Suddenly, as if a spring breeze came overnight, there were suddenly fewer educated youths wandering around the streets. The business of bookstores suddenly began to boom. If you walk into any courtyard, you can see young people holding books and reading.
The college entrance examination is coming!
This news has touched the hearts of countless students and educated youths. All workers, farmers, educated youth who have gone to the countryside or returned to the city, demobilized soldiers and fresh graduates, as long as they have graduated from high school or have an equivalent education level, can register on their own.
College entrance examination.
It was night, the stars were twinkling, everything was quiet, the courtyard was pitch dark, only the Han family's lights were still on, and Han's mother looked up at the door from time to time, waiting for her son who returned late.
Half a month ago, news of the resumption of the college entrance examination had vaguely spread to the outside world. However, at that time, the scope of the spread was limited to the middle and upper classes, but there were no friends or relatives in the family. Gradually, the news began to spread uncontrollably to the middle and lower classes.
Since the last conversation, Mother Han had paid special attention to this kind of news, and it wasn't long before she also heard about the resumption of the college entrance examination.
The five children of the Han family, the eldest brother and the eldest sister, did not catch up with the good times. At that time, Han's father passed away suddenly, and the original dual-income family became a single-income family, and the income plummeted.
Several children were waiting for food. The eldest, Han Chunsong, and the second, Han Chunxue, voluntarily gave up their studies. One took Han's father's place and entered the factory, and the other dropped out of school to work to support the family.
By the time Han Chunsheng, the third child, was admitted to college, the family's financial conditions had become better.
In this era, you don’t have to pay tuition to go to college. Not only is it free, but the school will also provide you with a living allowance every month, which is about 15, depending on your family’s circumstances.
Therefore, going to college will not only increase the burden, but also lighten it. But the third child, Han Chunsheng, is not good at studying. He is at the bottom of every exam. With his grades, how can he be admitted to college, let alone college?
I can't even pass the technical secondary school entrance examination.
At that time, there were two options after junior high school, one was to go to high school, and the other was to go to technical secondary school. However, technical secondary schools were not easy to pass and there were quotas, because passing the technical secondary school exams meant transferring one’s household registration and getting a job after graduation.
Especially for rural students, it is one of the few opportunities to change their household registration. A non-agricultural household registration is equivalent to eating royal food in disguise. In addition, they can save three years of schooling. The first choice of many outstanding rural students is to take the technical secondary school entrance examination, and the second choice is to take the college entrance examination.
I am going to a key high school and will be admitted to university in three years.
The opportunity to convert from farming to non-agriculture is infinitely tempting for rural children. Agricultural household registration requires self-raised food and eats self-produced rations - agricultural grain. Non-agricultural household registration eats fixed rations - commercial grain. The household registration system at that time
It is almost hereditary, farmers are born to farm and workers are born to work.
For example, if the same two young people go to serve in the military, one has an agricultural registered permanent residence and the other has a non-agricultural registered permanent residence. The urban child returns from the army and changes his job and goes directly to the factory. The rural child returns from the army and still works in the fields.
At that time, farmers' desire for non-agricultural household registration was beyond the imagination of many people. For most of them, taking the entrance examination was almost the only opportunity to change their previous lives.
In the previously written version, Su Mingyu's mother married Su Daqiang because she wanted a city registered residence.
It is a very honorable thing for a girl from the countryside to marry into the city, no less than a carp leaping over the dragon's gate. However, it is hard to find a girl from the city to marry a girl from the countryside even with a lantern.
In fact, there are special historical reasons for this difference. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was no household registration separation between urban and rural areas. However, this also caused a large number of agricultural people to flock to cities, which caused problems in food, housing, education, and medical care.
A great deal of pressure.
In the 1950s, food shortages persisted throughout. In order to alleviate food pressure, the government implemented a unified purchase and marketing policy in 1953. At that time, there were no mandatory restrictions on population movement, and the officials basically discouraged it.
From 1950 to 1957, the urban population increased from 57.65 million to 99.49 million, of which 16.4 million were natural increases, and the remaining 25.44 million were agricultural people who migrated to cities, which meant that there were suddenly more than 20 million fewer farmers to grow food.
Not only that, there are more than 20 million people who need to be supplied with food. Every addition and subtraction will make the gap huge.
Therefore, in 1958, the government issued the "Household Registration Regulations", which stipulates that "citizens moving from rural areas to cities must hold an employment certificate from the urban labor department, an admission certificate from the school, or a certificate from the urban household registration authority approving the move."
This regulation strictly limited the way to convert agricultural household registration into non-agricultural household registration. Later, the implementation of food stamps, cloth stamps and other vouchers almost prevented the blind influx of rural people into cities.
Because these vouchers are issued based on household registration, the agricultural population does not have urban household registration, and without vouchers, how can they live on? The most they can do is go to the city to find relatives in difficult times.
The book returns to its true story.
The fourth child, Han Chunyan, had good academic performance, but she happened to catch up with the reform of the admissions system. Instead of going to college with good grades, she could go to college based on recommendations.
Lao Han's family didn't have that kind of connections, so the matter of Chunyan going to college was dropped.
Now that the college entrance examination has finally been resumed, the fifth son of the family happens to meet the enrollment requirements. Mother Han hopes that her child will go to college.
The old Han family has never had a college student for generations. College students in this era are truly the pride of heaven, and their money is extremely valuable.
Although the official has not officially announced the resumption of the college entrance examination, more and more gossips have proved that the college entrance examination is really going to resume. Basically, all the qualified young people in the alleys have picked up their books again and started reviewing.
At home and in the workshop, you can see people holding books and studying hard. Some people even gave up their factory jobs and studied at home.
And what about Xiaowuzi?
I still go out early and come back late every day. During the night some time ago, I could occasionally see my children reading, but during this period, I basically can’t see them anymore.
Mother Han saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart. Xiaowuzi's grades were not particularly good to begin with, and they were even partial to academic subjects.
If I continue, even if I take the college entrance examination, I'm afraid it will only be a round trip.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, and Mother Han, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw her son.
After enduring it for so long, Mother Han finally couldn't bear it anymore. She couldn't bear to see her child continue like this. She wanted to have a good talk with her son about "preparing for the exam" today.
‘Preparing for exams’ is the number one priority right now!
Even if you give up your job temporarily, it is not impossible!
This job was inherently hard and tiring. Mother Han tried to persuade her son to change jobs countless times, but there was no good news from her eldest son.
That's why Mother Han kept putting it off, but now it's better, the college entrance examination is coming, and this is the right opportunity.
"Chunming, come here, Mom has something to tell you."
Li Jie walked over obediently and asked: "Mom, what's the matter?"
Mother Han hesitated for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "Chunming, Mom wants to tell you something, and you must promise me!"
"Okay! No problem!"
"Well, starting from tomorrow, you must stay at home for at least half a day to review every day!"