Sure enough.
The next day, Zhao Fuguo announced to the whole brigade that the college entrance examination would be resumed. All workers, farmers, educated youth, military cadres, and recent high school graduates could take the college entrance examination, and admission would be based on merit.
The news was like a thunderclap in the summer, instantly making people dizzy. Many people were in a state of shock, confusion and disbelief.
Some people were confused when they heard this: "Oh, so, can my son be admitted to college?"
Suddenly a girl next to me laughed: "Your son, your son who comes back with duck eggs every time he takes an exam? Why don't you take the exam yourself? Maybe he will do better than your son."
Everyone around him started laughing and mocking her. Her son was famous in the entire brigade for his poor grades.
The man became angry with shame: "Chen Erya, you are a loser who can't get married, I hope I don't tear your rotten mouth apart today! I told you to curse my son!"
As she said this, she reached out to scratch someone.
People around her quickly stopped her to prevent her from really hurting anyone, "That's how it is." The girl called Erya hid while making faces, "Your son is a waste to begin with. It's really shameful that he didn't do well in the exam. Ashamed! ”
"Damn girl, you fart!"
The group of people twisted into a ball, and the scene was really exciting.
Hua Cui watched this scene with great interest. It was not too big a deal to watch the excitement. In the end, Guan Yingying was worried that she would be accidentally injured and forcibly dragged her away.
She was so excited that she didn't care about watching any excitement. Her mind was filled with the college entrance examination and she chattered endlessly about various college entrance examination matters along the way.
Zhao Qiming listened quietly to the discussion between the two and remained silent.
He lowered his eyes slightly, staring at the withered grass on the roadside, thinking about the college entrance examination
Hua Cui didn't know if she was feeling something from her heart. She just turned her head and looked over: "Brother Xiao Ming, why have you not spoken?"
Guan Yingying was also stunned. Unlike their excitement, no matter how well Zhao Qiming concealed it, there was still worry and struggle on his face.
She sighed in her heart, understanding what he was thinking and what he was afraid of.
Zhao Qiming is a qualified husband, hardworking and responsible, and he is very kind to Huacui. However, Huacui is her friend, and she still hopes that she can take the college entrance examination to see a different life.
As for what happens next, it's her own choice.
Guan Yingying thought that if Zhao Qiming wanted to prevent Huacui from taking the college entrance examination, then she would have to persuade her to go to the examination room and even tie her up!
Moreover, she thought she had seen the wrong person!
Fortunately, Zhao Qiming didn't say anything else. He just lowered his head and whispered softly: "If you are going to take the college entrance examination, you should go to the county town early to buy study materials, otherwise they will be robbed later."
Everyone wants to take the college entrance examination and go to university. At this stage, learning materials have become a more scarce commodity than meat, grain and oil, and they will become harder to buy in the future.
Guan Yingying's eyes widened and she felt it made sense: "Oh, I forgot about this, but you are still thoughtful! Cuicui, let's go buy it tomorrow?"
"Okay." Hua Cui nodded with a smile and said generously, "If you need it, I still have previous study notes here that you can use for reference."
"Really? That's great!"
Guan Yingying hugged Hua Cui's arm and wanted to kiss her hard on the face.
The news of the resumption of the college entrance examination quickly spread across the land. In less than a morning, almost even the illiterate elderly and children in the village knew that the college entrance examination was about to resume.
Even if they don’t even know what the college entrance examination is.
Hua Cui and Guan Yingying set out to buy books in the county town early the next morning, accompanied by Zhao Qiming. When they arrived in the county town, the three of them discovered that the battle was far more intense than they imagined. They were lucky and managed to buy the last batch of books at a high price.
People after that may not even be able to grab anything with words.
Guan Yingying bit her meat bun in frustration: "Why do so many people want to take the college entrance examination? Then my chances of passing the exam are slim."
Hua Cui vaguely remembered that the admission rate in the first year after the resumption of the college entrance examination was less than 5% in the end. There were more candidates, but many of them couldn't recognize all the characters. They were just trying their luck. Let alone answering the questions, they couldn't even understand the meaning of the questions. Effortless.
