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As soon as Liu Xia walked into the dormitory, he was pinned on the bed by his elder brothers. It was useless to admit his mistake and beg for mercy. If Han Tong hadn't come to see if Mao Jianyong had brought some other specials, Liu Xia felt that he would suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen from laughing.

Han Tong asked: "What's the matter? You are a large group of older brothers who bully the youngest brothers, aren't you afraid of thunder?"

Yun Jian looked at Liu Xia, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not brother, we are all uncles now."

"What?" Han Tong suspected that he had heard wrong.

Hei Deqing nodded: "Mr. Han, you heard me right, Qi'er, don't you want to see what gifts our respected cats have prepared to thank him for his kind invitation?"

Liu Xia faintly felt that something was wrong, his bed had already been made by the people who came first, he jumped onto his own bed while pulling on the railing, took off his clothes and prepared to take a shower, while avoiding danger: "You don't get rewarded for meritorious deeds. Aren't you foolish brothers all busy with state affairs and unable to add glory to my Liu family's poor family? So there is no need for gifts or the like, otherwise I will feel uneasy."

Yun Jian stood at the bottom and stared at Liu Xia gloomily. When he jumped down, he grabbed him and slapped something on his chest: "My dear brother, you are not talented. If there is something unsatisfactory, please I also hope that my virtuous brother will forgive me a little bit."

Liu Xia looked at the schadenfreude of the people next to him, picked up the thing suspiciously, and quickly threw the other things in his hands on Zhang Fusheng's bed, and shouted at the two-inch photo: "Damn it , this, this, who did this?"

Several other people in the dormitory pointed at him the photos in their hands: "Hi, hello to Mao'er's father!"

Hei Deqing said with a smile: "See, the cat, he, Uncle Yun, has paid for it. We each have one, and we will wait for our nephew's father to prepare the wedding ceremony someday. This is the ironclad proof of beating mandarin ducks, wow Hahaha……"

Han Tong took the photo in Mao Jianyong's hand to look at it, and after looking at it for a while, he exclaimed: "Fuck, this, this... Liu Xia, hehehe, you won't be able to wash yourself off even if you jump into the Yellow River."

It was a remake of a synthetic photo, and the bottom board was the photo Liu Xia took when he applied for his ID card last winter.

They prepared photos for their ID cards in the first year they came to Jiangcheng, but for some reason they didn’t mention ID cards anymore. Last winter, the school notified everyone to take photos to prepare for ID cards, because what was required was a recent bareheaded one-inch photo. The previous ones couldn't be used, so they went to the photo studio to take pictures together, and finally everyone took a group photo.

There are many requirements for the photos used on the ID card, so most of them are a bit distorted after the photos are taken, because the expressions are serious, and generally look bigger than the person, and I don’t know why, all the people in the photos will show a little Temperament of a labor camp prisoner.

But it is much better than being turned over to the ID card, because the ID card will show the temperament of the corpse to a higher level. In Hei Deqing's words: "We are reform-through-labour prisoners who are serving their sentences. A commemorative photo of a reform-through-labour prisoner who was found to have killed someone else's father in prison, and then shot to death."

After the photo of Zhang Fusheng was developed, everyone agreed that he was a hard-working uncle in his 40s who had just been released from Qinghai Prison and was bullied during his sentence;

Behind Mao Jianyong's portrait, two policemen crossed their arms and asked him to bow his head and confess his guilt, but he refused;

Hei Deqing himself said that he was more like a hooligan serving his sentence in a coal mine;

Yun Jian has one big eye and the other is small, and looks a bit careless. Yun Jian said that looking at himself like that, he must be a doormat when he goes to prison;

Anyway, the picture of Liu Xia in the dormitory, just looking three or four years older than his actual age, with a slightly too tense expression, is already considered the most normal.

In order to commemorate their collective life in the labor camp, several people coaxed and edited a few more photos, and everyone exchanged them with each other, and each of them kept the photos of other prisoners in the labor camp as a souvenir.

