Gu Biao and Ye Kun, with a carload of juniors and sisters who were all older than them, turned around to the campus outside the West Second Ring Road and on the bank of Yuyuan Pond.

The oldest of the juniors is 32 years old, more than twice as old as Gu Biao. There are a total of 4 boys and girls over the age of 30, which can be regarded as a characteristic of the times.

It's not that Gu Biao is not mentally unprepared for the problems of his elderly classmates, after all, when he came in the first half of the year, he had already seen this phenomenon. But he always felt that the average age of the 78th class should always be younger than the 77th class, but who knew that the result was just the opposite.

He thought about it all the way in the car and roughly figured out the root cause - when the college entrance examination was just resumed last year, everyone was caught off guard, and the review time was generally only one or two months.

Therefore, many older candidates have been out of books for many years, and it is impossible to pick them up by surprise.

However, these people have endured hardships in the countryside for many years, and their perseverance in studying hard is generally stronger than that of young fresh graduates. So if you really give them more than half a year to review, many people will catch up.

This also led to the fact that the students of the 78th grade generally scored higher than the seniors half a year ago.

Moreover, Gu Biao has read the exam paper in July, and the difficulty has increased a little compared to December last year.

Gu Biao is very self-aware, thinking that if he hadn't caught up with the wave of 77 years and was caught off guard, but now compared with these younger students and sisters, he really couldn't get into the top 50 in the province.

At best, it is stable at the level of Zhejiang University, and Tsinghua University and Peking University are hanging.

It can be seen that the current situation and opportunities are indeed more important than strength in many cases.

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"First go to the dormitory manager to register, and then go to the auditorium to get the bunk cover and military training uniform. After dinner, everyone hurried to clean the dormitory, strive to rest early, and start military training tomorrow. All freshmen live on the first floor. ”

Gu Biao said this line for the third time today, so he is very familiar with the road.

On the site of the Foreign Affairs University, there are only two dormitory buildings, one with three floors and the other with four floors.

In fact, if it weren't for the separation of boys and girls, this would have been stuffed into one building.

Half a year ago, when Gu Biao and the others came in, the entire dormitory building was empty.

The school considered that the school is relatively close to Yuyuantan, and the nearby are low-lying wetlands, and the humidity is too heavy, so the class of 77 lives on the second floor, which can be regarded as taking into account moisture prevention and less staircase climbing.

Now that the class of 78 has come in, the school does not have the energy and financial resources to renovate the upper floors, so it simply avoids being lazy and lets the new students live downstairs.

Gu Biao led the 12 boys in the last car, and arranged them in three dormitories on the north side of the first floor of the boys' building according to the list.

In 78, a dormitory for 4 college students was already a very awesome treatment. The vast majority of poor schools with no money and no conditions have to endure 8~12 people in the dormitory.

When Gu Biao was assigned to the last and northernmost corner of the dormitory, Yang Yi and another Beijing boy named Qiao Han were just left, as well as two boys from the northeast - the ratio of male and female students in the school is strictly 3:2, which shows that this year's indicators in the capital are used on boys.

That Qiao Han is quite young, estimated to be 18 years old. Maybe he came up from studying all the way, he didn't suffer hardships, and he looked like a young man in the south of the city.

As soon as he entered the house, he couldn't help but whisper: "Why are there even mushrooms! This place can live in people? The seal on the door has not been torn clean." ”

"Xiao Qiao said a few words, isn't it just some mushrooms, I'll clean up." Yang Yi on the side was afraid that Gu Yi would be unhappy, so he hurriedly persuaded Qiao Han not to beep, and then picked up the broom handle and began to shovel the mushrooms in the corner.

The seal on the door of the dormitory was actually torn half a year ago, but it was not torn clean. The first floor is always unoccupied, and the school is very busy from teachers to students, so they don't bother to clean deeply.

After all, everyone is a person who has to complete a one-year course in half a year, and even elective courses and military training have been compressed, so how can there be time to organize voluntary labor.

But this dilapidated scene fell into the eyes of Qiao Han and these freshmen, but it was inevitable to speculate that "the admissions office's description of the school's recovery prospects must be bragging", and they also felt that they might have been deceived into coming to the Foreign Affairs University, and it was better to study at Tsinghua University.

As a senior who receives new students, although Gu Biao doesn't have to help clean up the whole process, he still has to command and take a hand.

This is the way it is in this era, if you stand by and watch when you see it, you will be said to "not go deep into the masses".

After cleaning, everyone was disgraced and smelled musty. A few freshmen asked Gu Biao about the various living conditions in the school and whether there was a place to take a bath.

Gu Biao also wanted to wash himself, so he led the way to the bathroom. Each of them followed with the enamel basin and towel soap they had just received.

"Is this a shower? It's so advanced, tsk, the conditions in the capital are different, I haven't seen a shower in my life." Several older boys from remote provinces could sigh when they looked at the crooked water pipe.

Gu Biao's heart couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

When he first arrived, he didn't think it deserved to be called a shower at all—it was just a tall, curved hose, not even a shower. Moreover, the switch of the faucet is very insensitive, and the water column that shoots out and hits people hurts a lot.

