Zhicheng wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, looked up and sighed with a sad face. If you really pay 2,500 yuan, then your high school dream is over. Imagine that it will cost 2,005 at the beginning of the school year, and I don't know how many 2,050 you have to pay for the whole high school.

If you don't get in, it's okay, complaining that you didn't get home, but now you have fallen into a dilemma. It's a pity that you can't afford to go up, and it's a pity not to go up. In this way, he hung himself in the air without going up to the world, which made him even more painful, and he felt that the future was bleak and his life was hopeless for a while.

Just then, he heard a pleasant voice behind him, as if calling his own name. Looking back, it turned out to be Xu Cuihuan in the same class, this is the top student in the school, and she is also the key of the city. Zhicheng couldn't figure out what she called herself for a while, although the two were old classmates, but because they were both shy, they didn't talk much during school, so they were "strange old classmates"!

"Oh, Zhicheng, give, here's your acceptance letter!" She glanced at him with a shy smile.

"Notice?" Zhicheng didn't figure out her head for a while, how could the notice be in her hands, and besides, it was just a list today, how could the notice come so quickly, in previous years, Zhang Bang had not seen the notice for a long time.

Xu Cuihuan looked at his puzzled look, smiled and said, "Oh, that's the case, the notice of our city's key points has come down in advance, and the other ordinary high schools haven't arrived yet, and I just found out." The head teacher asked me to transfer it to you for him, and congratulated you on getting the city key, and our class will be admitted to the two of us! After she finished speaking, two red clouds flashed on her cheeks, and she glanced at him emphatically, with a feeling of wanting to be close to him, after all, she was a companion in high school.

Zhicheng took the notice and couldn't help but glance at her deeply, he had already found out that this was a very handsome girl. Both the figure and the face are very marked, but due to malnutrition, they don't look very watery. In addition, the clothes on the body are also relatively rustic, and it seems that the family is not very generous, and the jacket and skirt have obvious traces of alteration, and the washed ones have changed color. The sandals on the feet are also handmade by my mother, and the cloth is stumbling. The two pigtails on the back of the head are tied with a red head rope at will, and at first glance she is a simple and elfy peasant girl.

Looking at the rolled-up notice in her hand, Zhicheng asked tentatively, "Are you...... You're on the top list, right? ”

"Hmm." She nodded lightly and couldn't hide the excitement on her face, and then pursed her lips and said modestly: "Actually, I just scored 9 points more than you!" I didn't do well in chemistry. ”

No matter what, people are on the right list, which makes Zhicheng both admire and envy. Xu Cuihuan raised her head and smiled at him, and said shyly: "Zhicheng, call me when you sign up, let's go together!" I still don't know where the gate of Hechang No. 1 Middle School is heading. ”

"Oh, I haven't been to Hechang either, I don't know, besides, I took the second rank...... It's two different things if you can't get on it. ”

The girl bit her lip when she heard Zhicheng's words, and said, "Actually, I don't know if my parents are willing to let me go." At the beginning, my mother said that she would not let me go to high school, I begged her for a long time, and my mother finally said that unless I could be admitted to the first list of Hechang No. 1 Middle School, I would not let me go, although now I am admitted, but I am afraid that they will not be able to afford it...... I have a younger brother down there. ”

"Then I'm going to have to let you go! You studied so well, and now you have taken the exam again, you will definitely be in. ”

When Jing Zhicheng said this, a happy smile appeared on her face again. "Then let's go to Hechang No. 1 Middle School to sign up! Hee-hee, I'll go first! She was about to start after speaking, and when she saw that it was close to noon, she raised her head and said to her old classmate: "Oh, Zhicheng, you...... Are you eating here? This is a common polite phrase in the countryside.

Zhicheng shook his head with a smile and said, "Oh, no, no, I came by bicycle." I'll be home in a while, so go back! He knew that her family lived near Liuzihe Middle School.

Xu Cuihuan didn't say anything anymore, bit his lip and smiled shyly at him, then turned around and trotted away, as if he wanted to tell his parents the good news of his admission to the city as soon as possible. It's a pity that her parents were not only not happy when they learned that she was admitted to Hechang No. 1 Middle School, but they were so sad that they didn't fulfill their promise in the end. Later, Xu Cuihuan, a poor girl, dropped out of school without even a day of high school due to her poor family.

