It was July 14, 1997.

The hot summer season continues, and there is not a single cloud in the blue sky.

The puppy lazily hung its head in the nest.

The elderly people sat in twos and threes under the rows of poplar trees at the entrance of the village, each holding a puff fan in their hands and fanning it rhythmically.

Sometimes they frown, sometimes smile, sometimes quiet, sometimes noisy, sometimes the east family, the west family short, and chatting happily.

The camera traces back to a red brick tile house, the yard is surrounded by high red brick walls on three sides, and the red brick wall facing west is the gate of the house in the center.

A large red wooden door facing west is very conspicuous. There are two majestic lions on the left and right sides of the door, which looks very magnificent.

Every time a neighbor who is particular about feng shui passes in front of this house, he will stop for three seconds and have a solemn expression, "Why does the door of their house have to face west?" And not facing south? ”

The male owner of this family has never been superstitious about feng shui, and he also laughed at the neighbor's proposals.

Walking through the wooden gate, there is a large courtyard.

In the middle of the courtyard is a path paved with red bricks, on the east side of the path, near the east wall to the southeast of the two large elm trees, and near the east wall to the northeast of the apricot tree and a peach tree.

Around the apricot and peach trees are all kinds of seasonal vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, and rows of green vegetables.

Bees were buzzing toiling on the blooming yellow petals, and a few white butterflies were tirelessly flying around the greens.

To the west of the path, to the northwest of the western wall, is a kitchen connected to the wall made of red bricks, and wisps of white smoke are rising from the chimney on the roof.

The hostess of the kitchen, with an apron tied around her waist and a spatula in her hand, was carefully tumbling around the stove about the golden food in the pot, only listening to the sizzling sound of the pot.

The hostess looked at the golden yellow of the pot with a very satisfied expression on her face.

The family's hall is three.

In the middle is the main hall, on the west side is a girl's boudoir, and on the east side is the bedroom of the hero and heroine.

Pushing open the small door to the west, there was a handmade bookshelf with all kinds of books, next to a desk and a stool. On the desk, there are all kinds of stationery for the girl, and there is a large stack of thick story clubs.

Near the north wall was a pink mosquito net, which contained a small wooden bed with a mattress made of reeds.

A girl was lying on the mat, her big flickering eyes staring at the rattling fan above the mosquito net, she raised her left hand, hugged the bangs in front of her forehead, and wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with her right hand.

Finally, as if attracted to something, she simply got up, pulled a pair of flip-flops, and walked out of the room in a sleeveless pink pajama with a strawberry print.

Like a puppy, she sniffed her nose and headed straight in the direction of the kitchen.

"Up? Hurry up and wash up for breakfast. The man in the kitchen, who had just been busy, was walking out of the kitchen with a plate of golden food, and looked at the girl and said dotingly.

"Wow, my favorite fried bun." The girl exclaimed in surprise.

The person who made this surprise cry was none other than Li Huizi herself.

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Li Huizi is the only seedling in the family, and her father is one of the few high school students in his generation in the village.

As for why his dad didn't go to college? Li Huizi asked a few times, and the answer he got was that he was replaced by the children of rich families. As for whether this answer is true? Li Huizi has never delved into it.

But there is one point, Li Huizi completely inherited his father's genes, and he has been a scholar since he was a child.

Li Huizi's mother, who only has a primary school education, is the most ordinary rural woman.

Li Huizi's father runs a ten-acre apple orchard, which is also the main source of income for the family. In just over two months, their apples will be in full bloom. Therefore, during this period, Li Huizi's father had to live in the orchard to guard the fruits of his hard work.

In rural areas in 1997, communication tools had not yet reached every household. If you want to check your results, you need to go to the middle school you are applying for.

At that time, the list of admitted personnel was announced on a large piece of red paper that was five meters long and two meters wide. It contains detailed information from the first place to the last place: rank, name, grades, and class.

"Huizi, Huizi, hurry up!" A familiar shout came from Li Huizi's door.