And the most outrageous thing is that the school only has a boiler and hot water for half a year. Every year from May to October, you can only take cold water.

Although there is hot water in winter, the boiler is only boiled for two hours a day, and the water supply is centralized from 5 to 7 o'clock every night.

Even during the hot water supply period, the boiler can be washed as many degrees as it is after it comes out, and you can't adjust the heat and cold by yourself.

Last semester, Gu Biao came early a few times, and the boiler room was hot, and the water was estimated to be close to 50 degrees, almost scalding him. In the end, you can only use the enamel basin to catch the water, and then go to the cold faucet to mix some cold water, stir it and then pour it on your body.

However, looking at these boys, most of whom come from poor places, it seems that these are not a problem.

No one dislikes the pain of the water jet hitting the body, and no one questions "why do you have to take cold water in September".

Gu Biao felt that compared to the potential to endure hardships and stand hard work, he might be the bottom of the school.

"Senior Gu, I've worked hard for you today, picking up people and helping us clean up. Shall I help you rub your back?" An enthusiastic junior, holding a rag that looked as rough as a wire ball, wrapped in a piece of soap, was about to rub Gu Ao's back.

"No, no, no, no, you guys rub it yourself, I'm not interested. Gu Biao rushed a little and fled.

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Early the next morning, everyone put on their newly issued military uniforms and began military training.

Because there are only 120 people in the two grades of the school. Therefore, the department borrowed an active platoon-level lieutenant and 4 non-commissioned officers from the **** unit to serve as the company commander and platoon commander of the military training company respectively.

The military uniforms of Gu Biao, the sophomores, generally fit well, and they are not easy to wear out the skin, because they got the clothes earlier, and they have been washed a few days in advance.

And many freshmen are inexperienced, and the clothes are not only heavy in dye smell, but also very hard, and many movements cannot be opened. There are also freshman girls who are doing the front falling, because the clothes are too hard, and they are torn off the thread.

The girls in the back were a little hesitant, afraid of being ugly. As a result, the instructor's big-eared scraper fanned over without saying a word.

Gu Biao was secretly stunned: Those who can enter the Foreign Affairs Academy have basically been picked out for their appearance. The 24 girls in the freshman year, not to mention comparing with the beauties of later generations, but at least I want to compare with my contemporaries, at least they are all eight-point girls.

But these instructors were stunned to train everyone as real soldiers, without the slightest consideration of pity and pity, nor of insulting Sven.

It doesn't matter if the ground is wet, whether there is sand and dirt, or if you are afraid that your clothes will crack, as long as you don't fall down when you fall, you will come with an ear scraper.

That night, all the freshmen learned to be obedient, and when they went to the bathroom to take a shower, they all washed their new military uniforms vigorously. I'd rather train the next day in clothes that haven't dried yet.

Gu Biao was also trained to be miserable, but gradually understood the necessity of doing so - diplomats are also required to have a tall image, and it is best to be in place naturally with every gesture, and not to cower.

When military training scrapes and practices these image engineering elements, the effect is indeed good, so the college leaders let the instructors not have to be soft. The time of military training was only strictly set at one month.

In the first half month, every day, not only did I train my manners and steps and military physical boxing during the day, but I also had to train housekeeping, folding tofu blocks, and even blowing a trumpet in the middle of the night to gather urgently.

Half a month later, he began to be outside the pace queue, combined with the assassination drill of bayonets, and also let people touch the gun and go to the Xishan shooting range to shoot targets; but there was less tossing at night, and everyone could at least sleep peacefully.

Therefore, considering the tension of the course, the leadership of the academy discussed with the military training officer and freed up the evening time for classes.

Considering that I am too tired during the day, it is definitely not possible to learn foreign languages and memorize words at night, and it is not efficient. Moreover, the gap between the progress of foreign languages in the first and second years is too large, and if you teach foreign languages, you will divide two groups of teachers to work overtime separately, which is also a waste of manpower.

The final decision was to arrange a course on Western etiquette and cultural customs at night.

Anyway, I haven't taken this class in my sophomore year, and I was going to merge it with the freshmen.

It was about September 20th.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the military training had just ended, and everyone was stinking to death, and they were about to rush to the bathroom to take a shower - in September in the capital, the temperature was almost one day a day, and the night was very cold. And the boiler room said that the hot water supply will start in November, which will not change, so everyone should take a shower before the sun goes down.

Gu Biao received a notice from the teacher and conveyed it from dormitory to dormitory: "You guys wash up quickly, gather at half past four." Two theory classes before dinner!"

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Gu Biao was also very helpless, so he could only explain: "No! Eat steak tonight – but those who can't learn how to handle knives and forks like the French are not allowed to eat!"

"Steak, the legendary steak? That must be learned!" A group of military trainers who had eaten steamed buns without stuffing for 20 days immediately became excited like hungry wolves.

From that day on, the course "Learning how to eat all kinds of Western food elegantly" became the course with the lowest skipping rate in the whole school.

To be exact, no one has been in class for four years.