In the past few days, most of the educated youths are busy continuing the things they didn't finish before going to the countryside: physical examination, filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, receiving admission tickets, and eagerly trying to enter the examination room......

Although the college entrance examination was held as scheduled, the "Great Discussion on the Resumption of the College Entrance Examination" conducted by the field radio station was still going on intensely, and many educated youths, cadres, workers, and poor middle peasants took part in the discussion, and some generously stated that this was the wheel of history turning backwards, some said that the wheel of history was turning wrong and returning, and some said that it was restoration......

In the midst of different opinions, the new feat of the unified national organization and the unified proposition examination of the provinces is about to kick off, and there are thousands of examination rooms across the country, and more than 10 million candidates will walk into the examination room at the same time and take the examination with a pen, which will be the most magnificent in Chinese history, and I am afraid that it is rare in the history of the world. Only the examination room of Xiaoxing'an Farm is magnificent enough: it is not enough for the middle school and primary school to do the examination room, and even the party committee meeting room, canteen, and club of the organ building have been arranged into the examination room, despite this, the nearly 10,000 candidates not only can not meet the requirements of the province to have a table per person, that is, there are more than 1,000 people left in a table for two people who cannot be arranged, and the battlefield has been set up in the middle school playground, the department desk has been lifted, and all households have been mobilized to carry out the dining table and cupboard, which is still not enough. Fighting day and night, he buried wooden stakes in the playground and put up wide planks that he didn't have time to plan. All the teachers and cadres of the institutions hung small red cloth strips on their chests and became invigilators. Like a party, like a market, like a general battle......

According to the regulations, the examination officially opened at eight o'clock, and it was only half past seven o'clock, and the candidates came to the examination room one after another to find their seats. A group of two, with different expressions, some rattling, some nervous...... Educated youths gather in this vast world from all over the country, or sleep together on a kang, or two teams next to each other, as long as they stretch out their hands to appear in various battles on the farm, who is the expert, you can see eight or nine; In this crowded and black-pressed competition field similar to the "General Battle", who is the best player has become mysterious.

Zheng Fenghua looked at the admission ticket, walked around the classroom composed of the quadrangle compound of Changbu Middle School, and finally found the No. 98 examination room, which is one of the countless square-type examination areas in the large playground, and the examination table is a table, cupboard and other furniture gathered by various households. He subconsciously touched the two pens with enough ink in his pocket, and began to walk through the narrow sidewalk separated by stools and tables, looking for his examination desk, and found that it was the middle of this open-air examination room.

He sat down and looked at his watch, and there was still a quarter of an hour before eight o'clock. Some of the candidates were going to the toilet, and some were still taking a last look at the key questions they were betting on, and then walked to their seats one after another. Except for a small number of fresh graduates, almost all of these candidates are educated youths, black and pressing, chaotic and orderly, this is the first time since the entry of the young people, there is no assembly horn in the scene, there is no urging, but they are following a strict time action. This is like the college entrance examination before *****, and it is more magnificent and exciting than that.

The invigilators hurriedly walked towards the examination room with red cloth strips on their chests. Except for the stranger who wore a red cloth strip of "main examiner" on his chest, the rest of the examination staff were from Xiaoxing'an Farm. Zhang Xiaohong walked back and forth with a strip of cloth hanging on her chest as a deputy examiner. Oh, why didn't he sign up? Probably because of Yang Lili's entanglement?

As more and more people sat in the right seats, Zheng Fenghua found that the one on the right who had just taken a seat was Xiao Yun, she smiled politely and nodded to herself, and calmly sat on the examination seat. Zheng Fenghua also smiled and nodded.

"When-when-when-"

The bell rings for the exam. The invigilators poured out of the office of the examination room with the sound of the bell, holding tightly sealed test bags and scissors, and scattered towards the examination rooms. This bell, this scene, is so familiar and unfamiliar to the educated youth, how cordial and how excited. Ah, an unprecedented *****, an unprecedented examination room!

