intellectual norms

This day, the internal conflicts in the family reached the second half, and it all turned into Baizhu's earnest re-education against Xia Xiaoli. Money, and more importantly, if you do this job, you basically bid farewell to your normal life, and you can't accompany your wife and children. After a long time, it is inevitable that your wife will run away and your children will become emotionally distant.

"After all, like your mother, few people can sacrifice their whole life to make this family a success." Baizhu's heart hurts when she talked about this, and she fully experienced the pain of marrying a construction worker. Tell Xia Xiaoli honestly, let him change his aspirations as soon as possible, he can take the Hongda University, but don't take the Civil Engineering College.

At that time, her husband and son will be moving bricks at the construction site, and Baizhu will faint when she thinks about it.

At first, Xia Xiaoli dealt with it, but gradually, unconsciously, she really listened to it. Baizhu spoke very seriously, and Xia Xiaoli had experienced many things herself, but she was still young at the time, so she didn't understand the sadness involved. Suffering, now that I have grown up and think about it, I realize that it is really not easy.

It's not easy for dad, and it's not easy for mom either.

Even Xia Yunhan stood on the same front with his wife at this time, and said to Xia Xiaoli: "Dad has never opposed your ideas and decisions, but Xiaoli, Dad knows how hard it is to do this job, and I really don't want you in the future It’s also so hard. Dad has thought about this for a long time. In fact, there is another way. If you really want to do this, you don’t have to be a designer, go to the construction site to do projects, or you can take the civil service exam and go to our government department The relevant jobs are also in the industry, and they can also serve construction workers, which is great.”

Xia Xiaoli was taken aback, he had never thought about taking the civil servant exam, and he had no idea what the civil servants in the Construction Department of the Construction Bureau should do.

Baizhu also thought this idea was good. Xia Yunhan said, "Even if you majored in architecture or bridges in college, you won't lose your major. If you have this major background, you will have an advantage in taking the civil service exam. Dad is right?"

Xia Xiaoli couldn't give an answer for a while, it was completely out of his original thought, and Xia Yunhan's proposal was not impossible to consider, it was just too sudden and he needed time to think it through.

But he thought of Qiao Yu, so he defended weakly but with reason: "I don't think Brother Qiao has become ugly because of the construction site, he can still teach and write, and he has won so many awards..."

Baizhu stared: "Mr. Qiao, is that an ordinary person? That's one in a million! How many construction workers are like him? He's an outlier. No school can produce one like this for many years." Yes, Xia Xiaoli, stop dreaming, don’t just stare at the top point of the pyramid, broaden your horizons, and see what 99% of normal construction workers live like.”

Following her, I was also a little confused: "Mr. Qiao is so good, isn't she still in her thirties and still unmarried? Now I don't have a girlfriend, and I haven't said anything about my relationship. I'm going to Africa again. It's still a few days. In [-], I think most of the girls who come into contact with him can't stand the nature of this job."

Xia Xiaoli's lips moved, and she held back what she wanted to say.

Baizhu likes Qiao Yu very much. Qiao Yu couldn't be the son-in-law of the Xia family and she was sad for a while, but now she feels so lucky that if Qiao Yu married Xia Xiaoberry or Xia Xiaocheng , her daughters are another self, and the sacrifice she has to make is too great, and she is still reluctant.

At this time, she remembered that Xia Xiaocheng was in love with each other in full swing, and said angrily: "Your second sister's boyfriend, Chen Ke, if he doesn't go to the construction site in the future, he can teach in school safely, and I agree with them." Two together."

Xia Xiaoli: ...

He and his father looked at each other in dismay.

At this moment, Xia Yunhan could only follow her, and then comforted his wife. Xia Xiaoli was a little distracted by the side, Qiao Yu, the college entrance examination, majors, love, civil servants... all kinds of complicated thoughts appeared one after another, which was beyond his ability to handle. range.

The sequelae brought about by this weekend had a strong impact. Xia Xiaoli kept thinking about these contradictory and complicated thoughts for the next week. He could fully understand why Bai Zhu and Xia Yunhan objected to his construction work. Qiao Yu once told him that he Part of the conflict with Lin Zhihua is that they spent too much time apart because of their respective projects in the early years, and one of them was always absent.

Always on the road, home all over the world, sounds very romantic, but when it comes into reality, it means that you have to be separated from the person you love all the year round, separated by two places.

Xia Xiaoli was a little shaken. He originally chose construction engineering to be closer to Qiao Yu, but now it seems that the reality is completely opposite. It seems that he chose another path. He even had to make a "sacrifice" in his career in order to let Qiao Yu Two people stay together forever?

He was at a loss.With his current experience, he couldn't think of a correct answer anyway.

The days are as dull as water, the more nervous the sprint preparation is, the more Xia Xiaoli keeps herself from losing her rhythm, the running continues every Sunday afternoon, and without Qiao Yu, he goes to the playground of Hongda University to run alone.

I have been running regularly for more than half a year, and my body has indeed become stronger visible to the naked eye, but I am still so distressed that I have not jumped up. Every time I finish running, I have to stretch for a while. When I stretch, I want to stretch myself again. Pull up a little.

