The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 298 Love in the Courtyard!!

Grandma Zhang felt that her grandson was getting older and older.

When I was a kid, if I didn't pick up something when I went out, I would consider it lost. But now? I'm in a hurry to go to school early.

If I go too early, I will have to help others with their work? ? ! !
Zhang Shenfei had a very convincing argument for this:
"What do you know, old lady? It is true that local students can register on September 1st, but there will be so many people by then, how can the teachers remember and take care of everyone?
Besides, I am a working college student. If I go to school now, I don’t have to work at the steel mill and can still get paid for free…”

Why would he work when he can get a free salary? He is not crazy if he does not take advantage of the opportunity.

finished,

He began to direct the whole family to get busy, some to cook, some to help him clean up, and some to empty the urinal.

"You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll go to the factory to complete all the necessary procedures and then come back." After Zhang Shenfei said this, he stood up and prepared to slip away.

"Dafei, I'll go with you!" Zhang Shenliang followed closely behind.

The two brothers arrived at the door and smiled at each other.

Avoiding housework is a man's instinct! ! The nine great men are still working at home. After all, they are young, so they should learn from them! ! !

The two brothers rode their bicycles and leisurely came to the snack cooperative on Gulou East Street.

This place was jointly run by some small breakfast vendors in the Dongcheng District, including Li Youbing's family's pancake shop.

When they got there, Zhang Shenfei sat down, clapped his hands on the table and shouted, "Uncle Li, two fried dough cakes, two fried dough sticks, and two bowls of bean juice. And plenty of free pickles."

Zhang Shenliang imitated his brother and slammed the table: "Uncle Li, two fried cakes, two fried dough sticks and two bowls of bean juice. Free pickles, lots of them."

The brothers' actions attracted many people from the snack bar to watch.

In this era, eating out not only requires money, but also food coupons. How much money did your family have? How dare you eat like this? ? ?
Li Youbing's mother brought over a basket of oil cakes, dough sticks, and a plate of pickled vegetables. She couldn't help but complain, "Da Fei is such a frivolous person. How come you, Liangzi, have been infected by him?"

Zhang Shenliang smiled innocently: "Aunt, my brother is going to report to the university, shouldn't I be happy?"

As introverted as he is, he rarely acts so flamboyantly.

"Ah? Dafei got into college?" Li Youbing's mother was surprised, "Why didn't I know about that?"

Getting into college is a big deal! For the alley dweller Zhang Shenfei, it is a big deal among big deals!

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at his wife who was busy in front of the oil pan. The latter also shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't heard about it, no one told me."

Zhang Shenfei was immediately dissatisfied: "What's wrong with this Li Youbing? I have repeatedly emphasized to him, Fatty, and Four Eyes that they must get me into Yanjing University. The news has been spread to everyone in Nanluoguxiang.

He didn't even tell you and my uncle Li?"

No wonder when he went out just now, he felt that few people in the alley were pointing at him or paying attention to him.

It seems that these people didn’t do enough publicity!!! They were careless and failed to show off!!!
They are neighbors in the same area, and his son and Zhang Shenfei are childhood friends.

When Li Youbing's mother learned that Zhang Shenfei had been admitted to university, she was so happy that she not only gave him a free meal, but also made him a few oil cakes stuffed with eggs.

"Hey, will I ever have this good fortune again?" Zhang Shenfei raised his eyebrows.

Fried dough sticks stuffed with eggs are a delicacy from Li Youbing’s mother’s hometown. When she first married into the Li family, she sold them at a breakfast stall for a while.

But because it is troublesome and costly, and because the years have been bad and supplies are scarce, she has not used this skill for a long time.

When they heard that Li Youbing's mother was going to recreate the dish of stuffing oil pancakes with eggs, many onlookers immediately came over to see how the legendary delicacy was prepared.

But I saw Li Youbing's mother put a prepared oil cake into the pan and fry it until it was half cooked. After taking it out and letting it cool, she poured beaten egg liquid into it.

