July 29, 1995, Jingzhou City No. 1 Middle School, Shannan Province.

Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School is the best high school in Jingzhou City, with a college entrance examination admission rate of more than 30%. This figure means that 70 percent of graduates will study hard for 12 years from primary school to high school, and will stop at the front of college.

Outside the office building of the repeater class, most of the students were stunned after receiving the college entrance examination transcripts, falling into complex emotions such as pain, remorse, sadness, and despair.

Wang Qiao carefully put the college entrance examination transcript into his pocket, suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and wanted to comfort Wu Chongbin, who was lost and depressed beside him, but when the words came to his mouth, he felt that language was really pale and powerless for those who failed the list.

Wu Chongbin beat his chest and said: "Just do one more question correctly, and I'll be online, one point, only one fucking point." He punched the camphor tree so hard that the back of his hand and fingers were covered with blood. The stout camphor tree could hardly experience the pain of being left behind, and stood still, symbolically dropping two or three leaves.

Cai Fitter came down from the office slowly, walked to Wang Qiao and Wu Chongbin, and said with a sad face: "The score of repeating a year is lower than last year, and the score is forty-five points short, how to explain to the old man when I go back." The barbarian only scored nine points in the math test when he entered the school, and no one was optimistic about you, but this time he was able to get on the key line, and he also fell in love with Yan Lin. ”

Wu Chongbin and Cai Fitter, Tian Feng, Yan Lin, and Liu Hu are all from the Hongqi Factory, which is a third-tier enterprise with a pile of intellectuals, and the old workers like to compare with each other what university their children are admitted to, which has virtually formed a great pressure of public opinion. Cai Fitter was forty-five points short of getting on the line, and he could only happily admit defeat, but there was less pain. "Only one point" was like a fierce short-tailed crocodile biting Wu Chongbin's internal organs, his heart burned like fire, and suddenly another punch hit the camphor tree, leaving a bloodstain on the camphor tree.

Wang Qiao grabbed Wu Chongbin's arm and said, "It's only one point away, you can consider going to the commission training or your own expense, it's not yet time to be completely desperate." ”

Wu Chongbin said bitterly: "If you repeat your studies for a year, you can only go through the commission training, and you will be laughed at by the factory." ”

Wang Qiao said: "You go your way, why care about other people's opinions." ”

There was a muffled "boom" from the direction of the dormitory, and the screams rose into the air like rockets. After a brief silence in front of the office building, the crowd rushed towards the dormitory like a wave. One of the girls at the front rushed out of the crowd with a pale face, leaning against the wall and vomiting.

Wang Qiao squeezed into the center of the crowd and saw a similar scene again: a thin boy lying on the ground, his head badly deformed, and a red and white tofu-like thing flowing on the ground. He was still holding a college entrance examination result notice in his hand, which kept shaking in the wind, making a clear "poof" sound.

The jumper is Fu Yuanfang, the head of the science class who graduated from Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School, and his excellent grades were abnormal in the college entrance examination last year, and he was five points short of the line. When I repeated, I was the first in the class for a long time, and when I was about to take the exam, I suddenly had a high fever, and this time I was almost ten points online.

Fu Yuanfang is usually silent, and no one thought that he would take such an extreme act.

Wu Chongbin was stunned by the tragic scene, and he couldn't move as if he had been in the middle of the body. The onlookers, like Wu Chongbin, briefly lost their thinking ability, and no one went to the office to report the news.

Wang Qiao was the first to come back to his senses, squeezed out the crowd, trotted to the office building, and after going upstairs, he violently pushed open the office of Liu Zhong, the person in charge of the repeat class, and said, "Fu Yuanfang jumped off the building!" ”

Liu Zhong asked twice, and after getting a clear answer, cold sweat rolled down, raised his feet and ran out, and when he ran to the door, a leather shoe fell off his foot, and he didn't realize it, and still ran in the direction of the classroom.

Another teacher was about to run out, but was stopped by Wang Qiao, "Teacher Zhao, hurry up and call 110 and 120." Teacher Zhao woke up like a dream and hurriedly called.

When Wang Qiao returned to the jumping scene, Fu Yuanfang's body had been covered by the old sheets, and Liu Zhong stood motionless in front of the sheets, a few strands of hair were blown upright by the wind, and he seemed to be ten years old in an instant.

Wu Chongbin had been at the scene, looking at the dazzling white sheets with a complicated expression. His girlfriend Liu Hu didn't dare to approach the scene at all, standing by the woods next to the basketball court, looking at the side of the accident.

Wang Qiao saw that Wu Chongbin's face was pale, his eyes were straight, and his mood was extremely low, for fear of another accident, he held his shoulders and comforted: "The living will not be suffocated to death by urine, all roads lead to Beijing, and it is not worth jumping off the building if you fail the college entrance examination." He pulled out the necklace of iron nails hanging from his chest and asked, "Do you know why I am wearing this necklace made of iron nails?" ”

After the iron nails from Room 209 of the Shannan No. 1 Detention Center were made into a necklace, they were worn on Wang Qiao's chest every day, and they had been polished to a smooth finish. After Wu Chongbin knew the origin of this thing, coupled with the bloody scene he had just experienced, his mind suddenly broadened, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I don't believe that Wu Chongbin will have no place in this society, even if he goes to study committee training, his grades will definitely not be worse than other students." ”

Wang Qiao saw that Wu Chongbin was relieved, and encouraged: "With the wisdom of our brothers, we can't gain a foothold anywhere. ”

Sirens whistling in the distance, and the screams of ambulances "ouch, ouch". After the police and doctors arrived, Fu Yuanfang's body was quickly removed, and the police began to look for witnesses to make a record after investigating the scene.

