The Han family had split up. Han Conghui moved into the staff housing at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He had been renting that place out for some time, but now that he had separated from the Han family, he reclaimed the house for his own family to live in.
After the separation, Ma Xiangling became quite busy. Between raising children, cooking, cleaning, and overseeing the studies of her stepchildren, she found she had no time left to review her high school textbooks.
By 1977, when the college entrance exams were reinstated, both Ma Xiangling and Ma Laosan’s couple took the exams. To everyone’s surprise, Ma Xiangling failed, but both Ma Laosan and his wife passed. Although they hadn’t gotten into prestigious institutions—merely ordinary universities in the provincial capital—they were admitted nonetheless. Ma Laosan and his wife had become university students.
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