Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space-Chapter 705 - 580: Returning to School After Leave

Chapter 705: Chapter 580: Returning to School After Leave

In Beijing, Zhang Guoqing was just as Zhou Jiao had predicted. He woke up at dawn, lying in bed, looking in the dark at the small figure beside him, unwilling to part until it was almost four o’clock, when he gently pulled the light switch.

Under the glow of the light, seeing his son’s soundly sleeping face, Zhang Guoqing couldn’t help but kiss the child’s hair. This time, it’ll probably be several days before he can come home from school again.

Zhang Guoqing carefully covered his son’s stomach with a towel blanket, tucked in the mosquito net, and after washing up in the side room, took another look at his son on the kang before finally picking up his luggage and closing the door to leave.

Aunt Chen, as always, prepared breakfast at four in the morning every Monday for him to eat before going back to school. Once he left, she had to watch whether the child woke up.

Zhang Guoqing quickly finished the noodles, looked at the yawning Aunt Chen, and hurriedly said, "Auntie, go sleep for a while, Ping’an won’t wake up until six o’clock at least."

"No need, I can’t sleep even if I lie down, you better head to school."

Zhang Guoqing reassured her, "We’re not short of food at home, please eat something first."

"Hurry up, it’s almost half-past four, if you leave later you’ll run into people again."

Zhang Guoqing chuckled and nodded, pushed his bicycle, and walked briskly out of the house. Aunt Chen’s worries were justified; if he ran into someone and exchanged a few words, it would not only delay him but be quite awkward if someone asked whether he was going to the Lin Family.

Riding his bicycle in the night, Zhang Guoqing pondered that the summer vacation was more than halfway over, and whether the teachers would give people some breathing room at school.

Glancing at the tall crops in the outskirts fields, if there was no break, he would immediately be heading to the countryside to assist in agriculture again. The summer busy period could really exhaust a person; would he still have to work when his wife returned?

Arriving at the dormitory downstairs at school, the sky had already turned bright. This was summer, in winter it would still be pitch dark when he arrived.

Back in the dormitory, after putting away his luggage, Zhang Guoqing carried a basin and his toiletries to the communal bathroom, and before he returned to the room after the shower, he heard Wan Dayong’s loud voice.

When he went out with the basin, he saw that everyone was standing in front of his dormitory door, chuckling, "Why are you all up so early today?"

Wan Dayong looked at his expression, "You know about it, right?"

Zhang Guoqing knew he was asking about the Lin Family. He nodded towards them, opened the door, "Come in first and we’ll talk. Is there any trouble with my class?"

After Wan Dayong and the others entered and closed the door, they shook their heads, "With Old Fan here, nothing much has happened. By the way, what does Da Yi mean? And who’s this great-grandmother of his?"

Zhang Guoqing earnestly replied, "An old lady picked up on the way."

Everyone, knowing the various family matters, could only hold back their laughter. This was not something they could talk about with others, only laugh secretly about.

Ding Datou cheerfully said, "Just as we expected, when we heard he also took leave to go back to his hometown, we knew he definitely went with you. When is he showing up now?"

Zhang Guoqing waved them over, and when they huddled together, he whispered, "He’s coming over tonight, we agreed to act separately. If there’s nothing tonight, let’s have a gathering, he’s ready to be bled dry, brothers, sharpen your knives!"

Everyone laughed heartily.

Ding Datou craftily rolled his eyes, "How about we tell him to come over the day after tomorrow?"

Wan Dayong and Geng Dasheng laughed even louder when they heard this.

Zhang Guoqing suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Damn~ Are they on break the day after tomorrow?"

"Smart!"

Zhang Guoqing immediately changed his mind, "Then let’s wait to have the gathering at home. Ouch, I should have stayed a few more days away. By the way, we don’t have any internship tasks for our class, right?"

"No! I checked, we have free time next. What should we do next? How about traveling? What do you all think?"

