Chapter 775 Knowledge Brings Changes in Destiny (Part 1)

Zhou Jing, 23 years old this year, relied on her excellent painting skills and the mayor's positive recommendation to come to Lin'an Huaguo Academy of Fine Arts from the countryside five years ago to study fine arts and painting.

Before the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, college students basically relied on recommendations to attend school. On the contrary, more children from rural areas like Zhou Jing went to college than children from cities.

When Zhou Jing came to the city, it was like entering a new world. From the initial uneasiness to the later hard work, she tried her best to stay in the city and never go back to that place again. The extremely poor and backward mountain villages also let their parents, brothers and sisters come to live in the city after they became stable.

With such lofty ideals and amazing talent, Zhou Jing received an acceptance letter from Shanghai Art Film Studio before graduating last year. Taking advantage of the internship opportunity, she started working at Shanghai Art Film Studio in March. The studio is at work.

With her excellent painting skills and abilities, Zhou Jing became a member of the animation production team of "Oolong Yuan" in less than half a year, specifically working with the master master and responsible for painting the portrait of the junior brother, one of the four main protagonists.

This is an incredible affirmation!

You know, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Shanghai Art Film Studio, and there are many talents.

The artists of the four main writers are all the aces in the factory, and they can serve as their assistants. Which one of them is not an elite talent that has been tempered for thousands of years?

As a result, Zhou Jing started working as an assistant less than a year after joining the company, which really made many artists nervous about being chased.

But this little girl's paintings are indeed very good and very spiritual. If you compare them, she is really not inferior to many others. Moreover, she works hard and forgets food and sleep. She often paints for more than ten hours... Such a serious attitude , you said that if the factory leaders don’t choose her, how can they inspire people?

Many people actually don't know.

Although she was reused, Zhou Jing still had regrets in her heart.

Regrettably, the year before last, when she was in her junior year, a comic production company in Xiangjiang came to her school to select talents. The teacher submitted her name, but out of fear of the unknown outside and insecurity, Zhou Jing finally refused to go to Xiangjiang.

Um.

The name of this comic company was Qilin Culture, and the comic weekly they published was called "Qilin Weekly", which later became the world's number one comic weekly.

With the continuous success of "Qilin Weekly", those senior brothers and sisters returned to school after vacation. Their fashionable clothes, bulging wallets, and all kinds of delicious and fun things they brought back made Zhou Jing feel like she was being taken away. As uncomfortable as burning.

She thought, it would be great if she could go to Xiangjiang! Then you will definitely live a happy life like them!

However, because she lost the opportunity, she can no longer lead. And according to the teachers' chatting, Qilin Culture's comic talents are almost saturated now. What they need are artists and animators to produce. cartoon.

If it were someone else, I'm afraid I would still be hesitant, thinking about whether cartoons can make money and whether they can get ahead.

But Zhou Jing is different. She feels that Qilin Culture will definitely succeed again this time.

Therefore, when she went to Shanghai Art Film Studio for an internship, she specifically asked to join the animation production team as an artist.

Then naturally, she was left at Shangmei Factory, and was lucky enough to join the production team of "Oolong Yuan", also producing animations for Qilin Culture.

Although the salary is not much, Zhou Jing regards it as an improvement of her abilities. She does not want to rush to Xiangjiang for the time being, but wants to finish "Oolong Yuan" in the mainland first.

If you have good results, they will definitely see it and hire you!

Moreover, after Zhou Jing came to Shangmei Factory, she had already heard that she could be hired by Qilin Culture through Shangmei Factory, but her relationship remained with Shangmei Factory.

After thinking about it carefully, this employment relationship is actually more suitable for me.

In terms of salary, I take 60% of the salary from Xiangjiang and 80% of the bonus. Calculated, my annual income can reach 40,000 yuan! !

Even though it is not as good as the RMB 70,000 salary of those directly employed by Qilin Culture in Xiangjiang, I am already very satisfied!

Because before the Spring Festival, the leaders of Shangmei Factory had already talked to Zhou Jinglai and said that they would let her go to Xiangjiang this year to take over the work of the previous batch of seniors. In addition to the same salary conditions as them, the factory is also responsible for Dealing with her family's urban household registration made Zhou Jing feel more at ease.

In this era, who doesn’t want to enter the city and become a city dweller?

Just such a condition is enough to satisfy Zhou Jing.

This year's Spring Festival is a bit early, February 4th is New Year's Eve, so in late January, the factory began to calculate year-end bonuses and new year's goods.

Although Zhou Jing entered the factory late, she worked very hard and was an important member of the animation production team of "Oolong Yuan". Therefore, in addition to the factory's 1,300 yuan New Year's goods and bonuses, she was given another 500 yuan in cash. bonus.

Since Zhou Jing's home is in the countryside of Jiangnan, and she decided to go home during the Spring Festival this year, she was prepared not to get any new year's goods.

However, in order to win over this most outstanding young artist, Yan Dingxian directly approved a note and asked the factory's Huajing Jeep to take her home, taking the new year's goods with her.

