1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 140 Feeding Pigs? You said that, Old Ge!
I don’t know how my father-in-law coaxed my mother-in-law last night, but they went to work together today.

My mother-in-law's face is still flushed!
Cheng Xuemin was stunned!

"Big Boss Cheng, hurry up! We're going to be late, stop dawdling!"

Cheng Xuemin gave instructions to the woman in the room and even brought in a brazier for her, telling her to stay on the bed and not get up. That was it for today.

After Cheng Xuemin finishes his exams, he can focus on taking care of this woman at home!
Moreover, after the final exams, Feng Jiamo will also have winter vacation, and she can also take care of her sister at the same time.

"I know, I know! Go quickly, go quickly! Everyone in the family is urging us!"

Feng Jiayou was also speechless. This man was considerate, but just like what Jiamo said, he was dithering and asking her to do something over and over again. She was not a three-year-old child.

"By the way, remember to send that novella to People's Literature today!"

Seeing Cheng Xuemin nodded and went out, Feng Jiayou, who was curled up in the quilt, also reminded him and said something.

"I know, I know. I'll only have one exam this morning. I'll hand in the paper early and then come back to make lunch for you!"

There was a math test this morning, which was basically junior high school knowledge for Cheng Xuemin, so he could answer it with ease. It was not uncommon for him to hand in the paper an hour early.

So I can hand in the manuscript and send it to People's Literature around nine o'clock.

"Big Boss Cheng, Big Boss Cheng, can you show me the love story of your parents?"

On the way to Yanda University, Feng Jiamo, who was sitting in the back row seat reserved for her sister, started to make trouble again and asked to read the manuscript of "Parents' Love".

"Stop making a fuss and stop grabbing! We're almost late!"

Cheng Xuemin was speechless. He was riding a bicycle, what were you trying to rob?!

"Then tell me, what did you write about my parents?"

"Did you write my mom as a petty bourgeois and pretentious person? Did you write my dad as a very elegant person?"

Row!
Feng Jiamo understands your biological mother!

But Cheng Xuemin disagreed and told her to read the article published in People's Literature herself.

After rushing for a long time, Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiamo finally rushed into the campus when the preparatory bell rang.

"Big Boss Cheng, I'll be back for lunch too, remember to wait for me!"

Without waiting for Cheng Xuemin's bicycle to stop, Feng Jiamo jumped off and rushed to the classroom, saying something to Cheng Xuemin without looking back.

I'm waiting for you!
Cheng Xuemin wished he had the ability to clone himself so he could run back and forth between the two places. How could he have the time to wait for her to come back for dinner?
"Old Cheng, did you know that you got full marks in the English test yesterday? That's great!"

Cheng Xuemin had just rushed into the classroom and sat down at his desk when Ge You, who was standing next to him, saw him and his eyes lit up. He quickly came over to tell him the good news.

"The results came out so soon?"

I took the English test yesterday afternoon and the results are out already?
However, Cheng Xuemin was not surprised at all by the test score, and he felt calm and at peace.

Because the college entrance examination of this era was about the same difficulty as the high school entrance examination a few decades later.

Especially English!
That is simply the foundation of the basics. Believe it or not, if a primary school student from later generations were to take this exam, it would not be surprising for Cheng Xuemin to get a full score.

It is true that in this era, anyone who takes the English test knows the situation.

Anyway, in front of Cheng Xuemin, a top student from a 985 university who passed the English Level test with ease in one try, it's really a piece of cake.

"It's out!" Ge You nodded repeatedly, and smiled without being too proud, "Old Cheng, guess how many points I got in the English test?"

"How much did you get in the exam!?"

Cheng Xuemin turned his head to look over and asked.

But he quickly realized that his question was stupid. Asking Ge You how many points he had taken the exam was a direct insult to the word "test".

You should ask him directly how many points he got by cheating?

Because there was no need to divide the examination room and even the seats did not change, Ge You sat next to Cheng Xuemin to take the exam.

So for the three subjects yesterday, Cheng Xuemin basically wrote one question and Ge You copied one from the side.

