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Liu Xia never expected that he would be greeted with such a big surprise as soon as school started

The first thing Liu Xia did after returning to school was to sit down and write a letter. As soon as he wrote the beginning of the letter to Maoer, Wang Siping, the life committee member, came and asked Liu Xia to sign a piece of paper with a smile. I was shocked when I saw the amount after my name: the first-class scholarship, one hundred yuan.

Contrary to him, Mao Jianyong, Yun Jian, and Hei Deqing, Mao Jianyong failed two subjects, Yun Jian and Hei Deqing each had a make-up exam, and the three of them looked at Liu Xia with a small knife sticking out of their eyes. Xia Lingchi.

Liu Xia looked up at the three of them and laughed loudly: "Ha, ha, ha! It feels so good to get money without having to make up the exam."

When Liu Xia sat on the bed at night and carefully organized his things, he found that there was an extra 50 yuan in the middle of the suitcase he brought from home.

Needless to say, it must have been Liu Changchun who put it in, but Liu Xia couldn't figure out when he put it in. He decided not to worry about it so much, the future will be long, and it will be fine if he earns money and respects his second uncle well.

Liu Xia also took out the money he had saved. He didn't take out the money when he returned home. He knew that if he took it out, his parents and brothers would not be happy, and they would also worry about whether he had lived frugally in school. It was very difficult, Liu Xia kept the money and had his own plans.

Liu Xia counted the money over and over again, and Yun Jian despised him on the opposite bunk: "You Grandet reincarnated? Just the one or two hundred yuan?"

Liu Xia didn't even look at him, and counted again: "You don't understand, so I won't tell you."

On Sunday, all 219 went shopping. Mao Jianyong said that after the Spring Festival, sales are the worst time of the year, and it is very easy to make deals when going out to buy things now.

Sure enough, all seven of them had harvested when they came back.

Liu Xia bought two sets of autumn clothes and long trousers and two pairs of small shoes and socks for Mao'er, and also bought a set of long clothes and long trousers, socks and a pair of plastic-soled shoes for Liu Wei and Liu Rui.

The breath of spring can already be clearly felt. Except for cotton trousers, cats and the others are single trousers. They have no transitional clothes. In spring and autumn, they wear two trousers, which is uncomfortable; shoes with plastic soles are not easy when it rains drenched

After a semester, Liu Xia has fully adapted to university life. He passed the university courses as soon as they finished, and there was no process of reviewing the exams in middle school. Liu Xia liked this very much. As soon as the semester started, they entered a brand new professional course. The field made Liu Xia very excited.

Yun Jian and the others interpret Liu Xia's fanatical love for new knowledge as compensation: Liu Xia used to live in a closed environment like a primitive society, with no opportunity to get in touch with new knowledge, but now he has suddenly entered a brand-new, fully open era of knowledge explosion. The fear of the poor life in the past is aroused, and I am always afraid that these books and classes will be gone in the next second, so I will act like a fool, leaving this classroom and entering another classroom, and my enthusiasm for the library will always be high For the beautiful girl from the school next door.

Liu Xia's answer to this was: "Next time, each of you will make up five exams."

Mao Jianyong fell back: "Your curse is too vicious, change to another."

Liu Xia thought for a while: "In the next life, you will all be as tall as Mao Jianyong."

Several people rushed over and beat Liu Xia up.

Liu Xia has returned to the busy and fulfilling life of years ago, but his life is much richer than before.

First of all, he was missed by the student union and some club members, and he was pulled to write publicity notices for various activities from time to time. Liu Xia never refused. He liked the moment when he picked up the brush, just like he liked to open a book same moment.

According to the requirements of the seniors and sisters, he wrote the various fonts they wanted.

He felt that after this winter vacation, his handwriting had improved a lot. The unexplainable reason was an epiphany, especially in Xingkai.

Every time he finished writing, someone joked that he would take the notice he wrote back and frame it, saying that his handwriting was no worse than those copybooks he sold.

Liu Xia has never thought that his handwriting is better than the copybooks sold in bookstores. So far, he still maintains respect and admiration for printed characters, thinking that they are elusive.

Spring is coming quietly, and Liu Xia's body grows with the seasons just like the plants in nature.

A few days after he returned to school for the Spring Festival, he started to have leg pains. In fact, he felt this way from time to time when he was at home during the Spring Festival, but it was not serious. He didn't want to scare the cat, so he didn't say anything.

Now the pain is worse than before, although it is not unbearable, but it has been bad, especially when sleeping at night, the feeling is more obvious, sometimes the pain is so painful that he can't sleep, so he went to see the school doctor.

