When the group returned to the yard, Jiang Mengxue found that only Jiang's mother and two children were at home.

"Have all the sisters-in-law gone to work? Where are the children?"

Jiang's mother returned to the house and brought out a few stools for them to sit on for a while.

"The older ones are all in school, and the younger ones are out picking grass for pigs and playing."

Now all the production teams grow alfalfa. The pigs, cattle and sheep raised in the team no longer need to go to the mountains to cut grass. The alfalfa grown in the fields is enough.

Members can also use the centimeters to exchange for alfalfa from the team for their own pigs, but if there are enough people at home, they still have to go to the mountains to cut it themselves.

Among the Jiang family's children, the eldest, Jiang Yukun, is already fifteen years old.

At this age, he is already in junior high school.

"How are the children's studies? Do they plan to go to high school or take the entrance exam for technical secondary school?"

In this day and age, it is harder to get into a technical secondary school than into a high school.

After graduating from a technical secondary school, you can be assigned a job and work in an office, which is at the cadre level.

But not everyone who graduates from high school can find a job.

Jiang's mother washed the remaining dishes and sat down at the door.

"Don't mention it, the children in your family are all good at studying.

After returning home, we can discuss anything we don’t know together.

Xiaokun is in the second grade of junior high school this year and will take the high school entrance exam next year. He plans to apply to a technical secondary school so that he can work after graduation.

Your second brother's daughter Pingping is 13 years old this year, and she still wants to go to high school and take the college entrance examination."

Taking the college entrance exam? Jiang Mengxue was stunned.

This word will be abolished in less than two years.

Those who have been admitted to universities in the past two years may not be able to graduate.

But considering that Pingping is still young and will not start junior high school until the second half of the year, I am not in a hurry.

When you get the news that you can't go to college, your thoughts will naturally change.

It’s just such a pity that it has been delayed for ten years. I don’t know how my life will be like ten years later, and whether I will still have the confidence to take the college entrance examination.

Moreover, the competitiveness of the college entrance examination now and the college entrance examination ten years later is completely different.

You can imagine that among all the graduates who took the college entrance examination in the past ten years, there were millions or tens of millions of people. How many of them could be admitted?

But there is nothing you can do if you catch up. However, it would be good if you can get into a technical secondary school. Even if you don’t take the college entrance examination in the future, the treatment of technical secondary school graduates will not be bad.

"I don't know if your sister has called your brothers to tell them that you're back, and I don't know if they'll be back today.

After junior high school, Xiao Kun was taken to the county by your brother to go to school. There were only three of your brother and me living in their dormitory, so Xiao Kun could still fit in.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to allocate housing in the factory. Even if there is housing, it is only allocated to those who have worked there for a long time, or to couples who are both factory employees.

Your eldest brother went to the street to find a house to rent, otherwise when Pingping goes to school, a girl can't live in the same room with a bunch of grown men.

But it is difficult to rent a house on the street now. The only houses that are dilapidated are those that can’t be rented out, and it costs a lot of money to renovate them, so no one is willing to rent them.

Your brother means that they can just get some materials to fix the walls and roof so that it's habitable, and then they can do the finishing work once the whole family moves in."

This is also something that has to be considered.

In fact, there were junior high and high schools in the commune, but there was a staff school in the cannery where Jiang Dachun and his colleagues worked. It was not expensive for the factory workers' students to go to school, and the education was definitely better than that in the commune.

The brothers also saw the benefits of studying. Jiang Chunmei and Jiang Mengran were able to find good jobs after finishing junior high school.

I don’t expect my children to have any great future, but at least they can seize the opportunities when they come.

Since I started working in the city, I finally understood why everyone wants to move to the city.

Working in a factory is better than working in the fields under the wind and rain all day long.

One month's salary is equivalent to what one can earn from farming for half a year.

Therefore, the only thing the Jiang brothers want now is to make a lot of money to support all their children's education and change the situation of the next generation of the Jiang family.

Since Jiang Yukun went to study in the county, he has been in contact with children of city workers.

Naturally, I also know that it is not easy to find a job in the city, and even if the factory is recruiting internally, not everyone has a chance.

So he didn't expect to find a job after finishing junior high school. Even if his father and two uncles worked in the factory, he would not be included in the factory's internal recruitment quota. The factory leaders didn't even have enough quota for their own families. He still knew this.

So he studied hard and vowed to be admitted to a technical secondary school.

Only after he goes to a technical secondary school and graduates will he be assigned a job, and he will have a promising future at the cadre level.

Jiang Mengxue quite agrees with her elder brother's idea.

While no one is interested now, find some suitable land to rent or even buy.

Even if you simply build two rooms on it, they will be yours in the future.

It is better to send several children to school in the county than to go to the village primary school.

It is not certain whether the primary school teachers in the village have attended junior high school, and they cannot even speak standard Mandarin, not to mention that students of this generation also have to learn English and Russian.

The language environment must be established from an early age. Starting to learn in elementary school is definitely much easier than learning in junior high school.

"What's with that? You said you were enlisting in the army. Aren't you a doctor?

How long can you stay this time? The children are almost of school age. Is there a school in the army?

Jiang's mother had a lot of things she wanted to ask, but she didn't know where to start, so she could only ask whatever she could think of.

"Doctors in the army are all military doctors and soldiers, and they are different from doctors in hospitals outside the army.

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