After a simple rebirth

When we arrived at my sister's house, the third child was already asleep, while the eldest and second child were still watching cartoons, this time "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

Fu Yu was cleaning up the toys that the children had played with on the floor.

Fu Ying squatted down to help clean up. She didn't quite know what went where, but she knew that toys would definitely go together and books would go together.

After cleaning up, her sister sat back on the bed. Fu Ying took a small wooden stool and sat on it and began to ask her sister.

"Sister, are you planning to take Wang Ruizhong and the others to school here, or take them back to their hometown to study?"

Fu Yu has three children, the eldest is a boy named Wang Ruizhong, the second is a girl named Wang Ruiya, and the third is a boy named Wang Ruixuan. The eldest was born in 08 and is about to go to kindergarten.

"He should go back to his hometown to study. Wang Ruizhong can go to the nearby kindergarten in September to study for two years, and then go back when he is ready to go to elementary school," Fu Yu replied.

This is also the current situation of many migrant workers in Guangdong Province. When children are young, they try to keep them with them. When they are old enough to go to school or can take care of themselves, they will let them go to school in their hometown. If there are elderly people at home, they will ask them to take care of them. If there are no elderly people at home, they will ask relatives to help look after them.

Fu Ying thought about it and asked, "Where are you going to live when you return?"

"Live at Wang Ruizhong's grandparents' house. Your brother-in-law and his family haven't separated yet."

"Then why don't you go back to Gumang? Our house is empty, no one lives there. If you go back home and live there, it will be convenient for Wang Ruizhong and his family to study."

Fu Yu did not answer her sister's question directly. She continued to sew cloth in her hands. It was a diaper for her youngest son. It was hard to dry after washing in the south wind. She knew that after a woman got married, she would only live in her husband's house. How many would always go back to her parents' house? Not to mention whether her brothers from her parents' house had any objections or whether her relatives had any gossips, Wang Ruizhong's father would definitely not be happy. With his stingy and face-loving personality, he would definitely lose his temper and make a scene if he went back to her parents' house.

"It's too early now, let's wait two years and see what happens."

Fu Ying still didn't want to give up and continued to try to persuade her sister.

"You can take them home to live with you in advance, and I will go back with you. I am going to tell my parents that I can go back to my hometown to repeat my third year of junior high school. Some of my classmates have transferred back to their hometowns to study, saying that they can't get into high school here, so they have to go back to their hometowns to take the exam."

15-year-old Fu Ying had no idea and had never thought about this. Her parents didn't know about these policies, and her school teachers didn't mention them. But this didn't stop 28-year-old Fu Ying from pretending to have learned about it from her classmates, just to remind her parents to learn about it and prepare for her return home.

Fu Yu was stunned. She knew that students here could not enter local primary and junior high schools, so her younger brothers and sisters could only go to private schools farther away. But she didn’t know that if she studied in junior high school here, she would not be able to pass the high school entrance exam!

"Have you asked the teacher? Did the teacher say that you can't take the exam here anymore? Did your classmate's family say that because they want them to go back to their hometown to take the exam? Why didn't you tell them a few days ago?"

Fu Ying had never asked the teacher. She just "came back" yesterday and didn't even go to school! So yesterday was Saturday? Or was it a holiday? Fu's parents didn't say it was a holiday.

"I haven't asked the teacher yet. I just heard about it two days ago. They have to go back before June 6.15th. It seems they are going to take the college entrance examination."

Fu Ying also asked her sister what day it was today.

Fu Yu took out what is commonly known as an old-fashioned phone, and the small screen showed, Xinmao (Rabbit), June 2011, 6, Wednesday.

So yesterday was May 2011, 5, and I returned to “today” 31 years ago.

Is there anything special about May 5st?

Fu Yu's question interrupted Fu Ying's thoughts.

"If it is confirmed that we cannot take the exam here, do we also have to go back to our hometown before the 15th?"

Fu Ying shook her head. "I don't know. They are from Hunan Province. In our school, only Fu Zhe, Fu Peng and I are from Yunnan Province. Now I am the only one who is about to enter high school."

Fu Peng, Fu Ying and Fu Zhe are from the same village, but they are not from the same family. Fu Ying's grandfather moved to Gumang from another town and married Fu's second wife, Grandma Fu, and settled there. Fu Peng and Fu Ying were classmates. Fu Peng's parents made him transfer schools several times, and he failed to keep up with the studies, so he was held back in Fu Zhe's class.

So the entire Fu family knew nothing about the high school entrance exam, and it all depended on Fu Ying to figure it out.