Chapter 20 University Life
When I got home, I opened the cabinet left by my grandfather with a complicated mood.
Inside the cabinet was a large wooden box. I opened the wooden box and there was another wooden box inside.
What does this mean? A nesting doll?
I took out this wooden box, which was about the size of my schoolbag, in confusion, and it was heavy inside.
When I opened it, there were three items inside, a blue cloth bag, a sandalwood box, and a cowhide pocket.
I have seen the wooden box, and it was filled with soul-stimulating incense. But when I opened it, I saw another mezzanine on one side of the wooden box, covered with soft cloth, and three silver needles were inserted on it.
I have seen this silver needle, which was what my grandfather had used for acupuncture before. I couldn't help but sigh inwardly, Grandpa, I don't know how to treat acupuncture. If you give me this, I'm afraid you will disappoint you.
Next, I opened the cowhide pocket again and found that there was a brush, a box of cinnabar, and a thick stack of yellow paper inside.
Finally, I untied the blue cloth bag, but was shocked by what I saw in front of me. In this bag, there were stacks of money, including one hundred yuan and fifty yuan. At a rough count, there were almost as many as a dozen stacks.
When I remembered my grandfather's words, I couldn't help but sigh that he was frugal all his life, and was reluctant to spend a penny more, but he had prepared everything for me.
The notice was quickly received, and I finally calmed down and spent my last time at home alone.
In a blink of an eye, the day was about to leave. I packed everything, put it in a large suitcase, then walked out of the house, locked the doors and windows, closed the fence, and finally looked at my home, turned around and left.
I am the only child in the village who was admitted to university. Many neighbors came to see me, some of whom gave me food and drinks. I refused them one by one with tears in my eyes. These simple villagers didn't know that my grandfather had left, so I only told them that my grandfather had gone far away and might come back to see them after I graduated from college.
In this way, I stepped on the train alone. This was my first long journey in my life. Looking at the gradually blurred green mountains outside the car window, I don’t know when I will return to my hometown in this life.
Pingshan City is a city that spans two provinces and is thousands of miles away from my hometown. I spent more than ten hours on the train hard seat before finally reaching this place where I am about to start a new life.
This city is much bigger than our small county town, with wide streets and bustling traffic, and full of shops and bustling crowds.
My child who came out of the mountains was really dazzled and overwhelmed. Fortunately, the school bus was outside the train station, and someone was responsible for reception. I easily found the school bus according to the introduction in the notice, and there was an open space. So after I got on the bus, I set off quickly. After about an hour, I arrived at the school smoothly.
The location of this school is a bit remote, no, it is simply too remote. It is actually located in a farmland in the suburbs, with a small hill in the distance, and it looks green.
From a distance, I thought it was a resort, but the school bus turned off the highway and stopped at the gate. My heart immediately became cold.
Just after coming out of the mountain, why did this guy enter the mountain again?
After getting off the car, I looked around and saw that the building of this school was quite nostalgic. There were two teaching buildings in the courtyard, which were only four floors high, mottled buildings and old doors and windows, and it looked familiar no matter how you looked. If it weren't for a key-shaped sign at the door that said: Pingshan Normal University Affiliated Arts College. Such lines proved that this was a university. I thought I had been riding for more than ten hours, but I ended up returning to our high school again.
Forget it, just break the point. What can I do with a 240-point school? Anyway, I am not here to enjoy it. I comfort myself.
When we entered the campus, it was quite lively. Banners to welcome new students were everywhere, and there were many people huddled together. However, many parents who sent their children to school gathered together and whispered.
Some said: "What a broken school? The introduction is very well written, but it turns out that this is a fucking trick. In this wilderness, it's hard for children to go to the street, but it's hard to go out. It's too unfair to spend more than 10,000 tuition fees..."
Some others said, "Actually, it's pretty good. Think about it, there are too many colorful things in the city now. If the child always runs out, he will have to learn bad things if he doesn't do it well. I think this place is good, like a prison, and he can't even run out, and then he can study with peace of mind."
A person next to him continued, "That's right, it's said that children are expensive to go to school now, but they are actually eating, drinking, having fun and having sex. This time, there is no place to spend money everywhere, so why don't they still show off? I checked it. The whole school is just a convenience store, and there is an Internet cafe next to it. It's said that they are all open in the school, so don't worry about the children here. I've saved money and I don't have a place to spend it even if I want to spend it..."
Of course, this argument is basically that the family conditions are relatively average. In fact, there are several parents who only took a few glances off the car, and they didn't even let their children go to school. They turned around and called them for taxiing. They probably went home and spent another school with a high price. This kind of thing is that the family is rich and the children are not good at studying.
There are so many kinds of people, but it has nothing to do with me. I have made up my mind and just hang out here.
