all the way

Before the start of summer vacation, Liu Hai and Liu Ling sent a letter to their family together, which contained several photos of Liu Ling and Liu Hai, as well as photos of them and Zeng Guangtong and their son. The photo was taken when the company commander's car went to Kyoto to see Liuhai.

On the National Day of the previous year, Liu Hai, encouraged by Zeng Guangtong, took a car to visit Liu Ling once. The two of them took a photo together in front of the tank of Liu Ling's company and sent it back, sending Liu Xia, Liu Yu and the others together. Envy is broken.

In the letter, Liu Ling and Liu Hai encouraged Liu Xia to apply for universities in Kyoto when he volunteered, Liu Hai said: "If you don't see it with your own eyes, you will never know how beautiful Kyoto is.

Going north out of Kyoto, the mountains there are so majestic and soaring into the clouds. Compared with them, Qianhe Mountain and Shangyao are really just small slopes.

Yao'er, let's go to the university in Kyoto, we all come here to study, and we can also bring our uncle and mother here in the future. "

This time, Liu Hai wrote again: "Yaoer, let's work hard to get into the military academy together. You don't know how majestic Fifth Brother and his comrades look. You haven't seen Fifth Brother with your own eyes. He is so handsome that he is beyond description." , Company Commander Chen who drove our fifth brother here is as handsome as the soldiers in the movie, and we must be like them if we wear military uniforms."

Most Chinese boys have dreams of being heroes, and being a soldier is almost the only way to become a hero, and Liu Xia is no exception.

After school started, he told Shao Yan about Liu Hai's wish, and Shao Yan was also full of enthusiasm: "Let's all apply to the military academy, let's apply to one school, and then we can play table tennis together, train together, and maybe go to the battlefield together Woolen cloth!"

Liu Xia made a high-five with Shao Yan without hesitation, but after three months, he began to waver.

Rongze High School was changed to a three-year system last year. The Education Bureau transferred them more than a dozen excellent teachers from Gucun High School, and assigned them college students from more than 20 professional normal colleges. These new forces have given Rongze High School a lot. Less new ideas to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning.

It was a teacher in Gucun who proposed holding the school subject competition, and Wang Zhanjie adopted his suggestion.

Three months after Liu Xia entered the third year of senior high school, he participated in the three-subject league of mathematics, physics and chemistry in the third grade science class, and won the first place with a score higher than No.2 by nine points. He was rewarded with a beautiful light blue plastic leather diary and A certificate.

The next Wednesday after he won the prize is the cat's fifth birthday. When Liu Xia came home on Sunday, his family cooked two eggs for the cat in advance. Liu Xia wrote on the title page of the diary to give to the cat. Son, as one of his birthday presents:

Wish Liu An:

Blessings like the East China Sea, life expectancy longer than Nanshan, long life, and endless life!

Uncle Liu Xia is upright!

Liu Kui looked at the beautiful and unrestrained Xingkai, and couldn't laugh or cry: "No wonder you always fail in composition. Are these words for children?"

Liu Xia forcefully said: "Brother, it's a blessing, a blessing, do you understand? It's a wish to be fulfilled in the future. Don't old birthday stars grow up as children? I want cats to grow up to be old birthday stars in the future!"

The cat still can't read so many characters, and he doesn't care about it, he just knows that it was specially given to him by his uncle, and he doesn't like it, so he keeps looking at the paintings inside.

The winner of the Liuling Middle School composition competition also got a notebook, in which there were pictures every twenty pages, all of which were beautiful women in ancient costumes with peach blossoms and green radish picking mulberries, which he gave to Liu Changqing for the family to keep accounts.

Liu Xia's illustrations are all landscape paintings.

The cat stared at a painting inside and couldn't take his eyes off for a long time: "Uncle, what is this, it looks so beautiful!"

When Liu Xia saw it, it was a bird's-eye view of the Jiangcheng Yangtze River Bridge, and there was a word below it: The first bridge of the Wanli Yangtze River.

