Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

As New Year's Day approaches, the weather is getting colder. The heavy snowfall in the south at the beginning of last year made Z Central pay special attention to cold protection. Wherever there is a little water, it will be mopped up in time.

In mid-December, the first snow of the year fell in Z county.

The senior high school students consciously wrapped themselves into zongzi. It’s not a joke to catch a cold in this season, but keeping warm is important. When it snows, half of their class runs out to catch the snow by the railing at the door. .

Although Z County belongs to Suzhou Province, it is not very southern geographically. Snow is not uncommon, but life in the third year of high school is too boring, and snow is a rare pleasure.

There is no need to do exercises in snowy days. A group of people are watching the snow by the railing. Some people are not willing to squeeze to the door of the classroom, so they lie on the back window to watch. Sometimes they can see acquaintances in the corridor downstairs, and they are excited. shouted.

It's a pity that today's snow is not big enough to make a snowman, and it is estimated that it will be almost the same in the afternoon.

Ji Shi looked around. Class 10 next to them and Class 13 behind them all came out. Only Class 12 was quiet, as if the head teacher had just entered the classroom.

"It's time to eat roasted sweet potatoes this day." Ji Shi said with emotion.

It was still a bit cold to have bare hands outside, so Ji Shi brought a hot water cup, not a thermos cup that was very popular in the past two years, but a double-layer hot water cup that grandpa loved to use, it was just right for covering his hands, and it was not too hot .

In fact, it’s not too cold in the classroom, it’s colder outside. The girls in their class will buy that kind of special small hand warmer, which can be boiled in a pot, and the kind that can be warmed up by pinching the iron piece. Ji Shi still doesn’t know much about it. The structure of that kind of item just feels quite magical.

This kind of hand warmer is also very common in stationery stores.

Ji Shi felt that since he was a child, all kinds of stationery have become more and more fashionable, and of course the price has become more and more expensive. When Ji Shi was in junior high school, he had a popular classmate record, and now it is popular to exchange postcards and write letters to each other on postcards. He felt that these belonged to the category of normal stationery, but more than ten years later, the popular blind boxes and tapes fell into the range that he could not accept, because they were expensive even for an adult.

"I want to eat beef casserole." Zeng Tairan patted his belly, obviously he had just finished the second class, and he was quite full from breakfast, but now he was actually hungry again.

"I want to eat mutton soup." Yao Meng sighed, "By the way, New Year's Day is coming soon, right?"

The second half of the year really went by too slowly. It felt like endless exams. The National Day seems to have happened last year.

Everyone in their class was looking forward to New Year's Day. It was a long holiday anyway, so they could go home and not have to stay in school anymore.

Almost as soon as the last entrance exam was passed, everyone started counting the days on their fingers.

The teachers probably sensed their impetuousness, and joked with them that it's not Chinese New Year yet, so there's no need to rush.

Ji Shi also felt a little homesick.

He really hasn't been back for a long time, especially after taking two make-up courses of physics and chemistry, his review time for the three other subjects of Chinese and Mathematics has been compressed, so he can only spend more time on weekends.

...Although there is still half a month before New Year's Day.

"Did you go home on New Year's Day?" Zeng Tairan asked him.

Ji Shi nodded, "Yes."

"There seems to be an event on New Year's Day at the Civic Square, and there are many discounts at the Pedestrian Street. I want to go with you."

Ji Shi and the others are looking forward to New Year's Day, but Zeng Tairan is not looking forward to it. Z County is such a big place, even if he plays every day, he will already get tired of it. It would be great if he could come out with his classmates.

"Hey, there is also the Xishui bridge, there are many interesting stalls over there."

"Look for me, I'll go with you." Zhou Weile leaned over when he heard the words, "I'm too lazy to read on New Year's Day, let's go shopping there together at night."

Xishui Bridge is a bridge in the urban area. It is very close to the only pedestrian street in Z County. In this era, online shopping is not yet developed. The line from the pedestrian street to the downtown shopping mall is the bustling area and center of Z County. Girls on the pedestrian street like it. Small jewelry stores such as "Ayaya" and "Qisehua", as well as clothing stores such as "Metersbonwe", "Tang Lion" and "Jeanswest", which are very popular nowadays.

The boys like to go to the upstairs of a shopping mall in the pedestrian street to play. They can play the game of coin throwing.

There are many cheap foreign trade shops on the other side of the Xishui Bridge, where you can buy or rent. There is also a KTV nearby, which costs one or two hundred for a song.

"Then what are you going to do on New Year's Day, just stay at home?"

Ji Shi thought for a while: "A question?"

"What a boring life."

"My house is not very interesting. There is only one Malatang shop in the town."

The town next to Ji Shi’s family is not the central town after all. The town next to them in C has both brand stores and small jewelry stores. When Ji’s mother was young, she went to the next town to buy clothes, because the clothes sold by them were indeed more fashionable. .