Geng Dasheng laughed, "I’m easygoing, just let me know wherever you decide to go."

Ding Datou also smiled at Wan Dayong, "I’ve been tired for so long, I need to relax my mind too, your call."

Seeing the bright eyes in front of him, Zhang Guoqing laughed, "I just got back from the bus, don’t make me get back on it again! Everywhere is too hot to visit right now."

"My grandpa and the others are going to the beach soon. Are you going with your father-in-law and them?"

Zhang Guoqing shook his head, "I’m not planning to go this year."

The three of them exchanged glances and secretly laughed. This guy is waiting for his wife to come back before he can move, as if no one knew!

They chatted idly in the room for a while when there was a knock on the door, followed by Shen Yunshi’s raspy voice, "Xiao Wu, open the door."

The group immediately fell silent. Ding Datou, who was closest to the door, opened it and saw Shen Yunshi sweating heavily, bending over with his hands on his knees, looking up and grinning at them.

"Silly look! Come on in." Ding Datou pulled him inside and closed the door.

Zhang Guoqing handed him a cup of water, "I’m heading to the classroom soon. Look at you all exhausted."

Shen Yunshi caught his breath, happily saying, "Be ready to treat everyone!"

"Wow, must be great news!"

"A treat is a must."

Zhang Guoqing smiled and nodded, "Alright, but you have to tell me what the great news is?"

Shen Yunshi mysteriously lowered his voice, "Is a city outstanding youth enough? I heard your dual-water internal cooling generator experiment report has been compiled into a book, and..." he finished and laughed.

Wan Dayong kicked him, "Hurry up and spit it out!"

Shen Yunshi held back his laughter, "If he messes around any more, he’s staying at school."

Wan Dayong and the others laughed heartily. Well deserved! They all knew Zhang Guoqing was eagerly waiting to graduate. In order to start working early, he had secretly asked the department head if he could graduate ahead of time.

Zhang Guoqing chuckled lightly, changing the topic, "Nothing much happened in our class, right?"

"No! Apart from major classes these two days, we spent the rest of the time in the lab. Oh, by the way, there’s a break the day after tomorrow, will Da Yi still make it?"

When the group exchanged glances, he nodded and said, "I arrived in Beijing last night, and his mom said he would arrive today, probably before evening back at school."

He looked at everyone, "Shall we talk while we walk?"

"Sure, you also need to report back to your advisor. We don’t know what’s for breakfast today, let’s go early and find out."

The group left, and only then did Shen Yunshi feel something was off. He curiously glanced at Zhang Guoqing, "Aren’t you wearing the black armband and stuff?"

Zhang Guoqing shook his head, "The elders said wearing it outside is inconvenient, it’ll hang at home on the day of the funeral." Of course, there’s also the reason that if he wore it, Yi Jiefang would be exposed.

Wan Dayong and the others followed classmates with lunch boxes to the cafeteria, leaving Zhang Guoqing and Shen Yunshi to continue walking forward. By now, quite a few people were jogging for morning exercise within the campus.

The duo waved and greeted familiar faces while walking side by side.

Shen Yunshi lowered his voice, "When our class was rated as an outstanding collective this time, I heard someone wasn’t happy and pointed out the background of those two classmates, fortunately, the advisor argued strongly with reasoning, so the issue didn’t escalate."

Zhang Guoqing knew who the two he mentioned were.

In their class of dozens of people, basically none had questionable backgrounds. Most were worker’s children, then came farmer’s children, and children of senior officials. Only two male classmates were often discussed. Song Lin’s grandfather was a local gentry and landowner before liberation, his parents are still in Hong Kong.

As for Nanfang Ke and Xuan, after their parents separated, he followed his mother. It was said that his father abandoned his first wife to marry some high-ranking official’s daughter, and a few years ago was sent to the countryside with the Yue Family. Reasonably speaking, he was not legally related to the father’s problems, yet there are always people stirring up trouble.