When he was a child, Wang Shaodong, who was born in a ravine, once dreamed of living in a big city countless times. In TV, high-rise buildings, busy traffic, neon lights, and all kinds of novelties that cannot be seen in the ravine make you intoxicated and envious.

However, when he grew up and graduated from college, when he really began to work hard in the so-called big city, Wang Shaodong knew that although there were many high-rise buildings, there was no tile belonging to him, and the vehicles were crowded, which only brought the trouble of being unable to move an inch, and the neon that kept going all night was at most meaningful, that is, when he looked up and wanted to look at the stars, he only saw the white night sky.

Eleven years of city life have brought me not only tired body and mind, but also a growing attachment to the ravine that fed my childhood, youth and youth.

The longer he lived in the city, the more he felt that his soul did not belong here.

On a night of lightning and thunder, a class reunion of cups, when Wang Shaodong, who was drunk and delirious, opened his eyes again, he was stunned.

What he saw turned out to be his high school homeroom teacher Ma Guanghui.

Next to Ma Guanghui stood Han Kang, the class president of his high school.

Han Kang has thick eyes and a thin beard at the corner of his mouth. As for himself, he was lying on a bed covered with blue checkered sheets, the electric fan above his head was turning hard, and the room was so hot that people couldn't breathe.

Everything was so real and familiar, yet it felt like a dream.

"The college entrance examination is half an hour away, and you're still sleeping?!" Ma Guanghui looked at himself with a serious face, very dissatisfied with his performance.

In half an hour, I will have to take the college entrance examination?

July 7, 2002? The last time the college entrance examination was organized in July?

Wang Shaodong suddenly remembered that one morning fifteen years ago, he overslept in a daze, and if it wasn't for the class leader and the head teacher running to wake him up, I am afraid that he would have missed the first mathematics college entrance examination.

Wang Shaodong smiled, he laughed not because he was able to catch up with the first mathematics college entrance examination, but because he had one more chance to choose at the crossroads of life.

College entrance exam?

Fifteen years later, where do I still remember what trigonometric functions and chemical equations? Not to mention mathematics, physics and chemistry, I am afraid that it is my best course in Chinese, and now I can't get a score of more than 80.

Since God has given me the opportunity to choose again, why should I take the path I don't like?

While laughing, Wang Shaodong rolled over and got up from the bed, and then quickly put on his clothes, wearing a light blue summer school uniform with the words "Luzhong No. 4 Middle School" printed on it.

"Thank you, Mr. Ma." Wang Shaodong bowed to Ma Guanghui gratefully.

Ma Guanghui crossed his waist, obviously not feeling very proud of his polite students, but said impatiently: "Hurry up and enter the examination room!" Don't rub around here! ”

He didn't know that what he woke up was not an ignorant young man looking forward to college life, but a sloppy uncle with a thirty-four-year-old soul full of yearning for the rural idyllic life.

Wang Shaodong did not get nervous because of the stern tone of the head teacher, he was not a young boy with sensitive nerves, he said to his class leader and friend Han Kang: "Kangzi, you go to the test quickly, this year's math problems are not difficult." ”

Han Kang's overall score is good, but his math score has not been up or down, and if he plays well, he can score 120 points, and if he doesn't play well, he will just pass at most. If you want to focus on the test, such a math score will not work.

Fortunately, the mathematics of the college entrance examination in 2002 was relatively simple, and Han Kang's mathematics performance was particularly good that year, scoring 132 points and a total score of 654 points, and he was successfully admitted to the Medical Department of Qilu University.

At that time, Wang Shaodong was reckless because he overslept and recklessly entered the examination room, which affected his performance, and his performance was similar to that of Han Kang, but in the end he only scored 601 points, a score that was not up or down. In the end, Wang Shaodong went to Qilu Normal University, School of Life Sciences, major in biological sciences, a very embarrassing non-normal major in a normal college, and after graduation, he sold medical equipment in Quancheng, earning five or six thousand yuan a month.

