Chapter 3 The wind is silent, and the heart is plummeting

In the blink of an eye, it is the third year of junior high school, and the high school entrance examination is approaching. The teachers began to strengthen the intensive training for the high school entrance examination, and Liu He began to focus on studying and attending classes.

When he returned home one afternoon, Liu He was surprised to find that there was one more person in the family, helping his parents to cut materials, and at dinner, his parents told Liu He that the family production had increased, and the two of them were too busy, so they recruited a small worker.

Liu He was considerate of his parents, and would rather make less money than exhaust his parents, so he didn't react when he heard that his parents hired workers.

But slowly, Liu He found that there were more and more small workers in the family, there were already six, and his father was not involved in the work, but was only contacting customers, while his mother's workload became larger, because she had to cook for these six workers and the whole family, and she was basically busy in the small kitchen every day.

At the end of the year, Liu He was pleasantly surprised to learn that the family actually bought a car, although it is a small pickup truck, but there are not many families with cars, Liu He is very happy, after all, this also means that the family industry has started, Liu He began to care about his parents' career, and sometimes help to inspect parts and components together.

In the second half of the year, the family bought another car, and the parents' efforts finally paid off, and their family business began to slowly improve.

But Liu He was hard to be happy, because his former elementary school classmates, including several "little bullies" who used to spoof and bully him and are now good friends, gradually dropped out of school, Liu He's heart trembled, he only knew that he graduated from primary school and went to junior high school, graduated from junior high school and went to high school, and graduated from high school and then took the university entrance examination, but he never thought that his original partners had begun to stop here, and many people chose to give up or were forced to give up.

Liu He began to be afraid, he felt eliminated in his life for the first time, he didn't know what else he could do besides going to school, he was afraid that he would step into society after failing the high school entrance examination, he didn't have any preparations, and he was even more afraid that his college dream would be interrupted, and for a moment, he suddenly felt lonely and hesitant.

Because of the large number of dropouts, the three classes of the third grade of junior high school were merged, and there were fewer and fewer familiar faces, and the teachers had also adjusted, but Pan Wenjing, whom he had been ignoring, was still there, which made him a little comforted.

The high school entrance examination was the first major test Liu He faced since he was a child, and the pressure was huge, and once again he became restless.

Pan Wenjing saw Liu He's uneasiness, she wanted to comfort him and encourage him, but Liu He always showed great impatience with Wen Jing's comfort, and his temper also became irritable, not only would he quarrel with his table because of trivial things, but even treat Wen Jing coldly.

Growing up together, he will tell Wen Jing everything, all his difficulties are solved by Wen Jing, Wen Jing understands him, maybe he is too afraid of failure, or too afraid of change, he is afraid, he doesn't know what will be waiting for him in front of him, and he doesn't know if he can survive the ups and downs of the future.

At this time, there was also a problem in Liu He's family, because Liu He's parents were operating without a license, which was illegal, Liu He's father ran around the relationship, and after paying a huge fine, Liu He's parents finally successfully registered for industry and commerce, and the taxes were also handed over in time, so Liu He's company, He Shun Electromechanical Accessories Co., Ltd., was established.

The high school entrance examination came as scheduled, Liu He and Wen Jing took a bus to another township test center for the exam, during the exam coincided with heavy rain weather, without their parents to accompany them, after the exam, the two of them took the bus back to their town together.

In this way, in this continuous heavy rain, Liu He and Wen Jing ended their flowering season and rainy season, and the success of the high school entrance examination means that they will face the huge pressure and life test of the high school entrance examination......

As soon as the high school entrance examination ended, students began to leave the school one after another. Wen Jing's father works in another city, and she is going there to find her parents.

Liu He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to see Wen Jing for a long time, so he wanted to go to the school to see Wen Jing and say goodbye to her by the way.

Because he could not enter the girls' dormitory, Liu He could only wait downstairs in the dormitory, and unexpectedly Liu He waited from the morning to the afternoon without seeing Pan Wenjing, and the downstairs was bustling, and parents were riding electric tricycles or hired vans to help the children clean up their things, because tomorrow was the deadline to leave school.

Gradually, the night slowly shrouded, and the figures became more and more scarce.

"Could it be that Wen Jing is gone? Why didn't she say goodbye to me? Liu He was full of doubts.

He kept wandering downstairs alone, looking at the dormitory building shrouded in darkness in the evening, Liu He began to become nervous and impatient.

"This Pan Wenjing, she actually dared to leave without saying hello, couldn't she guess that I would come to see her?" He began to complain about Wen Jing, "No, Wen Jing will never be like this" He was a little unwilling.

Seeing that there was no one around, he simply went straight in.

But because he didn't know how many floors Wen Jing lived on, he began to look for it from the second floor of the dormitory, until he found the fourth floor, only to hear a voice in a room, he ran over quickly, and suddenly found a girl curled up on the bed, by the light of the street lamp that had just been lit outside, he recognized Pan Wenjing at a glance, yellowed T-shirt, white jeans and thin body, as well as her constant ponytail, seeing her lying there alone crying, Liu He suddenly felt a pain in his heart, very uncomfortable.

