Chapter 125 Changes
As soon as the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was conveyed, the team leader immediately stopped these educated youth from working.
A study class was also organized in the village for the educated youth and high school graduates in the village to review and study together.
All the educated youths had gone there, except for Li Ruolan, Qin Wan and the other four.
Knowing that they were not planning to take the college entrance examination, many people felt a little strange, but no one said much. After all, it was their own business.
Xu Tao and Guo Xiaoya were both preparing for the exam. They even grabbed a copy of the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series" and reviewed them together, hoping to seize this opportunity.
The educated youth at the educated youth point were not as rich as them, but they also exchanged money to buy three sets of books. Each person read one book, and then took turns after finishing reading. So many people could take turns.
On December 10, all these people entered the examination room to take the college entrance examination, hoping to get a chance to change their destiny.
At this time, Li Ruolan and the others had already returned to Beijing. They did not take the exam, so they naturally told the team leader that they would return to Beijing to celebrate the New Year.
Boss Wild Game and his gang made a lot of money from selling books this time, and gave 20,000 yuan each to Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao.
Of course, the wild game boss himself made more money. Deng Minghao talked about it with Li Ruolan in private. After everyone calculated, they estimated that the wild game boss could make at least more than 100,000 yuan from this deal.
After returning to Beijing, Liu Kunming also took the money belonging to Li Ruolan and Qin Wan, which was also 20,000 yuan.
“I didn’t dare to spread this matter, so from the beginning of printing, we did it all by ourselves, and only printed more than 5,000 copies.
Add to that the high school textbooks and other books I received from the paper mill, and I made about 60,000 yuan.”
Not only did Liu Kunming pay the money, he also took out all the account books and recorded every single amount of money sold that day in the book to prove that he did not take extra money.
Li Ruolan and Qin Wan naturally believed Liu Kunming. They only glanced at the account book and then went to ask about how Xia Zhen did in the exam.
Xia Zhen smiled and nodded: "I think it's okay. Although there are some difficult questions, I have finished them all."
"That's good. It's best to get into a local university so that you and your wife won't have to be separated." Qin Wan said.
Xia Zhen also nodded, then she frowned: "Now they just said that the college entrance examination will be resumed, but they haven't said that the educated youth can return to the city. If you don't take the college entrance examination, what should we do?"
After the college entrance examination was resumed, the educated youth began to return to their hometowns at the end of 1977 or 1978. This was only a little over ten months, so Li Ruolan and Qin Wan were not in a hurry at all.
After they came back, the next year Qingqing, Ningning and Anan were all seven years old, just in time to go back to the first grade.
"The country is now implementing new policies, the college entrance examination has been resumed, and the return of educated youth to the city should not be too far away.
Let's leave it at that for now. By the way, how is your weaving factory business going now?"
Liu Kunming said: "It's OK, but it's not as good as before."
Qin Wan nodded and said nothing.
The New Year of 1978 was undoubtedly the happiest year for people across the country. In the place where Li Ruolan and Qin Wan lived, the neighbors set off a lot of fireworks and firecrackers this year.
Qingqing and Ningning were having a crazy time with Anan and Ruikang. They were watching the fireworks and firecrackers at the door and were unwilling to come back even though their faces were frozen.
Not long after this year, Xia Zhen received her admission letter. She was admitted to Peking University and applied for the Foreign Languages Department.
Everyone was very happy for her. Liu Kunming even went to a state-owned restaurant and ordered a lot of delicious food and treated Li Ruolan, Qin Wan and others to a meal.
After the Chinese New Year at the end of February, Li Ruolan and her friends packed up their things and returned to the Victory Brigade. As soon as they got back, they heard a lot about what had happened since the resumption of the college entrance examination.
Wang Xiumei and Yang Dan were pregnant with their second child and were not busy at the time, so they came over to talk to Li Ruolan and the others.
By the way, I told you everything that happened in the Victory Brigade during this period.
Only one third of the educated youth at the educated youth point were admitted to university, and Xu Tao even won the top spot in the exam. He has already taken Guo Xiaoya away from here and returned to Beijing to go to school.
As for the others, having failed the exam this time, they are all waiting to take it again in July.
"Zhang Baoer was admitted to a school. I heard it wasn't a very good school, but at least she was admitted and became a nurse.
No one knew about this, not even Wang Changsong and his family. After Zhang Baoer left, Wang Changsong's family felt something was wrong and then they found out that Zhang Baoer had been admitted to university. "Wang Xiumei said.
"The Wang Changsong family wasn't nice to her. Zhang Baoer was able to pass the exam, which shows she worked very hard." Li Ruolan said.
Previously, in order to get a teaching job, Zhang Baoer chose to go into the woods with Wang Changsong. Later, she married into Wang Changsong's family and suffered a lot of torture.
I heard that she had miscarried two children in a row in the past few years. The first one was due to a fight, and the second one was probably because she was not well-nourished, but she miscarried when she was five or six months pregnant.
After losing two babies in succession, the Wang family heard that Zheng Hongmei had given birth to a big fat boy, so they treated her even worse.
Later, when the college entrance examination was resumed, Wang's family didn't know that she had been reviewing in private. During the two days of taking the college entrance examination, she would work for a day and then run out in the middle of the night, and only came back after the exam was over.
Later, after he received the admission letter, he went home, took the little private money he had hidden over the years, and left the Victory Brigade again under the cover of night.
Qin Wan asked, "What did Wang Changsong's family do? Did they go after them?"
Yang Dan shook her head: "Of course not. Aunt Wang said that Zhang Baoer's health is bad and she may not be able to have children in the future. So she ran away. It just so happens that if she leaves, Aunt Wang can find another wife for Wang Changsong."
Li Ruolan didn't say anything. Perhaps for Zhang Baoer and Wang Changsong, this was the best result.
"Oh, and there's Li Yingying. She also took the college entrance exam, but she didn't pass. But she doesn't seem to be leaving."
Li Yingying and Wang Baogen still have a good relationship, and now Wang Baogen's mother is getting older and older, and she will have to rely on her son and daughter-in-law in the future.
She didn't dare to bully Li Yingying and helped take care of her granddaughter and grandson every day. Li Yingying's life was getting better and better.
"In addition to this incident, there is another big thing happening in the village now. That is, your mother broke Zhao Youjun's mother's leg." Yang Dan said.
Li Ruolan was stunned for a long time before she realized that Yang Dan was talking about Li's mother breaking Zhao Youjun's mother's legs.
Li's mother had already found Li Ruoju, and asked Li Ruoju to help them find a job at the military base, and took Li's father and Li Baozong with them.
Li Ruoju hated Li Ruolan so much that she wrote countless letters to curse her over the past year. Whenever Li Ruolan received her letters, she would throw them under the pot and burn them.
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