The questions were not difficult, and were much simpler than those of later generations. But what was really difficult was that these candidates simply did not have enough time and conditions to study. What was difficult was that they did not see any hope ahead.
"Don't scare yourself, you can do it!"
"Uh-huh." Guan Yingying said that she was concerned and confused. After complaining for a few words, she immediately adjusted her mentality.
Hua Cui thought for a while: "If you have time, you can take an hour every night to come to Zhao's house, and I will help you catch up on the knowledge you missed before."
"Is it okay?" Guan Yingying was surprised, and then hesitated for a while, "Why don't you forget it, you still have to review it yourself."
She knows that time is the most precious at this stage, and everyone wants to race against time to review for a while. Every extra minute means more hope.
"It doesn't matter. Helping you with tutoring is also a process of continuous consolidation for me."
Guan Yingying saw that Hua Cui was insistent and knew that her foundation was weak and needed tutoring, so she didn't show any pretense and readily agreed.
When she saw true love in times of "adversity", she would be lying if she said she wasn't moved. She secretly vowed to go to college and never let down Huacui's help!
Guan Yingying had admiration in her eyes, and Hua Cui thought sadly that when she grew up, she would eventually become what she hated most.
Smart, eager to learn, a top student, and even a super test-taker!
Wow, she has changed.
The two hit it off immediately, and Huacui Little Class started in the Zhao family yard that night. Zhao Qiming couldn't participate in the learning, so he could only do some logistical work silently, such as pulling on a brighter light bulb, preparing food and boiling some hot water. Xiaocui coaxed her to sleep when she clamored for "mother".
Most of the time, he stayed behind Hua Cui like a transparent person.
Hua Cui showed extraordinary perseverance in learning. Li Guifang always thought that this child had ADHD and could not sit still for a moment, or that he was suffering from laziness and was unwilling to take more than a few steps, so he had to chew his food. Break it into pieces and feed it to her mouth.
Now, in such a cold weather, she actually learned from Guan Zhiqing all night long.
Li Guifang felt quite unhappy. On the one hand, she was happy that she had grown up and became sensible. On the other hand, she couldn't control her random thoughts. If, if, Huacui really returned to the city to go to college, would she come back?
Come back, what is there to do in this country?
I didn't eat or drink, and all I could see were mountains. On weekdays, it would take half a day to go to the county town to buy something. When it rained, the road was covered with mud soup, one foot deep and the other shallow.
When she didn't reply, Li Guifang felt sad. She really regarded Huacui as her daughter. How could their family feel sorry for her? They all treat her sincerely. How heartbreaking it would be if she left and never came back...
Where is the third child, where is Xiao Cui, and where is her mother, don’t they all want it?
Li Guifang leaned against the door and looked around. Hua Cui didn't notice her gaze at all. She was holding her chin in one hand and holding a pen in the other, looking intently at Guan Yingying solving the problem.
Li Guifang gritted her teeth and made a decision, she was about to step forward.
"Mom." Zhao Qiming appeared behind her unexpectedly, and he called her.
Li Guifang felt complicated, but still stopped. "Mom, don't disturb her."
Li Guifang's lips trembled. She loved Huacui, but she also loved her son.
"Have you really thought about it?" she asked, "Mom is not a bad person. I will not harm her, nor will I really stop her, but..."
She paused, suddenly not knowing how to continue.
Huacui was the most unique girl she had ever seen. It was this uniqueness that made her feel it clearly like the spring breeze blowing past her face, but no one could catch it.
It's funny to say that before Hua Cui said or did anything, she was already worried about the future.
It was as if she had some premonition and knew that the Zhao family could not keep her.
Zhao Qiming's eyes swayed slightly and he said: "Mom, it's very late. You should go to bed early."
"How can I sleep? Ever since you were a child, you have been a stubborn person." Li Guifang couldn't help but sigh. God has no eyesight. The three elders in her family are responsible and honest, so why are their relationships so bumpy?
