Just when the whole village was talking about Wang Tiancheng's pigsty built like a small house that people lived in, Mu Zhen would end his free life during the summer vacation. The freedom of this holiday is not due to his satisfactory score in the mathematics test, nor is it due to the good results of the first place in the county in mathematics, Lao Mu values Mu Zhen's English scores, although only one point is missing, but it has made Lao Mu very satisfied, it is this satisfaction, there is no imposition on Mu Zhen's daily learning activities, in the eyes of Lao Mu, Mu Zhen already knows how to learn, and is also a big child who likes to learn. Mu Zhen, who has been free for a short time, is actually not idle for a moment, and reading books has still become the greatest pleasure of the holiday.

The start of school is imminent, Lao Mu has a new idea for Mu Zhen's life in the new semester, Lao Mu privately believes that Mu Zhen takes up too much time on the way back and forth to study, he shrewdly calculates an account, goes home every day to eat and sleep, each one-way trip takes 20 minutes, every day is divided into morning, noon and evening, a total of six single trips back and forth, a total of two hours, so that these two hours of time are wasted on the way to school, and the corresponding reduction of study time is very unfavorable to Mu Zhen's learning. So he decided that when the new semester came, Mu Zhen would eat and live in school to reduce the time spent on the road.

There are still two days before the start of school, and Lao Mu officially has a showdown with Mu Zhen: "In the new school year, you have added physics classes, and your studies are relatively intense, don't go to school anymore, eat and live in school, so that you can save time for studying, and prepare the utensils for living in the school tomorrow." ”

For eating and living in the school, for Mu Zhen, it is no longer new, and he especially recalls the days of living in Gucheng No. 1 Middle School, but he is very disgusted with the school proposed by Lao Mu this time. There are two reasons for this: first, although the time is consumed on the way back and forth, it is equivalent to exercising, and since he was transferred to Binhu Middle School, he has seen a doctor only a handful of times, which is due to his own sports on the way to school; Although day study has such two advantages for Mu Zhen, but Lao Mu's words are in this family, that is, the "holy decree", and it is impossible to disobey, Mu Zhen understands that the result of discernment may bring something, maybe what kind of "nameless fire" is waiting for every family member?

Mu Zhen nodded at Lao Mu: "Then tomorrow I will go to school to see if I can make a bunk with my classmates, so as not to bring another bed!"

When Lao Mu heard Mu Zhen's answer, he didn't notice Mu Zhen's psychological changes, and he still used his paternalistic style to face the children who had grown up in front of him and had their own ideas.

Mu Zhen's life in the new school year at Binhu Middle School began. Mu Zhen lives with Liu Zhaoqiang, a classmate who played better last year. When I first came to the dormitory, it seemed slightly cleaner, just as the villagers often said "Maden Road in February and August", in February and August of the lunar calendar, the air is dry and dry, and the rainy wet road is less than noon, and the horse can go on the road, indicating that the wet road is drying fast. The sewage stains from washing dishes and chopsticks in the dormitory will dry quickly, coupled with the doors and windows that are often not closed, the ventilation is better, and the smell in the dormitory is not very obvious, Mu Zhen feels that she is still relatively happy to live here.

However, the good times did not last long, and the long and cold winter arrived. According to common sense, winter should be a dry season, but for the dormitory of Binhu Middle School, it is indeed rare to see a dry time, for the sake of warmth, the windows of the room are blocked by white plastic sheeting, and the sewage left by washing dishes and chopsticks is no longer as dry as in autumn, and the accumulation has made the dormitory damp, even if it is a harsh winter, when I return to the dormitory every day, the first thing is a musty smell to my face.

In such an environment, it is strange not to get sick, Mu Zhen has obviously added a lot of discomfort in the face of such an environment, his cold has come significantly more than last year, the doctor surnamed Lu in the commune health center not far from the school, when he sees him coming, he always asks first, "Why is it not good?" Although there is a "and" word, but for Mu Zhen, he feels a little embarrassed, but what can be done? The disease that was entangled with him seemed to accompany him like a fart, but despite this, he still had to come to see this doctor Lu when he had a cold. In this health center, there are two doctors who really sit for the consultation, one is this Lv Dafu, named Lv Xifang, Binhu Middle School does not know which "master" gave him the nickname of "light metal", and the other is the dean Gao Lei, because he is busy with other affairs, the most consultation is this "light metal", general outpatient clinic, I often say that he is an ancestral Chinese medicine, and later went to the provincial city of Chinese and Western medicine school training, especially for gynecology is famous, in this commune health center, it has become a general doctor. Mu Zhen always thinks that the medical level of "light metal" is also very average, the reason is that the allergic rhinitis after the last cold, thick yellow nasal discharge, and headache, originally used chlorpheniramine, prednisone, plus tetracycline tablets, it can be solved quickly, but light metal is prescribed what heavy tablets, so I have to eat it for four days, and the symptoms have not improved at all, so I have to find him again, directly prescribe these three medicines, two days later, the symptoms are significantly reduced, and three days later, he is basically cured.

Mu Zhen knew that since he couldn't change Lao Mu's mind, he could only endure it silently, although the environment during his daily rest sometimes suffocated him, although whenever he lay on the bed and got into the damp and cold quilt, his heart felt as if something was blocked, and he had to adapt to this torment with difficulty. He thought more than once of those happy days when he lived in Gucheng No. 1 Middle School, but those days had already become history in his memory, and he had to face a new environment, although it was only a stone's throw away from home, Mu Zhen compared to other classmates, he couldn't complain about these, he should face the current environment, and adapt as soon as possible!

In the days that followed, it was infested with hordes of lice. Due to the conditions, there was only one bathing pond in the whole commune at that time, and when bathing in winter was still a luxury for rural people, many people were still accustomed to having no clothes close to their bodies, and when winter went to spring, they only wore cotton clothes and pants, and they were accompanied by parasites on the human body - lice throughout the winter. The situation is even worse in this kind of dormitory, where lice are like fish in water, mixed with everyone's clothes and pants, and catching lice by candlelight is also a common "scenery" in the dormitory.

These are not the most unbearable, even more painful days are coming.