8. Universities, but that's it
Thirty years ago, there was hardly a penny of money from the family to go to college, and some people who saved could subsidize their families; 20 years ago, it didn't cost much to go to college, and the average family could afford it; Now, some families in college are in debt, or even bankrupt. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info30 years ago, being admitted to university meant getting a noble job and a means of earning a living; 20 years ago, going to college meant jumping out of the dragon gate and basically getting a job; Now, it is still unknown whether you can find a job and get back the cost of studying.
The days leading up to college are anxious and exciting. To celebrate my admission to university, my parents hosted a banquet at home for almost all of my relatives and friends. I feel very honored to be the first university student in the village. In the admiring eyes of the masses, my vanity was greatly satisfied.
University life finally unfolded in front of me, and I went to Nanning with two classmates. Before that, I had never been to Nanning. At that time, there were very few cars, the traffic was extremely inconvenient, we took the shuttle bus from the county seat to Yulin, and then took the train from Yulin to Nanning, all the way tired, from 7 am to 6 o'clock the next morning to arrive at Nanning Railway Station (now it only takes 3 hours from the county seat to Nanning, and there are also trains). We stood on the steps in front of the station, holding a snakeskin bag (for quilts) and a pig cage bag (a popular style at the time) and looked at the crowded streets, blank. It wasn't until 8 o'clock that the school bus came to pick us up. Lu Yi, a fellow villager in the senior year, took me to pay the fee and register.
Near noon, I had just arrived at the school canteen to make a bowl of rice, but before I had eaten a grain of rice, I came from the next step. I suddenly fell ill, and my back hurt so much that I was alive and new, and Lu Yi and the others rushed me to the school infirmary, but to no avail. Head teacher Hu Chuanhuo (More than 20 years later, I still remember him so much after my illness, which is really embarrassing.) He reminds me of Fa Zai, Dao Chang, Xiaobao, Da Liang, Bang Rui, Guang Er, Ah Diao, Stallion, Huihui and countless other classmates, everyone is okay? Ou Yulelian, the secretary of the department, hurriedly sent me to the National Hospital by car, where I was diagnosed: renal colic. After a night of fluids, I went back to school. The university I love has given me a slap in the face and made me doubt its future. The month-long high-intensity, mechanical military training that followed left me even more exhausted and disheartened.
College days were so boring and boring that I was disappointed. What's more, the major of animal husbandry and my ideals are incompatible. In the first two years, I was scared by the courses of Advanced Chemistry, Advanced Mathematics, English, and Probability Theory. And in the dissection room, in the strong smell of formalin, turning over the specimens of pigs, cows, horses, and sheep, I had to remember the disorganized, huge number of animal muscles, bones, nerves, and other parts, which made me hang my head and give up. I remember that our first experimental class was to kill pigs and cows, and the teacher brought a piglet of 100 catties, and the 26 men and women in our class couldn't bear to do anything in the face of the yelling little guy. In the end, a classmate surnamed Bao volunteered to step forward, and a white knife came in and a red knife came out, but he didn't expect the guy to struggle desperately, get rid of the hands and feet of everyone, and run away. Everyone shouted and chased after the general, and threw it to the ground, and the teacher took an axe and slammed it on the pig's head a few times before it was solved. There are also many twists and turns in killing cattle, and the cow has refused to close its eyes after being bloodletted, just like the revolutionary soldiers who are dying in the TV series, and there are still many words that have not been explained clearly. I was disgusted and disappointed by these bloody scenes, and those scenes frequently appeared in my works in the future.