Then continue to fry it in the pan, while keeping your eyes on the right time to turn it over.

If you turn it over too early, the egg liquid will not solidify and will flow into the oil pan, and the egg-stuffed pancake will be a failure.

If you turn it over too late, the outside of the pancake will be fried black and taste bitter, and it will also be a failure.

Previously, there were snack stalls that tried to replicate Li’s fried pancakes stuffed with eggs, but they were all ruined at this step.

A perfect fried pancake stuffed with egg should be golden brown, with the egg just solidified, soft and tender but not oozy.

quickly,

With the skillful operation of Li Youbing's mother, four oil cakes stuffed with eggs were served out of the pan.

Zhang Shenfei took the plate with a smile: "Thank you Aunt Li, after eating your fried dough sticks and eggs, I will definitely get a perfect score in the exam!!"

"You kid, you have to study hard when you go to college, and don't cheat anymore. I heard that if you are caught cheating in college, you will be shot directly." Li Youbing's father Li Dabing threatened him.

Zhang Shenfei shrugged and smiled helplessly: "Uncle, I'm already 25, not five years old. Why are you still trying to coax me with the same tricks I used when I was a kid?"

Besides, you didn’t fool me at that time!!!

"Okay, I won't waste my time talking to you. I'm going to eat the delicious food my aunt made."

After saying this, he grabbed a cold fried dough stick, put it on his plate, and left.

After eating and drinking, seeing that the Li couple refused to take any money, Zhang Shenfei could only put the money and food coupons back into his pocket.

"Uncle Li, Aunt Li, see you later."

……

Arriving at the factory,
Zhang Shenfei went to go through the process of on-the-job training, while Zhang Shenliang went to ask for leave from the workshop director.

When my younger brother goes to college, shouldn’t I, as his elder brother, send him off in person?

He is now a level 6 fitter, which is considered a senior technician. He has a high status in the workshop and can easily take leave.

After finishing my work, I went to the bicycle shed to wait for my brother.

The news that canteen director Zhang Shenfei was admitted to Yenching University had spread throughout the entire steel mill like wildfire.

When they heard that he had returned to the factory to handle the procedures for on-the-job training, many female workers skipped work and waited in front of the office building.

"Will Director Zhang come back after finishing college???"

"Will he? If he doesn't come back, what's the point of me working in the steel mill???"

"I entered the steel mill because of him..."

"After all these years, Director Zhang is still as handsome as ever... Back then... I was ruined for life when I saw Zhang Shenfei."

"Why would a cadre like you go to college? Wouldn't you still be a cadre after you finish your studies? Isn't it redundant to fart without taking off your pants?"

"That's right, you've spent these four years with me, wouldn't it be nice to have a few more children?" This person didn't dare to say it out loud, he was thinking it in his heart.

"When he taught literacy classes, all the female workers in our factory went to listen..."

After Zhang Shenfei left the steel mill, the female workers in the factory found it most difficult to accept the fact.

Although after he married Tian Xiaozao, no one had the illusion of marrying him again, and no one gave him love letters anymore.

But being in the factory is always a thought, even if you can’t play with it, you can still watch it from afar.

Once you leave, it’s really gone.

Zhang Shenfei didn't know that the female workers in the factory were secretly sad.

After he completed the handover procedures at the Personnel Department, he went to say goodbye to Director Yang.

Lao Yang was reluctant to let go of the deputy director he had promoted himself, but he couldn't hinder others' progress, right? ?

In the end, we can only respect and wish him the best, and ask Zhang Shenfei to visit the factory more often when he has time.

"You proposed the collective housing project and supervised its implementation. It's just like your child. Come back and visit more often when you have time..." He thought for a moment and then said,

“After you graduate, even if you move on to a higher level, you must remember that the steel mill is always your home.”

