attack stream of life

The wheel of time is rolling, and three years have passed in a flash, and the educated youth spot has changed a lot.

Comrade Xiao Yu got married and had two boys with Ba Er from the Land of Abundance. The first took his mother's surname, and the second took his father's.When Comrade Xiao Yu got married, many people cried. They were reluctant to part with Xiao Yu's educated youth, let alone his cooking skills.But if you get married, you have to move out, and no one is an exception.

It was Zhaoming who took over the cooking stove for the educated youth. His light and healthy meals were complained time and time again. The comrades from Hunan cried every day while holding their chili powder.Under the public outrage, Zhao Ming finally had the cheek to learn from the educated youth Xiao Yu, the main direction is to use vegetarian dishes to make fake meat dishes.

Comrade Xiao Yu taught him how to cook a full vegetarian Manchu banquet without reservation, while Zhaoming taught Comrade Xiao Yu the Western-style dim sum that she was not good at.

Comrade Xiaohua is also married, and with the shy comrade with glasses, they gave birth to a big white and fat girl who is still lying on the bed for confinement.Both of them are from the same city, and they can go back together in the future.

Except for the first two, the educated youths did not marry local youths, neither male nor female.The educated youth Bai, whom Zhaoming was not optimistic about at the beginning, also stubbornly resisted the pressure. Among the unmarried women among the educated youth, the oldest is 26, and the youngest is [-]. They are old girls who are not easy to marry in this day and age, but everyone still supports her. Living.

Last year, the village changed the 'Yangmei Products Factory' to 'Shangwan Village Fruit Canning Factory'.

A cannery factory in the county eliminated two old machines. Qiao Kuan gave Zhaoming the news, and Zhaoming told the team leader.The captain of the team was very courageous, and he gritted his teeth and bought more than 1000 machines.In order to expand the types of canned food, many fruit trees were brought in this spring, including tangerines and yellow peaches.

Last year was a thrilling one, but this year is relatively calm, and what is closely related to their educated youth is the re-opening of the college entrance examination.In October, an urgent telegram came from Beijing, saying that the college entrance examination would be reopened.

Zhaoming has a registered permanent residence in the capital, and his hometown is at the foot of the Son of Heaven. If anyone has the fastest news, it must be him.So when this matter came out of his mouth, many people believed it.

Although I am used to staying in Shangwan Village, if I have the opportunity to go back, I will definitely go back.Life in the village can be seen at a glance, they are still young, and the city can provide more opportunities and possibilities.

Zhaoming also studied seriously, and he was going to stop his speculative business for a while.

Relying on his good relationship with the captain, Zhao Ming has been going out for many years, and Qiao Kuan in the county is willing to take him with him for some unknown purpose.He has never felt negative emotions towards himself from him, but often when he sees him, his heart surges.If it wasn't for the fact that the other party had someone he loved, Zhao Ming almost misunderstood her.

But it's strange that I haven't seen the other's lover for so many years.Could it be that the game is over?

They often take the car of the county's transportation team, go to the beach to buy cheap dried seafood, and then return to the inland to exchange for other things, earning the difference back and forth, and sometimes accepting some old items.During the period, I encountered road bandits and patrols, and was almost caught several times, life and death.

Zhaoming doesn't understand antiques, but his aesthetics is completely fine. Even if he doesn't understand antiques at all, he can find the most artistically valuable things at a glance. This innate vision can only convince Qiao Kuan.

The people in the village only knew that he had a friend in the county town, and he would live there for a few days every few months, but no one knew that he was doing business that would lead him to jail.There may be some vague guesses, but the popularity established before is still there, and no one has revealed it.

Zhaoming knows how to be a man. When he comes back from the county, he always brings some things that the village lacks, some cloth tickets, oil tickets, industrial tickets, and even scarce bicycle tickets and sewing tickets.People in the village use their money and food to exchange, and if they don’t have any for a while, they can still live there. Those tickets are very popular, and they don’t have any tickets if they go late.

Over the past few years, Zhaoming has saved a lot of money, not to mention the antique gold, but the cash in his hand is as much as three or four thousand.

