In the eighteenth century, the Declaration of Independence of the United States proposed that all men are created equal and that everyone has the right to pursue happiness. However, is everyone equal in reality in the face of happiness? No matter what kind of job you are engaged in or what level of income you have, it will not affect how we feel about happiness.

The deep market in March and April is a changeable season, and the sky is like a child's face, sometimes sunny, sometimes gloomy. It is a city of immigrants where everyone comes to this metropolis of opportunities with their dreams. From recent graduates to middle-aged migrant workers, speculative businessmen and teenage girls, they all have a dream of a better life in this city.

And one of the protagonists of this story, Chen Hao, is one of the many dream chasers, Chen Hao is tall, with a square face, clear and bright eyes, which are deeply embedded in that handsome and fair face, with a half-moon-shaped jade pendant around his neck, engraved with half a poem 'This love can be recalled' This is something he has worn on his body since he was a child.

When I was a child, I asked my mother about the origin of this jade pendant, and my mother said to him: "This is when I was a child, because I was always sick, my mother went to the temple on the nearby mountain to pray to God, and the abbot of the small temple said, you lack something to ward off evil spirits, so I bought you one!" ”

But as he grew up, he knew that his jade pendant was the famous Hetian jade, which was very expensive, how could he buy it if his family was so poor, so he asked again about the origin of the jade pendant on his body, but his mother said: "You don't ask where it came from, in short, no matter what happens, you have to wear it on your body, so that it will bless you with a safe life."

He ran to his father, but he was silent with a cigarette in his mouth.

When I was in middle school, once a classmate saw the jade pendant around his neck, so he said to Chen Hao: "Your jade pendant is quite good-looking, can you take it off and lend it to me."

Chen Hao then took it down and said: "You can see it, don't take it away, this is what I have worn since I was a child, and it can ward off evil spirits."

The classmate said, "Who wants you!" ”。

When he looked at the jade pendant, he stared intently, and the classmate suddenly pointed to Chen Hao's back and said, "Look back, the head teacher is coming, as if calling you."

Chen Hao looked back and saw that there was nothing, and when he turned his head, he saw that the classmate ran to the side quickly, Chen Hao immediately chased after him and said, "You give it back to me, or I will have to beat you if I catch you."

But the classmate ignored him and just ran, and after a while, Chen Hao caught up and said, "Come back quickly, otherwise I won't be polite to you!" But he clutched it in his hand and said, "I won't pay it back, this is mine."

Chen Hao pinned him to the ground and punched him a few times, and finally snatched it back from him, and his jade pendant has never been taken off since then.

, He never fell in love when he was studying, and when other classmates were busy playing every week, he read quietly alone, and his academic performance was among the top spears since he was a child, and even the uncles and aunts in the village thought that this guy would have a future career.

His father was a typical peasant, dressed in a gray cloth coat and always with a pair of green washed and somewhat faded military shoes underneath. Years of turning his back to the loess and turning his back to the sky have made him have broad and powerful arms and dark black skin, smoking 4 cigarettes, his fingernails are yellowed by smoke, and he goes dozens of miles away to pick up some rags or does small work on the construction site to supplement the needs of the whole family, and his mother is a thin and tuberculosis rural woman, of course, she is not a full old man in the countryside, and she has a younger sister in junior high school.

At night, the family sat in their own courtyard under the moonlight, and his father often said to his two brothers and sisters: "Dad, I have no ability, it all depends on you, as the old saying goes, the poor are no more than three, and the rich are not three, and our family from your grandfather to my grandfather is inseparable from my three generations!" Poor! I don't know what your generation is, Hao'er, you have to work hard to get into college, so that you can change the appearance of the whole family."

He paused, took a deep puff of his cigarette and said, "Your mother, I can't count on this look, hehe." Saying that, he smiled at his mother, "The mother who was sitting next to her smirked and retorted: "You have the ability, but the house is not like that!" "Actually, it's just a way for them to be affectionate.