And Han Kang, who was also in Quancheng, was also complaining and tired when he occasionally had a party with Wang Shaodong later.

Han Kang's monthly income is much higher than Wang Shaodong's, with an income of more than 10,000 yuan a month, but in Quancheng, where the average house price is more than 18,000, such an income looks equally pale.

Why do people live so tired? Wang Shaodong was puzzled.

Ma Guanghui paused for a moment, glanced back at Han Kang, and said, "You go into the examination room first." ”

Han Kang nodded, and then hurried away.

Looking at the homeroom teacher who was staring at him, Wang Shaodong felt that if he rolled up the bed and went home at this time, I was afraid that Ma Guanghui, who had always thought that he could pass the line, would excitedly pull him into the examination room.

The importance of a one-line quota was incomprehensible when he took the college entrance examination in his previous life, but later he heard his classmate Ma Lili, who was a teacher, say that it was precisely because the college entrance examination results of their class Han Kang and Wang Shaodong had passed the first line that their class teacher Ma Guanghui won the municipal outstanding class teacher, and then because of this honor, he was successfully appointed to the first-level title of middle school teacher. You know, there are many people who have waited for more than ten years for this title and have not been able to do so.

It can be said that Ma Guanghui's fate is also in his own hands, and he must not leave at this time.

Moreover, if I go home now, I am afraid that my parents will be disappointed and cry.

Although I decided not to go to university, it was also necessary to pretend to go into the examination room to cope with the two days, and at the same time use these two days to quietly think about the next step.

So, Wang Shaodong took the stationery bag at the head of the bed, and under Ma Guanghui's gaze, he hurriedly ran in the direction of the No. 2 teaching building. It's a pity that this time, I really can't help myself, a young class teacher who has only been working for three years.

The last one entered the exam room, but he was as calm as he had solved all the questions perfectly.

Wang Shaodong always had a smile on his face.

The moment the test paper was sent to his hand, it proved Wang Shaodong's previous judgment, he really didn't know a question.

Wang Shaodong is very puzzled, if what you learn now will not be anything after fifteen years, then what is the point of learning now?

quickly guessed the answers to the twelve multiple-choice questions, and Wang Shaodong's first college entrance examination subject was over.

Wang Shaodong remembered that he once had a very strange dream, dreaming that he fell asleep during the college entrance examination, and then with a magic pen in his hand, he finished all the questions with a brush, and the results were very good as soon as the results came out. Thinking of that dream, Wang Shaodong couldn't help but laugh at himself.

However, when he looked at the line of "9:11 a.m. on July 7, 2002" written by himself on the scratch paper, the smile on Wang Shaodong's face suddenly disappeared.

"In another 10 days, the 2,000 three-yellow firewood chickens I raised will get bird flu, and then all of them will die in three days, and the family will lose more than 30,000 yuan in that time. For this reason, my mother was anxiously ill, if it wasn't for the fact that I was admitted to the university because of the college entrance examination to make her happy, I am afraid that my mother would really be difficult to recover so quickly. ”

Avian influenza, a bird disease that makes farmers smell bad. Once infected, the entire herd dies, and a large number of farmers lose their money.

On July 15, 2002, 2,000 firewood chickens from Ma Zhentang's neighbor Ma Shaodong died of bird flu for three days, and then two days later, on July 17, Wang Shaodong's farm also began to contract bird flu and suffered casualties, and died three days later on July 20. Then, within two days, the farms of He Jiaqing and He Jiaxiang brothers also had the same result.

Thinking of this, Wang Shaodong's face showed an uneasy look.

No, we must not allow the tragedy to happen again.

The incubation period of avian influenza is very short, only three days, that is to say, by the end of the college entrance examination tomorrow, the three chicken farmers and one duck farmer in Taohualing Village, Dazhai Township, should not be infected with the avian flu virus now, and everything should still be in time.