Chapter 49: East meets West

As the roaring tram stopped by the platform, Gu Wan helped the two girls beside him carry their suitcases very gentlemanly and escorted them to the car.

It was half past seven in the morning, and they caught the first bus of the day. There weren't too many people on the platform, probably because most people on business don't travel so early.

The luggage of a total of three people was really heavy, Gu played a 24-inch suitcase in his left hand, a 32-inch one in his right hand, and a backpack larger than a mountaineer on his back, which really made his slender and thin body crumble.

The 32-inch box is shared by Gu Play and his sister, and it will naturally be opened again when it arrives at the Jindu dormitory.

So Li Shuangye didn't plan to carry his own luggage from the beginning - this is the advantage of having an older brother.

"Tut-tut, this little handsome guy is amazing, he won't have infighting with two beautiful little girls, just be a little more tired. The female conductor of the bullet train stood at the boarding gate, watching the threesome performance, and couldn't help but be amazed in her heart.

In fact, the female conductor was not the first to be curious, just now along the way, Gu Wan and his party have already attracted the attention of many people, and the return rate is super high.

Most people don't want to be crooked, but when they see someone who can bring a few beautiful women and look harmonious, they naturally take a few more looks.

"Sister Yiyi, you can change your position and join us in a while, and say okay. Walking into the carriage, before he could find a place, Li Shuangye began to quietly coax and instigate.

"It depends, others may not be willing to change it. Ma Yiyi didn't think much about it, so she casually agreed.

After all, it wasn't Gu Play who invited her, but Shuangye, who is also a girl, invited her, and she had no reason to refuse her classmates thousands of miles away.

The three of them squeezed to the seats of Gu Yu and Futaba and looked at the ticket.

Gu Play and Li Shuangye are face-to-face, both by the window. Next to the brother and sister, there was already a male passenger sitting in each of them, and it seemed that they were both on a business trip.

Ma Yiyi thought for a while, asked Gu Play and Shuangye to sit down first, and then discussed with the man next to Gu Wan: "Uncle, I am classmates with them, can I trouble you to change places?" I am in the next car, it is a window seat." ”

The uncle was very talkative, wrote down Ma Yiyi's seat number, and went to the next compartment with his luggage.

Li Shuangye saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but think of coaxing in his heart, for fear of revealing flaws, so he quickly turned his head and looked out the window: Sister Yiyi really feels good about my brother and wants to sit with my brother.

However, within a few seconds, Ma Yiyi changed her mind.

"Futaba, you and Brother Gu should change places, I want to sit with you. Ma Yiyi took the initiative.

Li Shuangye quickly turned around, ignorant and didn't understand what the other party thought, but he still changed his position according to his words.

After changing the position, Li Shuangye secretly asked: "Sister Yiyi, you said earlier that you wanted to sit with me, wouldn't it be good to change the position directly with the eldest brother next to me, it's too much." ”

Ma Yiyi smiled and didn't answer, so she naturally diverted the topic.

Gu Yu saw it in his eyes, but he understood the other party's intentions: Ma Yiyi was naturally worried that if she directly changed positions with the man next to Futaba, the other party might not be happy.

Because if you don't change, you can talk to beautiful women for hours. After changing, the ghost knows who is sitting next to Ma Yiyi's position. Even if she is a girl, there is a high probability that she will not be more beautiful than Li Shuangye.

And Ma Yiyi chose to change positions with the uncle next to Gu Play, which was different.

Even if he didn't change it, that uncle was sitting with Gu and had no interest. After the change, no matter whether the neighbor is male or female, at least there can be a window seat.

This style of work is really concise. If you can do it without talking nonsense, you will definitely not talk nonsense.

The train was soon moving.

Because it's only a three-hour drive, you don't have to eat in the car. Everyone only brought a small snack, and they shared snacks and chatted with each other.

Li Shuangye naturally asked about the situation at Ma Yiyi's family.

Ma Yiyi didn't want to talk deeply, but since she listened to some of Gu Wan's family affairs on the phone last night, she didn't want to take advantage of others, so she chatted calmly.

"My family is engaged in foreign trade, but don't get me wrong, it's not the boss, it's just an employee of an ordinary import and export company. ”

Ma Yiyi speaks very modestly, and senior managers are also considered employees, anyway, as long as they are not major shareholders, they are not considered bosses.

Her home is in Haixian County, Yongcheng, which is the largest port city in Donghai Prefecture, with developed import and export trade, so it is the most common for people there to work in foreign trade companies.

Gu Wan remembered something and asked casually: "No wonder you went to Fusang as soon as the college entrance examination was over, your family must be familiar with it, right?"

Ma Yiyi: "It's really familiar, my parents' unit is engaged in Fusang foreign trade." But I'm not very good at Japanese, so I'm going to join a group this time. ”

Yongcheng people do business with Fusang, it is also very historical, the Tang Dynasty began to send envoys at that time, and the Song Dynasty also had Mingzhou City.

After chatting a little bit, Gu Wan and Futaba realized that although Ma Yiyi was modest, her family background was definitely not worse than the Gu family, and she should be at the top of the middle class.

Futaba was a little curious: "Yiyi...... I'm not talking about it behind my back, I think your family should be better than ours, there's no need to let girls show their heads too much. Your sister is also working too hard. Most successful men don't like girls who are in a hurry. ”

"Futaba, how did you speak!" Gu Yu felt that his sister was a little inappropriate, and hurriedly stopped, "Ma Yiyi, she has no malicious intentions, don't be surprised." ”

Ma Yiyi smiled slightly: "I know, classmate Gu, it's nothing to do with you, and I don't mind." ”

The private conversation between the girls is like this, and no one thinks that the gossip is too big or nosy.

