Even at midnight, the score hotline is always playing the music of waiting. "It's not that I'm afraid, the phone really can't come in!" Shi Jiaojiao sat on the bed in a school uniform, and pressed the redial button again as she spoke, and the music sounded soon after the voice prompt on the phone, but before Shi Jiaojiao hung up the phone, it prompted "Please enter the admission ticket number", Shi Jiaojiao almost instinctively cut off the phone, she was stunned for a long time, and then grabbed the mobile phone and climbed out of bed.

When Shi Jiaojiao pushed open the door, her parents were staring at TV with their eyes blazing, and the local station was playing an old movie that had absolutely not bought the copyright. "Did you find it?" The parents watched at the same time, and Shi's mother asked, which meant that they didn't like to watch movies much, but were waiting for the results. Shi Jiaojiao silently walked to the side of the bed, put her mobile phone on the small table at the head of the bed, and muttered: "No, there are too many people who check, it will be better tomorrow." The parents nodded and told their daughter not to think too much and go to bed early.

When Shi Jiaojiao woke up the next day, it was just dawn, and it was not even five o'clock. She no longer forced herself to sleep, nor did she get up immediately, but only opened her eyes to look at the corpse of the little insect that died last night on the top of the pink mosquito net, and thought wildly: If you light a hundred mosquito coils at the same time, can you smoke me to death? So was I poisoned by the ingredients in the mosquito coils, or was I choked to death by the dust after burning...... In this way, the person became more and more embarrassed, and actually fell asleep again.

It was only nine o'clock when she woke up, and Shi Jiaojiao got up and found a note left by her father on the table in the hall, saying that someone in the village was building a new house, and he went to help for a few days. "Dad has even done this kind ......of odd work," Shi Jiaojiao felt sad in her heart. Looking at the sun already hanging high outside, the gradually rising temperature, and then thinking about the appearance of her father gritting his teeth and picking up two cement buckets with his inflexible hands under the sun, Shi Jiaojiao had an intuitive understanding of the family's economic situation for the first time.

Shi Jiaojiao was asleep when the phone rang, and the phone vibrated in her hand, so that she dreamed that she was doing hard labor with an electric drill. "Hey...... Be...... Yes! When Shi Jiaojiao heard the head teacher's self-introduction, her consciousness was completely awake, she covered the earpiece, sat up and adjusted her tone, and then returned to the call, "Old class, I'm Shi Jiaojiao, why did you call?" The female teacher got straight to the point, "Have you found your grades?" Shi Jiaojiao replied humbly: "Not yet, I haven't been able to get through the phone......"

There was a sound of paper shaking on the phone, and the head teacher said "Hey" and said, "The phone line has been too blocked in the past two days, you don't have to check it in a hurry, I will help you find it!" "Huh?" Shi Jiaojiao suddenly felt that her mouth was dry, as if she had been drained of all the water, and her speech became dry, "Why can't I get through myself?" The female teacher was too experienced, she heard the student's fear, and quickly smiled: "The test is not bad." Shi Jiaojiao subconsciously swallowed the saliva that was not secreted, and asked tremblingly: "Then, how much?" ”

An hour after the phone call ended, Shi Jiaojiao couldn't come back to her senses. A bee that flew in through the hole in the screen window scurried around the house, "buzzing" and flapping its wings countless times, and finally chose to settle on Shi Jiaojiao's nose, which woke her up. Shi Jiaojiao waved away the flying insect that had been entangled, and her eyes fell on the line of numbers she had just written down, mathematics: 96, Chinese 126, English...... The black pen prints on the white paper flew out, all the numbers were scrambled, and the handwriting was like a puff of smoke rising from the sand like a wind blowing through the sand.

Shi Jiaojiao called herself again to check, but this time there was no obstacle at all. She heard a cold female voice, word by word, unambiguously repeating the number reported to her by the head teacher, the total score: 573. "I didn't do badly." Another meaning is that you don't do well in the exam. Shi Jiaojiao understood the disappointment in the head teacher's tone.

The day after the announcement of the undergraduate line was the day when the junior high school students returned to school to fill in the volunteers, at that time the other grades had already had summer vacation, and the town middle school seemed to be much bigger than usual, which left an illusion for many students who might come here for the last time. The middle school has completed the college entrance examination task well, and the undergraduate indicators issued by the county have basically been achieved.

The head teacher's happiness can't be hidden, there are eighteen indicators in the third year of high school, and two of her classes are the most. When Shi Jiaojiao appeared in the classroom, the female teacher seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and shouted: "Why did you come, the students have left a lot, why are you falling behind at this time?" Shi Jiaojiao blinked tiredly and handed over the volunteer form. The female teacher looked at the three of them, and sighed secretly, "How can you just press the line." Shi Jiaojiao smiled bitterly, "Teacher, am I a fake one?" The female teacher nodded honestly, "But you can choose the best major in your second choice." ”

After filling out the volunteer form, I will talk briefly to the classmates I have met and listen to all kinds of mixed news...... Shi Jiaojiao, who walked out of the school gate, heard the noise of vehicles coming and going on the street, and actually felt a sense of tranquility. Do you want to accept the adjustment, what school to choose, and what kind of major is better...... These questions were entangled, and she didn't understand, and no one around her seemed to understand. With a little hearsay, with a little literal understanding of the future, all the students drew the rudiments of a road in this way.

