Just after the New Year, when people were still immersed in the warm spring of the New Year, a national leader passed away, and all the TV, news, and media broadcast "The Story of Spring" around the clock, and everyone was overwhelmed by a rare sadness. For the first time, the young "ghost brother" also experienced this unspeakable, indescribable sadness. The enterprising peasants took up their hoes, turned their grief into strength, and replanted the seeds of hope in the fields of hope.

"Brother Ghost" is not to be outdone, the warm and cold spring breeze, in his rhythmic running sound, jumps and oscillates, awakening every pore and every cell around his body. New life has burst out, hope in the spring wilderness wantonly, "5969 across the river to see the willows", a touch of goose yellow blooms on the canopy of the willow tree, like eyelashes, across the hillside, is sleepy early spring, open bright eyes, look down at the earth; embedded in the river embankment, drive away the dead vines and old trees, bloated cotton clothes, tear off the muscles and bones of the whole body, stretch and resurrect fiercely; the touch of goose yellow, jubilant, cowering children; disturbed, napping old man; urged, staggering old woman.

The annual high school entrance examination individual triathlon sports test is coming as scheduled. "Ghost brother" in the grade, originally two classes, a total of 67 people, from the beginning of the junior high school, all the way, so far there are only 28 candidates left, the rest of the students are dropping out of school, part of the call to join the army, part of the school has no results, drop out of school and go home to fend for themselves, and some follow the village contractor to do a small job, after getting the junior high school graduation certificate will go south to Guangzhou to work. This year is different from previous years, in previous years, the examination was in the town, at most it went to the county middle school, this year it has become a unified organization of all districts and counties, and each school leads the team to the city senior high school examination.

When he got up early in the morning, the "ghost brother" was about to go for a morning run, but was stopped by Liu Jianjian, who said: Save your strength, wait for today's exam, and come back and run casually! "Ghost brother" said: Just take a lap and warm up! After speaking, he broke free from Liu Jianjian's "encirclement" and ran out. Liu Jianshe smiled "hehe", shook his head, and went home to help pack the things to bring for the "ghost brother" - water cups, washed sneakers, etc.

After a lap, Liu Jianshe had already started to work in his carpentry shed, and Liu Chunyan also came back from the evening shift, sitting at the door with his eyes glazed. When the "ghost brother" saw her, he said, "Sister, why don't you go to sleep yet, why don't you sit here?" Liu Chunyan ignored him, went straight back to the house and brought him the things that Liu Jianshe had packed up, and specially told him about the precautions in the exam. After saying that, he dragged his tired legs back to the house.

The bus rented by Qiaotou School has arrived, and they will be gathered in Qiaotou. "Brother Ghost" packed up, walked out of the alley, and saw that the leading teacher Zheng Lijuan had already counted the number of people next to the car. Hurriedly ran over, Zheng Lijuan saw him, and said with a smile: Your father has prepared the things he wants to bring! "Brother Ghost" nodded, returned to the team, and under Zheng Lijuan's organization, everyone got on the bus in order with apprehension.

Municipal Senior High School, a century-old famous school, is known as "a park in the city, a college in the park". At the westernmost end of the city, sheltered by majestic mountains in the back, the main road in front overlooks the surging river, and in the west is a green rice field. A hundred steps behind the new brick gate is a wooden door, the eaves and arches on the gate are already eye-catching, "cut off the city west of the city"; the platform type is upward, divided into three, from the south to the north layer increases in height, the courtyard is divided, the functional area is divided, the symmetrical layout of the central axis is emphasized, most of the buildings have been changed to the 4-9 storey buildings of modern cement pouring, but the style of the ancient building is still retained on the beam and column modeling, the façade still retains the style of the ancient building, the pavilions and pavilions in the garden, the jade pavilion of the blue water, you can see the famous family everywhere, or the strong, or the square inscription, Lettering, the whole has a kind of "mountains and rivers to build fine, how much work to build the beginning", let people feel the profound humanistic heritage of this antique school. Looking at the overall plan of the school, the whole school is like the word "early", and like the word "li", more like an unearthed shoot, just growing new leaves, and thriving on the rich green land. From the school environment, teaching level and admission rate are all in the county with the "ghost brother" has seen, it is simply a world of difference, he himself has a feeling of "grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden", and suddenly an idea sprouted in his heart: he wants to be admitted to the city and become the "ghost brother" in the city.

