Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Today is Sunday and students are not in school, so the entrance examination is held in the commune primary school.

Soon, Shen Jingming and Xu Manyue arrived at the primary school gate on their bicycles.

At this time, the gate of the elementary school had not yet opened, but there were already seven or eight people standing outside, all of whom were there to take the exam.

Among them, there are two or three acquaintances.

Especially the young woman Liu Hongmei who was standing at the front, wearing a red floral shirt and black pants. Her face was slightly sallow, but she looked better than those around her.

It's obvious that the family conditions are pretty good.

"Oh, who was it I thought? It turns out to be Xu Manyue, the best student in our class."

Liu Hongmei saw Xu Manyue from a distance. Thinking of some past events, she couldn't help but pour out the anger in her heart.

Several people subconsciously followed Liu Hongmei's gaze and saw a tall and handsome man in military uniform riding a bicycle to bring Xu Manyue over.

They couldn't help but be stunned, feeling a little complicated, because it turned out that the rumor was true.

Xu Manyue and Lu Huaiyuan, who were in their class at the time, did not get together.

Everyone knows that Liu Hongmei liked Lu Huaiyuan at the beginning, but unfortunately, Lu Huaiyuan already had a fiancée. Moreover, they were in the same class and his academic performance was the best in the class. Many people were optimistic about them as a couple.

Unexpectedly, after so many twists and turns, only a few years had passed and they still hadn't gotten together.

Xu Manyue had already seen Liu Hongmei and two or three familiar faces.

These people were her former junior high school classmates. Although they were in the same class, they were almost not in the same team. After graduation, she basically never saw them again.

"Hey, Xu Manyue, you didn't even say hello to our old classmates when you met them. You've changed a lot since you got married. I remember you always wanted to go to college. How's that going? Did you get in?"

Lu Hongmei looked Xu Manyue up and down, then covered her mouth and burst out laughing.

At this time, a man following behind her said in a sarcastic tone.

"Hongmei, stop teasing Xu Manyue. How can she compare to you? Everyone knows that after she graduated from junior high school, Xu Manyue's family didn't let her continue to high school in order to let her younger sister study."

"A person who didn't even go to high school is now married and probably has children. What's the point of talking about college? You're just exposing her shortcomings."

Shen Jingming's eyes darkened slightly, and he glanced at the other person coldly. Just as he was about to speak, Xu Manyue secretly pulled him back.

"I can handle this matter."

Before she came, she knew she would meet someone she knew.

Shen Jingming is a soldier and it is not convenient for him to take action on some things.

After saying that, Xu Manyue walked up to Liu Hongmei and Zhang Jun.

"I really didn't get into university. After all, I stopped studying after graduating from junior high school. It's normal that I didn't get into university."

"But you two are different. You are one of the few high school students in our commune, and yet you still didn't get into college."

"Maybe, today's job recruitment exam is not as good as a junior high school student like me."

Liu Hongmei curled her lips and didn't take it to heart.

"Xu Manyue, do you think you are still the same Xu Manyue from back then?"

"Hmph, stop bragging. You're just a married woman who didn't even go to high school. Among all of us taking the exam today, who isn't better than you?"

"Don't let your big talk get you into trouble. It will be embarrassing when the consequences come out."

Although we were classmates once, we are now different people and at different levels.

Zhang Jun, standing by, couldn't help but hold his stomach and burst into laughter. "Hongmei, she's just a junior high school student. How can she be so arrogant as to say she's better than the two of us? How can a junior high school student like her understand all that high school knowledge?"

"Don't let her get a last place on the test results when they come out. It will be so embarrassing."

Xu Manyue still looked indifferent. "Since you are so confident, let's make a bet."

"If I do better than you two on this exam, you will apologize to me publicly. I'll decide how to apologize, and you'll also have to pay me five dollars in compensation."

"If I don't do as well as you on the test, then I'll apologize and compensate you five dollars."

“Everyone present here can bear witness.”

As she spoke, she took out five dollars from her pocket and let everyone present see it clearly.

"The money is right here. It's up to you to decide whether to start the bet or not."

Suddenly there was silence all around, without a sound.

Five dollars, it really is five dollars. It seems that the soldier Xu Manyue married is indeed extraordinary.

Everyone looked at Shen Jingming, thinking that he objected and perhaps looked displeased.

But Shen Jingming stood beside Xu Manyue with a calm expression and said nothing.

It's just five dollars, nothing. What's more, he has seen all her efforts these days.

As a husband, there is still the most basic trust.

Liu Hongmei was the first to react, her voice shrill and cracked, "Five dollars, Xu Manyue, are you crazy?"

Rural people used to save up their eggs and go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy them, where each egg only cost five cents. Recently, with the severe famine, egg prices have risen, and each egg can only be sold for around ten cents at the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Five dollars is equivalent to fifty eggs.

Although her family was better off and they did not starve to death or flee the famine, they still could not afford to eat an egg for ten days or half a month.

They had to save up all the food and exchange it for coarse grains on the black market so that the whole family could barely survive.

Zhang Jun's face turned ugly, and he reminded her softly, "Hongmei, five yuan is not a small amount."

"Be careful, she might set a trap for you."

Five dollars would probably bankrupt the Zhang family. Nowadays, there is no such thing as five dollars.

The whole family lived frugally and tightened their belts to support his studies, hoping that he would be admitted to university, become a city cadre, eat commercial grain, and marry a city wife.

But he failed the exam twice. Now he can only lower his requirements and strive for this primary school teacher position.

Although not as good as the workers in the city, it is still a formal worker with a stable job.