When Li Long returned to the Fourth Team, Li Juan told him that Yang Yuhong's mother would no longer let her play with her.
Li Juan really felt wronged. All she had done was refrain from breaking off those teeth or taking the skull. She knew perfectly well that if she had taken them, a thrashing with a switch would have awaited her-Liang Yuemei certainly would not have gone easy on her over something like that.
It was not her fault that Yang Yuhong had developed a fever, so why were they not allowed to play together?
Fine, then they would not play together. Her studies in junior high were pretty demanding now anyway, and Li Juan was only grumbling a little.
In her previous life, Li Juan had done poorly at school. After the upheaval in her family, life at home had become difficult too, and in the end she had failed to get into senior high.
In those days, only students with excellent grades could get into senior high or a secondary specialized school. In this life, Li Juan's grades were excellent. When Liang Yuemei attended a parents' meeting, her teacher had said she had a very good chance of getting into a secondary specialized school, a teachers' college, or senior high.
Before the national education systems were unified in 1996 and 1997, university graduates were guaranteed job assignments. Earlier still, university was not everyone's first choice. Secondary specialized schools were the most popular, followed by teachers' colleges.
That was because graduates of secondary specialized schools could start working at eighteen, beginning as state cadres, while teachers' college graduates became teachers. Both options let them start earning wages at eighteen.
By comparison, going through senior high and university required another four years of schooling, so secondary specialized schools