Exciting 1979!

Chapter 3: Children's Literature

This time when he came to Beijing, Wei Jiefang just wanted to find a job for his son so that he wouldn't want to go to university.

I failed the exam three times in a row, and God even sent a huge hailstorm that had not been seen in decades. Maybe this was God's will.

It’s just that Wei Ping’an wanted to change the subject at first, but after he understood his cousin’s request, he sat down again.

It was an impossible task to get Wei Ming into Peking University, but it was also very difficult to arrange for him to work there.

It’s hard to find a job in Yanjing City now!

In the past, when employment and food pressures arose in cities, young people would be sent to the countryside to fend for themselves, but now no one has the clout to once again send people to the countryside.

In addition, the former educated youth began to return to the city in large numbers. There were 900 unemployed and jobless young people in the city of Yanjing with a population of 40 million!

A while ago, I heard that many unemployed young people went to Qianmen to sell big bowls of tea, charging two cents a bowl and being looked down upon.

In order to resolve the potential social crisis that may be caused by these unemployed young people as soon as possible, in addition to suggesting that they find a way to make a living on their own, all government agencies and units in the city must also contract a certain number of unemployed young people, naturally including Peking University.

People from other places want to work in the city? What a waste.

But these words cannot be explained to Brother Jiefang, he doesn’t understand and doesn’t want to understand.

So Wei Pingan gritted his teeth and agreed first: "Okay, I'll find a way. I just thought you were going to get Xiao Ming into Peking University."

"Ah, is this okay?"

"No!" Wei Ping'an quickly dispelled his idea.

Wei Jiefang smiled regretfully: "Hehe, as long as there is a job, isn't the purpose of going to school to find a job? I just said that my brother is capable! Xiao Ming, show your ability!"

Wei Ming quickly filled a glass of Lao Baigan and said to his uncle, "Uncle, I'll drink it. Please feel free to do as you please."

He wanted to show his heroism, but his current body was just not up to the task. He choked and his face turned red. He still needed to practice more. He remembered that his alcohol tolerance was comparable to that of Uncle Ping An.

This was probably the process in his previous life, but there were some twists and turns later and he ultimately failed to get a job at Peking University.

Wei Ping'an drank, thinking about the relationships that he could use.

He is 36 years old and works as the director of the General Office of the General Affairs Department of Peking University. He deals with all aspects of the school and has a wide range of friends.

But at this special juncture, a lot of favors will definitely be involved.

The meal lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon. Wei Ping'an said without blushing or panting: "I'll arrange a place for you to stay first."

"Why spend that money? We..." Wei Jiefang wiped his mouth and shivered, thinking that they could just sleep on the floor in the living room.

Wei Ming stopped him in time: "Okay, we'll follow uncle's instructions."

He was also a city dweller, and even though he had not started a family, he did not want relatives and friends to enter his private living space, and would rather pay for a hotel.

Wei Ping'an feels that his nephew is much more clever than his father. He hopes that he can perform well in Peking University and strive to become a full-time student as soon as possible.

He has just said that in the best case scenario, one has to start as a temporary worker, and the duration of this job is still uncertain.

After all, as long as you become a formal employee of Peking University, the school will be responsible for your household registration and housing, which means you will at least be put in the queue.

In their building, in addition to administrative teachers and professors like him, there are also kitchen chefs, school hospital nurses, logistics electricians, etc. These days, everyone is treated equally.

After leaving Weixiu Garden, they entered Peking University through the west gate. At this time, the Peking University campus was very lively. The arrival of the freshmen of Class 79 brought new vitality to the school.

Wei Ming looked at the high-spirited college students around him, looked at their clear and stupid eyes, and thought that he could make a lot of money even if he sold T-shirts at Peking University.

Wei Ping'an walked along the way, introducing to Wei Ming, this is Minghe Garden, this is Jingchun Garden...

After turning a few corners, we finally stopped at Langrun Garden.

Langrun Garden and Yannan Garden are where the school’s senior professors live. The environment is very good. Langrun Garden is surrounded by water, like an island in the middle of a lake.

In the 1960s, Peking University took advantage of the vacant land in Langrun Garden to build a large number of apartments to solve the housing problem for faculty and staff. At that time, a hotel was also built among the buildings.

This is also the only guesthouse on the Peking University campus. Because it is located on the north side of the campus, people call it "Beizhao".

When the hotel manager met Wei Ping'an, he very politely called him "Director Wei".

"Manager Wang, this is my brother, and this is my nephew. We may need to stay for two days. Do you have a room?"

