Chapter 2: Home
In the early morning of the next day, Hu Yifei went out for a run, ran ten kilometers, and did not return home until he was sweating. I found that my mother was killing the old hen, and my sister was helping to pour hot water to scald the chicken feathers. There is a bowl of noodles on the table, and two poached eggs are hidden underneath.
"Xiaofei, wash your face and eat breakfast, and stew chicken soup at noon. It's almost time for the college entrance examination, and there is nothing to eat in school, so I will make up for it when I go home. ”
His mother's kind voice suddenly made him feel a lot of pressure, and it seemed a little hasty to think of the decision he made last night. He felt that he still had to be vaccinated for this matter, "Mom, what a waste this old hen has been slaughtered." It's better to keep the eggs and have eggs to eat every day in the future. ”
"It's not easy to eat eggs, there are dozens of them in the cupboard. Wait for Ming'er to cook it for you when she leaves. ”
The little sister saw Hu Yifei's poached egg in the bowl with noodles exposed, and immediately pouted, "Mom, I also want to eat water eggs, why do I only give them to my brother." ”
"Your brother is going to take an exam, so he has less time to go home. You are at home every day, and I can still eat you hungry, and I will cook a few for you when I take the next exam. ”
Hu Yifei grinned proudly, and the angry little sister kicked it, Hu Yifei couldn't hide from the bowl, and he didn't feel pain or itch when he was kicked, and deliberately led the topic: "Mom, what if I can't pass the college entrance examination?" ”
"If you don't pass the test, you'll be finished, wait for Dad to come back and beat you." The little sister raised the bar sharply.
The younger brother doesn't like to read, so he also came over and said, "If you can't pass the exam, you can go to work, anyway, that's how you study." I just happened to go together, and I didn't want to read either. Last time, Liao Chen called back and said that he was moving bricks at the Wuhan construction site for 30 yuan a day, plus living allowance, and it was almost 1,000 a month. ”
Hu Yifei knew about this, the family conditions were not good, and he went to his father once after the high school entrance examination. At that time, he was only fifteen years old, and he was carrying a cement bucket in the construction site, and he was half dead from exhaustion, and his skin was all sunburned. There was no concept of child labor in those days, and there were people younger than him. That Liao Chen is the child in the next village and his younger brother's classmate. People are short and thin, and it is simply a sin to go out to work at such a young age.
In fact, more than 30 yuan of wages have to be deducted from living expenses, and the living standard in the city is high, and it is good to have more than 600 yuan a month. He was full of fever at the time, and he worked hard for a month, but the boss thought he was small, and only counted him as half a small worker, and he was only paid 600 yuan for the sake of his father's face, and it was confiscated by his father.
From then on, I never did it again.
The mother reprimanded: "Jing Blind said, your brother will definitely be able to pass the exam if he studies hard." Don't be too stressed, get up early and go to bed early to regulate your body, and the most important thing is to relax your mind. This old hen can stew a lot of soup, and it's all left for you to make up. Don't be too late to review at night, last night at 3 o'clock in the morning I saw your room still lit up and doing your homework, which is not good. Drink more chicken soup later. ”
"Last night...... "He didn't do his homework last night. Hu Yifei opened his mouth dumbly, what else could he say.
After eating, I returned to my room and looked at the thick stack of manuscript paper spread out on the table.
This is the outline of "Zhu Xian", he wrote an outline of no less than 20,000 words in one go last night. With these, you can write a million-word text with peace of mind. He remembers the first few volumes most clearly, and it is enough to have this, and the later volumes will have time to be slowly revised. It's just that when I want to pick up the pen and continue to write the text, I can't help but hesitate.
He is well aware that in this society, although the value of diplomas is depreciating year by year, it is still indispensable. It's easy to fool the college entrance examination, but he doesn't want to see his parents sad. Dad works on the construction site every day, taking care of a family of five, and this heavy expectation alone makes him dare not live up to it.
The heart is that I can be admitted to the second book in my last life, but can I really forget it all when I come back from rebirth?
Put down the pen, pull out a book of study materials from the desk, calm down and slowly flip through it. This look really made him feel different. I vaguely remember that after the college entrance examination, he didn't seem to have a high score when he evaluated the standard answers in the newspaper, and he thought he was going to repeat it, which was very annoyed. Because he didn't say anything to see his parents, he locked himself in his room alone and reviewed the test papers in front of the newspaper for a long time. In the end, I barely got on the second book, and I was lucky enough to escape.
