The small room was packed, and in the stagnant air, only the dull sound of chalk and blackboard touching. Hu Yu wrote the last stroke, withdrew her hand, and looked at the small black heads under the podium who were diligently recording. She was relieved but reluctant to give up.
She was estimating the grades of the students in Class 5. This was probably the last group class for their teachers and students for three years, but there was no way, no matter how much love there was, the young eagle would one day leave the nest.
The vice-principal and a group of teachers gathered in another office for a meeting. Everyone looked solemn. After the official college entrance examination was over, they realized that the preparations they had thought they were serious about had appeared. What a big mistake. This year's college entrance examination is completely more difficult than expected.
Amidst the clanging sound of turning over the test papers, no one spoke, and everyone prepared for the worst.
As for Class 5, these students who have always had poor grades and have particularly difficult exam papers have no idea. Before the exam, Hu Yu reminded them to memorize all the steps to solve the big problem and write them down, so almost everyone took it. With the mess of drafts Ben wrote, the big guys chattered, discussed each other, lamented with joyful laughter—
"I did this question right?!"
"Oh, this question is really wrong!"
"You didn't write the problem-solving steps completely, you will definitely have to deduct points, Mr. Hu! How many points will he deduct like this?"
"Come on, count, count, count."
"What's your total score?"
"It seems that there are only more than two hundred..."
"I'll go, if you have a perfect score of more than 700, you will take the test of 200!"
Gao Sheng's score was estimated. He was a little worried, and his language was not very good. He deducted a few more points. In the end, it seemed that it was only in the early 400s. According to the score line of previous years, this score is not important. Now, all three are hanging.
Maybe it was because of being stared at by Lin Jingzhe some time ago, Zhou Haitang unexpectedly played better than Gao Sheng. After he estimated his score, he quietly squatted aside and waited for Lin Jingzhe's result.
Lin Jingzhe roughly finished the calculation, looked at the final total score, hesitated for a moment, and calculated it again according to a higher standard.
Gao Sheng was very anxious, and when he finally stopped, he was worried and looking forward to it. He couldn't even sit still, and quickly tapped the table with his fingers: "How many points, how many points, how many points..."
Lin Jingzhe stopped writing silently: "It seems... quite tall."
Gao Sheng's eyes widened in surprise, Zhou Haitang slammed over the table, and Deng Mai hurriedly asked, "Last year's admission score for Qunnan University was 611, can you pass 611?"
Lin Jingzhe replied solemnly, "It should be possible."
"Oooo---"
Although it wasn't me who did well in the test, the students in Class 5 who heard the news all over the place still cheered collectively. Gao Sheng excitedly punched the air: "Great!"
Lin Jingzhe didn't look very excited or happy, but in fact, he was also unbelievable for the score he just estimated.
He knew that he was in exceptionally good condition after several exams, and he knew that he had been fully prepared for the difficulty of the exam questions, but even so, the score line was far beyond his original estimate.
Lin Jingzhe took the volunteer form, and filled out the schools he had considered in the last few columns. After a long silence, he still picked up a pen and wrote down the first column in a precious place that he never asked for in his previous life. University.
Gao Sheng felt that he did not do well in the test, so he was a little discouraged and wanted to fill in a few randomly, just to ensure that he could pass. Lin Jingzhe, who had regained his composure after filling out the application, stopped his hasty impulse and chose Yanshi Wutong University, also in Yanshi, for him.
Although this university is not a heavyweight, it is also considered a little famous. It is also one of the earliest institutions in the country to set up a computer major. It has trained many well-known Internet people in later generations. The computer major is quite capable and has the slightest reputation. Not inferior to the top ones.
The computer major will become the most popular major with the highest score line at Wutong University in future generations, and no mathematician wants to enter after breaking his head with his excellent college entrance examination results. But right now, in the 1990s, when computers were not yet popular enough, its worth has not developed so much.