Liu Xia's language description ability is extremely disabled. His first sigh when he saw this picture was the same as the cat's, "How beautiful it is", and he couldn't say anything else.

The bridge that can't be seen at a glance winds into the distance like endless hollowed-out latticework. The blue river water under the bridge seems to be able to see the ripples caused by the wind and water. wash.

Mao'er can't get enough of this painting, and what he likes is the exquisite pavilion in the back that seems to stand on a grassy river island: "Uncle, is this the house where the gods live? It's so beautiful!"

Liu Xia said: "Well, maybe it's called the Crane Tower. Aren't the gods always riding on cranes? This must be the place where they often take off on cranes."

The cat said: "If only we could go and see how beautiful it is!"

Liu Xia said: "It's far away from us, more than 1000 miles away, and I have to take the train, or my uncle will carry you on my back."

The cat leaned on his chest and swayed from side to side: "Well~, let's go and see, I've grown up, don't ask you to carry it, I'll follow you, I can run so fast!"

Liu Xia said with a little emotion: "If my uncle can be admitted to the university there, I can take you to see it!"

Mao'er turned around and knelt in Liu Xia's arms, his eyes were shining brightly: "Really? Uncle, let's go there to go to college, do you get in?"

Liu Xia said: "China, it is also a big city, and there must be many universities."

The cat seemed to be obsessed with those two paintings. Every time Liu Xia went home, he could see that the pages of the two paintings were softer than the last time he came back, and there were more small black handprints on the side.

Mao'er often opened the two paintings when he was free. There was disbelief in his black and pure eyes, and more yearning.

He has only seen two bridges, one is where the Fengxi River passes through the Wangning Brigade, and the other is a wooden bridge more than ten meters wide, and the railings on both sides are nailed with tree trunks with bark.

There is another one, Maoer may not remember it, which is the Zehe Bridge he saw when he sent Liu Xia to Wangning High School. It is more than 30 meters long and five or six meters wide. The concrete pavement and railings are similar to those of Wangning Bridge.

Therefore, Liu Xia thought it would be great to go to Jiangcheng to go to college!

On the second day after Liu Xia returned to school with a little wish for a cat in his heart, something even more sensational than when he beat Huang Zhiying happened in Rongze High School.

A girl in Class [-], Grade [-] Liberal Arts, was in physical education class, and suddenly she lay down on the ground with a stomachache. The physical education teacher and several students took her to the county hospital, but the doctor said she had a miscarriage.

Three days later, nearly [-] teachers and students from Rongze High School gathered on the playground. The Dean of Education, An Chengbao, announced: "Wu Hongjuan, a second-year liberal arts student in Class [-], violated school discipline many times, refused to change after repeated admonitions, misbehaved, corrupted, and behaved badly. In order to make all the teachers and students of Rongze High School suffer humiliation and irreparable incidents, the school leaders will study and give her the punishment of expulsion from school."

After the dissolution, Liu Xia, Shao Yan and a large group of boys in the class ran to the bathroom together, and everyone was talking about Wu Hongjuan.

Liu Xia was puzzled and asked, "Wu Hongjuan is not married, how could she have a baby?"

Everyone looked at Liu Xia, and there were two thieves ready to explain his doubts.

Shao Yan glared at the two boys viciously, pulled Liu Xia to run a few steps, and said in a low voice, "You idiot, don't you know you're still asking so loudly?"

Liu Xia still blinked in confusion.

Shao Yan said: "You will naturally know when you grow up, you can't ask others about this, do you hear?"

So, this big event that fell to me, just passed away from Liu Xia's life without a trace of disturbance.

At noon on a Saturday, the cold wind howled and pulled the snowflakes all over the sky.

Liu Xia sat in his seat and watched other students pack up their things and leave one by one, scolding God in his heart angrily.

Shao Yan came over and patted a milky white plastic diary in front of him: "Liu Xia, happy birthday!"

Liu Xia was taken aback: "Huh?"

Shao Yan sat on the table next to him and laughed loudly: "Didn't you say when you went to buy a hat for Mao'er last month that if you were born a month earlier, you would be ten years older than Mao'er within a day? Mao'er It's the ninth day of October, and today is the ninth day of November, so shouldn't today be your birthday?"

