[Waiting for the end of the world] Dongli chrysanthemum

Eleven looked at the back of Namek Guixian's head, lost in memory.

Why not continue reading?City No. [-] Middle School is so famous. Entering high school is equivalent to stepping into the threshold of university. How many people are trying to get in? Why did Tao Jingming give up?

The answer is simple and clear, high school is no longer compulsory education, the area is protected, high school does not accept students from other places, and the family has no power or money, so I can only give up and go back to my hometown.

It was very late when I knew the news, the high school entrance examinations in the two places were only a few days apart, and I took the high school entrance examination in Province G on November [-]. After the examination, I took the long-distance bus and went back to my hometown alone to take the high school entrance examination.

His father took him with him when he went to province G, and he went back alone six or seven years later. Although his father personally brought him back during the physical education exam and introduced some teachers by the way, in just half a day, he only remembered the face of that teacher Kong, the memory of his childhood has long been blurred. When he was in the car, he felt uneasy. He was afraid of encountering bad people and car accidents. When it was getting dark, he could see the county town on the mountain from a distance, so he knew that worry. negligible.

Summer is when the floods are raging, and that year was especially severe.

Some sections of the road have been submerged by the turbid yellow water, so we had to abandon the car and change the boat. We promised to send it to the county seat, but the extra money was not refunded. On the eleventh, we boarded the black boat, but it rained again. The wooden boat swayed in the wind and rain.

Entering the county seat, Eleven was taken aback. The slightly lower roads and houses were submerged under the water. The next day was the high school entrance examination. There were students from various schools wearing school uniforms on the side of the road, and Eleven didn’t know any of them. , Those friends and classmates from childhood have grown up and changed their appearance. They have not been in contact with each other these years, and according to his temperament, he will not take the initiative to find them to catch up on the old days.

The strange thing is that Eleven was walking on the side of the road, looking at the lights reflected in the water and smashed to pieces by the waves, but he didn't feel nervous on the road.

At that time, there were no students and teachers in his hometown who could afford mobile phones, and he couldn't contact them when he arrived in the county. relax.

This is the second time he has set foot in the county in his memory.The first time was before elementary school, and his father brought him here.He was not familiar with these roads, so he picked a passable one at random, and met a lot of test-preparing students in twos and threes. Shi Yi's gaze casually passed over their faces, and most of the time he focused on the flood.

Those muddy yellow waters, like a giant beast with countless tentacles and eyes, don't know when they will silently drag these self-proclaimed noble humans into the abyss of hell.

Eleven can't swim.Although there is a big river in front of the house, and there are several floods every summer, he really can't swim.

When I was about four or five years old, I followed my eldest sister to play in the flooded paddy field. The paddy field was trapezoidal, probably because I saw a swimming locust. His body sank all of a sudden, he opened his eyes in the water, the leech had disappeared, he could vaguely see the field ridge in front of him, he frantically paddled his hands and feet, and finally touched the field ridge before he was suffocated to death. Firmly grasp the weeds growing on the ridge of the field and climb back.No one discovered that the child had drowned, and no one knew that the child had experienced a life-and-death struggle.

After sitting on the shore for a long time, the little pants he was wearing were almost dry before he went home and never went near the water again.

After turning another street, someone called him, "Tao Jingming? Tao Jingming!"

Looking up, I don't know him.

The man smiled and said, "I remember you, you came to our school during the physical education exam."

Everything that followed was like a dream, eating in a small shop, very crowded, the floor was covered with water from shoes, dirty, the food was served on a plate, and the white rice was piled with water spinach and some fat and thin Alternate braised pork, no appetite, and because no one asked him for money, he was very restless after eating on the eleventh day, and only moved a little. When he arrived at the hotel he booked, the teacher asked him for 80 yuan for meals and accommodation. He regretted not finishing the plate of food.

Eleven motion sickness.The noise in the hotel was like a vegetable market, the noise made him even more dizzy, even the walls were shaking, he finally calmed down, and finally fell asleep, but he was woken up again in the middle of the night, saying that the water level of the flood was rising, and the hotel was afraid that it would be flooded , had to be transferred to the county guest house, and each person had to pay an extra 40 yuan for accommodation.

Three days passed by in a flash. On the last day after the exam, I went back to school by boat immediately. It rained non-stop for the past few days. The water is splashing, and the ears are filled with the sound of raindrops hitting the canopy above the head. The dirt road tens of meters above the normal river surface has long been submerged in the water. A large gasoline lamp illuminates a piece of water, and the bamboo on the roadside can only be seen Seeing the green bamboo canopy, I don't know how deep it is below, and the big boats can't go in, and there are wires blocking the way on the water.

A small wooden boat was found temporarily to pick up the students one by one. Shi Shi saw that the high wires were less than half a meter above the water surface. When passing by, the boatman lifted the wires gently with a bamboo pole. to pass.

Most of the school’s dormitories have been flooded. Some students took off their clothes and entered the water in the dark.

In the dark and rainy night, the light beam of the flashlight pierced the night, and someone was crying.

In that year, the water level of the Qilong River flood was as high as 104.58 meters, which was unprecedented and once in a century.

After the high school entrance examination scores came out, it was no accident that he was not admitted to the county No. [-] middle school, with a difference of more than ten points.There are still differences in education between the two places. Some textbooks have roughly the same content, but the focus of the exams is different. The fatigue of traveling is also a reason.Eleven has never been someone who would make excuses for failures. The elder sister has already found a job and is of age. She entered the factory openly and became a small worker. He squatted on the side of the street after the flood, smoking a cigarette The silent father said: "I don't want to study anymore."

It was the first time Shi Shi told his father what he thought, but his father didn't care: "If you want to study, at most you should pay more school selection fees."

