Although I failed the college entrance examination and felt shameless to see my hometown parents and did not want to go back to the village in the countryside, the reality of having nowhere to go in the city still forced me to pack my luggage with my parents and take a bus back to the countryside to spend the summer.

Summer in the village is quiet and peaceful, lush everywhere, the rolling mountains have become thicker, the winding dirt road in front of the house is overgrown with colorful mountain flowers and wild grasses, the roadside is full of rocky river loops, the clear stream rushes from the mountains, impacting the riverbed, the sound of rushing water can be heard in the distance, on the opposite side of the stream, is a dense poplar forest, mischievous cicadas hide in the forest, echoing the beautiful notes of the stream, singing hoarsely.

The summer vacation after the college entrance examination was extraordinarily long, and when I returned home, my mood gradually calmed down with the quiet and peaceful environment of my hometown. I began to calmly summarize the failure of the college entrance examination, and at the same time actively sorted out and reviewed the previous examination materials, and carefully prepared for the repetition.

The transportation in the village is not convenient, in the days at home, I am almost isolated from the world, outside of the leisure time of reading, I will follow my mother to drive the sheep up the mountain, I hold the book and watch the sheep grazing grass on the side of the road, my mother wears a hat, drill into the green gauze tent to pull the core for the seedlings, weeding, her thin body will soon be submerged in the endless fields, at noon, she will regularly call me home for dinner, "big country, go home!" My mother shouted from the other side of the field, a little farther away from me, and the mountains of blue would follow suit: "Great country, go home" and "Go home!" "Go home!".

One day at noon, after lunch, I was about to drive the sheep out with my books in my hand, and I saw a familiar figure, it was Da Gang, who was riding a bicycle and running from the entrance of the village. He saw me from afar, too, and waved his arms at me.

It was very hot, his round face was like just taken off the stove, red, dripping with sweat, when he saw me, he wanted to be funny, supported the bicycle with one foot, and gasped for a long time, but it took a long time to speak, he wiped his face and smiled at me, "Hehe, our great writer has been promoted, sheepherd!" Hahaha. His funny appearance also made me laugh, "Yes, I have quite a few soldiers, you see, there are more than a dozen." I pointed at the sheep with my whip and looked like I was pointing at the country, "Where did you come from?" Brothers. "Where did it come from?" At home, I got up in the morning and rode a bicycle to you, and it was really what you said, your home is really easy to find, just at the head of the village, I thought I had to find someone to inquire about it. Unexpectedly, I found you directly. Da Gang sighed a little, our village is too small, "yes, yes, I saw you from afar." I chimed in. Come inside and drink some water. ”

My house is relatively simple, the entrance is the kitchen, and there are bedrooms on both sides, a typical three-room model in northern China, but the house is in disrepair and a little old, but it is very tidy and tidy by my mother. Da Gang got into the house, looked around for a while, and smiled at me, "You kid, your home is not like your article is written, leaking wet and crumbling, isn't it splendid?" "Wrong, it should be you who are here, and it should be the right one." I corrected him with a smile, and at the same time, I was also infected by his optimistic appearance, "Poor is poor, if the house falls, it is estimated that it will take more than ten years." "I laughed at myself.

Da Gang is the first time to come to my house, his family in another ravine in our town, when I was in junior high school in the Yellow Building, I often go to play on weekends, the newly built six tiled houses, very beautiful, the windows are bright and clean, twice as big as my house, he came to my house, and the attitude of not disliking my family for such a poor condition made me feel a trace of warmth. "Good place, good place." He stood in the courtyard and looked at the green mountains not far away, "I'll come to live with you for a few days, you won't drive me away, right?" "What do you say, stay and don't go." I'm glad that this time, a person is stuffy, Da Gang is here, and he has to stay for a few days, which is exactly what I wanted.

Da Gang drank the water, rested for a while, picked up my sheep whip, brought a hat, and grimaced at me, "How is it?" Do I look like a reclusive hero? He put on a posture of white crane wings, "Haha, don't say it, it's really like that." I drove the sheep out of the yard and walked with him up the hill.

I know Dagang's college entrance examination results, his usual grades are average, the exam is not bad, just on the undergraduate line, after filling in the volunteer will go home first, I don't know what the result is, he came to me from more than ten kilometers away from home, I vaguely know, and the exam and the admission situation behind, but embarrassed to take the initiative to ask him.

