In the afternoon's math, Tao Tao didn't play very well.

Taotao, who is not good at science, does not have much expectations for mathematics.

He just hopes that math doesn't pull too many points.

On the second day, Tao Tao played very well in Wen Zong and English in the afternoon.

Coming down from the examination room, Tao Tao was excited.

When Dongmei saw Taotao's expression, she knew that he did well in the exam.

After the college entrance examination, not only Taotao was completely relaxed, but even Dongmei herself was completely relaxed.

Dongmei also felt strange, since Taotao was in her third year of high school, she invisibly seemed to have a rope in her heart.

Moreover, this rope has been tightening until Taotao finishes the college entrance examination.

The rope that bound her inside her heart suddenly loosened.

After the college entrance examination, the next step is to fill in the college entrance examination volunteer.

At that time, the method of filling in was not quite the same as it is today.

Today, I will wait until the results of the college entrance examination come out before I will fill in the college entrance examination application.

But at that time, I had to estimate my score first, and then fill in the college entrance examination application based on my feelings.

Wei Guo, who works in the mountains, knows the importance of filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, so he also dared to ask Team Li for leave, and then came back to watch Tao Tao fill in the college entrance examination volunteers.

Back then, when Wei Guo filled in the volunteers, he was also confused.

With no one to give him guidance and nothing to refer to, he casually filled in his college entrance examination volunteer.

Wei Guo's first choice is to fill in a normal school.

The second choice is Changqing Petroleum School.

The third choice is a metallurgical school.

Originally, Wei Guo felt that the first choice he filled in should almost be admitted, and he might have to be a teacher in school for a lifetime in this life.

However, he never dreamed that his first choice was not recorded, and he was admitted to his second choice.

In this way, Wei Guo became an oil worker by mistake.

Even Wei Guo himself lamented the wonder of fate.

Because before this, due to the blockage of information, he couldn't even understand what oil was, let alone how to extract oil, and he didn't expect that he would become an oil worker as a rural child.

Wei Guo later sighed, probably because in that era, the majority of candidates could fill in too single schools, and there were few careers to choose, so most of the children chose to be a teacher, and wanted to be a teacher in the future.

And in front of him, his child Taotao is about to fill in the college entrance examination volunteers, but when he fills in the college entrance examination volunteers for his children, Wei Guo is confused.

In his heart, he repeatedly asked himself, should he let his child apply for the petroleum major, go back to the oil field to inherit his father's business and continue to be an oil worker, or let the child go outside?

Back at home, Wei Guo wanted to congratulate his son first, after all, he may be the first college student in the family.

However, Dongmei told Wei Guo that Taotao actually went to school and participated in the so-called book tearing and venting activity with his classmates.

Wei Guo didn't understand why Taotao tore up the book, he said to Dongmei worriedly: "Dongmei, you said that this kid is really, just tore up the book, what if it falls off the list?"

Dongmei didn't like to listen to what happened, she said: "How can I fail the list, I just rely on my own intuition, Taotao can be on the second book if he is not good." ”

Wei Guo explained to Dongmei: "I'm not pouring cold water on everyone, I'm just thinking a little more." ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Guo took out the "Guidance for Voluntary Filling" and studied it carefully.

While researching, Wei Guo asked Dongmei and said, "the kid, didn't you ask Taotao, what school does he want to go to and what major he wants to study?"

Dongmei approached Wei Guo, looked at the "Volunteer Filling Guide" and said: "What idea the child can have, it is all about going with the flow, we will give him a choice, and when we have chosen, we will let him choose." ”

So, Wei Guo and Dongmei spent a lot of effort to find Taotao four first-class schools and four second-class schools, and chose many majors for him, such as Chinese, finance, law, history, English, Japanese......

At night, wade in bed.

Wei Guo asked Dongmei: "Dongmei, you said that when the child graduates from college, should you let the child come back to work in the oil field, or let him go outside to explore the world?"

Dongmei said without hesitation: "It's better to let the child go back to work at work." ”

Wei Guo leaned sideways, supported his head with his hands, and asked Dongmei, "You said let the child go outside, how about it?"

Dongmei is more conservative, she thinks that children should work in a place with a formal establishment or a state-owned enterprise, with a fixed job and a fixed income, that is called work, so that parents can feel at ease.

