The growth system comes at the age of 30

Chapter 302 Thirty years old is when life truly begins! (4.6K)

After having lunch at his parents-in-law's house, Chen Jingle and his wife left.

After a short rest at noon, everyone continued with their work in the afternoon.

It was just a marriage. In fact, apart from Li Beixing moving into his house and the two starting to live together, it didn't feel much different from before.

Chen Jingle's afternoon work involved reviewing SSCI and A&HCI.

SSCI, or Social Sciences Citation Index, is a large-scale retrieval tool created by the Institute of Scientific Information at Northwestern University. It can be used to statistically analyze the number of social science papers from different countries and regions.

A&HCI, or Arts & Humanities Citation Index, is a sister index to the globally renowned Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), a leading scientific literature retrieval tool. It is an important journal abstract and index database in the arts and humanities, covering social science fields such as archaeology, architecture, art, literature, philosophy, religion, and history.

Both are international core journals, corresponding to the domestic CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index).

Getting published in domestic core journals is still too difficult for humanities students, as it places too much emphasis on academic background.

Even if his papers are of comparable quality to those of some PhDs or even professors, and he submits his past papers with a record of having been accepted, he will still encounter implicit discrimination based on his academic qualifications and professional titles, and his papers will be rejected during the second or final review.

It's fine once or twice, but it gets annoying if it happens too often.

Not every journal has the boldness of Peking University's "Youth Social Studies" to be willing to set a precedent.

That's how it is in the humanities. Without a mentor, let alone a master's degree, even a doctoral degree can only survive by relying on journals published by one's own college.

Not to mention Chen Jingle, an undergraduate with no background or connections.

In the eyes of the bigwigs, black-robed white-collar workers should obediently go to the factory and tighten screws; scientific research is not something that people like them can participate in.

In comparison, it is much simpler for SSCI and SCI master's students to submit their applications to SCI.

As long as your article is good enough, it can be published!
Of course, this "simple" means that factors such as education, professional titles, and personal connections can be appropriately ignored, not that they are completely irrelevant.

Even so, many people consider this an unparalleled advantage.

However, simplicity does not necessarily mean ease in publishing papers.

Firstly, due to differences in thinking between China and other countries, it is difficult for domestic papers to be approved, especially those in the field of ideological and political education.

Secondly, there are language limitations. Achieving academic-level accuracy, fluency, and elegance in translation is not easy for many people.

Furthermore, China's social science research methods are relatively backward in some aspects. To put it bluntly, other countries look down on the social science experimental data from China.

Therefore, Chen Jingle planned to first check the quality level of the specific articles that were approved, and then compare it with his own level to get a general idea of ​​his own abilities.

Anyway, it's all just study classes, so it doesn't matter what we learn.

Since that's the case, why not read some literature and absorb some new knowledge?

For him, what he learns is not important; what matters is learning. He's open to any new knowledge. Once he reaches a certain level, he will naturally develop his own complete system of professional knowledge.

This is where he excels compared to others—his ability to organize fragments of knowledge.

Chen Jingle did not say that he would submit the paper to SSCI or A&HCI immediately; he was just doing some preliminary preparations and was not in a hurry at all.

In his view, a thesis is a summary of an individual's knowledge level at a certain stage. Since it is a stage, it is impossible to publish one every two or three days.

It's already good if I can publish one article a month.

This is still based on the premise that his thinking is different from and stronger than that of ordinary people, and that he can obtain a sufficient amount of information.

As for ordinary people?

One article every six months is good, one article a year is normal.

Unless you have an academician-level elder who can give you dozens of first-author papers in core journals during your undergraduate studies, spanning multiple fields.

Inbreeding in academia is nothing new; it just shows that some parents have lost their minds in their pursuit of paving the way for their children.

"Even with cheats, I couldn't send that many messages. You're even more awesome than a cheater!"

Chen Jingle really wanted to laugh.

……

In the evening, after dinner, Li Beixing went to take a shower.

With the arrival of summer, the days are getting longer and longer. It's past 7 p.m. now and it's still not completely dark. In addition, the weather is hot, and there is only a slight breeze occasionally blowing in the yard.

This kind of weather will most likely continue until October of the second half of the year, which is going to be tough.

Chen Jingle fed the cat first, then watered the flowers; this was something she did every day at home.

Speaking of cats, that stinky cat, Tiger Cub, has been away from home almost every day lately. He only comes back for dinner at night and then disappears again at dawn.

According to my mom, it had probably gotten into a fight with another cat a few days ago, lost, and was bitten on the leg. Chen Jingle noticed that it was walking a little unnaturally.

Even so, it couldn't stop its determination to go out and play.

"What a loser! You still have the nerve to call yourself a tabby cat? What's the point of being so fat!"

Chen Jingle grabbed the big fat cat and ravaged it.

Don't let its small size fool you; it's incredibly sturdy. For a country cat that roams around, maintaining a weight of 10 pounds is quite remarkable.

But other people's cats are just better.

The tiger cub let out a dissatisfied howl, but Chen Jingle slapped it twice on the backside, and it immediately dared not complain anymore, lying down like a cat, letting Chen Jingle bully it.

