all the way

On the last Saturday before May [-]st, the weather forecast on Shao Yan’s radio said that there might be light to moderate rain. Liu Xia did not dare to take the risk of going home. I feel distressed.

After Shao Yan went home once a month, he didn't leave this time either.

As soon as the bell rang for the end of the small self-study get out of class, the school gate was opened, and the students rushed out to the bus station, but there were still many students in the third year of high school, and many of them now go home once a month.

Liu Xia and Shao Yan went straight to the Public Security Bureau to have lunch, but Liu Chuan was not there, so they made their own lunch, and strolled back to Shao Yan's house after eating.

Shao Yan walked backwards with his hands in his pockets: "Liu Xia, you tell me how beautiful the Fengxi River is all day long, and how enjoyable it is to swim in it with bare buttocks, which makes me look forward to summer and go to your house when I think of it." Try that feeling for a few days."

Liu Xia said: "Then after we finish the college entrance examination, tell your parents to go back with me! Little chicken is so stuffy in your trouser pocket every day, and when the time comes, you will be naked and jump into the river, little chicken." Let the river cool down, how beautiful it is."

Shao Yan was amused by his shamelessness: "Then it's settled, once the college entrance examination is over, I will come to you and go to your house to play with you."

Liu Xia said: "As long as you don't think my family is poor, you will be hit if the quilt is broken."

Back at Shao Yan's house, Liu Xia couldn't bear it any longer. He wanted to sleep for a while and asked Shao Yan to call him in half an hour.

Shao Yan closed the door: "Just sleep, I'm here."

Liu Xia fell asleep within a minute after lying down. Shao Yan sat beside the bed with a biological book, watched quietly, and waited for several minutes. He pulled his hand up and put it in his own hand which was clearly bigger than Liu Xia's, with fingers facing each other.

His hands are slender and fair, while Liu Xia's hands are small and well-knit, but the back of his hand is brown. Shao Yan thinks this contrast is very beautiful.

Liu Xia muttered something in his sleep, Shao Yan put his hands away, stared blankly at his face for a while, stood up, tucked in the mosquito net, opened the door and went out.

When Liu Xia woke up, he saw the alarm clock on the table pointing to [-]:[-], and shouted at Shao Yan.

Shao Yan chuckled, without arguing, and pointed to the washbasin, which contained more than half of the clear water: "You can't get back those two hours even if you eat me, hurry up and wash your face, let's start fighting English hard."

Liu Xia washed his face and splashed the water all over the floor, sat on the edge of the bed angrily, and the two began to read the book and ask each other questions and correct each other.

It rained in the middle of the night, and the next day, the air was moist and comfortable after the rain.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, both Liu Xia and Shao Yan were dizzy from reading. Shao Yan took out the English book in Liu Xia's hand and said, "Mr. Wang is not leaving today, so don't wait until six o'clock to find him. Let’s go now, it’s all a change of mind, and when you come back and continue to read English, your mind will not be so dull.”

Liu Xia thought it made sense, so he took out his math homework and composition, and said to Shao Yan, "You are waiting for me at the gate at 06:30, let's go directly to dinner." They both ate three meals at Liu Chuan's on Sunday .

Shao Yan nodded: "Understood, it would be great if there were vinegar and mung bean sprouts today."

After Wang Zhanjie checked Liu Xia's math homework and composition, he gave him a composition topic for the current week's homework, and Liu Xia came out.

He didn't see Shao Yan at the gate, so he shouted at Shao Yan's house: "Shao Yan, Shao Yan, what are you talking about? Come out."

No one answered.

Liu Xia wanted to shout a few more times, thinking he might as well run over, so he ran back.

There was no one in the yard, Liu Xia shouted again but no one answered, he pushed open the closed door with some doubts.

Liu Xia was stunned at the door: there was only one desktop electric fan left on the three-dou table, a chair on the floor, and a log square stool. The square stool was what Shao Yan asked the landlord for when Liu Xia lived here for the first time;

The white mosquito net hangs there quietly, there is still half a basin of clean water in Liu Xia's washbasin, and there are two whole packages of unopened candles and a few scattered...

However, everything else was gone, there was a thin layer of dust on the bench where Shao Yan put his suitcase, there was only a clean board on the bed, there was no pair of shoes that belonged to Shao Yan by the bed, and there was no water for Shao Yan. The cup, his schoolbag, his books...all gone.

Liu Xia couldn't react a little bit, it was only over an hour, did Shao Yan leave just like that?

Shao Yan didn't want to leave, Shao Yan didn't want to go back to the original city at all, Liu Xia knew it all along, but how could Shao Yan leave in such a way?Are you afraid that he will be sad?

