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Time flies, July 7th, the day of the college entrance examination that affects thousands of students in China is tomorrow.

As soon as Zhongshan entered the classroom early in the morning on the 6th, the school summoned the students who were taking the exam to the auditorium through the radio, saying that the senior teachers in the school who had led the graduating class for many years were going to give the students pre-exam counseling for the last time. Walking into the auditorium, the serious atmosphere made Zhong Shan suddenly nervous, and what the teacher said didn't enter his mind.

In the summer, it gets dark late, it's almost eight o'clock, and the sky is still bright. The students in the dormitory no longer go to the teaching building for evening self-study as usual, and before nine o'clock, they all washed up and went to bed to get ready for bed.

As soon as I lay down, the homeroom teacher knocked on the doors of each dormitory again, and told the students outside the door to stop staying up late at night, to rest early, and to get good results tomorrow when they have enough spirits.

Zhong Shan lay on the bed, his eyes open, looking at the dark ceiling in the dark night, without any sense of sleepiness. He heard the occasional car passing on the road outside, heard a couple arguing and children crying in a nearby residential building, and heard people sitting together in the shade chatting about their families...... Gradually, the sounds faded away, and only the summer insects in the grass chirped rhythmically. Zhong Shan was a little anxious, he should have fallen asleep at this time, but today, on the eve of the college entrance examination, he had insomnia, and his mind was still extremely clear, and the textbook exercises were all swirling in his mind, lingering.

Daze had just taken a nap, and it was already bright outside. Like an order, the 10 people in the same room got up from the bed, picked up the basin and tooth tank and went to the water room to wash their faces and brush their teeth.

Zhong Shan, who was sitting in the examination room, began to feel a little dizzy. After the test paper was sent, the invigilator repeatedly reminded him not to forget to write his name on the top of the paper, and Zhong Shan's hands trembled a little when he wrote his name. This situation has not been experienced in the previous two college entrance examinations. He worked hard to answer the questions one by one, and as much as possible, he perfectly transplanted the knowledge he learned from the books and the accumulation of daily life to this test paper that was related to his future and fate.

When he walked out of the examination room, Zhong Shan saw his parents waiting at the gate, and his mother walked a few steps forward to meet him, handed her son a wet towel to wipe his sweat, and handed him a cold soda in a cloth bag.

Zhong Shan was inexplicably annoyed and said What are you doing here? The voice was so loud that even he was startled. The mother stood there innocently, speechless. The father took a step forward and said why do you talk to your mother like this, your mother didn't sleep all night last night, she was worried about you, and she didn't dare to disturb you, for fear of affecting your exam, and came to see you from a distance early this morning in the examination room, do you still have a conscience?! The mother stopped the father, forced out a smile and said, "We can rest assured that you have nothing to do, then we will go back!" After speaking, he pulled her husband's sleeve and turned around and left.

Looking at the back of his parents who were far away, Zhong Shan felt an inexplicable grievance and sadness, and his tears almost didn't fall.

On the evening of the 7th, when he returned to the dormitory, after a day of intense exams, Zhong Shan was exhausted, and after the lights went out, he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, and he slept so deeply that he didn't even dream. When I woke up, it was 6 o'clock in the morning.

In the next two days of the exam, Zhong Shan was clear-headed, his attention was quite concentrated, and the questions were answered quite smoothly, even better than the usual mock exams. He secretly held back a force in his heart, and he must make up for the loss of the exam caused by insomnia on the first day in these two days.