Chapter 54: Failure and Memory Fragments

The high school entrance examination was conducted in Fengcheng No. 2 Middle School, and after the last exam, Zhang Mian knew that he would not be able to pass the Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School.

The school chartered a bus, and on the way back from Fengcheng, Zhang Mian's classmates had not yet come out of the excitement of entering the city, chatting excitedly.

Gaojia Village is still too small for Fengcheng, and the only things that can be said are Guanyin Temple and Gaojia Village Middle School, the potholed streets, the dung of cattle and sheep in front of the back of the house, and the old folks dressed in rustic clothes.

At the T-junction of Guanyin Temple, go west to the end, you will find a family surnamed Liu who sells tofu, there is a stone mill in front of his house, when it is not raining, a mentally depressed donkey will look up at the sky while grinding, as if looking at the end of the sky above Guanyin Temple......

Many students entered the city for the first time, because there was really no reason to go to the city before.

In fact, Fengcheng is only a small county seat, but the county seat is constantly changing. Today a steamed bun shop has opened on Zhongshan Street, and tomorrow a new clothing store will be added on Nongshui Road.

In the year in Gaojia Village, except for Gao Libiao's family moving away, there was basically no change in a year, even the tables and chairs in the cafeteria of Gaojia Village Middle School and the expression of the proprietress did not change in the slightest.

After Zhang Mian finished the Chinese and foreign language exams, he knew that his hopes of being admitted to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School were dashed.

This kind of collapse is inseparable from his poor foundation, and it takes a year to make up for three years of waste, Zhang Mian is not the person who is smart enough to create miracles.

He ran towards the sun with the wind this year, and he caught up with the road that others had to make up for before they should have traveled.

With youthful faith, he studied hard in countless sleepy mornings.

When he was tired, he would think of a girl named Yanzi four kilometers away from him, and a few freckles on her face did not affect her perfection in the slightest in his eyes.

The car was bumpy all the way out of the city, Zhang Mian was swaying, falling asleep with his head down, and when he woke up, the car was almost in Zhangjia Village.

Zhang Mian clearly remembers that when she arrived home that day, her father stood at the door of her house as if he was telepathic, like a warrior waiting for triumph, and her mother also greeted her son from her busy clinic to come back from the high school entrance examination.

Zhang Mian got out of the car with a handy bag in his hand, which contained a few changes of clothes and uneaten eggs.

He looked at them and smiled.

……

In the two weeks when he was waiting for the results, the happiest was his grandmother, although Zhang Mian often slept on the roof of other people's houses, he still went to accompany his grandmother every once in a while.

After Cao Xiaoshan came back from Fengcheng, he and Zhang Mian went to the soil slope of the wheel kiln factory and sat in a daze together, looking for the footprints left before on the playground of Zhangjiacun Middle School, and also accompanied Zhang Mian to wander around the village where the swallow was located......

Cao Xiaoshan and Zhang Mian looked for the sketch together, and when they passed the stairs to the attic that evening, they were surprised not to see his yellow dog.

The sketch was lying on the bamboo bar on the platform on the second floor, and when he saw Zhang Lu and them coming, he sat up and said hello.

In the sunset, the eyes of the sketch are tired beyond his age, he has a pair of huge eyes, and when he stares, Zhang Lu is really afraid that he will burst his eye sockets.

"What's the matter, lying here, listless, what about your dog?" Zhang Mian asked.

"I've lost it for a few days, and I don't know if I can ask others to eat it." This dog was raised by Xiaopin since childhood, and his bad mood definitely has a lot to do with this dog.

"Your dog has already become a sperm, a few days ago it rained heavily, and when the thunder hit it must have successfully soared, what are you sad about, there is an idiom that says: a dog gets the way, and the chicken ascends to immortal." Cao Xiaoshan gloated.

This yellow dog has a grudge against him, bares his teeth when he sees him, and was scolded by the sketch when he wanted to bite him several times.

He didn't know how to be happy in his heart, and the money for buying the "three-step down" medicine was completely saved.

"You're all divine." The sketch looked at Xiaoshan's happy appearance and said unhappily.

"How did you do in the sketch?" Zhang Mian changed the topic, in fact, Zhang Mian really didn't care about how he did in the exam, he knew that he would definitely not be able to get into Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School.

Sketches have always been nine out of ten in mathematics, and they don't know anything. He gets dizzy at the sight of the geometry, which is much worse than motion sickness.

Zhang Mian asked him if he still wanted to know how Yanzi did in the exam, except for Cao Xiaoshan who knew that Zhang Mian was pursuing Yanzi, few people knew.

"It's okay except for math." The sketch replied weakly.

"Do you know who is better in the test?"

"I don't know."

When Cao Xiaoshan and Zhang Mian left, the sketch was still sitting there, and he would usually send them out.

It's hard to say whether his dog has ascended to immortality, and the sketch is estimated to be unable to ascend to immortality.

……

The high school entrance examination scores were announced as scheduled, Zhang Mian took the 501 exam, and the admission line of Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School was 556, and Zhang Mian fell off the list.

To Zhang Mian's surprise, Yanzi also fell off the list.

When he heard about this result, Zhang Mian was even more sad than knowing that he had fallen off the list.

At his grandmother's house, he was so upset that he sprinkled it on the chickens, not only did he not feed them, but when they came to him, he kicked them, and several hens were so frightened that they fluttered their wings and almost flew out of the yard.

Grandma didn't say a word when she saw this, if she had scolded Zhang Mian in normal times, the hen was so scared, at least three days without laying eggs, she didn't know who she learned the news of Zhang Mian's failure, and sighed from time to time at night.

……

Zhang Mian and Yanzi both said in the letter: they made an appointment to go to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School to study.

It's not a meeting to fail the high school entrance examination.

Zhang Mian even hopes to pull out the score from her own score and add it to Yanzi's score, so that she can be admitted to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School.

She'll laugh happily, and she'll look so good when she's smiling.

He knew that Yanzi really wanted to go to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School, otherwise she would not choose to repeat it.

……

Towards September, Zhang Mian's parents made an important decision to let Zhang Mian go to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School at their own expense, at the cost of paying 6,000 yuan in borrowing fees.

That's a lot of money at the time. That's enough to keep parents talking all night.

In a few days, Zhang Mian, like Cao Xiaoshan, will take a car from Zhangjiacun Bus Station to Fengcheng to study, carrying a bag on his back.

He was not thrilled or saddened by his family's decision.

He really did his best this year

Yanzi did not continue to repeat, she went to Fengcheng No. 2 Middle School.

In this way, they all went to Fengcheng to study.

Zhang Lu and Yanzi's junior high school years ended like this, just like this chapter article, it ended before they had time to make all preparations.

Just like coming out of Hu Dong's house, Principal Hu and Teacher Xue sent Zhang Mian to the school gate, but they didn't see Hu Dong everywhere.