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When Cheng Kuang went down the stairs, Zhang Jin was waiting for him at the intersection on his bicycle.

Seeing Cheng Kuang appear, he rang the bell, pushed his repressed thoughts away from his face, and blew a light whistle at the same time.

Amidst the crisp bells, Cheng Kuang saw Zhang Jin suddenly move his position, vacating the front seat of the car.Although the meaning is self-evident, he still raised his chin and said, "You give me a ride today."

The coachman Pao'er turned himself into a landlord, and Cheng Kuang took over the burden of the coachman from him.

"Are you seated securely?" Cheng Chengfu asked considerately when Landlord Zhang got into the sedan chair.

Zhang Jin reached out and hooked Cheng Kuang's waist, fastening his seat belt: "Let's take off, Xueba."

Cheng Kuang stepped on the pedal and replied calmly: "Go to heaven, Junjun."

After the bicycle moved, the surrounding scenery began to recede. The only thing that remained unchanged was Cheng Kuang's back and the school uniform that was blown away by the wind and blown onto him.

The back of Cheng Kuang close in front of his eyes made him feel a kind of solidity like a rock. He can hold on tightly and stare at it for a moment. Only when his eyes are full can he not care about the future—— Thinking about one day in the future, when he was riding a bicycle in front, he turned around but couldn't see the person in the back seat.

A certain day was approaching him step by step, and before that day came, he decided to occupy the back seat for a long time.

Cheng Chefu was a stubborn nerd, and he didn't let Landlord Zhang's idleness last long. When Landlord Zhang stared at his back, the back spoke, but he said words he couldn't understand.

"What are the five conditions of genetic balance?"

Since the countdown sign for the college entrance examination was put up, Cheng Kuang would memorize the knowledge points on the way to and from school every day, and implemented the review every 1 minute.

The sudden question brought Zhang Jin out of his dazed sorrow. He was stunned for a few seconds, relying on his memory that had been chewed by a dog, he pulled out the words "no genetic mutation" and "random crossover". Matching" two points.

Then Zhang Zhaza began to question Xueba: "Are you sure there are five conditions?"

"Scumbag, can't figure it out, can you?" The hard-hearted nerd didn't waste time, after confirming that his scumbag boyfriend couldn't say anything of value, he completed the remaining three conditions, "The population is very large , no immigration, natural selection does not act on this trait."

"Fuck..." Zhang Jin bumped Cheng Kuang on the back, "Next question."

In fact he didn't want to do the next question at all, but he wanted carrots.

The puzzling topic stood between him and Cheng Kuang like a moat. Cheng Kuang heard Zhang Jin's upset from Zhang Jin's voice, and from his restlessness, he thought of the college entrance examination in a similar way. .

In their small economically backward place, if they want to pass the exam, they need to put in more effort.But now Zhang Jin is far behind him, even if he leaves here, Zhang Jin's current level is still far from enough.

But the college entrance examination has arrived non-stop.

——If you give him another year...or even half a year——Cheng Kuang cut off this unrealistic idea, and at this moment he felt like he was bound by a pair of hands.

Zhang Jin's voice came from behind, and he suddenly said: "Cheng Kuang, I like you, I fucking like you to death!"

This sentence is the source of all Zhang Jin's pressure, the sweetest burden on his shoulders, his depression and depression are because of it, and it is also because of it that he can't fall down.

At that time, the bicycle was driving to the top of the slope and was about to dive down. The time seemed to have skipped a beat, and the moist morning wind rushed in. Cheng Kuang said to Zhang Jin in the midst of the wind, "Then don't let go."

He doesn't know how long the future is for the two of them, but the day of "stopping here" is far from coming.

After walking downhill for a while, Cheng Kuang parked the car in front of the breakfast stall, and Zhang Jin went in to pack two steamed dumplings and carried them all the way to school.

There are only a dozen or so people in class seven, a few are reading books, and the rest are doing homework. Luo Kai belongs to the latter.

In the last semester of the third year of high school, there were several stacks of Shangao books on everyone’s desk, and the class representatives had no place to put homework collected, so everyone handed homework books to the empty desk in the last row of the classroom.After the evening self-study, many people let go of their homework.

Mrs. Kai was rummaging through the homework books for reference in front of the empty desk, and when she saw Cheng Kuang, she was very happy: "Xueba, let me copy the chemistry homework!"

