"What happened to your family?"
Well, the old man has heard about it too.
Jiang Ci looked helpless and rubbed her temples with a troubled expression. She said, "Minister, when I joined the ministry, the personnel department did a background check on my identity."
"You know how I became an educated youth and how I came to Beijing."
The minister thought for a moment and nodded.
Indeed, he and the vice minister both knew that Jiang Ci had previously been eligible for a spot at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University due to her excellent academic performance, but she gave that spot to her younger brother.
She took her younger brother's place as an educated youth sent to the countryside.
"I don't know if you understand how much a girl, the third child in a working-class family, can get in a family with four children."
Jiang Ci thought about her past experiences and slowly said, "Before I went to the countryside, the time when I was most full was when I was at school, because the school provided a lunch subsidy, and the tickets could only be used in the school cafeteria."
The minister paused. "So... you didn't voluntarily give up your quota at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University?"
Jiang Ci gave a bitter smile, "Who would give up a perfectly good university education?"
“When I was sent to the countryside, it was just the beginning of the mandatory rural resettlement policy. Each family had to send at least one eligible young person to the countryside. At that time, I had just graduated from high school and was preparing to attend a worker-peasant-soldier university. My younger brother had also come of age, and he had to go to the countryside.”
Jiang Ci sighed inwardly and continued, "My parents tied me up and put me in the car so that I could take my brother's place."
The minister looked at Jiang Ci with more sympathy.
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