Quick Wear: Passerby A's Daily Life of Eating Watermelons

Everyone worked very hard during the review period. People were studying everywhere, especially the educated youth here. Except for Jiang Yue who graduated from elementary school, most of them graduated from high school, and there were only a few who graduated from junior high school. People nowadays study while holding a few pieces of paper when going to the toilet. I heard that some people even forgot to wipe their buttocks after going to the toilet.

Because the three girls had a good relationship with Jiang Yue and the others, they would come to Yao Ling and Jiang Yue every night to ask them for answers to their questions. Later, it developed into a situation where the four of them spent two hours every night answering difficult questions for everyone. To be honest, they have been working in the countryside together for ten years, and except for the first few years when they were not very familiar with each other, now you can say that we really have no bad relationships with anyone. The four of them will help as much as they can without affecting their own relationship.

From the announcement of the resumption of the college entrance examination to the day of the college entrance examination, there were less than two months in total. Everyone present tried their best. Many people only slept for a few hours a day. They started memorizing by fire before dawn and did not go to bed until one or two in the morning.

During the days of the exam, the village tractors pulled everyone to the exam site. Villages that didn't have tractors would go and pull some too. The exam was on the 11th and 12th, and the subjects were politics, Chinese, mathematics, history and geography (liberal arts), and physics and chemistry (science).

Because now you fill in your application form first and then the scores will be released, after the test, the candidates just need to go home and wait for the admission news. In fact, there is also an additional English test, but several of them have no background in studying foreign languages, so they did not take the additional foreign language test.

After the exam, everyone's energy and spirit seemed to be drained away. After relaxing, many people lay on the kang, unable to move. Everyone fell ill. There were very few people who were not sick. This incident almost scared the team leader.

A few days later, when they were almost fully recovered, someone came to Jiang Yue and the other three to check answers, but Jiang Yue and Yao Ling declined. There was no point in checking answers now, and it would only cause unnecessary trouble.

After a while, someone from the commune came to notify us to participate in the political review and physical examination. Now, political review is required for joining the Youth League, joining the Party, joining the army, recruitment, promotion, and even doing a side job outside requires political review. If you fail the political review, everything will be in vain.

Jiang Yue and his three friends were from ordinary working-class families. They had no enemies in the village and the team leader was quite fair, so there was no problem for them to pass the political review. Even if someone was jealous and said something sour, they couldn't say anything. After the political review, they had a physical examination, and there was nothing wrong with their bodies. They just waited in line for a long time.

After the physical examination, I waited for the admission notice at home. The first person to receive the admission notice was none other than our classmate Zhang Wei, who was admitted to Kyungsung Institute of Technology. A few days later, another candidate received an admission notice from Seoul Shipping School.

Although it is not the Yanda University he chose, universities in Beijing are also okay. Wang Liang and Yao Ling were admitted to Peking University. As for Jiang Yue, she was admitted to Normal University. It is a good school, but being a teacher was a bit beyond Jiang Yue's expectations. If she had known, she would not have filled in this application.

Because she had never considered this possibility, but it has come to this point and it would be difficult to change unless she stopped going to school. She could just make do with it for now. By the time she graduates, the reform and opening up will have begun. If it doesn't work out, she can just quit her job and go into business. It's a bit early to think about what will happen a few years later.

After receiving the notice, the four of them prepared to leave for Beijing and went to look at houses in advance, because several of them had already bought the house when it was newly built, and if they left now, they had to deal with the house. A house will become dilapidated if it is not occupied for a long time.

I thought the house would be difficult to sell and I would have to wait for a while, but I didn't expect it to be bought by Xiaohu's family the day after I planned to sell it. It just so happened that Xiaohu was almost old enough to get married.

The day before leaving, Jiang Yue and three other friends treated everyone to a meal to thank everyone for their care over the past ten years. On the day of leaving, Jiang Yue and three other friends planned to leave quietly, but when they arrived at the brigade, Xiaohu's family, Uncle Xu's family, the brigade leader's family, and those familiar educated youth all came to see them off.

After bidding farewell in tears, the four of them took a bullock cart to the commune. Uncle Xu sent them to the car and Jiang Yue saw him crying. After arriving at the railway station, they were like squeezing cans. After the train started, Jiang Yue still sat with Yao Ling, opposite them were Wang Liang and Zhang Wei.

"Oh, it reminds me of when we first came here. Xiaoyue was still very small at that time. She didn't dare to tell anyone when she had a fever. She curled up like a quail."

Jiang Yue rolled her eyes and said, "You are like a quail. Strictly speaking, that's not me." Jiang Yue turned her head and looked out the window, not wanting to pay attention to her. She was almost 30 years old and was becoming more and more unreliable.

These four bachelors are quite strange. It is indeed unusual for people of their age to be unmarried these days. At the beginning, their families advised them not to get married. Later on, they no longer objected and just asked them to think it over carefully.

The next two years were all about urging them to get married. Yao Ling showed Jiang Yue the letter her mother wrote to her, which implicitly asked her whether she had found a partner in the countryside. She said, "We don't object to getting married as soon as possible, but it would be better to bring the child home to meet her."

Now it has been another four years since they were admitted to university. Jiang Yue can imagine how they will be urged to get married when they return home. After all, their parents at home may not care about national affairs, but they will definitely worry about their children's lifelong affairs. After taking a train for several days, they finally arrived in Beijing. Yao Ling and Jiang Yue got off here. Wang Liang and Zhang Wei's home is in Shanghai, so they still have to sit for a while.

"Then we'll go first. When you get here, call me or send me a telegram in advance, and then we'll pick you up."

"Okay, see you at school then."

After leaving the station, Jiang Yue and Yao Ling carried large and small bags and walked towards the bus stop. Along the way, Yao Ling introduced Beijing to Jiang Yue. She thought it was Jiang Yue's first time here. In fact, Jiang Yue didn't know how long she had lived here. She had walked all these roads and was even familiar with the address of Yao Ling's home. Maybe she had been there at some point.

It was already past 7 o'clock in the evening when she got off the bus. Her home was still more than ten minutes away from the bus stop. Fortunately, Jiang Yue and Yao Ling were strong enough. They packed their bags and headed home. There were four people in the family, including Yao Ling. Yao Ling also had a younger brother who was seven or eight years younger than her. After getting married the year before last, he was allocated a house and had already moved out.

Now there are only Yao Ling's parents at home, so Jiang Yue will not have no place to stay if she goes to her house. After entering the community, more and more people came. Seeing Yao Ling and Jiang Yue carrying large and small bags, everyone looked at them curiously. It was obvious that they were educated youth who had returned, but no one knew whose families they were.

After walking into the community, someone recognized Yao Ling, but no one came forward to acknowledge her. The two of them were whispering: "Is this the eldest daughter of the Yao family? I haven't seen her for a few years and I don't dare to recognize her!"