Reborn in 1977

Chapter 481 Graduation Certificate

January 20th, Friday.

Today is the belated correspondence course exam. After passing this hurdle, Chen Fan will also be a college student of this era.

Later, he can apply for postgraduate studies. When he gets his graduation certificate, it seems that the degree system will be restored by then. With the dual halo of this degree and membership in the Writers Association, it's no joke that he'll be "superior" to others.

Despite driving all day yesterday, Chen Fan still got up early today. After finishing his morning exercise, he didn't even bother to cook, and prepared to go out after washing up.

As it turned out, Jiang Lili and her sister weren't late either. He had just put on his clothes when the two sisters entered the door. Jiang Lili also had a basket covered with thick cotton cloth hanging on her arm.

Jiang Lili placed the basket on the table and readily uncovered the cotton cloth, revealing several lunch boxes inside.

She turned to him with a smile, "I brought you breakfast. Am I late?"

She timed it perfectly. After all, they had lived under the same roof for nearly a year, and she knew Chen Fan's routine best. He gets up at 6 o'clock every morning and exercises for half an hour, so arriving at this time is just right.

Chen Fan rolled up his sleeves and sat down at the table, "I was just about to go out to eat something when you guys arrived."

He looked at his watch, the one the Jiang family had given him before, "It's not even 7 o'clock yet. Why didn't you sleep in a little longer on such a cold day?"

Jiang Tiantian brought chopsticks from the kitchen and opened several lunch boxes. Inside were buns, eggs, sesame cakes and other breakfast items, as well as a bag containing fried dough sticks.

She handed over a pair of chopsticks and said with a smile, "We're used to getting up early, and since you have an exam today, we came early to bring you breakfast. If you eat a fried dough stick and two eggs, you'll definitely get 100 points on every exam."

Chen Fan's mouth twitched slightly, "Are you trying to哄 (hōng - coax) me like a child?"

Jiang Lili found a rag, grabbed a tall, oval lunch box, carefully opened the lid, and then sent it to Chen Fan, "I bought a bowl of rice noodles. Eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it gets soggy later."

(A lunch box specially for soup dishes, which is less common than square flat boxes, and there are also lunch pails imitating the small Japanese pig kidney lunch boxes.)

Chen Fan looked at it, then picked up a fried dough stick with his left hand and chopsticks with his right to slurp the noodles, first taking a bite of the fried dough stick, then a bite of the rice noodles, "Mmm, delicious."

The two sisters didn't just watch. They opened another box of rice noodles and moved the things in the other lunch boxes to make room. Jiang Tiantian picked up the lunch box and poured out half a bowl.

After sitting down, she picked up a chopstick of rice noodles and said with a smile, "I remember when a bowl of rice noodles was only 8 cents when we were little, but now it's risen to 20 cents, plus two liang of food stamps. Adding a spoonful of beef costs another 20 cents."

Jiang Lili turned to look at her sister, smiling sweetly, "We had small appetites back then, and Mom only bought one bowl each time, which we shared."

She didn't eat the rice noodles, but picked up an egg, peeled it, and then put it in Chen Fan's bowl.

Chen Fan glanced upwards, wondering how much a bowl of rice noodles cost when he was a child?

It seems to be 5 mao for plain noodles, and 1 kuai for shredded pork and seafood? 1.5 kuai for beef?

Beef is cheaper than pork these days, so you can eat more.

The most delicious is the seafood noodles, with its fresh and delicious soup, you never get tired of eating it.

The seafood is not fixed. The clear soup is made of fish cake, fish balls, shredded pork, daylily, mushrooms, ham, cloud ear fungus and other ingredients, also known as fish cake seafood.

In addition, there are also pork seafood and beef seafood with thick soup, as well as vegetarian seafood which is lighter than fish cake seafood, but Chen Fan still loves fish cake seafood the most.

Hmm, can I set up a breakfast stall in the Luwan Delicatessen?

Seeing him lost in thought, Jiang Tiantian thought he was thinking of his mother, so she quickly stretched out her foot and gently kicked her sister.

Jiang Lili instinctively turned to look at her sister, and seeing her winking at herself, and then looking at Chen Fan, she suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing, and couldn't help but feel a little flustered, but Chen Fan didn't mention it, so she couldn't say it directly, and could only be stunned there for a while.

Seeing that her sister didn't speak, Jiang Tiantian quickly changed the subject, "Xiao Fan, are you confident about today's exam?"

Chen Fan came back to his senses, swallowed, and decided to make the seafood pot when he returned to Lujiawan. As for whether to enter the Luwan Delicatessen, he would decide when the time came.

