“The college entrance examination has really been restored!”
Jiang Dahai excitedly asked his brother-in-law who was sitting in the main room sipping herbal tea. Other people in the room also looked at him with burning eyes.
"It's been published in the newspapers, and the whole county is in an uproar. All high school graduates born after September 1, 1946, can apply for the exam." Meng Pingchuan also had a smile on his face.
His eldest son has never liked studying machinery since he was old enough to understand. If he were to inherit his position, it would probably make him more uncomfortable than killing the boy.
These days, being a soldier is the most glorious thing. Meng Pingchuan wanted to send his son to join the army, but it was difficult and dangerous to earn military merits these days. Although Meng Pingchuan had another son, he still treasured his eldest son Meng Xiangxue very much.
There is more than one way to join the army. Once you graduate from a military academy, you will immediately become a junior officer. However, in the years when the college entrance examination was cancelled, most of the positions for military academy students were reserved by the army. Occasionally, there were one or two places allocated to Yuchuan County, and the top two leaders of the county were fighting for them. Meng Pingchuan did not have the ability to compete with those people for the quota.
Now that the college entrance examination is open, my son has more opportunities.
"It seems that someone told you the good news before me, hahaha." After a burst of hearty laughter, two gray-haired but energetic old gentlemen walked in.
"Uncle Ruan, Uncle Bai."
"Grandpa Ruan, Grandpa Bai."
Several people in the room shouted in unison.
"You all know about the college entrance examination, right? Erni, Sanni, Sini, and Xiaobao, you can all go and try."
Because of the Cultural Revolution, almost all teachers in the county's junior and senior high schools were criticized and frightened in recent years. In school, they dared not really teach students knowledge. In addition to the basic worker-peasant-soldier course, the daily curriculum was the interpretation of the Chairman's quotations. In terms of managing students, they were submissive and did not even dare to speak.
In this situation, how could they learn knowledge well? Therefore, the Jiang siblings had to receive instruction from Ruan Yuanjiang every day when they returned home. This was also what Jiang Yiluo requested privately to Ruan Yuanjiang. He knew that the college entrance examination would be resumed in 1977, and in that era, a college student's diploma was a golden sign.
"Aren't Xiaobao and Sini too young?"
Jiang Dahai was excited and nervous. He had one technical secondary school student, two high school students, and two junior high school students. Almost no other family in the village had children as promising as his. Now that the college entrance examination had been resumed, his children would have some qualifications to take the exam. If one of them could get into college, it would be a great honor for the family.
Jiang Dahai rubbed his hands, indescribably excited.
Ruan Yuanjiang shook his head after hearing what Jiang Dahai said: "The regulations from above only have an upper age limit, not a lower age limit. Xiaobao's grades are not worse than Erni and the others. I have also taught him what he should learn in high school. Let him give it a try this year. If he fails, he can also use it as a way to accumulate experience."
"There are still two months before the exam. During this time, the children should not go to school. I asked my students to send a few sets of Haicheng papers to give the children some intensive tutoring."
After hearing Ruan Yuanjiang's words, Meng Pingchuan's eyes lit up.
Mr. Ruan is a university professor. With him teaching, his son's chances of getting into the military academy will be much greater. Besides, Haicheng is a big city second only to the capital. The papers sent from there cannot be bought even with money. But even though he thought about it, he didn't know how to start the conversation.
"Grandpa Ruan, cousin Xiangxue is also of college entrance examination age. It doesn't matter if we herd one sheep or a flock of sheep. There are probably many children of our age in the village. Why don't you just open a class in the brigade and teach them together?"
Jiang Yilu was confident that his sisters could get into university. Over the years, he had been keeping a close eye on their studies, just waiting for this day. If nothing unexpected happened, his second and third sisters would be able to pass, but his fourth sister would be in danger. In this way, if the Jiang family had several college students at once, it would be a bit conspicuous. If there were a few more in the village, firstly, their family would not be too conspicuous, and secondly, it would also be good for Grandpa Ruan.
Gu Dongmei, who was originally excited when she heard that several children were going to take the college entrance examination, became a little unhappy. If Uncle Ruan taught more people, would he still be able to take care of his own children wholeheartedly? This was a bad idea from her son.
But after being educated by her mother Zhao Hong, Gu Dongmei no longer showed her little thoughts so much. Even if she felt a little dissatisfied in her heart, she dared not show it.
Ruan Yuanjiang thought about it. Now that the Gang of Four has fallen and politics has gradually returned to normal, those old leaders and scholars who were wronged in the past are being applied for rehabilitation. The old leader has already sent news to Ruan Yuanjiang, and it seems that the higher-ups have already begun investigating him.
"Okay, I'll discuss this matter with Captain Meng later. If Pingchuan trusts me, you can also send Xiangxue over."
Ruan's promise to help Xinjiang made Meng Pingchuan happy: "Okay, okay, how can I not trust Mr. Ruan's level? Besides, Xiang Bing also misses his cousin, so it's just right to bring the two brothers over to stay for a few days."
The Xiang Bing that Meng Pingchuan mentioned was the child that Jiang Xiaogu was pregnant with back then. She failed to give birth to a sweet and soft little girl as she wished, but instead gave birth to a son who had been naughty and mischievous since he learned to walk. He was named Meng Xiangbing.
