Chapter 211 Divorce
When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came to the Red Star Brigade, the reactions of the educated youth varied. Overall, they were excited and full of hope, but some knew that they had not studied for a long time and felt that their chances of taking the college entrance examination were not great, so they lacked confidence and were quite uneasy.
But regardless of whether they were confident or not, not only the educated youth, but also the members of the Hongxin Brigade with a junior high school education or above actively signed up for the college entrance examination.
Just then, the team's harvest was finished, and there wasn't much urgent work to do. Zhou Jianguo granted a special long leave to those who had registered for the college entrance examination, so they didn't have to work until the exam was over. Of course, if individuals wanted to work and earn work points, he wouldn't stop them.
At this moment, he was particularly grateful that the chicken farm had recruited a lot of employees last year; otherwise, if Ning Xuan and the others had left, the chicken farm would have been in chaos.
Indeed, Zhou Jianguo had a gut feeling that Ning Xuan and the others in their courtyard would definitely pass the exam and return to the city.
With her powerful memory, Ning Xuan had already reviewed almost everything. Fortunately, Zhou Jianguo allowed her to stay home from the chicken farm for a while, and she didn't refuse.
During her free time, she ostensibly studied in her room in the courtyard, but in reality, that was just a puppet; she went deep into the mountains to refine pills and cultivate.
Since Yunxi discovered the rich spirit stone mine, she now has more spirit stones on her hands. Apart from absorbing crystal cores, she would definitely activate the spirit gathering array when meditating.
Moreover, her current spirit-gathering array is not the same as the one before. Yunxi traded several high-level spirit-gathering arrays for her. Although she consumes more spirit stones when cultivating, the effect is also better.
Ning Xuan has now cultivated to the tenth level of Qi Refining, entering the late stage of Qi Refining. With spirit stones and crystal cores, she feels that she should be able to break through to Foundation Establishment next year.
Because the review materials were so hard to come by and were in short supply, costing a lot of money to buy a set, the educated youth at the settlement and the brigade came up with a solution: everyone would gather together to review and take turns using the review materials.
She didn't need to put in the effort to review; while others were studying day and night, she was refining elixirs.
While others were copying materials and discussing issues, she was practicing meditation.
However, during this period, two incidents occurred at the educated youth settlement, but they did not cause a major uproar.
The first issue is with Liu Jun and Huang Xiaomei. Their child is still young and they have no one to help take care of him. Liu Jun's suggestion is that Huang Xiaomei should not register for the exam this time and should stay home to take care of the child first.
Moreover, if he passes the exam, he will need money to go to school, and the family doesn't have much savings. If both of them pass the exam, there will be no one to take care of the child or earn work points.
Liu Jun was thinking about very practical issues. Huang Xiaomei was also reluctant to part with her child, but she was also very unwilling. She was also afraid that if Liu Jun got into university, he would become a college student. If she didn't register this time, what if she didn't meet the registration requirements later and they wouldn't be able to register her? In that case, the gap between her and Liu Jun would widen.
So Huang Xiaomei secretly registered for the college entrance examination without telling Liu Jun, but Liu Jun found out anyway and questioned her, asking why she secretly registered when they had agreed that he would be the one to register.
Huang Xiaomei was furious. She had a big fight with Liu Jun. Liu Jun felt that she had become unreasonable and neglected her family. He felt that as a woman, she should stay at home to take care of her husband and children. Now that they had a child who was still so young, who else would take care of him if she didn't?
However, Huang Xiaomei was unwilling to give up. She felt that she would regret missing this opportunity. If she passed the exam, she could send her child to her parents' home to be raised, and she would provide living expenses.
The two had a huge argument over this. During the argument, Liu Jun hit Huang Xiaomei and threatened her that if she still insisted on registering for the college entrance examination, they would get a divorce.
Liu Jun had initially thought Huang Xiaomei would compromise, but to his surprise, she nodded.
"Fine, I'll get a divorce, but I still have to take the college entrance exam!"
"Are you really going to divorce me?" Liu Jun looked at Huang Xiaomei in disbelief.
Huang Xiaomei was heartbroken and retorted, "Didn't you propose the divorce? I've already come up with a solution regarding the child, but you still disagree. What's wrong with me wanting to take the exam to go back to the city? Wouldn't it be better if we both worked hard to get jobs in the future?"
“But if both of them go to study, the expenses will be even greater,” Liu Jun expressed his concerns.
Huang Xiaomei knew that Liu Jun's concerns were very practical, but she had thought about them too. "There are subsidies for going to university. If we are frugal, we can save some money for our daughter's food expenses. Fortunately, she is a bit older now, and even if she gets accepted, she won't start school until next year. I will start weaning her now and feed her soft rice porridge and vegetable porridge from now on."
"But can your family really take care of Yaya?" Liu Jun was still a little worried.
“My sister-in-law might have some objections, but my mom can’t just watch her granddaughter do nothing. It’s okay, we’ll just wait six months or a year. When Yaya is a little older, we’ll find a way to enroll her in a childcare class near her school, and we can take care of her ourselves after class.”
"But where will the money come from?"
"We've saved up all these years, and if we're careful with our money when we go to school, we can still make some. In my spare time, I can find some odd jobs like gluing matchboxes to supplement the family income. Once we get a job after a few years, things will be better."
The two talked about all their issues, especially money and children. Liu Jun finally agreed to Huang Xiaomei's plan, and the two stopped mentioning divorce.
In this era, divorce is still very rare. Although Huang Xiaomei was saddened by Liu Jun's previous proposal to divorce, she knew that since he eventually agreed to let her take the college entrance examination, she couldn't keep dwelling on the issue.
In order to gain more time for review, Huang Xiaomei gritted her teeth and gave some food to an aunt in the brigade so that she could help take care of her child during the day, allowing her and Liu Jun to focus on their review.
When Ning Xuan learned about this, she admired Huang Xiaomei's courage. Putting aside whether she could pass the exam, it was already impressive that she dared to stick to her idea and register, and she had also thought through the problems she would face.
Although it's pitiful that Ya Ya is so young and has to be separated from her mother, it's true, as Huang Xiaomei said, that if she doesn't fight for it and misses the chance to change her fate, she will definitely regret not persevering today countless times in the future.
Another thing is also related to the college entrance examination.
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