As she saw her future first and second eldest brothers right after arriving at school, Zhenzhen was still a little dazed when she ate in the cafeteria. Mingbei exchanged her food coupons and money for meal tickets, and ordered three meals and put them on the table. Seeing Zhenzhen's empty face, he couldn't help but touch her forehead: "What's wrong? Are you too happy to be in college?"
Zhenzhen pulled Mingbei's hand down, picked up a piece of food and stuffed it into her mouth, her tone unable to hide her excitement: "Brother, our class is the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. It only takes once every ten years. Talented people from all over the country have taken the exam. We must seize the opportunity now, read more books in the library, and learn and communicate more with classmates and seniors. Don't fall too far behind, otherwise, in thirty years, you will be embarrassed to say that you are the classmate of so-and-so."
Mingbei smiled sheepishly, "It's not that I don't like studying, but when I was studying at home, I had similar jobs whether I graduated from junior high school or high school, so I just couldn't get excited about going to school. Now that we're in the capital, how can I just muddle through like before? That would mean I got into the National University for nothing. Don't worry, Zhenzhen, I will study hard, otherwise I'll be embarrassed to be compared to your sister-in-law, not to mention my classmates."
Wang Xinwen smiled sweetly and kept passing the meat on her plate to Mingbei: "We can't always meet each other during classes. We can probably only meet on weekends when we go home. You have to take care of yourself and eat more meat." Mingbei looked at Wang Xinwen, and the reluctant look on his face made Zhenzhen embarrassed.
Zhenzhen lowered her head silently, looking at the dishes on the plate: braised pork with potatoes, pork belly with beans. She glanced at Mingbei and couldn't help but teasing him, "It's only been a few days since you last had meat, and you actually bought two meat dishes."
Mingbei sighed immediately: "Zhenzhen, do you think that after we arrive in the imperial capital, we won't be able to catch pheasants, rabbits, and roe deer every day like before?"
Zhen Zhen tried hard to hold back her laughter and nodded seriously: "At least you have to go to the suburbs to see the mountains. But in the capital, you are definitely not allowed to catch wild rabbits casually. You can only think about wild game in your dreams in the future."
Mingbei sighed in disappointment, looked at the pile of meat in his bowl and quickly put some into Wang Xinwen's bowl: "Wife, eat more. You haven't recovered yet and you have to go to school. You can't lose nutrition."
Wang Xinwen smiled sweetly at Mingbei, and the couple ate so much that they completely forgot about Zhenzhen. Zhenzhen touched her lonely heart and sighed a little sadly. It was too bad for a single dog to be forced to continue eating dog food for two lifetimes.
After dinner, Zhenzhen and Wang Xinwen went to Mingbei's dormitory for a walk. They were familiar with the place and knew where to find him if they had any problems. People kept coming into Mingbei's dormitory, so Zhenzhen and Wang Xinwen didn't want to stay any longer. They agreed with Mingbei on a time to meet up at home on the weekend and went back to school together.
Zhenzhen arrived at school quite early, and no one else was in the dormitory at that time. Zhenzhen closed the door, and in a flash she returned to the mountain in Beicha, and called Li Mingzhong with her consciousness.
Mingzhong was lying in the yard basking in the sun when he suddenly heard Zhenzhen's voice in his mind. He stood up in surprise and looked around while whining. Zhenzhen saw that it didn't find him, so she said in his mind, "Come to the mountain."
Li Mingzhong ignored Tian Hu's shouts from behind and ran out like crazy. It only took him a dozen minutes to reach Zhenzhen's side.
Zhenzhen touched Li Mingzhong's head, brought out a bowl of rabbit meat from the space and placed it in front of him: "I brought the meat specially for you, eat it quickly." Li Mingzhong shouted happily, buried his head in the bowl and began to gobble it up.
When the family left Beicha, Zhenzhen was most worried about Li Mingzhong. Over the years, except for Dahuang who didn't need to worry about her in the mountains, Zhenzhen watched Li Mingzhong and the braised chicken grow up, and watched them grow old little by little. The braised chicken lived to the age of ten and became the oldest rooster in Beicha. After it died, it was buried in Hongsong Mountain.
