all the way

There have been two consecutive heavy rains recently, and the temperature in Jiangcheng has finally come down.

At five o'clock in the morning, Liu Xia got up, opened the window, and a moist breeze blew in. He stretched hard, picked up the washing things and ran to the water room, and finished the scheduled morning physiological excretion and hygiene in 10 minutes. Then he picked up a book and ran out.

The school's playground is very large. In the middle of the circular track is a football field, several volleyball courts, and many other sports facilities. There are already a few joggers on the playground.

Liu Xia doesn't know this kind of health-care exercise, he throws his arms and runs wildly.

It has been more than a month, and the daily exercise is to do the weak radio gymnastics twice. Liu Xia feels that his bones are rusted. , but it’s better than nothing, and it’s nice to sweat after running.

After running ten laps, Liu Xia slowed down and ran to the swimming pool, where he walked around the pool and read English.

It can be regarded as the fragrance of birds and flowers. There are many people who read in the morning here, especially those who read English. Liu Xia is not confident in his English pronunciation, so he never reads aloud. He listens to others reading in the shade of trees and birdsong. It's also fun to memorize by yourself.

An hour later, the sweat dripped from his body, and the back of his soaked shirt was almost dry, and he strolled towards the restaurant.

Today, the reading time is a little longer for a few minutes, and several people in the dormitory have already started to eat. Yun Jian pointed to the notebook next to him with fried dough sticks in his mouth: "Did you forget? Today's first section of "Chinese", a professional course on the other side of the earth. "

Liu Xia sat down and picked up the steamed buns, and looked at the notebook on the table, which was a special notebook for him to listen to the Geodetic Survey class: "No, I'm afraid that if I don't take Chinese again, I will fail the exam in the end."

Liu Xia still has lingering fears about Chinese when he arrived at university. Fortunately, there is no pressure to take exams. He listens to other majors he is interested in during Chinese and other classes he doesn’t like. He listens to geodesy and English majors the most. The class that he skipped the most was Chinese. He was very familiar with this Chinese textbook, but it was very stressful to go to class. He would rather read Chinese books as novels in his spare time.

Today, Yunjian finished eating first, and went to the classroom to occupy a seat. The Chinese class is a big class, and several classes are held together. When I go late, I sit at the back of the class, and I can’t hear clearly.

Liu Xia didn't know how Yun Jian managed to get along with them all at once, but he felt that it was quite comfortable. People who live in the same room every day, there is one awkward person, and everyone in the room is unhappy.

The first time Yun Jian sent a friendly signal to him, Liu Xia was still not used to it.

Because most of the people in the dormitory have hobbies, Liu Xia felt that it was boring to know nothing. After thinking about it for a few days, he couldn't think of a hobby that could be achieved without spending money, so he decided to continue practicing his own. calligraphy.

Since he went to Rongze to go to school, he can only practice calligraphy for a few days during the holidays. He has the shortest time to practice calligraphy in the whole family. The other brothers have practiced for at least eleven or twelve years, and he has only practiced for seven or eight years.

Liu Xiaxin got it, and immediately went to buy a large bottle of ink and five brushes of different specifications.

There is never a shortage of outdated newspapers. Zhan Wei took a large stack from the student union, and he tore all the newspapers into squares about [-] centimeters in length, and kept them for later use.

The only table was not wide, and a row of tea mugs were placed on it. The newspapers were spread unevenly on it, which affected writing.

The time for Liu Xia to practice calligraphy is fixed at about an hour after lunch and more than an hour after returning from the library at night.

On the second night when he started writing, while he was laying out newspapers, Yun Jian, who happened to come back from the wash, moved all the vats on the table to the east, including Liu Xia's vat, which was placed alone at the west end of the table.

He said to Liu Xia: "Why don't we put the vats in two rows at this end, so that the space on the other side will be larger, and you don't have to tear the newspapers into such small pieces."

Before Liu Xia had time to express anything, he really arranged the tea mugs in two rows on the east side.

On the second night, when Liu Xia was the first one to go to the library to occupy a seat after dinner, Yun Jian threw one of his books over and said, "Help me get one too."

Liu Xia instinctively caught the book, and naturally took a seat for him.

