Wu Dao and Kan Wenyuan ate some food and drank a few sips of wine. Wu Dao said to Kan Wenyuan:

"I forgot to ask you, did you write to scold Teacher Xin?"

"You're talking about Teacher Xin Shaoqing, who taught Ming and Qing literature?" Kan Wenyuan said.

"Yes. Mr. Xin and I also have a bit of a friendship, we met a few days ago, he told me about it, but he didn't say which student, now I guess this person is you. ”

"That's right, that's me."

"I still know Mr. Xin very well, he has been writing poetry for some years, although people are a little weird, but not bad, he is kind enough to show you the poems he wrote, maybe he also heard that you like to write poetry, thinking that you are a fellow practitioner, why do you write to scold him?"

"The first impression that Mr. Xin gave me was very bad, every time he went to class, he had to smoke, which made the classroom smoky, and he often put on a look of not being convinced, I felt very awkward. I really didn't expect him to like to write poetry.

Regardless of whether the poems he wrote were good or bad, there were two long poems in the poetry collection he gave me that were obviously made of the dean's ass, and the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I felt that he was like a clown. I didn't want to see him again, so I wrote a letter and gave it to a classmate along with his poetry collection, so that he could give it to Mr. Xin during class. ”

"You're wrong about Mr. Xin, but he's not a person who likes to slap horses. I have also read the two long poems he wrote, and I know the real reason.

At that time, the foundation stone of the new campus of Fangzhou University was laid, and the leaders of the department asked him to write two long poems to praise virtue, and promised that if he wrote well, he would be promoted to professor. I didn't expect that he would put those two poems into his own poetry collection. Aren't you going to go to his classes again? ”

"I don't want to go, even if he is not a villain, and he doesn't want to see him anymore now, he probably won't want to see me again."

"But Mr. Xin's class is credited, aren't you afraid of failing the exam in the end?"

"I can't take care of it so much, I really fail, and I can only take the next make-up exam. This class is not the worst, I had an elective last semester with a zero grade. ”

"The elective courses are all open-book exams, and some don't even have exams, so you can write a small essay, how can it be a zero score?"

"Since it's an elective course, I should choose it myself, but I didn't choose that course at all, it was arranged directly by the department for all students, and since I didn't choose it, I didn't go to a single class, and I didn't go to the exam. The squad leader took the test paper to the dormitory and gave it to me, but I didn't do it and tore up the test paper. ”

"You're talking about applied linguistics, right?"

"Yes, that's it."

"You don't understand, some elective courses are selected by yourself, and some are selected by the department in advance, and the number of courses is directly related to the evaluation of professional titles, salaries, etc., which is complicated. Electives are also counted as credits, and if you don't have an exam, you won't have credits, which will affect your graduation in the end. You are too serious, living in this world, too serious will suffer. Don't do this kind of thing again. ”

Although Wu Dao said this, he gave Kan Wenyuan a thumbs up in his heart, because he did what he wanted to do but didn't dare to do.

"I see."

"Fangzhou College says it's student-centered, but it's actually student-centered. A few years ago, Fangzhou College also collected love tracking fees, lawn trampling fees, teaching resource occupation fees, etc., and you can think of any name. Now that the Internet is developed and the information is spread too fast, the college does not dare to charge these strange fees. ”

"I've heard of those strange charges."

"Now the meaning of the existence of Fangzhou College is to collect tuition, as long as the tuition is collected, it doesn't matter what the students have learned and what work they do after graduation."

"Isn't the employment rate of Fangzhou College very high?"

"It's very high, not only Fangzhou College, no matter how bad the university is, the graduates will not be unable to find a job, the question is what kind of job they can find. If you work as a security guard, work as a worker in a factory, or even go home to herd sheep, you are also considered employed, can the employment rate not be high? By the way, where are you from, and what are your family conditions? I see that you are dressed like a child of a rich family. ”

"I came from the countryside of Qicheng County, and my family conditions are not good, and I still use student loans for the first year's tuition."

"I'm also from Qicheng County, but I didn't expect us to be fellow villagers. I'm from River Township, which township is your family from? ”

"It's from Rhubarb Township."

"I know there, but haven't been. Whether it is from the perspective of a teacher or a fellow villager, I want to warn you that young people should have personality, but they can't do everything by temperament, especially college students with poor family conditions, and they should be more cautious in doing things.

The exam you just talked about, the make-up exam is to pay the make-up examination fee, and if you fail the exam in some subjects, you have to pay the tuition fee and re-take the semester's classes, haven't you thought about where you get the money? ”

"I was so impulsive at the time, and I regret it now when I think about it. At the beginning of the school year, the counselor told me about the make-up exam. If I had known that I would not be able to graduate without taking the exam, and I would have to pay the make-up examination fee, I would not have torn the exam paper. I have to pay 300 yuan for the make-up exam, and I can't tell my parents about this kind of thing, so I can only save money and save it. ”

"There must be ideals, and there must be personalities, but the premise is to live first, and for now, you must first make sure that you graduate from this school and get a bachelor's degree.

Although the academic qualifications of Fangzhou College are not valuable, they are still undergraduates, and the state recognizes academic qualifications, even if you can't get into graduate school in the future, you can still rely on this academic qualification to take the examination of teachers and civil servants.

