Restarting life in Siheyuan

Zhu Xuefeng shuddered and groaned inwardly. He was careless and asked a casual question, which immediately let Director Wang discover the flaw.

"Okay, okay, I do know a little bit. They said that Master Jin makes old-fashioned clothes for people, but now no one comes to him. He can't get any work, and he can't make a living. He wants to try another place."

Director Wang nodded in agreement. "Oh, I was telling you. You really do know. I know this tailor Jin. He always sticks to his old style of long gown and jacket. Of course, he has no work to do."

Director Wang should have agreed with this reason, but on second thought, he still felt something was not right and cursed with a smile.

"You little monkey, there are three girls living in your compound. Their master is gone. How could you not know? What about the other two girls? Without their master, are they idle every day?"

"They did tell me that they wanted to continue learning from me, and said they would come back when they had mastered the skills. Is there any problem with that?" Zhu Xuefeng quickly covered up the lie. Lying had almost become his instinct.

"In theory, there shouldn't be any problem. We are not a feudal dynasty that restricts people and requires a pass to go anywhere."

"But Master Jin's household registration and grain and oil relationship are still there. If he moves to another place, he will have nowhere to find grain and oil, not to mention taking an apprentice. He is being foolish. The grain and oil relationship of the two girls is still there."

The emotional loophole is here, Zhu Xuefeng sweats behind his back, "It should be there."

"Do you know where he went? Did he write back?"

Zhu Xuefeng shook his head. "Godmother, I don't have time to deal with these things. I haven't even met Master Jin."

"Yes, these people, ah, run around everywhere, and don't go to the street office to file a case. They have no discipline at all. What good can they do if they go out to find a job? The little money they earn can't even be exchanged for food. They have a lot of suffering to endure."

After a pause, he continued, "There is still a girl here, go and exchange their food and oil for tickets. I estimate that it won't be long before the tickets in the hands of these three are used up, and they should come back."

It seemed like it had been dealt with, and Zhu Xuefeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly agreed. "Well, I'll talk to her about it when I get back."

"Just convey the message to them. They are not related to you, so you don't have to worry about it. By the way, how is the second child doing in his studies? Have you decided which school to apply to?" After understanding the situation, Director Wang naturally changed the subject.

"It's okay now. He studies very hard. I have also asked classmates to give him extra lessons. Influenced by his third brother, he is now determined to apply to the Naval Academy in Jinling."

Director Wang finally smiled, "That's a good thing. The two brothers are in the same school. Let Chaoyang help more. He can at least take care of you. Let your brother study hard and he will definitely pass the exam."

"Xiaomei will be a sophomore in high school in the second half of the year, right? It's going so fast. I heard that her grades have been good. You should study hard. You three brothers and sisters should do well. You will all be college students by then."

After saying goodbye to his godmother, Zhu Xuefeng returned to Yard 95 and was still having a headache. The whereabouts of these three girls would be a problem sooner or later. Forget it, just report them as missing persons when the time comes. Otherwise, something bad will happen sooner or later. It is impossible for the three girls to come back and show up from time to time.

Just now, there was a moment when Zhu Xuefeng felt uneasy under the stare of his godmother and wanted to confess to get leniency. The key point was that this kind of thing would definitely make Director Wang embarrassed. According to her awareness, there was a 99% chance that she would force Zhu Xuefeng to confess to her superiors, which would be a big trouble.

"Brother, Sister Xia is here and is waiting for you in the house."

When the younger sister saw her older brother pushing the door open, she tilted her head to report and continued studying. The second oldest brother just looked up and continued to work on his homework.

In the south room, Xia Yuhong was sitting up on the bed. Seeing Zhu Xuefeng coming in, she waved hurriedly. The two whispered a few words and Zhu Xuefeng frowned slightly.

"Don't worry about it. Let's make dinner first and talk about it after dinner."

After dinner, the two of them came to the compound together, and Xia Yuhong told them everything in detail.

It turned out that Zhou Tangyun and Yang Ying felt that since they could not go to school and had no official position, they had no hope of finding a job. While they were recuperating in Hong Kong, they came into contact with the martial arts team members. It happened that there was not a single girl in the martial arts team.

The two had a good dance background and their looks were needless to say. The martial arts team tried their best to keep them. They were a little hesitant, but in the end they were still thinking about their families. After Gao Bo arrived in Hong Kong, they hurried back to Beijing under the arrangement of Dongsheng Company.

Now that the situation is like this, Yang Ying has the idea of ​​going out to explore the world again, and Gao Bo is lucky enough to be able to accompany her.

"Since Yang Ying wants to go to Hong Kong with Gao Bo, let them go. Set a time and I'll make the arrangements. But I just came back from my godmother, so there are some things I need to let them pay attention to."

