Chapter 455: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 455: Wang Xiaohua's Classmate Volunteer Application Discussion Conference

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Xiao Xueqing and a group of leaders sat at Wang Zhanggen's home for about half an hour plus, warmly inquiring after Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan; they not only delivered a bonus of three hundred thousand to Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, but also brought gifts of oil, rice, and supplements, and their words were all manner of caring greetings — truly solicitous in every way.

After they left, Wang Zhanggen said to Li Xiulan:

"Call Xiao Hua."

Li Xiulan was somewhat unwilling:

"It's very late now; why not call tomorrow instead?"

For some reason in her inner heart, seeing the leaders visit so enthusiastically and send so much money, she actually could not be happy.

"Call right now; if we wait until tomorrow after he has filed his volunteer application, it will be too late!"

Wang Zhanggen was quite forceful.

Li Xiulan frowned slightly and said:

"Actually, it's best to let Xiao Hua decide this himself; we don't understand, and blindly directing him would be bad."

Wang Zhanggen, however, said:

"I'm not blindly directing; this is Deputy County Magistrate Xiao's meaning — could it be that such a big figure as Deputy County Magistrate Xiao still doesn't understand these things better than Wang Xiaohua?"

Hearing this, Li Xiulan had to admit that Wang Zhanggen's words had a bit of principle.

Wang Zhanggen added:

"Besides, aren't Tsinghua and Peking University good? Even a fool knows Tsinghua and Peking University are the two best universities in our country; I think that kid has studied himself stupid, his brain short-circuited, and that's why he momentarily can't figure things out!"

Li Xiulan stopped speaking.

Wang Zhanggen continued:

"Moreover, they sent a 300,000 scholarship over; if you don't make this call, you go return the money to them yourself!"

Li Xiulan muttered a sentence:

"Why can't you call Xiao Hua yourself? Insisting I call!"

Wang Zhanggen kept a straight face:

"Isn't it because he listens to you more? I can't communicate with him; the moment I open my mouth, he wants to argue with me! No more nonsense, hurry up and call!"

Li Xiulan ultimately still dialed Wang Xiaohua's number.

"Hello, Mom, calling me this late — what's the matter?"

When Wang Xiaohua received his mother's call, he had already turned off the lights and gone to sleep.

Sleeping drowsily, he was woken by the mobile phone ringtone.

"Xiao Hua, Mom has something to tell you."

Li Xiulan hesitated, not knowing how to begin.

"You speak."

Wang Xiaohua's brows furrowed slightly; his mother calling this late made him feel it wouldn't be anything good.

"Tomorrow is the day you file your volunteer application; what school do you plan to apply to?"

Li Xiulan asked.

"Mom, why are you asking this? You don't understand either; I'll decide this myself."

Wang Xiaohua spoke like this; he didn't want his family to interfere in this matter.

If his parents had culture and knowledge, he could listen to their opinions, but the problem is his parents are both illiterate who didn't even finish junior high school.

"Mom indeed doesn't understand, doesn't want to interfere that much; it's just that tonight a big group of leaders came, they sent a 300,000 scholarship over, telling me and your dad to urge you to definitely apply to Tsinghua or Peking University."

Wang Xiaohua was immediately shocked in his heart and hurriedly asked:

"You accepted their money?"

Li Xiulan spoke honestly:

"We accepted."

Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but sigh:

"How could you so lightly accept something someone sent? 300,000 — that's no small amount!"

Li Xiulan gave a bitter smile:

"Your dad and I didn't think too much at the time; besides, the leaders personally delivered it, and we didn't know how to refuse."

This was the honest truth from Li Xiulan; she and Wang Zhanggen indeed both lacked the ability to refuse others.

"Which leaders came?"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly asked.

Li Xiulan said:

"About a dozen people in total; among them was a woman surnamed Xiao, said to be the Deputy County Magistrate; Niu Chunsheng also came."

Then she also persuaded: "Why don't you just apply to Tsinghua or Peking University? Now everyone hopes you'll apply to Tsinghua or Peking University; besides, there's nothing bad about Tsinghua or Peking University either."

After hearing his mother's words, and combining them with the call his homeroom teacher made to him tonight, Wang Xiaohua roughly understood the whole story.

A sense of bleakness involuntarily rose in his heart.

They all say fate must be grasped in one's own hands.

But now his volunteer application matter has obviously already become impossible for him to decide himself.

He has already been kidnapped by interests, already been manipulated by others.

For a moment, he was furious.

He even thought, why not just refuse to apply to Qingbei tomorrow? The more they tried to control him, the more he would go against them!

But after a fleeting thought, reason quickly took over his mind.

Acting on stubbornness comes at a price.

Just like back then when he stubbornly listed his father's eight sins against the family to his face.

Was that wrong? No!

But it brought severe negative consequences!

This time with the volunteer application, if he acted just as stubbornly and recklessly, it would necessarily also bring severe negative consequences!

Leaving aside the chain reactions from the school and county leadership circles, if this matter caused his father to suffer a cerebral hemorrhage from anger again, then he would be a fool who fell into the same pit twice.

Finally, Wang Xiaohua let out a deep breath.

A bitter smile appeared on his face as he tried to let himself come to terms with it.

"Mom, you're right, Qingbei is actually pretty good."

He told himself deep down that he actually wasn't dead set on a popular major either; a rural kid like him had barely touched a computer growing up, was very unfamiliar with computer science, knew nothing about big data, and even his typing on a keyboard wasn't proficient — even if he chose a computer science major, he might not learn it well.

Forget it, let's not dwell on it, let's not force it.

Three hundred thousand in scholarship money, coincidentally enough to rebuild the family's unfinished building — why not?

This night, Wang Xiaohua suffered from insomnia.

He had many wild thoughts.

The next morning after eight o'clock, he walked alone to Yi No. 1 Middle School.

Today was the day for volunteer applications; many Senior Year Three students who had just graduated returned to school to fill them out.

Small county town students aren't like big city students who can operate the application on a home computer.

Many students would return to school to fill out a paper volunteer form, which the school would then uniformly enter into the system.

Wang Xiaohua arrived at the No. 1 High School gate; from afar he saw a red banner hanging on the main gate, extremely conspicuous.

"Warmly congratulate our school's student Wang Xiaohua for scoring 681 on the college entrance exam, bravely winning the County Top Scholar title!"

Students entering and exiting would discuss a few words upon seeing this banner.

Proud of the dazzling achievement brought to their alma mater.

Wang Xiaohua looked at this banner, but his heart was a mix of feelings, with not much happy emotion.

Wang Xiaohua walked through the school gate; beside the Administrative Building a sign was also set up:

"Welcome all leaders to attend the 'Wang Xiaohua Student Volunteer Application Symposium'!"

Wang Xiaohua didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

I'm just filling out a volunteer application and you big leaders have to hold a symposium?

Couldn't you have notified me in advance?

He suddenly understood — actually, he, Wang Xiaohua, wasn't important at all; what mattered was the 681 college entrance exam score.

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