"Click".

After Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng were seated, the reporter took a picture of them.

"Both of you, may I ask how you prepared for this exam? There were many students taking the college entrance exam this year, but their scores were generally not high. For the two of you to both be admitted to Yenching University, you must have something extraordinary about you, right?"

Bai Jiaojiao said, "There's nothing particularly unusual about us. Heng and I would discuss and study together whenever we had time after work, because knowledge is always the most powerful thing. If there's anything different about us, it's probably that we study for a longer period of time."

The reporter quickly took notes. "Knowledge is power," the reporter thought. "If I wrote that out, it would definitely be a great article."

He then asked, "Are you both high school students?"

Bai Jiaojiao glanced at Shen Heng, her eyes crinkling into a smile: "No, I graduated from high school. He never went to school because of his family situation. I taught him little by little after I married him."

The reporter's gaze immediately fell on Shen Heng, making no attempt to hide the disbelief in his eyes and a sense of understandable relief.

He said this person didn't seem like someone who had ever been to school!

Shen Heng glared back: "What? Can't there be children from poor families?"

"Cough, cough... No, I didn't expect your experience to be so inspiring, Shen Heng. I believe that... this report will definitely inspire many people."

The reporter quickly changed the subject: "So how did you two meet? And how did you ultimately choose to be together?"

Shen Heng, who was the most qualified to speak, spoke before Bai Jiaojiao: "I fished this wife out of the sea myself. She was immediately captivated by me and insisted on marrying me."

"......"

The reporter's eyes were full of disbelief. If there hadn't been outsiders present, Bai Jiaojiao would have covered her face and kicked Chen Heng.

You're kidding me.

Bai Jiaojiao didn't refute, and the reporter chuckled twice: "Looks like it was a hero rescuing a damsel in distress, quite a story indeed, haha..."

The reporter then asked many more questions about studying, all of which Bai Jiaojiao answered flawlessly and with righteous indignation. The reporter left happily.

Captain Zheng Xu was very frustrated.

Why don't you go to the village to do some fieldwork? This reporter from the city doesn't know how to do anything.

He hasn't even mentioned Bai Jiaojiao raising pigs for the village yet!

The fact that reporters came to interview them made the news that Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng had been admitted to Peking University spread even faster in Hushan Commune.

Everyone was racking their brains to get a couplet from Bai Jiaojiao to put in the room of their school-aged child. They didn't even need their child to go to university; just getting them into high school would be a great honor for the family.

This is a good thing. In Shili Village, every family that came with this mindset to ask for couplets was written by Bai Jiaojiao, but there were just too many of them.

Shen Heng had no choice but to block these people at his doorstep, just like last year.

But this year is obviously different from last year; even on the 29th, there are still people loitering in front of their house.

“We’re from the neighboring commune. It took us more than an hour to get here, and we even brought a pound of dried sweet potatoes with us! Could you please write one for us?”

Shen Heng glanced at the dried sweet potatoes the man had brought over. He had eaten this stuff for half his life and never wanted to see it again: "Then you can go back and tell the people in your commune that we're not writing for you anymore. Tomorrow is the New Year, who's going to write these things? Hurry back while I'm still able to talk to you."

Shen Heng pursed his lips and waved the person away.

"No, please write it for us first. We'll definitely promote it for you when we get back!"

Shen Heng said, "You're really talking nonsense. When the people in your village see that my family wrote one for you, they'll probably come and beg us to make an exception and write one for them too. Do you think I'm stupid? Stop thinking about these useless things and hurry home, or you won't be able to get back before dark."

Shen Heng said he wouldn't write, and he didn't. He closed the door, leaving the furious people outside.

"So what if you're taking the college entrance exam? What's there to be so arrogant about! Our commune has its share of college graduates!"

"Sigh, but his test scores are far lower than these two."

"Even the worst are still college graduates. With my two boys, I'd be lucky if they could just get their junior high school diplomas back! If they won't write them, they won't write them. We don't care!"

Chen Heng, standing in the courtyard, heard it all clearly.

He snorted coldly and said to Bai Jiaojiao, "I think you shouldn't have written a single letter to them. What kind of trash are they? Do they think we're entitled to this?"

Bai Jiaojiao said, "If it can really motivate those children to study hard, I will write a little bit. It's just that I don't know the children in the other villages, so I can't bless those that far away."

Bai Jiaojiao is frying fish. She'll finish frying it today so they can eat it tomorrow for the Chinese New Year.

Shen Heng teased her from behind, hugging Bai Jiaojiao from behind: "Just bless me, isn't it enough that you raised me to be a college student?"

Bai Jiaojiao stroked Shen Heng's fur: "Enough, enough, get out of the way quickly, don't let this oil splash on your hands."

Shen Heng reached his hand inside Bai Jiaojiao's clothes: "That's fine."

"......open."

"You've been together for over a year, what are you blushing for?"

Shen Heng grinned broadly, looking at Bai Jiaojiao's burning red ears.

“Did you know that your uncle’s family is also contacting people to host a banquet for your graduation?” Bai Jiaojiao felt it was time to say something discouraging. “He’s also discussing with the branch that has the family genealogy that they want to add a new page to your genealogy.”

Shen Heng immediately stood up straight: "Are they sick? I shouldn't have given Shen Guangsheng any face."

"What else do you want to do to embarrass him?"

"He's just trying to ride on my coattails because he hasn't been able to hold his head up high this year. He's not after me; it's just his own vanity."

If Shen Guangsheng had truly repented and felt guilty towards Shen Heng in the past, Shen Heng wouldn't be so angry.

“He’ll definitely come to invite you then. If you don’t go, it’ll be enough to embarrass him.” Bai Jiaojiao patted Shen Heng’s chest, secretly pleased that she had completely diverted Shen Heng’s attention.

Unexpectedly, Shen Heng pressed on again: "I have someone even more embarrassing for him."

"......"

The Bai family's banquet was scheduled for the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. Bai Shihai racked his brains at home, wishing he could dig out all nine generations of his family to invite. The number of relatives invited was much greater than when Bai Shiqing got married.

As the village head, Li Shiqing was praised by the higher authorities for the two outstanding young people who had emerged from the village. He took the opportunity to invite several leaders to the celebration banquet for the two's college admission. Originally, it was just a token gesture, but unexpectedly, the town's top leaders really appreciated their rural banquet and actually agreed to come.

This news made Bai Shihai even more nervous.

Isn't the scale of his banquet a bit insufficient?

Bai Shihai didn't know what those high-ranking leaders usually ate at banquets.