Chapter 98 In Progress
The weather was fine the day she left the hospital, just like when she first arrived.
Wen Jiajia packed up her personal belongings and handed some important information and documents to Director Gao, while locking the rest in the cabinet.
After cleaning up the room, the windows were clean and tidy when the door was closed, as if no one had ever worked here.
"Jia Jia, do you really want to take a leave?" Liang Mu came out of the office, very puzzled by her decision.
Wen Jiajia nodded: "There is no other way, this is a desperate battle!"
Liang Mu sighed, "That's good. Several people in our group clamored to take the exam, but no one was willing to put down their work and devote themselves to it."
This is normal. After all, participating is one thing, and whether you can pass the exam is another. Compared with the educated youth who went to the countryside, the employees in these factories lack this determination to fight to the death.
On the way out of the hospital, Wen Jiajia received a lot of attention. Even though many people disagreed with her behavior, they all wished her good grades in the college entrance examination two months later.
Lin Yunfei walked her out the door, kicking the grass at her feet in silence. When they reached the door, she asked hesitantly, "Do you think I need to take some time off to study?"
Wen Jiajia shook her head: "I can't answer that because it depends on you."
She didn't know Lin Yunfei's achievements, and couldn't make decisions about important events in her life.
Lin Yunfei leaned against the wall by the door, not caring whether it was covered in dust or not, and said in distress: "There are a lot of things to do in the factory. If I don't take a leave, I won't have much time to review. But if I take a leave... my chances of passing the exam are actually not high. When I come back again, the leaders may not value me anymore."
Wen Jiajia spread her hands: "You have to make a choice, and it's up to you. But what I can tell you is that you must decide as soon as possible, and don't be tortured by the choice... uh, by the choice. Because time is running out, the exam is in two months, you should analyze your own situation, it's hard to have the best of both worlds in this world."
Lin Yunfei took a deep breath and said, "I'll think about it for two more days, the last two days."
The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the clouds were floating slowly over the hospital like fluffy cotton.
Wen Jiajia rode away from her second workplace after traveling through time. Unlike the last time when she took leave due to production, this time she never returned as an employee.
Two days was not a long time. Wen Jiajia was already reviewing at home. Lin Yunfei asked someone to bring her a message saying that she was not going to take a leave.
He also brought her a letter saying: My grades are average. I have been trying to review and do tests these past two days, but I finally realized that I have no chance of studying with my classmates. I am even worse than my younger sister who graduated from junior high school.
The letter also said: No one in my family supports me taking leave to study. My parents said that if I take leave, they should just give the job to my sister-in-law.
After reading the letter, Wen Jiajia folded it and sighed. It was really difficult to review after graduation, which troubled many people.
She thought for a moment, tore off a piece of paper and wrote: Since the college entrance examination has been resumed, night school can probably be gradually resumed as well. You still have a chance in the future, so don't forget to study.
Wen Jiajia vaguely remembers that in the future the company can recommend employees to go to school, and the factory will recognize the academic qualifications they obtain.
After writing the letter, he asked someone who was still in the hospital to give it to Lin Yunfei.
Lin Yunfei gave up on the college entrance examination, but Sha Yue showed her courage and took a two-month leave to prepare for the exam, just like Wen Jiajia.
Wen Jiajia immediately gave her the math and Chinese questions she had accumulated over the past two years. She lived in the dormitory of the research institute, where there were countless science experts, so she should have no shortage of help when reviewing.
As for Hao Qingying, she is in the same dilemma as Lin Yunfei.
However, her academic performance was good and she was doing well in the review process. In addition, her family was very supportive, so after considering it for a few days, she also took a leave to prepare for the exam.
Wen Jiajia thought for a while that many people had quit their jobs to prepare for the exam, but when she went out to ask around the family home, she found out that she was the only working person in the entire family home who had given up her job to prepare for the exam.
Well, Wen Jiajia went home again.
The time of preparing for the exam passed quickly, and it was November in a blink of an eye. The breath of autumn could already be felt in the family compound.
The leaves begin to turn yellow, and osmanthus flowers bloom in full bloom.
Because of the college entrance examination, Wei Dai did not allow people to shake the osmanthus flowers at home this year, saying that it was a good opportunity to win the first prize.
…
Well, osmanthus is a symbol of academic success and in ancient times it represented winning the imperial examination.
