The two days of intense college entrance examination passed quickly. During these two days, Tian Tian also saw many people collapsed and helpless. Some people were writing halfway because of their bad pens and the ink suddenly leaked out, staining the papers. Some people tore up the papers because they couldn't answer the questions and collapsed. Tian Tian saw a lot of these things in these days.
After the exam, Tian Tian felt complicated and relieved. She felt relieved because she had completed a relatively important exam in her life, but she also felt complicated because she saw those people who collapsed. She didn't know how many more people would feel despair after the results came out. Tian Tian felt even more complicated when she thought of those educated youth who regarded the college entrance examination as their last straw.
"The exam is finally over! Let's go out for a walk. This is my first time in the city. If I don't go out for a walk this time, I don't know if I will have the chance again in the future." Tian Yun said excitedly after coming out of the exam.
Li Jiuniang was also a little excited. Although she had been secretly buying and selling things over the years, at this time, if you don't have a letter of introduction, you can't go to the city at will. Moreover, Li Jiuniang has never returned home in these years. The farthest place she can go is the current city. This is also the first time Li Jiuniang has come to the city.
"Let's just walk around here and stay in the guesthouse for one more day. We'll go home the day after tomorrow." To be honest, Tian Tian hasn't been able to completely relax in all these years, and she wants to have a good time this time.
After the exam, there was nothing to do. The three of them decided to walk around the city. It gets dark early in winter and the weather is cold. After the exam, there were basically no people on the road and nothing to do. They ate a bowl of noodles at the restaurant and bought a bag of hot sugar-roasted chestnuts at the entrance of the cinema. Then they returned to the hotel. Several girls gathered in Tian Tian's room and discussed what schools they applied for and what majors they were in.
"I didn't dare to apply to a good school, for fear that I would not be admitted to university this time and waste another year. Life in the countryside is so hard, I don't want to stay in the countryside anymore." A female educated youth said with tears in her eyes.
She is considered one of the older educated youth in the brigade. She went to the countryside as an educated youth in 1965, and it has been more than ten years since then.
Life is better now, but it was even harder for the educated youth a few years ago, especially in the first few years when the female educated youth went to the countryside. Most of the educated youth who went with her, both male and female, found local people in the brigade just to make their lives better. Only he and a few other educated youth were left. Even if it meant suffering, they absolutely did not want to settle down in the countryside.
Originally, after so many years, they had given up on returning home. Unexpectedly, the emergence of places for workers, peasants and soldiers and college students awakened their enthusiasm. After their hopes were dashed, they received news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, which gave everyone an equal opportunity to return to the city, completely igniting their hope.
They have been studying day and night during this period. They know that they have been away from the classroom for too long and the heavy farm work does not allow them to continue studying. The gap between her and those educated youth who have just gone to the countryside and those who have just graduated from high school is really too big. She can only narrow the gap through constant efforts in the past two months.
Even though she had made great efforts, she still couldn't guarantee that she would do well in the exam, nor did she dare to choose a better university.
"As long as I can leave the countryside, I will accept anything I am asked to do!"
Tian Tian felt complicated when listening to what these female educated youth said.
In fact, when the movement of sending educated youth to the countryside just started, both sides still had great expectations. In the eyes of most people in the countryside, high school students knew more than them, and having gone to school for so many years, they would definitely be able to help them with farming.
The first batch of educated youth went to the countryside with the broad vision of building a new countryside.
The educated youth who first signed up to go to the countryside did bring scientific planting techniques to the rural areas.
But since voluntary going to the countryside became compulsory, the educated youth no longer went there with love in their hearts as they did before. Life in the countryside was indeed very hard, and the educated youth who came from the city were proud and did not want to be like the peasants in the countryside.
The villagers also felt that these educated youth were lazy and did not know the difference between grains. Not only were they unable to work and endure hardships, they also delayed their work. They looked down on them, and conflicts gradually arose between the villagers and the educated youth.
Up to now, there are no educated youth who go to the countryside with the sole intention of helping to build the countryside.
Going to the countryside was even more of a torture for the educated youth.
"You will definitely all go home!" Tian Tian said to comfort them, "The college entrance examination has been resumed, and there will definitely be more and more roads back to the city in the future."
The female educated youth smiled and said, "I used to envy Julie for being able to become a worker-peasant-soldier college student. I envied her for being able to become a college student and for being able to leave the countryside and return to the city. I'm sure she'll have a good job in the future. But now that the college entrance examination has been resumed, more and more people are going to college through the college entrance examination. Worker-peasant-soldier college students are not so popular anymore. I don't know how I'm going to live in the future."
Tian Tian also sighed after hearing this. The era of workers, peasants and soldiers as college students has passed. Compared with these college students who were admitted to college based on their real talents and knowledge, those workers, peasants and soldiers as college students, most of whom could not read a single word, would definitely be despised in school.
Come to think of it, it was indeed quite pitiful. She finally thought she could escape her fate, but reality dealt her a heavy blow.
But they are already relatively lucky people. Compared with those educated youth who still have to stay in the countryside, at least they can still leave. But it is very difficult to leave those rural things.
"Yes! I hope I can pass the exam this time so I don't have to stay in the team any more."
Tian Yun listened to them talking all the time. Their words were full of disdain for the countryside. As a girl who grew up in the countryside, Tian Yun didn't like to hear these words. She turned her head and said, "Tsk!"
When the educated youth heard Tian Yun's voice, he realized that what he said was wrong and quickly made amends, "I don't mean to despise the countryside. To be honest, although life in the countryside is hard, it is sometimes quite happy, and the cadres of the brigade are very good to us. But I really miss home and my parents."
What she said was all true. It was only when she went home for the Chinese New Year that she found out that her neighbor's sister had been raped while in the countryside.
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