In addition to coming to the city to check out the situation today, Yi Qingqing and the others also went to a photo studio to take registration photos, which will be needed for the college entrance examination registration in more than a week.
The photo studio was crowded with people, all of them were educated youth who had gone to the countryside. Some were only in their teens, and some were in their thirties, but everyone's face was filled with hope that the college entrance examination would change their destiny.
But the speed of taking pictures is still very fast.
A week later, they came again to get their photos and registered for the county high school.
Admission tickets are filled out on site.
The admission ticket only contains the name of the test center, test type, name, additional test subjects, number, test time, a black and white registration photo, and finally a big red stamp.
Yi Qingqing applied for science, and the examination subjects only included Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry and politics.
Foreign language is an additional elective subject. Only those who want to apply for foreign language related majors can take the test, and it is not included in the total score.
This subject was much less than what she had learned in the college entrance examination skills teaching model before, and physics and chemistry were combined into one subject, which meant that the total score of the college entrance examination was only 400 points.
It takes much less time than when she studied all subjects together before.
There was no way, because she didn't know how the first college entrance examination was divided into subjects and what categories were tested.
However, although what you learned before is not used in the exam, it can be regarded as knowledge reserve.
After registering and getting the admission ticket, there is only half a month left until the college entrance examination.
During this last period of time, they took turns copying questions from each other's wrong answer books every day and making papers for each other, and then took the exam together to get used to the feeling of the exam and review the wrong questions at the same time.
The night before the exam, several people in their study group cheered themselves up together, sharpened their pencils, checked what they needed to bring, and then went back to their rooms to sleep.
On December 10, Yi Qingqing got up at four o'clock as usual, prepared to have a good meal, and then reviewed the math formulas and political knowledge points in the skill learning mode, as these two subjects would be tested today.
But as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw that the bright tiles on the roof seemed to be turning white. She quickly sat up and shone a flashlight around. It seemed to be snow!
This year the snow started falling very early, and the temperature was much lower than in previous years. The team leader looked at the wheat seedlings in the field worriedly every day. If the temperature dropped further, the wheat seedlings would be frozen to death.
But it didn't snow this week, and the snow on the roof had been shoveled away long ago.
There is only one possibility, it’s snowing again.
Yi Qingqing quickly got up, put on her clothes, and went to open the door to look.
The snow in the alley was almost up to my calf-height, and it was still falling.
With such heavy snow, it is basically impossible to ride a bicycle to the exam. If I had known this, I would have stayed in a guesthouse in the county town in advance!
In the original book, the heroine's college entrance examination was just briefly mentioned, and it seemed that she didn't encounter any problems!
Oh, yes, she remembered that in the original book, Li Mengxue had a slightly better relationship with Liu Chunxing when she was at the educated youth center. Before the college entrance examination, she moved directly to a rented house in the county town. Whether it snowed or not was of course not a problem.
Yi Qingqing never expected that something like this would happen at this juncture.
Fortunately, there is a solution now. During the two days of the examination, the commune sent a tractor specifically to transport the educated youth.
The tractor's big wheels should be fine. She remembered the team leader saying that the tractor can move even in knee-deep snow. She was not even as tall as the team leader!
It seems that they all have to go to the commune to ride the tractor today.
If you want to go to the commune, you have to start walking at least at five o'clock and arrive at the commune before six o'clock. That means you have to get up and get busy now, after all, you still have to eat breakfast and so on. It may be too late to go to the city to buy things by then.
Yi Qingqing and her friends had originally planned to ride bicycles to the city, and the agreed wake-up time was only six o'clock.
Yi Qingqing called Li Mengxue and the others two hours in advance because she was afraid that they would not get enough rest. They would have to walk in the snow for more than 40 minutes, which would affect their condition for the exam.
Yi Qingqing thought about it, then ran to the cooked food cabinet in the thatched house and counted the radish and meat buns she had stored. There were still fifteen of them. Two should be enough for each person.
She immediately made a plan in her mind. She would call them later and have breakfast at her place so she wouldn't have to waste time cooking.
She first went to boil a large pot of hot water, and when the time was almost up, she took out the steamer containing the buns and placed it on the pot. Then she went out fully armed and knocked on the doors one by one: "Hurry up, it's snowing!"
