Every year in late summer and early autumn, the sun bakes the Ganggu Basin in Tuoshan Township very strongly, and the whole is like a steaming steamer. At noon, the people who walked in this basin were ants on a hot pot.

After the college entrance examination, Duolao and Liu Zhi are still "working and studying".

In the morning and evening, snakes like to come out to cool off. They may not have language and communication tools, and they can't spread the news that their accomplices have been arrested, and even yesterday the wife twisted out and was arrested, and the husband still doesn't know what she did, and there is a little suspicion that she went out to fool around.

At noon, it is a good time for Duolao to soak in the river and also move in the water like a fish.

The willow branch and the duo lao are inseparable, and even if the duo lao is soaked in the river at noon, there is still a wooden barrel on the bank, and the willow branch jumps by the barrel. She was holding a pink parasol, a pink cool top, and gray cool pants, and from a distance it looked like a hydrogen balloon was fluttering on the earth.

They have not come to this river for two years, and in the past two years, even in the most intense study, their thoughts will drift to this river from time to time, to the mountains of Shuangniuchong, and this river and that mountain, like hooks, hook them from time to time.

In the past, when Dorao and Willow Branch came to this river, it only took a moment for Dorao's shirt to fall to the ground, whether it was grass or mud, and his clothes were there like a pile of cow. Whenever this happens, Willow Branch always picks up this pile of "cow" and puts it in a suitable place. And now, as soon as they came to the river, the willow branch would turn away, and cover himself with this umbrella, and only when Dorao had taken off his shirt and trousers, and jumped into the water with a thud, did he turn again, point, and scream.

In this fiery summer, they have fiery hopes. Duo Lao hopes that Liu Zhi will go to that line so that he can go to the normal university in the province, and Liu Zhi hopes that Liu Zhi will be at the top of the list so that he can go to the first-class school in the country.

But both of them have the bottom of their hearts, and it is not enough to combine all the money of the two families to provide for one person to go to school. The credit union should not open its mouth, there are not many relatives and friends, and they are all so poor that they are tinkling, east and west, north and south, digging three feet of ground, it is difficult for half a person to go to school, even if you go to one, you can't go to one without eating or drinking, and the tuition and living expenses of one person alone are not enough to catch all the snakes in the mountains and touch the fish in the river.

Now on the one hand, the snake is being rehabilitated, saying that it is a beneficial insect, and it is included in the category of banning fishing, and then there are more and more snake catchers, and the more it is forbidden to fish, the more you have to catch it. Duo Lao can meet three or five snakes in a month, even if he is lucky with shit. The fish in the river may have been shot too loudly by Li Duolao's mine, which attracted too many people, and they also caught them in groups. You Li Duolao haven't been here for two years, and people poured a bottle of the pesticide into the upper reaches of this Tuoshan River, and it flowed all the way, all the fish, regardless of size, men, women, and children, all with their bellies facing the sky. You can only wait until the next time God gets nervous, the next rainstorm, and those fugitives come, to catch them. Now it is no more than two years earlier, once there is a river flood, this river is like holding an international swimming competition, and there are no swimsuits, and the whole river has a bare back or even a bare buttocks. Now Duolao is soaking in this river, just dreaming of the luck of bumping into a group of fish and the occasional fish that has drunk pesticides and developed a resistance to the drug and will not die. The fish was no one else, it had four legs, and when it was at stake, it knew to shut its mouth, climb ashore, and escape. However, it is rare for Duo Lao to encounter such luck. He had only touched five of them in junior high school and high school and sold them to the same recipient, and he did come across two in the short time since he graduated. Don't underestimate that there are only two, each of which costs a hundred yuan, at that time, two hundred yuan in front of you, some people will be so scared that they can't get up for a long time.

Relying on catching snakes and fish to settle the tuition fee is equivalent to climbing the stairs and wanting to go to the moon.

What Duo Lao is thinking about now is how to solve the monthly food expenses if Liu Zhi goes to a normal university. The agricultural machinery station in Tuoshan Township has long been dispersed, and now there is a township enterprise, with a total of 50 or 60 people working, and I heard that there will be layoffs. The company is called Tuoshan Township Electric Appliance Factory, but it actually only produces one kind of transformer, mainly a small coil around some fine copper wires, most of which are some girls working there. Even if you want to 'peel broad beans', you will never be asked to go, the sister-in-law of the brigade branch secretary asked her brother-in-law several times to find the secretary of the township government axe and the deputy township head in charge of the enterprise, but she couldn't get in, you Li Duolao is the brother-in-law of the township secretary?