After running this afternoon, he didn't want to go back to the apartment to continue writing questions for the time being. The breath of spring was already strong. Peach and cherry blossoms were blooming on the campus of Hongda University in turn. There were many people coming to enjoy the flowers inside and outside the campus. Under the cherry blossom tree, the wind blew, and the powdery petals fell on him. Many girls in Hanfu took pictures here. He didn't even notice that the photographers with cameras also took many pictures of him. The boy under the cherry blossom tree blown by the evening wind is as clear as a flower.

At the end of Cherry Blossom Avenue is an old teaching building. Xia Xiaoli knows it. This is the building where the School of Construction and Engineering often attends classes. There are students walking in twos and threes, and he also mixes in it.

The students arrived at a large lecture hall on the fourth floor. There were already many students sitting in it. Xia Xiaoli hesitated for a while, stood in the corridor and pulled a boy who looked very friendly and asked, "What is this class?"

The boy touched his head: "This is an elective course. It seems to be the history of Eastern and Western architecture, right? I don't know very well. I chose it randomly with my classmates. I am from the Chinese Department."

It turned out to be an elective course. No wonder in such a big classroom, the students didn't know each other very well, and the teacher was even less familiar with them. Xia Xiaoli had a thought, so he mixed in and sat in the last row.

Xia Xiaoli, the teacher who gave the lecture, had met her before, surnamed Xie, but she was not familiar with her. He had met him many times in the Design Institute, so he quietly buried his head a little lower.

This teacher Xie is from the Department of Architecture, and the content of elective courses is generally relatively light, focusing on fun and basic science popularization. Teacher Xie saw a room full of dark students and said with a smile: "We all know that tonight we will talk about love. There are so many people here?"

The students all laughed, Xia Xiaoli was confused, huh?love? ?

Teacher Xie opened the handout PPT, and Xia Xiaoli suddenly realized - "the fairy couple in the construction world". Looking around, they are all male students with idiot-like smiles. No wonder everyone has arrived for this subject.

When Mr. Xie really talked about it, Xia Xiaoli found that it was not as gimmicky as the title. Mr. Xie selected a few representative couples of designers in China and the West, and described the torrent of their own times and the experience of each person in their respective professional fields. The combination of achievements and contributions to the industry is very attractive.

Especially because of some special backgrounds of the times, their love is more magnificent and long-lasting.

It was the first time Xia Xiaoli heard the name of "the Eames couple", and quickly took out her mobile phone to search, and found that they were a very famous designer couple with a high reputation in many modern design fields such as architecture, furniture and industrial design. The most well-known to the public is that they designed a series of affordable and easy-to-use chairs.

Before they became a couple, they were already partners. His wife Lei was a painter. She was a student of her husband Charles, and then became his assistant. Later, the husband and wife jointly designed countless works.

When she saw the picture of the "Eames Lounge Chair", Xia Xiaoli suddenly recognized it. This chair is so famous that it was designed by this couple.

There was a love letter in English in the handout, it was the marriage proposal letter written by Charles to Lei back then, Mr. Xie read it in English, and Xia Xiaoli silently translated it in her heart:

"Dear Miss Cather, I am 34 years old, single and poor. But I love you very much and want to marry you right away. I can't promise to be able to support our lives very well, but I will try my best I'm doing the best I can. And right away I mean right away. And what's the ring size? Love you, Charles."

They are soul mates and business partners. They have accompanied each other's life from young to old. After Charles passed away, Lei also stopped painting and designing and used writing to commemorate the two people's lives.

Charles once commented on his wife: "Everything I can do, she can do better."

Then Xia Xiaoli saw a pair of names he was familiar with, "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin".

Teacher Xie said: "People in the world know Lin Huiyin mostly because of her love history with several famous figures in history. Women who have made great contributions are really too one-sided and too underestimated, which is out of style.”

The lives of the two are intertwined with the ups and downs of the country's destiny. They met in Europe in the early years, studied together, fell in love, and devoted themselves to the research and protection of ancient buildings after returning to China.

They have experienced many hardships together, and their fate has been displaced in the long river of history, but no matter whether it is war, poverty or illness, nothing stops them from being together because of their common ideals and love.

In a more recent era, Teacher Xie told the story of He Jingtang and Li Qixia. The works of this couple are closely related to the wave of reform and opening up in the Pearl River Delta.

After listening to the stories of the three couples after taking up the time of reading the questions all night, Xia Xiaoli felt that it was very worthwhile. At night, she still felt touched in her heart. She lay in bed and thought a lot. Qiao Yu once asked him what kind of person he wanted to be. , He also asked himself what kind of life he wanted and what kind of love he wanted.

This night he knew that he wanted something like this, as he had heard and heard tonight, that he wanted to be Qiao Yu's like-minded soul lover.

"Sacrificing" one's own life may be able to obtain formal companionship, but he knows that two people who do not have soul intersections can hardly resist the long years.

Daily necessities are indispensable, but a common language is even rarer.

Xia Xiaoli recalled her initial feelings of wanting to catch up with Qiao Yu. It was intuition. In fact, intuition is the most accurate. He shouldn't be shaken by the "reality" instilled in him by his parents.

He wanted to catch up with Qiao Yu. The more difficult the reality was, the more it aroused his fighting spirit.