The rest just now made Lao Mu's spirit multiply a lot, he stood up and looked around, although there were not a few people who came to see the list, but he didn't see a familiar face from the crowd. Occasionally, three or two people gathered under the corridor and whispered something, and most of the students' parents and teachers stood there alone, occasionally casting a hopeful look at the office located southeast of the corridor.

Under the gallery, two school staff members used brooms to clean up the dust at the poster and make preparations before the poster. The crowd watching the list slowly concentrated under the corridor, and Lao Mu also locked the bicycle, stepped into the crowd, and stood at the front of the line. The two cleaning staff had begun to carefully unfold the two large pieces of red paper and paste them smoothly on the wall of the gallery.

The eyes of everyone in the crowd were staring at the two big red papers, in addition to the names, the corresponding admission ticket numbers were listed in front of the names, obviously, the admission ticket numbers were arranged in order, as long as there was an admission ticket number, it was very convenient to consult. But at this time, the crowd of people who watched the list did not dare to be sloppy, every row and column did not let go, and the seriousness of reading was even more careful than the rare words found when consulting the dictionary, and even more, read out the name one by one, the scene was tense and excited, and when they found the name they wanted to see, from time to time someone said to themselves: "Okay, it's good to be admitted!" and then left with a happy face, and when he didn't find the name he was looking for, he would hear a long sigh, and then leave expressionlessly. Lao Mu exerted his instinct to read quickly, and quickly found the familiar "245" exam number through the admission ticket number, which was Mu Zhen's exam number, and naturally his son's name was also behind it, he felt a little relaxed, his eyes were slightly moist, these days, the hard work paid off, and he finally got the answer he wanted.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted, "I want to check my scores, there is a problem with my students' grades!" and several others echoed at the same time.

"Check the score!" Lao Mu's heart moved, "How many points did my son take, and what is the score line, there is no one on this list, check the score, follow them to check and see his son's ranking on the list!"

"It should be checked, it should be checked!" Lao Mu echoed in an affirmative tone.

As soon as Lao Mu finished speaking, he felt that his shoulder was slapped heavily, and Lao Mu hurriedly turned around.

"Liu Wenjing, you also came to see the list, what's the matter? Your child is also coming to take the junior high school entrance examination?" Lao Mu asked happily to the man in front of him who patted him on the shoulder.

"Old classmate, if you don't speak, I really haven't noticed you! My eldest child is in the second year of junior high school, and the youngest is still in the third grade of primary school. The classmate who was called Liu Wenjing by Lao Mu said brightly.

"Have you been admitted?" asked Lao Mu a little eagerly.

"It's on the list. Liu Wenjing responded with a happy face.

The middle-aged man in the crowd shouting "check the score" just now waved his hand: "Who wants to follow to check the score, go to check together!"

As he spoke, he walked out of the crowd and walked with a few people to the office not far from the gallery.

Lao Mu gently pulled Liu Wenjing's hand: "Let's also go to check together!"

Liu Wenjing understood, and the two quickly followed the team checking the score.

Before the two had time to say a few words, they followed the scoring team into the school office, and the space of the two offices made the scoring team crowded into a foothold.

"What's the matter with you?" asked a teacher in the office, a little surprised.

"We have objections to the list on the list and want to check the scores of our candidates!" The middle-aged man who was still shouting "check the score" just now replied directly.

"It's okay to check the scores, but it's not convenient for so many people, so you guys wait outside for a while, I'll apply to the leader and post the scores, how about it?" said the teacher who asked just now.

"Yes. Several people in the crowd immediately agreed.

"Then please wait outside for a while! I'll ask!" said the teacher, holding out his hand to the door.

The crowd squeezed into the office slowly diverted outward, and Lao Mu pulled Liu Wenjing out of the office at this time and returned to the shade of the tree in front of the corridor.

"You're also teaching at the school now?" asked Lao Mu, a little puzzled.

Lao Mu's classmate, whose academic performance in the class was not bad with Lao Mu, was also the most optimistic classmate of the teacher back then, but because there were many brothers in the family at that time, and the family's economic conditions did not allow it, so he went home to help his family farm before finishing high school. Liu Wenjing's home is located in the southeast of the county, while Lao Mu's home is located in the northwest of the county.