It was Zhang Jin who answered him: "It's here with me."

Luo Kai is Xiao Dezhang who copied Xueba's homework with Pao Geer. He is not surprised by this situation, but he doesn't know that Xiao Dezhang is still there, but Pao Geer has already washed his hands - Cheng Kuang's homework is originally Give him the right answer.

The countdown on the podium has been turned nearly halfway, when Shi Tao walked into the classroom today, the student on duty turned back another sheet.Because every time the page is turned, it is the "Daily Song" before the morning reading, so this countdown is more ceremonial. Everyone stands upright like "singing the national anthem and paying attention" during the Monday morning meeting, watching the countdown , singing inspirational songs.

Next Monday is the city's first model exam. The importance of this exam is obvious. All senior high school students in the city will participate, and the ranking is very valuable for reference.

Shi Tao said: "Everyone can be a little nervous, treat it as a college entrance examination, and experience the feeling of nervousness in advance - nervousness is a good thing, you have to learn to adapt to nervousness. Another point to tell everyone, we have a total of three mock exams , the first mode, the second mode, and the third mode, their difficulty is decreasing. Because the closer to the college entrance examination, the difficulty should be lowered, so that students can score higher in the test, the purpose is to encourage everyone and give everyone confidence. "

"So my suggestion to everyone is to prepare well for this exam. You have to imply to yourself that this is the college entrance examination, try to arrange your own work, rest and study time well, how is the college entrance examination, how is it now, and adapt in advance. The exam process It is also a good thing to encounter all kinds of problems and difficulties in the course of study, such as what classmates in the same examination room are particularly troublesome to affect your examination, and you are not feeling well before the examination—Of course, I hope everyone pays attention to your health, it is best not to have a physical condition— —In short, don’t be afraid of all kinds of situations, it’s a good thing that it’s happening now, you’ve even encountered these difficulties and solved them, so what’s so special about the college entrance examination?”

Cheng Kuang always remembered what Shi Tao said, because of the situation he encountered in the one-off exam, he was in a predicament for a long time before the college entrance examination, and he couldn't find an exit.

On the weekend before the Yimo exam, Cheng Kuang went back to Yanshi Street. He went to Grandma Cheng’s house as usual, but the door was closed, and a rope was tied to the bell collar of the child bride’s daughter-in-law, and the other end of the rope was wrapped around the pillar at the door. On the bed, the food box beside it was licked and shiny.

The little dog lay sleepily on the ground, and the bell swayed again when it saw someone coming.

Cheng Kuang put the roasted sausage he brought into the food box of the child bride-in-law, and after making sure that there was no one in the house, he called Grandma Cheng.

Soon, he heard the ringing of Grandma Cheng's call. The elderly machine vibrated and sang loudly. The singing sound was closed in the empty room, beating the windowpane dully.

Cheng Kuang hung up the phone, feeling restless. He stood there for a while, then called Cheng Yi.

On the other end of the phone, Cheng Yi's choked voice was like a bolt from the blue, finally waking up the deepest worry and uneasiness that was dormant in the young Cheng Kuang's heart.

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Cheng Kuang didn't call Grandma Cheng last week. He didn't know that Grandma Cheng was carried out of the house by her sons on Monday night.

That night was very ordinary, Grandma Cheng was soaking her feet while watching TV as usual, when she stood up to hold the foot basin, she suddenly felt that her eyes were blurred, and the water in the basin was dangling in front of her eyes, as if it was about to be splashed out like.She stood panting for a while, and when she looked up at the clock, she suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and she couldn't stand still.

Amidst the yelling of the child bride-in-law and the noisy sound of the TV, Grandma Cheng fell down, and the water in the footbath splashed on the ground. She wanted to get up and clean up the mess, but it seemed that there were hands holding her tightly on the ground, so she couldn't do it anyway. can't get up.

Grandma Cheng was lying on the ground in a daze. After an unknown period of time, she heard the eldest son's voice in the distance.Grandma Cheng regained consciousness briefly, she wanted to call her son over, but at this time, she was horrified and sad to find that her mouth was moving, but no sound came out.

