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Chapter 296 Goodbye Lou Xiaoe!!

The girl smiled with her eyebrows curved, and looked at Zhang Shenfei with her big watery eyes: "Comrade Zhang Shenfei, have you really forgotten me? Or you can think about it carefully again?"

Zhang Shenfei looked the girl up and down. She had big eyes, medium height, and an apple face.

It seems that because she has just reached adulthood, there is still some baby fat on her face. She is not ugly, but she makes people want to ravage her...

Ravaged???

Zhang Shenfei's mind flashed with light, and suddenly a name emerged from the depths of his memory: "Are you Lou Xiao'e? Director Lou's daughter?"

The girl nodded and smiled, seeming a little embarrassed: "Yes, I am Lou Xiao'e.

When I was a kid, we met at an event held at the steel factory. You even treated me to candy at that time...

Later, when your literacy class won the award, I was in the audience with my parents. After so many years, I didn't expect that Comrade Zhang Shenfei still remembered me. "

"How could I forget? I always remembered it." Zhang Shenfei lied without hesitation.

When he and Lou Xiao'e first met, the girl was only about eleven or twelve years old. Who would have thought that it would be six years before they met again? ? ?
Time really turns cherries red and banana leaves green.

Zhang Shenfei looked at a certain part of Lou Xiaoe's body and said meaningfully, "I haven't seen you for a few years. You've grown a lot."

The simple-minded Lou Xiao'e did not understand the meaning of his words, and nodded and said, "I am already eighteen years old this year, of course I have grown up, and I am here today to take the college entrance examination.

Comrade Zhang Shenfei, why are you here too? Are you here to accompany your child to take the college entrance examination?"

I'm crazy...

Zhang Shenfei's defense was immediately broken: "Comrade Lou Xiao'e, are you kidding me? I'm only in my twenties this year, how come my child is going to take the college entrance examination?"

Isn't this insulting?
"Isn't your child taking the college entrance examination?" Lou Xiao'e tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Then what are you doing here?"

"Can't I take the college entrance examination myself? Are we, the people in society, not allowed to make progress?" Zhang Shenfei said while gnashing his back teeth.

Lou Xiao'e's eyes widened immediately: "But haven't you been working for many years?"

"Does the law stipulate that people who work and then take the college entrance examination will be shot?" Zhang Shenfei asked in return.

Lou Xiao'e didn't know how to answer for a moment, so she just smiled foolishly again: "Comrade Zhang Shenfei, which examination room are you from?"

"Me, I'm in the seventh examination room, what about you?"

"I'm in the ninth examination room."

Zhang Shenliang was a tactful person. When he saw his younger brother chatting with other candidates, he pushed his bicycle and stood aside.

After hearing the exam bell, Zhang Shenfei and Lou Xiao'e walked towards the school side by side.

When they arrived at the gate, Zhang Shenfei turned around and waved to his elder brother, indicating that he should go home first.

Zhang Shenliang understood what his brother meant, but he did not leave.

After watching my brother's back disappear, I locked my bicycle, found a crooked tree nearby, and sat down in its shade.

Although he has nine sons, this younger brother, who is much younger than him, does hold a considerable weight in his heart.

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father. When his parents died, his younger brother was only eleven or twelve years old. He, as the older brother, acted as both an older brother and a father to raise him.

Now my younger brother is doing very well in the steel rolling mill, and he is also the first one in the Zhang family to take the college entrance examination.

Zhang Shenliang would never feel at ease if he wasn't here to guard.

quickly,

After sending their children to school, other parents left, leaving only a few people, including Zhang Shenliang, near the examination room.

……

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first college entrance examination was in 1952.

It has only been four years, but the college entrance examination system has already undergone many changes.

In 1955, the college entrance examination changed from a two-category system to a three-category system.

That is, 1. Engineering, science, agriculture, forestry, water conservancy and other professional examinations; 2. Medicine, agriculture and forestry, examination subjects; 3. Literature, history, politics, law, and finance.

