"Didn't chase you, did you?"

Ye Qin held on to the wooden stake of the fence on the side of the road, turned his head to look at the big yellow dog that had disappeared, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

I was chased for a while just now, and the neighbor's aunt in the middle saw it and chased it with a broom, and I should have beaten the big yellow dog back, otherwise...... Ye Qin shook his head, even if he used to be the fastest runner in the junior high school stage, he couldn't run on four legs on two legs.

The bamboo basket and straw hat were still in Chen Zixi's hands, and Ye Qin was not in a hurry to go back to find them, and was going to go home directly to have a look. Grandpa got the notice that he was admitted to Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and he really didn't know how to deal with it.

He naturally wants to go to school, but the second elder is old, and it is not easy to support him to go to high school, and the tuition for the last year of junior high school is all money sent to him by his uncle, who works outside.

Along the loess road, after walking for a while, Ye Qin saw a leafy woody tree in the distance, covering a large area of lush greenery. This wood-tree tree, that is, the osmanthus tree, is a variety of osmanthus, according to grandpa, there are almost hundreds of thoughts, and the trunk is the thickness of two people hugging. Every year in September and October, osmanthus flowers bloom, and the rich fragrance can be smelled even from hundreds of meters away.

Moreover, at that time, Ye Qin and his grandparents would spread bamboo mats under the tree to dry rice, and the sister-in-law's family or uncle would come back, and everyone would climb the tree with bamboo poles or people to start beating osmanthus.

The county flower of Xiushui County is osmanthus, and the osmanthus tree in front of Ye Qin's grandfather's house is quite famous in several surrounding villages. Every year at that time, selling osmanthus can benefit somewhat. The people who buy it back make osmanthus tea, osmanthus cake and the like, which are of many uses. In the first month, there is a Kejin gate, a cup of osmanthus syrup, which is indispensable and festive.

Behind the woodcut tree is an old house with a combination of low red bricks and rammed earth walls, with green tiles and red walls, hidden among the emerald green branches and leaves.

Compared with the wooden tree, the house was naturally built later, but it is also a little old, and it looks a little old now, but the small courtyard has been cleaned up inside and out.

"Grandma, I'm back."

As soon as Ye Qin entered the courtyard gate, he saw an old woman with silver hair sitting in the shade of a tree peeling edamame. The edamame of the farmhouse is not the kind of night market that is boiled with the shell and served with some beer and drink, but the fresh beans are left by the shell, and fried with some green peppers, it is a good dish. If you add some diced meat, it is even more delicious and appetizing, and it is one of the best vegetables in summer.

"Where's your straw hat and basket?" Liu Lanzhi looked at Ye Qin's empty hands, and the straw hat that went out in the morning was gone, and suddenly asked a little strangely.

"At Chen Zixi's place." Ye Qin walked to the water tank in the courtyard, picked up a wooden scoop of water, and wiped his face.

"You'll get it back later."

Liu Lanzhi's vicissitudes of life floated a trace of gloom on her face, and she pointed at Ye Qin, "I told you not to take her around again, the sun is so big, what should I do if I have heat stroke, her mother dislikes us very much, last time I said it at the door of the house, it was not good, you ......"

"Got it, got it."

Ye Qin walked up to Liu Lanzhi with a smile and squatted down, then also pulled a handful of edamame to him, and peeled it up.

It's not that grandma doesn't like Chen Zixi, but grandma has liked this Nizi since she was a child, and there used to be some delicious food at home, which was saved for others.

It's just that everyone has grown up in the past two years, and Chen Zixi's family background is getting better and better, her grandparents don't care, but her mother has muttered several times in private, not letting him run around with Chen Zixi like when he was a child.

And grandma's temperament, Ye Qin, actually knows that he is so strong, he wants face, and he can't stand any right and wrong, even if he can't listen to some of the sayings of climbing the association.

Chen Zixi's uncle left Shangyun Village more than ten years ago to go to the big city, with his flexible mind and hard work, he made a fortune in just a few years, and everyone only knew that he made money at first, and in the past two years, he has become a famous entrepreneur in Xiushui County.

Chen Zixi's father also followed his uncle to Linzhou a few years ago, and now he is a small boss, he has bought a house, a car, and some invisible gaps Ye Qin himself can gradually feel.

Peeling a handful of edamame, Ye Qin estimated that Chen Zixi should have almost arrived home, and no longer listened to his grandmother's chatter, turned his head and went out of the house, and it was time to bump into Chen Zixi, who was wearing a straw hat and carrying a bamboo basket, humming a cheerful tune all the way.

"Let's go back."

Ye Qin sent Chen Zixi to the camphor tree not far from her door, and took the straw hat she was wearing, and the straw hat was used as a fan by him to fan the wind, and the corners were a little ugly, which would be smoothed out by Chen Zixi.

Under the shade of the tree, it seemed that because of the hot weather, the girl's face was a little ruddy, and there were faint beads of sweat on her forehead, and a few strands of hair stuck to it.

"Ye Qin......" Chen Zixi watched Ye Qin take the straw hat on his head and leave with a bamboo basket, and suddenly shouted.

"Huh? What's wrong with it? Ye Qin turned back with some confusion.

Chen Zixi lowered his head slightly, with a look of wanting to speak and stopping, paused, and a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, "It's okay, it's okay, you go back first." ”

"Is it really okay? Then I'm gone. Ye Qin raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Zixi.

