The hard-seat carriage was filled with passengers from all over the country, some sleeping, some reading newspapers, and some drinking. Looking at these strange people, Wu Dao felt that he was the most failed of all. During the night, he seemed to fall asleep several times in a trance, but he could still hear the voices of others.

At five o'clock in the morning, some passengers went to the scrubbing room one after another to brush their teeth and faces, Wu Dao took out the razor that Si Baifang bought for him, and took towels, toothpaste, and toothbrushes to scrub.

When the first rays of the morning sun shone into the carriage, the train arrived in Jeju. Oh Doe walked out of the station with the flow of people, and then mechanically got on the bus and returned to Jeju University. When I arrived at school, it was exactly seven o'clock in the morning.

Wu Dao wanted to go to the cafeteria to eat first, and then go back to the dormitory to rest. When he was walking on the road, Si Baifang called:

"Wu Dao, have you arrived in Jeju?"

"I'm already at school." Wu Dao said.

"It's so early, have you eaten?"

"Not yet, I'm heading to the cafeteria."

"I haven't eaten yet, you wait for me at the door of the cafeteria, let's eat together."

"Okay."

Wu Dao walked to the door of the cafeteria, and after waiting for a while, Si Baifang came. Seeing Si Baifang, his mood suddenly improved a lot. The two walked into the cafeteria, and Si Baifang said:

"Today's breakfast, I invite you to eat. Whatever you want to eat, you choose. ”

"Then I'll choose." Wu Daoqiang said with a smile.

The two of them bought breakfast, found a table to sit down, and began to eat. Wu Dao and Si Baifang talked in detail about their retest, and Si Baifang said after listening:

"Wu Dao, you didn't get admitted to the doctorate, and I am also responsible. If it weren't for the last time I committed suicide by taking sleeping pills, you wouldn't have spent all your money, and you wouldn't have had to work at Gaoyang Middle School and delay your studies. When it was time for the retest, I was sick again, and you went to the hospital to take care of me. If you don't have my drag, you can prepare well and you will definitely be able to pass the exam. ”

"Baifang, I didn't get into the doctorate, it's not your responsibility, it's my own problem. I didn't think about whether I wanted to take the PhD exam or not, and I didn't start preparing until it was almost time to apply. After that, I was overconfident again, and I didn't ask my supervisor for guidance in the foreign language written test and research project, so I finally failed. ”

"Now that the exam has failed, what are you going to do next?"

"Graduate school graduates either do a PhD or work. If I fail the exam, I'm going to have to look for a job again. ”

"Is it hard to find a job?"

"It's not difficult. Of the seven graduate students majoring in foreign literature, except for two who have taken the doctoral examination, the remaining five have already found jobs, and their units are all good, some go to TV stations, some go to publishing houses, and some go to state-owned enterprises. ”

"That's good. Have you figured out what you want to do? ”

"During this time, I have been preparing for the PhD exam, and I have not thought about work. Now that I think about it, maybe a cultural unit like a publishing house is more suitable for me. ”

"Wu Dao, I have something to tell you. Yesterday, I had already signed up for the school's volunteer teaching program of Chinese as a foreign language, and the teacher in charge said that my conditions were very good and I could definitely go. ”

"Congratulations."

Wu Dao was already in poor spirits, and when he spoke, he yawned a few times, and Si Baifang saw that he was very tired, so he said:

"You must not have rested in the past two days, right?"

"Yes, when I went, I sat in a sleeper, and when I came back, I didn't buy a sleeper, and I sat in a hard seat."

"Then after you finish eating, go back to the dormitory and rest. There's something, we'll talk about it when you're rested. ”

"Okay."

After returning to the dormitory, acquaintances saw Wu Dao and asked him how he did in the doctoral exam, and his answer was three words: "I didn't get in." ”

The doctoral exam has failed, and Wu Dao must start looking for a job. It is relatively easy for graduate students at Jeju University to find a job, but Wu Dao, who is interested in several units, is not very satisfied, so he is not in a hurry to sign a contract. However, the people at home were very anxious, for fear that he would not have a job after graduation, so Wu Yang and Li Mei called him every day to ask him how he was doing with his job and who he signed a contract with. This made Wu Dao also feel anxious, and sometimes he wanted to sign a random unit.

Soon it was time to defend the graduate thesis of Jeju University. All the tutors and graduate students of the foreign literature major have already known the news of Lu Qianqian's success and Wu Dao's failure. People are not surprised at all that Lu Xiqian succeeded, because she was a graduate student from Jeju University and has always been excellent in all aspects. People are somewhat surprised by Wu Dao's failure, because his usual research ability is higher than that of Lu Qianqian, and since Lu Qianqian has succeeded, he should also be able to succeed.

Before the defense, each graduate student has printed out and bound his graduation thesis and sent it to every supervisor of the major and the graduate students participating in the defense. Jeju University's graduation thesis requirement for graduate students is no less than 30,000 words, and Wu Dao's dissertation "A Comparative Study of Modern French and Chinese Writers and Intellectuals" has a total word count of more than 100,000 words, which is the longest among the seven graduate students. When it was Wu Dao's turn to state, he felt ashamed to ask Tian Mo, so he said when introducing himself:

"I am a graduate student in French literature, and Wu Dao, a disciple of Mr. Tian."

A mentor understood "unfilial piety" as "unfilial piety" and said:

"What is the filial piety of a graduate student, and he is not a father and son, how can he be filial?"

"It's not filial piety, it's another unscrupulous." Another mentor said.

The previous mentor realized that he had misunderstood, so he smiled and said to Wu Dao:

"Isn't it that you didn't get admitted to the doctorate, it's not bad, your graduation thesis is very good, in my opinion, it's better than the other six."

