all the way

Liu Xia's high school life has begun. He thinks that hell is like this, right?

Get up at 05 o'clock every morning, line up to the playground and run in big circles. At 30:1, you have to sit in the classroom and start reading. If you are 07 minute late, you stand in the corridor and read until 30:[-] for breakfast; then there are four and a half periods of class , until twelve ten.

下午01:30上课，四节半课，上到06:30，07:30到09:30是晚自习时间。

It is said that after the New Year in the second year of high school, there will be an extra evening self-study, which will not end until 10:30.

Liu Xia got up earlier than now when Wang Ning went to school at home, but the feeling was completely different from here. After waking up at home, what was waiting for them was ready-made meals and clean face washing water. Although running on the mountain road was very tiring but It's full of fun, especially during the time after school, playing in the tree and in the river, with a soft and cute cat hanging on your body, what a happy feeling it is!

It doesn't compare with the repeated morning exercises around a playground here, and the feeling of lying in a dormitory full of strange smells after evening self-study.

Liu Xia used great patience to suppress his dislike of high school life. His actual age is not yet 13 years old, so he sits in the classroom all day long and does homework non-stop, without a moment of relaxation. Feel life is dark.

He always thought that he liked studying, but when he arrived at Rongze High School, he found that studying was such a painful thing, and he needed to give up everything he liked to achieve it.

What makes Liu Xia uncomfortable is sleeping at night. There are forty people in a large dormitory, ten dormitories are connected together, and there are four hundred students. There are only twelve faucets in the pool outside the dormitory. a big deal.

However, there are very strict regulations on going to class in the morning and turning off the lights at night. No one dares to violate them, so two-thirds of them go to bed without washing every night, and half of them can’t wash their faces in the morning. The smell in the room is so bad How bad it smells.

Liu Xia only washed his face twice in the first week, and it was Liu Hai who got up early to grab water and bring it to him.

On the fifth night, he couldn't bear it anymore. His feet were smelly to death, and they were still sticky, as if they were wrapped in a layer of airtightness. It was extremely uncomfortable, so he got up in the middle of the night to wipe his face and washed his feet directly on the faucet.

From then on, every day after waking up, he went to the toilet, washed his feet, and returned with a basin of water.

But Liu Xia can get up in the middle of the night, but the rest of the dormitory can't get up. They are all half-grown children. They study hard during the day, and they fall asleep at night. .

Liu Xia used to pee the cat every night in the middle of the night, and he developed a habit of sleeping very lightly. As long as the cat is uncomfortable with the pee, Liu Xia can feel it and get up immediately. Now this habit It was used by him to grab water.

However, the school also made some humane changes, which made Liu Xia very happy.

That is, there are no classes every Saturday afternoon, and students can leave school and go home after lunch.

This is mainly due to the fact that most of the current students come from various communes. If they can’t catch the bus from the bus station to each commune in the afternoon, the students can only take the bus on Sunday morning and return in the afternoon. It is really too nervous.

Liu Xia never knew thinking about being alone could be so uncomfortable. He thought about Mao'er to death, and when he thought about how Mao'er looked and cried when he got in the car that day, he decided to stop studying at this school and just go back.

However, he never forgot Liu Ling's words, and Liu Mudan's gossip was still in his ears. He could not accept Mao'er living in the disgust of the villagers all his life.

On the Saturday morning of the first week, Liu Xia was not in the mood for class at all. When the English teacher asked him questions, if Zhao Li, who was at the same table, hadn’t reminded him, he would still be thinking about buying something delicious for the cat after class. with it.

The English teacher is a young female teacher, surnamed Luo, she was annoyed at Liu Xia's soaring appearance, but when Liu Xia stood up to answer the question, she looked at Liu Xia's face, which was obviously more immature than other students, Wearing such old-fashioned blue cloth clothes again, my heart softened at once.

She didn't let Liu Xia stand at the back of the classroom, but asked Liu Xia five times in one class, so scared that Liu Xia didn't dare to be distracted for a second.

As soon as the bell rang for the last class, the students rushed out of the classroom. Liu Xia was small and short, sitting on the side of the second row. He was the first to rush out of the classroom. His things had already been packed and brought with him. Then, as soon as he left the classroom, he ran directly to Liu Hai's classroom.

