Shen Huai was not particularly early, and only drove Qin Dawei to Huaida at ten o'clock.

Restricted by the traditional architectural pattern, the main buildings of Huaida are located in the south and facing north, facing Yunlong Mountain in the north, and the main gate is also the north gate at the foot of Yunlong Mountain.

The weather is hazy and it looks like it's going to snow.

Shen Huai was troublesome about changing the pass, so he parked his car in the parking lot outside the north gate.

Getting out of the car, the cold wind blew people straight necks, watching the hot air condensed into a white mist in front of the nose, I didn't feel how cold I was from the car, and when I got out of the car, I felt that the whole person was as cold as ice, Shen Huai rubbed his hands, and said with a smile to Qin Dawei: "It's really cold today......

"The cold snap is going south, and the wind is blowing overnight, and it has to be minus five or six degrees today, right?" Qin Dawei didn't bother to look at the weather forecast when he got up early, just guessed by judgment, he thought that Shen Huai didn't have the habit of living in Xucheng for a long time, so he said in detail, and said, "When the wind stops, the temperature can't go back." According to this year's trend, there will be another cold snap, which can be about minus 10 degrees Celsius. Xucheng will hardly have any concept of spring flowers, and in March and April, the weather is hot, and it may take ten days and a half to turn from cold to hot and enter the summer. Comparatively speaking, the climate of Donghua is much warmer than that of Xucheng, and it is less than 200 kilometers away, and there is a horizontal ridge in the middle, and the climate is worse than the old nose......"

Shen Huai smiled and said, "Xucheng and Donghua are not far apart, the difference in weather characteristics is really quite big, and the influence of the terrain is greater than imagined. ”

There is no way to catch up with the construction period in this kind of weather in Xucheng, and in addition to the wet rain, the construction of Donghua is more important because it is close to the Spring Festival, and the construction workers have a strong desire to go home, and they have begun to leave the construction site and return to their hometowns.

And once they return home, many construction workers will stay at home for a long time before coming out during the Spring Festival. Construction companies have weak constraints on construction workers, who are mainly casual workers, and they do not change construction sites to find jobs again during the Chinese New Year, and the construction period or anything is not much involved with them.

The construction of Xinpu Port and Xinpu Steel Plant should be delayed as little as possible for the Spring Festival, and the work should start from many aspects such as construction enterprises to township construction stations, and there are still some jobs to be deployed one by one, but they will be more or less affected.

Shen Huai was thinking about the things on the construction site, and there were less than twenty days left before the Spring Festival.

Shen Huai and Qin Dawei walked towards the north gate, and at this time, they also saw students carrying or carrying them, carrying large and small bags and walking out, presumably because some faculties had exams early and began to have winter vacation.

Although the current economic conditions are much better than ten years ago, the majority of students from the rural areas of Huaida still account for the majority, how simple they are, full of vitality, the arrogance of students from famous schools, and the yearning for a better future - these situations, Shen Huai and Qin Dawei are very touched, once upon a time, they are all one of these people, with a yearning for a better future into the society to hone so far.

I called twice on the way, but Yang Lin was not in the laboratory and no one was found.

Qin Dawei originally planned that he would come over to see Shen Huai together after he went to find Yang Lin, but Shen Huai would rather go to Huai Dabai to visit his hometown again, and insisted on coming over together.

Yang Lin is studying for a Ph.D., and the project and the subsidy issued by the school are not enough to support his family, and he is still teaching subjects at the school; his family of three was kicked out of his father-in-law's house and temporarily found a staff dormitory from the school to settle down.

Walking through the wooded sidewalk, the faculty dormitory also occupies a large area in the southwest corner of the campus.

Different from the scholarly courtyard where the professors of Huaida University lived, when you walk into the dormitory area of Huaida faculty and staff, the first thing you hear is the rooster and the dog barking.

Many family members of Huaida teachers have built simple chicken coops and dog sheds in the courtyard of the community to raise some local chickens and tile dogs, which have a bit of the atmosphere of rural resettlement houses; and many green spaces have been set aside to grow melons and vegetables.

Shen Huai is naturally familiar with this kind of situation, but Qin Dawei explained the chickens and dogs raised in this courtyard without knowing the details: "At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we paid attention to a class component, at that time, Huai Da had just moved the new campus here, and it was surrounded by rural areas, and many young teachers also married rural girls from nearby families, so don't look at the majority of academicians in this compound, and there are many old ladies in the countryside. However, many people have also experienced the era of poor materials, and they are a little afraid, and they have land to habitually set aside to grow vegetables and raise chickens......"

Shen Huai nodded and said, "We all have deep memories and didn't experience it earlier, but during the ten years of turmoil, I spent my childhood on the farm. I heard that there should be no shortage of food on the farm, in fact, it is difficult to eat a white rice, and I ate dumplings during the Spring Festival, and I couldn't stand up for a long time......"

Everyone has a similar experience, Qin Dawei also laughed when he heard it, and they were even closer to each other.

Yang Lin temporarily settled in the earliest tube building in the school, the red bricks are exposed, there are traces of weathering, and the iron railing in front of the building is also rusty.

It's just after half past ten, and someone is already lighting a fire in the aisle for noon.

Huai University's funding mainly comes from three parts, one is the direct allocation from the zhongyāng finance, the second is the local financial allocation, and the third is self-funding. Huaida has a big gap in local financial allocation, the overall funding for running schools and scientific research is tight, and it is difficult to improve the accommodation conditions of faculty and staff.

