Traveling back to 1977

Chapter 416 So superficial!

In the room, Jiang Lili and Jiang Tiantian sat side by side on the bed, still in a daze after listening to Chen Fan's words.

Chen Fan looked at the two of them and smiled, "Anyway, in the long run, this is the best way."

The real solution is to address their father's problem. Once things are set right, all problems can be solved.

However, Chen Fan was truly powerless to help in this regard.

He doesn't know any leaders in this field, and besides, he hasn't even figured out his own problem yet, so what good solutions could he possibly have?

Thinking of this, he turned his head and his gaze inadvertently fell on the newspaper on the table. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him.

Perhaps there really is a way?
However, this is not a easy matter to handle; we need to find a suitable opportunity.

Most importantly, you need the right people!
Putting that issue aside for now, he paused for a moment and then said, "Once your files are transferred here, you can focus on your studies in this room. But there's one thing you must remember."

Jiang Lili's mind was completely blank at this moment, only remembering what her sister had just said: "Just wait and see, he will definitely choose the more difficult one."

As it turned out, Xiao Fan actually chose the more difficult one!
This shows what?
Seeing that she seemed to be in a daze, Chen Fan raised an eyebrow and called out again, "Lili?"

Jiang Lili then snapped out of her daze and stared at him blankly, "Huh?"

Chen Fan looked at her and smiled, "What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Lili's pretty face instantly turned red, and she lowered her head, muttering to herself.

Jiang Tiantian immediately understood what her sister was thinking and changed the subject, "What do we need to remember?"

At the same time, I was speechless at my sister's reaction. What kind of time is this to be thinking about all sorts of things?

But there's no way around it, she's my own sister, I have to spoil her and teach her slowly!
Chen Fan turned his gaze to her, then to Jiang Lili, who was clearly trying to remain calm, and said softly, "Remember, neither of you should get too high a score."

? ? ? ?
The two sisters stared at him, their minds filled with questions.

What does it mean to not get too high a score?
Chen Fan clicked his tongue and said to them, "Your goal is to get into university and escape your current environment, right?"

The two nodded in unison, agreeing perfectly!

If it weren't for this, Jiang Tiantian, as a saleswoman at the supply and marketing cooperative, would be one of the eight most enviable employees. Only a madwoman would want to jump out!

But the reality is that she has a sales clerk's name on her card but does the work of a handyman, and there is never any hope of promotion. She is also targeted by people everywhere. The days when there is no hope are the most bitter!

Jiang Lili longed to escape her current life. From the age of 14 to nearly 18, she had to work hard every day, not daring to slack off in the slightest. She didn't even dare to get sick. If she couldn't work, she had to work; if she could, she had to work even harder. If possible, who would want to live such a life?
Seeing that the two of them had finally focused their attention, Chen Fan said seriously, "You both want to get into university, but because of your backgrounds, you can't attract the attention of most people."

Although Sister Zhou said her friend would block your names from being published, they can't hide it from higher-ups. If your scores are too high and attract the attention of higher authorities, they won't be able to stop it. So you can't get exceptionally high scores.

This is something Sister Zhou specifically told us earlier. Right now, their most important task is to hide themselves. If they get too high a score and accidentally become the top student in the region, how will they hide it?
Even with the deputy director of the education department providing cover, there would still be many people eager to find out what was going on.

Therefore, this really tests their actual performance. It's best if they can get a slightly lower score so as not to attract attention.

After a simple explanation, Jiang Tiantian and Jiang Lili immediately understood.

Jiang Tiantian thought for a moment and said, "So we need to control our scores, and it would be best if others got very high scores to attract everyone's attention."

If others attract attention, then no one will pay attention to them!

Jiang Lili seemed to be deep in thought. "It's not good to score too high, but it'll lead to failing the exam. So my sister and I need to study even harder, and hopefully we can control our exam scores?"

Chen Fan held up both hands and gave them two thumbs up, "Sister is right, sister is smarter!"

Hearing this, Jiang Tiantian and Jiang Lili couldn't help but smirk. Jiang Tiantian quickly lowered her head to adjust her expression, while Jiang Lili, who had been thinking about something, suddenly relaxed and said reproachfully, "You're the youngest, who are you calling 'little sister'?"

But her face was redder than the apples on the tree outside the window.

Chen Fan looked at her with admiration and smiled, "But you don't need to lower your scores too much. A score of around 70 is about right."

You don't really need a very high score, because this year, as long as your average score is above 65, which is slightly above the passing grade, you have a chance to get into Tsinghua or Peking University!

(High-scoring exam paper, admitted to Fudan University)
However, this year is the first college entrance examination, and there are no past score lines to refer to. To be on the safe side, many people have applied to local colleges with lower score requirements, especially teacher training colleges and agricultural colleges with the lowest scores. Many top scorers and runners-up from various places have gone to these local schools.