Wu Chongbin's face regained blood slightly, and said, "Barbarian, I'll go find Liu Hu, we'll go back to the factory in a while, and call me if you have something." He scolded again: "The college entrance examination on dog day, the whole person is not dead and sheds his skin, whether it is commissioned training or self-funding, he must leave this year." ”

Wang Qiao really wanted to ask about Yan Lin's situation, but in view of Wu Chongbin's situation, it was difficult to ask about the private relationship between men and women.

Mathematics teacher Zhan Compass walked in the school with his hands behind his back, he has been teaching for more than 20 years, he has experienced countless college entrance examinations, and is accustomed to seeing scenes of great joy and sorrow, but this year is the most tragic, there are students who have fallen off the list and jumped off the building on the spot, and the campus is cheap. When the public security car and ambulance left one after another, he walked around the campus in a restless manner, and when he saw the "nine points" of the liberal arts class coming over, he took the initiative to greet him: "Wang Qiao, you did well in the exam." ”

Wang Qiao didn't have much affection for Zhan Compass, who was harsh, so he stopped out of politeness and said, "It's okay." ”

Zhan Koogui said with emotion: "I didn't expect that Fu Yuanfang would commit suicide by jumping off the building, take a step back and open the sky, there are many successful people in society who have not studied in college, why do you have to squeeze this single-plank bridge." He is usually very tall, but he was stimulated by the jumping students, and had a strong desire to talk, and said: "Wang Qiao, you are really good, the first time you scored nine points in the mathematics test, no one thought that the college entrance examination score exceeded the key line by fifteen points, this is a miracle!" I've been teaching at Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School for decades, and it's the first time I've encountered you. ”

Wang Qiao had something hidden in his heart, and he didn't want to talk to Zhan Yuangui, so he left the repeater class after a few words.

Zhan Yuangui put his hands behind his back, looked at Wang Qiao's back and nodded frequently, and said to himself: "The children can be taught, and the children can be taught." ”

After leaving the repeater class, Wang Qiao's mood gradually calmed down, and he always felt that there was something he hadn't done, and his heart was empty. He knew that he really didn't let go of Yan Lin, he was still thinking about her, worrying about her, and said in his heart: "Since you are still thinking about it, why hold it back, you must ask for news from Yan Lin in a few days." ”

In the family area of Hongxing Factory, father Wang Yongde and mother Du Zongfen held the college entrance examination transcript and were very happy. Wang Yongde held the transcript alone, locked it in the room, and read Wang Qiao's transcript word by word. First in Changdong dialect, then in Mandarin.

On the morning of August 5, Wang Qiao dialed Wu Chongbin's home phone, and after a few words of greeting, he asked Yan Lin directly.

"Yan Lin has returned to the factory, and the super specialty line is three points. Her father is now the deputy factory director, responsible for the construction of the new factory, with great power, and the road to power is wide, and it is estimated that he will have to go through the undergraduate training of the subordinate school. Wu Chongbin, who was not on the list, was unexpectedly not blamed by his parents, and licked his wounds at home for a few days, and was gradually able to face the cruel reality of being on the list.

Knowing that Yan Lin was online in the college entrance examination and did not fall off the list again because of the twists and turns in the repeat class, Wang Qiao was a little relieved and said, "Did you talk to her about me?" ”

Wu Chongbin said: "It's talked." She's glad she knows you're over the point. I asked about the two of you, and she kept her mouth shut. ”

Wang Qiao seemed to have been splashed from head to toe by a basin of cold water, and his heart was very cold.

Wu Chongbin witnessed the whole process of Wang Qiao and Yan Lin's love, understood Wang Qiao's feelings, and said: "Uncle Yan was the first batch to move to the new factory in Shannan, and he will move in the next few days. Our family is in the second batch to move, and if you are admitted to Lingnan University, we can meet in Shannan. ”

"The exact time when Yan Lin moved?"

"I don't know, it should be just a few days." Wu Chongbin was worried that Wang Qiao's arrival would lead to a conflict with the Yan family, so he said euphemistically: "Do you want to come over, if you come, come to my house first." ”

Wang Qiao said in his heart: "Yan Lin is a love idealist, she can't tolerate having another woman in my heart, what can I do if I find her, and she said with a dead face that she has completely forgotten Lu Qi." If she can give up easily, why should I be a little woman. Another voice in his heart said: "I must meet once, I have something to say clearly in person, I can't repeat Lu Qi's mistakes, I can't meet Lu Qi when I walked out of the detention center, and I regret it to this day." ”

Wu Chongbin didn't hear the answer, and said: "I won't go anywhere for a while, just stay at home." ”

"I didn't think about it, I'll call you again if I want to come."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Qiao thought for ten minutes and decided to go to the Hongqi Factory immediately.

(Chapter 76)