A Home for Veterans Chapter 11 Colleges and Universities
It was a rare sunny day, the sun stretched out a warm hand, soothing the trees and flowers that had been tormented by the cold for a winter, and people dotted the streets of the city with colorful spring clothes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlthough it is not a weekend, the pedestrians on the street are still bustling, those who have no money are in a hurry to make money, those who have money are busy spending, fat people are trying to lose weight, thin people are looking for a place to gain weight, everyone has their own business.
Xiaohong's graduate school is about to graduate, and she has been busy writing her thesis for a while, and she hasn't been home for several weeks. When she called Denson yesterday, she joked that their school should have been renamed the Sports Academy because the food has been very bad lately. Steamed buns can be thrown as lead balls; Churros can shoot arrows on a bow; The noodle soup is as thick as the water in a swimming pool; The rice grains in the dry rice should be given to the shooters to be loaded into small-caliber guns and used as bullets. And the fat canteen manager is enough for two weightlifters to break the world record at the same time. Tan Sen thought to himself that her daughter's study was the time of competition, how could she not eat well, so she took Xiaohong's seasonal clothes and some delicious food made for her and prepared to send it to school as soon as possible.
The weather is good, it's a Saturday and Sunday, there are more people taking the bus, more people taking the subway, and the queue to buy tickets has reached the steps of the entrance and exit of the station, and the people in line are close to each other, completely free of the morally permissible distance that strangers should keep in public. In the team, except for the first one who was "rear-ended" and the last one who chased others, the others were both chasing others' tails and being "rear-ended" by others. Tamson Sen was not in a hurry or panic, and slowly moved forward with the queue to buy tickets. After entering the ticket hall, Tan Sen found that the line behind him was very neat, but the order outside the ticket window was relatively chaotic. An old man who was still wearing a down jacket out of season, holding a few coins in his hand, squeezed forward vigorously, and a young man in front of Tamson shouted to him dissatisfied: "Hey, old man, don't cut the line!" The old man turned around, as if trying to see clearly who was shouting at him, and then shouted loudly to all the people behind him: "Now shouting that you won't let me cut the queue, why didn't you shout when I went to the countryside to work in the countryside in 1969 as an intellectual youth?" At this time, the old man's face was not red, but the face of the young man who had just shouted was red first, he was not born in 1969, and he had only heard others say that there was such a thing as "educated youths cutting in line" during the "Cultural Revolution".
The team had barely taken a few steps forward when a young woman, who had just come down from the entrance and exit, also hesitated to move towards the window. She probably saw the disgruntled gaze in the group behind her, patted her stomach with her hand, and said in a tone that seemed to be to herself and to others, "Do I have any opinions with you?" Show some compassion and take care of the descendants of the revolution! ”
Everyone around her laughed, and it was only then that everyone noticed her slightly bulging belly. The few people in front of the young woman stopped crowding and took the initiative to make way for her.
It is difficult to get a seat on the subway, and it is also difficult to buy a ticket, and it is said that you can enter the station by swiping a card in the future, but it is not yet popular. Tan Sen finally got on the subway, and he was still thinking in his heart that not everyone can see the original market feelings, especially some leading comrades who are not very high-ranking always feel that they have lost their identity in everything like the common people, and they always find ways to show their differences in some places. Their identity may not be lost in the end, but they lose something more valuable than their identity. This is also the main reason why I am not like some cadres of government agencies, who want to sit in a car and go out when they go to work, no matter how big or small things are or how far away they are, but they are close to open their legs and squeeze the subway and buses far away.
Judging from the fact that he only had a preliminary level of Chinese before joining the army, and after arriving in the army, he relied on self-study to obtain a college diploma, and Tan Sen felt that the university campus was an extremely sacred place, and a university was a production line for modern construction talents. Six years ago, when he sent Xiaohong to school, he came to the school with a respectful and sincere look. Six years have passed, and the school has changed a lot, with buildings being built higher and higher, competing for the limited space in the city. There are more and more students, and even the black-skinned guys, the blonde haired girls, are wearing the same school badges as the yellow-skinned Chinese students, or walking in front of you in a hurry or slowly. There are many other changes, such as the skirts of female students are getting shorter and shorter, and the hair of male students is getting longer and longer; There are fewer and fewer students eating big pot rice in the big cafeteria, and more and more students eating single stir-fried dishes at snack bars, etc. Of course, there may be some other changes, such as the improvement of the quality of teaching in schools and the improvement of students' academic performance, but these are not visible.
Because he was going to the girl's dormitory, he was afraid that it would be inconvenient at some times, so every time Tan Sen came to school and walked downstairs to Xiaohong's house, he had to make a call with his mobile phone to tell her that he was almost there.
Xiaohong said on the phone that two of the other three girls in their dormitory had gone to the library, and now she and another girl named Jingjing were in the room. As soon as Tan Sen turned off his phone, he saw that Xiaohong had opened the glass window of their dormitory and was waving to him.
