The Spring of Prince Syndrome

The third year of high school came, and the painful evening self-study began again.A new teaching building was separated from the high school, and there was a LCD display board at the door that read "XXX days, XX hours, XX minutes, and XX seconds before the college entrance examination".

The entire third year of senior high school was reshuffled. Physics and politics are the most popular ones. Each has a key class and an ordinary class. Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang are both assigned to key classes. They still sit in the front row and the last in the classroom. They study by themselves until ten o'clock every night. Just came home from school.

In the beginning, everyone was full of energy, but after less than a week, they were all exhausted. In the words of the team leader, this was a long-term war of resistance.Yuanyuan exhausted all his fighting spirit in the first week, and looked at the countdown card of the college entrance examination dumbfounded.

This is the third year after the expansion of the college entrance examination. Since 1999, the college entrance examination is no longer a single-plank bridge crowded by thousands of troops. However, the concept of all college students has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. We only know that going to college is easier than before.As for how difficult it was to go to college before, Yaoyuan has no idea at all, only knows that Zhao Guogang is very nervous about his work with Tan Ruikang.

The students in the No. [-] Middle School are divided into two categories, one is the students who are feverish from reading, and their faces turn red at three or four in the afternoon, and they are irritable; Students who should eat and sleep.

The latter all found a way out - to study abroad.

For only six to seven million yuan, you can go out to study preparatory classes, and you can get a layer of returnee gold after returning to China. Yuan Yuan’s English is good, but he doesn’t want to go abroad at all. First, he doesn’t want to adapt to the new environment. It only takes one year of short-term pain to fight, but it will be lonely and long-term pain for four years if you go abroad alone.

As for Tan Ruikang, he will definitely go to a domestic university, the only difference is which school he goes to.

Tan Ruikang and Yuanyuan no longer ate separately. From the third year of junior high school to the third year of high school, they finally ate and played together every day, which truly combined their student careers into a circle.

"I really like to eat this." In the restaurant, Yaoyuan mixed the instant beef with eggs in front of him expectantly: "The food in the cafeteria is too bad."

"If you like it, eat more." Tan Ruikang spoke in poor Cantonese, and flipped through a Carnegie book "The Weakness of Human Nature" in his hand.

Yuanyuan was so amused by him that the first test results after the third year of high school came out. According to this test, everyone set their goals. The small note pasted on Tan Ruikang's desk read "Tsinghua University" The small note in the school is "Peking University".

The difficulty is quite high, and Yuanyuan felt that Tan Ruikang might pass the exam, but he himself would not be able to pass the exam.

Sometimes when he thinks about it, he feels very sad, and the gap between the two is getting bigger and bigger unconsciously.But Tan Ruikang, as always, gave him lectures and urged him to study, and never slacked off.

"Xiaoyuan, are you unhappy?" Tan Ruikang raised his head from Carnegie's book.

Yaoyuan shook his head and said, "I might not be able to get into Peking University."

Tan Ruikang was startled for a moment, then laughed, and after a while, Yuan Yuan frowned and said, "Is it funny?!"

Tan Ruikang hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Let's eat."

Yuanyuan's eyebrows were twisted into a knot, and he finished his meal with a dark face.Tan Ruikang took out a cigarette and lit one for him, and said, "Why don't we go to Guangzhou to study, the same goes for Guangzhou."

Yuan Yuan said, "Are you kidding me?"

Tan Ruikang said: "I also think I can't get into Tsinghua University. It's too difficult. There are only two or three people in the city every year, and dozens in the whole province. There are so many dark horses. Even if you pass the test, you can't choose one you like. major."

Although Tan Ruikang studied very hard, learning this thing is always beyond the sky. There are people above all. To be an excellent student is of course based on strength, but to be a champion does inevitably require luck and talent.

Yuan Yuan still has a clear understanding of himself, and some things are impossible to achieve no matter how hard he tries.

"Let's finish this semester first." Yuan Yuan said, "Look at the grades in the first model. The teacher is here! Throw away the cigarettes!"

Tan Ruikang and Yuanyuan quickly threw the cigarettes under the table and stomped them out. The class leader and another teacher came out to eat and just entered this restaurant.

The two of them went back for evening self-study after dinner. When night fell, there were only a few people in the classroom, and they said distantly, "What's wrong? Don't you have evening self-study today?"

"I went to the cafeteria to watch the news!" A boy said, "The Twin Towers in the United States were hit by a plane! Don't you know?"

Tan Ruikang said: "What's going on?"

Several boys described it vividly there: "Just like that, the building collapsed with a bang—"

Yuanyuan seemed to be listening to the Arabian Nights, and the two ran to the cafeteria, only to see that the cafeteria was full of people, all shouting excitedly. On 9, the Taliban armed regime hijacked a passenger plane and crashed it into the Twin Towers of the United States.

The disaster movie-like scene was praised by everyone, and many people shouted: "Good job! Give them some color!"