"What's wrong with you, Wen Jing? Why haven't you left yet? Why are you crying? ”

He asked hurriedly, Wen Jing heard the voice and hurriedly sat up, and when she saw that it was Liu He, her tears suddenly couldn't be controlled, and Liu He didn't know what to do, he wanted to comfort her but didn't know what to say, he just kept asking what was wrong.

A few minutes later, Wen Jing adjusted her mood, wiped her tears and began to speak: "Because the factory went bankrupt, my mother divorced my father when I was in junior high school, I lived with my father, and after being laid off, we moved back to our hometown Qinghe Village, and now my father is working in Nangang, no one comes to pick me up, and I can't leave." ”

Hearing this, Liu He was shocked, Wen Jing had been caring about himself for so many years, but he had never taken the initiative to care about Wen Jing's situation, and he didn't expect Wen Jing to have experienced so much.

He began to feel guilty and blame himself, feeling that he owed Wen Jing too much. In the past few years, Wen Jing has been taking care of her second uncle, and her second uncle just transferred the money sent by her father's part-time job to Wen Jing, and did not fulfill any support obligations.

"Let's go, go to my house!" Liu He's tone was firm, as if he couldn't tolerate Wen Jing's refusal.

Liu He quickly helped Wen Jing clean up the bed, and when he saw the remaining half of the steamed buns and a bag of mustard in Wen Jing's cabinet, his heart was sour, and a hundred flavors were intertwined.

Liu He stuffed Wen Jing's luggage and textbooks into a large woven bag, and went downstairs to carry them all on his back, and when they all went downstairs, Liu He's body was already soaked.

He ran outside the school gate and found a tricycle to transport everything home.

After arriving home, Liu He's mother was also very distressed and quiet, and hurriedly asked someone to move the luggage and belongings in.

After settling down overnight, Liu He's father sent a car to send Wen Jing back to his home in Qinghe Village the next day.

After a long day of turbulence, when Liu He saw Wen Jing's dilapidated hometown, his heart was extremely sour, he knew that Wen Jing had always paid so much to himself, but he didn't know what he could do for Wen Jing.

Dreams are powerful, but reality is cruel, and although the soul is beautiful, society is sometimes extremely ugly.

Liu He's outlook on life was once again impacted, when he heard the rumbling machine at home in the middle of the night countless times, and watched his parents get up early and go to bed late, he secretly vowed to let his parents live a good life. However, he has strong determination but not enough confidence, because he knows himself very well, he knows life very well, and he understands life very well, but he can't help but give Pan Wenjing a promise in his heart - never let you suffer a little bit when you grow up!

The results of the high school entrance examination came out, and fate played a joke on him again, Liu He's grades in all subjects were very good, but his math score was 0 points.

The reason is that in order to prevent the leakage of questions, the Education Bureau has three sets of ABC test papers, of which the official use is the A paper, and the BC paper is used as a backup, because the staff sorted the test papers wrongly, Liu He did the Education Bureau's spare paper-B paper, and dozens of test centers in the district, only 7 of the more than 60,000 candidates were wrongly issued with B papers, and the results were directly judged to be 0 points.

Although several parents kept petitioning, the relevant person in charge of the district education bureau was also slightly punished, and the district government promised to give them an answer, there was still no movement until the school year was about to start.

In the era when the information network was extremely closed, the lack of supervision and exposure channels, the imperfection of the government accountability system, the lack of channels for the protection of the rights of vulnerable groups, and the cowardice and peace of the parents all made the matter impossible to deal with in the indifference of the leaders, and Liu He could only choose to suffer dumb losses.

Looking at the thin Liu He, who had suffered from all the hardships, his parents couldn't bear to let Liu He endure hardships and repeat his studies, and in desperation, the family chose to let him go to a private high school with very low scores.

Liu He is worried, he is about to go to an unknown environment, what kind of classmates and teachers will there be in such a school, will such a school make him farther and farther away from his college dream, maybe he will never see those familiar faces again, what will be the outcome in three years, what kind of encounter will there be in three years, three years of comfortable junior high school life makes him afraid of change, afraid of adapting, but when the road appears in front of him, he can only move forward, he can't see the other side of the road, can't see the light or darkness ahead, and then he has to go alone, You may only be accompanied by your college dream, and you may not be lonely if you have a dream.

Unexpectedly, Pan Wenjing played extremely well and was admitted to the best local city No. 1 middle school.

Liu He was happy for her in his heart, but worried for himself, he realized that the two of them began to come to a fork in the road, Pan Wenjing walked on the flat road leading straight to the university, and the university was clearly visible; And I walked on a rugged path with twists and turns. But he believes that as long as he is persistent enough, desperate enough, diligent, fast, and walking, he will definitely be able to reach the end with Wen Jing.

In this way, Liu He helped at home, and Pan Wenjing went out to work, slowly waiting for the arrival of school.

Liu He, who did not care about the family industry for a long time, found that the scale of production at home began to gradually expand, not only with a lot more machinery and equipment, but also with more than a dozen workers.

The family's dilapidated tiled house was also flipped, and the car, which had only been in service for three years, was honorably retired and replaced with a spacious Passat, becoming a wealthy local household. My father traveled to Qingdao, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places to expand his business.

Liu He was very happy to see that his parents' hard work had finally paid off, and he was also full of expectations for the future of the family.