On the contrary, students from better-off families or those who are bolder, without any worries, have been admitted to the few dozen key universities with lower scores, thus achieving a remarkable leap in their academic careers.

There's no way around it; filling out college applications before the scores are released is like opening a blind box—that's the thrill of opening a blind box.

Thinking of this, Chen Fan couldn't help but shake his head inwardly, and then continued, "You don't need to worry about not getting into university with this score. This year's college entrance examination was very sudden, and most people were cramming at the last minute, so it's normal for the scores to be low. If the scores were too high, it would attract attention."

However, the students from Lujiawan should all get high scores, and they're not afraid of their backgrounds being exposed. I'll give them some intensive training later to try and attract the attention of the entire prefectural committee. Then, naturally, no one will pay attention to you.

Jiang Lili and Jiang Tiantian exchanged a glance, and both of them couldn't help but twitch their lips slightly.

Is this to send Huang Ying and the others to draw fire?

However, this matter did not harm them at all; on the contrary, they might even be given important positions, so the two remained silent.

……

The next morning, Jiang Tiantian went to her workplace to complete the transfer procedures. Chen Fan, along with Jiang Lili, returned to Lujiawan with the relevant documents brought by Sister Zhou.

On the small yacht, Jiang Lili was in a very good mood, a stark contrast to when she arrived.

Chen Fan looked at her. "Aren't you worried now?"

Jiang Lili turned to look at him, her face full of uncontrollable smiles, and gently shook her head, "I'm not worried anymore."

Seeing her expression, Chen Fan couldn't resist teasing her a little, so he deliberately said, "Don't get too cocky and be too happy too soon. No plan is perfect. If any link goes wrong, all your efforts will be in vain. Before you're settled in at school, it's better to be cautious."

Jiang Lili nodded casually, "Okay, I understand."

After pausing for two seconds, she looked at Chen Fan again, her gaze almost glued to his face, "Even if I fail in the end and can't go to university, I don't think there's anything to regret."

Chen Fan immediately turned to look at her, blinked, and then looked at her expression. He understood perfectly, and immediately grinned, saying softly, "Good attitude, keep it up."

Jiang Lili couldn't help but pout again, but seeing Chen Fan focused on steering the boat, she didn't say anything more, just kept smiling with her mouth wide open.

Upon returning to Lujiawan, Chen Fan did not dock at the 6th Team's wharf. Instead, he followed the river north, then turned back south, making a large detour to reach the 5th Team, where the brigade headquarters was located.

In the brigade headquarters office, Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang, who were busy with the autumn harvest outside, were both called back by Chen Fan.

Together with Xiao Liewen, who was on duty and stayed behind, the three of them huddled together, carefully examining Chen Fan's transfer letter and appointment letter. They then exchanged a few strange glances.

Secretary Yang glanced at Jiang Lili sitting in the corner, then at Chen Fan, wanting to say something but unable to utter a word. Why was Chen Fan being transferred?

But he will still be stationed in Lujiawan. What is the point of this transfer?
The significance is that Jiang Lili is being transferred to the health department?
With the college entrance exam just around the corner, would there be any point in transferring to the health department?
The point is to use the name of the health department to take the college entrance examination?
I can’t figure it out, I can’t figure it out at all!
But none of that matters anymore.

All he knows now is that Xiao Chen's precious darling has probably taken a fancy to Xiao Jiang, who is good-looking but otherwise useless!
I never imagined he was so superficial!

Thinking about all this, he couldn't help but feel a little disheartened.

Secretary Yang scratched his head, looked at Captain Zhang who was staring at him, and finally let out a long sigh, waving his hand and saying, "Build it."

Captain Zhang picked up the stamp, shook his head at him, and said, "If I stamp it now, Xiao Chen won't be a resident of Lujiawan anymore!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them looked at Chen Fan again.

Chen Fan leaned back in his chair, spread his hands, and laughed, "To be honest, Uncle Zhang, once you stamp this seal, apart from me receiving an extra salary, everything else will be exactly the same as before. I'll still have a Lujiawan household registration, still live here, and still be a Lujiawan resident!"

When you are transferred to a new job, you can choose not to transfer your household registration. What is tied to your household registration is your grain ration. Where your household registration is located, your grain ration is also located there. It has little to do with your work unit.

Of course, under normal circumstances, any normal person would transfer their household registration to their work unit, so that they could change their rural household registration to an urban household registration, receive grain and non-staple food rations, and have a guaranteed ration of grain.

Chen Fan had no need for it, so he was too lazy to do anything about it.

Xiao Liewen nodded involuntarily, "That's true. Ever since we got that little boat, he has to go to the prefectural committee two or three times a week. The health department only requires him to go once a week. In the end, they just want to bring him into the unit so that the title of the editor-in-chief unit of the 'First Aid Manual' is more legitimate."

Chen Fan nodded with a smile, "Uncle Xiao is wise."

