Mu Zhen's injury may not really be very serious, just as the doctor said when he was discharged from the hospital, the child's wound recovers quickly, and it is estimated that it will heal in ten days. Although the hard injury on Mu Zhen's scalp has been fully recovered, she has fallen into the problem of occasional headaches, especially when she inadvertently turns her head, the back of her head will have a sharp pain like cracking, so the doctor at the county hospital has taken a look at it, saying that it is the sequelae of the concussion, and she will rest for a few days, and it will get better slowly.

In the days after the follow-up consultation, Mu Zhen still went to Ma Sanye's house to borrow books, and in Mu Zhen's opinion, the reason why Ma Sanye was so knowledgeable was because of these books.

In the blink of an eye, early in the morning, Lao Mu still rode the "Old Long March", loaded the prepared necessary supplies into the prepared schoolbag, and set off with his son to Gucheng No. 1 Middle School.

Mu Zhen, who was sitting in the car, knew in his heart that it was not easy to come to this regional key middle school to study, which was the result of Lao Mu accompanying him for several years, which was not only the gathering of the county's elites, but more importantly, if he failed to be admitted to this middle school this time, he didn't know what kind of punishment he would face. On the day he received the notice, he was more joyful than the poor people at the time of the liberation of the country. He never forgot the morning when he sent the admission letter, when he was sleeping soundly in bed, he heard his sister whisper in his ear: "Brother, the notice is here!", the moment he jumped up from the bed smartly, that mood is still full of excitement and sweetness when he recalls it decades later.

There was nothing to say all the way, after arriving at the school, he queued up to pay the money with the admission ticket, handed over the money and informed the class, Lao Mu knocked on the door of the head teacher's office with Mu Zhen, the door was open, there were two desks inside, and in front of one of the desks sat a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties and slightly fat, with a small flat head: "Teacher, hello, I brought the child to report to you!"

"Okay, good!" The teacher was enthusiastic: "My surname is Li!"

Lao Mu looked familiar, so he asked tentatively: "Teacher Li, I see that you also graduated from this school!"

"Yes, you must be too, you knock on the door and come in, I will look at you very familiarly!" Mr. Li said lightly.

"I'm from the fifth or seventh term, and I'm one year earlier than you, five or six years. What's your name?" Teacher Li asked softly as he looked at Mu Zhen who was standing on the side.

"Mu Zhen!" Mu Zhen looked at Teacher Li and asked herself, and replied quickly.

Teacher Li carefully looked up the name from the list on the table.

"Your student number is No. 5, and your grades are quite good! I'll arrange for someone to take you to the dormitory in a while, and find a bed to live in first. After Mr. Li finished speaking, he looked at Lao Mu with the eyes of asking for advice, and Lao Mu understood and immediately responded: "Okay, thank you!"

Teacher Li stood up, walked to the door of the office, leaned out of the door, and shouted, "Xiao Zhang, take the new classmates to the dormitory." ”

With a word of agreement, a young man came to Teacher Li.

"You two will go to the dormitory first and settle down!"

Lao Mu and Mu Zhen followed Xiao Zhang to the dormitory, the dormitory is three old tile houses, in addition to the north wall side by side with ten single beds on the upper and lower floors, there is a single bed in the southwest corner of the room, a little lonely, the row of beds on the upper and lower floors, only the lower two beds are simply placed with a little cover, and the rest are still empty. Lao Mu knew in his heart that there were not many people who reported the report, and he was earlier, so he expressed his gratitude to Xiao Zhang who brought him, and Xiao Zhang explained: "Find a bed first and put the bed on!" Then he walked out of the dormitory door and walked in the direction of the office.

Lao Mu shook one bed after another, as if picking something seriously, and finally chose the lower bunk of the bed that was placed separately against the east wall, and put the things in his hand on it.

"You see that you live here, can you?" Lao Mu asked for Mu Zhen's opinion.

