The next day.

Tang He went to the aquatic market in the west of the city early in the morning, picked two big carps and bought some vegetables, stopped three jumpers, and went straight to his grandfather's house.

Hanoi is divided into two districts, Tan Street and Old Street, and my grandfather's house is in the northernmost part of Old Street.

Grandpa's house sits in the north and faces south, lives by the river, and the courtyard is somewhat similar to the two courtyards in and out of Beiping, which are divided into two courtyards before and after.

Grandpa planted vegetables in the backyard and planted trees in the front yard, Tang He's most unforgettable memory when he was a child is that every autumn under the command of his grandfather, he and several brothers beat dates with bamboo poles, and his mouth was stuffed so much that he couldn't even laugh.

The whole yard is surrounded by a mud brick wall nearly two meters high built by my grandfather, which is to prevent passing children from sneaking in and stealing fruits to eat, because there are many pesticides left on the fruits.

Outside the compound there is a ditch called Daqiao Ditch, which is another fork of the Yellow River tributary that crosses the river.

Tang He once heard Tang's mother describe that when she was a child, the stream in the bridge ditch in front of the door was very clear, with fish, crabs and river mussels.

But by the time Tang He had a memory, the stream had turned into a pool of flowing stinky water.

An upstream chemical plant has been discharging industrial wastewater into a creek since the early 80s.

For the sake of economic development, in order to improve the standard of living, in the early days of reform and opening up, people lost their minds, and not only did they not have such a concept of protecting the environment, but even if they did, they would not take it into account.

When Tang He arrived at his grandfather's house, his uncle and aunt had already arrived.

Seeing Tang He come in with fish and vegetables, the elders all joked with him to congratulate him, and the second uncle even said that he would have a few drinks with Tang He at noon. Grandpa said very little, just looked at Tang He and smiled very kindly.

What else could Tang He say, he just touched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

In terms of psychological age, he is already 35 years old, but looking at the elders who care about him in front of him, Tang He does not have the slightest sense of disobedience, and all his reactions and actions are from the heart of Akagi.

When I and my cousin and cousin are all working, with the death of my grandfather and grandfather, as everyone gets busier and busier, it will be difficult to encounter a warm scene like this again!

Originally, Tang He planned to kill the fish, but before he could take the knife, he was blasted out of the kitchen by his second aunt, and while bombarding, he blamed him for not liking to eat the food cooked by his aunt.

So Tang He could only run away helplessly and go to chat with his cousin.

Grandparents, grandparents, aunts, and second uncles sat on the kang in the main room to talk, and Tang He would never take the initiative to come over. The shadow and pressure brought to him by his uncle and grandfather have not diminished in the slightest with age.

Tang He's cousin Zhang Acetonitrile is one year younger than Tang He and is a sophomore in the city No. 1 Middle School in Mayi.

Although it is still summer vacation, Komayi No. 1 Middle School still makes up classes for students in the second year of high school every day.

In 97 years, the country has not begun to clamor about any quality education, in order to improve the rate of university admission, the school and students are very hard.

This time, Zhang acetonitrile knew that Tang He had been admitted to the university, so he specially took two days off with his teacher and returned to Hanoi to congratulate Tang He.

The two grew up together, and compared to the two cousins who have a big age difference, these two are real siblings and brother and sister.

Tang He still remembers that when he was five years old, he took ten yuan of New Year's money and led the four-year-old Zhang acetonitrile to secretly go to the old street to buy toys, which made the whole family have a false alarm, and was even taught a hard lesson by Tang's mother.

It can be said that the two are a piece of living mud and a family relationship.

It's a pity that Zhang acetonitrile moved to Mayi with his second uncle after graduating from junior high school, and the two only see each other a few times a year during the holidays.

Seeing that Tang He was blasted out by his mother, Zhang Acetonitrile covered his mouth and smiled.

Let you pretend to behave!

It's too blunt, okay!

Now Tang He's character is clearly a whim, and he doesn't want to think about what he was like before!

When did he go down to the kitchen and know how to cook!

Finally stopped laughing, Zhang Acetonitrile looked at Tang He, who was a little helpless in front of him, and said seriously: "Brother, congratulations! I didn't expect you to really be admitted to the university!"

"Hah...... You have to come on, too!" Tang He touched his nose.

