In fact, the North and South Temple is at the end of the Heban Mountain Range, and the stream of the valley winds north into the plain, collecting the surrounding water sources, and flowing through the county seat, which is the Daixi River. Hedong Village is more than ten miles north of the Daixi River out of the valley, and further north is the county seat. Qin Xiao and Xu Shaoqing are young in the same village, Qin Xiao's parents died since childhood, Xu Shaoqing's parents take Qin Xiao as if they were their own sons, every Chinese New Year, it is Xu's mother who buys Xu Shaoqing and Qin Xiao a new dress each, Qin Xiao and Shaoqing are also like brothers.

Qin Xiao thought, a primitive barbecue tossed Luo Chuan like a beggar, and forced him to obey and be wronged, he inevitably felt a little guilty in his heart, so he had to invite him to his home for the New Year, and Luo Chuan's homework was too bad, so it was better to take the opportunity to make up for him if he was abandoned at home. Of course, Luo Chuan didn't know the deep meaning, Xu Shaoqing knew Qin Xiao too well, and his appearance seemed to have nothing to do with him in the world, but he was the most affectionate. When she was a child, Xu's mother sprained her waist while working in the field, and Qin Xiao went up the mountain early the next morning to catch a lot of scorpions for Xu's mother, which were used to invigorate blood and remove blood stasis, which moved Xu's mother to snot and tears.

Everyone naturally applauded, but Meng Fan was not happy, saying that how could he come out and not go home during the Chinese New Year. This is indeed a problem, at least Chinese New Year's Eve has to be with his parents. Qin Xiao said: "Simple, call the biology teacher Han Ruihua, I inquired about her can't return to her hometown in the south for the New Year with her senior year of high school, this task is handed over to Meng Fan, you go to settle it, I see that you like to ask the biology teacher questions in class, whether to study the biological chain or to study the teacher-student relationship." ”

Luo Chuan laughed and said, "Study a fart, he told me privately that when the teacher explained the problem to him alone, his hair hung down on his body, which was comfortable and fragrant!" ”

Xu Shaoqing said: "Why don't you invite 102 girls, after all, we have been in high school together for two years." ”

Meng Fan said to Luo Chuan: "How inconvenient it is for girls to invite. ”

Qin Xiao smiled and said, "It's their blessing to be able to come, leave it to me." ”

Within a few days of the class meeting, Lao Lu explained that he must not relax when he goes home for the New Year, and then the overwhelming test questions that can be used as bedding are sent down. Meng Fan didn't know what method he used to get Han Ruihua to agree to the winter vacation counseling. Later, he said that when he ran to Mr. Han's office, he said that he was not good at biology, and the strange teacher couldn't understand it, and he couldn't ask it clearly, but in fact, he really asked, and it felt really good. Han Ruihua has just graduated from college and applied for employment here, and the little girl's temper is better than Su Xiaoman's and Ma Xiaoxi's, so the boys deliberately pretend not to understand in class, especially when she repeats the process of life repeatedly.

Han Ruihua directly said, "You can't pull to think that the earth's gravity is insufficient", and agreed.

Qin Xiao adopted another set of strategies to deal with Su Xiaoman, he didn't agitate the generals, after so long, the radical generals would have already turned into shrimp paste for both sides.

During the recess, Su Xiaoman was doing English mock questions, Qin Xiao hooked her legs over a stool and sat next to her and watched her not speak, Su Xiaoman leaned down on Qin Xiao:

"What?"

"Forget it, it's all in vain."

"What's wrong with the slippers and the sycamore leaves?" Su Xiaoman asked slightly anxiously.

"It's more important than that, I want Luo Chuan to join me during the winter vacation, I will tutor him in mathematics and Chinese, this English, and the class leader will choose it personally." Qin Xiao pretended to be annoyed.

"Don't go!"

This answer was expected by Qin Xiao. Qin Xiao continued:

"Got it, I want an answer for Teacher Han and Meng Fan."

Su Xiaoman explained: "I didn't go because I wanted to go to you, but I didn't want to help. ”

"You say you like the rain, but you use an umbrella when it rains, you say you like the sun, but you look for shade when the sun is shining, you say you like the wind ......," Qin Xiao recited Shakespeare's poem.

"I said you should cool off." Su Xiaoman threw out a sentence elegantly.

"Only women and Su Xiaoman are difficult to raise." Qin Xiao also ridiculed Su Xiaoman for not being a woman.