The invigilator simply ignored it and said it didn’t matter how the students cheated as long as it didn’t affect other students’ exams!
"80 points!"

"If you hadn't handed in your paper too early yesterday, I wouldn't have had time to copy the English composition. Otherwise, I would have gotten at least 95 points, and would have been second in the class for sure!"

"Amazing, awesome! You got 80 points without even writing an essay! Old Ge, you're even better!"

indeed!

The English composition was worth 20 points, but Lao Ge got 80 points without copying. Does that mean his English composition only consisted of one word, and he didn't write it at all?

"Haha, thanks to you, Mr. Cheng! I'll continue with math in the morning and try to get second place in the class!"

Ge You then laughed out loud!
Okay, why don’t you just say that you tied for first place in the whole grade?
But Cheng Xuemin doesn't care. As long as you are happy, Uncle Ge, that's all.

About half an hour later, Cheng Xuemin finished the entire math paper and prepared to hand it in to People's Literature.

"Old Cheng, Old Cheng, wait! Wait! I haven't finished copying yet!"

Seeing that Cheng Xuemin was about to hand in the paper without even checking it, Ge You, who couldn't even keep up with him in copying, spoke quickly from the side.

"Then, Old Ge, hurry up, it's almost done! I have to go to the Humanities Publishing House in a hurry!"

The paper was held by Lao Ge at a corner, so Cheng Xuemin could only speak hurriedly.

"Right now! Old Cheng, what are you doing at the Humanities Society!?"

"How about I go with you since I have nothing to do?"

While copying it quickly, Lao Ge kept talking to Cheng Xuemin.

“I’m going to submit my article!”

Cheng Xuemin waited for Lao Ge for another ten minutes, and they both handed in their papers.

"You are just deceiving yourself!" The invigilator was the math teacher, Lao Ma. He really couldn't do anything about Lao Ge. He had to watch him cheat and copy right under his nose, and he had no words to say and pretended he didn't see anything.

Seeing that he so blatantly handed in the paper together with Cheng Xuemin, Lao Ge just pointed at him and wanted to scold him but couldn't. He felt so disappointed!

"Teacher Ma, Teacher Ma, I looked at Lao Cheng's test paper, and it must have scored 120 points. Teacher Ma, you have something to brag about again!"

"No more talking! Lao Cheng is going to submit an article to the Humanities Publishing House this time, and I have to go with him. Let's go!"

After slapping the test paper directly on the desk of the math teacher, Lao Ma, Ge You rushed out and chased after him, shouting, "Lao Cheng, wait for me! I'll accompany you to submit your paper to the Humanities Press, and your paper will definitely be accepted!"

"Cheng Xuemin is going to submit a work to the Humanities Publishing House?" Old Ma didn't react for a moment, but when he heard Ge You's shouting outside, he finally reacted. He was speechless and thought to himself, "What the hell?"

Cheng Xuemin is an incredible student. His previous work “The Horse Shepherd” was already a sensation, and now he is going to directly challenge Renwen Press?

"Cheng Xuemin wants to submit his article to Humanities Publishing House?"

Lao Ge's shouting was too loud, and the students were all taking exams, so the whole school was relatively quiet. His shouting was heard directly by Lao Zhang, the head teacher upstairs, and even by the principal's office!
They all stood up at the same time and rushed to the corridor outside to look downstairs.

I just happened to see Cheng Xuemin, who was almost out of the school gate on his bicycle!

"Lao Zhang, Cheng Xuemin in your class has written another manuscript. Is he going to submit it to Renwen Publishing House this time?" The other teachers who were alarmed all looked at the head teacher Lao Zhang and asked.

"probably!"

What can Lao Zhang say?

Although Cheng Xuemin was a student in his class, he only attended classes in his class obediently for a few days during the first few days of school.

We can hardly see him later. I don't know if he has written any articles recently or what they are. As the class teacher, Mr. Zhang is also in the dark and I don't know if it's good or not.

"Old Ge, are you really giving up and not going to take the exam?"

