The high school entrance examination lasted for two days. Because of the distance, students from Xiaqiu Junior High School who registered with the teacher and paid in advance could have lunch in the cafeteria of this high school.
Guan Baiyu did not sign up, and Shi Zhen said that he would take him home to eat and to rest at home.
The senior high school entrance examination lasted for two days. On this morning, I took the Chinese test. At ten o'clock, the test was over.
The teacher of Xiaqiu Junior High School was afraid that the students in their school would be too ugly to submit their papers in advance, so before the exam, they repeatedly emphasized that they could not submit papers in advance. leave the classroom at the same time.
This time, the entire school was disrupted, and there were students from other schools taking the test with them. Guan Baiyu and Yan Jiangtao were not in the same test room.
After handing in the test paper, he quickly ran to the door.
His brother is waiting at the door!
It's also good for him to run faster and let his brother wait a few seconds less!
Yan Jiangtao made up his mind to trouble Guan Baiyu during lunch.
He signed up to eat at school. If Guan Baiyu also eats at school, he can teach him a lesson in school. If Guan Baiyu goes out to eat... he can also go out to eat.
But Yan Jiangtao never thought that after he handed in the papers and left the examination room, he saw Guan Baiyu running away.
It was the first time he knew that Guan Baiyu, who had always been warm and slow to respond, could run so fast.
Yan Jiangtao chased after him.
Then he saw Guan Baiyu running to talk to someone next to a tall and tall man, and even turned on his tricycle.
Yan Jiangtao: "..." If Guan Baiyu was alone, he would dare to trouble Guan Baiyu, but if his parents were there... Yan Jiangtao could only stop and go back to eat.
Then I lost my temper because the food in this high school was not delicious.
Other classmates: "… "Is the braised chicken leg unappetizing? Is Yan Jiangtao sick? !
Shi Zhen did not bring Guan Baiyu back to the village.
The village is a bit far away, and there may be people from the village who come to ask this or that... He took Guan Baiyu to the house he just rented in the town.
Returning to the village from high school, it takes at least fifteen minutes to ride a tricycle, and it doesn't take five minutes to get here. They don't need to ride a tricycle anymore, he just walks with Guan Baiyu to take the test.
Shi Zhen has moved the things used for stalls here one after another these days, so naturally there are things that can be cooked here.
Because there is no rice cooker, Shi Zhen simply made noodles.
He cut a sausage, shredded pork, carrots, and white shreds, fried them all, put them in the cooked noodles, and made two servings of fried noodles, one for himself and Guan Baiyu.
These are all things that Guan Baiyu usually likes to eat and often eats. He doesn't dare to do things that Guan Baiyu has never eaten before - if Guan Baiyu accidentally eats the wrong thing and has diarrhea, it will be bad!
After Guan Baiyu finished eating, Shi Zhen let him sleep for a while.
However, Guan Baiyu couldn't sleep, and excitedly talked to Shi Zhen: "Brother, I think this exam is very easy. I have been doing the questions for the past two months, and it is still very useful!"
When he was in the bookstore, he always picked questions that he couldn't do, and did them in his notebook. After finishing them, he went to correct the answer. If he got it right, it was the best.
This has greatly improved his performance.
"Of course, you have a good foundation, but you lack experience in answering questions." Shi Zhen said.
Guan Baiyu basically knows the content in the book, but it's just like mathematics. People who have only done example problems in the book, it is too difficult to get a high score!
Guan Baiyu has been brushing the questions for more than two months, and it is normal for his grades to improve.
Guan Baiyu listened to what Shi Zhen said, and looked forward to the next exam.
Guan Baiyu couldn't sleep, so he just lay down and rested for a while. When the exam was about to start in the afternoon, Shi Zhen sent him to school.
The afternoon was long, and there were two subjects to take, namely mathematics and English. These two subjects, Guan Baiyu felt the same as in the morning, and felt that it was much easier than before.
After the exam was over, he still ran out nonstop.
Yan Jiangtao: "Grass!"
The two-day exam is over soon.
During the exam, Guan Baiyu was always careful and tried to avoid Yan Jiangtao.
In addition, Shi Zhen has been waiting at the door... Although he met Yan Jiangtao several times, it was before the exam. Yan Jiangtao couldn't do anything other than say a few words to him.
The high school entrance examination was finally over, and Guan Baiyu felt relieved, but also a little dazed.
He just finished his junior high school.
Many of Guan Baiyu's classmates were completely relieved after the exam and went to work with peace of mind. There were also some who had not found a job before, but now they finished the exam and started looking for a job.
A new chemical fiber factory was opened nearby, and it needed a lot of female workers. In the third year of junior high, many girls went with them to sign up. It is difficult for boys to find jobs in the factory, but there are some jobs that only they can do, such as moving cement in a cement factory.
However, boys who have just graduated from junior high school are generally not allowed to do this at home.
In the end, regardless of men and women, there are some people who are unemployed after graduation, and the number of men is more.
