Ever since Zhou Chen said he wanted to go to the capital with the whole family, Zheng Juan has been feeling a little uneasy these days.
Expectation, nervousness, worry, timidity, fascination...
As an out-and-out Han Chinese, especially in this era, almost 99% of people are full of yearning for the capital.
Although Zheng Juan has never been out of Jichun City and has no big ambitions, if she has the opportunity to go to the capital, she actually wants to visit it.
But when she thought about the whole family going, even though Zhou Chen said he had more than 6,000 yuan in savings, she was still worried.
What she considered was that when she arrived in the capital, Zhou Chen would go to college and would not have time to make money. The family would not be able to just sit back and have nothing.
And that's the capital, so shopping is definitely more expensive than here, as well as renting, etc.
She has always been diligent and thrifty, but when she thinks about these problems, she can't sit still.
Zhou Chen naturally saw Zheng Juan's anxiety, and he said it many times, but this wife was born to worry, so even if he said it was okay, she would still be worried.
Before the end of December, the college entrance examination results of Jiangliao Province finally came out. Zhou Chen thought he would be the top scorer in the college entrance examination, but in the end he found out that he only ranked second in the province.
Although he missed the top spot in the college entrance examination, Zhou Chen did not feel sad. Although he lived a long time and learned a lot, there is no shortage of geniuses in the world.
What's more, the college entrance examination this time is relatively low-difficulty. It's normal for someone to do better than him.
Ranking second in the province can be chosen from any domestic university, which is enough for Zhou Chen.
After the college entrance examination results came out, Zhou Chen applied for Capital Medical College without hesitation.
There was no way, he also knew that the best medical school in the country was the Capital Union Medical College, but the problem was that this time the college entrance examination, Union Medical College did not enroll students, and the school would not resume until the second half of 1979.
Zhou Chen couldn't wait that long, so he had to settle for the next best thing and choose Capital Medical College.
The current Capital Medical College has not yet merged with Peking University. It is still an independent medical school and is second to none in the capital.
Fortunately, it is not the same campus as Peking University. Otherwise, he might see Zhou Rong often in the future, which would definitely make him very upset.
With Zhou Chen's second-best score in the province, he applied for Capital Medical College and was admitted without any doubt.
When Zhou Chen's admission notice was sent home, Li Suhua and Zheng Juan were extremely excited.
In their limited knowledge, the best university in the country is the university in the capital. Zheng Juan already knew that Zhou Chen wanted to study medicine, so she was not surprised that Zhou Chen was admitted to the medical school.
But Li Suhua didn't understand why her younger son didn't choose the two best universities in the country, but insisted on choosing this medical school that she had never heard of.
She was doubtful, but she was still very happy. Although her younger son was already very capable, in the eyes of the older generation, going to college was a matter of honoring the family and was more important than anything else.
The good news doesn't stop there. Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong also sent letters home one after another, saying that they were both admitted to Peking University, one in the Chinese Department and the other in the Philosophy Department.
Zhou Chen knew that the admission rate for this year's college entrance examination was less than 5%, which was far lower than that of later generations. The main reason is that there are not as many universities now as there will be in the future, and the universities are not classified in a particularly detailed manner.
Even though this year's college entrance examination is relatively easy, being admitted to one of the best universities in the country shows that Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong have a solid foundation.
When Li Suhua received the letters from Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep and couldn't smile from ear to ear for several days in a row.
For an old lady who is uneducated and doesn't even know her words, being able to raise three children from prestigious universities is the most glorious thing in her life. Even when she gets old and goes underground, she can still hold her head high.
Go to meet your ancestors.
However, when Zheng Juan learned that Zhou Chen's brother and sister had been admitted to a prestigious university, she felt a little depressed. She felt that she was so useless. She was not even one-tenth as capable as her husband.
Looking at the situation of the Zhou family, the eldest brother and sister were both admitted to Peking University, the eldest sister-in-law was also admitted to the medical school in Jichun, and the brother-in-law is a cultural person and a great poet.
She was the only one who was uneducated and had only graduated from elementary school. She felt that she had embarrassed Zhou Chen.
As the person next to him, Zhou Chen can naturally feel his wife's emotions.
"Juan'er, don't have an inferiority complex. In my heart, you are the best wife in the world. To me, nothing is as important as you."
Zhou Chen's comfort made Zheng Juan feel much better. Yes, no matter what others do, her husband is the best and most outstanding in this family.
Being favored by her husband is the happiest thing in her life. It is a hundred times happier than going to college.
Zhou Zhigang, who was far away in the mountain city, also received three letters, one from his family, Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong.
There are many contents in the letter, but there is only one core content, which is the universities that all three of his children have been admitted to, and two Peking University and one medical school are all in the capital.
Even though he accepted his younger son's excellence, he was still surprised when he learned that his younger son had been admitted to a university, a premier medical school.
Also, he didn't quite understand why Zhou Chen chose the medical school instead of the Chinese Department?
