The news of the unification of chemistry and biology for the written examination of applicants soon spread in the form of notices.

Four students from the return class of Seaburg Middle School gathered again, all of whom had graduated and received their high school diplomas, and were in their 20s when they were looking for jobs.

"Otherwise, let's go and talk to Yang Rui? Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, no matter what, we are also classmates, aren't we?" Jiao Zhinong, who returned to the furnace class, briefly joined the Rui group, and then was expelled after the voting incident. Similar to Li Tieqiang and others, he has also been taking the exam for three years, but his score is not even 300 points, so when he heard that there was a Sino-foreign joint venture recruiting people, he signed up as soon as possible.

Wang Zhi, who came with him, was also in a similar situation, he rubbed his lower lip with his index finger, and said hesitantly: "Don't let him see us, but don't give us a pass." ”

"There are only 10 people in total, can you not show him?" Zuo Chao, the tallest, runs a grocery store at home, and the conditions are relatively good, and he deliberately wore a pair of artificial leather shoes today. At this moment, he crossed his feet to polish his shoes, and said: "I said at the beginning that I wanted to vote for it, you must vote for it, now look at it, Xibao Meat Factory will invite him to come to the exam questions, if we are from the Ruixue group, now it's not like entering it." Isn't that right?"

In the last sentence, he said it to Tian Shichang, who was still in the Ruixue group.

Tian Shichang, who was a little dark and thin, was slightly flustered, bowed his head and said, "I came secretly, Yang Rui doesn't know." ”

"What can he do if he knows? Can he still let you recruit a job? Such a good opportunity, if you can't be recruited, it's not the same if you take the university entrance examination again. Zuo Chao said: "If you want me to say, recruiting workers is better than going to college, what's the use of going to college? After three or four years of study, you are twenty-three or four, and you have to take the exam from scratch, and you have four or five years of working experience more than you, and you get more than six or seven yuan more than you every month, and when the time comes, the workers will retire at the age of 50, and the college students will have to retire at the age of 60." ”

Tian Shichang bowed his head and did not speak.

Jiao Zhinong couldn't see it, slapped Zuo Chao and said: "I don't believe that you can be admitted to college, will you go to college? ”

"What happened to the workers? The workers are the most advanced class. Zuo Chao couldn't hold his face, and he became popular all of a sudden.

Wang Zhi hurriedly grabbed him: "Don't say a few words, what about the exam, which of you is sure to take the top ten exams?"

"Even if you take the top 10 exams, it may not be useful. Zuo Chao said a little cynically: "As far as the virtue of the Xibao Meat Factory, do you believe that they don't cut the line? ”

"Didn't they invite Yang Rui to go. ”

"I asked Yang Rui to write the question, not to ask him to revise the paper. Besides, Yang Rui has no relatives and friends to take care of?" Zuo Chao said, stabbed Tian Shichang with his fist, and asked, "When Yang Rui opened a small stove for your Rui group, didn't you say this?"

"Nope. Tian Shichang lowered his head, his eyes not knowing where to look.

Wang Zhi put his arm around his shoulders, pulled him away from Zuochao, and asked, "What is Yang Rui's problem, can you guess?"

Zuo Chao slapped his thigh: "Yes, didn't you say chemistry and biology? Take out the rolls you made, let's do it again." ”

"There are a lot of volumes. Tian Shichang's voice was small.

Zuo Chao didn't hear clearly, and rubbed his ears: "What?"

"Recently, I have made some rolls every day, and there are many rolls. Tian Shichang repeated.

Zuo Chao didn't believe it: "How many can there be?" Let's do one by one, or just memorize the answers, just memorize the big questions, I don't believe that we can't test these people." ”

Most of the people around them who are preparing for the exam together are the children of the former factories and mines.

Family planning in the 80s had just begun, and people born in the 60s or 70s had a lot of brothers and sisters. For families in factories and mines, the biggest burden for multiple children is neither milk powder nor school fees, but the hassle of finding a job.

If it was in the early years, when the benefits of industrial and mining enterprises were very good, it was not too difficult to arrange one or two children to enter the factory, but in the 80s, with the promotion of reform and opening up, the life of state-owned enterprises below the provincial level was becoming more and more difficult. The assignment requires the children to take the entrance examination to the technical school or technical secondary school, and the replacement requires one of the parents to retire early and then give up the post to the children.

Even if it is a dual-income family, replacement can only solve the work of two children, and if there are three or more children in the family, it is inevitable to go home and be unemployed.

In this case, if the children of industrial and mining enterprises encounter recruitment, they would rather not have a junior high school graduation certificate, and they will also enter the factory. On the other hand, if they fail to find a job, most of the children of factories and mines will choose to continue their studies -- even if they know that they will not be admitted to university, it is at least better to study in a children's middle school than to mingle in society. On the other hand, when rural students reach junior high school, if their grades are not good, most of them will drop out of school to help their families, which can be regarded as a strong laborer, and if they are lucky, they will join the army, hoping to arrange a job after retirement.

Therefore, after the Xibao Meat Factory has obtained the two conditions of high school education and urban household registration, most of the applicants are the children of nearby industrial and mining enterprises.

