Early the next morning after eating hot pot, Jiang Yufeng went to find Du Wanying.
"Yingying."
In private, Jiang Yufeng finally stopped calling Du Comrade. This meeting brought him and Du Wanying closer.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"I'm leaving now."
"Where are you going?"
"Go home! My family leave is almost up. If I don't go back soon, I'm going to get spanked by the old man."
As he spoke, Jiang Yufeng's eyes misted over.
Du Wanying let out a long sigh when she heard this, thinking that something big had happened.
"Look at what you've done, life and death..."
As she was speaking, Du Wanying's mouth was covered by a pair of warm big hands.
"Don't say anything unlucky."
Du Wanying's mouth was covered, so she could only nod.
Jiang Yufeng let go of the hand that was covering Du Wanying, took two steps back, and looked at Du Wanying carefully from top to bottom, as if he wanted to imprint the little girl in front of him into his heart.
Du Wanying did the same, staring at the big boy in front of her motionlessly.
"Wait for me, I will definitely get into a university in the capital!"
"Yes! No matter how long it takes, I will wait for you!"
After Jiang Yufeng left, not only Du Wanying felt that something was missing, but Zhao Fangling too, as if her family was incomplete. No matter what others thought, Zhao Fangling really regarded Jiang Yufeng as her future son-in-law.
In the blink of an eye, it was January 1978, and more than half a month had passed since the college entrance examination.
Although Du Wanying is very confident in herself, she still feels a little sad: "I don't know when the results will be announced."
At the same time, the S Province College Entrance Examination marking team is also busy counting the scores.
Suddenly, Xiao Li, who was in charge of counting the scores, stopped what he was doing and opened his mouth wider and wider.
"Xiao Li, what are you daydreaming about? Hurry up and count."
Chen Xing, the examiner group leader, saw that Xiao Li, who was in charge of counting the scores in the same group, suddenly stopped working and stood there in a daze, and couldn't help but remind him.
"Team leader, come and take a look!"
Xiao Li took out a stack of test papers and handed them to Chen Xing.
"What's wrong?" Chen Xing took the test paper curiously and took a look.
"Hiss..." This is the sound of gasping for air.
The score statistics column on the test paper showed 99 points for Chinese, 100 points for Mathematics, 100 points for History and Geography, and 100 points for Politics, with a total score of 399 points!
Chen Xing rubbed his eyes and made sure again that he was not seeing things. It was really 399 points!
"Number one scholar! Number one scholar! This must be the number one scholar from our S province."
Chen Xing shouted excitedly.
You should know that the college entrance examination marking team is divided into ten groups, and the top scorer comes from his group. As the group leader, Chen Xing is also proud of it.
"Come here, let's take a look at the test paper and check the answers."
After all, it has been ten years since the college entrance examination, and Chen Xing was skeptical about the sudden appearance of someone with a score close to full marks.
Soon, the test paper was checked. I have to say that this test paper was exactly the same as the standard answer. If it weren't for the symbolic deduction of one point for the composition, this would be a completely standard answer.
“That’s awesome!”
"God-man!"
"I guess he must be from a scholarly family, with both parents being professors!"
"Maybe they are the children of some academician!"
Chen Xing was also very curious about which great person had created this test paper with answers comparable to the standard ones. Unfortunately, the name was blocked and Chen Xing had no idea.
"I'd like to request to check the candidate information. Do you have any comments?"
"No."
The uniform responses showed that not only Chen Xing was curious, but everyone else was curious as well.
"Then let's apply jointly to check the candidate information."
Soon, Chen Xing drafted the application report. After everyone in the marking group signed it one by one, Chen Xing took the report and went straight to the leadership of the Education Department.
"Knock, knock, knock."
"Come in."
"Team Leader Chen? What's going on?"
"Boss, I have a test paper here and I'd like to request to see the candidate information in advance. Here's the application."
After saying that, Chen Xing handed the application to the Deputy Director of the Education Department who was sitting behind the desk.
Deputy Director Wu Ming, dressed in a black Zhongshan suit and with neat short hair, gives people the first impression of being an intellectual, and this is indeed the case.
Wu Ming was a top student who graduated from Peking University and Tsinghua University, and he was also one of the first batch of students after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In that turbulent era, he was able to be admitted to Tsinghua University. You can imagine how amazing Wu Ming was.
When Wu Ming took the application form and looked at the results, he was stunned. Even though he was a top student back then, he never expected that after ten years of turmoil, someone would stand out with almost full marks.
Wu Ming signed the application form with a flick of his pen, then stood up with the application form.
"I'll go with you and take a look."
Chen Xing grumbled inwardly, "It seems I'm not the only one curious. Even a high-ranking official like the director has this curiosity."
Soon, Director Wu and Chen Xing arrived at the marking site, which was already surrounded by people.
It turned out that after the people from other grading groups nearby heard the news, they also gathered around to see what was going on.
As soon as Director Wu arrived at the scene, he heard a quarrel among the crowd.
"I think this essay is very well written, so this point shouldn't be deducted."
"I admit that the composition is well written, but it's still not the best of the best. As per the rules, I should deduct one point."
"Then can you help me find the flaws in this composition?"
“I can’t find this…”
"Then it deserves full marks!"
Seeing that the crowd showed no sign of giving in, Director Wu had no choice but to pretend to cough.
Seeing this, Chen Xing also shouted: "Everyone make way, Director Wu is here."
When they heard that Director Wu had arrived, the quarreling in the crowd suddenly died down.
Everyone automatically moved to the sides, making way for Director Wu to enter.
Director Wu squeezed into the crowd and picked up the test paper on the table.
The first thing that caught my eye was a beautiful handwriting in small regular script, the handwriting was very neat, which reminded Director Wu of a saying: "Ancient ink is lightly ground and filled with fragrance, and the inkstone pool is newly bathed and shines brightly."
“Good handwriting!”
Just for this word, it deserves an extra ten points!
Director Wu looked through the test paper carefully and nodded as he read.
Director Wu is a typical intellectual, and the only thing that can make him recognized is profound knowledge.
"Director Wu, I feel this essay deserves full marks!"
"We'll talk about this later. Let's take a look at the candidate information first!"
Director Wu gradually uncovered the seal under everyone's expectation.
"Du Wanying from Huairen County!"
The candidate's name was announced, and it turned out to be a girl.
"Huairen County Du Wanying..." Director Wu repeated, then turned and left, saying, "Everyone, work hard. I'll arrange a table for everyone when we're done."
Director Wu hurried towards the office. Strangely, many other people stopped watching and turned away, muttering his name.
After Director Wu returned to his office, he walked impatiently to his desk, grabbed the black hand-cranked phone and started dialing.
"Connect me to the Academic Affairs Office of Peking University and Tsinghua University."
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