The school doctor asked him a bunch of questions, and he was basically sure: "Growing pains, it should be because you have to grow up. If you grow too fast, some people will feel pain. Eat more ribs, or just take calcium tablets. It will be fine after a while." .”

Liu Xia was ecstatic in his heart, and chose to take calcium tablets. He also found that his clothes and pants seemed to be a little shorter.

At the end of March, Liu Xia received Liu Yu's letter, and when he opened it, he was really shocked: Liu Chuan was determined to get married on May Day, and the family had already started preparations.

On the day Liu Yu wrote the letter, Liu Chuan and Su Xiaohui performed a ritual that must be performed before marriage: exchanging things, also called exchanging bride price.

But in fact there is no exchange problem, but the man unilaterally buys clothes for the woman, and the woman finally buys a handkerchief for the man symbolically as a gift in return.

Liu Yu said: The second sister-in-law looks really nice, she only needs four clothes, and now we hope that the most unattractive women in Ning also need four clothes, and there are many who want six or eight clothes.

The second sister-in-law said that if there are too many clothes, it will be easy to go out of fashion. She likes to wear more fashionable ones, and she wants to buy what is popular in the future.

Her return gift to the third brother was a piece of polyester cloth for a suit and a tie. I think the matchmaker they hired was a little upset, but her sister didn't say anything.

The matchmaker said that the second sister-in-law owns bicycles and watches, so I don’t need to buy them from my family. The second sister-in-law also doesn’t want a sewing machine. She said she doesn’t know how to make clothes, so it’s useless to ask for it. The matchmaker wants our family to buy a TV. buy the smallest...

After reading the letter, Liu Xia took out all the money he had left, a total of 270 yuan and [-] cents.

After hesitating for a long time, he still couldn't open his mouth to borrow money from the people in the dormitory to round up the whole number. The family's debts for many years made him have a great psychological burden on borrowing money.

The next day, Liu Xia asked Zhan Wei to go to the post office together. He had never sent money before, so he was afraid of making mistakes for the first time, so he needed someone to guide him.

Liu Xia didn't know why Liu Chuan decided to get married in such a haste, but he trusted the third brother and felt that he must have sufficient reasons for doing so. What he was worried about now was that Liu Chuan would return the money he sent back.

A week later, he received letters from Liu Chuan and Liu Yu at the same time.

The reason why Liu Chuan got married was very simple. He and Su Xiaohui felt very good about each other, and they were not too young, so why bother?

Of course, there are some other reasons: when Rongze High School was expanded, a row of houses was built in the family courtyard at the same time. There are not many houses. The married employees of the house will share one room, and the single workers will have at least three rooms.

The regulations of the Public Security Bureau also require a marriage certificate to give a separate house.

Both Liu Chuan and Su Xiaohui felt that the Public Security Bureau and Rongze High School were not far away. Even if the two rooms were not together, it was much better than one room. They could use one as the kitchen and the other as the bedroom, and the process of going back to the bedroom after dinner It's all about walking a hundred steps after a meal.

Liu Chuan really cared about Liu Xia sending back the 270 yuan, but he didn't return it. This made Liu Xia feel relieved, and at the same time he was very proud and had a sense of accomplishment: he could also help the family.

Liu Yu was very wronged in the letter, because Liu Chuan gave him a good lesson, saying that he was loose-mouthed and shouldn't have told Liu Xia and Liu Ling about his marriage so early, and Liu Chuan planned to write to them a few days before the wedding He said that by the time they knew, his marriage would have ended long ago.

In the second week of April, the head teacher announced a news at the class meeting on Saturday afternoon: In order to improve the English application ability of high-level technical personnel, the Ministry of Education will implement the national unified single-subject standardization of English in colleges and universities starting from this year. The teaching examinations will issue independent certificates, and the first batch of examinations will officially start at the end of this year.

That is the English Test Band [-].

When this news was released, there was a lot of reaction among the students, but when they figured out that this is not a compulsory exam, and not getting a certificate will not affect their graduation, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief .

Liu Xia was very disturbed when he first heard the news, but when he knew that the decision was in his hands, he burst out with high fighting spirit. He decided to take the exam and must get the certificate. His logic was simple: If it's useless, why should the country add obstacles to the proud sons of heaven who have already entered the university?

Not only did Liu Xia decide to take the exam by himself, but he also asked a few people to back him up. The first ones he convinced were Zhang Fusheng and Hei Deqing, while Zhan Wei and Sha Yonghe wanted to take the exam.

