all the way

Liu Xia sat on the stump, looking at the notice in his hand over and over again.

In the cave dwelling, the sound of Xiumei rolling out noodles was heard one after another, thump-thump-thump, boom-thump-thump, just like his heartbeat.

Liu Hai was about to go crazy with joy, and wrote a letter to Liu Ling lying on the stone table next to him. Although Liu Xia's school was not in the capital, he felt disappointed, but this little regret was nothing compared to the huge surprise.

Liu Kui kept smiling from ear to ear, sitting next to Liu Changqing and looking at Liu Xia, he couldn't help laughing again: "Uncle, Yao'er is really a brat, hehehe, Chuaner, you must be Er Hei didn't fall asleep, did he?"

Liu Chuan, with his lean upper body naked, fanned his fan: "If it wasn't for the time when I got the notice, it was almost dark, and I would have come back at that time, hehe, brother, you don't know what I was like at the time, the brothers in the team They all said that I should not be fooled by laughing, hehehe, our youngest son is really competitive, if I ask him to go to the third year of high school again, I will not bear it."

Liu Kui asked Liu Xia: "Yaoer, you said that there are only more than 80 people in the preliminary exam, why did you get the first place in the exam?"

Liu Haifen replied in a quick letter: "That's called potential, that's called explosiveness, it's useless to get No. 1 in the normal exam, but the college entrance exam is a one-shot deal, just look at it if you fail!"

For the first time in Liu Xia's arms, Mao'er didn't dare to slip back and forth like a loach. He carefully looked at the words on the envelope: "Uncle, this word is similar to a meeting in a meeting. How does it pronounce it?"

Liu Xia pointed to the word and said, "The one on the left is next to the twisted silk. It is combined with the word 会会, and it is still read. It means painting, and it is also called painting in written language."

The cat pointed at the next word again: "What about it?"

"Measure, measure, measure how high, how big, how long things are, measure mountains, water, land, measure houses, and draw them after they are measured."

"Then, the mountains are so high, the rivers are so long, and the land is so big, how do you measure them? When will you finish measuring them?"

"My uncle doesn't know now, so I have to go to college. When my uncle learns, he will measure and draw our place, Fengxi River, and our house."

Xiumei happily came out with a tray: "Yaoer, let's eat first. It's all good noodles, not a little cornmeal or sweet potato noodles."

Liu Xia carefully put away the envelope.

Liu Chuan said: "Give it to me. I will rest at home for a day today. I am very happy. I will start to apply for food relations and household registration for you tomorrow."

Xiumei said: "It's been very hot these days, Chuan'er, take it easy on the road, don't suffer from heat stroke."

Liu Chuan said cheerfully: "It's okay, if I can do this for our children in the future, I will be happy for heat stroke."

After Liu Hai finished writing the letter, he handed it to Liu Chuan, and ran over to strip off Liu Xia's pants to expose his buttocks, which were a little red, so Liu Hai felt relieved, and said to Liu Kui: "Brother, listen to the crackling sound, I I thought you were really going to hit Yaoer ruthlessly, hehe, it’s not too bad.”

He lifted the pants of Liu Xia, who was eating the noodles calmly, and went to serve a bowl himself.

Liu Kui pretended not to see or hear, and just ate the noodles with the corner of his mouth upturned.

Liu Xia is really extremely happy and relaxed physically and mentally now.

Liu Changqing didn't praise him directly, but he got great satisfaction from Liu Changqing's gratifying eyes when he stroked his head.

After dinner, he went back to the cave and took a long nap with the cat in his arms. After getting up, he went to the bathroom. When he came back, he heard the cat discussing with Xiumei, who was sewing a schoolbag for Liu Rui: "Mother , you can also make me a schoolbag!"

Xiumei said, "You're only six years old, boy, and you have two years to go to school. Why do you need a schoolbag?"

The cat said: "I also want to go to school. I heard from Uncle Six that my uncle started school when he was six. I also want to go to school early, get admitted to university, and go to school with my uncle."

Xiumei laughed: "Sewing schoolbags is good, but cat, even if you go to school now, you won't be able to catch up with my uncle to go to college."

The cat was a little distressed: "What's the matter? I want to go to school with my uncle."

Liu Xia came over and picked up the cat and walked around: "If the cat wants to go to school, go to Zhangjiabao in a few days, my uncle can pick you up for a few days!"

