Time flew by, and before they knew it, six years had passed. It was now the end of 1983.
Wang Yue had already completed his graduate studies ahead of schedule. Thanks to his outstanding achievements, he had stayed on at the university as an associate professor, and many students were eager to apply to study under him.
He Jiali had majored in Chinese as an undergraduate and stayed at her university for graduate school. She had just graduated this year, and thanks to Wang Yue, she had been hired by the university as a lecturer.
The two were working together again, though they had traded Feixi Farm for Tsinghua University.
He Jiawen had studied to be a teacher. After graduating, she had returned to Huainan First High School to teach, meaning their family now had three teachers.
When she had graduated, Wang Yue and He Jiali had encouraged her to apply for graduate school at Beijing Normal University. That way, she could study in Beijing and stay there to work afterward.
But He Jiawen was too considerate to move far away from home. She wanted to help her family, so she had started working right away.
Huainan First High School wasn't far from the He family's new home. In a way, she had taken He Jiali's place as their parents' right-hand helper. Along with teaching, she also kept an eye on her younger siblings.
Still, one member of the He family had made it to Beijing: He Jiayi.
He Jiayi loved fashionable things. After visiting Beijing several times during her summer breaks in high school, she had fallen in love with the city and even got into the Central Academy of Fine Arts to study art.
He Jiayi was now a junior. The university had arranged an internship for her