1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 185: Overcrowded, this is the influence of Cheng Xuemin (seeking full order)
After showing up at the office and checking in, Cheng Xuemin didn't stay long and went to the library to find Chen Shumin.

When he was told that his mother-in-law's magazine October might reprint My Years in the Corps, Chen Shumin was overjoyed and said it was a good thing and he would definitely agree to it.

Ok!

Since the editor-in-chief Chen Shumin had made the decision, Cheng Xuemin went back home in the evening and reported back to his mother-in-law.

As for the issue of reprinting royalties, Cheng Xuemin did not mention it to Chen Shumin in advance.

The main thing is that it is not clear which manuscript will be published by his mother-in-law. Even if it is published in "My Years in the Corps", it depends on whether it is a reprint or a first release.

The royalties are not yet certain, so Cheng Xuemin didn't mention it first.

I thought it wouldn’t be too late to talk to Chen Shumin after my mother-in-law confirmed it and the manuscript fee was approved.

After saying hello to Chen Shumin, Cheng Xuemin went to Yanda High School.

He has not shown up at the Affiliated High School since the winter break after the final exams at the beginning of the year. He came here today because his household registration issue has been resolved and he has to hand in all the documents to the school so that we can help him register for the reference during the centralized registration for the college entrance examination.

"Eh?! Cheng Xuemin, you are a rare guest at the Gaikao Pioneer! How come you have time to come back and see us?"

"Yes, Cheng Xuemin, I heard from your sister-in-law that you were specially hired as a teacher by Yanda University?"

"Oh my goodness, now that you've become a teacher at Yanda University, Cheng Xuemin, you shouldn't have to take the college entrance examination, right? Are you coming here today to say goodbye to us?"

"That's for sure! His deskmate Ge You also dropped out of school. He was said to have been specially recruited by the art troupe!"

It was a rare occasion for Cheng Xuemin to return to the repeat class, which immediately caused exclamations from his classmates, who all gathered around him to ask questions.

Obviously, his sister-in-law is at the affiliated high school, and she must have rushed to the school to expose the news about her brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin as soon as possible.

So all the students in the class knew about it and there was no fuss.

As for Lao Ge dropping out of school, Cheng Xuemin was not surprised.

Because after the New Year, when the art troupe began to recruit educated youth who had returned to the city, Ge You made a special trip home and invited Cheng Xuemin to the art troupe to watch his interview and to cheer him up.

Unfortunately, Cheng Xuemin was on his way back to Beijing from northern Shaanxi at that time and did not make it.

Later, Ge You successfully passed the entrance exam to the art troupe with his skit "Raising Pigs". Before the special training for school entrance, he came to my house, said hello and had a simple meal.

After that, Ge You joined the art troupe and had little time to come here.

As for the repeater class, he has even dropped out of school.

Facing the heated discussions of his classmates, Cheng Xuemin responded modestly. Soon, the head teacher, Lao Zhang, heard the noise and rushed into the classroom, shouting at the messy class: "What's going on? Don't we have to go to class anymore?"

In response to Lao Zhang's roar, everyone rushed back to their seats. The classroom, which was noisy just now, became quiet in an instant.

"Xuemin... come out with me first!"

After that, Lao Zhang controlled his excitement and motioned Cheng Xuemin to go out with him.

"Teacher Zhang..." Cheng Xuemin followed up angrily and was about to say hello to Mr. Zhang.

"You are really awesome!"

"During the Chinese New Year, I became the pioneer of the reform and opening up without saying anything. Do you know that during this period, the phone in Lao Wan's office was almost blown up by calls?"

"We were all looking for you, but you didn't even bring him back to see us. Do you really want to drive us crazy?"

"Didn't your sister-in-law tell us the message?"

When seeing his most proud student, Lao Zhang really didn't know what to say about him.

Before, Cheng Xuemin's sister-in-law, who is also a graduate of their school, was asked to take a message back to her brother-in-law, hoping that her brother-in-law would come to the school as soon as possible to show his face.

But now, school has been started for almost half a month here, and this guy only came today.

"Yes, yes! It's just that Teacher Zhang is... busy!"

Cheng Xuemin was too embarrassed to reply, saying that his sister-in-law did send a message asking him to come to the school.

However, Cheng Xuemin didn't know whether he was really busy or pretending to be busy, so he never came here, even though this place is only a few steps away from his home.

"Yes, yes, you are a pioneer of reform and opening up. Xuemin, you are really a busy man now!" Old Zhang took over the conversation without much doubt. After all, the phone in the office of their school principal, Old Wan, was almost blown up, not to mention Cheng Xuemin himself.

Then he asked, "Why? I heard that you, Xuemin, have been hired by Yanda University as a special lecturer in the Chinese Department?"

"There's an open class this afternoon, right?"

"Teacher Zhang, you know this too?!" Cheng Xuemin was speechless. Wasn't it just a trial class arranged within their Chinese department? How come it seemed as if all the students and teachers in Yenching knew about it?

