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It was already the 26th of the twelfth lunar month when Liu Xia and Liu Chuan returned to Liujialing with two packages of New Year's goods.

Seeing Mao'er desperately climbing up with Liu Yu on Shangyaopo, Liu Xia was elated.

Mao'er proficiently kissed Liu Xia's face in the order of right cheek, forehead, left cheek, and nose, then tilted his face and waited for Liu Xia to kiss him again, then excitedly said to Liu Xia: "Xiao Uncle, my mother’s little brother is very ugly, but I can wait to see him, grandma said that I am too young now, let me hold him and play with him when I grow up to your age."

Both Liu Xia and Liu Chuan were taken aback.

Didn't sister-in-law Xiumei say that she should give birth only in early February next year?There is still more than a month left!

During the light snowfall half a month ago, Xiumei slipped while holding the firewood and gave birth to a boy prematurely.

This time, Liu Changqing asked Liu Kui to lead several people to carry her for nearly ten hours, and sent Xiumei to Wangning Hospital. Not only did Xiumei give birth safely, but she also asked for a ligation operation.

There was a lot of rumors about family planning outside, but the villages south from Shangyao were completely neglected. Xiumei was the first person to have a sterilization in the southern mountainous area.

Although Liu Hai and Liu Ling were not at home, because of Liu Chuan and the bountiful New Year's goods he bought, and the addition of a little guy who cried a few times every day, the New Year's atmosphere in Liu's house was still lively and joyful.

New Year's Eve passed with fragrant dumplings and warm and lively chats, and another spring came with bright sunshine.

Liu Kui hugged the youngest Liu Xin, and led Liu Chuan, Liu Yu, Liu Xia and the children in new clothes to kowtow to their parents (grandparents).

Liu Chuan prepared relatively new ten-cent bills in advance, and Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun sat on the edge of the kang side by side to hand out the new year's money. Except for Liu Kui and Liu Chuan who could already support themselves, even Liu Yu had fifty cents.

Liu Changchun was the last one to hand out to Liu Xia, and what he put in his hand was Zhang Xinxin's ten yuan.

Liu Xia looked at it quietly, then kowtowed vigorously on the mat, and said softly: "Thank you, Second Uncle!"

This is not the first time that Liu Changchun gave Liu Xia many times more lucky money than others, he did it once last year, and it was the same situation, but there was still a brief silence in the room.

They don't have the habit of saying "thank you" to each other. They are all family members and closest relatives. All kindness to each other is taken for granted.

However, Liu Xia occasionally said "thank you".

In the past five years, Liu Xia has unknowingly regarded Maoer as his own responsibility, and other people's kindness to Maoer is regarded as an unexpected kindness by him, and he is grateful for it.

Senior high school students do not have the right to enjoy a full festival.

Liu Chuan returned to work at the unit in the third grade, Liu Xia returned to school in the fifth grade, and went to class in the sixth grade.

On the first day of school, the homeroom teacher first announced a big news: "This year, our Central Plains Province has canceled the pre-selection for the college entrance examination. Each of you will have the opportunity to take the college entrance examination."

Then, he announced ten disciplines in another 10 minutes.

After Liu Xia heard the first item, "Starting from today, the third-grade evening self-study will add another lesson, and Sundays will only be off every two weeks." After hearing the first nine items, Liu Xia was so angry that he didn't want to listen to the next nine items.

When I was going to eat at noon, I was stopped by Shao Yan, and I realized that after the third grade, I was not allowed to leave the campus at noon. It used to be that classes started at 01:30, but now it has been changed to one o'clock.

In other words, Liu Xia and the others will not even have time to take a nap on the desk in the afternoon. For the next five months, they will stay in the classroom to study from 10:30 am to [-]:[-] pm every day.

Liu Xia felt horrible even thinking about it.

Liu Chuan bought the meal at the unit but couldn't wait for anyone, thinking that something happened to Liu Xia, he went to the school, saw the two people jumping anxiously in the white line at the gate, knew the reason, and ran back to the unit to give the food to him. Bring it up.

From that day on, Yanagawa delivered meals to them at noon every day.

Only then did Liu Xia know how Gucun got the college entrance examination scores that they envied all these years.

This is simply not a human life!

Except for the end of get out of class time when students need to eat, shit and pee, there is really no way to cancel it, and the other physical education classes and free time that were originally occupied are all cancelled.

Even if he eats and drinks, he is not so free. Liu Xia is regarded as a thorn in the side of several teachers because he often goes to the toilet for a long time.

After less than ten days like this, Liu Xia was on the verge of collapse. If it wasn't for the Lantern Festival, they had a half-day holiday, and Liu Yu came to Rongze with the cat on this day, he didn't know how to get through the rest day is over.

This half day was fully utilized by Liu Xia: he and Shao Yan took Maoer to the new city to look around, Liu Xia bought a Rubik's Cube and a small handkerchief for Maoer, and then came back to eat a meal of mutton stewed noodles .

