Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 8 Dad
After the buddies left, Zhou Zhi began to proofread his article for the last time.

Contributing articles in the previous life was just a temporary game, but now it has become more serious, and the article has changed from one article to two.

The trial will be over soon, and now they are going to be voted out.

After explaining to grandma, Zhou Zhi went out.

The small county town in [-] is already full of vitality. The former stone roads have all been replaced with concrete roads. Although the urban area has not expanded yet, buildings are being repaired everywhere in the city.

The small county is sandwiched between the inlets of the Hongshui River and the Yangtze River. The Hongshui River twists and turns from the Anle Mountain in the southwest, and finally flows into the Yangtze River, forming a triangle.

At the junction of the two rivers, there is a large rocky beach with a whole piece of sand and gravel as the main body. When the flood floods every year, the rocky beach will be submerged. The flood will wash out various ditches and openings on the rocky beach. In the water, there will be water worms, tadpoles, small fish and shrimps, and a kind of aquatic beetle called "water turtle". It is a place where children in the county like to play.

There are roughly three roads in the county. One is the old stone road in Chengguan Town that has been used since ancient times, along the wooden buildings and small brick buildings along the river, from Chishui River Wharf to Zaoling Bridge.

That road is Zhou Zhi's favorite memory of the old city. The two sides of the street are quaint and quiet.

Except for a few blue-brick buildings, the rest are separated by wooden boards. When the door panels facing the street are removed in the morning, there are small shops, small restaurants, and small teahouses one by one.

Every time a section passes, there will be a big banyan tree or an old sweet-scented osmanthus tree by the side of the road, surrounded by stone railings, and it is also a place for residents to rest and chat. Or put the vegetable pick in front.

There are also some small courtyards located on that road. Those were the mansions of rich people in the past, and they were distributed to several families later.

Many of those small courtyards are very exquisite, with carved windows, carved stone foundations, painted pillars and carved beams, and there is a large stone water tank in some patios.

On the side of the water tank, there are many curved depressions, all of which were made by people who lived in the small courtyard and used the water tank as a whetstone for decades.

Later, with the development of the small town, another road was built behind the wooden buildings on the side of the road away from the Yangtze River. Larger settlements formed on both sides of the road, and Chengguan Town became Jiachuan County.

That road was first made of stone and later made of cement.

The main road was built from the Chishui River wharf all the way to the Zaoling Bridge. In the middle of the main road, next to the former industrial and commercial bureau site, a road leading to the south was built to connect the bus station and the ferry terminal.

That section of road is called the New Highway, and it is the hub connecting Jiachuan County's water and land routes.

Yang and his family are in Baimi Township on the opposite bank, and every time he goes home, he has to take a ferry on the new highway.

Later, the new highway continued southward, and finally arrived at Egong Mountain on the outskirts of the city, and then wrapped around the county town, connecting the Chishui River wharf with the new highway wharf again, forming a loop.

Taking this ring line as a distinction, from the Chishui River wharf to the new highway wharf, the urban construction within the ring line is changing with each passing day, forming a relatively modern new city.

However, the section from the new highway to Zaoling Bridge still maintains the original simple style, which appears to be declining and dilapidated.

Jiachuan people use the flow direction of the Yangtze River as a distinction, and call the new city section Xiaguan Town, and the upstream section Shangguan Town. In fact, in the real administrative division, Shangguan and Xiaguan are both a district, Chengguan District.

The post office that Zhou Zhi was going to was just across from the old site of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of the New Highway.

Speaking of it, it feels like the place is a big one, but in fact, according to normal walking speed, it only takes more than ten minutes.

Therefore, Jiachuan County is now a small sparrow with all internal organs. Speaking of the actual core area, it is not as large as a large-scale university.

There are no taxis in the county yet, so Zhou Zhi raised his hand and hailed a three-wheeled taxi before his wound recovered.

I heard that Master Sanlun was a little strange when he went to the post office. How lazy is this kid?
It only took a few minutes and one yuan, and Zhou Zhi arrived at the gate of the post office.

The two articles are also quite thick. I asked the staff at the post office, bought a large envelope from the staff, and bought urgently needed stamps. I wrote the address on the counter, pasted the stamps with paste, and sealed them. The envelope was thrown into the big green mail box next to it.

When he came out of the post office, it was almost the time when the office closed. Zhou Zhi saw a few people in industrial and commercial uniforms, accompanied by his father in a woolen coat, coming out of the old Industrial and Commercial Bureau, now the Chengguan Town Industrial and Commercial Office.

Zhou Zhi waved to that side, and Liu Changzheng, the director, noticed this side and reminded Dad.

Dad hastily explained a few words to Liu Changzheng, and walked over with a big leather bag under his arm: "Zhou Zhi, why are you here? Didn't your Uncle Xinhua let you rest at home?"

"Uncle Xinhua also said to move around more to avoid intestinal adhesions, so I went out for a walk."

