Chapter 2 New Students
The campus is always lively, when there is no class, students are not willing to go to the library to be bored, although the teachers teach hard, saying that good boys are ambitious, learning without thinking is reckless, but students can always "very objectively" realize that the construction of the four modernizations is not something I can do alone, and it is true to find a good job after graduation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Tomorrow's things will be talked about tomorrow, and as for today, the boys should sweat on the court or talk in front of the girls. The girls, on the other hand, were chattering on the side of the pitch, smiling and peeking at the boys running around, or listening to the idealists on the boulevard with disbelief in their comments on the current situation, or describing a better tomorrow.
Campus life is always unforgettable. If you don't enjoy such a good time and just stay in the dormitory, then there is a good chance that you are doing laundry, or doing your homework seriously, or copying your homework seriously. However, there may be a special exception, in the dormitory of the sophomore male student majoring in public administration, there is a thin and tall boy, his name is Zheng Pei, at this time he has just eaten two steamed buns with pickles, and intends to sleep well.
He had just finished a night shift and was so tired.
Speaking of Zheng Pei, the general impression of the students is: mysterious. I barely listened to him, and I only took notes in class, and I didn't speak. I rarely see him in life, and he rarely participates in the activities organized by the school, and he always feels that he is very busy, as if he has endless things to do, and everyone does not know what to do.
The students who come to study have no hope of going to class, and a considerable number of them just come to get diplomas, and with a high degree of education, they may be able to find better jobs in the future when they go out. So, the process of college just has to wait. And Zheng Pei didn't want to go to college at the beginning, although the news of his admission made the village celebrate a lot, but because of the mother's sick body, Zheng Pei actually wanted to go to the township to find a job and bear the family earlier. The uncle smoked a cigarette and reasoned with him little by little, people must have ideas and long-term vision. And an incomparably wonderful world, Zheng Pei is not uneasitting, but his worries have long covered the joy of being admitted.
Qiao Hui walked over and stroked her son's head, and the gentleness between her palms and fingers gradually calmed down Zheng Pei's troubled mind.
"If you want to go, you can go, it is a blessing for our family to be able to show such a talent as you."
Zheng Pei didn't say anything, just lowered his head and bit his lip.
"You don't have to worry about it at home," Qiao Hui held Zheng Pei's hand in his hand, "There is no heavy work, and there is no shortage of bits and pieces of things." Usually there is your uncle and their help. Besides," Qiao Hui smiled, "You have become a college student, and you have become the most learned person in our village, are you still afraid that your mother will be wronged?" ā
"Mother!" Zheng Pei's eyes were full of tears, and when he looked up at his mother, he was like a wronged puppy. "You're not in good health, your chest hurts all the time, I don't have the ability to earn money for you to see a doctor, and you have to spend money to go to school, I ......"
Qiao Hui gently wiped away the tears rolling down her son's face with her palm, and said with a smile: "Silly child, mother, this is all an old problem, how bad can it be?" It's the big deal that you read. Qiao Hui paused, as if she had thought of something, but then said to her son with a smile: "You must have a talent, and you must have culture to have ambition." When your father was alive, he was afraid that you would suffer the loss of being uneducated like him, so he gave you this name, hoping that you would study culture well and build the motherland well. Now that you are so angry, your father can close his eyes under Jiuquan. ā
Another burst of sourness welled up in his eyes, as if thousands of words were blocked in his heart. Zheng Pei wiped away his tears with the back of his hand and nodded vigorously at his mother.
From that night on, the needlework in his mother's hand never seemed to stop, Zheng Pei no longer hesitated, he secretly made up his mind, in the future, he would definitely let his mother live a good life!
Dezhang City, a brand new world, than Zheng Pei went to high school Luanding Town I don't know how many times larger, the road here is spacious and straight, the buildings here are magnificent, the high-rise buildings on both sides of the road are lined up, the road can be seen everywhere whistling cars, those dazzling billboards and flashing neon lights along the street, all highlight the prosperity and colorfulness of the big city, which makes Zheng Pei, who has just walked out of the countryside, feel that everything is so fresh and magical.
