After waiting for Manli's family to be full of food and drink, and a group of classmates to leave complacently, Li Jun, Gao Qi and a few others helped pack up their things and said goodbye to Xiao Jian and returned to their home.

Mother is standing under the eaves at the moment pacing back and forth, Li Jun knows that this is his mother is in a hurry, probably because he is afraid that he will go home late, and it will affect the late return to school. Watching the two of them walk into the yard, he said anxiously: "You two children, hurry up and pack up and go, it's almost 4 o'clock, it's dark for a while, and it's not easy to walk on the road!"

"Auntie is fine, we ride fast, how can we get to school before dark!" Gao Qi comforted his mother, and Li Jun hurriedly ran into the house to pack his things.

Mother has folded the clean clothes neatly on Li Jun's bed, and on the stool next to it, there are two jars of fried pickles prepared by the mother, these pickles will be used as their main dish in the morning, and only in winter, when they are easy to store, whoever comes home will bring back some food prepared by their mother.

Li Jun hurriedly stuffed his clothes into his backpack, tied up two bottles of pickles tightly with a cloth bag, so as not to collide and shatter, his mother and Gao Qi said a few words and walked into the house, saw that Li Jun had already packed his luggage, took out 200 yuan from his clothes pocket and handed it to Li Jun and said, "In two weeks, will there be a winter vacation after the final exam?" If you are nervous about studying, don't run back and forth next week, the clothes are going to be stolen and you don't want to wash them yourself, let you next door and Uncle Zhanling bring them back when you come back, I will wash them and bring them back to you, this is the first exam after admission, you have to study hard, don't take the test too badly, so that the teachers don't like it. ”

Li Jun took the money handed over by his mother, took 100 and returned it to his mother, "Mom, 50 yuan a week is enough, you give a little too much, don't worry, I will hurry up and study." ”

Mother didn't go to pick up the money that Li Jun handed back, but stuffed the money into Li Jun's clothes pocket, touched Li Jun's head and said: "You just take it, you won't come back for two weeks, and you will take the exam right away, buy more delicious food to replenish your body, don't we make money for you to spend, as long as you don't spend money outside, and you can't always let others spend money when you go out to eat with your classmates, I know you are also principled, you take more money Mom rest assured, let's go, it'll be dark for a while."

Listening to his mother's words, Li Jun felt extremely guilty in his heart, what he did in the past six months in high school did not live up to his parents' expectations, his mother was reluctant to spend a penny on herself at home, and the clothes were all bought by her aunt or she did not wear, and for the mother who ate, she kept all the good ones for her grandmother, father and two children. Thinking of these, Li Jun's eyes were a little moist, he lowered his head, touched his eyes, carried his clothes behind his back, and walked out of the room with pickles.

Gao Qi had already straddled one leg on the front beam of the bicycle, and when he saw Li Jun kicking his legs out of the house, he was ready to ride off, Li Jun also carried his bag behind him, hung the pickle bottle on the handlebar, waved goodbye to his mother, boarded the bicycle and left the yard with Gao Qi. When he walked to the door of Yang Xinli's house, he was already waiting at the door, and then the three of them quickly galloped away in the direction of the county high school.

The road is still deserted as if when I came back, it was already dark, except for some people who were returning home one after another, not even a tractor was seen, and the three of you chased me forward and galloped forward, and the chill when I just went out disappeared in a while.

When they rode to the river beach, they were already close to the county seat, and the three of them lowered the speed of their rides, which also reduced the heat emitted by their bodies.

"It's going to be the final exam in a little more than a week, how are you two preparing?" Among the three people, although Yang Xinli came to high school the latest, he was the one with the least right and wrong, and he had to work harder than the two of them.

Li Jun scratched his head, looked at Gao Qi with a smile and said: "Our liberal arts is better, I am going to go back to the back of the head cantilever cone and stab the back for a few days, and it is estimated that I will not get any good results in the exam, but this is also the beginning, it has indeed been wasted for half a year, fortunately, some troublesome things have been dealt with clearly, study hard, the old people in the family have great expectations for us!"

Seeing Li Jun looking at himself, Gao Qi also said with a smile: "Jun, don't look at me, I should learn better than you, I don't have as many confidantes as you make you busy, I sleep in class at most when I am a sub-subject, you should study hard!"

"Okay, then let's work together, for the glory of three years from now. Wrong, it's not three years anymore, it's 1995 now, and we must work hard for success in two years! Li Jun looked at the two people next to him and shouted loudly.

"For success in two years, work hard!" The other two people also shouted loudly, and the sound slowly spread in the river beach, this is their expectation and dream, but what is the development of everything? Will the tomorrow they expect to be as good as they think it is now?

Before dinner, the three of them returned to school, and went back to their dormitories to find their partners to eat, now it is not what it used to be, they all have their own classes and circles, although they are still the closest buddies in their hearts, but they are constantly expanding their social circles.

Back in the dormitory, Gao Yujun and Guo Jibin had already arrived at the dormitory, Guo Jibin was holding a rice bowl and shouting to eat, but Gao Yujun said to wait a little longer.

