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One year's winter and summer passed by, and when the wicker sprouted, the Jiang family's twin sons would already be running all over the place.

Spring begins in February, and the practice exams seem to be repeated one after another. The weather is not very warm, and the air is still chilly when the sun is out.Jiang Yan and Xi Zhikong chased them out as soon as they left the house. Jiang Wen chased them out and brought them back one by one.

As a result, the two children quit immediately. They kicked off Jiang Wen's arms with four legs, and ran to the two elder brothers carrying schoolbags in front, each holding a thigh and not letting go.

Jiang Wen stood on the spot and said loudly, "Lian Jiashu! Lian Jiachang! Let the brothers go to school!"

Although the two milk dolls couldn't speak clearly, they were as surprisingly clever as Jiang Yan when he was a child, and could understand most of the words, and kept shaking their heads and mumbled no.

"Hey, I'm going to feed the cat milk and biscuits today." Jiang Wen threatened.

The two brothers still shook their heads firmly.

"Be good, baby, come to mommy, brothers are going to school, come hug mommy."

Can't be hard, let's be soft.

Jiang Wen squatted on the bed and opened her arms towards them, trying to coax them over.But after a few minutes, she squatted until her legs were almost numb, and she still couldn't get over.

Xi Zhikong took a piece of paper from his pocket and squatted down to wipe off the saliva that was about to flow down to the chins of both of them, coaxing: "Changchang, brothers will be back soon, can I buy you a plane when you come back?" ? Take your brother to your mother's place quickly."

Even Jiachang curled his lips and didn't shake his head, but he didn't nod either, and stood still.

Jiang Yan's mind turned, and he took two candies that Jiang Wen stuffed in his schoolbag with his backhand, and squatted down, holding two chubby little hands, and said, "Brother, I'll give you all the last candies. Brother will bring you candy when he comes back next time, go back quickly."

Lian Jiachang was shaken. He looked at Tang, then at Jiang Yan, and then looked back at Jiang Wen, who was frowning. He hesitated to hold Tang in his hand, and still led Lian Jiashu to turn around and walked towards Jiang Wen.

"You are so used to them! Your teeth are going to be ruined!" Jiang Wen took a few steps forward, holding one in each hand, fearing that the two little clever ghosts would repent if they disagreed, and said to the two people standing in the distance: " That's enough, go to school, Xiao Kong, don't study too late, I have seen your room lights on at midnight for several nights."

Xi Zhikong then replied behind her: "Good Aunt Wen, the lights are turned off at eleven o'clock at school, I will go to bed early."

"Go, pay attention to dressing, don't catch a cold."

The two took the bus to the school gate, and saw He Xing walking over with his schoolbag on his back, his waist bent, Sun Chenxuan pulled the suitcase and jumped up from behind, as if he was afraid that he would not fall, and hit him hard from behind Knocking the person out and staggering, he quickly reached out and pulled him back.

He Xing choked and coughed after being strangled, hooked his neck with his backhand, tightened his arms and walked forward.

Sun Chenxuan repeatedly begged for mercy: "Ahhh Brother Xing, I was wrong! I was wrong, I was wrong..."

"Know it's wrong?" He Xing let go of his hands and patted it, put the schoolbag on his back and put it in his suitcase, and said, "Bring the schoolbag to the classroom for my brother."

"Wow, are you here to blow up the school?! Is it so heavy?" Sun Chenxuan pulled up He Xing's schoolbag and picked it up, trying to throw it back for him, but it was so heavy that it was difficult to lift it.

Xi Zhikong looked at the bulging schoolbag curiously, and said, "He Xing, you want to live in school? Why are you carrying so many things?"

"No, they are all exercise books. I bought them yesterday." He explained.

Behind him, Shu Jiyue walked over clapping, and sighed repeatedly: "What kind of example is this to learn from? I am really touched and admired."

In contrast, Shu Jiyue, an authentic resident student, didn't have many things in his hands, and came lightly and skillfully. Seeing Jiang Yan standing behind Xi Zhikong, he smiled and said, "Yo, S65 will fall into dust if it doesn't move anymore." ah."

