beloved does not come back

Jiang Tianxiao spent the whole night at KFC.

He originally wanted to go back to the dormitory, but it was too late, the subway and the bus were all stopped, and only the 792 bus was left for overnight.He waited at the station for a long time, first standing, then squatting, and then simply sitting, but still did not wait for the 792 bus.Take a taxi, it's too far from the school, and he doesn't have that much money on him.

I simply went back to KFC and asked for another glass of iced Coke, which I put on my face to relieve swelling and pain.Jiang Tianxiao was still a little dazed, he didn't know why he stepped on Yu Lang's minefield, or rather, he didn't expect that Yu Lang, who was always calm and peaceful, would be so angry and fierce.

Yu Lang's last sarcasm full of disdain played back in his mind over and over again, a bit like the horn that rang through the village when he was a child.

……

When Jiang Tianxiao was 6 years old, his father passed away. He remembers it very clearly. That day his father rode a bicycle that he bought for more than a month to go shopping in the county. Take you there again, Dad will be back in a while.Then his father never came back, and was run over by a tractor on the road walking out of the county town to the village.The tractor escaped and was not found.Another year later, Jiang Tianxiao's mother took him to remarry.

His stepfather was not good to Jiang Tianxiao. Jiang Tianxiao often lived at the house of his grandparents. His grandparents were farmers who depended on the sky all their lives. Their son was gone, and their hair turned white overnight.Occasionally, Jiang Tianxiao's aunts and uncles would help them with some money, but they were all farmers, and no one had a better life than the other.

Jiang Tianxiao was very competitive, knew how to learn, and was admitted to the county's junior high school.On the day of the senior high school entrance examination, the student's personal information was posted on the upper right corner of every table, and it was the first time he knew his ID number.

It was the first time he knew his own birthday.

It was also the anniversary of his father's death.

Later, Jiang Tianxiao heard from his aunt that his father rode a bicycle to the county town to buy a bag of biscuits, which was Jiang Tianxiao's birthday present.

Jiang Tianxiao often thought that if he was not born on April 4, it would be fine, one day sooner or later, so that his father could avoid that tractor.But after much deliberation, there is no other way but to accept fate.

Yes, accept fate, this is what Jiang Tianxiao often heard from his grandfather, if the harvest is not good, accept fate; if the son dies, accept fate; if the disease cannot be cured, accept fate.Jiang Tianxiao knew that accepting his fate was not because of cowardice, but because there was no other way but to accept it.Destiny is like a tide sweeping the world, but people are just a grain of sand.

Jiang Tianxiao thought of Yu Lang again, and Yu Lang was probably the most unfavorable accident in his boring life. He remembered the winter of the senior year of high school, and the senior year was off on the evening of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, but Jiang Tianxiao couldn't go home.Three days ago, his grandma asked someone from the same village to come to the county seat to tell Jiang Tianxiao that his uncle gambled in a neighboring village and owed a lot of debt. Madam, they dare not fight, so don't come back.Jiang Tianxiao couldn't go to his stepfather's house to be an eyesore, because that would make his mother unhappy.

It was snowing that day, and it was very cold. Jiang Tianxiao was wandering on the street, and saw the owner of Liangliang fast food restaurant, a young man with a ponytail, standing at the door of the restaurant smoking a cigarette.

"Come to eat?" He asked Jiang Tianxiao across the street with a cigarette between his fingers.

Jiang Tianxiao then walked over.

Yu Lang was the only one in the store, and it turned out that the bright fast food restaurant was on holiday that day.Yu Lang found a pot and cooked hot pot with Jiang Tianxiao.Jiang Tianxiao suspected that Yu Lang had used all the unused vegetables and meat in the pot that night. He ate so much that his belly was round and he burped for a long time.

Through the white mist curling up from the hot pot, Yu Lang asked Jiang Tianxiao, "Aren't you going home for the Chinese New Year?"

Jiang Tianxiao didn't know why, maybe his brain would slow down after eating too much, so he replied bluntly: "I can't go back, the house is blocked by people."

To his surprise, Yu Lang didn't continue to ask, but just nodded.

During the Spring Festival of that year, from the night of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month to the beginning of school at Jiang Tianxiao on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he lived in Yu Lang's shop.

Jiang Tianxiao woke up around [-]:[-] the next morning, his whole body ached and his face was swollen. When he walked out of KFC, he looked at himself through the glass, looking like a homeless man.

Jiang Tianxiao sighed silently, and took the subway back to school.

When we arrived at the dormitory, Shen Zhe was not there—it would be better not to be here, and Jiang Tianxiao didn't want to explain his embarrassment right now.There was no hot water in the bathroom in the dormitory building at this time. Jiang Tianxiao went to fetch a basin full of cold water, twisted a towel and wiped his body, and then fell asleep without bothering to charge his phone, which had already run out of battery. up.