"Director Wei has spoken, so we have to get a room even if there is none. Let me take a look." Manager Wang spoke in a businesslike tone, and it was obvious that he was very smart.

Finally, they were arranged a standard room on the second floor with two 1.2-meter beds and a separate bathroom.

The scenery is also nice. Through the window you can see a field of lotus flowers in full bloom. I wonder if it is the "seasonal lotus".

Seeing that Wei Jiefang was dizzy, Wei Ping'an simply handed the meal ticket and food coupon to Wei Ming and gave the following instructions:

"You can go to the faculty cafeteria to eat tonight, or there is a Changzheng cafeteria outside the South Gate. I won't come over. Tomorrow morning I will pick you up and take you into the city for a good walk, and then have dinner with your aunt."

Wei Ming took the tickets without hesitation. Without meal tickets, one could not eat on campus, and without Yenching food coupons or national food coupons, one could not eat outside the campus.

It’s hard to go out these days!
After sending Wei Ping'an away, Wei Jiefang took off his shoes and fell asleep. Having completed the important task of finding a job for his son, he felt at ease and slept soundly.

Wei Ming packed his luggage, but he was still very excited, so he closed the curtains and took off his pants.

First, he took out the huge sum of 12 yuan that his mother had sewn, then he left a note for Lao Wei and went out.

Letter: Wei Ming went to visit Weiming Lake.

Go out and head south to reach the Weiming Lake. Before seeing the Weiming Lake, you will first see the Boya Tower, which is the tallest building in Peking University.

After seeing the lake, Wei Ming began to walk clockwise along the lake.

Lakes are all similar, the key is that the lakeside is cool and the breeze helps with thinking.

His top priority is to stay in Peking University. The ultimate goal of staying in Peking University is to settle down in Yenching University, where only a big stage can bring great development.

If you want to stay in Peking University, you must have a good relationship with Uncle Ping'an's family. Good wind will help you.

It is now 3:30 in the afternoon, and it is probably about time for him to remove a thorn that affects their relationship as uncle and nephew.

So he turned to the west bank of the "Wenming Lake" monument and went out directly from the west gate.

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In addition to more than a dozen apartment buildings, Weixiuyuan also built a Peking University affiliated kindergarten two years ago. Wei Ping'an's two children were sent there. He only needs to drop them off in the morning and pick them up in the evening. Lunch is provided, which is very worry-free.

Wei Ming was the first to arrive. After a while, some old men and women appeared one after another. Who knows, there might be a master professor among them. However, except for a few star professors such as Ji Xianlin, he could not recognize any of them.

Wei Ming didn't see Uncle Ping'an until the kindergarten was over. Just like in his previous life, he was so busy helping him smooth things over that he forgot to pick up the child.

So Wei Ming came.

Although he was not familiar with Wei Xi and Wei Le now, he had seen recent photos of the two during lunch. They were twins, a boy and a girl, so they were easy to recognize.

Soon, the brother and sister, who looked 70% alike, came out hand in hand. Their looks stood out among the other children.

Both of them later embarked on the path of art. When they grew up, Wei Xi was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, where he was in the same class as Xin Baiqing and Wang Qianyuan. After graduation, he joined the People's Art Theater and occasionally made some movies and TV series.

Wei Le (le) loves music (yue), and is proficient in singing and playing musical instruments. He not only was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music, but also stayed on to teach there.

Wei Ming wanted to laugh when he saw Wei Xi looking around. They worked together in the National Theatre of China in the 90s, and since they were relatives, they had always had a close relationship. Later, Wei Xi also invested in his company.

Before he came through, Wei Xi and his wife, who was 20 years younger than him, were getting divorced, which made him very worried. He was not as carefree and innocent as he is now.

"Xizi, Lele, here!" Wei Ming called out and called the two confused children over.

"Who are you?" Wei Le asked.

Wei Ming: "Just call me Brother Ming. Your father Wei Ping'an asked me to pick you up."

"Oh, let's go quickly then." Wei Xi said.

This kid is really heartless. He got lost at this time in his previous life.

In the original time and space, their parents had not come to pick them up, and the teacher was about to get off work, so Lele suggested that he walk back. After all, it was only more than 200 meters, and he had walked it many times.

As a result, Wei Xi saw a bicycle selling candied haws passing by, so he let go of his sister and ran after it. In the end, he caught up with the candied haws, but lost the person.

It's simply a "let go".

