Chapter 31: 【31】Go to the Capital 1
“Teacher Zhuang, my family can only go by train, and it should be sitting in the hard seats,” Xie Wanying answered.
Upon hearing this, Teacher Zhuang sighed. It was very tough to travel to the Capital by train, as it was extremely far from here. If her son hadn’t bought her a plane ticket, the journey would have been too exhausting, which is also why she didn’t come back to Songyuan City before.
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In those days, without high-speed trains, it took a full twenty-six hours to travel from Songyuan to the Capital by train, not including the bus ride to the provincial capital to catch the train. Xie Wanying’s journey in pursuit of her education was actually very arduous.
The image of the young doctor she had seen at the entrance of the city’s Third Hospital the other night flashed through Xie Wanying’s mind; people like him could get into a sedan and catch a plane back to the Capital incredibly fast.
I’m sorry, but it seems that only experts enjoy such treatment. Starting from a medical student and struggling forward, it was really just the beginning.
“Okay, we’ll get in touch afterward,” Teacher Zhuang said tenderly, patting Xie Wanying’s shoulder.
Xie Wanying had to leave first and say goodbye to her teacher because she was in a hurry to buy a student train ticket.
No matter when, domestic train tickets were always in short supply and hard to get, especially apparent in the nineties.
After she left, Teacher Zhuang suddenly asked Zhao Wenzong, “Why did you suddenly switch to Guoxi University, causing Teacher Liu to be furious?”
Zhao Wenzong’s face turned red, filled with particular shame. It was Xie Wanying’s suggestion that had caused a turning point in his life, yet at that time, he was such a coward that he didn’t speak a word for her. Now, he could only say “Xie Xie” in his heart.
Understanding something, Teacher Zhuang pointed at his face and shook her head before walking away.
After queueing to buy train tickets, Xie Wanying finally managed to get train tickets for herself and her mother.
When Xie Changrong learned that his daughter had only bought train tickets for her mother, he banged the table at home and shouted at his wife, “The beast you gave birth to only remembers you and forgets I’m her father.”
“You don’t like the university Yingying is attending. Where do you want to go with a train ticket?” Sun Rongfang was furious with her husband’s words and glared fiercely at him.
“Whether I like it or not, she should buy me a train ticket,” Xie Changrong insisted with the obstinacy unique to the men of the Old Xie Family. “Because I’m the head of this family, I’m her father!”
“You’re just wasting money. If you want to go, take out your own money. Besides, you’re her father, you should be the one paying for it!” Sun Rongfang fired back, up in arms.
Xie Changrong was taken aback and realized that ever since his daughter had been admitted to medical college, his wife had started talking to him with a tone that was dismissive and insolent, paying him no heed.
So he recalled what his neighbor, Old Fang, had told him, “Old Xie, you need to change your attitude and start pleasing your daughter a bit more, lest she forgets you once she’s in the Capital, living a life of glory and wealth.”
These words made Xie Changrong’s heart thump anxiously, and in a flash, he remembered what Grandpa Xie had told him, “Son, it’s useless. Yingying going to medical college, after she graduates, hospitals won’t hire female surgeons. If you don’t believe it, you can ask Yingying’s maternal aunt, who’s a doctor.”
“Right, your cousin did tell you that hospitals don’t hire female surgeons,” said Xie Changrong, tossing his wife’s own words back at her.
Sun Rongfang did worry every time she remembered her cousin’s words. Indeed, Zhou Ruomei had more insight into the medical field as she worked in a hospital.”So, do you want Yingying to come back and attend a teachers’ college instead?” Xie Changrong seized the opportunity to ask.
“She previously said that Yingying could never get into medical college. But now Yingying is the science top scorer, how do you explain that?” Sun Rongfang spread her hands, feeling that her cousin no longer seemed infallible.