Chapter 4: The Road is Long and Obstructive (4)
On May Day, Ye Ziyu and Yang Wanqing were busy and went to the zoo for a day. At the same time, it was agreed that the rest of the time must be spent on the homework. After the college entrance examination, I will find a scenic spot to travel and have a good time.
On this day in the park, Ye Ziyu had a deep understanding of the idiom that light and shade are like arrows. This is the first time in his life to travel alone with a girl, the most profound memory is that when passing through a small dirt slope, Ye Ziyu stepped up, but Yang Wanqing couldn't come up for a long time, he wanted to reach out to pull her, but he didn't dare, hesitated, Yang Wanqing had climbed over a branch by herself.
Ye Ziyu was heartbroken by her sudden timidity, and regretted it.
Ye Ziyu's changes were easily noticed by Lu Yuhao. He saw that Ye Ziyu's learning momentum had soared, especially the foreign language that had been a headache, as if he had tied a rocket booster, and the English-Chinese dictionary that looked like a brick in his schoolbag all day long was not tired, so he wondered in his heart if this kid had taken the wrong medicine?
During the class this day, Lu Yuhao grabbed Ye Ziyu and asked, "You have been studying well recently, where have you been stimulated?"
The two have always been the best friends, so Ye Ziyu did not hide it, and told Lu Yuhao the original story of the matter with Yang Wanqing. Lu Yuhao laughed when he heard this, and said: "I found out that you looked at her eyes wrong, and sure enough, you fell in love early! But then again, this early love doesn't affect learning, don't you still promote learning? ”
Both were happy. Ye Ziyu said: "In fact, the important thing is her encouragement, which makes me feel that since I have chosen high school instead of technical secondary school or vocational high school, if I don't have the opportunity to go to university, I really don't know what to do? Some difficulties cannot be avoided, so the only way to overcome them is to overcome them. This college entrance examination, even if it is an unavoidable difficulty, then the only way to be admitted is to win the right to receive higher education. I wish we could be college classmates for a few more years, and then we would be stunned!"
This bookish rhetoric couldn't help but move Lu Yuhao. Like Ye Ziyu, his grades are only average, and it is a little difficult to get into college. Lu Yuhao's parents also have high hopes for their son, and his mother has changed jobs at the beginning of this year and has come to a government unit with relaxed time, just to take care of their son's life before the college entrance examination.
Ye Ziyu's fighting spirit inspired Lu Yuhao, yes, this is our power, and we must win the right to receive higher education. After so many years of studying, isn't that just for this?
In Ye Ziyu's heart, the college entrance examination is no longer just the hope of parents. He thought, if he can't get into college, how will he continue to associate with Yang Wanqing?
In fact, in Ye Ziyu's heart, he was a little disgusted with this kind of education system. The so-called standardized answer sheet has such a great impact on a person's life! Could it be that a person's ability can be measured by the scores of these few subjects?
He remembered that last year, he had read the stories of some celebrities in some extracurricular magazines, and it was said that Luo Jialun, a university scholar, applied for Peking University that year, with a full score in Chinese and zero in mathematics. Many years later, when Luo Jialun became the president of Tsinghua University, another student named Qian Zhongshu came to Tsinghua University and scored two points in mathematics, but the Chinese language was very good. This time, Bole became Luo Jialun, and he still admitted Qian Zhongshu exceptionally, making the latter a generation of masters of Chinese studies. Luo Jialun is very lucky! Qian Zhongshu is very lucky!
But Ye Ziyu didn't dare to expect such a good thing, in the current university, there must be no president who failed the mathematics exam back then, and there is no common language. There are also those who write ***, saying that when *** went to school, the math was also poor, and the drawings were even worse. In a drawing class, he actually drew a circle on a blank piece of paper and wrote "This is an egg", and his teacher Yang Changji did not think it was angry. Ye Ziyu was amazed, the leadership temperament is really innate and extraordinary. He admired *** even more for having such a teacher, and when he later understood that Yang Changji was Yang Kaihui's father, he was very incredible, how could the old gentleman marry his daughter to such a bad student?
But after that, there are fewer such good stories. It is said that when Qiong Yao was a child, she committed suicide because she only scored 20 points in mathematics. Ye Ziyu once tried to discuss these issues with his father, but Ye Chengxuan waved his hand and said irrefutably: "The times create heroes, if you are born now, you will be kicked out of the classroom by the teacher, and you will definitely have to invite your parents after class." Times are different, how can there be such an analogy?"
Although Ye Chengxuan may not really think so in his heart, he can only say this in the face of his son who is about to take the college entrance examination.
In any case, Ye Ziyu's relationship with the great leader Chairman Mao has greatly deepened. At that time, it coincided with the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of ***, and the large and small bookstalls were full of books describing leaders. He also copied a small poem "Frog" written by *** when he was working in the early days of his family farming on the bedside:
Sitting alone in the pond is like a tiger, and the spirit is nourished under the green poplar tree.
If I don't speak first in the spring, which insect dares to make a sound?
Seeing that his son had worked hard a lot, Ye Chengxuan was greatly pleased. Although he didn't put pressure on his son verbally, he really wanted his son to be admitted to university. He also saw his son writing a letter in English, and felt strange, and asked him who he wrote it to, Ye Ziyu said that it was not written to anyone, but just practiced writing in English in this way, and he believed it.
Now, Yang Wanqing has become a scale in Ye Ziyu's heart, and he thinks that he must reach that scale before he has the right to associate with her. The exchange of letters in English greatly increased Ye Ziyu's motivation to learn English. But the content of Yang Wanqing's letter is all related to learning, and it can be seen that she will even deliberately find some grammatical problems to discuss, so that Ye Ziyu can master more knowledge points while reading.
If the proverb speaks well, God will favor those who work hard. At this time, in addition to working hard in the textbooks, Ye Lu and the others had an unexpected gain. Lu Yuhao reached the national third-level athlete standard in the 100-meter sprint. According to the regulations, 20 points can be added to the total score of the college entrance examination. Ye Ziyu participated in the provincial middle school students' essay competition and won the first prize, and those who won the first prize in the provincial competition or above also had 20 extra points in the college entrance examination. When the news came, the students of the entire grade were envious. This made the two more and more combative. Ye Ziyu couldn't wait to write to Yang Wanqing about the news.
Time really flies, and the college entrance examination is coming soon.
In her last letter in English, Yang Wanqing expressed her wishes to Ye Ziyu and wished him success in the college entrance examination.
During this time, the family of every college entrance examination student revolves around them. Eat and drink, try to be satisfied, and all kinds of protective measures are also thoughtful.
When Ye Ziyu was tired of reviewing and resting, he thought of Yue Fei Yue Wumu, and the imperial court ordered him to be a teacher, and he sighed that "ten years of work will be ruined in one fell swoop." But this college entrance examination is still a 12-year battle, and for every student, the pressure is not small. However, he thought of Yue Fei, and the school leaders also thought of Yue Fei. The director of education took Yue Fei to encourage them, so that they could "go straight to Huanglong and be admitted to university". So Ye Ziyu was afraid that he wouldn't be able to make Huanglong, so he felt like Qin Hui, wouldn't he be innocent? In order not to be Qin Hui, he had to be admitted to university.
He remembered that there was a couplet in front of the tomb of King Yue in Hangzhou:
"Qingshan is fortunate to bury the bones of loyalty, and the white iron innocently casts the minister. ”
A subcouplet also popped up in his heart:
"Qingshan has the material to build a university, and the candidates are incapable of selling white iron. ”