As the saying goes, "there is no turning back from the bow", there is only one route from the bay city to the provincial capital, there is no choice, whether you are afraid or not, you must overcome it. Uncle Shrimp had already explained these things very clearly before setting off, and now sitting in the car, Tang Boqiang really felt that what Uncle Shrimp said was true, and even more than that.

Hot summer, long journey, shaking and shaking carriages. After experiencing the toss of the "bone shaker" at the beginning, Tang Boqiang slowly adapted to this vibration. Soon, the frequency of this vibration slowly turned the dull carriage into a huge cradle, and Tang Boqiang's eyes slowly and uncontrollably closed and fell asleep...... There was another violent tremor, and Tang Boqiang opened his eyes and found that his head was resting on the shoulder of an uncle sitting next to him.

It turned out that Tang Boqiang, who was asleep, involuntarily tilted his head and body to the side and leaned on the uncle's shoulder, he quickly said sorry, and then sat down again. But the environment is like a deep night, and the car is like an excellent cradle, and most of the passengers are drowsy or asleep. Tang Boqiang was afraid that this embarrassing situation would happen again, so he leaned his body to the side of the window, leaned his head on the window edge, and fell asleep again in a daze in the shaking.

Tang Boqiang, who has never been far away, has a particularly poor sense of direction, plus he has been sleeping in a daze in the car, where Uncle Shrimp said the car will cross the sea, transition, what bridge to cross, etc. Tang Boqiang didn't know anything, only knew that there was a time to get off the bus for lunch halfway, he followed other passengers into a restaurant on the side of the road, ordered a meal for a few cents at random, and when he got off the car again, it was already more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

The car stopped at the offshore ferry port of Shimbashi City, and the passengers had to get off the bus and take off all their belongings to change to the boat. Every time it is converted, it is a test of will and physical strength for Tang Boqiang. A thin body pulled, lifted and carried the luggage through the ticket check, checked in and then went up to the second level of the big ship. It was an economy class, and even the short Tang Boqiang couldn't completely straighten up in the low cabin, so he could only bend over and find a place to sleep on a flat bunk of about a few hundred square meters. After nearly 12 hours of bumpy ride, Tang Boqiang experienced unprecedented hardship, and at this time he was no longer willing to get up, lying on the ground and resting quietly.

Thinking that the next day he would arrive at the provincial capital he had always dreamed of, and arrive at the university of his dreams, Tang Boqiang, who was lying in the cabin, stayed awake all night. In a daze, only a loud and long whistle was heard, which reminded people that the ship had reached the shore.

Tang Boqiang carried his luggage on his shoulders, carried and dragged his luggage, and landed ashore with difficulty. At this time, the provincial capital has just dawned, and the dock is already very lively. Picking up people, peddling things, selling breakfast, all kinds of cries are endless. Tang Boqiang didn't care about these, and looked around with a pair of small eyes to see if there were any teachers or seniors sent by the school to pick up the boat as mentioned in the notice. Finally, in the haze of the morning light, I saw a man holding a sign with the words "Huaxia Medical College" written on it, Tang Boqiang hurriedly walked over, and next to the man holding the sign stood a short man about thirty years old. He greeted him and asked in Mandarin, "Huaxia doctor?" ”

Tang Boqiang has never spoken Mandarin since he was a child, and the teacher did not use Mandarin in class. The impression of Mandarin is that every morning I will hear the "Newspaper Summary" program of the Central People's Radio Station played by loudspeakers installed in various blocks in the town, although there is no problem in understanding Mandarin, but speaking Mandarin is a great difficulty for Tang Boqiang at this time.

"Yes (si)", Tang Boqiang replied in his imaginary pronunciation. Tongue curling was so difficult for Tang Boqiang that he could barely apply it after a long time. The short man hurriedly took Tang Boqiang's luggage and threw it on a Jiefang car next to him, and said as he threw it: "My surname is Guo, I am a teacher of your grade, and I will be responsible for the management of your daily life in the future, you can just call me Teacher Guo." Tang Boqiang agreed and walked towards the car.

When he arrived at the car, Tang Boqiang was in trouble: how could he climb up so high? After hesitating, I saw Mr. Guo come over and say, "Child, hey, I've been picking up the child for a few days." How is it that your class of students is a group of children who have come to college before they grow up. As he spoke, he asked Tang Boqiang to grab the hands of the seniors in the car, and Mr. Guo supported Tang Boqiang's buttocks in the back.