Although Zhang Shenfei is studying on the job, who can guarantee whether he will be willing to come back after graduating from Yanjing University in four years?

Zhang Shenfei nodded: "Don't worry, leader. I am a descendant of the steel mill. My father dedicated his entire life to the steel mill. I was born and raised in the steel mill... This is my root."

Upon hearing this, Old Yang smiled happily, patted Zhang Shenfei on the shoulder and said that he was a man of loyalty and friendship.

Zhang Shenfei thought to himself that after graduation he would of course go back to the steel mill. After all, this was his base camp. When the wind started, it would of course be the safest place.

All procedures are completed.
Zhang Shenfei got on his brother's bicycle again, and the two brothers returned to the courtyard.

As soon as I walked in, I saw that the house was crowded with neighbors from the courtyard.

"Hey, Aunt Zhang, Uncle Yan, Uncle One, Uncle Two, Uncle Chen, Sister Qin, Sha Zhu, why are you all here???"

"I heard that you are going to register at the university today, so I came to see you off???"

"Da Fei, study hard in college. Our courtyard is relying on you to keep things going!!!"

"Now when I go out and brag about it, I can say that I know a college student!!!"

"I've noticed since you were little that you're different from other kids."

"Dafei is awesome for being able to get into college after graduating from junior high school!!!"

Zhang Shenfei greeted: "Well, it's just so-so. I just tried a little bit..."

Jia Dongxu looked at Zhang Shenfei, who was in high spirits and looked like the moon surrounded by stars, and suddenly felt sad.

"Why? When I was in school, my teacher always said that Zhang Shenfei was a bad person and was cunning and deceitful, while I was down-to-earth and honest in my studies... My teacher said that I was better than him in every way.

Why didn’t he become a deputy factory manager when he grew up, and now he is in college? How am I worse than him? "

Isn’t Zhang Shenfei good at writing novels? I’m not bad at writing either!!!

No newspaper is willing to publish my masterpiece, that’s because they are like wild boars that can’t eat fine bran!!! They can’t appreciate my masterpiece!!!
The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. Jia Dongxu looked at his mother, Jia Zhangshi, and leaned over to whisper, "Mom, I'm going to take the college entrance exam from now on. Please give me some money so I can buy review materials."

Jia Zhang rolled her eyes and shouted, "Dongxu, you are almost thirty years old, how come you still can't see yourself clearly?

You are the kind of person who eats everything and does nothing.

Stay at home and be a househusband, take good care of Bang Geng, Xiao Dang and your brother. What kind of university are you going to apply to? Do you look like someone who can apply to a university? "

Jia Zhang finished speaking.
He pushed his son and others aside, squeezed next to Zhang Shenfei, and handed over the two pairs of cloth shoes in his hand:
"Da Fei, you will be a college student in the future, so I don't have anything good to give you. These two pairs of shoes were made by me after get off work, so you can keep them."

"Thank you, Auntie. Needless to say, the shoes you make are very comfortable to wear." Zhang Shenfei took the two pairs of shoes and stuffed them into his luggage.

Jia Zhang smiled and said, "Just wear it if you like. If you like it, I'll make it for you in the future. You're the best, unlike Dongxu, who always dislikes the shoes I make!"

I am so happy to be praised by college students for my well-made shoes!!

Seeing his own mother trying to curry favor with Zhang Shenfei and even stepping on himself to praise the other party, Jia Dongxu felt suffocated in his chest.

Okay,

At first, only my peers in the courtyard looked down on me, but now even my own mother looks down on me! !

He made the shoes not for himself but for Zhang Shenfei.

Don't bully the poor young people!!

I must study hard, become something good, and get into college to make you regret it!!
Jia Dongxu wiped away his tears, walked out of Old Zhang's house step by step, and went to the central courtyard.

Xu Damao watched the fun from the side, and after watching it, he nudged Shazhu with his elbow: "Hey, Shazhu, what do you think about me taking the college entrance exam next year?"

