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At the end of the year, good news comes one after another. The college entrance examination admission notices are also delivered to the homes of every candidate who has been admitted to university one after another at this time. However, the postal system is not good at this time. Generally, the notices are delivered to the provincial capital first, then to the cities and counties, and then to the commune teams.
Many notification letters were delivered very casually. Team leaders simply handed them to the candidates' relatives and asked them to take them back. They also often asked others to bring them back on weekdays. But at this moment, it is easy for people to have bad intentions.
There are countless people who go to college under false identities. Many of them were cheated by their relatives. Instead of receiving their admission letters, their cousins took them to college.
There were also many educated youth who got married in the countryside. After they were admitted to university, their admission letters were hidden and torn up by their mother-in-law or father-in-law or their parents-in-law. They missed the chance to go to university and stayed in the village for the rest of their lives.
Bai Qiuling was admitted to Shanzhong University, but the admission letter almost didn't reach her because it was secretly hidden by her mother-in-law. It was not until Bai Qiuling took the initiative to call and inquire that she found out that the admission letter had been delivered but disappeared.
"She's already married and has children. Why should she go to college? It's so frustrating..." Old Mrs. Ge was very anxious. She didn't want her daughter-in-law to go to college and destroy the relationship between husband and wife.
Before Bai Qiuling came with the army, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stayed in the village with their children. Old Lady Ge always looked down on Bai Qiuling, thinking that her son was an officer and Bai Qiuling was not worthy of him...
Now, after so many years, Bai Qiuling came to the island with the army, has a job, and is a good person. The couple has a son and a daughter, so Old Mrs. Ge accepted this daughter-in-law, and the family lives in peace. Now their biggest goal is to "train grandchildren" and hope that they will become successful.
Who would have thought that after she failed in her attempt to get her granddaughter to become an apprentice, her daughter-in-law would get into trouble again and insist on taking the college entrance examination.
Old Lady Ge did not stop Bai Qiuling from taking the exam, thinking that she would definitely fail. But she was admitted. I heard that it was a pretty good university in a big city. Old Lady Ge had been to Guangzhou. It was a very prosperous place with many tall buildings and many things left behind by foreigners. It was very fresh and dazzled.
Old Mrs. Ge couldn't sleep well at the thought of letting her daughter-in-law go to study in Yangcheng. It was a fashionable place. What if Bai Qiuling studied in college for four years and got used to the life in the big city, and became like those educated youths who abandoned their husbands and children, abandoning her husband and children and finding a young man to marry in the big city - wouldn't her son become a joke then?
Although Old Lady Ge always felt that Bai Qiuling was not worthy of her son Jiang Dinghai, she would be sick to death if Bai Qiuling really abandoned her husband and son and ran off with another man.
When people get old, they don't like change. Old Mrs. Ge just wanted to live an ordinary life, so she hid her daughter-in-law's admission letter. She was still careful and didn't tear it up.
However, it was precisely because of this incident that the Jiang family made a big fuss, attracting people from the entire yard to watch.
Bai Qiuling said firmly: "I must go to college, no one can stop me."
"You are already so old, why do you want to go to college? Is college useful? Don't you want a family? You don't want your children either."
"I went to college to set an example for my children, to teach them how to go to a good university and become the pillars of the country..."
Bai Qiuling and Old Lady Ge, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, started arguing at the door. Many people came to watch. Qin Yao and Gu Cheng were also among the onlookers. They had been packing up these days. Although they were not moving, their things could still be placed here. All kinds of furniture had to be covered with a dust cover to avoid being covered in dust when they came back next time.
Gu Cheng held a handful of melon seeds in his hand and whispered to Qin Yao, "Is the compound usually quite lively?"
Once people have free time, they tend to get bored easily. Now Gu Cheng is extremely bored, but he is not like those retired old leaders who stay at home looking for things to do. He wants to get involved in everything and see something new.
Just like a cat, very curious and a little surprised by things they see.
In fact, everyone in the army is the same. After staying in its small world for too long, they become slow to respond to changes in the outside world, and their thinking is also different from that of ordinary people.
To use Qin Yao's words, her husband is full of "experienced stupidity".
The officers in the army are very experienced in dealing with people. It can be said that each of them is an expert in interpersonal relationships. They are more familiar with the twists and turns between leaders and superiors, but they seem silly in other external interpersonal relationships.
Even when he went out to eat melons, he didn't even bring a handful of melon seeds with him, and he even asked Qin Yao why she brought the melon seeds.
It's just eating melons, why so many whys, you idiot.
He is obviously a man in his late 30s, but when he takes off his military uniform, he exudes a sense of stupidity. That's probably why I misunderstood him when we first met. He is like a prisoner who has been released after serving his sentence and knows nothing about the outside world.
Qin Yao: “…”
She turned her head and hid behind the crowd with Gu Cheng, whispering: "There isn't so much excitement on weekdays. Most of the time, there are cases of beating children. Things like this are not common. Think about it, the college entrance examination has been resumed for a few times? This is the first college entrance examination in ten years. Who would have thought that Bai Qiuling could be admitted to university--" Except me!