But isn’t the key point on the word “break”? Wen Jiajia decided to wait until the osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, climb up the tree and break off a branch full of flowers.
When Wen Jiajia is at home, Wen Xiaomei is the happiest and most delighted.
Every day she ran from the house to the outside and then back to the house, always laughing.
Sometimes I would lie on Wen Jiajia's legs, curious about what my mother was muttering.
But most of the time, her aunt would take her out of the room to prevent her from disturbing Wen Jiajia.
Wen Jiajia usually reviews in her room, sitting at the desk in front of the window. Outside the window are green mountains, rivers, flowers in the yard, vegetables in the vegetable garden, and an osmanthus tree whose branches have extended to the window.
She could smell the aroma of mint, fragrant wood and other plants, which were very refreshing. She could also smell the fragrance of osmanthus, which was so strong that it made her trachea smell fragrant and sweet.
It reminds her of her high school days. There were also osmanthus flowers planted outside the window of her high school classroom.
Wen Jiajia suddenly felt like she was preparing for the college entrance examination in her previous life, and no longer felt that the road to preparing for the exam was lonely.
She flipped through the book page by page until there was nothing left to read. She could even memorize the examples in the math book.
Then there is politics. She finally managed to let the politics of this life cover the political memories of her previous life.
She felt that this was the hardest thing in her preparation for the exam, but she handled it perfectly.
When filling out the application form, Wen Jiajia really felt that she could get good grades.
She found high school papers to do, and her grades were even able to rank first in the grade of that school, and she was always ranked first.
She seemed to be stronger than she thought.
That night, Wen Jiajia thought for a while and decided on her first wish.
room.
The light became a little dim again, and Wei Dai thought about changing to a new bulb tomorrow.
This brightness used to work, but my wife has been reviewing lately, so naturally I have to create the best environment.
As he thought about this, he put the plate with the cut apples on it on the desk.
He asked someone to buy the apples for him. A comrade-in-arms went to a major apple-producing province two days ago, and he shamelessly bought a box of apples from someone just to supplement his wife's nutrition.
"Wei Dai, I've signed up for the volunteer position." Wen Jiajia suddenly said.
"What school?"
Wen Jiajia: "My first wish is to study at F University."
"..."Wei Dai just stayed where he was.
How should I put it? This is a very good school. Even someone like him who doesn't like studying knows about this school.
"Are you sure? I heard that reporting your application is crucial. If you don't, it's easy to be rejected. Of course, I don't mean that you can't get into F University." Wei Dai asked after a moment of silence.
Wen Jiajia shrugged, "I wouldn't dare apply if I wasn't sure, but nothing in this world is 100% certain, so let's give it a try. My second choice is our provincial capital university, and the provincial capital normal college is my third choice. Basically, it's just among these three schools."
Wei Dai found it difficult to calm down. He knew that his wife was a very good student, but he didn't expect that she had the confidence to be admitted to these three schools.
He rubbed his face and said, "It's okay. Just take the exam. I'm at home with you."
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "You are such a jerk. You are so busy at work. It's all thanks to your aunt."
The volunteering matter was decided in this way. Wen Jiajia didn't say anything, and Wei Dai naturally didn't tell anyone else. Only the couple knew about it at home.
Concentrating on studying at the family school, Wen Jiajia found it difficult to feel the tense atmosphere before the college entrance examination.
She had been sending the review materials back home for a while, and Wei Xin's letter finally arrived before the end of the month.
The wind outside was a bit cold. Wen Jiajia held a cup of hot milk tea, but she was warming her hands instead of drinking it.
Wei Dai opened the letter. He was not afraid of the wind and sat on a chair at the edge of the room to read it.
Wen Jiajia asked him, "Will my little sister take the exam?"
Before Wei Dai could answer, a furry head popped out of the kitchen and said, "Mommy, are you looking for my little sister? My little sister is here!"
“…”
When the little girl woke up, there was no one to tie her hair because her cousin had gone out to the market.
At this moment, she was smiling happily, still holding the oil cake in her hand. Wen Jiajia glared at her and said, "Put it back. Don't eat it anymore. Get out!"
"Okay, I don't want to eat." She was also very obedient. After being put back, she ran out and lay on her father's lap: "Did you call me just now?"
Wei Dai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm talking about my aunt."
Wen Jiajia silently added in her heart: She is the younger sister of the previous generation.
