The sixth day of the second month, that is, the fifteenth day of the first month.

Not long after the southern land was sunny for more than ten days, the cold wave arrived, and the temperature dropped below four degrees Celsius.

Many people could be seen on the streets, wrapped in heavy gear, shivering from the cold despite this.

Today is Monday, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the school has no holiday, and Fang Ning is still studying in the classroom.

Tong Liancheng has some nasal congestion, maybe he didn't sleep well last night and caught a cold, and his nose was blocked in class today, and his nasal voice was also heavy, so he opened the window on the right side of the blackboard to ventilate and disperse air, which is conducive to air circulation.

The cold wind blew in, he was comfortable, and the students who were sitting in the classroom who were not very warm suddenly froze one by one, and the two legs under the table trembled, because the air circulated in the room, even the students in the penultimate row who were sleeping on the table were frozen awake, sleepy-eyed, not listening to the shiver, and screaming to death.

Fang Ning put another spare pair of school uniform pants on his lap and covered it, but it could only leave a little residual warmth, and it couldn't bring him more warmth.

The big guys are a little presentable, and they are holding their unused clothes and pants to cover their legs.

In this way, the students of Class 302, who had been freezing for half a class in the cold wind, were miserable.

Tong Liancheng seemed to have found out his conscience, or heard someone's voice, rubbed his blocked nose, and closed the window.

After class, Fang Ning and his party gathered around and trembled.

"I think Lao Tong did it on purpose, he just wanted to freeze us!"

Fang Ning had a little headache and waved his hand, "This matter has passed, what should we do in the next class?"

"Isn't the next session a PE class?" someone asked puzzled, after all, the popularity of PE classes is still quite high.

"Look at the temperature outside, can your little body stand up to sports? The cold wind blows your cheeks hurt, you can't open your eyes, and you will suffer when you go out. Fang Ning explained weakly, in normal times, physical education classes would definitely be popular, but in this cold wave stage, if you don't wear a down jacket and cotton shirt, who would dare to go out?

"I guess the gym class won't be finished. ”

"Nine times out of ten. Fang Ning sighed.

Sure enough, the third and fourth physical education classes were occupied by Lao Zhang on the grounds that the weather was too cold to go out to play, saying that you should study by yourself in the classroom anyway, so you will simply lay a good foundation for a math class.

After a math class of ecstasy, they were going to be immortals.

Perhaps because the weather was too cold, even the school issued a notice to leave school early, and at about four o'clock, the school's loudspeaker sounded throughout the campus.

In normal times, the students in the school must be very impatient, but today, the loudspeaker is like a savior, making people boil.

……

Fang Ning trembled and took the key at the door of the house, and with a snap, the door opened.

It was the grandmother who opened the door and said, "I'm back!"

Fang Ning took off his shoes at the door of his house, and as soon as he entered the house, he immediately became much warmer.

There has always been no heating in the south, but Fang Ning and their Xia Coast community have been heated, and the radiators are attached to the pipes, and after a long time, the room is extremely warm, and they can't feel the cold at all.

Due to the presence of heating, the air conditioner and grill at home do not have much effect, and they are rarely used.

Grandpa sat on the sofa, squinting his eyes, dozing off with his head resting on the back of the sofa, the TV was rustling with a TV program, Fang Ning glanced at the activities of the New Year's Day, and the others were cold wave warnings, and in some places it even snowed heavily, and it was the second winter.

Fang Ning screamed softly, and Grandpa woke up from his sleep.

"How did Grandpa fall asleep lying on Shafang, what if he caught a cold, now this spring is already a little flu. ”

"I don't know why I'm a little sleepy, I squinted for a while just now, and now I'm much better. Grandpa tightened his collar and asked, "It's cold outside, isn't it?"

"It was very cold, and we were shivering a little bit in the classroom. ”

"Then add two more clothes. ”

It didn't take long for Fang Wei to come back, and her mouth was so cold that her skin was blue.

For the sake of beauty, she didn't wear thick clothes at all, unlike Fang Ning's school uniform, which also wore a thick cotton vest.

She took a shower in the bathroom, and after feeling much more comfortable, she came out and asked, "Grandparents, what are we going to eat tonight?"

"That's a lot to eat tonight!" Grandpa said with a smile.

"Why is it so rich?"

Fang Ning said: "It's because of the festival!"