It was the first time that Yun Jian read a book in the library with him, Zhan Wei, and Sha Yonghe, and then chatted and laughed all the way back to the dormitory. All the barriers before were gone.

People tend to be more tolerant when they are in a happy mood.

Liu Xia has been in a very good mood recently.

The huge surprise of Liu Ling being admitted to the military academy is long-lasting, and it is the basis of all Liu Xia's good mood recently.

In the letter from the elder brother just received, there was a picture of a cat. Although outsiders could not see that the little man with limbs and feet had a penny relationship with Liu Xia, but the little man was immature but had a lot of love. The four calligraphy characters of "Liu Xia" and "Uncle" make Liu Xia smile and feel relaxed and happy. He has to take it out to read it several times a day, and laughs happily every time.

There was also the news that Chu Xiaohe had gone to Rongze High School, which also made Liu Xia very happy.

The first time Chu Fenghe went to look for Liu Chuan, it happened to be when Liu Chuan sent Liu Xia to Jiangcheng. He didn't see Liu Chuan, so he left him a note saying that he would let Xiao He go to Rongze to go to school.

Liu Chuan went back and saw Wang Zhanjie immediately after seeing the note, but he never saw anyone: too many students wanted to transfer to Rongze High School, and the school couldn’t accommodate him. Wang Zhanjie was confused by his parents and some leaders, so he simply hid. The classes he leads are all temporarily replaced by other teachers.

A week after the National Day, Liu Chuan met Wang Zhanjie. Wang Zhanjie was still the same as before, teaching two classes in the third year, one for key points and one for ordinary classes.

Chu Xiaohe went to report in three days, and Wang Zhanjie assigned him to the ordinary class he taught.

Chu Fenghe is now working as a small worker at the construction site of the New District Health Bureau, moving bricks and mud during the day and watching the site at night, earning two wages.

Liu Chuan helped to find the job, Liu Chuan said: "The two brothers are really dependent on each other, when Chu Fenghe said that he was going to pull coal in Beixiang, Chu Xiaohe looked too uncomfortable.

It can be seen that wherever Chu Fenghe is, that is their home. Although the work on the construction site is hard and the money is not too much, but in Rongze, Chu Xiaohe no longer has to run back and forth, and they can reunite with peace of mind every week once. "

Liu Xia's good mood will become a little subtle when he sees Mao Jianyong.

He is a person who hates evil, but he is not a small-hearted person. Six people in a dormitory can get along happily and harmoniously, which makes him feel a little lonely and pitiful when he looks at Mao Jianyong.

So one day in the library, when he saw Mao Jianyong and a few other students he didn't know sitting on the floor reading with newspapers under their buttocks, he asked Yun Jian to call Mao Jianyong.

The seat he occupied was still vacant, and Zhan Wei hadn't come to the student union yet.

After Mao Jianyong came over, his expression was a little embarrassed, and he tried to sit down in a more natural manner; Liu Xia pretended to be reading the book in front of him, and he also felt a little embarrassing.

After about ten minutes, Zhan Wei came.

Liu Xia stood up and asked Zhan Wei to sit in his own seat. He took a magazine in front of Yun Jian and put it on the floor, ready to sit by himself.

Zhan Wei pushed him back and sat on the ground by himself: "I sit on the ground and see people sitting on it every day. I've wanted to try it for a long time. Hey, it's really good. It's a different feeling!"

Several people laughed lightly, and Liu Xia saw that Mao Jianyong also laughed with everyone, and felt his heart suddenly brightened.

When the first month passed, Liu Xia had a rough idea of ​​his basic living expenses for a month. He basically ate meat dishes at noon every two days, and vegetarian dishes or pickles in the morning and evening. In this way, he needed about 12 yuan a month. Food tickets for money.

33 catties of food stamps are just enough to eat.

Liu Xia sold food tickets for 18 yuan in the first month.

After receiving Liu Ling's letter, Liu Ling, like Liu Chuan, was worried about his growing body, which made him a little worried. It would be too uneconomical if he really became a dwarf because of eating less meat.