"Okay, it's convenient to stay!" Mu Zhen nodded, and obediently put the schoolbag in his hand on the bed.

Just as he was about to put the things on the bed, a classmate came in with a schoolbag in his hand and a bag on his back.

"Is this the dormitory for the first class of junior high school?" the classmate squeezed the small eyes of the mung bean that looked ghostly.

"Yes!" Mu Zhen saw the classmate smiling at herself, and immediately responded.

"Okay, then we're classmates!" he said and walked to Mu Zhen's side and put the burden he was carrying on the lower bunk next to Mu Muzhen.

"My name is Ma Facheng, what about you?" Ma Facheng asked with a smile as he narrowed his eyes.

"Mu Zhen!" Mu Zhen felt that Ma Facheng did seem much more mature than herself.

"This must be an uncle!" Ma Facheng looked at Lao Mu and said.

"Yes. Mu Zhen replied.

"Hello uncle!" Ma Facheng greeted Lao Mu very sensibly. Lao Mu was really moved by Ma Facheng's sensibility.

"What about your parents, why didn't you come?" Lao Mu was a little puzzled, in Lao Mu's eyes, how could he not believe that the child in front of him came to report alone.

"I'm driving, he's on a business trip, I don't know how many days will he be back?" Ma Facheng showed a hint of pride on his face when he said this.

Lao Mu suddenly felt that his child was missing something, and did not answer.

Ma Facheng opened the backpack alone, there was a small mattress with green flowers and a new face, and a thin quilt, he quickly unfolded it, and with the help of Lao Mu, spread it on the bed. And he spread the blue checkered sheet on the mattress.

"Where is your home?" Lao Mu felt that the children who came to report by himself must be closer to here, otherwise how could parents rest assured?

"My family is more than 50 miles away from here! I've been riding a bicycle for a long time. There are five exams in our school, and if you take one more exam, you can also have a companion, but the result is that I was admitted to one, and when I came to take the exam and look at the list, I followed our teacher to ride a bicycle, and when the road was familiar, I came by cycling. The car is outside, I'm going to push it in. After saying that, he walked outside the house, pushed the bicycle into the house in the blink of an eye, and plugged it into the east wall.

Mu Zhen is really envious of Ma Facheng, he still can't even ride a bicycle!

Lao Mu looked at this child who was the same age as his son, but he was like a little adult, taking care of his life in an orderly manner, and immediately thought that his son should find such a partner here.

"You will be classmates in the future, take care of each other!" Lao Mu said to Ma Facheng seriously.

"Of course, classmates for a lifetime and three relatives for a lifetime should help each other, it should be!" Ma Facheng said with a little maturity.

While they were talking, several more students came in and greeted each other and made their beds. The dormitory suddenly became lively, although these students did not know each other, but when they entered this dormitory, it seemed that they had entered home, and they were no strangers to anyone. Say hello to each other and introduce yourself.

Lao Mu sees it in his eyes and is happy in his heart, these are relatively outstanding children! Let his son be with him, how can he not feel at ease?

Near noon, Lao Mu wanted to take Ma Facheng and Mu Zhen to the street for lunch, but Ma Facheng resolutely did not go, and repeatedly said that he was not hungry at all, and would go to school to get some hot water to drink. Lao Mu expressed helplessness, so he had to take Mu Zhen to a small restaurant on the street, asked for two bowls of noodles, and spent five dimes.

Mu Zhen grew up under Lao Mu's care since she was a child, and even never left Lao Mu's palm, so she still felt fresh and curious about going to school by herself, she didn't seem to have any friends before, and she didn't enjoy the fun of childhood like other children, and some only knew how to obey Lao Mu's arrangement, study, study, and learn again. Now, after leaving Lao Mu, he naturally feels at a loss, for a child who has not really made friends, when he goes to a strange environment to survive alone, it may be axiomatic to naturally become friends with the first person he comes into contact with. Mu Zhen was no exception, and Ma Facheng became his first friend in No. 1 Middle School and the first personal friend in his life.

