On the way home from school, Gao Geli and Chen Jiezheng chatted without a word, because Gao Geli heard the conversation between Chen Jie and Teacher He today, so he was always curious about what kind of extra tasks Chen Jie's family had arranged for him.

Chen Jie's goal is still in the preparation stage, and he doesn't want to discuss it until he sees the initial results. But Gao Geli kept asking, there was no way, Chen Jie could only ask him rhetorically: "What do you think is the purpose of going to college?" ”

"For most people, a college diploma is a stepping stone to finding a job, and we discussed this last time. ”

At this time, Gao Geli's thinking suddenly diverged, and he said as if he had opened a conversation: "Sometimes it's interesting to think about, many rural people want to move their hukou to the city, but in fact, what's so good about the city? For rural people, they have a natural sense of security is land, as long as they have a rural hukou, they can divide the land as soon as they reach the age, they don't have to worry about eating if they have land, and they can arrange homesteads to build houses if they have land. ”

"But if we urban children don't count their parents' income, they actually have nothing, and if they want to support themselves, they can only study hard, and what can they do if they don't go to university? If you can't find a job when you reach the age of employment, you will have no source of income, and you will have to starve to death if you don't rely on gnawing on your old age. But what about rural people? Whatever you want to eat, you can grow it directly at home, and you don't have to worry about starving at all. If people in the city want to buy a house, they have to be a house slave, but rural people have a homestead and build it directly, which is easier than us, I don't know how many times. ”

Chen Jie did not agree with this view, he felt that although the countryside may be more comfortable, young people still have to have a bit of fighting spirit, so he retorted: "If it were really like what you said, there would not be so many rural people running to the cities in high spirits." After all, the income gap between urban and rural areas is there. ”

"Yes, it seems so, but what are these income disparities? When you don't have a house, you save money to buy a house, and after you have a house, you pay off the loan on time, aren't you all working for the bank? After a little more comfort, I began to work for the eyes of others, dressing well, using it well, and drinking well. ”

"It's okay to be kind to yourself, but I feel that the texture of many so-called famous brands is similar to that of clothes worth more than 100 yuan, which is purely a brand premium, but it's just vanity. It's the same with wine, although my dad was talking about it when he was tasting wine outside, but behind closed doors he told me that wine is actually not good, like medicine, but there is no way, you still have to drink, and you have to choose a good drink, in the end, isn't it just to let people look up? ”

Chen Jie nodded and replied: "I don't deny it, these phenomena you said do exist, and I don't like this kind of comparison atmosphere." However, our parents' generation as a whole is still the beneficiary of the wave of urbanization, and if you have relatives in the countryside, it is obvious that the savings are still advantageous to the urban population. ”

Gao Geli stared directly and asked: "There is a deposit, but do you dare to spend it?!" Every time my mother looks at the money in the passbook, she has to worry, I didn't understand it before, but then I figured it out, this money is for curing diseases......"

"Hey!" Chen Jie hurriedly shook his head and corrected, "Now that there is medical insurance, you can usually see a doctor and buy medicine and swipe your medical insurance card." ”

"I'm not talking about this disease, the money in the passbook cures the heart disease, it's the disease of 'insecurity', you can't spend it casually, it's the same as nothing."

Chen Jie finally realized Gao Geli's mood when he heard this, and he heard that Gao Geli was an insecure person, even if he was a boy. But Chen Jie can also understand him, this anxiety in Gao Geli's heart shows that he has begun to think about the problem of being a man, but at his age, the burden is a little big and his shoulders are a little immature. Longing for rural life has become a means of decompression.

At this time, I heard Gao Geli continue: "Maybe in the eyes of rural people, urban education, good medical care, good supporting facilities, and colorful life, but who knows the bitterness of the city? Even if my dad has become the chief designer now, he doesn't often stay up late to write plans, but when he stays up late and lights up the lamp, the countryside has long been rested. ”

Chen Jie couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "Maybe this is the siege, the people outside want to come in, and the people inside want to go out." ”

Gao Geli continued to say to himself: "Don't look at my dad as a man, but I can often feel his uneasiness and anxiety, this era is too insecure, which of his peers in the countryside will have so much white hair as him, not all of them are worried!" Now I feel more and more that the bright clothes are worn for others to see, just to plug the mouths of those superficial people, in fact, the inner sense of steadiness is really my own. ”

Gao Geli sighed and continued: "I think the values of this era are very problematic, many urban people feel that the countryside is local, this prejudice invisibly makes rural people hold their breath in their hearts, and the purpose of many people entering the city is actually to let people look high. In fact, I think that these urban people with colored glasses have a problem with their concepts, and there is no need for rural people to accommodate their vision. ”

"In my opinion, farmers are a very great job, as the primary industry, if agriculture collapses, we city people will immediately become grasshoppers after autumn, and how many days can we still jump? Every time the news says that the robbery of shopping materials is basically done by people in the city, when did you think the countryside worried about this?! ”

Chen Jie thought for a while and nodded in agreement: "I used to think that the greatest profession in the world in addition to teachers is doctors, and today I heard you say that Uncle Farmer should indeed be counted in it." ”

"yes!"

