Li Tiegang specially contributed the team's tractor and sent all the candidates from Beishan Brigade to the county in batches that day.
Many villagers also came along, and Tian Cai couldn't help but join in the fun outside the examination hall.
The examination venues in Huang County are located in the county middle school and primary school, which are right next to each other. In addition to signs welcoming candidates outside, there are also many banners.
One of the lines reads, "Young people must fully recognize the heavy responsibility they shoulder. The motherland is counting on you, the people are counting on you, and the revolution is counting on you."
Tian Cai didn't know why, but when he thought about the hopeless struggles of the students over the past ten years, he felt tears welling up in his eyes when he read these words again.
My heart was filled with the same lofty ambition as the other candidates. At that moment, I also wanted to enter the examination room and perform well to contribute to the future of the motherland.
There were a particularly large number of candidates this year. Tian Cai later saw a statistic that the number of people taking the college entrance examination that year was more than five million, but only 270,000 were admitted. It was truly like a horde of thousands crossing a single-plank bridge.
Everyone is afraid that the above policies may change at any time, so they all want to take the exam now.
Tian Cai stood at the door for a while before she saw many familiar faces from Qianjin Commune. She also saw He Yuzhen wearing a hat and entering the examination room with Xu Bingshuai.
She had just finished her confinement when she took the college entrance examination. She rode on a tractor to the county in the cold wind for such a long time that her face turned blue with cold.
On this winter day when the breath turns into mist, all the candidates sit in the examination room and write furiously. If they feel really cold, they put their hands to their mouths, blow on them and rub them, and then continue writing after the stiffness in their fingers passes.
He Yuzhen came here in a cold wind, and even the boiling hot water bottle in Xu Bingshuai's arms was only warm now.
She opened it carefully and took a sip, feeling a warm current sliding into her stomach, and her shivering body seemed to feel better.
I don’t know if it’s because I was blown too hard by the wind this morning, but now I feel dizzy. He Yuzhen pinched her thigh hard.
I suddenly felt much more energetic and continued to write.
But she pinched herself five or six times throughout the morning. It was only because she was wearing thick clothes that He Yuzhen would have been able to see her bruised thighs.
By the afternoon, her head felt even more dizzy. He Yuzhen then realized that something was wrong and that she might have caught a cold.
He Yuzhen really felt like she was going crazy because she hadn't gotten sick earlier or later, but at this critical moment.
She was afraid that she would not perform well due to her illness. It was already a little difficult for her to get into university with her ability, and now with this situation, her chances were reduced by more than a little bit.
Thinking of this, He Yuzhen felt even more uncomfortable. Not only did she feel dizzy and her hands and feet were cold, but she even felt a dull pain in her stomach and lower abdomen.
He Yuzhen swallowed nervously, cold sweat oozed from her forehead, her palms became damp, and her writing movements were stiff and clumsy.
She suddenly put down her pen, rubbed her hands hard on her pants, made sure all the sweat on her palms was gone, and then picked up the pen again. But this time, for some reason, the hand holding the pen suddenly trembled.
He Yuzhen's face gradually turned pale, and even her lips turned pale, without a trace of blood.
She looked down at the test paper in front of her, her eyes gradually filled with despair, because her mind was blank at the moment. The questions seemed extremely familiar to her, but when she actually did them, she couldn't remember anything.
There were many people in the examination room who were in a similar situation as her. They were all overly nervous, took the exam too seriously, and put too much psychological pressure on themselves, which was why they were unable to perform to their true level.
There are still many such people even in later generations. There is no shortage of people with poor psychological quality in any era. Let alone important exams like the college entrance examination, some people are nervous about any exam.
Later, Tian Cai was surprised to hear that He Yuzhen had been carried out of the examination room. With her mental toughness, how could she be nervous? She could take medicine to induce premature birth, yet still be nervous about an exam?
Because of what happened before, Xu Bingshuai didn't feel comfortable asking Tian Cai to go over and take a look, so this time he went directly to find Yang Zhengping.
"Guess what?"
Facing the gazes of Meng Fanmei and Tian Cai, Yang Zhengping kept the secret again.
Upon hearing this, Tian Cai glanced at Meng Fanmei.
Meng Fanmei received Tian Cai's gaze, stepped forward, grabbed Yang Zhengping's ear and pulled him towards her, "Alright, Yang, I think I've given you some face again. Are you going to tear the roof off the house if you don't punish me for three days?"
"Oh, it hurts, my wife, I was wrong. I'll tell you now, I'll tell you now--" Yang Zhengping immediately begged for mercy with his teeth bared, and his eyes kept winking at his wife. Tian Cai is here, why don't you just give your man some face?
"Hurry up and say it!" Meng Fanmei couldn't help but smile and let go of her hand. In fact, she didn't use much force. Yang Zhengping was just pretending. She didn't know why this man still liked to act so much even though he was obviously quite old. He was just willing to cooperate because he married her, a good wife.
Yang Zhengping had had enough of the fuss, so he cleared his throat and said seriously, "After catching a cold after childbirth, and having a fever due to qi deficiency, coupled with liver qi stagnation and excessive tension, it would be strange if she didn't lie down!"
After listening to this, Tian Cai nodded thoughtfully.
Liu Yanqing ran from the educated youth site to find Tian Cai with her hands in her pockets.
"It's still quiet here. Mine is so noisy." She pulled the stool closer to the fire wall and watched Tian Cai busying herself.
Tian Cai could guess the reason, but he didn't follow her words. Instead, he smiled and said, "Now that you're free, how did you do on the exam?"
If someone else asked her this, Liu Yanqing would definitely say it was just so-so, about the same as everyone else. But with Tian Cai, she didn't have to be so cautious. "I think I did pretty well on the test. At least I answered all the questions I knew. I feel like I'll have no problem getting into the teachers' college I'm going to."
He couldn't help laughing as he said this. "Don't accuse me of bragging or anything like that. I really thought I did pretty well on the test. There was a big question that Yan Xudong had explained to us before. I didn't quite understand it at the time, but I forced myself to memorize the steps. I didn't expect that the question would actually appear on the test. The title hadn't changed, just a few numbers. I just followed the steps I'd memorized!"
Tian Cai couldn't help laughing when he heard this. This was probably the joy of predicting the topic. "Didn't you treat Yan Zhiqing to a nice meal when you got back?"
"Of course I will treat you!" Liu Yanqing even bought a pound of meat specially for this purpose, stewed it and had a good meal with the male educated youth.
"Really? I did really well this time. I even had time to review the questions after I finished them. I thought I'd be really nervous, but once I actually sat there, I wasn't nervous anymore. I hope I'm not mistaken!"
Liu Yanqing said happily.
She didn't dare say these words at the educated youth center. Everyone already knew that He Yuzhen had failed the exam. Xu Bingshuai also didn't do well. As for Li Lili and Li Jia, she didn't know whether they really did poorly or just pretended. Anyway, they had been in a bad mood these days.
If she said that she did well in the exam, she would probably be bullied by them!
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