Yun Jian just used the photo that Liu Xia exchanged for him as the base, and a photo that Chen Zhenbei took of the cat three years ago. He didn't know how to put it together and remake it.

The cat in the photo was just six years old at the time, standing in front of the cave in a round cotton padded jacket, his small face was already small, and he was carrying two balls of wool that Liu Xia bought for him. The hat of the ball looks even smaller.

Yun Jian specially asked for this photo to show off to his family. He said that the cat could write good calligraphy at the age of five or six, and his family didn’t believe it. After he came back, he insisted on asking Liu Xia for a photo of the cat. Proved to his family, Liu Xia was reluctant, and after searching for a long time, he found a relatively uncharacteristic one for him.

In the synthetic remake of the photo, Liu Xia sat upright, with a tense and serious face, and the head of the little cat wearing a fleece hat on his chest was slightly tilted, so that the direction of sight of the two of them happened to be exactly the same. If you don't look carefully at the very inconspicuous dark color around the cat, it's almost like Liu Xia, who is about 20 years old, is taking a serious photo with a four-year-old cat.

The most frightening thing is that there is a line of small words under the photo: A souvenir for my son's fourth birthday.

Yun Jian made a sinister and vicious look and said, "Heh heh heh heh, the social news in recent years tells us that boys and girls aged fifteen or sixteen can give birth to children!"

Liu Xia jumped up: "I'm only ten years older than our cat."

Zhan Wei said, "Who told you that the kid above is a cat?"

Sha Yonghe said: "Take this photo, come and find me evidence that you are only ten years older than this kid."

Mao Jianyong looked at the photo and said affectionately: "Son, where are you? Dad misses you so much. Dad really had a reason for abandoning you at the beginning!"

Zhang Fusheng seriously corrected Mao Jianyong: "Wu'er, you can't be so blunt, the last sentence should be like this," he murmured to himself with a dead-eyed look, "Dad, Dad...Dad is really... ...Alas...have you seen Wu'er? At this time, silence is better than sound, which is the highest state of expressing pain and guilt."

Liu Xia bared his teeth at Zhang Fusheng: "Boss, does Mrs. Qiao know that you are so good at pretending to be garlic?"

Zhang Fusheng smiled honestly: "I never need to dress up in front of Yanfang. Your son, Uncle Zhang, is an honest man."

Liu Xia picked up the things he had thrown on Zhang Fusheng's bed again, and exaggeratedly kissed in the photo: "Hmph, son is son, uncle and father are of the same generation, where people are more western, they call uncle uncle, what's wrong?" As he spoke, he stuffed the photo under his pillow and was about to go out.

Han Tong grabbed him: "Liu Xia, I have some bad news to tell you. Zhan Wei already knows it. Or, Zhan Wei, tell him. I can't bear it."

Liu Xia looked at Zhan Wei in horror, thinking that he failed the exam and lost his first-class scholarship.

Zhan Wei said with a painful expression: "Qi'er, the grade test will be held in eighteen days."

Liu Xia froze for a few seconds, then threw the things in his hand onto the bed, followed by jumping up, frantically flipping through the stack of books beside the bed: "Damn, rely, rely, I didn't even notice at home. I've read English, but I haven't even glanced at it!"

He dug out his English grading test book, sat cross-legged, and said to the people below: "Whoever dares to be poor with me any longer, delays me to rush to the other side of victory with all my might, and I will be sworn to death with him from now on."

Yun Jian curled his lips: "Don't elevate yourself, you are the third drum, and you are exhausted, you know? So we won't laugh at you if you fail the exam, study hard, Mao'er's father."

As he said, he shook his head, and a series of bang bang movements from his left hand to his whole body were perfectly completed in an instant. Yun Jian proudly raised his eyebrows at Liu Xia and twisted his waist: "I have competed with people eighteen times, and I squatted on my butt once! I didn't fall, what's the matter!"

Liu Xia snorted pretending to be disdainful, turned around and turned his face to the wall: "Then I wish that old waist of yours who ran away for three years will stay young forever!"