Li Mingzhong is now fifteen years old, which is considered old for a dog. Zhenzhen once thought about putting it in the space to keep it company, but she couldn't bear to do it when she saw the bare space. Li Mingzhong has been playing in the mountains all his life, how can he be locked up in a place without a companion when he is old? It would be better to put it in Li Musen's house to keep Tianhu company. After all, Zhenzhen can teleport and can come back to see it at any time.
Not only Zhenzhen, but also Old Lady Li and the others were reluctant to part with Li Mingzhong, but now the train space is small and crowded, and they don’t know how much luggage they brought, so they can’t take Li Mingzhong to the capital. Old Lady Li solemnly handed Li Mingzhong to Li Musen, asking him to take good care of him and not force him to hunt or anything, just let him stay at home and bask in the sun.
Li Musen knew how much his second brother's family loved Li Mingzhong, so he agreed immediately and even moved Li Mingzhong's doghouse to the kitchen so that it would be warm and not cold. In fact, for dogs, where they live is secondary. What they care most about is whether there is meat in the meal.
Li Musen's family was not well off, and the meat they bought with coupons every month was basically used to reward the family. The remaining meat was too much for the adults to eat, let alone give to Li Mingzhong. In the early 1970s, all hunting guns were confiscated, and hunting was no longer possible.
Zhenzhen understood Li Musen's approach and could only prepare special meals for Li Mingzhong in secret. Before leaving Beicha, Zhenzhen caught more than a dozen wild rabbits and stewed them in a pot in the space. Anyway, all substances in the space could remain unchanged under her control, so she didn't have to worry about the stewed meat going bad. Whenever she came to see Li Mingzhong, she would scoop two spoonfuls of it for him, which saved her the trouble of cooking it on the spot.
Zhenzhen combed Li Mingzhong's fur while watching him eat meat: "I will start school in two days, so I can't come to see you every day. I will come to see you every five or six days and give you meat, okay?"
Li Mingzhong wagged his tail happily and made a joyful sound, "Then we have to use a big bowl. There's not enough food if there's too little." Zhenzhen smiled and took out a big pancake from the space, broke it into small pieces and put it in the meat bowl. Li Mingzhong ate up all the soup and the pancake, and even licked the bowl before he lay on the ground in satisfaction.
Zhenzhen was not in a hurry to go back. She planned to take advantage of her free time to pick more medicinal herbs such as ginseng and ganoderma lucidum. It would be more convenient to give them to others or exchange them for money in the future. She couldn't always take yellow croaker out because it would be too eye-catching.
Zhenzhen found ten hundred-year-old ginsengs and put them into the space. She also picked a lot of other medicinal herbs. After entering the space and washing her hands, Zhenzhen looked at Li Mingzhong and asked, "I want to go see Da Huang. Do you want to come?"
Li Mingzhong immediately raised his tail and shook his head in disgust. Zhenzhen smiled and stroked its fur: "Actually, it likes you very much. You can ask it to play with you. I'm afraid you'll become stupid if you always hang out with Tianhu."
Thinking about Tian Hu's silly look, Li Mingzhong sighed humanely: "Actually, being silly is also good. There is no need to worry."
Zhen Zhen laughed when she heard this: "You are smart, tell me what is bothering you?"
Li Mingzhong immediately looked at her flatteringly: "Can you change the taste and stew a flying dragon or something?"
"You wishful thinking." Zhenzhen smiled and pushed Li Mingzhong's head aside: "There are fewer and fewer flying dragons now. I have to protect them all in the future. As for stewing flying dragons, forget it." Seeing Li Mingzhong's disappointed look, Zhenzhen smiled and patted him: "Actually, pheasant is also very delicious. Next time I will cook it differently for you. Okay, you should go home early. I will come to see you in five days."