This devastated Zhou Jingle. Not only did she take home more than 600 yuan of new year's goods, she also took out another 1,000 yuan and asked the factory to buy her a 14-inch black and white TV and a women's car. The bicycle, as well as another set of accessories that rotated and clicked three times, together with Daqianmen cigarettes, assorted sugar, white sugar, winter dates, navel oranges and other new year's goods, loaded up the car and drove all the way back from Shanghai to Hainan. My hometown in Jiangnan.

The roads now are not very good. There are no expressways, so we can only take national roads and county roads. The last 30 kilometers of the road are all dirt roads. In addition, it has been raining lightly these days. If we hadn't driven here today, It's a jeep, and I'm afraid it's already stuck in the mud.

We set off after 6 a.m. and arrived at Zhou Jing’s hometown village just after 3 p.m.

A group of children playing at the entrance of the village, who had never seen a car before, gathered around and looked at it curiously, causing the driver to drive for another ten minutes before arriving at the door of Zhou Jing's house.

In 1981, the villages in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai were actually no different from the villages in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. There were no dividends brought by reform and opening up. The houses were still dilapidated, with earthen houses and tile-roofed houses making up the main body of the village.

The sound of the car's engine was very loud, and almost half of the people in the village came out to take a look. When they saw the car stopped at Lao Zhou's house, another beautiful girl wearing city clothes got out, a big guy. The eyes lit up.

"Hey, isn't this Xiao Jing?" A middle-aged woman nearby was surprised to recognize Zhou Jing.

"Haha, hello, Fifth Aunt!" Zhou Jing knocked on the door and talked to her, "How is the harvest this year? How is my Uncle Huang? Where is Xiaoping?..."

While he was talking here, the door of Zhou's house opened, and standing at the door was a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, with a trace of sadness on her face.

When she saw Zhou Jing, she was stunned for a moment, and then she hugged Zhou Jing with a cry and shouted anxiously: "Second sister, you... you go quickly..."

"What's wrong?" Zhou Jing was surprised.

"They... they want to sell you!" Lao Shouya said hurriedly, "Didn't the eldest brother have a date? We are about to get married now, but we can't come up with the betrothal gift. Their request is that you also Marry the girl’s brother…so we don’t have to pay a bride price…Second sister, please return to Shanghai quickly!”

Zhou Jing frowned.

She knew about the person her eldest brother was talking to, and she also knew about the family's lack of money, but for such an excessive request to be made, it was really intolerable.

"Hey, is there such a stupid thing?" The driver, Old Wu, also got out of the car and was preparing to move things for Zhou Jing. Hearing this, he sneered and said, "Aren't they afraid of breaking the law and being caught and jailed?"

"What jail?"

The people who came inside happened to hear this and asked subconsciously.

When she finished speaking, she saw Zhou Jing standing at the door.

"Oh, Xiaojing, are you back?" Mother Zhou looked at her daughter, feeling suddenly embarrassed.

"Well, I'm back." Zhou Jing sighed in her heart and said, "Mom, ask dad, eldest brother and little brother to come out and move things."

"What?" Zhou's mother looked at the car parked at the door, a little stunned.

"This year's New Year's goods from our factory and the things I bought for everyone." Zhou Jing said calmly. After hearing the news from the fourth sister, her good mood was really affected a lot.

The driver, Lao Wu, rolled his eyes. He was also a smart man, so he opened the rear hood and said loudly: "Come here a few people, it's hard to get a TV, bicycle and sewing machine out here!"

"What!?"

Not only Zhou's mother and Zhou Ya, but also a group of people surrounding them were shocked.

TV set? !

bike! ?

Sewing machine! ?

A thought suddenly flashed through Zhou's mother's mind, and she hurriedly ran to the trunk of the car to take a look. Wow, that's a dazzling place. It's all good stuff!

Terrified, Mother Zhou shouted at the top of her lungs: "Wife, eldest brother, third child, hurry up and move things! Xiaojing is back with good things!!"

Zhou Jing was a little uncomfortable with Zhou's mother's fanfare. She was about to say something, but her mother gave her a look and told her to leave it alone.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Jing nodded, stepped aside, and began to help Old Wu move things with her little sister.

Soon after Zhou's mother shouted, three men rushed out of the house.

Naturally, Zhou's father was the first to run to Zhou's mother and stared at the bicycles, TVs, and sewing machines that Lao Wu and the others took down, feeling jealous.

Brother Zhou first showed an awkward smile to his sister, but was immediately attracted by the things inside, and quickly stepped forward to take over the work for the two sisters.

Only Zhou Laosan's first reaction was to run in front of his sister and whispered: "Sister, there are evil guests in the house now! Don't worry, they don't dare to mess around. I'll ask Xiao Hei to bite them and drive them away. go out!"

"good!"

With the protective heart of her younger brother and younger sister, Zhou Jing felt sweet in her heart, and lost most of the sadness and resentment that had accumulated just now.

At this moment, she suddenly saw four men and women standing at the door of her home. They looked like a husband and wife and a brother and sister.

Their family background is probably average, and their thick cotton clothes are patched everywhere, which is okay, after all, everyone wears them that way.

But it was obvious that except for the younger sister, the clothes and pants of the remaining three people were a little dirty, which showed that they were a bit careless, either too sloppy, or they didn't respect their future in-laws.

The brother was still staring at him hard, and even when he glanced over, he didn't avoid it at all.

The remaining three people looked at the new year's goods with some greed, no one else in their eyes.

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