Chapter 106 Chapter 106 Chapter 106 Chapter 106...
Chapter 106
After the Spring Festival of 1976, time seemed to be accelerated and in the blink of an eye it was October 1977.
At two o'clock in the morning on October 13, Pang Sihai knocked on Weisheng's door.
Weisheng vaguely heard Pang Sihai's voice in his sleep. He first turned on the light in the living room, and then realized that the voice came from outside the window.
After putting on a coat, Weisheng left the space, turned on the light in the room, and walked towards the door.
Last autumn, Xing'an Village had electricity, and Weisheng's improved lemon lamp gradually faded out of history.
The electricity bill is charged according to the number of light bulbs in each household. Weisheng's family installed two light bulbs, one in the house and one in the yard.
At this moment, Weisheng not only turned on the lights in the house, but also turned on the lights outside the house.
"Fourth brother, what happened?"
Pang Sihai saw that Weisheng was still a little excited. When he saw Weisheng coming out, he couldn't help but put his empty big hand on Weisheng's head and rubbed Weisheng's soft hair with some strength but not enough to hurt Weisheng.
"Today, oh no, it was yesterday. Yesterday morning, the provincial government received a notice," Pang Sihai paused before telling Weisheng, unable to conceal his excitement, "The college entrance examination has been resumed!"
So, you came back specially to tell me this news?
Afraid that he would appear too cold and hurt Pang Sihai's feelings again, Weisheng blinked and called out immediately. Then, he imitated the way he used to act coquettishly with Ming Yichen, hugged Pang Sihai's neck with both hands, jumped and laughed, then took a step back and walked around the room.
After completing the whole set of movements, Weisheng returned to the door with a smile on his face and welcomed Pang Sihai into the house.
"Fourth brother, please sit down for a while. I'll get you something to eat."
Pang Sihai: “…Okay.”
Pang Sihai placed the college entrance examination review qualification he brought back from the province for Weisheng on the square table. He picked up the teapot on the table below and saw that there was water in it. He poured himself a large cup without caring whether it was hot or cold.
Yesterday morning around nine o'clock, Pang Sihai heard the news that the college entrance examination had been resumed, so he took a leave of absence around ten o'clock. He first went to the bookstore to buy a set of college entrance examination review materials, and then went straight to the train station.
Unfortunately, by the time he got back to Liquan City, the last bus to Songbei Town had already left. Pang Sihai hesitated for a moment before borrowing a bicycle and rushing back overnight.
He wanted to tell Weisheng the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination as soon as possible.
The news was still confidential and would not be announced nationwide for another week or so. Letters were too slow, and telegrams were not confidential, so he had to go there in person.
The sooner his little sister knew, the sooner she could prepare.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Weisheng had already made up his mind not to take the college entrance examination in the next two years.
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Weisheng was cooking mixed noodles with lots of delicious ingredients for Pang Sihai in the pergola. While the noodles were cooking, Pang Sihai came out of the house and pushed the bicycle that had just been parked outside the gate into the yard.
Just now, Pang Sihai jumped into the yard, then walked to the door and knocked. Now that Weisheng had woken up, Pang Sihai decided to push the bicycle into the yard first.
Weisheng cooked a big pot of noodles and cut a plate of pickles that his godmother had sent him during the day, then brought it into the main room.
He took two noodle bowls, one large and one small, and first filled a large bowl of noodles for Pang Sihai, and then filled a small bowl for himself after that.
The noodles are made with chicken soup, which contains shredded chicken, ham, lean pork, mushrooms, and a poached egg...
With the spicy and sour pickles made by his godmother, even Weisheng, who was not hungry, finished the small bowl of noodles, not to mention Pang Sihai who had been riding a bicycle all night.
Weisheng’s cooking skills are pretty good, mainly because she is more generous with the ingredients than others.
For someone who eats in the cafeteria almost all year round, this home-cooked meal is no worse than delicacies from land and sea.
Anyway, in Pang Sihai's place, Weisheng's cooking is one of the best.
After dinner, it was still dark. Weisheng was afraid of disturbing Pang Ganma and her family's rest, so he didn't let Pang Sihai go home immediately.
He pretended to go to the east room, but actually he was moving a folding bamboo bed out of the space. When Pang Sihai saw Weisheng moving such a large object out, he hurried forward to help.
The bed was set up to the east of the square table in the main room, and the bed was made with the same quilt that Weisheng used to cover himself with in winter.