Looking back now, it seems that many of these test areas can be found in the workbook on this shelf.
Hu Yifei suddenly came to his senses, and then opened other information books, some things have lit up that dusty memory like a spark, and bit by bit they have surfaced in his mind.
Think about it again, what is the topic of the college entrance examination essay, "integrity", "choice of the heart" or something else. It seems that there is a literary essay written about the red rabbit horse that is well written, and it has been given full marks and published. There is also a "Zhaojun's Choice" that is also a full score essay, is it this year? Or what year?
He doesn't care too much about the Chinese composition of the college entrance examination, with his literary skills, even if he has not prepared in advance, as long as he deducts the question properly, he is sure to get a high score.
Dig out the notebook and mark all the exercises that impress him. It's just that there are too few books brought back this time, and most of them are kept at school, and it seems that they will have to be carefully checked after returning to school.
Time passed little by little, and more than a dozen pages had been written in the blank notebook, and my heart was not as confused as at the beginning of the crossing, at least the foundation was still there. And he has determined that there must be some of the questions that have been tested, even if there is a deviation, it must be within this style range.
I am afraid that no one in the world can match the success rate of this kind of bet.
There are still more than three months before the college entrance examination, and there is still a lot of time, and he is confident that he can find more surprises.
"Brother, the reservoir is released, are you going to touch the fish?" The younger brother shouted downstairs.
When my mother heard it, she reprimanded him from afar, "Your brother still needs to review, don't disturb him......"
"Here, wait for me, bring up the shrimp net, and maybe catch a king and come back." Hu Yifei jumped up.
The town's reservoir is very large, bordering Henan, and every time it rains, the flood gate will be opened. But the days of the reservoir release were only a few years, and he remembered that in his previous life, he only graduated from college, and the Jiepai Reservoir, which seemed to be like a vast ocean, was half dried up, and the reservoir release only became an eternal memory. The creek behind the village, which used to be able to swim, was also filled with garbage a few years later, turning it into a stinky ditch.
Now that I can still meet it, I naturally want to go.
When the little sister heard him take the lead, she also happily carried a rubber bucket and followed behind to help.
By the time they arrived, many villagers were already in the net. Many people greeted him with a smile when they saw him, "Xiaofei is also here, on vacation?" "Yes, Third Uncle." ……
"Xiaofei is about to take the college entrance examination, strive to get into a good university, don't be like my kid, drying oil in the construction site all day long." "Uncle, your brother Qian Ming is about to become a foreman, and he is much more powerful than a college student. Today's college students are not as good as a year after graduation, and after graduation, they also work for a foreman like Brother Qian Ming. Besides, it's a matter of whether I can pass the test or not. ”……
Hu Yifei used to be the child king of the village, but now he is even taller, and he is a good hand at fishing. The younger brother is not bad, and he has the style of the tiger back then. The two joined hands to get out of the net, drew a bamboo pole to drive the fish into the trap, and after a while, they saw the big white fish jumping out of the water. Hu Yifei's eyes were quick, and he rushed over to stop him and hug him. Unexpectedly, this fish was not small, and a tossing took him into the water. The creek was not deep, and even if the flood water was rising, it could not trap him, so he only grabbed the gills of the fish. After standing firm on his feet, he made his old strength fall to the shore, which immediately caused an exclamation.
The little sister was so frightened that she retreated, and the little brother pounced violently, suppressing the big herring and not letting it move.
This reservoir is dozens of meters deep, wide and hundreds of miles in radius, it has never been dried since it was built, and I don't know how many big guys there are in it. This wild herring is more than two feet long, not to mention forty or fifty catties, how can it be sold into the restaurant for a few red tickets, and he has a month's living expenses.
"Hey, good boy, you have the strength to do it." The third uncle and a few people quickly came up to help, so as not to toss the big fish into the water again.
Hu Yifei tied the gills and mouth of the fish with hemp rope, and tied it to a cow as if he had to tie it to a tree and put it in the water for temporary rearing, so as not to die immediately. On the other side, the fishing net was collected, and there was another white flower churning, which was really a bumper harvest.
When the sun set in the west, the three of them talked and laughed and went home, all of them were happy.
The mother was also very happy, especially when she saw the big fish and the two black soft-shelled turtles, she grinned even more. That night, he sold a large herring and a soft-shelled turtle, and the other was reluctant to sell, so the next day he stewed soft-shelled turtle soup for the three brothers and sisters to eat a full meal.