One by one, the snowflakes were scattered one after another, and the windless ones soon fell to the ground, and before they had time to be turned into water by the warm ground, a thick cotton shoe trampled it under their feet, and soon the feet wearing cotton shoes were lifted, and the snowflakes and snowflakes were squeezed into a piece, and then they did not distinguish each other, you and me.

Zheng Jianguo, who walked in the snow, looked calm and powerful, the yellow schoolbag with a five-pointed star was behind him, his two arms swayed from side to side according to a certain law, and a pair of eyes looked at the snowflakes in front of him, he was ready to engrave this scenery in his mind forever, and he would write in his diary in the future: " December 11, 1977 coincided with the first day of the college entrance examination and the first snow since the beginning of winter.

Although it is very likely that I will pass the college entrance examination starting today and become a college student who eats white flour steamed buns, these white flour steamed buns are also planted, protected, and harvested by the farmers on this land, and I am only a little luckier than these ancestors and my companions, who can change their destiny through reading, and at the same time contribute their own strength to the construction of the four modernizations. ”

As if reminded by the snowflakes in the sky, Zheng Jianguo knew that this was one of the few opportunities he could be admitted to university, because he had reviewed nearly a year ahead of others, and the review materials he used were also the "college entrance examination book" that was widely praised later.

In my memory, the hastily prepared college entrance examination exposed a lot of problems, the most important of which is that most of the candidates' knowledge level is extremely low, which has triggered the widely criticized "pre-selection system" in next year's college entrance examination: fresh graduates will take a mock exam before the college entrance examination, and the students who pass the exam will get the admission ticket to take the college entrance examination, and if they fail the mock exam, they will either graduate early or wait for the next year to repeat, and many students who have performed abnormally will lose the opportunity to be named on the gold list.

Of course, it is undeniable that this method directly eliminates the candidates with low knowledge, and the vast majority of the selected students are really good students, and the top students in arts and sciences in a place are selected for intensive training, and they have become the elite group of students, thus greatly reducing the expenditure of manpower and material resources in the college entrance examination, and at the same time, the application conditions are also limited to fresh graduates, not here except for some people with labels.

With a faint worry about not being able to pass the exam, Zheng Jianguo did not go directly to Shanxian High School in the examination room, but went all the way to the family compound of the supply and marketing cooperative, and he and Zheng Donghua both signed up for the college entrance examination, although the director was a little depressed, but those who could be admitted to the university at this time were looked at differently, and Zheng Donghua's score in the supply and marketing cooperatives this time was also the highest among everyone, so she nodded and stamped her registration form.

There are a lot of people who get up early, when Zheng Jianguo arrived, he didn't expect to see an unexpected person, wearing a dogskin hat with ear protection and an army green coat, riding a beam bicycle under his crotch, even covering his mouth tightly, after seeing him, he quickly inserted the car into the frame, but he didn't expect to slip under his feet and even fall to the ground with the car, and he got up after a while, and tossed off the scarf on his mouth and greeted: "Grasshopper——"

"Ahem. ”

Looking at Kou Bin with a sneer on his face, Zheng Jianguo's throat suddenly itched and dry coughed twice, turned his head to look at the second floor of the single dormitory, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Fourth sister, fourth sister~"

"Well, here it is coming soon. ”

A faint response came, Zheng Jianguo was a little confused about Kou Bin's state, and only a few sisters and family members called him a gnat, at most a few cadres in the brigade, but he didn't think about how he was so close to this product: "Brother Bin, why didn't you send Kou Yang to take the college entrance examination, why did you come here?"

"Well, Yangyang is on it, I just sent her over, don't you want to leave, you came. ”

Regardless of the pain, he hurriedly put the bicycle away, Kou Bin said and pointed up with his hand wearing big cotton gloves, and his mouth opened and closed with white breath: "My mother said that it is freezing this day, so you and your sister should not go home at noon, and the toss back and forth of the province can also save time to review, and go to my house for dinner at noon, this is not sent to invite you, this is an invitation from my mother." ”

The body language of shaking his head and tail is a bit exaggerated, coupled with what Kou Bin said is a little bit of a desire to cover up, Zheng Jianguo has some strange ideas, his attention was elsewhere before, and when he saw the appearance of this brother at this time, he knew that some things that he had ignored before were in the bud, but fortunately, he had already told Zheng Fugui Du Xiaomei before he came out, and he didn't go back to eat at noon but came to Zheng Donghua, and immediately said noncommittally: "That depends on what my sister means, and I can't be her home." ”

"Oops, that's great~"

The two big cotton gloves patted each other, and Kou Bin finished speaking with a happy face, and Zheng Donghua's voice came from upstairs: "Do you still want to drink some hot water?"