Of course Liu Xia didn't want Shao Yan to leave, but the distance between Rongze and Yuancheng was only more than 30 kilometers, and it wasn't that they would meet each other forever, and Liu Xia was not a sentimental person, so what happened to Shao Yan? !

He was holding the book and didn't know what to do. He sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, but his eyes accidentally saw a little white thing protruding from the seat of the electric fan.

Liu Xia's heart moved, and he moved the electric fan away, revealing a snow-white envelope.

Younger:

It's okay to call you that, anyway, I'm two years older than you, it's completely reasonable and legal to be your brother, so let's call it that.

I must have left by the time you got this letter. I’m sorry, my mother arrived just 2 minutes after you left, and told me to get in the car as if on fire, saying that my dad’s work was urgent and the driver had to go back. A meeting cannot be delayed for even a minute.

I'm leaving, Yao'er, although I don't know if there is a military academy in Jiangcheng, but I will definitely apply for a university in Jiangcheng. If I can pass the exam, we can still play together every day. At that time, we will be much more relaxed than now, and we must be more happy playing .

You will definitely be admitted to university, I believe in you.

The house has been rented until the end of the college entrance examination on July [-]th. I have not checked out the rent. I have already agreed with the landlord that you will live here in the future. If I can come out on Sunday and come to play with you, we will have a place to stay.

The key is under the candle, hold it well, don’t lose it, let Brother Liu Chuan go to Teacher Wang to give you a day study, the weather will get hotter and hotter in the future, staying in the dormitory at night will affect your sleep, and then affect your study efficiency.

No need to thank you, when I go to your house to play in the summer vacation, just give me some wheat season birds to eat.

your seventh brother shao yan

198*.4.27

Liu Xia was stunned for a while after reading the letter. Perhaps because he was facing a letter, he suddenly felt that Shao Yan seemed to have been away for a long time and was far away. He wanted to write back a letter to Shao Yan. .

But he found that he didn't know Shao Yan's mailing address.

After thinking for a long time, he remembered that Shao Yan seemed to have said that his original school was called Seventeen Middle School. Could such a simple and vague address allow Shao Yan to receive his letter?

Shao Yan's leaving without saying goodbye made Liu Xia feel very uncomfortable, but he didn't have much time to struggle with his feelings.

The pre-examination was cancelled, but Rongze High School conducted a very formal preliminary examination by itself, which was conducted in full accordance with the specifications of the college entrance examination, except that there was no police guarding the door.

The results came out a week later, and Liu Xia ranked No. 80 in the whole grade.

Rongze High School admitted 41 students last year.

Liu Xia has an unusually detached way of thinking, so that he will not be discouraged by such a ranking: No matter how many people in Rongze High School have been admitted to university in absolute terms, as long as I am not one of them, that number will mean nothing to me. significance.

This logic has obvious loopholes, but neither Wang Zhanjie nor Liu Chuan thought about correcting Liu Xia.

Liu Xia started the real sprint for the college entrance examination. He and other third-year students, the thenar on the right hand was dark every day, which was the result of non-stop mimeographed test papers and mock test papers every day.

When filling out the volunteer application, Liu Chuan came to the school to discuss with Wang Zhanjie. Both of them felt that with Liu Xia's current grades and his continued study with the current strength for two months, there should be hope to get online.

Among the students admitted to Rongze High School in previous years, there were those who broke the ranking order of the preliminaries and accidentally entered the list. However, the biggest dark horse in the past jumped a dozen places, and almost all of them were admitted to technical secondary schools.

Liu Xia's gap is a little bigger.

They suggested that Liu Xia fill in the schools in Yuancheng, and the guaranteed Rongze Normal School and Yuancheng Finance and Taxation School must fill in. Usually, schools will take care of local students and have an absolute advantage in the number of admissions.

But Liu Xia showed unprecedented stubbornness in this matter, and his first choice must be to apply for a university in Jiangcheng.

He reported to Jiangcheng University of Surveying and Mapping.

Wang Zhanjie and the class teacher said to him: "Liu Xia, this is a national priority."

Liu Xia was stunned for a while, then nodded seriously and said: "No matter what it is, I will report it, didn't you say that as long as the score is enough, as long as the filling is subject to adjustment, it will definitely not be returned?

If I can get online, it doesn’t matter what my first choice is. Anyway, if my score is not enough, people will automatically transfer me to a school that meets the score. "

The head teacher was a little stunned, but he had to admit that what Liu Xia said made sense.

Although the head teacher has a better and better impression of Liu Xia, according to Rongze High School's past experience, the ranking of more than 80, the hope is very small, so he will not put too much energy on him. Since Liu Xia insists, the head teacher will not Say more.