"How do I get there for the New Year?" Su Xiaoman actually wanted to go too, after all, he had never spent the New Year in the countryside.

Qin Xiao saw that the three-plate axe was finally finished, and then said:

"If you call Ma Xiaoxi and Donnie again, you will say that Teacher Han will lead the team, the winter vacation training camp, and the third year of high school will be the marriage of the poor, what can you pay attention to?"

Su Xiaoman said, "I'll try it, I won't go if no one goes to them." ”

However, in the end, parents still did not want to miss the opportunity for their children to learn, which is a common problem of parents, Su Xiaoman and Tang Ni still obtained the consent of their parents, but the requirement was that they must rush home for the New Year before Chinese New Year's Eve.

Luochuan's father knew that his classmates were going to train with his son, so he would have to entertain Qin Xiao a few times, and he would go to the best three-star hotel in the county. Lao Luo's family has not produced a few scholars, and Luo's father is counting on his son to return from his studies to glorify his ancestors, but Luo Chuan inherited his father very well. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Lao Luo confessed how to sprinkle glue into the teacher's textbook and how to tie the hair of the girl opposite, Qin Xiao Meng Fan just laughed secretly - it turned out that tying Liu Yuxin's shoes was also picking up his father's tooth wisdom.

This time, everyone also got the full support of Lao Luo, not only gave their usual card plug to Luochuan, but also used their Mercedes-Benz business to receive customers for Luochuan to use. Luo Chuan didn't like to read since he was a child, he loved to fight and drive, and now he is a black belt in taekwondo, although he didn't get a driver's license, his driving skills are really good. In this way, a carload of people set off from the county seat to Hedong Village.

Snow falls on the road, and the dusky sky blends with the endless snow-covered wheat fields. Although Qin Xiao's parents died when he was a child, his family was well-off, his grandfather was a well-known local old Chinese medicine doctor, and the Qin family practiced medicine for generations, which was the case since the Qing Dynasty. The profession of traditional Chinese medicine is not something you can achieve by studying hard, you need to contact patients from an early age, and you need to have the guidance of a master, even if you see "Materia Medica" from "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Typhoid Fever", you can only understand a few more Chinese medicine terms.

Grandfather Qin Yuhan said that he was going to his uncle in the provincial capital for the Spring Festival this year, mainly to visit the deceased, and the only thing he told Qin Xiao to do was to go to the grave.

The Qin family compound is a typical farmhouse courtyard, with locust trees, pomegranates, and grape trellises planted in the garden, but they are all bare. It was already the twenty-third day of the lunar month when they arrived at Qin Xiao's house, Qin Xiao had already thought of a place to live for them, Xu Shaoqing naturally lived in his own house, Qin Xiao and Meng Fan Luochuan lived in the side room on the west side of the north house, because there was only one bed, and the tent was bought in advance.

The east side of the main hall is actually Grandpa's study and bedroom, and it can't be closed when Grandpa is not there. However, Qin Xiao asked Xu Shaoqing to come and live with him, because the heating of the entire courtyard had to be heated by the stove in the west hall of the north house, and other people would not use this guy at all, and Xu Shaoqing's help would not make him unable to be separated at all times. Su Xiaoman and Donnie live in the East Wing, the East Wing is very ordinary, except for storing sundries, they don't usually do anything, Liu Xiaoxi and Su Xiaoman set up a tent with a little cleaning. Mr. Han lives in the west chamber by himself, next to the grape trellis, which is originally a bedroom, and usually his uncle or aunt lives there when he comes home. On the south side of the yard is the kitchen and toilet. A fire was lit and the sluice gates of the heating pipes in the outer room were opened, and the house was soon warmed up.

In the evening, Xu Shaoqing's parents gave everyone a pick-up, and also gave everyone the best and very little jujube nectar brewed by their own beekeeping. Although Mr. Han is an elder, she is actually just a big sister, and she also has the temperament of a little girl in her personality.

Back at the Qin family's residence, everyone went to sleep.