Ever since he knew that Jiang Yan received an S65 as a birthday present on his birthday, he always teased him. Later, Jiang Yan pestered Lin Tongrui to find out that his mother also bought him a cheap car, and the two often flaunted their wealth. hurt each other.

There were so many people coming and going at the school gate early in the morning, Jiang Yan thought about it and forgot about it, and walked into the school gate with him hanging on Xi Zhikong's shoulder.

The college entrance examination is less than four months away, and there is a huge countdown calendar hanging in the classroom of the second class, which was customized by Chen Xucong himself.The students in the class have all entered the learning rhythm of self-study as the mainstay and supplemented by the teacher's tutoring. Most of the people like He Xing who use the sea of ​​questions tactics, including Xi Zhikong and Sun Chenxuan, even Jiang Yan followed Xi Zhikong's example. There are many questions, and I accompanied him to sort out a lot of wrong notes.

As soon as the results of several schools' joint examinations came out, Jiang Yan was stable in the top three, while Shu Jiyue hovered in the fifth, sixth and seventh places.Every time Chen Xucong looked at his grades and answer sheets, he felt that he was just a little short, and once he reached that point, he might win the first or second place with Jiang Yan.

In that case, it is really smelling and the best college entrance examination results.

Chen Xucong talked to him several times, and he sincerely "reflected" on his own problems and promised to improve, but he would make the same mistake next time.Called to communicate with his parents, and the parents only told him to let him pay more attention when they came down, nothing more.

The crux of the problem was still noticed by Xi Zhikong.He and Jiang Yan study by themselves until 10:30 every night, rush back to the dormitory for 5 minutes, and then take a quick shower while there is still electricity and hot water, turn on the desk lamp and recite words, etc., until 11:30. [-] to bed on time.

One night he really couldn't sleep, he put on his overcoat and went out lightly, planning to stay outside for a while to sleep.As a result, as soon as the door was opened, Shu Jiyue, who was standing by the guardrail without saying a word, was terribly frightened, and became more sober in an instant.

He walked up to Shu Jiyue and poked him on the shoulder, asking, "Why are you staying up late at night?"

"You didn't sleep either." Shu Jiyue was talking, but her eyes didn't know where to fall, her whole body seemed to be pulled away from her spirit and consciousness, and she looked listless.

Xi Zhikong immediately shrugged his shoulders and said noncommittally: "Seeing that you are preoccupied, you are quite serious."

"When did I become dishonest?" Shu Jiyue asked him back.

"It's just... you're not serious at ordinary times, you're a fool, but you have good grades and learn things quickly, so that's not a shortcoming." Xi Zhikong answered him earnestly.

Shu Jiyue suddenly turned around and stared at him for a while, then said in silence for a while, "Am I unreliable?"

He didn't dare to answer these words casually after attending the meeting, he coughed twice and changed the subject: "The mock test is coming soon, come on."

"Well, you too - I'm going back to sleep, you go to bed early."

Xi Zhikong only nodded his head. In his impression, this was not Shu Jiyue's way of speaking at all. He froze for a while before he tightened his coat and turned back to the dormitory.

On the morning of returning to school, there were only three classes. Xi Zhikong finished his homework and lay down on the table to rest.

The leaves of several towering trees in the school have slowly reappeared, and the green one is very comfortable to look at.The weather forecast said that the weather would start to warm up next week. He looked at the cherry blossoms, peach blossoms and crabapple trees that were planted together in the distance, and suddenly a patch of pink flowers bloomed in his mind.

The flowering periods are similar, and the shapes are similar. In the past, he couldn't tell what these kinds of flowers looked like. If he added plum blossoms and pear flowers, he couldn't tell them apart.In the spring of last year, his curiosity came up and he observed under those trees for several hours, and only then could he distinguish these kinds of flowers with the explanation on the popular science website.

Seeing that his eyes were far away, and he was lost in thought, Jiang Yan put the finished exercises back into his schoolbag and looked in the direction he was looking, asking him, "Why are you so focused?"