He became ruthless and ate meat dishes at noon 13 times a month. He stopped eating pickles in the morning and evening and ate stir-fried vegetables. In this way, he sold [-] yuan of vegetable tickets in October.

The matter of selling vegetable tickets was settled in their dormitory. Mao Jianyong, Yun Jian and Heideqing couldn't have enough to eat every month.

Mao Jianyong, who is as skinny as a chicken, doesn’t open for meat, and has to go to the street to eat every few days. He keeps complaining that there are too few types of food in the north, and he can’t even eat seafood and snake meat; Yun Jian There is always one meat and one vegetarian meal at noon, and often extra meals at night;

Dao asked Pang Tuoyuan to eat spare ribs and braised pork, and sometimes he would buy two servings. If he could not eat these two for several days, he would have to eat other more expensive ones before he was willing, such as roast chicken. .

He reached a verbal agreement with Liu Xia, and in the future, Liu Xia's extra food tickets will be sold directly to him.

With so much money, Liu Xia had no choice but to laugh secretly, but he didn't dare to send it home. He put the money together with the 50 yuan that Liu Changchun secretly stuffed in his suitcase, and planned to buy it for the cat. As a birthday gift, other money must not be touched, and it will be a surprise for the whole family during the Chinese New Year.

Liu Xia had checked the calendar a long time ago. Mao'er's birthday is on November [-]th in the Gregorian calendar, which is a Monday. It usually takes about five days for him to send a letter home, so he has to send the gift a week in advance.

On Saturday night, Liu Xia discussed with the people in the dormitory and asked some of them to help choose a gift.

Zhang Fusheng has recently become obsessed with learning guitar, and he doesn't even want to take lessons. He can't wait to study his chords and tablature all day long. Besides, he doesn't like Liu Xia, so he directly excludes him.

Sha Yongping is an invisible existence on weekdays, and his schedule on Sunday is very regular, bathing, washing clothes, and writing letters. Except for Liu Xia, he is the one with the most 219 letters, but he is different from Liu Xia. What is Liu Xia? Whenever I received a letter, I wanted to write a reply right away, and Sha Yonghe devoted most of his time to writing letters on Sundays.

Yun Jian raised his hand to sign up: "I, you don't have good vision, so look at me when the time comes."

He Deqing said: "I also want to go out for a walk, let's go together."

It goes without saying that Zhan Wei is always a guide and translator.

When Liu Xia and the others went out on Sunday morning, Mao Jianyong also followed: "I want to go out and have a look too."

Zhan Wei brought them to the largest free clothing market in Jiangcheng, and Liu Xia wanted to buy clothes for Maoer.

Mao'er's birthday reminded Liu Xia of Shao Yan. Last year when he said something casually on Mao'er's birthday, Shao Yan remembered his birthday and bought him a gift. But now, where is Shao Yan? Do not know at all.

He was almost sure that Shao Yan was not in Jiangcheng, but he couldn't make any guesses about Shao Yan's current situation. He felt a little lost, but he no longer cared about it every day.

There are so many novel classes and books in the school that attract him every day, and friends around him talk about the past and the present, inspire words, and point out the world. He really has no time to be sentimental.

Shao Yan's home is in Yuancheng, and they will definitely have a chance to meet again in the future.

Walking to the entrance of Clothing Street, Mao Jianyong suddenly said to Liu Xia: "Wait a minute, if you fancy something, don't jump on it just because you like it. You must pretend to be nonchalant, then hint to me, and then look at mine."

Then he said to Zhan Wei: "You have to calm down for a while, listen to me, if they say you are losing money, you have to insist on it, and when I ask you to add money, you can add money."

Liu Xia didn't understand Mao Jianyong's meaning, but Yun Jian and Hei Deqing understood: "He came from a den of profiteers, he must be good at bargaining."

Liu Xia suddenly realized.

Soon, Liu Xia fell in love with clothes from a store specializing in children's clothing, corduroy, trousers with a puppy pattern embroidered on the trouser legs, and autumn clothes similar to navy shirts.

Liu Xia in the navy shirt has only been seen in the illustrations in textbooks, and it is something that few of their brothers dare not dream of possessing.