Liu Hai and the others are in the second grade, their homework is tighter than theirs, and the teacher's procrastination is even more serious. Today is Saturday, and the teacher is not in a hurry to finish class. He dragged on for 10 minutes and assigned a lot of homework before he finished the get out of class with more satisfaction.

Zhang Peng and Liu Hai were assigned to the same class this year, and the three of them waited together at the gate for five students from Luogezhuang Coal Mine, and walked to the guest house of Luogezhuang Coal Mine in Rongze.

Walking to the supply and marketing cooperative at the crossroads, Liu Xia asked everyone to wait for him. He ran in, looked and looked in front of the glass cabinet selling candies, and bought fruit candies for five cents, one cent each, and various colors. , this kind of Tang Wangning's supply and marketing cooperatives also have them, but Liu Xia can hardly remember their taste.

Liu Xia only walked around Rongze Street with Liu Hai twice on the day of registration and the next day when school didn't start. I just want to go home quickly.

The guest house of Luogezhuang Coal Mine is on the street where the Educated Youth Building is located. It is a very grand two-story building.

They were standing outside the guest house waiting, Liu Xia was very worried. He was afraid that there would be an accident. His car would not open today, so they would not be able to catch the bus at the bus station when they went back. He was also afraid that the people from the coal mine would take the car today. There are so many of them, don't let them hitchhikers take advantage of it.

They waited for about 10 minutes, and Liu Xia couldn't help but ask if there was no car. The car drove out from the big iron gate next to the guest house. There were only seven or eight people in the car, and they all went to the back seat. More than half empty.

Because it was a shuttle bus, it didn't need to stop at any village. It was not yet four o'clock when Liu Xia and the others got off the bus at Luogezhuang.

The two started jogging as soon as they got out of the car. On the road from Luogezhuang to Wangning Commune, there were often coal trucks passing by, so dust and coal ash were flying everywhere. It's all gray.

Arriving at Wangning Street, Liu Xia felt warm in his heart, the familiar and friendly smell made his nose a little sour.

Turning from Wangning Street to the mountain road leading to Liujialing, the two began to run wildly. The familiar and friendly scenery on both sides of the road made Liu Xia feel very good.

Seeing the three tile-roofed houses in the yard from a distance, Liu Xia yelled loudly: "Mom—cat—, big brother—fourth brother—fifth brother—…"

The sound can be heard far away in the quiet mountain, and they immediately saw Sun Chang'e appearing at the slope with the cat in her arms.

"Ah, ah, uncle, uncle—" the cat struggled to get off the ground and ran down the slope.

Liu Xia shouted: "Cat, don't run, don't fall, Cat, wait for uncle..."

Mao'er threw himself into Liu Xia's arms, hugging his neck tightly, Liu Xia patted Mao'er's back, panting for a long time and couldn't speak.

At night, the family sat in the main room and chatted lively. The cat hadn't been on the ground since Liu Xia held him. When Liu Xia washed his face, he always held him and washed it with one hand.

The five pieces of candy that Liu Xia bought made Maoer, Liu Wei, and Liu Rui very happy. The two elders gave three pieces, and Maoer himself two pieces. They should stay and eat slowly.

Mao'er's dinner was still a bottle of milk and steamed buns, and he sat in Liu Xia's arms very confidently and let him be fed.

Xiumei looked amused, and said to Liu Xia: "Don't do anything when you come back, just hug the baby well, I've been so wronged these days, I called my uncle every day, and I didn't feel anything the whole night when I came back from Rongze. Sleeping, my voice is hoarse from crying, and I only made a sound in the past two days."

Liu Kui looked at Liu Xia worriedly: "Why are you leaving tomorrow? The cat should cry again."

Liu Xia kissed Mao'er's little face, and Mao'er kissed him on the face several times, the contented look made Liu Xia feel distressed and didn't know what to do.

In the evening, Liu Xia didn't do his homework, and kept playing with the cat in his arms.

Liu Yu saw that both of them came back and lived here too. The excitement period that he didn't have to go to school had passed, and he felt that he was going to die of being boring all day long. play together.

After Liu Hai finished his homework, the four brothers huddled together on the kang to talk,

Liu Ling asked Liu Xia how he felt and if he could follow the class taught by Teacher Rong Ze.

"Yes, it's just that I can't speak English. The pronunciation we learned before is not the same as what my teacher Luo taught."

