Ilan prepares to go to school.

Her farm is running quite steadily, but after paying rent normally and deducting living expenses, she can't save much money, and if there is a change in her life in the future, she has no money on hand and her ability to resist risks is not high. What's more, if she has money, she can also travel to other planets, which can be regarded as an eye-opener. In this way, she will have to rent a bigger farm, and the larger the scale, the better the income. She learned at the Moss forum that in order to rent a farm of more than 10,000 acres, in addition to having experience in farm management, she also needs to pass the guò secondary agricultural education course, which she barely has, but the secondary course has to be learned in school.

There are 10 comprehensive schools in the alliance, spread across 10 star districts, with a seven-year duration covering secondary education in all subjects. Higher education, on the other hand, is undertaken by the Institute, which is too far away for Ilan to be concerned about. Both Aegean and Moss belong to the Tudo Star Zone, after which Tudo University is named, as do the other nine universities. Ilan wanted to take the Faculty of Agriculture at Tudo University.

She carefully read the admissions brochure of the Department of Agriculture, trying to find out the conditions that would allow her to waive her tuition fees. The tuition fee for seven years is not a small amount, and as for the cost of living, she doesn't even dare to think about it now, and she will talk about it when she is admitted. The tuition fee is indeed imminent, and if you can't pay the tuition, there is no need to take the exam. directly guarded the farm honestly, and when he had been doing it for ten years, he might be able to save seven years of college tuition, but at that time, the daylilies were cold.

Although the university is open to all citizens, regardless of background or age, who is embarrassed to go to school at an age. It's like a lot of adults don't know how to swim, but he will send his children to summer swimming classes, he doesn't dare to go, even if he can muster up the courage, he can't pull down that face, think about being mixed in with a group of dolls, the coach may be younger than himself, he has grown taller, and his understanding is lower than that of dolls, who is embarrassed?

Yilan is now nineteen, and if she goes to college next year, she will start at twenty, and she is also because she was born as an orphan, and the government supports her until she is eighteen, provides conditions for her to get basic education, and then gives priority to orphan work like her, so that she can support herself, which is already fulfilling her social duty. Generally put aside normal people, the child's age of sixteen or seventeen is almost at the basic level of the star network test, and he hurried to apply for the university, and Yilan was already late at this time. If you wait until you save enough money to go, how long will you have to wait, so that those students can call someone a classmate or an aunt?

Ilan thought about it, if she wants to go to school, she will take advantage of these two years, and if she can't study, she will die, honestly guard the farm, save money little by little, and be able to go to another planet near and far in her lifetime, and this life will be passable. In the past two days, she has devoted herself to studying the website of Tuduo University on the Star Network, and finally found a work-study policy similar to her. Students who have difficulty paying the fees can express their willingness to serve the school when applying for the examination, and agree to become the logistics service staff of the school-supported organizations, and new students who meet the recruitment requirements will receive a partial reduction in tuition fees according to their workload. It's not all of it, but it's hopeful. There are also various scholarship policies in other places, and Ilan has no idea after just a glance, she is just an ordinary person, or an ordinary person with a poor learning foundation, how can she favor her scholarship?

In the following time, Yilan adjusted his work and rest time, changing his daily field patrol to once every three days, and spent the rest of his time on the star net repeatedly consolidating relevant basic education subjects, and did not sleep after dinner, and then continued to review. Because secondary education focuses on specialization, the content of the examination in each department focuses on the knowledge related to the major, and other basic education subjects only need to pass the test on the star network. Ilan is infinitely grateful for her honest and responsible character before the age of seventeen, and she passed all the exams step by step, otherwise courses such as cosmic physics and introduction to mecha alone would have to stop her dream of going to university in this life.

On May 30, 38796, Elan checked her application from the beginning to the end to make sure there were no errors before submitting it. Five minutes later, I received a reply from Tudo University: Thank you Tong Yilan for applying for the Department of Agriculture of Tudo University, please log in to the Tudo University Star Network Examination Room at 10:00 on June 15, 38796 to take the entrance exam, and look forward to your joining. Ilan let out a long breath, it took her a lot of thought just to fill out the application.

She was full of statements in the application for logistics services, first reviewing her background, and then expressing a strong desire to learn, and at the same time posing the difficult and embarrassing situation, and brought out the request for the maximum reduction and exemption of tuition fees from the school, and expressed her willingness to serve the school diligently, she even reluctantly filled in the 2,000 acres of farm management experience and manual cooking talent in the specialty column, and also took a panoramic view of the farm and her lunch as evidence.

On the day of the exam, Yilan ate two tubes of nutrients, steamed steamed buns, and ate cloud rabbit barbecue slices. She didn't dare to change her weekday breakfast habits too much, for fear that her stomach would be affected, but she felt that the nutrients were not full, so she had to be kind to herself on such an important day, so she added two steamed buns. The exam lasted for five hours, and thanks to the fact that Ilan had been studying the basic education courses of agriculture over and over again for the past few years, he generally felt that he could answer more than he could not. When Ilan exited the Star Network examination room, she sat quietly in her seat for three minutes, at this moment, even though the test score was unknown, but the dust had settled, there was only so much she could do, and the next thing was only to let God will.