Cheng Youde's wife bought a writing desk for his son, but when it was delivered, there were only a bunch of parts, and he had to install it himself, which was extremely troublesome.Cheng Youde didn't have all the tools at home. He remembered that Grandma Cheng had screwdrivers and wrenches at home, so he came to ask his wife for them.

Cheng Youde didn't say hello to Grandma Cheng, and went straight to the utility room.In the utility room, there are piles of tools used by the two elderly people when they worked in the plantation team before retirement, including coils of hemp rope, hoes, brooms, gloves and straw hats. The room is filled with an old dusty smell.Cheng Youde didn't come here often, and it took him a lot of effort to find those two things.

When he was rummaging around, he was knocked by the edge of the stool. He immediately kicked the short-sighted stool with vengeance, and then he noticed something pressed on the stool.

This thing was tightly covered by an old curtain, and there were a broom and other miscellaneous things on it. Cheng Youde lifted the curtain strangely, and then he was startled.

Cheng Youde thought in surprise: Oh, my old lady even bought the coffin?

He shook his head and said, "It's pitiful to be old."

When Cheng Youde sighed, he saw a box under the bench, and there were screwdrivers and wrenches in the box.He took his things and hurriedly left the utility room, not wanting to stay in it for a moment.

Before leaving, Cheng Youde yelled: "I'm going back!"

No one in the room responded to him.

Cheng Youde said to himself dissatisfied: "This old thing doesn't care about people."

He stopped abruptly at the door.

Cheng Youde thought of the coffin in the utility room, and his mind became clearer than ever. Greed made his imagination richer than expected.

No one knew how Cheng Youde connected the coffin with Grandpa Cheng's legacy, he was excited because of his sensitivity.

Cheng Youde thought with a beating heart: That's right, isn't the "coffin" the same as "Guan Cai"?

No wonder he couldn't find it after searching through the box and cabinet. It turned out that he hid it in the coffin!

Cheng Youde convinced himself with his imagination, and he returned to Grandma Cheng's house, but this time he didn't go directly to the utility room.He opened the door of Grandma Cheng's bedroom, and before she entered, she shouted, "Did you hide the money in the coffin? I found out..."

"Hey hey!"

Only then did Cheng Youde see the scene in the house—the water in the footbath spilled all over the floor, Grandma Cheng fell unconscious on the ground, and the dog barked beside her.

Cheng Youde almost thought that his old mother was pretending to be dead to scare him, but after yelling a few times, Cheng Youde didn't respond at all, he quickly helped him up and put him on the bed, then ran out to call his wife.

Cheng Youde's wife was much calmer than him, and instead of calling an ambulance, she asked Cheng Youde to call his two younger brothers.

At this juncture, Cheng Youde suddenly burst out with a little conscience, so that he ignored his wife's command and called an ambulance first.

It was this conscience that saved Grandma Cheng's life.

Grandma Cheng lay in the hospital for a week. She was too old. This time, she had a cerebral infarction and was sent to the emergency department of the hospital. A lot of problems were found after a checkup.

The three brothers of the Cheng family took turns to take care of them in the hospital. During her brief sobriety, Grandma Cheng tried every means to express her desire to go home to her son who was taking care of her—she had lost the ability to speak, and could only make some inarticulate sounds when she opened her mouth. , no one can understand.

Fortunately, her determination to go home broke the language barrier and touched her sons who were like-minded. After discussion, the three sons decided to take their mother out of the hospital.

During all this happened, no one told Cheng Kuang.Fang Youzhen didn't want this kind of thing to affect Cheng Kuang's college entrance examination, so she specifically told Cheng Yi to keep it a secret.

But when Cheng Kuang called, Cheng Yi couldn't hide it.

The phone call made Cheng Kuang's eyes darken.

He rushed to the hospital in the chaos. At that time, the three brothers of the Cheng family had completed the discharge procedures and were packing their things. Cheng Youyi was in front of Grandma Cheng's bed, ready to carry him on his back.

Cheng Youyi was very surprised when he saw his son: "Why are you here?"

Cheng Kuang walked over without saying a word, squeezed Cheng Youyi away, and carried the sleeping Grandma Cheng on his back.

The moment he carried Grandma Cheng on his back, the bewilderment and powerlessness of a mortal body in the face of fate surged up and hit him hard on the back.He suddenly found that he could only swallow in the face of the suffering that had come, and he had to swallow if he couldn't.

