Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

Ji Shi continued to struggle in the sea of ​​books and questions.

The content in the textbook is one thing, but doing the questions is another, especially after lunch, when the weather is already hot and it is easy to fall asleep. When I stare at the questions, I only feel the test paper It's all flowers.

He flushed his face under the faucet, and wiped some toilet water on his temples, finally regaining consciousness.

He just didn't get into the mood, he really didn't want to sleep until he solved those difficult math problems.

Ji Shi, with Wang Houxiong in one hand and Xue Jinxing in the other, flipped through the function questions very quickly. According to the examination papers sent over during the holidays, he judged that function questions appeared frequently in math test papers, and they were questions that could never be given up. type.

"Find the domain of the function..." Ji Shi rubbed his chin in thought. He had read the theory once, but when doing the questions, he still had to turn to the front to see what the domain of definition meant. After all, he was not like a real high school student. To learn step by step like that, it is equivalent to spending a few hours to receive a textbook of fresh theories.

After finishing the after-school questions, Ji Shi began to practice Wang Houxiong and Xue Jinxing in different modules, probably because he went back to ten years ago, and his mind was much brighter than ten years later. It can be solved quickly on Xue Jinxing.

Looking back at the summer practice papers sent by the teacher, not only can I understand a few more questions about filling in the blanks, but the short-answer questions also involve functions and sets. Ji Shi thinks that this is probably an inference.

Although the time is very tight, he can't be too anxious, the most important thing now is to understand the theory thoroughly.

Ji Shi stretched his waist and relaxed for a while. Sure enough, math problems will become more and more exciting. Although he has only mastered less than one-tenth of the content of a math test paper, he is already looking forward to being able to complete it. The day I finished a test paper.

It's like accumulating experience after finishing the game, slowly rising from a junior player to an intermediate player, and then to an advanced player.

If I didn't pay attention, it was past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the weather was still very hot, but the light in the room was indeed not as bright as at noon. Ji Shi turned on the desk lamp to change his mood and read English.

There were still many unfamiliar words in the English textbook, so Ji Shi made a vocabulary book, and he would turn over two pages when he had time.

But reading English is of course not as good as reading mathematics, especially after finishing the questions and relaxing, Ji Shi stared at a few unfamiliar words for a while, plugged in the earphones and started listening to music. There happened to be Taylor Swift in his MP3 Lovestory is quite popular now, and Avril Lavigne is the most popular now. The song Girlfriend has been played several times on their campus radio.

On Ji Shi's mobile phone, Ge Liang was still telling him to go out to play and go online at "Minus Octave", but Ji Shi ignored it, put the phone aside, opened the vocabulary book, and compared the explanations in the Oxford Dictionary one by one.

He was also hungry at 5 o'clock, so he opened a box of potato chips to eat.

One of the manifestations of Ji's father and mother doting on their children lies in their unlimited financial indulgence. For example, Ji Shichai's Lay's potato chips, ordinary parents are not willing to buy them for their children. The bagged ones are not as delicious as the boxed ones, so I buy him the boxed ones every time.

Even in 2009, a box of Leys cost 7 or 8 yuan, and Ji’s father and mother would buy several boxes. It is not an exaggeration to say that ten years later, Ji Shi would not be so happy to buy snacks with his salary.

After eating potato chips and opening another can of Coke, Ji Shi opened the door and walked out for a few minutes.

His brain was a little tired from reading mathematics, so he simply locked the door and walked north along the path in the yard, not far from their home.

Ji Shi's parents belonged to a group of younger farmers in their village group. Those younger than them either went out to work or had stable jobs outside. So when Ji Shi's generation really went out of the countryside, The village was empty.

Walking on the road, the wind blowing on the face finally had a coolness.

The sky turned from light to dark, and slowly, it became darker and darker. The grass on both sides of the path grew tall, but there was no trace of water vapor, and the sparrows were jumping on the telephone poles.

"The hour is back?"

"Your parents are at Hepo in the north, don't pass by."

"Your school Z is on vacation? Our Miao Miao is in school A, and their teacher said that this summer vacation will not be held this year, so they will stay in school for tutoring."

Neighbors walked home with shovels and knives, and greeted Ji when they met him. Many neighbors pushed carts with stacks of stevia, and turned on lights to choose stevia leaves when they got home.

Ji's father and Ji's mother were also carrying the cut stevia into the car. The stevia was piled up on the field, and Ji Shi also went up to help.

"Why did you do this? You made your clothes dirty." Ji's mother scolded, and snatched the stevia from Ji Shi's hand without saying a word.

"The old clothes I'm wearing are fine." Ji Shi patted the mud on his shorts, "I'm tired from reading, so I just came out for a walk."

Ji's mother derived another meaning from Ji Shi's words: "Shishi, you have grown taller recently, do you think your pants are too small, why don't you buy two more before school starts?"

"No need, Mom." Ji Shi scratched his hair, "It's fine if you can wear it."

He didn't pay attention to it a long time ago. If he has that time to buy clothes, he might as well go home and ponder two more questions.

