At the entrance of the pergola, behind a row of tables, there are several men and women who look like teachers sitting. On the table in front of each person is a sign with the subject major written on it. Several people are dragging suitcases or carrying bags.
Boys and girls, standing in front of the table and bending over to fill out forms.
Liu Gen and Ouyang Xue walked to and stopped in front of the table with the words 'Seven-year clinical major'. There happened to be a boy wearing glasses bending down to fill out a form, and a woman behind the table was teaching him how to fill it out.
"Two classmates, are you also a seven-year clinical major?" A beautiful woman with shawl hair and a few freckles on both sides of her nose, who looked about 27 or 28 years old, looked at Liu Gen and Ouyang Xue with a smile.
Ouyang Xue smiled and nodded and replied: "Both of us are seven-year clinical majors."
"Take out your notice and fill out the registration form here." The beautiful freckled woman stood up from her seat and introduced herself enthusiastically: "My name is Mei Yingchun. I am a graduate of the 99th grade, seven-year undergraduate and master's degree program in clinical medicine.
The counselor of class one.”
"Hello, Teacher Mei, my name is Ouyang Xue." Ouyang Xue stood behind the boy who was bending over to fill out the form and introduced himself with a smile.
"Oh, Ouyang Xue, you are from our first class." Mei Yingchun seemed to have memorized the names of every classmate in the class. She glanced at Liu Gen and stared at the band-aid on his face in surprise.
"My... name is Liu Gen." Liu Gen saw that Mei Yingchun was staring at his wound, and thinking about not being able to pay the tuition, Liu Gen was a little nervous, so he hesitated when he spoke, and did not call Teacher Mei.
"You are Liu Gen. I know you. You are the only top scorer in the provincial college entrance examination among the 99th grade freshmen in our school, and you are also in our class." Mei Yingchun smiled, with faint crow's feet showing at the corners of her eyes, but she was very charming.
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Mei Yingchun's words surprised Ouyang Xue. She turned to look back at Liu Gen and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that I was the first to see the number one scholar in our class."
The boy wearing glasses who was filling out the form also turned around and pushed his glasses up with his hand. His distorted eyes behind the thick lenses looked up and down at Liu Gen with some surprise.
"This is also from our class, his name is Wang Jiahe, from Sichuan." Mei Yingchun introduced Liu Gen and Ouyang Xue: "Liu Gen, you and Wang Jiahe are in the same dormitory with bunk beds."
"A dormitory? Bunk beds?" Liu Gen didn't understand what Mei Yingchun meant. He thought he had to choose which dormitory to live in. He originally planned to choose the one with the lowest accommodation fee.
"Oh, it's like this. The college considers that the freshmen will be tired from long distances. Before you come, the student apartments have been prepared, the beds have been assigned, and your bedding has been placed on your respective beds, so that the freshmen don't have to be too tired.
." Mei Yingchun saw Liu Gen's confusion and explained.
"But I..." Liu Gen hesitated, looking at Ouyang Xue, but did not express the difficulties in his heart.
"Hello, Liu Gen." Wang Jiahe stretched out his hand and took two steps forward while speaking not very standard Sichuan Mandarin.
Liu Gen put down the woven bag and stretched out his hand to hold it with Wang Jiahe. He didn't know what to say. He was not sure whether the school could keep him as a student who couldn't afford tuition and student apartment fees.
"From now on, we will be brothers with bunk beds. Are you older than me? I was born in 1982." Wang Jiahe is not tall, about 1.7 meters tall. He is very thin and looks like a frail scholar.
"I was born in 1981." Liu Gen replied, letting go of Wang Jiahe's hand and saw Ouyang Xue bending down to fill out the form.
"Haha... Then I have to call you brother from now on, and I will call you brother Gen." Wang Jiahe said with a wide smile.
Liu Gen didn't reply. He couldn't feel the joy of meeting his new classmates at all. His heart seemed to be pressed by a big stone. Before he registered as a medical college student, his heart couldn't let go.
"Liu Gen, give me your notice." After Mei Yingchun signed the admission notices of Ouyang Xue and Wang Jiahe, she raised her head and called Liu Gen.
"Oh..." Liu Gen took out the admission notice from his trouser pocket, walked to Ouyang Xue, and handed it to Mei Yingchun.
"Liu Gen, it's your turn to settle down." After Ouyang Xue finished filling in the form, she straightened up, handed the pen to Liu Gen with a smile, looking very happy.
Liu Gen bent down and began to fill in a form, which was a new student registration form.
"Wang Jiahe, Ouyang Xue, you two take the form and admission notice and go to the finance department to pay the fee." Mei Yingchun said: "Just put your luggage here. After paying the fee, you will come back later and I will ask my classmates to take you to the dormitory.
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"Liu Gen, hurry up." Ouyang Xue urged Liu Gen, and then walked with Wang Jiahe towards the place where the 'payment office' was written, where many students were queuing up.
While Liu Gen was filling out the form, Mei Yingchun kept secretly looking at the injury on the left side of Liu Gen's face, thinking: This boy doesn't look like the top scorer in the college entrance examination, but more like a troublemaker.
Liu Gen straightened up and saw Mei Yingchun looking at him, with a slight smile on his face.