This is enough for him to buy a few small courtyard houses in Beijing, so Zhao Ming decided to stop. During this period of time, the investigation was extremely strict, so he had better stop committing crimes against the wind.He also tactfully advised Qiao Kuan, no matter what he said, he was the big brother who brought him money, so it was not easy to see him getting stuck in it.

Qiao Kuan paused with his chopsticks for just one second, then picked up another rib and put it in Zhao Ming's bowl, "Are you preparing for the exam?" He was inviting Zhao Ming to dinner at the moment, and Zhao Ming didn't know about the sweet and sour pork ribs he was eating. I actually like thin ribs so much, sweet and sour braised, garlic fried...all of them.

"Yeah, news came from my hometown that the college entrance examination might be re-opened. I'm going to study hard and take the exam back." Zhao Ming picked up the ribs and ate them. It might have been awkward at first, but after eating the dishes from the other party for several years, everything was fine. Mind, slowly get used to it.

"Which university do you want to go to?"

"The school in Beijing, I definitely want to go back. Brother Kuan, I heard that I checked this recently, can you take it easy?"

"Okay... listen to you."

Qiao Kuan just laughed, and Zhao Ming felt that his smile was not quite right.

"What's wrong? You have a weird expression."

"Are you almost twenty?" Qiao Kuan asked suddenly.

"what?"

"I think what you said makes sense. Only those who can live out their wonderful lives are eligible to be liked by others. This is a good time, and I also want to work hard, so that the people I like can be loved by excellent people." Secretly proud."

"When did I say that?" Zhao Ming didn't remember for a moment.

In November, when he was urgently preparing for the exam, his grandfather gave him news that some of them wanted to be rehabilitated.Zhaoming just went there, and he didn't know why he suddenly had the idea to embrace the only monkey wine he had successfully brewed.

He didn't know until he went there that the old Taoist priest was rehabilitated, and someone above protected him.

An old comrade came to power and rehabilitated many comrades who had been mistreated. An old professor in Shangwan Village was picked up half a month ago and sent away by a big truck.In order, military and political personnel, senior intellectuals, technicians, and traditional inheritors will return to their hometowns one after another.

Zhaoming had guessed that his grandparents would be able to go back within half a year at most, but he didn't expect that the first one to go would be an old Taoist priest engaged in the inheritance of local beliefs.

A group of soldiers came to pick up the old Taoist priests. Although they were not wearing military uniforms, their razor-sharp vigor was unstoppable.The old Taoist leader was not surprised, he said goodbye to everyone one by one, and when he arrived at Zhaoming's place, he smiled when he saw him holding a jar of wine, "This is for me, I have been looking forward to your wine for a year. "

Zhaoming was taken aback. He hadn't told anyone about the monkey wine. How did the Taoist know that he brewed it for a whole year?

"This wine is the essence of all kinds of fruits. It's not easy to brew. I can't take it for nothing." The old Taoist took out a small stone like a sparrow's egg from his bosom. It was off-white, smooth and opaque, like washing on a river beach. Very fine pebbles. "You will know the function of this thing after one night."

"The merits and virtues accumulated in several lifetimes should be cherished, be a good person, and do good deeds. You are a blessed person."

Not only did he know that he had brewed it for a whole year, but he also knew that it was monkey wine... Zhaoming had known the old man for so long, and it was the first time he could see some characteristics of a religious profession in him. He was mysterious and very deceptive.

Probably for this reason, when he was sleeping at night, Zhao Ming couldn't help taking out the pebbles from his pocket and stuffing them under his pillow.

That night, Zhaoming had a long dream. He dreamed that he was sitting in the void, the stars were under his feet, the sun and the moon were beside him, and a very ethereal voice that was neither male nor female was reciting a difficult scripture.

He didn't even know a single phonetic symbol of those scriptures, but it was strange that this scripture reached his heart through his ears, and he naturally understood the meaning, it was "Tao Te Ching"

But it was not the version he knew, there were many changes.Every time this scripture was recited by his ears, his body felt lighter, and his whole soul felt like he was floating.

