No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

Chapter 789: The Right Time and Place
Ou Mengmeng waited for Jingru to come back for her problem. She raised the problem, and they solved the other problems themselves.

She really didn't care whether she had her own children or not. However, in this era of having many children, if they didn't have children, I'm afraid their future would be difficult. What's more, one of them was a cadre in the Cultural Bureau, and the other was an elementary school teacher. They were a very well-off family. With such good conditions, they didn't have children, which was what everyone focused on. They could be childless, but could they bear the gazes of the people around them?
So these are all things to consider. If you rush into marriage without thinking, you will regret it so much that you won’t be able to buy medicine.

After about half a year, Jingru didn't mention it again. And Ou Mengmeng was busy every day and thought she had forgotten about it.

Ou Mengmeng was actually quite special in school. First of all, she was transferred in, not assigned. She studied in college while working, which was different from the correspondence courses in later generations. They called it the night school of the university. They recruited as many students who wanted to learn and could learn as possible.

As for the Metallurgical Department, she had been in the technician class before, so she combined the professional and cultural aspects. Although the technicians below had a low level of education, she was able to convince them. The old professor felt that he could not do this. Otherwise, he would not have examined her for two or three years, and after going through layers of approval, he would not have transferred her to the college until she got her diploma.

You have to know that their college was rated as a national key university in 1960. It is incredible that a primary school teacher was transferred to a university. Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that the Education Bureau gave her a higher teaching qualification. In the file, she voluntarily requested to teach in primary school, but she had a high school teaching qualification. In this way, after she graduated from university with excellent grades, she was transferred to the university in the name of work transfer.

At this time, the university was actually a little entangled. In July, the leader talked to his nephew at a certain university and believed that college students should go to the countryside and factories to participate in the masses. This also represented a trend. In 58, there was a period of recommendation for admission, which made the level of students uneven. At this time, "Qin Huairu" was born.

I was born in a poor peasant family and married into an industrial worker's family. My father-in-law and husband both died in the workplace. I am a self-taught person in the new era. Although I had a bad relationship with my ex-mother-in-law before, which slightly affected my reputation, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has eased now. Moreover, she has been a women's team leader in the countryside. In all aspects, she is simply a perfect representative of the new era.

So as soon as she entered the school, she was asked to prepare for the postgraduate examination. At this time, it was a combination of recommendation and examination, but the best candidates were still admitted. Ou Mengmeng didn't think too much about it. She was going to study her major after entering the school. After all, she was so competitive, and she couldn't let herself fall behind. Including professional English, she started to learn by herself. Fortunately, as soon as she arrived at this age, she started to pick up her previous English. When she arrived at the university, the information in the school library was very complete. When she didn't have classes, she would spend all her time in the library.

The history of graduate student recruitment and training in China in the new era has also been full of twists and turns, but Ou Mengmeng is still lucky. In January 63, the country issued a draft for graduate student recruitment and training. The three years from 1 to 63 were the most systematic and rigorous era for graduate student recruitment before the country established the first degree system in 65.

At that time, the admissions work required quality assurance, and it was better to have a shortage than to have unqualified students. In terms of training work, specific and clear requirements were put forward for training objectives, training requirements, training methods, and selection of tutors. The "Regulations" stipulate that graduate students must have a deep understanding of the basic theories, specialized knowledge and basic skills of the major, be familiar with the main scientific development trends of the major, master two foreign languages, and have the ability to independently conduct scientific research and corresponding teaching work.

In 1963, there were only more than 4,000 graduate students enrolled nationwide. Each school and research institute had only 10 to 20 students. If we further divide them into majors, there might be only one person in a major.

From this, we can see that at that time, the country emphasized quick learning for basics, but starting from high school, the country adopted a streaming system, with high school students taking the college entrance examination, and college students going to graduate school. It was no longer a matter of thousands of people crossing a single-plank bridge. It was more difficult!
In 64, after a year of trial and error, the recruitment process became more relaxed and standardized. The Iron and Steel Institute only recruited four people, including Ou Mengmeng. Ou Mengmeng was the only one in the Metallurgical Department. However, Ou Mengmeng was a working student, and her study period was four years. She looked at it with her fingers, feeling a little helpless. Could she study for four years? Forget it, since she was here, she might as well make the best of it!
However, her learning this has greatly promoted the children, which has created an illusion in Banggeng and his friends that the higher their mother's education, the higher her salary. This is very intuitive, so Banggeng and Xiaodang, who love making money, are fine in other aspects, but they are very self-conscious in studying. They look at scores as if they were small amounts of money, full of love, which makes Ou Mengmeng wonder if there is something wrong with her education and whether these two children can be taught well.

Ou Mengmeng still works and studies step by step. One good thing about being a postgraduate student at a university is that she can study while working. Her English was originally good. After all, she has been using it for almost her whole life. Even if she has been in the Red Mansion for a few years, it is like learning to ride a bicycle. She will not forget it just by not using it. Her focus is on professional English. But postgraduate students need two foreign languages. At the suggestion of her tutor, she began to learn French. In the tutor's opinion, English and German are both Germanic languages, with the same origin. Of course, German is more rigorous, which means that it is more difficult to learn because of the similarities. French is a Latin language. Mastering French is a kind of glimpse into another language.

She didn't care about this. She really didn't feel any pressure in studying this. However, she was still very careful. She would not study in the compound, and would not even bring foreign language materials home. She would honestly memorize dictionaries in the school library every day, and then study professional papers. For those who have mastered the learning method, learning is not a problem at any time.

After the leaders talked to my nephew, all colleges and universities, whether teachers or students, had to go to the countryside and factories from time to time. Fortunately, they were from the Iron and Steel Institute, so the professor took them directly to the factory. This was the right time, right place, and right people for Ou Mengmeng.

She was familiar with the factory leadership and the technical aspects. She was like a duck in water when she entered the factory to study. The professor had always wanted to do experiments. Many experimental machines were in universities, but that was not wrong, but there was still a certain deviation in the degree of integration with production. Ou Mengmeng suggested setting up a laboratory in the steel plant and bringing the machines to the steel plant. In this way, while doing experiments, she could learn from the workers and masters, and she could immediately apply the results of the experiments to actual work, realizing a zero-distance situation in scientific research. She knew that the professor's equipment was imported from Germany, and there was only one in China, so it was safer to keep it in the factory.

Today I was home alone and ate bread in the evening.