This incompetence and insignificance caused Cheng Kuang to feel a little hatred for himself.

No one spoke along the way. Cheng Youyi parked the car outside the alley. It was already dark at that time, and the ground was extremely muddy due to the continuous rain for several nights.

Cheng Kuang carried Grandma Cheng on his back into the narrow alley, and walked through the muddy road with deep feet and shallow feet, while Cheng Yi carefully held an umbrella behind her.

Cheng Kuang's thin coat was soaked with rain and sweat, and his mobile phone was buzzing and vibrating in his pocket. This was the only lively sound other than the sound of rain and wet footsteps in this dull night.

Cheng Yi opened the door, and the room was dark. After the sound of pressing the light switch a few times, it was still pitch black.Cheng Yi said anxiously in the dark: "The power is cut off."

Cheng Kuang put Grandma Cheng on the bed in the dark, and found a candle by the light of the phone screen.He lit the candle and placed it on the small table beside the bed. The sleeping Grandma Cheng breathed with her mouth open, snoring as if trying to extinguish the flickering flames.

At the beginning, Grandma Cheng was sitting at this small table and telling him that her life was doomed.For some reason, Cheng Kuang looked at his grandma in the dark room, and thought of this incident again in a trance.

He felt a tightness in his chest.

Cheng Youde, who came over later, saw this scene and felt that it was an omen from the heavens. His mother had already reached the point where her oil was exhausted, and she probably would not survive.

He acted like the eldest brother, called the two younger brothers together, and discussed Grandma Cheng's funeral.

The chattering voices of the three people spread into the room, and Cheng Yi wiped away tears.

Cheng Kuang didn't move for a while, but just as he was about to merge with the silent darkness behind him, his cell phone vibrated again.

Cheng Kuang came back to life from the dead state and moved slightly.

He remembered that the several missed calls displayed on the phone were all from Zhang Jin.

Cheng Kuang went out with his mobile phone, stood in the drizzle and connected the call.

Zhang Jin had been waiting for Cheng Kuang in the yard from afternoon to night, it was past the time of the last bus, and Cheng Kuang hadn't come back yet.He couldn't help being upset, thinking that something might have happened to Cheng Kuang.

Especially those few phone calls that no one answered made Zhang Jin feel even more uneasy.

If Cheng Kuang didn't answer the call, he would go to Yanshi Street to find someone.

"Why haven't you come back yet? Has something happened?"

Cheng Kuang tried his best not to hear any abnormalities in his tone, and said suppressing his emotions, "Brother Pao, I'm fine."

Zhang Jin is different from Grandma Cheng, in view of the numerous criminal records this person has concealed and failed to report, he is full of doubts about his boyfriend.Zhang Jin was still worried: "It's so late, I'll pick you up."

Cheng Kuang said, "No, don't come here."

"Then why did you come back? There is no bus now, and it's not easy to take a taxi at your house, and you have an exam tomorrow." Zhang Jin said a series of words in one breath, and finally even threatened him with both soft and hard methods, "Let's be honest, Kuanger , do you have something to hide from me? If you don't tell me, I will go to find you. "

Cheng Kuang was silent for a while, and said, "Grandma is sick, and I want to stay at home overnight. Don't worry about it, go to bed early, and work hard on the exam tomorrow."

"Kuang'er, I'll go find you."

"I said it's fine, don't come here." Cheng Kuang felt that his emotions were constantly getting out of control, and his voice was already nasal. "I'll go back to school early tomorrow morning."

The rain hit Cheng Kuang's eyelids, he closed his sore eyes, and hung up the phone.

Zhang Jin was a little relieved when he heard what he said. At that time, he didn't know that Cheng Kuang had lied.

"Tomorrow morning" he didn't go back to school, but he didn't come back until evening.

Zhang Jin was lying in the room, when he heard the noise above the ceiling, he sat up suddenly.He came out of the room, closed the door and stood there for a moment, knowing that Xiang Shulan was not asleep.

But he was determined to go up.

At this moment, even if Xiang Shulan locked the door and sealed the stairs, he would climb up the window.

"Mom, I'm going to find him." Zhang Jin said.

Through a door, Xiang Shulan closed her eyes, tears welled up in her eyes silently.

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Hard work, hard work, hard work.