The postman rode over, parked the bicycle on the side of the road, and asked Lu Mingli what to order next year.

"Just like last year, you come to the accountant in a few days to get the money."

The postman looked at the people eating, took out the "Postal Catalog" and smiled.

"The class teacher ordered a special issue for the high school entrance examination to the class, which will help improve the admission rate."

"No money." Pan Jinxiu said, "If you ask the principal to send us a pen class fee, I will order a few books." ”

"If only I were that rich!"

Gao Wutong took the "Postal Catalog" and flipped through it.

"Can students get a magazine subscription?"

"Write the name of the class clearly and send it to the class. What magazine do you want to subscribe to? ”

"Composition Newsletter" and "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry for Middle School Students" junior high school edition. They are all students of Class 51, Liu Mingyan is "Composition Newsletter", Li Linpu is "Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry for Middle School Students", and Tian Changgeng is "Modern Middle School Students". ”

The postman took out the slipbook and flipped to a new page, filled out the list, and said the total cost. Gao Wutong took out the money and counted it, and the difference was ten yuan, so he borrowed it from Lu Mingli. Lu Mingli took out a hundred yuan and handed it to him.

"You use it first, and then return it next month."

The money was paid off, and the postman tore the stub to Gao Wutong.

"It's useless for me to keep it." Gao Wutong looked at the stub, "I'll be gone in another month." ”

"The young man has a bad conscience." Lu Mingli said with a smile.

"These three students have difficult families, but they love to learn, so encourage them."

"You have a good conscience," Pan Jinxiu said, "do you have a girlfriend?" I didn't pick a girl from my class to take back as a daughter-in-law. They are already in their third year of junior high school, and they have been married for a few years after graduation, so it is not bad to be able to marry you as a college student. ”

Several teachers nodded and smiled approvingly.

"No, please ask Mr. Pan to help recommend one."

"Okay, there are two over there, I'll see who is suitable."

When Liu Xiyue heard this, she hurriedly turned her back to them.

"The one with long hair, the most beautiful girl in our class, you will receive it when you graduate."

Liu Xiyue was shocked. She was the only one of the two with long hair.

"People are beautiful, eyes can speak. As long as she wants, I will take her back to be a daughter-in-law, but her father definitely does not agree, so it is useless for her to be willing. ”

"I didn't even see my face, so I said that!"

"You know by feeling."

"I'll ask her."

"Forget it. Beware of her dad coming to cut me. ”

Liu Xiyue peeked over, and saw Gao Wutong shaking his hand busily, looking very afraid that Pan Jinxiu would really ask, and couldn't help but be amused and disappointed, and then a little annoyed.

"What a few slashes! Alas, it's better to slap a few times. ”

During the New Year's Day holiday, Liu Mingyan went to Liu Xiyue's house to play. Liu Xiyue pulled her into her room.

"You asked him so many things, did he ask you anything?"

"Those two bears at the head of the bed are so beautiful!"

Liu Xiyue opened her mouth wide and was stunned, gritting her teeth and smiling.

"You're insatiable."

"I like the white one the most."

"Okay, the white one is yours."

"He asked me how many people there are in my family, what do my parents do? I told him that my dad had to borrow new debts every year to pay off old debts, and he didn't know when he would be able to pay them off; Mom doesn't care about the fields, she spends her day at home. He also asked me if I was malnourished and I didn't say anything. ”

"You have three tea factories at home, and you actually say that you can't open the pot, you can pretend to be poor!"

"What I say is the truth, and it's none of what others interpret it."

"Is it very difficult for your class Li Linpu's family? How's the result? ”

"The sneakers are still wearing with a hole in them, the shirt has grown a lot, and there are patches, which look like adults are worn. The results are on par with me, often in the top five. Why did you ask? ”

"Find out in advance who is suitable for me as my brother-in-law."

"You'd better help me find a brother-in-law first."

After New Year's Day, the date for Gao Wutong to leave school is gradually approaching.

The TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady" is also about to end, and students can casually hum a few lines of the theme song "Waiting for a Thousand Years". The melody of joy and sorrow, Liu Xiyue listened to it with joy and melancholy, if there is really such a thing as 'waiting for a thousand years', the person in front of her must be the person she is waiting for.

