Xiangcheng is divided into two by the Han River, with Jiangbei being the economic center and Jiangnan being the administrative center. Jiangnan has been subject to many restrictions due to geographical restrictions, with high mountains on one side and rivers on the other, and limited development area.

Although Jiangnan has the only two provincial key middle schools in the city, these two middle schools are facing the unified enrollment of more than 5 million people in the city's eight counties and cities, and it is naturally impossible for backward students like Zhou You to attend such schools.

In addition to these two provincial key schools, Jiangnan has no middle-grade high schools at all, and it has directly dropped to township high schools. The high school that Zhou You attended was not a township high school, but a high school for the children of a central enterprise stationed in the south of the Yangtze River. Due to the limited number of students, they also recruited students from surrounding rural households, and in the past, there was a precedent for rural students to be directly recruited as their employees because of their good grades.

However, after entering the 90s, the factory had a hard time, the channel for recruiting carp to jump the farm door was also closed, and the high school was also restored to a half-dead state.

Nowadays, students still rarely go to high school, and most of the junior high school students either enter technical secondary school or technical school as soon as they graduate. In this way, you can graduate a few years earlier, and you can make money a few years earlier. Only some students with particularly good grades will go to high school for three years before going to university.

Zhou You went to school relatively early, came to this school when he was in junior high school, and was only fifteen years old when he graduated from junior high school, and did not find a good secondary school, so he had to continue to study in high school.

Although the educational foundation of this school is relatively backward, because it is a school for the children of central enterprises, there are from kindergarten to high school. The hardware facilities of the school are still very good, much better than those township high schools. The school has a variety of activity rooms, laboratories, including basketball courts and football fields, which are very well built.

Moreover, due to the limited number of children in the factory area, it is now mainly supported by social student resources, so there is no confrontation between the factory students and the township students. More than a decade ago, the situation was quite severe, and students often broke their heads and even died.

When Zhou You came to school, there were still some cases in junior high school, but in high school, all the students were mixed together, and there was no distinction between inside and outside. He became good friends with many students in the factory, and their sixth brother, Ma Hongtao, was a child of the factory.

Since it is a factory school, this school is also a little different from other high schools. For example, although the school has a cafeteria, there is no dormitory, and all the students need to go to school, even if they are now juniors in high school, but there are very few students in this school who can be admitted to a first-class university, the teachers don't care, the students don't care, and there is never a tense atmosphere.

The only thing that is more stringent in the third year of high school than in the first and second years of high school may be that it is a little more difficult to ask for leave, and the time for self-study next night is a little late.

Zhou You spent more than half an hour running from home, and when he entered the school gate, he was tired and dizzy, and his chest was tight. After a few sips of water from the water pipe outside the cafeteria, I felt a little better and forced myself upstairs.

I didn't come to class for more than a week, and I was surrounded by my classmates as soon as I came around. Everyone knew that he was dealing with his father's funeral, and they all came up to comfort him, and for a while, there were few students and children reading in the early self-study class.

Everyone is eighteen or nineteen years old, although the comforting words spoken are relatively childish, but this sincerity makes Zhou You feel warm. Most of the male classmates also attended the funeral on the day of the funeral, even if there were a few who usually had conflicts with him, since the 19th of the funeral was a weekend, they all attended, and Zhou You thanked everyone one by one today.

At this time, the head teacher Jiao Zhiguo entered the classroom and saw that the students were not reading, laughing together, and did not lose their temper. "Okay, okay, it's welcome to travel to school, but don't miss the time for self-study in the morning. When it's time to have breakfast, there is a chance to talk. Travel, come out, I'll tell you something. ”

Everyone dispersed and returned to their seats. Zhou You had time to take off his backpack, put it on his desk, and walked to the door of the classroom.

Jiao Zhiguo lay on the railing, looking at the sunrise that was about to rise in the east. A round of fiery red discs reflects the morning glow in the sky, and at this moment, it looks very beautiful. It wasn't until the sun rose halfway up and became dazzling that he turned around and said, "I know, your father passed away, and you are very sad, but there are only more than two months left before graduation, and it would be a pity to give up." What's on your mind right now? ”

Jiao Zhiguo is a good man, he and his wife, as well as his daughter, son-in-law, son and daughter-in-law, the whole family are working in the factory, and they have no desires and desires. Although he has always been very average in teaching, he does not put on the teacher's shelf and gets along well with the students.