Approaching lunchtime, it was the turn of "Brother Ghost" and the 28 people in the school, and "Brother Ghost" was the first to take the exam, looking at the regular battle, he was also nervous, but the final result was expected in the eyes of other students, but it was unexpected for him, and all three items were full marks. After the "ghost brother" finished the exam, she returned to the team, Zheng Lijuan came over and told him that a physical education teacher in the city told her just now that he was the only student with a full score and could be recruited as a sports student in the later stage. Zheng Lijuan gave a thumbs up, and "Brother Ghost" smiled happily. A little complacent, even proud of his majestic idea, he wanted to take a good look at the school and intuitively want to feel it first. He walked briskly, walked up to Zheng Lijuan, squatted in front of him, looked around, grabbed Zheng Lijuan's arm and said: Teacher Zheng - Aunt Juanjuan - I want to go to the school to go around! Zheng Lijuan thought a little and said: Yes - but you can't go out of the school, pay attention to safety, and you can't go to the third campus of the junior high school to make a loud noise, their school has been tested yesterday, and classes are still in class today. After speaking, he looked at the time again and said, "Give you an hour, and in an hour we will gather at the gate and take you to dinner."

"Brother Ghost" jumped up happily, pointed to the electronic watch on his wrist, and said: Okay - no problem, a word. After saying that, after bypassing the crowd, bypassing the playground like a rich green space, you will enter the teaching area of the whole school, which is well arranged, and everything seems so fascinating. The glass windows on both sides of the boulevard contain photos of the winning students of the third year of high school and the introduction of the awards, and he admires them as he walks, not forgetting to pull down the next one and the next word, as if every detail can make fresh blood and let him find a shortcut to achieve his goals.

Inadvertently, a person's name came into his sight - "Zhang Xuemei", at first he thought he was wrong, almost clinging to the glass, and looked at the photo several times, he dared to be sure that it was "Zhang Xuemei". Standing in front of the window, recalling the whereabouts of "Zhang Xuemei" that Zheng Lijuan told him at that time, he confirmed that this was her. There was an incomparable joy, and tears of uncontrollable tears were about to start flowing, "Ghost Brother" looked at the watch on his wrist, and he decided: There is still time to see her today. With no time to pay attention to the beautiful scenery of the school, he groped his way on, and it was indeed a separate campus. There were already students, sporadically out of the classroom, he quietly followed, originally trying to find the classroom hidden behind the tall bushes, but found the back door of the school. The back door, which was built by breaking through the wall temporarily, is quite different from this overall style, like a scar exposed, and I can't bear to look at it directly.

The school bell rang, and a large number of students poured out from behind the bushes, and under the guidance of the teacher, they all walked towards the back door where the "ghost brother" was. "Ghost Brother" also stupidly followed them out the back door. In front of me is also a river embankment, under the iron railing is the gurgling water from the mountain stream, and the rice fields that are furrowed into large furrows. He leaned against the railing and looked at the back door from afar, and the last group of classmates came out, still not seeing Zhang Xuemei. Disappointed, and even a little suspicious of his own eyes, he followed the last group of students along the embankment, seeing that it was getting farther and farther away from the back door, and farther and farther away from the school, and there were fewer pedestrians on the road.

Discouraged, disappointed, and desperate, "Ghost Brother", moving his heavy steps, he was a little suspicious of the photo he had just seen, and lost confidence in his eyes. At this moment, at the bend of the river embankment, he saw a familiar figure, overflowing tears blurred his eyes, he wiped his eyes, looked at it carefully, it was really Zhang Xuemei, but there were a few young people around him who were dressed in bells and whistles, looking at the hanger, wearing inappropriate clothes on his body, looking like a fox with an exposed tail wearing a wide tiger skin, dancing with teeth and claws, clumsy, trying to show his fierceness.