Chapter 96 College Entrance Examination Resumption
Fortunately, everything went as she expected and nothing unexpected happened.
The people from Yunnan Medical Glass had to stay in the factory for three days. On the first day, they visited the factory workshop, and Wen Jiajia accompanied them.
The people at Yunnan Provincial Hospital actually felt aggrieved because the equipment at Linhe Hospital was obviously much better.
Several of the machines were the latest models, and half of their machines were past their scrapping date.
I didn't think it was a big deal before I came here. I can still use it after some repairs. Anyway, don't think about retiring it until the last minute!
But I am always afraid of comparison. When I see other people's new machines, I can't help but feel sorry for my own hard life.
Some even lamented: "Compared to your conditions, we are just like adopted children."
Wen Jiajia immediately decided to ask the canteen to add one more bowl of meat vegetables in the next few days. Her colleagues at the Yunnan Provincial Medical University have indeed worked hard.
Fortunately, the factory was willing to help them connect with some chemical machinery factories in the east, so that they could also bring back a few new machines.
Wen Jiajia is still in charge of this matter, and this task will be included in the business trip next month.
April in the human world is the time when spring flowers are in full bloom.
Wen Jiajia finally took a few days off and went to Fang Hongjun's house for dinner with Wei Dai.
In fact, Chen Qianyue already worked in the factory. What was particularly coincidental was that she was in the finance department, so Wen Jiajia would always run into her when she went to collect her salary or to check various invoices.
In Wen Jiajia's opinion, she has changed a lot. She was a slightly immature girl back then, but now she looks much more mature.
But the reverse is also true.
In Chen Qianyue's opinion, Wen Jiajia is also very different from a few years ago.
Afterwards, the two thought about each other's changes, and finally figured out the reason: it had a class flavor.
There's no way. The difference between going to work and not going to work, or even working for a long time, is huge.
It wasn't long since Chen Qianyue went to the countryside, and Wen Jiajia had just traveled to this era. Now, after working for several years, it would be abnormal if there were no changes.
Early in the morning on a day off, Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai brought two cans of food, a bag of brown sugar and a pound of meat to Yaobo's dormitory.
This was the second time the two of them came to Yaobo Dormitory. As more and more people moved in, the place changed very quickly.
Yaobo Dormitory is located next to the Workers' Cultural Palace, and the shortest straight-line distance is no more than 50 meters.
There is also a bus stop here, and after getting off the bus, there is a cement road leading directly to the Yaobo Dormitory.
However, the two of them came here today on bicycles, and their bicycles were overloaded, because the two sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan insisted on coming along.
Wen Chun counted on his fingers and said, "We haven't been out to play for five whole months."
Wen Jiajia recalled for a moment and it seemed to be true.
The last time I took them out was last year when the weather was about to get cold. The two girls did well in their midterm exams and wanted to go to the city for dinner, so I took them to the city.
Thinking of this, Wen Jiajia couldn't refuse the two of them.
It is true that you will get bored if you stay in one place for too long. As the weather gets warmer, my cousin has been sent out to the army more and more often. She even made friends with people from the nearby villages.
So a bicycle with four people on board stopped at the iron gate of Yaobo Dormitory.
Wen Jiajia looked up at the brand new iron gate, got off the car, and walked towards Chen Qianyue's house.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were very curious about this place. Wen Xuan even said with emotion: "The house is taller than the one in our courtyard."
Indeed, it is two stories higher than the building in the family compound, so that one-third of the employees in the factory were allocated houses this time, and the enthusiasm of the employees has increased a lot.
After entering, Wen Jiajia felt like a fish in water and she found herself acquainted with people within a few steps.
"Jia Jia, I haven't seen you for a long time! What are you doing recently? I used to see you in the factory every once in a while. Hey, I heard that you got a promotion, congratulations." The person who spoke was from the pharmaceutical factory, and he was particularly surprised to see her.
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "I've been busy with work lately. I haven't had time to look for Shayue and the others."
The man nodded and said, "That's right. I heard about your medical team's activities next door. They went to the capital and communicated with factories in the southwest. The leaders of our factory wanted to communicate with them."
Wen Jiajia laughed twice, then looked at her watch, said a few words quickly and left.
