Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

There were many strange phenomena in the college entrance examination that year when Xu Dacan and his classmates took the exam: father and son took the exam together, brother and sister took the exam together, husband and wife took the exam together, teacher and student took the exam together, uncle and nephew took the exam together, etc.

Moreover, the age range of the candidates is also very wide, with the youngest being 40 or years old and the oldest being nearly years old.

In the end, older candidates accounted for the majority of those who went to college.

From now on, there will never be another class of students like Xu Dacan and his classmates, who generally have grassroots survival experience; nor will there be another class of students like them, who study in an almost self-abuse way.

Looking back over the next few decades, there may not be anyone else like them who can personally experience the opportunities and changes that the resumption of the college entrance examination has brought to their lives.

Just like the rabbits suffering from "fear of insufficient firepower", they also suffer from "knowledge hunger"; they cherish the opportunity to study in college very much, and study wholeheartedly to the point of almost "madness".

"..."

After happily accompanying the children for a whole winter vacation, Xu Dacan dawdled until the day of registration before reluctantly returning to school.

As soon as Xu Dacan opened the door of the dormitory, a book was thrown at his head. He grabbed it and took a look. It turned out to be "Statistics and Management".

Xu Dacan yelled at Shi Lei, who was lying on the upper bunk and destroying the house like a Husky, "What are you doing? There's still half a semester left, so why not?"

When Shi Lei heard that the voice was his, he turned around with a sly look on his face and said, "Brother Dacan, I'm going to prepare to go into battle lightly."

Xu Dacan dusted off the book and asked impatiently, "For example?"

Shi Lei pointed to the pile of things on the old fox's bed and said, "For example, take the useless but still valuable things home, and get rid of the useless and worthless things, so as to save the trouble of moving to a new dormitory later."

This guy was admitted to graduate school. Don't think he is talking nonsense. In 79, the Jiaotong University established my country's first master's program for training logistics management talents - Material Management Engineering.

As for Xu Dacan and his fellow undergraduates, according to the policy promulgated in 1981, they will also be the first batch of bachelor's degree recipients after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 77.

Caught off guard, Shi Lei filled the cup again. Xu Dacan gave him a middle finger, then sat at the table and continued to watch him destroy the house.

Just as I was watching, the boss pushed the door open.

Xu Dacan and Shi Lei turned their gazes to Zhang Tao at the same time. They hadn't seen him for a while, and this guy looked more haggard.

Zhang Tao put down his luggage and sat beside the table, staring blankly.

Shi Lei saw this and stopped destroying the house. He jumped off the bed, and Xu Dacan poured him a glass of water: "How is it, have all the problems been solved this time when you go home?"

Zhang Tao silently took the jar and held it in his hands, not saying anything for a long time.

Shi Lei was anxious: "Oh, I can't be this anxious with you! You're going to drive me crazy!"

Zhang Tao then spoke up: "It's all resolved. Let's get a divorce."

Everyone had guessed this result, so it was not surprising. It was too easy to make the choice between staying in Beijing and getting married.

But the slap in the face came so quickly. Just as Zhang Tao was talking about how difficult the past four years were for him, and how his ex-wife didn't understand him, and even used various reasons to force him...

At this time, Xiao Jizi pushed the door open.

Seeing that they were all back, Xiao Jizi was happy at first, but then became sad: "Wu Lange will not be back this semester. He found a good job in his hometown."

Hometown? Anshan? Is there any decent workplace there besides Anshan Iron and Steel?

Zhang Tao was very confused and questioned Xiao Jizi loudly: "Didn't he already tell the Highway Bureau about this? What's going on?"

Xiao Jizi felt a little aggrieved: "Boss, don't yell at me, I just heard it from the old class teacher; the old class teacher said that Wu Lange's child was sick, and he felt it was unfair to let his wife take care of it alone at home, so he made this choice."

Xiao Jizi's words undoubtedly slapped Zhang Tao hard in the face.

The old fox, that is, Wu Lan, is usually good at calculating and scheming. He does everything with a strong purpose and even behaves a little selfishly.

When Zhang Tao and his friends teased the old fox privately, they said, "If it were a war, he would have most likely become a traitor."

Only now did he realize that the clown was actually himself...

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Xu Dacan changed the subject and said, "Little Chicken, didn't you say you were going on a blind date during the Chinese New Year? Did you find anyone suitable?"

Xiao Jizi hesitated: "Brother Dacan, I met that girl, she is quite simple. But I feel that I have nothing in common with her. I don't look down on her, I just..."

Seeing that Xiao Jizi was about to speak incoherently again, Xu Dacan comforted him, "I understand. The country has already arranged a match for you. The college entrance examination screened out nearly 95% of the people. The ones you see casually on campus are all among the less than 5%. You can marry one of them with your eyes closed and it won't be too bad."

Shi Lei's eyes lit up: "Brother Dacan is right. We should also be of equal status in terms of ideology! You have higher standards, so of course you don't like the girls in your village."

But to be honest, Xiao Jizi is pretty miserable. After four years of college, he is about to graduate, but he is still a single dog and has never had sex...

All the people he likes look down on him, such as Jiang Ling, Cheng Fei, and Zhang Xiangxiang.

That’s right, it was Shi Lei’s ex-girlfriend Zhang Xiangxiang. They broke up.

But what is strange is that after they broke up, instead of hoping the other would die immediately, they introduced each other to other people.

Shi Lei didn't know how he convinced Xiao Jizi, but Zhang Xiangxiang still didn't like him...

"..."

When the new semester started, students began to leave early one after another.

They all reported to their units in advance as required by their superiors, and would only come back to take exams and defend their graduation thesis when they graduate in May.

The top priority at the beginning of this semester is to write a paper.

At this time, writing a paper really depends entirely on handwriting.

There are no computers or printers, and almost all reference materials come from academic journals, so even the process of checking for plagiarism is omitted.

Because high-quality papers have already been thoroughly studied by professors, there is no need to go online. They can just take your paper and take a look at it to know whether it was written by you.

The most torturous thing for the people in Xu Dacan’s dormitory was writing big-character posters.

Don't get me wrong, this "big-character poster" is completely different from what Liu Haizhong did during that period.

Instead, after the paper was finalized, college students hand-copied the big-character posters themselves to prepare for the defense.

Just this one job can drive people to death!

The school required that the copied papers must be clean and neat, just like they were printed! If you made a mistake in writing one word, you had to rewrite the whole paper! In order to get high scores in the big-character posters for the defense, the top students in Xu Dacan's class started practicing big characters early on, just so that when the time came, they could really write like what was printed.