As soon as Liu Xia brought up the matter of Mao'er going to school, the whole family agreed, and it was decided.

It's time for Liu Hai to go. Although the students in Kyoto are not as difficult as Rongze's children, they don't need to get up early and go to the dark, but he is a senior in high school after all, and he will come back to take the exam in the end, so he dare not play tricks.

Liu Hai chose to walk with the two of them on the day Liu Xia returned to school.

Liu Xia wanted to take Mao'er with him, but after seeing Liu Wei and Liu Rui's eager eyes, he finally decided to take all three of them with him.

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui have always wanted the children to go out and see more, and they didn't stop Liu Xia, but they specifically told him: "You take them, your third brother should find a wife, if people see him following a large group Boy, you will dislike our family's heavy burden, and I'm afraid there will be no matchmaker for him in the future."

It was still Liu Kui who used a van to send a few people to Wangning before dawn. Liu Hai is very experienced in taking cars and trains now, so Liu Kui is also relieved and will not send them to Rongze.

Both Liu Wei and Liu Rui came to Rongze for the first time, and they were curious all the way just like the first time Maoer came. They both felt a little uncomfortable in the car for the first time, but they didn't vomit.

It was the cat, who vomited his breakfast outside the bus station after getting off the bus.

Liu Xia thinks this is because the cat has never had breast milk since childhood. Although milk is good, it is not as good as his own mother's milk. Wang Junyu is right. In the future, the cat must drink more milk, so that the nutrition of breast milk can be absorbed. Make up for it.

No matter how reluctant Liu Xia was to part with Liu Hai, he could only watch him leave in the police car driven by Liu Chuan.

Liu Xia was still a little apprehensive when he led the three of them to school, but when he saw the two black monkeys behind Zhang Changxi and a group of uneasy primary and middle school students standing under the shade of a tree, his uneasiness disappeared immediately.

Zhang Changxi said helplessly: "My mother was arrested by the village cadres and sent to the health center to have a vasectomy. My two brothers were left unattended, so I had to let them follow me. Liu Xia, what are you doing? You even scored more than 600 points in the exam. , how are you taking the exam?"

Liu Xia smiled: "I don't know, I would be very nervous when I thought about it, but who knew that once I entered the examination room, I didn't feel scared at all, and when I was doing the questions, I forgot that I was in the college entrance examination. So many points."

A group of people from Liu Xia's class who passed the exam came here. They were very envious of Liu Xia, especially his courage. He dared to report the key points for such a pre-examination ranking.

Mao'er, Liu Wei, and Liu Rui watched the children from the teacher's house play table tennis very much, so Liu Xia asked them to go and play with those children, but not to run around, and continued to chat with classmates.

He heard a lot of things that he didn't know at all, one of which was: the high schools in several townships in Rongze County were going to be converted into vocational high schools.

They don't quite understand what vocational high school means. It seems that it is an agricultural technical high school. It no longer takes college entrance examination as its main goal, but teaches students how to farm scientifically.

Liu Xia's first thought when he heard the news was: What should Brother Feng He do?He wants Xiaohe to be admitted to university and to eat commercial food.

From the time when Qian Heshan met Chu Fenghe to now, Liu Xia has not seen the brothers of the Chu family for more than two years. In the past two years of too tense life, he has almost never thought of them, but at this time, he is really worried about them.

Teacher An from the Political and Educational Office came over and greeted them to go to the principal's office to take pictures.

Seeing that Wang Zhanjie finally came out from the crowd surrounding him, Liu Xia immediately ran over to Wang Zhanjie, and bowed respectfully in front of Wang Zhanjie: "Teacher Wang!"

Wang Zhanjie nodded happily: "Yes, that's right, Liu Xia, you really surprised me."

Liu Xia said: "I didn't expect to get more than 600 points in the test."

Wang Zhanjie said: "God rewards hard work, this is the result of your own hard work. Liu Xia, no one will take care of you all the time when you arrive at university. It all depends on you to learn. The teacher hopes that you will continue to work hard and become a student in the future. People who have real talents and learning, and are useful to society.”

Liu Xia nodded vigorously: "Yes, I know." Then he plucked up his courage and said, "Mr. Wang, I have a classmate who was admitted to our school that year, but his family is poorer than mine, so there is no come on.

