Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

After returning home, Ji Shi finished his English test paper as quickly as possible, and even went through the final test paper. He wrote more than ten test papers of the same subject at once, and Ji Shi couldn't help feeling a little dizzy. But the exam papers for the holidays were not as difficult or perverted as the final exam papers. In the final exam papers, Ji Shiguang had memorized several pages of new words.

So after finishing the English paper, Ji Shi was not in a hurry to start other subjects, he went to memorize vocabulary.

This is better at home. It is very convenient to memorize. I don’t care about memorizing whatever I want. I don’t care about singing, but I have to avoid it more or less in rental houses and dormitories.

The English paper at the end of the semester gave Ji Shi a big blow. He always felt that his English was pretty good and he didn't need to spend time reviewing it. But this time, he found that he couldn't do anything about the questions he didn't know.

And when the amount of wrong questions accumulated to a certain amount, even if he is better at this subject personally, he will inevitably feel panic in the examination room.

He memorizes vocabulary very carefully, holding the idea of ​​​​accumulation, even if he will not be able to use it in the next exam or even the college entrance examination, but accumulation is a process that makes him feel comfortable physically and mentally, and it is the joy of learning itself.

According to Ji Shi's experience, generally after he learned a new word, he would see it again very quickly afterwards.

Holding the vocabulary book in his hand, Ji Shi walked from the door to the back of the house, chanting words, as if he was chanting a scripture.

There used to be three ginkgo trees in their yard, but two were cut down at the beginning, and the last one was also cut down when he was in high school, leaving a bare tree stump. Dare to run behind, because there is green moss under the wall, if you step on it, you may slip and fall.

In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.

Ji's father and Ji's mother cleaned everything that should be cleaned in the house, even the windows of Ji Shi's room were wiped clean, and there was no trace of dust, but his house was decades ago when Ji's father and Ji's mother got married. It was built with old-fashioned glass, which is uneven to the touch now, and even if it is wiped clean, the vision is not clear.

Ji Shi didn't do anything to help. He could only help his father brush the paste when pasting the Spring Festival couplets, put them on the corners of the Spring Festival couplets, and hand them to him when his father stepped on the stool to paste them.

Ji Shi’s Spring Festival couplets when he was a child were all handwritten, with black letters on a red background, and the words meaning home and all things are written on them. Now they have become gilt words on a red background. The fashionable value is about zero, but rural people like it, and they post The gold one does make the room brighter.

Ji's father posted it from the big house to the room, and from the room to the kitchen.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, I have to burn paper for the ancestors of the family, praying for the blessing of the ancestors, and Ji's father has to take Ji Shi to the grave. Basically everyone in their village group has the surname Ji, and the ancestral graves are all in a corner in the west of the village. Ji's father and Ji When I went out, the road was just thawing, and my clean shoes were covered with mud.

Along the way, they can also meet neighbors and their own family in the village. Everyone stops and chats for a while and then leaves soon.

Father Ji and Ji Shi walked one behind the other. It's not that they can't stand side by side, but the path in the village is too narrow. If one of them walks in the middle of the road, the other will fall into the ditch.

It hasn't rained much recently, and there is no water in the river ditches. The river dam is full of dead branches that were thrown up before. Instead, the weeds grow the most ferociously, covering the road.

On the road, Dad Ji would talk about the news he watched recently, as well as the miraculous things that happened in the village recently, and let Ji Shi guess who did what.

Ji Shi could guess it when he was young, but now he has less contact with the people in the village. He has forgotten the name of many people, so naturally he doesn't know anything. Ji's father will reveal the answer to him with a smile at this time.

When they go to the grave, they take one way, and when they go home, they have to take another way. They usually go north on the road at the east end of their house, and then go back on the road next to the second aunt's house. My uncle also just came back from the grave, and said hello to Ji Shi's father, Ji Shi, and Ji's father asked Ji Shi to go home first, and then go to the second aunt's house to play after returning home.

This is their tradition, and it is also a rule, and Ji's father and his generation have always strictly abided by it.

After returning home, Mama Ji had cooked the fried rice, and they ate this for breakfast. This is also a custom. Fried noodles are not the vermicelli or vermicelli that most people think of, but large pieces of noodles, and leeks It tastes very delicious when fried together. Ji Shi can't taste what kind of powder it is made of. It feels a bit like the jelly sold in the market.

"Go and see the greenhouse after dinner." Ji's mother reminded Ji's father, "Don't go to the table in the afternoon, and don't go if others call you. You still have something to do at home."

"Did they have nothing to do at home after the Chinese New Year, and still set up the table?" Ji Shi asked curiously.

"Didn't the table be set up as soon as a few people shouted? We have a lot of idlers here."

Going to the table means going to the card table. During the Spring Festival, there is almost no rest from the first day to the seventh day of the new year, and people go to the table every day.

