mountain sleep

The morning after Xu Zihang returned to Nai City, he was called out and criticized for being late.He was annoyed at how he had turned off the alarm clock. He planned to get up at six o'clock to recite words but slept until nearly 07:30.Many commuting students don't go home for lunch, but stay in school and immerse themselves in their studies seamlessly.

Study habits can't be changed overnight, no matter how much Xu Zihang vows to hang his ass, he will have to go through a period of adaptation.

"Xu Zihang, are you playing?"

Just subconsciously wanting to agree, Xu Zihang immediately stopped and refused: "No." He packed his schoolbag and prepared to buy reference books, "Don't tell me to fight in the future, I will start working hard."

Ignoring the boos behind him, Xu Zihang was thinking in his heart whether to take IELTS or TOEFL.He checked on the Internet and said that American schools are more interested in TOEFL, but TOEFL is a computer-based test, so it is difficult to do self-study exercises, so he plans to go to a bookstore to have a look before making a decision.

The spring in Naicheng has already come out, Xu Zihang's trousers were rolled up by the wind, gentle and soft.The long-lost relaxation and comfort made Xu Zihang walk a little lighter.

"If you take the TOEFL test, you can buy this one, Red Book, and everyone has a copy." The enthusiastic shopping guide brother and Xu Zihang introduced, "If you take the IELTS test, you can buy the real exam from Cambridge, the genuine one. Or you can read the textbooks from New Oriental..."

Only when these books actually appeared in front of him did Xu Zihang feel the heavy pressure. The books on one wall were filled with words such as TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, and the signs of suits and shoes in various shapes on the cover seemed to ask him what he was afraid of. Yet.

Xu Zihang scratched his head, thanked the other party: "I'll see for myself."

After hesitating for a while, he chose TOEFL's OG (Official Guide) and Red Book.Xu Zihang has his own set of plans. He has already secretly checked what to do if he wants to study in the United States. He is quite familiar with the experience of online test preparation. He opened the first few pages of Baidu.The goal he set for himself is to finish the TOEFL or IELTS test within three months, and to prepare for the SAT after May. You can sprint for the college entrance examination again.He has always believed in a saying that if the goal is set high, it may be high if it falls.

—It is indeed a bit too high.Xu Zihang came out of the bookstore with a big bag of books, and felt flustered before he started preparing.

The mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated, Xu Zihang frantically changed his left hand to carry the book, and took out the mobile phone from his right trouser pocket, but he hung up before he could connect it, Xu Zihang clicked and missed it, it looked like Harassing phone calls.

Just as he was about to put the phone back in his pocket, the call rang again.Xu Zihang glanced at the number, and suddenly had a feeling in his heart. When his fingers were about to touch the hang-up button, he braked and lightly tapped the connect button.

"...Hello?" Xu Zihang held his breath, and unconsciously began to pick the plastic bag backwards with his left hand.

"Miss me?" Yao Ge looked out of the window, a tender green bud emerged from the middle of the branches with snowflakes, and spring was hidden inside.

The sound of selling pancakes and fruits in the alley, the movement of electric cars passing by, and the footsteps of pedestrians coming and going could be faintly heard from the microphone. Yao Ge felt that he hadn't heard these sounds for a long time.Then he heard the person on the other side reply, no.

"I don't miss you." Xu Zihang repeated.

Yao Ge didn't feel that he was so stupid until this moment, why he was so angry with Yang Yiwen, why did he care so much about her, and actually made Xu Zihang wait so long.

"Oh." Yao Geping sighed flatly, "Hey, but I miss you so much."

Xu Zihang stood in the middle of the road at the entrance of the alley, being squeezed by the bustling crowd, and his left hand was scratched red by a plastic bag.He let out a "reliance", quickly wiped his face with the arm holding the mobile phone, sniffed, and felt a little aggrieved: "Okay, then I forgive you."

The two of them were silent for a while, and Yao Ge was a little timid for a moment, afraid that Xu Zihang's next sentence would be to ask him how he was doing.

"correct!"

"Ok?"

