"What are you yelling for? Our Xinyu just fell asleep, and you're waking him up again."
Zhang Shuzhen was preparing to start a fire and cook in the outer kitchen when she didn't quite hear what Sheng Xiping was shouting, but she could tell that the noise was quite loud.
Seeing her son come in, she ignored everything else and started scolding him first.
Sheng Xiping was scolded, but he just shrugged and chuckled.
"Mom, our second son and Qinglan have both been accepted into university." This time, Sheng Xiping lowered his voice and said softly.
"What? Both of them got accepted?" This time, it was Zhang Shuzhen's turn to lose her voice.
"Really? Who told you that?" Zhang Shuzhen was so excited that she held a fire poker in her hand and was so happy that she wanted to jump around three times on the spot.
"Mom, don't get excited, don't get excited, keep your voice down."
Uncle Wang just told me that the Education Department of the Bureau called and asked Qinglan and Lao Er to go to the Bureau to pick up their admission notices as soon as possible.
Upon seeing his mother's excited expression, Sheng Xiping was immediately delighted and quickly reached out to help her sit down.
The mother and daughter were making quite a racket, one in front and one behind, yet Zhou Qinglan in the west room couldn't hear a thing?
Just as the child fell asleep, Zhou Qinglan tiptoed out of the west room and asked the two of them.
"Mom, Xiping, what are you two doing? I heard Xiping shout something, but I didn't hear clearly."
When Sheng Xiping saw Zhou Qinglan come out, he went over and hugged his wife tightly. "Wife, you got into university, Northeast Normal University."
Zhou Qinglan blushed deeply after being hugged by Sheng Xiping, and didn't even notice what he said.
"Let go of me! Mom's still here, what are you doing?"
It's not appropriate for a couple to hug each other in front of the mother-in-law.
Sheng Xiping realized he had lost his composure and quickly let go of Zhou Qinglan.
"Honey, as I just said, you've been accepted by Northeast Normal University. The Education Bureau wants you to go to the bureau to pick up your admission notice as soon as possible."
Sheng Xiping immediately realized that his wife hadn't been listening carefully, so he repeated it.
"What? Northeast Normal University? I got into Northeast Normal University?" Zhou Qinglan exclaimed in surprise, then quickly covered her mouth.
But her eyes were filled with surprise and excitement, and for a moment, she even felt like crying.
"Really? You're not lying to me?" Her voice was trembling with tears.
"See, why would I lie to you? Uncle Wang just told me that he went up the mountain and the second son got into Harbin Institute of Technology." Sheng Xiping laughed.
The Sheng family has produced two college graduates, both from top universities. This is truly a source of pride and honor for the family.
"The second child got into Harbin Institute of Technology? That's not right, those weren't the universities we applied to." Zhou Qinglan came to her senses and realized something was wrong.
"Xiping, you must be mistaken. We wouldn't even dare to dream of attending this school, we didn't even apply, how could we possibly have been accepted?"
Zhou Qinglan shook her head, thinking it was unlikely.
"Wait, what are you two talking about? I can't understand a word you're saying! What do you mean it's impossible?"
Over there, Zhang Shuzhen listened to her son and daughter-in-law talking, completely bewildered.
She understood every single word they said, but when they put their voices together, she couldn't understand them at all.
"Mom, it's me and my second son. Neither of us applied to the school that accepted us. That school is a really good undergraduate university. We were afraid our grades weren't good enough, so neither of us dared to apply."
But now we've received news that we've both been accepted by such a good university, which feels really strange. Could there be a mistake?
Zhou Qinglan quickly explained to her mother-in-law.
"What's so strange about that? Didn't they tell you to go pick up the notification letter? You'll find out what's going on when you get to the bureau."
Who cares about undergraduate or not, as long as we can go to university.
Zhang Shuzhen didn't understand, but she understood one thing: as long as she got the admission notice, that was all that mattered; worrying about anything else was pointless.
One sentence reminded the young couple: Yes, why think so much?
University admissions are no joke; if a school admits someone, it must mean their score is high enough.
Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan were unaware that this year's college admissions process included a provision in relevant documents that "priority would be given to key universities during the admissions process."
Therefore, during the admission process, priority is given to key schools and then to general schools. Key schools can submit the materials of first and second choice candidates among high-scoring candidates to relevant institutions for selection.
If these institutions still have vacancies, they can fill them by transferring applicants from similar institutions, selecting the best candidates to ensure the quality of admissions to key universities.
Since it was the first year of application, there were no preliminary tests or mock exams beforehand, so most candidates were unsure of themselves and dared not apply to schools that were too competitive.
This has resulted in many top universities not being able to admit enough students, so they choose the ones with the highest scores from among the applicants for similar universities.
Therefore, in the 1977 college entrance examination, there was a special situation where some candidates were admitted to key universities that were higher than the universities they applied to as their first choice.
Because Sheng Xi'an applied to industrial colleges, and his score was high, he was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology.
Zhou Qinglan applied to a teacher training college, so she was admitted to Northeast Normal University.
Just like Zhang Shuzhen said, it doesn't matter which school it is, as long as you can get in.
Not to mention, this is a better key school than the one I applied to before.
So Zhou Qinglan stopped worrying about those things and instead discussed with Sheng Xiping how to get the notification letter from the bureau.
The little train just left this morning; the next one won't be until the day after tomorrow.
"Let's wait a bit. I estimate that the second brother will be back tonight. I'll talk to Uncle Wang tonight and see if he can arrange for a motorcycle to be sent down."
"If that doesn't work, we can take a cart carrying timber; we'll get down somewhere anyway," Sheng Xiping said after thinking for a moment.
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