A professor's rebirth: I entered Tsinghua University in 1977.

By the quiet river, two young men were tearing beggar's chicken apart with their hands and eating it with great relish.

Ai Xiaoyu was a girl after all, so she ate in a more refined manner, while Liu Hongyi's eating manners were somewhat ferocious. What amused Liu Hongyi the most was that Ai Xiaoyu would run to the river to wash her hands from time to time.

Then eat after washing.

"What are you doing? Isn't this unnecessary?"

Ai Xiaoyu smiled and said, "My hands are greasy and I always feel uncomfortable... Yes, Liu Hongyi, I never knew that chicken could be stewed like this. How did you know?"

Liu Hongyi laughed and said, "It's written in novels. This is called beggar's chicken. Beggars stole other people's chickens and had nothing to cook, so they stewed it this way. Over time, it became a famous dish."

Ai Xiaoyu couldn't help but admire again: "You read so many books."

Liu Hongyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the girl didn't ask him for the novel to read, otherwise, he wouldn't know how to cover up the lie.

"By the way, Liu Hongyi, what are your plans for the future? Are you going to stay on the farm forever? Uncle Liu is now the head of the farm, so he should be able to get a recommendation quota, right?"

Ai Xiaoyu gradually began to want to know more about Liu Hongyi.

The normal college entrance examination has not yet been resumed. Ai Xiaoyu dare not even think about being recommended to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. She is now very confused about the future and doesn't know where the way out lies.

Her living on the farm was considered "illegal".

She wasn't the child of a farm worker, and under the protection of Liu Chuan and Xiao Yawen, she used the excuse of recuperating from illness, so for a while no one came to "drive her away." But this couldn't go on forever.

What if Liu Chuan is transferred one day?

Who can continue to protect her?

Liu Hongyi laughed and said, "Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, I don't look down on it."

"Ah, you look down on me?"

This answer was really beyond her expectations.

Liu Hongyi nodded and said confidently, "Ai Xiaoyu, the hard times will eventually pass. I estimate that in a year or two at most, the normal college entrance examination will be reinstated. At that time, we can all be admitted to university with dignity."

He would only say this in front of Ai Xiaoyu.

If it were someone else, he would definitely not say it.

Even when chatting with Liu Chuan and his son, he would not say it so bluntly.

"Two years? I can't live on the farm forever..."

“No problem. As long as my dad stays as the farm manager, you can stay here indefinitely.”

"But what if they ask me to go to the countryside? What if they ask me to join the production team as an educated youth..."

Once, Ai Xiaoyu envied those educated youth who were sent to the countryside, but after arriving at the farm and seeing everyone working hard every day, Ai Xiaoyu realized that it was not something she could do.

She won't do it at all.

The poor and lower-middle peasants did not have enough patience and time to teach her how to do various farm work.

That's a problem.

Although the peak of sending educated youth to the countryside has passed, every year a large number of urban youths are still sent to rural areas across the country as educated youth to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.

Kang Jisheng has suffered such a great loss, he will definitely not let it go and will look for an opportunity to take revenge.

If we find a reason to let Ai Xiaoyu cut in line, it would be difficult to deal with.

However, she still comforted him, saying, "You don't need to worry too much about that. Half of the queue-jumping happens in the second half of the year, before the New Year. There are still several months left, so we should be able to figure out a way by then."

"Don't worry about that for now. We still need to seize the time to review our lessons. If the college entrance examination resumes as normal one day, we can't be caught off guard."

"But even if the college entrance examination is resumed as normal, I still won't pass the political review..."

Ai Xiaoyu still had a worried look on her face, and it seemed that the beggar's chicken in her mouth was not as delicious anymore.

"When the time comes, there will always be a way out. When the time comes, there will always be a way out. Why wait?"

Two people were chatting here when a flashlight lit up on the ridge of the field.

"Hongyi, Xiaoyu..."

However, Xiao Yawen was anxious when he saw that they had not returned home until dark, so he pulled Liu Chuan over to find them.

Liu Hongyi hurriedly shouted: "Mom, we are here, it's okay!"

Liu Chuan and Xiao Yawen rushed over following the noise and complained, "What's wrong with you two kids? You're still out so late. Doctor Chen said you wanted to cook a pheasant for yourselves, but you don't have anything. How are you going to cook it?"

Liu Hongyi was happy: "Mom, Dad, you came at the right time. The pheasant is ready. Come and have some together."

"Yes, Aunt Xiao, come and have some. The stewed chicken Liu Hongyi makes is delicious. It's even better than the one we make at home. It smells so good..."

In fact, Liu Chuan and Xiao Yawen smelled the fragrance from a distance.

I took the chicken handed to me by Liu Hongyi and Ai Xiaoyu, took a bite with some skepticism, and was immediately amazed.

"Hey, it's really delicious. How did you make it..."

"It's Liu Hongyi. He makes beggar's chicken. He wraps the chicken in yellow mud and simmers it over charcoal..."

Ai Xiaoyu hurriedly explained to Liu Chuan and Xiao Yawen, looking proud of herself.

After all, the pheasant was caught by her and Liu Hongyi together, and she also helped to collect firewood, so she did make some contribution.

"Hongyi, who did you learn this skill from? It's quite good. Are you planning to be a chef in the future?"

Liu Chuan couldn't help but make a joke.

He hasn't eaten meat for a long time.

Still such delicious stewed chicken.

When celebrating Huang Anping's birthday, some meat was prepared, but Liu Chuan was a man of rules. He mainly ate fried peanuts and boiled five-spice beans, and gave the roast duck and braised beef to several old leaders.

Liu Hongyi couldn't help but "complain" in his heart: What kind of restaurant is so arrogant that it can afford to hire the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission as a chef?

"Dad, I have a pheasant and two turtledoves. I plan to use them as a gift for my apprenticeship."

"Apprenticeship gift?"

"Who do you want to be your master?"

Liu Chuan asked in surprise.

"Chief Engineer Tan, Tan Dexi!"

"he?"

"He's notoriously stubborn and usually doesn't like to talk to anyone."

Liu Chuan frowned.

"But he is also the chief engineer of Factory 576."

Factory 576, known externally as Qingshan Machinery Factory, is actually a military-industrial enterprise and one of the backbone factories of the Third Line in Jingjiang Province.

Tan Dexi was the undisputed soul of Factory 576, a renowned artillery design expert even within the Ministry of Ordnance Industry. Even in another time and space, Mr. Tan would have been a highly respected expert and scholar by Liu Hongyi.