Eleven said nothing.

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Yan Changnian looked at Tao Jingming from the rearview mirror. More than ten years later, this man was only a little taller, and he should be thirty years old, but he still looked like a student, with fair skin on his face. He is skinny, but he has great strength. Seeing him fight big bags in the afternoon, everyone else does one at a time, but he does two at a time. I don't know how his thin body has such great strength.

Turning and turning to a relatively secluded place, the car was parked in the parking lot, and the two walked along the road paved with bluestone slabs. There were old houses with green bricks on both sides of the road, and occasionally there would be children yelling from Running past, Yan Changnian said: "There is a restaurant in front, which has some unique characteristics and a good environment. I come here often."

Eleven doesn't matter if it's good or not, isn't a restaurant just a place to eat, as long as you are full, you need to pay so much attention to what to do.

Tao Zhuang.

Yan Changnian presumably reserved a seat in advance. As soon as he entered, a waiter said "Mr. Yan is here" with a very comfortable smile, and led the two inside. After serving tea, he went out, and no longer came in and out casually.

The single sound insulation is very good, once the door is closed, all the outside sounds are isolated.

Yan Changnian is very good at taking care of other people's emotions. Even if he doesn't smile, his body language is telling Eleven: Don't be restrained in front of me. We are classmates and equal.

The two first chatted about things in junior high school, most of which were Yan Changnian talking about, listening on Eleventh, sometimes he would be surprised: So many interesting things happened around me in junior high school, why didn't he notice it? ?

If Yan Changnian knew what Eleven was thinking, he would tell him: Because you are always in your own world, everything outside can't penetrate the wall you erected yourself.You can't see what's happening around you, you can't see the people around you, you can't see me, Yan Changnian.

Yan Changnian was not called Yan Changnian at that time, but Yan Nantian.His father is a fan of ancient dragons, and Yan Changnian was given the name Yan Nantian before he was born.For this reason, many people made fun of his name, but as they got older, very few people they knew dared to make fun of him by his name. They all called him Ayan, Brother Yan, or Brother Six. His peers ranked sixth.Yan Nantian's name has long been a history since he changed his name on his household registration book when he went to high school.

The dishes are served quickly, and the waiter will not bother you without saying hello.Yan Changnian ate a few mouthfuls of vegetables, put on gloves and helped Eleven peel a few shrimps, untied two crabs, let him eat slowly, told Eleven the origin of his name, and said a few things about his name Ask Eleven: "Tao Jingming is a good name, why did you change it?"

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Failure in the high school entrance examination is just the beginning of bad luck.

When he was a freshman in high school, the gangsters fought on the street. Eleven, who was passing by accidentally, was injured, stabbed in the neck, and his vocal cords were damaged. After healed, he had no problem speaking, but he could no longer make the original clear voice and became hoarse.

When I was in the second year of high school, I took the labor class and picked the firewood for the cafeteria. The wood was sawed on the mountain with a saw, and they only needed to pick it down with a bamboo basket on a pole.

My hometown is in a hilly area. The nearby villages and towns, including the county seat, are all built on the hills. The houses are scattered at different heights. From the place where the wood is piled up to the cafeteria, there is a long and steep concrete staircase. At that time, two boys from lower grades behind him were fighting, and for some reason, they bumped into his bamboo basket. The bamboo basket was full of wood, which was very heavy. Going down, the back of my head hit the corners of the concrete steps several times. When I was lifted up, my body was covered with scars, and my ankle was sprained and dislocated.

The parents of the two boys paid for the medical expenses. At that time, they didn’t have any compensation for mental damage. It’s just that after the treatment, they would occasionally have a headache. It’s the kind of pain that disappears like lightning. Heart palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness, dizziness, tinnitus, etc. will follow.

He didn't care too much. He occasionally mentioned it when he was on the phone with his mother. My mother turned around and mentioned it to my father. Although my father often prided himself on being a scholar, sometimes he was very superstitious. He found a fortune teller to tell his fortune for him. , Said Jingming’s name is too good, Eleven can’t hold it down, and it overlaps with Tao Deming’s name, and the name must be changed to transfer. After receiving the money, he closed his eyes and muttered vaguely, changed his name to Eleven, and said Taozi Shibi, Named Eleven, it has the meaning of succession and transformation, and everything will go smoothly in the future.

From then on, Tao Jingming became Tao Shishi.

Eleven bowed his head and laughed at himself, "It's all nonsense to cheat money, what the hell."

After changing my name, I didn’t encounter any accidents, but my grades declined slowly. It may be because of insomnia and forgetfulness. When I entered the school, I was in the top ten in the preliminary test. In the final exam of the first year of high school, my grades were also good, and I got a third in liberal arts. The mock exams before the college entrance examination are in the middle. Although County No. 40 Middle School is the best high school in the county, only about [-]% of the students are admitted to universities, including junior colleges, every year.

Failed the college entrance examination.

Looking forward to his son becoming a dragon, the father who expected his son to fulfill his long-cherished wish ignored Eleven’s opinion and stubbornly asked him to repeat his studies. At this time, the eldest brother was also in his third year of high school. I studied in a middle school, and I was admitted to No. [-] Middle School during the senior high school entrance examination. It is public-funded. I don’t have to pay school selection fees like Eleven, and I don’t have to pay a few hundred dollars more every semester. The cheerful older brother is quite comfortable in his hometown. Because he is more knowledgeable than many of his classmates, he is smarter, and his looks have inherited his father's thick eyebrows and big eyes. He is very popular, and he has received many love letters. Even if he is secretly in love, his academic performance is better than that of Shi Shi. many.

Another Black July.

The eldest brother was admitted to Xiamen University, but he still failed on the [-]th.This time Dad didn't ask him to repeat it.