Seventy Little Heads

After class, the students whose homes are close to the county will pack up and go home. Even if it takes more than two hours by car like Goudan, they rarely go back. It has been half a month since the beginning of school and they have not gone back. over it.If there is not enough food, I put some treasures in it before, and just carry it on my back to change.

Seven days a week, they only take one day off. If they want to go back, they will miss the last class on Saturday afternoon and catch the last bus.When it gets dark at home, I spend the night at home, and I have to prepare things on the next Sunday, then stay at home for half a day, catch the last bus to the county in the afternoon, go to self-study in the evening, and then go to class the next day.

So they don't have time at all. For half a day, they just go home to get thick clothes because they run out of food or it's cold. They probably can't even help with the work at home.

That's why there is a saying that it is not good to let children read too many books. First, it is too difficult to provide for them. Second, it is a waste of money to eat rice. There is no help in farm work, and they will just open their mouths and wait for food.

The dormitory is more than half empty. There are only five people in the big dormitory for fourteen people.Qizhi and Dafu didn't go back this week either, they still had the food their father gave them, and the family said it was the fare for the car, so they could get back less.Because the two of them often visit Goudan, they have an unexpectedly good relationship with the people in Goudan's dormitory, and there are two of them in their class. He told them that they would come to sleep in their beds at night, and they agreed Let them come and sleep for the night.

When those few returned home, they brought their own pillows and spent the night here.Boys don’t pay much attention to it. Some people care about hygiene. Some people don’t have their own mothers to help them clean up. Their lives are no different from pigs in a pigsty.For this reason, Wang Xuan often has to keep the windows open in the middle of the night, just to make the smell lighter.

They gathered in a dormitory and bought enough food for two days on the same day. The cafeteria was not fired on Sunday, which meant that those who stayed in school had nothing to eat.I have to buy back the meal ticket for the steamed corn bread on Sunday, and then I will eat this on Sunday. I can barely survive the day, and I will have to eat hot food when it is re-steamed on Monday. If I don’t buy it, I will starve all day.Thinking about the taste, Goudan didn't want to try it a second time. He was inexperienced at first, so he got through like this.

Qizhi is obviously very excited to live with Goudan and the others. After all, they are friends who have played together since childhood. They can talk until late at night in bed, until they can’t open their eyes and forget what to say. Sleep until it's over.

You don't need to do morning exercises or read early. Goudan can run a few laps on the playground and play for a while in a single pole.During class time, Goudan would come over for a few laps after self-study at night, or just to enjoy physical education class. Only on Sundays can he vent his excess energy.The playground is very simple, all of which are dirt floors with sparse weeds growing on them. They are usually trampled by students so that they can't lift their heads.The rows of big trees on the side are obviously not young.

Usually the whole school does morning exercises here, and the scale is not small.In the physical education class, the students sweat like rain on the old basketball between two simple backboards, and they just have a lot of fun.As for the female students, with a rope, they can play for half a day.

Goudan shook the sweat from his head, which was wet, with his head resting on his arm, squinting at the road back to the dormitory.

In late September, the water from the faucet was just comfortable for bathing, and I wanted to take a shower when it was turned on.Wang Xuan ran over and locked it up: "Brother Goudan, wait for the sweat on your body to dry before taking a shower. Taking a cold shower early in the morning is not good, and you will have a headache in the future."

"Will we do it?" Goudan didn't agree with Wang Xuan's statement, but he didn't insist anymore, and went back to the dormitory.People like them shouldn't get sick easily, right?

There is a bathhouse near the school, and you can spend a few cents each time you go there.But it is summer now, and there is a faucet for people to wash at the corner of the dormitory. Under normal circumstances, boys can wash water in the corridor near the sewer, and the water will flow out along the waterway.Anyway, they are all boys, and there is nothing for everyone to avoid.

The girls' dormitory is at the other end.It is convenient for boys to take a shower, but girls can only fetch water and go back to the dormitory, close the door and take turns washing near the door, and sweep the water out after a while.

Qizhi and the others haven't woken up yet, sleeping soundly, Goudan murmured to Wang Xuan, "He was the one who talked most energetically last night. It seems that he won't be able to wake up today. Let's go out and leave the keys for them later." Just do it."

"Give it to Zhang Zhiguo." Although Qizhi is their good partner in the same village, but they are not from this dormitory, it must be suitable for the people in this dormitory. Zhang Zhiguo is from this dormitory, and he is also honest and reliable. It's fine for him to take it.

Goudan and others are not so steaming, and the sweat dries up a little. After the sweat outlet is closed, take a basin to catch the water at the faucet, and wash it from head to toe.Feeling comfortable, I went back to the dormitory, wiped my body casually, put on clean clothes, and hurriedly washed and dried the clothes I changed on, otherwise I would not have to change at that time.