Yuan Yuan thought to himself that it was a good thing he didn't vote for politics. Fortunately, too many things happened this year, more than the major events he experienced since he was a child.

"Go to study at night!" The class leader came over and reprimanded: "Go back! The college entrance examination is coming soon!"

The students returned to the classroom one after another, and they were still buzzing excitedly throughout the evening self-study period. Zhao Guogang was watching the speech of the White House spokesman on TV when he returned home.

"This is probably going to be the test center for your comprehensive subjects." Zhao Guogang said, "Get some information and have a look."

"Oh——" Yaoyuan went back to the room listlessly. He had no time to study when he went home every day, so he washed up and got ready for bed.

When he was taking a bath, he heard Zhao Guogang ask Tan Ruikang how the start of school was going. Tan Ruikang didn't know what to answer. When he came out of the shower, Zhao Guogang said again: "Baby."

"What are you doing?" Yao Yuan said, "I'm already a senior in high school, don't call me that."

Zhao Guogang said with a smile: "Even if you are 80 years old, you are still a baby."

Tan Ruikang went to take a shower with a smile, and Yuan Yuan sat at the table to drink hot milk. Zhao Guogang said: "It doesn't matter if you fail to get into Peking University. Your brother also thinks that the goal is too high. The university is in the province, and the graduate students who are admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University will be the same in the future." .”

"Okay." Yuan Yuan said perfunctorily.

Zhao Guogang came over and touched Yuanyuan's head, and said, "It's better to choose a popular major than to squeeze into an unpopular major in the top ten prestigious schools. Your generation is the most difficult generation. I guess after you graduate, college students will be worthless. That’s why professional skills are the most important.”

"After finishing college, get a master's degree, and then go abroad for further study." Zhao Guogang said, "This is the most suitable development path for you. Your brother is not good at English, so you have to urge him to work harder in the future."

Yuanyuan didn't understand what Zhao Guogang said, what joke? !When should I read on like this?Haven't you been studying all your life?Yuan Yuan really didn't want to read any more, and he didn't know when his student life would end.

The life of the third year of senior high school was crazy and boring, nuclear electronics transition levels, plane analytic geometry, three representatives... no one even went to the basketball court, and all studied crazily in the classroom. Sometimes I felt confident that I could get into a good school, and sometimes Feeling that the future is bleak, a small test paper is enough to make people cry and want to jump off a building, and it is also enough to make people laugh all night.

Yuan Yuan’s new deskmate is a bit nervous, he always likes to stuff all the plastic bottles he has eaten in the desk, and mutters something as soon as class starts, which makes Yuan Yuan unable to concentrate at all, the two had a big fight, Yuan Yuan almost wanted to Go to the political class and ask Zhang Zhen to bring a group of friends to beat him up.

In the end, Yaoyuan pulled the table away angrily, and sat by the wall.

night.

Facing a glass of milk, Yuan Yuan felt disgusted, and cried out miserably: "I'd better go abroad!"

Tan Ruikang laughed and said, "What's so good about going abroad, I still have to come back, and my uncle won't go abroad with you."

Thinking about it from afar, I was almost desperate.

Both were shirtless, with towels draped over their shoulders, and their hair was wet, sitting at the dining table chatting away the stress of the day.

If there is no Tan Ruikang, Yuanyuan himself will definitely not be able to survive by himself. Looking back on these years, if I lose him, I still don’t know where I will fall. I guess my grades have been getting worse and worse since the first year of high school. Go to ordinary classes and wait for Zhao Guogang to send him abroad.

"Hey." Yuan Yuan said wearily.

The phone rang, Yuan Yuan went to answer the phone, and there was Qi Huiyu's voice.

"Milk boy." Qi Huiyu smiled and said, "Happy birthday."

"Ah!" Yuan Yuan remembered and forgot his birthday.

Still wearing the swatch that Qi Huiyu gave him three years ago, Yuan Yuan said, "Thank you."

Qi Huiyu said: "I'm going to study in Hong Kong."

Yuan Yuan said, "Go to Hong Kong?"

Qi Huiyu said: "My mother asked someone from the Education Bureau to get a quota for me to take the entrance examination for the University of Hong Kong in the Mainland, and I passed."

Yuanyuan smiled and said, "That's great, congratulations, you don't need to take the college entrance examination, do you?"

Qi Huiyu said: "Yes, I have to take the college entrance examination. As long as I can pass the mark, I will go there to study."

Yuanyuan asked: "Tuition fees and living expenses are very expensive."

Qi Huiyu said: "It's free, the university pays tuition fees, and there are scholarship subsidies."

Yuanyuan hummed, and suddenly felt a little melancholy. It seemed that they had gone further and further away from the fork in their lives since the rainy afternoon when the high school entrance examination ended.

Someone called Qi Huiyu's name on the phone and told him to turn off the lights and not talk. The teacher is coming to make rounds and everyone needs to go to bed.

