Chapter 139
Chu Yue's reaction was very big, and Ding Boyun noticed it immediately, but he did not interrupt her. He just waited quietly for her to come to her senses.
Just as he was thinking, Chu Yue recovered and slowly said an explanation, "I..."
"I didn't expect that. Maybe something has changed. My ability to predict the future isn't completely accurate. Sometimes, there are discrepancies."
Ding Boyun mused, "Objective things don't change, only subjective things do."
Chu Yue looked at him blankly, not understanding what he meant at all.
Ding Boyun smiled slightly.
He had already found out about Chu Yue's past. The more he communicated with her, the more certain he was that Chu Yue was not a talented girl at all. She was just a fool. She might have some cleverness in life, but if she was put in the textbooks, no matter where she went, she would always be at the bottom of the class.
At first, Ding Boyun thought that she relied on prophecies to package herself as a talented woman, but now it seems that this is not the case.
Her ability to predict is still there, but her image as a talented woman is gone.
So far, Chu Yue’s predictions have been very accurate. The only major mistake was the college entrance examination, but this matter did not have much impact on him.
His future is now at its peak. He has already attended the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. Although taking the undergraduate examination would be icing on the cake, it would take four years, and he might not be able to move up two levels. It is not worth it to take the college entrance examination. It would be better for him to wait until the graduate program is open and then take the examination for a part-time graduate program at a prestigious university.
Thinking of this, Ding Boyun asked Chu Yue, "The postgraduate open examination should be here, right? There won't be any more problems, right?"
Chu Yue hadn't even gotten into university in her previous life, so how could she know the details of the postgraduate entrance exam? However, Ding Boyun didn't ask for details, so she nodded repeatedly, "Of course, it will happen, and it will happen in the next few years."
Ding Boyun smiled and said, "That's good."
They would only meet once every one or two months, and every time they met, in addition to asking for predictions, Ding Boyun would also show some concern for Chu Yue's life. When he did this before, Chu Yue had no thoughts, but now, listening to his gentle voice, Chu Yue suddenly felt like a cow.
Because she can still produce milk, her owner is willing to coax her with gentle words. If one day she runs out of milk, her fate will be obvious.
Chu Yue thought about what happened last year again. She was distracted for a while. Ding Boyun called her several times, and when his patience was about to run out, Chu Yue heard him.
"Huh? What did you say?"
Seeing her looking at him, Ding Boyun's limited patience immediately refilled. He asked Chu Yue kindly, "Is there anything else that will happen within the next year?"
Chu Yue shook her head. "No, I only know one thing: the college entrance examination."
Ding Boyun was a little disappointed. He asked again, "Isn't there even a natural disaster?"
Chu Yue looked at him and didn't say anything for a while.
Ding Boyun was stunned for a moment, and the two of them just stared at each other. After two seconds, Chu Yue lowered her eyes first, avoiding his gaze. "No, a disaster like last year only happens once every few decades."
Chu Yue didn't remember what Ding Boyun said next. At night, sitting at the desk, the only thing in Chu Yue's mind was the look Ding Boyun had given her during the day.
The look in his eyes that was looking at her with great anticipation.
His face disappeared from Chu Yue's mind, and then, Chu Yue thought of Guan Yuelong's face again, not the Guan Yuelong at this time, but the middle-aged Guan Yuelong in his previous life.
He had a sinister look on his face. Even though he hadn't seen Ding Boyun yet, just thinking of him was enough to make him hate him to the core. After a long silence, he finally made an evaluation of Ding Boyun.
Simultaneously with the memory, Chu Yue murmured, "... beast."
If one does not treat others as human beings, then he himself cannot be considered a human being.
Chu Yue suddenly felt a little scared. She knew Ding Boyun in her previous life, but she had never spoken to him, and Guan Yuelong had no feelings for her, so she only knew that Ding Boyun was very bad and a strong rival, but she didn't know how bad he was and where his bottom line was.