After traveling around, I went to Yangcheng and rarely came back. It's just that when I came back from the Spring Festival in 09, I participated in a class reunion, and I drank a glass of wine with Jiao Zhiguo at that time, and listened to him sing a song "Xihai Love Song" in KTV, retelling a teacher-student relationship.

"Teacher Jiao, I won't drop out of school. The college entrance examination is not only my dad's expectation, but also my own summary of my high school life. ”

"That's good......," the old man laughed, "and what do you plan to do in the future?" ”

Listening to his greetings, there is a feeling of revisiting the old days, memories and reality are entangled, and there is a special feeling. In the classroom just now, in the face of the greetings of the classmates, Zhou You had a sense of being in a dream because of this feeling, and this time it was quiet, and this feeling was more obvious.

"My second uncle asked me to go to Yangcheng, and I may go to seafarer school and become a seafarer in the future."

"Well, Yangcheng is good, developed area. As a seafarer, the four seas are home, and it is romantic to think about it! He patted Zhou You's arm, "You are in good physical condition, you are tall and big, and you can't suffer anywhere." The teacher also hopes that you can make a name for yourself in the future, so that it will also give me a face for this old man. Let's go to self-study and cherish this last high school life. ”

Zhou You returned to his place, retrieved his key from his bag, and unlocked the desk. Books and test papers were placed on the table, and some school supplies were locked in the desk, and a dagger was found inside.

Seeing these familiar and unfamiliar things, he couldn't help but laugh. Thinking about how knowledgeable and fearless I am at this time, I dare to play this kind of thing, and I really know that it is not the dagger in my hand that is powerful, but the dagger in my heart.

The school is loose, and there are no teachers to occupy the time for self-study in the morning, so you can organize your learning memory well. But when I opened the math, I knew all the characters on it, but I didn't know what it meant.

After going through all the textbooks, Zhou You had to admit that after eighteen years, his memory had degraded, and now let himself take the exam, it would be good to be able to score two hundred points. Even the exam questions that I took once at the beginning, now I almost forgot about it, and the only thing I remember is those two essays.

All subjects, i.e. English and Chinese, Politics, Geography, and History can be scored a little bit. But except for English, other subjects need to be memorized, and now I can only rely on Meng to get scores.

It seems that I still have to make a new study plan according to my actual situation, and I don't want to get into a good school, at least I can't do it too badly! Even if you go to Shanghai Vocational School, you will be required to score more than 300 points! If you don't score 300 points, you will have to spend more money to go to school.

Before Zhou You arranged the study plan, the bell rang for the morning self-study, and everyone picked up their own rice bowls and lunch boxes, and began to call their companions to go to the cafeteria.

Zhou You looked at his desk, but he didn't find his lunch box, he was just about to seriously think about where his lunch box was, only to see Ma Hongtao shouting at the window: "Fourth brother, come out." ”

Zhou You saw the lunch box in his hand and recognized that it was his own, so he got up and walked outside.

Ma Hongtao is a student, he went to the first grade at the age of five, Zhou You is young, he is half a year younger than Zhou Youdu, and now he is just over seventeen years old.

He is the third oldest in the family, has an older brother and an older sister, and when he was a child, he was often bullied by his brother, and he also liked to practice martial arts. However, his physical condition is limited, although he dares to fight, but the level of fighting has not been high.

But his study is better than traveling, after the second year of high school, he entered the science class, and after two months, he was also admitted to a second university, and later became a computer practitioner in the provincial capital, and also settled in the provincial capital, becoming a member of the crowd.

"I lost my rice bowl, I've been using yours for the past few days, we'll make two taels of porridge and drink it together in a while."

"Get out...... "Zhou You touched five yuan from his body and threw it to him." You go buy another one, I don't want to eat with you in a rice bowl. ”

He took the money with a smile and threw the traveling bowl to him. "Thank you, I'll pay you back when I have the money."

Watching him run away quickly, Zhou You couldn't help but laugh. Although Ma Hongtao's family is a dual-income worker, they have three children, his sister just graduated last year, and he has not yet found a job, and his brother is still in school, so his family's economic conditions are even tighter than those who travel around the countryside.

In his previous life, he lost his rice bowl, and in order to save these few dollars, he shared a rice bowl with Zhou You for two months. It's better to eat steamed buns and drink porridge in the morning, but when you eat rice at noon and noodles at night, the two of you have to stagger to eat.

In his previous life, he didn't care about this, but now he is tired of it when he thinks about it. At that time, he was reluctant to spend this money, but now he naturally has no such concerns, the money has not been earned again, and he does not think that he will still worry about money in this life.