Complaining about the leader in a public place like a factory dormitory is a big taboo, so Wen Jiajia didn't dare to respond.
Afterwards, I met a few acquaintances and kept greeting them all the way to Chen Qianyue's house.
It was also the first time that Wei Dai realized how powerful his wife's social circle was. He joked, "This is your territory."
Wen Jiajia was proud: "You're kidding! I secured 12 houses for our department!"
Their department is not a first-line workshop department, so the number of houses allocated to them is not large. Among all the administrative departments, only their department has more than 10 houses.
Therefore, Wen Jiajia is stable in her position as deputy director, and the department employees have high trust in her.
If she is willing to continue working in the factory, when Director Gao is promoted one day, the employees in the department will definitely find a way to push her to the position immediately to prevent someone else from being promoted.
As they were talking, they arrived at Chen Qianyue's house.
Chen Qianyue had been waiting in the corridor for a long time. When she saw the two sisters, she immediately ran over and pinched their cheeks.
To be honest, Wen Chun and Wen Xuan are seven or eight years old now, and few people would pinch their cheeks anymore. They were not used to being pinched suddenly at this moment, and their cheeks turned slightly red.
Wen Jiajia asked with a smile: "Don't you recognize me? I'm an acquaintance from my hometown."
Chen Qianyue led the two sisters into the house and said, "When you left Fuyang, Chun'er and Xuanxuan were still very young, so how could you recognize them?"
Wen Jiajia said, "Xuanxuan definitely doesn't remember it. Her memory has never been very good, but Chun'er probably still has some impression of it."
The first feeling after entering the house is that it is spacious, even Wei Dai's eyes light up.
Chen Qianyue asked a few people to sit down, then poured some water and said, "Not bad, I renovated it according to what you said, Jiajia. After the renovation, many people came to my house to see it, even people from the pharmaceutical factory came."
He put the cup on the tea table and said, "Sit down for a while. The Red Army will be back soon."
Wen Jiajia took a closer look and found it to be very good.
She was shocked by the layout of the house when she came last time, because the layout of the Yaobo dormitory this time was a bit like what houses would look like in a few decades, but the decoration concept at that time did not keep up.
Wen Jiajia couldn't bear to see Chen Qianyue and her husband ruining the house, so she looked through the house and then gave them a design drawing. She actually took time out of her busy schedule to draw the design drawing.
In fact, it is a picture of the minimalist style decades later - mainly due to the lack of materials, but it also made the couple immediately abandon the original rough decoration style and turn to the minimalist style that Wen Jiajia talked about.
The main reason is that the two of them had basically not renovated the house before. In fact, most houses nowadays are like this. You can just scrape some putty and put some furniture in and move in.
After the renovation, Chen Qianyue's home is particularly well-lit. There is a shoe cabinet at the entrance, and then there is a bright living room with large windows.
Outside the window there are still towering green mountains and surging rivers. Wen Jiajia feels that the house here will be very valuable in a few decades.
Then there are the two rooms, the indoor bathroom and the kitchen, which are not small in size. Because there is no public stall, Wei Dai likes it more and more, and his eyes light up when he looks at Wen Jiajia.
Like what? Like Wen Xiaomei asking for minced meat and eggs.
“…”
Wen Jiajia decided to look away and not look at him.
After chatting for a while, Fang Hongjun came back with two large bags of vegetables.
The two men went to the kitchen to busy themselves, while Chen Qianyue talked with Wen Jiajia.
Her due date is approaching, and she is discussing with Wen Jiajia what to do after the baby is born.
Wen Jiajia had a lot to say about this: "My little sister is fine. The most difficult thing for me was probably feeding her at night. My sleep and sleep schedule was disrupted during those few months, and my endocrine system was messed up. I started losing hair during those few months, and it took me a long time to adjust."
Chen Qianyue was a little scared and asked hurriedly, "How many times do you have to get up in one night?"
Wen Jiajia recalled for a moment: "If it was just born, it would take two or three times a night. It depends on the child, mainly on how fast the child digests. It will be easier in the next few months. Oh, and changing diapers. It was winter when my little sister was born. Washing and drying diapers every day was a big problem. I had to use a drying oven to dry them every day."