She despised Guan Jinqiao, whose mind was preoccupied with romance, and felt that even if she died, both she and Ding Boyun would be at fault, each worthy of fifty lashes. She had eagerly jumped on Ding Boyun's bandwagon, self-righteously holding a handful of information that no one else would know. She revealed it year after year, enough for them both to grow old. By then, even if Ding Boyun wanted to harm her, there would be no need. After all, they had been in the same boat for decades, and she could fully prove that she was on Ding Boyun's side.
All her ideas were based on the fact that Ding Boyun had a personality similar to Guan Yuelong. He could be more insidious and more powerful, but he could not be more terrifying.
Chu Yue vaguely realized that she seemed to have done something very wrong, and there was no way to undo it.
But even if she realized it, she didn't dare admit it, because if she didn't admit it, she would still feel a little comforted. If she admitted it, she would scare herself to death.
Suddenly, she squatted down and took out a small box from the deep of the desk drawer. A ring lay quietly in it. The ring setting was just an ordinary silver ring. She bought it with her saved pocket money when she was a child. The silver was not valuable, but it cost her one-yuan banknotes.
The silver ring was devoid of any decoration, its plainness even making it seem a bit shabby. Chu Yue had kept the ring in her hand for who knows how long, and she never took it out, so her mother and grandmother were completely unaware of its existence. Originally a perfect circle, Chu Yue's occasional secret manipulation had distorted it into an oval. Touching the small square decoration she had glued onto the ring again, she felt much better.
The fact that she could be reborn meant that she was special and was treated well by this world. As long as the ring was still there, she would be fine.
Staring at the ring, Chu Yue did something she had never done before.
She put the ring on her finger.
What she was thinking was that the reform and opening up was about to begin, and she could wear jewelry, and treasures should not be hidden. But deep down in her heart, she thought that she would feel at ease only when she wore them.
——
Chu Yue's mood was so complicated, but Chu Jiujiu was much simpler. At this time, she realized the truth of a sentence: ignorance is really a bliss.
…
If she knew the exact date for the resumption of the Gaokao, she would have been as apprehensive as Chu Yue, fearing that the future would change beyond all recognition. But she didn't know, so she didn't think anything of it and just joined the reviewing crowd like everyone else.
Han Shengyi's work hadn't been handed over yet, so he still went to work every day. He would read for a while when he came back in the evening. Chu Jiujiu and Qi Baozhu had an agreement that they would go into the library when it opened and leave when it closed.
The two girls' sincerity deeply touched their families. Grandma Han and Qi Baozhu's mother took turns to come, each responsible for the day's lunch, and then asked their respective secretaries and aunts to deliver it.
Every day's lunch consists of three dishes and one soup, which is nutritionally balanced and includes both Chinese and Western cuisine. Grandma Han even made the Western food she learned when she worked in a French restaurant. Chu Jiujiu goes out early and comes back late every day, and not only did she not lose weight, she even gained two kilograms.
Chu Jiujiu was reviewing so hard just to protect her actual score. As long as she performed normally, she would definitely pass the exam. But Qi Baozhu was not like that. She was under a lot of pressure every day, afraid that even if she worked so hard, she would still fail.
For three consecutive days, she dreamed that she failed every subject in the exam. Seeing her like this, Chu Jiujiu wanted to persuade her to stop studying and relax first, but it was no use. Qi Baozhu didn't listen to her at all.
Just after Children's Day, Nie Bai kicked his eldest son Nie Songlan, also known as Dabao, over and asked him to study late into the night with Chu Jiujiu and others to concentrate on preparing for the exam.
The library was already crowded. Chu Jiujiu and Qi Baozhu had to get up very early to find a seat for themselves. Since Dabao came, they could get up a little later.
Because Dabao is a big guy, he looks like Moses parting the sea when standing in the crowd. Others dare not compete with him and can only give way to him.
