Walk out of the subway station and walk east for ten minutes, which is my sister-in-law's house.

“…… Really going to leave the earth? You're the only one in your family! If you were my son, I would have scolded you to death! ”

Not surprisingly, the sister-in-law was tearful, very reluctant, and said a lot of words to stay.

Facing these relatives who cared about him, Zhang Yuan smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say. He looked out the window.

My sister-in-law's family lives on the 192nd floor, and when you look outside, you can see the scenery from far away.

Donghua City is well planned, the outermost ring is the agricultural and industrial area, and the middle is the urban area, and the buildings are far away from each other to ensure that every household can get the sun.

"If it has been planned, it will be a deserter and will be punished very severely. This is also my father's wish, if he is still alive, he will definitely support me......"

Looking back on countless days and nights of struggle, how can I give up now?

"Not coming back?"

"Well, it's not coming back......"

The sister-in-law's eyes were red, and she opened her mouth, unable to speak.

In order to hide this sadness, she hurriedly ran to the kitchen to cook, wiping her eyes from time to time with her two sleeves.

It was the brother-in-law who was eating melon seeds while watching TV, and sat on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed.

He said very open-mindedly: "A good boy has ambitions in all directions, it is a good thing to go to space, and it is not dead, your sister-in-law doesn't know what to be sad about!" ”

"Look at this news, if it weren't for my age and lack of knowledge, I would have wanted to sign up!"

The sound of the TV was very loud, and a documentary about the "Earth Era" spacecraft was playing on the screen, and all kinds of bold words such as "witnessing history", "restarting a new civilization", and "human beings first" made the sister-in-law's heart surge, and he wanted to go to the stars to have a while.

"Well, I'm old, if only I were as young as you."

After half an hour, the dish was ready, the atmosphere at the table was a little silent, and the sister-in-law kept asking Zhang Yuan to eat a little more, saying strange things such as "You can only go on the road when you are full", "You can't eat chicken, duck and fish when you go to space".

In order to reduce the worries of his relatives, Zhang Yuan took the initiative to talk about his future plans.

“…… There is a lot of personal time on the ship, in addition to some routine maintenance work. So, I plan to learn a little more before hibernation, preferably by the time I reach my destination, to complete my master's and doctoral programs......"

"Is there a teacher in the spaceship?"

"Of course, there are 500,000 people in it! Most of them have a skill, and they have a higher degree than me. ”

"And there are many great people, such as professors in universities, senior engineers in enterprises, and so on. These experts are very good...... There are even academician-level people! ”

The sister-in-law nodded and sighed, "Your idea is very good." People still have to live to learn. Xiaoqing, did you hear, if you don't study, there is no way to gain a foothold in this society, no matter what you do, you need knowledge! It's not the old days anymore......"

The girl sitting next to Zhang Yuan was Ye Qingqing, the daughter of her sister-in-law's family, who was suddenly educated to her head, and couldn't help but pout.

Although Zhang Yuan is not a top genius, he is also a typical example of hard work, and a good student in the eyes of relatives. Of course, Ye Qingqing is unhappy that she is always compared with a "good child".

She retorted quietly, in a voice that only she could hear, "I can't use trigonometric functions to sell vegetables......"

Ye Qingqing actually didn't dare to refute loudly, for fear of being heard by her father, and then reprimanded.

The times have evolved to the present, and the anti-intellectual rhetoric of "learning is useless" has long been abandoned by the masses.

For a brief comparison, the per capita income of the staff in the major space cities and moon bases is about 600,000.

And the average income of Xia Guo is about 60,000.

The difference in average income between the two is tenfold!

Xia is already a very rich country on earth.

If you don't study, you're embarrassed, you can't go to space, and you have a "high probability" of being a low-income person.

All in all, in the eyes of ordinary people, working in a space city or a moon base is a very decent thing.

"By the way, when are you going to hibernate somewhat? It's not said on TV that the vast majority of the voyage is spent in hibernation, and that the average awake time of a person is no more than ten years......"

Zhang Yuan thought for a while and said, "This...... It depends on the individual's ability. If you have outstanding ability, you can apply to enter the hibernation state later, and ordinary people will probably enter hibernation after Jupiter's replenishment, sleep for hundreds of years, wake up for a few years, and then enter hibernation again, and everyone will take turns to work, so as to survive this difficult time. ”

"In the end, it will take 3,000 years to get to the destination."

"Three thousand years."

The sister-in-law's eyes turned red again, and by that time, they would have died long ago, and there were no bones left.

Who knows what will happen in the future, and no one will think about what will happen in 3,000 years.

The sister-in-law also sighed: "Hey, let's eat, let's eat first." ”

Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart.

Every astronaut has to make the choice of abandoning their home planet, abandoning everything, abandoning everything here......

Time is easy to age, the past is hard to find, and these 500,000 people will become witnesses of the earth's history, witnessing the course of the earth in the next 3,000 years.

It sounds cool, but it's actually a deep cruelty.

They will be abandoned by the whole era.

Some people may question why there are 500,000 people.

Sounds weird, really weird.

Because...... The fungus does not know the obscurity, and the cockroach does not know the spring and autumn.

If you don't go out of the earth, you will never know how big the starry sky really is.

If you look at the earth from a cosmic scale, you will find that the human home is too small and too small, and the small one makes people feel palpitations, as if it can be destroyed with a snap of a finger.

Just like a hundred years ago, Professor Qi Yuanshan, the founder of the Deep Space Foundation and the father of nuclear fusion, issued a deafening cry: Aerospace, what does it have to do with interests!

The atmosphere became more and more silent, only the sound of eating with vegetables remained, and the sister-in-law suddenly said: "Eh, Xiaoqing is going to take the college entrance examination next year, do you have any good majors to recommend?" The one with a good employment situation. ”

The university that Zhang Yuan was admitted to is the largest, and it is basically the best school that ordinary people can be admitted to through hard work. In addition, he had an internship in Space City, so he knew the specific situation above.

Ye Qingqing raised her head, she was already a sophomore in high school, her personality was relatively out-of-the-box, and she didn't like to study much. I know how many pounds and taels I have from my usual grades, and I don't expect to be admitted to a particularly good university.

In her mind, not reading is a great liberation, as long as she doesn't study, it is a relaxed and happy life.

Even if you really go to the vegetable market to sell vegetables, it's better than studying.

Zhang Yuan thought for a while: "It depends on her interests and chooses a major." ”

The sister-in-law said a little embarrassed: "She doesn't have any special hobbies......"

This kind of thing is normal, most people don't know what they should do in the future in their sophomore year of high school, and they don't have a particularly complete life plan.

Anyway, the teachers and parents let them study, and they study honestly, and only when they fill in the volunteers, they spend a few days in a hurry to plan their lives.