Although the pepper in the stewed noodles made people runny noses, the cat ate a small bowl by himself, and drank the soup cleanly.

While wiping the cat's nose non-stop, Liu Xia picked the mutton from his own bowl into his bowl, while making up his mind in his heart that after earning money, he would let the cat eat stewed noodles every day.

Liu Chuan asked Liu Yu to come to Rongze to let him meet Ma Xiaojun's third uncle Ma Deying.

Ma Deying is the chief of the supply and marketing section of the county valve factory. The valve factory has not been profitable in the past two years and the salary has not been guaranteed. He quietly built a few lathes at his home, and hired two retired masters from the factory to work at home. up.

Ma Deying wanted to find some diligent and good apprentices, so Liu Chuan introduced Liu Yu to him.

There is no money for food and lodging in the first three months, and after three months, it is 12 yuan a month, and there is a bonus for good work.

Liu Yu agreed immediately, let alone 12 yuan a month, it was two yuan, as long as he could leave Liujialing, he would agree without hesitation.

Liu Xia couldn't even send Liu Yu and Mao'er to the bus station, they had to sit in the classroom at one o'clock.

The cat said to him in a sensible way: "Uncle, I'm home. You should study hard and get admitted to university. Let's go play in a beautiful place. Uncle said that there are many beautiful places in China."

From the Lantern Festival to the end of March, Liu Xia went home twice.

Every time he came back, Mao'er would follow him and Liu Chuan to Guanjiayao, hold his neck for a while at the top of the slope, and then say to him: "Uncle, you want to go to university, we take the train , let’s go to see the Yangtze River Bridge, to see the house where the gods live, and to go to the place where there are so many beautiful places.” Then they watched Liu Xia turn around a mountain and disappeared before going back.

Liu Xia finally satisfied all the teachers in the class, but it made Shao Yan, who has been working very hard lately, afraid. Liu Xia now only keeps the exercise of running ten laps on the playground in the morning. In other times, except for eating, drinking, and sleeping, his eyes are blind. left the book.

Shao Yan was surprised that Liu Xia was not short-sighted after two crazy years.

On Sundays when he couldn't go home due to the weather, Liu Xia studied in Shao Yan's rented house. If Shao Yan didn't call him, he could sit still for a while, doing questions, doing questions, doing questions, endorsing, endorsing, endorsing , Liu Xia became a learning machine.

Liu Chuan has been very busy recently, and Rongze County's preparatory institutions have moved eastward as a whole, occupying the land of several brigades on the east side of the Ze River to plan a new city.

But after a period of time, the villagers felt that they were at a disadvantage again. They went to the government several times to make a fuss but failed, and several people were detained. On the surface, they had to give up.

But secretly, they began to harm the construction sites of various units, stealing raw materials for building houses, such as bricks, cement, steel bars, and even prefabricated panels. They dared not take anything from the public.

They are not afraid of those who are watching the site from the units and construction units. If someone dares to block them, they will rush to beat them with hoes and shovels.

The people who watch the site are full-time employees, who are willing to risk their lives for public affairs, so the villagers are getting more and more aggressive, from stealing at night to robbing during the day, and many construction sites have been shut down. This also includes the office building and family building that the Public Security Bureau has just started.

The county government requires all the staff of the Public Security Bureau to take turns to patrol the new area on duty, 24 hours a day.

Yanagawa and his colleagues changed shifts. He was on the last night shift that others didn't want to do. He couldn't sleep well and was dangerous.

The villagers are still afraid of the soldiers and the police. With them on duty and patrolling, the construction site has restarted.

The villagers dared not come to rob things during the day, and they all changed to stealing at night. When they were caught, the unconvinced Lengtouqing beat people. The Lengtouqings have been fascinated by Hong Kong martial arts movies recently. Everyone wants to be Huo Yuan First.

Some people used the thickest threaded steel bar to show off to Yanagawa and the others, and some people went in groups with three-edged spatulas and butcher knives. A young man in the Public Security Bureau office was stabbed in the abdomen by a three-edged spatula and almost died.

A group of lads from the criminal police team beat the murderer until he was breathless.

In the end, five villagers were sentenced, and the stabber was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and the villagers calmed down a bit.

Even so, Liu Chuan never stopped delivering meals to Liu Xia and Shao Yan for a day. He was a scout, and he was good at kung fu. The rest of the team would take the initiative to order food for Liu Xia and the others.

Rongze High School has been very strict since Wu Hongjuan's incident happened. After more than two years, Wang Zhanjie has also established enough prestige.

When Liu Chuan went to deliver the food, the gatekeeper refused to let him in, although he hated the police and spoke very politely.

And Liu Xia's teachers are now procrastinating to an outrageous point, sometimes until 12:30, Liu Chuan can only wait at the gate.