Li Mingzhong nodded, licked Zhenzhen's palm affectionately, and then ran down the mountain happily. Zhenzhen watched Li Mingzhong's figure run away, and then teleported to Dahuang's side. Dahuang was startled by the sudden shock, and immediately yelled at her in anger, stood up, walked to the side, and lay on the ground, facing Zhenzhen with his butt.
"What's wrong? Are you scared? Why are you still so timid?" Zhenzhen looked at Dahuang and laughed.
Da Huang, who had already opened his spiritual intelligence to communicate with Zhen Zhen, immediately snorted proudly: "I hate the smell of stupid dog on you."
"Oh my, look at your behavior. Only Li Mingzhong dares to come over and play with you. You can't even find a tigress, what's there to be proud of?" Zhenzhen looked at Dahuang and laughed: "Okay, stop being so arrogant. If you don't come over, I'll leave."
When Da Huang heard that Zhen Zhen was leaving, he immediately lay down beside Zhen Zhen, holding his head with his two paws and not saying a word. Zhen Zhen sat on Da Huang and stroked his fur again and again: "There are fewer and fewer tigers nowadays, so don't go down the mountain easily, stay in your deep mountain honestly, if you are caught and locked up in a zoo or something, I can't save you, understand."
Da Huang roared, his voice full of sarcasm: "Stupid human..."
"Pa!" Zhenzhen immediately patted Dahuang's head: "I am also a human."
Da Huang shrank his head and lay on the ground with a groan: "I mean normal people."
"Am I abnormal?" Zhenzhen raised her eyebrows. Dahuang held his head with his two paws and thought hard for a long time, but he really didn't understand what he said wrong.
Seeing the worried look on Da Huang's face, Zhen Zhen laughed and rubbed the fur on its head. Zhen Zhen reminded it again: "Remember not to run around. I will come back to see you when I visit Li Mingzhong next time."
When he heard that he was just here by chance, Dahuang snorted in dissatisfaction: "That stupid dog." After patting Dahuang's head, Zhenzhen disappeared in front of Dahuang.
Seeing that it was still early, Zhenzhen was in no hurry to go back and teleported directly to the tree house she had built. As technology became more and more advanced in the future, this tree house made of dozens of trees would be seen by people sooner or later if it was not cleaned up. However, looking at the living trees and remembering the idea when building the tree house, Zhenzhen was a little reluctant to destroy it.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhenzhen waved her hand and put the tree house into the space. She then leveled the land and instantly grew rows of trees like the ones next to it.
The tree house fell into a corner of the space and soon grew new leaves. Zhenzhen noticed with her sharp eyes that there was a wild beehive hanging from the top of the tree house. She immediately took it down with surprise, found a few washed and dried cans, and poured out all the honey.
Smelling the rich aroma of wild honey, Zhenzhen took out the Qinghua bowl made during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that she used to eat in her space, scooped two spoonfuls of honey, poured in half a bowl of warm water, and stirred it evenly with the same spoon. She sat on the sofa, reading a book while drinking honey water and eating freshly picked blueberries, and spent a leisurely evening.
The alarm in the space rang. Zhenzhen stood up and turned off the alarm. She looked around the dormitory with her consciousness and saw that no one had come yet. Only then did she feel relieved and boldly appear in the dormitory.
After reading for half the night with the lights on, Zhenzhen drew the curtains and lay down to sleep when it was time to turn off the lights. Perhaps it was because the Imperial University made people feel particularly at ease, Zhenzhen slept until nine o'clock. At this time, the canteen had already run out of food. Zhenzhen was about to go to the space to get something to eat when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.
Zhenzhen opened the door. Wang Xinwen put the buns and a lunch box of porridge on the table and looked at Zhenzhen and laughed, "Are you sleeping in? I came over twice this morning, but I didn't dare to call you because your dormitory door was locked. I felt that the buns were still a little warm. Eat them quickly or they will get cold soon."
Zhenzhen agreed and sat down to drink some porridge: "I went out yesterday afternoon and came back late, so I forgot to tell you."
"I saw that there was no one in your dormitory, so I guessed that you must have gone out to play." Wang Xinwen said with a smile. She looked at the still empty room and asked curiously, "Why hasn't anyone come to your dormitory yet? Everyone in our dormitory is here."
