Master Qi's family also burst into tears.

Li Xu and the others didn't shed tears, but their eyes were a little red.

Finally, Master Qi and his family bowed to express their gratitude to everyone.

Everyone left after receiving the greetings.

Li Xu and others were not late after arriving at the motorcade.

Then he got into the car with Liu Gang.

After the Chinese New Year, the fleet's business volume has been declining.

In the past, more than ten shipments were made every month, and Li Xu and his team didn’t need to accompany them.

But the motorcade only went out a few times last month, and Li Xu and the other two had to follow the car every time.

So the car team has nothing to do for more than 20 days a month...

The two of them sat in the car and basked in the sun quietly.

...

"Hey, wake up, wake up."

Li Xu felt someone shaking him and opened his confused eyes.

Liu Gang in front of him said angrily, "You are really amazing, you can even fall asleep like this?"

Li Xu raised his hand to check the time and saw that only more than an hour had passed.

He sat up, rubbed his face, and touched the corner of his mouth.

Very good, no wet feeling.

After pulling himself together, he replied, "Uncle Liu, I didn't sleep much last night. I couldn't help myself."

"You went to the black market in the middle of the night?"

"No, I was just afraid of getting up late in the morning, so I woke up in the middle of the night and didn't dare go back to sleep."

In this day and age, there are alarm clocks, but they are very rare.

Li Xu went to the black market but couldn't find it. In addition, his family would usually wake him up if he got up late, so he just gave up buying it.

Fortunately, I don’t have to get up early very often, so once in a while it’s acceptable.

Liu Gang understood now, "Okay, then you can sleep a little longer."

"Why am I still sleeping when I'm awake?" Li Xu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Then the two started chatting again.

Li Xu didn't go to the cafeteria at noon, but ate in the car.

There's no way around it, his steamed bun would be a bit conspicuous if he ate it in the cafeteria.

The steamed buns were delicious, but I forgot to bring pickles this morning, so they were a bit hard to swallow.

Finally, Li Xu perfunctorily responded to Su Weidong and the other two who came to inquire about the situation.

More than a month passed in the blink of an eye.

There is still no rain in Tang County.

Several rivers in the county have dried up again, including Qinghe River.

The well water in the city also began to become turbid, and it seemed that there was a possibility that water would not be available at any time.

People's faces became even more sad.

During this period, a notice was also issued to streamline the staff.

The main targets of streamlining are people from rural areas who started working after 1958.

New and old employees who originally had urban hukou will generally not be laid off unless they voluntarily do so.

When this incident happened, many people in the city looked as worried as the dry land.

Ever since various places have been making big claims about yields of over 10,000 yuan per mu in the past few years, the authorities have felt that grain production has become excessive, and have begun to concentrate human resources on industry.

In a short period of time, the number of employees increased by more than 20 million.

Naturally, there are also many country people here.

But now that the food problem has become serious, more people are needed to return to the countryside to work.

Therefore, employees and their families who are willing to return home will be given subsidies and food expenses, and problems such as food and housing will be solved.

They were also promised that if there were job opportunities, they would be given priority for employment with their employee reduction certificates.

Certificate of Staff Reduction

As the food problem in the county town becomes increasingly serious, many employees from the countryside are willing to return to the countryside.

Some people know that if they continue to stay in the county town, their homes will definitely starve to death, so it is better to go back to the countryside, at least they won’t starve to death.

Some cadres and workers responded to the call of the country and went to the countryside.

Although there were some sporadic voices of reluctance to go back, in the end nothing came of it.

As for Li Qiang and others, there is no need to worry.

Because the document is written very clearly, those who have become technical experts or production backbones do not need to go back.

The most important thing is that they must go back "voluntarily".

Those who exchanged work quotas were all powerful figures in the factory, so they did have some ability.

If this fails, Li Xu will have to ask them to return the food.

Now even if you kill them, they can't get it out...

As for Li Qiang's job, it was also taken care of by Uncle Xu's son.

Anyway, things went very smoothly and everyone stayed.

So this incident did not cause any waves to the Li family.

Right now, the Li family is most concerned about Li Mei's college entrance exam.

Thanks to Hu Guilan's continuous milk supply, Li Xu had accumulated a lot of milk powder but had not used it.

I simply took some for Li Mei and everyone to nourish their bodies.

Let Li Mei maintain good physical condition.

Everyone expected her to get good grades.

Finally, on July 17th, the three-day exam ended.

Li Mei felt that she had done well in the exam, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

The Li family, who had never had the habit of reading newspapers, started reading newspapers every day from then on.

There is no way. There is no such thing as checking scores online now. No one knows their test scores.

The easiest way to find out whether you got into college is to read the newspaper.

The list of admitted candidates will be included in the "Extra Edition" specially launched by the "People's Daily".

Extra number

Just see your name on it and wait for the acceptance letter.

After finishing her exams, Li Mei stayed at home with nothing to do every day, helping to take care of Xiao Wenbo and Li Ju.

That night, Li Xu arrived at Du Hong's house and saw two young men and women he didn't know sitting in the room.

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