On the contrary, I finally wrote a letter from home, hoping that he would go home during the Chinese New Year and discuss matters at home.
This made Zhou Zhigang frown unconsciously, because it was not his turn to take a vacation during the Spring Festival this year. If he wanted to go home, he would have to ask for leave.
But he is a person who is very dedicated to his work. Even if he is not feeling well, he can still go to work. If he asks for leave to go home for the New Year, it will take about ten days at least.
He felt that this would delay his work and would be a disservice to the country, so he wrote home to refuse.
Zhou Chen not only wrote to Zhou Zhigang asking him to come back, but also wrote to Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong asking them to come back before school started.
Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong were both immersed in the wonderful dream of going to the capital to attend university. Regarding Zhou Chen's rather tough request, Zhou Bingyi thought about it for a while and agreed.
For Zhou Bingyi, he is going to college soon, so there is no need to stay in the Construction Corps. There is no big difference if he leaves a few days earlier or a few days later, and the Corps will not deliberately hold him back.
Moreover, Hao Dongmei has also been admitted to the local medical school in Jichun, and her parents have been reinstated. This time when she goes back, she can meet her parents and celebrate the New Year together.
As for Zhou Rong, she actually didn't want to go back, but Zhou Chen's attitude in the letter was very firm, saying that if she didn't come back, when he went to school in the capital, he would take Feng Yue with him and send him directly to her school.
If Zhou Chen uses other methods to force him, he may not be able to make Zhou Rong submit.
But talking about Feng Yue frightened Zhou Rong all of a sudden.
Because if Zhou Rong wants to go to college, it will definitely be impossible to take her children to school, and her studies will be heavy and she will definitely have to live on campus for a lot of time.
Although Feng Huacheng is from the capital, the problem is that he does not have a house in the capital and is completely broke. When he goes to the capital, he will definitely rent a house or live in a unit.
Think about where the capital is. Prices there are definitely higher than in her hometown. She goes to school, not to enjoy happiness.
Although Feng Huacheng has made up a lot of salary over the years, it still costs money for her to go to school. She goes to a prestigious university, so she doesn't have to spend money to be with her classmates?
She shuddered when she thought that if she brought Feng Yue with her, her already difficult life would be even worse.
So she discussed with Feng Huacheng that she should go home to spend the New Year.
At this time, Feng Huacheng was also selfish, thinking that the hard days were over and it would be his turn to show off his ambitions.
With so much confidence, how could he let his daughter hold him back at this time?
Therefore, these two people are really not a family, and they don't belong to the same family.
Zhou Chen also guessed what they were thinking, so he concluded that they didn't dare not come back.
If we want to say who is the happiest person in the entire Zhou family, it must be Li Suhua.
All three children were admitted to college, and they were all coming back for the Chinese New Year. This made her so excited that she couldn't sleep all night long after looking forward to a family reunion.
Then the situation started again in 1976, and I started to prepare all kinds of delicious food.
Shortly after Zhou Zhigang replied, Zhou Chen sent him another telegram, which only contained a few words.
'When your children return, come back quickly to celebrate the New Year.'
Good guy, as soon as he heard that his eldest son and daughter were going home to celebrate the New Year, Zhou Zhigang, who was still thinking about work, immediately changed his attitude and sent back a telegram, saying that he would be home before the festival.
All three children of the Zhou family were admitted to college. This incident caused a huge sensation in the optical film, and once again became the envy of men, women, and children in the optical film.
You must know that this time the college entrance examination, many young people of the right age also participated in the optical film.
But it is a pity that except for the three children of the Zhou family, no one has been admitted to college, including the women's director Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao.
Because of this matter, Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao have not shown their faces these days, for fear of being compared with the three people of the Zhou family.
For this matter, Sun Ganchao and Xiao Guoqing went to Zhou Chen and had a drink with Zhou Chen to celebrate.
Time passed quickly, and it was the eve of the Spring Festival in a blink of an eye. The three people from the Zhou family who were away all came back relatively late.
There is no thirty in this year, so the 29th is New Year's Eve. The first person from the Zhou family to come back was Zhou Bingyi, who came back on the 28th.
This time, Zhou Chen and Zheng Juan rode to the train station to pick up someone, while Li Suhua and Guangming took care of their children at home.
Zhou Rui and Feng Yue are already four years old, so they don't need anyone to watch them all the time. They can play for a long time by themselves, and it's okay even if Zheng Juan is not around.
Zhou Cong is also over one year old and has already learned to walk and can talk a lot, but compared to Zhou Rui at the beginning, his development is relatively behind.
Zheng Juan was sitting in the lobby of the train station, with Zhou Chen protecting her.
Railway stations are not safe these days. Petty theft is the norm. If you are not careful, you may even have people and belongings dragged away.
"Bingkun, brother and sister-in-law, didn't they take the train at two o'clock? It's already half past two, why haven't they arrived yet?"
To be continued...