"Then according to what the teacher teaches now, you are fine in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Even if you don't do well in the exams at the beginning, it's okay. You will definitely be able to catch up in the future. English and composition are your weaknesses. You should go to these two subjects more. A little bit up."

Liu Xia also knew what his problem was, but he just didn't like learning English. As for the composition, he thought he could write very well, but every time his test scores were always low, there was nothing he could do about it.

Liu Hai is worrying about the upcoming college entrance examination. He doesn't know whether he will take the exam next year or the year after. They have already heard at school that next year's junior high school and senior high school will be changed to three years. I don't know what to do.

Liu Ling said to him: "We can't control the three-year change anyway, so you should study hard and talk about it when the time comes. You will never be prevented from taking the college entrance examination."

Liu Hai also knew that it was useless for him to worry, but he just couldn't help but think about the important things that were related to his life, who wouldn't want to?Liu Hai had already entered the top 180 in his grade in the final exam of his first year of high school, but that was far from enough.

The teacher said that if you want to be admitted to a university, you must be at least in the top [-] in your grade.

At 09:30, Liu Xia fed the cat and drank milk. The cat struggled to keep playing with his uncle, but he was very excited when he knew that Liu Xia was coming back today, and he didn’t sleep in the afternoon. , I closed my eyes as I spoke, and my little head moved bit by bit.

After the cat fell asleep, it kept talking in a daze, calling "Uncle is not leaving" for a while, and "Uncle is going home" for a while.

Liu Xia put his arms around Mao'er's small body, wishing he could rub Mao'er into his body, so that he could take him everywhere.

The next day, Liu Xia performed the traditional "naked man out of the bath" with Mao'er in the yard, washing himself and Mao'er in a big basin, while Liu Hai, Liu Yu and Liu Ling I took a heavenly bath in Fengxi River.

02:30 When Liu Xia and Liu Hai were about to leave, Mao'er cried heart-rendingly, hugged Liu Xia's neck and refused to let go, unable to say anything, just kept calling "Uncle, Uncle".

Liu Xia walked all the way to Luogezhuang, feeling uncomfortable and didn't say a word.

After returning to school, Liu Xia took advantage of the evening self-study to complete her homework on Sunday.

Four weeks later, Liu Xia ushered in his first exam after going to Rongze High School. After the exam, he returned home. This time he had two days off, because the National Day and Sunday were adjusted together.

Without the autumn vacation, Liu Xia felt very sorry for the cat, so in those two days, he didn't even write a single word for his homework, and he took the cat around to pick goji berries and ripe wild pears to eat.

But this year the temperature was a bit high, and the persimmons matured late, so he brought the cat up all the persimmon trees in the nearby ditches, but he didn't find a single 'booming persimmon'.

The cat was very happy, of course he wanted to drink persimmons, but he preferred that his uncle was at home, as long as he opened his eyes, he could see him, and he was happy even without eating.

Mao'er's National Day is happy, but Liu Xia's life after the festival is miserable. On the night they returned to school for self-study class, the math teacher asked the class representative to collect homework, and Liu Xia hadn't started writing yet!

Liu Xia was called to the office by the math teacher, and after a slap in the face, he was ordered to return to the classroom and punished to stand. Before Liu Xia made up his homework for those two days, he had to stand up in all math classes.

Liu Xia felt that the math teacher seemed to be doing it on purpose. There were a lot of homework assigned in those few days.

Therefore, Liu Xia took the math class for a week standing up.

What troubled Liu Xia was not only standing up in class, but also his test scores. There were 56 students in the class, and his total score was 45th. It's not too bad.

English and Chinese were still the ones that got him the points. He scored 42 points for English and 64 points for Chinese. This time, Chinese composition accounted for 26 points, and Liu Xia scored [-] points.

He thought that his composition would definitely not get a high score, but he didn't expect it to be so bad. However, such a topic as "the four modernizations and my ideals" really made his scalp tingle!

He really doesn't know what those modernizations have to do with him. His family's land doesn't even have a tractor, and his village doesn't even have a flashlight. Uncle, Uncle, Big Brother, Fourth Brother, and Fifth Brother don’t need to die from the heat and dig the ground one by one. This ideal has nothing to do with modernization.

Liu Xia has been studying for more than seven years now, and he has never failed a pass. This time, he scored more than 40 points in one subject. He really felt ashamed.