After all, a cat under the eaves has no choice but to bow its head.

My parents came back from the store after 7:30.

With Chen Jinghao, a capable assistant, helping out, the store's efficiency has improved significantly. The three of them working together make even closing and cleaning the store much faster than before.

They are very satisfied with their current fulfilling life. Since turning the fast food restaurant into a business, they have not only not felt tired, but have been full of energy every day.

As it turns out, Chen Jingle's decision was correct.

In short, everything is moving in a positive direction.

……

After Li Beixing took a shower, Chen Jingle went to take one as well.

However, when he returned to his room after taking a shower, he was shocked by what he saw.

On the wall above the bed, there was a rather rustic baby sticker with the words "Dragon and Phoenix Baby" in the middle that were particularly jarring.

"Hiss, what's going on?" Chen Jingle was dumbfounded.

Teacher Li looked very uncomfortable: "My mom gave it to me."

The two of them just got married, having children is still a long way off, right?

Why does it seem like my mother-in-law is more anxious than my own parents?
Chen Jingle took a deep breath, smiled and shook his head, then reached out to hug Li Beixing: "These things should be left to fate. I don't want to treat having children as a task to be completed. Becoming parents suddenly without being fully prepared will only make life worse."

For some reason, he has always been averse to being pressured to get married and have children. He feels like he is under mental pressure when his parents keep nagging him about these topics.

Before marriage, they pressured me to get married; after marriage, they pressured me to have children; after one child, they pressured me to have a second—it never ends.

As a normal adult, he feels he has the right to decide when to get married and when to have children, and he doesn't like others interfering too much in his decisions and life.

The pressure to get married and have children is essentially driven by the traditional mentality of relying on children for old age. The older generation always treats this as a task, demanding that their children do this or that.

The question is, who gave them this task?
Do they have a system in their heads too?
In particular, many people have lived extremely unsuccessful lives themselves and have not been successful in educating their children, yet they place their hopes on their grandchildren, hoping to turn their lives around through childbirth.

In their view, the more children the better, and then they adopt a free-range approach. If they are lucky, one of them will be able to stand up, and then the whole family can take it for granted and leech off it. They always say that the family gave birth to them and raised them, and now it is time for them to repay the family.

This view on reproduction is abnormal and distorted.

Chen Jingle resisted this traditional concept from the bottom of his heart.

It's not that we should refuse to support our families, but rather that this kind of education is fundamentally flawed.

It's important to know that the biggest turning point in a person's life is the amniotic fluid. Very few people truly change their family's fate through their own efforts; one in a hundred would be considered lucky.

The vast majority of people are in that 99%!

But many parents disagree, immediately asking, "If others can do it, why can't you?"

Chen Jingle's parents are already quite reasonable, but even so, the topic of urging him to get married still makes him feel depressed. He can't imagine how much pressure those who are pressured even more by their parents and elders must be under.

The ultimate goal in life for ordinary people should be happiness.

"Oh, it's not as serious as you say."

Li Beixing said angrily.

She was too embarrassed to look at Chen Jingle, so she could only say hesitantly, "I want to have a child myself."

"Ok?"

Chen Jingle's lips curled up slightly.

Li Beixing turned around and sat in his lap: "Today, when you and Dad were talking about serious matters in the study, Mom talked to me about having children, and I think she makes a lot of sense. If we start trying to conceive now, we'd be lucky if we got pregnant within three months. Then there's the ten months of pregnancy, and by the time the baby is born safely, that's a year. Then it's another year until the baby turns one and can walk. If we consider having a second child, that's another two years. By then, I'll be 30 years old."

She suddenly stopped talking at this point.

Women are very sensitive about their age.

Li Beixing couldn't imagine what she would be like in four or five years. Would she, like some of her female classmates who didn't go to university and got married early, gradually become a haggard housewife after marriage due to various problems such as life?
I'm getting a little nervous just thinking about it.

Chen Jingle raised an eyebrow: "So what if you're 30? You'll only be more beautiful then!"

"Nonsense, how can a 30-year-old be prettier than a 20-year-old?" Li Beixing chuckled.

"Of course there are! There are plenty!"

Chen Jingle pinched her cheek: "For our generation, 30 is the best age. The first 10 years are spent in a daze, the second 10 years are spent studying, and only in the third 10 years can we finally look up and appreciate the scenery around us. You could say that 30 is the real beginning of a person's life. At this time, they have enough rich experience, a summary and accumulation of the previous 30 years of life, and have successfully overcome their impetuousness. This is when a person is truly mature. So don't worry too much about age."

"The ancients said that one should be established by the age of thirty, but that's because their lifespans were too short. They often started participating in family affairs at the age of twelve or thirteen, joined the army to fight at the age of fifteen or sixteen, reached adulthood and established a family and career at the age of twenty, and were basically halfway through their lives by the age of thirty. However, nowadays, people's average lifespan is over 70 years old, and many live to be over 80. People like us who have received a university education are still not out of school at the age of 20, so it's not comparable to those days."