The next day, everyone went into an intense study session, which made people think that they were like ants in a colony, and they would never understand what they were doing to the colony. In fact, it is difficult to describe Chinese education, but passing by the toilet will inevitably cover your mouth and nose. It is difficult to control people's thoughts, and people's abilities also have a God-given component, and education itself has fabricated a lot of standards for children, which is tantamount to setting up a road card in front of a steep slope. Looking back at those college entrance examination champions, outstanding league members, crying while guarding social rules, and sighing with honorary certificates, it is indeed a beautiful scenery. In psychology, thinking is divided into convergent thinking and divergent thinking, that is, the positive and reverse thinking in popular terms, in fact, it doesn't matter whether it is positive or negative, it is positive when you get used to it, and it is called rebellion if you are awkward, but there is not so much moral characterization in reality, Qin Xiao University often skips classes, occasionally goes to the village before the last class, and does not go to the store after the last class, and must continue to expand with the existing base and finally connect into a piece, but also exercise divergent thinking, sometimes obedient, steady and steady, step by step These exhortations are simply stupid human sins! In addition, China does not pay attention to basic education, has poor ability to leapfrog disciplines, and even knows little about its own major, and there is a convention in Chinese education - textbooks must be used, regardless of the political implications of the book, the content alone is incoherent: for example, when Newton discovered gravity, calculus has actually matured, but textbooks even in college liberal arts majors how many majors learn calculus? For example, our textbook first talked about the acoustic Doppler effect, but Doppler discovered this law from optics. How did Newton calculate the gravitational constant, why did Einstein have to add a cosmological constant to his formula, why did Bohr, who listened to his lecture back then, question how Einstein finally deleted this constant to make the universe open, how did Hubble observes evidence that the universe is expanding, and why Bohr can only explain the electron configuration of hydrogen atoms? Therefore, Chinese students have no logical cognition, do not know where the vinegar comes from, where the salt comes from, and think that calculus is more advanced than classical physics, but in fact it is the opposite. What did the educators say all day Sukhomlinsky, how Makarenko, how did Dewey do, why did roundworms and dung beetles eat the digest or feces of other organisms? It's because they lack the ability to digest. The beautiful temple of thought not only asks us to see the age and future of the sun from its elemental composition, but also thinks of the first solar spectrum discovered by Fu Lang and Fei.

In fact, just like the ant colony of human society, it is also necessary to consider the immediate survival, but in the ant colony, suddenly an ant can stretch out its antennae, its head, and look at the sunset, isn't it also a very cute life?

After a few days of study, we don't feel bored, and in the blink of an eye, it has been the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and everyone gets up every day to read in the morning, finish eating, and do mock questions. Teacher Han Ruihua is more like a little nanny, preparing breakfast every day, Luo Chuan is much more diligent than usual, but he has to practice in the morning every day. Qin Xiao had to go out every morning, and sometimes he called Xu Shaoqing with him, and only came back in the morning, everyone asked him what he was doing, but he just smiled slightly and didn't answer.

But today Qin Xiao wants to lead everyone to the market, saying that it is the last time this year. The so-called market refers to the exchange activities of farmers buying and selling agricultural and sideline products on the main streets of various villages at a certain time and place according to the conventions of the lunar calendar. Qin Xiao decided to do some New Year's goods today, everyone was interested, and Han Ruihua also showed his original form, so he had to see the northern bazaar.

Qin Xiao said that there are the most exquisite skills of the Chinese in the bazaar, and everyone guesses left and right but can't guess, some say that they are kneading clay people, some say that they make rock sugar gourds, and Qin Xiao said that it is bargaining. And proudly explained on the road:

"Bargaining is a characteristic formed by Chinese in long-term cultural development, Chinese culture, especially Confucian culture, pays attention to books are not exhaustive, words are not enough, that is, there must be room for speech, and in commercial trade is reflected in the false price, from the game theory is that the two sides speculate on each other's reserve price." And being able to let the other party show the reserve price first is a successful bargaining, and the master must have a very high level, and even the bargaining level is a criterion for judging whether the new daughter-in-law is qualified or not. For example, there should not be too many bargainers, and many people should be anxious; Do not bring children, because children are the most likely to show likes and dislikes; It is necessary to raise the fish and degrade the bear's paw, and finally give up the fish and take the bear's paw; The last one is to regret and be reluctant after buying, even if you like it, you have to look annoyed to make the seller think that you haven't suffered much loss. As a seller, just do the opposite. ”

Looking at Qin Xiao's pretentious appearance, Su Xiaoman Donnie thought that bargaining was a woman's patent, and said unconvinced: "Get off later, let's separate the list, I will be with Xiaoman, let's buy half each, see who has more and cheaper!" Qin Xiao laughed, indicating that there was no pressure. Xu Shaoqing kept giving them a look on the side to make them compare, and the two of them turned a deaf ear. Teacher Han said that he would also compare with Qin Xiao, Luochuan Meng Fan saw that there was a lively scene, and hurriedly coaxed, Qin Xiao asked Luochuan to drive well, and then gradually calmed down.