So, she said to Wei Guo: "Our child, who grew up in a greenhouse, you let him go out, do you think he can break out of his own world?"

Wei Guo nodded, shook his head and said: "This can't be said, the country's economic development is so good now, especially in the south, if you let the child go to the south to develop, I think his future achievements will definitely be much higher than you and me." ”

Hearing the south, Dongmei frowned and said: "We people from the northwest, pay attention to falling leaves and return to the roots, you and I are such a son, you let him go to the south to work, marry a southern daughter-in-law in the future, and settle directly in the south, do you think it is appropriate?"

Compared with the tradition of Dongmei, in this regard, Wei Guo has a long-term view.

He said: "The economy of the south is developed, not only has good jobs and opportunities, but also is conducive to the long-term development of children." ”

Hearing about the long-term development, Dongmei's first reaction was that whenever you go to a place, you must settle down before you can make a life.

She asked Wei Guo: "When a child goes to the south to develop, he must first have a place to live, you say that place is so far away, where does the child live?"

Wei Guo said: "Where to go, where to live." ”

Dongmei said: "Will the south be like our enterprises in the northwest and give the children a house?"

Hearing this, Wei Guo suddenly laughed.

He said: "What era is it now, and the house is still divided, let me tell you, in the south, all enterprise units have long been separated from the house, this policy, has been canceled......"

Before Wei Guo's words were finished, Dongmei interrupted him and said, "If you don't give a house, where will the workers live, will they sleep on the streets?"

Wei Guo laughed at Dongmei and said: "You are stupid, if you want me to say, you are simply a frog at the bottom of the well, and now in the south, they are all buying houses, what Vanke, Wanda and other real estate companies have built buildings that are very good." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei's thoughts were very shocked.

She said: "Won't our unit give housing to employees in the future?"

Wei Guo definitely said: "Yes, in the future, buildings will be like commodities, and they can be bought and sold directly." ”

Hearing Wei Guo say that the building can be bought and sold like a commodity, Dong Mei felt incredible and said: "Wei Guo, can the house we live in also be used for trading?"

Wei Guo shook his head and said: "Of course not, our house is a welfare house of the unit, we personally have no property rights, so we can only live, not buy and sell, but the local house is different, why is it called a commercial house, it is because it has a real estate certificate, and the five certificates are complete, it can be traded like a commodity, understand?"

After listening to it for a long time, Dongmei still didn't understand it.

She said: "Whether this house is a commodity or not, I feel that it is inappropriate for me to let Taotao go to the south to develop." ”

Wei Guo said: "I know that you are afraid that your children will not have a place to live, and when the time comes, the children will earn some more, and we will add some more to the children, and it will not be enough to buy a house for the children in the south." ”

Hearing that Wei Guo really wanted Tao Tao to settle in the south, thousands of miles away from home, Dongmei's eyes widened, and she couldn't believe it: "Wei Guo, I said that your brain is not suitable, if the child lives in the south, wouldn't it be rooted in the south, and when the time comes, you and I will be old and miss our son, what should I do?"

Wei Guo said very easily, he said: "Just buy a plane ticket and fly over to see if it's okay." ”

Hearing that Wei Guo actually said that she wanted to take a plane, Dongmei shook her head, because she felt that the plane was not something that ordinary ordinary ordinary people could sit on, she said: "Wei Guo, I advise you not to talk big anymore, do you think that the plane can be sat up by ordinary workers like us?"

Wei Guo foresaw the future and said: "At present, the country's economy is developing at a rate of 9 percent per year, and in the next 10 or 20 years, many seemingly impossible things will be realized." ”

Wei Guo's words are right, with the development of the economy, Lao Baixin has bought a car, and he has also taken a plane, and he has the money to travel.

And these things, at that time, were simply unthinkable, because it was really too far away from real life.

Dongmei rolled over and prepared to sleep.

She yawned and said, "Okay, if I talk to you any longer, you'll blow it all the way, maybe you'll blow yourself as Bush Jr.'s successor." ”

In short, Dongmei doesn't approve of Taotao going out, or hopes that he will return to his roots, return to his unit, return to his family, be an oil worker honestly, and live a dull life.