Not to mention that their town was directly merged a few years later, and the good town became a neighborhood committee. Living there seemed to be inferior to others, and the people there complained.

The main reason is that some institutions have also been revoked, and you have to travel a long way to go out to do business.

People on their side were superstitious, insisting that the original town government had chosen a poor site, and that the gate of the town government was facing a bridge, saying that this was a dead end.

"Your home is indeed a bit far away, otherwise I can go to your home to play with you."

Ji Shi reckoned that Zeng Tairan probably didn't even know how to get around his town until now. People in County Z don't usually go to the countryside, and Ji Shi's family really belongs to the town farthest from the county town in Z County.

Ji Shi was very envious of his classmates who lived close by. He could usually get home by riding a battery car. Unlike him, he had to suffer from motion sickness or the cold wind. He didn't want to choose either.

……

After the entrance exam, the physics teacher Zhang also started to call Ji Shi to the office. He "borrowed" the papers practiced by the intensive class students from the intensive class for Ji Shi to practice.

"Your physics score is still a little low, there are still half a year left, and you need to work harder to raise it."

The old donkey was originally the leader of the teaching and research team, and he taught Ji Shi all the small stoves he could do in chemistry, and the old donkey also said that he didn't worry about Ji Shi's study, and hoped that Ji Shi would not be under too much pressure and learn step by step just fine.

After all, although Ji Shi's physics and chemistry are biased, they are not so biased that they are hopeless, and they can still be saved.

Ji Shi silently accepted the teachers' kindness. In fact, the last joint exam more or less strengthened his confidence in these two subjects, and now he can learn them more easily than before.

……

Of course, this is the case on Ji Shi's side, but the rest of the class may not be the same as him.

The third year of high school is when people’s hearts are the most impetuous. During this time, their class often spreads about who is in love with whom, and who is planning to go abroad. Which family is richer? I heard a lot of gossip recently.

Teachers may not be able to suppress it at this time. The pressure of the college entrance examination is too great. It seems that there is still a buffer period in the first and second grades. Once in the third year, the pressure of entering a higher school immediately hits the face, especially now that New Year's Day is approaching.

——2009 is 2009 after all, and it will be 2010 after New Year's Day, and they are the 2010 college entrance examination candidates.

Ji Shi could also feel the impetuous atmosphere in the classroom.

A few days ago, a few boys in their class were caught climbing over the wall and leaving the school gate. When the old donkey criticized them, they all looked indifferent. This kind of thing could not have happened last year.

Ji Shi felt that occasionally he would feel tired of studying, so he wanted to throw the books aside and do something else. Repeating the same life every day was indeed too boring.

But in the end, reason overcame impulse. Now that he has learned the results and paid off, why not continue?

When asked him to recall his last senior year in high school, he felt that he was in a state of mind-wandering at that time, his mind always drifted to other places, and it was difficult to concentrate on his studies.

But he had already suffered once, and he didn't want to repeat that process again.

……

Ji Shi's life in Z is still very peaceful. There are 5 test papers per day, plus various reference materials, and the days are busy and fulfilling. Every Monday, he listens to the speeches of the principal and the teaching director under the national flag, and takes time to play table tennis in the afternoon.

Although the entertainment life is lackluster, they also watched a lot of movies. "Painted Skin" and the theme song "Painting Heart" sung by Jane Zhang are also very popular songs-now they can still hear a lot of good quality songs in a year , After a few more years, the songs will become worse and worse, and they don't even know what to sing when they go to KTV.

In the entertainment news, "October Besieged City" is about to be released. Ji Shi remembers watching this movie, but it seems that he didn't watch it in a movie theater, but watched a pirated version. There are still many high-quality movies and episodes at this time Yes, in the next few years, he can only go to the cinema to choose bad movies or movies that are a little bad.

Of course, most of Ji Shi's time is still spent on study.

He spends relatively less time on mathematics and English. He has entered the advanced stage of these two subjects, and he can do the usual exercises quickly and accurately, so the tutoring materials used by Ji Shi are also advanced versions. .

When dealing with Chinese, Ji Shi is more devoted than in the past few months. After all, he has discovered his own shortcomings, and it is impossible to let this subject drag his feet.

Recently, he has been learning physics and chemistry a little more easily. It's not that Ji Shi is satisfied with his scores in the entrance examination, but the results in the entrance examination allow him to treat these two subjects with a more normal mind.

Gradually understand the knowledge points bit by bit, and one day he will get a high score in the exam.

Ji Shi's belief was not lost.

He felt that when it came to the sprint stage of the college entrance examination, it was actually very difficult to give full play to what he had learned. How much he had learned specifically depended on his beliefs, and he had to hold on to the later stage.

But at this stage, the atmosphere in their class, including the entire third year of high school, gradually became a little dull.

The arrival of New Year's Day finally dilutes this atmosphere a bit.

