The relationship between Xiao Baizi and Sang Jing developed rapidly.
It actually took less than a month from the reunion to the confirmation of the relationship.
Putting aside all disparities in status and family, they never thought about whether they were a good match.
In this era, there is a bit of "pure love" plus "flash love".
However, there are people in this world who are more exaggerated than them.
Some people even skip the step of falling in love.
Shui Lan jumped directly to the stage of discussing marriage, and the time it took was only two weeks.
However, unlike Xiaobaizi and Sang Jing, the reason why Shuilan supported Shuilan in doing such a shocking move was purely utilitarian.
After Daqing gave up the idea of marrying Luo Yang and becoming an official's wife, the opportunity for promotion was rejected again.
Shuilan's passion for life is all about going abroad.
The atmosphere at this time was "as long as you go out, you will win."
Everyone shouted "Get out, get out, get out" with great fanfare and wanted to go abroad like crazy.
Ordinarily, the university Shuilan graduated from is an absolutely famous university, one of the few universities whose academic qualifications are recognized in foreign countries.
Her TOEFL scores are better than anyone else, and her family can still raise funds to study abroad.
No matter how you look at it, her probability of going abroad should be higher than anyone else.
It's a pity that because of Hong Yanwu's "special care", she suffered repeated setbacks in this matter.
The first time she was refused a visa, she had to go to the American Embassy three times in the past six months.
I have paid special attention to all the issues that should be paid attention to, but I still failed.
It almost gave her "visa officer phobia".
What's annoying is that after graduation, all her classmates quit.
The places I went to were pretty good.
The United States has the most, ten of them.
There were also a few from England and France, but she was the only one who was still staying put.
Therefore, some people advised her, "If you can't, lower your standards and make it easier to deal with Australia, or go to the GDR."
But these words became an invisible sarcasm in her ears.
She has always been outstanding in her class and strives to be the best in everything. After graduation, she entered the society and had a good job.
How could her pride be able to bear the slightest mistake in this matter?
My heart said, apart from me, there are people who struggled four or five times before going out.
Why do you go to either the United States or Europe, and I have to go to the second best option?
If I am outclassed by all of you, I might as well not go out.
Therefore, even if she later found out that the Hong family had relatives from Hong Kong, she did not even think about borrowing money to go to Hong Kong.
The more others tell her that she can't do it, the more she has no choice.
Out of the arrogance in my heart, I had to compete with the United States to the end.
It's a pity that like her eighth generation ancestor who offended the visa officer, her efforts were still in vain.
The visa rejection rate that was supposed to be 30 to 40 percent turned out to be 100 percent for her.
The next two encounters made her almost desperate.
But just at this moment, fate suddenly took a turn for the better.
Very unexpectedly, a male colleague named Gu Kai from the labor department of her unit came to see her after the National Day.
And he made a very ridiculous request to her in private, saying that he hoped she could temporarily act as his girlfriend for a few days.
When Shui Lan heard this, he was of course furious.
In addition to being ashamed and angry, she wished she could slap him on the spot.
But later, when Gu Kai hesitantly explained the reason, a wonderful turn happened.
After some consideration, Shui Lan not only really agreed.
Even after performing for a few days, the fake thing turned out to be true, and he quickly got a marriage certificate with Gu Kai.
Why?
In fact, it's because Gu Kai has an American aunt.
It should be said that this Gu Kai has always liked Shui Lan and is one of the many men in the unit who pursues her.
It's a pity that the backstage person in his unit is only the uncle of the deputy director.
In addition, Gu Kai himself is not good-looking, not tall, not good at talking, and he graduated from a second-rate university.
Mediocrity is his greatest attribute, there is really nothing outstanding about him.
Even he himself felt that it was normal for Shui Lan to look down on him.
But love is unreasonable. A toad is not worthy of a swan, but it cannot stop the love.
On the contrary, the greater the distance, the more I miss you and the more I love to look up at the sky.
Just like Shui Lan wants to go out, even if his pursuit is repeatedly frustrated, Gu Kai can never forget Shui Lan.
He secretly followed Shui Lan's movements and tried every means to find out relevant information about her.
So to be honest, apart from the old couple of the Shui family, Gu Kai was probably the happiest about Shui Lan's setback in going abroad.
For no other reason than because his aunt is in the United States.
In the summer of 1985, the country promulgated new relevant regulations, relaxing the conditions for Chinese citizens to visit relatives overseas.
People who have relatives living abroad can now go abroad in the name of visiting relatives.
For example, in "Beijingers in New York", Wang Qiming and Guo Yan relied on this method to realize the American dream.
So in September this year, when Gu Kai learned that his aunt wanted to come to the capital to visit relatives again next month, she even planned to take him out as well.
He could no longer control his thoughts and wanted to take advantage of this and make Shui Lan his girlfriend.
Only then did he finally pluck up the courage and boldly invite Shui Lan to go with him to see his aunt.
As the saying goes, a leopard emerges from a wilted man.
Don't underestimate Gu Kai, the honest guy.
Just because he cared about this matter, he had thought it all through and the method he adopted was quite clever.
He did not directly tell Shui Lan, "If you treat me well, I will let you go abroad."
Instead, he first asked Shui Lan to help relieve his aunt's worries on the pretext that her aunt had no children and was always worried about his marriage.
As for remuneration, Gu Kai claimed that his aunt was a wealthy person in the United States and owned several restaurants.
When she sees Shui Lan, she won't be empty-handed. There must be a greeting gift, so she can just accept it.
So it didn't seem so stiff, and it showed Gu Kai's filial piety.
Similarly, Shui Lan came to help out of filial piety, and even receiving a reward didn't seem vulgar.
As a result, what happened next was exactly as Gu Kai expected.
The aunt who was kept in the dark didn't know whether it was a lie or not. She saw Shui Lan at home and liked her very much.
Not only did she compliment her on her beauty and good English, she also gave her a red envelope worth two hundred dollars.
He also took off the small gold watch on his hand and gave it to her on the spot.
As for Shui Lan, she was also very happy to be inspired by this generous gift.
After a few days, not only did he play his role competently, but his attitude towards Gu Kai also became much closer.
Of course, their relationship was finally established because the Gu family talked about Gu Kai going abroad.
At the family dinner before leaving, my aunt half-jokingly asked Gu Kai.
"Xiao Kai, you have such a good girlfriend, are you still willing to let her go?"
Gu Kai showed unprecedented cleverness.
He said, "Auntie, can't you get us all out? I think you and Shui Lan are quite compatible..."
Auntie smiled, what else could she say at this time?
"Then you have to get married first, otherwise how can I handle the formalities for you?"
In this way, when Gu Kai and his aunt both looked at Shui Lan with questioning intentions.
She suddenly became excited, and it was almost impossible for her to express her opposition.
So Shui Lan married Gu Kai and they went to the United States together, which became the choice of the two young people for their future lives.
Of course, it was not that Shuilan didn't go back and forth, hesitate, and even wanted to overthrow it afterwards.
To be honest, she was still not satisfied with Gu Kai becoming her closest partner in life.
But her aunt's affection, Gu Kai's infatuation, the green US dollars and the hope of going to the United States all reduced her resistance at the same time.
The most important thing was when she revealed the news that she might be going to the United States to those classmates who had not yet left.
Countless words of envy and compliments instantly overwhelmed her.
Her vanity could not resist this joy and temptation.
That little bit of unwillingness dissipated as easily as a blister.