The year after the establishment of Fangzhou College, the Department of Chinese stopped recruiting junior colleges and only set up undergraduate classes. Other departments have also stopped recruiting junior college students one after another, and Yang Zaixing is the last junior college student recruited by the Department of Foreign Languages majoring in English.

When Wu Dao came to Fangzhou College, the Chinese Department had three undergraduate classes in each grade. Because Meng Yihong undertook the teaching task of the first volume of "History of Foreign Literature", Wu Dao did not have any compulsory courses to teach.

Although the Chinese Department arranged elective courses for Wu Dao, most of the elective courses in Fangzhou College were not chosen by the students themselves, but arranged in advance by various departments, although students can still continue to take other courses, but few students will do that, not to mention that Wu Dao at this time is just a young teacher who has just joined the work, no students know him, and no one takes his courses.

There were no classes to attend, so Wu Dao had to read books in the library every day, study the textbooks, and write the lecture notes for the second volume of "History of Foreign Literature" in advance.

Fangzhou College is a merger of several schools, several of which are secondary schools. After the establishment of Fangzhou College, the secondary schools were not all revoked, and one secondary school was retained, but the scale became smaller, and it was attached to Fangzhou College.

The west campus of Fangzhou University, where the secondary school is located, is just west of the central campus, just across the road. After the lecture, a few days later, the principal of the secondary school found Wu Dao, hoping that he could go to the secondary school to give a lecture. Wu Dao had nothing to do, and he could get extra pay for lecturing in the secondary school, so he agreed.

Although Wu Dao and his cousin Yang Zaixing are on the same campus, they usually have little contact. Wu Dao felt that Yang Zaixing was no longer the cousin he knew at the beginning, and there was a huge gap between the two people, so after the start of school, he just politely invited Yang Zaixing to have a meal, and asked him to sit in his dormitory, and then he no longer took the initiative to contact.

Yang Zaixing has reached his junior year, that is, the graduation year of the junior college, although there are still some courses to take, but the amount of class hours is not much, he has already planned not to look for a job after graduation, run his own tutoring school, and be busy with this every day. In the matter of running a tutoring school, Wu Dao couldn't help Yang Zaixing, so he wouldn't look for this cousin if he had nothing to do.

During the National Day holiday, Wu Dao called Yang Zaixing and asked him to go back to Qicheng County together, Yang Zaixing said that he was busy with the tutoring class and would not return to his hometown, so Wu Dao had to go back alone.

In the past, Wu Dao went home from other places, and every time he arrived at the bus station, his family rode a tricycle to pick him up, but now there is a bus between Qicheng County and Xiaohuangzhuang, plus Wu Dao feels that his identity has changed now, and his age is close to thirty years old.

The bus has a stop sign at the entrance of Xiaohuangzhuang Village, where Wu Dao gets off and walks towards the village. On the way, he met many people from his village, and many of them said the same thing:

"The university teacher is back."

Wu Dao was very familiar with these speakers, and knew how to call them, so he replied politely; Although he had seen other people and knew that they were from his own village, he didn't know what to call them, so he had to vaguely agree.

Wu Dao knew that the reason why Xiaohuangzhuang people called him "university teacher" was because of his grandfather Wu He's "credit", and not everyone in the village could call him by name, but no one knew that he was a university teacher. In this regard, Wu Dao was helpless.

When I got home, it was time for lunch. Wu Dao first divided the gifts he bought for his family, and then the family began to eat. At the dinner table, the three elders took turns asking Wu Dao various questions. Wu Yang Says:

"How is your job now?"

"It's okay, it's just for undergraduates." Wu Dao said.

"Do you still teach languages?" Wu Yang said.

"It's not a language." Wu Dao said.

"Don't you learn Chinese, don't teach Chinese, then what do you teach?" Li Mei said.

"You don't understand, universities are not the same as middle schools and elementary schools. In primary and secondary schools, students are taught Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, and chemistry, and in college, they are divided into majors, and the classes in each major are different. I am in the Department of Chinese, and the students in the Department of Chinese take courses such as Chinese literature, foreign literature, modern Chinese, ancient Chinese, etc., as well as public courses such as English and computer science, and nothing else. I teach foreign literature. Wu Dao said.

"Xiaodao has taught foreign knowledge, it's really amazing, this graduate student is not in vain." Wu He said.