Soon they arrived at the market in a neighboring village.

"What?" Luo Chuan saw Qin Xiao stretching out his hand and asked puzzledly.

"Nonsense, hasn't Mr. Luo's sponsorship of us been paid yet? Do you want to deduct migrant workers' wages? Qin Xiao didn't finish speaking, and went to dig out Luo Chuan's wallet.

When you come to the bazaar, the crowd is bustling, and only then can people really understand the true meaning of this idiom in "Historical Records: The Biography of Goods and Colonies". Men and women parted ways and each started the contest.

Qin Xiao instructed Luochuan Meng Fan to just look at it and not say anything, and when he came to a meat stall, Qin Xiao asked:

"Boss, how do you sell this pork?"

"Fifteen." The boss was a stocky butcher who replied with a cigarette in his mouth.

"It's too fat, the person on the other side is much stronger than you before selling it for eleven or ten yuan!" Xu Shaoqing immediately lowered the price by one-third.

"Ten yuan can't be sold, I promise that I don't use clenbuterol for water!" The boss immediately raised his chips back.

Qin Xiao continued: "Who knows how much cheaper it can be?" ”

"That's it, Thirteen, it can't be any lower."

Xu Shaoqing said: "Qin Xiao, it's a little fat, I don't like to eat it, can you two eat it?" After saying that, staring at Meng Fan Luochuan, the two of them quickly shook their heads.

Xu Shaoqing then whispered to Qin Xiao: "Forget it, Qin Xiao, let's take a look elsewhere!" ”

"Eleven, five catties, do you sell it at this price? Don't sell it away. Qin Xiao said categorically.

The short and fat boss said, "You go, you can't sell it." ”

Then Qin Xiao led everyone to walk in great strides, but after a few steps, he only heard the boss behind him shouting:

"Come back, I'll cut it for you. I didn't expect the two young men to really be able to cut ......"

The cooperation between Qin Xiao and Xu Shaoqing made Meng Fan and Luochuan stunned and admired. Meng Fan said to Xu Shaoqing:

"I don't usually look like a pickle, but this time it smacked me."

After a while, I finally finished buying the rendezvous, bought all the vegetables, meat, dried fruits, and firecrackers. On the way, the results were reconciled, Tang Ni and Su Xiaoman spent two hundred and twelve, while Qin Xiao only spent one hundred and eighty-six yuan. Tang Ni was not convinced, thinking that Qin Xiao must use his own money to make up the number, Meng Fan Luochuan was the same, one played Qin Xiao and the other played Xu Shaoqing, and the experience of buying New Year's goods just now was vividly performed, which made everyone laugh.

It's twenty-nine, and the sky is filled with slow snowflakes. Early in the morning, Qin Xiao woke everyone up, and also called Xu Shaoqing, saying that it was the last day of the training camp, and he would take everyone to the mountains to enjoy the snow, Luo Chuan yawned impatiently and complained: "Did you run out of the psychiatric department during the Chinese New Year?" Appreciate the snow! ”

However, Qin Xiaosheng couldn't stand it, pulled the quilt hard, and finally all the staff went to Qi and marched towards the mountain.

When he arrived at the river first, Qin Xiao immediately took off his boots, rolled up his trousers, and waded into the icy river, and Xu Shaoqing also went into the water. The river is very shallow, not knee-high, and the others don't know what they are doing, Xu Shaoqing explained:

"It's just a fish in muddy waters."

Sure enough, after a while, Qin Xiao grabbed a fish and threw it ashore, the two of them have been catching fish like this since they were children, because the water is shallow and turbid in winter, the fish has a small field of vision and reacts much slower, this is what it means to fish in troubled waters. Luo Chuan wanted to try it when he saw it was fun, but he didn't know the essentials after going into the water, and he couldn't catch any of them, Meng Fan was afraid of the cold, so he didn't go into the water and only picked up fish on the shore. The two of them had already caught seven or eight of them, and Qin Xiao saw that it was almost there, so he went ashore with Xu Shaoqing and Luo Chuan, put on his boots and continued to go up the mountain.

