In September 2002, the hot summer quietly faded, and the sound of cicadas on the roadside seemed to be saying their last goodbye to people.

Today is the first day of enrollment at Kyohyeong High School.

At the head of Fenghuang Village, early in the morning, a group of people chatted very lively around a tricycle.

"Xiaojuan is really fighting for the face of the old Yu family," a fat aunt said with a bowl in her hand, complimenting while eating

"That's it, it's really not easy for a girl to be admitted to Jingping High School" Aunt Wang, who was in front of her, was carrying a vegetable basket, as if she was going to go to the ground, and she also surrounded her when she saw a lot of people.

"It is said that the students from Jingping High School have a high admission rate to universities" Uncle Wang is a wife, and in line with the principle of husband singing and wife, he also came up to make up a sentence. I am afraid that in the future, Yu Wenjuan will become a college student and forget herself.

"Yes, yes, the girl will have a future in the future, but don't forget our neighbors"

"I don't know what it will be like in the future" Yu Wenjuan's mother is a slightly chubby medium build, with a cotton and linen short-sleeved top, black cotton pants, and flat sandals. She was busy sorting out Yu Wenjuan's salute. I was very satisfied when I heard someone praise her daughter, but she must be humble, and she said a few polite words, but she forgot that being too modest equals pride.

"Second aunt, third aunt" walked out of her yard, Yu Wenjuan frowned almost unnoticed, she had never liked the gossip of these people in the village, but she still smiled and called people very politely. She wore an over-the-knee beige chiffon skirt with two braids on her chest.

"Yu Wenjuan" has a somewhat ethereal voice, Mandarin is very standard, if you don't look at the clothes, it is easy for people to think that she is from the city.

I saw a girl in a white short-sleeved shirt and sky blue jeans, the girl had a student's head with bangs, and because her hair was not dry, her hair was dripping down.

"Hurry up, why are you here, we should be late for high school admission today" Yu Wenjuan's Mandarin is not very standard, and her two faces are red, like ripe apples.

Wheat grinned embarrassedly, "My mom has to let me wash my hair."

She casually tossed a plastic bag containing a few of her clothes into the tricycle's body. got on a tricycle with Yu Wenjuan.

"Mom, will you go back?" said to the middle-aged woman who came with her, who looked to be in her forties, with blue pants and a white blouse that had turned a little yellow. Although the years have left indelible marks on her, her delicate face is still faintly visible.

The middle-aged woman glanced at the tricycle with a look of envy in her eyes. I thought that if I had a tricycle like this, I could send my daughter to school in the city.

"Mother Wheat, why don't you go with you?" Yu Wenjuan's mother said politely.

Mother Mai's eyes lit up slightly, but she looked at the narrow tricycle body, and said with some loss: "Forget it, let her go by herself, sooner or later she will have to be independent"

"Mom, go back, Dad's leg seems to be a little sore today, you go back to take care of Dad" Mai knew that Mom was reluctant to herself.

"Okay, then be careful yourself, there is something to call" The middle-aged woman's eyes were full of mistantness, revealing a little reluctance.

They waved goodbye to the people and waved goodbye to their villages.

On the way, I met a few people from the same village.

"Juan's mother, what are you doing here?"

"Send Juan to school" The pride in the eyes of Wenjuan's mother is self-evident.

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"You finally chose Jingping High School?" Yu Wenjuan looked at the wheat, playing with her braids in her hands. She couldn't understand why Mai chose Jingping High School even though she had a better choice?

"Well, Jingping High School gave me a full scholarship, in addition to the tuition fee for three years of high school, they also promised that as long as I was admitted to a prestigious university, they would also give me a scholarship of 10,000 yuan" Wheat looked at the blue sky and white clouds faintly, everything was too beautiful, beautiful and not real, but my heart was heavy.

She has always longed for freedom, but it is clear that she has never been truly free, and now a contract has firmly imprisoned her.

"You are so smart, you will definitely be able to be admitted to a prestigious university in the future" Yu Wenjuan looked at the wheat who was a little worried, and said with relief.

"I hope so!" Mai breathed a sigh of relief, she really didn't want to be urged by the head teacher to pay the tuition all day long like before. I don't want to make a big deal with others because others laugh at her for being superborn, and I don't want to see my mother cry silently for money. But she was only sixteen years old, and the burden was a little heavy for her, and she was overwhelmed.

The tricycle went a little slowly, and there was some boredom along the way.

…… The path of my hometown

It's the path I walked in my childhood

Small flowers blooming on the side of the road

Give me joy and happiness

Ah, a winding path

The road I miss in my dreams

……

Yu Wenjuan hummed softly, and Mai was a little drowsy when she listened. But she still envied Wen Juan for having a good voice, unlike herself who couldn't find a talent. Thinking of this, Mai's inferiority complex became even stronger, and she turned her head away and looked into the distance silently......

The gravel path, the poplar road, how many times has she passed here, the sun still hasn't risen today, she took a deep breath, wantonly enjoying the peace and coolness of the early morning,

Once she was riding a bicycle here, while watching the meteor shower alone, it was the most beautiful scenery she had ever seen, unreal like a fairy tale, and she was like a princess in a fairy tale, at that time she forgot to make a wish, forgot reality, and rode a bicycle to chase the falling meteor.

She used to like to sleep lazy, and often saved the time to eat breakfast, save the time to wash her face, save the time to brush her teeth, and save the time to comb her hair...... If people can go without clothes, it is estimated that she will also save the time to put on clothes, she was really sleepy at that time. I get up before dawn every day, and I have to go to self-study at night, and when I get home, it is more than nine o'clock, and I have to do my homework. After years of training, she rides her bike very fast. Once, a boy saw her when he was ten meters away from her, and he shouted at her from behind, and chased after her, but he didn't catch up until he reached school.

She used to like to watch the sunset, and when the corn was harvested in the fall, the sunset was beautiful. She sat on a large pile of orange and yellow corn and watched the sunset, which emitted a halo of light, and she imitated the ballad on TV:

The sun is about to go down in the west, and I play my dear earthen lute......

But all the good seemed to be moving away from her, and she grew up, and it seemed that she could no longer find an excuse to be as willful as before.

"Wheat, you are no longer a child, you should be responsible for your life" Before leaving, Dad smoked a homemade cigarette roll, his eyes a little cloudy. Wheat's heart twitched, and some inexplicable emotions ran rampant in her chest, suffocating her throat. She understands her situation, and she understands her father's inner pain. She naturally knows what the meaning of the college entrance examination is for someone like her, who has no background and lives at the bottom.