"Grandpa, foreign literature is just a course, the same as the classes taught by other teachers, there is no difference between high and low. I studied foreign literature in graduate school, and I'm teaching this class now. Wu Dao said.

"How much is your salary a month?" Wu Yang said.

"I've only been working for a month, and I just got my salary card a few days ago, and I haven't paid my salary yet, so I don't know how much it is. By October, we will find out when the salary is paid. Wu Dao said.

"What is the salary, is there a number?" Li Mei said.

"The salary of a teacher who has just started work is about two or three thousand yuan." Wu Dao said.

"That's a lot, a lot more than I used to work in the commune. I'll just say that it's right to go to graduate school, if you had been working in the commune, it would have been more than 1,000 yuan now. Wu He said.

"How much can those old teachers get paid?" Wu Yang said.

"The salary of a university teacher is related to the length of service and professional title, and I don't know how much money a professor can get, but it will be at least doubled, and it may be more." Wu Dao said.

"Xiaodao, when will you be rated as a professor?" Wu He said.

"I've just started work, and I haven't even turned a regular yet, so it's still early to evaluate professors." Wu Dao said.

"Then let's fight for it, find a relationship that should be a relationship, and give a gift that should be given. You work in Fangzhou College, we can't reach it, these things have to rely on yourself. Wu Yang said.

"I see." Wu Dao said.

"How many classes do you teach now, and how many students are in one class?" Li Mei said.

"I haven't taught a student yet, my class is in the next semester." Wu Dao said.

"So what are you doing at school, playing in the office every day?" Wu Yang said.

"We don't have an office. I don't play every day, and university teachers have a lot to do in addition to teaching students and doing research. I also lecture at a secondary school. Wu Dao said.

"Aren't you a university teacher, why are you still lecturing in a secondary school?" Li Mei said.

"That secondary school is affiliated with Fangzhou College, and I don't have any classes to teach now, so I'll go there to help." Wu Dao said.

"Go and help, then will they give you money?" Wu Yang said.

"Of course, you have to pay for it, and you give it according to the number of lectures." Wu Dao said.

"It's a good thing, I can get two salaries for one shift. It's better to be a university teacher, but if you change to another job, how can there be such a good thing. Xiaodao has been learning since childhood, and he hasn't let us worry about anything. I believe he can do a good job at work, so we don't have to worry about it. Wu He said.

Wu Dao wanted to say to Wu He and asked him not to go around talking about being a teacher at Fangzhou Academy, but when the words came to his lips, he stopped again. Wu Dao remembered that over the years, every time he had a major matter, Wu He was the only supporter in his family, and it was really difficult for him to deprive him of the right to speak.

In the afternoon, Wu He told others at the intersection that his grandson, who was a university teacher, had come home, and vigorously publicized Wu Dao's "two salaries". The neighbors who don't know what to do are only envious, and Wu He wants this kind of result.

After dinner in the evening, Wu Yang went to work the night shift, and Wu Dao, Wu He, and Li Mei watched TV at home. Suddenly, I heard someone knocking on the door outside, and a woman's voice:

"Is Wu Yang's family at home?"

Wu Dao knew that the "Wu Yang family" was his mother Li Mei, and the "so-and-so family" was the name of the middle-aged and elderly people in Xiaohuangzhuang for married women.

Li Mei walked out and said to the visitor:

"It's the second aunt, what's the matter, let's go into the house and talk about it."

The second aunt is a relative of the Wu family in this village, slightly older than Li Mei, but older, Wu Yang and Li Mei call her the second aunt, and Wu Dao calls her the second grandmother. The two of them walked into the house, and the second aunt, Wu He, and Wu Dao greeted each other. Wu Dao noticed that the second grandmother looked at him a little strangely today, but he didn't think much about it. The second aunt sat down and said to Li Mei:

"It's a happy event to be here today."

"What's the happy event?" Li Mei said.

"Xiaodao is not a graduate student now, but a university teacher, someone asked me to be a matchmaker." The second aunt said.

When Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue sent Wu Dao to Fangzhou Academy, Wu Dao once told them that he already had someone he liked. After Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue returned to Qicheng, they did not come back to Xiaohuangzhuang, and they did not tell the Wu family about the incident. And they thought that Wu Dao would tell his family about the incident himself, and there was no need for them to call or go to Wu's house to tell the matter again. Therefore, until this night, the Wu family still knew nothing about Si Baifang.

