At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jiang Yan and Huang Mao arrived on time to pick up Song Jiawen.
"I'll come over on the day of your college entrance exam."
With only two months left, Song Jiawen wasn't sure if the school would have any more holidays, so she told her grandmother, uncle, and aunt that she might not be able to come back in the meantime.
Thinking that every other student had their parents accompany them for the college entrance exam, Xie Yanhai couldn't bear the thought of her going alone.
"No need, Uncle, please don't forget that the seniors from Jianghai Middle School all go with their teachers, and parents don't accompany them."
Children from the town would go to the county to take the college entrance exam, as it was so far away they needed to arrive the day before to find accommodation; it was generally the class teacher who led them, and parents hardly followed.