However, this sleep was extremely restless, with dreams one after another. For a while, Dr. Li stabbed me in the underground parking lot where he could not see his fingers; Walked over, and then waved his hand and punched him; a while later, in the middle of the night in the third year of high school, Yu Lang hugged himself who was crying...

I don't know how long he slept, but Jiang Tianxiao was woken up by the heat. He could only hear the cicadas chirping outside the window, the laughter of boys in the corridor, and the sound of footsteps... so hot, it must be noon.Jiang Tianxiao turned over and fell asleep again.His last meal was 24 hours ago, but he was so hungry that his stomach seemed to be numb.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Tianxiao was pushed awake.

"Where the hell did you go!" Shen Zhe looked annoyed.

Jiang Tianxiao still hasn't woken up from sleepiness: "Huh?"

"Oh, sir! I couldn't get through to you when I called you yesterday. I searched all over the school and couldn't find it. Where have you been?"

"I had a part-time job yesterday." Jiang Tianxiao was at a loss. He had stayed out at night before, and Shen Zhe was so anxious.

"Then why didn't you come back last night?"

"I..." Jiang Tianxiao couldn't answer for a while, he couldn't say that he slept in KFC all night because he was reluctant to take a taxi!

"You can call the counselor yourself!" Shen Zhe rolled his eyes with a displeased expression on his face: "Grandma Huang, the political economics officer, called the roll call yesterday, and you were not here, so she went directly to the counselor and said she must hang you up. If you don’t give me a graduation certificate, I really don’t understand what’s going on in your mind, Jiang Tianxiao! You only have one class a week and you still run away to work. Are you so short of money? Grandma Huang said so, and the counselor is also in a hurry. If you can’t find anyone, call me and let me find you, I almost called the police yesterday!"

"..."

There was too much news, Jiang Tianxiao was speechless for a while.

After a few minutes, Shen Zhe probably realized that his tone was too aggressive—after all, Jiang Tianxiao was just "judged" and unable to graduate.He sighed, walked to Jiang Tianxiao's bed and patted him on the shoulder: "You should contact the counselor as soon as possible, he definitely doesn't want the students he brings to graduate, see if you can ask him to ask Grandma Huang for help. plead?"

When Jiang Tianxiao heard the bad news from Shen Zhe, only one line played in Jiang Tianxiao's mind: It's over, I won't be able to graduate.

After Shen Zhe said this, he came back to his senses a little bit, and hurriedly charged the phone.After a while, it was able to turn on the phone, and a series of missed calls popped up, one was from Shen Zhe, and another strange number was naturally from the counselor.

Jiang Tianxiao squeezed the phone tightly, sweating in his hands.

He walked to the balcony of the dormitory and dialed the counselor.

Got through soon.

"Mr. Qu, I'm Jiang Tianxiao. Just now Shen Zhe told me that you were looking for me yesterday... I'm really sorry, Mr. Qu. Yesterday I got off work very late from a part-time job, so I fell asleep at a colleague's house. I didn't see that my phone was dead. ,At once--"

"Okay, go wherever you like," the counselor's tone was unexpectedly calm for Jiang Tianxiao: "Jiang Tianxiao, you are a senior, and I can understand why you don't return home at night, but yesterday you ran away from the Yellow River. You know the teacher's class, right? I can only tell you this now. Teacher Huang is going to hang you up and prevent you from graduating. I have tried my best to fight for you and explained it, but it is useless. And this The fault in this matter is yours. Don’t explain it to me. There is no reason for any reason now. The situation is that if you don’t skip class, Teacher Huang will not hang you up. Now Teacher Huang has decided to let you drop out of school. I said hello."

"I……"

"Ms. Huang also asked me to tell you that you don't need to go to her class. She is a professor, and I am a counselor who speaks lightly. I have said everything I can say for you. Jiang Tianxiao, you still need to prepare for your future. Well, that's all I can say." The counselor sighed slightly after finishing speaking.

"...Then I will trouble you."

"No trouble, I have other things to do, so hang up first." Then he hung up the phone without waiting for Jiang Tianxiao's answer.

Jiang Tianxiao walked back to the dormitory and sat on the bed in a daze.

Shen Zhe asked him carefully: "How's the matter?"

"...to drop out of school."

"Ah, then, is there anything the counselor can do?"

"He said no...I'll think about it again." Jiang Tianxiao said lightly.

Shen Zhe didn't say anything. No one would feel good when this kind of thing happened.

Jiang Tianxiao lay down again, staring at the bare wooden bed boards on the upper bunk, still repeating the sentence in his mind, he can't graduate.