"I've been teaching for almost 20 years! Not long after I got home, the team asked me to substitute teach at the school, and it's been 20 years!" Liu Wenjing said very seriously.

"What about you? I haven't asked you to come to see the list, is it for your own child?"

Hearing the old classmate's question, Lao Mu suddenly felt that his face was very bright, and he replied in an affirmative tone: "Yes!"

"Has the child been admitted?" asked Liu Wenjing tentatively.

"I've been admitted!" Lao Mu replied easily.

"Then what are you going to do with the results?" Liu Wenjing was a little surprised.

"I just want to know how the results are?" Lao Mu guessed that his son's grades should be good, so he said with a little pride.

"I'm here to read the list for my students, I've been teaching for 20 years, and I haven't met such an excellent student, so I recommended him to come here to take the junior high school, his parents don't have any education, and they are people who can only know their names when they are literate. But other people's children are self-taught children. I will definitely be able to become a great tool in the future!" Obviously, Liu Wenjing praised her student.

"Is it really a genius?" asked Lao Mu with a little envy.

"That's not, what a genius, we are a village, I know very well the situation of this child's family, the ancestors have not read for three generations, before going to school, no one taught him to read and write, but after entering school, the learning ability is very strong, a teaching will, sometimes the teacher has not spoken, he has mastered it himself, he was born in a farmer's family, if and in the city scholarly family, it is estimated that he will skip a grade. When Liu Wenjing talked about this student, her eyebrows really fluttered, and she was very excited.

"What's the name of this student?" Lao Mu was immediately interested when he heard the outstanding student.

"Liu Guanqun, this name was given by me after he went to school, when he went to school, he didn't have a tuba, everyone in the village called him a rotten egg!" Liu Wenjing was very confident in his name, and continued: "This child didn't have a name before going to school, but he was recognized as smart, when he went to school, he didn't have a name, and the teachers discussed giving him a name, I think such a smart child will be outstanding in the future, so I gave him this name!"

"This name is good and powerful!" Lao Mu said with a thumbs up.

"This Ziguang said that I'm a student, what are you doing now?" asked Liu Wenjing to divert the topic.

"Like you, I taught at the school later than you, but now I've been teaching for nearly fifteen years!"

"We are peers! Naturally, we can talk about it together, have you been in touch with your classmates over the years?" asked Liu Wenjing.

"After graduation, I don't have anything to do, I rarely go out, where is the connection?" Lao Mu was a little lost.

"For so many years, because I am in the countryside, I can't help my classmates, and secondly, I am classmates in the countryside, and I have a tight life with each other, and I can't help each other, especially with three underage children, how can I have the heart to go to the same school?"

"The situation between the two of us is similar, for so many years, I have rarely contacted the outside world, and now we are here again, it is also fate, when it is convenient in the future, we will contact more!" Liu Wenjing showed a helpless face and said with the same feeling.

As the two were talking, they saw the teacher who had just posted the list walking towards the gallery with a few pieces of manuscript paper, and they both realized at the same time that at the request of the list just now, the test scores might be posted immediately. The two of them walked to the front of the gallery in unison, and at the same time raised their legs up the steps under the gallery, squeezing in front of the few manuscript papers that had just been pasted.

Sure enough, it is the test score list, this time the score list is not arranged by the test number, but by the score from high to low, the first place in the total score, it is Liu Wenjing's student Liu Guanqun, and the total score is only one point away and ranks first, far more than the second place 20 points, and then look down, Lao Mu quickly found Mu Zhen's name, 25 points lower than the first place, plus repeated tie students, the total ranking of twelve. For this ranking, Lao Mu generally feels very satisfied, usually Lao Mu is most concerned about Mu Zhen's learning of Chinese and mathematics, and does not pay attention to the study of small subjects such as geography, so the score that really distances himself from others should be in this sixty points of small subjects.

Liu Wenjing obviously felt that his face was shining with his student's performance, but for Lao Mu, Liu Guanqun's name had been engraved in his mind, and he knew that his son was very likely to become a classmate with him, and having such a classmate was also a great encouragement.

After reading the results, the two squeezed out of the crowd.

"Your student is really a genius, so much more than the second place, it's really like your name, it's really a master. Lao Mu praised Liu Wenjing again.

"How much did your son take the exam?" Liu Wenjing looked at Lao Mu's appreciative expression and couldn't help asking.