Among the private enterprises, the largest one in Tuoshan Township used to be the straw sandals and tea shop a little before the dividing line set by him and Liu Zhi, and now there are several dealerships selling tobacco and liquor, mostly located in the halls of roadside people, moving out of their own cupboards and removing two cabinet doors as containers, and eating at home but moving out of the dining table as counters, and the "salesman" is mostly some half-mothers-in-law and grandmothers, he will hire you, a tall man? So much food for you? You still want to ask him for a salary?

Go to work in a factory, all of them are state-owned enterprises, they eat state grain, and a few guards will not let you in, and it is strange that you will not be arrested if you insist on going in.

Do you catch snakes and fish again, even if you are not afraid of being beaten to death, there are few snake holes in Tuoshan Township with a hoe on your back. If you go to the river to catch fish, you can only go back quickly if you run into the person carrying the pesticide bottle, so as not to poison people.

It is not difficult to ask this junior to do a few math problems, but it is difficult to do this problem. His brow furrowed.

If you don't have access to the Internet, if you don't have a mobile phone, and you don't have a public phone, you live in Yanjing, your son is in Guangzhou, and you have something to discuss with your son, so you have to write a letter and send it from the post office, (and there will be a post office) Your son happened to go to the post office in Guangzhou and found the letter, picked it up, read it, and then wrote to you, and you found that your son replied to the letter at the post office, and after receiving it, reading it, you knew your son's opinion. It will take at least half a month to go back and forth, and if you think it is too slow to send letters at the post office, then you can run yourself. Pity our ancestors, and the ancestors not so long ago, and the "ancestors" who are still alive here came over like this. The "ancestors" of 1984 basically lived in such an environment. Therefore, the news of Dorao and Willow Branch's admission can only wait for the admission letter from the distant college in the mail bag carried by the township postman. It's like a farmer in a long drought, hoping for rain from God, but not knowing when it will rain or not. And before you enter the examination room, you have to fill in which school you want to go, as if you are not allowed to fall in love and get married.

In the evening of this day, the clouds in the sky are so good, dyed half red and half plain by the sun, under the reflection, the peaks of Shuangniuchong show a light ink color, like a curtain hanging with many folds, waiting for the return of the sun, as if to hold a literary evening.

The township postman carried the pale red flat pole of two mail bags, reflecting two golden halos. In the hot weather, he was still wearing green overalls and a work hat of the same color as his overalls, and in the sunshine on the pond embankment, he was shouting: "Which is Li Duolao!" ”

Bypassing the left side of the pond, there is a four-room house, and on the right, it is also a four-room house, and in the middle of the two houses is a mound, which is like two eyes and a nose, and the pond in front of you can be used as a mouth, but this mouth seems to be a little too big. Which four-room house is the Lee Dolao family? So there was a repeat: "Which one is classmate Li Duolao!" ”

The willow branch, who had just poured the pig into the trough, heard someone on the embankment screaming, and she carried the empty bucket and pricked up her ears to wait for the sound to come again.

This time she heard it clearly, and the bucket fell from her hand to the ground, and before the bucket was finished, she went to the floor, and saw a postman, who, like a gust of wind, blew out half a circle, and came to the postman. The postman paid attention to her from a long distance, and when she got closer, he couldn't help but take a step back and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you Qian Liuzhi?" ”

Willow Branch's beautiful eyes widened: "How do you know me?" ”

The postman took another step back and closed a sentence with his teeth, which was "I heard from the people of the township government that there is a big beautiful woman named Qian Liuzhi here, who is Li Duolao's fiancée." It's not Qian Liuzhi asking him what he was shouting just now, where does he remember that he came to deliver the admission letter.

Liu Zhi took the large brown paper envelope from the postman's hand, and entered the "admission letter", she didn't read it, and she didn't read it, and she didn't want to read it, the school she applied for was the most famous university in the country. I forgot to ask the postman to come into the house to drink tea, both flying feet and Yangge and dancing flew to the floor, whether to tell my mother first, or to tell Duolao first.

The postman was miserable, he forgot to call Qian Liuzhi to sign for the signature.

Liu Zhi's biggest hope at this time is that the notice of the division university will not come, it will not come. She has heard that Shenzhen is now engaged in development, and has already contacted people, including food and housing, 400 yuan per month!

Duo Lao can go to Yanjing to study! In terms of funds, she wants to leave tomorrow, and emotionally, she is reluctant to leave him at a step.

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