Before Liu Xia read the book for 3 minutes, he was interrupted by the big bag pulled out from under the bed by Mao Jianyong, but he firmly resisted the temptation of the T-shirts with various patterns and vivid patterns, so he didn't rush to pick them out, but He said to Mao Jianyong: "I leave it to you to act as an agent. If you think it is suitable for me and my brothers, leave me two pieces. By the way, there is also my eldest brother, who has the same body shape as my third brother."

People in their dormitory building and the surveying and mapping department already know that Mao Jianyong will bring back trendy and cheap things whenever he returns to school, and the price will never be discounted. Waiting and watching will only make him lose the opportunity to buy good things. So this time, the five packages that Mao Jianyong brought were sold out within a day.

Han Tong took at least a quarter of his goods by himself. Han Tong didn't let Mao Jianyong open the bag for the video tape, and he took it directly.

Liu Xia and the others knew that it would be almost impossible to buy something like Mao Jianyong from other places at the same price in the future, so each of them bought a lot this time.

On the Sunday after Liu Yu got married, Liu Xia received a letter from Che Jie brought back by Liu Chuan. Both Che Jie and Gu Xiaoting passed the line, and Liu Xia's bonus has been confirmed, so Liu Xia enjoyed a rich man this time. He took all the twelve T-shirts and six pairs of jeans that Mao Jianyong had left for him.

The person who gave them the dormitory was still seven yuan a piece. Mao Jianyong only brought fifty pairs of jeans this time, one for 15 yuan, and sold them to others for thirty, except for the twenty pairs that Yun Jian gave to Xue Lin and the others in advance. , 219 digested fifteen of them internally, and the remaining fifteen were divided between 218 and Han Tong.

Zhan Wei didn't buy any more this time. After cutting half a foot off the European style trousers, the shape of the trousers was completely ruined. He felt it was a pity.

Mao Jianyong's main product this time is t-shirts, thin T-shirts, and five pieces of T-shirts take up less space than a pair of jeans, but the profit of two t-shirts is higher than that of one pair of jeans. In order to maximize his own interests Mao Jianyong did not hesitate to bring three packs of T-shirts. The patterns were all designed by him and the technicians in his aunt's factory, especially in line with the aesthetics of young people.

Liu Xia and Zhan Wei began to study almost in the last two months of the third year of high school. Except for the compulsory courses, they spent all their time on English.

Zhan Wei's goal is to stay in school. This is the goal he set when he got the admission letter from the University of Surveying and Mapping. He has been working hard for this goal for the past three years.

Father Che and Gu Pingshan completely ignored the message that Zhan Wei brought to Liu Xia. Before the grade test, Liu Xia would never waste more than an hour to get money, and more than an hour may not be enough.

Zhan Wei told Liu Xia that a friend of Gu Pingshan also wanted Liu Xia to give his daughter extra lessons, and that person lived farther than Che Jie's house, so it was impossible for Liu Xia to agree.

Han Tong also introduced another student to Liu Xia, Huo Jianyong, a third-year senior high school science student; it was very close to the home of the student Peng Fei originally introduced. He only needs to spend about four to ten minutes on the road every day, and he is much more relaxed psychologically.

Liu Xia had already agreed with Han Tong that he would go to class at noon on the Sunday after he finished his grade exam. If Gu Zhao wanted to, Han Tong would discuss with Peng Fei's family and let Gu Zhao go to Peng Fei's house to make up lessons together.

Gu Yunshan's house is also on the south bank of the river, not too far away from Peng Fei's house. If Gu Zhao rode a bicycle, it would take about 10 minutes. It gave Liu Xia a headache.

As for the little girl of Che Hongmei's family, Liu Xia never thought about it. He didn't really want to teach such a young child, and it was calligraphy, which was very boring and monotonous. It was not as challenging as math problems. Liu Xia probably couldn't teach much. God will be annoying.

