C636 Hercules
C636 Hercules
Professor Sun was still somewhat worried. "How about I go with you? I won't be able to rest easy if you go too rashly."
Professor Guo laughed and said: "Then you are overthinking things. Kang Ying is someone with a good background; otherwise, she wouldn't be able to conduct such a big event like King of Tea Competition. You don't have to worry about that now that she's here to pick you up."
After two days, Kang Ying received a call from Professor Guo, saying that she had already boarded the bus with her students and had bought an 8: 00 ticket. It should be 2: 00 PM when she arrived at Lu County.
Kang Ying lamented the lack of a high-speed, long distance travel is really suffering, while hurriedly promised Professor Guo, will arrange for China and Pakistan to come pick them up.
Kang Ying also called Xia Dashan to tell him to check if the empty classrooms in the school were cleaned up and that the students would live there immediately.
Xia Dashan indicated that he had done it already. Yesterday, he had done it already. As long as the students came, they would be able to live here directly.
Kang Ying was relieved. She knew that Xia Dashan was a reliable person.
However, what Kang Ying didn't expect was that after she put down the phone, Xia Dashan started to worry about the quilts that the students were covering.
It was spring now, and the mountain was still very cold. He would definitely have to cover himself with a quilt at night. He had heard that eight students had come. With so many quilts, it would be difficult for them to gather together.
So Xia Dashan called the members of Tea Farmers Association to a meeting and told them what Professor Guo had brought the students to, and told them to think about it and see if they could squeeze a quilt out of everyone's house.
When they heard that Professor Guo really wanted to bring the university students to their village, the tea farmers were all touched and took out their own cotton quilts.
These quilts were not meant to be used for relationships. Some were meant to marry their sons, while others had just been made. Some were reluctant to use new quilts since they had just been replaced, but when they heard that a university student had arrived, they covered themselves with old quilts and let the new quilts out.
All of a sudden, with more people and strength, the eight quilts were quickly gathered. Xia Dashan told everyone to bring the quilts to the yard to dry, so that there wouldn't be any odors that would scare the students.
As for Professor Guo himself, Xia Dashan planned to let her stay in his house and had already prepared a clean house for her.
Kang Ying and Shi Jiangyuan arrived at the station at 2: 00 sharp to pick up Professor Guo. Kang Ying called a minibus to pick them up.
This kind of car walked on mountain roads, and the driver didn't show any sign of fear when driving that type of mountain road called Guanshan Village.
Professor Guo's bus stopped at 2: 30. When she got off the bus, she saw two outstanding faces at the exit.
Although she couldn't recall Kang Ying's appearance on the phone, she recognized her as soon as she saw Kang Ying. There was no helping it, because Kang Ying was too outstanding.
Standing in the middle of a group of modest townspeople around her, she was tall and well-dressed, and could be recognized at a glance from the crowd.
Kang Ying also saw Professor Guo and quickly waved to her. Professor Guo also waved at her and told his students to carry their luggage towards the exit.
Kang Ying warmly shook hands with her and said, "Thank you for your hard work. You've come all the way here."
Professor Guo smiled and said, "No, this is a win-win situation. I have to thank you for coming to pick us up."
Kang Ying smiled and said, "Then let's change to a minibus. Ordinary cars can't take so many people, can we?"
Seeing that Kang Ying was well-prepared, Professor Guo became more content and got on the car with them.
The driver drove them for forty minutes straight to Guanshan Village.
After all, many of the students who studied agriculture were also from the countryside, so they were mentally prepared for the village people who had a high level of Guanshan Village and were far behind in terms of appearance.
Kang Ying asked the minibus to drive directly to the primary school playground. When the car arrived at the primary school, it was already 3: 30 PM. The primary school had just finished school.
Kang Ying and Shi Jiangyuan just got off the car, President Yu received the news and came out to welcome them.
President Yu received them warmly and brought the students to two classrooms with shared bunks.
Professor Guo followed him in to have a look and was quite satisfied. Although it was a floor covering, Xia Dashan had no idea where Xia Dashan got his wits from. He first put a layer of wood on the floor, then spread it with dry straw and then spread the sheets.
Chase's bed was covered with neatly folded quilts. Although the color of the quilts was different, there was no odour to it even after being placed close to it. There was even the smell of new sun.
For a backward village to be able to do this, it was already the greatest respect to the visiting university students.
Kang Ying was quite touched. Those university students might not have noticed the details, but Kang Ying could feel it.
"Not bad, there's also the refrigerator and the water heater. It's pretty good."
Some of the students had already visited the small school under President Yu's guidance and found that the conditions there were much better than they had imagined.
They had originally been worried that there wouldn't be a place to bathe, but now that they saw that the school had a brand-new refrigerator and electric water heater, they were overjoyed.
Upon seeing that the appliances were new, Professor Guo couldn't help but ask Kang Ying doubtfully, "It can't be that you bought them for us, can it? That would be a waste of money."
"Professor Guo, these appliances were donated by Director Kang. Thanks to you, we can enjoy them now." President Yu chuckled happily on the side.
When Professor Guo saw Kang Ying's sincere face, he couldn't help but recall the conversation he had with his husband that night. It seemed like her intuition was right.
The university students had already settled down. When Xia Dashan heard the news and rushed over, Professor Guo knew that he was going to be arranged to stay at Xia Dashan's home. Anyway, she didn't have any objections.
In Xia Dashan's home, other than the bed, the conditions were also similar to the school's. It wasn't convenient to bathe, but the living conditions were better than the school's.
However, Professor Guo originally came to this mountain area with the thought of going through hardships, so he didn't have too much fear.
Upon hearing that the professors and students of the tea department had arrived, without anyone needing to call out to them, all the tea farmers of Guanshan Village began to gather around Professor Guo and the other students one by one.
Kang Ying felt that she had nothing to do here, so she changed into Shi Jiangyuan, took the bags of meat, eggs, and milk from the back of the minibus and put them into the school's refrigerator. She told the school chef to guarantee the food for the next few days for the students and teachers, then she and Shi Jiangyuan left the mountain.
Kang Ying didn't even have the space to say goodbye to Professor Guo because Professor Guo was surrounded by the tea farmers and she couldn't get close to them.
Kang Ying really hoped that Guanshan Village's tea house and Professor Guo would be able to come up with a chemical reaction, raising the level of tea making to a whole new level.
After returning to their home in the county, the two of them calculated and decided to go to Shanghai the day after tomorrow to observe the market and sell off a portion of their original shares.