingyang County, she would like to find a matchmaker for her natal nephew.
Her natal nephew graduated from technical secondary school and was assigned to the county's electrical machine factory. Although he is only a small technician at the moment, it is a state-owned unit after all and has a bright future. No matter how smart and capable Xu Yin is, she is still a girl, and she will always find someone to marry when she reaches her age.
Although her nephew is just a technician now, he will become an engineer in a few years. Wouldn't he be a good match for Xu Yin? Unexpectedly, she was recommended to graduate school and would continue her studies.
Oh, my mother-in-law! If you read any more, you will become an old aunt. Jinhua was actually not in a hurry...
If Xu's mother heard her slander, she would definitely reply: The emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is!
Her daughter is a literary star, and she will achieve great things in the future! Don’t be in a hurry when it comes to marriage. Who has ever seen a god get married and have children in a hurry?
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