Today is the college entrance examination, and even Li Mengxue was nervous. Although she went to bed early, she didn't sleep well. She woke up when she heard someone knocking on the door and shouting.
When they came out, they realized that their original plan to ride bicycles to the city might not work.
"It's over!" Li Mengxue's heart skipped a beat. With the help of her friends, she had regained her confidence in the college entrance examination and felt that she would not embarrass herself as a time-traveling girl. She didn't expect that she might become the first time-traveling girl who missed the college entrance examination because of snow.
She thought it was already past six o'clock.
"What are you talking about? Go wash up quickly. It's only five o'clock now. We still have time to go to the commune to catch the tractor!" Yi Qingqing pushed her back into the house.
Li Mengxue didn’t react much and only focused on three words: "It's only five o'clock."
She breathed a sigh of relief, ran back to the house, poured some hot water into the thermos, and washed up as quickly as she could in her life. She didn't even bother with any of the pretty centipede braids or fishbone braids she had for the exam, or even a comb. She just used her hands to tie a low ponytail, then hurriedly put on the exam bag she had prepared yesterday and went out.
He urged others, "Hurry up, hurry up, go to the commune and ride the tractor!"
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At this time, the old educated youth also finished their breakfast one after another and prepared to go to the commune.
Li Mengxue had an empty stomach and regretted a thousand times why she didn't invite her friends to stay in her small rented house for two days.
At this time, Yi Qingqing also poked her head out of the house with her bag and called out to them, "Hurry up, come and get the buns!"
While they were washing up, Yi Qingqing wrapped the buns with oil paper.
Including her own, there were a total of seven heavy, warm oil-paper packages. When they came over, each of them stuffed one into their hands.
Li Mengxue and her friends, who had thought they would go hungry today, felt as warm in their hearts as the oil-paper bag.
"Qingqing, I love you so much!" Li Mengxue was so moved that she almost cried.
Her heart was about to jump out of her chest, but she was calmed down by Yi Qingqing's oil-paper bag.
Qian Lailai and Wang Lingling gave Yi Qingqing a hug and said, "It's a relief to have you, Qingqing."
Even Chen Zhihe and Xie Shiyan, who benefited from this, felt relieved. It turns out that having a girlfriend has such benefits.
Yun Guyuan was filled with pride.
"We have to start making these buns early, Qingqing, did you sleep well last night?" Qian Lailai was a little worried.
Yi Qingqing had already thought of an excuse: "I went to bed too early last night, and I couldn't fall asleep very early today. I opened my eyes and saw that there seemed to be snow on the bright tiles. I woke up because I thought I woke up. You guys should sleep a little longer before making buns. I know you are very touched, haha, but we are short of time, so let's go first!"
With a hot meat bun in my arms, I didn’t feel uncomfortable even if I had to travel in the snow.
The seven people trudged through the snow while eating buns. The delicious buns soothed the panic in their hearts.
By the time we arrived at the commune, everyone's stomach was full.
Today, educated youth from several brigades under the commune have arrived, and all of the commune's tractors have been deployed today.
It was still daybreak.
From a distance, Yi Qingqing spotted the fluorescent logos suspended above several tractors.
[Found the Daxing Commune tractor sign-in site, do you want to spend 2 sign-in points to sign in? 】
[Found the Daxing Commune tractor sign-in site, do you want to spend 3 sign-in points to sign in? 】
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Yi Qingqing: "..."
After all, this was her first time riding a tractor after so many years in the countryside. It turned out that there was a sign-in area on it? And there was one on every tractor.
It looks like a skill. Is it a tractor driving skill?
Yi Qingqing ignored these check-in locations as she had no interest in driving a tractor.
At this time, the seats of the tractors were not yet full. There were several brigades under the Daxing Commune, and there were more than a dozen educated youth in the Xiangshui Village Brigade alone. Judging from the situation, some people should not have arrived yet.
From this point of view, they came here on a whim and actually arrived early.
In fact, the Xiangshui Village Brigade is relatively close to the commune. There are even more remote brigades that take several hours to get here, and you may have to set off in the middle of the night.
They climbed onto the bed of a tractor and sat on the seats on both sides.
The four girls huddled together to keep each other warm, while the three boys sat together opposite them. Not long after, the educated youths came one after another, and some of them were sweating in the cold wind.
When the time came, the tractor rumbled off.