Wen Jiajia shook her head as she spoke. She felt painful whenever she thought about those days.
Chen Qianyue touched her belly and sighed, "There's nothing I can do about this baby in my belly. After I give birth, I won't want another one."
Wen Jiajia: "If you don't want it, then don't. We are talking about family planning now. I see you have started writing slogans on the iron gate."
When Wen Jiajia saw the words “fewer and better births, a happy life”, her memory was confused for a moment.
No joke, a few decades later there was a similar slogan in her father’s hometown village.
In order not to increase the fear of expectant mothers, Wen Jiajia quickly skipped the topic.
Sisters Wenchun and Wenxuan were exploring outside the house. They came back quickly because they were unfamiliar with the place and found it difficult to play with the other children around them.
Chen Qianyue was feeling a little down, and when the two girls went to the kitchen, she whispered to Wen Jiajia, "You couldn't really tell when they were little, but the older I get, the more I feel Xuanxuan looks like your second sister."
Wen Jiajia was surprised, then looked closely at Wen Xuan's profile and said, "They really look alike." Maybe their faces hadn't fully grown before, but now that they have grown fully, they look exactly alike.
She couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had brought Wen Chun and Wen Xuan out so early. One can imagine how many people in the village would mention that Wen Xuan looked like her mother.
Children cannot grow up under such conditions.
After Chen Qianyue finished talking about this, she whispered about Wen Xuan's father: "... Before, we in the Youth Academy had no contact with him. Later, a new person came, from the same place as him, and said that his life was average. You have to be careful, he doesn't have a high bottom line. His life is not good, and when Xuan Xuan grows up, he might come to find Xuan Xuan."
Wen Jiajia snorted coldly: "It's okay, it's okay if he doesn't come to my house, but if he does, I'll definitely make him regret it."
The two of them didn't talk about this topic for too long, after all, Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were still in the room.
The meal was ready quickly, and Fang Hongjun even came back with some beer.
Wen Jiajia asked him, "Did you get it from the state-owned hotel near our factory?" If not, she wouldn't drink it. Many hotels keep the wooden barrels containing wine open, and hygiene cannot be guaranteed.
Fang Hongjun poured her a glass of wine: "Of course! It's the first batch of wine this year, it must taste good."
Wen Jiajia felt relieved.
The meal was very rich, with fish, meat and the eel that Wenchun had been talking about some time ago.
"I didn't expect there are eels at this time." Wen Jiajia expressed a little curiosity. The weather is not too hot now, and she even has to wear two layers of clothes in the morning and evening.
Fang Hongjun: "I bought it secretly. You may not know that there is a market at the city gate."
Wen Jiajia: "Market?"
"Yes, it's the kind of market we have in our hometown." He looked a little confused. "The social situation has changed so fast. I would never have thought there would be a market at the city gate at this time last year. I don't know what it will be like in the future."
Wei Dai served chicken soup to the two children: "Society is constantly moving, changing and developing, but the recent changes are indeed much greater."
Wen Jiajia didn't think it had changed much, as she knew the history with her God's eyes. But she was also very curious, so she immediately asked for the specific location and planned to tell her aunt, so that her aunt would have a new place to visit in the future.
The four of them came at around nine in the morning and didn't leave until around three or four in the afternoon.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan successfully made friends in the Yaobo dormitory, while Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai also went to the Workers' Cultural Palace next door for a stroll.
There are many classrooms in the Workers' Cultural Palace, and they even provide various training courses.
For example, when Wen Jiajia saw people being taught how to use a sewing machine to make clothes, she felt like she could become a teacher.
After all, she had made a lot of clothes at home in the past two years. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan never bought any clothes again. They were all made by her, and she also led the fashion trend in the family compound.
I made red overalls for the two sisters, and soon they were wearing the same skirts in school.
The two sisters were so angry that they cried out in anger. It was clearly made for them by their aunt, so it was unique. However, there were more and more similar ones on the market, making it difficult for them to show off.
Wen Jiajia had no choice but to make them two pairs of overalls with more novel designs.
The two sisters are older now, and they don’t have to worry about not being able to go to the toilet at school when wearing overalls.