After graduating from junior high school and looking for a job, some people began to think about finding a partner for their children's engagement.
This summer vacation, most of Guan Baiyu's classmates who no longer go to school will grow up quickly under the promotion of those around them.
Of course, these are for the future.
On the first day after Guan Baiyu finished his exam, Shi Zhen set foot on his way home, planning to pick up his family from the mountain.
The bus from Changxi City to the provincial capital will stop at the bus station in Anshan Town. Shi Zhen bought a ticket, first went to the provincial capital, and then bought a ticket in the provincial capital to go to the city where his hometown is located.
In the 1990s, there have been many petty thefts and many criminal cases.
A small place like Anshan Town is actually quite peaceful. Some big cities... The aborigines in big cities have always lived in a circle they are familiar with, and the environment is of course safe. .
People who come out to work these days don't have mobile phones and don't have close contact with their families, so some wicked people are more daring to attack people who are alone.
Men are better. It is not uncommon for women to lose contact with their families when they go out to work.
Or maybe they didn't break contact, but they were bullied outside... They would make Tian Tian should not be called to ground if they were not careful.
Let's just say Guangzhou. In the 2000s, there would be car robberies and slashing of people's arms on the streets.
This is also the reason why Shi Zhen decided to place his family in Anshan Town.
Compared with other places, Anshan Town is considered peaceful, at least there are no rampant criminal gangs.
When returning home this time, Shi Zhen put on the ragged clothes he had worn from home. The clothes were long-sleeved and a little hot, so he rolled up his sleeves to reveal his muscular arms.
These days, he does all kinds of work every day, and his food is not bad. Even if he doesn't exercise deliberately, he has grown muscles, and he has tanned his skin all day by running a stall.
In short, he looked a little fierce, and it was very difficult to mess with.
Shi Zhen noticed that some people who were staring at him quickly looked away when they saw him.
Although Shi Zhen's appearance made those thieves dare not do anything to him, he was still very careful and was always very vigilant.
When he came to the city where his hometown is located, he took the car to the county seat below. It was getting late. Shi Zhen stayed in the county town for one night. On the first day, he followed a tractor to the town near his home, and then asked someone to take him to the village near his home.
It was already five o'clock in the evening.
When Shi Zhen set out from Anshan Town, he brought some rice balls and eggs. The rice balls had already been eaten, and there were still three eggs left.
He ate the remaining eggs and went to the village.
Ten years later, when I went to their village, there was a winding road, but now I can only walk on two legs or drive a motorcycle.
But he couldn't find anyone in town willing to take him to the village on a motorcycle.
Shi Zhen walked for more than two hours before arriving at the village where he had lived since he was a child.
It was already dark by this time.
In fact, everything along the way was very unfamiliar to Shi Zhen, and he even felt that he would get lost.
Of course, he didn't get lost in the end. Once he came, there was only one road, no fork in the road. Come up... When he really got here, he realized that he was very familiar with this place.
That kind of familiarity was imprinted in his bones and blood, and even if it had been decades, he would not forget it.
There were many lights in Anshan Town at eight or nine in the evening, and he even sold fried skewers in the town at that time.
But at this time, their village has no lights at all.
Shi Zhen found his house and knocked on the door.
He had always thought that Guan Baiyu's house was broken, but in fact his house was just as broken.
Their house is a bungalow with a total of four rooms, all of which are very small.
In this house, his parents live in one room, his three sisters live in one room, the other two rooms are used as warehouses, and he lives in the other room to cook and eat.
At that time, before he got up, his stepmother would come to him to make breakfast, and there was really no privacy at all.
Shi Zhen knocked on the door and heard his stepmother's voice: "Who is it?"
When Shi Zhengang was reborn, he could hardly speak the dialect of his hometown.
He later settled in Changxi City and spoke many dialects and Mandarin in Changxi City. In the last years, he almost only spoke Mandarin.
The children of his sister and sister can only speak Mandarin, and the children of his eldest sister can understand and speak a few words in dialect.
But these days, he has talked a lot with Shi Xinghuo, and he remembered all his dialects.
"Aunt Zhao, it's me." Shi Zhen said.
He was eight when his mother died.
His mother was very kind to him, so after his father married his stepmother, he didn't change his name to call him "mom" and kept calling his stepmother "Aunt Zhao".
Although he didn't call his mother, he didn't have any hostility towards his stepmother.
His stepmother married his father, not for love or anything else, just to have a place to live and a meal to eat.
"Shi Zhen, are you back?" The sound of the door bolt being pulled was accompanied by the voice of Shi Zhen's stepmother, "Da Lin, Shi Zhen is back!"
Shi Zhen's father's name is Shi Dalin. Hearing his wife's voice, he hurriedly got up from the bed and turned on the dim light bulb in the house.
There is no running water in their village, but there is electricity, but even so, many people do not install electric lights to avoid electricity bills.