Li Haoyu, Lee Mingzhe, Li Zhen, three partners who have played with Li Huizi since childhood. They went to primary school in the same year, and they were promoted to junior high school in the same year, and their feelings are better than relatives, but they are actually closer than relatives.

"Here we are."

Li Huizi said as she stuffed the last bite of fried buns into her mouth, and directly pushed her father's 28 bicycle in the yard and walked out of the gate.

"Slow down."

The hostess chased out of the gate with concern, looked at the four backs that were about to disappear at the mouth of the alley, and admonished.

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The middle school in the town is actually not far from their little Li Village, and the straight-line distance is only 3.5 kilometers, after all, they are young and ride to the destination in one breath.

"Wow, it's crowded!"

Li Huizi stood 50 meters away and exclaimed.

As far as the eye can see, there are parents and students in the crowd, and they properly block the big red paper posted on the wall without leaving a single gap.

"I'll go and see, I'm the highest." As soon as Li Haoyu's words fell, his back disappeared into the black crowd.

Li Haoyu, 14 years old, is already 1.7 meters tall. If it weren't for his immature face, from behind, people would think he was an adult.

"Huizi, come on, come on." After a while, Li Haoyu showed his head from the crowd and shouted excitedly.

Li Huizi ran over quickly and squeezed desperately into the crowd. Following the direction of Li Haoyu's finger, the first thing that catches your eye is her name: first place, Li Huizi, 296 points, the third class of the first year of junior high school (at that time, there were only three exams, Chinese, mathematics, ideology and morality, and the score of each subject was 100 points).

"Wow, Huizi, it's amazing, it's the number one!"

Li Zhen's voice floated from Li Haoyu's left side, and his tone was full of envy.

When the people next to them heard it, they all looked curiously in the direction where the voice came from, and they also wanted to witness the face of the first place.

The corners of Li Huizi's mouth rose slightly, and her face was full of pride and confidence.

"Li Haoyu, you're not bad. You're only one point away from ninth. Li Huizi looked at Li Haoyu with a smile and said.

Then, she returned her gaze to the word "Xiao Chen" in the ninth place, and said softly with the corners of her mouth slightly raised: "This name is really interesting, I like it." ”

10th place: Li Haoyu, 288 points, the first and second classes of junior high school; 60th place: Lee Ming-che, 265 points, class 5 of the first year of junior high school; No. 270: Li Zhen, 228 points, class 16 of junior high school.

"Every time I was at the bottom of the four of us, and this time we didn't get a class." Li Zhen pouted unhappily.

"And I'm with you." Li Mingzhe looked at Li Zhen and pouted.

It's no wonder that in every exam, among the four of them, he and Li Zhen are at the end.

"Rest assured, we are in one grade and all mealtimes are the same. When the four of us were still eating together, we were as inseparable as before. Li Huizi said, and patted Zhen'er on the shoulder with her hand.

"Let's go, let's go, go home and report the good news." Li Haoyu urged them and got on the bicycle.

"From now on, we will be junior high school students."

"What a pleasure!"

"I really hope to start school soon, and I'm looking forward to junior high school life!"

"Well, me too, haha."

……

The four of them rode excitedly and drove quickly in the direction of home.

"Mom, Mom, I got in, first place." As soon as she arrived at the door, Li Huizi shouted loudly.

The previous hostess happily took the bicycle in Li Huizi's hand and said happily: "I knew that our family Huizi would definitely be able to!" In a few days, Mom will go to town to pull you some beautiful clothes, and then we will happily report to work. ”

"Well, thank you, Mom." Li Huizi said coquettishly.

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Before I knew it, it was the day of the start of school on September 1, 1997.

This day is an extraordinary day for Li Huizi after all.

It will be the time period of the "elementary and junior high school" dividing line on the milestone of Li Huizi's education. It was a new starting point for her life to turn to another stage.

She is one meter six tall and weighs only 90 pounds, with a typical melon seed face and a pair of beautiful flickering talking single eyelid eyes.

