"Brother, are you ready? We have to set off quickly." Zhao Shichu checked his stationery again, made sure nothing was missing, and then started calling Zhao Shijian.
Today is the first college entrance examination after its resumption. Zhao Shichu has been waiting for this day for two years.
Zhao Shijian came out of the house and asked, "Have you brought all your things?"
"I've brought everything." Zhao Shichu nodded.
"That's good." Zhao Shijian took a breath and pushed the bicycle out of the yard. After Zhao Shichu came out, he locked the gate and drove Zhao Shichu out of the village to the examination center in the town.
There were quite a few candidates taking the college entrance examination in the village. In addition to a dozen educated youth, there were also students from the village who had received education. When Zhao Shijian was driving Zhao Shichu on the road, he also greeted the familiar people.
Everyone attached great importance to this college entrance examination and got up early to go to the town. Along the way, Zhao Shichu saw many people walking hurriedly with serious expressions.
She soon saw a familiar-looking woman.
"Brother, was that woman just now Wen Yishu?" Zhao Shichu asked Zhao Shijian with some surprise.
"It's her." Zhao Shijian replied.
"Why has she become like this now? Dark and thin, like two completely different people from before. What on earth happened?" Zhao Shichu was really confused.
"Maybe life is not very good after marriage." Zhao Shijian said casually.
Zhao Shichu remembered that Wen Yishu had rarely gone to work with everyone since she married Li Jianguo two years ago. In addition, the Zhao family lived far away from the Li family, so Zhao Shichu seldom saw her after Wen Yishu got married. Naturally, he didn't understand why she had changed.
"Didn't she get married to escape hard work and find a man to rely on? Why is she so haggard? Is Li Jianguo not treating her well?" Zhao Shichu wondered.
Zhao Shijian said, "Have you forgotten Li Jianguo's troublesome mother and sisters-in-law? Although Wen Yishu is a little scheming, she is no match for those women. Although she doesn't work in the fields to earn work points, she still does a lot of housework. Life is not going well, so she is naturally haggard."
“… That’s really pitiful.” Zhao Shichu shrugged his shoulders, but this was Wen Yishu’s own decision to marry, so he couldn’t blame anyone else.
"She is also going to take the college entrance examination today, right? Li Jianguo actually agreed to let her go? Isn't he afraid that she will run away after passing the exam?" Zhao Shichu felt that even if Li Jianguo could be persuaded by Wen Yishu, other members of the Li family might not want to see Wen Yishu take the exam.
"Who knows this?" Zhao Shijian shook his head.
The brother and sister chatted and soon arrived in the town. Their examination venues were both in the town middle school. After they found their respective classrooms, they still had some time, so they found a quiet place and took the time to review the key points.
On the other side, Wen Yishu, who was still walking on the road, also saw Zhao Shijian and his sister. Watching them riding away briskly on their bicycles, she felt so complicated and uncomfortable in her heart.
If she had married Zhao Shijian two years ago, he would definitely not treat her like Li Jianguo. She actually regretted it the day after she married Li Jianguo. She thought that even if the people in the Li family were troublesome, she could just endure it for a few years. Who knew that she still overestimated her endurance and underestimated the extreme degree of the Li family.
Li Jianguo is not much better. He is a very patriarchal person and believes that women should do all the housework and obey their husbands in everything. They are not allowed to object at all, otherwise they would be considered unfaithful to their husbands.
Wen Yishu could barely tolerate this and just had to pretend to be gentle and docile in front of him. However, Li Jianguo was indiscriminate. As long as his mother or sisters-in-law said something bad about Wen Yishu, he would immediately determine that it was Wen Yishu's fault and force her to apologize and confess her guilt to her mother-in-law or sisters-in-law. She could not tolerate this, so the two of them quarreled.
Whenever this happened, Wen Yishu couldn't help but compare Li Jianguo with Zhao Shijian. When she married Zhao Shijian in her previous life, she had never suffered such grievances. Zhao Shijian was not a male chauvinist. He had a mild temper and never lost his temper with his family. He was willing to do housework. All the delicious and useful things were given to her and Zhao Shichu...
This comparison made Li Jianguo seem even more inadequate, and Wen Yishu became even more dissatisfied with him, but she was already married, so could she still get divorced? The price was too high, and she couldn't afford it. At this time, it would take another five or six years for Li Jianguo to become rich, and she really couldn't bear it anymore, so she had to put her hope on the college entrance examination, hoping to get into college and get out of her current predicament.
Li Jianguo was afraid that she would run away after being admitted to university, so he naturally did not agree to let her take the college entrance examination. Wen Yishu spent a lot of time and effort, and made a promise that she would take him to the city with her after being admitted to university, before he reluctantly agreed.
Wen Yishu touched her dry, yellow, and skinny hands, thinking of Zhao Shichu's beautiful, slender, white fingers holding the bag she had just seen. She felt jealous and regretful again why she didn't continue to cling to Zhao Shijian. If she had married Zhao Shijian, she would have been able to keep her fingers as beautiful as Zhao Shichu's...
Zhao Shichu had no idea that Wen Yishu envied and hated her. This college entrance examination was not difficult at all for her. She did very well. After coming out of the last exam, in stark contrast to the other candidates who looked as if they were in a state of panic, she seemed relaxed and comfortable.
After Zhao Shijian came out of the examination room, she immediately asked, "How did you do on the exam? Are you sure you can pass?"
Zhao Shijian nodded, with a faint smile on his face, and said, "I did quite well in the exam. This college entrance examination was not as difficult as I thought."
"It seems like you are very confident." Zhao Shichu joked, "You think it is not difficult, but others don't think so. Look around you, there are many people who look depressed."
Zhao Shijian looked at the candidates who were coming out one after another, and found that there were not many people who looked as relaxed as he and his sister. Most of them were depressed and sad.
"Then let's keep a low profile." Zhao Shijian said hurriedly. If he showed off at a time like this, he would easily be put in a sack and beaten.
"Oh no! Looking at Wen Yishu, it seems that she didn't do very well in the exam." Zhao Shichu was sharp-eyed and inadvertently saw the pale-faced Wen Yishu. She looked extremely ugly and walked out hurriedly with her head down.
Zhao Shijian glanced at them and said, "Don't pay too much attention to other people's business."
"Okay, okay." Zhao Shichu said.
There was no need to review after the college entrance examination. After two years of studying, they suddenly stopped. Both Zhao Shijian and Zhao Shichu felt uncomfortable.
Now they just have to wait for the results to come out and receive the acceptance letters - they don't think they will fail.