Time is like water, time is like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, time has stepped into the season of July fire.

Although you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sunset in the west mountains after more than an hour, the heat wave created by the scorching sun still wraps the land and is unwilling to subside. The heat of July is the all-weather heat, and it is also the best time to test people's clothing index. The less cloth hangs on the body, the better, and the cooler it feels, the better, and it is the season when the poor and the rich are closest in appearance.

In July, the biggest thing for Qi Jingtao is Qi Lin, who is about to take the college entrance examination, before the college entrance examination is over, everything else can be put off and let go.

Qi Jingtao came home from the office in a well-dressed manner, and immediately changed into a super casual dress and rushed to No. 1 Middle School. At this time, wearing a loose short-sleeved T-shirt with large pants, sandals and a pair of sunglasses, he was sweating and standing at the gate of No. 1 Middle School, which was full of people, and was receiving the enthusiasm of the sunset.

Today is July 3rd, and there are still four sunrises, which is the day when Qi Lin enters the college entrance examination room. According to the usual practice, the No. 1 Middle School, which has been the center of science examinations over the years, will soon enter the stage of clearing and arranging the examination room.

Today, the school is closed after the last class, and the students who are preparing for the third year of high school can leave the sight of the school and the teacher, take a slight breath, soothe the nerves that have jumped to the limit, and make the final pre-war adjustments for that bayonet red day every year.

The college entrance examination and the imperial examination in the history of our country are in the same line, and the importance that the Chinese people attach to the college entrance examination cannot be overstated. After all, compared with other ways to rise, the college entrance examination is still the easiest and fairest way for most people to change their destiny. With the wisdom of talent, students compete more with their hard work and sweat. There is a diligent path in the book mountain, and there is no end to the hard work of learning the sea. The wisdom of the ancients has long pointed out the way forward for thousands of students.

Schools are about to be closed, and in addition to day students who live nearby, boarding students are also allowed to leave school conditionally to wait for the exam. Many qualified parents have come to the school to take care of the candidates, either taking them home to prepare for the exam quietly, or renting a house or hotel near the school or the examination room, hoping to do their best to make their own candidates have the best possible learning and living environment.

Qi Jingtao is here to pick up Qi Lin home today, and the rented house he lives in Chunxi Community is not far from the No. 3 Middle School of the Liberal Arts Examination Center in Central Yunnan City, which is suitable as a temporary preparation den for liberal arts candidate Qi Lin.

When he was in high school, he, like most rural students, envied those who had the conditions, which also inspired them, who were from rural families, to study hard and change the trajectory of their lives.

This time Qi Lin took the college entrance examination, and his family told him, as his brother, to escort his sister. In Dad's words, Qi Lin's going to college is a sure thing, not only are they hearted, but they also can't worry about it, and they don't want to put unnecessary pressure on her. He has had the same experience, he is a person from the past, he knows more about the college entrance examination, and he can take better care of his sister. With him in front of the family, rest assured.

It's five forty, Qi Lin hasn't come out yet, and Qi Jingtao is a little annoyed trying to find a shady place to avoid the slanting light of the sunset. He left the school gate and slowly moved through the crowd, moving under the few street trees in the distance that were not occupied by parents.

"Hey...... Hey, are you Qi Jingtao? ”

Qi Jingtao heard someone greet him and turned to look. The man who greeted him was thin, with thick black-rimmed glasses on his delicate and clean face, a blue short-sleeved shirt with black trousers and sandals, and a bulging satchel standing on the side of the road watching him.

Acquaintance, Li Dabiao, an old alumnus of the 89th World of No. 3 Middle School, and Qi Jingtao's senior brother in the same school. This old man is an expert in the college entrance examination in central Yunnan, counting this year, he has taken the college entrance examination for the eighth time, and he is about to successfully complete the eight-year anti-Japanese war task and be awarded the hero of the anti-Japanese war.