When Mei Yingchun saw Liu Gen's simple and unruly eyes, her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly lowered her head to where the counselor was signing the form. After signing her name, she didn't even look up and said, "You also need to pay the fee. Leave your luggage here."
Liu Gen held the form and admission notice in both hands, hesitating whether he wanted to leave or not.
Seeing that Liu Gen hadn't left, Mei Yingchun raised her head and asked, "Liu Gen, what can I do for you?"
Liu Gen glanced at the other professional counselors and the freshmen filling out the forms next to him, lowered his head and whispered, "Teacher Mei..." This was the first time he called Mei Yingchun "Teacher Mei" after meeting her.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Mei Yingchun asked, sitting on a chair.
"It's like this...I..." Liu Gen didn't know how to speak, and on the way, he didn't think of the right words.
Mei Yingchun was trying to figure out whether the boy with a thorny head in front of her wanted to say that he had a fight with someone on the way to report. One look at the injuries on his face showed that they were new.
"No matter what happens, you can just ask." Mei Yingchun said with a smile like a big sister.
"Can you really say anything?" Liu Gen was encouraged by Mei Yingchun's smile.
"Of course, I will spend seven years with you in the future. You can tell me everything about life and study." Mei Yingchun was even more certain that Liu Gen committed something wrong on the road.
"I didn't bring enough tuition..." Liu Gen finally mustered up the courage.
Mei Yingchun seemed to be disappointed. It turned out that what Liu Gen wanted to tell her was not about the things he committed on the road, but about the tuition fees: "Oh, really? Isn't it clearly stated in the notice?"
"I...because..." Liu Gen stammered, unable to tell anyone about giving away the tuition fees.
Mei Yingchun looked at Liu Gen carefully again. From the first moment she saw Liu Gen, she could tell that he was a student from a poor family, but she really didn't expect that he would be so poor that he couldn't even bring enough tuition for the first semester.
What should he do after seven years?
"Have you brought your living expenses?" Mei Yingchun asked.
Liu Gen nodded and replied: "I brought my living expenses." He was telling the truth. There was indeed more than two thousand yuan in his trousers.
"What are you going to do? The school has regulations. If you can't pay the tuition, you can't register." Mei Yingchun asked with some sympathy.
"I... I will definitely pay the tuition fee in a few months. Please help me, Teacher Mei, tell the payment office..." Liu Genyi heard that he would not be allowed to register until the tuition fee was paid. That sentence meant that he would not be able to communicate with him.
Ouyang Xue went to college together and couldn't fulfill his father's wish, so he quickly said it anxiously.
Mei Yingchun sighed inwardly and thought: How could he pay off thousands of dollars in a few months? But if he didn't help him, the top pick would be ruined.
"I'll try my best, but you can come with me later and figure out how to pay off the tuition." Mei Yingchun stood up, thought for a while and then said: "You'd better say that within a few months, the student loan will be paid off."
It can be done.”
"Oh..." Liu Gen nodded, he had also thought about saying this.
"Follow me." Mei Yingchun said, walking out from behind the table.
Liu Gen held the registration form and notification letter in his palm and followed Mei Yingchun with his head lowered. His nostrils smelled a faint scent of perfume. It smelled very good. He shrugged his nose and felt very grateful to her. She could do it for the first time when they met.
Even if he couldn't convince the people at the payment office to give him such great help, Liu Gen secretly made up his mind to remember the goodness of this teacher Mei for the rest of his life.
Ouyang Xue and Wang Jiahe were waiting in the queue to pay the fee. When they saw Mei Yingchun leading Liu Gen over, Ouyang Xue raised her hand and waved to greet Liu Gen.
But Liu Gen lowered his head and didn't see Ouyang Xue waving to him.
Mei Yingchun took Liu Gen directly to the temporary payment desk and walked to a man in his forties: "Chief Li, this is Liu Gen, a grade 99, seven-year clinical major in our school.
The only top scorer in the college entrance examination recruited this year, his stipend and loan have not been processed yet. It may take some time. Can you see if we can give him a reprieve based on individual special circumstances..."
Section Chief Li, wearing a pair of glasses and squinting triangular eyes, looked at Liu Gen up and down twice. Before Mei Yingchun could finish her words, he refused: "Teacher Mei, you also know that the school has regulations for the admission of new students.
All fees must be paid in order to register.”
Section Chief Li's words left no room at all and blocked what Mei Yingchun had planned to say. She was so angry that her face turned red and she raised her voice and said, "I didn't say no! What I said was to slow down.
Are schools run just for money?"
"Teacher Mei, it's useless what you say to me here! I also follow the school's regulations!" Section Chief Li said without raising his head while busy collecting the money. It seemed that he was a little too busy today.
It also raises the pitch.
There are seven or eight charging points, and most of them charge cash. There is only one point where you can pay by card, and there are the most people queuing up there.
The words of the two people were heard by the new students who were lined up in several lines waiting to pay fees and the parents who sent the new students to school, and attracted many eyes.
Ouyang Xue and Wang Jiahe were standing in the row of paying by credit card. Although they were a little far away from Liu Gen and Mei Yingchun, they could still vaguely hear them.
After Section Chief Li rejected Mei Yingchun, Liu Gen thought that he would never be able to study. He didn't want to see Mei Yingchun fall out with her school colleagues over her own affairs. When Mei Yingchun opened her mouth, what did he want to say to Section Chief Li? Liu Gen