"New Year's Day. Grandpa said.

Fang Ning read softly: "A song of sheng is like the sea in spring, and the lights of a thousand doors are like day at night. ”

"It turned out to be the Lantern Festival! Is there a lantern riddle to watch tonight?"

Grandpa said, "Let's wait for the evening to see the situation, if it's not cold, let's go to Tianyue Square to watch lantern riddles and lanterns, if it's cold, let's watch TV at home." ”

Fang Ning and the others nodded.

Grandma came out with a pot of rice balls and put it on the table, "Let's eat the rice balls first!"

The family was eating rice balls lively, and the lights were lit up outside, and firecrackers were also played.

Fang Ning called his parents, "Parents, happy Lantern Festival!"

On the other side of the phone, Fang's father and Fang's mother were eating the dumplings in the hot pot, spitting hot air, "You guys also have a happy Lantern Festival!"

After Fang Ning hung up the phone, he received many text messages and QQ messages one after another, but at this time, WeChat had not yet come out, and there was no more convenient instant messaging.

After reading it, he replied one by one, most of them returned to Happy Lantern Festival, like Cheng Xi, Yu Xiaole and others all said a paragraph, edited it and then sent it out.

The temperature rose a little at night, mainly because the cold wind stopped blowing, so Grandpa decided to take the family to Tianyue Square to watch the Lantern Festival.

There are a lot of people along the river, most of them are familiar faces, either Lijiang community or Jiangnan community, further away is Baicui Bay, of course, more are the neighbors of Xia Haihai community.

Basically, acquaintances will stop to congratulate each other, say happy Lantern Festival, and make a colorful head.

Grandpa took them before they walked a few steps before they met an acquaintance, stopped to say hello, every time at this time, Fang Ning would look back at the Jinglan river, it seemed that he really had the feeling of passing through the years and not panicking.

The opposite side of the river is still under construction, full of construction sites, hanging green safety nets and steel pipes, at this time it is late, and the opposite side is brightly lit.

They strolled all the way to Tianyue Square, and before they passed, they saw a lantern with a sound that shook the sky, and countless colored lights were turning around in the sky, for fear that others would not know that there was a Lantern Festival party here.

Tianyue Square is really lively here, this square can accommodate many people to come in and visit, and there are also many stalls set up, basically chasing this Lantern Festival event.

The street lamps on both sides of Tianyue Square are full of red lanterns, flowers are everywhere, the lights are swaying, there are palace lanterns, animal head lamps, horse lanterns, flower lanterns, bird and bird lanterns, etc., attracting the masses who watch the lanterns.

There are also those hawkers here can provide lanterns for tourists who come to watch the lanterns, which not only meets their own interests, but also meets the needs of tourists, but in such weather, it is still relatively dry, easy to cause fires, so it is hard to work a group of policemen in civilian clothes to wait outside, there is no problem with the lanterns flying in the sky, and they will naturally go out automatically because of the lack of oxygen at high altitudes, and the most afraid is the kind of lanterns that have not yet risen into the air and fallen, the wick inside is still burning, once it falls into the dry weeds and branches, it is very easy to cause a fire。

There are many activities in the square, such as guessing lantern riddles, lion dances, stepping on stilts, and playing dragon lanterns, which are dazzling.

Fang Wei bought a lantern from the vendor and trotted over, complaining slightly, "This lantern actually sells for five yuan a piece, and usually doesn't even want five cents, it's really double to death." ”

Fang Ning said with a smile, "The people who come here are all for fun, where there are so many accountants." ”

"I want to come and sell lanterns!"

Grandpa made the lantern, lit the wick, and under the attention of Fang Ning and Fang Wei, it slowly rose to the sky, flying higher and higher, until in the end there was only a small red dot left.

Fang Wei suddenly shouted, "I haven't made a wish yet!"

"I've already flown far away, I guess I can't hear your wishes, why don't you go and see that lightboat?" Fang Ning pointed to a stall on the edge of the river not far away, where there were paper lightboats, seeing so many people around, it was estimated that the sales were good.

Fang Wei thought about it and forgot it, it was enough to play once, there was no need to waste money.

Fang Ning's gaze stopped, and he frowned slightly, "Are the few people who put the lightboat a little familiar?"

"Where?" Fang Wei followed his gaze and looked over carefully.