This old man was famous for his hard work when he was in school, getting up early and greedy for night, and never leaving his coupons. The academic performance of the first and second years of high school is still so-so, and I can follow the second group. When the third year of high school entered the comprehensive review stage, he took a back seat. When the results of the college entrance examination came out, he was 2 points away from the lowest secondary school admission line.

Thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge in the college entrance examination, and a large number of students have failed every year. Repeating is naturally produced, and repeaters and fresh graduates are the two main forces of the annual college entrance examination.

So, Li Dabiao, who was unwilling to return to his hometown in the countryside, began his long road of repetition. In 90 years, the college entrance examination was 5 points away from the minimum admission line, in 91 years the college entrance examination reform, 30 points away from the minimum admission line, and in 92 years, the college entrance examination was 5 points away from the minimum admission line. Later, Qi Jingtao's classmates who repeated his studies were gone, and I didn't hear from him anymore, only that he was still continuing to repeat tirelessly.

After work, I heard Qi Lin say that Li Dabiao has been repeating the cram school opened by No. 1 Middle School in the past three years to prepare for the exam.

According to Qi Lin and her fresh graduates, only those who repeat their studies within three years in the cram school are called senior brothers and sisters, and those who are more than three years old and less than five years are called "big", and the rare species above five are not the same generation as these fresh graduates, and the alumni of their first middle school and 91 circles have become their teachers. Those people must be called seniors, and the unique Brother Biao is even more "old-timer".

Qi Jingtao took a few steps forward with a smile on his face and greeted: "Oh, why is Brother Biao here?"

"It's really Xiao Qi, I almost can't recognize him, come to pick up someone" Li Dabiao happily stepped forward a few steps to speak.

"Hehehe, come to pick up my sister, it's the college entrance examination this year. Qi Jingtao said, naturally took out a cigarette and handed it to Li Dabiao.

"Thanks, no. ”

"Hehehe, Brother Biao is so used to it, he hasn't stuck to cigarettes for so many years. ”

"Hehehe, don't dare to stick. Smoking is addictive, and the addiction to smoking in class and exams is uncomfortable. ”

"It's true. Hehehe, how is Brother Biao's preparation this year?" Qi Jingtao still has to care about his senior brother's schoolwork, after all, it is another year of college entrance examination that is about to begin.

"This year should be fine, I have memorized all the things in the textbooks. Especially in literature and history, I can even recite the punctuation marks on any page you ask. Haha, Xiao Qi, you wait for your sister, I'll go back and prepare, some materials have to be hurried over. Li Dabiao showed a reserved smile, and after speaking confidently, he waved his hand in a chic manner, turned around and left.

Qi Jingtao looked at Li Dabiao's breezy and cold back, waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Brother Biao, come on, we are waiting for Brother Biao to celebrate the achievement." ”

Qi Lin finally came out, this little girl was carrying a small backpack with a relaxed face, and several male and female classmates who were dressed lightly like her walked out of the school gate with a smile. As soon as they arrived at the school gate, the parents who had been waiting for a long time greeted them warmly, dismantled them, and picked up their treasures.

After Qi Lin said goodbye to her classmates, she wondered why her brother didn't come, and she said it on the phone yesterday. looked around and saw that the old brother was actually saying goodbye to the old-timers.

Qi Lin quietly came behind the elder brother, patted the elder brother's shoulder and asked mischievously, "Brother, you know the old-timer." ”

Qi Jingtao looked at Li Dabiao's figure gradually drifting away, and said without looking back: "Why don't you know, the senior brother of our school's 89th realm has known each other for ten years." ”

Qi Lin looked at the back of the man walking with a bulging backpack on his back, and asked thoughtfully, "Guess, can he pass the exam this year?"

"No, unless the university doubles its enrollment. ”

"You don't think well of him?"

"He read the book to death. Hehe, Xiao Linlin, don't you learn from other people's old-timers, go back with a big bag of books and continue to work? The ancients said that sharpening knives in battle is not fast and light, you don't try. Qi Jingtao said and looked back at the lightly armed Qi Lin and teased.