His mother is dead, his uncle got married and his daughter-in-law doesn’t care about him anymore. His brother is about the same age as my fourth brother, so it’s good to study too. In order to support him, he dropped out of school and went to Qianhe Mountain to play his feet. If he comes to our school this year... "

"Hey, Principal Wang, I found you. Let's smoke a cigarette first, about my son..." A middle-aged man came over and interrupted Liu Xia, forcing a cigarette into Wang Zhanjie's hand.

Wang Zhanjie pushed the man's hand away: "I don't smoke, please wait a moment, I have to take pictures with the students first."

He and Liu Xia walked to the place where the photo was taken and said: "I'm too busy today, why don't you ask Brother Liu Chuan to come find me in a few days, if you can't find it, come back a few days after the official school starts, and I will These days I can no longer be in school, there are more than 70 people in each class, I dare not accept any more."

Rongze High School has achieved good results in the college entrance examination this year. Liu Xia has passed the key points. There are still 70 undergraduates, more than 97 colleges and technical secondary schools, and the total number of students is [-], which is more than twice that of last year. Many people in Yuancheng want to send their children Turn here.

In Wangning, Yangmiao, Sandaohe and another township, none of them are online.

The weather was extremely hot, and the back of Liu Xia's shirt was soaked after taking the photo, but Liu Wei, Liu Rui and Mao'er who were watching were very excited.

In two hours, Mao'er has become good friends with several school teachers who are about his age.

Mao'er and Liu Wei's superb tree-climbing skills made those children forget their rustic clothes and dark skin, so when Liu Xia saw Mao'er slipped out of the tree with his legs around the trunk in order to show how fast he was going down the tree And when the pants were so worn that the little butt was exposed, he couldn't bear to yell at him.

After saying goodbye to the enthusiastic teacher and saying hello to Su Xiaohui, Liu Xia took Mao'er and the three of them to the street, and bought a popsicle for each of them.

Only Maoer had eaten popsicles a few times before. Liu Wei and Liu Rui were both eating popsicles for the first time. They licked them carefully and were reluctant to finish them.

The four of them ate popsicles and came to the house where Shao Yan was originally renting.

They already knew that Liu Xia had been admitted to a key university, and they were very enthusiastic about them, as if their own child had been admitted.

Liu Xia talked to them for a while and asked them if they knew Shao Yan's address.

The landlord doesn't know either.

Liu Xia said that he wanted to go to that room to have a look again, but the landlord said that the room had already been rented by another student who came from the original city to study, and it was a woman.

But the landlord also has a key in his hand.

Liu Xia felt that it was not good to enter other people's rooms without permission, but he really wanted to go in and have a look. He hoped that Shao Yan had left something somewhere, but he ignored it because he was too eager to prepare for the exam, so he didn't refuse the landlord. The act of actively opening the house.

The original simple and refreshing house no longer exists. The pink mosquito net and the original clean and pleasant sea-blue plaid sheets have become light-yellow floral sheets. The simple wooden table is covered with floral plastic cloth, with a glass pressed on it. ...

Liu Xia stood at the door for a few minutes, feeling empty, closed the door and backed out.

His best friend, a person who volunteered to be his seventh brother, just disappeared, and he would never see Shao Yan again in the future, perhaps for the rest of his life.

Sitting in the stewed noodle restaurant, Liu Xia realized that Mao'er and Xiao Rui hadn't asked this question for a long time, and his dull mood made the three children unable to get excited.

Liu Xia hurriedly pulled himself together and went over to order three big bowls of stewed noodles.

Three big bowls of stewed noodles were just enough to eat, Liu Wei had a bowl for herself, and even drank the soup, and Liu Xia, Liu Rui, and Mao'er shared two bowls.

Liu Rui was still young, and like cats, she was a little afraid of spicy food, but she didn't take a single bite away.

There are two stalls selling clothes at the north gate of the movie theater. Liu Xia spent one yuan to buy a pair of trousers for Maoer and Liu Rui.

Liu Chuan didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening.

Ma Xiaojun happened to ask for leave, and Liu's uncle and nephew spread out two mats to sleep on the ground. Liu Xia and Liu Chuan talked about Chu Xiaohe.

After listening to it, Liu Chuan commented on Father Chu in three words: "Old bastard."

Regarding Chu Xiaohe's matter, Liu Chuan asked Liu Xia to think of a way to send a letter to the Chu brothers after returning to Ning tomorrow. Only when they are willing to come to Rongze High School can Liu Chuan talk to Wang Zhanjie.