Sha Zhu sneered: "With your silly brain, you want to go to college?? Go and dream on!!"

"Fuck, why do I have a head full of loofah? I am also a cadre now!!"

"What a shitty cadre, just a level 26 clerk...

You are said to be fat and you are out of breath. Pat your conscience and ask yourself, if it weren't for Brother Dafei's help, would you have been able to become an official? ? "Sha Zhu directly exposed his past.

Xu Damao was completely speechless. This was the bad thing about living in a courtyard house.

Your neighbors know whether your ancestors were tailors or cooks, and they also know how old you were since you wet the bed as a child. You can't pretend to be cool.

Sha Zhu continued, "What's so good about going to college?

If you ask me, the best job in the world is to be a cook. Look at me, I am already a chef in a steel mill at such a young age, earning 32 yuan a month...

We have two large houses in our family. There are not many people like me in the whole city.

If you ask me, just enjoy your life, why bother going to university? "

Well, it’s impossible to explain it clearly to this short-sighted guy, so Xu Damao stopped talking nonsense with Sha Zhu.

She squeezed next to Zhang Shenfei and handed him a pen: "Brother Dafei, I wish you great success in your new school. Take this pen, which is a gift for you."

"Thank you, Brother Damao." Zhang Shenfei took the pen and put it in his chest pocket.

There were already three pens there, given by Xu Huizhen, Elena, and Chen Xueru.

Including the one by Xu Damao, there are now four.

Hey, this really is a pen seller.

In addition to Jia Zhang and Xu Damao, other families in the courtyard also expressed their views.

The first uncle gave five dollars, the second uncle gave five dollars, uncle Chen gave ten cents, and uncle Yan gave ten cents.

But the Yan family has their own currency, and one dime is roughly equivalent to one dollar from other families, which is not a small amount! !

Everyone's ideas are also very simple.

Zhang Shenfei is the first college student in Siheyuan, not to mention he is also the deputy director of the steel mill.
With this configuration, when he comes back from college, won’t he just kill Director Yang? ? ?

If I don't take this opportunity to express my feelings now, how can I maintain my relationship with the Zhang family in the future? How can I talk to Zhang Shenfei when I encounter difficulties? ? ?
Even the deaf old lady gave Zhang Shenfei half a pound of meat coupons so that he could go to university and improve his life.

"I heard that college students have to work hard on their brains by doing homework every day, so they need to eat more meat to supplement their energy."

She handed the ticket to Zhang Shenfei tremblingly and said weakly.

It's not that I'm really that weak, it's just that giving gifts like this makes me appear particularly sincere.

Zhang Shenfei accepted all the gifts and said politely, "Thank you, thank you everyone. Today I have realized what it means that a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor."

I am just a student at university, but so many neighbors have shown their love and care for me. This is truly a place filled with love!!”

"Da Fei said it well! Our courtyard house is a humane courtyard house!" Yi Zhonghai said.

"Yeah!!"

"Yes Yes Yes!!"

"That's right, that's right!!"

The other residents also followed suit, not revealing any ulterior motives in their delivery.

Grandma Zhang is illiterate. She watched everyone give gifts to her grandson and silently remembered what each family gave.

This is how human relationships work, there has to be give and take.

Everyone should remember the money they give today. If someone in the other family is admitted to university in the future, the money must be returned.

……

Farewell to the people in the courtyard,
Zhang Shenfei rode on a bicycle driven by his elder brother Zhang Shenliang and soon arrived at the gate of Yenching University.

Perhaps because it has not been maintained for a long time, the facade of Yenching University looks a bit shabby and not grand.

But maybe I have had a natural filter for this school in my heart since I was a child.

In Zhang Shenfei's eyes, the dilapidated gate also carried an unspeakable heavy historical atmosphere.

Today is the first day for out-of-town students to report, and perhaps because of this, there are not many people at the school gate.

When the Zhang brothers rode their bicycles to the door, they were stopped by the doorman.

