Winter, heavy snow falling.
With blessings from the family, Xibao, wearing a mink fur coat, sheepskin pants, a military coat, sheepskin boots, and carrying stationery, entered the examination hall with classmates, educated youth, and children of workers and peasants who had already started working, all with excited hearts.
There were just too many candidates; students who had been locked out of the college entrance door for ten years!
Very few dressed as warmly as Xibao; patched old cotton clothes were not warm, most were shivering from the cold, and some didn't even have decent cotton clothes, wearing multiple layers of worn-out garments instead.
No matter how cold, it couldn't stop their enthusiasm for entering the examination hall.
Their faces, chapped and reddened by the Feng Xue, were full of longing for the future.
