Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

"I don't need to buy it." Ji Shichu didn't move. He was tall, so Mama Ji couldn't push him.The men's clothing section is on the third floor of the mall, and the two of them just stopped at the women's clothing section on the second floor. Ji Shi lowered his head and looked at Ji's mother: "Mom, haven't you bought clothes for a long time?"

"If I want to buy it, I won't buy it here. I have more than enough clothes from Cui Si's family." Before he could finish speaking, Mama Ji waved her hand and dragged him upstairs.

Cui Si is the shop that sells clothes at the crossroads in their town. When Ji Shi was a child, he basically bought clothes from his house. At that time, Ji’s mother was also young, and occasionally went to Cui Si’s house to buy clothes. I haven't seen her go.

The prices of clothes in the shopping mall are astonishingly high, Ji's mother would never buy them herself, but as long as Ji Shi wants to buy them, she will definitely pay for them.

The mother and son walked around the shopping mall, and Ji's mother found that Ji Shi was really not interested in the clothes here, so she finally picked up a piece of clothing. Just as Ji's mother wanted to comment that this was too old-fashioned for him to wear, Ji Shi asked : "How does my dad wear this?"

Mama Ji: "..."

She simply put the clothes back on the shelf: "He is a man, no matter how good he is, it will take three months!"

Dad Ji actually likes to wear new clothes. When he was a child, he lived poorly and couldn’t get enough to eat, let alone buy clothes. He picked up what others didn’t want to wear, so now when he bought new clothes, he would go to the poker table He swayed up and down twice, but his clothes were not carefully dressed, and the clothes he bought not long ago could be worn to work in the field. Mama Ji told him many times about this.

Ji Shi really didn't want to buy clothes, and Ji's mother had no choice but to give up. The mother and son called Ji's father who was wandering downstairs, and entered the Suning Appliance opposite.

This Suning Appliance has just opened, and the interior decoration is much more luxurious than the comprehensive shopping mall opposite, with bright lights and a wider space layout. In the eyes of Ji Shi, who is used to mobile phone brand stores ten years later, this store is natural. It can't be called fashionable, but ten years ago, Suning could be said to be very trendy.

After all, in this day and age, mobile phones in mobile phone stores are still locked in glass cabinets.

"It's all so expensive!" Mama Ji clicked her tongue as she looked at the price tag on the TV counter, "Why don't you find someone to fix your big butt at home."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ji's father inevitably showed a disappointed look on his face.

"Let's buy it." Ji Shi leaned on his mother's shoulder, "That color TV has a usb port, I can connect my MP3 to it to listen to English."

"Can it work?"

Ji Shi nodded: "Yes, didn't the salesperson also say that just now?"

"I can learn English."

After hearing what Ji Shi said, Mama Ji's mind naturally relaxed a little. The broken TV at home is not unbearable, but buying a new one is more convenient after all.

The family of three wandered around the TV counter, haggling with the salesperson and discussing which one was the most cost-effective. They didn’t understand it, so they all followed the salesperson’s introduction, and finally chose a color TV that was moderately priced and pleasing to the eye. .

The color TV is not a big ass, but a thin one, 32 inches, and it can be held in your arms. Ji's mother paid the money and asked Ji's father to hold the packing box, while Ji Shi crossed the road and went to the nearby Xinhua Bookstore.

This is the only Xinhua Bookstore in Z County. It is very large and has two floors. In the era when Z Middle School and the Jiaofu Store near No. 8 Middle School were discounted by other methods, Xinhua Bookstore still maintained its luxury and basically did not discount. Membership card It's only [-]% off, but compared to other small private bookstores, the books here are more and more comprehensive. There are four rows of bookshelves for youth novels alone.

“Zhen? "Cinderella" is a popular magazine among school girls. At this time, "Cinderella" is serializing "Small Smile is Alluring"... From this perspective, time does not pass so fast, after all, these novels It won't be made into a drama until about ten years later.

On the first floor are bestsellers and various professional books, as well as audio-visual products and learning machines. On the second floor are stationery and teaching aids, from the first grade of primary school to the third grade of high school in chronological order.

Only the rich and powerful Xinhua Bookstore can support such a scale. Generally, the teaching auxiliary stores are only for junior high schools or high schools, and the bookshelves are also messy.

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Ji Shi looked around on the shelf of teaching aids for the third year of high school. In addition to popular reference books such as Queen Xiong Rong Deji, Xinhua Bookstore will also stock some new unpopular teaching aids, including reference books issued by Phoenix Publishing, and a set of teaching aids. There are not many sets of papers, but Ji Shi seldom buys test papers, so he didn't hesitate, he chose a set for each subject and stuffed it into the basket.

For the remaining teaching aids, he mainly chose mathematics. He took a total of five books, two of which covered all the question types in the three years of high school. Ji Shi was not sure if he could finish these reference books, but he mainly used them for research. ——Wang Houxiong and Rong Deji have different ways of solving the same problem, and he wants to read the way of solving problems in other reference books.

