Lei Wenhui finished talking about his own affairs, waited for a while, and his mood slowly returned to normal, and said slowly, "I'm sorry, it's been a few years since these things happened, but the content of these things told by the principal at that time often surfaced like a knife, which made me remind me all the time that I was a little better to my mother, a little better." Just like I have always taken my mother with me since I went to college, and every day in addition to classes, I rushed home to take care of my mother, or to work hard to earn money. I also know that my classmates gave me the nickname Bicycle Man, which is really appropriate, and every day I ride as fast as possible. Recently, Liu Xiaoqing and I have been together, and many people are talking about it, and everyone is not optimistic about us, but we are very confident. ”

Zhao Hong hurriedly said, "No, many of the people you said must not have me." I'm still more optimistic about you! It's easy to get priceless treasures, it's rare to have a lover! She is very discerning and full of courage, a grateful person who knows how to treat her other half well. Zhao Hong said the reason he told his dormitory classmates that day again.

He listened for a while, and he also agreed, but he added, "Actually, there is one more point." When I first told her about my family situation, she just told me that loving someone has nothing to do with material conditions, and when I told her about myself, she asked me if I would betray her when the conditions were better if she was also very good to me and my mother, and I did not hesitate to tell her no, because if she could ignore my poverty and treat my mother well, then she would have a heart of gold, and that would be the greatest happiness in my life. Why would I give up such a stable happiness in favor of some false beauty?"

Zhao Hong also agrees with Lei Wenhui's concept, and Zhao Hong also agrees,

"How many people love the hours of your youth and joy,

Adoring your beauty,

false or sincere,

Only one loves the soul of your pilgrim,

Love the painful wrinkles on your aging face. ”

"When you are old, William Butler Yeats!"

Zhao Hong nodded when he heard this, and suddenly laughed again, and said slowly, "Do you think we are a little idealistic?"

Lei Wenhui also said with a smile, "It is always easier to live happily and satisfied with ideals than people without ideals!"

Zhao Hong also thinks so.

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During this time, Zhao Hong also received a call from his brother to come to Haishi at the end of March to attend the interview before the admission of graduate students. The chemical engineering major of Haishi Jiaotong University is also the school that Zhao Hong's brother once gave up because of his family's financial difficulties. However, Zhao Hong also suggested that his brother should be engaged in the research of new materials, which is also a better research direction in the future.

Since chatting with Lei Wenhui that time, Zhao Hong and him have gradually become familiar with him, and occasionally they will meet him during meals and chat together. Discuss various phenomena in society, and sometimes talk about making money, but Zhao Hong didn't say anything too new, and occasionally lent him some books that he thought were good, and then discussed the experience of reading together.

One of the most interesting books is one that deals with the problem of social class solidification. Although the top ++ family in China may be solidified, because of the college entrance examination, at least the flow between the bottom and middle levels of society is smooth.

Power, capital, and education are the three major channels for the flow of social classes, but in the future country, the three generations of officials and the second generation of the rich will take over collectively, and the channels of power and money will basically be blocked.

The World Bank and the United Nations have estimated China's Gini coefficient in recent years to be 0.44 and 0.45 respectively, and considering the consistent water of the published economic data, many people believe that China's Gini coefficient has exceeded 0.5, and a study by a famous university believes that the Gini coefficient of Chinese families has reached 0 in 1995. 51, not to mention that the development of various regions in China is extremely uneven, if the overall Gini coefficient reaches 0.51, then the Gini coefficient in some regions will far exceed 0.51, and according to the international experience after World War II, a country with a Gini coefficient of more than 0.60 will break out at any time in social turmoil. Therefore, education has become almost the only channel for the flow between the bottom of the society and the middle and upper classes, and from primary school to primary school, from elementary school to junior high school, junior high school to high school, although there are still various names of self-funded borrowing and care, but it still cannot be denied, the college entrance examination has become the fairest and most effective link in the education channel. It has played a role in maintaining the flow between the bottom of society and the middle and upper classes, complaining that the college entrance examination is too difficult, is there an ordinary person? Definitely not, because ordinary people will only complain that their children are not working hard enough and not good enough. And once this last passage is blocked, then social collapse is inevitable.

Throughout history, the change of dynasties is not necessarily that the peasants have no food, but there must be because the class is solidified to the point that the scholars have lost the opportunity for upward circulation, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not destroy the Manchu Dynasty, the British and French coalition forces did not defeat the Qing Dynasty, the Ding Wu Famine, the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Xin Chou Change, but in 1911, in the early stage of World War I, European and American countries relaxed their exploitation of Asian and African countries, and China had double-digit economic growth for several consecutive years, and the country was thriving on the surface, and the Qing Emperor was ousted from the dragon chair. Because the triennial imperial examination after 1905 was never opened, the Jiangnan Township Examination that was supposed to be held in 1911 did not come as scheduled, and at the end of the year, a group of former Xiucai people as the backbone of the gang organization unbelievably ended a 296-year dynasty.

Today, under the guise of breaking the college entrance examination system that determines life by one examination, there are reforms such as extra points for special students, independent enrollment, and the non-local college entrance examination with points (spelling for father), and there is even a large-scale expansion of college students. All of them are eroding the last channel to maintain social mobility, and when this channel is also blocked, the collapse of the social promotion channel will inevitably occur.

So relatively speaking, I have to give the college entrance examination a thumbs up. Without the college entrance examination, the children of Zhao Hong, Lei Wenhui and other laid-off workers, peasants and other ordinary people may be no different.

How to grasp the opportunity and work hard to enter a higher class, maybe this is the last chance, but at present, there are very few opportunities, so you can only go out, and maybe there is a chance to be invited in.

When Zhao Hong had time, he would also bring some newly purchased medicinal materials, and Lei Wenhui accepted them without much politeness. Because he knows that it's not a matter of money, it's a favor!

Lei Wenhui, who has experienced many people's love and sophistication since he was a child, understands what the people who help him are.