Chapter 124 College Entrance Examination Resumed

Li's mother left soon and went to find Li Ruoju.

The lives of Li Ruolan and her friends became dull again. After the last batch of cloth was sold out, they sent the clothes to Liu Kunming by the transport team.

It started snowing again in the Victory Brigade. After distributing the food, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan's families asked for leave and returned to Beijing.

In 1976, Li Ruolan, Qin Wan and Xia Zhen once again spent the New Year together.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to give you that much cloth next year. Since the end of this year, the weaving factory's business has been getting worse and worse.

I estimate that business will get worse next year, and I don’t know if we can keep our jobs.”

After Xia Zhen gave birth to the child, Xia Zhen's mother retired and stayed at home to help the two of them take care of the child, while Xia Zhen continued to work in the weaving factory.

However, during the end of the year, the weaving factory's business was getting worse and worse, and the profits were getting lower and lower. Liu Kunming felt that he and Xia Zhen were probably going to be unemployed.

Qin Wan stood up, then went out to look around, making sure that no one was around before coming back to close the door and speaking in a low voice.

"I want to tell you a piece of news. I heard it by accident, but it is absolutely reliable. The college entrance examination will definitely be resumed next year at the latest."

Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen's eyes lit up immediately: "Is what you said true?"

Qin Wan responded, "It shouldn't be false, so I have a good idea to make money. If you can continue working in the weaving factory, just keep working.

If you can't do it, go to the paper mill. The paper mill recycles some paper every year, and most of it is definitely books and the like.

You can get all the high school textbooks and a book called "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series". This material is very important, so find as many as you can.

We still have some money here. It would be great if you could use it to buy a printer and then print out more books on the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series".

As soon as the college entrance examination is resumed, I will sell all these books and make a lot of money. "

"This business sounds very good. I'll pay half of the money for the printer." Li Ruolan said immediately.

Upon hearing this, Xia Zhen went to see Liu Kunming. Liu Kunming thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll do it."

Qin Wan said, "Ruolan and I will pay for the printer, and you will be responsible for buying paper and finding someone to print the book. How about we split the money equally among the three of us?"

No one disagreed, so they began to discuss what to do about the matter.

“The two courtyard houses of our two families are probably still being watched by red armbands, so you definitely can’t print books there.

So we still have to find a more secluded place, or buy a few houses?" Li Ruolan suggested.

They have a lot of money now. Wouldn't it be a waste if they just hold on to it and don't buy a house? It would be better to have a few more properties.

The three families acted immediately and spent another month looking for three adjacent courtyard houses, and each family bought one.

These three courtyard houses are relatively old and located in remote areas. Xia Zhen's courtyard house is in the middle, with two courtyards, but it is not as big as the one that Li Ruolan and her family bought before.

Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen cleaned up the front room for themselves to live in, and prepared to store the printer, paper, and books they bought in the back room.

After everything was settled, it was time for Li Ruolan and the others to return to the Victory Brigade.

Finally, the three families sat together for dinner again, and Xia Zhen asked Li Ruolan and Qin Wanzhun whether they were planning to take the college entrance examination.

Li Ruolan shook her head directly: "I don't want to, I don't like going to school."

She now owns three courtyard houses in Beijing, and they have a lot of money in their space. They can invest all the money during this period and then make money.

She had no interest in going to college again, and Deng Minghao also felt that going to school was meaningless. Instead of spending that time, he might as well go fishing more often.

Naturally, Lu Yunxiao would not take the college entrance examination. Qin Wan was a little hesitant, but seeing that Li Ruolan didn't want to go, she thought about it and decided not to go to college.

They are already 25 or 26 years old now. They will be 26 or 27 next year, and will be 30 when they graduate from college.

Anyway, they all have a lot of start-up capital, so it’s better not to go to school and concentrate on making money.

Among them, Xia Zhen is the youngest. She still dreams of becoming a college student, but seeing that Li Ruolan and Qin Wan don't want to go to school, she becomes hesitant.

Li Ruolan saw through her thoughts and said, "You are much younger than us, and you have someone to help take care of the child. Unlike us, you have time to go to college, so if you want to go, then go."

Liu Kunming also glanced at Xia Zhen: "That's right, if you want to go to school, then go well, you don't have to worry about things at home."

Xia Zhen finally nodded. She was the only one in the group who decided to go to college.

After the matter here was resolved, Li Ruolan and the others returned to the Victory Brigade. After coming back, Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao did not stay at home well, and went out every few days.

They discussed with the group of people who collected game, got a few printers, and started printing information.

Liu Kunming's weaving factory business was indeed getting worse and worse, and many workers lost their jobs. Xia Zhen was in the first wave of unemployment, so she just happened to have the time to concentrate on her review.

Liu Kunming did not resign directly, but still stayed in the accountant position, busy with printing work.

Because it would be a disaster if this matter was discovered, Liu Kunming did not dare to let other people get involved and only asked his father-in-law to help.

Anyway, there is still some time before the college entrance examination is resumed, so we usually do it by ourselves, and when we have time, two or three people will work together. Slowly, little by little, we can print several thousand books in a year.

On the contrary, Deng Minghao and his team had a lot of people and they bought several printers. With so many people working day and night, they produced tens of thousands of copies in a year.

Naturally, these books could not be sold in this province forever, so the boss who collected their game secretly broke up these books, which numbered in the thousands, and shipped them to several surrounding provinces.

The New Year of 1978 passed quietly, but every month after the New Year, Liu Kunming and Yewei Boss, those who did not know the exact time of the college entrance examination, were anxiously waiting.

While waiting, continue to copy these books.

Finally, on October 21, the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was published in the newspapers. Within two days, the whole country knew about it.

Countless students who want to go to college began to go to bookstores to buy various tutoring materials.

The "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series" became the object of everyone's scramble.

Liu Kunming and Yewei Laoda started selling these books privately at the same time. They did not raise the price too high, only ten yuan per book, and they were snapped up by many people.