—Obviously, the teachers didn't think so.

In the afternoon before New Year's Day, the school will be on holiday after the last class, and the teachers don't want to delay their holiday time. The teacher of the last class has not announced the end of the class, and other teachers have already lined up at the door of the classroom.

"Why are there still so many test papers, can't we take a good vacation?"

Zeng Tairan tilted his head and pretended to be lying down: "I want to see how many sets of papers are handed out!"

The answer is - two.

Each set of test papers is strictly in accordance with the standards of the college entrance examination, and there are additional questions for mathematics and composition for Chinese, which are placed in the hands of each of them like snowflakes.

Ji Shi first looked at the Chinese composition, a narrative essay and an argumentative essay. The narrative essays were not simple at all, they imitated the style of the college entrance examination papers in previous years, and they had a kind of empty-headed taste.

Ji Shi felt a headache when he saw this unreal composition.

He feels that the reason for his poor Chinese is that he is too real, and he can't make up a lot of stories without blushing and heartbeat. Senior three students will not be so clumsy as to create a plot of a bunch of relatives getting sick, but the nasty sentences are absolutely And ultimately.

Ji Shi fell onto the table with a "boom", startling Yao Meng, who was about to pass the test paper to Ji Shi.

The test papers of several subjects were handed out from the first row to the back one by one, without stopping, and a pile of them was collected in a short while. They were distributing the test papers, and the old donkey was on the podium to explain the precautions for the holiday, so that they would not go out of their way. Run in the river, wear two more clothes when it's cold.

"Like an old lady." Zeng Tairan whispered.

Just as he was talking, the old donkey's eyes drifted over to this side, and Zeng Tairan closed his mouth obediently.

The old donkey never heard!

Their class seems to be a bit late this time, the old donkey is still talking, and the students in class 13 outside have already been running vigorously in the corridor. It seems that they are really crazy, and they will be so high when they are on vacation.

The old donkey's words were even interrupted once because of this.

He also knew that everyone was in a hurry to have a holiday, so to make a long story short, he quickly finished what he wanted to say. Of course, the old donkey finally reminded them to do their own homework, and don't delay it until they come back from the holiday to copy someone else's.

The students who were mentioned felt like they had been shot.

Ji Shi rolled up the test papers. The vacation time is short this time. He only plans to bring the test papers and the practice of materialization, which are mainly homework assigned by the cram school teacher.

"on vacation!"

"Oh yeah!"

Although their class is not as early as class 13, it is relatively fast in the third year of high school. Many class teachers are still talking on the podium at the moment, which gives them a chance to swagger at the door of other classrooms. As long as you stand there, you will immediately receive countless envious eyes.

All teachers who procrastinate the day before the holidays are public enemies of students.

In class 11, they think the head teacher of class 12 is already very good, but they have an even better teacher this year, who delays every class, and the teacher who delays until the next class will have opinions on him, if the day before the holiday is like this The teacher's class is even worse, and the procrastination time is about equal to infinite.

Ji Shi admired the students in his class and felt that they all had good bladders.

Although it is a good thing for the teachers to be diligent, it is annoying to delay the class for too long, and their classes are not too many to finish, especially before the holiday, every minute of delay is a torment.

Ji Shi's schoolbag for this holiday was the lightest, with only a few test papers and materials. He walked from the classroom to the rental house. Many students in his class rented it there, and the group went home together.

Back at the rental house, Ji's father had already arrived.

He bought a new motorcycle not long ago, because the country implemented the policy of sending home appliances to the countryside this year, and the old motorcycle can be used to buy a new car. Ji’s father went to the vehicle management office to take a driver’s license test for the new car. They used to ride old motorcycles in the town They don't even take the driver's license test. On the one hand, they don't have this awareness. On the other hand, the old motorcycle is not worth a lot of money if it is towed away. It is not as expensive as the driver's license test.

Dad Ji is still very distressed about the new motorcycle. He has a driver's license and a license plate.

In the rental house area, quite a few people came to pick them up by car, and they belonged to a group of people with better living conditions in the townships. In Ji Shi's impression, the real coverage of cars seemed to be something after he graduated from university.

Both Ji's mother and Ji Shi were in a hurry to go back, and the three of them rode the motorcycle together. In fact, even if the motorcycle was new, it was still a bit crowded for three people, but Ji's father was definitely very good at riding a motorcycle. After reaching the asphalt road home, he drove at a speed that was not slow at all, and the wind was blowing on his face. Even though his face was tightly wrapped with a scarf, his ears were still red with cold.

The time to go home happened to be the most difficult time to drive on the road. It was not completely dark, the vision was easy to blur, and the hands were not as flexible as when the weather was warm. Fortunately, there were not too many cars on this road, and we drove for a little over an hour. They finally got home.

Ji Shi jumped on the cement field several times before he felt a little relieved.