"No, you can go back!" Chen Zixi shook his head slightly.

"That's good." Ye Qin slipped the bamboo basket in one hand, turned to leave, and just walked a few steps, he suddenly raised his right hand with his back and waved his hand, "See you later!" ”

……

Cicadas chirp to know.

Ye Qin walked directly back to his house along the path, and before he entered the courtyard gate, he heard a loud voice coming out, "Ye Qin has been admitted to high school, this is a big deal." In a few days, call Mingxia Mingfang and their sisters to come back and sit down, and I will go to the town to ask the boss, he is really not decent for so many years......"

"You're an old bone, you couldn't control him before, but now you can control it." Grandma's nagging voice rang out in the yard

"Grandpa, grandma!"

Ye Qin entered the courtyard gate and shouted to the two old men who were talking.

"Yechin is back."

When the two old men saw Ye Qin enter the door, they all stopped talking.

Ye Guandi was slightly hunched back, his forehead was very high, compared to Liu Lanzhi, who was cleaning up the branches and leaves on the ground, his hair was not much, but he was as black and bright as a young man.

"Well, put the basket on the side first, and you can put this away yourself."

With a faint smile on his furrowed cheeks, Ye Guandi picked up an envelope that had just been placed on the wooden table on the side and handed it to Ye Qin, with a slightly cloudy look in his eyes that could not hide the relief.

Ye Qin took the envelope from his grandfather's hand, and he knew that inside he asked Chen Zixi to pay attention to the admission letter sent by him.

Opening the envelope, Ye Qin's hands shook unconsciously, and inside was a folded colored offset paper, and the cover caught his eye was a six-story teaching building with an admission notice written on it.

On the inside page of the notice is Ye Qin, junior high school registration number...... Congratulations to him on being admitted, etc., and at the bottom is Xiushui No. 2 Neutralization Time, stamped with a red steel seal.

Although he already knew that his performance in the high school entrance examination was not particularly ideal, he couldn't go to the first middle school, and he was ready to give up the second middle school, but when he really looked at the notice, Ye Qin's mood was still slightly agitated.

In 2002, there were still not too many students in Xiushui County who could go to high school. Elementary and junior high school is a nine-year compulsory education, and there is nothing to say about this, although there are also a considerable number of people who drop out of elementary and junior high school for various reasons in Xiaoli Town.

The key is to go to junior high school, which is required to take the high school entrance examination. Although Xiushui County's educational resources are not as exaggerated as those in the Midwest, there are still several significant gaps in the South and other regions.

For example, in the township middle school in Xiaoli Township, there are basically three or four hundred students in the third year of junior high school, but only a few dozen can go to high school in the end. According to the admission score line, no more than 15 go to the first and second middle schools in the county, and only 30 or so go to the other township middle schools with high schools to continue their high schools.

It is said that the college entrance examination is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, but in fact, in counties, towns and rural areas, a large number of people have been screened for the high school entrance examination. Whether it's because of grades, or because of family, and considering technical secondary school or technical school, there are not many people who can enter high school.

It's just that......

Ye Qin had learned before that it was really not cheap to go to a high school in the county seat, and at this time, there were a lot of tuition and miscellaneous expenses, and he had to live and eat. To be honest, if you have both parents here, even if you are farming, you can afford to work hard.

But he relied on the second elder, who was already running to seven...... Ye Qin felt a little headache when he thought about it.

"Laneige, get more dishes at noon today, and get out the rice wine brewed last year." Ye Guandi took out his dry pipe from his waist, sat on the stone bench under the wooden tree, and shouted in the direction of the kitchen.

"As far as you know, eat."

Liu Lanzhi's voice came out of the kitchen, although it was a complaining tone, but he could still hear the joy in those words.

"Grandpa, I ......"

Ye Qin looked at the admission letter repeatedly and silently put him back in the envelope. He raised his head and looked at the old man who was pressing tobacco into his dry pipe, opened his mouth, and some words came to his mouth, but he couldn't open his mouth.

Ye Guandi pulled a match, smashed his mouth, light blue smoke wafted, and his voice was slightly low, "You and I will go to the town tomorrow to find your father, you are going to high school, this is a big deal." Anyway, he"

"Grandpa, I'd better go by myself."

Ye Qin looked at his grandfather smoking a dry cigarette, thinking of their relationship, he couldn't bear to say.

"You're going to go by yourself? You can't go. ”

Ye Guan finished the tobacco in his pipe in a few puffs, and knocked the cigarette ash on the sole of his shoe, with a little more indescribable meaning in his eyes.

"Grandpa, you just let me go by myself, it's more than ten miles away, I'm very fast on a bicycle."

Ye Qin also understood the meaning of his grandfather's words, but after all, this school was his own business, and he didn't say it, he let his grandfather say it, and maybe there would be another quarrel when the time came. And more than ten miles away, even if he rode a bicycle with the old man, it was a toss.

The old man emptied the ash in the pipe, twisted a small handful of tobacco from the cloth bag hanging under the pipe, and pressed it into the pipe, hearing Ye Qin's words, he first paused, and then sighed lowly, "You can go, you can say whatever you want, don't be afraid, this study must be on." ”

Ye Qin took the envelope containing the admission letter, slapped it lightly on the palm of his hand, and sighed silently as well.

When Grandpa learned about the admission letter, his original intention to hide it fell through, but when he thought of going to see "that person" and reaching out to him to ask for money, he really felt that it was okay not to read this book.