Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

Halfway through the twelfth lunar month, Director Tan from the Street Office suddenly came to visit in the evening, braving the cold wind.

Li Yujie welcomed her in, and only then did she learn that except for Li Qinghua, the four of them had entered the preliminary selection, and the subdistrict office had already submitted the files and information of several people.

Everyone was naturally happy to hear about this. Li Qinghua was only slightly disappointed for a moment, but after remembering that he was not prepared to get into university, he became happy again and congratulated everyone enthusiastically.

Because as long as they enter the preliminary selection, the Li family will hardly have any problems in the political review, and the four of them have already stepped half a foot into the university.

Faced with Xu Yan, who was happy and clamoring to go buy groceries and keep Director Tan and the staff at home for dinner, Director Tan looked at Qiao Manwen.

"Mrs. Xu, your three children are easy to deal with, but Qiao Manwen is hard to deal with. After all, his parents are still in the cadre school, and their household registration was moved from Tianjin. I can only try my best to prevent her from affecting your Aihua!"

The joyful atmosphere in the room suddenly died down.

Qiao Manwen smiled calmly and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't affect Aihua. I know the situation well. The most important thing is to participate. I will be satisfied if I can pass the preliminaries!"

Xu Yan looked embarrassed.

Qiao Manwen is the most bookish of the couple. It would be a pity if his family lost a college student because of the political review. Moreover, it would not be a big deal for the couple to live apart in the future as Li Aihua goes to college in Beijing and Qiao Manwen returns to the military corps.

Looking at Li Muhua, Xu Yan asked tentatively: "Muhua, how about you take a look?"

Qiao Manwen said first: "Mom, I am just an ordinary candidate, no different from me!"

Li Aihua also advised: "Mom, the college entrance examination is a major event that affects everyone's life. We can't rely on our own connections to justify and squeeze out the life that originally belonged to others."

"Besides, there's nothing shameful about the Manwen family's files. Let's leave everything to the review team!"

Seeing that both he and his wife said so, Xu Yan had no choice but to nod in agreement. She then asked Director Tan to stay for dinner, but Director Tan declined, saying that he had to go somewhere else to report the good news.

Everyone saw Director Tan off.

Li Aihua turned her head to look at Xu Yan and said seriously, "Mom, please don't say such things again in the future. Our family and Manwen's family are in very special situations. We obviously haven't done anything to harm the public and benefit ourselves."

"If you say that, others will really think that we are people who harm the public for personal gain!"

Xu Yan disagreed a little and said, "I don't mean to benefit myself at the expense of the public. I just want to find someone to explain to Manwen that she shouldn't be delayed from taking college entrance exams because of her parents' problems."

Li Aihua asked back: "Then how do you think it should be explained?"

“Should we cover up those facts, or let the admissions office turn a blind eye to those facts?”

Seeing that Li Aihua dared to question her, Xu Yan said angrily: "I don't know who told me that Manwen's family was wronged, and told me not to care about her family's situation and to pay more attention to her as a person."

"Now that we have the evidence, everything is true!" Xu Yan looked at Li Aihua angrily.

Li Aihua stiffened her neck and wanted to explain further, but Qiao Manwen pulled Li Aihua.

Li Muhua interrupted, "Mom, my sister-in-law is also afraid of affecting me, she is kind-hearted!"

Xu Yan glanced at Li Muhua in annoyance and said unhappily, "Come on, come on, come on, you all have good intentions. I'm the only one who has bad intentions when I want to find someone to help your sister-in-law go to college."

After that, Xu Yan walked towards the courtyard angrily. Qiao Manwen said to Li Aihua angrily, "Can't you talk to our mother properly?"

"If you insist on using those official terms, I don't know where you learned them from."

Seeing Li Yujie chasing after her, they felt more at ease, knowing that she had a way to coax Xu Yan.

Li Muhua was somewhat surprised by Li Aihua and Qiao Manwen's attitudes. They obviously attached great importance to this college entrance examination and believed that it was an opportunity to change their destiny.

It's really amazing that he could suppress his desire to try to find a way out and create a future for himself.

Li Muhua's eyes turned slightly, and he said casually: "After this exam, I don't know how many young talents will be replaced by the sons of parasites, and I don't know how many black five categories like my sister-in-law will not have the opportunity to enter the university just because of some unfounded crimes."

