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Zhong Shan bought a train ticket and prepared to return to Jiangcheng on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

According to Zhong's mother's arrangement, Meihui came to the house for dinner at noon, and went to the train station to send Zhongshan after dinner. Liang Jiazhu volunteered to borrow a car to send it, and when Zhongshan Meihui and the two went downstairs with their luggage, the car was already waiting downstairs, and the car was warm. Outside, snow is falling like goose feathers.

When saying goodbye on the platform, Mie hugged Zhongshan tightly and refused to let go, tears of grievance flowed from her eyes. Zhong Shan was in a mess, there were no other passengers on the platform, and the conductor had already begun to urge him to get on the train, hurriedly pushing away Meihui, and stepped on the train without looking back.

Zhong Shan originally planned to go to Anhui to see Fang Jing after returning to Jiangcheng, but as soon as he arrived at the newspaper office, he was detained. During the Spring Festival, Jiangcheng suffered from a historically rare freezing rain disaster, and newspaper reporters formed a six-way reporting team to go to the front line of disaster relief to cover and report. The director was overjoyed and arranged for Zhong Shan to go to Wuxian, where the disaster was most serious, and told him to take more photos before leaving, and this group of reports was ready to impact the China Journalism Award.

Zhong Shan grew up in the north since he was a child, and he had heard or seen about heavy rain and blizzards, but he didn't understand that freezing rain could become a disaster, so he came to the scene to know the seriousness of the situation.

The reporting team took the newspaper office's jeep and walked around for a day and a night before arriving in Wuxian. Along the way, I saw a lot of cars stuck on the road. The power pole fell down, the power line was broken, and the night in Wuxian County, where the power was cut off, was pitch black and almost paralyzed. Many large branches were crushed, small trees were crushed, and some rudimentary houses were crushed, and there were said to be casualties. Officers and men of the army worked day and night to clean up the roads, electrical workers worked tirelessly to repair electrical circuits, and caring people donated money and materials to relieve their needs...... There are touching stories that can be sung and cried every day in the disaster area. In the past half a month, reporters from the evening newspaper have also been fighting on the front line of news gathering, sleeping in the open air with the cadres and masses in the disaster-stricken areas and with the officers and men of the troops, and working day and night.

Busy with interviews, writing and passing on manuscripts every day, Zhong Shan completely left his troubles behind.

When I returned to Jiangcheng after the freezing rain disaster was reported, the new semester of the school had already started. According to the department's arrangement, the internship of the graduating students has come to an end temporarily, and the students must return to the school one after another to complete the graduation thesis writing and defense tasks before graduation. With the internship experience of the last semester, combined with the knowledge learned in the books in three years, the writing of Zhongshan's graduation thesis went smoothly, and the writing outline was listed in less than half a month, and the first draft was completed.

Another more important thing this semester is where to go after graduation. Because of his outstanding performance in the "Jiangcheng Evening News", the newspaper has decided that Zhongshan can be accepted. Zhong Shan raised the question of his girlfriend Fang Jing, the newspaper originally did not want female reporters, the reason was that they would have children in the future, which would affect their work, and it was not easy to arrange interviews in a difficult environment, which was very troublesome. Because Zhong Shan insisted repeatedly, the comrades in charge of personnel went to Jiangcheng University to look through Fang Jing's student files, and saw that they were student cadres with excellent academic performance, and went back to report to the leader, and the leader agreed that Fang Jing could also work in the newspaper. Because journalism professionals were indeed scarce at that time, graduates of the national famous Jiangcheng University were even more difficult to find.

With a basic place to go after graduation, and she can be with her beloved, Fang Jing is no longer as depressed as last semester, and she is always happy and laughing when she is with Zhong Shan.

Between going to the library to consult materials and writing graduation thesis, the two of them would go shopping, taste the flavorful snacks on the street, blow the river breeze by the river, go to Zhongshan in the southern suburbs to see the plum blossoms and take photos, participate in the weekend dance party of the college student club, and go to the big playground to walk in circles to admire the moon. Or choose a small pavilion on campus to sit down and imagine a common future.