In March 1988, the filming of the TV series "Rebirth" was completed, and another director Zhou found Zhan Aiping and said he wanted to make a movie based on "Rebirth".
Director Zhou said embarrassedly: "Actually, I would rather shoot the article you wrote before, "My Day in 2015", but I don't have the ability yet."
This was a golden period for the development of literature and art. After knowing that her work might be made into a movie, Zhan Aiping was much calmer than before.
"Thank you, director. I'm looking forward to seeing my work on the screen."
After post-production editing, the TV series "New Life" is scheduled to be broadcast in the second half of the year, and several TV stations are willing to purchase it.
Although Zhan Aiping really wanted to see her own work on TV, she couldn't do it in a hurry. The most important thing at the moment was for her eldest daughter to take the college entrance examination.
Last year, brother Gu Chen was admitted to Tsinghua University. Many people were keeping an eye on their family, waiting to see which university Gu Chen's twin sister would be admitted to.
"The child of Brigade Commander Gu will take the college entrance examination again this year."
"Such a beautiful girl..."
When Professor Sun learned that his granddaughter wanted to apply to the Military Medical University, he was even more excited than Zhan Aiping and called Gu Yuan personally: "My dear granddaughter, if you are admitted to the Military Medical University, this small Western-style building where grandpa lives now will be left to you in the future."
Gu Yuan screamed in her heart: "Grandpa, please stop provoking me."
“I’m so afraid I won’t pass the exam.”
Professor Sun comforted her: "What are you afraid of? If you can't pass the exam, just review! You are still young."
Gu Yuan held her forehead with her hand, feeling uncomfortable. One year of senior high school was already painful enough, and another year would be even more painful. She had to work hard and get into university in one go!
Seeing how hard her elder sister worked, Gu Mian was particularly worried. “After my older brothers and sisters finish their exams, it will be my turn.”
Help!
*
It was still the rainy season. It rained intermittently before and after the college entrance examination. The ground was wet. The whole family sent Gu Yuan to take the college entrance examination. Her younger sister Gu Mian sang a farewell song: "Sister, you must pass the exam!"
Gu Yuan: "I'll try my best."
After taking the college entrance examination, Gu Yuan was exhausted. Zhan Aiping didn't care how she did in the exam and took her two daughters to Beijing to eat KFC and pick up her brother who was on summer vacation.
KFC in Beijing is bustling with people. The three-story building has many people coming every day to try this new thing, and some even come from far away to taste it. Sales are booming every day.
They ordered original chicken, mashed potatoes, rolls, and shredded salad and enjoyed their meal very much.
Gu Yuan: "This shredded vegetable salad is quite delicious and simple."
Gu Mian: "Mom, I like mashed potatoes."
Gu Chen: "Brother, I only like to eat meat."
After studying in college for a year, Gu Chen has become much more stable. He is currently planning to develop a text software with others. If his sister had not taken the college entrance examination, he would not have wanted to go back this summer.
Zhan Aiping said: "When you can come up with an instant messaging tool, Mom will admire you."
"Instant messaging tool? The kind of instant messaging system that appears overseas?"
At present, China does not have full-featured access to the world's Internet, but this instant messaging system is feasible, which can pull members into a chat room and chat instantly.
"Yes, as long as you have a computer network, you can chat instantly with strangers from all over the world through the Internet."
It can be included in the research plan, but Gu Chen currently still wants to study some text software of his own.
Zhan Aiping said: "You can study it slowly. If your sister is admitted to university, mom will do something crazy."
"What crazy thing? You will know when the time comes."
On the way back from Beijing, Zhan Aiping took the children on a slow train ride south. It was summer vacation, so they had plenty of time. Zhan Aiping took them to travel around and also secretly collected a lot of treasury bonds.
The prices of treasury bonds vary from place to place. For example, the purchase price in one place is 700, while in another place it is 60. This is based on the information gap. By purchasing at a low price and selling to places with higher prices, a lot of money can be made.
The purchase price in Shanghai has risen to more than one hundred.