However, overalls were also available at that time, but Wen Jiajia's were much better looking.
However, the same style still existed. Within a week, two or three pieces of the same style appeared.
Although the two sisters were angry, they also calmed down and tried to comfort themselves that they were at the forefront of fashion.
After visiting the Cultural Palace, go to the market.
There are not many stalls left in the market, but judging from the marks on the ground, this market is quite large, with at least 100 stalls.
Then he went back to Yaobo's dormitory to pick people up. The two girls were a little unhappy when he took them away.
After staying in the home for a long time, my social life has become regular.
The two sisters were very happy to come to a new place and make new friends.
A few days later, Wen Jiajia threw herself into work again and also went on a business trip, which lasted for four days.
She is now busier than Wei Dai, so the salary of nearly 90 yuan is not easy to get.
After a period of busy work, Wen Jiajia's weight dropped to 90 kilograms. She was visibly thinner, even thinner than before giving birth.
Wei Dai was worried that she was malnourished, so when she came back from overtime one day, he asked Dr. Peng to take her pulse.
Doctor Peng happened to be accompanying his wife who was doing acupuncture on Teacher Shen's mother, so it was just a coincidence that he took Wen Jiajia's pulse.
After visiting his mother last year, Teacher Shen stayed at her place for more than a month and only returned when the Chinese New Year was approaching.
Xie Yang was busy, so he gave his cousin enough living expenses and placed the Xie and Yi brothers in her home.
At that time, my cousin's aunt was like a daycare aunt, and her daily job was to cook for several children.
Not to mention, children seem to enjoy food more when they eat more. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were always scrambling to eat at that time.
Not long after Teacher Shen came back, she went back to her hometown again, and this time she brought her mother with her.
Only then did Wen Jiajia realize how serious her mother's illness was and that she could hardly walk.
Fortunately, Mr. Peng and his wife are excellent medical skills. After half a month of taking medicine and getting several injections, Teacher Shen's mother's condition improved a lot. Now she can walk and even do some work in the vegetable garden.
Dr. Peng diagnosed Wen Jiajia as "not eating well and overworking herself".
Wei Dai immediately arranged various kinds of fish for her, grass carp, crucian carp, silver carp... Wen Jiajia was about to vomit after eating so much fish!
The key period was when many fish laid eggs. Wen Jiajia kept shouting "guilt" while eating. She felt that she had eaten a whole pond of fish recently, and all the fish eggs and fish eggs were chopped by her.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia is a very adaptable person. She can adapt to high-intensity work and endure eating fish every day.
After another period of rest, my weight returned to around 100 kilograms.
Wei Dai was satisfied.
As the college entrance examination day approaches, Wen Xiaomei is also growing up gradually.
When she was one and a half years old, she started to walk in and outside the yard and could walk more steadily.
The little girl had a strong desire to explore, and she would often jump over the threshold and run into the yard when no one was resting, and she would not stop even if she fell a few times at the threshold.
The result was that Wei Dai, as a father, would transfer his anger - he transferred his anger to the threshold. He directly replaced the door of the living room at home and even threw away the threshold.
From then on, it became much easier for my little sister to play in the yard. Every morning after waking up, she would sit up and call her aunt, and then wait obediently for her aunt to carry her out of bed.
Occasionally, after Wei Dai and Wen Jiajia got up, they would carry her to the big bed while she was still sleeping, so that she could slowly move out of bed like a caterpillar.
She would walk out of the room again, holding onto the door frame and come into the yard, touching the flowers and picking the grass. Sometimes she would run to the gate of the yard and sit on the doorstep. Whenever people passed by, they would always touch her hairy head or chubby cheeks. She had almost become a sight to behold in Beishan!
Slowly, she walked more and more steadily.
She was a cautious child who would only run after she could walk steadily.
One day, he even went to school to pick up his two sisters! He almost gave his aunt a heart attack.
It is true that there are no traffickers in the army, but there are rivers and lakes in the army.
Fortunately, the military compound was full of people, and before she even ran to school, someone told her aunt about the incident.
When Wen Jiajia came back that night, she severely criticized Wen Xiaomei, and Wei Dai did the same.