Zhu Xuefeng also talked about what happened in the afternoon. Xia Yuhong understood that these things would be risky if not handled properly. "Okay, I will remind them. There is also my childhood friend. Their family is in trouble. I don't know what to do either."

It turned out that Song Tangyun's parents were both teachers at Guangming No. 2 Primary School. For various reasons, they had been in a very difficult situation over the past six months, especially Song Tangyun's mother. Because of what happened last year, she had a serious illness and missed a lot of teaching tasks. She was even removed from the teaching team and went to school logistics. Zhou's father's position as grade leader was also removed. The two believed that it was the Guo family that started to retaliate and the school leaders could not stand it, which led to this.

"What do they think? Your childhood friend also wants to go to Hong Kong?"

Xia Yuhong glanced at the man with mixed emotions. "She doesn't have a strong desire, but I persuaded her to go with me. First, we can be companions. Second, there is no way out for her to stay here."

Zhu Xuefeng thought for a moment, "They have to make their own decision on this matter. It doesn't matter if I help them. But it seems that the Guo family is really busy. Maybe they will deal with us next. By the way, is there any evidence to prove that it was their family's retaliation?"

Xia Yuhong shook her head. "His parents said they couldn't find any evidence. Over the past six months, his work has been going badly. It seems like someone is watching him."

"Being watched? You mean someone is looking for trouble with them at work?"

"Yes, that's what I mean. I was thinking, why don't we give her a helping hand and send her parents to the autonomous region? They happen to be short of teachers there. What do you think?"

"I don't care. I just need their consent. Although they are not starving now, the conditions there are definitely not as good as those in the capital. You can handle it and tell me the result."

Facts have proved that Xia Yuhong's communication skills are still very strong. No one knows what excuse he used, but not long after, not only the Zhou family, but also the Yang family applied for household registration transfer, and then the two families disappeared from Beijing.

Zhu Xuefeng did not ask any more questions after making the arrangements. His younger brother was about to take the college entrance examination, and he himself also had to take exams and defend his thesis. The thesis was not difficult to handle, as he had ready-made research results on ductile iron technology, and the defense went smoothly.

But this time the exam contained a lot of content, so the Department of Physics organized a separate exam for him. The exam room was set up in the office of the Department of Physics, and the papers were marked on site after each exam.

Zhu Xuefeng, who had just finished his last exam, felt relieved. This semester was too tiring. He had to finish all his homework intensively and also found time to complete his thesis. He also took into account the overall design of Xiangjiang Electric and paid attention to the car and engineering vehicle projects of the steel rolling mill. He was so busy that he seldom paid attention to the autonomous region. Fortunately, everything went well and he was finally done.

The next step was a one-year internship at the Ministry of Metallurgy. Deputy Minister Chen (Old Secretary Chen) had already told him that the internship would be at the Material Research Institute of the Steel Rolling Mill, so the next year should be a bit easier. But before he could even leave the office building, he was stopped by Director Jiang upstairs.

"Student Xuefeng, don't leave in a hurry. Go to my office and wait for me first."

After a while, Director Jiang came into the office excitedly and looked at him as if he were a treasure.

"You also got five points for the last subject. Congratulations on passing the assessment. From now on, you have completed all your college courses. You have completed five years of courses in three years. That's not easy."

"That was all the result of the help of the professors. I have to thank the professors and the school for their training."

Director Jiang waved his hand and said, "There's no need to talk about this. Logically, I should be doing internship for the next year, but now there are some changes."

Zhu Xuefeng was a little surprised. The internship location had already been decided, so how could it be changed?
"I know you must be feeling a little weird. The plan has indeed changed. We just received the notice not long ago and haven't had time to inform you yet."

Zhu Xuefeng was a little worried. He wondered if each army unit had selected people in advance and he would go to the Ministry of Metallurgy to take care of things. If that happened, he would have no hope of returning to the steel mill, and it would be troublesome once he joined the army.

"Director, what exactly is the arrangement? I have no idea."

Director Jiang smiled at the disciple and said, "Don't be nervous. This is a good thing. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has a quota for a number of graduate students to study abroad. According to the spirit of the superiors, if you pass the assessment, you will be included in the list of students to study abroad. Of course, there are still some procedures to follow."

It was such a surprise. Zhu Xuefeng looked at Director Jiang, a little dazed.

"Study abroad?"

"Well, actually, your assessment this time is the postgraduate qualification exam. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worthwhile to organize a single exam for an ordinary early graduation."

Zhu Xuefeng only then understood that the examination arrangement was designed in this way, but he had no idea of ​​studying abroad, not even going to graduate school. He only thought about how to be assigned to the steel rolling mill, and then think of a way to get an opportunity to stay in the Hong Kong assembly plant permanently.