"However, it is true that the social resources in the rural areas are still inferior to those in the cities, and parents still hope to send their children to the cities for the sake of their children's education."

Gao Geli looked confident when he heard this, he said: "The whole country is a game of chess, and I believe that the supporting facilities in the rural areas will definitely follow step by step in the future." Besides, what's so good about sending it to the city? An honest man encounters a gang of human spirits, and it is not the life of being bullied. If you want me to say that we will set up a university in the countryside, the university will develop a specialty, study agricultural modernization, concentrate on planting the land well, and bring out the added value, I don't know how many times more nourishing than the people in the city. If this continues, sooner or later the simplicity of the rural people will be led astray by the unhealthy tendencies in the cities. ”

Gao Geli was impassioned, and he said so much that Chen Jie, who was watching it, couldn't help but want to laugh, so he said: "I just asked you about the purpose of going to college, why are you talking to me about so many rural things?" ”

"I don't understand this, we don't have a foundation in our hands, what will we eat in the future if we don't go to college as urban people? The problem of survival has not been solved, does it make sense to think about anything else? ”

"And I've been thinking about rural things for a long time, I want to study abroad after I get admitted to university, and since I was born in the city, I still want to go to this world to see. The exchange rate abroad is high, make money quickly, after saving a few years of money back, I will rent a piece of land in the countryside, and then build a house, let my parents go to the countryside to retire, the pressure on the city is too great, it is better to look at the lake and mountains to enjoy the blessings, at that time I think the countryside has been built more beautiful than the city. ”

"If you plan to study abroad, can you settle abroad in the future?"

Gao Geli shook his head and replied: "Forget it, it's still at home in your own home, why do you have to go abroad to be a second-class citizen." ”

Chen Jie smiled and did not speak.

After Gao Geli finished what he wanted to say, he turned his head and asked Chen Jie: "Let's talk about you, what extra tasks have you assigned at home?" ”

After listening to Gao Geli's heartfelt words, Chen Jie naturally no longer planned to hide it, and replied truthfully: "It's not a task arranged by my family, it's my own life trajectory." As I told you before, I'm not actually going to go to university. If it's just a craft to support yourself, why not? Sanitation workers, cooks, engineers, and financial workers, I think there is no difference in essence, just the craftsmanship of eating. ”

Gao Geli didn't agree with this argument, shook his head and said: "There is still a difference, it is very necessary for high-end talents to be competitive in public, and the income of high-end talents in private is also very considerable. ”

Chen Jie saw that Gao Geli didn't understand what he meant, and explained: "Take you as an example, if you have such good math skills and programming ability, would you be happy to let you become a beggar?" Everyone has their own innate disposition, and they will choose things that maximize their interests within their own capabilities. ”

"Because temperament has delineated a range for people, so even if there are many so-called opportunities in this world, there are actually only a few things that everyone can really choose, and people like to choose the most suitable career for themselves, and the essence of what I mean is this. Some people's temperament is like a big tree in a hill, and some people's temperament is like a water plant in the sea. ”

But this is only a superficial understanding of temperament at Chen Jie's age, because he has not yet experienced life completely, and he cannot yet appreciate the extent to which human complexity can reach.

If you have to use a plant analogy, the baby can not be said to be a seed, but should be called a bag of seeds, he contains a lot of possibilities, if this bag of seeds has both tree seeds and grass seeds, then which seed can eventually germinate and grow depends largely on the environment, which seed is suitable for the environment, which seed can grow.

The environment is also an extremely complex collection, with national fortunes, families, education, and the social and international environment all having different effects on different seeds.

Like Chen Jie, who grew up in China in the 21st century, has a father who attaches great importance to education and can educate since childhood, and it can be said that the growth environment is already very good.

And if a character like Li Yunlong in "Bright Sword" was born in this era, although he has the potential to be a commander, but if his academic performance is not good, he can't even pass the military academy at all, and he has no chance to be promoted by military merit in peacetime, then the road to being a commander is basically blocked, and the favorite seed can't sprout, and this sense of powerlessness is called being born at the wrong time.

It's just that Chen Jie's journey has been smooth sailing, and he hasn't experienced any winds and waves, so he can't realize a lot of helplessness in life, and there is inevitably some taste of naturalness in the truth.