Lu Fengnian divided his mother's dowry equally among his four sons and asked his wives to keep the rest for themselves. Lu Shu brought her husband and children to pay New Year's greetings on the afternoon of the second day of the New Year.

Lu Fengnian also gave her a share, but only one big yellow croaker, four small yellow croakers, thirty-eight silver dollars, and an antique vase from the late Qing Dynasty.

Lu Shu was so happy. Her mother had given her several pairs of pearl necklaces and earrings, as well as two jade bracelets a few years ago. She didn't expect that she would also get gold this time.

When she has the chance to buy a house, she will definitely buy a courtyard house with two entrances and two courtyards. The house allocated by the sugar factory is too small.

They still have a few thousand dollars to buy a house, and if it's not enough, they can sell their father for gold.

Eating and drinking, Lu Ting's three younger brothers and their families spent a happy Spring Festival in Su Yan's courtyard home. They left on time early in the morning on the third day of the New Year.

Lu Ting also followed Lu Fengnian and the others back, leaving only Su Yan and the four children in the courtyard.

There was no one else at home, so Su Yan simply slept on the kang with the children and cooked in that room because it was so cold.

Lu Ting was miserable. His wife wouldn't come back because her child was unhappy. He slept alone in a cold bed every night. It wasn't until the day before the Lantern Festival that Lu Ting drove to pick her up and brought back the TV.

After the Lantern Festival, Su Yan took Lu Yiming back to the city and left the triplets in Lu Ting's care.

Why? Because Lu Yiming got a batch of English tapes from somewhere and said he wanted to sell them to students.

Su Yan thought that the country would announce the resumption of the college entrance examination in October this year, and those who had connections would receive the news in August or September.

It is now March in the Gregorian calendar, less than half a year before she receives the news, so she has to prepare in advance.

No matter how busy Lu Yiming was during the day, he would review for two hours at night. Su Yan even bought him a complete set of "Physics and Chemistry Self-Study Series" for review.

Of course, this set of books will sell very well later because many people were admitted to college through this set of books.

"Mom, will the college entrance examination really be resumed this year?"

"Maybe?"

"Mom, I want to set up a training class at home to give extra lessons to those poor students."

Lu Yiming always ranked among the top three in his grade. He thought that since the college entrance examination could be restored, he could run a training class to tutor his classmates. Not only could he earn extra money, but he could also help his classmates.

Su Yan felt that her son was smart. Even when he was about to take the college entrance examination, he did not forget to write about this matter and think of ways to make money.

Seeing that Su Yan remained silent, he continued, "I can also copy college entrance examination materials and sell them to make money."

"If you think it over, go ahead and do it, but don't do anything illegal."

With Su Yan's support, Lu Yiming went to several bookstores and bought a total of 43 sets of "Physics and Chemistry Self-Study Series", as well as other college entrance examination materials, dozens of copies of each.

These books are all published by publishing houses, so he naturally cannot take them to a printing factory to reprint them privately, but he can extract the essence of them, compile a collection of key points and difficulties of the college entrance examination, and then take it to a printing factory to print.

During the day, Lu Yiming was either delivering goods to his friends or visiting his former teachers at school. Su Yan stayed at home to grow flowers and vegetables and take care of the yard, and went into the space to take care of it at night.

She would go back every two days to take care of the triplets, check on Lu Ting at home and bring them some supplies. If she didn't go back for a week, Lu Ting would definitely come back with the triplets.

In mid-July, Lu Ting returned to the city with his triplets on summer vacation. Lu Yiming was just pulling a tricycle full of watermelons to deliver to a friend.

Lu Ting stopped him, "Yiming, you can't run outside anymore. You need to study hard."

"Dad, what's wrong?"

"A few days ago, your grandfather and I went to visit the leader and talked about your joining the army. The old leader said that the higher-ups were discussing the reinstatement of the college entrance examination.

The news hasn't officially spread yet. Don't you want to join the army? Then work hard to study and get into your ideal university."

"Dad, what you said is true. Mom's guess was right. Fortunately, I have studied hard this year. Dad, I won't sell these watermelons. Take a few back to give to Grandpa and keep the rest for yourself."

"You won't come back with me?"

"I'm going to open a cram school at our house and hire two teachers to help. I already have a set of review materials, right? I'm going to take them to the printing factory to get them printed. Dad, would you like to invest a little and split the profits 50-50?"

"If you want to do it, just do it. If your dad doesn't have money, go find your mom to invest in you."

Lu Yiming did what he said. He pushed the tricycle into the yard and ran to the kitchen to talk to Su Yan about investment issues.

Su Yan thought his idea was good and of course supported him wholeheartedly. That afternoon, she asked Lu Ting to take Lu Yiming to the printing factory.

The leaders of the printing factory thought Lu Yiming was crazy. He couldn't even take the college entrance examination now, so why was he organizing all these college entrance examination materials? And he even printed 3,000 sets at a time. Was he wasting too much money?

The college entrance examination materials he compiled were divided into three volumes, with one volume priced at one dollar and five cents, and three volumes priced at four dollars and five cents. Even if the printing factory only charged them two dollars and five cents per set of three volumes, three thousand sets would cost seven thousand five hundred yuan.

At first, the leaders refused to print the materials for them. Lu Ting tried to persuade them, saying that they would donate some of the materials to students in the disaster area. He also took the risk and secretly revealed the news to them that the college entrance examination might be resumed this year.

The leader wondered if he prepared in advance. If the higher-ups asked him to reprint the college entrance examination series, would he be rewarded?

After paying the deposit, Lu Yiming revealed the news to his classmates and asked them to go home for extra lessons. At first, those classmates were just being lazy and used the pocket money they had saved over the years to go to their homes for free food and drinks and to attend the classes.

When they actually received the news from other channels that the college entrance examination would be resumed, they regretted it.

"Student Lu Yiming, we haven't reviewed the previous lessons carefully. Can you go over them again?"

"Sure. For those of you who didn't understand, I'll give you an extra lesson every night. Of course, the tuition fee will be extra."

“Why not make up two periods?”

"I also need to review more myself. I don't have any extra time."

Seeing that his elder brother not only reviewed on his own but also gave extra lessons to his classmates, and the number of students who received extra lessons increased, but he also did not forget to ask the teacher for help, Lu Yian was extremely envious.

He said to Lu Yining, "Brother, should we go back to the military compound and run a cram school to tutor the poor students? The fee won't be high, just two yuan per person for one summer vacation."

"That's what you think, but do those elementary school students have money?"

"Their parents are rich! We can find the bottom five students in the class and lobby their parents to give them extra lessons so that their grades can be raised by at least ten points. Those who failed will pass, and those who originally scored 60 will get 70 points next time."

Lu Yian kept talking, and Lu Yining said, "Brother, I don't think this is appropriate. The teacher will definitely criticize us if he knows we are paying for extra lessons for our classmates."

Lu Yian was speechless for a moment. Yes, helping classmates with tutoring for free would definitely be praised, but asking classmates to pay would be criticized even if it was a good deed.

Forget it, it’s better not to do such a thankless task. He should study hard and try to skip a grade next semester, go to junior high school and high school earlier, and take the college entrance examination earlier.