Unlike his elders, Tang He has nothing to say about Zhang Etonitrile, so Zhang Etonitrile probably knows more about Tang He's school than anyone else in the family, even including Tang's mother.

A junior high school student who was at the bottom of the class and had no intention of studying suddenly was admitted to university, which had to make Zhang acetonitrile surprised but also deeply happy. His brother can continue his studies, which is definitely one of the great things in Zhang acetonitrile's perception.

It's just that Tang He is a little embarrassed.

Regarding his rebirth, Tang He would never say anything to anyone.

And going to college through crooked ways is also another secret of Tang He in addition to being reborn, and it is impossible to make it clear to Zhang acetonitrile, after all, he is no longer the simple 17-year-old boy who has no guesses.

But if you don't explain, in the face of this cousin who knows his roots, Tang He is indeed a little short of words.

Fortunately, Zhang Acetonitrile didn't care much about how Tang He was admitted to university, she only cared about the results.

"Brother, I now understand a little bit what you said to me before. I'm not in my third year of high school yet, and I feel super stressed! I've been crying in the bed secretly in the dark several times, but I don't dare to let my parents know. Sometimes I really want to run away like you!" Zhang acetonitrile didn't want Tang He to see his expression, so he tugged on Tang He's arm, and turned around and walked to the front yard.

Behind him, Tang He followed suit.

Tang He didn't speak, I don't know how many times such a scene has happened.

This has become a way for the two to communicate.

Many times, many things, many words, Tang He and Zhang acetonitrile can neither talk to their parents nor their classmates, they can only rely on each other, vent their depression to each other, and act as each other's tree holes.

At this time, what the two need is not persuasion, not advice, but more catharsis of their emotions.

"You told me before that when you're stressed, you put aside your studies and do what you love...... But I can't even do what I love......" Zhang acetonitrile walked through the middle side room in the front and back yards and walked under the lush apple trees.

"I want to find a friend to talk to, but everyone is busy studying and reading, and no one wants to listen to me except you!

Zhang acetonitrile said, looking back at Tang He: "Now you have finally escaped from the sea of suffering! And I will survive in this sea of suffering for a year, hoping to meet you in the university at that time!"

"Don't worry, you will!"

Tang He patted Zhang acetonitrile on the shoulder and comforted her in a low voice. He remembered that in his previous life, Zhang acetonitrile was admitted to Hedong University of Finance and Economics.

Regarding Zhang acetonitrile's emotional outpouring, Tang He has nothing to persuade.

Don't look at Zhang acetonitrile as a girl, but this girl is much stronger than her own heart, and her idea is very right. The current weakness, I think it's just that I see myself, and I'm a little emotional. So it's good to be her tree hole obediently.

In any era, any normal person, as long as he reads and studies, as long as he has to participate in the judgment of survival of the fittest such as exams, he will definitely become weak at a certain moment, and he will feel worried about his future at a certain moment.

This is a normal psychological phenomenon.

There is no end to the sea of learning.

Studying is already tiring and hard!

Especially for this era of the supremacy of reading, limited by the limitations of the times, the blockage of information, and the rigidity of thinking, students really regard the university entrance examination as a necessity at this stage of life, and once they are missing, they will be considered a failure by everyone. Each student carries the hopes of the whole family, and the pressure is huge.

And there is no doubt that -

In China, from ancient times to the present, including the present era and even in the future, studying and going to university has always been the only way to change one's destiny and achieve class transition, which is the fairest, most just and most hopeful.

Of course, Tang He will not deny this.

It's just that for him, a reborn person who jumped out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements, even if he is not admitted to university in the end, there is no need to follow the path that the vast majority of people in this era want to take.

In fact, the world we live in itself is a university, whether you can study in college or not, as long as you can continue to improve and exercise yourself, to improve your learning ability, exercise your ability to overcome adversity, and complete your interpersonal skills, then no one has the right to say that you are a failure, you can proudly declare yourself a college student, a person who is respected by others.

In a sense, there is a generational gap between Tang He and the people of this era in terms of ideology.

Therefore, no matter whether Zhang acetonitrile was admitted to Hedong University of Finance and Economics like in his previous life, or failed in the college entrance examination fanned by his little butterfly, Tang He is confident that he will live better and better with his cousin and family.

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