One time, Liu Chuan had to leave because of an emergency. Liu Xia and the others hadn't finished class yet. When they were in a hurry, Su Xiaohui, an English teacher in the first grade, walked to the gate after get off work and took the initiative to deliver food to Liu Xia for Liu Chuan.

Later, when the teacher dragged the hall and Liu Xia and Shao Yan couldn't go to the gate to pick up Liu Chuan in time, Su Xiaohui would often help deliver the meals.

Shao Yan joked: "Su Xiaohui has fallen in love with Brother Liu Chuan, absolutely, otherwise it would be impossible for Tian Tian to be so coincidental. Although she teaches the first grade, English is so important now. It is very rare for her not to delay the class. Going home for dinner on time every day, and meeting Brother Liu Chuan every time, it cannot be explained by coincidence at all."

Liu Xia also felt that this incident was a bit too coincidental, and it didn't make sense.

Su Xiaohui is the youngest and most beautiful female teacher in the school. She has an oval face, big eyes, and a ponytail tied up with a light-colored handkerchief. She looks lively and generous.

Compared with Yanagawa's height of 1.8 meters, she is slightly shorter in her early 1.6 meters, but she is also very outstanding in high heels.

Su Xiaohui was admitted to Yangcheng Teachers College from Rongze High School five years ago, and came back to teach here three years later. She has a good temper and feels much better than the other newly assigned female teachers. There is no mention of corporal punishment among her students. Students or other bad rumors, the other female teachers all have bad nicknames, such as "crazy", "scorpion mouth", "stepmother face"...

One day during dinner, Liu Xia asked Liu Chuan if he liked Su Xiaohui.

Liu Chuan asked him back: "What do you think of her? Are you happy if she becomes your third sister-in-law?"

Liu Xia thought for a while, then shook his head: "I don't know."

Liu Chuan laughed and patted Liu Xia on the head: "Don't worry about the child, why should a man be without a wife, and the third brother is like this, don't you worry about not being able to find a wife?"

Liu Xia also felt that he was just worrying about it blindly. He felt that a person like Third Brother was enough to match a fairy. Wouldn't it be a matter of time to marry a good wife?

Su Xiaohui still often helped Liu Xia and the others deliver meals, and both Liu Xia and Shao Yan respectfully called her "Teacher Su."

Recently, Liu Xia and Shao Yan had discussed several times about volunteering. Shao Yan still wanted to persuade Liu Xia to enter the military academy, but he didn't know if there was a military academy in Jiangcheng. Liu Xia had made up his mind to enter the university in Jiangcheng.

At this moment, Liu Xia received a letter from Liu Ling.

In the past year, Liu Ling's letters have become less and less, and they have also become shorter and shorter. There are almost no more than two sheets, and most of the time there are only a few sentences. Counting the format before and after, it is not enough for a letter.

But this letter was relatively long, there were more than three pieces, and there was 30 yuan in it.

But the point of Liu Ling's letter is not to encourage Liu Xia to study hard, but something else.

One is to persuade Liu Xia not to apply for the military academy. In addition to the fact that the military academy enrolls too few students in Rongze, another reason is Liu Xia’s stomach injuries. The pass was entirely because he was the one named by Lu Jianguo, the recruiter, and Chen Zhenbei, who was on the sidelines. Liu Ling was not sure that Liu Xia had such a luck.

Liu Ling also used more than one piece of paper to explain that it is not a big deal even if he fails to pass the university entrance examination. Isn't it possible to start a business by himself now?With Liu Xia's mind and personality, he felt that even if Liu Xia could not pass the university entrance examination, he would definitely be able to find other ways to raise the cat well.

Liu Ling also said that their current allowance has been increased, and he will send money to Liu Xia every month in the future to help him raise the cat together.

Liu Xia was confused, he didn't understand Fifth Brother's meaning, and of course Shao Yan didn't understand.

Liu Xia let Liu Chuan read Liu Ling's letter, and Liu Chuan immediately understood: "Your fifth brother is afraid that if you fail to pass the college entrance examination, you will be overwhelmed. There are newspapers who committed suicide after studying for several years and failed to pass the exam. Your fifth brother is worried about you. What, Yaoer!"

Liu Xia felt that Liu Ling underestimated himself in this matter, and committed suicide because he couldn't pass the university entrance exam?

Hmph, so what if there are no universities in the world?There are waterways without mountain roads, how can a living person be suffocated by urine?He wants to let the cat live a good life, and the fastest way is to get admitted to the university. Even if he fails to pass the exam, he believes that he must have other ways.

His uncle Liu Changqing was in a place like Liujialing, wouldn't it still make them live better than many people outside?I heard that many people died of starvation outside before, but not in his family.

On the question of applying for the military academy, Liu Chuan felt that what Liu Ling said made sense.

There was basically no hope for Liu Xia to apply for the military academy. Shao Yan immediately decided that both of them would apply for the university in Jiangcheng, but they had no idea which one to choose.