The supervisors and graduate students in the audience laughed. Several graduate students also said:

"Yes, Angkor is better than all of us."

Thinking that she was admitted to the doctorate, but Wu Dao was not, Lu Qianqian almost burst into tears.

Wu Dao finished his presentation, and his thesis was well received by his supervisors. Not every graduate student's dissertation meets the requirements, but the supervisors do not put obstacles in the way for students, and all graduate students pass the oral defense. At the end of the defense, several supervisors unanimously selected Wu Dao's thesis as the outstanding thesis of the year.

Coming out of the defense classroom, Tian Mowen said to Wu Dao:

"How's your job going?"

"There are several units under consideration, but they have not yet signed a contract." Wu Dao said.

"What kind of unit are they?"

"There are publishing houses, newspapers, and a large company in the province."

"It's still easy for Jeju University graduate students to find a job."

"Yes."

"I have a job here, you can consider it."

"What job?"

"I have a junior sister who is now a professor in the Chinese department of Fangzhou University, and she told me a few days ago that their department is going to recruit a foreign literature teacher this year, and asked me if I have taken graduate students, and if so, I can teach there. I remember that you seem to be from Fangzhou, right? ”

"Yes, it's from Fangzhou."

"Although this Fangzhou College is very poor, it is also a university, and now there are so many graduate students, it is not easy to think of being a teacher in a university. Of course, the units you mentioned are not bad, but I think that with your personality, it would be more appropriate to become a teacher in a university. You think about it, do you want to go to Fangzhou College to teach, if you want to go, just tell me earlier, I'll tell that classmate. ”

Wu Dao's most wanted job was to become a teacher in the university, but he didn't have the opportunity, and after listening to Tian Mo's words, he suddenly became enlightened and had a clear direction. Wu Dao once thought about staying in school to teach, but when he graduated, he found that whether he could stay in school not only depends on his own ability, but also depends on the importance of the subject and the status of the tutor in the school. As a Fangzhou person, Wu Dao knows Fangzhou College very well, he knows that Fangzhou College is the only undergraduate university in Fangzhou City, a few years ago by the Fangzhou Teachers College, Fangzhou Education College two junior colleges and several secondary schools merged, is one of the worst universities in the province, but he understands that what Tian Mowen said is the truth, if you want to be a teacher in the university, Fangzhou College should be one of the best choices, if you want to go to a better university, it is really a difficult thing. Wu Dao asked Tian Mo:

"Don't think about it, Mr. Tian, when I first took the graduate school entrance examination, I thought that after graduating from graduate school, it would be best to be a teacher in college. Now that I have this opportunity, I am naturally willing to go. ”

"Then I'll tell my classmates to stop looking for others. This classmate of mine is surnamed Meng and his name is Yihong. I'll give her a call and tell her about you, and then you can contact her again, and it should be done. ”

Things went very smoothly, Tian Mowen and Wu Dao called Meng Yihong successively, and the next day, Wu Dao completed the online signing with Fangzhou College.

After Wu Dao and Meng Yihong made a phone call, they had basically determined their future whereabouts. When he had dinner with Si Baifang that day, he told her the news. Si Baifang was also happy about this matter, and she said to Wu Dao:

"Wu Dao, you are a person who is suitable for learning, and it is great to be able to become a teacher in a university. Congratulations on finding your dream job. ”

After completing the online contract with Fangzhou College, Wu Dao called and told his family about his work, and then informed Zhao Wu and Jing Like by email.

Ever since they learned that Wu Dao had failed in his exam, Wu's family has been waiting for news that he is looking for a job, and they don't know what kind of job graduate students can find. During that waiting time, Wu He's mood was very low. He had already told everyone he knew several months ago that Wu Dao had been admitted to the doctorate, which was a fanciful and emotional, and he never expected that his grandson, who had to pass the exam, would fail the doctoral exam. Wu He thought about it and came to the conclusion that it must not be that his grandson is not strong, but that his doctoral admission quota was replaced by others, and someone squeezed out Wu Dao, who should have been admitted through the back door. Wu He told his neighbors, relatives and friends about his own set of theories, but failure is failure after all, and whatever he says, it sounds like making excuses. He eagerly hoped that Wu Dao would find a job that would be enough to glorify his ancestors, so that he could "reshape his golden body".

What Wu He hopes Wu Dao to do most is to enter the provincial government and become a big official in the future. Wu Yang and Li Mei have no specific goals, but they also hope that Wu Dao can find a stable job, serve an iron job, and have no worries for the rest of his life.

Knowing that Wu Dao was going to Fangzhou College to be a university teacher, the Wu family's hanging heart finally fell, although the name of Fangzhou College was not as loud as the provincial government, but in the eyes of the Wu family and other Xiaohuangzhuang people, the identity of the university teacher was also quite high-grade, and a stop in the village made people feel very faced. Wu He soon spread the news that Wu Dao was a university teacher all over Xiaohuangzhuang, and people praised his grandson for his ability, Wu He's face was earned, and he became the focus of the village again.

Seeing Wu Dao's email and knowing that he was going to Fangzhou College to be a teacher, Zhao Wu and Jing Like both said that it was a good choice. Zhao Wu also told Wu Dao that university teachers want to evaluate their titles, inevitably publish papers, and publish books, he works in the cultural hall, and has contacts with many magazines and publishing houses, if necessary, you can ask him for help, born in a humane society, others are looking for relationships and go through the back door, honest people will suffer, rather than letting the bad guys take advantage of all the advantages, it is better to give the cheap to the good guys.