Hearing Li Muhua's implication, Li Aihua scolded angrily: "Stop talking about this. I don't care what others do. Anyway, we want to get into university with dignity."

Qiao Manwen patted Li Aihua in annoyance, wanting him to speak properly to Li Muhua.

Then he looked at Li Muhua and whispered, "My father told me that power is given by the people, so those in power should use it to serve the people. If power is abused, it will get out of control and backfire, and those in power will become slaves of power. If they go against the people because of greed for power, the people will take back the power they have given them."

"Just like you guys have been working in the countryside for nearly ten years without using your connections to get transferred back to the city, I actually admire you for being able to do that, so I don't want you to squander your power just because I'm in college."

After hearing this, Li Aihua looked a little proud and gestured to Li Muhua to learn more.

Li Muhua said unhappily, "I am pessimistic about what my sister-in-law said. A gentleman will always walk alone when he is poor. This proves that your father-in-law cannot defeat those revolutionaries."

After finishing speaking, Li Muhua looked at Qiao Manwen and said, "Sister-in-law, it's not that I don't want to be transferred back, but someone above me doesn't allow it. Someone also forced us to join the team in the first place."

"It's probably because I didn't join the Red Hoops and didn't stand up to criticize others later, so some people hold a grudge against me. Then I'm smart and know that this situation can't be sustained, so I just stay in the countryside and enjoy my life!"

After listening to this, Qiao Manwen looked at Li Aihua with some confusion. She didn't expect that this was the reason why several people were not transferred back to the city. It turned out that she was overthinking.

Li Muhua looked at Li Aihua again.

Li Aihua applied to the Philosophy Department of Peking University and he definitely wanted to go into politics in the future. Li Muhua wanted to persuade him not to follow his father-in-law's example and she had a lot of tips on how to be an official that she wanted to share with him.

But thinking of the words he had said to persuade the two brothers when they went to the countryside, Li Muhua kept silent again. He felt that what he said might not be right, and walked back dejectedly.

Li Aihua saw the surprise on Qiao Manwen's face, pulled her aside and explained, starting from when Li Muhua stopped them from becoming red hoops -

After hearing everything, Qiao Manwen's eyes became even more surprised, because judging from Li Muhua's arrangements, he had almost perfectly avoided all wrong choices in the past ten years.

He firmly believed that all this would eventually pass and that the college entrance examination would definitely be resumed. The specific time was known one year in advance. Qiao Manwen did not think that Li Muhua had received any news.

You have to know that the Gang of Four was still in power at that time, and General Deng, who proposed to resume the college entrance examination, had not resumed his post, and everything was still in chaos.

All this can only prove that Li Muhua has an extraordinary vision. After thinking about everything, Qiao Manwen asked in a low voice: "Why don't you ask Muhua about my parents——"

Li Aihua seemed to have known that she would ask this question, and smiled and said, "Do you think my little brother is very smart, has a very high political acumen and a vision for long-term development?"

Seeing Qiao Manwen nod in agreement, Li Aihua continued, "Two years ago, when I knew your identity, I asked me if I wanted to take advantage of someone's misfortune and marry a noblewoman in distress to live off her."

As Li Aihua spoke, a smile appeared on her face. She found Li Muhua's words very funny.

"He also said that your parents' case will be vindicated!"

Qiao Manwen nodded with a hint of joy at first, then when he saw that they were the only two people left at the door, he asked in a low voice, "Tell the truth, are you speculating?"

Li Aihua shook her head and said seriously, "I asked about this after we got the marriage certificate because I didn't want it to affect my emotional judgment."

After hearing this, Qiao Manwen spat and said, "What kind of emotional judgment is this? It's obviously lust after beauty!"

"Yes, yes, I was tempted by your beauty..." Li Aihua agreed with a smile.

The two of them joked around for a while, and Qiao Manwen asked curiously, "Since your brother has such a high political acumen, why didn't he study philosophy or something like that to go into politics, but chose to study engineering instead?"

"For someone of his status, entering politics should be much easier than for you, right?"

Li Aihua was a little embarrassed after hearing this and said, "He told me that all cadres say they serve the people, so he wants to be the people!"

Qiao Manwen was choked by this sentence for a moment, because it echoed her previous principles.

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