Chapter 743: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 743: Xiao Hua, Let's Work Hard Together!

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Dashan hung up Wang Xiaohua's call, then turned and told Du Xiaojuan about Wang Xiaohua's suggestion.

"Dealing with my younger brother can deal with this matter?"

Du Xiaojuan fell into thought.

Wang Dashan said:

"My third brother said, as long as your younger brother doesn't cause trouble, your parents won't spend much money; give them ten thousand a month, and they can't spend it all even if they try desperately."

Du Xiaojuan nodded slowly:

"That's indeed the case. Right now, it's because my younger brother owes online loans that they've shamelessly come knocking. But with my younger brother's hopeless, mud-that-cannot-support-a-wall state, asking him to change himself and start anew is probably harder than getting a sow to climb a tree."

Wang Dashan felt Du Xiaojuan had a point:

"True, it's easy to change the landscape but hard to change one's nature. Besides, your younger brother probably doesn't want to change the status quo either. After all, he has his parents backing him now, with food served to his hand and meals brought to his mouth—who would voluntarily give up such a good life?"

Du Xiaojuan's expression turned grave. She thought for a long while, then suddenly said:

"I have a way now. Your brother's suggestion isn't bad."

Wang Dashan hurriedly asked:

"What way?"

Du Xiaojuan said:

"I want to send my younger brother to prison."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan's face immediately filled with surprise.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Not long after Wang Xiaohua hung up Wang Dashan's call, Li Jianjia video-called him.

"Dear, what are you doing?"

"Studying in the library. You?"

"I'm in the study room."

Li Jianjia turned the camera around. Only saw inside the study room, many classmates were buried in studying.

"Why doesn't your place look like a library?"

Wang Xiaohua explained:

"This is the library's toilet. I was too embarrassed to disturb others studying, so I came to the toilet side. Just now my eldest brother called me, I just hung up his call, and then you called."

"What did your eldest brother say to you?"

"Nothing much. Just that something happened at my eldest sister-in-law's home, asking me to give some suggestions for solving it."

Wang Xiaohua glossed over it lightly. He didn't want to spread the troublesome matters of his eldest brother and sister-in-law everywhere. Telling Li Jianjia these things would be of no use to her either.

Li Jianjia said then:

"I miss you. There's still a long time before summer vacation. What to do?"

Longing is a kind of poison that can stretch time very, very long.

For this long-distance couple, it was practically slow torture over a low fire.

The taste of it, only those who have experienced it understand.

Wang Xiaohua comforted her:

"I miss you too. When you miss me, just go study, because I'm very likely studying too. That way, although we're separated by a thousand miles, we're actually studying together. Imagine it: on my left desk, an invisible you; on your right desk, an invisible me. That's actually a kind of romance, isn't it?"

Li Jianjia closed her eyes and imagined, then immediately smiled:

"Mm, I've imagined it. I need to keep studying! I want to take the postgraduate entrance exam, I want to get into Tsinghua University, I want to become your alma mater's alumna, Xiao Hua!"

"Go for it, you can do it! I won't say more now—I need to go study too!"

After hanging up Li Jianjia's call, Wang Xiaohua let out a long turbid breath.

Wasn't his inner heart also in torment?

The time in his world seemed to become difficult to pass because of the long-distance relationship. It hadn't been long, and he already felt time was harder to endure than senior year three.

There were still a full three and a half years before undergraduate graduation.

Even if Li Jianjia really could get into Tsinghua University as a graduate student, they would at least have to wait three and a half years before ending their long-distance relationship.

How long!

Wang Xiaohua returned to his own seat in the library, forcibly swept away these negative emotions, and quickly entered a study state.

Now although he no longer went to Wan Zhiyuan's laboratory, his studies were busier than last semester.

Because he not only had to learn the professional knowledge in the textbooks, but also prepare for the civil service exam.

Administrative Aptitude Test and Essay Writing—he had already started brushing through them.

Current affairs news—he required himself to watch and study them every day.

Additionally, relying on Wei Qian's recommendation, he entered a debate society to study.

If he prepared enough, he estimated he would take the civil service exam right after undergraduate graduation, and wouldn't need to go to graduate school.

Because in his heart he was actually very clear: with Li Jianjia's IQ, the probability of her getting into Tsinghua University's graduate program was very small.

If by then Li Jianjia failed the postgraduate entrance exam, and he continued to study for a master's at this school, wouldn't their long-distance relationship be three years plus three years?

In that case, this relationship might well encounter variables.

Wang Xiaohua cherished this relationship very much, so he was willing to take the initiative to make concessions.

This is probably the shortsightedness of a small-town exam-taker; others who get into Tsinghua think about further studies, even desperately going abroad to study at the world's top academic institutions.

Take Wan Zhiyuan and Wen Lingyun, those two roommates of his; from the moment they entered Tsinghua, they already had clear goals—to make a name for themselves in academic research.

Unlike him, Wang Xiaohua, who was lost for half a semester after entering university before gradually finding his own clear goal.

He was already doing pretty well by that count.

Many ordinary university students from rural areas, even students from prestigious 985 and 211 universities, spend all four years of university in confusion, without clear goals.

Because the education they received from childhood all the way up kept telling them that as long as they buried themselves in their studies and got into university, that was enough.

But what to do after getting into university—the books didn't teach them, the teachers didn't tell them, and their parents didn't know what to do either.

The current Wang Xiaohua has modest ambitions; he doesn't want to make a great career for himself, and even his plan to take the civil service exam and return to his hometown isn't actually to achieve anything in his official career, but so he can be better with Li Jianjia.

On the other side, after Li Jianjia hung up Wang Xiaohua's phone call, she also felt somewhat melancholy.

Because she also realized that if she couldn't get into Tsinghua's graduate program while Wang Xiaohua continued his further studies, then their long-distance relationship would have to be extended by at least three years, and she wasn't too sure whether this relationship could endure.

So she had to get into Tsinghua's graduate program; although the competition was fierce and the odds were small, she had no other choice.

She closed her eyes again and imagined what Wang Xiaohua had just said.

An invisible figure appeared on the seat to her right.

She turned back to look, revealing a smile:

"Xiao Hua, let's work hard together!"

Li Jianjia became full of energy and buried herself in hard study.

In the blink of an eye it was ten-thirty at night, and the study room forcibly turned off the lights.

Only then did Li Jianjia reluctantly pack up her things and return to the dormitory.

Inside the dormitory.

Her three roommates Lin Yuan, Liang Lina, and Lan Xiaomeng had already returned to the dormitory long ago.

Lin Yuan lay on the bed chatting, Liang Lina was watching a drama, and Lan Xiaomeng was applying a face mask.

"Jianjia, you're back so late from studying again?"

Lan Xiaomeng asked.

Liang Lina said instead:

"Don't be so competitive; just let your Tsinghua boyfriend be the competitive one—why torture yourself like this?"

Lin Yuan chimed in:

"Exactly; if I had a Tsinghua boyfriend, I'd just lie flat and focus on serving him well, doing nothing else at all."

Li Jianjia gave a dry laugh:

"I stopped studying at seven o'clock; I went out for a stroll all evening tonight, and I'm exhausted."

"Where did you stroll? Who did you stroll with?" Lin Yuan asked with a gossipy expression, her questions completely lacking boundaries.

Li Jianjia felt displeased inside, but didn't directly retort.

Instead she changed the subject:

"Lin Yuan, I've seen you holding your mobile phone and chatting lately, and you sometimes laugh foolishly—tell me, you're not in an online relationship, are you?"