Seeing that he insisted on adding this wish to himself, although Gao Sheng did not stop him, he did not have expectations in his heart. After all, Wutong University is a little famous. According to the score he estimated this time, it is estimated that if you want to get in, you will have to hit a lot of luck. Seeing Lin Jingzhe's serious expression as he filled in for himself, Gao Sheng was a little amused and moved at the same time. It's not that he has low self-esteem, but his ability to learn, even his mother, Hu Yu, did not dare to have high expectations. In this world, I am afraid that only Lin Jingzhe would not look down on him.
But Lin Jingzhe knew how confident he was about the decision he made.
His advantage lies in reliving it again. Maybe some details of this world will have a butterfly effect because of his changes, but the general development is definitely something he can't shake even ten times over.
These students have no concept, but he knows that the unprecedented difficulty of this college entrance examination will have a great impact on the enrolment process in the future.
Indus University's threshold for the previous year seemed a bit high for Gao Sheng, but what if it lowered the score line
Therefore, after helping Gao Sheng fill out the volunteer, Lin Jingzhe was very enthusiastic for a rare time, and also instructed the other students in the class to choose another volunteer with a slightly higher score than his estimated score.
After doing this, Lin Jingzhe suddenly remembered that Zhou Haitang had disappeared.
It seems that since today's assessment, his mood has been particularly low. With the lessons learned from his previous life, Lin Jingzhe did not dare to slack off on his childhood path. He dragged Deng Mai and Gao Sheng to search for a long time, and finally found Zhou Haitang smoking on the uneven bars next to the playground.
Zhou Haitang squatted on the ground with her back against the uneven bars, her face that used to be heartless and a little silly, showed a deep color for the first time.
He walked towards the aggressive Lin Jingzhe with a mature smile: "Jingzhe, I don't want to go... ouch!"
Lin Jingzhe didn't even listen, he kicked him when he raised his leg, pulled out the disgusting cigarette butt he didn't know where he picked up, and raised his hand to beat him.
Zhou Haitang's pretending to be mature expression was shattered in an instant, and he didn't dare to fight back.
"Dare to smoke!" Lin Jingzhe waved the back of his head, frowned and shouted, "Stop talking nonsense, go up and fill in the volunteer!"
Zhou Haitang folded her arms around her chest, still maintaining a defensive posture, with a bitter expression: "Jing Zhe, I really don't want to go to school."
"Give me a reason." Lin Jingzhe looked at him blankly, "If you can convince me, I will leave immediately."
"How can I let you go. That's not what I meant." Zhou Haitang smiled bitterly, "My mother went back to her parents' house to borrow money a few days ago because of my tuition and living expenses, but she didn't get it."
Zhou Haitang's family shouldn't have been so difficult. His parents are both employees of Liyun Thermos Bottle Factory. In this age of double-earner family, they can't say that the economy is good, but they certainly don't have to worry about food and clothing. But it was bad. In the middle of last year, his mother was suddenly laid off by the factory.
The two sources of income were immediately cut in half. The three members of the family needed food, clothing, housing and transportation, Zhou Haitang's tuition fees, and the support of the two elderly people. The pressure was all concentrated on Zhou Haitang's father's monthly salary of 200 yuan.
Zhou Haitang sighed: "Jing Zhe, I'm not like you, I definitely won't be able to get into a key university, and I definitely won't get a scholarship. If I really go to university, I don't want to be separated from you and Gao Sheng. But I calculated, if I also went to Yan City, not to mention the tuition fee of several hundred yuan per semester, but the living expenses of one hundred yuan per month. My parents must not be able to pay for it. The money can be borrowed, but how can I pay it back? Wait for me It will take at least four years to graduate."
Thinking of the repressed cry of her hiding mother she heard the other night, Zhou Haitang made up her mind that he would go out to work and relieve some of the pressure on his parents.
He looked at Lin Jingzhe seriously, his eyes filled with his firm beliefs, he felt that Lin Jingzhe would definitely understand his choice, but unexpectedly, the other party suddenly raised his hand and gave him a loud slap on the back of the head.
"Fart!" Lin Jingzhe really convinced these little kids. He thought he was mature, but he was terribly naive!
Zhou Haitang has no idea what he has given up with the decision he has made now. Is it just four years of college life and the burden of his parents? Big mistake!
