Traveling through time and space, wanting to lie down, but being forced to move forward

Chapter 1085: First 2 rounds of screening (1)

Early in the morning, Liu Jingxue stood below the dam, watching the team leader standing on the high platform and announcing to the villagers and educated youth below the list of candidates competing for recommendation to go to university.

"After enthusiastic registration by educated youth and villagers who intend to go to college, a shortlist of candidates has been drawn up after a vote by all villagers and educated youth on the list of applicants."

The village chief stood on a high platform, holding a loudspeaker and announcing the list to everyone.

After Mr. Wu made the adjustment suggestion, early the next morning, shortly after the village loudspeaker sounded, Zhou Mingxuan went to find the team leader and told him about Mr. Wu's proposal.

Of course, he didn't dare to say directly that it was Mr. Wu who said that, but instead he took the blame on himself.

Although there is no need to hide his relationship with Mr. Wu anymore, based on the principle of less trouble is worse than more, Mr. Wu still thinks it is better not to let people know that these young people have any contact with him.

The team leader readily agreed to this suggestion, and announced in front of everyone at Shaiba the day before yesterday that one person would be selected from among the young villagers and educated youth who had graduated from junior high school and high school in the village to go to college.

The team leader also emphasized that this trip was to an agricultural university, so everyone should think carefully about whether they plan to deal with farming for the rest of their lives.

After careful consideration, come to him to sign up, and then organize the villagers to vote for the candidates, and then select the final list after several rounds of assessment.

Knowing that they had the opportunity to go to college, the educated youth and young villagers were naturally delighted.

But there is only one spot available, and who will get it in the end has naturally caused a lot of speculation.

There were some educated youth who made some sour remarks, saying that in the end the quota would most likely go to the villagers.

But for that slight chance, most of the educated youth in the production team, except for a few, signed up.

Zhou Wenbing did not sign up because he was still shouldering the heavy responsibility of earning work points, earning food rations, and supporting his family.

If he goes to college, not only will he not be able to provide financial support to his family, but his family will also have to bear his living expenses, which would be a loss.

Zheng Jianmin and Qin Fang have been married for more than two years and gave birth to a big fat boy last year.

Only Zheng Jianmin signed up this time, but Qin Fang did not sign up because she had to stay at home to take care of her son.

In addition, Liu Zhaodi and Feng Chunyan have not signed up.

Liu Zhaodi did not sign up because she only graduated from elementary school and did not meet the registration requirements.

Feng Chunyan had to give up because her family had cut off ties with her and she had to support herself. There was no one to support her living expenses when she went to college, so she had no choice but to give up.

In fact, among the educated youth who signed up, except Liu Jingxue, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao, who were entrusted by the production team to take up the quota so as to help the production team reserve the quota for the villagers, 90% of the others, if not all of them, wanted to take the opportunity to go to university and return to the city.

Most of them don't like farm work, but now they are scrambling to go to agricultural university. Apart from wanting to take the opportunity to return to the city, they can't think of any other reason.

The captain's voice continued announcing the results.

"After voting by all villagers and educated youth, the selected educated youth include Liu Jingxue, Zhou Mingxuan, Zhao Junhao, and Zheng Jianmin."

After the captain finished speaking, he looked at the educated youths below and asked, "Do other educated youths have any opinions on the results of this vote?"

Although they wanted to manipulate the situation behind the scenes to reserve the quota for the villagers, fairness must still be demonstrated on the surface.

The educated youths below twitched their lips, not knowing how to respond to this.

It is certainly impossible to say that they have no objections, after all, they themselves were not elected.

But if they had any objections, they didn't dare to.

They still had self-awareness. Judging from their connections among the villagers and educated youth in the Red Star Production Team, they could not compare to the three people mentioned above even if they flattered them.

As for Zheng Jianmin, he had been the leader of the educated youth for several years, and had a family and children in the production team. His relationship with both the old educated youth and the villagers was much closer than theirs.

Especially after they had their child, the couple asked the aunts and sisters-in-law in the team for advice, taking the excuse that their elders were not around and they did not know how to raise the child, and they had a very good relationship with them.

So, when the captain asked them if they had any opinions on the candidates, they could only say against their will, "Captain, we have no opinions."

Although he could see the reluctance on these people's faces, the team leader pretended not to notice it and continued to announce the list of eight shortlisted villager candidates.

After the list was announced, the team leader said, "The above 12 people are competing for the only recommendation quota for college admission in our production team.

The commune has already said that school will start on September 1st. It is almost mid-August now, so the list must be submitted as soon as possible.

Let’s not waste any more time and proceed with the second round of screening now.

As for the third and fourth rounds, they will be arranged for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

A villager who had been shortlisted shouted, "Captain, what will the next three rounds of assessments be about?"

The captain had already been repeatedly warned by Liu Jingxue and others not to leak the information, so why would he say it now?

“You will know what the next three rounds of assessments are about when the assessments begin.

Now let me tell you, what if you cheat? "

"We must fairly select the most suitable person to go to the Agricultural University this time."

After asking everyone to keep quiet, the captain continued,

“As for the second round of screening, we are already conducting it after everyone has signed up.

The leaders have said that they want to select people with outstanding performance to go to university.

In our countryside, what is considered excellent performance is naturally measured by work points. "

As soon as the captain finished speaking, a discussion broke out among the audience, except for Liu Jingxue, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao who had already known about the situation.

“Why is it based on work points?

If we look at work points, then all the shortlisted educated youth, except Liu Jingxue, will suffer a loss, Tang Qiangjun said with a frown.

Although he was not shortlisted, there were educated youth who were shortlisted. As they were both educated youth, he naturally had to speak for them.

Because of the voting, the educated youth living in different places stood together today, which was a rare occasion.

Zhou Wenbing also looked at Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao who were standing beside him.

“I’m afraid you two will be at a disadvantage this way.

After all, you often have to go to town to discuss business, but you don’t go to work every day.

Why don't you talk to the captain and ask if this is unfair?"

Zhou Mingxuan took a look at Zheng Jianmin, whose expression was changing inexplicably, and knew that this man was most likely feeling uncomfortable.

But he had no friendship with Zheng Jianmin. From the conversations this man had with other educated youth after the recommendation for college was released in the past two days, Zhou Mingxuan had already heard that this man also regarded going to college as a stepping stone to return to the city.

If Zheng Jianmin really goes to college this time, he will never return to the countryside.

In this case, it would be better to do as the captain and his men wish and leave this opportunity to the villagers.

At least they are more likely to give back what they have learned to the countryside than those educated youth who are eager to return to the city.