We became enthusiastic about playing cards and skipping school. In the first two years, most of the classes were public classes, and several classes of people were gathered together, including animal husbandry, veterinarians, and aquatic products, and there were a few black international students. The second is that when you are seated in the classroom, if a black friend sits next to you, you must not show disgust, let alone flash to the side—some people are not accustomed to the natural body odor of black friends; Third, when you go to the toilet with a black friend, you must not peek at their ****** out of curiosity - some people have heard that the black friend is more developed, so there is always a sense of curiosity. There are hundreds of people in a classroom, and even if you skip class, it is not conspicuous. But escape smartly and quietly. Generally, the schoolbag is thrown down from the window, and the people below answer it, and go out from the door calmly and generously. In our three classes of animal husbandry and veterinarian alone, I have five fellow villagers, and under normal circumstances, we agree that we will only escape four at most, leaving one there to deal with emergencies. For example, roll call, homework assignment. We proved to be very far-sighted, and on many occasions we answered for five of us when the teacher called us by name—out of more than 100 people, it was very difficult for the teacher to find out who was skipping class. The four who escaped were just enough to make up a table and hit the tractor. Because it is often a few fellow villagers together, after we read the second year of college, we still speak a local accent, Mandarin has not grown, and often read "scared to death", pronounced as "hei dead", and "pencil" as "yan pen", which has a lot of foreign appearances.
If you don't need to study hard, then the exam will be very troublesome. However, with Mr. Zhu Zhi's talent, he temporarily crammed and made a surprise attack two weeks before the exam, and basically he could cope with it. The most dangerous is the course "Probability", with more than 170 formulas of all sizes, which are daunting; There is also the course of "Animal Physiology", those complicated terms make me dizzy, my hands and feet are weak, I spent a full month to make up for it, plus exquisite cheating skills, it took me more than 60 points, it is really dangerous! In total, I took more than 40 courses in four years of college, and I didn't take one retake, which is a miracle. Later, I wrote a novel called "A Guide to Cheating on Exams", which was published to rave reviews - readers thought that my cheating skills must have been perfected, otherwise there would be no such expressive description. But actually, I cheat relatively rarely, but I can't say that I haven't done it, and at this point, I'm sorry for the teachers, I'm sorry for the agricultural college.
But in the second year, the situation has changed, the fellows have little interest in playing cards, most of them are involved in love, not only my fellow countrymen, many classmates also seize the time, have taken the initiative, of course, there is no ability. The merry and talented Mr. Zhu Zhi was naturally not to be left behind, attacked everywhere, and also found a female fellow, she is the current Mrs. Zhu Zhi - this kind of typical person who only falls in love once in his life is now a rare morning star. My friend's niece is 17 years old this year, and it is said that her boyfriend has changed to the sixth term! Therefore, if you want to evaluate the "Top Ten Innocent Men and Women", friends remember to vote for Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu Zhi. Now it seems that falling in love in college is inconceivable among us poor people, and there is no money. But at that time, I almost didn't need money to go to college. 1988 seems to be the first year of the implementation of tuition and accommodation fees, more than 150 yuan a year, the school issued 33 pounds of meal tickets every month (not food stamps, you can eat directly, women seem to be 30 pounds), 19 yuan of 6 cents of vegetable tickets. At that time, a meat dish was 5 cents, green vegetables were 1 cent, if you save a little, you don't need to send money at home, some time ago I read the newspaper that some college students can't even eat, even green vegetables can't afford to buy, such an education reform is really unconscionable. My nephew sent him to Beijing to study in 2006, and it cost more than 10,000 yuan as soon as school started. If it was the same at that time, I wouldn't have been able to study, let alone fall in love.
However, the good times did not last long, and a year later, at the end of her sophomore year, Mrs. Zhu graduated and was assigned to work in a distant place, and loneliness was inevitable. Fortunately, at this time, I also began to study professional courses, what pig breeding, livestock and poultry physiology, animal nutrition, animal husbandry mechanization, animal husbandry meteorology, forage cultivation, I was overwhelmed. At this point, even if you are unhappy, you still have to learn professional courses, otherwise you won't be able to get started with any jobs after graduation, and you won't be able to talk about it. In addition, some courses are very strict, such as physiology class, in several grades before and after our 88th grade, many people talk about it and are frightened, because this Professor Luo is extremely strict, no matter what happens every year, he always takes a dozen people out to make up for the exam to sacrifice his whip. This professor doesn't seem to be fierce and evil, he smiles all day long, everyone says that he hides a knife in his smile, so, in my junior year, I wrote a 14,000-word novel "Habit" with him as the original form, which was posted in the headline of the second issue of "Guangxi Literature" in 91, and many people read it and said that it was very enjoyable. Miss Li Qing, the teaching assistant, is a beautiful girl, deeply loved by the students, once I didn't know what was going on, wrote a string of cursed words in the homework book (you are a stupid pig, stupid, fool), forgot to scribble, and then the assistant teacher Li saw it, personally found me, red eyes, tears and asked me why I scolded her like this? More than ten years have passed, Miss Li heard that she went to study for a doctorate and went abroad, I don't know if you still remember this? Here, Mr. Zhu Zhi would like to express his high apologies to you. After that incident, I was terrified, thinking that it was over, this class was dead, and even the teacher was offended. But there is no danger, Professor Luo was very kind that year, and more than 50 people in two classes only caught two or three people to make up for the exam, and Mr. Zhu Zhi was blessed with a great life, 62 points, not among them.