But it doesn't make sense to reason with the brat, Lin Jingzhe raised his hand and grabbed his collar and dragged him towards the teaching building: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, I will help you solve the problem of tuition and living expenses, Now you give me to go and fill in the volunteer!"
Zhou Haitang struggled: "I don't want you to pay for me!"
Lin Jingzhe endured it for a long time, but still couldn't hold back, he raised his leg and kicked him fiercely: "Shut up! If you think beautifully, who will give you money! I mean to let you earn it yourself!"
Earn it yourself? Zhou Haitang is at a loss. He is a high school student who has just come of age. Only in the year of the monkey can he earn tuition and living expenses for four years of college? But Lin Jingzhe was obviously going crazy with anger, and he didn't dare to touch the tiger's butt any more.
He didn't want to go to college, so he didn't do his homework at all. He could only copy it according to Gao Sheng's with a joke mentality to appease Lin Jingzhe.
Hu Yu was taken aback when she retracted her offer. The goals of the fifth group of children were completely beyond her expectations.
The other students are okay, although the first choice is set a little higher, but the alternatives are still reasonable, but...
She took out three volunteer forms, and her face was a little dignified. What majors did Gao Sheng and Zhou Haitang fill in? computer
However, this Wutong University had a score of over 470 points last year, so the chances of them being admitted are not high anyway, so let them go, but this one of Lin Jingzhe—
Hu Yu looked at "Yanshi University" in the column of the first choice in astonishment, and paused for two seconds before calming his pounding heart. Looking further down, Lin Jingzhe has filled out a total of four universities, all of which are located in Yan City.
Ever since Lin Jingzhe gave up his quota at Qunnan University, Hu Yu has been worried that he will be too aggressive in his selection. Now the worry has finally become a reality, and her whole person has become a bitter chrysanthemum.
How dare she hand in this volunteer? If you hand it over, Lin Jingzhe will be killed!
Yanshi University, what is the concept? Lin Jingzhe chose the popular finance major. Last year, this major was 20 points higher than that of Qunnan University!
No one knows better than her, a senior high school teacher, what 20 points represent in the college entrance examination scores, and since she taught in a small city like Liyun, not to mention Yanshi University, which has a score line 120 points higher every year. , that is, Qunnan University, there are very few students who can get in by their own grades.
Lin Jingzhe was misled by the second model's sudden improvement in grades! But where is the difficulty of the test questions of the second model and the college entrance examination the same level? What's more, she has carefully analyzed Lin Jingzhe's grades. When this child was in the class, his best performance was inferior to that of Yu Zhiliang, who was the first place at the time. As a teacher, Hu Yu was never afraid of students who didn't like to study. What I'm afraid of is a child like Lin Jingzhe who has lost his sense of normality because of a certain outstanding performance.
Hu Yu found Lin Jingzhe and wanted to persuade the first batch of volunteers to change, but Lin Jingzhe resolutely refused.
She was so worried that she didn't have the mind to ask her son why he chose to major in computer science first, so she could only find the vice-principal Qu Yuan and try to persuade everyone together.
Where does Qu Yuan dare to go? Although he is now the acting principal, when the city leaders visited him before, he had personally witnessed the scene where Du Kang attached great importance to Lin Jingzhe. Therefore, after Tao Fangzheng fell from power, he was especially afraid of this unremarkable student in the past.
Several other teachers in the third year of high school also felt that these volunteers were too unrealistic, it could be said to be a fantasy!
But they understood that children of this age must be stubborn, so the chemistry teacher persuaded him: "Why don't you help him change, that Yanshi University, how is it possible, move one forward and fill in Qunnan University. , plus a few second-category volunteers, Lin Jingzhe should have no problem taking the Qunnan University test, but if he really can't get it, there is also a second-category option to choose from."
This proposal has been recognized by many teachers: "Yeah, when the results come out, he will definitely thank you, child, sometimes we have to pull it when we go wrong."
Hu Yu sat in the office thinking about it for an afternoon, with this suggestion circling in her mind, she struggled so hard that her heart clenched, but in the end she didn't do it.