How to do?

What can I do?

Grandma Huang was very indifferent to him before, but now that she has been caught skipping class, of course there is no room for turning around.The counselor also went to say good things, but it was still useless, and Jiang Tianxiao knew this in his heart. To put it bluntly, the counselor was in charge of the students, and of course he had no right to speak in front of the teachers and professors.

Dropping out of school, this thing is not beyond imagination, every year there are people who cannot graduate normally, for various reasons, cheating in exams, recording major demerits, and failing professional courses like myself... He knows that the school cannot For all students to get a diploma, someone must drop out of school.

Jiang Tianxiao never thought that this matter would fall on him, really never thought about it.

But now, it's like being struck by lightning while walking.

If you can't get a diploma, it means you didn't go to college, high school education... what can you do?It is estimated that the urban area of ​​​​Gancheng City will not work, so I still have to go back to the county, go back to the county...

Lang's words suddenly popped up in his mind: "After all, there are a bunch of poor relatives in the village waiting for you to make a fortune in the city, aren't they?" "Graduation" returned to the small county.His grandparents are old and sick, and they all count on their grandson who has been admitted to university to make money for his retirement.As for those relatives, because they have to spend some money to help Jiang Tianxiao's family from time to time, when they see Jiang Tianxiao, they always have noses or eyes.It was not easy for Jiang Tianxiao to be admitted to university, and he was finally able to feel proud—he was the first in his family to be admitted to university.

And now.

Jiang Tianxiao thought again, then the tuition fees I paid for these four years will be in vain.And accommodation and living expenses.Compared with Gancheng, the prices in Wuhan are still quite high. Jiang Tianxiao was shocked when he bought apples in the fruit shop of the school for the first time. Three small apples cost more than ten yuan, worth two meals for him. .Later, he didn't dare to buy fruit very much, and he bought very cheap rock candy oranges in winter.When he was a sophomore, one night he finished his part-time job and returned to the dormitory. It was almost ten o'clock and he didn't have dinner.Walking in front of him was a couple. The boy peeled an orange for the girl while walking, and the orange fragrance burrowed into Jiang Tianxiao's nose as if he had grown wings. I said to myself, I will definitely make money in the future, buy a box of oranges for dinner, it's so fucking delicious.

This is simply playing with him. He worked desperately to make money, not only to earn money for his own college, but also to earn money for his grandparents to provide for the elderly. After finally barely supporting himself until he was about to graduate, he suddenly fell down with a hammer and told him, He can't graduate.

But who is to blame? In the final analysis, I can’t blame others. He escaped class by himself.

Shen Zhe went out to take a shower, and when he came back, he said to Jiang Tianxiao: "Tianxiao, I suddenly remembered something just now. I heard from the senior before. The senior's classmate, it seems, was also because of hanging up. He couldn't graduate, so he found a lot of connections, and finally found the dean's father... and graduated smoothly. How about you also look for connections?"

Jiang Tianxiao shook his head: "My family is not from Wuhan, where can I find it?"

"That classmate doesn't seem to be from Wuhan, hey wait, let me ask for you!"

Shen Zhe called the senior directly, and Jiang Tianxiao listened nervously, and a little hope rose in his heart.

"...Well, okay, I understand senior. Thank you!"

Shen Zhe hung up the phone: "The senior said that his classmate is not from the local area, but his family is an official. At that time, he found a university professor in his hometown and met the father of the dean of our accounting school..." Said He paused here, just like Jiang Tianxiao, who was working hard, the situation at home was obvious, he continued: "But the senior told me, don't give up easily, after all, the diploma is too important, he said you can give up again. Go to the teacher, if she ignores you just keep looking, if you can't...kneel down to beg her, he said he heard that the former students knelt down to beg the teacher, the teacher let that student graduate."

Shen Zhe also had a troubled expression on his face. For unsophisticated students like them, kneeling and begging is too much... Isn't that just sticking your face to the ground for others to step on?

But on second thought, that was a diploma, and that was four years of money and time!

"I think what the senior said makes sense. Although the method is quite embarrassing, but think about it, if you can get your graduation certificate by kneeling down, it's not a loss, right. The graduation certificate can always be used. Kneel down ...in a matter of minutes."

"But Grandma Huang's attitude is very firm... I don't know if that will work." Jiang Tianxiao felt a chill when he thought of Grandma Huang's indifferent and contemptuous expression.

Shen Zhe gave him an idea: "Otherwise, you should go to her to intercede first, admit your mistake, make up some reasons to explain, pretend to be pitiful, cry... yes, cry again, if this is not enough, then kneel again? "

Jiang Tianxiao was silent for a while, then nodded.