"Let's see. Fang Ning said.

"Stay safe!" Grandpa shouted.

"Got it!"

As soon as the Fang Ning brothers and sisters passed, the person who was facing away from them and put them on board turned around.

Li Jiajia also saw Fang Ning, a little surprised, and immediately returned to her normal expression, smiling, and nodding her head.

The other person, Fang Ning is more familiar, the burly figure, at first glance, is the type of five big and three thick, wearing light blue clothes that remain unchanged all year round, as soon as he turns his head, that kind of bold aura comes to his face.

Xiang Jie's eyes widened, then he wiped his eyes with his fingers and muttered, "It's really not a hell!"

"Go, what the hell are you!" Fang Ning grinned, very happy.

Xiang Jie punched him and said, "Good boy, I haven't seen you all winter vacation, and you haven't contacted me, what are you doing so mysterious?"

Fang Ning said: "I wanted to come to you, but I forgot your phone number, where do you live at home, and finally I had to give up!"

"Perfunctory! perfunctory!" Xiang Jie pretended to be sad.

Fang Ning turned his gaze to Li Jiajia at this time, this girl still had a clear temperament, wearing a white down jacket and a hat, looking at herself with bright eyes.

When we meet again, there will still be some touching.

These two are his old acquaintances, classmates in junior high school, the former is the class president and book friend, and the latter has an unclear relationship with him.

"You two come out to see the lanterns together?" Fang Ning suddenly thought of a possibility, his eyes were a little weird, and he looked at the two of them.

"What are you thinking?" Li Jiajia said.

Xiang Jie wanted to ask her out, but she really just happened to meet together, plus they were only junior high school classmates, and the two walked together, not without the meaning of reminiscing and remembering.

Xiang Jie was a chatter, couldn't stop for a moment, and said: "Speaking of which, when I graduated from junior high school, I didn't know where you went to study?

Fang Ning coughed, "I went to No. 2 Middle School." ”

As soon as these words came out, even Li Jiajia was surprised, "Did you go to the second middle school?"

"Hmm. ”

Xiang Jie smacked his tongue, "It's no problem to go to Changjun with your grades, why can't you think of going to No. 2 Middle School?"

"Because it makes more sense. Fang Ning didn't explain much.

"Okay. Xiang Jie shook his head, really didn't understand what he thought.

"I don't know where you're going to study?"

Xiang Jie said, "I went to Changjun! Do you know who I'm in the same class with? Wei Qing! My good man, after I arrived in Changjun, it was the same as coming from a small place, and any student here had better grades than me, I didn't have any sense of excellence at all, at that time I suddenly became the lowest student, almost gave up on myself, and lived all day long, and then Wei Qing scolded me and woke me up, alas, she was different, she was just a monster, and she could still mix well in Changjun, do you know? Her grade this semester was the fifth in her grade, which was a real achievement, without a little moisture. ”

Xiang Jie said a lot in one breath, with sighs, annoyance, regrets, and even envy and jealousy.

Wei Qing is such a person, easy to make people jealous.

Fang Ning comforted: "If you want to open a point, some people are born different, you stand at different starting points, she was born to learn to read, and we all have to work hard the day after tomorrow to maintain our advantage, besides, as far as I know, a genius like her usually doesn't relax for a moment, she works so hard, how can we catch up!"

Fang Ning's words were not so much to cheer him up, but to let him see the gap in reality.

The ruler is short and the inch is long, why do you have to compare your own disadvantages with the advantages of others?

Xiang Jie's achievements lie in balance, especially in science, which is more balanced, such an advantage is not obvious in the first year of high school, after all, there are liberal arts to lag behind, but after the division of arts and sciences, concentrate on the study of science knowledge, then there will be rapid changes.

Fang Ning knew that Xiang Jie was later admitted to a university in Zhejiang, a second-class school, and he didn't know what the specific major was, anyway, when everyone came back for a reunion, he said that he was making soap, just like Fang Ning said that he was moving bricks.

Everyone has their own life experience, different people have different origins and platforms, some people are born with the golden key, and some people are born in poor families and have nothing.

But this does not mean that the rest of life is so fixed.

Those who shout the golden key may later become beggars who beg for a living, while poor people become excellent people through hard work.

Just like there are many ways to change your fate, and the college entrance examination is just one of them.