"Look, the flowers over there are about to bloom again, and we will graduate from high school in a few months." He looked back at Jiang Yan with his chin resting on his palm, and then said, "Old Chen said, A few teachers analyzed my several mock exams, and if you work hard in the college entrance examination, you should be able to get into your target college."

Jiang Yan flicked his forehead lightly and said, "Don't think about it all the time, it's fine for you to pass the exam now, why put so much pressure on yourself?"

Xi Zhikong laughed out loud, and looked him up and down, "I find that Brother Yan is becoming more and more immodest."

"Ok?"

He shook his head, looked left and right to see that everyone was immersed in writing questions, raised his hand and pinched Jiang Yan's face, and said, "I don't think I'm under any pressure at all, really, I just feel that I can definitely pass. "

Jiang Yan was holding his face in his hands, his mouth was pouted, he couldn't speak clearly, and said vaguely: "So let me let you relax, you study so late every day."

"Going to bed at 11:30 is already very early! Tell Lao Chen that Lao Chen will definitely say, 'No, you can't do this', hahahaha." Seeing that he was in a happy mood, Jiang Yan was also happy, and he looked up. Holding Xi Zhikong's wrist, smoothed the broken hair on his forehead, and said:

"I'm so mentally exhausted from morning to night, 11:30 is already very late."

"Well...then I won't increase my weight next month, will it be 11:30 until the college entrance examination?" Xi Zhikong tentatively asked.

Jiang Yan took over his study plan and flipped through it, and said, "This is feasible, your study status is very good recently, keep working hard, dear."

Xi Zhikong curled his lips and sat a little further away from him, expressing great dislike for his Taobao customer service encouragement.

In a few days, the cherry blossoms came as promised, and then the temperature continued to rise for half a month. The temperature rose to more than [-] degrees, and the flowering period of other flowers also advanced.In the school, the graduating class of the third year of high school is no longer noisy. Everyone is studying quietly in and out of class. When discussing topics, everyone also carefully lowers the volume to avoid disturbing the surrounding students who are resting on the table.

It will be another month before the last mock exam, the end of March is getting warmer and warmer, the countdown in the classroom has become [-], Xi Zhikong walked into the teacher's office for the third time, sat by the window and watched the sunny outside sky trance.

When the results of the monthly exam came out, Jiang Yan and Shu Jiyue won the top one or two places in the joint exam as they wished. Chen Xucong was very happy, but Xi Zhikong made a major mistake in mathematics and got a near-passing score.

The grades just arrived in Chen Xucong's hands and they were not sent out. Before sending out the grades, he called Xi Zhikong to his office and invited the math teacher over to have a chat with him.

The math teacher looked at his answer sheet and asked him: "We have done these wrong questions many times before, are we careless during the exam or can't do it?"

Xi Zhikong has been a little numb to his studies recently. Jiang Yan doesn't let him do too many questions, but the closer the college entrance examination is, the more nervous he becomes. two points.However, without telling Jiang Yan, he quietly bought a lot of test papers and came back to write.

After repeated questioning by Chen Xucong and the math teacher, he hesitated and finally told the truth, and went back to the classroom to show them the test paper he had done this month.Chen Xucong counted, two test papers for science and mathematics, and two for language and mathematics, each with twelve papers. The teachers also assigned other homework, and secretly sighed that he had done so much.

The math teacher flipped through the densely packed notes and asked him in surprise, "My God, how did you do so much?! How can you do this? You can't do it!"

Chen Xucong also flipped through the pages one by one, looking up at Xi Zhikong from time to time while reading the test paper, frowning together, hesitantly said: "That's all? Nothing else?"

Xi Zhikong shook his head.

——After a moment of silence, he still nodded honestly and said, "There are still a few exercise books, but I haven't finished them yet."

"You have done too many questions, this is not good." The math teacher closed the test paper and put it aside, and continued in a gentle tone: "I can see your changes, but such a large number of questions is not It is very necessary. You can choose two sets of typical test papers and do it slowly. I don’t know about other subjects, but for my subject, the teacher recommends that you refine the next questions. Now that you are not used to it, adjust the rhythm. "

The math teacher tried to persuade him, but Xi Zhikong couldn't listen to it at all. He shook his head stubbornly: "No teacher, I didn't pass the exam this time. I will adjust my state next time."