Zhan Aiping did do something crazy. She raised more than one million yuan on her own and borrowed another two million yuan to exchange for bags of treasury bonds of different prices.
Besides her, there were other people doing this. Zhan Aiping and her children did it for more than a month and paid off her debts, making a profit of three million.
After making so much money, she stopped. She exchanged one million for original shares of several large companies, one million for investment in building a hotel, and kept the remaining one million.
Gu Yuan said: "This money is so easy to make, why not continue?"
She was numb to the sight of so much money.
Zhan Aiping said: "People should not be too greedy."
This kind of thing does not require any technical content, it is just taking advantage of an opportunity.
How much these papers are worth depends entirely on the above sentence.
Using this method, some people could make tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in the immature securities and stock market. However, the financial market is a floating profit and loss game, and it is nothing more than a gamble. The money earned today might be lost one day in the future, and you might end up in huge debts.
Gu Chen said: "Our mother is right."
"Mom, I want 200,000 to start a business."
Gu Yuan: "Brother, didn't you say 'I will have plenty of money in the future'? Why are you still asking mom for money?"
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "I'll give you two hundred thousand."
Gu Chen: "I will pay back the two million with interest by then."
Gu Yuan: "Brother, you just know how to brag."
*
Gu Yuan received her admission letter, and she was admitted to the clinical medicine major of Shanghai Military Medical University.
"Mom, mom!!!! I passed the exam, I passed the exam!! Set off firecrackers, set off firecrackers!!!"
"I don't have to review! I don't have to review!"
Gu Yuan was overjoyed. She jumped higher than anyone else when she got home. It was such a happy thing to be admitted to the university of her dreams in one go. She didn't want to repeat her senior year of high school. You know, in many high schools, some people have repeated their senior year for three or four years.
Zhan Aiping smiled: "That's great, another child got into college, mom can finally feel relieved, wow, our daughter's score is quite high."
"Of course! This is the result of my hard work for more than 300 days and nights. Look, Mom, the score is high. We should celebrate!"
Gu Sheng said: "We must celebrate. Dad will send you to college."
Last year, he was unable to send his son to college. This year, Gu Sheng specially scheduled his vacation in advance on the eve of the start of school and personally sent his son and daughter to school.
Gu Mian: "Mom and Dad's wedding was also held in Shanghai, right?"
"Yes, your mother studied there and is also a teacher there."
Gu Yuan: "She followed my father and married him thousands of miles away."
Gu Sheng: "So you have to thank your mother, you know, if your mother didn't agree, you three wouldn't be here."
Gu Chen: "Who proposed first?"
Zhan Aiping said firmly: "It's me!"
Gu Mian: "Dad, you are so useless. You need mom to speak first."
Gu Sheng crossed his arms and said, "If I could do it again, Dad would definitely propose to me as soon as I graduate."
Gu Yuan: "Dad, you were a platoon leader when you graduated. How can you get married? You can't bring your family with you."
Gu Sheng: "Who said that Dad is just a platoon leader? Dad was an outstanding graduate that year. He received many awards and honors. He was rated high and became a company commander the following year."
Officers who graduate from military academies are generally awarded the rank of lieutenant, starting as a deputy company platoon leader, but some outstanding ones are directly promoted to captain.
Gu Mian: "Then wasn't he just a platoon leader at the beginning?"
Gu Sheng: "As soon as your mother graduates, she will be assigned to the medical team and come to Daddy's place. She will be accompanied by a group of medical staff. Daddy will take people to see doctors every day."
A military doctor like Zhan Aiping is also a technical lieutenant.
Zhan Aiping: "Just dream on."
Gu Sheng smiled: "Don't dream, you can go to the military hospital, right?"
dream!
The word "military doctor" was a very distant term to her, and she had long been accustomed to life after retiring from the army.
Zhan Aiping clicked her tongue twice: "If it were me, I would definitely get a separate room before your father."
Gu Sheng: "Where does your confidence come from, wife?"
Gu Mian: "You can also get married without a house!"