It is said that it is a single dormitory, and many young teachers get married and have children after settling down in the single dormitory.

Although the food in the canteen for teachers is good and relatively cheap, the income of young teachers' families is limited, and most families install a gas stove and briquette stove in the aisle or stairwell for cooking - this is not much different from when Shen Huai left the school.

Seeing Shen Huai looking at the messy staircase, Qin Dawei said with a smile: "Nowadays, it's better to sell tea and eggs than to engage in missiles, everyone in the streets and alleys laughs at the uselessness of reading, and knowledge changes fate is now a nonsense." I am a rural child, and I still have deep feelings about how knowledge changes fate, if it weren't for the fame of Huaida back then, Xu Li would not have looked down on me. However, if the knowledge economy really takes root in the hearts of the people, it may take a few years......"

The young men and women who cook and wash in the corridors and aisles look ordinary, but they can all be said to be the current young elites in China, looking at their lives so poor and shabby, Shen Huai felt quite touched in his heart, remembering that he also had several classmates in the same department who stayed in school to work, and they had not been in touch for many years, and they didn't know what their current situation was.

Listening to Qin Dawei's emotion at the moment when knowledge is worthless, Shen Huai smiled and said confidently: "There is no need to wait a few years, China is increasing the development of the information industry. In the past, the market was too closed, and when it opened all of a sudden, the vast majority of people were caught off guard, and most of them succeeded if they dared to do anything without any academic qualifications. In fact, these people are not inherently in conflict with the knowledge economy. Think about it, how many successful farmer entrepreneurs, even those nouveau riche, are really not good at learning? They just don't have the opportunity to learn systematically......

"Yes," Qin Dawei said with a smile, "There are still a lot of peasant entrepreneurs that the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Commission has come into contact with, and some people in the organs look down on them, and as a result, they look down on each other." ”

The door of the dormitory at the top of the aisle was locked, and Qin Dawei came over and knocked a few times but didn't get a response.

A young male teacher next to them said to them, "Are you here to find Mr. Yang?" His child has a high fever at night and goes to the hospital early in the morning......

"Do you know which hospital Teacher Yang went to?" Qin Dawei asked with concern, it was past eleven o'clock when he looked at his watch, and Yang Lin didn't bring the child back, for fear of some serious illness.

"I don't know this, I shouldn't have gone to the school hospital, but Mr. Yang said in the morning that his brother-in-law's child had a birthday today, and he might have gone directly to his brother-in-law's house from the hospital. The young teacher said.

Qin Dawei spread his hands towards Shen Huai and said, "Why don't you find a place to sit first, and I'll go find Yang Lin?" Yang Lin made trouble for his brother-in-law's wife, and he was kicked out of his father-in-law's house, and he was an ordinary person, so it was impossible to go back to celebrate his brother-in-law's child's birthday before he arrived in two days-Qin Dawei didn't know what to say about this, and at this time he regretted that he didn't contact Yang Lin in advance last night.

"It's okay, let's go to his father-in-law's house to have a look......" Shen Huai said unhurriedly, Cheng Yi will come to Xucheng tomorrow, he forced his sister-in-law to stay in Xucheng and not go back to Donghua, and there is no arrangement today.

Walking back along the same road, a large number of people were gathered at the north gate, and there was a fierce quarrel inside.

Shen Huai didn't know what was going on, so he walked over with Qin Dawei, and saw through the crowd that it was not someone else who was arguing with the doorman inside, it was Zheng Feng, who hadn't seen each other for a while.

Zheng Feng was pointing at the face of the uniformed doorman menacingly, and shouted loudly with an unhappy face:

"What kind of attitude do you have, other people's cars can enter, why can't ours enter? Do you know who is sitting in this car? It was your school that invited our dean He to come and give a lecture, and you can afford to take responsibility for delaying the lecture time?"

Shen Huai noticed that there were two vehicles: one was a black Buick business car, and the other was a silver-gray Mercedes-Benz to block the school gate, listening to the students next to him, he knew that there were too many social vehicles that entered the campus to pick up students for the holidays today, and after the pass plate was used up, the doorman controlled the entry of social vehicles, and the two cars were just blocked outside, and the doorman asked them to walk in the parking lot at the door, and they stopped doing it and quarreled.

Shen Huai remembered that Liu Jianguo said that he would dig Zheng Feng from the Provincial Academy to work at Heyuan Securities.

The driver of the black Buick business car in front of him and the young man sitting in the passenger seat, Shen Huai didn't recognize his face, thinking that maybe he was with Zheng Feng, and looked at the silver-gray Mercedes-Benz behind him, just in time to see Xie Chengjiang probe out of the window...... Zheng Feng didn't see Shen Huai and Qin Dawei appear in the crowd of onlookers, he was as arrogant as ever, and he wanted to poke his fingers in the faces of the two doormen who blocked the door, and threatened: "I'll give you your phone number now, and you can call yourself now to confirm." I don't threaten you, if your attitude doesn't improve, you can't keep this skin on your body!"

Shen Huai had a cold face and wanted to go up to teach this Zheng Feng, who didn't know the height of the sky, but a person walked out of the crowd opposite him one step ahead of him, and shouted at Zheng Feng: "The doorman obeyed the rules and didn't let your car in, what did you do wrong?" You have a phone, and I also have the phone number of our principal Huai Daqi, why don't you call and ask the doorman what he did wrong?"

Qin Dawei smiled with Shen Huai and said, "Coincidentally, why is Qi Jingyao also in Huaida today?"