Then he looked at Jiang Tiantian and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I can handle this little problem. How can I take the postgraduate entrance exam?!"

Jiang Tiantian nodded repeatedly, "Yeah, I knew you could do it."

Jiang Lili also calmed down at this time, slowly exhaled, and peeled another egg for Chen Fan, "I wish you all get 100 points on every exam."

Chen Fan, "..."

After eating breakfast, the two sisters stayed at home to read, and Chen Fan drove to the Education Office alone.

As usual, he first carried the bag and wandered around.

Fortunately, he doesn't have many acquaintances in the Education Office, only one Deputy Director Zuo, and several colleagues who knew the Jiang sisters before.

After distributing the gifts, he turned and went to the Jiangnan University correspondence point in the Yunhu area on the first floor.

Teacher Guo and Teacher He were no longer here. Now, several other teachers are stationed here. Given that there is a correspondence exam today, even the three mobile post personnel are all present, and five people are jointly responsible for this exam.

Although he was not familiar with them, Chen Fan still brought gifts and gave each person a small souvenir. The things were not valuable, and the teachers did not decline.

Several teachers were also very polite to Chen Fan. This year, Lujiawan contributed several excellent students to Jiangnan University, which alarmed the president of the university. He praised Lao Guo, Lao He, and several others who handled the preliminary work.

With this merit as the foundation, it has become a certainty for several people to be transferred back to the school headquarters next year.

In recent years, there has been a shortage of talents, and many people are very old. For example, Teacher Su, who is almost 60 years old, can't really run around anymore. Even without this matter, he will apply to be transferred back to the school next year.

However, applying to be transferred back and being transferred back with merit are two different things. Now that he has made a contribution, how can he not be promoted after going back? At least the salary must be raised!

As a result, their attitude towards Chen Fan is naturally unusual.

Teacher Su took out a thick file bag from the iron cabinet, walked over and said with a smile, "Student Chen, originally today's test center was in the conference room on the third floor, and there were more than forty students to take the test.

However, you are different. You have registered for all subjects at once, so we applied to the school leaders to take a separate exam for you."

A teacher next to him opened the door of the small conference room next door and said to Chen Fan with a smile, "Student Chen, your test center is here. Teacher Su and I will invigilate the exam. After each exam, Teacher Zhuo and Teacher Ye will grade the papers on the spot in the office. After the results come out, if all of them are qualified, the graduation certificate can be issued on the spot."

Chen Fan was a little surprised, can he get the certificate on the spot?

Teacher Su pushed his glasses and said with a smile, "Compared with formal full-time study, correspondence education pays more attention to the quality of learning, that is, the exam results. As long as the results are qualified, and with the approval of the school leaders, there is no problem in issuing the certificate in advance."

Chen Fan instantly understood that the key point is the approval of the school leaders. Since the leaders have agreed, a little flaw in the procedure is completely no problem.

Anyway, it still depends on the exam results.

After understanding this, Chen Fan didn't hesitate any longer and went straight into the small office inside. Then, the exam began.

The two invigilators were indeed very dedicated, not relaxing at all because of the small gifts they had received earlier, and staring at Chen Fan without any懈怠.

Another teacher, borrowing a camera from somewhere, took two photos of the scene. One was of Chen Fan, and the other was of the two teachers, but all three of them were in the frame. Chen Fan's figure, sketching quickly at his desk, was clearly visible.

He himself was not affected at all, holding the pen and writing non-stop.

While doing the questions, he found that the difficulty of these correspondence course questions seemed very low. Many of them were basic subjects, not as difficult as the recently concluded college entrance examination questions.

Is this a university subject test?

Although the other three teachers were not invigilating, they were also watching the excitement from the side.

Seeing Chen Fan writing swiftly and looking strange, the teachers guessed what he was thinking.

Taking advantage of the break to change the test papers, Teacher Su smiled wryly and said, "You can be considered lucky. Starting this year, all university textbooks and test papers will be revised, and correspondence courses will also follow suit. Taking the exam after the new year will not be so easy."

Chen Fan raised his head while writing, his face quite surprised, "Was university knowledge really this simple before?"

Teacher Su shook his head with a wry smile, but did not speak again.

After a while, someone came to call from outside. It turned out that the "regular" exam upstairs was about to start. One of the teachers took the test papers and went up to invigilate.

Although there were many people upstairs, there was only one set of test papers. When the exam started, each candidate was given one paper, and they were watched until they finished the exam, and then the papers were collected. This was considered completing the task.

In comparison, Chen Fan had to take more than a dozen subjects alone, and the difficulty of invigilation was obviously greater.

The questions were very simple and the quantity was not large. Chen Fan kept writing and writing, and didn't bother to count how many subjects he had taken.

