The Beginning of the World: Going to the Countryside as an Educated Youth

"Brother Dong, what did you say?"

Sun Shaoping looked at Zhao Dongchuan a little helplessly, his face slightly flushed.

"I say, you have to work hard from now on and learn cultural knowledge so that you can use it in the future!" Zhao Dongchuan looked at Sun Shaoping seriously.

He hopes that Sun Shaoping can be admitted to university in the future, which will be beneficial to the country and to him personally.

In the original novel, Sun Shaoping also took the college entrance examination, but due to the school environment and his sensitive heart caused by his family's poverty, he greedily drew spiritual comfort from novels and did not study cultural knowledge well, which led to his failure in the college entrance examination.

Looking back on Sun Shaoping's life, he was actually just a confused teenager. Because he read a lot of books and learned about the colorful world outside, he was no longer satisfied with staying in Shuangshui Village.

He wanted to make a difference in the new world, but the reality forced him to go through some heavy suffering.

In fact, Sun Shaoping has been learning all the time, but what he learned was not cultural knowledge. Instead, he learned human qualities and spiritual core from society and books.

This is actually the difference between Tao and Shu. From the perspective of Tao, no matter what kind of suffering Sun Shaoping experienced, he would eventually gain something and develop "Shu". However, due to the lack of "Shu" in the early stage, he experienced a lot of unnecessary suffering.

Sun Shaoping looked at Zhao Dongchuan with slightly confused eyes.

He was a little confused about what Dong Ge meant, but that didn't stop him from feeling Dong Ge's love and care for him.

He was like a soldier facing a general. He solemnly accepted the glorious mission, and at the same time, a sense of inexplicable reverence rose in his heart.

"Thank you, Brother Dong. I will definitely study hard!" Sun Shaoping took the bag and said seriously.

"Hahaha, come on, I'm looking forward to your future!" Zhao Dongchuan patted Shao Ping's shoulder encouragingly.

On the day when the revolutionary story of Yuanxi County was rehearsed, Zhao Dongchuan, Jia Bing and the director of the cultural center sat in the audience seats below, watching the spirited Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia passionately narrating the heroic deeds of the revolutionary predecessors, and they could not help but smile with satisfaction.

In the end, Yuanxi County won the first place in the competition, which made the director of their county's cultural center smile with joy. Jia Bing was also very happy about this, as if he had won the first place himself.

Zhao Dongchuan knew that they would win the award in the original novel, but he was not that excited. What surprised him was that he remembered that Shao Ping and Xiao Xia should have won the second place, but he did not expect that after his participation, they would now win the first place.

In order to celebrate their success, the director of Yuanxi County Cultural Center made a rare "big spend" to treat them to a big meal at the Huangyuancheng State-owned Hotel.

Sun Shaoping, whose eyes were opened, happily returned to the county town with Tian Xiaoxia, carrying with him countless new impressions, a 5 yuan bonus, a certificate, and a set of Selected Works of Mao Zedong.

When leaving, in addition to the gifts that Shao Ping bought for his family with his bonus, Zhao Dongchuan also asked Shao Ping to take some gifts he bought for him.

After seeing off Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia, Zhao Dongchuan returned to his peaceful life.

It has been a week since I last visited Li Huiying, Cao Yuan and the others. It's time to go check them out and complete the mission.

Thinking of this, Zhao Dongchuan became excited again.

That day, after breakfast, Zhao Dongchuan rode his bicycle to Li Huiying's house.

"Xiao Zhao, you're here, please come in!" Li Huiying was cleaning the yard at this time. When she saw Zhao Dongchuan coming, she greeted him warmly.

"Aunt Li, has Cao Yuan's schooling been arranged?"

"It's done. She's already entered the village primary school. She's in the fifth grade. She was supposed to be in the first grade, but we were afraid she couldn't keep up, so we made her repeat the grade."

"Yeah, that's good. Children should read more and learn more cultural knowledge."

"Xiao Zhao, can I start selling goods? I haven't worked these two days, so I'm very free. I could only clean the house over and over again." Li Huiying looked at Zhao Dongchuan expectantly.

"Sure, you can go today, just be careful."

"Okay, I'll get ready right away!" Li Huiying walked into the house happily and started to get herself ready.

Zhao Dongchuan left two watches and explained the matter to Li Huiying, then rode his bicycle to work.

When he arrived at the office, Zhao Dongchuan continued to improve his novel "Yellow Earth". Because of the adjustment of revolutionary stories these days, a lot of progress had been delayed. He planned to hurry up and make up for what he had missed.

As Zhao Dongchuan was writing, a poem that had been buried in his memory suddenly popped up in his mind. This poem only had one sentence, but it was thought-provoking. (Can you guess which poem this is?)

After much hesitation, he decided that it would be better to submit the manuscript later as it was not the right time.

After work, Zhao Dongchuan came to Li Huiying's house with excitement.

From the outside, it seemed that there was no one inside. Zhao Dongchuan saw that the door was not locked, so he knocked on the door and walked in.

"Aunt Li?"

"Xiao Zhao, I'm cooking, you take a rest first!" Li Huiying's voice came from the kitchen. After a while, Li Huiying came out with a plate of food.

"What's going on today? So much meat!" Zhao Dongchuan said in surprise as he looked at the full plate of pork belly.

"I'm happy today!" Li Huiying said with a smile.

"It looks like business is good today. How many watches did you sell?"

Li Huiying arranged the dishes, took out a bottle of wine, and asked Zhao Dongchuan to sit down.

“I sold four watches today, and they’re all sold out!”

“You didn’t see it. When I got there, a lot of people came over. I was very nervous at first, but later I realized that they couldn’t find the person they wanted to buy a watch from in the past few days, and they were afraid that I was missing again, so they caught me and bought me the watch today!” Li Huiying said with lingering fear.

“Isn’t this hunger marketing? A classic move by Lei Jun!” Zhao Dongchuan complained in his heart.

I didn't expect that an unexpected effort would lead to a great success. This is the comfort of a seller's market.

"There are still some people who haven't bought it yet, so they asked me to catch up with them first. I can even increase the price a little bit!"

As she spoke, Li Huiying pulled out a cloth bag from under the bedding on the kang and took out a stack of big unity notes.

“The total amount was 680 yuan.”

"Good, excellent!!!" Zhao Dongchuan said happily.

Zhao Dongchuan took the money and without counting it, he directly took out six Great Unity notes and handed them to Li Huiying.

“This is your commission!”

"Ding, congratulations to the host, you have completed the task and obtained 5 chances to draw a lottery. The host can start the lottery at any time!!"

A clear prompt from the system came into Zhao Dongchuan's mind.

At this moment, he only felt that the sound was extremely beautiful, like listening to heavenly music.

"Xiao Zhao...Xiao Zhao...what are you thinking about???"

Li Huiying's voice woke Zhao Dongchuan from his fantasy.

"No...it's okay...I'm just happy. I want to celebrate today!"

"Come on, come on, cheers!!!"

After dinner, Zhao Dongchuan agreed with Li Huiying to bring a few more watches tomorrow, and then he hurried back to the dormitory.

He wants to start the lottery right away to see what color treasure chest he can get and what treasures can be found in the treasure chest!!!