Chapter 22

Boom!

Xu Wen's mind went blank, but his heartbeat was somewhat out of control.

My emotions were a little confused for a moment, with fear, tension, and excitement all mixed together.

It was a hot day, but Xu Wen felt cold and had goosebumps all over his body.

Xu Wen used all his self-control to calm himself down, or at least to keep himself calm on the surface.

She dug her nails into her palms to stop her body from shaking, and asked Wen Yiming calmly, "What do you mean? I don't understand what you are saying. And when did I say I knew the college entrance examination would be in two months? Don't spit blood on me! If this gets out, I will be held accountable."

However, there are several problems in my mind.

Who is Wen Yiming?

Why did he know about the college entrance examination?

Did he also wear it?

Even if he was, how did he know that he was also transported here?

What is the connection between her and him?

As for the college entrance examination, wasn’t it restored in 1978?

Two months later it was October 1977. Did she remember history wrongly?

Or is it that the present era is not at all the era she knows, but is just similar?

A series of questions became a knot in Xu Wen's mind, which was difficult to untie.

"This is not the place to talk." The road was full of students coming and going. Wen Yiming pointed to the playground and said, "Let's talk there."

Xu Wen bit his lower lip, nodded, and followed him.

Wen Yiming chose a dark place under the lights and stood still.

Xu Wen discovered that Wen Yiming seemed to particularly like hiding in places where he could see others but others could not see him.

It was like this when I first met him, it was like this when we had dinner in the hotel, it was like this on Xiaoliu Street, and it is still like this now.

"Xu Wen, have you completely forgotten me?" Wen Yiming spoke first.

Xu asked: “???”

She squinted in the dim light and looked at Wen Yiming carefully.

Wen Yiming was not wearing glasses, his face was stained with sweat, and his hair was a little messy, but it did not prevent Xu Wen from seeing his appearance clearly.

Xu Wen thought about it again and again, and was very sure that she had never seen Wen Yiming in her two lives, let alone knew him. She shook her head and asked him, "Did we know each other before?"

"Not really acquaintance!" Wen Yiming said with certainty, "but I have met you, and I was impressed by you. Last summer, you had a fever and went to the clinic for an IV drip, and I was right next to you."

Xu Wen tried to recall it carefully, but still couldn't remember anything.

But there was indeed a time when I had a fever and needed an IV.

When the seasons changed from summer to autumn, Xu Wen caught a cold. It was the first time she got sick after coming here.

She had been in very good health throughout her life and could usually get over a cold or fever without taking any medicine.

Besides, her living expenses are limited. If she buys the medicine, she will have no money for food, so she wants to bear it.

But the original owner's physical condition was not as good as hers, and she was somewhat malnourished.

Not only did the cold not go away, it became increasingly severe, until I collapsed in the classroom with a high fever and was sent to the clinic at the school gate.

At that time, Xu Wen was so feverish that he was a little confused, and he was losing his mind like a drunk.

When she woke up after her fever subsided, she really couldn't remember if there was anyone else in the bed next to her.

Because I was very sad at that time.

I was sad that I didn't get to put it back on, and I was also sad that I had no money to eat and had to go hungry after the infusion.

"And then?" Xu Wen thought, since he mentioned this, something must have happened that day that exposed her background.

"You were so feverish that you were talking nonsense." Wen Yiming said this and looked straight at Xu Wen.

Xu Wen's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't show it on his face and he didn't even say a word, just waiting for his next words.

"I heard you say some nonsense. You said you wanted to go back and you also used the word 'reform and opening up'. Xu Wen, you were also reborn, right?" Although it was a question, Wen Yiming's tone was very affirmative.

Reform and opening up is definitely not a term that should have appeared in 1976.

Xu Wen also caught an important word from Wen Yiming's words: "also".

Xu Wen remembered that his grandmother said that Wen Yiming used to be dull and honest, and he was not a good student. He failed the high school entrance exam two years ago. But after a car accident last year, he suddenly became smart.

So Wen Yiming was reborn in that car accident?

Xu Wen asked him tentatively: "In which year were you reborn?"

"In 1998." Wen Yiming answered truthfully, "What about you?"

In 1998, Wen Yiming, who was in his forties, was no longer considered dull by his wife and neighbors but was scolded as a coward.

He failed to get into university in his previous life and was assigned to work in a factory according to the procedures. The job was okay at the time, but later the factory's performance became worse and worse and it couldn't even pay the wages. What's more, he married a tigress who was dissatisfied with him for not making money and beat and scolded him, calling him a good-for-nothing all the time.