Moreover, Dongmei doesn't want Taotao to have any great achievements or become a rich and noble person, because she knows that if she wants to have wealth and power beyond ordinary people, she has to put in more effort than ordinary people.

And she didn't want her son, like herself, to work so hard to start a business.

She felt sorry for her son.

However, Wei Guo is different, compared to Dongmei, his vision is obviously much longer-term.

Although the oilfield industry at this time is the best time period, wages are rising, benefits are constantly improving, and large-scale oil fields are still being discovered.

However, Wei Guo feels that the current is already the peak of the oil field, just like a parabola, if it exceeds this peak, then it will definitely start to go downhill.

Of course, the company I work for is great, but it does not mean that it will not have a decline in efficiency and so on, after all, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, everything is constantly changing.

The next day, Dongmei and Wei Guo called Taotao to their side and began to seriously discuss this issue with him, after all, this matter is related to the fate of his life.

However, compared with Dongmei and Weiguo's emphasis on filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, Taotao did not take filling in the volunteers as a thing.

Obviously, as a teenager, Taotao is still quite immature, he only knows the importance of the college entrance examination, but does not know the importance of filling in the volunteers.

Dongmei looked at Taotao's confused eyes and asked Taotao, "Taotao, have you thought about it, what major do you want to study?"

Tao Tao looked dazed, he didn't know what major he wanted to study.

He paused and said, "I think English is good, I want to learn English." ”

Hearing that the child wants to learn English, Wei Guo and Dongmei, you look at me, I look at you, and look at each other.

Because the two of them thought of almost all the majors that Taotao wanted to study, but they didn't expect that she would want to learn English.

Dongmei gasped and asked Taotao: "Taotao, English is a foreign language, there has never been a person with outstanding language talent in our family, do you want to think about it?"

Wei Guo, who was sitting next to him, also interjected and said: "Taotao, while choosing a major, you must know that you will graduate in the future and the career you want to engage in, so you must take it seriously, don't dare to play with it." ”

Dongmei also said worriedly: "If you learn a language, talent is very important, you look at our family, don't say that you have any language talent, your father stutters, your mother and I can't even speak Mandarin well, and you are going to learn English, do you think you can learn it well?"

Dongmei is just a woman who came to the city from the countryside, she has studied Mandarin all her life, but she has not learned Mandarin, until now, she still speaks a pure northwestern dialect.

For her, who has never been exposed to English, English is as complex and difficult to understand as a book from heaven.

She couldn't figure out why Taotao chose English.

And Wei Guo's understanding of English is also stuck on TV, and the words that those foreigners say are even in Wei Guo's mind, as if all Caucasian people only speak English.

However, Tao Tao was very determined, and he did not give up his inner thoughts because of his parents' opposition.

At this time, Dongmei thought of several of her good sisters, especially Song Na, the eldest daughter of Song Nian's daughter-in-law.

This is the second time she has filled in the volunteer, and she must know more about the choice of school and major.

So, Dongmei came to Song Nian's daughter-in-law's house.

learned from Song Nian's daughter-in-law that Song Na chose the provincial petroleum college and filled in the e-commerce.

For the provincial petroleum college, Dongmei is clear, it is the highest institution for cultivating petroleum talents.

However, for Song Na's choice of e-commerce, Dongmei is at a loss.

Even, she feels that e-commerce is more abstract than English.

At least I've heard foreigners speak English on TV, and at least I know that the words I can't understand or understand are English.

However, for e-commerce, Dongmei has not even heard of it on TV.

At that time, because the popularity of the Internet was far less developed than it is now, it was very normal for nine out of ten people in the remote northwest to not know about e-commerce.

Unlike now, when it comes to e-commerce, Alibaba comes to mind, and then Jack Ma's dad comes to mind.

Coming out of Song Nian's daughter-in-law's house, Dongmei was very confused, she couldn't figure out what happened to the children now, they chose some strange majors, I really don't know how they should get employed when they graduate in the future.

So, with a sense of curiosity, Dongmei came to Wenxue's house again.

However, when Dongmei heard that Wenxue was actually studying environmental art design, Dongmei was even more confused.

She said in her heart that the major chosen by Wenxue is more abstract and incomprehensible than the e-commerce chosen by Song Na and the English chosen by Taotao.