This is the advantage of looking fierce, Chu Jiujiu thought sadly, touching her smooth chin.
Even if her face became ten points more ferocious, it would not make others feel scared just by looking at her.
Dabao's nickname is very cute, and his full name is even more elegant and graceful. I heard that when Liu Yuzhen was pregnant with him, she almost tore the dictionary to pieces, just because she wanted to give him a cultured name, so that he could have some cultural flavor and stay away from the temperament of his father who only knew how to lead troops in battle.
I never expected that my brain could catch up, but my appearance still couldn’t.
Dabao doesn't like chatting with others. He always does things silently and cares about his family silently. When he was a child, Chu Jiujiu loved him very much. Now that he has grown up, Chu Jiujiu can no longer feel pity for Dabao, who is almost two heads taller than her.
Mainly because I keep tilting my neck up, which can easily lead to cervical spondylosis...
The growth period is basically over, and everyone's height is now fixed. Even if they can grow a little bit more, it won't be much.
Chu Jiujiu is now 167.5cm tall, just 0.5cm away from reaching 168cm. Unfortunately, no matter how much milk she drinks, that 0.5cm just won't grow.
Chu Shao is 188 cm tall and Han Shengyi is 189 cm tall. The height battle between the two has finally come to an end. Han Shengyi narrowly wins with a one centimeter difference. However, it is said that Chu Shao is still not convinced. In the base, in addition to doing his work, he is also training hard, determined to make up for the one centimeter difference.
Wen Xiuwei is 166cm tall and Qi Baozhu is 164cm tall, which are normal heights. Only Dabao, with his absolute advantage of 195cm, stands out from the crowd.
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He is tall, muscular, and has a cold complexion. Even if Dabao has a soul that loves to help old ladies cross the street, it cannot save his appearance that looks like a human weapon.
Standing silently at the front of the queue, Dabao tried his best to reduce his presence so as not to scare others. He looked eagerly at the intersection, and finally, the two people who bought breakfast came back.
Chu Jiujiu walked over here while sipping soy milk. Seeing Dabao, she handed him a bag of buns with a smile and said, "Good morning, Dabao."
Dabao's ears turned red, and then he said awkwardly, "Good morning, Sister Jiujiu."
Dabao is only two months younger than Chu Jiujiu, but there is nothing he can do. Even if he is only two hours younger, he can only call Chu Jiujiu sister.
Every time Chu Jiujiu saw such a well-behaved Dabao, she felt very excited. She wanted to touch his head, but she was afraid that if she stretched out her arm, she wouldn't even be able to touch his chin.
...It's so hurtful to my self-esteem.
After greeting Chu Jiujiu, Dabao turned around and looked at Qi Baozhu, who had always ignored him.
"Sister Baozhu, good morning."
Qi Baozhu lowered her eyes without even lifting her eyelids, and her eyes trembled slightly, but Dabao knew that this meant "Good morning to you too."
The three of them stopped talking and tried hard to eat breakfast, while waiting for the staff inside to open the door.
Chu Jiujiu looked at the glass window. She could see the old man inside, but the old man just looked at them leisurely and leisurely, and insisted on opening the door on time.
Finally, the time came. He walked to the door and slowly took off the chain. The door opened with a crash and everyone filed in, starting a new day of study.
Dabao now lives in the Chu family. Chu Shao’s room originally belonged to him. He will have to live there until the college entrance examination is over.
There was no college entrance examination center in the military district, so everyone had to go to the city to take the exam. Time passed day by day, and finally, the day when the college entrance examination officially began arrived. Chu Jiujiu, Han Shengyi, and Dabao walked over together. Grandma Han came over, and Grandpa Han also came over. Nie Bai had not planned to come, but when he heard Chu Liqiang say that they were all going, he thought about it and thought that if he didn't go, his son might feel very lonely, so he came too.
