Chapter 815
The Reason!
Chapter 815 The Reason! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The reason why Zhao Youcai's story is considered so legendary is that he proved through his actions that it is possible to jump social classes through education.
Zhao Youcai's situation was similar to Ye Fan's at the beginning.
As the middle son in the family, I was truly unloved by both my father and mother.
At such a young age, they have to rely on labor to earn work points!
If it weren't for the brigade taking pity on him and secretly helping him out in some way, it's hard to say whether he would have been able to grow up smoothly.
When he was young, Zhao Youcai was just like any other child in the brigade, and he didn't show anything special.
Every day, I either played with my friends or looked for food everywhere, and of course, I earned work points.
He has five or six siblings, so you can imagine how poor his family's financial situation is.
That's why Zhao Youcai only finished elementary school before his family wouldn't let him continue, even though his grades in elementary school were pretty good.
There was no instance of a school principal showing pity for a talented student and privately sponsoring their junior high school education.
And so, Zhao Youcai grew up to be eighteen years old.
At this moment, his luck seemed to suddenly improve.
On the eve of the mass return of educated youth to the city, he unexpectedly saved a female educated youth who had fallen into the water, and in a daze, he married her.
Rumors in the countryside are terrifying, and that's how Zhao Youcai resolved this major life event.
However, his family didn't offer any dowry. Instead, under the pretext of dividing the family property, they threw him a tattered quilt and kicked him out.
As such, he had no choice but to move to the educated youth settlement where the female educated youth lived, almost like a son-in-law marrying into the family.
However, soon the educated youth in the settlements returned to the city one after another, and no conflicts or contradictions broke out.
Even better, the female educated youth who married him did not abandon Zhao Youcai's ideas, but worked hard with him to take the college entrance examination.
This incident became a laughing stock in their brigade at the time.
That female educated youth wasn't exceptionally bright either; she failed the college entrance exam for three consecutive years without getting into university or even a junior college.
As for Zhao Youcai, he wasn't even qualified to take the college entrance examination at that time.
But no one expected that Zhao Youcai would erupt at this moment.
It was as if he had suddenly had a breakthrough!
His learning ability improved by leaps and bounds, and later he was even able to guide his wife in her studies and improvement.
Similarly, participating in labor was quite arduous, and occasionally they could catch some big fish from the lake, which was enough to barely support the couple's studies together.
Fortunately, Zhao Youcai's family of origin did not cause any trouble during this period; otherwise, he and his wife would have been dreaming if they had been able to study peacefully during their breaks from work.
In the 1984 college entrance examination, he and his wife were both admitted to a university and a junior college in Beijing, which caused a sensation throughout the town.
Wu Aiguo had also heard about Zhao Youcai's situation and had to admit it was impressive, but he didn't think much of it.
We can't just assume that every time someone rises against the odds, they're just lucky to be the protagonist, right?
Back in the 1980s, as long as you dared to take risks and work hard, it wasn't difficult to stand out from the crowd, if not become extremely wealthy.
Of these, no one can say for sure how many people who were originally struggling in the fields and at the very bottom of society have been able to turn their lives around.
As long as it's not a business that could get you killed, no one can say much.
Zhao Youcai and his wife, a former educated youth who wasn't particularly bright, were able to both pass the college entrance examination and enter university and junior college, respectively, which was already considered a turnaround in their lives.
After all, university graduates at that time held cadre status.
Only then did Zhao Youcai's family realize their mistake and regret their actions.
Unfortunately, they are just an ordinary rural family, not the freakish characters in movies and TV dramas, and they wouldn't go to such lengths to control their son.
However, the female educated youth's family, upon hearing the news, rushed over to try and ease tensions, which was rather embarrassing. And so, Zhao Youcai became a local legend.
His brigade was probably also spurred on, and from then on, they paid close attention to the education of their children.
The results were quite noticeable; many local children were admitted to key high schools in the county or even the region.
Putting aside the digression, what Wu Aiguo didn't expect was that Zhao Youcai, this legendary figure, actually rose to prominence through extraordinary items.
This made him somewhat uneasy!
It's not that I think this is wrong, but if I do it this way, its legendary status will be greatly diminished.
After Comrade Leng's brief introduction, Wu Aiguo finally understood what was going on.
After Zhao Youcai entered university, he performed exceptionally well.
This is nothing unusual. Rural students like him who get into university through the college entrance examination value the opportunity to go to university very much, and there are quite a few who become obsessed with studying.
The key point is that Zhao Youcai's all-around talent is particularly eye-catching.
According to later generations, this means excelling in both arts and sciences, and incidentally reaching the national first-class athlete standard in sports.
Damn, this kind of talent is just too exaggerated.
Although the university he was admitted to was among the top-tier universities in the country, it was still quite different from key universities.
But his learning ability is so good that even students from Tsinghua and Peking Universities have to step aside, which is a bit strange.
What kind of place is the capital?
Once something seems amiss, someone will naturally take notice.
There's no real danger, it's just that someone is watching over me in my daily life.
If there are no problems, the person watching will quietly leave.
But if something is amiss, then it's not a simple matter.
In fact, Zhao Youcai did have some issues!
Once the presence of those secretly monitoring the situation was confirmed and the relevant authorities launched a formal investigation, they quickly discovered the problem.
Zhao Youcai has a Water Spirit Pearl hidden on him!
His sudden enlightenment, photographic memory, and astonishing comprehension ability were all achieved by absorbing the energy from the Water Spirit Pearl.
By the time the relevant authorities came knocking, the Water Spirit Orb in Zhao Youcai's hand had shrunk to the size of a grain of rice.
Even so, relevant departments, through research, discovered the secrets behind it.
The concentration of primordial energy inside is at least ten times that outside.
This is only because Zhao Youcai absorbed it for several years; otherwise, a complete Water Spirit Pearl would definitely be a rare and extraordinary treasure.
The relevant authorities did not make things difficult for Zhao Youcai, but it was only natural to recruit him into their ranks in advance.
Zhao Youcai was honest enough to confess everything as soon as he was discovered.
He was incredibly lucky; during his youth, he was looking for food by Poyang Lake when he accidentally found the Water Spirit Pearl.
The fully formed Water Spirit Pearl is the size of a pigeon egg.
When I accidentally touched it, I felt an indescribable comfort, which is why I picked it up and kept it close to my body.
Over the years, the Water Spirit Orb has become smaller and smaller, which is causing him great concern.
When the news reached the higher-ups, Comrade Leng led a team to come in person to search for the whereabouts of the Water Spirit Orb.
(End of this chapter)