However, ever since the eldest sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter, the title of "little sister" was passed on to her. But it didn't take long before it was returned to her own little sister.
In just one year, the title was circulated among three people, which shows that it is particularly popular.
Wen Xiaomei had no idea what Xiaogu was, and it didn't sound delicious, so she lost interest and ran to Wen Jiajia to ask for milk tea.
"Drink it." Wen Jiajia pretended to pour her a cup, but what she poured was actually milk with a little bit of honey.
It tasted slightly sweet, and Wen Xiaomei felt that it was not quite right, but she was not picky.
She is actually a very easy child to raise. She will eat anything and is not picky at all. She is also very easy to be fooled.
Wen Jiajia used to be troubled by her IQ, but her language system was quite developed. She could speak long sentences at an early age and would occasionally use idioms.
She is also sensitive to numbers, and no one can secretly take away her building blocks. She has to check every day to see if any of her building blocks are missing. If they are missing, she will look all over the house for them. If she still can't find them, she will go to the logistics manager, Mr. Wang, to "report the incident"!
Ever since she called the police, Wen Jiajia no longer worried about her IQ. After all, she was not stupid.
After reading the letter, Wei Dai said, "Xiao Xin said she is already preparing for the exam, and so is her brother-in-law. Xiao Xin applied to the Agricultural University in our province to study veterinary medicine. Her brother-in-law applied to a junior college, also in our province, and his grades were average, so he applied to a teacher training program."
Wen Jiajia suddenly realized that both of them were good at their professions and their score lines were not high.
She vaguely remembered that the most popular major in recent years was Chinese. Anyway, many liberal arts students would apply to the Chinese department.
But Wen Jiajia didn’t. She applied for economics as her first choice and also as her second choice. She didn’t plan to just go through college, but hoped to learn more knowledge.
In my last life, I became famous too early and didn’t focus on my studies. So I plan to study very hard in this life.
As for starting a business... you can't start your own business right after the reform and opening up, unless you set up a street stall.
If you want to open a factory, you have to keep waiting.
It's December now and the weather has gotten much colder, but not as cold as the year before last.
The wind two years ago was like a hidden knife, which hurt people's faces.
The cold this year was a bit mild, and Wen Jiajia didn't need to move the stove out at the beginning of the month.
Wen Jiajia began to enter the final sprint and was going over all the key points again.
She didn't try to solve the difficult questions, but only did some basic questions to see if there was anything she had missed.
My cousin is also preparing for her college entrance exam and making delicious food in different ways every day.
She is very happy now because she can still conduct some transactions in the nearby villages on a daily basis without anyone interfering.
So my aunt buys fish today and meat tomorrow, and sometimes she can even buy mutton and beef. Wen Jiajia's cheeks are rosy from eating so much, which means she has not gained weight because she has been doing mental activities all day long recently.
The college entrance examination in this province is on December 5th and 6th, which is only two days away.
In fact, the college entrance examination started at the end of November and will last until the 25th of this month. The examination time is different in many provinces. Wen Jiajia was really surprised when she saw in the newspaper at the end of November that some places had started the college entrance examination. What year is it now? She quickly checked the date and felt relieved when she saw that it was November.
Two days before the college entrance examination, Wen Jiajia did not read any more books, but relaxed and lay paralyzed at home. This was the most relaxing way for her.
Wen Xiaomei didn't come to bother her anymore. Wei Dai was resting these two days, and she was taken out to play by Wei Dai every day, and they had a lot of fun.
Two days passed in this leisurely manner. Wen Jiajia was in a particularly good state. She felt eager to go to the examination room and wanted to do the test paper immediately to satisfy her urge to do so.
At noon, the day of the college entrance examination arrived.
Wei Dai was even more nervous than her. He woke up at five o'clock and watched his watch to call Wen Jiajia to get up on time.
He also used a hand warmer to warm up the clothes that Wen Jiajia was going to wear, so she didn't feel cold at all when she wore them.
While Wen Jiajia was getting dressed, Wei Dai went outside to prepare the water for brushing teeth and washing face. From the look of his expression, he seemed to want Wen Jiajia to open her mouth so that he could brush her teeth and wash her face.
"Don't be like this, just do what you should do." Wen Jiajia was helpless while brushing her teeth, spitting out foam from her mouth and said.