The weather in August of the solar calendar, the heat has not subsided, the sultry heat after lunch, so that Mu Zhen is a little sleepy, most of the students who came to the dormitory did not come back from lunch, only three or two people were there to make the bed, Mu Zhen lay on the bed, at first the two eyelids began to fight, Mu Zhen tried hard to open it, but no matter how hard she tried, it was in vain, and finally hugged each other tightly and fell asleep.

"Wake up, classmates, wake up!" Mu Zhen felt pushed by someone, reluctantly opened his eyes, and saw two adults standing in front of him, he stood up suddenly.

"Teacher Li!" Mu Zhen didn't know why, and her spirit immediately filled up.

"Where are you sleeping?" asked Teacher Li.

"Hmm!" Mu Zhen agreed softly, and then didn't know what to say.

"You clean up and move to this bed, we have a classmate who is dreaming at night, let him live alone, so as not to hurt other students!" Teacher Li said unhurriedly.

Mu Zhen saw that the classmate who was following Teacher Li was obviously taller than herself, white and clean, and at the same time there was a middle-aged man standing behind him, wearing a pair of metal-framed glasses, with a sven face, and he knew at a glance that he was not a person working in the countryside.

"There's someone on this bed!" Mu Zhen said.

"We have more people and fewer beds, and if two people have one bed, we have to adjust it in the end!" Teacher Li saw Mu Zhen's embarrassment and immediately explained.

Mu Zhen understood that Teacher Li asked her to move, and she had to move, so she hurriedly rolled up her own bed, moved it to Ma Facheng's bed, and watched Teacher Li help the parents of the student called "Dream Boxing" make the bed. While making the bed, he said, "Stay here first, and the child won't hit anyone else when he boxes!"

The parents of the "Dream Boxing" students should agree: "Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Li!"

After Teacher Li and her parents left, Mu Zhen asked the "Dream Boxing" classmate: "I'm Mu Zhen, what's your name?"

"It's such a coincidence, we have the same surname, my name is Mu Yang. ”

"Do you really punch when you sleep?" asked Mu Zhen in surprise.

"I don't know, adults say this, I'm afraid of hurting others, I can't help it. Mu Yang replied helplessly.

"If you sleep alone, you shouldn't hurt others, you won't get up and box!" Mu Zhen felt a kind of grievance, the bed she occupied first was used by this new classmate later, not only that, but she was arranged to share the bed with Ma Facheng, even if there is a free bed, it is inconvenient to occupy it anymore, after all, Teacher Li just said that there are more people and fewer beds, and in the end, it must be a bed for two people.

He slowly cleaned up the things on the bed, removed Ma Facheng's sheets, spread his own small mattress on top of Ma Facheng's mattress, and then spread Ma Facheng's sheets. As soon as he sat down after laying it out, Ma Facheng came back from dinner, saw Mu Zhen sitting on his bed, and smiled: "You didn't go out to eat?"

"I've come back after eating, Mr. Li came here just now, let us both sleep in this bed together. Mu Zhen pointed at Mu Yang, sighed and said, "He fights dream boxing at night, you have to be careful!"

Perhaps amused by Mu Zhen's last words of "be careful", Ma Facheng "giggled" and laughed, "It's okay, let's sleep together and have a companion at night!"

Ma Facheng obviously did not reject the two of them sleeping in the same bunk, but showed twelve points of approval.

Looking at the beds lined up, Mu Zhen was puzzled, and said to Ma Facheng a little worriedly: "We are on the outside, what should we do if we fall out of bed at night?" Ma Facheng was confident and patted his chest: "This thing is wrapped up in me, I am on the outside, you are inside, if you want to fall, I will go down first!" Ma Facheng patted his chest and laughed at Mu Zhen, he looked at Ma Facheng, and felt that this Ma Facheng was like a big brother, indescribably close, and threw the unhappiness brought by the bed adjustment just now to the clouds.