To Qin Yao, this melon was not new and there was nothing interesting about it. She mainly brought Gu Cheng to see the fun. He was now like a retired old cadre, having left his position and unloaded the burden. He had nothing to do all day but was full of curiosity.
When he was so bored that he started studying the ants in the corner, Qin Yao felt that she could not leave him alone like this any longer. If he was idle for too long, his brain would really have problems. She was afraid that he would think about things nonsense all day long.
Comrade Xiao Qin sighed inwardly, thinking that she was now like a mother of three children, feeling melancholy.
Look, there’s some excitement outside, so I quickly brought Gu Cheng out to see and let him absorb some of the “popularity”.
Officers like them lack "popularity" and the ability to perceive and understand the lives of ordinary people.
When she succeeds in running a lifestyle magazine in the future, she will definitely tell this guy to read it more often, understand the lifestyle trends of the new era, grasp the changes of the times, and not act like a released prisoner who knows nothing when he goes out.
"My wife Yaoyao will be able to get into university too." Gu Cheng was very good at flattering others and only said nice things. He was actually not very keen on watching the fun and preferred to study his wife's life at home.
Neither of the couple knew how to crack the melon seeds with their mouths, for fear of breaking their teeth. Gu Cheng always peeled the seeds with his hands and fed them to Qin Yao.
Qin Yao grabbed his hand. She wanted to peel the seeds herself. She always felt that the seeds peeled by others did not taste the same as the ones peeled by others. They felt strange and gave her no sense of accomplishment.
What can I do? Just let him peel it and pamper him.
Qin Yao ate melon seeds and teased him deliberately: "If I go to a university far away, would you be willing to let me go? I'm afraid you will also hide my admission letter."
"No." Gu Cheng peeled another melon seed, and this time put it into his own mouth, expressing his dissatisfaction with his wife's words in another way.
"You can't bear to leave me." Gu Cheng stuffed a handful of melon seeds into Qin Yao's hands and signaled her with his eyes to peel them for him to eat. "My wife can't bear to leave me so far away."
"Yaoyao, think about it. Your husband is in his prime, but you don't stay by his side and admire his young and handsome face. After four years of waiting, he will be old. Aren't you losing out?"
"How many four years can a man have?"
Qin Yao suppressed a laugh: "...Yeah, you're right."
As the two were talking, the Jiang family had already reached an agreement. Bai Qiuling was still going to college, but she was not going alone. Instead, Old Lady Ge would bring her grandchildren to "accompany her".
What this means is that Bai Qiuling took her mother-in-law and her son and daughter to college, and found a house for her mother-in-law near the university, which was exactly what she wanted.
The only injured person was Comrade Jiang Dinghai, who had not yet returned home. After he returned home, he realized that his family had been destroyed and his wife, children and even his biological mother were all planning to abandon him.
His wife, children and mother are all gone, why is he still living in a family compound? He might as well live in a single dormitory.
It's really miserable.
Now it was Jiang Dinghai's turn to make a scene at home. When he returned home, he asked incredulously, "You all left, and I'm the only one left?"
Jiang Dinghai originally supported his wife Bai Qiuling to take the college entrance examination. He did not think too much about it. Regardless of whether Bai Qiuling could pass the exam, it would be a benefit if she could pass the exam and get a diploma. Having a college student wife would make people envious. Although studying in college takes a longer time, it is only three to five years, and it will be over in a blink of an eye.
They have been married for more than ten years and have a son and a daughter. Could it be that he is still afraid that his wife will run away? Impossible, this is simply impossible...but is it really impossible? When she goes to college and meets more outstanding men, there is no guarantee that she won't have other crooked thoughts.
So his biological mother, Old Lady Ge, stepped in. She, as a mother-in-law, brought her grandchildren to accompany her daughter-in-law to study!
Old Mrs. Ge was quite happy and satisfied with the ending: "I will go to the city to find a wife for you. You just work hard in the army and focus on your work. I will take care of your wife and children for you."
Although Mrs. Ge is old, she is also curious about life in big cities and what a university looks like. If she follows her daughter-in-law, at least she can broaden her horizons.
Before she joined the army, Old Lady Ge lived with her daughter-in-law, grandchildren and granddaughters. Now that they are separated, it is just a matter of returning to the previous situation, which is nothing at all.
"Mom, mom, this isn't a question of whether to watch or not... Here, you're all gone? Am I the only one left here?"
Old Lady Ge: "What's wrong with one? One is just right for you to focus on your work without any worries."
"I think your wife is right. The child is still young, so it would be nice for him to go there and broaden his horizons..."
Jiang Dinghai was going crazy. What was going to happen now? His wife went to college and he became a lonely man on the island!
*
Things at the Jiang family were not over yet when Qin Yao's biological mother called and said that her fourth brother had been admitted to the Capital Agricultural University, majoring in animal science.
"There was a list of names on the notice before, but your father and brother were worried. They were afraid there would be duplicates and that their happiness would be in vain, so they didn't dare to mention it to outsiders. Don't you think they were stupid? How could there be so many duplicates? Now it's good. The admission letter has arrived, and everyone in our college knows about it. You really made the exam!"
"Yaoyao, there's a college student in our family!"
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