One morning in early August 1997, Tang Boqiang got up early, and he wanted to take advantage of the cool breeze blowing from the direction of the Bajiao River to complete the task of chopping firewood that his mother had ordered him to complete last night.

Tang Boqiang, who was shirtless and wearing shorts, was vigorously chopping the wooden strips that had been sawn into short strips by his father, even though the sun was not very hot in the morning; Despite the breeze blowing from the bank of the Octagonal River, Tang Boqiang was still covered in sweat.

"Brother Qiang, Teacher Yi asked me to tell you that the scores of the college entrance examination have come out, and you have taken the first place in the town, and now I want you to go back to school, and I want to discuss with you about choosing a school." A crisp cry and the next words made Tang Boqiang stop chopping firewood in his hand, and looked up, it turned out to be Liang Wei who had just read the first year of junior high school next door, Tang Boqiang dropped the woodcutter in his hand and walked to the house while responding, his mother went to work early in the morning, because the unit was sluggish, and his father was always late at work, because going to work was just going to the unit to sit, and there was nothing to do. Tang Boqiang knew that when filling in the school of choice, he had to seek his father's opinion.

After listening to Tang Boqiang's words, his father, who had always been calm, suddenly laughed happily, and stroked Tang Boqiang's sweaty head while laughing and said, "Okay! Good! That's great! I don't know what school to apply for, so you just have to tell Mr. Yi and say that you only want to study medicine and become a doctor in the future. ”

This is something that his father mentioned to Tang Boqiang many times, saying that Tang Boqiang is not in good health and cannot do heavy work, and he will either be a teacher or a doctor in the future, and what his father hopes most is that Tang Boqiang can become an excellent doctor in the future.

Hearing his father say this, Tang Boqiang knew what to expect, and immediately changed his clothes and went straight to school. Teacher Yi and several other teachers have been waiting in the classroom, seeing Tang Boqiang's arrival, everyone seemed very excited, at this time Tang Boqiang knew that only Tang Boqiang was on the national key line among the candidates in the town, of course, there are many candidates in the town this year, which is also one of the reasons why the teachers are happy.

Mr. Yi briefly explained the situation and said to Tang Boqiang: "Today's volunteer filling is very important, it determines whether you can be selected, determines your future work and destiny, you must consider carefully, not sloppy, not arbitrary." ”

Tang Boqiang immediately told his father's opinion to the teachers present, and the teachers felt that it made sense after hearing it, and with Tang Boqiang's body, being a doctor might be the best choice.

The fastest response was Director Hu of the Academic Affairs Office. I only heard Director Hu say: "With your grades, it is worth fighting for Huaxia Medical College, which is one of the top medical schools in China." The other teachers agreed, so they found the enrollment brochure of Huaxia Medical College and carefully studied the number of students enrolled in each major.

In fact, the teachers don't know about the setting of medical majors, except for clinical medicine and stomatology, other professional settings don't understand at all, but they have a way, that is, to guess according to the literal understanding, for example, Director Hu thinks that the "Department of Forensic Medicine" is very good, French medicine, you can learn both medicine and French, killing two birds with one stone, so I don't understand it in this half, and I even filled in the volunteers, and filled in very extremely, filling all the majors of Huaxia Medical College, Then fill in a lower-level medical school as the "bottom", in other words, if you can't get into Huaxia Medical College, with Tang Boqiang's score, there is no suspense in entering this low-level medical school. Looking back many years later, Tang Boqiang also felt funny and terrible, he was really ignorant and fearless, if he was really recruited into the forensic department at that time, Tang Boqiang would regret his death.

In fact, for Tang Boqiang, who is only 16 years old, what kind of school to study, what kind of career he will engage in in the future, how to fill in the volunteers, etc., is completely outside the scope of his knowledge, his idea is very simple, that is, he can go to university and have a stable income job in the future.

When he got home, Tang Boqiang told his father, who had been waiting at home, that he was also very happy, feeling that it was something that was at his fingertips, but Tang Boqiang, who has always been cautious, was still a little worried, because although the score was online, it was not very high after all, and Huaxia Medical College was such a famous school, it was not easy to be admitted.

From the beginning of filling in the volunteers, Tang Boqiang's heart couldn't be quiet. No novel can attract his attention in front of him, and when he has longing and expectation in his heart, he will become restless, as if he has lost his soul, and all he thinks about is universities, provincial towns, and doctors all day long......

Waiting is very painful, and only those who are waiting can really feel this suffering. But no matter how torturous the waiting is, there will be a time when the water will come out, not to mention this kind of waiting with a clear point in time.

Approaching the end of August, the results of the enrollment came out, and the miraculous thing is that it was also his neighbor Liang Wei who gave Tang Boqiang good news this time. Tang Boqiang was admitted to Huaxia Medical College, and he was also admitted to the Department of Clinical Medicine as his first choice, and Tang Boqiang was most satisfied with this result.

Of course, there are those who are happier than Tang Boqiang, that is, the Tang family and the relatives of the Tang family who live in Bajiao Town, as well as the leaders and teachers of Bajiao Town Middle School.

Yes, for the Tang family, Tang Boqiang's success can be said to have realized the dream of several generations of the Tang family, and the Tang family's "cold family" finally produced a "noble son", and the Tang family is the happiest Tang Mian.

Yes, since he was a cattle herder in his hometown village, Tang Mian was very envious of the children of those rich families who could have the opportunity to enter the local private school, saying that it was a school, that is, the local rich family spent money to send their children to the home of the most famous and knowledgeable local teacher to study. Tang Mian's family is very poor, food and clothing can't be solved, there is no way to talk about reading and studying, Tang Mian, who has a strong desire to find a job, often uses the space where the cow grazes freely to "eavesdrop" next to the classroom, so that Tang Mian is glad that although the teacher found that Tang Mian was eavesdropping, he had no intention of driving him away. In this intermittent eavesdropping, Tang Mian also learned a lot of knowledge, broadened his horizons, and let him know that if he continued to live like his ancestors, he would not be able to get out of this poor and remote village for the rest of his life, and his descendants would live a life of poverty, no cultural knowledge, and poor food and clothing like himself. It was from then on that Tang Mian decided to leave the poor village where his ancestors had lived for decades alone and go to the outside world to break through, and Tang Mingguo, the teacher of the private school, made it clear that he encouraged Tang Mian's decision, not only that, but Tang Mingguo also secretly gave Tang Mian more than a dozen silver dollars to help Tang Mian get started.

This kindness Tang Mian has never dared to forget, when Tang Mian's business was successful and Tang Mingguo was in trouble because of the *****, Tang Mian did not hesitate to quietly lend a hand, and quietly returned to his hometown many times, bringing the old gentleman to continue to money, food and cloth, etc., until now, ** ended, the old gentleman was liberated, Tang Mian and the teacher have always had contacts, no matter how poor Tang Mian's life is, he will always squeeze out some necessary products to send back to his hometown to the teacher. This is Tang Mian, a man who is affectionate and righteous, and who will repay his kindness, although he has always been very low-key in Bajiao Town, but people who know him are very respectful to him. Li Bin accepted Tang Boqiang as an apprentice at that time, also because he liked and admired Tang Mian.