Now it hasn't been long since the college entrance exam was reinstated, so there are a lot of people signing up, but not that many students actually get admitted.
After Xu Nianhua and Xu Nian'an explained the details of their plan, they threw themselves into an intense period of study. It was already the end of May, with barely more than a month left until the exam, and the whole school was desperately squeezing every day for all it was worth.
Xu Qinghe and Xu Song split up the work—Xu Qinghe stayed at the factory, overseeing operations and training the new apprentices like Cai Feng to produce more furniture, while Xu Song made contacts at the newspaper, hoping to place some ads.
Xu Song had never worked with this sort of thing before, so he specifically brought Xu Nianji along—after all, Xu Nianji had experience selling bean sprouts and was much better at talking to people.
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