"Oh, why don't you listen to my advice, kid?" The math teacher was anxious, turned around and took a blank manuscript paper from the desk behind him, and said while writing, "Well, if you have to do so many questions, listen to me. Yes, I will assign ten questions to you every day, so you do one less test paper, okay?"

Seeing that Xi Zhikong still didn't let go, Chen Xucong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Your aunt just called me yesterday to discuss the situation between you and Jiang Yan. If I had known about it before yesterday, I would have reported it to her."

"Well, thank you teacher, I——I will do one less test paper, but don't tell my aunt that I will try my best to adjust my state before the college entrance examination." Xi Zhikong suddenly stood up and made a promise. The other test papers were returned to him and said to him:

"Okay, let's go. If you don't understand, you must ask your teacher or classmates in time. Don't hold back your own thoughts. It's easy to get into a corner, you hear?"

"Well, I see."

He turned around and walked towards the door of the office. Before leaving, he turned and asked Chen Xucong: "Teacher, according to Jiang Yan's grades, is it a good thing for him to aim for an A major?"

……

The weather on the two days of the college entrance examination is very good every year, and their city is much cooler than other places.

Jiang Yan and Xi Zhikong were in different examination rooms of the same school, and threw their children to Lian Guangji to take with them. Jiang Wen took the two of them into the reserved hotel one day in advance, and accompanied them to the spot.

In the past two days, Jiang Wen greeted them with food and drink, and they didn't dare to neglect them at all.At [-] o'clock in the morning on the day of the exam, the driver delivered the breakfast that my aunt had prepared at home according to Jiang Wen's request. Jiang Wen went down to pick it up and took it to the next room. After watching the two of them finish eating, they walked slowly to the exam room. .

Jiang Wen was still a little nervous last night, but now she was much more relaxed on the way to the examination room for the two of them. She held their arms from left to right, and said with a smile: "When you two finish the exam, our family People should go abroad for a good vacation!"

Jiang Yan asked: "Where are you going?"

"Well... Let's see when the time comes. Your grandma is going to Europe again. She said that her sisters have all settled in the UK, and she wants to go too. Recently, your dad and I are thinking about this issue."

"Grandma is so old, did she go there alone?"

Jiang Wen rubbed the back of his head and said, "You don't know your grandma's personality yet? If you don't let her go, she will definitely do everything possible. Your father and I are discussing to find a reliable person to take care of her daily life." .”

"Grandma is so old, she must be very happy to be able to do what she wants to do." Xi Zhikong said.

A few people stood at the entrance of the examination room. Jiang Wen raised her hand and pinched their cheeks, "My two big babies, come on for the exam. Mom is waiting for you outside."

Xi Zhikong's heart was touched, he was silent for two seconds, raised his arms to hug Jiang Wen, put his arm on her shoulder with his chin tightened, took a deep breath and said seriously: "I will take the exam well."

The title that came to his lips was still swallowed by him.He longed for it in his heart, but was afraid that Jiang Wen would find it abrupt. The most important thing was that he and Jiang Yan were such a close lover.

When he walked into the school, he was worried and sad, Jiang Yan walked beside him, turned his head and asked him: "What's wrong?"

"Aunt Wen is very kind."

"Ah?" Jiang Yan stepped in front of him and walked back, "Hasn't my mother always been nice to you?"

Xi Zhikong stopped to look up at him slightly, and said, "It's because it's so good."

Jiang Yan also stared at him for a while, then suddenly stretched out her hands and hugged him.

Xi Zhikong's heart skipped a few beats, and he put his hands on his chest subconsciously—Jiang Wen must have not left yet, and the people around him didn't care if they saw it, but just in case Jiang Wen—he pushed Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan hugged him tighter.

He said in Xi Zhikong's ear: "Concentrate on the exam first, nothing else matters, we'll figure out a way after the exam, good boy."

I don't know if it was this soft words or that gentle voice, the restless Xi Zhikong was suddenly soothed, and he responded softly to Jiang Yan and said hello.