Yi Qingqing once again experienced the feeling of being on a crowded bus, swaying and ups and downs, but this time it was open-air and she didn't feel stuffy at all. Everyone was crowded in the bed and felt warm instead, but her face was hurt by the cold wind.
The sudden heavy snowfall did not extinguish the enthusiasm of the educated youths to sweat in the examination hall!
The hard life as educated youth did indeed train them, making them more aware of how hard opportunities are to come by and helping them develop a tenacious body.
Of course, there are exceptions.
For example, Comrade Lu Xianjin.
We walked for more than half an hour in the heavy snow, and were squeezed and bumpy all the way. When I got off the car, my face was slightly red, which was a little abnormal.
However, his eyes were determined. His desire to escape from the countryside and become a decent man overcame everything. He would never let go of such an opportunity. Even if he felt weak, he would insist on taking the exam.
After entering the examination room, everyone was led into different classrooms according to their majors and numbers.
Li Mengxue, Qian Lailai, Wang Lingling and Xie Shiyan all applied for liberal arts, while Yi Qingqing, Yun Guyuan and Chen Zhihe applied for science.
Before parting, several people gathered together to encourage each other.
Then they walked into different classrooms.
When I stepped into the classroom, a message popped up in Yi Qingqing's sign-in system.
[I have entered the examination room. The college entrance examination skills teaching mode is temporarily closed. I wish the host success in the exam! ]
Yi Qingqing glanced at it and secretly complained, who are they guarding against? This system is quite principled. Is it afraid that she will cheat?
She has already pushed her college entrance examination skills to the maximum, so why does she still need to cheat?
The exam began and everyone received a test paper, a piece of blank paper.
The examiner emphasized that there is no need to copy questions when answering mathematics questions. You only need to write the question number. The white paper is the answer sheet, and you can make a draft on the blank space of the test paper.
In this day and age, not only are there no answer sheets with divided answer areas, but even draft paper has to be used sparingly.
But everyone is used to it. When doing questions normally, no one will use blank paper to make drafts. They will all make drafts on the blank spaces of waste paper that have been written on, and they will only use pencils. After finishing the draft, they will erase it and use it again next time.
In order to save space, everyone's drafts were typed small and neatly.
Yi Qingqing took the test paper and took a look at it first. The font of the questions on the test paper looked like it was handwritten, not printed.
However, the test paper is printed, so the original test paper may be handwritten by the person who set the test.
The font is very neat, without a trace of sloppiness, and looks better than printed.
There were no multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions, and the number of questions was much less than in later generations. There were only ten compulsory questions in total. Yi Qingqing took a quick look and felt that they were not difficult. One of the plane geometry questions and one of the solid geometry questions were original questions from the "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Series", and she felt obviously very familiar with them.
At the end of the test paper, there are two reference questions worth 40 points, which are called additional questions in later generations. The note on the test paper is "The reference questions are for examining the candidates' self-study situation. The scores are given separately and are not included in the overall grade of this course."
The difficulty of these two questions is indeed higher, but Yi Qingqing also feels very familiar with them. They are the original questions in the college entrance examination prediction paper that came in the New Year gift package, with some slight modifications.
After receiving such a test paper, Yi Qingqing's previous confidence was put into practice. She calmed herself down before starting to do the questions.
Solving math problems requires not only intelligence but also calmness. It is the most challenging part of one’s mentality. If one’s mentality is unstable, you may be able to solve every problem, but you will make mistakes in the calculations for every problem, and the final score will not be as good as you expected.
So even if it seems simple, you can't relax or underestimate it.
Yi Qingqing did the ten required questions very smoothly. After so much hard work, she found the direction of the questions as soon as she saw them and got the answers smoothly.
The hard pen calligraphy she had practiced for a long time also showed its prowess on the test paper. There was not a single trace of erasure and it was very neat and beautiful.
After finishing the required questions, she still had plenty of time, so she stopped to check the ten required questions twice before starting to do the reference questions at the end.
After all, reference questions are not included in the total score, so you have to make sure you get the scores for the previous questions before doing the reference questions.
After finishing the reference questions, she checked them again roughly, and the exam time was up.
The time was just right, and the paper was handed in with a neat and clean surface and beautiful handwriting, which made people feel good at first sight.
Yi Qingqing thought she had done a perfect job and was full of confidence.