Eating melons

Chapter 690 College Entrance Examination Resumes

However, Xiao Xuemu scolded Zhang Xinwang badly in private. He didn't expect Zhang Xinwang to be so deceitful and hypocritical.

Those who were preparing to take the college entrance examination had to work hard at the autumn harvest. They had to get up before dawn and not come back from the fields until dark.

As for those people in their own team, they didn't even go to work and concentrated on reviewing at home, so Zhang Xinwang was quite a jerk.

Even though the people of the Red Star Brigade kept this matter secret, it didn't stay hidden for long.

On October 21, 1977, official media including Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily announced the resumption of the college entrance examination.

In November and December of the same year, various provinces and cities organized the college entrance examination. Due to time constraints, the examinations were set independently by each province and divided into arts and science subjects.

The Red Star Brigade had a radio, and when they heard the news, everyone in the brigade was excited.

When Zhang Xinwang said this before, although everyone was excited, they still didn't feel at ease. Everyone was still a little nervous and didn't know whether the higher-ups would change their minds.

But now that the news has been confirmed, the entire team is in an uproar. Although there is still a possibility of a change of mind, it is unlikely to happen in a short period of time.

The most excited ones were the educated youth at the Youth Institute. They knew very well what the resumption of the college entrance examination meant.

There were even many people who went on strike immediately after hearing the news and prepared to go back to review.

Seeing them like this, the six people over there frowned. Yu Xi was afraid of being cheated by these idiots and implicated by them, so he immediately found Liu Yang.

"Liu Zhiqing, you'd better take care of those people, bring them back, and make sure they don't act so arrogantly.

I'll talk to the team leader in the evening and we'll work as usual during the day, but not for so long, so we can have some time to review.

The team leader is a nice person. He is not the unkind type. As long as we speak to him nicely, he will be considerate of us.

Now is the autumn harvest time, which is a busy and critical time. You should know how much importance everyone attaches to food after being here for so many years.

Have you ever thought about what the captain would think if you just went on strike like this?

When the captain wants to punish us, we won’t even have a chance to reason with him.

Don't let your file record you as a labor passivity or strike after you get admitted to university. You won't know if the university will accept you, and no company will want someone with such a record when you're assigned a job.

Hearing this, Liu Yang was so scared that cold sweats broke out. He immediately suppressed those noisy people, called the people who had returned, and told them the seriousness of the matter.

At first, everyone was a little disgusted when they saw Liu Yang like this and almost started quarreling, but after hearing Liu Yang talk about the seriousness of the matter, everyone calmed down.

Although he was very unwilling to accept it, he still picked up the sickle and continued to harvest soybeans, but his mind had already wandered far away.

In the evening, Liu Yang was going to talk to the team leader about this matter, but he didn't dare to go alone, and he was afraid that Zhang Xinwang would not agree.

Therefore, Yu Xi, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin were all pulled along, and the three did not refuse because they also needed time to review.

Originally, Liu Yang wanted to ask Wei Wei to go along, thinking that with more acquaintances, Zhang Xinwang would be more likely to agree, but Xiao Xuemu stopped him, saying that it was unnecessary.

Seeing their behavior, Zhang Xin, the educated youth, did not make things difficult for them and approved their request, allowing them to come later in the morning and leave earlier in the afternoon, but they still had to go to work.

If you ask why Zhang Xinwang is so considerate of them, one reason is that he doesn't want them to make a big deal out of it and affect the autumn harvest.

The second is to give Xiao Xuemu some face. After all, Xiao Xuemu also gave him a lot of face.

Of course, the most important thing is the exploitation during this period, coupled with the early autumn harvest, which is already halfway through.

Therefore, it is okay to relax a little on these educated youth, and it will not affect the progress of the autumn harvest.

The issue of going to work was partially resolved, but there was still one thing that remained, and that was the issue of books.

Whether it was the people in the educated youth institute or the people in the brigade, they all faced this situation.

Even though the team had known the news for a long time, they still had not collected all the books.

The people at the Youth League Institute naturally knew that Wei Wei and her classmates studied frequently, and they also knew that they had a lot of books, so they came to borrow books immediately.

Seeing them like this, Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi couldn't bear to leave.

They only have one set of books, which were sent by their families. They also need to review and don’t have any extra ones.

As for Wu Mei, she had no extra books because she had learned in advance that the college entrance examination would be resumed, and she borrowed books from Wei Wei and the others to copy.

Wei Wei didn't make things too difficult for them. She lent them a set of books to copy, but they had to be returned.

Upon seeing this, the people at the Youth League Institute were extremely grateful and promised to return the books and not damage them in any way.

Now they all knew how precious these materials were. If they were damaged in their hands, Wei Wei wouldn't have to say anything, but everyone else would want to kill them. After all, these were the only materials they had and their hope of returning to the city.

Wei Wei didn't say anything about this. In fact, it didn't matter to her. She had plenty of these things anyway, so she could have as many as she wanted.

Making demands on them is just a matter of attitude, and we can't let them think it's easy for her to take out a set of books.

Otherwise, there would be a constant stream of people coming to her to borrow books, and if she didn't lend them, she would become a sinner.

For the next month, everyone in the Red Star Brigade became more nervous than ever before, and there were no more troublemakers.

I work diligently during the day, and at night I hardly even scold my children, for fear of disturbing those who are reading.