In this way, they can stay in Hong Kong and plan with a legitimate reason. Now Xia Yuhong and Lin Na are also planning according to the idea of ​​working in Hong Kong. There are still several foreign-related institutions in Hong Kong, so the two still have great hope.

But no matter how you think about it, you definitely can't refuse this kind of thing. You have to obey the arrangements. Going abroad is always more convenient than running around in the country. Zhu Xuefeng can only comfort himself.

"I will obey the organization's arrangement, but I don't know which country I will study in this time? Big Goose?"

"You studied materials science and achieved good results. Now the ductile iron technology you advocated has been widely used in many industries. You may not even know it yourself. The response is very good. So the above means that you continue to study in this field. What do you personally mean?"

"I will obey the arrangement. This professional direction is indeed worth exploring in depth."

"That's right, that should be settled. By the way, you chose to study German and your grades are pretty good. Apart from reading books, can you communicate normally?"

"I've practiced speaking, so I should be able to communicate, but I've only communicated with real Germans."

"That's good that we can communicate. It means we can take one less year of foreign language training." Zhu Xuefeng understood that he would go to East Germany this time, as Director Jiang continued.

"You will be studying abroad at the Technical University of Dresden in Dresden, Germany. This school is very strong in material research and has a specialized materials research institute. They have a deep accumulation of experience in this field. Your mission is to seize the time to further your studies and return to serve the country as soon as possible."

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"What, you want to run away again?" In the study room of the compound, Xia Yuhong looked at the man in surprise. Lin Na was also very surprised. The three of them were working hard to be assigned to work in Hong Kong in the future, but they didn't expect that Zhu Xuefeng would go to Europe first.

"It was decided by the higher-ups. I thought we were going to go to Goose, but we didn't expect to be sent to Europe."

"How many years will I have to go? Can I come back in the meantime?"

Seeing Xia Yuhong so anxious, Lin Na took Xia Yuhong's hand and comforted her.

"This school is very famous, and my dad knows it well. Why don't we go ask them? Don't worry, we can come back every year, but their semesters are in different time periods than ours, and their vacation times are different, so it's impossible for us to come back for the Spring Festival."

"Don't bother Professor Lin. I've asked around. Without German tutoring, the normal schedule is two years. However, this university's graduate program does not have a fixed number of years. The specific study time depends on how quickly you complete your studies and the semester schedule you choose."

"The academic year is divided into the winter semester (October to March of the following year) and the summer semester (April to September). Each semester is 10 weeks long, followed by exams. If you have enough credits and pass the exams, you can graduate."

"So are you going to continue to finish ahead of schedule?"

Zhu Xuefeng nodded, "I have this idea, but it depends on the specific situation. This school has a profound foundation and is leading the world in many areas of research. If possible, I would like to learn more. I feel like I'm losing out if I come back from such a long distance without learning a lot."

Xia Yuhong's face was full of complaints. "So you still want to study for two years before coming back, right? I will graduate here, and you will graduate too. Sigh, I didn't expect that you would fall behind so much in just a few years."

"We are family, why would we argue over this?" Lin Na whispered to comfort Xia Yuhong.

"I don't want to compete with him, but, Sister Na, why don't we also take the postgraduate entrance examination? We can't fall behind."

Lin Na seemed to be a little tempted, but Zhu Xuefeng quickly stopped her, saying that it would be a waste of time to graduate in 1964 or 1965 and then take the postgraduate entrance examination.

"You two should stick to the original plan. You can't always rely on Qianqian alone in Hong Kong. If you want to continue your studies, you can go directly to Hong Kong. Nothing will be affected. Once you are on the right track, if you feel you need to continue studying, I will firmly support you, but you should take it slow for the next few years.

"Let's not talk about this for now. What will happen to Xuesong and Xuemei if you're away for two years? If Xuesong passes the exam and gets admitted to Jinling, Xuemei will be left alone at home."

"We still have you guys. I think we can bring my second uncle's eldest son over when the time comes. He's younger than Xuemei and should be in the third grade after the summer vacation. I'll let him come and keep my little sister company. I just don't know if it's possible to transfer him from a school in the mountains to a school in the city. I have to ask someone first."

Lin Na and Xia Yuhong's exams haven't started yet, the second child's college entrance exam hasn't started yet, the younger sister just celebrated her birthday and is also preparing for the final exam. Only Zhu Xuefeng has nothing to do, so it's a good time to run. According to Professor Jiang, there will be a gathering soon, and the next gathering will be in mid-September. Zhu Xuefeng has more than two months of free time, the most relaxed time in the past few years. (End of this chapter)