As soon as Tan Sen entered his daughter's dormitory, Jingjing said hello to Xiaohong and went out to "do something". Tan Sen opened the insulated lunch box first, and asked Xiaohong to taste the scallion cake he baked while it was hot, Xiaohong ate a piece and said that it was delicious. She said to Tamson while eating: "I bragged to my classmates that my father's cooking skills have improved greatly now, and it has reached a magical level, if he enters the kitchen, you give him a frozen chicken, and he can bring out a plate of roast duck in ten minutes; If you give him a few cabbages, he can make a bowl of spinach soup in five minutes. I'll leave them a few green onion cakes for a while, and I'll use these crispy and fragrant delicacies to confirm what I've said. ”
Tamson smiled and said, "Your imagination is very rich, and I feel more and more that your mother has a certain reason for letting you study liberal arts." ”
Xiaohong shook her head and said, "I don't think so, my mother asked me to study liberal arts to a large extent for her own sake. She wanted to make my life a continuation of her life, and to fulfill her unfulfilled ideals by me in order to satisfy her vanity. Few people with rich imagination can give full play to their potential in science than in liberal arts, and few people who write novels can surpass Cao Xueqin and Wu Chengen, and few people who write poetry can surpass Du Fu and Bai Juyi. However, those who are engaged in technology and scientific research have successfully tested atomic bombs and launched spacecraft, and their role is no less than that of Cai Lun and Bi Sheng. ”
"Sometimes traditional things can't be compared to modern things." Tamson smiled and said, "It seems that the two of us are on the side of the ditch and the other on the other side of the ditch in terms of observing problems today." ”
Xiaohong also smiled, swallowed what was in her mouth and said: "Now that the city has built so many overpasses, it has strengthened the communication between the east and the west, the north and the south, and the two generations should also build a few more bridges to strengthen communication with each other." ”
Tamson sighed: "There are many bridges between the two generations now, but unfortunately some people are reluctant to go!" ”
After Xiaohong put away the remaining few pieces of scallion pancakes, she said, "I am reluctant to eat the remaining pieces, so I keep them for a few little sisters." ”
Tensen said: "My daughter likes to eat my cooking, I am very pleased, and in a year or two I will retire and you will become a family, and I will go to work as a full-time cook for your little family." ”
"It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. You should teach me how to cook, and when you and your mother are too old to move, I will have to 'feed back'! Hey, by the way, Dad, I forgot to ask you, why is Mom's meeting so long? ”
The meeting is over, and she has to go to several local businesses to pull advertisements. When she comes back this time, you'd better go home and hear her opinion on your choice of place to work after graduation. I know it's hard for the two of you to sit down and talk calmly these days, but you should understand that there is no mother in the world who doesn't love her child, unless she is a psychopath. ”
"Mom is now 'wealthy', and I really can't stand the arrogant and domineering look when he talks to you, but you always blindly give in and always say good things for her."
Tamson smiled bitterly and said, "You are still young, and there are some things you don't understand. Zheng Banqiao has a famous saying called 'rare confusion', and I also have a famous saying called 'men are confused', 'men' are men's 'men', that is, men sometimes have to be confused, not confused, some things should not be taken so seriously, so true, husband and wife should be considerate of each other when they live together, and the most important thing is to know how to be tolerant. ”
"Tolerant but not tolerant." Xiaohong pouted.
"If you look up the dictionary, the definitions of the words 'tolerance' and 'tolerance' are easy to figure out, but in real life, many people don't understand these two words. In the past, some people who have endured hardships have two bad tendencies in life, one is that they are used to being poor, and the other is that they are afraid of poverty. People who are used to poverty may be content with the status quo and do not want to make progress; Those who are poor and afraid are easy to lose their minds and forget their righteousness when they see profit. Your mother is the latter type, some people say that marriage is like shoes, comfortable and uncomfortable only the toes know, in fact, the family's economic income is also like shoes, the income is too small, like the shoes are very small, and the feet are uncomfortable; Too much income such as shoes is very large, and it affects walking. According to a survey, families with an appropriate economic income have a higher happiness index than those with a lot or little income. Our family's money is enough now, but when your mother has no money to buy a house in our family, she wants to earn money to buy a house, and when she earns enough money to buy a house, she wants to buy two houses. Your mother may not have told you about it, but she asked me to buy the affordable housing built by the army in the future and rent it out or leave it for you to live in, and buy another house in the townhouse area where your second aunt lived, and we will all go there to live. Even if she has earned enough money to buy two houses in the future, she will continue to make more money and prepare to leave you a rich inheritance in the future. ”
When Xiaohong heard this, she hurriedly said: "You go back and tell my mother that in the first month after I graduate, I will find a job and receive a salary, and I will 'draw a line' with you financially, and I don't want to lose myself by lying on the pile of money you have accumulated for me." I have always believed that a rich inheritance is not money or things, but the noble character and hard-working spirit of my parents. ”
Listening to his daughter's words, Tamson had a relieved smile on his face, he knew that young people nowadays rarely have such thoughts about their daughters, and they can't even say such words as their daughters.