In high school, I thought I had been doing two things aimlessly, one was busy coping with the effects of rapid physical growth, and the other was trying to keep up with the times.

Entering high school, the conditions have improved, the dormitory is no longer a bunk, but a bunk bed for one person, a room for eight people, quite spacious, the food has also changed, with rice for meal tickets, with money to buy food tickets, to the canteen with food stamps, with food tickets to eat, no longer need to eat every meal with the dried vegetables brought by home.

Poverty still exists, students come from all parts of the county, at that time, whether they lived in rural areas or towns, the living conditions were similar, there was no gap between the rich and the poor, everyone was not rich, and there were no students who spent lavishly.

The canteen is divided into two cents, five cents, and three equal times, and the villagers near the school will also cook good vegetables and pick them up to sell at the school, the price is the same as the canteen, and the school does not interfere, they collect money, and also collect meal tickets and vegetable tickets of equal value.

Rice is only available in the canteen, the rice quality in my memory is average, steamed quite fluffy, high school is at the age of growth and development, I often feel that I can't eat enough, I remember that after a sport, I played two catties of rice, I didn't eat enough, I was afraid that my classmates would laugh and be embarrassed to play again.

During this period, the living expenses were provided by the family, and I was the same as my sister who studied in No. 1 Middle School, 50 yuan a month, and in the years when there was only 2 or 300 yuan a month, my parents were so generous, it was not easy, which showed their concern for us, and also saw the silent ardent expectations.

It was only in high school that I first felt the great benefits of "commercial grain", with a commodity grain certificate, I was able to exchange for thirty catties of rations per month in the nearby Luo City, as long as I paid a symbolic amount of money, but it didn't last long, as if by the time I was in the third year of high school, paying money was equivalent to buying in the market.

Knowing that it is not easy for my parents, I have developed a thrifty habit of living in the countryside since I was a child, and I have never spent money indiscriminately in high school, which may be the only commendable place in the three years of high school. At the end of the month, according to the amount of living expenses saved, I will buy five cents or one piece, sometimes save more, and I will go to the Shangfu wholesale market to buy clothes.

When I was in high school, my body grew nearly ten centimeters every year, from less than 1.5 meters when I entered the school, the shortest in the class, to 1.75 meters when I graduated, and I belonged to the category of taller and stronger among students.

The result of growing too fast is that the clothes always feel small, and soon after, the clothes at home are too small to wear, and the clothes after that are all I save pocket money from the food and buy them one by one.

At the beginning, I had no experience, and every time I bought a dress that didn't last long before it became a short-sleeved outfit and a sling-legged pants, I could only wait in shame and wait for the next time I had saved enough pocket money to buy it.

Later, I had experience, and tried to follow the trend, it took about a month, accumulated 30 yuan, and bought a very fashionable and beautiful leather jacket, which attracted a burst of envy from my classmates, and later I also bought a floral shirt and jeans, which looked trendy, in today's words, it is actually "stall goods", which is quite cheap.

Compared with my frugality, my sister seems to be doing poorly, in addition to the monthly living expenses, she often asks for money from the family, which causes her parents to be dissatisfied, and my mother nagged in front of us, praising me for being sensible and blaming my sister for spending money indiscriminately.

In fact, my sister is also thrifty, the first middle school pays more attention to studying, more tutoring, and more materials, in contrast, the third middle school almost never has such a requirement, and in addition to signing up for three years of high school, I have not paid a penny.

The road is too far, the transportation is inconvenient, the students generally go back only once a month, the purpose of going home is to bring rice and money, the home is in Luo City or Shangfu, will go back every week, and then like me, there is a bicycle, usually go back once every two weeks.

There are not many students in the class who have bicycles, and they are always envied, because it is convenient to travel, you can go shopping in nearby market towns, and you can also ride far away to play.

When you go home, you will not only bring rice and money, but also bring some "mother's dishes", including parental care, often hidden in the box to taste slowly, after getting acquainted, they can't hide each other, and they are often turned out and shared together.

I also brought "mother's dishes", more often, every time I came home, my mother would slaughter a "gelding", and the other sisters didn't have it, only for me to eat, and it was this kind of feeding that allowed the teenager to thrive.

