Chapter 428: Chapter 428: College Entrance Exam Preparatory Class

Qiu Linghua took a while to snap out of it, then she rushed at Kong Lijuan, shouting, "You little wretch, you cause trouble once a day!"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started fighting.

The child fell headfirst off the bed and instantly lost consciousness.

Kong Lijuan’s face turned pale with fright, she kicked Qiu Linghua away, rushed to her son, picked him up, and ran to Xu Qinghuan’s house.

"Xu Qinghuan, please save my son!"

The house was crowded with young educated people studying, who quickly moved to the east wing as if doing underground work.

"What’s going on?"

Xu Qinghuan was annoyed looking at Kong Lijuan but felt sorry for the child.

Such a young child having accidents all the time, what a poor fate.

"He fell!" Kong Lijuan couldn’t even speak.

Holding her child, she was trembling all over.

Xu Qinghuan took the child from her arms, examined him, then laid him on the bed, first gave him a pill the size of a soybean, and then jabbed several of his acupuncture points with needles; after a while, the child woke up and started crying loudly.

Kong Lijuan staggered and threw herself onto the bed edge, crying, "If you don’t make it, Mom doesn’t want to live either!"

Only then did Xu Qinghuan notice her, looking like she had fought someone, with several blood traces on her face, messy hair, and torn clothes, in a complete disarray.

Xu Qinghuan removed the needles, "The child is fine now, keep a better eye on him, don’t let something happen every day."

Only then did Kong Lijuan thank Xu Qinghuan, "Thank you!"

She took out more than two yuan, "This is all the money I have."

Xu Qinghuan accepted the money, "Go home, it’s cold, keep the child warm."

After that day, Kong Lijuan came to Xu Qinghuan’s house to study every day, no matter how they tried to drive her away, she wouldn’t leave.

At first, everyone was very uncomfortable, but over time, it was hard not to be moved by her persistence, she studied very seriously.

Her child was also very well-behaved, sometimes he would fuss, but Kong Lijuan wouldn’t care for him, Xu Qinghuan would give him something to eat and drink, and he would stop crying, playing with a toy by himself for most of the day.

Jiang Xingcan often observed him, probably couldn’t imagine how could a child be this quiet.

Spring came in April, after a winter’s hibernation in the Northeast, this season was time to prepare for sowing.

Shangjiang Team used tractors for plowing, Dong Liangcheng directly organized several members to prep the fields, without arranging work for the young educated people.

At this time, as long as the young educated people asked for leave, the production team and factory would approve.

Everyone in Shangjiang Team knew, the young educated people were anxiously reviewing, preparing for the college entrance exams.

Jiang Xingcan and Jiang Chijing wore lighter clothing, they started walking.

The few children played together.

Kong Lijuan’s child was clearly not sociable, a very silent child.

When Xu Qinghuan distributed fruit, the other children would grab for it, but this child would quietly stand at the back, drooling while watching, yet wouldn’t step forward to ask.

He seemed to know, this world didn’t have much kindness for him.

Xu Qinghuan always saved the biggest piece for him, "Yangyang is especially good, Yangyang gets the biggest piece."

Every time at this point, he would shyly smile, looking at Xu Qinghuan with glistening eyes.

Jiang Xingcan was a domineering little girl, as long as she saw Mom being nice to Sun Shuangyang, she would get jealous, come over and squeeze the child, occupying Mom’s embrace.

But, it must be said, after this child stayed with Xu Qinghuan for a while, he improved a lot, didn’t get sick anymore, gained some weight, and his temperament brightened a little.

Gradually, the situation was changing, everyone could feel it.

In the past, eggs could only be sold to the procurement station, now, eggs brought to the city, people would come to buy them voluntarily, the price is much better than the procurement station, at least there’s no intentional price suppression.

Chen Dewen returned from Shen City in March, saying that on the streets over there, there were already individual businesses selling stuff, pushing carts selling steamed buns and bread.

Chen Dewen couldn’t get all the money back; after communicating with the organization, each department store compensated a little, totaling around three to four thousand yuan, far from the million agreed in the contract, but this was free money.

Regarding this compensation, Jiang Xingye followed the factory’s regulations, gave a three percent commission to Chen Dewen.

Regular sales usually have a one percent commission, but for compensation funds, account settling is much more cumbersome than regular sales, definitely couldn’t follow regular sales commission.

Therefore, Xu Qinghuan proposed a three percent commission. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Otherwise, no one would want to pursue these compensation funds.

Chen Dewen went on this trip, got a thousand yuan, spent a bit inside, but still had over eight hundred yuan, covered the costs.

He was quite happy about it.

"Policies are definitely changing, in the future, if you can’t get into a factory, doing some small business is also a way." Chen Dewen sat in Jiang Family’s hall discussing with several confidants.

"I really want to see how it is in the city now." Qiao Xinyu yearned.

"Anyway, the trend is opening up." Chen Dewen replied.

"In the future, it will only get better!" Xu Qinghuan encouraged.

"Yes, it will definitely get better." Chen Dewen rubbed his hair, "Brother Ye, are you still doing business over in Shen City?"

Jiang Xingye said, "It’s up to you, depending on how you want to arrange it. If you want to do it, follow the normal process, there are so many cities in the country for you to choose from. If you don’t want to do it, just study well at home, you’ve been out alone for quite some time, it’s been tough, and you’ve fallen behind in studies."

Chen Dewen didn’t want to study, he was a dropout, already a father, how could he possibly focus on studying?

Qiao Xinyu slapped him over, "You better study well at home, almost everyone in this session will pass the exams, if you don’t pass, you’ll be the only one left in Shangjiang Team."

"That serious?" Chen Dewen was scared to death.

Xu Qinghuan said, "First, do the ’Self-study Series’ well, and then the essays we discussed, let Xinyu explain them to you, write them well, I’ll help you review them."

She looked at Jiang Xingye, "Once the policies are finalized, our team will start a tutoring class, I’ll help everyone with some pre-exam preparation."

The factory had a stencil machine, that thing was quite simple, just needed wax paper and ink, Xu Qinghuan had Jiang Xingye buy some wax paper back, she took time to stencil test papers at home.

The whole Shangjiang Team’s college entrance exam preparation consequently started bustlingly.

Xu Qinghuan summarized math, physics, and chemistry problems, based on different question types, printed a set of papers for each subject every day, with question quantity similar to the college entrance exams.

But one set of papers was basically one type of question.

With such repeated practice, almost everyone’s ability improved by leaps and bounds.

Each day, Xu Qinghuan would just correct Jiang Xingye’s papers, his papers were almost always full marks, then everyone would correct their answers against Jiang Xingye’s papers, if really couldn’t understand, they would ask Jiang Xingye or Xu Qinghuan.

Generally, the men would consult Jiang Xingye, the women would consult Xu Qinghuan.

Among the new young educated people, only Cao Xiurong and Fang Boran integrated, the other young educated people didn’t know what they were thinking, actively working every day, not spending time on studying.

Xu Qinghuan was extremely puzzled.

Cao Xiurong said indifferently, "What are they thinking, they just think that since policies aren’t finalized yet, after going to the countryside, we have little experience, if we upset the production team, we might be sent away to farm. Even in the city, they would be working in a factory, in Shangjiang Team, the treatment in all aspects is better, as long as there’s work, why study?"