“How could I not know?!”

Old Zhang rolled his eyes and said, "Xuemin, do you know that because of your class this afternoon, so many of our students are ready to skip classes just to attend your class?"

"Especially your sisters-in-law Feng Jiamo and Zhu Shan!"

"So Lao Wan is considering it and decided to take this afternoon off so that everyone can join in the fun. It's close to us anyway!"

"It's a good opportunity for the students to experience the study atmosphere at Yanda University and inspire them to be determined to enter Yanda University!"

Just because of a class at Yanda University, their affiliated high school simply gave up the holiday and all the students went to audit the class. This is really something.

"Teacher Zhang, there's no need to be so exaggerated. Principal Wan is going to specially give us a holiday?"

Cheng Xuemin was dumbfounded again!
Is it really necessary to mobilize the whole school to attend his trial lecture?
"It's time to take a break! I think we should take this break! It will also allow all the students to see that you are the pioneer of reform and opening up who came out of our affiliated high school, Yanda teacher!"

"It's a good opportunity for the students to come over and see you, the pioneer of reform and opening up, at the podium!"

Lao Zhang nodded seriously and emphasized that he would also go to listen to his student's class in the afternoon.

Cheng Xuemin, who was not very nervous to begin with, now started to get really nervous.

Do you feel that he is not well prepared for his lessons?
"Xuemin, what are you doing?!"

After Cheng Xuemin explained the purpose of his return, he handed the sorted household registration materials to Lao Zhang.

But I saw Lao Zhang just flipping through it, frowning and asking in confusion.

"Teacher Zhang, my household registration has been settled now. Please help me submit it and register for the college entrance examination!"

Cheng Xuemin followed and explained to Lao Zhang.

"Ah?! Xuemin, you are already a specially-appointed lecturer at Yanda University, and you are still taking the college entrance examination this year?"

This time, Lao Zhang was really shocked!

Originally, in the eyes of Old Zhang and Principal Wan, their most proud student, the seedling of the top scorer in this year's college entrance examination, had been directly hired as a specially-appointed lecturer by the Yanda headquarters without any moral principles. They had directly snatched away the seedling of the top scorer in the college entrance examination of their affiliated high school.

Thinking that this student has become a teacher, and a teacher at Yanda University, how could he possibly take part in this year's college entrance examination? Which university should he go to?

So when Cheng Xuemin came over today, Lao Zhang tried his best to restrain himself and not ask questions about this topic.

Seeing the top scorer in the college entrance examination just running away, Lao Zhang and the others were in tears. But people always go to high places and water flows to low places. This is a good thing for Cheng Xuemin himself.

So think about it, he must be proud of his student, and when the student says goodbye to him as a teacher, he can encourage him and wish him a bright future.

But who knows!

Cheng Xuemin, a potential top scorer in the college entrance examination, now tells his father Zhang that he still wants to register and take part in this year's college entrance examination.

This, this, this... really left Lao Zhang stunned and puzzled. He had no idea what his student was doing.

Now that I have become a distinguished lecturer at Yanda University, do I still have to take the college entrance examination to go to university?

How do I get on this?
Could it be? !
Thinking of this possibility, Lao Zhang did not wait for Cheng Xuemin to explain and asked quickly: "Xuemin, you are not going to resign from the special recruitment of Yanda University just like you resigned from the special recruitment of Huaqing University, right?"

Only by resigning from his position as Yanda's special appointment can we explain why Cheng Xuemin still wants to take the exam this year.

"No, no, Mr. Zhang, I have not resigned from the Yanda special appointment, and I will continue to take the college entrance examination this year!"

"This is what Yanda has considered and arranged for me..."

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Xuemin explained the arrangements made by Yenching University to Lao Zhang again.

After all!
Yanda wanted to get a special lecturer position to truly tie down Cheng Xuemin, the "pioneer of reform and opening up," and confirm the rumor that the pioneer of reform and opening up was a Yanda person.

As for the arrangement of daily lectures, it is completely arbitrary. The most important thing is to focus on the students' own studies first.

Since we are all in the same campus, as long as we make reasonable arrangements, we can go to school and teach at the same time.

After hearing this explanation, Mr. Zhang was of course overjoyed!
I thought all the top scorers in the college entrance examination had been able to fly away, and now they have flown back directly. How can I not be excited?
As he said this, he wanted to take Cheng Xuemin to Lao Wan's office to tell Lao Wan the good news.

However, Cheng Xuemin declined the offer because he knew that their principal, Wan, was a talkative person.

If I go into his office, I don't know how long I'll be able to talk to him. Cheng Xuemin has an open class in the afternoon, and I know that the affiliated high school will have a holiday to attend the class, so I have to go back quickly and make some preparations.

In response to this, Lao Zhang nodded and said that lesson preparation was important, and asked Cheng Xuemin to go back and prepare quickly, and they would go over in the afternoon to listen to the class and talk.

When Cheng Xuemin picked up Feng Jiayou for lunch at noon, he mentioned this to her.