Seeing Li Jun walking into the dormitory, Guo Jibin shouted: "Sister, why is it so late today, I'm hungry, I have long wanted to go to eat, Boss Gao has to wait for you, saying that you should come soon." Hey, what did you bring? Guo Jibin said and took Li Jun's pickle jar.

"Our mother's fried pickles, Binzi is not right today, what about your Sissi? You should be with her at this time, right? Saying that, Li Jun glanced at Gao Yujun and wanted to get some news from him.

Sure enough, Gao Yujun saw Li Jun's eyes and continued: "Someone is angry and ignores us." It's okay Binzi, there are ten, hundreds of Sissi waiting for you when one Sissi falls! ”

Li Jun was also interested in his words, threw the bag on his top bunk, directly grabbed Guo Jibin's arm and sat on Guo Jibin's bed and asked with a smile: "Binzi, what's going on, which of my young sisters cares about you so much, how can she be willing to ignore you?"

Seeing Li Jun's appearance, Guo Jibin said with some dejection: "Originally, I went to their house to find her today, and then came to school together." Today I didn't go to school after graduating from junior high school, and today he and one of our elementary school classmates got married, and the relationship between the two sides is very good, do you think I can not help? Isn't it that I can't leave, so I didn't go to her, I hurried to the school to wait for her as soon as this thing was over, and waited for more than an hour under their dormitory building, she came and glared at me directly, I didn't listen to the explanation, and threw me directly at the door and went upstairs by myself, women are really unreasonable! ”

"Your classmates are also married?" Listening to Guo Jibin's words, Li Jun also felt very excited.

"You have one too?" Guo Jibin looked at Li Jun's expression and asked suspiciously.

"No, we're also small, the best buddies, she's also our elementary school classmates, the fate is really strange, I don't know that day it will surprise you." Li Jun sighed.

"There is nothing unusual, if we don't come to high school and stay in the village, now the family will be open to you to marry, now we come to school just to provide an opportunity for our own choice, such as Binzi, such as Li Jun, but you also have a lot of uncertainty, have you ever thought about it, when we graduate from high school, if we can't get into college and go back to the countryside, it's still possible, but what if one is admitted, and the other is not?" When he said this, Gao Yujun stopped talking and looked at the two people in front of him.

"Don't talk about me, I'm single now, and I don't want to get involved in this relationship now, but Binzi thinks about it himself, think about your tomorrow, can you bear the pain of breaking up in three years? Can she? Li Jun turned his head to look at Guo Jibin with a solemn expression in front of him.

"Okay, don't think about it so much, didn't you still shout that you were hungry just now, you went to eat, it's all scraps and cold when it's late, grasp it and have fun in time now!" Gao Yujun pulled up Guo Jibin, who was still thinking, and the three of them wanted to leave the dormitory with them.

When I arrived at the cafeteria, I had basically missed the time to eat, because the meals prepared in the cafeteria on the weekend were less than the usual level, and the dishes were basically only vegetable soup, and the three of them hurriedly returned to the dormitory with a few steamed buns and a pot of soup that was still a little hot, and made do with today's dinner with the pickles that Li Jun brought back from home.

Guo Jibin looked listless during the whole eating process, I don't know if it was because Dong Yuqian ignored her temporarily, or if she was afraid of parting with her injuries in the future. Gao Yujun and Li Jun made a few salty jokes at him, but Guo Jibin didn't respond to them in a daze, and the two of them had no choice but to give up, looked at each other and didn't say anything more, just eating with their heads bored, but the usual lively meal time became surprisingly dull today.

After dinner, Guo Jibin took the initiative to brush the rice bowl and went to the classroom first, Gao Yujun was alone and leisurely smoking a cigarette, constantly commenting on the girls walking under the window. Li Jun packed up his clothes and put them in the cabinet, climbed on his top bunk and expressed his opinions with Gao Yujun's comments, the two of them kept laughing cheaply, maybe they would be very indifferent to the optimistic evaluation and cognition of things that did not belong to them, but they didn't have the courage to look at it and untie it for the knot in their hearts.

5 minutes before class, the two of them went to the classroom leisurely, and the students in the brightly lit classroom were chatting with familiar people because they had not seen each other for a few days.

Guo Jibin's previous melancholy had disappeared, because her Qianqian was turning around and chatting with him with a smile on her face, and Wang Xueyan, who was at her tablemate, also turned her head from time to time to interject a few words.

Yuan Yamin and Li Hongjing, two sisters, were chatting together, and found that Li Jun and the two came to the classroom, Yuan Yamin turned his head and waved hello to them, and Li Jun also responded with a smile on his face, this cute little sister.

Guan Xinlei, who was whispering at the same table, stopped communicating, raised her head with a slight frown, glanced at Li Jun and Yuan Yamin in front of her, and lowered her head again.

Li Jun sat in the last row of the classroom and looked at the dozens of his classmates in front of him, they are all in the prime of life, blooming like a flower, no one will think too much about their tomorrow, and then when it comes to the day when they leave the school, who will be as indifferent as today, when will we embrace the pain or be relatively speechless, in the first day of the New Year in 1995, looking at these already familiar figures, Li Jun's heart actually rose a trace of sorrow!