Twenty years passed in this miserable life. Later, he caught up with the trend of getting off work and working, his wife divorced him, and his children had grown up and he no longer needed to take care of them.

One time, I was drunk and got hit on the way back to the wall hole. When I woke up, I was twenty years old again.

Xu Wen blinked and replied, "1979."

Wen Yiming: “…”

It is true that reform and opening up took place in 1979, but Xu Wen obviously did not tell the truth.

Wei Zhuang is not a big town, but if a college student comes out of it, he will definitely be a household name in the whole commune.

In his previous life, he had never heard that there was a female college student who passed the college entrance examination in Wei Zhuang in the first year after its resumption.

So Xu Wen is lying.

Wen Yiming also went to Taoyuan Production Brigade to inquire.

Unfortunately, the people on the production team all had the impression that Xu Wen was smart, quiet, and pretty.

Only a few people said that she seemed to talk less and become more bookish after entering high school.

But this is also a normal phenomenon. Wen Yiming has no way of knowing in which year Xu Wen was reborn.

Wen Yiming didn't force Xu to answer, it made no difference what year one was reborn.

"Xu Wen, there is no one here, so why talk about rebirth. I won't tell anyone about you after we separate. Of course, I won't admit it if you tell others that I was reborn." Wen Yiming changed his usual polite manner and said very frankly, "I'm telling you the truth today because I think we are the same kind in this vast sea of ​​people. I don't want to see you make a fool of yourself. If you study hard, you can leave this poor place when you get into college in the winter. Isn't it good to be a phoenix that flies out of Wei Manor? Why do you want to marry yourself so early? And marry a soldier like Lu Yuanzheng?"

"Take the college entrance examination in winter? Isn't the college entrance examination resumed next year?" Xu Wen was really surprised.

Just like Wen Yiming said, today's conversation will rot in each other's hearts and will not be spread outside, and no one will believe it even if it is spread.

Xu Wen simply went along with the situation and asked questions... no, asked questions.

Wen Yiming looked at Xu Wen strangely, "Aren't you reborn in the 79th year? How come you don't even know this?"

Xu Wen spread his hands, "You were the one who said I was reborn. You didn't believe me when I said I wasn't."

Wen Yiming: “…”

He had always firmly believed that Xu Wen was of the same kind as him, but now he was a little uncertain.

He stared at Xu Wen suspiciously for a long time, then smiled, "Okay, regardless of whether you are reborn or not, since I've told you this, I'll just help you out. The country will announce the resumption of the college entrance examination in October, and the first college entrance examination will be resumed in December. The college entrance examination in 1977 or 1980 you mentioned is the normal summer college entrance examination."

There was only one winter college entrance examination, which was not considered a normal college entrance examination. So a long time later, through word of mouth, many people believed that the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977 or 1988.

Xu Wen is one of them.

Ultimately, it’s because we haven’t learned history thoroughly enough.

As soon as Wen Yiming finished speaking, the lights-out bell rang.

Xu Wen was confused and left with only one sentence, "Thank you for being honest." and was about to run back.

"etc."

Wen Yiming called Xu Wen and returned the pile of books in her arms to Xu Wen, "I'm returning the notebook you borrowed from me. I also bought some textbooks for you. If you don't want to marry Lu Yuanzheng, I can lend them to you first if you are short of money."

"Thank you!" Xu Wen took the book and notes and did not refuse this time. "I will find you if I need you."

Xu Wen ran back to the dormitory, and in the dark placed the notes and teaching materials that Wen Yiming had returned to her on the empty bed, then groped her way into her mosquito net.

"Excuse me, what's going on with Wen Yiming? Why does she come to see you every few days? Could it be that two men are fighting over one woman?" Shao Yue asked excitedly.

Before Xu Wen could say anything, there was a knock on the dormitory door, and the teacher on duty warned: "The lights are out, don't talk anymore."

Shao Yue immediately fell silent.

In fact, the school did not have a strict policy on turning off the lights before, and many students were reluctant to go back to the dormitory after evening self-study and would read by lamplight at night.

Later, the school was afraid of political problems and ordered everyone to return to the dormitory on time.

As a result, there are countermeasures for every policy. Students cannot study in the classroom and have to study in the dormitory. If they are not allowed to turn on the lights, they use aluminum flashlights to study.

The school had no choice but to arrange for a teacher on duty to check the dormitories.