Do this three times, and that weird, tongue-in-cheek scripture disappears.

He woke up, subconsciously went to find the pebbles under the pillow, obviously, there was none, disappeared without a trace.

Zhaoming opened his mouth, wanting to read out the scripture he had heard, but no matter how he pronounced it, he couldn’t pronounce a single word. It was simply not like the sound a human voice could make.

My mother, what kind of fairy character is this?

Zhaoming thought about the ashen old Taoist priest again, only to feel that the other party was full of immortality.

It was almost December, and the news that the college entrance examination was confirmed to be reopened finally reached the remote village of Shangwan Village. At this time, the exam was very close.

When the village radio broadcast the news, Zhaoming saw tears rolling down the eyes of the educated youth elder brother.He has been here for so long, and he has never seen this big brother shed tears, let alone shed tears, even showing strong emotions is rare. He is always calm and restrained, and has never lost his composure like this.

Other comrades have long been crying into a ball.

Everyone knows that the time has come to change their destiny.

Those who were already reviewing study even harder. Whenever they have time, they will take out a book from their arms to read, even if they have a little leisure time during work.Because the oil lamp was too dark and the candles were too expensive, everyone gathered in one room and lit a candle to review. Two candles were used up in one night, and the eyes were red and the eyelids were blackened by the candle.

They have a good relationship with the local villagers. The team leader and others saw them staying up all night and feared that they would not be able to survive. After discussing it, they said that all the educated youths should work part-time and let them study in the afternoon.Some families in the village even sent them eggs, asking them to make up for it and study hard for university entrance exams.

The educated youths are naturally grateful.They were also willing to reciprocate, and brought three people from the village who were also preparing to take the university entrance examination, and we studied together.The educated youths had enough review materials. As soon as Zhaoming heard the news, he collected two sets of "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Self-study Series" from the county library, as well as many notes left by the educated youths. The youths in the village felt good after reviewing for a few days.

The educated youths in other villages don’t have such preferential treatment. They are exhausted after working all day, and they have to hold their bodies up to read at night, and the time is very tight. Naturally, the review effect is not good under such circumstances.

The comrades in Shangwan Village have worked hard for several years to get this moment. No matter how much the educated youths in other villages envy and complain, it is useless.

Even the people in the village laughed at them; can any of you repair farm machinery?Do any of you help the village to set up a factory?Can you eliminate illiteracy in the village non-stop for several years?What are you looking for when you have nothing?

Zhaoming didn't hold back at this time, he took care of all three meals.In order to ensure nutrition, he bought fish, pheasant and other meat dishes from the villagers, as well as tofu and seasonal vegetables. He cracked eggs every day, and the staple food increased from two to three. Eat well and eat nutritiously.

After these two months, when it was time for the real exam, the villagers were surprised to find that the educated youths seemed to be getting fatter, and even the three young people who came to the village to eat had round faces.

The location of the exam was the No. [-] Middle School in the county seat, and the team leader lent two ox carts to send the examiners to the county.

There were two days of the exam. Everyone packed up their things early in the morning, such as admission tickets, pens and inks, and then put on thick padded jackets, hats and scarves, and sat on the haystack of the bullock cart, because the cart was rickety, At this time, reading will make your eyes dizzy, so everyone recites with their eyes closed.

When we arrived in the county, it was getting late, and the entrance of the examination room was full of people. It is not too much to say that there is a sea of ​​people.

"Come on, you've blown all the way and you're frozen. You should move your hands and feet." The women's director carried a thermos bottle, which contained the sugar water prepared for them by the team, which was boiled with red dates, brown sugar and ginger.Behind her was Sumei, who was holding a basket with bamboo cups in her hand.

When other candidates were stomping their feet to read the review materials, the candidates from their village gathered together, holding bamboo cups in their hands, drinking hot sugar water, and everyone encouraged each other.

"In the future, I want to go to college like my brothers and sisters." Sumei said, she is 11 years old and just entered the county's junior high school this year. There are five junior high school students in her village this year.