The current father is really in the prime of life, with thick black hair on his head, and a refined temperament on his body.

Dad was still wearing a Chinese tunic suit, with a pen pinned to his breast pocket, and a long woolen overcoat.

The material for the coat was sent by my cousin who worked in the Yuzhou Wool Mill. At that time, there was a shortage of color TVs in Yuzhou. I found my father here. My father got him a ticket for a 21-inch panda color TV in the county. My cousin was very happy. Xingdi took a boat from Yuzhou to move the color TV, and sent a lot of woolen cloth from the factory by the way.

My cousin is a worker in a woolen mill and a tailor in his spare time. It was several years ago that he taught Madam Zhao how to make suits.

The woolen coat on Dad's body was still Mrs. Zhao's handicraft back then, with a suit collar, and now it looks very fit and handsome.

Dad looked Zhou Zhi up and down, and then said, "That's it, then let's call Sanlun back."

"Ah."

The father and son went on three rounds, and the father said: "It's convenient now, do you know my pager number?"

"do not know."

"Then remember it." The father reported a few numbers: "Remember to remind your mother to call me in time when you encounter such things in the future."

Pagers in this era are still a novelty. Only the bureau level and above are equipped in the county, and they are still digital, so there are more than 1000 ones.

Zhou Zhi in his previous life was still a heartless guy at this time, but now he secretly sighed. It seems that this career crisis has actually dealt a big blow to his father.

Dad didn't tell Zhou Zhi the number of the pager before, because he thought it was assigned to him for work and had nothing to do with the family's private affairs.

This is actually better now, which shows that Dad's thinking has begun to change, and he is somewhat "transparent".

But Zhou Zhi couldn't comfort him, he just repeated the pager number: "Well, I remember."

"Just remember it." Dad started to care about Zhou Zhi's surgery again: "Is the wound okay? Did it hurt at the time?"

"It doesn't hurt. I fell asleep on the operating table. I was woken up after the operation, and then I continued to sleep on the hospital bed."

"That's okay." Dad nodded: "But after all, I have delayed my studies for a few days, so I still have to make up for it."

Zhou Zhi looked at his father in surprise, this... this...

"I know you have emotions about your mother's decision." Dad explained patiently: "But after all, the times are different. What the country needs more urgently now are construction talents with science and engineering backgrounds and research talents."

"Of course, this is not to say that you are going to sing high-profile things." Dad said: "It is to show your employment direction in the next few years. Taking science will obviously have a broader future than liberal arts."

"Besides, your science is not bad. If you work hard, there is nothing wrong with it. Originally, I wanted to wait for your final exam to see if your grades fluctuate before telling you this. Now... I can't grasp the situation. .”

"Dad, actually... you want me to study liberal arts in your heart, right?"

Dad was stunned for a moment, his bastard was stabbed, why did he seem to have a change of mind?

"When you were young, you cultivated my hobbies. You asked me to learn Chinese studies and calligraphy from my fourth cousin, and let my godfather guide me..." Zhou Zhi asked, "Actually, in your heart, you want me to study liberal arts, right? "

"But after studying liberal arts, it's really hard to find a job... It's hard to get into the public security system, so there's only the education system, what else?"

"What is the teacher's salary now in arrears?"

Feeling that what I said was inappropriate, my father quickly explained: "You couldn't remember the last time you took the political exam. Dad gave you a half-day make-up class and you could get [-]. What does that mean?"

"Doesn't this mean that I'm smart and can learn arts and science quickly?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"You are wrong." Dad shook his head: "This just shows the replaceability of liberal arts."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't think that you are smart." Dad continued to speak earnestly: "If you choose liberal arts, even if you enter university, what you have learned in four years may be the same as when you took politics. Catch up and go beyond."

"This is not good for your future. Unless you can further your professional studies to a certain level, the level that cannot be replaced."

"That has to be a master's degree."

"But science is different. National construction requires science talents at all levels."

"It goes up to the research of supercomputers and colliders; it goes down to the factory to make bicycles, and the county builds roads and builds houses...everywhere is needed and used everywhere."

"Even if you don't reach a high professional level, you can still find a job that suits you."

"This is called the demand gap. The gap in liberal arts is very narrow, while the gap in science is very wide."

"Then what if I become irreplaceable as you said, dad?"

"Son, you are a bit ambitious." Dad was very patient: "We still have to proceed from reality, from our own achievements, and consider it comprehensively."

"Your scores in Chinese are not bad now, and the rest can only be regarded as upper-middle class, which is almost nowhere near a bachelor's degree."

"We don't care about the language and mathematics that are required to be tested. Your political, history, geography, and science students' scores are still very average."

"That is to say, with your current grades, it doesn't matter whether you take liberal arts or science."

"However, considering the future employment gap, if you don't have any partiality at this stage, choosing science will undoubtedly be more beneficial to your future employment."

(End of this chapter)