"As long as you are admitted to college, your mother and I will let you finish your studies, so you don't have to worry about tuition" Chen Hao looked at the wrinkles on his father's face by the moonlight at this time, it seemed that he was so beautiful, and he didn't seem to feel uncomfortable at the moment, his father had borne all the pressure of a family, he felt that his father was great, and when he heard those words, a trace of moist breath gushed out from his heart and flowed to his whole body Chen Hao said to his father: "Don't worry, from the first year of high school, From the second year to the third year of high school, I have been in the top few grades until now, and I have been admitted to one book without any problem, and I have won a scholarship every year."

When the father heard his son's confident words, he seemed to have a lot of comfort in his heart, smiled and said, "Then I wish the future college students, if it is true, it will be the only one in our village!" ”

Chen Hao had a high score of 710 in the last mock exam before the college entrance examination, and he scored a total of 430 points in Chinese and mathematics, and 280 points in Wen Zong, when the report card was shown to his father.

He looked at his father's face full of years and years with a bright smile, this year his father was rarely at home, he was busy picking up garbage outside, ten mineral water bottles are a dollar, every day when Chen Hao came home from school, he often saw several large bags of garbage that his father had taken back, when his father helped bags of garbage down from the small broken car, his father struggled to put the full bag on his broad shoulder and gasped for heavy breath.

Chen Hao said: "Dad, I'll help you," his father said: "No need, you go and review your homework, I'll do this job, it's almost time for the college entrance examination, review well" At this moment, Chen Hao's heart was very sad, his eyes were moist, but he couldn't help but not want his father to see his tears, which would only make his father more uneasy.

June 5th, the last day before the exam, Chen Hao reviewed to two or three o'clock, when he woke up the next day, he only felt a good headache, no appetite, drowsy, in the morning his father specially bought a pound of pork from the market for his son to replenish his body, Chen Hao didn't want them to know that he was sick, he ate something casually, and when he left, his father instructed: "Son, don't be nervous during the exam, play hard, and read the questions carefully." "I see! It's almost late to leave" The father watched his son walk out of the house, and stood at the door for a long time and watched,

As soon as he got to the examination room, Chen Haojue's head hurt more and more, the words in front of him seemed to move, he pinched his forehead a few times, and felt better before continuing to answer, the question that he had caught in his hand, it seemed that he couldn't find a way, the exams for two consecutive days were like that, and on the day he saw the results, Chen Hao couldn't believe his eyes, only 512 points, which was less than the second admission line, so Chen Hao fell, and he felt that the sky seemed to have fallen.

In addition to the ridicule of the people around him, the most he can't face is his father, who lived up to his father's expectations, and the father also had a dignified face when he saw his son's report card, just silent, and kept smoking, Chen Hao saw his father's disappointed expression, tears immediately flowed out, he immediately turned around and ran to his room, put his head into the bed, kept crying, crying, crying, tears soaked the sheets, three days, no food or drink, no matter how the parents knocked on the door inside just crying, he felt how he was so unlucky, If he hadn't been sick that day, maybe the ending would have been different if he played normally, he especially hoped that time could be turned back, rewind to the day before the college entrance examination, and he might not be sick the next day if he went to bed early, he especially wanted to have a time machine, but the reality is so cruel, he must face it!.

In this way, more than half a year has passed, time may be the best medicine to treat all pains, after the New Year, the father and son or the whole family seem to be in the state before the college entrance examination again, one night, snowflakes floating in the sky, falling to the ground to form a rustling sound, the whole family is around the stove to burn the fire.

Father said to Chen Hao; "Why don't you go back to school for another year, my family just bought a few pigs raised last year, just enough for your tuition, not enough to borrow from relatives!".

Chen Hao lowered his head and looked at the flames in the stove, as if the flames in his heart were swaying up and down, he said: "Okay" But the word was withdrawn before he finished speaking, he looked at his father's wrinkled face, and looked at the lovely sister beside him, so he said to his father: "Dad, I think forget it, my sister is still studying, I can go out to work to help the family share some of it, you don't have to work so hard in the future, I am almost twenty years old this year and can live independently!" ”。

"That's not a pity, you are a good seedling of study, after repeating the year, you will definitely be able to pass the exam?" The father said, but Chen Hao continued: "No, I can also be self-taught while working outside, I am saying that I may not be very capable after studying in college, and self-taught may not be as good as a regular college graduate?" The father was silent.

In this way, with the hope of his family, his college dream set foot on the train station of the southbound train.