57. Letter from the United States
When the school was about to end, Li He was sitting leisurely in the classroom reading a novel, and He Fang handed over a letter, English postmark, Chinese address, looking like it was sent from the United States. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Li He knew in his heart that there was probably only Wang Yu.
For this girl who suddenly appeared, Li He was actually still embarrassed.
Li He opened the envelope, looked at it seriously, and walked beautifully with one hand:
Hello Li He, I know that I have settled down at Purdue University in the United States. In the last year, I have been more shocked, surprised, nervous, and almost unable to care about the sorrow of homesickness, and I don't know how to write to you to describe what I have seen.
This kind of poverty gap, I don't know how to show you, we are still a poor country, according to the World Bank given realGDP percapita The United States is more than 10,000 US dollars, while China only has a few hundred yuan, in fact, the per capita income is less than a fraction of that of Americans. A meal for the average person here is higher than our annual income, how can I not be afraid of this huge difference.
The shock, the trembling of every part of the body, the feeling that you can't experience unless you experience it yourself.
In good conscience, as a person, I am shaken, no matter how miserable it is in the United States, at least you can drive a car and live in a bungalow, which is acceptable for most people.
And what about us? And there are people with cigarette pouches and pots that come to the light bulbs and light cigarettes.
But as a nation, if all of our Chinese students, if they are all working classes, this is unacceptable.
Nor will it be able to give back to China and make China a truly modern country. China has still not completed the transition from an agrarian society to a modern society, and there are too many things that science and technology can do in this transformation process.
But I would like to say that I am still early to graduate, and I have more time to think about the question of where to stay, and I can't answer it accurately now.
I hope you will apply to study abroad as soon as possible, although for most people it will take until your junior or even senior year, or you won't have the opportunity at all. But I'm sure with your level of effort, you'll have no problem at all.
According to the newspaper, the TOEFL will go to China to open test centers so that you don't need to go to Hong Kong to take the test.
Li He, I hope you will come and see the wider world. I know your family background, and this is also an opportunity for you to change your destiny.
You are a very confident person, that is not self-confidence in personal destiny, not self-arrogance, that is confidence in the whole nation-state, you are confident that this society will be better, you are confident that this country will be strong.
"Give the Chinese thirty years, even if they can't beat the United States, they can kick Britain and France"
That's what you said, and I was so impressed by your confidence, really.
In the past year, as far as I know, I think it is really difficult for us to catch up and surpass, and we have shouted the slogan of catching up with and surpassing Britain and the United States in 20 years, but the gap is getting bigger and bigger.
But it doesn't matter, it's all you and me, young and ignorant. So I hope you can also come out and see and make progress together.
I'm sorry if I have caused you any trouble before.
I wish you happiness and success in your studies.
After reading the letter, Li He's face was hot and painful.
This is obviously a breakup letter, and so much foreshadowing has been done, just to say the last sentence, the old lady dumped you.
Looking forward to you going abroad with sincerity, but also looking at the degree of effort? You lazy person may not have any hope of going abroad in this life;
It means that I was blind before, I had never seen the world, and I thought you were good.
Now the old lady has seen the world, the car, the small house, I don't listen to you, you are fighting the small people, you say goodbye, where is it cool.
Although he was unhappy, Li He was not so glassy, and directly folded the letter and sandwiched it into the page, He Fang came over and said, "Do you have friends in the United States? I read the postmark, American." Your face is white. What's going on?"
He Fang and Zhao Yongqi took over the maintenance work in their hands, and suddenly became a little rich woman, eating, dressing, and talking, and their momentum was obviously different. Not to mention Li He's gratitude, he didn't take care of him at school.
Li He sighed and said, "It's nothing, a former classmate studied abroad." Wrote me a letter. When are you going home, did you buy a ticket?"
"Bought it, I'll leave the day after tomorrow, tomorrow Zhao Yongqi and I will invite you to have a meal together, you call Su Ming too, it's at the old Li family restaurant at the entrance of the alley" After He Fang finished speaking, he handed Li He a form "This is the application form for public derivation, only 120 people are recruited in the country, and now it is the internal screening of the school, and it will officially register with the Education Commission in February, you can try"
Li He didn't answer, and said directly, "Give it to those who need it, it's only a sophomore at the beginning of school, how can I be in such a hurry, besides, I'm not interested in going abroad"
During the school holidays, Li He bought the train tickets for Zhang Wanting, and he didn't want to go anywhere in the winter, so he had to be a bear at home.
"Classmate Zhang Wanting, have you really thought about it, why don't you go home with me to meet your in-laws?" Li He lit a cigarette and roasted under the stove, looking at Zhang Wanting who was busy on the kitchen countertop.
Zhang Wanting saw that Li He lit another cigarette, smoked and played, and said, "Don't go." Let's wait for graduation. Smoking is bad for your health, quit!"
Li He replied proudly: "I can't quit, my grandfather smokes, my father also smokes, and I can't cut off the incense when it's my turn." ”
Zhang Wanting angrily threw the rag in her hand over, she felt that the two of them had finished arguing all the fights in their lives in this small room.
Li He sighed, "When I didn't have a daughter-in-law before, I lived a life that was inferior to cattle and horses. Now it's like that. ”
"Don't talk to me poorly, if I knew you were so bad when I first got to know you, I wouldn't agree" Zhang Wanting's teeth itched angrily, as if she heard the sound of opening the door and walking outside, turned her head to see that it was Su Ming, and said, "You two go into the hall to talk, I can do it alone in the kitchen." Akiko, have you eaten?"
Su Ming put his hands in his sleeves, hooked his body, shivered from the cold, gritted his teeth and said, "Sister-in-law, eat, you can be busy yourself." I'll talk to my brother about something."
The two entered the hall, opened the door of the furnace, added some carbon, and Su Ming said, "Brother, those Wenzhou Yankees are all over the street." Damn, it's all cold, and it's not going to stop, and these people are all out of their money. As long as you say a word, I will cut them immediately."
Li He added some water to the teapot and said, "They make glasses and buttons, what's in the way of you? You have to learn something, this ruthlessness, ordinary people don't have it." Don't underestimate these people, it's better not to mess with you. Southerners are the most united, Wenzhou, Chaoshan area, Hakka, which one is easy to mess with? Remember, being kind to others, harmony and wealth are the most important, don't look at this unpleasant, that unpleasant
Su Ming tilted his body, rubbed his hands and said, "Are they really as rich as you say?
Li He said with a smile, "You haven't heard of it, nine businessmen out of ten Wenzhou Yankees, and one can settle accounts, many people have been sneaking around and started doing business in the early seventies, and besides, they are originally overseas Chinese, who don't have relatives abroad, but they have always been very low-key." To do wholesale and retail, people also accumulate a lot, don't underestimate the knowledge inside. Try to be friends with others and learn two more tricks, but don't be fooled, when it comes to shrewdness, you are still a little behind. If you can help, you can help, and when the time comes, you will be called friends all over the world."
Su Ming was so damaged by Li He, he shrank his head sickly and didn't want to speak, and said unconvinced, "I know"
At this time, the low-key Wenzhou people will be able to make the whole of China scare in a few years. Perhaps they are the real economic pioneers of China.