Nanjing's move was lively, but Lin Zhenhua knew nothing. He had just gotten off the plane at the capital airport, boarded an airport bus, and was about to rush to Huaqing University to visit his sister Lin Fanghua.

At this time, Lin Fanghua was sitting in Xinzhai's dormitory, reading a letter flying from across the ocean:

"Xiaofang: Hello!

Please forgive me for being bold. In the four years of Huaqing, I have always wanted to call you like this, but every time the words come to my mouth, I lose my courage. Now that I'm in the United States, I finally dare to muster up the courage to call you Xiaofang.

Five other students and I arrived in San Francisco three days ago, and we have all completed the enrollment procedures and officially become graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Engineering.

After a few days in the United States, I was really touched. In the past, when I was in elementary and middle school, I always heard my teacher say that the United States was a dying capitalist country, and I thought that the United States was like the old society in our movies. After going to college, I was exposed to some information from the outside world that the United States is a prosperous, powerful, and modern country. However, after arriving in the United States, I realized that our understanding of the United States in the past was too superficial, and the gap between the United States and China was too great.

That day, when we stepped off the plane, I was stunned. For the first time, I realized how transparent the air could be. I'm used to breathing the polluted air of Beijing, and when I first arrived in the United States, I couldn't get used to the fresh air all of a sudden. At the University of California, there is a wide lawn everywhere, which is far from comparable to the open space in front of the Huaqing Auditorium. It turns out that when I was in Huaqing, I was always proud of the beauty of the campus. When I arrived at the University of California, I learned what a real Ivy League university is, and Huaqing is 100 years worse than others.

Americans are very wealthy, many of our classmates have private cars, and even our school cleaners drive their own private cars to and from work, compared to us Chinese, who simply lived in the last century. In our department's laboratory, the experimental conditions are unbelievably good. The price of an electric furnace for heat treatment experiments is equivalent to the total price of all the experimental equipment of our Huaqing Machinery Department.

Xiaofang, I said this, you must think that I am a very materialistic person, right? No, in fact, what shocked me the most was not these material differences, but the human differences. The spirit of equality and freedom of Americans really makes us Chinese feel ashamed.

Let me give you a small example. We went to a professor's class this morning, and the classroom was like a conference room, where both teachers and students sat around the tables. Students can ask questions at any time during the lecture, and the professor encourages everyone to ask questions, and if you feel that the professor is not speaking well, you can leave the classroom at any time without worrying that a counselor will come to talk to you.

By the way, I think the best reflection of the American spirit is that the tables here are all round, and there is no distinction between leaders and subordinates when discussing issues. And in China, the table is elongated, the leader sits in front, and the masses sit next to it. With even such a small detail in mind, it is no wonder that the United States has become the most developed country in the world.

Only when I went abroad did I know that we were all frogs at the bottom of the well in the past, and it was too shocking to be abroad. Xiaofang, you're graduating next year, so find a way to go abroad. Ringo is a millionaire, and he has no problem sponsoring you to study abroad. In this life, if you have never been abroad, if you have not come to the United States to breathe this kind of free air, you really have to regret it for the rest of your life.

Xiaofang, come on, I will be waiting for you here, let's embrace true modernization together.

Your classmate: Xiang Yang"

Lin Fanghua slowly put down Du Xiangyang's letter and walked to the window. Because it was Futian, the window was open, and a smell of earth and grass wafted in from the window. Lin Fanghua took a gentle breath of this air, and she tried to understand what Du Xiangyang said, trying to understand why the air in the United States is transparent, while the air in China is opaque.

She remembered that a week ago, she and a few other classmates went to the airport to bid farewell to Du Xiangyang and other brothers and sisters who had studied abroad. Everyone was joking in the departure hall, talking about the anecdotes of the past few years and making promises to meet again in the United States or China. When the international students had to go to the security check to board the plane, everyone looked at each other, I don't know who took the lead, and everyone shouted out the words from the loudspeaker when exercising every afternoon: "Work for the health of the motherland for 50 years!" The sonorous oath is still in my ears, but why has the voice become so unfamiliar?

Lin Fanghua shook his head, trying to shake out the unpleasant feelings in his heart. She returned to the table and opened another letter.

The letter was sent from the Beijing railway station and was written by Ma Jie. As Lin Zhenhua noticed, when Du Xiangyang and Ma Jie appeared at the same time, Ma Jie always ranked last.

"Lin Fanghua: Hello

I'm sitting in the waiting room at Beijing Railway Station writing to you, and the train to Nandu is still an hour away, which is just the right time for me to write to you.

I'm sorry, I came back from Germany, passing through Beijing, but I didn't go back to Huaqing to see you. There is still urgent work in the company, and I have to rush back to Xunyang with Mr. Wei and Director Wei. I brought you some small gifts, and I can't give them to you this time. I don't know if you will go back to Xunyang during the summer vacation, if you do, we can meet there. You don't blame me for being rude, do you?

