Chapter 23 Business
Back home, Ye Ran gulped down a large glass of water, touched her still-pounding heart, and took a deep breath. But her mind kept replaying every word Lu Yi had said. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she slapped her face, "This is... unbearable..."
With a thousand thoughts swirling in her mind that she couldn't stop, Ye Ran had no choice but to do something else to distract herself.
She took out a notebook and began to make plans for her future. First of all, she had already decided on the university. It was already the end of July, and soon she would start considering the topic of selecting knowledgeable talents again.
Unlike previous years, this year's college entrance examination was held not in the summer, but in December, with more than 5.7 million people taking the exam. However, given the school's resources at the time, fewer than 300,000 were admitted.
For most people, the "Gaokao" (National College Entrance Examination) is synonymous with "anxiety" during their youth. But at this time, the Gaokao is the only opportunity for millions of Chinese people to break through age, marital status, and family background restrictions and reverse their fate!
However, due to the rapid change in the situation, people were not given much time to prepare. They only received the definite news about the college entrance examination a little over a month ago. Many people had not even found any review materials. At that time, the middle school textbooks were called "Industrial Basics" and "Agricultural Basics," which were different from the college entrance examination materials.
Among the young intellectuals preparing for the exams, some had a good foundation, some had a poor one, and many had not even attended high school, let alone junior high school, and had wasted so many years of their lives.
Therefore, the emergence of a set of "Self-Study Series on Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry" brought confidence and hope to educated youth eager to enter university. To obtain this series as soon as possible, entire families lined up overnight outside Xinhua Bookstore in a spectacular display, and the printing plant worked day and night to produce more, but the demand still exceeded supply. It was precisely because of this series that many people's lives were changed.
Thinking of this, Ye Ran recalled her previous life. In that life, she had already married Xu Qingyan. When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came, Xu Qingyan was also restless. However, no matter how many connections he pulled, he could not find a single copy of the exam preparation book.
In the end, Grandma Ran, having heard the news, sent Ye Ran a book from afar, encouraging her to get into a university in Beijing and to meet her again there.
However, at that time, she had been coaxed by Xu Qingyan to give up the college entrance examination. After receiving the book, she directly gave it to Xu Qingyan. It was because of this that Xu Qingyan became one of the few college students in the surrounding villages.
Many other educated youths and classmates who were more diligent and intelligent than him failed the exam because they couldn't find study materials.
Although Ye Ran gave up the college entrance examination, she could never let go of her thoughts. Countless times at night, she would silently get up and greedily absorb every knowledge point in the self-study books on mathematics, physics and chemistry by moonlight.
Even after Xu Qingyan passed the exam and left Liuye Village, abandoning this book that he no longer needed, she did not give it up. For many years afterward, no matter where she and her daughter wandered, she would often take it out and carefully read it.
Therefore, it can be said that if Ye Ran is given enough time, she can memorize the entire book from beginning to end without making a single mistake, not even a single sentence or symbol.
With this in mind, Ye Ran had a plan. Since the college entrance examination review materials in her previous life were in short supply, and many people didn't even know where to find them, thus missing the opportunity to take the exam this time, why didn't she just write the books down from memory, find someone to collaborate with, photocopy them into booklets, and then sell them to those who needed them?
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