In 1956, Mao Xiongwen was added to the examination subjects.

In 1958, when Zhang Shenfei took the exam, political review began to become strict and the admission rate of engineering majors increased significantly.

at this time,

Zhang Shenfei sat in the examination room, looking at the test paper that had just been handed out.

As in the following decades, the first subject in the college entrance examination is always Chinese.

The questions in this era do not have much divergent thinking and quality education, and all the test questions are quite conventional.

The knowledge tested is all in the books, and there is not much that requires you to interpret on your own.

There is no such fucked-up analysis as “There is a jujube tree in my yard, and another one is also a jujube tree” which shows what the author is thinking.

After reading the previous questions, Zhang Shenfei turned to the last page to read the composition.

The title of the composition is "An Exciting Scene in College", which is worth 50 points. The full score of the Chinese subject is points, and the composition accounts for a very high proportion.

After all, having worked in the steel mill office for so many years, Zhang Shenfei is very adept at writing about red themes.

After finishing the article according to the title, the author quoted many famous sayings of the top and second-in-command at the end.

With these, how can the composition score not be above 45 points???

After finishing the composition, Zhang Shenfei turned around and started writing the previous question.

The invigilator saw it and looked at him curiously, again and again.

Zhang Shenfei didn't care at all and just concentrated on doing the questions.

Starting in 1955, my country began to abandon the previous phonetic alphabet and instead learn Pinyin.

This item does not give an advantage to the current candidates.

After all, they have to abandon the Zhuyin alphabet that they have been learning since elementary school and relearn Pinyin in the first year of high school.

But for Zhang Shenfei, who came from later generations, he has a natural advantage.

Zhang Shenfei was planning and strategizing. He fanned himself with a piece of draft paper, wrote furiously, and at the same time sighed in his heart that the questions in this era were really simple.

If the difficulty of the next few exams is the same as this one, it will be a piece of cake to get into Yenching University or something like that.

When there were still about forty minutes left after he finished all the questions, he checked the questions again.

With twenty minutes left, I handed in the paper and walked out early.

The other candidates were shocked when they saw this, but as they were taking an exam, they could not discuss it with each other. They just wondered in their hearts who this person was.

Zhang Shenfei walked out of the examination room and headed straight for the gate. Just when he was about ten meters away from the gate, he was grabbed by his elder brother Zhang Shenliang.

"Da Fei, why did you come out so soon?" The bell hadn't even rung yet, Zhang Shenliang looked anxious, "Could it be that you were kicked out because you were caught plagiarizing?"

It's not that he doesn't trust his younger brother, it's just that this kid has a history of cheating from elementary school to junior high school.

Although I didn't get caught most of the time, but...

"When you were taking the entrance exam to high school from junior high school, you were caught for cheating. How dare you do it again this time?" Zhang Shenliang was very disappointed with him.

Ah, when Zhang Shenfei saw that his elder brother had exposed his past, a hint of embarrassment suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"No, brother, what are you talking about? I just finished writing and handed in the paper early."

We are all brothers, why do you expect him to do well? And you even exposed his past in front of so many people. Zhang Shenfei was speechless.

Zhang Shenfei heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "It's good that you didn't plagiarize."

Zhang Shenfei looked at his brother's sunburned face and the sweat on his forehead, and felt a little bit reluctant: "Didn't I tell you to go home? Why are you still here?"

It was so hot in the summer that it was so hot that it made people feel like their skin was peeling off. He couldn't imagine how his brother could stand guard at the entrance of the examination room. Zhang Shenliang smiled naively: "I am worried about you, right? I feel more at ease when you are here guarding me."

Besides, this place is not hot. At first I took shelter under the crooked tree, and then the doorman asked me to go into his room to rest."

As Zhang Shenliang spoke, he pushed the bicycle over and motioned for his brother to sit on it.

