As the days passed, sporadic notices arrived at the farm one after another.
By January 21st, only one person was left on the entire farm who had not received an acceptance letter.
Bao Zhihui doesn’t feel like adding chili peppers when cooking recently.
She always stood blankly at the farm gate, not caring about the cold weather, and would stand there for an hour.
Even if others dragged her back into the house, she would choose to stare blankly at the phone in Zhang Hongcheng's office.
Even the worst-performing of the seven beggar art students was admitted to Jiamusi Academy of Fine Arts. She was the only one among the eighty candidates in the entire farm who had no result...
This torment and contrast made Bao Zhihui close to collapse.
Just as Chu Miaohong was about to prepare a tranquilizing decoction for Bao Zhihui, the clear sound of a bicycle bell finally rang out at the farm gate.
A dusty postman, in front of the expectant eyes of all the educated youth on the farm, took out a crumpled notice with an embarrassed look on his face.
"I'm so sorry. The distributor from our bureau probably made a mistake and sent this notice to the Red Flag Production Team..."
"Excuse me, who is Comrade Bao Zhihui?"
"Well, congratulations, you've been admitted to Sichuan Normal University!"
Bao Zhihui fell backwards without saying a word. Fortunately, Kou Shihong, who had been following her, hugged her.
Bao Zhihui, who had been forcing himself to hold on for these days, now felt weak all over.
She didn't care about what others were saying or laughing, and she hugged Kou Shihong and cried loudly.
Zhang Hongcheng looked at his wife speechlessly.
----How do you explain this couple that got together right under your nose?
----Comrade Chu Miaohong, is this the achievement you have made in the women's work position on this farm?
Everyone has long known about the affair between Bao Zhihui and Kou Shihong.
Although the two did not report it, everyone understood his intention just by seeing that Kou Shihong filled in the application form before the exam, which was Sichuan Normal University far away from Jiangxi Province.
Now this result has finally fulfilled one of their wishes.
Zhang Hongcheng kicked Kou Shihong while cursing.
"Get back here and file a report right now, or I'll accuse you of bullying female lesbians. No, you're bullying our female college students!!!"
Unbridled laughter burst out from everyone's mouth.
All eighty educated youth comrades were admitted to universities. What a past and memory that is hard to replicate!
Several female educated youth smiled and pulled the blushing Bao Zhihui out of Kou Shihong's arms.
"I think I finally got what I wanted this time. Go cook, stinky bun! We haven't had spicy food in days and we're dying of cravings!"
Who would believe that these female educated youth who were clamoring for spicy food were from Shanghai?
…
As the deputy director's official seal fell on the last personnel file.
The deputy director and Zhang Hongcheng both fell into an eerie silence.
The deputy director took out a cigarette and tried to light a match, but he struck several matches and they were all useless.
In the end, it was Zhang Hongcheng who took out his own matches, carefully lit them, and helped him light the cigarette.
A puff of thick smoke came out of the deputy director's mouth, and his emotions finally calmed down.
"Are you really all leaving?"
Zhang Hongcheng nodded quietly.
The deputy director was stunned for a while, talking to himself.
"It's a good thing, it's really a great thing!"
"The night school under our bureau has a 100% success rate in the college entrance examination! Hehehe..."
The laughter quickly turned from pride to wry laughter.
There was a hint of trembling in the deputy director's wry smile.
"But can you tell me, is the Red Flag Wetland Farm, our bureau's most outstanding unit... still in existence?"
Zhang Hongcheng couldn't answer.
In fact, the house, land and farm are all there, and there are three old comrades who plan to spend their retirement here...
But in fact, from the farm director to every educated youth under him, the moment the deputy director stamped the official seal, they had officially left the agricultural reclamation system and were all included in the future cadre establishment.
"If it weren't for the repeated instructions from above, this first batch of college students is urgently needed by the country to train talents for various industries, and no unit or individual is allowed to forcibly detain them!"
"Xiao Zhang, I have to keep at least a quarter of your people!"
Zhang Hongcheng didn't know what to say, so he could only take out all the candies, snacks and cigarettes from his schoolbag and pour them on the table.
"This is our entire farm. We are here to invite you leaders..."
The deputy director shook his head, opened the drawer, carved out more than half of the fruit candy for himself, and then waved his hand impatiently.
"Get lost!"
"Thank goodness you arrived just in time. Our director has already received the news and will probably be back next week!"
This news shocked Zhang Hongcheng.
Although he knew that there was little chance of forcing them to stay, Zhang Hongcheng still did not dare to face the furious Director Han.
Because he had found many excuses in the past few days to "distribute" the money recovered from selling the information.
Every farm would distribute food and supplies to its employees at the end of the year, but their farm had no grain harvest this year, so they distributed money instead.
Other farms under the same Agricultural Reclamation Bureau distributed about one-fifth of their total income in food and supplies to the educated youth at the end of the year.
Zhang Hongcheng also called it dividing the money according to this ratio, and distributed 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in one go.
Then came the year-end bonus for the third-class collective merit. After a collective vote by the entire farm, more than 20,000 yuan was distributed...
In other farms under the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, only one college student is admitted for every four or five farms. The farms give a lot of bonuses to those who are admitted to college, with the least being two hundred and the most even up to five hundred.
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