Yuanyuan thought for a long time, didn't know how to say it, and finally said: "Dick, come on, I'm happy for you."

Qi Huiyu's voice seemed to brighten for a moment, and his voice was very low, and he said: "Thank you, Milkman, I dare not tell my friends here, for fear of irritating them... But I really can't hold back, thinking about it I can only talk to you. Milk boy, you will come to work in Hong Kong in the future, let's go play together, or when you go to university, I will help you ask how to take the postgraduate entrance examination."

Yuan Yuan's mood brightened in an instant, and he said: "Yes, I will go to Hong Kong to see you when the time comes."

Qi Huiyu hung up the phone, Tan Ruikang entered the room, Yaoyuan lay down in front of the dining table and looked at the milk, his heart was both sour and happy, the sourness was that this kind of thing couldn't be his turn, the happy thing was Qi Huiyu's last sentence—— He also doesn't seem to have any real friends in Yizhong.

When Zhao Guogang came back, he saw his son looking a little hurt again, moaning without illness, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Chick is going to SIPG." Yuan Yao said, "Why don't I have a place for the exam? My English is so good. Don't you have friends in the Education Bureau?"

Zhao Guogang was taken aback for a moment, and Yuanyuan said, "It's a very good opportunity."

Zhao Guogang sat for a while and said, "I'll ask."

Yuan Yao said listlessly: "Forget it, the exam is over."

Zhao Guogang started calling his friends, and Yao Yuan listened to him, only to find out that Zhao Guogang's friend in the Education Bureau had been transferred to another city to be the head of propaganda.

Zhao Guogang was very helpless. After chatting for a while, he hung up the phone and said, "Dad didn't pay attention this time. The uncle who was in the Education Bureau was transferred away. I'm sorry, baby. It's really a pity to miss this opportunity. Your friend will go to attend the meeting." Why didn't I tell you before the exam?"

There was silence in a distant moment.

As soon as Zhao Guogang saw Yuanyuan's face, he knew he had said something wrong, and he comforted him: "Hong Kong is about to open up for free travel. In the next few years, education and economy will gradually be in line with the mainland. The universities in mainland China are not much worse than Hong Kong. Now there is only one country, two systems, and it is only a matter of time before Hong Kong fully integrates with the mainland."

Yuanyuan hummed, Zhao Guogang sighed and shook his head.

"I can rely on myself." Yuan Yuan said, "It doesn't matter, I'm just talking casually."

Zhao Guogang nodded and entered the room, staring at the milk in a daze, he was a little numb.

Tan Ruikang ran out quickly, turned on his English repeater, put one earphone into Yuanyuan's ear and the other into his own ear, held the mobile phone by his ear with one hand, embraced Yuanyuan's shoulder, and turned on the recording button .

distant:"?"

The tape rotated slowly, and Tan Ruikang smiled and turned the radio channel button, the rustling sound inside, and the voice became clear.

"What does the next listener have to say..." asked the voice of the hostess on the radio.

Tan Ruikang's voice sounded on the radio and in his ears at the same time, and he slowly said in Cantonese: "Wo want to order a song, who is younger than my brother, today is his birthday, wish him a happy birthday, college entrance examination number one... "

distant:"!!!"

Yuanyuan heard Tan Ruikang talking in his ears and speaking his crappy Cantonese in the tape recorder, he couldn't stop laughing immediately, lying on the table and twitching, Tan Ruikang "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" headphones.

When Zhao Guogang heard the movement, Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang made a "shh" gesture to him, signaling him not to make noise.

The piano prelude shocked the stage, and Eason Chan's singing sounded.

"I can't sing enough... Neibiezaomei...Wo—I would like to make an appointment with you to 'who'——"

Tan Ruikang hung Yuanyuan's shoulders and hummed softly along with Eason Chan, Yuanyuan smiled brightly, and his heart was full of sweetness.

"It's simpler than longing for it. It's not considered a possession. Who would believe it... This superficial dialogue for a lifetime... Come and give it to you, a song that makes millions of people cry..."

When the music passed through the door, the volume gradually decreased, and the hostess said in a gentle voice in Mandarin: "This is a song that Mr. Tan gave to his younger brother Xiaoyuan. I wish him a happy every day, and he won the first place in the college entrance examination. Is there a listener named Xiaoyuan in front of the radio, ah, I think he should have heard it, are you happy? Sister wishes you a happy birthday, the most beautiful years."

Eason Chan's voice sounded again.

"...When I sing my heart, tears will flow... If you are afraid of being sad, hold my hand..."

"...soaked in love...and your yawns are so unstoppable...so long that they melt away." Tan Ruikang finished singing the ending seriously, and the two sat quietly without speaking.

"Happy birthday, Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang carefully turned off the recording button and pulled out the tape for him.

Yuan Yuan carefully put away this birthday present, this is the fourth one he got.