There were dormitory inspections in the past, but they were only for the purpose of protecting students’ safety and prohibiting them from staying out overnight. Now the inspections are becoming more and more strict, and students are not allowed to talk or study by lamplight.

If someone like Shao Yue is caught violating the rules, he or she will be given a warning first. If he or she does not heed the warning, points will be deducted, and then the entire dormitory will be punished.

After a while, thinking that the teacher on duty had gone far away, Shao Yue spoke again: "Ask?"

Xu Wen didn't sleep, but he was feeling confused and didn't want to talk, so he pretended to be asleep.

Shao Yue called out twice and then stopped bothering Xu Wen.

Wen Yiming's words had a huge impact on Xu Wen.

Xu Wen had the idea of ​​dropping out of school and getting married a while ago because she thought the college entrance examination would be resumed next year.

This year doesn't sound long, and most families can just grit their teeth and endure it. But the Xu family is not an ordinary family.

This is an era of eating from the same pot. Individual economy is not allowed for the time being, and small places don't even have a way to make extra money.

The Xu family was originally poor, and they had always been struggling to make ends meet.

Now that Sang Xiaoqing is pregnant again, the Xu family has lost a laborer and gained a small family member to feed.

Then this year will become particularly long and torturous for everyone in the Xu family.

Under such circumstances, Xu Wenyao still insisted on attending a high school that everyone thought was too difficult to get into college, which was really ignorant and selfish.

Decades later, sending students to school became the most important thing for a family, but it was not the case in the 1970s.

This is not an era where "knowledge changes destiny" but an era where "there is a vast world for great achievements."

Every era has its own unspoken rules.

No matter in her previous life or this life, Xu Wen is just an ordinary person. She does not have the courage to go against the times.

At least he wouldn't dare to be like Wen Yiming, who relied on that idea to predict the future and wanted to change his fate and enter the business early.

It is illegal to run a business as an individual now. If you are caught, you will be paraded through the streets and sentenced.

Besides, Xu Wen doesn’t know how to do business. She has never even attended a class.

The Xu family treated Xu Wen especially well. She couldn't be so selfish and just think about getting into college without caring about how the Xu family lived.

Four generations of a family were squeezed into one kang, and they could not eat any meat all year round, and they had to advance money for the end of the year at the beginning of the year.

Only those who have been truly poor know what it means that a penny can make a hero fall.

If Xu Wenruo was a selfish person, she would have endured it for another year, but she was not. Getting married was the only way she could think of to solve the Xu family's difficulties.

But when Xu Wen and Wen Yiming went on a blind date for the first time, Xu Wen discovered her inner resistance. She couldn't just grit her teeth and marry a stranger and live with him.

"Getting married" doesn't really mean that you want to be a village woman who revolves around a man at the stove.

After all, she has never been married or in love, so she still yearns for a marriage based on love.

To put it bluntly, Xu Wen didn't want to compromise, but also didn't want to drag down the Xu family for a year. However, she couldn't change the status quo for the time being, so she impulsively decided to get married.

When the real action came, she backed out again.

Finding a partner is no joke these days. Once the promise is made, you cannot go back on it.

Fortunately, Dongsheng's words "Mom" ruined her blind date. She was not angry but relieved instead.

But being criticized is also a troublesome thing. She doesn't care, but she is afraid of affecting the Xu family.

At this time, Lu Yuanzheng's proposal of marriage perfectly solved all the problems caused by Xu Wen's momentary impulse.

In Xu Wen's eyes, if her relationship with Dongsheng is not taken into consideration, her marriage with Lu Yuanzheng is indeed like a transaction.

He gave her a house and freedom, and she raised his children.

That's fair.

And probably because he and Lu Yuanzheng did not meet through a blind date, Xu Wen had no objection to getting along with him.

All this was perfect for Xu Wen now, but today Wen Yiming told her that she had remembered wrongly, and the college entrance examination would be held in December this year instead of next year.

There are less than four months left, so I just have to grit my teeth and get through it.

Wen Yiming also said that the resumption of the college entrance examination will be announced in two months.

Then when the Xu family knew that she could go to college, they would support her for four months no matter what, and even Sang Xiaoqing would no longer have any objection to her going to school.

Xu Wen wondered, if what Wen Yiming said was true, then was there any need for this marriage?

We just got engaged today, but you're breaking up right away? How should I tell the Xu family?

The key point is, how should she bring it up with Lu Yuanzheng?

Also, why did Wen Yiming tell her this?

According to Wen Yiming, Xu Wen and he only met once, so why was he willing to help her? Why did he stop her from marrying Lu Yuanzheng?