In this way, only Yun Jian and Mao Jianyong were left in 219. The two of them couldn't stand the five people nagging in their ears every day. Finally, 219 decided to sign up all of them at that time, and rushed over in one breath.

Zhan Wei said: "I haven't forgotten the things in high school yet, so let's sell them while it's hot. If you don't slack off for two years, you will forget the common words, and the exam will be more difficult."

However, most of the students were not what they thought. After three years of hell-like life in high school, it was hard to relax without affecting graduation, so why bother to make trouble for yourself?

The two dormitories next to them didn't plan to take the test, and only Song Yan, who was in 218 on the opposite side, decided to follow them. His attitude was: it would be best if you passed the test, but you won't get it.

Liu Xia clearly knew that there was a big gap between himself and others in English, so he worked very hard,

Originally, in addition to his compulsory courses, he also chose various courses that were completely irrelevant to each other and a lot of books to be read for himself every day. Being arranged is already very stressful, and now with the separate English certificate test, he doesn't want to give up on any of them, he is so busy that he is almost back to high school.

Apart from his professional courses, he mostly takes English classes in the foreign language department. The school's loose teaching mode gives him great convenience, and he has benefited a lot from taking professional English courses.

Different classrooms, libraries, restaurants, playgrounds, and communication rooms are Liu Xia's daily life trajectory. He is busy and happy every day. He is fulfilling the original agreement with Liu Ling in a down-to-earth manner and living up to his time in college. , Learn all the knowledge you can learn in your own hands.

He was immersed in the hunger and thirst of learning every day, completely ignoring that there was a mysterious emotion surging in the campus in recent days.

Before May [-]st, Liu Xia received a letter from his family. In the envelope besides the letters from Liu Kui and Maoer, there was also Liu Hai's.

Liu Kui's letter is as good as ever and the whole family is good, but there is more content about Liu Chuan's wedding preparations and everything is perfect.

Liu Hai said that he had already returned home. After attending Liu Chuan's wedding on May [-]st, he went to Rongze High School to start classes.

It was time to fill out the application form in May, so Liu Hai came back early to adapt to the environment.

Liu Hai felt very good about the painting professional exam in March. He only looked at the last culture class. He has already decided to apply for the XX Academy of Fine Arts where Zeng Guangtong works. XX Academy of Fine Arts has an enrollment quota in Central Plains Province this year.

Liu Xia was worried and looking forward to Liu Hai. He wanted to encourage him when he wrote the letter, but he was afraid that he would feel too much pressure. Every time he wrote a letter to Liu Hai, he wasted as much energy as writing an essay for the college entrance examination.

Maoer reported to Liu Xia in the letter: Brother Liu Wei went to Rongze to participate in the arithmetic competition, won the first prize, and also won a diary, but it was not as beautiful as the diary you gave me.

Cat finally wrote:

Brother Liu Rui and I still got double hundred marks in this mid-term exam. Mr. Guan said that we will definitely be able to enter university in the future.

Uncle, I'm admitted to a university in Kyoto, and I'll take you to see ***, go boating, what a wonderful place to go, you wait for me.

Liu Xia folded the letter and put it away, and took out a photo of a cat to look at.

This photo was snapped by Chen Zhenbei, the camera is a little crooked, the cat on it is sitting on a swing, looking at the front and smiling happily.

Liu Xia looked at the photo and said in his heart: No matter where you go to school, my uncle will buy you a sleeper berth when you come back, and I won’t make you suffer in the traffic anymore.

Putting away the photos, Liu Xia drew three more rice-shaped grids and wrote 36 characters of '蕤'. Maoer's '蕤' character has a good structure, but it is a circle larger than other characters. Liu Xia knows that It must be Liu Changqing or Liu Kui who guided Maoer to write it, but he still wanted to tutor Maoer himself.

On the day of "May [-]st", Liu Xia got up very early, thinking that the whole family was bustling about celebrating Liu Chuan, and he and Liu Ling couldn't even see how his third brother got married, so he felt a little suffocated.

Several other people in dormitory 219 also got up early today. They all finished eating and went to the street before eight o'clock. They collectively went to buy seasonal clothes. According to Mao Jianyong, they had to arrive before the opening of the clothes shop. Good for bargaining.

At this time, Jiangcheng was already a bit stuffy. Liu Xia really couldn’t wear the two clothes he wore when he started school last year. The trousers and top were a bit too short, but he could still wear long johns because they were elastic. The clothes inside are shorter and no one can see.

The only thing that still fits him now is the training uniform that he was issued during the military training. It can't be said to fit, it can only be said to be barely long enough, and the width is more than enough.

