Recaps

After transmigrating to 1982, Yang Rui used his exceptional memory to raise his classmates’ exam scores and build a study group. His published work and booming test-paper sales drew the attention of education officials, who tested his abilities and questioned the scale of his work.

• Yang Rui woke in 1982, rejected his mother’s suggestion that he join the army, and decided to retake the college entrance exam.
• Yang Rui taught Wang Guohua memory methods for mathematics and recruited him into a selective study group.
• Yang Rui scored exceptionally well on the placement exams, silenced Hu Yanshan’s cheating accusation, and attracted more classmates to his group.
• Yang Rui advised his uncle Duan Hua on fixing the cannery’s bulging canned pork rib tins, and Duan Hua hurried to test his suggestions.
• Yang Rui organized study schedules and practice papers, published articles for substantial fees, and bought a mimeograph machine so his group could produce exercise booklets.
• Yang Rui partnered with Shi Gui to sell the booklets, and demand grew until students were distributing hundreds of sets each day.
• Zhao Dannian and Feng Yun visited Yang Rui’s school after Feng Yun mistook him for a long-serving educator, and Feng Yun questioned Yang Rui about his publications and test papers while Zhao Dannian arranged a comparison test.

Yang Rui defended the Rui Study Group’s exam-paper business against Huo Laosi’s gang, then used its profits to fund scholarships and press for school improvements. He ended the stretch arranging a large print run of New Concept English after the group rejected funding it, while he continued building the group’s membership and programs.

• Yang Rui confronted Leopard over pirated papers, then enlisted Duan Hang and his father, Yang Feng, to bring the Thirteen Wolves’ operation to a halt.
• Yang Rui arranged militia protection for Xibao Middle School, and Duan Hang’s unit and the militia arrested Huo Laosi’s gang and other criminals.
• Engineer Shao gave Yang Rui control of donated supplies and asked him to tutor Shao Liang, while Yang Rui used Rui Study Group profits to organize scholarships and a student exam.
• Yang Rui confronted Section Chief Xiong over the school’s facilities, secured promises of two wells and a drainage channel, and distributed awards before students evaluated their teachers.
• Yang Rui brought Shao Liang into the Rui Study Group’s study program and organized students to thank popular teachers, including Li Xiumei.
• Yang Rui expanded the group’s application files and proposed printing New Concept English, but the members voted against using group funds for the project.
• Yang Rui sent Shi Gui to arrange printing, refused the factory director’s demanded bribe, and secured a deal for ten thousand copies with a two-thousand-yuan deposit.