Doing It Over Again

It's a new season of recruiting, and the Experimental Middle School, as the best middle school in Peng County, has never been short of students.In order to enroll their children in this middle school, many parents of students who were not assigned to this middle school used all kinds of trust relationships to find ways, just for their children to receive a better education and get a good high school entrance exam in the future.

This year is different from previous years, because the experimental middle school has a new policy, that is, the recruitment of experimental classes.This recruitment is open to all primary school students who graduated this year in the county. As long as they pass the test, they can enter the experimental class regardless of whether they have rural household registration or urban household registration.Although many people don't quite understand what the experimental class is, but they heard that as long as the students with good grades are good, they think that it is a class for top students, and the teacher will definitely choose the best ones.So as soon as the news came out, many parents of students brought their children to sign up.

On the day of the exam, there was still about an hour before the exam, and some children were already waiting outside the exam room holding textbooks and waiting for the door to open. Most of these students were rural students who arrived early because they were afraid of being late.

45 minutes before the start of the test, Li Lu, the chief examiner, opened the door of the second test room. Seeing that the test room was gradually full, he exchanged glances with Mr. Luo, the deputy examiner, and then turned around and wrote down the rules of the test room and the test paper on the blackboard. The number of pages, the end time of the exam.

When the curling bell rang, he glanced at the second seat in the first row. The exam room was about to start, and the candidate hadn't come yet. It seemed that some pampered child gave up the exam.He has been a teacher in the experimental middle school for many years, and he has seen a lot of children who are spoiled by the family. It is not surprising that this happens.

"report!"

Li Lu looked towards the door, and saw a thin boy standing at the door. His shirt and trousers looked old, but they were clean. He looked like a good boy at a glance: "Come in quickly, the exam is about to start." .”

The boy bowed to him, and then quickly walked to the second seat in the first row to finish. He watched the boy take out the stationery in an orderly manner, without affecting the mood of the exam because of his lateness, he looked away.

After all, the teacher keeps staring at the candidates, which will also affect the students' performance.It is not easy for these children from poor families to have such a channel to enter the school. If they can do well in the exam, they will have more opportunities.

Originally, I deliberately went out early today to avoid being late on the day of the exam and almost failing to take the exam like in my previous life.As a result, he met a child with a broken arm on the way today. He didn't want to care about it, but seeing the pitiful look of the ten-year-old boy squatting in the sun with his head down, his face flushed and pitiful, he had no choice but to take him to the clinic. Disinfected and bandaged in the hospital, and helped to call the police before rushing to the experimental middle school, but he was almost late again.

Shen Shao settled down in his seat, picked up the paper, looked at the above exam questions which were not particularly difficult in his eyes, and waited for the answering bell to ring, then picked up a pen and filled in the paper.

The admission test for the experimental class only takes Chinese and mathematics. After the Chinese test in the morning, Shen Shao left the school alone, found a shop and asked for a bowl of rice noodles and two vegetable buns. He looked at the crowded and dilapidated street outside. , he sighed.

After he opened his eyes two days ago, he saw the house he lived in when he was a child and thought he was dreaming, but now he has confirmed that he has returned to the age of 11.This year his mother drank half of a bottle of dichlorvos because his father was working outside and messing with other women, and died before being sent to the hospital.Under the scolding of the whole village, his father simply packed his bags and went to find that woman, and never came back.

It's a pity that he came back too late, grass had already started to grow on his mother's grave, and his father didn't know where he went with that woman, so he was left alone guarding the small one-story house and the place his mother left for him. More than 1 yuan to live on.

The rice noodles were not very tasty, and the stuffing in the vegetable buns was a bit oily, but Shen Shao still ate cleanly, and even drank the rice noodle soup.In the afternoon, he had to wait until three o'clock to start the mathematics exam. He had no place to take a lunch break, so he simply went to Xinhua Bookstore to squat.After all, it is too uncomfortable to stay outside on such a hot day. Xinhua Bookstore has free books to read and air conditioners.

At noon, there were very few people in Xinhua Bookstore. Shen Shao found a book in the famous book area, squatted in the corner and looked around, and occasionally a clerk who sorted out books came over and saw a half-grown child reading a famous book in adult translation. If he read it so seriously, he would look twice more, even a clerk saw that he was uncomfortable squatting, so he found some unwanted newspapers for him, and asked him to sit and read under his buttocks.

After two o'clock, Shen Shao put the book back to its original place, returned the newspaper to the previous clerk, and thanked him before leaving the door of the bookstore. As soon as he went out, he felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face. He touched his forehead, Looking at the dazzling sun outside, he walked towards the experimental middle school without hesitation.

In his previous life, he didn't have the opportunity to enter the university. He didn't expect to leave this regret in this life.If he doesn't know how to cherish his life again, what's the point of living? Is it to increase the GDP of the country or to exhale carbon dioxide for photosynthesis of plants?

For Shen Shao, the math test is easier than Chinese, because when he answered the paper in the morning, there was actually a poem that he didn’t fill in the blank. Although the proportion was only one point, but thinking that he was 30 years old, he was not as good as others As a primary school student, I feel that the whole person is a little bit unwell.

