Volume 54 Winter Vacation
Although I failed the course again, I still have to pass the New Year, and I have to go back to my home. Cha Hachong has long been frozen for thousands of miles, and thousands of miles of snow are drifting, which seems to be urging a wanderer like me to return south as soon as possible. Recognizing the reality, I no longer hesitated on the question of how to go home, and still chose the plane, soaring in the sky like Nanyan, overlooking the rivers and mountains of the motherland.
I didn't feel distressed at all about the more than 1,000 yuan air ticket, but the taxi fare of more than 100 yuan really made me unable to make a decision. It's as if no matter how expensive the air ticket is, there are airlines to protect it, and the Civil Aviation Administration to support us. The taxi from the school to the airport is not a fixed price, and you can negotiate a price if you make an appointment in advance. In front of the strong men in the Northeast, I am a little chicken, if they are horizontal, I don't even dare to get angry, and I am basically in a state of being slaughtered. Ben was counting on Eric to be able to fly with me, after all, the price of his ticket to Jinling was only one-third of mine, but there was a classmate in the class who was his hometown, and the two of them had already discussed taking the train back to their hometown together, and they could take care of each other on the way.
The day of going home is approaching day by day, because my dad has already paid for my plane ticket, so I am embarrassed to ask him for other travel expenses, plus it is the end of the month, and the few living expenses are really a little stretched.
I like to keep a hand in everything, and although I can make it home with the current consumption, I still hope to have some surplus, and who knows when the accident and tomorrow will come first? So I had to cut back on food and clothing, and try to set aside enough reserves. Unfortunately, it often backfires, because at the end of the semester, the dormitory, class, student union, and drama troupe gatherings are also indispensable, no matter how much I save, the reserve fund is still getting less and less.
Fortunately, there are many girls in our class, and they are the jewels of the family, and the family takes care of them as much as possible. Therefore, as long as the journey home crosses the Yangtze River, it must be by plane back. I also deduced this information through the school intranet, and quickly contacted a few classmates who were about to fly home, and successfully found a companion who took a ride, saving almost 100 yuan. And they are all old customers of the driver, and they are very familiar with the driver, so I don't have to worry about anything, just go to the point to take the car.
The last exam is ancient Chinese, although the psychological shadow of the human fountain has not yet dissipated, but the exam alone is quite easy for me, which must be thanks to the high school Chinese teacher to help me lay a solid foundation, if it were not for her sincere teachings, I would not be so handy. I just hope that the teachers of ancient Chinese will not hold grudges, and don't beat my usual score too low. Besides, people don't want that to happen......
After the exam, I walked out of the teaching building, the sky was very dark, the snow was still falling, the snow on the ground could not get any chance to melt, but I was put on a snow-white new clothes, I took a long breath, I didn't expect that the sophomore year was halfway over, 2009 has ended, what have I done in the past six months? What did I get? Alas, I went home first, so I plunged headlong into the snow.
The bedroom was warm, but it was a bit deserted. Lin Ye went directly to the station with his girlfriend after the exam, Mr. Liu also disappeared, Da Biao's squad leader went back to the dormitory to pack his things and went to the light rail station, Eric went to enjoy the last sweetness before separation with Wawa, leaving me and Lao Zhao to sort out their respective luggage.
We were among the late ones in the school to go home, and I don't know why, even the freshmen from other colleges in the West Side came home earlier than our majors. It is said that some majors finished their last course before New Year's Day, and they are already at home at home. However, we also got through it, and the female classmate who was hitchhiking with me informed me to gather at the school gate at 5 o'clock in the morning, which completely dispelled the idea that Lao Zhao and I would go to Xiaolizi to drink to celebrate the holiday.
Lao Zhao wanted to go to Da Le, but after eating in Da Le, there would be a strong smell of oil smoke on his body, and I didn't want to have a strange smell when I was in the car, otherwise I would really vomit easily. So we can only come to the cafeteria to deal with it, and there are few stalls in the cafeteria at this time, but the voice of the cafeteria aunt is still so loud. Seeing us walking towards the stall, my aunt yelled at us enthusiastically, "Eat some classmates!" ”
After all, we have been in school for a year and a half, and we are not frightened by Auntie's momentum like the first time we cooked.