Zhang Shenfei took out the admission letter from his pocket and handed it over. The old man squinted his eyes and looked at the letter for a long time, then looked at him:

"Are you a local student from Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng District? Aren't you supposed to report on September 1st? Why are you here today?"

Zhang Shenfei smiled cheerfully and scratched his head: "It's the start of a new semester and there are many things to do in school.

I don’t have anything to do at home, so don’t I want to come here early to help the teacher share some of the work within my ability? ? ? ? ?

The work of welcoming new students is tedious and busy. If I do more, the teachers can do less..."

The old man nodded, very pleased: “I have been a doorman at Yenching University for my entire life, and this is the first time I have met a student as understanding and considerate as you.

Okay, the sun is very hot outside, hurry up and take your father in to report."

Dad?? Dad!!
Although a rough man doesn't care about age, it's not okay to be treated as a younger brother's father! !

Zhang Shenliang was extremely angry: "I am his brother! Brother!!!"

"Brother?" The doorman laughed awkwardly, "You look very anxious."

Zhang Shenliang: "..."

Zhang Shenfei: “Haha!!”

After the little interlude,
Zhang Shenfei took the admission letter and walked into the campus shoulder to shoulder with the older brother who was pushing a bicycle.

After making sure he was out of the old man's hearing range, Zhang Shenliang looked at his brother and asked, "You came so early, are you really here to help the teacher?"

This is voluntary labor, there is no salary, and the work of welcoming new students is tiring.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. How could his own brother be doing a losing business?
Zhang Shenfei chuckled and kept the secret: "Brother, what do you think Yenching University is?"

"What place??? It's a university." Zhang Shenliang felt that his expression was not comprehensive, and added, "It's the best university in our country."

In his mind, Yenching University is second to none in the country. No other university dares to claim to be first! !

"Yes, it is the best university in the country. The teachers and students here are the elites in the country...

Although the school has just started, it is foreseeable that after graduation, these people will become the elites of society. "

The college students born in 1958 were only in their forties when the reform and opening up began.

People in their forties are the most glorious middle age of a person. These people have taken advantage of the favorable conditions of the times, and almost everyone can let go and do something great.

Establishing good relationships with these people will definitely bring huge benefits when the time comes for reform and opening up.

Zhang Shenfei raised another question: "Brother, how can we make the teachers and classmates of Yenching University remember a person as quickly as possible?"

Yenching University is not a primary school or junior high school.

There are a large number of professors, associate professors, and students from various departments and majors here, and they are all elites from all over the world.

It takes skills to quickly filter out the people who are useful to you, get familiar with them, and even make friends with them.

Zhang Shenliang had never thought about these things before, and was stumped by his brother's questions for a moment.

Finally, he could only look to his brother for help: "I don't know, Dafei, come and tell me."

Zhang Shenfei winked at him and smiled mischievously: Do you really want to know?
Zhang Shenliang: "I really want to know..."

"Then give me ten dollars," Zhang Shenfei put his hand under his brother's nose with his palm facing up.

Zhang Shenliang's pupils suddenly shrank: "How can I have money? You know your sister-in-law's temper... How dare I hide my private money?"

Yo yo yo, still pretending! !

Zhang Shenfei grinned through his back teeth and said, "Don't pretend. You were assembling ore machines for someone in the factory, and you reported two fewer machines to my sister-in-law. Do you think I don't know?"

A man, a married man at that, started to secretly save up some money, even a huge sum of twenty dollars!!

What does this mean???

Zhang Shenfei felt that his elder brother's behavior should be condemned and punished.

So asking him for these ten dollars is like doing justice for the heavens!!

He extorted with a righteous sense of justice and felt no guilt at all.

Zhang Shenliang was blackmailed by his brother for ten yuan. He gave the money aggrievedly and began to ask:
"I've given you the money. Now you should tell me how to make everyone remember you quickly, right?"

(End of this chapter)