In any case, this is Lin Jingzhe's own intention. As a teacher, she can give advice, but she cannot make choices for the other party.
If it doesn't work, just repeat it. He is only the third year of high school, he is still young, his brain is so smart, and his future life is so long. If he really fails, it can also add some lessons to his life.
With a deep sense of powerlessness and guilt, Hu Yu handed over these volunteers according to the regulations.
******
Lin Jingzhe hesitated for a long time, but went to Zhou Haitang's house. He felt that he should tell his parents about Zhou Haitang's state of mind, and let his parents come forward to stabilize him. Now that he has filled in the volunteers, there is still a long time to wait for the results. Lin Jingzhe is worried that Zhou Haitang will make mistakes during this time. He understands that he is a little boy. Although he is kind and sincere, he is also an uncompromising one.
The thermos bottle factory is a relatively large state-owned enterprise factory in Liyun. Zhou Haitang's family is located in the staff dormitory in the factory area. The building built around 1980 is too old and dark to describe. The Zhou family's life was obviously not very easy, but knowing that Lin Jingzhe was going to come to the door, Zhou's mother still specially asked someone to cut the meat, and also went to the sorbet factory next door to buy a box of cream sorbet that was not cheap.
"Hurry up, don't show it to Haitang, look at you skinny... It takes a lot of energy to finish the exam, right? Auntie bought a lot of meat, and I will cook you a corn soup with a bone." Mother Zhou sat haggard Across the table, he kindly watched Lin Jingzhe dig sorbet with a spoon, and sighed, "Haitang is so stupid, she has been cheated since she was a child, and she hadn't learned well some time ago. If you hadn't persuaded him, he would definitely not have been so obedient, auntie really doesn't know how to thank you... "
The incomparably rich aroma of bone broth reverberated in the dark corridor with her voice, and floated in through the gap in the door, smelling Lin Jingzhe's hunger. The deepest impression he had on Zhou's mother was her excellent cooking skills. She was able to pick up all the wild vegetables that were so astringent that they could cut their throats, and bring out the taste of the whole banquet.
But this is a hard-working woman. In her previous life, she died earlier than Hu Yu.
Zhou Haitang's family has never been wealthy, but now is not the most difficult time. Although Zhou's mother was laid off last year, the family still has Zhou's father as a labor force. But in a few years, after the reform of state-owned enterprises, this only labor force will also be loss of financial resources.
In a previous life, after Zhou's father was laid off, he and Gao Sheng's father went to other provinces to work in various construction sites. But after only a few years of work, there was an accident at the construction site where he was working. The consequences of the accident were very tragic. Gao Sheng's father died on the spot. Although Zhou Haitang's father saved his life, he was also seriously injured. Below the knee, completely amputated.
Mother Zhou, a hard-working woman, was crying about what happened to her husband on the one hand, and on the other hand, she had to worry about her son's abnormal working environment. Maybe she was over-worried. In short, she was diagnosed with cancer within a few years, and she passed away from diagnosis to death. , with only two short months in between.
Lin Jingzhe was in Yan City at the time, and was plagued by all kinds of troubles, and was unable to rush to her funeral. Zhou Haitang called on the same day and cried hoarsely on the phone.
He suddenly came back to his senses, only to find that his mouth was numb. He stopped mechanically filling his mouth with sorbet and took a deep breath.
The bone soup was probably ready. Mother Zhou pulled out two towels, wheezing and blowing, and brought in a still pounding casserole from the coal stove in the corridor.
This pot of soup is so fragrant and fragrant, the rich meat flavor mixed with wonderful seasonings, coupled with the refreshing and sweet smell of corn, is so thick and gorgeous that Lin Jingzhe feels like he is participating in a grand salon. In the dark corridor, people kept pretending to pass by casually, and they always probed in and followed the source of this fragrance with exploratory eyes.
A middle-aged woman who passed by three times couldn't help but stop and sigh: "Oh, mother Zhou, how did you cook this dish? I used the same seasoning as you did, but I couldn't get this flavor out of it! "
Lin Jingzhe listened to their greetings, took a sip of the soup, and felt the power of the rich aroma blasting in his taste buds and throat.