*
After packing up, the whole family sent Gu Yuan to Shanghai to study at university. They took a plane and were picked up by Professor Sun and his wife as soon as they got off the plane.
"Come here, my good granddaughter, and let Grandpa see the admission letter."
Gu Yuan put her hands on her hips and said proudly: "Grandpa, I passed the exam. That's great, isn't it? From now on, I, little Tangyuan, will inherit your legacy."
Grandma Qi Shuwan suppressed her laughter and said, "Okay, study hard."
"My granddaughter is such a great honor to my grandfather. She is so thoughtful."
They moved into Professor Sun's house. The next day, Zhan Aiping and her husband took their children to wander around Shanghai. Shanghai has changed a lot, but it is still slightly inferior to several special economic zones in Pengcheng.
In the past ten years, Shanghai has not been designated as a special economic zone, nor has it enjoyed any special zone treatment.
Standing by the Huangpu River, there is a world of difference between Puxi and Pudong. At that time, Pudong was still a place full of dilapidated houses, so people would say that they would rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong.
Of course, this situation will change soon. After the 1990s, Pudong was developed and built into a financial center, which was a revolutionary change.
Zhan Aiping thought that she could buy land and build a house when the time comes.
Before her daughter Gu Yuan went to report to university, Zhan Aiping personally cut off her daughter's waist-length hair. Entering a military academy means joining the army, and once you have military status, you become a soldier.
Of course, female soldiers are not prohibited from having long hair. Many female arts soldiers have two beautiful pigtails. Ordinary female soldiers can also have shoulder-length hair in two small buns. It’s just that in military academies, it is not suitable to have long hair.
Long hair is too troublesome to take care of.
Zhan Aiping helped her trim her hair for three hours, and cut out a very beautiful, clean and refreshing hairstyle. Trimming short hair actually requires more skills than long hair, and she has been practicing this skill for a long time.
In the army, there are many ordinary yet confident Tony teachers who have side jobs. Once your hair is cut by them, it will be like a dog-chewed hair.
"Mom, how long are you going to keep cutting your hair?" Gu Yuan held the mirror and looked at herself in the mirror, getting more and more used to her new look. She turned her head and saw a bunch of long hair neatly placed on a table. Her mother said she wanted to keep it as a souvenir and braid it to keep it. She might not have such long hair in the future.
Zhan Aiping boasted: "I'll help you trim your hair to make it look better. Once you enter school, everyone will envy you!"
Comrade Xiao Zhan is also the ordinary and confident teacher Tony, who has cut hair for many people before.
"I look very good now. I am more handsome than my brother. Will there be girls who like me when I go out?" Gu Yuan was very narcissistic. She touched her neck and thought to herself, what a hot female soldier.
Gu Chen commented while eating an apple: "You look like a girl. Your mom gave you a very nice haircut. When this semester is over and you become darker and your hair looks like it has been gnawed by a dog, I guess some girls will be interested in you..."
Gu Yuan squinted her eyes: "Your hair has become dog-chewed after just one semester. I care about my image, okay?"
"Do you think girls are blind? Of course girls like good-looking things, why would they like dog-chewed hair?"
Gu Chen: "You are still young."
Gu Yuan: "A little bit."
Zhan Aiping looked at her daughter in the mirror and commented, "… I'm afraid that after a semester, I will see a daughter who picks up trash."
In a military academy, you have no time to care about your image. You are busy eating, sleeping, training and studying every day. In the end, you will only care less and less about your image.
Her daughter's hair grows fast, and she is afraid that she will get annoyed and cut it rashly.
Gu Yuan snorted: "Mom, I suspect you are breaking the internal affairs regulations."
How could she possibly pick up trash
Zhan Aiping: "I think your hair looks like it was chewed by a dog. Maybe you just came back from picking up trash."
"If this short hair is cut badly, there is no way to save it. For example, I cut it like this here—"
Gu Yuan was terrified by what she said: "Mom, just say it, don't really use the knife."
Can you use these scissors carelessly? If her mother's hand shakes and she cuts them, it will be embarrassing.