After all, it was still wrong to be in a wrong family. It would have been better if she had been tougher and completely stopped thinking about him. She wouldn't be in such pain now. He was a dull gourd, and he kept all the pain and sorrow in his heart.
Zhao Qiming smiled, seeming a little helpless: "Mom, don't worry so much. Cuicui and I have to wait for you to do anything if nothing happens. It's cold, so be careful of getting cold."
"I know, you should pay more attention to yourself." Li Guifang looked at Huacui again, frowned and said, "Why does she only wear these clothes? She wants style rather than warmth. You don't know how to add another piece of clothes to her."
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"Well, I'll get it."
"Don't study too late. I know you are pressed for time, but you still have to rest when you need it. Your body is your capital."
"Yeah."
Li Guifang was still talking, but Zhao Qiming didn't feel verbose at all. He listened patiently to Li Guifang's sentence after sentence.
The light in the winter casts shadows of varying brightness on the side of his face.
Li Guifang sighed and turned back to her room without saying anything else. She was old and couldn't change anything.
Zhao Qiming still stood there. He didn't know how long it took before he woke up from the "sculpture" state and raised his hand to touch the tip of his nose.
It's so cold this winter, even breathing is cold.
The smile disappeared from his face, but he opened the corners of his mouth and forced himself to show a little arc. He recalled the conversation just now, and there was a subtle sarcasm in the arc.
Even his mother doesn't actually think highly of them.
But he just wanted a chance.
A possibility that might give him hope.
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Huacui's small class lasted for several days. Although Guan Yingying's foundation was weak, her brain was sharp, so Huacui's teaching was not strenuous. On the contrary, she felt quite accomplished.
On this day, the two were discussing a topic when a girl suddenly rushed in from outside. She looked a little embarrassed, her eyes were red, and when she saw Hua Cui, she knelt down without saying a word.
Huacui: "???"
Huacui: "Who are you?"
The girl raised her head, her face full of stubbornness and unwillingness to admit defeat, and she was about to speak.
Huacui was stunned by her kneeling down, and said anxiously: "Get up quickly, don't give me New Year greetings, I don't have a red envelope for you."
Girl: "...I'm not here to ask for red envelopes."
Guan Yingying was also confused by this incident, but she recognized the girl as Chen Erya, who was mocking her son Ling Yadan that day. She asked: "What's wrong with you? What happened?"
Chen Erya’s black eyes were so bright that she said: “I want to become a disciple!”
Hua Cui thought that it would be better to become a disciple than to pay New Year greetings. Wait, she repeated: "What do you mean, apprenticeship?"
Chen Erya nodded heavily: "Yes, I want to become a disciple!"
"...Who do you want to worship?"
"You!"
Chen Erya's eyes fell on Guan Yingying, and then looked at the various textbooks on the table.
In the end, she bit her lip, as if she had made a major decision: "I also want to take the college entrance examination. If you can teach her, you can teach me. I have nothing to give you, but I will be a teacher for a lifetime, and I will definitely I will show my filial piety..."
"Wait, wait, wait." Hua Cui had a headache. She didn't dare to have a daughter older than her. "Do you want to come to study?"
Chen Erya nodded, "If you really don't want to accept me, then please let me stay by your side. I promise not to make any noise and it won't affect you, as long as you let me listen."
Hua Cui didn't agree to her immediately, nor did she refuse. She looked at Chen Erya's embarrassment and asked hesitantly: "Who bullied you?"
"It's okay!" Chen Erya wiped the water stains on her face nonchalantly. Her back was straight, like a sharp sword that had yet to learn to temper its edge. "Those people are not important. I just want to get into college."< br>
Then leave here, leave forever.
(End of chapter)
The author said: Cuicui: Actually I didn’t get the teacher qualification certificate TT
Thank you to the little angel who threw the mines: May you shine as brightly as the stars 3; women f men c forever drop God 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigates the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of my pants fell off when I ran away; today I am suddenly rich, Nanpu, chastity is the best dowry for a man, 1 bottle of dumb zero;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!