Standing at the entrance to the test center, Chu Jiujiu looked around and realized that, apart from their parents, everyone else had come on their own. Furthermore, some of them looked just like their parents.
Chu Jiujiu looked into the distance for a while, then looked away and looked at the adults who were cheering them on.
Grandma Han: "Shengyi, after you finish answering, remember to check twice."
Grandpa Han: "Jiujiu, don't come out too early. You've already finished writing and are still sitting there. Otherwise, if you come out too early, it will easily affect other people's mood."
Chu Liqiang: "Relax, just treat this as a small test, don't put too much pressure on yourself."
Qi Baozhu's mother: "Come on, don't look at others, just take your own test, don't be influenced by others."
After everyone else finished speaking, Dabao turned around and looked at his father who remained silent.
The two looked at each other.
Nie Bai: “…”
After racking his brains for a long time, Nie Bai said stiffly, "Good son, you can do it."
Dabao: “…”
Stop talking. After listening to what you said, I feel like I can’t do it anymore.
…
Wen Xiuwei applied to the Beijing Film Academy, and she took the exam at the film studio. In addition to the cultural exam, the Beijing Film Academy also had an interview. In short, the process was different from that of ordinary universities. Her mother accompanied her, and her father also came back from abroad to cheer her up.
The four people were not in the same examination room. Chu Jiujiu's seat was in the last row. She waited quietly, and after the paper was handed down, she started writing frantically.
Facts proved that Grandpa Han was very foresighted. The college entrance examination paper was quite difficult, but Chu Jiujiu still finished it in just half an hour. After finishing, she supported her chin and looked at the whole audience from her seat.
Students in the front row: “…”
I always feel like I have a thorn in my back. What's going on?
There were five exams in total. Chu Jiujiu didn't care about the rule that one shouldn't check answers after the exam. As soon as the exam was over, she pulled Han Shengyi aside, and then she recited the questions one by one, and Han Shengyi said his answers beside her.
They both gave essentially the same answers. If there were any discrepancies, they would analyze each other's answers and then roughly figure out who was right and who was wrong. This way, after each exam, they knew their own grades, which made Dabao and Qi Baozhu, who were resting quietly nearby, gasp in fear.
I really want to listen to it, but I’m afraid that I’ll be shocked if I listen to it…
In the end, they still didn't listen. Instead, they waited until all five exams were finished, and then gathered in the living room of the Chu family. Chu Jiujiu recited the questions first, then Han Shengyi said the answers, and finally, the two of them recalled the answers they had written on paper.
The parents were all watching eagerly from the side, and finally, when the scores were calculated, everyone leaned over to look.
Chu Jiujiu estimated that she scored 390 points. She was not sure about the score for the composition, so she deducted it all. But the fact was, she could at least get 20 points for the composition, so the total score should be 410.
Han Shengyi was not as conservative as Chu Jiujiu. He included the composition score and estimated it to be around 420.
The two of them scored higher, so it was Qi Baozhu and Dabao's turn. The former estimated a score of 280 and the latter estimated a score of 300.
For a moment, the whole living room was filled with gloom.
Except for Han Shengyi, everyone else felt that they were sure to fail the exam.
All four of them applied for science, as science offers a wider range of majors. When the application forms came in, Chu Jiujiu saw that the history department could accept both liberal arts and science students, so she chose science. Logically, Chu Jiujiu should have applied for liberal arts, but the knowledge she had been exposed to over the years was all extremely obscure and advanced ancient literature, completely different from high school knowledge. So, realistically speaking, she didn't have much of an advantage in the liberal arts department.
What I learned was too advanced and it was not useful in the exam.
However, when Chu Jiujiu was studying with Deng Guoyuan, the physics and chemistry that she devoted herself to studying were the real test knowledge.
Chu Jiujiu did a lot of homework to get into her dream university, but she was powerless.