Soon, the teachers and senior students in charge of reception arranged everything we had, completed the procedures, paid tuition, divided the dormitory, and received daily necessities. We were busy for a long time before we settled down.
Our student apartment is quite better. It looks newer than the teaching building. There are two buildings, one boy's apartment and the other girl's apartment. I don't know who designed it. The two buildings are face to face, and the distance is quite close. Many boys have already started whispering and even smiled wickedly. Several of them have already started to look into the girls' dormitory. I looked at them disdainfully, thinking that these guys probably have to go out to buy telescopes in the afternoon.
I walked into the building alone with my luggage and bedding. There were students and parents who were shuttled up and down. Looking at the parents who were sweating and running up and down with all kinds of things, I felt a little uncomfortable. Others had parents to deliver it, but I was alone wherever I went.
There were noisy sounds everywhere in the building, and I thought I couldn't hear them at all. It had nothing to do with me. I didn't belong here, I told myself silently.
My dormitory is in 303, and the second room on the right hand when I went up the stairs. After opening the door, there was already one in the dormitory that I arrived before me. He was gentle, not tall, quite thin, wearing black-edged glasses, and his hair was a little thin. It was probably hot, and his hair was mixed with sweat and stuck to his forehead. He looked like he was malnourished and was packing things there.
Seeing me coming in with a big box, he hurriedly stepped forward to help me pick it up. I greeted him with a smile, moved everything in with him, found an uninhabited lower bed to throw the bedding up, and then sat down and breathed a long breath.
Next, we got to know each other. This guy looked quite Wenjing, but his surname was Hu. Hu Wenjing. He sounded like he was from Shandong, but his physique and temper were not similar. I wanted to laugh a little. They all said that Shandong Han was from Shandong, but this time I met a Shandong young man.
He told me that he only came a while ago than me, and there was someone who arrived two days ago. He was quite refreshing and couldn't stay idle. He was still in the house just now, so he must have gone out to run around now.
I simply tidied up the bed and luggage, put all the things in the cabinet, and when I was about to go out to fetch water and wash it, the dormitory door was suddenly pushed open. A guy with a squid figure, a pretty strong body, and a few acne on his face, and looked a little dazed, broke in. Hu Wenjing said, "Along, our new roommate, just arrived, is called Han Qingtian."
The man named Along was so happy that he touched his head and said, "Oh, we have a master Qingtian coming to bed."
This guy speaks a Northeast accent, and I can't help feeling very friendly, because my hometown is from Changbai Mountain, and I am also a serious Northeastern native.
And my nickname is my nickname. Some people called me in high school. I didn’t expect that on the first day of my college entrance examination, someone called me that.
"Just call me Xiaotian. You came early. Please take care of me in the future." I smiled and stretched out my hand. He laughed, slapped me on my hand, and said carelessly: "Okay, don't be polite, my name is Wang Zhiqiang, but I don't like this name. I have changed my name to Wang Jinlong now. Just call me Along. I heard that you are also a fellow villager in Northeast China. I didn't say that this is fate. I'll treat you to lunch later, and then take you around in the afternoon to get familiar with the environment. I tell you, don't think that our school is quite biased, but even if the sparrow is small, you can do whatever you want."
He talked endlessly, not only poorly, but also like a chatterbox. I didn't say much, but just kept nodding. As he spoke, he probably was excited, and then mysteriously lowered his voice: "And I tell you that the direction of our dormitory is the best. Do you see it? The girl's building is opposite. This summer is so pleasing to the eye... When you look at our opposite door, they are in a miserable state. There is a corn field outside the window. In summer, you can see a little green. After autumn, it will be a wasteland and you can't see anything. Tsk tsk, I'm so busy for them..."
He finally stopped talking when he said this. I thought I could not be in a bad mood, so I said without saying anything: "You said, why did our school be built in such a place where rabbits don't poop? If there is something urgent to go to the city, there will be no car."
He slapped his thigh and said angrily: "Who said no? I originally planned to change schools. To be honest, our family is not short of money, but my mother insisted that it is good here, like a prison, and can collect my temperament, then throw me away and go home. She made me angry. If I hadn't seen the quality of the girls in our school be quite reasonable, I told you that I had already run away and I don't want the tuition fees... Hey, I'll tell you that a good thing I accidentally discovered at noon yesterday was in the cornfield behind..."
This guy was like telling a story, and he was flirting with joy. Hu Wenjing also heard the meaning and hurriedly came over and asked, "Tell me quickly, what good things did you find yesterday at noon?"
Aaron laughed in a bad mood, but he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, this matter is hard to say, it's not suitable for children, it's not good to spread it, it's not good to talk about it another day, let's talk about it another day..."
I couldn't help but wonder, what was wrong that made the kid look embarrassed. What is not suitable for children or in the cornfield? Is it...that thing?
Chapter completed!