This is quite different from the student composition of Seaburg Middle School, and the two sides do not look at each other.

Tian Shichang's mother is an employee of the water conservancy institute, and she is stationed at the dam all the year round, which is very hard and the income is not high, which makes Tian Shichang want to work early to reduce his mother's burden. Although the subsidy of the Ruixue group is a lot, it can only solve the expenses of the students themselves, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and it is not enough to help the family.

Although the temptation of Sino-foreign joint ventures is not as good as the temptation of going to university, Tian Shichang does not have the confidence to go to university.

When encountering a strong student like Zuo Chao, Tian Shichang could only explain again and again: "There are a lot of papers, and I can't finish memorizing them in a few days." ”

Zuo Chao snorted and said: "More is more, what are you afraid of, we have also mixed in the Ruixue group, and there are no four hours to make two papers a day, you can't just do chemistry and biology, so calculate, how many papers can there be." Don't say more, straighten out your rolls at night and bring them to us to memorize. ”

Tian Shichang would like to say that the Ruixue group now only has 1 hour to make a volume, and it has to make more than 8 papers a day.

However, seeing that Zuo Chao was already unhappy, Tian Shichang moved his lips, but he didn't say more. Anyway, there are a lot of students who borrow the test papers of the Ruixue group, and it is not bad for the little effort to sort it out.

Jiao Zhinong asked again: "Then why don't you go to find Yang Rui?"

"I'm going to go to you, I'm going to memorize the questions and go to the exam, if I get to the tenth in the exam, Yang Rui can't understand guò, I'll go and make trouble." Zuo Chao said, and pulled Tian Shichang to find the test papers.

Like other students, Tian Shichang cherishes the test papers he gets, and each one is organized in a large office folder together with the notes explained, like a big notebook.

With the frenziness of the tactics of the sea of questions, the large notebooks of the members of the Ruixue group expanded rapidly, and soon increased from the thickness of the textbook to the thickness of the dictionary.

When Tian Shichang took out such a large notebook of more than 500 pages, Zuo Chao was startled, and scolded himself comfortingly: "Didn't you let you take chemistry and biology?"

"It's biological, it's a bit heavy chemical, I'll move it again. Tian Shichang put down the notebook and told again: "Don't mess up, I'll review it later." ”

Zuo Chao and the others nodded stunned. When he said "chemistry and biology", he obviously didn't think the book was too thick.

"I've seen a lot of people borrow the papers of the Ruixue group, but I haven't seen such a thick one?" Tian Shichang went to get the chemistry volume, Zuo Chao roughly turned a few pages, and his mind was full of paste.

Removing the explanation part, there are also 200 pages of test papers here, that is, more than 100 papers, and it takes a year to memorize so many test papers, and you don't want to think about it for a few days.

Jiao Zhinong also looked at it curiously, and said, "I borrowed the paper last month, and it doesn't seem to be so much, so ...... Here's it. ”

He flipped almost halfway there.

Zuo Chao bared his teeth and said, "Tian Shichang is playing us?"

"No, can you prepare so well?" Jiao Zhinong said with a little bit of the test paper, and said: "Isn't there time on it, here, October 8th, and the next one is...... Or on October 8th, I made two servings a day?"

"It is estimated that it will be done in time periods. Zuo Chao flipped back again, and he saw "10." 9", followed by a "10. 9", followed by two more "10. 10”……

Wang Zhi snatched the notebook and turned it back page by page.

Seeing that on October 20th, the number of test papers per day increased to 3, Zuo Chao couldn't help but exclaim: "They do so much every day, I don't believe they have time to do other subjects." Wang Zhi, you have the best grades, how many test papers do you do every day?"

"It's only one or two, and I haven't finished the math paper I copied last time. Wang Zhi flipped to the end, and then flipped from the front, and found that the initial frequency was one article every 3 days.

According to his thoughts, this seems to be normal.

"The chemistry roll is here. Tian Shichang put the two notebooks on the writing desk in the dormitory and made a "bang" sound.

Wang Zhi beckoned and asked curiously: "Lao Tian, how do you usually make rolls, and how many copies do you make every day?"

"There are two to three articles a day in science, and one article in Chinese and English every two days. Tian Shichang said and shook twice unconsciously, and said: "Brother Rui calls this the sea tactic, each paper requires 45 minutes to 1 hour to hand in the paper, and those who finish it early can rest from class in advance, and those who can't finish it can only do it continuously......"

Wang Zhipin smacked the four words of the sea tactics, not feeling stupid.

Zuo Chao smiled unnaturally: "Each test paper is only 1 hour, how can it be, it's all nonsense, right?"

"Sometimes I can't finish writing, but I get used to it. ”

"How many points can you score now?" Jiao Zhinong suddenly asked when he heard this.

Tian Shichang hesitated and said, "The last monthly exam was 330 points, and it is usually not a total score. ”

"Now you have 330 points, and you are still applying to be a worker?"

"Let's talk about it if we can hire it. Tian Shichang himself couldn't say clearly.

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