"This, this, four taels of rice."
"What about you?"
"This and this"
"Oh, this dish is not enough, I will add some to you, even if it is a dish?"
"Okay, that's it. Four taels of rice. ”
Four taels of rice, this should be a unique unit of measurement for restaurants in the north. Dumplings are about catties, and rice is about two. When I first arrived at Chahachong, I was so confused by this unit of measurement that I couldn't eat. In my previous impression, the usage of "two" and "jin" only existed in the older generation of vegetable market shopping. Since I was a child, my teacher only taught us "grams", "kilograms", and "tons", and the concept that "1 kilogram" is equal to "1 kilogram" is a knowledge point outside the outline, and I remember it out of pure curiosity. 500 grams is equal to one catty, which is also calculated by looking at the fresh food stall when I was wandering around the supermarket. As for the conversion between "jin" and "two", I'm really a little confused. At first, I deduced from the idiom "half a catty and eight taels" that one catty should be equal to sixteen taels, and then I slowly found that when buying vegetables in the vegetable market, one catty is equal to ten taels to convert, and I thought that the ten taels of silver that are often broadcast in TV dramas are silver ingots the size of the palm, and I finally have a little concept. But as soon as I came to Cha Ha Chong to practice, I was instantly confused again. How much is "four taels of rice"? How many "half-catty" dumplings are there? In the end, I relied on the phrase "just like him" to slowly figure out the doorway.
In the evening, Eric returned to the dorm room before the dormitory closed, and after packing up his things for a while, he started talking to Wawa on the phone again, and theoretically he was the last to leave the dormitory, so he didn't panic. Lao Zhao and I didn't dare to go to bed too late because we had to get up early, so we watched a movie together and washed up and went to bed. I set several alarm clocks, for fear of missing the point, but I can't sleep over and over, so I can only use a small amount of traffic and 2G network to swipe the mobile QQ. Finally, at nearly 12 o'clock, he lost consciousness and entered his dream.
It was just before 4 a.m., a few minutes before the first alarm I set, and I woke up. Lao Zhao and Eric were still asleep, so I canceled the alarm, gently arranged and folded the quilt, and covered it with a sheet to prevent dust accumulation. Then he climbed out of bed lightly, holding the basin with the towel and toothbrush in one hand, and carefully pulling the deadbolt with the other, as if he were defusing a bomb.
Since I had to go home, I didn't get hot water, and the cold water was on my face, and I was completely refreshed. The hallway of the dormitory on the third floor echoed with the sound of my washing, and the voice-activated lights in the hallway kept coming on because of me, which made me feel more guilty in my namelessness, as if I was disturbing people's dreams. For this reason, I did not dare to delay, and ended this battle with ice and water as quickly as possible.
Tiptoeing back to my dorm room, I took one last look at my desk and checked all my luggage by the light from the hallway that was leaking through the crack in the dorm door. When everything was confirmed, I looked in the direction of Lao Zhao and Eric, and then I took my schoolbag and walked out of the dormitory, and the wooden door of the dormitory was closed again.
The old man who was on duty in the dormitory was still asleep, and this time I had to wake him up, thinking that he was already used to this situation, so he put on his coat and took out the key to open the chain lock of the door and opened a door for me, I nodded to him apologetically, and then walked quickly into the night.
I was finally able to put my suitcase down, and the "rumbling" sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground was so loud that I was a little embarrassed to mention it again. Suddenly, I heard that there were other dormitory buildings in the distance with suitcases out to catch the bus like me, and my heart instantly balanced a lot, so I was relieved to boldly pull the suitcases and walk outside the school gate.
Sure enough, I was the first to arrive. Although the cold in the northeast is a physical attack, and you can resist it if you wear a thick one, but if you add the buff of time, then it will bring magic damage, and it has the power of armor piercing, and after ten minutes, I was frozen and stomped my feet. At this time, a taxi stopped at the school gate, and I was not the connector, so I was not sure if this was the car I had booked before, so I was embarrassed to get on the bus.
Finally, a "rumbling" sound came from far and near, and they came.