"No way?"

"Xuemin, are you so popular now? Even students from Huaqing Normal University and Renmin University want to come and listen to your class?"

"Also, all the teachers and students at your affiliated high school are on holiday this afternoon. Are they all going to come and attend the class?"

“Can we have enough seats in our classroom?”

Feng Jiayou was dumbfounded when she heard this. Although she knew that her old man's class this afternoon would definitely attract many students from other departments of Yan University to come and listen to the class.

But I never expected that now even students from other schools are attracted here.

The situation at Cheng Xuemin’s affiliated high school was even more exaggerated. The entire school was given a holiday and everyone came here to attend classes. Is this true?
Now Feng Jiayou is worried. Can their small classroom at Yan University accommodate so many students?
“There’s really no room to sit down!”

Cheng Xuemin nodded miserably. If so many students from other schools really came, their classroom would definitely not be able to accommodate them all.

But this has nothing to do with Cheng Xuemin. Whether you can squeeze in depends on your own ability.

If it doesn't work, just squeeze outside in the corridor and listen.

"Sister, brother-in-law, our high school is on holiday this afternoon, and Lao Wan has called on all of us to go support brother-in-law and listen to his class!"

My sister-in-law Feng Jiamo, who had just entered the house and had returned a step ahead, shouted excitedly, "Don't be too excited."

Following beside her was a little follower, her deskmate Zhu Shan.

Speaking of Zhu Shan, I have to mention one more thing. Cheng Xuemin ran a home class for his sister-in-law and sister, and another one was inserted in the middle!
It’s my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo and her childhood best friend and classmate, Zhu Shan.

The reason is that now Yanda High School is closer to home, so my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo has basically become a day student. Now she even comes back to eat lunch like her sister.

At noon, I stayed at home to help my second sister-in-law and older sister with new knowledge they learned at school.

One day at noon, she also brought back her deskmate Zhu Shan, and instantly this little follower, the sister of the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, discovered a new world.

I don’t know what this little girl is thinking. Now she follows me here almost every day at noon, eating, drinking and attending classes for free.

This really made Feng Jiayou and Cheng Xuemin, a couple, feel at a loss whether to laugh or cry. In addition, the two families were indeed old friends, and she got along well with Feng Jiamo and the other two, and they were closer to each other than Feng Jiayou, her own sister.

So, they basically agreed to accept this extra student and let her attend classes with Feng Jiamo.

Fortunately, these two good sisters did not talk nonsense in front of their class, otherwise, not only would the entire graduating class of their affiliated high school hear the news and come over to watch the fun, but all the classmates in Cheng Xuemin’s own repeater class would definitely not be able to sit still and come over to join in the fun.

Cheng Xuemin had warned his sister-in-law repeatedly about this matter, and fortunately, she knew the seriousness of the matter and did not say anything about it at school.

I had lunch at noon!
With the help of my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo, my second sister-in-law, who was originally embarrassed to go to class, also went along!
Not to mention Cheng Xuemin’s sister and cousin!

"What's going on? Why are there so many people?"

But what my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo and others didn't expect was that as soon as they arrived at Yan University and before they even entered the school gate, they were shocked by the bustling crowd in front of them.

Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou looked at each other. When they returned home from school at noon just now, they didn't see so many people.

But when I went back to have a meal and take a nap, I found out that the gate of Yanda University was almost broken by the crowd.
When Cheng Xuemin and his group squeezed into the school gate and followed the crowd to the Chinese Department teaching building, the situation here was even more exaggerated.

"Brother-in-law, are these all here to listen to your class?! Are they all students from other schools?"

When my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo found out about it, she exclaimed with her eyes almost popping out of her head.

In fact, there is no need to ask. Just listen to the topics discussed by the people around you along the way, and you will know that they are all from other schools and come for Cheng Xuemin’s class!
And it's not just students from other schools, there are also many unemployed educated youth who have returned to the city. When they heard that there would be a class today by Lao Xu, the author of "My Years in the Military Corps", they all came to join in the fun!

This... Chasing stars decades later should be just like this, right?
"Xuemin, you're finally back! The lecture venue has been changed. Director Yang has already contacted the institute to vacate the auditorium. Your class today will be in the auditorium!"

The class teacher Cheng Yuzhu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. They had never expected that in just over an hour at noon, one or two thousand students from other schools would pour out of their Chinese department, and more were still pouring in.

This instantly alarmed their department head, Lao Yang, and even the school's top management. No one had expected that the first class of a newly hired lecturer would cause such a sensation.

But Cheng Xuemin, the main lecturer, was nowhere to be seen the entire afternoon, which completely confused the teachers in the Chinese Department!
Now that Cheng Xuemin has finally arrived, Cheng Yuzhuo quickly said!

"Scared? Changing to the auditorium? Teacher Cheng, this isn't necessary, right?"

When Cheng Xuemin heard that they directly changed to the auditorium, he was stunned on the spot. Was this a bit too much?
……

Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)