Fu Weibo sneered: "You are just like Xiaoxiao, you only care about appearance."

"What's wrong with looking at your face?" Li Xiufen said confidently, "If I didn't look at your face, would I have liked a blockhead like you?"

She patted his back and said, "Our eldest brother's personality is really like yours. He doesn't know how to be smart at all."

Fu Weibo was helpless: "The boss is so smart, isn't it because he took after me?"

Li Xiufen was amused by his shamelessness. "I'm talking about the emotional aspect,"

He sighed: "He is a little slow in emotions, but he will be taking the college entrance examination soon. There are many female classmates in the university. Maybe his wife is one of them."

"So according to what you said, the boss can find me a daughter-in-law with high education?" Li Xiufen felt happy again after thinking this.

Fu Wei Bo hummed and hawed and said a few perfunctory words.

Li Xiufen was not happy with the perfunctory answer. "I want to ask you where is Xingzhou's child?"

Fu Weibo: "Ask me what I do. My opinion is not important anyway."

"You go to sleep first, I'm going out to smoke a cigarette,"

Watching him leave, Li Xiufen scolded him a few times: "You still smoke at night. How come you became a heavy smoker like your father..."

After nagging, she got off the kang, poured a glass of water and placed it on the small table, waiting for him to come back and drink it.

Fu Wei Bo was standing under the tree in the backyard. Before he took out his cigarette, he heard footsteps coming from behind him. He turned around and saw Shen Xingzhou coming over.

He walked over and nodded respectfully, "Uncle,"

Fu Wei Bo said "hmm" lightly.

Seeing the cigarette between his fingers, Shen Xingzhou took out a match from his pocket, lit it and moved closer.

Fu Wei Bo put the cigarette in his mouth, lit it with a match, exhaled a puff of smoke, looked at Shen Xingzhou and smiled: "You are...trying to please me,"

Shen Xingzhou smiled and said, “Uncle, Xiaoxiao respects you very much. I like her, so naturally I want you to accept me.”

He paused and asked, "You seem... a little bit repulsed by me?"

Thinking of Fu Xiao, Fu Weibo's expression softened a lot. "When Xiao Xiao first came to our house, she was thirteen years old. She was very small, like a porcelain doll. I only have three boys and no daughter. I really treat this child like my own daughter..."

Shen Xingzhou listened quietly, and his expression softened. Of course, he still remembered Fu Xiao, who was thirteen years old. That was the girl he could not forget at first sight.

Fu Wei Bo looked at him with a cigarette between his fingers, "It's not that I don't like you, I just can't accept that my daughter has found a partner so early..."

"You should understand my father's heart,"

Shen Xingzhou nodded, "I understand."

Fu Weibo smiled and said, "You don't have to try so hard to please us. Just be nice to my daughter, that's better than anything else."

"Uncle, this is not flattery. You are all Xiaoxiao's relatives. I want you to accept me sincerely so that when Xiaoxiao and I are together, she won't be entangled in any dilemma. I don't want to embarrass her."

Fu Wei Bo looked at the young man in front of him seriously, feeling the sincerity of his words, he didn't say much, just patted him on the shoulder and turned back to the house.

Shen Xingzhou's eyes were filled with smiles, and he felt a little craving for a cigarette, so he reached into his pocket.

Empty.

Only then did he remember that he hadn't had cigarettes in his pocket for a long time.

Shen Xingzhou stayed in Dashan Village for three days.

During these three days, he was very observant and would do any work he saw.

Now Li Xiufen treats him closer than her own son. She even measures his size and makes clothes for him.

Fu Hong was very angry, but Fu Yu avoided her to prevent Li Xiufen from comparing him to Shen Xingzhou again.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the whole village was on holiday. Almost all the candidates in the village who were taking the college entrance examination went to the county town in advance to find a place to stay, so as to avoid wasting time if the school was closed the next day.

Fu Xiao and his two brothers also drove to the county town, with the car loaded with Li Xiufen's quilts that had been hung out to dry and a lot of food.

Li Xiufen also came to the county and was responsible for cooking for the three people.

In the winter of 1977, the college entrance examination center, which had been closed for 11 years, reopened its doors, and more than 5.7 million candidates of different backgrounds, ages, and identities flocked to the examination center like a flood.

A banner like this was hung at the entrance of almost all test sites, which read: Motherland, please make your choice!

This is the only winter college entrance examination in history.

Over the past 30 years, this "national exam" has profoundly affected the fate of more than 30 million people.

This year's college entrance examination accumulated too many expectations. It was a nation's thirst for knowledge. It also profoundly affected the fate of the entire country. While creating the backbone of the country, it also shaped a new social reality.