Sure enough, not long after we drove the sheep together, he broke the silence first, "Big country, I have also decided to repeat it." I was a little surprised, "Why, didn't you do well in the exam?" I asked him, "It's okay to take the exam, but my parents chose the major, and I want to study computer science, so I don't want to go." "Computers, it's good, it's hot." I was a little surprised, "Yes, it's popular, everyone is vying to choose this major, and I also applied, but I was not admitted, and my score is still low." He was a little angry, "I don't want to study computers, I want to study medicine." "I'm annoyed, my family has to ask me to report, but it's no show, right?!" I had nothing to say and I didn't know how to comfort him, and it was already like this, and it was useless to say more. "I had a fight with them, and I knew that you had been depressed recently, and we were brothers and sisters, so I said hello to them and came to you." Da Gang said, "But it's okay, our brothers can fight side by side for another year." ”

"We're going to conquer the damn college entrance examination together." Da Gang raised his arms, swore an oath, raised the sheep whip fiercely, threw it round, and threw the whip rope in a beautiful arc, and then a crisp whip echoed between the mountains.

Dagang stayed at my house for a few days, and in those days, we happily traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the village, forgetting the haze of failing the college entrance examination, and regaining all kinds of fun in childhood, as if returning to that carefree childhood.

School started, and Dagang and I went back to the county cram school to report.

Since we were originally students in the county, the procedure for repeating the study was very simple, so Dagang and I went to the student office to register and fill out the form, and prepared to go to the finance office to pay the fee.

"Uh, who do you think that's that?" Da Gang pulled the corner of my clothes, I followed his eyes, the iron head staggered out of the gate of the school finance, I haven't seen it for a few years, the iron head has grown a lot taller, looks tall and strong, black and red face, thick hair, wearing black clothes, strong like an iron tower.

The grievances and grievances of the Yellow Mansion Grove immediately surfaced in my heart, but at this time, I cherished the opportunity my father gave me to study again, so no matter whether what Tie Tou said about Ding Ling before was true or false, I didn't have time to care about it at present, and I knew very well what rereading meant to me, so I didn't want to provoke him, "Let's go." I said to Dagang.

In fact, Da Gang didn't know about my past with Tietou, he didn't respond to me, on the contrary, greeted me warmly, "Brother Tietou, why did you come here?" "Me? I'm here to repeat it. Tietou replied angrily, a little helpless in his tone, Tietou's grades were very bad, Huanglou's junior high school life was beaten by him, and he couldn't pass the secondary school exam, so he was sent to the town by his family to study in high school, Tietou's parents are cadres in the town, and the family conditions are still good, he came to the county to repeat his studies, and it is estimated that the family spent a lot of money to stuff it in, and Tietou also saw me beside Dagang, grinned, and smiled malicefully: "Big country? Long time no see. ”

Damn, looking at his underbeaten expression, I almost couldn't hold back, and clenched my fist hard, "The iron head is good." I replied to him, "Top students, why do you have to tutor?" He looked at the payment slip in my hand and gloated a little, "This time, our brothers are in the same class again." He looked full of emotion, shook his head, and left.

Iron Head is indeed in the same class as us.

The repeater class was placed in a row of low, low-rise brick houses not far from the county guard's house, which was overcrowded. The students are more mixed, and there are nearly 100 students in the high schools in various counties and towns, and the teachers are also part-time from the Academic Affairs Office, but fortunately, they are all newcomers, and I don't know them. The learning atmosphere is relatively relaxed, in the words of the substitute teacher, you are all from the past, you can do it yourself whether you learn or not.

In the first few days, the class has been chaotic, there are constantly students coming out and entering, and there are poor grades below the township leaders to greet the new arrivals; There are admission letters, which come late and leave; There are those who regret reporting to the university and decide to repeat their studies. After a few weeks, the class gradually calmed down, and the solemn learning atmosphere once again enveloped everyone, the brick room of the repeater class was not yet electrified, and every evening, there were usually students who read by candlelight.

Cram students do not have the treatment of living on campus, and Dagang and I searched outside the school for a long time before finding a private house deep in the alley and relocating ourselves.

Tietou has always been very low-key, and he didn't pay attention to me after the last time he said hello, he was arranged to sit in the last row of the cram school, and went to and from class as required every day, which was completely the performance of a good child. This was a bit of a surprise to me.

The owner of the small restaurant at the school gate has changed, and the owner is two beautiful young women, one is in charge of the kitchen, and the other is responsible for watching our students eat and prevent running orders. Dagang and I are still regular visitors there, and due to financial constraints, we often go to eat at the expense. came and went, and gradually got acquainted with the new proprietress . Iron Head also followed our butts and often went to small restaurants to eat, but he stayed away from us, hiding in a corner and enjoying his feast alone.

Time flies, two months have passed.

The life of a cram school, calm and intense. I also have no distractions, I arrive at the classroom early every day, and return to the residence very late at night, although I am still in a school, but I have never seen Ding Ling again, I know the location of her class, and I am familiar with the route she takes every day, but I have never had the courage to meet her intentionally, I even hope that it is best not to see her before the college entrance examination, but in my heart, there is a torment of wanting to see.

I think that in my current state, in addition to Dagang, at most one iron head is added, and it is best not to know anyone.

However, something happened suddenly, and it still broke my otherwise peaceful repetition life.