No matter what Ji's mother said, Ji Shi still helped to pile up the stevia on the car: "Dad, go buy a tricycle, it's too tiring to push this by hand, and you can go back early at night if you buy it."

Ji's father and Ji's mother looked at each other and shook their heads: "Let's talk about it next year, and buy a motorcycle first this year."

Tricycles are small electric tricycles. There are still relatively few people in some households. Later, almost every household in the countryside needed them. Corn, wheat, cauliflower, green peppers... the grain grown in the village was transported to the field for drying, and later vegetables Cooperatives became popular, and ordinary people also relied on them to transport vegetables to vegetable vendors for sale.

Ji Shi knew that his father wanted to change the motorcycle because he was motion sick and it would be convenient for pick-up and drop-off. The reason why he didn't buy a tricycle was because he was going to college next year and he was afraid that he would not have enough money.

There are many things that 17-year-old Ji Shi doesn't know, and his father won't tell him.

It was several years after Ji Shi graduated from university that Ji Shi found out that when he graduated from junior high school, his family only had 2 yuan left in total. Prepare him for school.

"Buy a tricycle." Ji Shi sat on the armrest of the scooter. The stevia was not light, and the scooter wouldn't tip over even if he pressed it on it. "I'm still living in school this year, so I don't live outside."

"Live outside, and the family is not so busy." Ji's father didn't look up, "There is only one year left in high school, it's not easy to eat and live in school, and there is not even a bathroom."

"It's good to live in a school." Ji Shi insisted, "It costs a lot of money to live outside, and it's a waste of your time."

"You don't need to worry about family affairs." Ji's mother and Ji's father stood on the same front, "You child, don't think so much."

"If I study hard, I can pass the school exam wherever I live. If I don't study hard, it's useless to live outside." Ji Shi hugged his mother's neck from behind, "Besides, everyone else in the third year of high school is going out to live in my dormitory. Isn't it empty?"

At that time, the reason why he wanted to move out was nothing more than that his roommate's snoring disturbed his sleep, or his roommate's bad reading affected his study.

In fact, in their dormitory, Ji Shi's grades are the worst.

The boarding students in Z Middle School are all selected by various towns and towns. When he was in junior high school, his grades were basically in the top ten of the school. He rarely felt powerless, but after high school, he felt this feeling more often. , he gradually got used to it.

"What about eating?"

"You guys come over once a week, just bring me some food." Ji Shi said with a smile, "Or just add some pocket money to me, and I'll have a good meal."

Ji Shi remembered that the food in their school cafeteria was pretty good, and there were many kinds. A serving of braised crucian carp was only 2 yuan. , You can eat very well for 1 yuan for a meal. After the evening self-study, there is still a window in the cafeteria, where you can buy fried rice and sausages. Ji Shi often visits.

And during the period of his stay, campus life was not so boring.

When there are very few boarding students, no one wants to study by themselves, so they will turn on the big TV in the classroom and play foreign movies, such as "Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix". Every class will hold activities. At this time, they will scurry around in each class, looking for acquaintances, and stealing other people's oranges and melon seeds.

"You really don't plan to live?" Ji's mother frowned, "Didn't you say you really wanted to go out before?"

She finally carried the last handful of stevia onto the cart. Dad Ji squatted down skillfully, hung the straw rope on his chest, and dragged the cart back. Mother Ji walked behind the cart to prevent stevia from getting out of the cart. get off.

"I really don't plan." Ji Shi's tone was also very serious, "You guys come to see me often."

"Then we will go there twice a week." Mama Ji said, "If you really don't plan to live there, you should take care of yourself at school."

"I know."

It was completely dark, and in the back of the Zhuangzi, every household was lit up. In the row of Ji Shi's house, the neighbors on the left and right also turned on the lights, but their house was still dark.

Back home, Ji's mother washed her hands with well water, took a shower and prepared to cook for Ji Shi.

"Do you want to eat chicken legs? Let me fry a squid for you?"

Ji Shi shook his head: "I ate a box of potato chips this afternoon, so I'm not hungry now."

"You still need to pay attention to your eyes when reading a book. Do you want to watch the news at night?"

"No, I'll look at the math paper again."

After returning home, Ji Shi opened his second math textbook, and the content also transitioned from functions to geometry. His biggest feeling was that geometric figures are indeed more useless scratch paper, and he has almost used up a draft paper.

But I have to say that Ji Shi is indeed in a better state. His whole body is immersed in the atmosphere of reading, doing, and thinking, and his whole body is hungry for knowledge.

"P is the midpoint of edge BB', find..."

He bit the tip of the pencil, the picture he drew the first time was a bit crooked, so he had to do it again.

The pencil has almost grayed out the original drawing, and I can no longer erase it with an eraser.

The magic of mathematics is that he can try countless possibilities and try from all angles-but even if he tries eight hundred times, he may not be able to find the fastest point.

Even the answers in the reference books are long and messy.

But as long as the inspiration flashes, everything suddenly becomes clear.

So some people say that mathematics is something that people without talent can't do at all.