Just as she finished speaking, a woman carrying two large sacks pushed the door open and walked in. She looked up and saw the two people in the room looking at her curiously, and immediately laughed: "My name is Wei Yujin, and I'm also in this dormitory."
Zhenzhen smiled immediately: "My name is Li Mingzhen, and this is my sister-in-law Wang Xinwen, who studies law."
Wei Yujin put the sack on the ground. Seeing that the room was clean and shiny, she knew that the pretty girl in front of her had cleaned the dormitory. She directly chose the bed near the door, took out the patched bedding from the sack and put it on the bed. Then she sat on it and breathed a sigh of relief.
"How come we are so lucky?" Wei Yujin said cheerfully while looking for a water jar in the sack: "I have been in the countryside in the northwest for ten years. I have almost forgotten all the math, physics and chemistry. The only thing left in my mind is how to drive a tractor and farm." She hurriedly washed the jar, and came back to continue: "I am a good worker. I am the production team leader of our educated youth camp."
Zhenzhen picked up her thermos and poured a tub of water for her. Wei Yujin smiled and thanked her. While blowing the hot water, she asked, "Girl, where are you two from?"
"From Heilongjiang Province." Zhenzhen smiled with her eyebrows curved, as if she had her own light, making people unable to take their eyes away: "I have never been to the countryside. After graduating from high school, I prepared for the college entrance examination for half a year. But my sister-in-law stayed in the youth center for three years, planting trees and digging the land."
Wei Yujin looked at the pretty Wang Xinwen and smacked her lips: "She doesn't look like she has ever suffered at all. Sister Wang is really a natural beauty."
Wang Xinwen smiled a little embarrassedly. As she was talking, people came to the dormitory one after another. There was Guo Xiaoqiao, a girl from the capital who had just returned from the countryside after a year, Meng Ranxiao, a girl from Tianjin who spoke like a crosstalk, and Xu Jiajia, a girl from Bingcheng who was straightforward and generous...
They were all warm and simple people. After introducing themselves over and over again, we quickly became familiar with each other. In less than half a day, we were able to call each other "big sister" and "little sister" very easily. Everyone then started discussing the majors they had applied for.
Zhenzhen's dormitory is full of students majoring in journalism, and she, along with students majoring in literature and classical literature, all belong to the Chinese Department. In their freshman year, the three majors take literature and general courses together in addition to their professional courses.
On the first day of class, Wei Yujin got up before dawn. The rustling sound of getting dressed was like a switch, and everyone sat up to get dressed. Seeing that everyone was up, Wei Yujin simply turned on the light, walked to the head of Zhenzhen's bed, and shouted through the curtain: "Li Mingzhen, hurry up and get up."
Glancing at the watch next to the pillow, Zhenzhen stuck her messy head out from behind the curtain, her fair face blank, "Sister Wei, it's only five o'clock."
"I know." Seeing Zhenzhen with her hair loose, as cute as a kitten, Wei Yujin couldn't help but reach out and rub Zhenzhen's head: "The three of us are taking literature class together. If we don't reserve seats early, we won't be able to sit in the first row."
Zhenzhen immediately became alert upon hearing this. She quickly got up from the bed, washed up in a hurry, put a water bottle and a book she had not finished reading in her schoolbag, and went out with her classmates.
After breakfast, the girls majoring in journalism arrived in the classroom first. Zhenzhen sat down in the first row, took out the unfinished literary work from her schoolbag, and continued to read with relish.
As time went by, more and more people came to the classroom. The sounds of conversation and moving benches were endless. However, Zhenzhen was completely immersed in the world of books and was not disturbed at all.
Suddenly Wei Yujin pushed Zhenzhen's arm and whispered, "Stop looking, the teacher is here."
Zhenzhen quickly put the book in the hole of the table. As soon as she looked up, she met Wangwo's eyes. Seeing Wangwo's smiling eyes, Zhenzhen smiled awkwardly. Although she knew that she would meet Wangwo, Su Weiran, Xu Mengguo and others in the capital sooner or later, Zhenzhen didn't expect it to come so soon, and Wangwo would become her teacher. But it's understandable if you think about it. The Chinese Department of the Capital University is second to none in China, so it's not strange to invite Wangwo to teach.