Gu Play will no longer intervene.

"My sister likes to know more upper-class people, she has her own difficulties, everyone has their own ambitions and can't be persuaded. Ma Yiyi explained slightly and sighed softly.

There were some words that she didn't say.

Her sister Ma Xiyuan is really good to her, not only often subsidizes her sister, but sometimes jokes with her: "It's okay, successful people in high society don't like girls who show their faces in a hurry, it's okay."

I'm responsible for getting to know more of the upper class, creating opportunities, and if there are good ones in the future, I will create opportunities to introduce you to you. You can be your quiet lady, as long as you develop in the future, don't forget to take care of your nephew. ”

This kind of remark is certainly a joke between sisters, but it is also somewhat sincere. But Ma Yiyi will never say these words to outsiders.

Gu Yu observed that Ma Yiyi was halfway through what she said, and her mood was a little depressed, so she wanted to divert the topic: "Don't talk about your sister, everyone has their own pursuits, I think it's good for girls to do news." ”

Ma Yiyi secretly wiped the corners of her eyes: "It's okay, it's just that Futaba's words evoke memories." Actually, I also think my sister is overly anxious, she always tells me that my generation:

Perhaps it is the last generation of Oriental people to change their social class. The next generation, the next two generations, will be completely solidified.

With the development of science and technology and civilization to this point, world wars should never break out again, and there should be no more world-wide social songs. The previous reshuffle may be the end of history and the last reshuffle.

After she saw more rich people, especially the children of rich families, they were not as depraved as the nouveau riche in her impression, so she always told me: Our generation is not qualified to live for ourselves. She should sacrifice her pursuit for the sake of being a superior person for future generations, lest she be a subordinate person for future generations.

I actually don't agree with it, I think she lives too pessimistic and rushed. Of course, it may be that I haven't stepped into society yet. ”

Gu Play: "This is really too pessimistic, I don't agree with her opinion, even if there is no large-scale social mobility, at least there will be a science and technology song again and again in the future."

No matter what era, as long as there is a next time for science and technology, there will be new opportunities, new upward channels, and changes in the social class of their own ethnic groups. ”

It's just that there are relatively few people who can grasp the fate of science and technology.

Maybe 10 million out of hundreds of millions of people can seize the opportunity to change the class of their own family, and it would be good. For most others, an ascending channel does not exist.

But Gu Play was to persuade Ma Yiyi to be optimistic, so he didn't say the second half of the sentence.

Ma Yiyi smiled slightly in surprise: "I can't see it, your opinion doesn't look like a science student." ”

The top students who have just been admitted to university are the ones who love to guide the country, think they have seen the essence of society clearly, and love fantasy, even if they are girls.

Only after a few years of polishing will you lose the passion to talk about the general trend of the world.

The three-hour drive quickly passed between the of the funny soul. Until she got off the bus, Ma Yiyi was still a little reluctant.

Gu Play was very down-to-earth to help the girl pull two big boxes and prepare a heavy backpack to take a taxi out of the station.

In 98 years, the main campus of the Central University of Science and Technology is still in the urban area, not far from Xuanwu Lake.

When I arrived there, it was only past 11 o'clock, and the seniors who had gone through the formalities had not yet arrived at the point where the stall was closed for lunch. Gu Wan and the three of them hurriedly went through the formalities.

In science and engineering universities, it is inevitable that there will be more men than women.

The Central University of Science and Technology is equivalent to the combination of the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Science and Technology on the earth, so after the average, the gender ratio is not as exaggerated as the University of Science and Technology of China on the earth, and the male students account for about two-thirds. (USTC men and women are five to one, but NTU men and women are about the same)

The senior students who came to receive the orientation naturally followed this ratio.

The Academy of Physical Sciences that Gu Play went to and the Academy of Mathematical Sciences that Ma Yiyi went to both had only one senior sister who helped with the procedures, and the others were all seniors.

On the contrary, Li Shuangye studied science education, because of the somewhat normal nature, there are obviously more female students than male students.

After completing the registration procedures, the senior sister who received Gu Wan specially confirmed his information and handed him a list:

"This is the make-up examination schedule for some subjects in the sophomore year after the start of the semester. If you want to apply for exemption from some courses and participate in the 2+3 exchange student candidacy, you can take these exams. However, if you are a make-up candidate, you will need to pass with 60 points, and if you apply for exemption, you will need 90 points to be exempted. ”

Gu Yu asked a few words before he understood what was going on.

It turned out that he came as the top student in the college entrance examination in Donghai Prefecture, and when the teachers of the admissions office poached him, they also promised to give him a place to go to Stratholme University as a 2+3 exchange student in the future, and he would be a master's degree directly after 5 years.

However, this kind of preferential treatment obviously depends on the performance in the university in the past few years, and it cannot be given in vain.

Therefore, the Central University of Science and Technology has some small reforms that imitate the credit system of the Oceanic Kingdom, allowing more freedom in course arrangement for top students, and some elective courses may have freshman, sophomore, and junior students in the same class at the same time, and they will take it together across grades.

If you have the ability to score more than 90 points directly when you enter the school, and if you pass the re-examination of the senior year, you can directly be exempted from the course and get the corresponding credits.

Otherwise, how could anyone take enough credits for exchange students in 2 years?

This kind of system seems to be very novel in higher education in the East, but it is common in the Ivy League schools on the other side.