After preparing the temporary bed, Weisheng let Pang Sihai lie down and rest, and she went back to the west room.
Weisheng really couldn't get excited about the resumption of the college entrance examination. Lying in bed, he didn't have any trouble sleeping. He turned over and fell asleep.
In comparison, Pang Sihai, who did not take the college entrance examination himself and whose sons, nephews and brothers did not take it either, was too excited.
Lying on the temporary bed, Pang Sihai was still a little excited, but he didn't know whether it was because fatigue finally hit him, or the light in the room was too dim. The breathing in the west room was shallow and long. In such an atmosphere, Pang Sihai fell asleep unknowingly.
Weisheng got up according to his usual schedule. Seeing that Pang Sihai was still sleeping, he quietly lit some "calming incense". Then he went back to the space to wash up, have breakfast, and take care of himself before coming out of the space.
After leaving the space, Weisheng grabbed his cat and brought it back in. He left a key and a note for Pang Sihai before closing the door and leaving.
After coming out, Weisheng took a magnet and easily locked the door from the outside.
Then he took out food from the space and fed the two local dogs that slept in the doghouse at the door last night.
While the two local dogs were eating, Weisheng couldn't help but scold them.
Who is coming? Why don’t you call out?
After feeding the dog and the chickens, Weisheng locked the courtyard door and went to the village primary school.
Starting today, high school students in the village primary school will start preparing for the college entrance examination in December.
There are only two months left in the sprint phase.
Pang Sihai slept until after ten o'clock. After reading the note left by Weisheng, he lay in bed for a few minutes before packing up the temporary bed, locking the door and going home.
For some unknown reason, Pang Sihai did not say when he returned to the village, and he did not mention the resumption of the college entrance examination for fear of leaking the news.
He just said he came back to take a look and would leave early tomorrow morning.
When Aunt Pang saw her eldest son coming back, she was about to kill a chicken, and then she asked her eldest son to go to the village primary school and tell Weisheng to come over for lunch.
Weisheng knew that time was running out and her energy was limited, so she decided early in the morning to wait until the official notice of the college entrance examination came out, and then she would give the village primary school a winter vacation in advance.
So today, I went to get out of class as usual.
During the day, there were almost no people in the village primary school's pergola. When Pang Sihai came over, he saw Weisheng was in class, so he sat in the pergola and waited for her to finish class.
Because in the past few years, if female comrades wore clothes that were a little tighter, they would be criticized by people who liked red sleeves, so Weisheng never dressed in an unconventional way.
The same is true today.
At this time, Weisheng, who was holding a piece of chalk in one hand and pressing his other hand on the desk, was wearing a pair of plaid overalls, a red shirt with small floral patterns, and a pair of handmade thousand-layer cloth shoes from the Godmother brand.
Her long, shiny black hair was braided and hung down behind her.
Seeing the hair in Weisheng's braid swaying left and right when he turned around, Pang Sihai suddenly lowered his eyes to look at his right hand for some reason.
He still remembered the feeling of his palm falling on it this morning... so soft.
Just like the way she smiles.
Although she looked a bit cold and distant when she wasn't smiling, she was very warm and gentle when she smiled.
When I thought of laughing, I thought of that hug in the early morning that wasn’t really a hug.
By the way, his little sister is celebrating her birthday this year.
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Pang Sihai only stayed in the village for one day. The next morning he rode his bicycle to the town and took a long-distance bus back to the provincial capital.
Weisheng had been preparing for an early winter vacation. On October 21, after the radio and the People's Daily published the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, Weisheng immediately decided to give the primary school students a winter vacation, and then moved the junior high school remedial classes to the pergola, asking them to do their homework and do papers there every day.
After that, she enrolled all the high school students in the village, whether they were in the first or second year of high school, into her college entrance examination cram school.
Because he had been taken care of by the army for so many years, Weisheng specially discussed it with the village chief. Then he went to the base with the village chief and told him about the college entrance examination sprint class he had organized.
There are active-duty soldiers and dependents of soldiers at the garrison who are going to take the college entrance examination. Because Weisheng has been focusing on education in the village in recent years and the admission rate is 100%, as soon as Weisheng, who has a good reputation, finished speaking, the people at the garrison agreed with a smile.
After counting the number of people, Weisheng found that the village primary school could still accommodate them, so he no longer thought about the big house in the village committee compound.