More than two weeks passed in the blink of an eye, and after nearly 20 days of studying like a desperate game, the two of them relaxed when they arrived.

Liu Xia and Zhan Wei's exam was in the afternoon, and they smiled and high-fived the other five people. Hei Deqing said, "Come on, please eat hot dry noodles after the exam, and eat Hongbinlou after the exam."

Mao Jianyong said: "You can order as you like, and Xiao Heizi will pay for it."

The two entered the examination room seemingly relaxed and happy. When they came out, without saying a word, they ate two bowls of hot dry noodles and one bowl of rice wine by Hei Deqing alone.

Whether he could pass the exam or not, Liu Xia didn't know for sure, but he planned to relax a little bit. It was too leisurely at home during the summer vacation, and he worked so hard as soon as school started, and he couldn't bear to sleep less than five hours a day.

It was the same for Zhan Wei. After the exam, Zhan Wei skipped class and went to sleep for a day, and Zhang Fusheng took the meal back to the dormitory and put it in front of him.

On the opposite side, Song Yan and the others didn't understand: "What are you two thinking? There are so many people who didn't apply for the fourth grade, and they didn't delay their graduation. Why do you make yourself look like a senior in high school!"

Liu Xia didn't know why he was obsessed with taking the sixth grade exam, but he felt that since he had worked so hard for so long, wouldn't it be too bad if he didn't pass the exam?Maybe I just need to work a little harder, so that all the previous efforts have value and reflection.

He thinks like this every day, so he has the motivation to work hard every day.

On the second night after the exam, Liu Xia and Zhan Wei came to Che Jie's house together. All the way his mind was thinking about what Che Jie said to him in the letter:

Knowing that I changed my first choice to a school in Haidu without authorization, my mother cried and scolded me, but when my notice arrived, the whole family was overjoyed. My mother completely forgot about the choice, no Stop saying thank you.

Liu Xia, I exceeded the undergraduate admission score by 30 points. I asked my father to give you an extra bonus of [-] yuan. He happily agreed. However, I am afraid that he will regret it after a long period of excitement, so you After returning to Jiangcheng, you must first ask my father for money.

Xiaoting and I really want to meet you before leaving, but Zhan Weige said, you are the last to return to school every time, we have to report two days in advance, we will definitely not see you, if I am at home, even if In another year, I will definitely ask my father to give you the promised extra bonus.

Gu Xiaoting and Che Jie had discussed it. Both of them promised their family members to apply for the university in Jiangcheng, but when they went to school to fill out the application form, they both filled in the school in Haidu as their first choice.

Both of them are very resistant to the control of their families, and they both want to go to university far away from their families. Haidu is a metropolis that symbolizes fashion and prosperity that many young people in China yearn for. It is not surprising that they did so. .

Gu Xiaoting was admitted to a junior college demonstration school in Haidu. She felt that being a teacher would be more clean and leisurely, and she would be able to engage in her favorite literary creation in her spare time.

Her letter was only a piece of paper, and it was sent to Liu Xia together with Che Jie's letter. She felt very sorry for Liu Xia. She did well in math and physics, even beyond Liu Xia's expectations, but in chemistry. He only scored 57 points. Although the total score of the three subjects exceeded the requirements of Gu Pingshan and Liu Xia, Gu Xiaoting doubted that his father would not give Liu Xia the bonus as agreed.

Zhan Wei had already called Che's father in advance to make an appointment for him and Liu Xia to arrive at Che's house, so when they arrived, the Che's family, including two sisters and brother-in-law, were there, Gu Xiaoting's parents were also there, and Che's mother did it herself. A sumptuous meal was served.

Before Gu Pingshan asked Liu Xia to give Gu Zhao and his friend's children extra lessons, the atmosphere at the dinner table was always pleasant.

When Liu Xia made it clear that he didn't want to take the ferry back and forth every day and spend more than an hour running back and forth on the road, if Gu Zhao wanted to, he could go to Peng Fei's house to make up lessons, Gu Pingshan and his wife were a little unhappy.

