Xiaofubao was pampered in the chronology

"Jinbao, I'm leaving." Yao Hua's eyes were red, reluctant to leave.

Jin Bao sent him to the train. Although he tried hard to hold back his tears, the tears still flowed out inadvertently.

I am used to being by my side alone, and suddenly I have to say goodbye to him one day, and I feel really uncomfortable. Even though I know that I will meet again in the future, my heart is instinctively sore and swollen, as if a piece has been hollowed out by someone.

After Yao Hua left, Jin Bao took a long time to recover.

For the next six months, she lived with her third brother in a dormitory of a government unit, went to school during the day, cooked for her third brother in the evening, and read by lamp at night.

Su Wennian bought a desk lamp for Jinbao with several months' wages.

At that time, even electric lights were not common, let alone desk lamps. Jinbao was reluctant to spend so much money on her with his third brother, and wanted him to take the lamp back to the department store and return it. His third brother said, "If my sister burns out If you lose your eyes, no amount of money can get you back.”

"Third brother, you read books every night, you didn't even buy them for yourself..."

"It doesn't matter to me," Su Wennian said, "Jinbao is still growing, and your eyes are more likely to be short-sighted."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something, and he said again: "From now on, let's eat directly in the cafeteria? You have to cook for me every day after school, how hard is it? Originally, I, the older brother, should take good care of you."

"Cooking is not hard at all," Jin Bao said with a smile. "My mind is full of exam questions and knowledge points. Only when I cook, my brain can be a little empty. I want to cook to relieve stress."

Su Wennian patted her head, "Don't put so much pressure on yourself, there is no news of resuming the college entrance examination yet, I don't know how long it will be..."

"Soon." Jin Bao glanced at the calendar on the wall.

In September 1977, the Ministry of Education held a national college admissions work conference, and decided to resume the national college entrance examination, and select talents to go to college through unified examination and merit-based admission. After that, major media announced the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was boiling, and millions of educated young people were so excited that they could not sleep at night.

In Luohu Village, Fan Jiajia's hand holding the book kept trembling. Looking at the cattle grazing beside her, her voice was excited and excited, "It's really recovered. Jinbao didn't lie to me, she really resumed the college entrance examination!"

The registration fee for the college entrance examination is only [-] cents.

It breaks the restrictions of age, marriage and birth, and becomes the only chance to reverse fate. Many educated youths who have married wives and become fathers in the countryside have also signed up for the college entrance examination without hesitation.

At work, Su Wennian's colleagues discussed the college entrance examination and said, "It's a pity, but I won't take it. I feel that my job is pretty good now, and my salary is good and stable. My wife also advised me not to take it."

"I'm not going to participate anymore. I haven't read the book for so many years. Signing up is a waste of money. I'm sure I won't pass the exam."

"Wen Nian," someone asked Su Wennian, "I heard you signed up early this morning? Help your sister sign up or..."

"I signed up both myself and my sister," Su Wennian said.

"Are you signing up yourself?"

Su Wennian nodded without saying anything.

Someone stepped forward and said, "Wen Nian, the minister thinks highly of you, and he may be promoting you soon. I advise you not to participate, so what if you finish college? Are you still looking for a job?
We are working pretty well now, so why bother to go to university? "

"Yeah," said others, "you may not be able to find a stable job in this system after studying."

Su Wennian smiled lightly and said, "I miss the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts. This is my dream."

"Fine Academy?" Everyone looked at each other for a while.

The person closest to Su Wennian said to him: "You are good at drawing, but I heard that you must take sketching if you are admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, and you must first pass the preliminary entrance examination, which is more difficult than other exams. Have you ever studied sketching? "

"I have studied sketching by myself. I must take the exam in university. If I fail this year, I will continue to take the exam next year."

When Su Wennian said this, a girl named Li Shiqing in the office stared at him, unable to move away for a long time.

She was a publicity intern at the beginning of the year, and had been working with Su Wennian as his assistant before.

Everyone else went to the cafeteria to eat at noon, but Su Wennian walked up to the rooftop alone.

He took out an extra steamed bun that he bought in the morning from his arms, and gnawed on the already cold steamed bun while reading.

Unlike Jinbao's science test, he chose a liberal arts test. In addition to Chinese, mathematics and politics, he also took history and geography.

"In 356 B.C., Qin State Shang Yang reformed: abolished well fields and opened fields; abolished privileges and rewarded farming wars; established county system.

In 485 A.D., Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty reformed, promulgated the order of land equalization, implemented the Sinicization policy, and promoted the integration of the northern nationalities..."

When Su Wennian bowed his head and silently recited the knowledge points, Li Shiqing walked up to him, handed him the aluminum lunch box in his hand, and said, "Can you be full with only steamed buns at noon? This is the lunch I made for you. You can eat some." ?”

"No, thank you." Su Wennian didn't look up.

"Wen Nian, you've been avoiding me recently, why?"

Li Shiqing pursed her lips, "Is it because I said I like you? Did you hate me?"

"You go, I still have to endorse," Su Wennian said in a cold tone, "The college entrance examination will be in two months. For me, this is the opportunity I have been waiting for for ten years. Please don't hinder me."

"Why do you insist on the college entrance examination? Going to the Academy of Fine Arts is so important to you?"

Su Wennian, who had always lowered his head to read the book before, finally raised his head, and said with emphasis: "Yes! It's very important!"

In an instant, Li Shiqing's eyes were red, and she choked up and asked: "I confessed to you before, you said that you don't plan to fall in love and start a family so soon, is it just to wait for the college entrance examination to go to university? I don't understand. You are already 26 years old. After reading University is at least 31 years old...

Do you know what that means?A person who graduated from university at the age of 31, what kind of work can you do when you come out?What do you do if you can't find a job?It is difficult for an art student to find a job, let alone learn some Western oil painting! "

Su Wennian said in a calm voice, "Sometimes people don't just live for the sake of living."

"But people must have the most basic material conditions if they want to live!"

Li Shiqing clenched her fists and spoke excitedly, "You know that literature and fine arts are the most useless nowadays. The paint factories are either short of linseed oil or titanium dioxide. They can't even make oil paints, and the prices are ridiculously high. You still insist What do you think about learning oil painting? If you can't earn money to support your family, which woman would be willing to marry you and have children for you?"

"The money I earned from work these years should be enough for me to buy a lot of paint," Su Wennian said indifferently, "As for marrying a wife and having children to earn money to support the family, these things are not in my life plan, so don't worry about it."