Volume 1 Chapter 0059: Love Comes and Goes
"Dad, can I not go to Xiangkeng?"
"Haven't we already agreed that you will go to school over there, and during the summer vacation, have your great-grandma take you back, and then you can see your dad."
"But I don't want to leave Dad."
"Is Dad good to you?"
"good."
"Then why don't you be nice to dad and help him when you grow up?"
"Um."
"So, you have to study. Only when you have learned great skills can you help your father."
"Dad, I can learn from you."
"No, Dad doesn't know a lot of things either, and he's learning from others. Why don't you go out and learn what Dad doesn't know, and then teach it to Dad in the future?"
"No, Dad, you can go to school with me."
"Haha, be good, I know you understand what dad means. Only after several months of hard work can the fireflies emit dazzling light.
Why are your clothes prettier than other children’s?
Why do you eat better than others?
This is all earned by daddy, and here..." Nan Yi pointed to his head and shook his hands, "Dad earned this for you by working harder than others.
If you want to live better than others, you have to work harder than others and suffer more than others.
You are my Nan Yi's daughter, and I have high expectations for you.
I also hope that you can make great achievements for our Nan family and establish a large business empire."
"Dad, my last name is Nan, right?" Nan Ruoyin asked seriously.
"Yes, your surname is Nan. You are the eldest daughter of our Nan family and my biological daughter, Nan Yi." Nan Yi answered with certainty.
"Dad, I will study hard and become a useful member of the Nan family."
"Um."
Nan Yi picked up Nan Ruoyin, and Nan Ruoyin rested her head on Nan Yi's shoulder, feeling very attached to him.
After Fang Mengyin took Nan Ruoyin away, without the little girl's laughter, the Nan residence became deserted, and Nan Yi felt empty, lonely and cold.
After three or five days of boring life, they held two meetings in the brigade headquarters to arrange the work for the remaining less than half a year of the year, and then Nan Yi and Xian Zilin embarked on the journey back to school.
Still taking the train, train No. 24 from Guangzhou to Beijing, hard seat.
Unlike previous years, Nan Yi discovered that the proportion of young passengers on the train had increased significantly. They were wearing floral shirts with bell-bottom pants and had green school bags hanging around their necks. Judging from their nervous expressions, there should be a lot of cash and food coupons in the school bags.
These should be the small-time traders among the profiteers. Like ants moving house, they bring some fashionable things from the townspeople in Guangzhou to the north to sell.
As for what fashionable things they are, they are probably the ones left over by Nan Yi.
I could earn three or four yuan for a pair of sunglasses and one or two yuan for a cassette. If I carried a big bag back to Beijing, it would cost me 73 yuan for a train ticket, plus some travel expenses, so I could earn more than 100 to several hundred yuan per trip.
How much they earn depends on how much capital they have and how much cargo they can carry in one trip.
Also getting on the train from Shencun Station with Nan Yi and the other man were a few young men who were "working" at the Wenchangwei Garment Factory, responsible for selling bell-bottom pants.
Nan Yi had some impression of two of them. They should be the earliest batch of temporary workers. This was the second time they came to pick up the goods. It seemed that the sales performance was very ideal.
After observing for a while, Nan Yi withdrew his gaze.
"Brother Nan Yi, our teacher said that after the New Year, we will start our internship." Seeing that Nan Yi's attention had been drawn back from outside, Xian Zilin said.
"So soon, internship in junior year?"
"Yes, our classes for this semester are basically finished, and when the last semester starts, where we will be assigned will basically be decided."
"Do you distribute according to the principle of going from one community to another?"
"No, it's reform and reform."
Nan Yi's "come and go" means that you will be assigned to the commune you came from. In the past, the workers, peasants and soldiers were assigned to work according to this principle.
No matter what the reforms are, they will be assigned back to the county where they came from.
Of course, this is only the norm.
Above these, there are various "special" prefixes that go beyond the norm.