Zheng Fenghua put the admission ticket in the upper right corner of the desk with the exam number and sat solemnly. A man and a woman invigilated walked in, checking one by one whether the photos on the admission ticket matched those seated, giving people a feeling that the college entrance examination was being carried out as strictly as the "Notice" issued in advance, and the resumption of the college entrance examination seemed to be real. This feeling is also a signal that admission should be strictly based on scores!

"Hey, why is there no one in the eighteenth seat?" The female invigilator looked around and asked, "Who knows where this candidate has gone?" ”

As soon as the female invigilator's voice fell, a rush of footsteps sounded: "Invigilator, I'm the eighteenth." ”

"Please show your admission ticket."

"Give."

"Magnolia!" The female invigilator looked at Magnolia, and then looked at the admission ticket, she was very serious, "If you officially open the paper and enter the examination room, you will be disqualified from the exam......"

Everything is so serious, so according to the rules.

Just now, Xiao Yun made him feel uneasy, and another magnolia came. How could it be so coincidental, one in his front row and one on his left side. When he understood that Magnolia in the small barren forest was directing a small farce, and lacked the ability and self-confidence to gain Magnolia's trust in love, Principal Qian and others directed Xiao Yun's appearance scene, and after that, he really thought about it, if there is no premise of falling in love with Magnolia, Xiao Yun is really the standard for his courtship. What to do? What to do? What to do?

At this time, the male invigilator looked at his watch, waited for another bell to ring, raised the test paper bag in his hand to all the candidates and shook it: "Please supervise the candidates, the test question bag is well sealed, and there is no doubt that we will open it." ”

A bunch of intently gazes fell on the test question bag, which was a kraft paper bag slightly larger than the sixteen-carat paper, which was bulging and slippery, and the seals at both ends were printed with a row of round red official seals, which were tight and tight, and there was no trace of unpacking.

"Okay," the male invigilator sizzled along the sealing line as he raised his scissors, "I opened it." ”

Two invigilators are handing out test notes and answer sheets. The first subject of this examination is Language. Zheng Fenghua took the test note, tried his best to reject the chaotic thoughts brought to him by Magnolia and Xiao Yun, and tried his best to calmly glance at the test questions, and soon saw through the questions of the college entrance examination, which is not at all as some people guess - there are more candidates and fewer places, and the gap is opened up with difficult problems to choose candidates, but to test some basic knowledge, and see that the country wants to select students with solid basic knowledge to cultivate talents. The third question is to divide the sentence components, the fifth question is to translate ancient Chinese into vernacular, and the last question is to write an essay entitled "I Am Sitting at the Examination Table Again", which requires writing a narrative essay of more than 1,500 words.

After a glance, he made a conclusion that he could get a full score except for the essay that could not be determined.

He spread out the roll of paper, picked it up and aimed for a perfect score in the knowledge answer. Suddenly, the loud voice of the battery horn came from the gate of the campus: "Revolutionary intellectual youth, comrades-in-arms: we are three teams of staunch intellectual youth roots, and today we have specially rushed to issue an urgent appeal to you, at this critical moment when the true and false revolution is clear, you should not be infected by those college fans, who are obsessed here, the farm needs us, we cannot do without the farm, we have been rooted in the farm for 60 years, and the ambition will never ......change."

Zheng Fenghua knew that it was Tian Ye when he heard it, so he was so angry that he slapped the table and stood up and said, "Invigilator, I'll go out to criticize and criticize them!" ”

"You?"

"I am the party branch secretary of the third team."

"No," the invigilator said, "you are not the secretary of the party branch of the third team now, you are an ordinary candidate, you can rest assured that someone will interfere with them." ”

“……”

There was a commotion in the examination room.

"Be quiet!" The invigilator slapped the table a few times, "Please answer the questionnaire with peace of mind, didn't I say it, someone will definitely intervene." ”

The candidates were in turmoil and chattering:

"How do you answer this!"

"The rebels."

……

"Intervention? Hey-" A candidate with a small black beard shook off the half-smoked cigarette, stood up and shouted at the invigilator, "Why intervene, people love farms, who would dare to intervene if they want to take root for a lifetime, the revolution is still wrong?" People are right, I am not infected by college fans, so many people, like ants, can be admitted to a few......" said and tore up the test paper, and walked away, and then, several candidates responded, shouting and following out.