The other students also recognized Wangwo. After all, as the first person in China to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wangwo's photo was published in newspapers many times this year. The students stood up immediately and expressed their respect and welcome to Wangwo with warm applause.
Wangwo is almost eighty years old now. Although he has taken good care of his health over the years, he still cannot stand for too long. He asked the students to sit down and he sat on a chair behind the podium, warming his hands with a teacup while giving lectures to the students.
Wangwo has a rich life experience and a deep literary background. The textbooks today have not been updated yet and are still the textbooks from the movement period. Wangwo did not even bring his textbooks. He sat on a chair and talked while drinking tea.
The class lasted for an hour and a half. When the bell rang, Wangwo stood up. The students who were engrossed in the get out of class were reluctant to let Wangwo go and surrounded him. Wangwo looked at the students who were gathered around him, feeling excited and relieved. He hadn't seen such a thirst for knowledge for many years.
He held onto the podium and made a downward gesture with his palm. The classroom immediately became quiet. "I know that you can't wait to learn more, and I can't wait to tell you what I know. But the next class will start in ten minutes, so we can't waste too much time here. If you have any questions, please come to my office and we can discuss it together."
The students of the Chinese Department then slowly dispersed, leaving a passage for Wangwo. Looking at the girl standing in the first row and grinning at him, Wangwo couldn't help but laugh. He waved at her and said, "Zhenzhen, are you going to ask the teacher to invite you?"
Suddenly, more than a hundred pairs of eyes looked at Zhenzhen, all of them full of envy. To be so familiar with the number one figure in Chinese literature, she must be a future great. Everyone immediately surrounded the girl from the Journalism Department and asked Zhenzhen's name.
Zhenzhen supported Wangwo's arm, and the two walked out of the classroom while talking in low voices. Seeing that there was no one around, Wangwo asked with a hint of reproach: "Where have you been this year? You didn't contact us, and we were almost going crazy looking for you."
Zhen Zhen stuck out her tongue in embarrassment: "I'm just reviewing my lessons at home, otherwise how could I have been admitted to our Imperial University?"
Wangwo chuckled softly, looking at the new buds emerging from the willows by the lake, and said, "Actually, we came to see you because we are worried about your safety, and we also want to visit your home together. If it weren't for you and your family, I'm afraid we old guys would have turned into ashes long ago."
Zhenzhen had already thought of an excuse for this matter, and she still used Li Muwen as a shield. After all, Li Muwen's position has reached a certain level now, and others dare not easily inquire about his news.
Helping Wangwo sit down on a bench by the lake, Zhenzhen said with some guilt: "Teacher, actually I lied back then. The one who supported me to save you was not my father, but my uncle. I didn't want to explain too much at the time, so I used my father as a cover. In fact, if you look at my student file, you will know that my father is an ordinary employee in Heilongjiang Province and has no ability to save you." Pinching her nose, Zhenzhen continued: "My uncle has a high position in the army and now lives in Compound No. 1."
When they heard about living there, Wangwo hesitated. None of them wanted to deal with officials.
Zhenzhen took the opportunity to say, "My uncle just couldn't bear to see you being wronged, and he didn't mean to ask you to thank him. When you left the mountain, my uncle specifically told me that the rescue should be treated as if it never happened, and that you were not allowed to mention it in the future. Even if you thank him, he would not admit it."
Wangwo nodded: "I understand what your uncle means. I will convey it to Su Weiran and the others."
Zhen Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but laugh, "Actually, I'm lucky. I've had you all as my teachers since I was a kid. Most people don't have this blessing."
Wangwo looked at Zhenzhen's smug expression and said with a teasing smile, "You are indeed very lucky. Xu Mengguo is also a professor here. In addition to teaching history students, he also teaches historical literature appraisal to classical literature students. I think with his personality, you will soon have a second or third major."
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