After finishing one paper, before the new test paper arrived, he looked up.

The first thing he saw was the stunned expressions of the two invigilators.

Chen Fan looked left and right, then looked at them, "Where are the later test papers?"

Teacher Su let out a long breath and spread his hands at him, "There are no more."

Chen Fan blinked, then reacted, "Are they all finished?"

Another teacher said with a face full of amazement, "17 subjects. Although we know that you have a deep knowledge base, we were prepared to give you two days to take the exam, but we didn't expect that you would finish it in just one morning."

Chen Fan then noticed that the time had reached 12 noon. From 8 am to now, he had been writing non-stop for 4 hours.

Then he laughed and said, "The main reason is that the amount of questions is not large. If there were more, I wouldn't be able to finish it."

Teacher Su shook his head and did not continue the topic, but picked up the paper he had just finished and said, "Your paper on literary creation in the new era is enough to be used as a graduate thesis, let alone for a correspondence course exam."

Saying that, he raised his head to look at him and smiled, "I won't do a thesis defense with you here. When you take the graduate exam and talk face-to-face with the school teachers, let them discuss it with you."

To put it bluntly, he felt that he was not qualified to evaluate Chen Fan's paper. When he read this paper, which was not very long, his mind was full of thoughts like "It can be like this" and "So that's how it is". He didn't even understand it himself, so how could he do a thesis defense with him?

At this time, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Teacher Zhuo placed a stack of grade cards in front of Teacher Su, his face full of red light, "Teacher Su, look, all excellent!"

Chen Fan stretched his neck to look over. Due to the angle, he couldn't see what the content was, but he only saw Teacher Su holding a stack of slender cards.

(81-year correspondence course single-subject completion certificate)

Teacher Su carefully looked at each one, and then handed over the paper with the thesis, and smiled, "Issue the certificate."

After a pause, he asked, "Are there any photos?"

Teacher Zhuo nodded, "They are in the file bag."

Then he smiled at Chen Fan, "The graduation certificate is already prepared and will be sent to you now."

That's right, none of them thought that Chen Fan would fail these exams.

A teacher who can teach 23 students to be admitted to key universities, and also a writer with a certain reputation in the country, wouldn't even know these simple Chinese language and literature correspondence course questions? That's really unreasonable!

Chen Fan sat in the chair, let out a long breath, watched Teacher Zhuo go out, then picked up a cup of tea that someone had made in the morning, and regardless of whether the tea was cold, he took a big gulp.

Just as he comfortably took a breath, Teacher Zhuo came in with a small red plastic-covered book, reached out and handed it to Chen Fan, and smiled, "Congratulations, student Chen. From now on, you are a glorious undergraduate graduate of Jiangnan University."

He deliberately omitted the word correspondence course.

Even though the value of correspondence universities is not low now, firstly, due to the times, the difficulty of the subjects is not high, and secondly, Chen Fan is about to apply for graduate school. In front of a graduate degree, this undergraduate diploma is not worth mentioning.

(79 to 82 years of study in correspondence course diploma)

Chen Fan immediately stood up, took the graduation certificate with both hands, and smiled like a flower on his face.

Taking the exam and getting the certificate on the same day can be considered a one-step process.

After being happy for a while, he raised his head and thanked the teachers one after another.

Convenience for others, convenience for oneself. Without the cooperation of the teachers, even with Teacher Guo and Teacher He helping to say hello at the school, it would not have been so smooth today.

At his strong invitation, he invited the teachers to have lunch at a state-owned restaurant not far away.

It was just that there were other students taking the exam in the afternoon, otherwise they would have to go to the Gongnong Restaurant for a big meal.

That would be it for today, and Chen Fan had other things to do. They would talk about it next time.

Leaving the Education Department and driving back home, Jiang Tiantian and Jiang Lili were napping on the sofa in the study.

Seeing him come back, the two sisters got up at the same time. Jiang Tiantian quickly went to pour tea, and Jiang Lili, seeing that her sister was already busy, took two steps forward to meet him, "Have you eaten? If not, I'll go make it now."

"I've eaten."

Chen Fan took the teacup handed over by his sister, turned around and sat on the sofa, not busy drinking water, and smiled at Jiang Lili, "Shouldn't you ask how the exam went?"

Jiang Lili's face bloomed with a smile, "I don't need to ask, I know you must have done very well."

Jiang Tiantian sat down beside her and asked with a smile, "What time are you going in the afternoon? Do you want to rest for a while?"

Chen Fan shook his head, "I'm not going."

Meeting the surprised gazes of the two sisters, he took out the graduation certificate from his pocket and shook it, "Look, what is this!"