Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

"I can't live anymore." Ji Shi kicked the stone beside his feet, "It's better to live on campus."

Z High School, where Ji Shi studied, is not well-known in Jiangsu Province, but it is firmly in the top spot in Z County. About three or four Tsinghua University or Beijing University can be issued a year, and the rate of success for more than two books is not high. It is considered low, it can be said that being admitted to Z High School is equivalent to stepping into the door of undergraduate education with one foot.

Z Central was originally located in the center of Z County, occupying the best location. It moved to the new campus in the year when Ji Shi entered school. There was nothing near the new campus, only rows of old houses waiting to be demolished. The relocation of Z Central undoubtedly made the neighborhood Residents made a small fortune again—from the past two years, there has been a trend of parents accompanying students to study near Z Middle School, especially in the most critical third year of senior high school, almost half of the students in the school rented houses to study.

Ji Shi is naturally one of them.

However, the reason why he wants to accompany him is not to study, but to satisfy his own vanity.

After all, in his eyes at the time, those who lived in the school dormitory in the third year of high school were all poor people.

In his memory, his parents rented a house near the school for about 500 yuan a month, water and electricity were not included. What he cared about at the time was not the pressure on his parents from the annual rent of 6000 yuan, but he was more envious of the new construction nearby. The classmates who rented or even bought houses in commercial housing complexes even secretly complained why they could only live in old and dilapidated houses.

Thinking about it later, he didn't even know how he had such a strong vanity in high school?

"Why do you say you live in school again?" Ji's mother stroked her son's back, "Although we are busy in the field, we just ask your dad to come back a few times by motorcycle. read."

Ji Shi still shook his head: "The food in the cafeteria is delicious."

"Didn't you complain several times before?" Ji's mother smiled, "It's not like the family can't afford the money, don't worry, I will go to the house with your dad before school starts, and I will talk to your head teacher Just stay outside."

Ji Shi sighed silently. It's the beginning of August, and the school has only a few days left. Let's have a detailed talk with his parents at the end of the month. He said now that they would only think he was embarrassed.

For him now, the most important thing is to study.

No matter which city he is in and what kind of job he finds in the future, at least one year later, he wants his parents to raise their heads proudly.

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As soon as I got home, the smell of small yellow croakers really wafted in the kitchen. I specially added wine and sautéed them with garlic cloves. Z County is close to the sea. Small yellow croakers are the most typical home-cooked dishes, especially fresh small yellow croakers, which melt in the mouth. Not exaggerating.

When the mother and son put away their things and picked up the chopsticks, Dad Ji's "chug" motorbike sound also arrived. He was holding a bag of duck and a bag of cold bean curd sticks in his hand: "The fried chicken legs are only available at night. to buy."

Ji Shi looked at Papa Ji in a daze.

Ji’s father is still driving the Jialing motorcycle he bought many years ago. I don’t know if there is something wrong with the engine or something. He was afraid that he would get motion sickness, so Dad Ji bought a new motorcycle on purpose, and only then did he get rid of the old motorcycle that had been driving for more than ten years.

When I went to my grandma's house for New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, the old motorcycle fell off while opening the fender, and the seat was still turning around. The children nearby laughed when they saw it.

Ji Shi felt that these things could not be recalled at all, and he could only feel ashamed when he thought about them.

He wasn't ready yet, but fate sent him back to his senior year of high school.

The house at home is still an old house, and the kitchen is not even paved with stone slabs. When the light is turned on at night, toads jump out of the kitchen and the corridor of the main house. The bed is also the old bed when my parents got married. It is made of wood and is very strong. But the style is already old.

In the three years since he was in high school, building houses in the village has become popular, and every family has expanded the area and pasted tiles. Only the old house of Ji's family did not start borrowing money to build it until he graduated from university, and he did not pay off the debt until he worked for a few years. clear.

Ji Shi knew very well that it was because his parents left all the money for him to go to school.

Ji Shi thought so much, he couldn't finish the meal. Ji's father and mother were still eating deliciously with the bowl in their hands, but there was a rumbling sound outside. The sky that was still bright a few minutes ago suddenly darkened, and the raindrops were crackling. Throwing it on the concrete field, Ji's father and mother hurriedly dropped the bowl, raised the bamboo rake and pushed the stevia on the field towards home. The cement field with dozens of square meters was covered with stevia. It was too late to use bamboo rakes and dustpans to dry the stevia on the neighbor's field. The two picked up plastic film to cover the stevia, but the naked eyes could see that the leaves had turned black from the dry green.

The summer rainstorm came and went quickly. In just a short while, Ji's father and Ji's mother were completely drenched in the rain, as if they were soaked in water. Seeing the blackened stevia, both of them were unhappy. It can be seen that Ji Shi Shi held the bowl and watched from the side, and the two only asked him to add more rice.