The two returned home at noon. Grandma Zhang personally made hand-rolled cold noodles for her grandson and even went to the red cabinet to buy a pound of pork head.

In those days, the place where the urban management sold pig heads was called "Red Cabinet".

In addition to real pig heads, what is sold here are pork elbows, pig hearts, and pig lungs. The pig lungs are divided into clear lungs and blood lungs.

In addition, there are heart treasure cover, sand liver, rice intestines, tripe, pig tail, pig whip, smoked chicken, smoked fish, tea dried food and so on.

It seems more appropriate to call a place like this a braised meat shop.

But because the sellers carried red cabinets on their backs and hawked their wares along the streets of the city, over time, "red cabinet" became a general term.

Although Grandma Zhang only bought one kilogram today, there were a wide variety of products, including lung-clearing foods, sand liver, pig skin, and pig snout.

Without the interference of the nine little ones, the family ate together and tacitly did not ask how Zhang Shenfei did in the exam.

This was very different from what Zhang Shenfei had imagined. He tried to hold it in but couldn't help it and took the initiative to complain:

"No, I am the first one in our Zhang family to take the college entrance examination.

How come none of you care about me? No one asks me how I did on the exam? Do I have such a low status in your hearts? "

Grandma Zhang sneered at him, chewing her noodles: "The exam is over, what's the point of asking you now? Can you get the test paper back?"

"Da Fei, you don't have to tell us how you did on the test, and don't think about what happened in the morning. Have a good sleep after dinner, and do your best in the afternoon.

Examinations are often about testing one's mentality," said Tang Danniu.

Although she only has a primary school diploma, she has so many children in her family, so she must take dozens of exams every year, so she is very experienced.

"Dafei handed in the paper twenty minutes in advance, so he must have done well in the exam." Zhang Shenliang interrupted.

As soon as she finished speaking, Grandma Zhang hit Zhang Shenfei on the back of his head with her pipe: "I asked you to hand in your paper early?! If you dare to do this again in the next few exams, I will smash your head!!"

Zhang Shenfei covered his head, looking at his elder brother who was busy eating with tears in his eyes, he felt that he did it on purpose!!!

Isn't it to take revenge on me? But I haven't offended him!!!

The family finished their meal together.

Tang Danniu cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them. Tian Xiaozao made the bed and asked Zhang Shenfei to lie down and rest quickly. She fanned him with a palm-leaf fan.

Zhang Shenfei closed his eyes and lay on the kang, enjoying himself, saying that he was now the darling of the entire Zhang family.

If I had known that the college entrance examination was so exciting, I should have taken it every year.

The afternoon exam was in mathematics, and the first-level knowledge points were binomials, trigonometric functions, geometric proofs, and solving equations.

The secondary knowledge points are identity proof and perpendicularity of lines and planes.

All the test questions revolve around these test points and there are no tricky angles.

After the bell rang to end the exam, Zhang Shenfei walked out of the classroom with ease.

Suddenly someone called me from behind, I turned around and found it was Yang Baili.

"Dafei, is it really you? You actually took the college entrance examination this time, why didn't you tell me?" Yang Baili ran over excitedly and hit Zhang Shenfei on the back.

"Isn't it just the college entrance examination? Can I publicize it to the whole factory?" Zhang Shenfei said, looking at Yang Baili, "How is it? Do you have confidence in this exam?"

Since 1954, Yang Baili has taken the college entrance examination every year, and this year is his fourth time.

It's like this every year, and she always fails the exams. Zhang Shenfei even suspects that she's deliberately making excuses to ask for leave.

He heard from Director Yang that
Yang Baili's mother has issued an ultimatum, saying that if her son fails to get into university this time, she will cut off all ties with him.

"How is it? Can you maintain the precarious parent-child relationship with your parents?" Zhang Shenfei handed Yang Baili a cigarette and asked with a smile.

