In a daze, Zhou Yang heard someone calling him. He opened his eyes and found that it was Li Youwei standing next to the Kang.
"It's past five o'clock, get up quickly!" Li Youwei said softly.
Zhou Yang remembered that he had to go to the city today. Since there was no direct bus, he had to go to Yunshan County first and then take a bus to the city.
Yunshan County is 20 kilometers away from Babaoliang Village. In order not to miss the first long-distance bus, Zhou Yang must arrive at the county seat before nine o'clock.
While Zhou Yang was getting dressed, Li Youwei had already put the prepared breakfast on the table.
Rice porridge and boiled potatoes, but with a few extra eggs.
She peeled one for Zhou Yang and put it in a bowl. Li Youwei put the remaining eggs in a small cloth bag, and then said: "You can take these eggs with you to eat on the road, and I have prepared 50 yuan for you." , don’t treat yourself badly when you go out!”
"You won't need that much, just prepare thirty yuan for me, and prepare some bills by the way!" Zhou Yang said.
"Take them all, poor people and rich people. If you don't need them, just take them back!"
"Um!"
After eating the loving breakfast prepared by Xiao Nizi, Zhou Yang kissed Baoer's sleeping face, and then set off with a canvas bag on his back.
Looking at Zhou Yang's back as he strode away, Li Youwei's eyes were filled with tears, and tears slowly overflowed from her eyes!
In this marriage, she is active and passive at the same time.
She was the one who pursued Zhou Yang first, but she knew he didn't like him, so she had no choice but to be with her.
Therefore, Li Youwei has always been in a state of worrying about gains and losses. She is really worried that this white swan-like man will abandon their mother and daughter and never return.
But she had to let him go, so she felt quite tormented inside.
Although he repeatedly promised that this time he was just going to the city to find ways to make money and would never leave, Li Youwei's heart was still full of hesitation and helplessness.
At this time, Zhou Yang had just walked outside the gate. When he turned to close the courtyard door, he saw Li Youwei standing at the door, her sleeves constantly wiping in front of her eyes.
Knowing that this girl must have been overthinking it, Zhou Yang immediately returned to the yard again and quickly came to her side.
Sure enough, this girl cried!
Looking at the crying little wife, Zhou Yang couldn't help but feel a twinge in his heart. This girl was so insecure.
"I...I'm just a little..."
Without waiting for Li Youwei to explain, Zhou Yang pulled her into his arms, and then whispered in her ear: "Don't cry, I will be back soon!"
"Yeah! I believe you!"
Zhou Yang patted his little wife on the back again, and when he turned around, he suddenly seemed to think of something, and then said, "Let's go get evidence when I come back!"
Li Youwei was shocked and said in disbelief: "Really?"
"Well, if you're ready to prove it, we'll go when I get back!"
"Then you go early and come back early...I..."
Seeing his wife who was so excited that she couldn't speak incoherently, the softest part of Zhou Yang's heart was touched again.
Since the above requirements for married educated youth to return to the city are very high, the principle is that once an educated youth gets married locally, their household registration relationship will directly fall into the place where they jump in line. In other words, once they get married, they basically lose the qualification to return to the city.
Therefore, in order to make it easier for them to return to the city in the future, the two have not received the certificate even though they have been together for more than four years and Bao'er is over three years old.
After all, an uncertified marriage is not protected. Even if the two parties separate, they only need to issue a certificate of severance of the marriage relationship. The man and woman are still unmarried on their files.
I have to say that I was selfish in my previous life!
But in this life, Zhou Yang vowed not to let Xiao Nizi follow him like this without any reason, and it was time to put the matter of evidence on the agenda!
........
Zhou Yang walked for more than three hours on the twenty-kilometer road. By the time he reached the bus station, it was already past eight o'clock.
Along the way, apart from the fresh air, the other feelings were not good.
The muddy country roads, low adobe houses, and sappy-looking people all reveal the poverty of this era, and it is so unscrupulous!
Even the county town is not as prosperous as imagined, it just has more brick and tile houses!