Stevia is considered to be a commercial crop that has just been planted in Z County in the past few years. The unit price is much higher than that of pure grain. Don't buy it directly, or the price is so low that you want to throw it away.

Before drying, Ji’s father and Ji’s mother need to pick the leaves of stevia leaves from the poles. Naturally, there is no time during the day, so they can only dry them at night, turn on the lights, light mosquito coils, and dry them until 11 o’clock in the evening after dinner. , the sugar on the leaves dyed the nails black, and they couldn't be washed clean for one year, and they continued to plant in the second year. The fingernails were dry and black, and they cracked in winter.

But no matter how hard it is, they still have to pay for it. After all, Ji Shi’s one-year tuition, living expenses, accommodation expenses... and the money for his college education all come from here. Although Ji’s father and mother didn’t go to school much, this But the account was done well for him.

After dinner, the sun came out, and the stevia that had been piled up at home had to be transported back to the cement field to continue drying. Ji Shi also helped, but was pushed back to the room by Ji's mother. They even asked him to help out occasionally, but when they knew that he was busy studying, they refused to let him work again in the third year of high school.

Ji Shi could only go back to his room, opened his sturdy schoolbag, and took out books and exercise books from it.

He has forgotten almost all the knowledge he learned in high school. Except for English, it is estimated that it is difficult for him to get a pass or above in any paper given to him now.

Fortunately, he brought back the textbooks of several main subjects. He flipped through the textbooks from front to back. Sure enough, the third year of senior high school courses have been completed during the summer vacation. If there is no accident, their learning content for the next whole year should be It's all crazy questions.

Ji Shi brought the exercise books and test papers of various subjects this time. These are all to be completed within the summer vacation. He probably looked through them, but he basically doesn't remember the questions. Take the time to eat it.

His only impression of the college entrance examination now is that their composition question for the college entrance examination that year was called "Green Life".

In the past few years, the college entrance examination questions were all mysterious and mysterious types such as "Reminiscing about the Sky" or "Curiosity". Suddenly, "Green Life" came up with an unbelievable simplicity. Ji Shi was stunned in the examination room. He seemed to have written For content such as farming, I finally got the lowest score in my high school career in Chinese.

As for "Reminiscing about the Sky", why he can remember it clearly, because it was rare for their school to get a full-score composition in the college entrance examination that year. In Subei County, which is good at science, it was more difficult than passing the college entrance examination in Beijing.

Ji Shi put aside the messy thoughts in his head and began to flip through the book seriously.

Jiangsu province’s college entrance examination is an independent proposition, using a 3+2 model, 3 is the three main subjects of Chinese, mathematics, and English, and 2 is the other two subjects that determine the arts and sciences. Among them, science students must choose physics, and liberal arts students must choose history, that is, It is said that liberal arts students must study three main subjects plus historical geography or historical politics, and science students must study three main subjects plus physical chemistry or physical biology. These two subjects are only counted for grades and not included in the total score.

The total score of the college entrance examination for liberal arts students and science students is 480 points, and Chinese, mathematics, and English account for 160, 160, and 120 points respectively. These 440 points are the same for arts students and science students, and the test content is also the same. The difference is that arts students There are 40 additional points for Chinese, that is, the total score of Chinese is 200 points, and 40 additional points for mathematics for science students, that is, the total score of mathematics is 200 points.

The existence of grades has caused a strange phenomenon in Suzhou Province, that is, students who can get into Qingjing with a total score of language and mathematics, but because of grade B in physics or history, they can't even get into Jin University, which is the number one in the province.

Ji Shi didn't even get 300 points in the exam that year.

Let alone Qingjing, he would not be able to choose a well-known university in the province.

Ji Shi first turned over the English textbook.

Thanks to his later work experience, he used English a lot. The English textbooks in high school focused more on grammar. He would be confused by the usage of the words what, when, and why. Later, he read more, Even if you don't know grammar, you can probably understand the meaning, but the vocabulary needs to be enriched.

His textbooks are still very new, so he probably dozed off during the lectures, or secretly read novels with his head down. Teachers in Z Middle School don’t pay close attention to learning like teachers in junior high school. They also care about grades, but they can’t cover everything, like Ji Shi, who has more than 60 students in a class of 40 people, is definitely a free-ranging target. As long as it does not affect the order of the classroom, the teacher basically doesn't care.

Ji Shi started to read from the first page. Whenever he came across a word he didn’t know, he would draw a red line on it, and then look for it at the back of the textbook. If he couldn’t find it, he would look it up in the dictionary. Try to do it again.

I don't know if it's because of getting younger, Ji Shi didn't feel tired at all after sitting at his desk for 10 minutes. On the contrary, he even felt a sense of excitement when he found that his correct rate was not low after doing the questions.