Dezhang University, Zheng Pei's ideal place, although he has heard some things for a long time, when he actually faces them, it becomes a different way. On his first day of school, he experienced a lot of things he never thought possible. The thick country accent, the simple to shabby dress, and the strange eyes of his classmates in the city, all of which made Zheng Pei feel depressed, making him feel that he couldn't even breathe smoothly. This beautiful university campus and the colorful campus life that is about to begin, everything seems to be beautiful, but for Zheng Pei, it is more about facing the cruelty of reality. Even the tuition fee, which is nothing to most people in the city, is a huge burden in Zheng Pei's opinion, although his mother borrowed all the relatives and finally got together the money, but Zheng Pei knew that he couldn't use it so at ease. With the help of kind counselors, through constant travel and hard work between the school's academic affairs office, logistics office, and many different offices, the school finally waived most of his tuition fees, and even offered him a work-study position in the library. This allowed Zheng Pei to no longer have to worry about eating, although he tried to choose the cheapest meal, but in the eyes of Zheng Pei, who came from a remote farming family, it was still a large expense. In the first semester of his freshman year, Zheng Pei was just trying to adapt, after all, there were many things that were different from the original. Because of his accent, he tried not to talk to others as much as possible, because of his shabby clothes, he didn't participate in any group activities, and the silent Zheng Pei knew that he couldn't waste every minute in school, and all his time was spent learning and enriching himself. At the end of the semester, in addition to his excellent grades, Zheng Pei even saved a little money. When he returned home during the winter vacation, he used the money he saved to buy city specialties for his mother and relatives in the village, although it was just ordinary food in the eyes of city people, but it was enough to make people in remote villages feel satisfied and envious. He was very busy that Spring Festival, in addition to receiving relatives who were constantly coming and going at home, the people in the village took turns to invite them to the house as guests, and the envy in everyone's eyes and the praise in their mouths made Zheng Pei's little vanity in his heart satisfied, and the smile of comfort and pride on his mother's face made Zheng Pei's long-suppressed heart be comforted and sustenance. At the end of the winter vacation, Zheng Pei was going back to school, and when he looked at his mother, who had been standing at the entrance of the village to see him off, and looked at the thin figure that was gradually getting smaller, Zheng Pei once again told himself that he must get ahead!
In the summer vacation after his freshman year, in order to save money and earn more money, Zheng Pei chose not to go home to see his mother, he thought that he could use this summer vacation to do a few odd jobs. Zheng Pei had been to the construction site, he stood a little stiffly in the shed, and the foreman just glanced at him and let him go. Zheng Pei wanted to argue a few words for himself, even if the salary was low, but he looked at the smoky, stinky, and nasty shack, and those words never came out.
Later, he got a job delivering food at a restaurant not too far from the school, although it was just an errand, but because of the urging of the waiter and the cook, the faces of the owner and the guests, and other messy chores, the job was not easy to do. Although he tried his best to do everything to the best of his ability, because he always had to delay his work time after the start of school, he was still sent away by his boss after he didn't work for long, and only paid him a small salary when he left.
After the start of his sophomore year, the course schedule was much less, and Zheng Pei found a job as a security guard through a job advertisement in the newspaper. Although the property company felt that this young man was too thin, because no one applied, he passed the interview. The manager felt that Zheng Pei was down-to-earth, didn't ask for much, and didn't have any bad intentions, plus Zheng Pei took the initiative to ask for the night shift, so he had a good impression of him, and specially arranged a partner for him who was easier to get along with. Zheng Pei is also very happy, with this job, not only can he earn 120 yuan a month, but also do not delay the daytime classes and the work-study job in the school library, which is really good. Although I didn't sleep enough, I didn't have much time to have classes in the morning, so I just went back to the dormitory to sleep.
Thinking that he could earn 120 yuan a month, Zheng Pei couldn't help but smile.
Zheng Pei was very happy that morning, because although he had only worked for half a month, because he was down-to-earth and hardworking, the manager specially gave him a salary of 70 yuan. He had money in his pocket, and he was walking and having fun on the way back to school, as if everything around him had become particularly pleasing and interesting at this time, and the people around him seemed to be much kinder, and he felt that he had matured and had become a real man, able to take on his life and that of his mother with his own hands. 120 yuan, in addition to the money for their own meals, most of them can be saved, and when the salary is paid next month, they will send it home to their mother, how happy she should be, if she can continue to work hard like this, she will no longer have to let her mother drag her sick and tired body to help others do needlework!
At this time, Zheng Pei completely lost his usual tired look, in the hurried crowd of work, he looked so different, with a radiant look on his face, his feet stepped on a rhythm that only he himself understood, so cheerful, so satisfied, at that time, he even felt that if there were not too many people around him, he really wanted to be able to sing a song, because only then could he express his joy and excitement.
After returning to the dormitory, Zheng Pei felt that today's steamed buns were exceptionally delicious, although they were only brought back by a friend in the dormitory for breakfast, and they were already hard and cold, but he ate very fragrantly, it seemed that his mother had just made new steamed buns out of the cage drawer.
Zheng Pei slept well that night, he dreamed of his mother, dreamed that he handed over his salary to his mother, and dreamed that his mother was laughing, smiling and touching his face with her hand.
Tears slipped quietly down his sleeping face.