She is not nervous at all. To put it bluntly, she seems to be like the emperor who is not anxious, but the eunuch is.
Wei Dai rubbed his hands and put them on her ears: "I don't have much to do, you should wash quickly, don't freeze, the temperature has dropped today, at least 3 or 4 degrees lower than yesterday."
"...Forget it." Whatever he wants, Wen Jiajia stopped persuading him. She brushed her teeth and washed her face, then went back to the room to have breakfast.
Breakfast is ready, but there is no milk because I am afraid of diarrhea.
Wei Dai originally wanted to grind soy milk for Wen Jiajia, but the family hadn't had soy milk for a long time, and he was afraid that Wen Jiajia would not be able to adapt to it, so he didn't grind it.
After much thought, I decided to drink porridge, which is the safest.
The porridge is the millet porridge that Wen Jiajia likes. Her cousin kneaded the dough and fried the fillings last night. When Wei Dai got up today, he kneaded the dough directly, cut it into small portions, and finally made dumplings. At this moment, the first pot of dumplings had just been steamed.
The buns are bamboo shoot and meat buns, Wen Jiajia’s favorite cooked buns.
Wei Dai dug the winter bamboo shoots yesterday, blanched them and cut them into dices. The meat was also from a pig that had just been slaughtered yesterday, and it was front leg meat with a good fat-to-lean ratio.
Compared with the hind leg meat, the front leg meat of the pig has a firmer texture and more lean meat, making it more suitable for making stuffing.
Cut the stuffing into dices, stir-fry with bamboo shoots and chopped carrots, and then add chives after stir-frying. The taste is so delicious! Wen Jiajia's buns with raw stuffing are directly better than those with raw stuffing.
In order to have a good omen, Wei Dai also went to the cafeteria to buy fried dough sticks and boiled two eggs.
"Look, this is 100 points." Wei Dai placed the eggs and fried dough sticks on the table in the shape of "100", "I have to eat this later."
Wen Jiajia did not refuse for the sake of good luck, but she was afraid of frequent urination, so she only drank a small bowl of porridge, then ate two eggs in a row, finished the fried dough sticks, and finally ate two buns before her stomach was full.
"When does the car leave?" Wen Jiajia asked after swallowing the last bite of her bun. There were 32 college entrance examination candidates in the army, so the logistics department would arrange a car to take them there.
Anyway, the logistics department has to go to the city, and we have to set off at around 5 o'clock every morning, so it's okay to leave later today.
Wei Dai: "It's still early."
He checked his watch: "Half an hour left."
As he spoke, he began to eat voraciously. Wen Jiajia was walking nearby and was a little full from eating just now.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan also got up. Wen Xuan came out first without changing her clothes. She said in surprise, "Good morning, aunt and uncle, good morning, aunt, are we having buns today?"
Wen Jiajia quickly pushed her back to the room: "Hurry up and change your clothes. You are not allowed to eat buns before you change your clothes."
Wen Xuan was so happy that she kept shouting, "I haven't eaten steamed buns for a long time. I miss them so much."
Wen Jiajia couldn't help but pat her head. This girl was only thinking about eating. She didn't even remember that your aunt was going to take an exam.
After a while, Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai went out.
One carried a pen and admission ticket, and the other carried hot buns and a bottle of water.
The two got on the bus, which was already full of people.
Fortunately, there was a thick cloth to block the view, so there was not much wind when sitting at the rear of the car, and we could still breathe fresh air. Others all felt that they had made a mistake.
Gasoline trucks are fast and can get you to the city in less than half an hour.
Coincidentally, Wen Jiajia's examination room was right next to the pharmaceutical factory. She was very familiar with that area and must have felt safe sitting in the examination room.
Wen Jiajia stuck her head out and said, "Let's get off at the front. It'll only take two or three minutes to walk there."
"Okay!" Then he shouted to stop in front.
When the car stopped, only the couple got out, while everyone else was in other examination rooms.
There are 5.7 million college entrance examination candidates this year! This number is also particularly impressive.
When I arrived at the examination room, someone was already waiting at the door.
Wei Dai handed her the water bottle: "Put it in your arms to warm your hands. I'll wait for you at the state-owned hotel later and we'll have lunch there at noon. I'll tell your friend what you want to eat."
