The day that Tang Mian had been waiting for had finally arrived, and his respect for knowledge and respect for intellectuals had finally been rewarded. His lifelong desire to become a man of knowledge through reading; People who change their destiny through reading; The dream of letting his children and grandchildren become cultural people through reading has finally been realized in his beloved son Tang Boqiang!

Because it was very close to the time to go to school, Tang Mian was busy alone in various department stores in Bajiao Town to buy some necessities for Tang Boqiang to go to school. Between entering and leaving, the satisfaction, pride and smile were all written on the face of Tang Mian, who had always been low-key.

The teachers at Octagon Town Middle School were not idle. Led by teacher Yi Mucai, he told the teachers of the grade that since **, no student from our Bajiao Town Middle School has been admitted to the national key university. This time, Tang Boqiang fought for our Bajiao Town Middle School, should we celebrate him and express our hearts?

When the kind teachers heard this, they all agreed. After much deliberation, everyone thought that Tang Boqiang's family was not well-off, so let's raise money to buy a travel box for him, so that he would have a decent box to store when he went to school. So, the teachers, who actually didn't have a lot of money on hand, sponsored a sum of money little by little, and Director Hu bought a travel suitcase that was probably the best and most expensive in Bajiao Town at that time and sent it to Tang Boqiang's house.

The love and enthusiasm of the teachers suddenly disrupted Tang Mian's arrangement. Because the family is not well-off, according to Tang Mian's original plan, he is going to set up a banquet at his home before Tang Boqiang goes to school. At that time, I invited my relatives in Bajiao Town and Master Li Bin to have a meal, expressing my congratulations on Tang Boqiang's admission to university and my relatives' concern for Tang Boqiang.

Now the teachers' actions made Tang Mian have to reconsider the way of celebration. After discussing with his wife, Tang Mian decided to use his already tight savings to set up a few tables of banquets in his home and in the open space in front of his house to thank his teacher and relatives and friends.

There were four famous chefs in Bajiao Town at that time, and coincidentally, these four famous chefs were all surnamed Chen. The people of Octagon Town are very particular about eating, so they have a very good understanding and evaluation of these four famous chefs. At the top of the list was the husband of my mother's colleague, and when my mother asked her to set up a banquet, the colleague immediately agreed and said, "If my husband has an appointment that day, I will bring him too." Your business is the biggest, Boqiang's business is the biggest, it's a big deal to let his apprentice go to other banquets. My mother was very moved and said thank you.

The banquet was held as scheduled, and the chef was on time. The teachers paid attention to it and selected Yi Mucai and Director Hu as representatives, and the other teachers did not participate in various excuses and told Tang Mian in advance, for fear that Tang Mian would prepare too many ingredients and waste them. It is really a benevolent act of being a teacher, which makes Tang Mian admire and admire!

Little Tang Boqiang was arranged at the main table and sat with the teachers. Except for a few words of encouragement and encouragement to Tang Boqiang at the beginning, the rest of the time the adults were talking enthusiastically. The subject matter can be described as varied, from the college entrance examination to the political situation of the country, etc., of course, more is the pride and joy of the achievements of this year's Bajiao Town Middle School.

Tang Boqiang sat aside and listened quietly, and his consciousness slowly left the banquet and flew towards the provincial capital that he had never been to and was going to go soon. I was fantasizing about the prosperity, the fashion, the neon lights, the standard Cantonese dialect, and the medical courses that I was about to face, and I heard that they were a little scary......

Tang Boqiang, who has always been considered timid and cautious, is about to take this rich fantasy out of Octagon Town and into the unknown distance. Tang Boqiang's fate has also changed completely because of this, but Tang Boqiang's relationship with Octagon Town, with the relatives in Octagon Town, with the teachers in Octagon Town, and with the playmates in Octagon Town has never faded, let alone become estranged.

The seemingly distant time, the seemingly distant dream, and the seemingly distant childhood were relived in Tang Boqiang's half-dream. Tang Boqiang realized more clearly that the only thing he could do well and what he could do was to learn his professional knowledge more solidly and make himself strong professionally.

As for love, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with itself, at least temporarily. He can only bless culture and quietness, wish them successful dating, and wish them to tie the knot as soon as possible.

The Spring Festival of 1985 is approaching in a blink of an eye, and according to Sister Zhou's introduction, the hospital will carry out various advanced evaluation activities before the Spring Festival every year. Every year, there are a variety of judging activities, and strange phenomena are frequent, and this year is expected to be the same. And I heard Sister Zhou say that it is impossible for a newcomer like Tang Boqiang to get any advanced awards, and Sister Zhou also boldly predicted that with Tang Boqiang's strength in work and profession, there is very little chance of getting awards or being rated as advanced in the department in the future.

After more than half a year of contact with Sister Zhou, Tang Boqiang is still very convinced of Sister Zhou's judgment and analysis of these things. Tang Boqiang is not interested in these so-called advanced at all, he is obsessed with professionalism, and has reached the point of "ignoring things outside the window, and only reading sage books". Usually, as long as he has free time, he will go to the nearby Xinhua bookstore, and once he finds a new book he likes, he will immediately buy it back and immerse himself in it, and concentrate on learning. Although the salary is not high, Tang Boqiang is never stingy with the money to buy books. In addition to the largest number of medical books, books on literature, history, philosophy, religion and other contents are included in his book purchase plan. Of course, he first used his meager salary to satisfy a dream that began when he was in college: to own a collection of books that he most wanted to own. According to his dream list, he successively bought "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Complete Works of Mao's Poems", "Analects", "Tao Te Ching", "Spring and Autumn Warring States Period", "Complete Works of Tang Poetry and Song Ci" and so on. Some of these books can be read, some of them seem to be understood or even not understood at all, and every now and then, Tang Boqiang will immediately put down these books that he can't understand. In his heart, life, life and books are inseparable, and books are actually a kind of written record of the life experiences of his predecessors. Therefore, if you don't understand it for the time being, you can go back and reread it through the accumulation of life and life, maybe it's a different world. This method of reading was confirmed by Tang Boqiang to be feasible.

The reason why Tang Boqiang has dabbled in such a wide range of books is not only his interest, but also closely related to his understanding of medical science. He has always believed that in addition to being a very professional discipline, medical science itself is also inextricably linked with the humanities, and the study of this knowledge is of great benefit to expanding medical ideas and communication with patients.