Yu Wenli was secretly wondering outside, what kind of exam were they talking about?

Where can I take the exam?

He left quietly, but couldn't sleep all night.

The next morning, while Lao Xu was in the pigsty, Yu Wenli quietly went to the feed room.

I saw that the table in the feed room was covered with high school textbooks, as well as a thick stack of test papers and exercise sheets.

"Yu Wenli, what are you doing in here?!"

When Lao Xu came out of the pigsty and couldn't find Yu Wenli, he knew that this man had done something wrong.

Seeing him come out of the feed room, his face immediately turned ugly: "Didn't I tell you that you're not allowed to come in here unless I ask you for help?"

"Uncle Xu, I can't find my things. I forgot where I put them. I haven't even gone inside yet."

"How could your things be in the feed room? Come out now!"

Old Xu frowned and scoffed.

He wasn't wary of Wenli; he simply looked down on him and disliked him, so he picked a fight with him.

Before Wenli slunk out, Lao Xu didn't think about anything else.

Yu Wenli stroked his chin, thinking about how Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng were studying high school material late at night, and they still had exams to take.

Could it be...?

Yu Wenli suddenly felt a great, uncertain joy.

Is the government going to organize some kind of exam to select talent?!

He said that it was not a long-term solution for intellectuals like them to go to the countryside to farm and for old farmers to go to university.

Sooner or later, the country will remember them!

Yu Wenli knew that Bai Jiaojiao had latched onto Su Yangang, and that Su Yangang might have been the one who gave them the information.

After thinking about it, Yu Wenli felt even more certain that his thinking was correct.

Ha, he even managed to discover something like this; it seems like God is looking out for him.

Yu Wenli immediately wrote a letter home, asking them to send over all his old high school books and notebooks.

He did very well in humanities back then. Now that he's picked it up again, he'll definitely be better than that illiterate Shen Heng!

Yu Wenli was filled with excitement. His hands trembled as he wrote the letter, and his handwriting became somewhat messy.

Bai Jiaojiao had no idea what Yu Wenli had overheard the night before, but even if Yu Wenli was preparing for the college entrance exam, it wouldn't threaten them.

Bai Jiaojiao dared to move books to the pigsty, so she wasn't afraid of being seen by others.

Moreover, she knew that in everyone's impression, Shen Heng was an illiterate man who had never been to school. If the admission notice came down and the villagers still didn't believe it, it would cause trouble and create unnecessary complications.

It would have been better to tell everyone earlier that she had already started teaching Shenheng culture, and then everything would have fallen into place naturally.

Old Xu even said to Zheng Xu, "Intellectuals are just different. They're still studying here while on night duty. Look at this thick stack of books. If I had it, I'd rather be crushed to death by this stack of books than be able to read it."

Zheng Xu now checks on the feed room whenever he has free time during the day. He noticed a lot of high school textbooks on the table and said, "These must have been read by Bai Jiaojiao."

"It must have been Jiaojiao who read it. How could that roughneck Shen Heng understand it?"

Old Xu affirmed.

"What 'roughneck'?" Shen Heng and Bai Jiaojiao came over to relieve each other after dinner and heard someone call him a roughneck.

Old Xu heard Shen Heng's tone and felt a bit angry. He pouted and said, "Did I say something wrong? Your level of education is the same as mine; we're both illiterate."

Old Xu, after all, came from the battlefield; others might fear Shen Heng, but he wasn't.

Bai Jiaojiao chimed in from the side, "No, Uncle Xu, I already caught up on Heng's elementary and middle school knowledge a long time ago, and now we're learning high school material."

In fact, they had already been reviewing for a while.

Zheng Xu was shocked: "Really? You usually teach Chenheng culture?"

"Of course, if we're living together, we'll definitely have to make progress together in every way. We even listen to English on the radio together, Captain, do you want to listen with me?"

Zheng Xu shook his head: "You guys can improve on your own. I don't need to learn that anymore."

Old Xu was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

So he's the only illiterate one?

In the end, he was the one who was truly uncouth.

Shen Heng looked at Old Xu's face and sneered, "Uncle Xu, if you want to learn, come find me and I'll teach you."

Shen Heng never called Lao Xu "Uncle Xu"; his politeness was actually quite sarcastic.

Old Xu was so embarrassed that he glared at him.

"Heng-ge, don't talk to Uncle Xu like that," Bai Jiaojiao said, both amused and exasperated.

"Wasn't that just saying nice things?" Shen Heng said smugly.

He is not the same Shen Heng he used to be; he is now an intellectual, even without a diploma.

This was supposed to be a good thing, but Zheng Xu was so surprised that he didn't say anything encouraging or praising.

The fact that Shen Heng could study was as shocking to Zheng Xu as a sow climbing a tree.

Good heavens, which village bully stays up all night reading high school textbooks?

When the two of them arrived, Old Xu automatically took over his shift and left.

Zheng Xu didn't stay long; his family was waiting for him to come home for dinner.

Shen Heng, standing behind, laughed and said, "Look at these people, they really look down on me. If no one had paid for my schooling back then, I might have become the brigade leader."

“Okay, okay,” Bai Jiaojiao said, looking at Shen Heng’s smug expression. “Let’s go take a look at the pigsty, and we’ll be back to listen to English in a bit.”

The two went to inspect the pigsty and were about to leave when they saw Da Hua standing there motionless. She grunted twice and then lay down on the ground.

"Dahua is about to give birth."

Bai Jiaojiao quickly said, "Go and call Lao Xu, and have him come and take a look too."

Old Xu doted on Xiao Hua. When Zheng Xu wanted to sell Xiao Hua, he was very reluctant, saying that Xiao Hua was a meritorious contributor and how could he just sell her off like that?

Now only Da Hua is left, and Lao Xu almost decided to adopt her as his goddaughter.

Bai Jiaojiao stood guard on the side, while Shen Heng called Lao Xu over.

Old Xu muttered to himself, "Dahua, you'd better have a lot of babies, or our heartless brigade leader will sell you off."

Bai Jiaojiao was both amused and exasperated.

Everyone squatted nervously in the pigpen. Big Flower's pig was starting to move, and one of the sows began to grunt.

Bai Jiaojiao rushed over to see what was happening; the two pigs were about to give birth together!

If the delivery goes well, it will be a double blessing.

Inside the pigpen, the grunting of two sows rose and fell. Big Flower lived up to its name, producing a stable and high yield this year, giving birth to eight piglets, five males and three females.

Her daughter, perhaps due to inexperience, although her initiation was similar to that of the big flower, took a long time to produce three offspring.

"There can't be only three, right?"

Old Xu's hands were covered in the grime he had just cleaned up for Da Hua, but he didn't have time to deal with it, so he came over to look at this one.

Bai Jiaojiao reached out and touched the sow's belly: "It doesn't look like it, there's more."

"It's okay, the big-flowered ones were like that last year too, they just grow slowly."

Old Xu didn't know whether he was comforting Bai Jiaojiao or himself.