Chapter 261 The Paper Flies
This winter college entrance examination was carried out rather hastily. In order to fill the talent gap, there were not so many restrictions on registration.
Yan Yue glanced at the exam time, looking anxious:
"The exam is on December 10th, so there are only two months left. Time is so tight."
Sister Mei was also worried: "This bookstore doesn't have much review materials for sale right now. How can I survive without reading?"
Her daughter happened to be from the third batch of 1967 and was also eligible to register.
But the textbooks at home have long been lost in some corner.
"I have to go to the bookstore at noon."
She didn't even ask if Lin Xiaotong and Yan Yue still had their textbooks, as it was obvious that they were going to take the exam as well.
Manager Cai tucked the radio under his arm. If their department store also had college graduates, he would be proud.
When the time comes, hang a banner at the door, and passers-by will inevitably come in to buy something to share in the joy.
"Anyway, just register first, this is a good opportunity.
If I wasn't over the age limit, I would definitely take the exam too!"
He put one hand on his waist, stretched out one leg, and shook his legs with joy.
…
Sure enough, by noon, people were talking about this incident everywhere, even children were talking about it.
Lin Xiaotong even rode her bike to the entrance of the bookstore to take a look around. There were crowds of people, the line was very long, and people kept pouring in.
"I bought two sets, one for my son and one for my nephew."
"Get me a set too. My daughter is going to the countryside, and I need to buy them and send them to her quickly, otherwise it will affect her studies."
"That's right, time waits for no one."
"There are so many people queuing up, can we still buy it today?"
"What's out of stock? A bookstore as big as yours is out of stock?"
Hearing this, the crowd was in an uproar.
"It's out of stock, it's really out of stock. The Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-Study Series is being printed, and it's being reprinted. It's already being reprinted.
It’s too late to sell this set anymore, so from now on we’ll sell it individually.”
If we sell them one by one, we will release one copy at a time, and you can study one copy at a time. This way, it will not delay everyone's review.
Because current typesetting still uses the more traditional thermal typesetting method, the lead type must be picked up one by one from the type frame. The process is complicated, not only time-consuming but also costly.
In order to reduce costs, lower the price.
The cost was reduced by 20% from the original large 32-mo format to a small 32-mo format.
The pricing standard was based on the lowest price for learning document books at the time, 0.08 yuan per printed page (32 pages), and a total of 11.73 yuan for the full set of 17 volumes.
Some of the smart people at the back of the line turned around and rode their bikes to a bookstore.
Some people even go straight to scrap yards to pick up bargains. Even if they find just a few of them, they will make a lot of money.
Who would have thought that the series of books that used to be gathered dust on the corner of the table would suddenly become a hot commodity and everyone would be scrambling to buy it.
Lin Xiaotong thought of the complete set of books at home and knew that she should study harder.
I rode my bicycle back to the compound. As soon as I stepped into the front yard, He Cuicui rushed over with a big belly.
"Xiaotong, the college entrance examination has really been resumed!" She slapped her thigh excitedly.
"Cui Cui, please slow down,"
Ernengzi also had a headache when he saw his fierce wife.
"Then you read the book before, and now you are making a lot of money."
Lin Xiaotong patted He Cuicui's shoulder and asked her to calm down first.
After hearing this, He Cuicui looked conflicted again and picked her fingers unconsciously.
"I'm about to give birth. Will I be able to do it when I take the exam in December?"
"Why not? You've been pregnant for so long, you won't know the result until you take the test.
Otherwise, no one will know whether you can do it or not."
The admission rate of the college entrance examination in 1977 was shockingly low. Among the 5.4 million candidates nationwide, only 273,000 were admitted to universities.
According to the Beijing General College Admissions Yearbook published by the Educational Science Press in 1992:
In 1977, a total of 158,000 people registered for the college entrance examination in Beijing, of which 9,000 were admitted, with an admission rate of less than 5.7%.
Only when you actually stand in the college entrance examination hall, can you be considered as one of the thousands of people crossing the single-plank bridge.
Otherwise, it doesn't even count as a denominator.
He Cuicui quickly rekindled her fighting spirit and clenched her fists.
"You're right. I want to be the denominator, no, the numerator."
Ernengzi felt a chill down his spine, and seriously suspected that his happy days of slacking off were coming to an end.
Lin Xiaotong could only say: Brother Nengzi, I wish you good luck.
Pushing the bicycle into the backyard, Zhang Dazui was pulling Gao Xiulan and talking nonstop.
"As soon as that rascal, the second son, heard that the college entrance exam had been reinstated, he was completely focused on tutoring his wife for the college entrance exam.
Seeing his attitude, I wish he could take the test himself."
As Gao Xiulan spoke, her eyes were still fixed on what was happening in the room.
"Why are you worrying about it? It's him who's taking the test, not you. Just let him do whatever he wants."
"Mom, where are my old textbooks? Did they get burned as firewood?"
As he was speaking, he heard shouting from the west, which continued and was clear to the ears.
"Why are you shouting? Can't you find it yourself with your eyes? Stop messing things up again."
Zhang Dazui rushed back to the west room.
"You're back! It's already this late, why hasn't your dad come back yet?"
Lin Xiaotong washed her hands and went into the room to check on Orange first.
The child stretched out his hand, wanting to touch Xiaoju's tail, but his hand was too short and he couldn't touch it at all.
Little Orange was playing like a child, with his tail pointing up and down, turning himself into a cat toy.
Orange was not annoyed. He clenched and opened his little fist. Recently, he especially liked playing with finger blossoms.
Lin Xiaotong walked over and took out a soft toy and placed it in her palm, and Chengzi grabbed it.
I slowly tightened my grip, getting harder and harder, until I heard a duck call.
The little orange's tail was immediately furious. He sat on the ground, sweeping his big tail back and forth, grinning at the yellow duck in Orange's hand.
Sesame at home is a cultured cat. She sits on her pile of papers every day.
In September, my aunt Jingqian came again and gave her a bunch of study materials, asking her to study them thoroughly.
"Xiaotong, come out for dinner."
"Here I come."
She fed Orange first and then came out.
"Old Xie, why did you come back just now?"
"The roads are completely blocked, and you can't get through. It's like the rush for New Year's goods during Chinese New Year, with a huge crowd of people."
Xie Da Jiao wiped the sweat from his forehead. His clothes were wrinkled and one of his shoes was almost squeezed off.
…
On the island.
When Xie Yi and Xiong Chuan finished their training, they heard a voice coming from the loudspeaker.
It was played three times in a row, and the sound was loud enough to be heard from the training ground to the cafeteria.
Xiongchuan was so excited that he had a running monkey on his back and was flapping his feet hard.
"Thank you Dayi, the college entrance examination has been resumed.
I want to go to college too! I want to get married!"
"Come down here now."
"It hurts, it hurts, don't poke my butt."
"Xiongchuan, you've done a great job. I'll give you three sets of papers as a reward when we get home tonight."
He hadn't finished writing the gift package of papers that Xiaotong sent him last time. Now that this news came out, he estimated that he would be buried in a pile of papers for the next two months.
Xie Yi rushed forward, and Xiong Chuan threw himself forward, almost falling into the mud, and jumped three feet away.
"How can such cruel words come out of your mouth?"
"I'll tell you later why the flowers are so red!"
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