Chapter 7

Go out of the subway station and walk to the East for more than ten minutes. That's my aunt's house.

"... do you really want to leave the earth? You're the only one in your family! If you were my son, I would scold you to death! "

Not surprisingly, my sister-in-law was tearful and very reluctant. She said a lot of words to stay.

Facing these concerned relatives, Zhang Yuan smiled awkwardly and didn't know what to say. He looked out of the window.

My sister-in-law lives on the 192 floor. Looking out, you can see the scenery far away.

Donghua city is well planned. The most outer ring is the agricultural and industrial zone, and the middle is the urban area. Buildings are far away from each other to ensure that every household can get the sun.

"Those who have already planned to renege are deserters and will be severely punished. This is also my father's wish. If he is still alive, he will support me... "

Recalling countless days and nights of struggle, how can you give up now?

"Not coming back?"

"Well, I won't come back..."

My sister-in-law's eyes were red and she opened her mouth and couldn't speak.

In order to hide her sadness, she hurried to the kitchen to cook, wiping her eyes on her sleeves from time to time.

It's my sister-in-law who sits on the sofa with his legs crossed while eating melon seeds and watching TV.

He was very open-minded and said, "a good man is ambitious. It's a good thing to go to space. She's not dead. Your sister-in-law doesn't know what she's sad about!"

"Look at this news, if I were not old and my knowledge level was not enough, I would like to sign up!"

The voice of the TV is very loud. A documentary about the "earth times" spacecraft is playing on the screen. All kinds of heroic words such as "witnessing history", "restarting a new civilization" and "human first" make my little uncle's heart surging, and I wish I could walk into the starry sky.

"Alas, I'm old. If only I were as young as you."

After half an hour, the dishes were ready, and the atmosphere on the table was a little silent. My sister-in-law kept asking Zhang Yuan to eat more, saying strange things such as "it's good to go on the road when you're full", "you can't eat chicken, duck, fish and meat when you're in space".

In order to reduce the concerns of relatives, Zhang Yuan took the initiative to talk about his plans for the future.

"... in addition to some routine maintenance work, there is still a lot of personal time on the spacecraft. Therefore, I intend to learn more before hibernation. It is best to complete master's and doctoral courses before reaching my destination... "

"Is there a teacher in the ship?"

"Of course, there are 500000 people inside! The vast majority of people have skills and higher education than me. "

"There are also many outstanding people, such as professors in universities, senior engineers in enterprises and so on. These experts are great... Even academicians! "

The little uncle nodded and sighed, "you have a good idea. It's never too old to learn. Xiaoqing, did you hear that without learning, there is no way to gain a foothold in this society. No matter what you do, you need knowledge! It's not the old times anymore... "

The girl sitting next to Zhang Yuan is Ye Qingqing, the daughter of her sister-in-law's family. She was suddenly educated to her head and couldn't help but curl her mouth.

Although Zhang Yuan is not a top genius, he is also a model of hard work and a good student in the eyes of his relatives. Of course, ye Qingqing is unhappy that she is always compared with "good children".

She whispered and retorted in a voice that only she could hear: "I can't use trigonometric function to sell a dish..."

In fact, ye Qingqing doesn't dare to retort loudly for fear that her father will hear it and then be reprimanded.

The anti intellectual speech of "learning is useless" has long been abandoned by the people.

In a simple comparison, the per capita income of the staff in the major space cities and lunar bases is about 600000.

The average income of Xia is about 60000.

The average income difference between the two is ten times!

Xia is already a very rich country on earth.

If you don't study, I'm sorry, you can't go to space, "high probability" to be a low-income person.

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 go into hibernation? Television doesn't mean that the vast majority of the time during the voyage will be spent in hibernation, and a person's average waking time will not exceed ten years... "

Zhang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "this... Depends on personal ability. If you have outstanding ability, you can apply to enter hibernation later. Ordinary people will probably enter hibernation after Jupiter's supply, sleep for hundreds of years, wake up for a few years, and then enter hibernation again. Everyone takes turns to work, so that they can survive this difficult time. "

"It will take 3000 years to reach the destination."

"Three thousand years."

My sister-in-law's eyes turned red again. By that time, they would have died and had no bones left.

Who knows what will happen in the future, and no one will think about what will happen three thousand years later.

The little uncle also sighed: "Hey, eat, eat first."

Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart.

Every astronaut has to face such a choice. They need to abandon their home planet, everything, everything here

Time is old and the past is hard to find. These 500000 people will become witnesses to the history of the earth and witness the course of the earth in the next 3000 years.

It sounds cool, but it's actually a deep cruelty.

They will be abandoned by the whole era.

Some people may question why there are such 500000 people.

Sounds strange, really strange.

Because... The dynasty bacteria don't know the dark new moon, and the Squilla doesn't know the spring and autumn.

If you don't get out of the earth, you never know how big the starry sky is.

Observing the earth from the cosmic scale, you will find that the human home is too small, too small, so small that you feel palpitating, as if it could be broken by flicking your fingers.

Just like a hundred years ago, Professor Qi Yuanshan, the founder of the deep space foundation and the father of nuclear fusion, issued an enlightening cry: what does Aerospace have to do with interests!

The atmosphere became more and more silent, leaving only the sound of eating with vegetables. The little uncle suddenly said, "Er, Xiaoqing will take the college entrance examination next year. Is there any good major to recommend? The one with a good employment situation. "

The University Zhang Yuan went to is Z University, which is basically the best school that ordinary people can go to through their efforts. In addition, he has practiced in space city and knows the specific situation above.

Ye Qingqing raises her head. She is a sophomore in senior high school. She has a jumping personality and doesn't love learning. I know my weight from my usual grades, and I don't expect to be admitted to a particularly good university.

In her mind, not reading is a 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's better than reading.

Zhang Yuan thought: "it depends on her interest to choose a major."

My sister-in-law was a little embarrassed and said, "she has no special interests..."

This kind of thing is normal. Most people don't know what they should do in the future when they are sophomores, and they don't have a particularly complete life plan.

Anyway, when teachers and parents let them study, they study honestly. Only when filling in volunteers, they spend a few days in a hurry to plan their life.