The biggest help of the book "Must Read for the College Entrance Examination" to Liu Zhilu is not in terms of improving his grades, but mainly to help him adjust his mentality, and let him understand the life of the university in advance, so that he knows which universities in Guangdong have majors in agriculture and gardening.

Why did Liu Zhilu want to apply for such an unpopular major as agriculture and landscape architecture? In addition to the relatively low admission scores of these majors, Liu Zhilu usually has two hobbies outside of class. I am reading, which has already been mentioned. The second is to grow vegetables, although the few plots of land in front of his house have been bought out, but they have never built a house, and there have always been weeds.

In the summer vacation of the third year of junior high school, Liu Zhilu reclaimed these pieces of land. Grow cabbage, grow turnips, grow tomatoes...... He is very careful and scientific in planting, and he can get a bumper harvest almost every season, and he can't eat it all at home. So he took the surplus and gave it to his neighbors. This makes him feel very happy and fulfilled.

In this way, he had a special affection for agriculture, and when he was about to apply for the volunteer. He carefully looked for colleges and universities with agricultural majors in the book "Essentials for the College Entrance Examination". In the end, he filled in the South China Agricultural University in Guangdong as his first choice; The first choice was Guangdong Zhongkai University, and the second choice was Wuhan Institute of Bioengineering.

Before the exam, Liu Zhilu was still very confident that he would be admitted to Zhongkai College, of course, he hoped that he could perform beyond the norm and be admitted to South China Agricultural University. But on the day the scores were announced, he was a little confused. He only scored 551 points, and the admission score of Zhongkai College was 570 points. His biology score was unexpected, and he only scored 570 points, because he usually scored more than 650 points in any test. If you score 650 points this time, you will be admitted to Zhongkai College! But the truth is not to be assumed. In previous years, he would have had the option of repeating it. But in 2006, it was not very feasible, and after this year, the textbooks have completely changed, and it is no longer a test of Chinese, mathematics, English plus electives, and a comprehensive combination of arts and sciences, but a comprehensive test of Chinese, mathematics, English and liberal arts, geography, history, politics, or physics, chemistry, and biology of science. The total score is 750 points, and it is no longer calculated according to the standard score of 900 points.

If it is calculated according to the standard score, Liu Zhilu's two shortcomings, English and mathematics, can be completely pulled back through his own biology and arts and science comprehensive subjects, but the calculation mechanism changes, and it becomes impossible to make up for these two holes through his advantageous subjects, and the road to repetition is shot like this.

Fortunately, the score line of his three books reached the standard, and the Wuhan Institute of Bioengineering, which admitted him, was a private undergraduate, and the tuition fee of the major he chose was nearly 4 times that of the related majors of the second college. If it had been a few years earlier, Liu Zhilu's family would not have been able to afford it, but it happened that in the past two years, with the efforts of his parents, his family's family situation has improved greatly. In his third year of high school, his father was thinking about adding a floor to his house.

Father Liu and Liu Zhilu talked about it. Liu Zhilu suddenly remembered the sentence in the book "Poor Dad, Rich Dad" that he recently bought from the book club (it was this book that misled him to a great extent, making him feel that academic qualifications are useless, and it is useless to study those professional courses): A big house equals debt. He said to Liu's father: "I will go to college in another year, and if the house is built now, it will only be empty at that time, which is too wasteful." The location and layout of the house here are also not suitable for rent. Even if someone comes to rent, you don't like to live with a tenant. Instead, while the land price is cheap now, we can use the money to buy two plots of land. Maybe in a few years, according to the development trend of our county, the price of land will rise sharply. At that point, we can make the difference in price. If we don't make a move, we can also wait for the money, do a good job in the design and planning of the house, and build a house for rent by ourselves. ”

Coincidentally, when Liu's father was hesitating to listen to his son to buy land. Some people are in urgent need of capital turnover to do business, and there are two plots of land that are about to be sold in a hurry. One is in the eastern suburbs of the county's new development zone, and the other is in the new village transformation area in the north of the county. At that time, everyone was not very optimistic about the location of these two pieces of land, and the seller was eager to sell, adding up to nearly 200 square meters of two pieces of land, and the Liu family bought them all for less than 150,000 yuan.