Except for Jiang Dazhen who was a little disappointed, the old couple of the Meng family and Meng Pingchuan were very happy. Nowadays, most people still prefer sons. Meng Pingchuan is the only son of the Meng family, and Meng Xiangxue is also the only grandson of the Meng family. Now Jiang Dazhen has added another boy to the Meng family. The old man and the old woman walk with the wind.
With another grandson, Meng Xiangwen, the increasingly unpopular man who had attempted to kill his half-brother, suddenly seemed less important.
Meng Dachang and Qu Ying hardened their hearts and decided not to tolerate their granddaughter anymore and to teach her a lesson.
The reason why Meng Xiangwen acted so evil was because of the Meng family's house, the house that Meng Dachang mentioned was given to her as a dowry. Although she wanted her uncle and aunt to move out, her aunt's words reminded her that the Meng family now had a brand new small building and a small second floor with private property rights. With so many rooms, they only gave her a small second room of about 30 to 40 square meters. This was simply extreme favoritism.
At the instigation of his aunt's clerk, Meng Xiangwen went to the Meng family.
After being harshly rejected by Old Lady Qu and finding out that Jiang Dazhen was pregnant again, the frustrated Meng Xiangwen pointed all the blame at Jiang Dazhen, thinking that it was she and the little bastard she gave birth to who had robbed her of her share of the property. If Jiang Dazhen gave birth to another child, what else would she get from the Meng family?
Meng Xiangwen was also possessed, and he wanted to get rid of the baby in Jiang Dazhen's belly. After pushing Jiang Dazhen down the stairs, Meng Xiangwen was so scared that he fled back to the Wen family and locked himself in the house, fearing that if the baby in Jiang Dazhen's belly was really lost, her grandparents and father would cause trouble for her.
Meng Dachang and Qu Ying were completely disappointed with their granddaughter, but a granddaughter was still a granddaughter after all. They were still unwilling to send their granddaughter to the Public Security Bureau. They just cut off all financial support to Meng Xiangwen and returned the house originally given to Meng Xiangwen to the machinery factory.
In addition to the Meng family's old house, the building that the Meng family lives in now, including the small two-room apartment occupied by the Wen family, are all shared collective housing. This type of house does not belong to an individual. The people who are allocated the house only have the right to live in it, but not the right to buy, sell or rent it.
Different from the welfare housing that was built in large quantities in the late 1970s and allocated to employees, which was almost considered as small-property housing, there was a term called "vacation" at that time, which meant that when the state needed to reclaim housing, you had to give up the house. The house that Meng Xiangwen's uncle's family lived in now was originally allocated by the machinery factory to Meng Pingchuan and Wenqin, a working couple in the factory. However, after Wenqin died, Meng Pingchuan moved to his parents' house, so the house was rented to the Wen family.
According to common sense, the house should have been taken back by the factory immediately, but due to the prestige of Meng Dachang and Meng Pingchuan in the machinery factory, no one mentioned the matter from beginning to end.
Nowadays, almost every household in the city is overcrowded. Some old employees of the machinery factory have long been dissatisfied with the fact that the Wen family has only two formal workers but occupies two small two-room apartments. When Meng Pingchuan proposed to return the house to the factory to help the workers who really need help, everyone realized that the Meng and Wen families had a falling out, and the house that the Wen family had been occupying should be given to those who really needed it.
After all the chaos, the Wen family naturally could not keep the house they had occupied, so Meng Xiangwen's uncle and his family moved back to his old father's house across the street. Eight people including Meng Xiangwen were squeezed into a room of less than 40 square meters, and their life was cramped and embarrassing.
As the culprit, Meng Xiangwen was immediately hated by her uncle's family. Her life became increasingly difficult. Unfortunately, she had exhausted the Meng family's patience. No matter how pitiful she pretended to be and begged for forgiveness, she could not regain their forgiveness.
As far as Jiang Yiliu knew, although she and Rong Jing were still dating, they had never mentioned marriage, and she didn't know whose problem was between them.
Of course, Meng Xiangwen’s affairs have nothing to do with him. Even if Rong Jing is really a scumbag, so what? It is the path that Meng Xiangwen chose himself.
Grandpa Bai is right. To deal with violence, we should not use violent means. But how can we repay evil with kindness?
However, fortunately, I listened to Grandpa Bai and asked my eldest sister about her own choice. Now it seems that my eldest sister's choice was correct, and she lives an exceptionally happy life.
Jiang Dani chose a technical secondary school after finishing junior high school. She liked reading, but had no talent for it. She relied on hard work to get by. Now she has something she likes more than studying, which is embroidery. Naturally, the time she spends on studying has decreased.
Although Jiang Yilu was a little disappointed, he still respected his eldest sister's choice. Now his eldest sister has entered a textile factory under the arrangement of his younger aunt. She deals with fabrics and needles every day and is much happier.
In the second year after being admitted to technical secondary school, the eldest sister married Xiang Qianjin. Jiang Yilu thought of her eldest sister's newly born niece, a child who looked very much like Meilin, and a warm feeling flowed through her heart.
"I came here today to talk about something. The day after tomorrow, I will leave here."
After discussing the college entrance examination, Bai Fangqiu suddenly spoke.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
