Chapter 1028: Grandson Is Not Here, Son Is Still the Most Favored
Han Li watched Gong Jianglong drive away, then went home and added some wood to the Earth Fire Dragon, adjusted the damper to the appropriate size, and then went back to the house.
After changing clothes and making a cup of tea, Han Li once again half-collapsed on the sofa. A dull mind makes one think too much, so he turned over and pondered what he had just heard from Old Liu.
First of all, Han Li's one-year study abroad quota is difficult to come by. Many lecturers and professors in universities only have half a year to study abroad.
Only scholars, professors, and engineers who study certain aspects can get a year-based study abroad time.
Secondly, whether it is college students in 1977 or graduate students in 1978, no one has been able to get the opportunity to study abroad on a government scholarship before graduation.
If you insist on being reasonable, Han Li can only be a teaching assistant, but no matter what, Han Li's situation is also a scorpion shit, poisonous.
Han Li pondered over the situation with Old Liu several times. Among them, Old Guan mentioned the flower Clivia when chatting with Old Song. He then sat up straight and picked up the still slightly cold tea in front of him and drank it all.
He stood up and put on his clothes for going out again, pushed his bicycle, locked the door, and went directly to the bird market in the northeast corner of Fuchengmen, west of Baita Temple.
Han Li did not stroll here, nor did he buy those birds, animals, flowers and plants. Instead, he went directly to the place where flower pots were sold. He selected a total of 20 or 30 flower pots of moderate size and simple patterns and walked back.
After returning home, Han Li began to transplant Clivia into these flower pots in the vast peach garden. The Clivia he transplanted in the past two years has not only grown very well, but the mature seeds have also grown into a large area through natural reproduction.
Han Li did not understand how the treasures, high-end, mid-range and low-end of Clivia were divided, but he knew that there were two sentences in the world's praise poems for Clivia: "Standing like a beauty fan, spreading like a phoenix opening its screen."
Therefore, when transplanting, Han Li tried to find those Clivias with dignified plant shapes, neat leaves, bright veins, and tall flowers, which gave people the impression of elegance and extraordinary charm at first glance, and transplanted them into these pots.
Twenty or thirty pots were transplanted quickly. Han Li first put a pot in each room to purify the air, leaving a few pots for his parents, so that more than ten pots had been arranged.
Han Li planned to send all the remaining dozen pots of top-quality Clivia to Liu Lao and others before the New Year's Eve.
It was already evening when Han Li finished all this. He took the pots of Clivia left for his parents and went back to Mianhua Hutong.
Going back to send Clivia is one, and the most important thing is to tell his parents that he is going abroad, and also to go home for dinner.
Speaking of dinner, since the Yun sisters became pregnant, Houhai has all kinds of ingredients.
But Han Li was too lazy to cook today. He could not only eat a ready-made meal by walking a few more steps, but also look for it in front of his parents. He didn't feel the way he was pampered at home before his two sons.
When Han's father saw the pots of flowers his son brought back, he didn't care at first, because he still liked those animals that were smart, could run and jump, and had no interest in these plants that could only be seen and carefully taken care of.
However, when Han Li told him about the origin of Clivia, and that many leaders had started to raise it, and that a good pot of Clivia might change a house in the future, Han's father immediately paid attention to it, and even moved the radio placed by the window to another place.
While eating, Han Li drank with his father, ate the dishes that his mother picked for him, and told him about his situation.
"Dad, Mom, I might be sent to study abroad around May next year."
"What? Study abroad?"
"Son, is this true?"
Han Li's words shocked Han's father and mother. You know, now only those who have connections and direct relatives overseas, and the other party is willing to pay for all the procedures, can go abroad, and they cannot be college or technical secondary school students, or people from special units, factories, mines, and enterprises.
Except for the above, ordinary people who want to go abroad have only one way left, which is government-sponsored. This way is full of top talents from all walks of life and universities.
No matter which of these two ways is harder than ascending to heaven, most people dare not dream of this situation.
Han's father and mother had long thought that their son was so outstanding that he would definitely have the opportunity to study abroad in the future, but they didn't expect that this opportunity would come before graduation.
Han Li: "It's almost certain, because Mr. Liu called me today to talk about this."
Dad Han: "Since it's what Mr. Liu said, there must be no problem. I didn't expect that my son, Han Fugui, would also become a talent studying abroad, hahaha."
Mom Han glanced at Dad Han unhappily after hearing this, turned her head and looked at Han Li with concern.
"Son, are you sure you can go abroad? And what do you need to prepare for going abroad? Mom will start preparing for you now. My son can't suffer anywhere."
Han Li has regained the feeling of being favored at the beginning, but his parents can't help him with this matter, and he doesn't plan to exchange the very limited foreign exchange on the market in China. With the help of the golden finger, he will not be too wronged in life no matter where he goes.
"Dad, Mom, if nothing unexpected happens, I should be sent to England this time, and the government will provide all the food, drink, and toilet for us when we are sent abroad, so we don't need to prepare anything."
Han's mother: "What's the temperature in England? Should I prepare a few more sets of clothes?"
Han Li: "Mom, I really don't need to. The clothing styles there are very different from ours. If you wear different clothes, it will be difficult for the other party to accept you, and it will also easily cause discrimination.
So everyone will be given a clothing fee before being sent abroad, just to make the expatriates better and faster to integrate into the local population."
Han's mother: "What about food? What if you can't get used to the food there? Should you bring more of your favorite food?"
"Mom, have you forgotten that I trained at the Jing* Hotel for more than half a month? During that time, I already knew all about the foreign food.
Besides, flying is different from taking a car or a train. Not only are many things not allowed to be brought, but there are also limits on what each person can carry."
Han Li told his parents some knowledge about this. Before leaving after dinner, he asked his parents not to tell anyone about this, and then he walked slowly towards Hou Hai's house.
However, Han Li took his mother's words to heart. First of all, the food there was really unpalatable. Secondly, he really didn't want to cook unless he had to.
So Han Li bought some cooked food and stewed meat on the way back and put them in the decomposition space, and decided to buy some ready-made food and put it in during this period of time.
It was a bit unrealistic to eat for a year, because Han Li had to eat with others a lot of the time, but at least he had to refresh his mouth after eating those boring foods and restore his abused taste.
After Han Li returned home, washed up and lay on the bed, took out the two letters that Hao Hongmin had sent recently and read them again.
After a long time, Han Li put away the two letters, put his mental power into the vast peach garden and began to prepare the medicinal materials needed for some prescriptions.