In his last life, he was in Yan City, and when he was not down yet, with the strength of his father, he could be considered to have experienced the life of a high government office. He ate and drank with the serious second-generation ancestor Hu, and tasted all the famous private restaurants in the corners of Yan City. Those restaurants often cost hundreds of thousands of dishes, but there is no chef who can make Zhou Haitang. The taste of mother.
He took back those memories, finished a bowl of soup, and finally told his mother Zhou what he came for.
Zhou's mother paused for his soup, and her eyes suddenly widened: "What did you say? Haitang refuses to volunteer for college?!"
"Damn child!" Mother Zhou slammed and put the bowl on the table, "I told him a hundred times that Mom and Dad will find a way about money, but Mom and Dad will find a way, but he just won't listen! He is this You're going to piss me off!"
Losing her temper, Zhou's mother's eyes flushed again: "If I hadn't been laid off last year, he wouldn't have thought so much. It's my mother who is incompetent."
"Don't say that." Lin Jingzhe reassured her, "I'm not telling you this to make you blame yourself, I just want to tell you that we will have a solution for Zhou Haitang's tuition, but before we solve it, I hope you I can help stabilize him. I'm worried that he will sneak off to work, and it will be troublesome if he loses contact."
"What can you do?" Mother Zhou smiled through her tears, not taking it seriously, "I know, I will stabilize him, anyway, there are still several months before the start of school, and I can't lose money even if I break the pot and sell the iron. He goes to school."
Lin Jingzhe finally drank the second bowl of soup as he wished. He was silent, knowing what he knew, and now he had no evidence. He suddenly said that he could solve such a large sum of money. If Mother Zhou could easily believe it, she was probably mentally retarded.
Therefore, he didn't bother to explain, and simply drank the soup seriously. It would be a pity to let it cool for such a delicious food.
Zhou's mother was so grateful to him, she tried her best to scoop a large piece of meat into his bowl, and she couldn't stop thanking him: "Jing Zhe, it's really thanks to you, you've done all this, auntie sees it, Haitang can have it. A friend like you, I don't know which life you cultivated for."
Lin Jingzhe smiled and suddenly asked, "Auntie, your craftsmanship is so good, have you ever thought about starting your own business?"
Mother Zhou was stunned when she heard the words, with a puzzled expression on her face. She was about to ask what it meant when there was a burst of hurried footsteps at the door, accompanied by Zhou Haitang's loud shout: "Mom! Are you buying meat?! What day is it today, the people downstairs can't even walk!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed in like a basketball monkey, his eyes were like searchlights, and the moment he entered the door, he caught the big casserole on the table, and only then did he see Lin Jingzhe.
The eyes of the two sides touched slightly, and Zhou Haitang was very puzzled: "Jing Zhe, when did you come? Why didn't you tell me?"
Lin Jingzhe didn't answer, he lifted his chin towards the door, and said calmly, "Go take a shower."
Zhou Haitang's belly full of questions were not answered, but she had subconsciously developed a good habit of listening to him, and immediately turned around and ran to the toilet in the corridor.
In the toilet, Zhou Haitang took a basin full of cold water and flushed it down, stomping her bare feet on the ground from the cold, but Zhou's mother didn't leave, she said to him through the door, "Haitang, which university did you fill in? It's a matter of money. Mom has already solved it."
Zhou Haitang's watering voice paused: "Ah?"
Zhou's mother's tone was very relaxed: "Mom has a friend who heard the news that you are going to college, and asked someone to send you 1,000 yuan in the morning. If you study obediently, your mother will give you 150 yuan a month in the future. Money for living expenses!"
As he was talking, the door of the toilet was suddenly opened, and Zhou Haitang stuck out her wet head, stretched her neck, and her eyes were wide open, like a deer foraging for food.
He asked, "Mom, you still know such a rich friend!"
Mother Zhou frowned and said, "Mom had many friends when she was young!"