After all, they have raised two children before, so they naturally know that it is unwise for one parent to play the good cop and the other to play the bad cop during the child's growth process.
Wen Xiaomei stood in the corner with her hands behind her back and her head lowered, her braids twirling by her ears. At first glance, she looked depressed, but if you looked closely, you could see that her mouth was pouting and she looked a little unconvinced.
"Are you still not happy?" Wen Jiajia looked at her sternly, swinging the bamboo whip in the air a few times, making a terrifying sound of breaking through the air, "How dare you be unhappy!"
Wen Xiaomei shook her head so hard that the purple jalapa earrings hanging on her ears fell off.
She suddenly wanted to squat down and pick it up, but when she saw the bamboo whip in her mother's hand, she hesitated.
"Mom, my earring fell off." She frowned and said softly, "I searched for it for a long time before I finally found it."
Wen Jiajia wanted to laugh, but she held it back.
Mirabilis jalapa usually closes during the day and blooms at night, so it was quite difficult for her to find two blooming Mirabilis jalapa flowers before five in the evening.
Wen Jiajia helped her pick up the "earrings" and continued to lecture her: "Do you know you are wrong? If you run outside without saying a word, your aunt will be worried."
Wen Xiaomei: "But I have to go pick up my sister."
"Sister is a big kid now, do you need to pick her up?"
Wen Xiaomei: "I also want to ask the teacher if I can go to school. I want to go."
Wen Jiajia: "You can't go even if you want to. You are still a child. When you grow up to your sister's age, you will be able to go naturally. So answer me now, will you sneak away again in the future?"
Perhaps because she saw her mother's face getting darker and darker, she began to correct her attitude and shook her head: "No."
Wen Jiajia: "You have to keep your word! If you do it again, I will really beat you up."
Educating children is actually a very difficult thing. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan probably encountered unexpected changes. The two girls were very well-behaved when they were young, much more well-behaved than Wen Xiaomei.
At least if Wen Jiajia doesn't allow them to go out, they won't go out. If Wen Jiajia doesn't allow them to touch fire, knives or hot water, they won't touch them.
To the extent that Wen Jiajia thought all children were as easy to take care of as Wen Chun and Wen Xuan, until she met Wen Xiaomei.
As a result, after communicating with other people in the family compound and factory, Wen Jiajia was instantly satisfied.
Compared with other children, Wen Chun and Wen Xuan are angels, and Wen Xiaomei is also a good child.
Wen Jiajia was destined not to be able to accompany Wen Xiaomei for too long when she was two years old.
Wen Jiajia is almost constantly busy at work, but she still has to find time to review during this time.
She has almost finished her review and is currently in the stage of consolidating her knowledge and practicing exercises.
Wen Jiajia still chose liberal arts. Her physics performance was average, but to say she was average was a bit of an overestimation of her performance. Her physics performance could only barely reach the passing line.
As for chemistry, I am doing pretty well after Mr. Shen's instruction, but it can't make up for the points I lost in physics.
In comparison, her history and geography scores are clearly more stable.
History is a little behind, but it won't pull it down much.
Wen Jiajia actually considered whether she should take a foreign language test. She felt that her grades were average and she could not even think about getting into a top school. The only way was to rely on foreign languages and then study a foreign language major at a top school. Wen Jiajia's foreign language skills were pretty good, at least easier to pick up than other subjects.
However, the original owner's school did not teach foreign languages, so even if Wen Jiajia wanted to take the exam, she couldn't find a reason.
She suddenly felt a little sad, as if there was 100 yuan on the ground but she couldn't bend down to pick it up.
Wen Jiajia was very resentful, and she kept looking for a suitable excuse until the eve of the resumption of the college entrance examination.
However, facing Wei Dai's eyes that saw through everything, Wen Jiajia decided not to take the exam. She didn't like studying foreign languages that much anyway.
October 1977 was destined to be a day that would leave a deep mark in history, because in this month, the college entrance examination, which had been suspended for 10 years, was finally announced to be resumed.
Wen Jiajia was not at home that day and was working in the factory.
When the news came on the radio, the whole factory was in an uproar. People cheered and shouted with joy, and the shouts almost shattered the glass windows!
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