He thinks that his two coats can last for another two months, and now the top priority is to buy two pairs of trousers. The requirements for the trousers are simple: strong and comfortable.

Mao Jianyong made a quick decision: "Jeans!"

Liu Xia was taken aback: "Jeans? If I wear jeans at home, my family will definitely think I'm a bad student. In Rongze, long hair and jeans are the two most important signs of a bad boy."

In fact, there is a reason that jeans are more expensive than other pants!

Liu Xia actually likes jeans in his heart, especially when they watched the movie "Breakdance" a few days ago, he found that the inconspicuous supporting roles in the movie are all wearing jeans, which means that jeans should be a kind of jeans in the outside world. Very common and popular clothing.

Moreover, he likes the energetic dances of those people in the film, but he doesn't like the hairstyles and clothes of those people.

But in the movie, those people also have ordinary but kind hearts like ordinary people. Their hobbies are just different from the expectations of adults. Does this mean that it is wrong to judge a person's character by the style of their clothes? Woolen cloth?

Zhang Fusheng is quite tall in the north, and it is difficult to find suitable clothes in Jiangcheng. He just bought a pair of khaki pants, which everyone and he don’t like. They are ugly and old-fashioned, but that is the only pair he wears. Barely covers the feet.

Now he said to Liu Xia with the appearance of a fashion pioneer: "Yes, it is jeans. With your figure, you must wear them well. The most important thing is that the jeans are strong, similar to canvas, and they won't rot even if you wear them."

"The jeans are really strong, one pair can hold up to several other pants!"

Liu Xia looked at Hei Deqing's pair of jeans that were neither dirty nor wrinkled no matter how he wore them, and gritted his teeth: "Okay, just jeans."

So Mao Jianyong bought him a pair of bootcut jeans with dark red seams for six yuan, and another pair of ordinary pants for three yuan.

Liu Xia liked and felt uncomfortable at the same time.

I like the thick jeans, which are very strong at first glance; it is uncomfortable to spend so much money all at once, and less than half of the remaining money for a month is left in one fell swoop.

Several people fell in love with a round-neck T-shirt at a stall, and Mao Jianyong won seven pieces for 20 yuan.

Liu Xia didn't want a T-shirt at first, but the other six people insisted that this was a group activity in their dormitory, and whoever didn't wear it would want to betray 219, so he had to choose a sea blue and white wide-striped one. All the same, except for the color.

Several people bought clothes and went back to the dormitory to try them on.

Among them, Deqing and Yunjian are the most well-dressed. Deqing is tall and has broad shoulders, which hold his clothes well.

Although Zhang Fusheng is tall, but he can't explain why, his clothes always feel a little baggy, in short, they just don't look good.

Yun Jian has the temperament of a metropolitan boy, and looks foreign in whatever he wears.

But today, everyone agrees that Liu Xia, who is wearing jeans and a T-shirt, looks the best. If it weren't for his face, which gives people the impression of a child, and his skin is a bit rough and dark, he can definitely be regarded as Yushu Linfeng.

When Liu Xia put on his clothes to compare with Yun Jian, he realized that he was actually a little bit taller than Yun Jian. This discovery made him very happy, but made Yun Jian very depressed.

At 05:30 on Monday morning, Liu Xia got up to go for a run as usual, read English by the swimming pool, and then met the people in the dormitory for dinner. Everything was the same as usual.

After dinner, Yun Jian and Mao Jianyong also urged him to go to the earth to study "Earth Shape and External Gravity Field", and told him to come back on time for the second session, because it was their professional course "Engineering Mechanics".

When Liu Xia arrived at Dadi's classroom, he found that there were not many people in the huge classroom.

This kind of professional course is a compulsory course. If the test is not good, the teacher will not give a passing grade like some supplementary courses. Because Liu Xia often comes to take classes, he is very familiar with many people in the land, especially 218. They would occasionally skip class and slip away, but they rarely dared to be sloppy in this kind of class. I don’t know what happened today, but there was no one in 218.

However, Liu Xia's doubts only lasted for less than 3 minutes. As soon as the teacher started to teach, his attention was immediately drawn back.

After class, Liu Xia asked the senior with big black-rimmed glasses who came out of the classroom with him: "Why are so many people absent from class today?"

The senior looked at him in surprise: "You don't know?"

Liu Xia was confused: "Know what?"

The senior continued walking with the book in his arms: "Go back to the dormitory and wait, they will definitely come back for lunch at noon."

Liu Xia noticed that the campus was extremely quiet today, and there were not many people outside after class, so he felt something was wrong.

Back in their classroom, it happened to be the class time, and he was the only one in the classroom.

