From Rural Roots to City Lights Chapter 21

Adrian Wang looked around. It was a very ordinary county town, but the roads were wider and better than the old national highways. The roads were shaped like a tic-tac-toe as in northern cities. Standing at the four-way intersection outside the station, the cross-shaped extension of the four roads was very straight. Maybe it was because he grew up in the north, Adrian Wang felt very good about this kind of broad road!

Walking slowly forward with Ethan Chen, this is an ordinary county town, but it is the place Ethan Chen once longed for the most. There are three- and four-story buildings along the way. There are the same shops along the street. The houses are still very new. It can be seen that they are the products of the national construction wave in the past three to five years. There is no old at a glance. The people in the small town are very leisurely. Pedestrians walk slowly. There are not many vehicles. There are buses, taxis and pedal tricycles. It seems that most people ride tricycles.

Although it is the May Day statutory holiday, the high school is still in class. Standing outside the tightly closed electronic automatic door, Ethan Chen was very emotional: "The main gate has been changed. When we were studying here, it was still a metal gate. There used to be a red brick wall next to the school, but now there are buildings and shops below. The teaching buildings are all newly built. When we had two three-story teaching buildings, they have all changed now. The conditions are really great!!!"

Standing outside the door and taking in the layout of the place, Ethan Chen said with great emotion that the conditions there were so good that he had studied for seven years. It was a school with four five-story buildings, a narrow 200-meter running track and a small playground with two basketball courts. This was the school where the Chen family had placed all their hopes for their three sons!

It's not contempt! It's not arrogance! Adrian Wang looked at this small and neat school for a long time. Adrian Wang seemed to understand why Ethan Chen only sponsored those farmers who could not get into good universities funded by the state and could only get into ordinary technical schools. Looking at it, Adrian Wang might understand that people like Ethan Chen who could not get the best education can only rely on their own efforts to get out of poverty! How did Ethan Chen finally get out of this county town and come to Beijing with what hope for the future? Adrian Wang looked at Ethan Chen who was excitedly staring at his new alma mater, and what kind of fate made them meet!