"You plucked out a patch of my hair, and I'm embarrassed to start school."
*
The whole family sent Gu Yuan to report to the school, but due to strict management, only one family member was allowed to register and accompany the child in. Zhan Aiping registered first and accompanied her daughter in, while Gu Sheng had to find a way to sneak in.
Zhan Aiping said: "Take your time to think of a solution, and don't even think about climbing over the wall to get in."
Gu Sheng: "I really wanted to climb over the wall before."
"If I were younger I would have flipped over."
Zhan Aiping: "... You'd better not do this kind of thing. If you don't feel ashamed, I will."
Gu Yuan was in a good mood after entering the school. When Zhan Aiping looked at her, she was full of pity. This silly girl, did she think she would be happy without studying mathematics? Did she know how thick the textbooks for medical students were? How many books did she have to study
—If you encourage others to study medicine, God will strike you.
Therefore, she has never supported or explicitly encouraged her child to study medicine. If she insisted on studying medicine, then let her enjoy the relaxing time of the past ten years.
Every freshman at the Military Medical University must have imagined himself as a handsome Red Cross doctor, shuttling back and forth to save lives amidst the roaring flames of war, carrying stretchers to treat the dying and the wounded, and performing surgery at the most critical moment...
So funny.
As a mother, she is not in a position to laugh.
—She was so naive back then.
It is true that a mother understands her daughter best. At this time, Gu Yuan has already imagined in her mind that she will become a super awesome genius doctor in the future, and everyone will come to her and beg her to treat their illnesses.
Gu Yuan said proudly, "I am also a soldier now. Lu Cheng can't keep it secret from me anymore. Sooner or later, I will find out his true colors."
Zhan Aiping patted her shoulder but smiled without saying anything.
"Zhan Aiping?! You are Zhan Aiping?!"
Zhan Aiping and her daughter Gu Yuan turned around and saw a middle-aged man and a young man. The young man was obviously also a freshman in the military academy.
Zhan Aiping seemed to remember: "Your last name is Zhou, right?"
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "We were classmates back then."
Zhou Mingqing has become fat in middle age, with a big belly, and a smug look on his face. It seems that he is living a smooth life now.
He looked at Zhan Aiping with mixed feelings. He didn't expect that after so many years, she had lost her youthfulness, grown long hair, and become so beautiful.
"I'm sending my nephew to school."
Zhan Aiping: "I am sending my daughter to school."
Zhou Mingqing was surprised and said, "Your own daughter is so beautiful and she is also studying in a military medical school? That's amazing."
After a few pleasantries, Zhou Mingqing mentioned that he had been transferred to Shanghai and was the director of some hospital. His words were full of boasting. He had liked Zhan Aiping when he was in school... When he saw her now and heard that she was currently only in a small city in the south, he felt that he was superior to her.
Zhou Mingqing said condescendingly: "You, my daughter, must work hard in the future and try to stay in Shanghai. Don't be like your mother... Alas, your mother is such a pity."
So what if I become the wife of a brigade commander
Zhou Mingqing wanted to take the opportunity to reminisce about the past with her. Even at this age, Zhan Aiping was still so beautiful.
Gu Yuan said unhappily, "What's so regrettable about my mother? My mother has taught countless medical students and saved countless patients. She can also write books. My mother is a great writer. Her books have even been made into TV series!"
Zhou Mingqing was surprised: "What?!"
Gu Yuan said proudly: "If you see a TV drama related to a hospital this year, it was written by my mother!"
Gu Yuan choked Zhou Mingqing away. She was on guard. "Mom, this Zhou guy must have liked you in the past. Look at the look in his eyes just now. Humph, a toad wants to eat swan meat, and he wants to snatch it from my dad."
"Really?" Her daughter is so sensitive
"Of course." Gu Yuan said, "I am the little Tangyuan who loves my mother the most. If a love rival appears, I will automatically alarm."
Zhan Aiping smiled: "Dad is also your love rival?"
Gu Yuan giggled and said, "Let's steal a kiss while daddy's not around."
(End of this chapter)