Wang Zhanjie also felt that what Liu Xia said was reasonable. Anyway, as long as it goes online, the final result will definitely become a commodity grain account.

Liu Chuan knew Liu Xia very well, and knew more about his obsession with Jiangcheng, so he decided to let it be. Liu Xia is still young, and he still has a chance.

Liu Xia didn’t want to think about the period after filling out the application form, it was simply not human life, lying on the desk all day long, and going to the toilet for a long time, not only the teacher would give you a look, but he would also feel guilty.

After all, Liu Xia wrote a letter to Shao Yan, and the address on the envelope read "Yuancheng Seventeen High School Grade Three".

Four days later, the letter was returned, and the reason for returning the letter was "there is no such person".

Since the rain at the end of April, Rongze has never rained again, and the temperature has remained high since June. Liu Xia is really grateful for Shao Yan's house.

The school dormitories are so hot that no one can enter. Every night, the playground is densely packed with students sleeping on mats.

But there were so many mosquitoes on the playground that he couldn't sleep at all. Both of Zhang Changxi's legs were scratched with blood scabs.

Liu Chuan and another colleague, Chu Guoyou, whose younger brother is also taking the college entrance examination, discussed with several other colleagues. The two of them try not to go out to work recently, and concentrate on delivering meals and washing clothes for the younger brother. They can take the exam in good health.

Candidates faint in the examination room every year, and they don't want this to happen to their family members.

Chu Guoyou said that his younger brother was very stage fright. Every time he was too nervous to do the questions he would have done in the big exam, he was afraid that Chu Guo would pass out nervously when the college entrance examination was issued.

Liu Xia was rather disapproving of this statement.

He felt that fainting was just pretending. It must be because after entering the examination room, he saw that the papers were too difficult to do, and he was afraid that he would lose face if he failed the exam, so he pretended to be faint.

The noble ladies in foreign novels can faint after listening to an opera, because it was generally believed at that time that a woman with a noble status should be extremely delicate, and it would be dishonorable or noble not to be delicate.

Liu Xia said: "You are such a good guy, you are full of food and drink, how can you faint so easily! If you say that you are nervous about the exam, everyone is the same. Anyway, I know that the best students among my classmates are also afraid of the exam."

Liu Chuan felt that he didn't have to worry about Liu Xia having any mental and physical accidents.

But he was afraid of any weather accidents, so after Liu Xia came home once in mid-May, he didn't allow Liu Xia to leave again.

But Liu Xia misses the cat, and after two weeks of seeing each other, he feels bad, irritable, and annoyed.

Liu Chuan asked Liu Yu to bring the cat over on Saturday, and let the cat stay with Liu Xia for a night and play for a day.

Mao'er is very sensible. During the day when Liu Xia goes to class, he plays with the landlord's children, and doesn't compete with them for things, and doesn't eat what they give them.

When eating with Liu Chuan, he always holds the bowl by himself and eats cleanly, and there will be no scenes of people chasing after him to eat.

When Liu Xia returned to the rented house to study, the cat would sit next to him and play with the Rubik's Cube quietly.

At night, Liu Chuan gave the cat a cold bath, and he slept with Liu Xia obediently.

Except that he would get into Liu Xia's arms when he fell asleep, causing two small patches of prickly heat on Liu Xia's left arm and chest, which would not affect Liu Xia's study a little bit.

Liu Yu received a salary of 12 yuan in the second month after she arrived at Ma Deying's place.

Ma Xiaojun told Liu Chuan that it was not because of his face, but that Liu Yu was really good at his work and was very diligent. His master and his brother liked him very much and offered to pay him his salary in advance.

Liu Yu's job is not very stable. When she is busy, she works day and night, and when she is free, she sits in the yard and sprays the river.

Liu Chuan knew that he was free, so he asked him to go back and bring the cat. Liu Yu was also very happy to run, he liked the feeling of riding in a car.

On July [-]st, Liu Hai came back from Beijing, and took a car directly to the Public Security Bureau.

Only two and a half years later, Liu Hai looked like a city dweller, almost as tall and handsome as Liu Chuan, which made Liu Xia envious.

He is barely 1.6 meters eight now, and he looks like a skinny monkey.

After seeing Liu Hai, Liu Xia immediately pestered Liu Chuan to ask him to go back and bring the cat: "Sixth brother is back, and the cat will follow him when I am in class; third brother, the cat will not delay my study at all, I will Look at him and he's invigorated!"

The whole family knew how much Liu Xia cared about Mao'er. Liu Hai and Liu Chuan only exchanged a look and agreed.