As I approached graduation, I became more and more disliked and even a little afraid of the work of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. I felt that I was not good at my studies and that it was difficult for me to be competent in these specific technical jobs. Indeed, in my senior year, most of the courses were majors, and I didn't take them seriously. For example, artificial insemination of chickens, pigs, and cows, such as delivering pigs, horses, cows, and sheep, cutting the fangs of newborn piglets, milking cows, making sausages and yogurt, drawing designs for a pig house, etc., I don't know how to do it. And when it comes to the most professional things, steers, steers, I don't know where to start, there was an internship, I was bold to go down, the chicken eggs were not found, but the chicken lungs were poked, and the poor little rooster struggled to die in my hands. Some of my classmates have already set up stalls outside on Sundays to help nearby farmers make money by steering. Even the most basic injections are not proficient. When I was interning at the Nanning Veterinary Station, one day I was on duty, and a construction company called to say that the dozens of pigs raised in their canteen were not eating, and asked us to send someone over immediately. At that time, everyone in the station went to the clinic, and only me and a fellow countryman and classmate Chen Kai were left, and this guy's studies were worse than mine. So we set out with our medicine kits, it was very cold, the construction company was far away, and when we got there, based on our knowledge of half a bucket of water, we initially concluded that it was a cold—it was very cold at that time. So, we injected them -- flying needles. However, it is really difficult to inject this group of more than 30 pigs for us, and we often don't know which one has been vaccinated and which one has not been vaccinated; Which one hits and which one doesn't. We made the whole pigsty scream. Half an hour later, the people were tired, the pigs were tired, and we decided to fight the gold. The people in the company were very grateful to us, stayed for us to eat, and fried forty or fifty eggs for us - how many eggs can we eat? We let go of our bellies and ate them straight, and we eliminated less than a quarter, so much so that for a long time afterwards, I was sick to my stomach at the sight of the omelette. When I came back, I couldn't sleep all night for fear of killing someone's pigs. The next day, we nervously called to ask about the situation, and they said, "Okay, we've eaten!" This surprised us very much, and then our teacher, Professor Lao, said, you are crooked, those pigs, you just don't give them injections, but so desperately rushed, they get vigorous exercise, and it's fine!
As soon as the nerves are tense, time flies. But life is still boring, dealing with animals every day, the female fellow and female classmates of Guangxi University next to him joked, you come from behind, I don't need to look at it to know, because you smell of cow dung, pig dung and chicken dung. This is a bit of a loss, but it's true. Not only do the girls from other schools look down on us who raise pigs and cattle, but also the people in this hospital don't look down on us, saying that the people in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Medicine are eccentric. Even the doctor in the infirmary said that the people in the pastoral medicine department often imagine themselves as animals, so when they are treated, they will always involuntarily think of themselves as animals and debate with you about what kind of prescription to prescribe. With such an identity, it is unrealistic to want to chase girls again. Mr. Zhu Zhi is not tall, not mighty, and has no money, plus Mr. Zhu Zhi is really noble in thought and has good moral character, since Mr. Zhu Zhi has not had a letter with him for two or three days, there is no reason to keep the bowl and think about the pot, so he will give up this heart.
But a big man always has to do something after school, and after the third year, on the weekends, the dormitory is always empty, and most of the people are out of the house. Of course, there are some difficult brothers, we play cards, or drink, but the drinking is mostly with a group of fellow countrymen, those fellows are all taken away by women, who still drink with you in the good time of the weekend? It's not desolate to be alone, and that's when I started to get back to writing.