At that time, Shi Dalin was considering that Shi Zhen was too old, and he was about to say kiss, and the electric light was installed at home, and the conditions were better, so he was safe.
In the past few years, Shi Dalin, whether he was going to work in the fields or looking for wild goods in the mountains, would pick up any broken stones he saw, and even cut down a few trees and put them behind his house. Build a house for Shi Zhen.
As a result, before his house was built, Shi Zhen ran out to work.
After Shi Zhen left for a few months, even though he received the letter, Shi Dalin was still worried. Now that Shi Zhen was fine, he was relieved.
Shi Dalin walked around the room, and finally poured Shi Zhen a bowl of water.
Shi Zhen took the water and drank it, then looked at his father.
His father is forty-five this year. He is not too old, but he looks very old, and there are not even a few teeth in his mouth.
If he went out like this ten years later, everyone would definitely think he was in his sixties or seventies.
As for his stepmother, Zhao Meiyun, she is also black and thin and looks quite old...
Zhao Meiyun looked at Shi Zhen anxiously and asked, "Shi Zhen, have you eaten yet? Would you like me to cook something for you?"
"I haven't eaten yet, thank Aunt Zhao." Shi Zhen said, the three eggs he ate before had already been digested, and he was very hungry now.
Zhao Meiyun heard the words and immediately went to make a fire to cook.
Shi Zhen knocked on the door of Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun's house, but the next room could also hear a noise. Shi Zhen turned around and saw his stepsister Zhao Qiujuan and his stepsister Zhao Dongjuan came out.
Zhao Meiyun got married once before marrying Shi Dalin. During that marriage, she gave birth to four daughters one after another.
Her youngest daughter Zhao Dongjuan, Shi Zhen's stepsister, is a few months younger than Shi Zhen.
Zhao Dongjuan was born in the same year as Shi Zhen, when Zhao Meiyun was thirty-one years old.
After giving birth to Zhao Dongjuan, Zhao Meiyun got pregnant several times, but each time she couldn't get pregnant, and then she couldn't get pregnant. The husband in front of her was from a good family and wanted a son, so she drove Zhao Meiyun away. The two were smaller. The daughter doesn't want it either.
Zhao Meiyun's family was poor, so naturally it was impossible for her to stay at home, so she found a home for her everywhere. It happened that Shi Dalin wanted someone to take care of the children at home, so the two got together.
Zhao Meiyun cherishes this marriage very much. She is very good to Shi Dalin, and she is also good to Shi Zhen and Shi Zhen's sister Shi Ting. Of course, she has not lost her two daughters. If there is something in private, she must be close to her daughter first. .
Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Dongjuan have average looks, but they are young and not ugly.
Zhao Qiujuan doesn't like to talk. She was not the eldest daughter at first, but when she came to this house, she had to become the eldest daughter who grabbed everything. When Shi Ting was a child, she basically brought her.
Seeing Shi Zhen now, she smiled at Shi Zhen and went to help her mother make a fire.
Zhao Dongjuan's personality is completely opposite to her sister's. She glanced at Shi Zhen with complicated eyes: "Why did you come back so soon? It's not easy to get along outside?"
Of the three sisters, who Shi Zhen dislikes the most... is definitely Zhao Dongjuan.
Shi Ting is making trouble, spending money for spending money. Anyway, he really treats him as a brother. In the few years when Guan Baiyu was in a bad mood without him, Shi Ting was very calm. Not only did he not ask him for money, but he was also careful to coax him. He eats more food.
Later, when it was a festival or his birthday, Shi Ting also thought about him, and gave him this and that, for fear that he would be lonely.
Shi Zhen could see that she really treated herself well.
She's... she just can't control her buying hand when her head is empty, she can't help wanting when she sees something good.
In contrast, her children, probably because the times have changed, are full of utilitarianism.
Thinking of his own sister's virtue of believing everything others say, and the virtue of wanting to buy anything he sees on the Internet, Shi Zhen felt tired.
But his sister looks like a mother, it's so beautiful, even if she is a straw bag, the outer cover is also a beautifully embroidered pillowcase.
His two brothers-in-law didn't care how they were, they really liked his sister, which Shi Zhen was sure of.
Most men like this kind of silly woman who is beautiful and easy to coax.
But Zhao Dongjuan is different. This person is very scheming and has deep hostility towards him.
He came out of the mountains to work hard, and eventually made a fortune. His educational background was not enough for the evaluation criteria of later generations of Phoenix men, but there were actually some similarities.
For example, he always wanted to help people in the village, and he was very fond of face.
Therefore, although he didn't like Zhao Dongjuan very much since he was a child, he still helped this person at first.
It's a pity that this person not only disrespectful, but also said that he was partial or something in front of his father and the back, and later he was too lazy to pay attention to this person.
His inheritance, he gave a little to the eldest sister and the little sister, but he did not give this person a cent.
However, with his mentality in his forties now, he wouldn't care about a little girl who was still a few months away from adulthood.