Xu Zihang found a place to sit down, and took out the book he just bought from his bag: "Let me ask you, is it better to go to the United States to take the TOEFL or IELTS? I think it's TOEFL, right? I just came out of the bookstore and bought a few books. Book, can you just help me see if it’s okay? Look, one is the Red Book, which memorizes vocabulary, and I bought the official guide. Is the computer-based test difficult? Do you think..."

Yao Ge was dazzled by his string of words, so he asked him to stop and speak slowly: "Why do you talk about taking the TOEFL first?"

"...I just want to try." Xu Zihang said, "I want to try if I can go to your side like I did two years ago."

Chaoyun and dusk coexist in the same time and space, and the distance is separated by words.

Yao Ge's hand suddenly clenched the mobile phone next to his ear. After a few seconds, he cleared his throat and said softly, "Well, those few books are fine."

With Yao Ge present, those flustered and uneasy feelings subsided a lot, and Xu Zihang's study plan was officially put on the agenda.

At five o'clock in the morning, Xu Zihang half-closed his eyes and received a call from Yao Ge, who asked him if he was up. He said "hmm" in a daze, and got up in one go with tenacious willpower.Xu Zihang dressed and washed lightly, and it took less than 10 minutes before and after.

"go out?"

"Yes." Gently closing the dormitory door, Xu Zihang dared to speak, "I'm sleepy."

"Did you bring everything?" Seeing that another guest was coming, Yao Ge quickly said, "Then you go, contact me later."

Xu Zihang eagerly wanted to say a few more words, but he couldn't say more last night because Yao Ge was going to class and he was going to the library to download materials.

Before the night fell, Xu Zihang stood in the dark downstairs of the dormitory while doing warm-up exercises while taking deep breaths. The days ahead were long and he had to get used to it.

In the Mp4 is the TOEFL listening comprehension downloaded from the library yesterday. From now on, he will abandon all music and use all the spare time to listen to English.Xu Zihang was jogging on the playground, facing the wind to wake himself up completely. He could hear the general context of the short stories murmuring in the earphones when he ran the second lap. He listened mainly to get used to the pronunciation and speed of speech.

At six o'clock, there were more students on the playground, Xu Zihang found a corner where there were no people and began to take out the red book to memorize words.Using the method Yao Ge taught him, he read aloud page by page. He didn't care how much he memorized. He read each word three times. Like a child, he read it sound by sound, and the spelling notes and pronunciation did not fall behind.In the past, he could only look for one word and memorize it by rote, but two days later, he opened the book and was still on the first page.

06:30.Xu Zihang put away the vocabulary book, continued to put on the earphones and went to the cafeteria to have breakfast while listening.He couldn't call Yao Ge back, and the two agreed to only contact each other before waking up in the morning and before going to bed at night, and worked hard the rest of the time.

For Xu Zihang, it was a very fresh day. He was full of motivation and energy like never before, and he wanted to study 24 hours a day.

Every day that followed, he used his morning reading time to memorize Chinese. After he had finished memorizing biology and chemistry, he did his homework after class, trying to finish the workbook while he was in school.In the evening, when others started to review and do their homework, Xu Zihang took out the TOEFL real test papers to do the reading.

Read it sentence by sentence in a down-to-earth manner, circle the words that you don't understand, and look them up, so that you can understand every sentence thoroughly.Sometimes it takes an hour to finish a reading and then analyze the answer.

Studying is very boring, Xu Zihang is so tired like a spinning top every day, he can only relax a bit by talking to Yao Ge.Yao Ge said that today he ate Mexican chicken tacos, Lin Jisen took him to ride a horse, and his French teacher taught him to say "thank you" in French, Xu Zihang often fell asleep in his voice in a daze.

"Fuck. Wrong again." Xu Zihang dropped the pen and pulled his hair vigorously.The cold light from the computer screen shone on his face, reflecting the dark circles under his eyes.

Xu Zihang has been sitting in the school library for eight hours, and he only has the opportunity to practice reading and writing on the screen on weekends.I did this reading once before, and now I made a lot of mistakes on the computer.He rubbed his tired eyes, frustrated.

Why did Yao Ge ask him to write three readings a week before he had to bargain for one reading a week?Wouldn't it be so much easier now if he wasn't so lazy?