"It's not like it's like it!" The female invigilator said loudly, "Everyone be quiet, don't be disturbed, and answer the exam with peace of mind." I just looked, and the candidates who went out even answered the Chinese pinyin mess...... It's just looking for steps. ”

Despite the repeated work of the invigilator, there was no silence in the examination room. Then, I heard the small examination rooms in the campus playground separated from each other, and the sound of sighs, whistles, and chatters became one.

“…… Taking root and returning to the city is the watershed between the revolution and the false revolution, and the revolutionary intellectuals and comrades-in-arms ......"

Yuan Dacang continued to shout, and there were dozens of people behind him who kept shouting slogans, and the public security officers who maintained order couldn't persuade them, pushing them not to enter the examination room, and they insisted on rushing in.

When Zhang Xiaohong hurried here, the Beijing jeep in which Secretary Xiao was riding also braked.

"Xiaohong, you are responsible for maintaining order in the examination room," Secretary Xiao said to Yuan Cannon and Tian Ye after instructing, "Let's go, let's talk to my office." ”

"Secretary Xiao," Yuan Dacang blushed, "Tell me, most of the educated youths are here, and our farm can't be done yet, the country needs food, and the people take food as the sky." ”

Secretary Xiao said: "You are a firm root, and the farm is welcome." But the country needs to select talents......"

"Secretary Xiao," Tian Ye took over, "you can't do this if you need talents, you have to selectively pick people to take the exam!" Fighting a big battle, so affecting the stable mood of the educated youth, this kind of test method of crowd tactics, in addition to the waste of manpower and material resources......"

Secretary Xiao cut off her words: "Let's go, I have something to say in my office......"

Secretary Xiao led Tian Ye, Yuan Dacang and dozens of people away, and the examination room returned to calm.

Zheng Fenghua watched Secretary Xiao lead them away, sighed, and when he withdrew his gaze and was about to answer the paper, his eyes suddenly fell on the examination table of Magnolia in front of him.

She didn't raise her head, her eyes didn't blink, she answered the paper with a brush, the commotion just now did not interfere with her at all, and she looked at it, the lines and paragraphs of elegant and dignified words that fell on the exam papers, without scratching or adding aside, just like the regular printing of the writing style, which was exceptionally bright and refreshing in the sun.

Zheng Fenghua seemed to look at it, and a trickle of relief flowed from the bottom of his heart, and soon spread throughout his body. Her ability to learn is now showing in this huge examination room. On the eve of graduating from high school, teachers and classmates almost dared to guarantee her, as long as the application was filled in properly, it was no problem to get the first or second choice of the first form, and the least ideal would also be the first choice of the second form. In this way, it is because she is a little worse than Chinese, and every other course is top-notch, and the class representatives are the top students in the discipline, and they can't be sharp, especially mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign languages are particularly good, if the college entrance examination is not delayed that year, or there is no *****, she must be a high-talent student in the university, maybe she is now studying for graduate school...... Now, she is physically and mentally scarred, so she can't be blamed for falling into the horns of a love misunderstanding, after all, it is the person she loves deeply. He silently prayed in his heart, hoping that she would be the best in this exam and accept the gift of a new life.

He quickly eliminated the distraction of his thoughts and answered the paper brushily, so freely, so easily, the Chinese exam was precisely his strength. He finished answering the first four questions in only a short time, and when he was about to write the essay, he couldn't help but look at the front table, Magnolia was holding the answer sheet in both hands, and was checking the first four questions that he had answered, and he was about to transfer to the composition exam.

Yo, not good! She got it wrong! For example, in the first question, the following sentences are required to be translated in vernacular, and the general usage of "no" and "fu" marked with black dots under the words is explained. The first sentence is "The old woman doesn't hear it" in "Warring States Policy: Zhao Ce", which should be translated into the vernacular as "I haven't heard of it", but she translated it as "I don't want to hear it", and the sentence is mistranslated. Its usage and meaning should be interpreted as: "no" as a negative adverb to indicate general negation, and "no" is generally followed by a transitive verb.