Children of wealthy families do not have to worry about employment, and they can have a good job as soon as they graduate. Your family conditions are not good, if you don't have a bachelor's degree certificate, and you don't even have the qualifications to take the exam, won't the four years of tuition and experience be wasted? ”

"I see. However, if you want me to be a teacher, I can accept it, and I don't want to take the civil service exam. ”

"You still don't understand what I mean, you have to solve the problem of survival first, whether you are a teacher or a civil servant, you can at least provide you with a stable income, and on this basis, you can talk about realizing your ideals.

Lu Xun worked as a servant in the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government, wasn't he also a civil servant? If you don't want to bend your waist for five buckets of rice, you have to have five buckets of rice first. Of course, many graduates will choose to start a business, but literati, especially poets, do not know how to operate. And entrepreneurship also requires costs and needs someone to invest.

In society, in various enterprises, science students can also delve into technology, and liberal arts students do not have a skill, and the living environment they have to face is more complex. If you are asked to write all kinds of copywriting every day, run business, pull customers, and drink with people, do you think you can enjoy this kind of work? ”

"I don't like this kind of work."

"It's very difficult to make a living from writing. Writing alone can earn a decent living, and this kind of person is probably less than 1 in 10,000 of all authors. What I want to tell you is that in order to survive, you can go to work that you don't like. Only when life is guaranteed can there be hope for the realization of ideals. And, let me tell you, I used to work in the government for a year. ”

"Mr. Wu has worked in the government before?"

"It's a town government in Qicheng County, which is Hecheng Town. At that time, it was different from now, if undergraduates graduated, if they did not look for a job on their own, after returning to their hometown, the county would assign a job, and they would generally enter government agencies and institutions. I studied Chinese language and literature, and after graduating, I was assigned to the Hecheng Town Government. ”

"What exactly does the teacher do in the river town government?"

"The publicity officer, who also serves as the secretary to the mayor of the town. Surprised, right? ”

"I was a little surprised, but I thought the teacher must be very unhappy working there, so I quit my job and went to graduate school."

"You're right. In that year, a lot of things happened, and I also wrote a lot of words against my will, and I still remember it vividly in retrospect. ”

"Since I don't like to work in an institution, why didn't the teacher find a job or go to graduate school on his own at that time?"

"Like you, my family is rural, very poor, and I don't have the money to go to graduate school. At that time, I actually wanted to go to the west to teach, but my parents didn't agree, they wanted me to go home and work, and the county assigned me a job, so I went back.

What I want to tell you is that people of our personality are not suitable for working in institutions, but it is also a good experience for life to be able to experience a life that you don't like. Moreover, everyone lives in reality and needs to survive.

Haizi wrote in "Rebuilding the Home": "Give up wisdom on the water/Stop looking up at the sky/In order to survive, you have to shed tears of humiliation/Come to water your home/Survive without insight/The earth presents itself/Rebuild the roof of your hometown with happiness and pain."" ’”

"I see."

"If you have a hard time in life, you can come to me."

"Okay."

Wu Dao suddenly remembered that Kan Wenyuan had to pay the make-up examination fee, and he had to chase the girl he liked, and he needed money, he was a poet, and he wanted to be face-saving, even if he had difficulties, he might be embarrassed to say it. Thinking of this, he took out five hundred yuan from his wallet and gave it to Kan Wenyuan, saying:

"You have to pay the make-up exam fee, and you have to pursue the girl, I have a few hundred dollars here, you can spend it. You chased that girl and couldn't catch up, which may have something to do with your dressing. You go buy a nice outfit, treat the girl to a meal, buy her a gift or something.

It's not the golden age of poetry in the eighties, and few girls are going to be moved by a few poems, and they still have to spend some money when it's time to spend it. ”

"But I ......"

"It's no good, but you don't have to pay it back. I've also made a lot of ill-gotten gains over the years, and you can come to me when you're short of money. I don't have more, and there is still no shortage of hundreds of dollars. ”

"Thank you."

"By the way, I have set up an off-campus tutoring agency, if you have time, you can come and work part-time, and you can earn some money every month."

"That's great, I'm looking for a part-time job, but I haven't found a suitable one."

"Then it's settled."

Wu Dao and Kan Wenyuan chatted for more than an hour before they separated, and both of them had the intention of seeing each other and hating each other.

On Wu Dao's way home, the campus radio of Fangzhou University was broadcasting. After a piece of music, Wu Dao heard Kan Wenyuan's three words, so he stopped and listened carefully. On the radio it said:

The following is a poem written by Kan Wenyuan, a student of the Department of Chinese, to Wang Like, a student of the Department of Foreign Languages:

I don't dare look you in the eye

Because it's a boundless swamp

But I still want to go inside

Until my body sank completely

……

Kan Wenyuan wished Wang Like eternal happiness and happiness. ”

Listening to the voice on the radio, Wu Dao smiled, he remembered his college days, which was an impulsive, loving era. Wu Dao even felt that Kan Wenyuan was himself more than ten years ago, but he was more courageous, and his appearance seemed to be to do all the things he didn't dare to do because of cowardice in college.