SIAS Chapter 235.3

The educated youth did not know the good intentions of the captain.

Although the work points they earned in one month were a lot, especially since they did not work later, they would definitely not get any work points.

However, the remaining food earned from work points was enough for them to eat until they went to college, and there was even more than enough.

But if they didn’t pass the exam, their lives would be miserable next year. They would definitely starve.

Even so, returning to the city was a wish engraved in the hearts of the educated youth. Now that there was hope, no one could give up.

So, the educated youth all decided to take time off to study.

In the canteen, when the commune members came to get lunch at noon, they were surprised to find Yi Qingqing still there.

“Comrade Xiao Yi, why don’t you ask for leave to study? Aren’t you going to take the college entrance exam?”

“I’ll take this afternoon off, so I’ll still help with cooking in the morning. I was afraid that they wouldn’t be able to handle it if one person were missing. Everyone chose me, so I couldn’t just quit like that. The autumn harvest will be over soon anyway, so I’ll just stick to my last shift!” Yi Qingqing said.

With so many people sharing the work in the fields, if the weather were good, the progress wouldn’t be much of a problem for a day.

But there were only four people in the canteen: she, Aunt Guihua, Aunt Dongmei, and Sun Laidi. It was better in the afternoon because they had plenty of time. Without her, there was no problem with Sun Laidi, an expert at digging wild vegetables. But in the morning, they were very busy preparing food and cooking.

If she took a leave, unless someone else could fill in, it would probably be too late for three people to cook for the whole team.

The canteen job was a hot commodity, and asking someone to fill in at the last minute would make the other people uncomfortable and offend them.

It didn’t matter if she waited a little longer. Yi Qingqing, who had been reviewing for three years, was afraid of nothing.

Including the accelerated time, she had been attending high school in this skill-teaching model for at least four or five years, and with the one-on-one tutoring, it was incredibly efficient.

She wasn’t aiming for a top scorer in the college examination; she just wanted to get into the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmaceutical Program at Imperial Capital University.

If she couldn’t even compare to the vast majority who only had two or three months to review after all her hard work, then she shouldn’t bother studying medicine and causing harm to others.

So she simply took the afternoon off.

She also agreed with Aunt Guihua and the others that since there was still another half month left, she would give them half of her daily work points as compensation. After all, if she took the afternoon off, the work would fall on the three of them.

The educated youth took leave and had more time to study.

Those who did not have all the textbooks went to the city to get books. Those who had money went to bookstores, and those who had no money went to scrap stations. If they couldn’t find any books at the scrap station, they would borrow from others and copy them.

When it came to farming, the educated youth might seem unable to endure hardship, but when it came to studying, every educated youth was willing to risk their life to learn, willing to overcome any hardship.

Those who were not well off would sit in the alley and read in the cold wind during the day in order to save money, as the light inside the house was dim. They would only light candles at night.

Zhao Fang and Zhou Qiang also resigned from their primary school teaching jobs and handed over the teaching to young people in the village who were in junior high school.

For a time, the entire educated youth point was abuzz with intense study.

 

 

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