"I just calculated, I scored twenty-five points less than your students, and the overall ranking is not bad, ranking twelfth overall, usually I neglect the study of children's small subjects, so the reason for losing points is also in these small subjects, so I am a little careless!"

Liu Wenjing also felt a little embarrassed when she saw the change in Lao Mu's expression, and responded with a smile: "Look, this is only the study of primary school, it cannot represent the learning of middle school, let alone the level of the future, this only represents the level of primary school, this achievement has become a thing of the past, for the children, the long march of thousands of miles has only raised one foot, and whether the real distance is still behind!"

Lao Mu nodded and smiled: "That's right, this is the beginning!"

"The farm work at home is not over yet, today I am at the request of the student's parents, to help me read the scores, the student's parents help me to do the farm work at home, I can't let the family wait, I have to go back to report the good news in the future! We will have a chance to talk in the future!" Saying that, Lao Mu hurriedly stretched out his hand, caught Liu Wenjing's hand, and shook it together.

"Okay, I should go back too, we have a chance!" After saying that, the two let go of their hands, pushed their bicycles separately, and rode out of the school gate together.

Seeing his son's results, Lao Mu was happy, compared with Liu Guanqun's results, it was a little worse, but Mu Zhen's overall level was still quite good, Lao Mu's heart brightened, "My son's grades are ranked twelfth in the county, and if it is better, it is almost in the top ten, it seems that my son is really competitive!"

"Hurry up and go home and tell your son and family the good news as soon as possible, so as not to make him anxious. Lao Mu thought and couldn't help but speed up the ride. Usually two hours away, but today it took less than an hour to ride to the lakeside commune station a few miles away from home, he suddenly thought that he should go to buy some meat to cook, to congratulate his son on his education, but also for the summer in recent days to replenish some physical strength, so he walked into the newly built farmers' market, and saw Zhang San who sold meat from a distance, a few meters away, so he hurriedly greeted: "Brother Zhang, please cut me a pound of lean meat!"

Zhang San, who sells meat, is a celebrity in ten miles and eight townships, he was originally a meat salesman in the commune food factory, and later the food factory contracted, this guy with a bright brain, contracted it himself, and put the meat stall in this new farmer's market, on his head, it is really not an ordinary good memory, he is not only familiar with the people of these ten miles and eight towns, but for the characteristics of each family's meat, the east eats more meat, and the west eats less meat, but it is all in his brain, and even who likes to eat which part of the meat, he can say clearly. I felt a little surprised to see Lao Mu come to buy meat today, although I often greeted Lao Mu, but it was rare to see this Lao Mu come to patronize his meat stall during the New Year's Day.

"Brother Mu, there must be some happy event or some distinguished guests coming to the door today!" Zhang San asked with a smile and enthusiasm.

"Don't really say it, let you guess it, my brother's family is really a happy event, my son was admitted to the middle school in the county, and my brother celebrates for his son!"

"Look!" Zhang San said, dancing the sharp knife in his hand easily, cutting off the ingots at the back leg of the pig, no more, no less, a pound, this knife skill is really not something that can be practiced for a while.

At this time, Zhang San's action, Lao Mu looked like a set of actions made by a martial arts practitioner, like flowing water, flawless.

Lao Mu paid the money, said goodbye to Zhang San, and continued to ride home. In less than ten minutes, Lao Mu, who was near the entrance of the village, saw Mu Zhen looking in the direction he was coming from on the side of the road, Lao Mu pedaled a few more times, and before he rode in front of his son, he shouted to his son like a child: "Admitted to the exam!"

Mu Zhen heard Lao Mu's shout, tears suddenly filled her eyes, and the tears couldn't tell whether they were excitement or grievances that had been held in her heart for a long time, like a mountain torrent, gushing out.

Lao Mu got out of the car, looked at his son's cheeks full of tears, his eyes were hot, he held back his tears, they didn't flow out, he held the handlebar with one hand, and pulled his son's hand with the other, and entered the courtyard gate together, and shouted to Xiuhua who was cooking in the kitchen: "Today I cut a piece of meat, improve it, and celebrate my son!" Lao Mu parked the car, took off the bag from the handlebar of the bicycle and sent it into the kitchen, and the family was not happy.