"I don't drink anymore, let's go quickly, go early to get familiar with the exam room early." ”

Zheng Jianguo opened his mouth quickly, and there was a sound of locking the door upstairs, and soon Zheng Donghua and Kou Yang went downstairs, but what made him dumbfounded was that there was a figure behind him, Lin Jinmei's little face didn't know if it was frozen or for other reasons, he looked at him and raised his hand: "Zheng Jianguo, didn't expect it?"

"Lin Jinmei, I didn't expect when you came back?"

Said hello not far away, Zheng Jianguo didn't expect to see this, Lin Jinmei followed downstairs and said with a smile: "We know that the young people are also the same as Kou Yang, the branch secretary waved his hand and went home to review on vacation, even those who were not preparing for the college entrance examination also returned to the city in this name. ”

"Oh, that's good, let's go. ”

Zheng Jianguo was stunned, said something and beckoned to Kou Bin next to him, but he didn't expect this brother to speak: "I'll send you to school and then leave." ”

"Hmm. ”

Nodding speechlessly, Zheng Jianguo took a few steps to Zheng Donghua's side, glanced at her face and said, "You haven't eaten anything cold in the past two days, right?"

"No, it's all boiled and then eaten and drunk. ”

Thinking of Zheng Jianguo's instructions before, I knew that this younger brother knew more than his father Zheng Fugui, so he kept it in his heart: "This opportunity is rare, and it may be the only opportunity for the college entrance examination——"

"Don't think too much, first pick up what you will do, empty it at a glance if you can't do it in the past, wait until you finish what you will do, and then go back and do what you are not sure of, and then finish what you are not sure of, and then do what you can't, and you will not write something on it according to your maximum understanding, don't be empty, and don't be empty for a question. ”

Interrupting Zheng Donghua's nervousness, Zheng Jianguo and several people walked in the wind and snow, as they got closer and closer to the school, there were more people on the street, most of them were candidates who were carrying schoolbags and heading towards the examination room, looking at these fellow travelers who were in a hurry, Zheng Jianguo smiled: "They are our companions, and they are also our competitors, that is, our opponents and enemies-"

"Well, we're enemies too. ”

Lin Jinmei blinked and picked it up, and several people looked at each other for a while, and they didn't say anything until they entered their respective examination rooms, Kou Bin threw down a sentence and ran: "I'll pick you up in two hours." ”

The college entrance examination time is from 8:30 to 11 o'clock in the morning, and it is conservatively estimated that he will stay in it for more than two hours, Zheng Jianguo watched this brother disappear quickly on a bicycle, and couldn't help but maliciously wonder if he wanted to show off his bicycle style in front of Zheng Donghua, turned his head and looked at a few people and said: "Now go to the toilet first, and you will not be allowed to leave the examination room within two and a half hours, unless you submit the paper in advance." ”

After Zheng Jianguo finished speaking, he carried his schoolbag to the men's toilet at the foot of the building, and several girls looked at each other silently to the women's toilet.

Soon, as the bell rang with the wind and snow in the sky, Zheng Jianguo got up and put his schoolbag on the podium like other students, and the misty figure outside the window flashed, three or four invigilators walked in, among them wearing a dogskin hat picked up chalk and wrote the exam discipline on the blackboard, and the other teachers watched and the two held the test papers, but they didn't let the candidates distribute them according to the memory from front to back, and soon the teacher who looked opened his mouth and said: " Now that the exam begins, it is forbidden to talk to each other, and if there is something to shout a report, otherwise it will be punished as cheating, everyone has waited hard for more than ten years, and whether to wear warm leather shoes or straw shoes in the future, now it depends on your real skills. ”

A thin piece of A4 paper and three blank sheets of paper arrived in his hand, Zheng Jianguo couldn't believe his eyes, flipped through the test paper three times, and a voice came from behind him: "This candidate, what are you doing?"

The eyes of the teacher who had just handed out the exam papers behind him were full of vigilance, Zheng Jianguo smiled shyly and did not speak, and looked back at the test papers a little speechless: "There are three questions in total, an essay, a word explanation, and a punctuated sentence break and translation into modern Chinese - then, start with the essay "Unforgettable Day"?"