There are only eight graduates from elementary school this year. Except for three who really don't want to drop out of school, the others all went to junior high school, and two of them are girls.It was not easy for their families to agree to go to junior high school. The educated youths donated three-year old textbooks, enough pencils and notebooks, and said many good things and described a bright future. Only then did the parents of these children agree.

The small leaders in the village felt that knowledge is really a good thing (it can repair cars and set up factories), and they also helped persuade them. The women's director was very active in supporting girls to go to school.She laughed when she heard her daughter say that she was going to go to college in the future, "Okay, as long as you can pass the exam, mother will always support you in studying."

After a while, everyone entered the arena. It was still very cold, but everyone's faces were filled with joyful smiles.

Except Comrade Xiaohua who had to take an extra foreign language test, everyone else only took four subjects, and Xiaohua took Russian.

The elder brother of the educated youth is indeed a talent. After two days of the exam, he was able to silently write all the exam papers. Everyone took the exam papers to the county to find a teacher to write the answers, and then everyone corrected the answers against this 'non-standard' answer sheet.

For the four papers with a score of 310, Zhao Ming scored 320 after checking the answers. This is a high score, but not the highest.The scores of the educated youth elder brothers are a little higher, more than 250 points, and the rest are not as good as them, some are around [-] points, and some are less than [-] points.

Those who only passed 100 or so were very depressed, thinking that their hopes were probably low.

Everyone doesn't know what kind of school they can go to at this level.

These days, it is still very rough to fill in the application form, three schools are three schools, but the problem is that most of them know Peking University, Tsinghua University and local colleges, and many people don’t even understand the difference between undergraduate and college. , all confused.I didn't have a clear idea about my professional intentions, so I divided it into arts and sciences, and there was a general classification in a vague way.

Everyone brainstormed, gathered the schools they knew, and finally had nearly twenty choices.

Everyone copied a copy of this school, holding it in their arms every day, while waiting for the primary election to fill out their volunteers, while thinking about which school they should take.

A few days later, the commune informed them that eleven of them in the village had passed the primary election for the college entrance examination, ten of the educated youths, and one in the village.As one of them, Zhaoming went to the office of the commune president with ten others.

The team leader went with him. He didn't know where he heard the news that some commune leaders would secretly hide the admission list and give the places to their children, nephews, relatives and friends.The captain felt that he had lost face in front of the leaders these years, so he went with him and said good things.

To be honest, Zhaoming was very moved, because this matter had nothing to do with him.He also knew that there would be many such substitutes for going to school, and Zhaoming couldn't even guarantee that he would not be one of the replaced ones.

"Uncle, I'm sorry to bother you. We don't want anything else, just want to be smooth."

The captain nodded, "You guys have called me uncle for so many years, can I just ignore it?"

"Oh, by the way, uncle, should the notice be sent to the commune first? Is it not allowed to be collected by others except myself? I'm worried about any accidents. Is it better to send it directly to me?"

"Okay, I'll tell the leader."

Zhaoming didn't know what happened next, but he did know that Shangwan Village made it to the eleven candidates in the primary election, and then all of them received admission notices.

The first educated youth big brother received, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and Zhaoming was the second. He and big brother went to the same school, the foreign language department of Peking University.The two of them were sent together, and the commune leaders quickly sent them over when they got the notice. They ran all the way to publicize, so everyone in the village gathered, and then they saw two people holding the admission notice, one was sluggish and the other was covering The scene of crying heart-piercingly.

"Is Peking University a university in Beijing?"

"If you go to Beijing, won't you be able to visit our chairman? You can also go to the Great Wall!"

"When you go to college, you are a college student. Are there college students in our village?"

"Isn't it? In the past, he was a scholar. After entering the university, he directly transferred to the city. After graduation, the state will assign jobs."

The people in the village were discussing a lot, and Zhaoming could only feel his ears buzzing, buzzing, as many inexplicably familiar cameras flashed in front of his eyes, and at the same time, the obscure scriptures became clearer and clearer, and there was a soft child The voice whispered in the ear.

He just felt dizzy...

"It's not good, Amin passed out with joy!"