After August, Su Qingmeng asked Lin Xiuyao to buy a daily newspaper. If her memory served her correctly, there should be articles about education.
On August 6, Lin Xiuyao happily took the newspaper home. The newspaper that day contained news about a meeting on education reform.
Su Qingmeng took the newspaper to the educated youth center and broke the news to Tian Ke. Lin Xiuyao also told his cousins. Some took it seriously, while others didn't.
Tian Ke borrowed high school textbooks from him and began studying. Su Qingmeng lent her her own set so she could read Lin Xiuyao's, and she wrote down all the key points in her notes.
A few days later, Zhou Wenxi also mailed some books, and the letter subtly reminded them to study hard.
Tian Ke also received it. She came over excitedly and said, "Sister Wenxi must have more news in the city than us. The college entrance examination is really going to be resumed." She was a little skeptical before.
After that, Tian Ke studied more seriously and came to ask her when he didn't understand something.
The second brother came home to announce the good news that his second sister-in-law Zhang Qian had given birth. Su Qingmeng went to visit her and saw that she had given birth to a big, fat boy weighing seven pounds. Lin Meimei was also there, and she was already pregnant at this time. She saw Su Qingmeng was very proud of her pregnancy, but Su Qingmeng was not.
"Second cousin, do you have any news? Are you sure the college entrance examination will be resumed?"
Su Qingmeng guessed that it was her eldest and second cousins who told her. Lin Xiuyao didn't tell her. "No, it's just our speculation."
Lin Meimei curled her lips and said, "The college entrance examination has been suspended for 10 years. How can it be resumed?"
Seeing her indifferent expression, Su Qingmeng didn't want to say anything more. Good words can't persuade a damned person. Waiting for the news to confirm whether she will regret it.
In the evening, Su Qingmeng marinated the chicken produced on the farm with seasonings and fried it in oil to make fried chicken fillets, which she sprinkled with chili powder before serving.
Lin Xiuyao praised the food highly, saying the taste of the fried food was irresistible, otherwise why would KFC be so popular?
Su Qingmeng joked, "Can this be sold?"
Lin Xiuyao laughed. "Sure, let's wait until later. Didn't you say that we can trade freely in a few years? Then we can open a shop and sell it."
As expected, he was very sensitive to the market. Su Qingmeng said, "You will definitely be a successful businessman in the future."
Lin Xiuyao also smiled and said, "Then you can wait for the best food and the best clothes! I will work hard to make money."
In October, news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came. A loudspeaker read: "All workers, farmers, educated youth who went to the countryside or returned home, demobilized soldiers, cadres and recent graduates who meet the requirements can apply..."
The educated youth were very excited. They dropped their farm tools and knelt in the fields crying.
The villagers looked at them strangely, unable to understand their inner excitement.
They stopped working in the fields and took a collective leave to go to the commune county town to buy textbooks.
Now that the autumn harvest is over and it's not too busy, the team leader approved their leave.
Unfortunately, the bookstore was overcrowded and all the materials were out of stock. Lin Xiuyao had prepared a lot of materials in advance, including the college entrance examination papers he had found in the provincial capital.
I don't know when he contacted the printing factory, but he sold the copies to middlemen on the black market for 10 yuan each and made a fortune.
The educated youth, unable to buy books, came to the village to borrow books from people who had attended high school. Most of them needed books themselves. After being turned away several times, they also came to Su Qingmeng and asked, "Su Zhiqing, do you have two sets?"
"Yes, please lend us a set. We are all educated youth, so we should help each other!" Yang Ping said. She knew that Su Qingmeng had high school textbooks, and she was the one who revealed this news.
Su Qingmeng pretended to be embarrassed and said, "You are late. I lent my textbook to Tian Ke." Her textbook was indeed with Tian Ke. She was reading Lin Xiuyao's.
She ignored Yang Ping's secret provocation and said, "You should go ask other people's homes." She was not familiar with the educated youth, but she would not sacrifice her review materials for them.
The educated youth returned disappointed and finally borrowed a set from the team leader's home, as his family had two sets of high school textbooks.
After that, more and more educated youth received books sent by their families, and along with the college entrance examination materials sold on the black market, they were finally able to prepare for the exam seriously.
They organized a study group at the educated youth camp, and the educated youth all studied together and came to invite the two of them, but they declined.
They have their own review rhythm and will review both junior high and high school education before the college entrance examination to avoid any knowledge blind spots.
Tian Ke and Lin Xiuyao's cousins would come over from time to time to ask questions. Lin Xiucheng, Lin Xiutong, and Lin Meimei from the Lin family were all taking the college entrance examination.
When Lin Xiutong came over, he complained, "I'm finally free." His second aunt had been arranging blind dates for him recently, but the situation stopped when she heard the news that the college entrance examination had been resumed.
Although they hinted to a few people in advance, unfortunately Lin Xiutong and Lin Xiucheng did not take it seriously. In addition, they were busy with the autumn harvest and did not study seriously, so they were just cramming now.
Tian Ke was the best. Last winter, Su Qingmeng had encouraged her to study high school textbooks frequently. Lin Xiutong was second. He graduated from high school this year, and while the teaching level wasn't great, he had a solid foundation. Lin Xiucheng was average. He said he was just trying, without much hope.
The village became lively because a few people here studied hard. There were several quarrels among the educated youth who married villagers, and several families did not want their sons-in-law and daughters-in-law to take the college entrance examination.
During a break from studying, Tian Ke gossiped: "I heard Yang Yuanyuan is getting a divorce."
Su Qingmeng: "Why? She was the one who snatched this marriage from Sister Chang Hong. His partner also has a job, which is not bad."
Tian Ke: "I heard she's pregnant and wants to have an abortion so she can take the college entrance exam. Her boyfriend and mother-in-law disagree, so she's asking for a divorce!"
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