"Furthermore, you are different from others. Even if you are 60, 90, or 100 years old, you will still be in your prime and young and beautiful in my eyes."

Chen Jingle smiled and turned her around. Their eyes met, and they saw only each other.

"You're just talking nonsense! If I live to be 90, I'll have all my teeth out and my face will be covered in wrinkles like withered tree bark."

Although Li Beixing spoke with a tone of reproach and disdain, the smile on her face betrayed her true feelings.

Women are powerless against sweet talk, even if they know it's just to make her happy.

Chen Jingle held her and gently rocked her: "In the eyes of someone who loves you, they never see just the surface."

The thought of lying in Chen Jingle's arms, listening to his whispered words, at 90 years old filled Li Beixing with a sense of peace and bliss, and made her feel completely intoxicated.

……

Chen Jingle didn't have a moment's rest for the next two days.

After June, when lychees begin to be sold on a large scale, he chooses to take the initiative to follow up on the harvesting, purchasing, loading and shipping processes.

As the company's strategic development consultant, he needs to understand and master more information, even the smallest details.

Just consider it as collecting material for a thesis.

It's very hot! Extremely hot!

Moreover, it was the kind of stuffy, hot weather where sweat would stick to your clothes, making you feel sticky all over.

Chen Jingle, wearing a straw hat, looked at the busy crowd at the lychee purchasing point; the back of his T-shirt was already soaked with sweat.

The most troublesome thing is that the sun is scorching in the morning, and then it starts pouring rain in the afternoon.

Under such climatic conditions, lychees on the trees will easily rot if they are not picked quickly.

Hurry up and pick them.

This year's lychee market is destined to be oversaturated.

But even in a bad market, you still have to pick and sell. The only thing he can do is offer 50 cents more per pound than other buyers. For fruits like the Fei Zi Xiao variety, the local purchase price has already dropped to 1.5 yuan. Second-rate fruits are practically given away for free, otherwise they would just rot on the ground.

The Guiwei variety is slightly better; it hasn't reached the large-scale market yet, and the purchase price is still around four or five yuan, but it won't last long.

Low grain prices hurt farmers, high rice prices hurt consumers; this is the fate of farmers.

Chen Jingle scooped two out of the basket, peeled them, and popped them into his mouth; the sugar helped relieve his anxiety.

As for getting a sore throat?

If eating two pills causes internal heat, why don't you eat two pounds of them?
Eating more naturally prevents you from getting a sore throat or other internal heat.

Anyway, that's how he is. These past two days, he's eaten mostly lychees, not rice. He's tried almost every variety.

Many online sellers of lychees ship directly from the production area, but Hongqi does not engage in online sales.

One reason is that the express delivery fee is too expensive.

As is well known, the postage for fresh produce is often more expensive than the value of the courier itself. Even for merchants with long-term agreements, fresh produce cannot be priced the same as regular courier services.

Another issue is the hassle of after-sales service.

Aside from normal wear and tear, there are all sorts of reasons for returns and refunds, or even just refunds. From a normal business perspective, encountering such bizarre customers is disgusting.

If neither of these two problems can be solved, then it's better to simply not do it.

Neither Li Qiguang nor Chen Jingle would easily venture into an industry they neither understand nor have the ability to solve problems in.

The reason for opening offline directly operated stores is that Hongqi has sufficient capabilities to solve various problems that physical stores may encounter, such as the biggest supply chain problem, which is difficult for other chain stores to solve, but is a piece of cake for Hongqi, which has its own transportation cold chain.

Online channels fall under the e-commerce sector, which is very different from traditional offline channels. The main component is express delivery, which involves flying and running all over the country, exceeding Hongqi's business scope.

"However, it's still possible to find a few young female college students to open a live broadcast room, just to introduce our Hongqi products and promote the community fresh food physical store."

Just like Coconut Palm, their main focus is on advertising without selling products.

When Chen Jingle shared this idea with Li Qiguang, he immediately received permission.

However, he didn't want to take responsibility for this matter and wanted to leave it to other people in the company.

June is graduation season, and a batch of college students enter the job market. However, many of them cannot find jobs. At this time, Hongqi does not even need to offer high salaries. As long as it presents itself as a regular company, the number of resumes in its inbox will be countless.

Because the current employment environment is indeed very poor, many people are even forced to take the path of becoming borderline live streamers.

Those with good looks sell their looks, those without good looks cover their faces and sell their bodies, and if all else fails, they can use a fake account to become a V-circle fan.

Even more extreme cases have begun to seek out boyfriends who are like fathers or to work as male nannies for employers who are like sisters.

It gives people the feeling that the world consists of only cattle, horses, chickens, and ducks.

Outrageous!

"By the way, isn't tomorrow the college entrance exam?"

Chen Jingle glanced at the time, frowned slightly, and fell into thought.

Of all these relatives, it seems that only my aunt's cousin, Wenhui, is taking the college entrance exam this year. I hope she gets good results.

However, compared to the college entrance examination, filling out college application forms seems to be more important.

Do you need my help?

"Never mind, I'll ask about it later." Chen Jingle made a mental note of it.

(End of this chapter)