This was an era without supplementary teaching materials, without the strategy of solving a large number of test questions, and even without teachers marking the key points for you. She was already very good, but despite studying hard, she only scored a little over 400 points. Thinking back to the news about the college entrance examination she had seen before, only the top scorer could go to the top university, and the scores of the top scorers were all above 700!
The full score was 750, and others scored 700. The full score for her was 500, but she only scored 400.
It’s over, it’s over, there’s no hope.
Chu Jiujiu looked devastated, and Dabao and Qi Baozhu beside her had the same idea.
The gap between them and the top students is more than a hundred points.
The four of them had the same first choice, the difference was that three of them applied for ordinary majors, while Qi Baozhu applied for medical school.
So, people are afraid of being compared with others. When I compared myself with others, I immediately thought that I was a piece of trash. Among the four people, three of them were depressed, and the parents next to them couldn't help but look at each other.
Han Shengyi was the calmest because he had made up his mind: if he failed the exam this year, he could take it again next year. With his ability, he knew that there would be no second chances.
He had good ideas, but others did not have such high psychological quality. Before the score line came out, several people were depressed.
It’s a good thing they don’t have other friends. If they did, they would have been beaten to death if they had just complained to each other.
…
The exam notice came suddenly, and most of the people who were able to take the exam were working in the fields, with poor information and extremely low education levels. Under such circumstances, let alone scoring 300 or 400 points, even scoring 200 points would be quite impressive.
Chu Yue also took the exam. They were all things she had taken before, but she couldn't remember any of them. She took the exam based on her actual level. After the exam, Chu Yue felt that she should be able to pass.
Because this time she didn't apply to university, she only applied to a junior college.
After coming out of the examination room, Chu Yue bought a newspaper and went home.
She had long developed the good habit of reading the newspaper every day. In fact, the newspaper had always been reminding her that the world was no longer the same, but Chu Yue never noticed it.
The time of the college entrance examination has changed, so the people taking the exam have also changed, and the people who are admitted will also undergo great changes. As a result, the fate of a large number of people will be rewritten.
Originally, the Beijing Film Academy was going to join the big group and resume recruiting students in 1979, but now it has been advanced. The students are enthusiastic, the course of history is also gradually advancing, everything is smoother than in Chu Yue's previous life, which is a good thing for some people, but for some people, it is a bad thing.
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Chu Jiujiu was heartbroken at home. While she was heartbroken, she was digging the watermelon with a spoon. Chu Liqiang watched her from the side, sighed, and took a bite of watermelon. After a while, she had eaten half of the watermelon. After washing her hands, she said to Chu Liqiang, "I'm full. I won't have lunch with you at noon."
Chu Liqiang: "..."
Originally, he didn't think Chu Jiujiu's test score was that bad. After all, it was 100 points higher than Dabao and the others. However, Chu Liqiang was infected by her depressed mood for several days, which made him grumble in his heart.
I heard that the papers have been graded, so he might as well go and find out whether Chu Jiujiu is on the list.
Just as he was thinking this, the phone at his house suddenly rang.
Chu Liqiang came back to his senses. He walked over and picked up the receiver. "What's the matter? Tell me."
opposite:"……"
The tone of his voice showed that he was used to being a leader.
He laughed, and a man's voice came from the phone, "Excuse me, is this classmate Chu Jiujiu's home?"
Chu Liqiang frowned, "Yes, who are you?"
"Look, I'm from the admissions office. Chu Jiujiu's scores are out. Wow, they're excellent, ranking third in the city. With her grades, she should be accepted into a better major, but I see she's applying to the history department. Do you think we can discuss this? Excuse me, who are you to Chu Jiujiu?"
Chu Liqiang didn't hear anything else, just the words "third in the city".
Holding the receiver, Chu Liqiang's majestic aura changed rapidly, and it was almost as if a few small flowers bloomed on the spot.
"I'm her father, hahahaha~"
Admissions Office Teacher: “…”
He seemed to hear the arrival of spring and the melting of ice from this laughter.
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