Professor Huang Youguang asked him: "Should we just have a class here, or find another place that is more suitable for a heart-to-heart chat?"

Huang Youguang is in his forties and has five years of studying abroad. He is humorous, but his teaching attitude is very rigorous. Liu Xia can see that although he is joking with him, he is not in a good mood.

Liu Xia asked: "Mr. Huang, what happened today?"

Huang Youguang said: "Today is May [-]th. If my guess is correct, college students in major cities across the country should be on the streets. Their slogan is 'anti-corruption, anti-corruption'. Why didn't you participate?"

Liu Xia's eyes widened: "Parade? I... I thought something was wrong with them when I was talking about eating. It turned out to be like this... They, they didn't tell me anything, and even encouraged me to go to the earth to take lessons ! Really dishonest."

If the teacher wasn't in front of him, Liu Xia really wanted to kick the desk away.

Huang Youguang looked outside and pondered for a moment: "Sharing worries for the country is the most basic awareness of college students. If even college students no longer have blood and passion, then the country will basically be over.

However, I still think that they should arrange their homework well. The world has passed the era when only blood can be used to rejuvenate the country, and the power of science and technology will play a decisive role in the competition between countries..."

He looked back at Liu Xia: "For me, one student attending a lecture is the same as a thousand students attending a lecture. Sit down and let's start the lecture."

Liu Xia listened to the most memorable class since he started school. One professor, one student, one taught meticulously, and the other listened attentively.

After class, Liu Xia respectfully bowed to Huang Youguang.

Huang Youguang's eyes became gentle and calm: "Are you going to find them?"

Liu Xia nodded: "Well, we have always been together, and I want to participate in such an event myself."

Huang Youguang said: "If you have any problems with your studies, you can always come to me."

Liu Xia ran out of the classroom, rushed back to the dormitory, threw the book on the bed and ran out again, jumped down the stairs in a few steps, and rushed outside, but...

He saw the crowd in the distance, and a steady stream of people came towards the dormitory building. He stood there dejectedly, waiting, feeling the loss of being excluded.

The people from 218 arrived first. As soon as Song Yan saw Liu Xia, he ran over and said to him very excitedly: "We just got separated from the people in your dormitory, but it's okay, they'll be back soon, don't you?" I know how spectacular that scene is, ah, I wonder if today is the same as we are today 80 years ago!"

Liu Xia stared at Song Yan angrily: "You don't tell me, what do you mean?"

Song Yan smiled without guilt at all: "May [-]th Youth Day, do you understand young people? How old are you? None, what are you going to do? Hehe, it's mainly about the few in your dormitory. They want you to take lectures and take notes at home. , Mao Jianyong was afraid of making up the exam again."

Just as he was talking, Liu Xia saw Zhang Fusheng appearing in the crowd. Liu Xia let Song Yan go, and stood there staring viciously at the people in their dormitory.

After being dragged back to the dormitory by several people, Liu Xia's anger still persisted.

He likes to read and go to class, but he didn't know about such a big event today, the feeling of being rejected by his friends is really terrible.

Since he reconciled with Mao Jianyong, the people in their dormitory have gotten along very well. Liu Xia has a great sense of belonging to his dormitory and class, but today's incident made him feel very uncomfortable.

He Deqing handed a small bag of things to Liu Xia: "Regan noodles, preserved eggs, don't be angry, we have absolutely no other intentions, the main reason is that we know that Professor Huang will have a class today, and we don't want to delay you, and you are too young Now, you are basically in the first and second year of high school at your age, not the age to do this!"

Liu Xia said angrily: "But I am a college student! Although I am not, I am mature in thinking! My 17-year-old body and 27-year-old mind and will are stronger than yours."

Zhang Fusheng laughed: "It's okay, you are stronger than us, I will definitely take you with me next time when something happens, eat noodles quickly, that's our apology for you."

Liu Xia likes to eat hot and dry noodles. In their student cafeteria, rice is the main food for three meals a day, and there are also steamed buns, but it is really hard to eat. Not bad steamed buns, there is no smell of noodles in the mouth.

Not to mention noodles, one is rare, and the other one is overcooked and soft, but Liu Xia still has to eat it every day, so hot dry noodles have become his favorite Love it, but he rarely buys it, it’s expensive, one portion is not enough, and two portions are too much.

As for preserved eggs, he only ate them once on Hei Deqing's birthday, and he really liked them, but because they cost fifteen cents each, he never ate them again.

Now, he was eating hot dry noodles with preserved eggs, and listening to those people excitedly talking about what happened when they went to the street just now, he didn't feel any enjoyment, and his stomach was full of anger.