Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

Among the eight-person study group, only He Jiankun and Cai Yanran did not receive an admission letter.

Cai Yanran burst into tears at home. When she had cried enough, she choked up and said to Xu Jianmei, "Mom, I studied very hard. Why did they all pass the exam, but I didn't?"

Xu Jianmei comforted her, "Don't worry, my girl. I heard there are colleges and technical schools out there. If you wait a few days, you might get good news."

Cai Yanran stamped her feet and said, "Your estimated score was clearly above the college admission score line, how could this happen?"

Xu Jianmei had no choice but to comfort her: "I, your mother, don't understand these things either. Let's go ask Huizhen later. Huizhen knows everything."

As for He Jiankun, he has been frowning and unhappy these days. He Daqing felt very distressed when he saw his grandson. He comforted him and said, "Grandson, it doesn't matter if you don't pass the exam. Your father said that the policy will be relaxed next year and individual business will be allowed. I have discussed with your father and we will open a restaurant in our house in Beihai. You will be the shopkeeper and I will protect you in the kitchen. I guarantee that you will make more money than your brothers and sisters."

He Jiankun said with a sad face: "Grandpa, it doesn't matter how much money I make. I can't afford to lose face. My elder sister and my younger brothers and sisters all passed the exam, but I failed. I feel ashamed to face people."

He Daqing: "Hey, what's the big deal? Your mother said that taking the college entrance exam is like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Go ask around in the alleys and see how many people have passed. There are 360 ​​professions, and every profession has its top talent. If you all go to college, who will inherit my cooking skills? Grandson, you can study cooking and carry forward our family's cooking skills."

On this day, Xu Huizhen was at work when two PLA comrades in military uniforms came to the neighborhood committee with briefcases under their arms.

Xu Huizhen quickly stood up to greet them, "Comrade from the People's Liberation Army, may I ask what brings you to our neighborhood committee?"

One of the PLA soldiers said, "We are from the Nanjing Political College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Among the students recruited this year, there is one named He Jiankun who is from your jurisdiction. We are here to conduct a political review on him."

Xu Huizhen slapped her thigh and said happily: "Comrade from the People's Liberation Army, I am the director of the Daqianmen Residential Committee. My name is Xu Huizhen, and He Jiankun happens to be my son."

The PLA said, "Oh, what a coincidence."

Master Ge was also happy for Xu Huizhen. He said, "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, you don't know that Director Xu's family already has three college students, one from Tsinghua University, one from Peking University, and one from Beijing Normal University. If you add He Jiankun, that makes four."

The PLA said: "Director Xu is a good parent!"

Xu Huizhen asked: "No, no, it's all because of the children. By the way, my family is involved, do I need to avoid it?"

The PLA said, "How about this, Director Xu, please go back and ask He Jiankun to come to the neighborhood committee. We want to meet him. Ask other comrades in the neighborhood committee to cooperate with our political review work."

So Xu Huizhen handed the work over to Master Ge and hurried home. She wanted to tell her son the good news as soon as possible.

The children's aspirations were all recommended by Xu Huizhen. It seems that my son did not apply to this school? I guess he was transferred to this school.

The admission work nowadays is not like that of later generations, where it is operated by computers. It is done manually. The education department has great power. If a student is not admitted to the first choice, they have the right to transfer to other schools.

Just like that, not long after, He Jiankun also received an admission letter from the Nanjing Political College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Even after the admissions process was completed, Cai Yanran still hadn't received a letter of admission. She didn't even get into a technical secondary school.

Cai Quanwu brought his daughter Cai Yanran to Xu Huizhen's house and told her the situation. Xu Huizhen frowned and thought.

Cai Yanran said that her estimated score exceeded the university admission score by more than 20 points, but there was a slight error, and her gender would not be a problem for her to go to a junior college or technical secondary school. What is the problem?

Xu Huizhen asked, "Yanran, did you write your name on every exam?"

Cai Yanran said: "Of course, as you instructed, I will write my name first after receiving the test paper."

Xu Huizhen nodded. The college entrance examination was very strict, and she had never heard of anyone missing a score in her two lives. However, in her previous life, she heard that some people impersonated others to go to college when the college entrance examination was just resumed.

She said to herself, "Could it be that someone has impersonated me?"

Cai Quanwu was surprised and asked, "What? Someone replaced him?"

Xu Huizhen said, "It shouldn't be possible. We are in the capital, under the feet of the emperor, in a clear and bright place. Who would be so bold as to do such a thing? That's like an old lady eating arsenic and getting tired of living."

He Yuzhu comforted her, "Yanran, if it really doesn't work, let's go home and continue reviewing and take the exam again next year."

Cai Yanran nodded helplessly.

But Cai Quan didn't take this to heart, and asked, "Huizhen, what do you mean by impersonation?"

Xu Huizhen said: "Someone just took someone else's admission letter and went to school in their place."

Cai Quanwu frowned and thought: "That is to say, I might have been admitted by Yanran, but the admission letter was stolen by someone else."

Xu Huizhen said: "This possibility is very small. We are not in a remote mountainous area. The risk of impersonation is very high. For example, if someone takes Cai Yanran's admission letter and goes to school, then she will be called Cai Yanran. What if someone in the same school knows Cai Yanran and doesn't recognize her name? How big is the risk of being exposed?"

He Yuzhu said: "Maybe they think it's a duplicate name. Look at the names of Jianguo, Jiefang, and Yuanchao. How many are there in the country?"

Xu Huizhen said: "The surname Cai is not a common surname, and the chance of having the same name as someone else is very small. Besides, the person who dares to take the place of someone else must have connections in the Education Bureau. Officials are not fools and would not do such a stupid thing."

Cai Quanwu still didn't give up. He went to the Education Bureau the next day to check Cai Yanran's test scores, but he was turned down.

The staff member said, "If you didn't receive the admission letter, you didn't pass the exam. Where do you think this is? You can check it whenever you want. If so many candidates come to check their scores like you, wouldn't it be a mess?"

There was no choice but for Cai Quanwu to return dejectedly.

After hearing this, Xu Huizhen said to Cai Quanwu, "If Cai Yanran was really replaced by someone else, it's useless for you to check with the Education Bureau. The person who did this must be powerful, and the Education Bureau must have been silenced. But after school starts, you can check with the school. Yanran applied to the Beijing University of Political Science and Law, so you can go to the school and see if there is a student named Cai Yanran registered."

Cai Quanwu nodded and said, "No matter what, after school starts, I have to go to school to check it out, so that I can feel at ease."