Liu Xia took a fancy to the pea-green trousers embroidered with yellow puppies, and Yun Jian said to him under his breath, "You old hat, how do you wear those dirty scumbags? That light brown one looks good, and it looks western with a navy shirt. .”

Liu Xia thinks that the light brown embroidered black puppy is not good-looking, but he also thinks that Yun Jian obviously has better taste in clothes than the others, which is similar to Shao Yan, so he finally decided to buy both, and two autumn clothes. With a complete set.

Mao Jianyong signaled them to go aside and leave the rest to him.

Liu Xia, Yun Jian, and Hei Deqing continued to walk forward, pretending to look at other clothes, waiting for Mao Jianyong and Zhan Wei.

After more than 20 minutes, the two came over.

Zhan Wei handed the bag to Liu Xia: "Three seven yuan, the rest is for you."

The three of Liu Xia were really frightened, they didn't believe it.

Mao Jianyong deliberately pretended not to mind and said: "What is this? If we come here earlier, we will come before his business opens, and I can make him cheaper. My aunt and aunt run a garment factory. My aunt does both wholesale and retail clothing, and I know the rules of their asking prices."

Zhan Wei said with a painful expression: "When my mother is bargaining with others, I will feel embarrassed when I am next to him. Compared with Mao Jianyong today, oops, I am embarrassed to translate for him. He will not go when he is pushing us out. That cheek..." He shook his head, expressing his tangled feelings.

Mao Jianyong said confidently: "It's normal to bargain when doing business. What's there to be embarrassed about? You earn a dime by yourself. Why should you give it to others when you can save it?"

Liu Xia rubbed his face and secretly made up his mind that he would learn from Mao Jianyong in the future, and he must be thick-skinned when buying things, and every cent he can save is worth every penny.

Later, Hei Deqing fell in love with a pair of jeans, and Zhan Wei fell in love with panama pants. Mao Jianyong felt that the quality of the jeans was not very good, but he bought them back at a [-]% discount.

Hei Deqing originally wanted to buy a pair of flared trousers, but I heard that during the National Day Gala, the teachers from the Political and Educational Office invited some particularly fashionable seniors to narrow the trouser legs of the flared trousers themselves. , or punish people.

Now I really don't see anyone wearing flared trousers with particularly wide legs in school.

Panama trousers are [-]% off, and Mao Jianyong has always disliked Zhan Wei since he came back.

After Liu Xia sent the clothes, he waited impatiently for a letter from home. The letter he received four days after Mao'er's birthday made him ecstatic: Mao'er wrote him a letter himself.

The cat's letter was included in Liu Kui's letter. It was written with a brush, and there were four letters: Uncle:

I'm a cat, I'm seven years old today, and I'm wearing the new clothes you bought for me. They look pretty, and I'll see you there.

In the mid-term exam last week, I scored [-] points in both language and arithmetic.

I can think about you every day, and you should also think about me every day!

Sincerely,

salute

Willow bank

198X.11.10

The letter paper is white paper with meticulous and regular grids marked with a pencil. Liu Xia seems to be able to see the anxious and excited look of the cat beside Liu Kui when Liu Kui is using a ruler to compare the grids on the kang table, and he can also imagine him. He has a serious expression on his small face and is sitting upright. He looks like he is writing letters under the guidance of Liu Changqing or Liu Kui.

Liu Xia showed off Mao'er's letter to the people in the dormitory. Under the envious and jealous eyes of everyone, he borrowed some white paper from Zhang Fusheng for copying the six-line notation, and began to type in the squares.

Several people didn't understand what he was going to do, but they soon knew.

All of Mao'er's characters are well-structured and moderately sized, except for the word "San" for arithmetic. Because there are too many strokes, Mao'er can't freely control the thickness of each stroke, and the word "San" is very long.

Liu Xia typed three sheets of paper, and then began to write the word 'count' with undiluted ink, and wrote three sheets of sixty characters in total.

When he wrote the first one and put it on the table to dry, both Mao Jianyong and Yun Jian leaned over to read it. Yun Jian said, "Damn, those who don't know think it's printed!"

After Liu Xia finished writing the word 'calculate', he started writing letters again. He wrote one letter to his family, then wrote one letter to Mao'er alone, and also wrote four letters.