Lin Shuying sat in the middle of the boat, holding her flushed face in one hand and eating the popsicle her mother bought for her in the other.
Today's popsicles are cream-filled and are two cents more expensive than ordinary white sugar popsicles!
As if to celebrate the end of her college entrance examination, Liang Shengdi went to several river markets on her way back home, asking questions about everything she saw.
"Shuying, do you want to eat this cake?"
"Shuying, do you want to eat fish tonight?"
"Shuying..."
Lin Shuying wanted to say, Grandma, I'm fine with anything, as long as you stop standing on the tree and shouting at me with a loudspeaker.
Just now when she walked to the school gate, before she could even react whether anyone was coming to pick her up, Liang Shengdi stood on a tree with a loudspeaker and shouted her name.
Chen Chunhua took the loudspeaker from the security guard temporarily. She did not climb the tree, but she handed the prop to Liang Shengdi on the tree in time, and returned it to her before the security guard got angry.
Because the horn was so loud, everyone saw this side and made way for Lin Shuying to run over and meet them.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a perfect match, leaving Shuying with only her toes digging into the ground.
But it doesn't matter, as long as she gets into university, she won't have to stay in this school anymore.
"How do you feel about your performance in the exam?" asked Chen Chunhua.
Lin Shuying counted on her fingers the scores she'd estimated from comparing answers with everyone the previous two days, as well as her own estimate for the final exam. Her total science score was 710, with Chinese and math each out of 120, biology 70, and the remaining 100 points.
"It's... okay?" Lin Shuying calculated the score, "Probably... 520?" She always calculated based on the lowest score, thinking that it couldn't be lower than 520.
Last year, the undergraduate admission score for science majors was 464. If Lin Shuying could really score 520 points, then even if she couldn't choose her own university, at least she would definitely be able to attend one!
"Let's go home and tell your dad! Let him prepare for the graduation banquet in advance!" Chen Chunhua laughed as she sat on the boat. "He's been thinking about opening those two bottles of Moutai and drinking them after he gets admitted to university! Now his dream has finally come true!"
Lin Shuying blushed and smiled, her expression and tone returned to their usual gentleness, and there was no trace of the sense of urgency she had felt during the college entrance examination review period.
"Mom, are you still busy at the farm? I'm on vacation now, so I can come and help you with the work."
Summer may be the off-season for all industries. The mushroom house can recently harvest the remaining crops of Agaricus bisporus, and the other mushroom houses are not producing mushrooms for the time being. Sun Chuanfang has been inoculating mushroom seeds in his spare time and has used up the 500 glass bottles that were eliminated from the enoki mushrooms.
The frequency of orders for chickens and ducks at the poultry farm has also decreased significantly. With more staff, Chen Chunhua has been busy switching back and forth these past two days. Her main focus is on the newly built mushroom house.
You don't need children to help with that thing.
"There's nothing I can help you with. Just take a good rest for two days, watch some TV and eat some watermelon. If you really can't stay idle, help your younger siblings with their homework. Your father is so worried about your third child's grades!"
Lin Shuying laughed out loud. With Lin Shuchao's grades, even a god couldn't save him.
"When you have time, you can think about which university you want to apply to. You'll have to fill out your application once the results come out. Don't wait until then to rush and think about it."
Today's universities are no longer managed by the education department as they were later, but rather have targeted enrollment. Each type of school is managed by its own department, and graduates are directly assigned jobs within that system.
If you study at a financial university, you can only be assigned to the banking system, because it is managed by the People's Bank of China; if you study at a foreign language university, you may be assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; if you study at a finance and trade school, you may be assigned to a supply and marketing cooperative...
With work packages assigned to you, you have virtually no chance of choosing your own career. The upside is that if you pass the exam, you'll have a job anyway, but the downside is that there's almost no chance of changing your career.
This is also why some technical secondary schools and normal schools are more popular than colleges and universities, because those technical secondary schools can assign better jobs.
But because of this, choosing a school becomes even more important.
Lin Shuying was determined to get a bachelor's degree. She certainly didn't consider junior college or technical secondary school. She was only interested in undergraduate programs. Her future goals were clear: to make money.
Her parents were not money-grubbers, but she had watched them busying around since she was a child, just to make money to support the family and provide a better life for her siblings.
The children in the family will be affected to some extent. For example, Lin Shuying feels that being a cadre or working in any system is not as good as doing business.
Then how can we make a living from the country’s business?
"I want to apply to the University of International Business and Economics." Lin Shuying carefully analyzed her idea with her parents at the dinner table.
"Our teacher said that students who have graduated from foreign trade programs in the past two years will generally be assigned to the foreign trade department. I want to work in foreign trade."
If you are good at foreign trade, you will not only earn a lot, but also have the opportunity to go abroad for exchanges. You will also get more coupons than ordinary working-class people, but the requirements for students will be higher.
Foreign trade requires both the ability to use an abacus and the ability to speak foreign languages. Otherwise, how can one justify the high income?
Chen Chunhua doesn't know much about which universities. If you ask her, she can only tell you Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and Jiaotong University. She turned to look at Lin Guoqing.
Lin Guoqing pondered for a while and then asked his eldest daughter,
"So do you want to go to the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department in the capital, or in Shanghai, or in Guangzhou?"
As Lin Shuying's teacher had explained, these schools were all directly under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, recognized as "three stars in international trade," and hailed as cradles of foreign trade talent. When Shuying expressed her desire to pursue a career in foreign trade, Lin Guoqing enthusiastically endorsed it.
But the question is where to study?
Lin Shuying scratched her head and said, "It depends on my score..."
The best one is definitely the University of International Business and Economics in the capital, and the score is definitely the highest. Lin Shuying's estimated score of 520 may not necessarily allow her to enter the capital.
Next are the Foreign Trade Colleges in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Since the reform and opening up, Guangzhou has enjoyed an optimal geographical location and favorable policies, generating a frenzy of foreign exchange, and the local foreign trade colleges have also seen a surge in popularity. Meanwhile, Shanghai, as the original Rome, if only one could stay and work there simply by graduating from university...
"I think it's better for you to apply to Shanghai," Chen Chunhua advised. "The climate and customs are similar, and you can get used to the food, drink, and toilet. It's close to home, so if something happens, we can get there the same day, and you can come back the same day too."
Even if I continue to work there, I won’t end up seeing him only a few times a year.”
From ancient times to the present, parents do not want their children to be too far away from them. Even if Chen Chunhua admits that she is selfish, she cannot accept the situation of not seeing her children for a year or two.
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