Liu Xia picked up the diary: "I forgot, how is your memory? I just said something casually so you can remember it."

Shao Yan said proudly: "Of course, who am I? Let's go. I didn't turn off the electric stove when I came out in the morning. The room must be warm now. I brought the pillow towel back last week and my mother just washed it. Don't wash it anymore. , I'm not that particular."

Liu Xia looked at the words on the title page "Happy birthday to Liu Xia, better and better grades, a gift from my seventh brother Shao Yan", and deliberately wrinkled his face and said: "Your words are more and more like my cat drawing maps! "

Shao Yan walked out the door with a big grin: "I guess the words your cat pissed out are also facial bones and willow tendons. I'm very honored!"

Shao Yan does not live in the school, and rents a house less than 20 meters west of the school gate. The room is about 1.5 square meters, with only a [-]-meter bed, a three-double table, and a chair. The rest is Shao Yan. His family arranged for him temporarily.

Since the hottest time before the summer vacation in the first year of high school, he called Liu Xia to come here to take a nap at noon. He had an electric fan here, but Liu Xia refused.

Later, there were a lot of mosquitoes in the school dormitory. Liu Xia was bitten on his left eyelid once, and his eye was swollen for several days, almost festering and infected.

When Shao Yan asked him to sleep here again, he asked Wang Zhanjie, and Wang Zhanjie said yes, so he came to live with Shao Yan for a while.

At first he only planned to sleep here when the mosquitoes were the most, but Shao Yan would leave him the key every Saturday when he came home, saying that the dormitory not only smells bad, but if someone else lost something, Liu Xia would not be able to tell.

Middle school students’ dormitories often lose meal tickets and change, and occasionally clothes. Several people in Liu Xia’s dormitory have already lost meal tickets, and they have never found out who got them.

Liu Xia never lost it once, and he himself felt as if he was the thief.

So, on Saturdays when he couldn't go home, he also lived here.

As soon as Liu Xia and Shao Yan walked out of the classroom, they saw Chen Xiaofeng and a person turning around from the corner of the front row of classrooms, and Chen Xiaofeng was pointing at them and saying something to that person.

Liu Xia yelled "Third Brother" and ran over, almost slipped by the thin snow on the ground.

Yanagawa ran over and hugged him.

Liu Chuan came back and was assigned to the criminal police team of the Public Security Bureau not far from the east of Rongze High School.

Liu Xia looked at Liu Chuan's military uniform without collar badges, and didn't believe what Liu Chuan said about the disarmament: "You just went to a military academy, and you're still waiting to be a soldier. You must not be cut off by the army, third brother, are you Isn't it hurt?"

Liu Chuan was shocked by Liu Xia's keenness, but smiled easily on his face: "Well, it's a small injury, and I just wanted to go home, so I took the opportunity to report."

It was a long time later that Liu Xia found out that Liu Chuan encountered a landmine while leading a small team of soldiers on patrol.

Liu Chuan and his troops are on the Sino-Vietnamese border, where landmines are hard to defend against. An excellent scout like Liu Chuan has rich experience. When the landmine exploded, he rushed to the two little soldiers beside him. His right shoulder and right waist were injured. hurt.

Although the injury was not too serious, their army was a field army with a lot of daily training and patrol tasks. After he recovered from his injury, he offered to change jobs.

In the past few years, the social and economic system has undergone earth-shaking changes, and local governments and work units have also undergone great changes. It is becoming more and more difficult to resettle veterans. Many people are arranged in some small street businesses that are not dead or alive, and even their wages are paid. not come down.

Liu Chuan won the second-class collective meritorious service. The country has a special preferential policy for changing jobs, but when he went to the local area, he was discounted layer by layer. From March to August, he went to do not know how many times, but the unit still could not decide. down.

In the end, it was a senior leader of his original unit who personally intervened to confirm his job.

Originally, he was assigned to the former City Public Security Bureau, but Liu Chuan felt that with his family's situation, he might be able to help the family more in Rongze in the future, so he volunteered to return to Rongze.