The heavy stone that Zhou Haitang had been pressing on his chest for a long time finally fell to the ground after hearing the news, he smiled naively and said, "One hundred and fifty yuan is too much, my hundred yuan a month will definitely be enough. Well, maybe you can save some money."
Mother Zhou sighed and rubbed her son's head with a smile.
******
Early in the morning, when the sun was rising, Lin Jingzhe took the sleepy Zhou Haitang, Gao Sheng and Deng Mai to board the bus bound for the provincial capital.
Liyun City is located in a mountain nest. Although it is not far from the provincial capital, because there is only one winding mountain road, daily buses to the outside of the city are extremely scarce, not to mention those outside the province.
Gao Sheng and Deng Mai slept unconscious from the moment they got in the car. Zhou Haitang carried all the luggage of the three of them. Lin Jingzhe sat by the window, accompanied by the bumping of the car, silently watching the scenery that was going backwards outside the car window.
After being reborn for so long, he finally took the first step out of Li Yun.
Zhou Haitang took out the water from her pocket and handed it to him, yawned, a little puzzled: "Why do you suddenly think of going to the provincial capital to play?"
They came out this time without telling the family, and only said that they would go to a classmate's house for two days. If they told their family to go to the provincial capital to play, their parents would definitely not agree.
Lin Jingzhe touched the car window with his fingers, did not look back, raised his hand to take the water, and just held it in his hand, without any intention of drinking it.
His voice was particularly ethereal and clear in the wind blowing in: "You don't want to go?"
"I want to go." Lin Jingzhe seldom answered other people's questions, Zhou Haitang had long been used to it, she heard a somewhat excited smile: "I haven't been to the provincial capital yet, Gao Sheng and Deng Mai said there Much better than Li Yun, there are high-rise buildings everywhere."
Lin Jingzhe smiled and looked back at him: "Do you like tall buildings?"
Zhou Haitang nodded shyly: "I definitely like it."
"Then I'll show you enough." Lin Jingzhe turned his eyes back out the window, his eyes were like a calm pool of water, unfathomable.
******
After driving for three hours, Gao Sheng and Deng Mai each vomited once, but Lin Jingzhe did not stop for a moment, pulling the three of them onto another bus.
This is a bus bound for Shenshi. There is no direct bus to Liyun, so he can only transfer in Qunnan City.
Gao Sheng and Deng Mai were going crazy: "My God, where are we going?"
Lin Jingzhe threw the motion sickness pills and bread he had just bought at the station to them, and commanded unhesitatingly, "Hurry up and finish your meal, stop talking nonsense."
This is an air-conditioned bus, and the air-conditioning is filled in the compartment. Zhou Haitang raised her hand very novelly to touch the location of the air-conditioning outlet. The car started slowly, left the station, and headed towards the city.
Zhou Haitang's eyes were straightened. There were endless cars on the road, pedestrians dressed in completely different clothes from Li Yun, and people of the same age wearing white Nike shoes roaring past on trendy bicycles that were completely different from 28 weights. The tall buildings on both sides are really tall, and there are modern buildings that are much taller than Liyun's landmark buildings everywhere.
As an authentic country bumpkin, he couldn't hide his excitement at all, and kept saying to Lin Jingzhe, "Look! Look at this building!"
"Damn it, this car is so beautiful!"
"Why are there still women driving?"
"Wow, this house is so beautiful, People's Hotel?"
He pulled Lin Jingzhe's sleeve and pointed to the roadside: "Look at that house!"
Lin Jingzhe followed his guidance and looked at it. It was a small building with a height of ten stories. It was an unconventional building, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like a rectangle. It was very trendy and special in these normal houses in the 1990s. Building up.
This is an office building, and there is a huge sign in front of it, which displays all the companies that work in the building.
Lin Jingzhe's eyes crossed the incomparably eye-catching words "Qiqing Real Estate" at the top of the ranking.
In the voice of Zhou Haitang marveling at the special features of this house, he slowly closed his eyes: "I'll sleep for a while."
The author has something to say:
PS: Due to the needs of the plot and the reasons for harmony, some backgrounds in the text will be different from reality, please understand.