Reborn in 1977

With a move akin to the "Great Shift of the Universe," Chen Fan deflected the thorny issue, quashing the Team Leader Yang's idea of starting a pottery factory. Afterward, Team Leader Yang and the others patiently focused on the exam venue.

Whether they could secure one of the two veterinarian positions depended on finding promising candidates here. Otherwise, they would have to follow Chen Fan's training at the brigade headquarters and become a team doctor.

It wasn't that being a team doctor was bad. In any case, it was a skilled occupation, better than toiling in the fields.

However, not being able to take charge was a personal matter concerning the individual's treatment, but whether or not there was a certified veterinarian was a matter of face for the entire team, so they naturally had to pay attention.

Furthermore, who specifically obtained this position was also very important, as it concerned the prestige of the three families. No one wanted someone from another family to stand out.

With such cross-examination, the possibility of candidates cheating was completely eliminated.

After finishing the first subject, Chinese, it was almost lunchtime.

All the candidates went home to eat, while Chen Fan stayed at Team Leader Yang's house for a simple meal.

After lunch, the exam continued.

While the people outside were taking the exam in the cold wind, Chen Fan was in the house, grading papers by the stove.

He was busy until after 3 p.m., when all the papers were graded and the ranking of scores was released.

Chen Fan took the score registration form he had made and handed it to Team Leader Yang, "The two highest scores are from Huang Ying and Yang Ju."

Team Leader Yang, Accountant Liu, and Storekeeper Huang were all stunned, staring at him intently.

After a long while, Team Leader Yang asked in a low voice, "Are you sure there isn't a mistake?"

Accountant Liu said, "Why are they all girls?"

After a pause, he asked, "How did my nephews and nieces do?"

Chen Fan pushed the score sheet forward again, "You can see for yourselves."

Then he pointed to the test papers on the table, "The papers and answer keys are all here. If you're worried I made a mistake, you can check them yourselves."

Only then did Team Leader Yang take the score sheet, and three heads huddled together.

The first place was prominently occupied by the names of Huang Ying and Yang Ju. Out of a total score of 300, both scored 257, a relatively high score.

Chen Fan was also muttering to himself, no wonder Storekeeper Huang said his niece was quick-witted, she was indeed quite good.

Yang Ju was also not bad. Both of them had only studied up to the second grade before dropping out, not because the Lujiawan Village Elementary School only had two grades. This was Team 6, closer to the commune, and they both attended the "Nanhua Complete Elementary School" in the commune.

It had both junior and senior elementary stages, hence the name "Complete Elementary School." If it also included the junior high school stage, it would be called a "through-train school."

So there was no situation where there were no teachers to teach them. It could only be said that their families did not support their schooling. Otherwise, they could have completed the entire elementary school curriculum through self-study. If they had continued with school, they might have been able to graduate from junior high school, or even pass the high school entrance exam.

There was no point in thinking about vocational school. Like universities, vocational schools only accepted recommended students. It would have to wait until the resumption of the college entrance examination before vocational schools would recruit students together with universities.

Therefore, in this era, many ordinary people also called vocational school students "university students," and even after the new millennium, they did not change their terminology.

Moreover, from the resumption of the college entrance examination to the entire 1980s, the difficulty of passing the vocational school entrance examination was even higher than passing the entrance examination for a key university, and its value was no less than that of a 985 university now.

This was because the country was in urgent need of a large number of talents at that time, so it implemented a tuition-free policy for vocational schools, and also guaranteed job assignments after graduation.

Although university graduates were also guaranteed job assignments, except for a few categories of majors such as teacher training, agriculture, and national defense, other majors had to pay a small amount of tuition.

Although these tuition fees were still less than the monthly living expenses and grants issued to students by the state, the common people did not care. They just believed that vocational school was free, and there were also grants and living expenses, and it also guaranteed job assignments and an earlier start to working and earning money, so they naturally thought that vocational school was better than university.

As a result, most of the top academic students entered vocational schools instead of universities.

At that time, anyone who could pass the vocational school entrance examination on their own ability could easily pass a key university entrance examination later on. Therefore, the diploma from this period of vocational school firmly occupied the top of the academic diploma hierarchy, and even Peking University and Tsinghua University had to take a back seat.

Only those families with true foresight would support their children in applying to universities.

If Yang Ju and Huang Ying had not dropped out of school, but had persisted in their studies, and had happened to catch up with the resumption of the college entrance examination, it would have been very possible for them to pass the vocational school entrance examination.

Now, Chen Fan could only shake his head secretly, sighing inwardly, "What a pity."

Taking out his alarm clock and looking at it, Chen Fan said in a low voice, "Team Leader, you can discuss who to choose specifically. I've given you my idea. Now that the exam is over, how to decide on this person is up to you.

But no matter what, no matter who is chosen in the end, I will definitely give special attention to our Team 6's trainees among the 12 teams."

Hearing this, Team Leader Yang sighed faintly, "Alright, I'll have to trouble you to put in more effort in the future."

Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "I'm going to work now."

Team Leader Yang also waved his hand and was about to turn around and go back when he suddenly remembered something, "That, Xiao Chen, please tell Xiao Jiang that we're slaughtering pigs at the livestock shed tomorrow morning, and the whole team will be sharing pork. Remind her to come over."

Then he smiled at Chen Fan, "Those three New Year's pigs were raised by the team last year, before you came, so there's no share for you."

This was just a polite remark. Chen Fan's work points were received at the brigade headquarters, so even if these New Year's pigs were raised after he came, it had nothing to do with him.

Chen Fan said "Oh" and rolled his eyes slightly, chuckling, "It's okay, it's as it should be. Don't worry, I will definitely pass on the message."

After saying that, he left.

Along the way, some commune members asked him for news about who the final spot went to. He only said that Team Leader Yang and the others were still studying it and to wait for the team leader's news. He didn't mention a word about anyone's scores.

… …

Back at the educated youth spot, Jiang Lili had already stir-fried a lot of soybeans and white rice, and also used the small stone mill Chen Fan bought to grind a lot of rice flour and glutinous rice flour.

The soybeans were what Chen Fan bought last time, and the glutinous rice should be Jiang Lili's own.

However, Chen Fan was now too lazy to calculate whether these rice and beans were his or hers. Anyway, the two of them were sharing meals, and it was impossible to tell whose was whose. Just let it go on like this in a muddle-headed way.

Chen Fan's grain alone could still last for half a year. Wait until the rice is finished before thinking about it.