The days of waiting for the results are always tangled and long, and Ilan begins to run to the fields every day in order to relieve his irritable feelings. Just as the wead was about to be harvested, she dragged Ah You to stand far away, watching the harvester pick, pack, and stack the wead one by one into the transport cabin. When the tiller began to prepare the land, she heard the prompt sound on the communicator, pressed the nervous mood, clicked in to check, and instantly exhaled, not the news of Tudo University, but the central area of Moss asked whether the lease would be renewed after the expiration of the three-year lease, and a clear answer must be given before the end of July. With still time, Ilan wanted to wait for the results of the entrance exams before deciding to renew the lease.

July 4th is destined to be a happy day, the weather is sunny and cloudless, Ilan finally waited for the admission notice email of Tudo University, which said that Tong Yilan passed the entrance exam and joined the Department of Agriculture of Tudo University, and warmly welcomed you to serve the school. Ilan stared at the words serving the school with blazing eyes, and couldn't help but giggle, she hurriedly looked down, the school provided two job opportunities, one is the school's culinary association assistant, specifically to assist in cleaning the kitchen and managing kitchen utensils, and assist members in carrying out culinary exchange activities. Well, I understand, think of the kitchen as a real room, and this position is the assistant of the real room, specializing in miscellaneous work. Working hours are six hours a week on weekends and a 50% tuition fee waiver is available. The other is a dietitian assistant in the school's Zone Z cafeteria, who works two hours a day, five days a week, and receives a 95% tuition waiver. Where does Yilan know nutrition, but the school provides this opportunity, she will definitely accept it without hesitation, and 95% of it is exempted, which is a great thing. Anyway, it's an assistant, and when the time comes, you can do what people call it. It's a pity that you can only choose one of these two job opportunities, otherwise you can afford part of the living expenses. Ilan first replied quickly to the school, finalized the position of restaurant assistant, and then frowned on the Tudo University website to learn about the basic living expenses for a year.

Food, housing and transportation all cost money, and it doesn't matter if you can wear it. In the past three years, she has paid the land rent, except for the necessary living expenses, she has not saved much money, and then set aside the interstellar voyage fee of Tudo University, her first year of college living expenses are very tight, even if the first year is mixed up and there is no income, what should she do in the second year? Do you want to find another temporary job? Whether you can find it is also a question, and even if you find it, it is a problem to work and study at the same time. Yilan bit her lip, thinking and calculating, but she couldn't think of a good way, so she had to take one step at a time. Let's do what we can do first, and the farm business is slowly ready to end. Ilan sent an email back to the central Moss district indicating that the lease would not be renewed.

Halfway through her writing, she came up with an idea, if she can continue to run the farm, she can earn her annual living expenses, the only difficulty is that she has to go to school, and she has to rely on Ah You for a qiē planting business, but in the past few years, she has not given Ah You any construction, just selected crop varieties, and implemented them completely according to Ah You's planting system. If you continue to operate the current variety, it should be no problem...... bar. When she was diving on the Moss forum, she saw a guy boasting about his interstellar travel experience, and that person had been gone for more than half a year. The more Ilan thought about it, the more excited she became, she deleted the original email and replied that she was willing to continue running the farm. After thinking about it, he honestly explained that he was going to go to the Department of Agriculture of Tudo University, and said that his starting point was to get a diploma in the future to rent a bigger farm and continue to serve Moss, and also said that he would make careful arrangements for the planting plan of the farm when he was away, and he would come back to take care of it during the holidays in July and August every year, and guaranteed to upgrade Ayo, so that he could open the interstellar communication function to facilitate real-time remote control.

After the email was sent, Ilan actually became nervous, fidgeting for a while, and kept checking the communicator. The efficiency of the government is high, and when she thought she would not get a reply today, she walked to the kitchen to prepare for cooking, and the reply came. Moss Central agreed to Elan's request to renew the lease and required that Elan must have at least one record of a stay at Moss Star per year. Ilan was so excited that he ran out on the spot and ran around without a head or brain, but it was not enjoyable, and he hugged Ah You and hugged him.

With less than two months left to start the new semester in September, Elan entered a busy preparation period. First, a flight to the planet Tudovei was booked at the end of August. The administrative star of the Tudo star region is the Tudo main star, and Tudo Guardian is the No. 1 satellite planet of the Tudo main star, and its main features are education and tourism. Tudo's University is located on Tudovei. The cost of a one-way flight from Moss to Tudoveyi is really expensive, and it costs two months of living expenses in Ilan. After getting it done, Ilan hurriedly contacted the central area of Moss, ready to upgrade Ayu, and asked for agricultural machinery maintenance by the way. A detailed one-year planting plan was then drawn up in Ayo's planting system. After finishing this, she began to tidy up the vegetable garden, which was too small to be managed by You, so she turned the garden into a flat ground and incorporated it into You's field system. When all this was done, it was August in the blink of an eye, and Ilan began to pack her bags, in fact, there was nothing to pack, except for a small amount of clothes, she was alone.

In the last half month with nothing to do, she often logs on to the star network to review the basic education courses of nutrition, and as a future assistant dietitian in the school cafeteria, she is apprehensive. It's a vital job, and without it, she won't be able to afford her studies. At this time, even if she was at a loss, she had to pay attention to and work hard to study nutrition.

When it was finally time to leave, Ilan had eaten all the food she had cooked, tidied up the kitchen, and stuffed the excess nutrients into her backpack. Turning to face Ayu, he said seriously, "Please, thank you." ”

Ayu has always been expressionless.

Ilan lowered his eyes, sighed silently, and muttered, "I'll be back." ”

With a scheduled flyer to pick up Ilan and take her to the airport, she looks down on her farm and the diminutive Ayu in mid-air, and finds herself starting to think of it as her home.