The next day, Liu Chuan rode a three-wheeled motorcycle in the bureau and took Liu Xia and the others to the new city for a ride.

Dusty everywhere, construction sites under construction everywhere, the newly planted sycamores still can't cover the shade, a few people are oily from the sun, but Maoer and the others are in high spirits.

Liu Chuan pointed to several very large construction projects in the southeast and said: "Those are several provincial units. They were all out of town. They have been relocated to our place in the past two years. Our place is close to the original city."

In the afternoon, Liu Chuan drove them back to Wangning by motorcycle, and then returned to Rongze by himself.

Liu Xia couldn't find Chu Xiaohe, so he left a letter for Chu Fenghe in Wangning High School.

The brothers of the Chu family are very well-known in Wangning. The uncle who watched the gate said that he often saw Chu Fenghe passing by the school gate, covered in coal dust every time. He seemed to be selling coal to Beixiang with others on a three-wheeled galloping horse. , the uncle said that he would definitely forward the letter to Chu Fenghe.

On NO.15 of August in the Gregorian calendar, Liu Wei went to Wangning Primary School to register; the next day, Liu Rui and Mao'er went to Liujialing Primary School to register with Xiumei's flowery schoolbag on their backs, and classes began immediately.

Liu Xia stood outside the cave, watching the cat sitting in the middle of the first row, looking at the brand-new textbook, looking for the words he recognized on it with shining eyes.

Liu Xia sends Mao'er and Liu Rui to school every day and picks them up after school.

When school was over, he stood under the big oak tree at the slope of the school. The cat could see him as soon as he came out of the classroom, and ran over happily and threw himself into his arms.

Liu Xia kissed him on the forehead, Mao Er kissed him back on the cheek.

Liu Rui said: "My mother said that only children like Liu Xin can be kissed, and adults don't want to be kissed."

Mao'er shook her head triumphantly: "I don't want to kiss you, you don't care! Don't you, uncle?"

Liu Xia took both of their schoolbags and took them by himself: "The cat is still young, so hurry up and kiss me."

On August 28th, Liu Xia set off, and Liu Chuan and Mao'er sent him to Jiangcheng together.

Although the family members felt that it was inappropriate to report to the university with their little nephew, no one said that the cat should not be allowed to go. Everyone in the family knew why Liu Xia applied to the university in Jiangcheng.

On the day Liu Xia left, besides the whole family, there were several people from the Third Grandfather's family who saw him off.

Liu Fulai brought over ten boiled eggs.

The figures who had been watching the three of them were completely blocked by the mountain, and the people at Pokou were still standing there motionless.

In the pale but scorching summer afternoon sun, there are huge crowds of people under the sun, with endless lines.

As the Yuancheng Railway Station at the intersection of the two main railway lines of Beijing-Guangzhou and Longhai, Liu Xia knew for the first time that people are not only insignificant in the vast wilderness, but in the sea of ​​people, they are a drop in the ocean. It felt even more intimidating.

Liu Chuan carried Liu Xia's leather shoes and bedding.

Liu Xia was carrying Mao'er all the time, and Mao'er hugged him tightly around his neck. Even if he couldn't tell, Mao'er could feel that in such a crowd, a child like him would be swallowed up in a blink of an eye.

Seeing the sweat dripping from the cat's hair, Liu Xia regretted letting the cat follow. Now, the Fengxi River should be breezy, and it only takes a few minutes to jump into the river, and the heat will dissipate .

Before he left, Liu Xia was already homesick. After waiting in the waiting room for several hours, the shadow of home kept appearing in his mind.

The lights outside were brilliant, and the waitresses in the gray-blue uniforms in the waiting room shouted sharply, dragging suitcases, and a stream of people carrying luggage and children rushed forward like a tide.

Liu Xia was coerced and ran forward. He had never taken a train before, and he was afraid that if he missed this point, he would never be able to get on this train again.

Liu Xia only went to Rongze Railway Station with Shao Yan to watch the train once on a rainy Sunday. At that time, the windows on the green long dragon were next to each other, and the leisurely and careless people in the windows made Liu Xia feel infinitely distant yearning.

Now, he is also sitting in front of the window of the green train, watching the people running on the platform.

But he didn't have the laziness of those people, but he was full of anxiety. He didn't know whether the place the train was going to take him was really as beautiful as he expected.