Wen Jiajia thought for a moment and said, "I really want to eat noodles. Can you ask Xiaolan if she has any chicken offal noodles? She should have some. I heard Xiaolan say that the hotel has to buy chicken every day in the past few months. If she has some, please make me a bowl of spicy and sour chicken offal noodles."
The new chef is Xiaolan's cousin. Since Master He left, Wen Jiajia has slowly become familiar with him and can even cook dishes that are not on the menu.
Wei Dai nodded: "Okay." It's winter, and it's more comfortable to eat some hot soup.
The time to enter the examination room soon came, and Wei Dai couldn't help but move closer to hug her: "Don't be nervous, just treat it as an exam at home."
"I will." Wen Jiajia patted his shoulder and said proudly, "Just wait, you will soon have a college student wife."
Wei Dai: “…Okay.”
His wife was really relaxed and in the mood to joke around. She didn't seem nervous at all.
After Wen Jiajia entered the examination room, she found her class and seat, sat down and began to observe the classroom at that time.
The classroom was actually quite nice. In fact, it was like most classrooms in rural areas in the early 21st century. The classroom in Wen Jiajia's father's hometown was similar to this.
There is no multimedia, but there are bright windows. Now the windows are closed, and the cold wind outside can't blow in at all.
There were more and more people in the classroom, including young men of seventeen or eighteen with fresh faces, middle-aged people with wrinkles on their faces, and people like her who had worked for a few years... Wen Jiajia couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She had only been able to see this scene in the examination room in the past two years. She could be said to have witnessed history personally.
While I was thinking, the invigilator came in.
The bell rang, the test papers were opened, and then distributed.
The moment Wen Jiajia saw the test paper, she glanced at the composition out of habit.
It's OK. The questions are not too difficult.
What is it? "Hard Fight", a composition with a given topic, which is Wen Jiajia's favorite.
Moreover, there are so many materials in this era that Wen Jiajia doesn't need to rack her brains to compile materials. Is it considered a hard battle to work and prepare for the exam at the same time? Wen Jiajia thinks it is. Anyway, she is full of thoughts at the moment and wants to write a few hundred words right away.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia controlled herself and quickly wrote the front part first.
The previous questions were quite easy for someone like her who had been reviewing for two years, especially the ones that she had to memorize, and she wrote them very smoothly.
Soon, there was still more than an hour left when it came time to write the homework, and Wen Jiajia was silent... It was the first time that she had so much time in the Chinese exam room.
Thinking back to her previous life, she was tortured to death by the difficulty of reading and comprehension. Often, she would only have 40 minutes or even half an hour left to write an essay. In the end, she would always have to write at a life-and-death speed, and her pen would fly up!
Wen Jiajia suddenly became full of confidence. That's it? That's it! If the next few subjects were like this, her first choice would really be secure.
Wen Jiajia is now in a state of writing as if inspired. Even if she slows down her writing speed, she can still finish the composition within 40 minutes.
The result is that the handwriting is particularly beautiful, which shows that Wen Jiajia has spent time practicing calligraphy every day over the past year.
The rest of the time was spent just checking the previous questions, and then I waited another 10 minutes before the test was over.
After handing in the paper and leaving, Wen Jiajia met Wei Dai at the door.
Wen Jiajia ran over and said, "It's so cold, why don't you wait for me in the state-owned hotel?"
Wei Dai handed her the hot water bottle again: "Come, warm your hands first."
"I just wanted to see you first." He smiled and said, "There's some chicken offal. You can probably eat it when you get back."
Wen Jiajia's pace became much faster: "What are you waiting for? I'm very hungry."
Xiaolan was waiting for her at the door. When she saw Wen Jiajia at the entrance of the alley, she waved at her and said excitedly, "Come and eat. I'll give you a whole set of chicken entrails."
She didn't ask Wen Jiajia how she did in the exam, as she still had several subjects to take.
Wen Jiajia ran over and hugged her: "It must be sour and spicy, right?"
"Yes! The soup base is still made from pork bone soup, and the flour is made from this year's new rice. I've tried it, it's very chewy."
It’s really elastic!
Wen Jiajia slurped the noodles into her mouth, along with the spicy and sour soup.
The soup is not dry and sour and spicy, but because of the pork bone soup, it is very mellow and has layers of sour and spicy taste.
After drinking half a bowl, the coldness in my body was completely dispelled and I felt extremely refreshed.
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