When Aunt Lu Xiaoyan came home from get off work, she found only her daughter waiting at the door. She was furious when she learned that her husband did not go to pick up the child and her son was lost.

Although the son was eventually sent back by the police, this incident caused the couple to have the most serious quarrel since their marriage, so much so that Wei Ping'an did not go to find Wei Jiefang and his son early the next morning.

So Lao Wei brought his son to the door and happened to hear the two people quarreling outside the door. Some of the words were directed at them and were not very pleasant to hear.

The 18-year-old Wei Ming was a child with a strong sense of self-esteem. He was already embarrassed to ask for help in person, and then he was criticized behind his back. So he didn't even take his luggage, ran directly to the train station, left Old Wei behind, and went back to the village alone.

Although Wei Jiefang told him after he returned home that Uncle Ping'an had secured a job for him, Wei Ming refused to go and preferred to farm.

Because of this incident, the relationship between brothers Wei Jiefang and Wei Pingan became estranged and they have not seen each other for many years.

It is not like that now. Wei Ming leads one child in each hand and buys them candied haws on the way.

Xizi is heartless, but Lele remains alert. If Wei Ming wasn't good-looking, she would definitely not go with him.

But when she got home, she was completely relieved about this handsome brother, and she shared her string of candied haws with Wei Ming, one for each of us.

But they didn't have the key and couldn't get in, so Wei Ming took the two children to play downstairs.

Wei Xi had some paper in his bag, and Wei Ming folded airplanes, boats, swallows, and thousands of paper cranes for them. In a short time, he became their idol.

"Xizi, Lele!"

"Mommy mommy!"

It was almost dark when Lu Xiaoyan returned home, and the two children threw themselves into her arms like young swallows returning to their nests.

She just turned 30, much younger than Uncle Ping'an, and she has the temperament of a city dweller.

Lv Xiaoyan saw Wei Ming and asked, "Little comrade, who are you from? Please play with them."

When Wei Ming saw Lu Xiaoyan at this time, he did not feel any resentment. Aunt Xiaoyan was actually a nice person and a warm-hearted person. In her previous life, she had worried about his lifelong affairs and introduced many people to him.

It’s just that children are a mother’s Achilles’ heel, and Xizi almost got into trouble, so she couldn’t help but speak without thinking.

"Mom, this is Brother Ming!" Lele introduced actively.

Wei Ming smiled and said, "Hello, Auntie. My name is Wei Ming, and I came from my hometown in Hengzhou."

"Wei Ming? It must be Xiao Ming from Big Brother Jiefang's family!" She and Wei Ming had actually met before, when they got married eight years ago.

"Well, Uncle Ping'an is busy, so let me pick them up." Wei Ming explained briefly.

Lu Xiaoyan sighed, "We are both busy, and there is no elder to help at home. It's hard for the two children. Are Xizi and Lele hungry? Xiaoming, come to our house and eat together."

Wei Ming was about to refuse, but Xizi showed off: "I'm not hungry, I just ate a big bunch of candied haws!"

"Ah, who told you to eat candy? You forgot about your toothache again!" Lu Xiaoyan suddenly became stern.

Wei Ming quickly took the responsibility: "Blame me, blame me. I bought it."

Lu Xiaoyan calmed down a bit, "It's not your fault, it's that brat's fault. He can't control his mouth even though his teeth are so badly decayed. He forgot the pain after the wound healed. He didn't change no matter how many times I told him to. From now on, you are not allowed to eat candy for a week, no, a month! All the White Rabbits in the house belong to my sister!"

"Ah!" Xizi stopped laughing instantly.

Lv Xiaoyan invited Wei Ming to sit upstairs again, but Wei Ming smiled and declined: "The meal tickets and food coupons are all in my hands. If I don't go back, my father will starve."

But before they parted, Wei Ming asked her a question: "Aunt, which magazine do you work for? Is the work of an editor so hard?"

"Children's Literature," she said. "I'm new to this company and don't have many connections with children's writers. It's a headache to collect manuscripts for each monthly issue!"

Wei Ming said "Oh" and some ideas popped up in his mind.

After returning to Peking University, he first went to a grocery store and bought a stack of stationery, several envelopes, a bottle of ink, and a notebook, spending a total of 4 cents.

When we returned to the guesthouse, Lao Wei was leaning against the head of the bed and yawning, obviously having just woken up.

Seeing Wei Ming laying out stationery and ink on the table, he asked, "Why are you buying these things? You are not here to study."

Wei Ming grinned at him: "To make money, of course!"

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