"What do you think? Are you going back to Bao'an, or are you working towards staying in school?"
"I can't stay in school. I know that many students with better grades than me are trying to stay in school. There are only a few places, and I will definitely not win."
"It's good to go back to Bao'an, it's close to home."
"Brother Nan Yi, what about you? Do you plan to stay in school?"
"It's hard to say now. I have to wait for the list of assigned units to come out before I can make a decision. If there is a suitable position in Baoan or Yangcheng, I will try to come back. Otherwise, I will stay in school."
Nan Yi naturally hopes to be assigned back to Guangdong Province, preferably Bao'an, but based on his grades, he will most likely be accepted by a unit in Beijing.
Therefore, in the second half of next year, Nan Yi will have to find a company in Bao'an to express to Beijing University their eagerness to accept Nan Yi. With the company's active invitation and Nan Yi's agreement, the assignment is basically settled.
Unless some state-owned unit intercepts it.
Of course, the receiving unit cannot be a collectively owned enterprise like Wenchangwei Garment Factory, it must at least be a state-owned enterprise.
Otherwise, it would be absurd to send the talents that the country urgently needs to production teams.
Even if Nan Yi himself is willing, the country will not.
"In the remaining two years, I have to lower my academic performance. I must not do anything that will make me stand out or attract attention." Nan Yi thought silently.
When Xian Zilin heard Nan Yi mention the possibility of staying in school, she wondered whether she should also try for it.
"But even if I stay in school, I won't be able to stay for more than a few years before returning to Wenchangwei."
"Yes, Wenchangwei cannot do without Brother Nanyi."
Xian Zilin smiled and gave up the idea of staying in school, waiting to be assigned back to Bao'an.
On the train, Nan Yi and Xian Zilin didn't have much time to chat. Most of the time, they each sat in their seats, reading quietly with a book in hand.
But from time to time, Xian Zilin would put down the book, lie on the table, and stare secretly and infatuatedly at Nan Yi's profile. Her eyes penetrated the void. She saw a baby in a cradle, saw the child grow up, and saw herself supporting the gray-haired Nan Yi.
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The train arrived in Beijing. As soon as Nan Yi and his friend stepped out of the station, Men Saner came to meet them.
"Uncle Nan, I'm here to pick you up. I drove here."
"Should I drive or ride?"
"Go ahead, my buddy is driving a big bike."
"What the hell, can a sidecar be called 'open'?" Nan Yi said, putting his tone in a serious tone, "Is there anything wrong with riding the company's car out?"
"No problem. This car was already broken. I fixed it. Master Nan, guess what brand my car is?"
Nan Yi chuckled, "Since you ask that, then we can first rule out the Hongdu Changjiang 750. It's easy to guess once we rule it out. The possibility of a BMW is not high. It must be the Soviet revisionist Ural M72, which is an antique."
"Awesome, Master Nan is awesome." Men Saner gave a thumbs up, "This is not difficult for you."
"Come on, it's nothing special to guess this. In our area, we can only find these three things. Where are you parking the car? Hurry up, it will get hot soon."
"Not far, just two steps away."
Let Xian Zilin sit in the truck bed, Men Saner raised his left foot and stepped hard on the starter lever, while his right hand turned the accelerator to accelerate, "thump, thump, thump, thump, thump."
"Is it still possible?"
"Okay, why not?" Men Saner wiped his sweat and said awkwardly.
Boom, boom, boom...boom.
"Okay, okay, there's nothing I can do. This car is at least two years older than me."
After finally starting the car, Men Saner immediately tried to save face for himself.
"Come on, let's go."
Nan Yi patted Men Saner's shoulder, waited for him to get in the car, and then Nan Yi sat in the back seat.
As soon as Men Saner stepped on the accelerator, the Ural M72 emitted a cloud of black smoke and rumbled up the pole to work as a farmhand for PM2.5.