Cheng Xuemin knew why Lao Ge was so desperate, because he had no intention of taking the college entrance examination next year.

His family didn't expect him to get into college, so they were already looking for ways to send him to a cultural troupe.

"Yes! If I had your strength, Old Cheng, of course I would take the test! Even if I had half your strength, Old Cheng, I would still take the test!"

"But the truth is, I'm not good at studying at all!"

While pedaling his bicycle, he said to Cheng Xuemin bitterly, "There's also that art troupe my dad found for me, and there's also a crappy interview exam. My dad can't help me with this, I have to do it myself!"

"But I don't know how to do that!"

"How about Lao Cheng, can you give me some advice on how I should take this interview?"

"Interview test?! About talent?" Cheng Xuemin was stunned when he heard that. He then went over it in his mind and found that there was indeed some relevant memory content.

Feed the pigs?!
What Cheng Xuemin didn't expect was that the talent test for Lao Ge's interview to join the art troupe was to perform feeding pigs, which really surprised him.

"Yes! It's about talent!" Ge You continued bitterly.

"Talent is easy! Just do whatever you are good at?!"

Cheng Xuemin suppressed his smile and continued to ask, "How is your singing, Lao Ge?"

"Old Cheng, do you think my tone-deaf voice can do it?"

"... Then there must be one thing like dancing or other musical instruments, right?"

"Old Cheng, do you think raising and feeding pigs is okay? This is what I am good at!" Suddenly, Ge You brought this up out of the blue, which made Cheng Xuemin burst out laughing.

"Raising pigs and feeding pigs...if the performance is good, I think it's okay!"

Since Lao Ge said it himself, he must have had a plan in mind and had thought it through long ago.

It's just that raising and feeding pigs doesn't seem to have anything in common with talent shows, right?
"Old Cheng, do you really think it's possible?"

Instead, it was Lao Ge who asked seriously, and it seemed that he had already decided to raise and feed pigs.

Then there’s nothing to say!
In another time and space, Lao Ge was originally performing raising and feeding pigs, and successfully passed the interview test of the art troupe in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin had to encourage Lao Ge!

"Sure! You can definitely do it! It just so happens that you, Old Ge, raised pigs when you were sent to the countryside as an educated youth. You know more about this than anyone else, and you can raise and feed pigs better than anyone else. I think you can do it!"

"That's fine! Then let's raise pigs and feed them! Old Cheng, I'm not bragging to you, I really have a lot of experience when it comes to raising pigs!"

"Old Cheng, do you know that boar piglets must be castrated when they are one month old?"

"Old Cheng, do you know that we are going to castrate the boars or something?! Exactly..."

Old Ge, please stop it!

Suddenly talking about this to Cheng Xuemin made Cheng Xuemin feel a chill in his trouser pocket.

At about ten o'clock, Cheng Xuemin and Ge You rushed to the Renwen Society!

"Xuemin, you're here?! I have two manuscript fee receipts. Take them back later!"

This is cool!
Now coming to People's Literature, the first thing editor-in-chief Zhang Guangnian says when he sees Cheng Xuemin greeting him is definitely the payment receipt.

The truth is that "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" was reprinted and published in too many newspapers and magazines. Although most of them were just pretending to be ignorant and getting something for free, there were still some quite conscious publications that would give Cheng Xuemin little surprises from time to time.

"Okay, okay, thank you, Teacher Zhang!" Cheng Xuemin quickly took it and said to Zhang Guangnian, "Teacher Zhang, I'm here to submit my manuscript. Can you help me review it?"

After saying that, Cheng Xuemin put the manuscript fee receipt aside and took out the thick stack of manuscript paper from his briefcase.

"Submit an article? Xuemin, you don't have time recently..."

“So thick?”

Zhang Guangnian was stunned when he heard this. When he asked Cheng Xuemin to write an article in person before, didn't he say that he was too busy recently because his mother-in-law was watching him closely?
Why did you come back to submit your manuscript again? And the manuscript is so thick, it must be more than 100,000 or 200,000 words, right?
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(End of this chapter)