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

Zhao Dongchuan turned around and came to an empty alley, put away his system glasses, and headed towards the cultural center.

"Teacher Jia, are you busy?" As soon as Zhao Dongchuan entered the office, he saw Jia Bing writing at his desk.

"That's right. I have to work hard too. Seeing the new generation pushing the old generation forward, I have to catch up as well!" Jia Bing joked as he wrote.

"Teacher Jia, how can you say that? I am just a junior student with some small achievements. I can't compare to the great reputation of Teacher Jia!" Zhao Dongchuan was busy flattering him.

Jia Bing waved his hands and said, "Alright, alright, you little brat, stop flattering me. Family members know their own business! Let me ask you, have the sample copies arrived?"

"Not yet. It may take a few days!" Zhao Dongchuan shrugged.

"It's said to be within these two days. It will be publicly released in a few days!" Jia Bing said a little confused.

As they were talking, Du Lili walked in.

"Teacher Jia, Xiao Zhao, you are all here!"

"Sister Lily!" Zhao Dongchuan greeted with a smile.

"Xiao Li, is there something wrong?" Jia Bing asked.

"It's like this. The Huangyuan Cultural Bureau is organizing a revolutionary poetry conference and wants to invite outstanding poets from our Huangyuan city to participate and create revolutionary poetry. The top three will have the opportunity to go to Beijing!" Du Lili said excitedly.

"The director asked me to be in charge of the selection for our cultural center, so I came here to ask if you would like to participate!"

Jia Bing was obviously interested, but he didn't agree in the end.

"Forget it. I won't get involved with you young people. Besides, as you know, my wife is going to give birth in two months, and I have to take care of her!"

Du Lili looked at Zhao Dongchuan again.

"I can't do it either. I can only write a few poems. I won't go up and embarrass myself!" Zhao Dongchuan also shook his head.

Du Lili's face darkened when she saw that neither of them supported her work.

"Okay, since you all don't want to go, I won't force you. I'm leaving first, you guys go ahead and get busy!" Then he turned and left.

Zhao Dongchuan and Jia Bing smiled at each other, shook their heads in tacit understanding, and sat back at their own tables to get busy.

This trend has been going on for nearly ten years, and the selected poems are all eulogies and have no meaning at all. They have no interest in participating.

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The next day, when Zhao Dongchuan arrived at the office, before he even sat down, he saw the doorman walking towards him.

"Xiao Zhao, there's a letter for you!"

Zhao Dongchuan was stunned for a moment, then took the letter and said, "Thank you!"

Before he could take a closer look, Jia Bing, who was sitting at the next table, stood up and asked, "Was it sent by the magazine?"

Zhao Dongchuan looked at the mailing address on the letter and said with a smile, "It's true!"

"Finally here, let's take it apart and have a look!"

"okay!"

Zhao Dongchuan opened the letter and found a magazine, a remittance slip, and a manuscript acceptance notice inside!

"Let me see it. I want to see it first!" Jia Bing said impatiently.

Zhao Dongchuan didn't say anything and handed the magazine directly to Jia Bing.

He turned around and looked at the remittance slip. It showed 50 yuan. Normally, the royalties for a novella would be more than this, but in this special period, this was the remuneration that Editor-in-Chief Li of the magazine had tried his best to get for him.

The letter also gave him a lot of industrial coupons and various bills.

When Zhao Dongchuan saw these industrial coupons and various bills, his heart moved.

Hmm? I wanted to give Sun Shaoan a second-hand bicycle as a gift, but it was hard to explain where it came from. Now that I have these industrial coupons, I can do it.

He put away the remittance slip and the industrial bill roll, and said to Jia Bing, "Teacher Jia, take your time to read it. I'm going to go out for a while!"

He planned to find Huang Laosan and ask where he could find second-hand bicycles so that he could trade them.

Jia Bing was so absorbed in watching that he had no time to respond to him, so he just nodded. Seeing this, Zhao Dongchuan stood up silently and walked outside.

After leaving the cultural center, I could clearly feel that there were more people on the street than usual, and many people's bicycles were full of things.

"New Year's Day is almost here, and everyone is buying supplies to prepare for the holiday!" He guessed it after taking a quick glance at the bags carried by passers-by.

Yes, New Year's Day is just a few days away, and he also needs to purchase some supplies to prepare for the holiday. However, there is one question he has never figured out, which is what to eat on New Year's Day?

Some say they eat rice cakes, some say they eat dumplings, and some say they eat glutinous rice balls!

He couldn’t understand it in the previous life, but now!

He glanced at the bags of people on the street, and most of them were filled with rice cakes and dumplings!

Yeah! Got it!

He turned around and rode his bike to the store and bought rice cakes, dumplings, and glutinous rice balls!

Don’t hesitate, adults don’t make choices, I want them all!!!

Zhao Dongchuan hung the bag of rice cakes, dumplings and glutinous rice balls on the front of the car with a smile, and prepared to return to the dormitory.

I'll ask Huang Laosan later, there's no rush.

After returning to the dormitory, Zhao Dongchuan put the things he bought on the table and prepared to boil water to make steamed dumplings.

He first added water to a large pot, placed the dumplings on a steaming tray, and then turned on high heat.

Then he took out the garlic and chopped it, cut some red pepper and some ginger, took out a small pot, added water, poured it in, started cooking it on another small stove, added some soy sauce and salt, and soon the fragrance filled the air. The dipping sauce was ready, so he turned off the fire.

After about twenty minutes, Zhao Dongchuan felt that the dumplings were almost done and turned off the fire.

Soon a plate of delicious dumplings came out of the oven.

Zhao Dongchuan ate the food happily with the homemade dipping sauce!!

The steamed dumplings taste really good, better than boiled dumplings.

Soon, he finished a full pot of dumplings and burped.

Zhao Dongchuan wiped his mouth, put away the pots and pans, and was about to go out. He was ready to get down to business!

He left the dormitory and walked around until he arrived at an abandoned yard.

This house is a small base where Huang Laosan usually hides. Sometimes when he cheats powerful people and is afraid of being caught and retaliated, he will hide here to avoid the limelight.

Now it has become Zhao Dongchuan’s secret base!

Zhao Dongchuan took out several bicycles that he had taken from the gangster boss from the space.

Suddenly the empty room was filled.

This is also the reason why he had to go out and come here. His small dormitory cannot accommodate so many bicycles, and it will definitely be a mess!

Zhao Dongchuan checked each bicycle one by one and found one that looked the worst but was still usable.

"That's it!"

Zhao Dongchuan planned to give this bicycle to Sun Shaoan as a wedding gift. He didn't dare to give a good-quality bicycle for fear that something might go wrong. This old bicycle could be said to have been discarded by someone else, and he bought it with a little money and industrial coupons.

His gift won't be too expensive, so it will be easier for everyone to accept it!

With this bicycle, Sun Shaoan's family can reduce some of the burden, and He Xiu Lian won't have to work so hard!

He really cares about the “protagonists” so much!!!