July of a certain year.

The annual college entrance examination period is always the hottest time of the year. This year is no exception.

A county in the south is also experiencing the scorching heat at this time, waiting for the rain and dew. The weather forecast said that it would rain, but the weather was depressing, the rain just couldn't fall, and the dullness and depression knocked on people's hearts and emotions.

Today is the first day of the college entrance examination. An ambulance has already arrived at a county high school, and it is said that some students suddenly fainted during the exam and were sent to the hospital for first aid, and some students were directly injected with intravenous drips in the classroom in order to insist on the exam. In the past, the college entrance examination was screened layer by layer, and the pre-examination was followed by the college entrance examination. The general pass rate of the pre-examination in key high schools is 3%, and then the pass rate of the college entrance examination is also 3%. This is a key high school, and many ordinary high schools have a zero admission rate.

This year, the qualifications for the college entrance examination have been relaxed, and as long as you pass the college entrance examination, you can take the college entrance examination. Although the acceptance rate is low, who knows the results of the college entrance examination? Maybe a dark horse will break out, everyone wants to fight, and naturally they will not let go of this rare opportunity.

Li Xiao is also a student who took the college entrance examination this time. The first time I took the college entrance examination, the pressure was not as great as I imagined, and I easily finished the exam.

She thought it would rain just as soon as it rained, just to wash away the stuffiness.

When I returned home after the exam, I heard my father's voice scolding my younger brother as soon as I entered the house. "I've lost all my face. You can score 100 points, but you don't check it carefully, and you only get 95 points. ”

Li Xiao is used to such scenes. My father held a family criticism meeting every time he had dinner, starting with her, one after another, and the one who criticized the most was naturally the youngest brother. It's not scolding this or that, chickens and dogs jump at every meal. Li Xiao knew that there was another dispute at noon today, shook her head, went upstairs and returned to her room, she was tired of this home, and secretly decided to leave this home.

Li Xiao's home is a house divided into units, which used to be a temple and was later allocated to his father's unit. There are four rooms downstairs, a hall in the middle, the two rooms connected to the left hand are the unit infirmary, and the two rooms on the right, the front one is the colleague's infirmary, Nurse Peng, and the back one is Li Xiao's father. There are also five rooms upstairs, three on the left-hand side of the upstairs, the front two are Li Xiao's, and the back one is Nurse Peng's. There are two rooms on the right-hand side, the front one is for Nurse Yang in the infirmary, and the back one is for Accountant Zhang in the team. There is a simple house at the back of this house, which is the kitchen of Li Xiao's house. Of course, several other neighbors will also pick up water and wash vegetables here. There is a big open space at the back of the house, and they usually play in the back.

Li Xiao's house is the first one on the left-hand side of the upstairs.

"Smile, come down to eat." Mother shouted downstairs.

"Hey, here we go."

When Li laughed, the younger brother sat there obediently eating with his head down.

"Xiaoxiao, how did you do in the exam?" Seeing Li Xiao coming down, his father shifted the target.

"I don't know."

"What about the approximate estimate? Is there any hope?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know. The son of the old Liu family has just finished the exam, so he knows his exam situation and approximate score. ”

"He's amazing." Li Xiao muttered.

"Others are just better than you."

"Hmph". Li Xiao snorted.

"What about the little Yao who is with you every day?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know, I don't know, what else do you say besides those three words. Forget it, if you don't eat it, you're full. The father was stupid, threw down the dishes and chopsticks and left.

As soon as my father left, the atmosphere instantly relaxed.

"Why are you provoking Dad again?" Li Xiao asked his younger brother.

"It's not that the homeroom teacher has reacted to the situation with him, I have a low test, he feels embarrassed about his face, and when he comes back, he doesn't care about 3721, and he loses his temper when he catches me."

"Oh". Li Xiao's younger brother's homeroom teacher is the wife of Li Xiao's father's boss, and he is afraid that the child's incompetence will make the boss look down on him, so he always asks his younger brother to study hard and win face from the head teacher, which indirectly means that he has face in front of his boss.