On the hill is the orchard of Hedong Village, and many fruit farmers have set up fences outside their orchards to make it easier to guard. The cracks in the fence became roadblocks for the hares, and the entire orchard was full of hare's footprints in the snow. Qin Xiao checked one by one, and finally found a rabbit that had frozen to death on a wire sleeve he had set up. Qin Xiao said: "I thought Bai had set up so many traps, and finally caught one!" Ladies and gentlemen, how did you enjoy the snow? It's time for us to go home. ”

The snowy fields of the northern country, the frozen river, like a frozen time and space, walking on it, only the exhaled steam and the sound of stepping on the snow can pierce a little tip from this vastness.

Back at the Qin family compound, everyone was very busy, and Mr. Han led the two girls to pinch the stuffing, make noodles, and make dumplings; Qin Xiao wrote a few couplets and sent them to his partners who were going back to the city today, and Luochuan Meng Fan also helped them to grind the paper; As for Xu Shaoqing, he went home early and went to work by himself.

In the afternoon, Qin Xiao also went to help press the dumplings, and as soon as the first pot of dumplings came out of the soup, he brought the bowls and chopsticks to the grave.

In the past few days, Qin Xiao can only be alone for a while at this moment, many things come into his mind, sitting in front of the graves of his parents and grandmother, he recalled many vague memories of his childhood. Qin Xiao also didn't know why his parents died, but from his grandfather's eyes and the chatter of his neighbors, he felt that the death of his parents was very strange, and it was very abnormal for his grandfather to go to Jinan to see the old man.

After thinking about it for a long time, there was no result, and Qin Xiao no longer bothered about these things, after all, it was the most important thing to deal with the college entrance examination. After thinking about it, he finally kowtowed a few times in front of the grave, packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went home.

On the night of the twenty-ninth day, everyone sat around the dining table in the main hall, and Xu Shaoqing also came from home. Qin Xiao specially prepared a table of good dishes, the rabbits caught during the day have now been boiled into tender broth, Qin Xiao is putting the scaled fish on the grill to roast, and this time the condiments are complete, it tastes better than the fish he ate at night in the dormitory of Nanbeisi Middle School. After all, the training camp is over, and you can relax a little. Everyone played a role-playing game at the dinner table to catch the murderer, and those who lost were punished for drinking, Luochuan had the largest amount of alcohol, Qin Xiao and Xu Shaoqing poured him wine one by one, Meng Fan also took out a guitar that he hadn't touched for a long time to help the fun, Su Xiaoman Donnie sang and had a unique style...... A group of young people from all over the world ate a unique Chinese New Year's Eve meal for two hours, in the midst of sometimes laughter and the constant sound of firecrackers.

Even after the same year, a total of more than ten days of intensive training ended quickly, and the students in the third year of high school also quickly returned to Nanbeisi Middle School, continuing this only half-year sprint, continuous exercises, repeated simulations, until the final moment of the college entrance examination. The three-year classmates, at that moment, had no time to say goodbye, and suddenly packed their bags and went home. Maybe when you wake up in the morning after a few days of wild sleep, you still feel like a dream, and even feel very kind to that dormitory, that set of desks and chairs, and that classroom, but they don't belong to you anymore, and you never know what will happen to them anymore. As Feng Zikai wrote in an essay called "Gradually":

The subtle elements that make life smooth and smooth are nothing more than "gradually"; The Creator's method of deceiving people is not as good as "gradually". Before you know it, the innocent child "gradually" turns into an ambitious youth; The generous and heroic youth "gradually" turned into a cold adult; The bloody adult "gradually" turned into a stubborn old man. Because its change is gradual, year by year, month by month, day by day, time by moment, minute by minute, second by second, as if walking down the slope of a long hill with a very gentle slope, so that people do not notice the traces of its decline, do not see the realm of its various stages, but seem to feel that they are always in the same position, eternal, and always have the interest and value of life, so that life is indeed affirmed and carried out smoothly. If the progress of life is not like a mountain but like the key board of an organ, it suddenly moves from do to re, that is, like the child of last night suddenly becomes a youth today; Or like the melody of "disengagement", the place suddenly jumps from do to mi, that is, as the morning is young and the twilight suddenly becomes an old man, people must be surprised, emotional, sad, or feel the impermanence of life, and be unhappy to be a person.

It's like the tumbler he lost in "The Big Book" - those days are indeed gone!