Fortunately, it is already 1975, and there are only a few years left until the beginning of the reform of the era. All I have to do is wait patiently!
Buy your ticket and get on the bus!
Amidst the abnormal noise, the long-distance bus drove to Ning City, 120 kilometers away!
It’s really hard to travel far in this era. It’s only over a hundred kilometers away, but in future generations, it would only take an hour to drive.
But Zhou Yang's journey took a full three and a half hours. The violent bumps in the car, the crowded passengers, and the ubiquitous abnormal noise almost drove Zhou Yang crazy.
But Zhou Yang also knew that with the current conditions, it would be nice to have a car, so what else would he need like a bicycle?
After coming out of the old passenger station, Zhou Yang carefully looked at the streets around him, and slowly the place overlapped with the place in his memory.
But compared to the important transportation hub town in the northwest in later generations, the current Ning City is really a bit dilapidated and desolate!
In his previous life, Zhou Yang came to Ning City almost every year, so he was quite familiar with it.
He didn't ask anyone for directions, but followed his memory and walked towards Xinhua Bookstore not far away!
The familiar sign made Zhou Yang couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, opened the door and strode in.
The bookstore is not big, and the internal layout is relatively simple. The moment you open the door, your nose smells the fragrance of ink that is unique to books.
For a time, Zhou Yang's mood improved inexplicably.
This may be a common problem among readers. For this type of people, books often give them an inexplicable excitement, just like a hungry person smelling the aroma of bread.
Except for a bald middle-aged man, there was no one else in the bookstore.
After seeing Zhou Yang, the middle-aged man immediately put down the book in his hand, and then asked: "Comrade, are you here to buy a book?"
"No, I want to take over some translation work, I don't know if it's possible!"
That's right, the way Zhou Yang said to make money is to be a translator.
At present, China is far behind Western countries in terms of science and technology or other aspects. In order to learn the other party's advanced technology and management methods, it has to translate a large number of foreign materials and books.
However, due to unexplainable reasons, there has been a serious gap among domestic intellectuals, so there is an unusual lack of translation talents in the country at this stage.
There are limited translation talents on one side and a large number of works to be translated on the other. The relationship between supply and demand is seriously imbalanced. This has seriously affected the development of the national economy. Scientific research has often been hindered because of the inability to translate foreign language materials in a timely manner.
Because there is such a shortage of translators, the state has to distribute some not very important publications to various provinces and cities, asking them to find suitable personnel for paid translation.
On the one hand, it is to reduce the pressure on relevant departments, and on the other hand, it is also to discover translation talents in society.
Xinhua Bookstore in every province and city, as the most popular place for cultural people, naturally became a platform for issuing tasks.
Hearing Zhou Yang's words, the middle-aged man's eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly asked: "Comrade, I am Xu Yongguang, the person in charge of the bookstore, you can call me Lao Xu!"
"Hello, my name is Zhou Yang!"
"Comrade Zhou Yang, do you understand foreign languages?"
"Well, I know something!"
"Which language do you know?"
Zhou Yang really wanted to say that he was proficient in English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Korean languages, but he knew that it was not good to be too public in this era, and it might even lead to investigations by interested people.
After thinking again and again, two words popped out of Zhou Yang's mouth: "English!"
"Your English is good. What our country is most lacking right now is talents who understand English. But if you want to take over the translation job, I have to test your level!"
"no problem!"
Later, Lao Xu took out two pieces of paper written in English from the drawer on the side and handed them to Zhou Yang.
"Look, how long does it take you to translate this article?"
Zhou Yang took the letter and looked at it, and quickly recognized that it was a passage excerpted from the classic English book "Letter to Garcia".
"Five minutes!"
"5...5 minutes?"
Lao Xu was obviously stunned by Zhou Yang's words. Although he handed Zhou Yang only 5 or 6 pieces of letter paper, normally it would take no more than three or two hours to complete the translation.
Zhou Yang didn't say anything more, but took out the pen and paper he carried with him and started translating on the spot.