Ji’s father doesn’t actually go there too much, but there is little work in winter. When he has nothing to do, he will go to other people’s houses to look at the cards. The more the more enjoyable, but less people are not interesting.

But their house is not completely idle. They have to keep an eye on the shed when it grows in the house. When the temperature rises, they need to open the shed to ventilate and cool down. With more experience, Ji's father and Ji's mother got angry so many times when they had no experience before.

But it should be long or long after being angry.

Ji’s father always felt that he had no financial luck. The harvest of crops depends on the sky. It will not be good or bad every year, but when their harvest is good, the price of things is low, and when the price is high, they either do not grow or grow less. .

The family as a whole was still short of money, and Ji Shi was in his third year of high school, so they had to focus more on Ji Shi, and they had to neglect the fields.

But this year is different from previous years.

After the parent-teacher meeting, Ji's father felt full of energy and motivated to do whatever he did. Everyone he met in the past two days had a smile on his face, as if he had won a lottery.

When others asked him if something good happened to him, he didn't say anything, but he was still cheerful all day long.

After this late breakfast, Ji's mother stopped cooking at noon, because today is New Year's Eve, and the New Year's Eve dinner was eaten earlier than usual.

"Always don't look at the test paper all day long. If there is anything you want to eat, go to the supermarket with your sister to buy it."

"The supermarket was crowded to death. My sister came back from the supermarket in the morning and said she didn't want to go there anymore."

There is only one supermarket in the town. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a sea of ​​people during the festive season. There are a lot of people lined up at the checkout counter. Almost everyone’s spending power is displayed in the past few days. Those who buy snacks for children and New Year’s Eve for the elderly All of you are welcome to line up.

Of course, it's just a rudimentary version of the supermarket in town right now.

The supermarket in their town is still run by locals, and they still sell traditional food and daily necessities. After two years, the supermarket was taken over by outsiders, and a fresh and fruit section was opened, and all the vegetable markets in the town were run by it. Down, the locals buy everything in the supermarket for convenience, and the price in the supermarket is cheap, so the vegetable market can continue except for the wholesale business, and all other hawkers have changed their careers.

Ji's mother also bought some melons, oranges and apples before, but she guessed that these were too simple and Ji Shi didn't like them.

In fact, Ji Shi is far less particular than she thought, he also eats fruits and melon seeds, but he doesn't like to eat the original melon seeds, he likes to eat flavorful ones.

"I just memorize words, and I haven't read the test papers much these two days." Ji Shidao, "However, the amount of test papers we handed out this time is too large, so we have to finish writing quickly, otherwise it will be too late when the school starts."

Ji's mother didn't talk about him anymore, but urged him to finish the test paper quickly: "You can play for a day if you finish writing early, and you don't even have to play if you don't write, that's too tiring."

She really felt that Ji Shi was working hard. When she was in the rental house, she was dazed and half asleep until she woke up. Ji Shi was still doing homework with the desk lamp on. No matter how cold it was, he would just sit there all the time.

Ji's mother didn't dare to urge Ji Shi to go to bed quickly, for fear of affecting his train of thought.

"Is there anything I can do to help? I cut up your taro?"

"No need." Ji Ma chased him away, "Call your dad over and ask him to cut it for me."

Ji Shibi made an OK gesture: "Do you think my dad will be at the table today?"

"He dares."

Ji's father still knows what day it is today, so he helps Ji's mother at home all afternoon, picks up and picks up, and drives his motorcycle to the supermarket from time to time to buy something. Their home is not far from the town, and it takes only a few minutes to ride a motorcycle. .

When Ji's father came back, he brought Ji Shi a big bag of snacks.

He probably still regarded Ji Shi as a child. After throwing down a big bag of snacks, he actually threw a big gift bag to Ji Shi: "I see that everyone is buying it, so I'll buy one for you too."

Ji Shi: "...Okay."

The Want Want gift pack is also quite delicious. There are snow cake crackers, Langweixian, and a bag of Wangzai toffee and QQ candy. Ji Shi opened the bag and ate it. He received a message from his cousin on his mobile phone. information, told him to go to her house to eat spicy strips.

Ji Shi refused on the grounds of homework.

In terms of time, he was really in a hurry to work on 60 sets of test papers. After finishing 12 sets of English test papers, he still had 48 sets of test papers.

If it is the normal school start time, of course he can make it in time, but after the fifth day of junior high school he has to make up physics and chemistry, so Ji Shi must at least finish the two sets of papers of physics and chemistry before the fifth day of junior high school, so that it is convenient to ask the teacher when making up lessons .

His time is running out.

"How many test papers have you finished?" Zeng Tairan asked them, "Dear brothers and sisters, would you like to help your good friends?"

"I don't want to."

Huang Yaqiong's straightforward answer blocked Zeng Tairan's words.

Through communicating with his friends, Ji Shi discovered that his progress was actually the slowest among the group of people. Yao Meng had already finished writing English and mathematics, Zhou Weile had finished writing physics and chemistry, and even Zeng Tairan had finished writing English and chemistry. .