Today, she wore a really good floral pink long-sleeved shirt, a pair of black canvas slacks, and a pair of square shoes embroidered with "peony flowers" by her mother. She has jet-black hair that reaches almost her waist, she has two ponytails tied up today, and she has a small dimple on the left side when she laughs, and she looks at herself in the mirror with admiration, which is really beautiful.

"Mom, Dad, okay? Let's go. Li Huizi walked out of her room after tidying up, urging her parents who were cleaning up for her.

She was so excited, excited that she tossed and turned last night and basically didn't sleep.

"Alright, alright." Li Huizi's mother responded dotingly.

"It's so nice to see my mom and dad take me to school today." Li Huizi said happily and hugged her mother coquettishly.

"I'm a junior high school student, and I still spoil every day, like a three-year-old doll." Li Huizi's father said with a smile.

"Dad!" Li Huizi ran to her father with a milky voice

"Okay, okay, no matter how old my daughter is, it's my little padded jacket for me and your mother." Li Huizi's father doted on Li Huizi's head and said.

"Let's go!" Li Huizi shouted again.

Li Huizi's father rode the pedal tricycle, and the family of three drove towards the direction of the school with a smile, and the squeaking sound of the tricycle was still in the air.

"Daughter, listen to the teacher obediently at school and study hard." Li Huizi's father admonished.

"Got it, Dad, don't worry. I promise you that I will continue to be number one and never fall behind. Li Huizi naughtily saluted her father and shouted.

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The family of three talked and laughed along the way, and after a while, they arrived at the middle school in the town, and as soon as they entered the school gate, they met Li Zhen.

"Hello aunt, good uncle." Li Zhen happily greeted Li Huizi's parents.

"You talk first, and her father and I will go and hand her food for food stamps." Li Huizi's mother said to Li Zhen with a smile.

"Okay, you guys go, Li Zhen and I will go and find our class and dormitory." After Li Huizi finished speaking, she took Zhen'er's hand and ran towards the rows of teaching buildings.

There are so many people in the school, comparable to the number of people in the market during the Chinese New Year. Everyone's faces were smiling, and their faces were full of excitement, passing by Li Huizi and them.

Banners were displayed all over the school: "Welcome to the school".

"It is said that we have 10 classes in the first grade, and each class has about 60 students. There are 12 classes in the second year of junior high school and 12 classes in the third year of junior high school. Wow, think about how many people there are! Li Zhen said excitedly.

"Well, look at how magnificent and spectacular these rows of school buildings are."

Li Huizi admires her new school.

"Huizi, Huizi, the third class of junior high school, here!" Li Zhen pointed to the second-to-last row of the school building directly in front of her, and shouted in the first classroom next to the aisle on her left.

"Wow, the classroom is so big!"

Li Huizi happily ran to the side of the classroom, looked in excitedly through the window and said loudly.

"Then the last room should be the sixth class of junior high school, right?" Li Zhen said as he walked through the entrance of the building to the last classroom on the right.

The junior high school teaching department is a two-storey building with six classrooms on each floor, and a total of 12 classrooms in one teaching building. There are three classrooms on the left and right, and the corridor is in the middle.

"It's really the sixth class of junior high school!" Li Zhen walked to the last classroom and pointed to the door number above the classroom door.

"It turns out that our classroom is just across a hallway, which is quite close." Li Zhen said with a smile again.

"That's right, I and Haoyu are in the third and second classes on the other side of the building, and you and Mingzhe are in the fifth and sixth classes on the corridor side. It's like a scale, you're on the scale, we're on the scale, and it's quite balanced. Li Huizi said mischievously.

"Then let's go find a dormitory, I heard that there is a dormitory for girls in a class, the room should be very large, right?"

After the two finished speaking, they went hand in hand to find their dormitory.

The dormitory of the junior high school is a three-row terraced house, with about 20 rooms in each row.

There is a wide campus passage between the dormitory area and the teaching area, and then there is a one-person high wall next to the dormitory, and there is a circular exit above the wall, which seems to be the dividing line between the two worlds, clearly separating their life and study.

After the dormitory was found, Li Huizi and her parents said goodbye, and under their repeated advice, she started the first time in her life to leave home and live in school.