Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 7: The kid next door
Get out of the subway station, walk east for ten minutes, and you will find my sister-in-law's house.
"...Really leaving the earth? You are the only seedling in your family! If you are my son, I will definitely scold you!"
No accident, my sister-in-law was teary and very reluctant, and said a lot of words to keep her.
Faced with these relatives who care about him, Zhang Yuan smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say. He looked out of the window.
My sister-in-law lives on the 192th floor. Looking out, you can see the scenery far and far away.
Donghua City is well planned. The outer ring is the agricultural and industrial zone, and the middle is the urban area. The buildings are far apart to ensure that every household can get the sun.
"It has been planned, but if you regret it, you will be deserted and will be punished very severely. This is my dad's wish. If he is still alive, he will definitely support me..."
Thinking back to countless days and nights of struggle, how can it be possible to give up now?
"Not coming back?"
"Well, I won't be back..."
My sister-in-law has red eyes and opened her mouth, unable to speak.
In order to conceal this sadness, she hurried to the kitchen to cook, wiping her eyes with her sleeves from time to time.
It was the little uncle who was watching TV while licking sunflower seeds, sitting on the sofa with Erlang's legs tilted up.
He was very open-minded and said: "A good man has aspirations in all directions. It is a good thing to go to space. It is not dead. Your sister-in-law doesn't know what is sad!"
"Look at this news, if it weren't for your age and lack of knowledge, I would like to sign up!"
The sound of the TV is very loud, and a documentary about the "Earth Age" spacecraft is being played on the screen. What kind of rhetoric such as "witness history", "restart a new civilization", "human beings first", etc. has made my little uncle The heart is surging, and I can't wait to go to the stars for a while.
"Oh, I'm getting older, if only you are as young as you."
After half an hour, the dishes were ready, and the atmosphere on the table was a bit silent. My sister kept letting Zhang Yuan eat more, saying “you’ll be on the road when you’re full” and “eat when you’re in space. "No chickens, ducks, and fish meat." Waiting for very strange words.
In order to reduce the concerns of relatives, Zhang Yuan took the initiative to talk about his future plans.
"...In addition to some routine maintenance work on the spacecraft, there is a lot of personal time. Therefore, I plan to learn a little more knowledge before hibernation. It is best to complete the master's and doctoral courses before arriving at the destination... "
"Is there a teacher in the spaceship too?"
"Of course, there are half a million people in it! Most of them have a skill and a higher education than mine."
"And there are many great people, such as professors in universities, senior engineers in companies, etc. These experts are very powerful... and even academicians!"
My sister-in-law nodded, and sighed: "You have a good idea. People still have to live and learn. Xiaoqing, did you hear that? If you don’t study, there is no way to gain a foothold in this society, no matter what You need knowledge to do everything! It's not the old days anymore..."
The girl sitting next to Zhang Yuan, Ye Qingqing, the daughter of my sister-in-law's family, was suddenly educated, and she couldn't help but curl her lips.
Although Zhang Yuan is not a top genius, he is also a typical hardworking student and a good student in the eyes of his relatives. Ye Qingqing is of course unhappy that she is always comparing with "good boys".
She retorted in a voice that only she could hear: "I don’t need trigonometric functions to sell a dish..."
Ye Qingqing didn't dare to refute loudly, for fear of being heard by her father and then being reprimanded.
The era has evolved to the present, and the anti-intellectual rhetoric that "learning is useless" has long been abandoned by the people.
To make a simple comparison, the per capita income of the staff in the major space cities and moon bases is about 600,000.
And the average income of Xia Guo is about 60,000.
There is a tenfold difference in average income between the two!
Xia Country is already a very wealthy country on earth.
If I don’t study, I’m sorry, I can’t go to space, "high probability" to be a low-income earner.
In short, in the eyes of ordinary people, working in a space city or a lunar base is a very decent thing.
"By the way, when will you enter hibernation? It is not said that most of the time during the voyage will be spent in hibernation, and the average awake time of a person is not more than ten years..."
Zhang Yuan thought for a while, and said: "This... depends on personal ability. If you have outstanding ability, you can apply for a later hibernation state. Ordinary people will probably enter hibernation after Jupiter supplies, and wake up for hundreds of years. A few years, and then go into hibernation again, everyone takes turns to work, so that we can survive this difficult time."
"It will eventually take three thousand years to reach the destination."
"Three thousand years."
My sister-in-law's eyes are red again. By then, they would have died long ago and there are no bones left.
Who knows what will happen in the future, no one will think about things three thousand years from now.
My sister-in-law also sighed: "Hey, let's eat, let's eat first."
Zhang Yuan sighed with emotion.
Every astronaut has to face such a choice, they need to abandon their home planet, abandon everything, abandon everything here...
Time is easy to grow old, and the past is hard to find. These 500,000 people will become witnesses of the earth’s history, witnessing the course of the earth in the next three thousand years.
sounds like a kind of cool, but in fact it is a kind of deep cruelty.
They will be abandoned by the entire age.
Some people may question why there are such 500,000 people~ IndoMTL.com~ sounds strange, really strange.
Because... Chao Mushroom doesn't know about Hui Shuo, and Han Jia doesn't know Spring and Autumn.
If you don’t get out of the earth, you will never know how big the starry sky is.
If you look at the earth from the cosmic scale, you will find that the homeland of mankind is too small and too small, and it makes one feel heart palpitating, as if it can be shattered with just a few fingers.
Just like a hundred years ago, Professor Qi Yuanshan, the founder of the Deep Space Foundation and the father of nuclear fusion, uttered a deafening cry: Aerospace and aviation have nothing to do with interests!
The atmosphere became more and more silent, and there was only the sound of eating with vegetables. My uncle suddenly said, "Uh, Xiaoqing will have the college entrance examination next year. Is there any good major that I can recommend? The employment situation is good. The kind."
The university that Zhang Yuan was admitted to was Z University, which is basically the best school that ordinary people can get into through hard work. In addition, he had an internship in Space City and knew the specific situation above.
Ye Qingqing raised her head. She is already a sophomore in high school. She has a rather out-of-the-box personality and doesn't like to learn much. From the usual grades, I know how many catties I have, and I don't expect myself to be admitted to a particularly good university.
In her mind, not reading is great liberation, as long as not reading is a relaxed and happy life.
Even if you really go to the vegetable market to sell vegetables, it is better than reading.
Zhang Yuan thought for a while: "It depends on her interest to choose a major."
Sister-in-law said with a little embarrassment: "She has no special hobbies either..."
This kind of thing is normal. Most people don't know what they should be doing in the future in the second year of high school, and they don't have a particularly complete life plan.
Anyway, teachers and parents let them study, they will study honestly, and only when they fill out their volunteers do they rush to spend a few days to plan their lives.