Wang Xuan woke up a few people in the dormitory and told them that he and Goudan were going out for a walk, but because he was too excited to chat, he said that he would not go around with them today and wanted to sleep.Wang Xuan knew this would happen a long time ago, so he gave Zhang Zhiguo the key and went out.The gang probably had to sleep until noon.

"Yesterday I said where I was going today, but now I'm hugging the bed, and I can't even wake up. I woke up." Goudan kicked Qizhi and Dafu twice, and the two opened their eyes, moved and turned over to sleep up.

"Okay, let's go." Wang Xuan took the good things and dragged Goudan away.

The half-asleep and half-awake people in the dormitory finally breathed a sigh of relief, the dormitory was quiet, and they could continue drinking tea with Duke Zhou happily.

The two walked and ate hard steamed buns, "Where shall we go first?"

"Turn around first."

When I first came here, I felt that the county seat was so big, and I was worried that I would lose my way. After staying for a while, I found that the county seat is actually not that magical.It's just a place much bigger than their village.The road is still the same road. If you don't go into the alley and get blocked, in fact, those few roads are accessible anyway, and they will soon be walked all over.It’s just that people in the city have to name the roads. This road and that road sound bluffing, but they are actually one road or intersecting roads, and different road sections are called different names.

"I heard that someone is stealing and selling things on Revolutionary West Road. I don't know if it's true. Why don't you go and have a look?"

"Then go have a look."

"Do you think that is a geography teacher?"

Goudan took a step forward and poked his head out, "It's really him, what's the old man doing?" The bald geography teacher walked in a hurry, wearing a long-sleeved jacket in hot weather, which was bulging inside.

"It looks like I did something bad." Goudan gloated, and Wang Xuan patted him, "Stop laughing." Wang Xuan also poked his head out, only seeing the back of the geography teacher, and quickly disappeared around the corner up. "I heard that there are only two old couples in his family and a grandson."

"No, look at him like that. You can tell what's going on with your eyes. Who wears this on a hot day? He's trying to cover up something, but the more he looks like this, the more he can't hide it. He's sneaky. , who doubts it. If I were a policeman, I would just keep an eye on him and the like, one at a time."

"Is what the police did right?"

"No, but I'm just saying he's too obvious."

"Isn't it all fun to criticize people now? What can you do with the teacher?"

"It's a good idea. You know it all. It's their turn if you can't criticize and fight. Just throw it in prison for you and find someone to reason with."

"Then let's keep up? See if there is anything that needs help..."

Goudan has already stepped forward, "Follow up. Someone really is following him, I have seen that person."

The two went up in a hurry, the old man shrugged and hugged something, and ran to the east.Seeing that he was really being followed, Goudan hurriedly hid in a corner, and said in a pinched voice, "Run north, run north." People who were sneaking were sharper than usual, and their ears and eyes were always awake to facilitate observation.

As a result, with Goudan's voice, everyone realized that there might be something wrong, and they all shrank quickly, but Goudan didn't miss it, so they thought it was the old lady with sharp legs and feet.

"Who, who's there, come out." The plainclothes follower who was about to come for a ticket was pissed off. They had an ambiguous political attitude before, and they actually shrank for a long time.In addition to the needs of daily life, turn a blind eye and close one eye, grasp the big and let go of the small.But in the past six months, it seemed that nothing was going on, and it started to be strict again.

You can go to university, and a series of political instructions have been issued, but the original strict prohibition on buying and selling is still within the scope of strict prohibition.

"What are you doing?" One person called Goudan and Wang Xuan, "Did you see anyone?"

"Call us?"

"We don't know. I just came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a homework book." Wang Xuan had the homework book in his hand. Under such circumstances, it would be better for him to come forward than Goudan.

"Student?"

Wang Xuan nodded shyly, "Just going back to school."

"Go back, don't come out and wander around."

Like chasing something, he waved them away.The two of them lowered their heads and obediently obeyed. The corner alley that was considered "lively" just now was quiet, and there were no people passing by.

After confirming that there is no one around, Wang Xuan said in a low voice: "No wonder they choose this place. It's remote, but no matter where you run from, you can run out, and you won't run into a dead end. These people are very good at choosing places." Yes, how did the geography teacher know about this place?"

"Rats have their own ways, but no one will come here in the short term, thinking that they can see the "black market" they call. Zhang Xiaoming is just unreliable."

Leaving the chosen destination discouraged, "You said that you can reach the provincial capital by taking a train from the county station, so where do you go if you go out from the provincial capital?"

"I don't know. There is a city outside the city. Didn't it say on the geographical map that the shape of our country looks like a rooster?"

"In the future, let's go to Kyoto to study in college. Isn't Brother Zhou from the Educated Youth Station going back to Kyoto to go to college? If we also go to Kyoto to go to college, we can live in Kyoto, just like we are now."

Wang Xuan looked at him, turned his head and ignored him, Brother Goudan had dreams from time to time, and he liked to think wildly.