*I want to eat braised pork rice: Beibei, what are you doing:(

*I want to eat stewed pork rice: I am so annoyed, I can’t do it anymore, I made a lot of mistakes

The news from half an hour ago is still on it.Calculating the time, Yao Ge should be cooking for the homeless at this time, and he said that he would be a volunteer today.

Yao Ge's weekends always sound colorful, doing volunteer work, attending concerts, and running marathons.Xu Zihang sighed resignedly, opened the wrong question book, copied down the words he didn't understand in the article, and recited them one by one silently, trying to remember them in his eyes, ears, and hands.For Xu Zihang, there is no shortcut to study.

"Yao, is the bread ready?"

"It will be ready soon." Yao Ge responded, and kept moving his hands, put an equal amount of bread on the disposable plate in front of him, and pushed it to the side for someone to put slices of ham on.This is the second time he has come to this church with his classmates. Every Saturday, homeless people will be cooked here, and those who come will get points.

It's not wrong to say that he is utilitarian. If it wasn't for points, he wouldn't waste his time here.Ever since Xu Zihang told him that he wanted to come to the United States, he began to think about applying to universities. In order to make his essays look better, he signed up for marathons, joined the school's band, and volunteered on weekends.

"It's chicken, it's beef, it's vegetarian."

Yao Ge stood in front of the window, showing a standard smile to the people queuing up to receive the meal.He stood here all morning, and his calf began to swell.

"Don't you want to eat?" Seeing Yao Ge, he took a bottle of Coke, and the girl who distributed the food with him reminded him, "We can eat."

"No, I'm not hungry." For some reason recently, Yao Ge's teeth were aching, and he pressed his tongue against the innermost gum, "I'm going out to make a phone call."

Yao Ge ran to the stairs of the church alone to call Xu Zihang while everyone was sitting down to eat with their plates.

"...Hello?" Xu Zihang wrinkled his face and stretched out his hands to block the light, only to realize that he was lying on the table and fell asleep. He felt that some hands were pulling his eyelids, and the air in his chest seemed to become a vacuum, "Bebe .”

Hearing the soft and vague murmur on the other side, Yao Ge subconsciously lowered his voice: "Are you asleep?"

"Yeah." Xu Zihang put his palms against his face, fighting against the drowsiness, "Are you finished?"

"No, they are eating, I don't want to chat." Yao Ge sat down on the steps, "Have you returned to the dormitory?"

"I'm back." Xu Zihang's roommates were reading at night by the lamp by his desk. He didn't dare to speak too loudly, so he could only complain and coquettishly in a low voice, "I made a lot of mistakes in history and archeology, it's so annoying."

This is already the 23rd day of his persistence. Once the freshness wears off, this kind of intensive study is like a heavy burden, and it is inevitable that he will feel lazy.

"It doesn't matter, the important thing for you now is intensive reading, wrong questions can just let you study your weak points," Yao Ge leaned on the railing of the stairs, and taught him his experience seriously, "Don't rush to pursue accuracy, first understand why The answer is right, why did you do it wrong."

"Well, I know. I just feel so tired." Xu Zihang has been overloaded with learning English today, and he feels a little nauseous when he sees English words. I'll listen, and I can write another paper after listening to it."

It was already almost twelve o'clock, and Yao Ge could not help but feel a little distressed when he heard that he still had to write the paper: "You haven't slept much recently, go to bed early on weekends, and write the paper tomorrow."

"No, I just squinted for a while, I feel a little refreshed, and my thoughts are clear at night. You sing, and you go to your work after singing, and I will sleep after I finish writing." Xu Zihang added, "Chinese songs, I listen to English songs. Nausea."

"Then I'll sing a little, you finish writing early and go to bed early." The sun reflected on the colorful glass of the church, Yao Ge sang softly with his face propped up, "Who is playing Dong Feng Po on the pipa, the years are peeling off on the wall. When I was a child, I still remember when we were still very young..."

Yao Ge closed his eyes and went back to every morning, afternoon and night when they sat and studied together. When Xu Zihang encountered a problem, he scratched his head and wanted to ask him but didn't dare to disturb him. Xu Zihang proudly challenged him when he finished the test paper one step ahead of him. Eyebrow, Xu Zihang unexpectedly leaned over to kiss the touch of his dimple.

It was so clear, as clear as if it was yesterday.