Xinhua Bookstore also has reference books specifically for English listening. Ji Shi felt that this was not enough for daily practice. The listening practice in Z is mainly after the third class in the afternoon. Play topic.

After all, daily practice is different from entering the examination room, especially listening is the first module of the English test, and they may forget to listen to the questions in the usual monthly test because of nervousness, let alone the college entrance examination test room.

Ji Shi felt that the best way was to let his ears get used to it, and it was still necessary to buy a special set of practice questions.

Ji Shi took a total of 200 yuan from his parents, and he still has a little in his hand, which is almost enough to buy these books. The money for reference books cannot be saved, and Ji Shi has not yet saved to that extent.

He chose another box of refills, which are the cheapest Chenguang refills, 0.5 mm. If the paper is made quickly, one can be used up in a day.

The 0.38mm refill is more durable, but writing is too tiring, and Ji Shi doesn't want to suffer from that.

I brought a bunch of books back from the Xinhua Bookstore, plus the time I spent buying a TV, it was almost time for lunch.

When Ji's mother was still waiting for Ji in Suning, when she saw him coming, she raised her hand and asked him if he wanted to eat KFC.

Ji Shi quickly refused: "That's what children eat."

"Why don't you choose?" Mama Ji asked him, "Just choose the restaurant you like. I eat at home recently, and it's rare to come out."

"Go home and eat." Papa Ji said, "There is not a single restaurant in the city that is cheap, and the taste is not very good."

When Ji Shi first came to Z to report, it was Ji's father who gave it to him. He and Zhou Tinglu's father together brought their two children to the neighborhood. Besides the general shopping mall, there is a park nearby, and the county hospital is also nearby. So the flow of people is quite large, and some people set up a stall on the side of the road to sell boxed lunches, saying that they cost 5 yuan a piece, as well as chicken legs.

Dad Ji was moved when he heard it. Chicken legs cost 5 yuan a piece, which is too cheap. Now it costs 5 yuan to go out to eat dumplings.

After the lunch box was opened, the two adults and the two children were shocked.

They had never seen such a small chicken leg, and they didn't know if it was a chicken leg. It was not much bigger than a little finger, and there was no meat at all when they went down with chopsticks.

Then, they went to the toilet nearby and paid 5 cents.

Dad Ji talked about the 5 yuan box lunch for two full years to express his shock at the unreality of the county. Prepare 5 cents in change in case you need to go to the bathroom.

"How about we go to the town to eat?" Ji Shi suggested.

Eating at home is of course the most economical, but it’s almost time for dinner, and when they get home, their mother will wash the vegetables and cook, and they won’t be able to do much work for a day.

Prices are expensive in the county, but cheap in the town. In fact, there are no decent restaurants in their town, but it is very convenient for a family of three to sit down and eat a bowl of dumplings and two buns.

Ji's father was driving his motorcycle, and Yuki was sitting in the back holding the TV. The back seat of the car was narrow. Under the strong suggestion of Ji's father and son, Ji's mother, who was the only one who didn't get motion sickness, took the car and drove from the county to the town. minibus.

"Is it easy to hug? Do you want to tighten your grip?" Father Ji asked Ji Shi.

"No."

The sun has gradually come up, the motorcycle has been out in the sun all morning, and the seat is a little hot, Ji Shi supports the TV with one hand, and holds the seat with the other hand, fearing that he will fall off.

He and his father proposed to buy another motorcycle, but Ji's father only agreed to buy another electric three-wheeler, which greatly exceeded the budget for buying a motorcycle.

The town they lived in Ji Shi belonged to the northern line of County Z, and four or five towns were divided into one road. However, in a few years, these towns would merge and merge into the urban area. The name would sound better, but In fact, it was even more desolate.

People have left their hometowns for larger cities, and whether it is Z middle schools or junior high schools in towns and villages, fewer and fewer students can be recruited.

The number of times I see my parents is also less and less.

One year, due to a sudden accident, Ji Shi was unable to go home for the New Year. His parents comforted him by saying that work was more important. , last year he was not at home for the New Year, she and Papa Ji looked at each other, and they didn't even bother to clean up the house, so it was a sloppy New Year.

The motorcycle whizzed along the road, passing by the junior high school in their town, Ji’s father ran a small restaurant next to the junior high school, the boss sold steamed buns and flatbreads in the morning, and also made dumplings, basically dumplings at noon, but there were not many people who ate them. Many, only empty tables in the hall.

Mama Ji ordered three bowls of dumplings, plus a steamed bun. They were not small steamed buns like those in the south of Jiangsu Province, but big, firm meat buns. The gravy was soaked into the skin of the buns, and it tasted very delicious after a bite.

The geographical location of Z County does not belong to Yangzhou, but it was indeed under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou in ancient times, and the cuisine is also deeply influenced by the style of Huaiyang cuisine.

At least in the future, when Northeast dumplings are rampant in the takeout industry, Ji Shi still misses the taste of hometown dumplings, and feels that even the taste of dumpling soup is unforgettable, but unfortunately he almost never ate it after graduation.