The carriage was open, and there were two long wooden benches on both sides of the carriage, and there were already a few students who seemed to have just arrived, Tang Boqiang smiled at them and sat down on the bench.

After waiting for a while, Mr. Guo saw that there were no more classmates, so he sat in the passenger seat and said to the driver, "Let's go, and pick up another batch at the train station in the evening." ”

Although he didn't sleep well last night, the provincial city itself has a great attraction for Tang Boqiang. He looked intently at everything on both sides of the car, looking at it, and a trace of disappointment arose in his heart: the provincial city turned out to be nothing more than that. Yes, the provincial capital is not as tall as Tang Boqiang imagined in advance, with a shuttling flow of people and prosperous commerce. In his opinion, the provincial city presented to him a gray tone, similar to Octagonal Town, but it felt bigger and more imposing than Octagonal Town.

One of the great advantages of arriving early in the morning is that you can have a full day to go through the various formalities of admission. Under the guidance and guidance of the seniors, they went to the check-in point to register for the dormitory, buy emergency meal cards, receive various tickets issued by the school (such as soap certificates, oil tickets, cloth tickets, food stamps, etc.), apply for grants for poor students, and go to the small shop next to the school to buy daily necessities, etc.

Tang Boqiang was assigned to the second class and lived in room 3202 of the third dormitory. There are eight double-decker wood-framed beds in one house, and a total of 16 people live in it, each sharing a desk, each of whom has a drawer. Tang Boqiang was assigned to the upper bed near the door. More than 30 years later, the classmates gathered, in order to facilitate contact and set up a WeChat group, students in the Americas gave this group a name: "Erye Society", every male and female classmates became the second master, such a name is of course due to the class name and dormitory room number, this is a later word, temporarily press not table.

Tang Boqiang quickly completed all the formalities and had lunch in the dining hall. Back in the dormitory, Tang Boqiang's introverted, shy, poor Mandarin, and unsociable drawbacks were exposed. Seeing that other classmates chatted back and forth with each other after they came, Tang Boqiang only had envy in his heart. In addition to being able to communicate fluently with a few students from this province, the communication with students from other provinces is almost equal to zero, so that in the past half a semester, Tang Boqiang has been in a state of silence. This is not a big problem for Tang Boqiang, who is accustomed to being alone and has an independent personality, but in the eyes of his classmates, Tang Boqiang, who has just entered the school, is indeed more like an unsociable "outlier".

Most of the courses in the first semester are advanced to high school courses, and some subjects such as advanced mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. are still compulsory. From the beginning of the class, Tang Boqiang clearly realized that he was still in the slump of high school, and he felt extremely difficult to study the newly opened mathematics, physics and chemistry and some basic medical courses. Fortunately, there is a great difference between universities and middle schools, the teaching method of middle schools is "cramming", while universities focus on cultivating students' learning ability, and self-learning ability is a great advantage of Tang Boqiang. For Tang Boqiang, the key is to understand the key content of the teacher in class, and then digest the content of each chapter with Tang Boqiang's strong perseverance and perseverance. In this way, in this school that gathers the country's top students, Tang Boqiang's academic performance will not be at the bottom because of the sluggish state.

Slowly, Tang Boqiang adapted to the environment in the class, the school environment, the learning environment, and the surrounding environment of the school. Of course, because he has not left a kilometer radius around the school, and he has not even taken a bus, he can be said to know nothing about the environment of the provincial capital, let alone understand it. Despite this, he slowly began to try to communicate with his classmates in Mandarin with a strong local accent, and through the exchange, he also began to gradually understand some of the situations in many provinces and cities across the country.

In 1979, at the beginning of the country's reform and opening up, the "west wind" that began with the first "eastward" slowly "eastward", the capital city of Guangdong Province, which stood at the forefront of the reform and opening up, was of course the fastest and largest city affected, and there was no one (Shenzhen was still in the belly at that time). Tang Boqiang's second class, his age is the youngest, and the older classmates are only one or two years older, as Mr. Guo said, they are all a group of "children", and it is at this age that they are the most sensitive to new things, the most receptive, and the most like to emulate.

The first popular music from Hong Kong and Taiwan is sought after by everyone. The popularity of love songs with beautiful lyrical melodies and catchy lyrics that appeal to young people, and the fact that students from other provinces quickly learned Cantonese because of these songs, can not but be said to be a model of cultural transmission.