During the two days of the exam, Jiang Wen sent people to the exam room, then went back to the small villa to make a meal, and waited for them at the school gate with an insulated lunch box. After eating and sleeping, she sent them to the exam again.

These two days were not as long as Xi Zhikong imagined. Although he was inevitably very nervous before the start of the exam, after picking up the pen, he did it smoothly.

After the exam in the afternoon, Jiang Wen drove the two back to school to pack their things, put all their luggage in the car and return the keys on the last trip.They passed by Sun Chenxuan and Shu Jiyue's bedroom and saw Sun Chenxuan sitting in the empty bedroom in a daze, they looked at each other, knocked on the door and walked in.

Xi Zhikong shook his hands in front of Sun Chenxuan, and asked, "What are you doing sitting here?" The man stared at a washbasin on the ground obliquely in front of him and said, "This is the end of the exam..."

"...You didn't pass the exam?" Jiang Yan asked him.

"No, it's okay."

Xi Zhikong simply sat down beside him: "Then why do you look unhappy at all?"

Sun Chenxuan suddenly let out a long sigh and fell back on the bed, clenched his hands into fists and slammed on the back, saying: "Jiang Zhehui told me to come to me after the college entrance examination, I sent him the examination room, and then I waited for him at the entrance of the examination room." For half an hour, no one came."

"Just because of this?" Xi Zhikong frowned.

Sun Chenxuan quickly got up and sat up straight again, and asked, "Just because of this?! Isn't this serious?!"

"Ah? This... What if someone else gets stuck in traffic? - When did he return to China?" Jiang Yan picked up the apple on the table and took a bite, "It's quite sweet."

Sun Chenxuan glanced at him and said, "Call me if you are stuck in traffic?"

Xi Zhikong couldn't understand more and more. Sun Chenxuan's words sounded like a coquettish complaint no matter how he heard them. Before he could figure out how to ask, Jiang Yan threw a bomb like a heartless person.

He said: "Hey, I heard from Shu Jiyue that the two of you play overseas videos every day. He didn't tell us when he came back, but he told you, and said he would pick you up—there will be nothing wrong with you two, right?"

Xi Zhikong sighed softly, stood up and walked to Jiang Yan's side, just as he stuffed his mouth full of grapes, he suddenly forgot what he wanted to say.

"Don't eat it..."

The two of them thought that eating too happily affected his mood, so they put the fragrant pear back one after the other, but they heard Sun Chenxuan say: "I bought it for him, don't finish eating it, okay?"

With humble eyes and a pitiful tone, if He Xing was present, Sun Chenxuan's fame would probably be ruined.

He walked to the table dejectedly, took a fragrant pear in one hand, looked around and took a bite of each.Aside from biting two fragrant pears, he then bit into and peeled the remaining two apples, a pomelo, and a peach, and soon there was a mess of the ones he had eaten on the table. fruit.

While "eating", he muttered: "If you don't come, forget it, if you don't come, I will eat alone."

Probably because he was too absorbed in eating, or his mind was not here at all, he didn't notice when Jiang Yan and Xi Zhikong quietly retreated to the door.

Jiang Zhehui ran up in one breath, and was dragged to the door by the two before he could catch his breath.Xi Zhikong poked a finger on his shoulder and "tortured" him in a low voice: "Explain what's going on."

He didn't wear glasses, and he looked like a different person after not seeing him for two years, "Well, is he angry?" he said.

Jiang Yan finally understood why Sun Chenxuan and He Xing scolded him.

He looked at Jiang Zhehui and then at the distraught man in the dormitory, and sneered: "You two have been engaged in 'online dating' for a year, and you finally achieved a real fruit?"

Jiang Zhehui didn't speak, and Jiang Yan took him as his acquiescence, and ran all the way up to straighten his wind-blown hair and straighten his collar.

Then kicked him in.

Jiang Zhehui fell all the way and bumped into Sun Chenxuan directly. He hugged Sun Chenxuan before he turned around, and said nervously like a drum, "Leave an apple for me."