I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

The next few days were filled with monthly exams, and the teachers worked even harder, staying up late almost every day to grade the papers.

Therefore, the students' results were released one after another the day after the exam.

In the afternoon, everyone's rankings and scores were posted directly on the bulletin boards in the school and classrooms.

At this point, no parent or student with ulterior motives might complain about not being allowed to publish the results.

Everyone's results are clear at a glance.

Yan Jiefang fully utilized his strengths as a science student, achieving or approaching the limits of a typical top junior high school student in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

In other words, his scores in these subjects were close to or reached full marks.

Even in subjects like Chinese, Russian, politics, and history, his grades improved significantly with the help of his personal profile.

It just means there's still not enough time; otherwise, he could have gotten full marks in all the science subjects.

Humanities subjects are generally not awarded full marks due to the influence of personal subjectivity.

On the rankings, Yan Jiefang, who had previously hovered around 30th in the entire grade, jumped directly to 2nd place, only 6 points behind the first place. (revised)

In other words, the current No. 22 Middle School only has 6 classes in the third year of junior high school, with a total of just over 270 students. It is just an ordinary middle school, and there are almost no top students studying here. If it were one of the key middle schools, with Yan Jiefang's current grades, he might not even be able to get into the top 40.

After all, apart from Chinese, there is still a lot of room for improvement in his humanities subjects.

However, with his current grades, he is more than qualified to get into the school's high school, or a vocational school specializing in agriculture, forestry, agricultural machinery, or animal husbandry.

Of course, students with previous grades also have a chance to get into the school's high school or a vocational school specializing in agriculture and forestry. (According to research, the top 40 students in the small business owner category all have a chance.)

If it's a "Red Five Category" student, then for the same regular high school within the same school, the range can be expanded to 60 students. (revised)

The scope of vocational schools specializing in agriculture and forestry has been broadened to 70 students. (revised)

However, Yan Jiefang was not envious at all. After all, even the original owner before the transmigration had a chance to meet the standard as long as he did not make any mistakes. Let alone now.

In addition, he usually controls his grades to avoid being too outstanding, and only goes all out for important exams.

This exam was just a test for him; for the regular exams that follow, he only needs to maintain a slightly higher score than he has now.

After the results came out, some rumors naturally began to circulate in the class.

The first person to feel resentful was Yi Zhongtian, the former class monitor who had always targeted him. He stared at Yan Jiefang's name at the top of the list, his face turning pale and then red, filled with disbelief.

As the target he had always wanted to surpass, he was very clear about Yan Jiefang's achievements and had studied them thoroughly.

As a result, the opponent's performance has improved by leaps and bounds, far surpassing ours, to the point that we can't even see their taillights anymore.

So Yi Zhongtian secretly spread rumors everywhere, insisting that Yan Jiefang must have used tricks and cheated in the exam, otherwise it would have been impossible for him to make such rapid progress.

Many classmates who disliked Yan Jiefang, or those who were narrow-minded or had mediocre grades, joined in the commotion, gathering in groups of three or five to whisper among themselves, their words full of suspicion and sourness, and the rumors spread wider and wider.

The homeroom teacher noticed the changes in rankings and overheard some whispers, which made him uneasy.

However, he was much more mature than his classmates and decided to observe for a while before making a decision.

Anyway, with graduation approaching, the school has arranged a high frequency of exams. You'll know exactly what to expect after taking a few exams.

Yan Jiefang simply ignored such easily debunked rumors and continued his studies according to his own plan.

After school in the afternoon, his grades were also spread among his classmates to the courtyard house.

Yan Bugui didn't care at all about his second son's improved grades.

He had long seen through the current events; as a small business owner, academic performance had some effect, but not much.

With his eldest son Yan Jiecheng's success story as a precedent, he planned to use the same method to arrange for his second son, Yan Jiefang, to become an apprentice in a steel rolling mill after he graduated from junior high school.

This was easy for him; it only cost a few hundred dollars.

After Yan Jiefang joined the factory, he would have two cash cows.

Together, the two sons bring in 40 yuan in cash each month!

That's roughly equivalent to the salary of a level 7 chef!

Once the two are promoted or given a permanent position, this amount of money will increase.

Currently, investing in one's son seems more worthwhile than investing in anything else.

When the rooster crowed three times in the morning, Yan Jiecheng had already signed a new contract with Yan Bugui and officially became a glorious warehouse manager today, earning 32.5 yuan a month, of which 27 yuan would be handed over!

He sold his apprenticeship job in the workshop to Yan Bugui for nearly 300 yuan, making more than ten yuan more than when he bought it last year.

In the past few days, Yan Bugui has learned that there are apprenticeship openings in the steel rolling mill canteen, and he is determined to get one.

Yan Jiefang was still thinking about staying in high school to accumulate skills, but he didn't know that Yan Bugui had already arranged for him to work as an apprentice in the steel mill canteen.

We look forward to him learning to cook so that he can bring lunchboxes home like Shazhu, saving the family some money on food.

If you can get meat and vegetables from the cafeteria, that would be an even bigger windfall.

As a small business owner who came from the old society, Yan Bugui lacked a sense of security and naturally preferred this kind of investment method that had a short investment period and quick results.

As part of the education system, one naturally has a better understanding of certain national policies than ordinary workers.

If Yan Jiefang were to attend an agricultural and forestry vocational school, there's a high probability he would be assigned to a job elsewhere.

They might be farms around City 49, but more likely they'll be assigned to more distant locations.

It's almost impossible for me to stay in this courtyard house anyway.

When the emperor is far away and people have more contact with outsiders, they will definitely become disloyal and won't send their wages back.

Wouldn't his initial investment have been wasted?

Was this child raised for nothing?

What's the use of a high salary?

Yan Bugui couldn't get it either.

This is something a shrewd person absolutely cannot tolerate!

After school, Yan Jiefang was planning to go to the courtyard to read.

Yan Bugui, who was squatting near the screen wall, waved to him:

"Jiefang and Jiekuang, it's still early before dark. You two can take advantage of the daylight and wander around the alley. You might be able to find some old newspapers, scrap metal, or other things. Bring them all back and collect them, then have your mother take them to the recycling station. That way, you can supplement the family income."

Knowing that resistance was futile, the two could only go back into their houses, grab a sack, and go out.

......

According to the information I found, graduating from junior high school in 1961 required passing six exams. You had to pass all of them to get your diploma. Otherwise, you would have to retake the exams. If you failed the retakes, you would have to drop out of school.

Only those who achieve a certain ranking in the school entrance exams can proceed to the subsequent high school entrance exams.

Simplified path: School (preliminary) exam (pass) → High school entrance exam (exam → score release → application → political review [most important] → admission)

Note: The admission rate plummeted in 61, with 30% (including high school and vocational school students) in the urban areas of 49 cities. No. 22 Middle School was just an ordinary middle school, with an even lower admission rate compared to key middle schools.

Note: This book was written following this path.