The next day, Mao'er was taken to Rongze.

Liu Xia picked up his little baby, twirled it around several times, kissed the little cheek, and then began to study with high spirits.

After Liu Hai reviewed English with Liu Xia for half an hour at night, Liu Xia and Mao'er simply washed the mat on the sleeping floor, and Liu Chuan sat beside them and fanned them.

He himself suffers from headaches caused by the electric fan blowing too much, and he resolutely refuses to blow the electric fan on Liu Xia after he falls asleep.

Liu Hai was lying on the bed so hot that he was dying, but he didn't dare to move, for fear of disturbing Liu Xia's sleep.

July [-]th is Saturday. After the normal four and a half classes in the afternoon, the highly serious teacher showed a relaxed smile every day and asked the students to clear all their things. On the fifth and sixth days, they had a two-day break. The school prepares for the examination room.

The teacher said: "I hope you can all get good grades in the exam."

This is the most tender sentence Liu Xia has ever heard from the teacher in charge of the third year of high school.

However, the students didn't care to comprehend the emotion, and they left with most of the books in the woven bag with an unprecedented combination of relaxation and tension.

Liu Xia doesn't believe what other people say is that relaxation is the best preparation. Except for going to the examination room in the morning, he and Liu Hai studied math problems for two days, and they still recited English until eleven o'clock at night. Liu Chuan put a cold towel on his With his face on, he was lying next to the cat in good spirits.

Mao'er can now stay beside Liu Xia every day, and is so excited that he doesn't fall asleep until eleven o'clock every day. He rests on Liu Xia's arm and looks at Liu Xia with bright eyes: "Uncle, if you are admitted to university tomorrow Now, you don’t have to come to Rongze to go to school anymore, do you?”

Liu Xia suddenly saw the Yangtze River Bridge in front of his eyes, and he was startled, but he still nodded vigorously: "Well, once my uncle is admitted to university, the cat will soon be with my uncle every day, uncle Just not going anywhere."

On July 24th, a small heat in the [-] solar terms, Rong Ze was so hot and sweaty early in the morning, Liu Xia walked into the examination room with a large group of familiar or unfamiliar classmates.

Liu Chuan returned to work restlessly, and Liu Hai waited at the school gate with Mao Er until their exams were over.

Liu Xia walked out of the examination room, still in high spirits, swung the cat around a few times, and then went to the braised noodle shop with Liu Hai for dinner, where Liu Chuan had already taken a seat.

Liu Xia likes to eat stewed noodles, Liu Chuan decided to let him eat this at noon these days.

During the three-day exam, Liu Xia showed the same high mood as swimming naked in the Fengxi River. He was very happy after each test. When asked how he felt, he always said that it was about the same, and it was not as difficult as he thought.

This made Liu Chuan, Liu Hai, the class teacher and Wang Zhanjie feel very uncertain.

Because those students who did well in the exams in previous years did not feel very good about themselves, and some even felt very bad.

They had never seen such a reaction from Liu Xia.

After the last exam, Liu Xia left the school, picked up the cat in blue trousers and a small belly wrap, and kissed wildly: "The victory is over, third brother, sixth brother, the exam is over, give it to me!" Buy an ice cream with the cat and eat it."

Liu Chuan heard that a candidate who drank iced drinks and had diarrhea last year delayed the exam. He didn’t even dare to let Liu Xia drink cold water these days. He boiled water every day to cool it down. Come out and give him a drink.

After the exam today, Liu Xia decided to reward himself and the cat.

Liu Hai went to the street shop and bought five of the most expensive candied gourd-shaped ice creams. The four of them, each eating an ice cream, went to Shao Yan's rented house.

The landlord's yard was very big and clean. Several people were sitting in the yard talking and laughing relaxedly. No one could see Liu Xia's deep fear and uneasiness.

At night, Liu Chuan and Liu Hai pulled down the mats on the bed and spread them on the floor. The three brothers and Mao'er talked together until dawn that night.

After getting up at four o'clock, Liu Xia returned the keys to the landlord. The electric fan belonged to Shao Yan, and Liu Xia packed it in a woven bag and handed it to Liu Chuan.

The mosquito net was also removed, and asked Liu Chuan to take it back to the unit and wash it, and return it to Shao Yan when he came back.

Liu Hai carried his bag on his back, and Liu Xia led the cat, and got into the car back to Wang Ning.

Yanagawa watched them leave and went back to work by himself.

Liu Xia didn't ask, and everyone didn't mention it.

Liu Xia's books and quilts were left at Liu Chuan's place. If Liu Xia came back to read again, he didn't need to bring back the big and small bags.