"When you meet such a father, what else can you do but endure it. If you want to escape, study hard and get out of the exam when the time comes. Li Xiao encouraged his younger brother.

His younger brother was eight years younger than him, and he was born at the time of the start of family planning in the country. For this reason, Li Xiao's parents also accepted some punishments, and were fined some money, not to mention, and each of them was reduced by one level of salary. The son who has worked so hard to get it, since it is not easy to come, he naturally has to protect it well. But Li Xiao's father didn't seem to be like this, but was even more harsh. scolded him lightly, and beat him at a heavy rate, so that his younger brother was often in a nervous panic.

"Your father is like this, duplicitous, scolding you in his mouth, but he is always thinking about you in his heart." Mother helped father explain.

"Mom, you're in the mud again." Li Xiao said dissatisfied.

"He's your father, just say a few words, just take it, and it's over at once." The mother is still explaining.

"I won't eat it." Li Xiao threw down the dishes and chopsticks and left the table. Li Xiao is very dissatisfied with her mother's attitude of being a "peacemaker", thinking that her mother has no opinions of her own, no ideas of her own, what her father says is what she is, her father said that she will never go west in the east, and she is only submissive, she doesn't like her mother's way of doing things and attitude.

"I'm full, too." The younger brother said and left.

"Hey, all of them are like this, and they can't be at peace when they eat every day." Mother sighed as she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.

Li Xiao returned to the room and threw himself on the bed.

"Finally relieved." She muttered. This sentence is just self-comforting, maybe the ending is not as good as expected, but at this time she doesn't want to care so much. The only thing I want to do now is to sleep well, sleep on it for three days and three nights, sleep on it in the dark, sleep on it in the wilderness. Nothing to do and nothing to think about. As if her soul spirit had been emptied all of a sudden, she at this time had more flexible eyes than the walking dead.

Her classmates were similar. After the exam, many students threw away the books and gave them away, and the school was littered with confetti of books and paper, and the smell of ink filled the air. After falling asleep at home for a few days, Li Xiao's sanity gradually recovered. Fang remembered that he was tossed by the college entrance examination.

At the end of July, the college entrance examination scores came out, and the admission score line was also delineated. His test score was low, and he was a big step away from the admission score line, so he naturally fell to Sun Shan.

When my father learned the score, he naturally nagged again. was already upset, and when he heard his father's count, Li Xiao hurriedly fled.

"Is this year's college entrance examination difficult? The son of the old Liu family and your classmate Xiaoyao are not online. The father threw a word in the back.

It seems to be. When she went to see the results, she met Liu Qiangjun (the son of the old Liu family) and Yao Qingqing. They weren't online either. Although Liu Qiangjun was not online, his overall results were good, but he only failed because his English was lagging behind. Yao Qingqing, like herself, got sick as soon as she arrived at the exam, and she couldn't perform normally during the exam. didn't talk a few words when they met, Liu Qiangjun left with other classmates, and Yao Qingqing was also called away by her fellow villagers.

What's next?

When I was studying, I didn't work hard for my studies and future, I was rejected from school, and now I suddenly feel like I want to go back to school.

The days of school, busy with studying every day, can easily pass the day. No longer going to school, having nothing to do, empty heart.

I was elated and ready to go to a new life. Those who didn't get into the exam were depressed, some of them repeated, and some wanted to go home to farm or go out to work.

's father is also contacting Li Xiao about repeating. Due to the poor grades, I couldn't get into this school repeatedly, so I had to find another way to repeat at another school.

Classmate Jiang Xinxin, she has a fellow who is studying in a key middle school in Qingsong County, and the principal appreciates her very much, and asks her for help to ask the principal that maybe she can go to that school to repeat.

The same student lived in a small remote mountain village.

Although Jiang Xiao is a fellow villager with that classmate, he is not familiar with it, so he has to find another boy in the class to take him. The boy and the classmate were from the same village.