Zhan Wei gave Liu Xia a hint under the table, telling Liu Xia to stop talking.

Zhan Wei said to Gu Pingshan: "Uncle Gu, there are at least three other people who want to help Liu Xia make up his lessons. They were all introduced by our school teachers on their own initiative. The parents of those three students don't mind letting them run more He wanted to go to Peng Fei's house, but Liu Xia refused because he still had Gu Zhao.

Those three people are all seniors in high school, and Gu Zhao is a sophomore in high school. In fact, it is very inconvenient for Liu Xia. Xia is a more suitable person who can tutor Gu Zhao, and he should be tutored alone.

Liu Xia almost offended our counselor because of Gu Zhao, who is responsible for filling in the files for us during school, which is directly related to his future assignment. If Gu Zhao is unwilling to go, he can ask the counselor to introduce us. The one that went. "

Gu Pingshan's expression became even uglier. He felt that Zhan Wei was threatening him, so he reluctantly said a few more words to Che's father, and then left with Che's mother.

The whole family of the Che family looked at each other, and Che Hongmei couldn't bear it anymore: "They don't give Liu Xia a penny of the bonus? Xiaoting's average score in mathematics, physics and chemistry is 72 points. At the beginning, he said that if the score is above 65 points, he will give it to Liu Xia." Eight hundred, even if one subject is less than seventy, if he doesn’t give Liu Xia 1000 yuan, he should at least give him eight hundred!”

Mother Che looked at Father Che angrily and said, "At the beginning, he opened his mouth with eight hundred and one thousand words, and he seemed to be picky with us. Now Xiaoting has already gone to college, and it is still such a good school as Haidu. He is just like that. To Xiaoliu!"

Papa Che's expression was also not good-looking, he introduced Gu Pingshan to Liu Xia, so what he did was not giving Papa Che any face.

Liu Xia was very, very disappointed, but he still held his nerve and said: "Gu Gong has already paid the supplementary tuition fees on time. Gu Xiaoting didn't reach 65 points in chemistry, so there should be no bonus."

Yan Hongwei said to Liu Xia: "See clearly in the future, don't deal with this kind of person, what kind of high-level intellectuals are just fucking narrow-minded, he must have done it on purpose, you agreed to Gu Zhao's matter, his friend's house left There are still five or six stops here, and if you say you don’t go to make up lessons for his friend’s daughter, he can still turn his face, he just doesn’t want to give you money.”

Zhan Wei was so angry that he used Jiangcheng dialect to scold from Che Jie's house all the way to the dormitory. He always felt that he had said something wrong. He originally planned to provoke Gu Pingshan, but he didn't expect it to hit Gu Pingshan's arms, and he left the meeting angrily. The excuse is to not give Liu Xia a bonus.

Everyone in the dormitory thought that Liu Xia would get a big bonus today, and they were all happy for him, but they didn't expect this to be the result, so they cursed together, cursing the eighteen generations of the Gu Pingshan family's ancestors .

Mao Jianyong had enough scolding and said to Liu Xia: "Aren't you going to teach new students the day after tomorrow? Ask Mr. Han to sign a contract with their parents in advance. The written contract must be signed and stamped. Remember, it must be written this time. Clearly an average grade."

Liu Xia smiled wryly and said, "No, I won't get a college entrance examination bonus this time. We will start internships in the second half of the year, and I can only teach them for this semester."

Mao Jianyong was discouraged: "I didn't explain the only sentence at the time, and you were misunderstood by others. However, if you really pursue it, he really didn't do anything wrong. I remember what he told you at the beginning. subject grades."

Liu Xia lay discouraged on the bed, didn't even want to say anything, although Che's father's red envelope contained 20 yuan more than what Che Jie said, but it was still too far behind the 1000 that he was fully expecting .

Liu Xia, who had been listless for several days, did not expect that after he taught Peng Fei and Huo Jianyong three lessons, people from the Gu family would appear in front of him in a different way.