Liu Kui is the only one in the family who knows about his injury and job change.

Every time Liu Chuan sent a letter to his family after joining the army, there was a single folded letter to his elder brother Liu Kui. Liu Changqing and Sun Chang'e never felt that there was anything wrong with it.

When the child grows up, there are always some things that are inconvenient to talk to the parents, and it is more comfortable for the elder brother to give his ideas.

Liu Chuan stayed in Yuancheng for a long time this year, but he didn't go home. This was what he and Liu Kui discussed. In order not to let his parents worry about it, he didn't go home until all the procedures were completed.

Liu Chuan came back and became a regular employee of the Public Security Bureau. The whole family was very happy.

Liu Xia had a special feeling in his heart, not only because Liu Chuan worked at the Public Security Bureau, he felt that he would have support in Rongze in the future, but also because he had a family here, which was similar to Liu Hai's feeling when he was here before.

At that time, he and Liu Hai had a feeling of being dependent on each other, but now, Liu Chuan is more mature and reliable than Liu Hai. His care for Liu Xia is different from Liu Hai's, but his considerate and thoughtful heart is exactly the same.

Because Liuchuan is nearby, Liu Xia feels that his life in Rongze has become more colorful.

Liu Chuan also made a huge change in the quality of Liu Xia's food.

The food at the Public Security Bureau is very good, and there are no restrictions on employees bringing their families to eat, as long as they give meal tickets according to the rules.

Liu Chuan asked Liu Xia to come and eat with him every day at noon. Every day, there was a large bowl of meat dishes, which cost twenty-five cents, plus a five-cent portion of vegetarian dishes, which was enough for two people. All you can drink is free.

However, Liu Xia went to have lunch with Liu Chuan every day, which made Shao Yan quite disappointed. He said that Liu Xia had no conscience, and he didn't want brothers when he had an older brother, so he had to eat lunch by himself every day, and his appetite became worse.

Liu Xia doesn't feel guilty at all, Shao Yan has a large group of friends who are ready to beckon, and he has no shortage of Liu Xia's buddies.

However, Shao Yan got a blessing in disguise within a few days of being lost.

Liu Chuan heard that Liu Xia often talked about Shao Yan's kindness to him, so he became interested, and took the opportunity to ask the master in the cafeteria if it would be inconvenient for him to bring one more person to lunch.

The fat master said generously: "Baby in high school? The rice there is pig food. The children are pitiful. It's just an extra bowl of water and a few cuts of vegetables. It's not inconvenient. Let the children come!"

The dormitory of the Public Security Bureau was tense, Liu Chuan shared a room with a man named Ma Xiaojun, it was inconvenient for Liu Xia to stay there, so he went to take a nap at Shao Yan at noon.

Shao Yan is actually very good at studying, otherwise he would not have been assigned to a key class like Liu Xia. His English is especially good, and he is as outstanding as Liu Xia in mathematics, physics and chemistry at the level of the whole grade.

His shortcoming is chemistry. When he sees the formulas piled up with various symbols, he becomes dizzy, and his grades always fluctuate around [-] points.

After becoming good friends with Liu Xia, Liu Xia gave him some advice when he had time. Now his grades are barely passing, and occasionally he gets more than 70 points in the test, and he can be happy for several days.

Liu Xia's English finally broke through the sixty mark because of Shao Yan.

One month after Liu Chuan came back, the deepest feeling he had for Liu Xia was: Yao'er, who used to always have excess energy, now never gets enough sleep, and can fall asleep as soon as he touches the bed.

This made Liu Chuan very distressed, so if possible, even if he was working elsewhere at noon, he would come back early, buy food early, so that Liu Xia could eat as soon as he came, and then go back to sleep for a while.

So not long after Liu Chuan arrived at the Public Security Bureau, everyone knew that he had a little brother who was about to take the college entrance examination in Rongze High School, and Liu Chuan loved him very much.

In such a happy life, Liu Xia ushered in his last winter vacation in high school.