Ji Shi: "What are you all doing during Chinese New Year?"

"My head is hanging on the beam and my buttocks are piercing my ass. This Spring Festival is not happy at all." Zeng Tairan posted several crying faces in succession, "My mother has been staring at me, and she won't let me go out."

The lives of senior high school students are not very comfortable. At any rate, Ji Shi can still wander around at home, while the rest of the state is basically reading books and test papers.

Ji Shi also felt that he couldn't hang around any longer. According to his current progress, he might not be able to finish the test papers, not to mention that he also brought a lot of books home from school, so he wasted his labor if he didn't read them.

Before Ji Shi brought books home, he really didn't read them. Basically, he took as many books home and brought them back to school intact. He used to think that reading books was useless because the contents of the books were too simple, and the questions in the test paper needed to be read. Much more difficult than the examples in the book.

But gradually he discovered that books are the foundation of everything, and even if he doesn't have a complete grasp of the knowledge points in the books, it is impossible to do well in the questions.

So now he brings books with him when he goes home, and flips through the books while reviewing, especially the two subjects of physics and chemistry, almost all the books are broken by him.

Ji Shi's second subject is mathematics. The main reason is that he can write the math papers the fastest. After all, his foundation is here. After reaching this level, it is not easy to write slowly. At the beginning, Ji Shi did not enter the state and wrote fill-in-the-blank questions. It was a little sluggish at the time, but the more he went on, the more efficient and faster he became, especially when thinking about the last big question, his concentration increased infinitely, and he could finish writing a test paper very quickly.

He stretched himself and continued to write the second test paper.

His room is also very simple, without a special desk, and he uses an old table for eating, but he will be able to have his own desk after the new house is built at home, even though he has graduated from high school by then.

This table is a bit short, so it is equipped with a lower stool, so that the shoulders will not be too sore when solving problems.

On the wall next to the table, from south to north, the certificates of awards that Ji Shi received after junior high school were pasted one by one, and this time the three good students were also specially pasted by Ji Shi's father.

The school is also advancing with the times, and the awards all have a red casing, not just a piece of paper, but Ji's father deliberately threw the casing aside, pulled out the paper and pasted it on the wall.

Ji Shi: "..."

One can imagine how relatives would praise him when they came to visit him.

But this is his father's vanity after all, so he can bear it for a while.

……

I have to say that the teachers in the graduating class are still very careful in preparing the test papers. The difficulty of each test paper is gradually increasing. The English is the same, and the math is also the same. The second set is more difficult than the first set.

Ji Shi only wrote two sets of test papers in one afternoon, and they were all filled. The difficulty of these two sets of math papers was not enough for him.

It was getting dark, and just as Ji Shi finished writing, Ji's mother, who had been watching him, called out: "Have you finished writing the paper? I'm going to eat later."

This year's New Year's Eve dinner was also early. At around 5 o'clock, there was the sound of setting off firecrackers nearby. One after another, it was time for Ji Shijie to solve the last math problem. When he finished writing the test paper, the people who set off the firecrackers That's more.

All the lights in Ji's house were turned on from the big house to the kitchen. It was almost the brightest time of the year. Candles were lit in the big house, and firecrackers were set off on the cement field.

Ji's mother signaled Ji Shi to stay away.

The next moment, the firecrackers were ignited, and flew into the sky with a bang, making a loud "bang", and exploded in the sky again, leaving a shadow of smoke at last.

Ji Shi covered his ears and watched his father set off several firecrackers in succession.

After the firecrackers were set off, the New Year's Eve dinner was also served. Ji Shi's family had a simple population, and the New Year's Eve dinner was also simple, with only six or seven dishes.

Stir-fried beef, fried mutton, choked shrimp, taro soup... Dad Ji went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of wine in style, and poured some for each of them.

"Eat taro and meet good people."

"Eating fish is more than enough every year."

"I hope that in the new year, I will always be healthy and happy."

Ji's father smiled and stuffed him a red envelope: "I shouldn't give this red envelope, but it only happens once a year. I'm happy when you're happy."

Ji Shi lowered his head, hiding his urge to cry.

In the Chinese New Year, a day when you can pray for wishes to come true, his parents only hope that he will be healthy and happy, and they never said a word that they hope that he will study hard and get into a good university.

It has always been like this.

No matter how bad his future school is or how many jobs he can't compare to others, his parents only hope that he can be happy every day, and don't ask him how much money he makes, or how much glory he brings to them.

They don't have the custom of parents giving red envelopes to their children. Red envelopes are usually given every other generation, but this year he still received red envelopes from his parents.

Ji Shi felt that he was really lucky. He had received infinite love and tolerance from his parents. Going back to ten years ago, because he had the thinking of an adult, this feeling became clearer.

Why didn't he understand it before?