When Captain Zhang heard that he wasn't even going to transfer his household registration, he stopped talking and simply stamped the seal down.

Chen Fan's transfer was settled, and as for Jiang Lili's matter, the three leaders didn't even mention a word before stamping the document.

Xiao Chen has done his job to this extent, what more can be said?

Upon receiving the transfer order, Chen Fan turned and left without hesitation, displaying ruthlessness.

Back home, Chen Fan told everyone about Jiang Lili's situation, and everyone stared at them in disbelief.

After being away for two days, is Jiang Lili about to return to the city?

He was fine, and he wasn't too concerned about Jiang Lili's situation. However, he kept wondering to himself if there was nothing going on behind Xiao Chen's help.

Huang Ying and the other two were a bit confused.

The three of them were specially arranged to stay here by Captain Yang under the pretext of "preventing lone men and women from being alone together." Now that even Jiang Lili has left, is there any need for them to stay here anymore?

Chen Fan had no idea what they were thinking; he was only focused on throwing a farewell banquet for Jiang Lili.

I personally cooked a big table of dishes for the people in the house, just to make it lively.

At the dinner table, Huang Ying pulled Jiang Lili aside and whispered, "Now that you're being transferred to work at the prefectural committee, will you still need to take the college entrance exam?"

Jiang Lili lowered her head, glanced at Chen Fan, and said softly, following the script they had discussed, "We still have to take the exam, but I'm afraid we won't be able to focus on studying during this time. Once we get to work, we'll have to prioritize our jobs."

Upon hearing this, Huang Ying became extremely anxious and grabbed her hand, saying, "Are you stupid? With such good grades, why are you afraid of not getting into university?"

Yang Ju nodded repeatedly, "Once you graduate from university, you can be assigned to a good unit and become a cadre. If you go back to the city now, can you get a cadre position?"

Liu Dan felt that the two of them had said everything she wanted to say, so she could only nod repeatedly while biting her chopsticks, "Mmm."

Anquan sat down next to Chen Fan, glanced thoughtfully at Jiang Lili, then at Chen Fan, raised his glass and whispered, "Did you help her with this?"

Chen Fan bumped into him, smiled and nodded, "She met her parents a few days ago and suddenly missed home terribly, so I just helped her get a ticket back to the city."

After saying that, he looked at Huang Ying and the other two and smiled, "Everyone has their own ambitions. Xiao Jiang wants to go home more and doesn't have such high aspirations for university. Besides, even if he is transferred to the prefectural committee, he can still take the exam again."

He glanced at Jiang Lili, then turned back to her. “However, I estimate that with this change, it will be difficult for her to get a high score. The three of you have to help me save face. Stay here and study hard until the end of the college entrance examination. Don’t let those people in the study class surpass you.”

Hearing that Chen Fan wanted them to stay and continue studying, Huang Ying and the other two girls disregarded their sadness at parting and nodded excitedly, "We will definitely work hard."

Seeing that the topic had been diverted, a thoughtful look flashed in Anquan's eyes, and he glanced at Chen Fan again.

After a two-second pause, he smiled and shook his head.

Regardless of whether there are any hidden reasons, that's Chen and Jiang's own business. They must have their reasons for making such arrangements, so why should I care so much?

The most important thing now is to prepare for the college entrance examination.

After waiting for ten long years, I had completely given up and planned to settle down in Lujiawan for the rest of my life. But at the very last moment, the good news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came. I just need to seize this opportunity. As for other things, I'll deal with them later.

After finishing the farewell banquet, without waiting for the night, Jiang Lili eagerly packed her luggage and, surrounded by Huang Ying and the other two, went to the dock.

After Chen Fan filled the diesel engine with fuel and even filled the spare fuel can, he picked up his luggage, boarded the small yacht, and headed towards the prefectural committee.

Everything is going smoothly here, and it's almost the same for Jiang Tiantian.

Upon receiving the transfer order from the health department, the supply and marketing cooperative released the person without hesitation.

What's the point of keeping a backward element around?

It's rare to find an organization willing to take them in, and they can't wait to send them away immediately.

The rest is easy.

With Sister Zhou's personal assistance, the two were first successfully hired by the Health Department, and then transferred to the Education Department.

From an organizational perspective, from this day forward, Jiang Tiantian and Jiang Lili were members of the Education Department.

All college entrance examination-related work in the Yunhu area is handled by the Education Bureau.

That makes things much easier, doesn't it?!

The higher-ups only require fairness and impartiality, and forbid any behind-the-scenes manipulation. But surely, even without breaking rules or regulations, it's permissible to tamper with the list?
It's actually very simple; just remove their names when releasing the list.

As for other procedures, everything will proceed according to normal procedures.

So at the end of November, the two sisters finally received their long-awaited college entrance examination admission tickets, and were just waiting to step into the examination hall to change their lives.

(Yes, the previous photo was cut out from this admission ticket; it's the original version and hasn't been edited.)
(End of this chapter)