After finishing the examination questions, there was still a long time before handing in the paper. He checked the answer paper again and again, and found that there were no mistakes or omissions. After filling in his name and test number, he handed in the paper ahead of time. After all, there was still an hour before returning to his home from the county seat. If he walked too late, he might walk at night.

Walking out of the school gate, although it is almost five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is still a little dazzling, but the most dazzling thing is the black car parked not far from the school gate. of light.

In this day and age, a car that can drive a big car is a representative of the rich in the eyes of ordinary people, so such a car parked at the door caused passers-by to look at it a lot, guessing which student's parents are so rich, Come out with such a car.

Just a few steps away, Shen Shao saw a middle-aged man in a suit stepping down from the Mercedes-Benz, and came to him in a few steps.

"Excuse me, are you Shen Shao's classmate?" The middle-aged man was very polite. When talking to Shen Shao, he deliberately bent down and tried to look at him as much as possible.

Shen Shao took a step back, bringing himself closer to the school gate, "May I ask what you want?"

The middle-aged man politely smiled and took out an envelope from his body, and handed it to Shen Shao: "Thank you for your help this morning, this is a little thank you from our husband."

Shen Shao thought for a while, and guessed that this man might be someone that the child knew in the morning. How did they find him?He looked at the envelope, but didn't reach out to take it: "Uncle, you are too polite, I just lift a finger, the teacher taught us long ago, we have to learn from Uncle Lei Feng's spirit of dedication, so I can't accept your thank you gift."

The middle-aged man saw this thin boy talking seriously about learning from Uncle Lei Feng, and felt that he was an honest and well-behaved boy.He looked back at the black Mercedes-Benz behind him, and put the envelope into Shen Shao's pocket involuntarily: "The teacher also taught that good children should be rewarded. Goodbye, kid." After finishing all this, he turned around and got into the car , the car drove away quickly, as if afraid that Shen Shao would return the envelope.

Shen Shao glanced at the people coming and going around, and without even looking at what was in the envelope, he put the envelope in his schoolbag, and then walked away quickly with the schoolbag in his arms.

Walking back to the village, some fellow villagers who were doing farm work in the fields saw him and asked him how he did in the exam.

Although these things are not worth much, Shen Shao is very grateful for this friendship.

Back in the small dilapidated bungalow where he lived, Shen Shao first cleaned up the house, and then picked the water spinach sent by the folks. Before he washed it, he heard his aunt calling him outside the door.

"Xiao Shao, you're back?" Zhang Shulian was holding an enamel bowl filled with stewed chicken soup. Seeing that Shen Shao was washing a handful of water spinach alone in his oversized shirt, she felt a little uncomfortable, so she put the enamel bowl on the chopping board He walked over to Shen Shao and squeezed him away, and cleaned him neatly, "I stewed a chicken this afternoon, drink some soup to replenish your body."

The child has been reading for the past two days, and there is no adult to take care of him at home. She intends to let him live in her own home, but there are old people and children at home, and it is indeed not a suitable environment for studying.It's not as good as this, she and the head of the family often come to take care of this child, and don't worry about conflicts between her own child and Xiao Shao.

"Thank you, auntie, have you drunk it?" Shen Shao looked at the chicken soup on the chopping board, and there was a chicken leg lying in it, exuding a strong fragrance.

"Don't worry, this chicken is fat and weighs five or six catties. Our family can't finish it. We can't put things away in summer. If you help me eat a little, I won't waste it." Zhang Shulian felt sorry for Shen Shaoxiaoxiao At such a sensible age, thinking of my second brother running away with other women regardless, I feel that this second brother is really worthless.It's just that she is the daughter-in-law of the Shen family, so she can't say these words, "Are the exam questions difficult? The temperature is high these days, you should take a good rest at home, and don't go out to get sunstroke."

"Well," Shen Shao nodded obediently with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely pass the exam." In his previous life, he was in such a poor state that he could pass around 20 exams. I can't live in vain.

After Zhang Shulian gave a few more instructions, seeing that it was late and she had to rush home to feed the pigs, she had to leave in a hurry.

After seeing off his aunt, Shen Shao took out from his schoolbag the envelope that the middle-aged man forcibly stuffed him before, and opened it, only to find that there was a stack of blue and green hundred-yuan bills inside, which felt like at least two or three hundred yuan bills. It looks like ten photos.

The current house price is only three to four hundred and one square meters, and this person is paying two to three thousand to thank him, which is too tyrant and too solemn.

Pulling the money out of the envelope, a slip of paper fell out, with the words "Thank you" written on it. The handwriting looked neat and neat, and it was written by a child.

Shen Shao counted the money, and it was a total of 600 yuan. Looking at the money, he turned his head to look at the calendar hanging on the wall.

1996. 8, 22

After nearly 20 years, he returned to this empty home again.Although he also thought about why he wasn't allowed to go back half a year ago, at least that would have prevented his mother from committing suicide, but he didn't want to waste this rare opportunity.

He wants his dreams to become reality, not dreams to become dreams.