After Zhicheng sent Xu Cuihuan out of the school gate, he hurriedly opened the notice in his hand, his hands trembled like chaff, but the Arabic numerals on it also made him completely dumbfounded, and he saw a large number of funds printed underneath - total: 2700 yuan. The excitement of receiving the notice suddenly disappeared. Originally, there was still some hope in my heart, but now it seems that there is no hope for fart. 2,700 yuan, isn't that equivalent to taking the life of your parents! How much blood and sweat do you have? After sweating and bleeding, I can't get so much money for a while! As an ordinary farmer, he can pick a few dollars in the field all year round, thinking about it, he shivered in the hot weather.

Among the more than 400 graduates of the third year of Liuzihe Junior High School, 118 people applied for the city key, but only a dozen people are really qualified to apply for the examination, and the other more than 100 people are following the nonsense. Even if you can't pass the exam, you won't lose your dignity.

The city's key fee standards are as follows, 1,600 yuan for the first list of students, 2,700 yuan for the second list of students, 4,200 yuan for the third list of students, 5,800 yuan for the fourth list of students, and 12,000 yuan for high-priced students. There is only a 3-point difference between Zhicheng and the first-list students, and these 3 points are worth 1,100 yuan, which is really worth a thousand gold at a critical moment!

Zhicheng's results in all other subjects were very satisfactory, and only English did not even reach the passing line. With this lameness, the total score naturally fell, and in the face of such English results, Zhicheng couldn't help but curse a few swear words angrily, and at the same time slapped a few times on his head.

Seeing that it was close to noon, groups of students had dispersed one after another. Zhicheng also walked out of the school gate in great frustration, his heart was as heavy as a piece of lead, and at this time he also became the kind of student who was listless and sighing at the school gate, picked up the hot bicycle that was touched crooked by someone, and left his alma mater with mixed feelings.

On the way, from time to time, you can hear students passing by talking about their grades proudly or complaining, and then speeding by, leaving him far behind.

Zhicheng wiped a handful of sweat beads from the corners of his forehead and pedaled the broken bicycle weakly on the road, looking at the autumn crops on both sides of the road that had just broken the ground and drought, he let out a long sigh, if it doesn't rain in a few days, I'm afraid I will be busy watering the ground again.

Zhicheng didn't know how to explain to his parents when he went home, they wanted their son Jackie Chan to be so anxious, but he didn't fight for them, but then again, even if he took the top exam, it was enough for his parents to be angry.

In the past, his mother's words, which he had spoken hundreds of times, echoed in his ears again: "Zhicheng! You have to study hard, listen to your mother, yes, we are farmers, going to school is our only way out, but it's not easy in the countryside! Not to mention suffering and sinning, no one has seen it yet. You can't be a farmer anyway, you! As long as we can jump out of these two acres and eight points of land, your father and I will be comfortable, my son! You must study hard, as long as you are that piece of material, your parents will smash the pot and sell iron and eat chaff vegetables, and they will also provide for you to go to college, so we will no longer suffer that foreign ......crime in this rural area."

Yes! Walking around two acres of soil in a day, the young and old who bent down and pouted their strength, the money saved in two years was not enough for half a year of high school tuition, no wonder this cropper said that he couldn't be a farmer in life or death, and even Sage Kong said that being a farmer was not promising.

Are parents bent on jumping out of the farm, and maybe they can jump out? Now it seems that studying well does not solve the fundamental problem. Only money is a powerful weapon to solve all problems, and if you don't have money, you can learn no matter how good it is.

Zhicheng rode harder for most of the way, only to find that the back pocket of the bicycle was out of gas, no wonder he pedaled and sank, it seems that even the bicycle is going to be deflated. Yes! I can't accompany my master anymore, can I not be discouraged? Looking at the flattened bag, Zhicheng felt sorry for even this broken bicycle for a while, it worked hard, accompanied by wind and rain, and accompanied him with ice and snow for three years.