When Wu Dao heard the word "talking about matchmaking", he understood why the second grandmother looked at him like that just now. He had the intention to stop the second grandmother's words and ask her not to say any more. But Wu He and Li Mei are very concerned about this topic, and you and I said it word by word. Wu He Says:

"Which family's daughter is worthy of Xiaodao?"

"Deserved, deserved." The second aunt said.

"Which village is it from, and how old is it this year?" Li Mei said.

"It's from Xiaowangzhuang in the west, and I'm twenty-three years old this year." The second aunt said.

"It's the right age. What level of education, what kind of work? Wu He said.

"I just graduated from university this year, I am an undergraduate, and I am now working in Jeju. Her parents said that if it could be done, her daughter would go to Fangzhou to work. The second aunt said.

"What are the conditions at home, and what do her parents do?" Li Mei said.

"Her father is a worker, her mother is a women's director in the village, and she has a younger brother who is also in college." The second aunt said.

"It stands to reason that this girl's conditions are not bad, and she is worthy of our Xiaodao." Wu He said.

"No, I wouldn't have come to this medium. This girl is very handsome, and I also brought a photo, you can take a look. The second aunt said and took out two photos from her pocket, one for Wu He and one for Li Mei.

Wu He and Li Mei looked at the photos and thought they were good. Li Mei handed the photo to Wu Dao again and said:

"How about you look at this girl?"

Wu Dao took the photo, glanced at it, and put it on the table. The girl in the photo is indeed good-looking, but no matter how beautiful the girl is, he will not take it to heart, let alone meet him, because he already has Si Baifang in his heart.

Wu Dao decided to tell a lie to his family, saying that he already had a girlfriend, otherwise even if he refused to talk about the matchmaker this time, someone would come to the door in the future. Wu Daoxian said to the second grandmother:

"Second grandma, thank you for your kindness. I can't meet this girl because I already have a girlfriend. ”

The three elders were amazed. Li Mei said:

"When, how come I don't know?"

"When I was in my third year of graduate school, I had a girlfriend." Wu Dao said.

"Xiaodao has a girlfriend, so I won't sit. The family is still waiting for me to reply. The second aunt said to Li Mei.

Li Mei sent the second aunt to the door, returned to the house, and said to Wu Dao:

"Where is your girlfriend from and what kind of work is she doing now?"

"She is a native of Peony City and a graduate student at Jeju University. As a graduate student, she can go abroad to teach Chinese as a foreign language, and she is now teaching Chinese abroad. Wu Dao said.

"If you want to talk about Peony City, it's not very far. She can go abroad to teach foreigners, and she also has the ability, when will she come back? Wu He said.

"I'll be back next year." Wu Dao said.

"Can you get married when you come back?" Li Mei said.

"Not yet. She went abroad after finishing her first year of graduate school, and she will continue to go to the second and third years of graduate school when she comes back next year. Wu Dao said.

"That is, your girlfriend has three years to graduate?" Li Mei said.

"Yes." Wu Dao said.

"Xiaodao, you still have three years to get married, and you will be thirty-one at that time." Wu He is used to saying that he is empty.

"Can you two really do it? If you can't make it, it's better to change it as soon as possible, and you can get married early. I got married at thirty-one, and I was too old. How old is that girlfriend of yours? Li Mei also said to Wu Dao.

"She's two years younger than me." Wu Dao said.

"In three years, your girlfriend will be twenty-nine years old, and she will not be young. If it was left before liberation, twenty-nine would be grandmothers. Xiaodao, if it doesn't work, let's change it, I think that girl in Xiaowangzhuang is good. Wu He said.

"Grandpa, Mom, I don't change girlfriends. Before she went abroad, we said that I would wait for her to come back, and I would not look down on anyone else, and I would not see anyone. Wu Dao said.

"The rest of the life is yours to live by, and if you think it's good, then it's fine. When the time comes, don't use the bamboo basket to draw water. Li Mei said.

The next day, Li Mei told Wu Yang that Wu Dao had a girlfriend. Wu Yang interrogated Wu Dao again, but he still insisted on his statement, and Wu Yang had no choice.

The matter of finding a girlfriend for Wu Dao calmed down for the time being. When someone came to Wu Dao to talk to the matchmaker, Li Mei also pushed it away.