Lin Fanghua, I am writing this letter to you because I have too many feelings in my heart, and I am very uncomfortable. I need someone to talk to, and you're the friend I think can talk to the most.

This trip to Germany pierced my heart deeply. In the past, I also knew from the literature that there was a big gap between the technological level of our country and the developed countries, but what I saw and heard at the Frankfurt Equipment Exhibition this time was far more direct than what I read in books, and it could be described as shocking.

At the equipment exhibition, those international industrial giants have launched so many cutting-edge equipment, and when they are placed together, it feels like an insurmountable mountain. We used to say that in the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we established a complete industrial system. However, compared with the industrial level of others, our industrial system is too backward. An electric furnace in ALK is equivalent to the money we pay for a large set of fertilizer equipment. This technological gap makes us have to endure their exploitation.

Also, we saw an old machine tool thrown away in a German factory from an old overseas Chinese, but if it is brought back to China, it will be a treasure. I asked this old overseas Chinese for this machine, which will be shipped back to Xunyang, and then repaired to become our important production equipment. What a sad thing it is to be in tatters, but they are treasures in our eyes!

To be honest, on the plane back, I had a constant feeling of frustration that I knew wasn't right, but I really couldn't get rid of it. At the beginning, I voluntarily signed up to go to Hanhua Heavy Industry because I wanted to use the knowledge I learned to serve the motherland and realize the ideal of revitalizing China. However, after watching the equipment exhibition, I suddenly felt that maybe no matter how hard I tried, it would be useless. China is advancing, others are also advancing, and others may be able to cross the path that we have taken a long time to take. The gap between us and others will only widen, and we may never be able to catch up with them. I thought that maybe I should leave China and go abroad, or study abroad like Xiangyang, or see a big company abroad to become an engineer. I have learned so much that my value should be reflected in the forefront and not satisfied with the small fertilizer equipment of the era made for the small tribes of Africa.

I didn't say that to anyone. In fact, I just thought about this idea in my heart, and I would not put it into practice. I will fulfill my promise and continue to work hard at GCH. Both Manager Lin and Manager Lang have helped me selflessly, and I will not turn my back on them.

On the plane, Director Wei gave me a task and asked me to lead several technicians to overcome the welding stress problem of the pressure vessel of the 400,000-ton fertilizer equipment after I went back. I've accepted this task, you know, I've always been a good person, and what I've promised, I have to do it.

Lin Fanghua, what I said to you, please keep it a secret and don't say it to anyone. There are some things that I can't think of yet, and maybe there will be a better answer in the future.

Your classmate: Ma Jie. ”

"These people, one by one, have become like this when they go out of the country, they are really useless!" Lin Fanghua put away Du Xiangyang and Ma Jie's letters, and muttered to himself.

Lin Fanghua of 215, someone is looking for it! The intercom in the hallway rang out. At the time of the revival, the girls in the girls' building wore less clothes, and in order to avoid the leakage of spring, the girls' building was completely closed to men. If a boy wants to find a girl, he can only stand downstairs and be notified by the building manager through the intercom broadcast. ,

"Hey, I'll go down right now!" Lin Fanghua poked his head out of the door, answered the announcement, and then hurriedly put on his coat and ran downstairs. She knew that Lin Zhenhua had returned to China in the past few days, and it was estimated that the person looking for her downstairs should be Lin Zhenhua.

When Lin Fanghua walked down the stairs, he saw Lin Zhenhua standing outside the door of the building at a glance. However, Lin Zhenhua was not standing there alone, there was a beautiful little girl standing beside him and chatting with him.

"You're Manager Lin from Jiangnan Province, right? Hee-hee, your name is Lin Zhenhua, right? ”

"Uh, am I that famous?"

"Of course you're famous, and now at least half of the people in the entire Huaqing University know about you. Hee-hee, I'm talking about boys, 100% of the girls know you. ”

"Really? It seems that as the old saying goes, I am not in the rivers and lakes, but the rivers and lakes have left my legends. ”

"Hee-hee, Manager Lin, you are so humorous, have you always been so humorous?"

“*…… Actually, I'm humorous in comparison. By the way, you can call me by my name, call me manager, I was a little nervous, I thought you were going to ask me to pay my salary. ”

"That's good, I'll bait you Brother Zhenhua, okay?"

"It's not easy to see...... , Lin Zhenhua is full of black lines.

"Lin Zhenhua, what are you doing!" Lin Fanghua walked out of the building, and when she heard this ambiguous conversation, she couldn't help but be angry. Okay, in the name of seeing your sister, you went to Huaqing University to pick up girls, and I didn't go back to tell Yang Xin about your situation.

When Lin Zhenhua saw his sister coming, he smiled at the girl and said, "Look, my sister is here, I can't talk to you." The state had a great chat with you, and I will continue it when I have a chance in the future. ”

"Yes, yes, great, I love talking to you. By the way, my name is Yu Shanshan, I am in the three-character class of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and I live in 8 dormitories, you must come to me. The girl said happily. After that, she turned around and was about to walk into the corridor, just in time to see Lin Fanghua with a serious face. The girl made a grimace at Lin Fanghua, and Gege ran away with a smile.