Yang Baili took the cigarette dejectedly and said, "We should do our best and leave the rest to fate. This exam is much harder than last year's. To be honest, I am really unsure.

I am also wondering, why is it so difficult to get into university?
They always test me on Chinese and math, why not painting or something, which is a subject I am good at? "

If this was a painting test, with his skills he would have easily passed it.

"All roads lead to Rome. Since you can't pass the exam, just try another one." Zhang Shenfei said casually.

After leaving the school gate and getting on his elder brother's bicycle, Zhang Shenfei and Yang Baili parted ways.

When I returned to Nanluoguxiang and just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw that the second aunt was carrying a very large carp.

"Hey, Second Aunt, are you going to improve your life today?" Zhang Shenfei approached. "Such a big fish is enough for your whole family to eat."

In the past, when the Liu family wanted to improve their lives, they would fry a fried egg for Liu Haizhong alone, and others could only watch. Buying a big fish like they did today was definitely a very high standard.

Second Aunt glanced at him and said: "This fish is not bought for your Second Uncle today, but for our Guangqi."

"Bought it for Liu Guangqi?"

"Isn't our Guangqi taking the college entrance examination? Your second uncle said he would buy him a fish and stew it, as eating fish is good for the brain." Second aunt said with a smile.

A fish is not cheap in today's society. It cost her one meat ticket and fifty cents.

"Wow, Second Master really spent a lot of money." Zhang Shenfei and Zhang Shenliang looked at each other.
The Liu couple are interesting. They beat the second and third children like they are not human beings every day, but they love the eldest child very much.

Liu Guangqi failed the college entrance examination in the past two years, but the couple was not angry.

Liu Haizhong also used his connections to arrange a temporary job for him in a steel rolling mill, so that he could work while reviewing.

This year is his third year of college entrance examination, but I still want to buy him a fish.

If Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu could have such treatment? What the hell are you dreaming about!!!
Zhang Shenfei seemed to be able to foresee the scene at the Liu family’s dinner table in the evening, where Liu Guangqi would eat fish alone, while Liu Guangfu and Liu Guangtian’s eyes would turn red with envy.

After chatting for a few minutes with Aunt Liu, the Zhang and Shenfei brothers returned home.

Today's dinner was exceptionally sumptuous, but the family did not ask about Zhang Shenfei's exam results as they did at noon.

Even the little ones were silent, probably because they had been warned by the adults.

After eating and drinking, Zhang Shenfei took out the book of the subject he would take the exam for tomorrow and flipped through it casually without looking at it carefully.

I wanted to discuss some techniques with Tian Xiaozao at night, but she pushed me under the kang.

"You have an exam tomorrow, so I can't do that."

Zhang Shenfei got up from the ground with a wronged look on his face: "What's wrong with the exam? Who said that we can't do this during the exam?
There is no conflict between the two. Besides, if you relax for a while, you might be able to perform even better tomorrow."

In his previous life, he had seen news reports that some high school boys would go look for fallen women during the college entrance examination... to relieve stress.

He kept talking about his weird ideas, but Tian Xiaozao didn't listen at all. She just coaxed him and asked him to be patient and wait.

After the exam tomorrow, he can do whatever he wants.

"Hey, do you really let me do whatever I want?" Zhang Shenfei grinned, "Comrade Tian Xiaozao, I will remember what you said today. Don't regret it tomorrow."

The next morning, Zhang Shenfei dressed lightly and walked into the examination room again.

In the morning, I took the foreign language test, and in the afternoon, I took the political history test.

The two-day exam time passed quickly. After I finished the last exam and returned home,
Grandma Zhang grabbed her little grandson and pressed him down next to the eight-immortals table.

"Tell me, grandson. How did you do in the exams these days?"

Zhang Shenfei blinked his big eyes and acted innocently: "Old lady, didn't you say that the exam has already been taken, so there is no point in asking now?

What is this doing now? "

(End of this chapter)