I didn't meet Xia Lei at school today, but almost everyone I met was discussing this, and the overall score was the first in the school, and the top science student in the county. Xia Lei's familiar appearance filled Shi Jiaojiao's mind, she almost burst into tears, she felt ashamed of her filthiness: Xia Lei, this good friend who experienced joys and sorrows with her, when she heard that she had achieved such good results, there was no joy in Shi Jiaojiao's heart! On the contrary, the moment she heard the news, Shi Jiaojiao felt even more painful and suffocated than when she learned of her results......

When Shi Jiaojiao arrived home in despair, her mother checked in the vegetable field to see if yesterday's heavy rain had damaged the tomato rack. The woman stood in the field with a handful of weeds in her hand and asked her daughter, "Didn't you meet Lei Lei at school today?" Shi Jiaojiao shook her head, her mother pursed her lips and smiled and came up from the field, changed her rain boots in the corridor, and said with a sandal, "She just called." "She asked me if I got my grades?" "No, tell you to call her back." "Okay." Shi Jiaojiao stopped her bicycle and walked into the house.

"Jiaojiao!" The mother stopped her daughter, Shi Jiaojiao turned her head expressionlessly, and saw her mother's gentle face, "The people in the factory congratulated me, saying that I had a college student, and there was not a college student in the village for several years!" Mom was really happy. When Shi Jiaojiao heard this, her chest cavity was like being smacked, and she really wanted to vomit a mouthful of blood, she wanted to shout that she actually didn't do well in the exam, and she wanted to cry bitterly to vent her unwillingness...... But in the end, it turned into a forced smile and said, "Well, I know." ”

In the evening, my dad came home humming an out-of-tune pop song, and when he walked in, he shouted, "Where's my college student?" Why don't you come out and show your dad! Shi Jiaojiao was setting the chopsticks for dinner, and her father came in to look at the table and said, "Add me a pair." My mother came in with mung bean porridge soaked in cold water, and asked suspiciously, "The main family doesn't include dinner?" Father Shi took off his gray clothes covered with mud and grinned, "I'm going to have another meal with my daughter." Mother Shi understood, smiled and pursed her lips and brought the dishes and chopsticks.

The dining table gradually became quiet, mainly because no matter how much her father teased, Shi Jiaojiao was too lazy to deal with it, and she never said a word. Father Shi finally became anxious, and couldn't help but ask in a rough voice, "Why are you unhappy?" Shi Jiaojiao opened her mouth and didn't spit out a word, her father looked around at a loss, and asked in a low voice: "Jiaojiao, are you worried about the tuition fee?" He tightened his eyebrows and said, "I know you suffered a loss when I was a child." But now that Daddy has a word for you, the same thing will never happen again! Shi Jiaojiao knew that there could be no ambiguity here, so she quickly shook her head and replied: "No, it's not that I'm afraid that the money won't be enough." "Why, exactly?" Faced with her father's relentless pursuit, Shi Jiaojiao was defeated, and said weakly: "Can't you see it? Actually, I didn't do well at all. ”

The husband and wife looked at each other, and it took a long time for the father to say to the mother: "Who is she like like so competitively?" The mother glanced at her daughter and said softly, "It's a little lower than usual, but we're content, really." Jiaojiao, Mom and Dad are really satisfied......" Without waiting for her mother to finish speaking, Shi Jiaojiao shook her hand and said lightly: "Anyway, it's all like this, and the volunteer is also handed over." Seeing that his daughter was still negative, Father Shi put down his chopsticks and said, "Do you know that you are a classmate in elementary school, and the girl in the village who went to high school except for you?" Shi Jiaojiao quickly locked in the candidate, "Our elementary school class president? Father Shi nodded and said, "Now the master of my work is her uncle, and the county where she spent money at that time has now passed more than 550 exams." Like you, other people's little girls are no more? ”

This is really the dark spot of human nature, and when I heard this news, my heart immediately relaxed! Shi Jiaojiao asked uncontrollably: "Really?" Dad Shi waved his chopsticks, "I don't believe I asked your classmates!" Shi Jiaojiao put away her expression and replied, "I'm not going." The mother stared at her daughter's ever-changing expression, pretending not to notice her little relief from other people's pain, and stretched out her hand and said, "I'll add you another spoonful of rice soup." "Okay."

Father Shi stood at the gate, holding a fan and slapping the mosquitoes left and right, and then looked at the stars in the field in the distance, and said, "The sky is so good tonight, and it is estimated that it will be hot again tomorrow." Shi's mother was washing dishes by the pool outside, and after listening to her husband's words, she also looked into the distance and said, "You can bring a towel tomorrow and put it in a straw hat to prevent heat stroke." "Got it."

The husband and wife were talking, and Shi Jiaojiao came out with the flower water, "Dad, do you want to wipe it?" "No, I'll wipe it after I've taken a shower." Shi Jiaojiao dipped herself a little, rubbed a mosquito bag on her left arm, and was wiping, when she saw that the lights at one end of the path in front of the door were getting brighter and brighter, accompanied by the characteristic sound of a car driving slowly. "Yo, such a narrow road, there are still people driving cars in!" Father Shi stretched out his head to look around as he spoke, wanting to see whose relatives had come to drive a car in Zhuangzi.