The difficulty of life is reflected in every student, because he often eats two-cent dishes and makes a joke.

In the first semester of the third year of high school, several college students who are about to graduate from Yichun Normal College came to our class as an intern teacher, a dignified female college student is deeply loved by everyone, once, she went to the boys' dormitory to sit and chat, the region is different, and they must use Mandarin to communicate with each other.

When talking about food, a classmate blurted out that he wanted to say that we often eat dishes for two cents, but it turned out to be fast, and the combination of soil and foreign became "our boring dishes for just two cents", which caused everyone to laugh, and once gave him a nickname "boring".

Every night after self-study, the nearby villagers often carry homemade buns, steamed buns, baked cakes and other dormitories to sell, under the call of hunger, they always can't help but exchange food stamps, and many people often go home in advance to get rice.

There are many people in the dormitory, and the baskets carried by the villagers are often crowded with people, and there are often mistakes in the busyness, and there is a phenomenon of looking for more food stamps or giving more steamed buns. In this case, we never thought of carrying forward the style and returning it to the villagers, and we were very happy to have a few more to eat because of this.

I remember one time, before I gave the food stamps, the villager who did the business gave me ten buns, and after getting the buns, I was immediately squeezed out of the pile, which made me excited as if I had won the Fucai jackpot now.

When I returned to the dormitory, I didn't look up, but looked at the pile of buns in my hand and began to describe them to my roommates, laughing while describing. As a result, there was silence in the dormitory, and I raised my head when I felt a few strange pairs of eyes looking at me.

Indeed, every look at me was like a monster - I had gone to the wrong dormitory, and it was the dormitory of a classmate I didn't know. Before they could see my face clearly, I flew out, but my excitement was not affected at all, and after returning to my dormitory, I confirmed that they were all roommates, and I bragged about it again excitedly.

During high school, we blindly jumped on trends. At that time, television had entered the homes of ordinary people, and the tape recorder had become quite popular, and advertisements for "Yan Wu Yan Dance and Song to Love" appeared on TV and radio every day.

There are three young people who are the same age as us in the Taiwanese music scene, called the "Little Tigers", whose singing style is fashionable and violent, and they have become idols in our hearts.

Every night before going to bed, I always imitate a "Little Tiger Team" in the dormitory, learn from them to sing while dancing thunderbolts, and look forward to the day when I can be like them and dazzle on the stage.

I have to say that art is about talent, most people in the dormitory imitation can only be reduced to self-entertainment in the end, the literary and artistic backbone of the class, but often have a good performance, the idol's strong singing and dancing, after they carefully rehearsed and moved to the stage of the evening party organized by the school, attracted warm applause from the teachers and students of the school, and the smart figure is still fresh in my memory.

I don't know when it began, our constant military-style yellow clothes can no longer be seen, and the constant PLA-style yellow rubber shoes on our feet are also gone, replaced by trendy modern clothing.

The feet are generally "Huili" brand sneakers, all pure white, both male and female.

I don't know when it starts, we hairy boys, are very concerned about the image of the girls, keep up with the trend of clothing, always very clean and tidy, personality of long hair, often shiny, individual family conditions are good will use mousse to set, almost every morning will always be wet with water, carefully combed.

There is often a small mirror in his hand, and he will take it out when he has nothing to do, and he always thinks that he in the mirror is outstanding, handsome and chic, lamenting that his fate is not good, and he has no chance to show his face and become a star of ten thousand people's attention, and he eagerly hopes that the scout will appear so that he can become famous overnight.

Approaching graduation, everyone is crazy to take a group photo, of course, many of them are single photos, no matter whether they are good or bad, they will be carefully preserved, but at that time, I already had some ignorant fantasies in my heart, immature pride, few photos left, not even negatives.

We still firmly believe that "I am born to be useful" and that one day we will spread our wings and fly high. The deeds of great men have a great attraction to us, and we always compare our own behavior with those of great men, and imitate the bits and pieces of great men's lives and studies.

The topic between boys has become a topic between real "men", which is always inseparable from girls and national events.