"Lin Zhenhua, what are you doing? You are a national cadre, pay attention to your personal image, okay? Lin Fanghua asked his brother Xingshi. Lin Zhenhua laughed and said: "No way, your brother is so popular, I just stood downstairs for a while, and several girls have already greeted me." This one was the most daring, and I chatted for a long time.

Xiaofang, you should be proud to have such an older brother. ”

Lin Fanghua couldn't help laughing, of course she knew that although her brother was full of bells and whistles, he was still very good in nature. She shook her head and said, "

It seems that I am old, and these girls in the three-character class and four-character class are really much more open than we were back then. By the way, brother, did you bring me any gifts when you came back from Germany? I can say beforehand, chocolate I am resolute

No, this girl is losing weight. ”

Lin Zhenhua took out a beautifully packaged box from his bag and said, "Look, what is this?" ”

"Oh, it's a French perfume!" Lin Fanghua took the box and couldn't ......put it down, "I know this thing, we have a female foreign teacher who has used this thing, it tastes fragrant, and it doesn't smell tacky at all." ”

"This is the one I bought for you in Paris, an authentic Provençal lavender." Lin Zhenhua said, "Don't look at this little bottle, how much it is." ”

"It's so expensive!" Lin Fanghua asked with a glare, but she didn't mean to feel distressed. She knew that her brother was a rich man now, and although he was not usually very lavish, he was very willing to spend money on her sister. This trip to Europe and spending more than $50 to buy her a bottle of perfume is indeed not a very luxurious act.

Lin Zhenhua pretended to be distressed and said, "Isn't it so expensive." They all blame that Schumann, they have to let me buy it. I said that I went to the mountains of Xunyang to pick some wildflowers, and brewing a brew can also have this effect. But Schumann said that people's French perfumes are different from China's, and our Chinese perfumes are simply different from others. ”

Lin Fanghua was happily holding the perfume in front of her nose and smelling it, but when she heard Lin Zhenhua's words, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and put down her hand holding the perfume.

"What's wrong?" Lin Zhenhua noticed the strangeness of his sister. ,

Lin Fanghua smiled bitterly: "How can it be so coincidental, this is the third person I heard say this to me today, and the tone is exactly the same: compared with foreign countries, China is the difference between heaven and earth." ”

Lin Zhenhua asked with a smile: "This is really a coincidence, who are the other two people?" ”

"Your two good helpers, Du Xiangyang and Ma Jie. The two of them are really brothers and sisters, and they wrote me a letter separately, and it was actually sent on the same day, and even the content was the same, both of which were about how good people were abroad, how bad our China was, how they were shocked, and what they were, which was really annoying. Lin Fanghua muttered.

"Well, these two people are both going abroad, Du Xiangyang is abroad, and Ma Jie is coming back from the state, it's normal to have such thoughts." Lin Zhenhua said. The country is open, all the people who come into contact with foreign countries, I'm afraid no one will not feel shocked, Du Xiangyang and Ma Jie are both students who have walked out of the state and state, and this sense of impact is even stronger.

"However, I don't think I really like their tone." Lin Fanghua pouted and said......, "Brother, you have also been abroad, why do I think you don't worship foreign countries so much?" ”

"Why, do they all worship foreign countries?" Lin Zhenhua asked curiously. He had the heart to ask Lin Fanghua to take a look at the two letters, and then he thought about it, it seemed to be a love letter written by two boys to his sister, and it seemed a little inappropriate to take it by himself. In a blink of an eye, my sister is already an ugly girl, and she is no longer the silly girl of the old year.

"It's a worship, it's just a feeling of throwing yourself to the ground." Lin Fanghua said indignantly, "In the past, when you were at home, you also told me about foreign countries, but what you said was different from what they said, you talked about foreign countries very ordinarily, that Spischer company, in your mouth is not like a fool's company, it's not a big deal." ”

"Really?" Lin Zhenhua thought for a while and said with a smile: "Maybe I've seen more things than them." It is true that foreign countries are very powerful, but I know that this kind of strength is not invincible. With such confidence, if you look at foreign countries, you will be able to calm down. Blind self-esteem is wrong, and blind inferiority is not necessary, you say? ”

"I don't know, I've never been abroad, I don't know what you guys are talking about." Lin Fanghua said.

"Then let's wait until you go abroad." Lin Zhenhua said with a smile, "Let's not talk about this today, let's go to Lao He's house for dinner, I have already called him, and he said that he will wait for us at home." ”

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yes, yes. Lin Fanghua said, "You one, Uncle He, are all patriotic and confident people, I just read the letter written by these two unpromising guys, I was aggrieved, and I wanted to listen to you and Uncle He."

words, change the mood. ”。 This chapter is 5,000 words, so it's not a bit of a make-up

Two days in arrears?