He didn't pay attention to the invigilator, and carefully scanned the following questions she answered, all of which had obvious mistakes, and his thoughts were churning, and he remembered the hot topic of the graduates who were taking the high school entrance examination before going to the countryside: the examination room is like a battlefield, and you can never delay a second in advance, and never write a word by mistake......

He sweated for her.

He buried his head and wrote the answer to the fourth question on the composition paper, tore it off and crumpled it into a small paper ball. Throw it over? No! Let the invigilator find out that the consequences are unimaginable, this is what he may have done when he was a child, and now he is a member of the Communist Party and a branch secretary, how incommensurate with his identity is this kind of cheating...... Thinking about it, his heart was empty, and the palms of his hands were sweaty.

It's cheating, right? Yes, no, yes, no......

I am a member of the Communist Party, a secretary of the party branch, no, no, yes, no, I am an intellectual youth, and I am an ordinary candidate......

The fierce ideological struggle, the chaotic thoughts stirred up in his mind like a pot of rotten porridge.

He looked at his watch, there were still forty minutes left before the exam time for this course, whether to give it or not, how to give it, he had to do it immediately, and then hurry up to write his own composition.

"Invigilator," Zheng Fenghua stood up, "I'm going to the bathroom, okay?" ”

"Can't you hold on?"

"I can't."

"Alright then," said the male proctor, "I'll take you with me." ”

Zheng Fenghua walked out of the examination desk, and the invigilator followed behind as if he was looking at it, how much he wanted Magnolia to follow out tacitly at this time! When he came back, he was about to pass by Magnolia's examination desk, and after a fierce ideological struggle, in an instant, when he threw the paper ball on Magnolia's roll, his heart pounded faster.

"Stop!" The female invigilator shouted and questioned and rushed to Zheng Fenghua together, "What is it on the table, the candidate named Magnolia is not allowed to move that paper ball!" ”

The sound of pen tips in the examination room stopped, and dozens of pairs of eyes turned to Zheng Fenghua and Bai Yulan together.

"It's over, it's over, it's all over......" Zheng Fenghua felt a sense of collapse in his heart, and instantly had a depressed thought, the frustration of love, the difficulty of making progress in his career, and the ugliness in the examination room formed a torrent of impact on him, the big deal was to cancel the exam qualification, the big deal was to resign, and the big deal was to return to the city like Li Jin......

The female invigilator ordered: "You both stand up." Ask Magnolia first: "Is it the paper ball you want?" Magnolia replied, "No." Zheng Fenghua replied without asking: "I took the initiative to give it, and it has nothing to do with her." The invigilator asked, "How do you know her answer to the fourth question?" Zheng Fenghua replied: "We are two high school classmates, and I know that her basic knowledge of classical Chinese is not strong enough. The female invigilator said to Bai Yulan and Zheng Fenghua: "I suggest that the deputy superintendent in charge of the examination and discipline disqualify the two of you from this exam, or deduct the disciplinary points and write a mark on the paper!" ”

Zheng Fenghua lowered his head, his face was red and purple and white for a while, he was extremely embarrassed, there was no way to go to the sky, and there was no way to enter the ground.

Magnolia lowered her head and cried.

The deputy director in charge of the examination and discipline, Zhang Xiaohong, came. After listening to the situation of the female invigilator's report, he frowned and said: There is no fait accompli for cheating, it has nothing to do with Magnolia, and he can continue to answer the paper; Zheng Fenghua was warned for his disciplinary violations, and his qualification for the examination was disqualified if there were such things.

The exam room is back to normal.

Zheng Fenghua sat down and looked at Zhang Xiaohong's back, his heart was surging, and he was extremely excited, his cheating can be forgiven, so he should be dealt with like this? Or does Zhang Xiaohong understand her sad love world and favor her personal feelings? Or has Zhang Xiaohong changed and become less ultra-leftist?

He rolled out the essay paper, no outline, no draft, and a mature essay flowed down the tip of the pen onto the paper. When he checked all the answers and essays and went to hand in the paper, he found that Xiao Yun's eyes were rosy.

At some point, she must have been crying.