However, as time went on, the educated youth from the village and students from other villages also came to take classes. Seeing the increasing number of people, the old village chief, without waiting for Weisheng to say anything, directly moved the large room where the villagers held meetings to Weisheng's college entrance examination sprint class.
Weisheng had been preparing for this day for years, revising her Gaokao sprint lesson plan several times. Now that the time had come, she had naturally achieved twice the result with half the effort.
After two months of toiling away day and night, Weisheng, who wasn't fat to begin with, not only had his face become thinner, but his butt and chest had also shrunk. Wearing old clothes that had fit him perfectly last year but were now too big, Weisheng almost wanted to give himself an award for moving the world.
At the end of November, college entrance examination candidates began to register. When everyone finished their registration and came back to continue their make-up classes, they discovered that Weisheng had not registered.
When the old village chief heard about it, he hurried over to ask Weisheng if she didn't have time to register. If she didn't have time, they would go for her.
After hearing this, Weisheng shook his head and chuckled, and expressed his idea of supporting all the candidates in the village.
The old village chief was moved by Weisheng's decision, but he was unwilling for Weisheng to repay the village in this disguised way of sacrificing himself.
Moreover, they were kind to the child and never thought about the child repaying them.
Weisheng had already made her decision, and the old village chief had tried to persuade her several times but she didn't change her mind. He felt both moved and sad.
Weisheng was sure that he would not fail the college entrance examination no matter when he took it, so he was willing to waste two years to support others.
Another thing is that apart from the transaction with the original owner, Weisheng also deliberately avoided the first two years.
It was simple, she was really fed up with living in a girls' dormitory full of children.
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Fortunately, Songbei Town has an examination center, and all candidates from Songbei Town and its subordinate villages take the college entrance examination in Songbei Town.
On the day of the college entrance examination, the old village chief took all the candidates to the town in a donkey cart.
Weisheng also went.
She put all her students' admission tickets in her hands, and when they arrived at the examination room, she also prepared a transparent pencil case for each person.
Inside was the admission ticket, a new pen, a pencil, and two candies.
At the entrance of the examination room, Weisheng distributed pencil cases to each student one by one and gave each student an anti-diarrhea pill. After all the students entered the examination room, Weisheng and the old village chief who was driving the car himself today returned to the village first.
Xing'an Village is very close to Songbei Town, so they don't have to wait outside for two or three hours.
You can go back to the village first and come back when the time comes.
The exam lasted two days, and Weisheng and the old village chief stayed with them for two days. After the college entrance examination was over, Weisheng led the students in estimating their scores. After that, the two-month college entrance examination sprint class was temporarily suspended, and the winter vacation for the village elementary school students officially ended.
Pang Sihai was always thinking about the college entrance examination, but he couldn't ask for leave. It was not until he returned to the village during the Chinese New Year that Pang Sihai learned that Weisheng did not take the college entrance examination this year.
This year, a total of 83 candidates participated in the Weisheng College Entrance Examination sprint class, and as of now, 67 candidates have received admission notices.
It is worth mentioning that excluding the educated youth, all the high school students in Xing'an Village were admitted to universities.
Some families in the village were happy while others were worried, but after learning the reason why Weisheng would have to delay the college entrance examination for two years, Pang Sihai's anger suddenly burst out.
After pressing it again and again but still failing, Pang Sihai strode towards the village primary school to look for someone.
I didn't expect to hear a lot of noise in the village school before I even got there.
Hearing the childish voices of children calling "Teacher Zhang" in panic and seeing many students running out of the village primary school in a panic, Pang Sihai felt as if something in his head exploded, and he immediately ran towards the village primary school classroom.
When he arrived, he saw Weisheng fainted on the ground with a pale face, surrounded by circles of bewildered children.
While shouting "make way", he squeezed in, first touched Weisheng's face, gently called "Zhang Zhang" a few times, and then picked him up sideways.
"Go find the old village chief and ask him to arrange a car to go to the town hospital. Go quickly!"
After hearing Pang Sihai's words, several elementary school students ran out.
Pang Sihai also walked out with Weisheng in his arms, wanting to go to the village committee compound to greet the donkey cart or tractor.
After walking a few steps, the old village chief came over driving a donkey cart himself.
The tractor went to the quarry, so the only things left in the village were donkey carts.
I don't really trust the medical level of the town hospital, but there's nothing I can do since it was the doctor who fainted.
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