Liu Xiyue was lost and helpless, she didn't know what Gao Wutong thought, she wanted to talk to him but didn't know how to speak. The only consolation was when he went to the river to relax, and he exchanged a silk scarf for a small book with him.

On the day Gao Wutong left, Liu Xiyue first wanted to quietly watch it, but finally couldn't help but show up. The bus was far away, and she panicked in her heart, and arrived at the river alone. The surging river is like a long melancholy, with no end in sight. She walked along the river with her Walkman, a song touched her thoughts, her heart was instantly full of sadness, and her heart seemed to be half taken away. A leaf floated up, swirled in a whirlpool, and then went down the river. She picked up a pebble and knocked the leaf over.

"I'd like to see where you can go?"

In the final exam, although Liu Xiyue did not rank first in the subject exam, her overall score was the first in her grade. When Liu Zongkai and Yang Lanzhi saw the result notice, they thought they had read it wrong. In addition to being happy, the two were a little worried. A few days later, Yang Lanzhi met Pan Jinxiu on the street. Yang Lanzhi asked tactfully: Did Liu Xiyue receive any stimulation in school? Pan Jinxiu asked tactfully: Did Liu Xiyue get any stimulation at home? The two of them laughed dumbly, both happy about Liu Xiyue's reborn transformation, but confused about the reason.

"This semester is a bit of a focus on dressing up, and when I get home, I wear my hair loose, which is normal for girls of this age. Sometimes I wonder if it's a boy I'm in love with. ”

"I often mingled with Zhu Menfu in the first and second grades, and I was estranged this semester."

On the second day of winter vacation, Zhu Menfu and several classmates came to find Liu Xiyue.

"I got the first place in my grade, so I should celebrate it."

"What is there to celebrate, it's still far from it!"

"You don't have any friends anymore. Even if you pass the test, it's not like you're coming back. ”

"Come back, come back, at least go out."

"You're going to be empty."

"If you don't give it a try, how do you know it's going to be empty? Even if it didn't work, at least tried. ”

"You'll go out laughing and come back crying, and you'll see."

A few days later, Liu Xiyue said that she wanted to take the intensive class of the high school entrance examination, Liu Zongkai agreed, and sent her to her grandmother's house in the county seat the next day. The intensive class is held all day long, but Liu Xiyue does not feel tired, sometimes after school encounters a long-distance bus to Sanjiang, thinking of such a person in the distance, my heart will surge with endless yearning.

At the beginning of the second semester of the third year of junior high school, Liu Xiyue began a correspondence with Gao Wutong in the name of Liu Mingyan.

Whenever she felt that the oil was running out and the lamp was dry, Gao Wutong's letter would rekindle her hope and cheer her up again. In the midterm exam, unexpectedly, she only took the fifth place in her grade. She was depressed, exhausted, and at a loss, feeling like she couldn't hold on any longer. She decided to ask Gao Wutong for a photo, and then give up this unrealistic fantasy forever. After receiving the photo, she was reluctant to give up. In the photo, Gao Wutong looked at her with a smile as if he understood her mood, and his eyes were full of affection and infinite love. She caressed the photo, tears and laughter.

"This look can only be used to look at me. Dare to look at others, I will strangle you. ”

Liu Xiyue's iron-hearted will became even firmer, and she worked so hard that Yang Lanzhi was uneasy. When she got the admission letter from the Provincial Preschool Normal School, she suddenly felt that even if she couldn't see Gao Wutong, her efforts this year were worth it. A year of hard work has allowed her to see a tenacious and persevering self, and let her see that a new world is waiting for her.

After completing the registration procedures, a second-year old student took Liu Xiyue to find the dormitory.

The enrollment of kindergarten teachers has been expanded this year, and the dormitory on campus is not enough, and new students are arranged to live in an old courtyard house.

The courtyard is not far from the school. After leaving the school gate, turn left and walk more than 50 meters, then turn right into an alley called Fengxiang Street, and walk more than 600 meters forward.

The courtyard house is the old property of the kindergarten teacher, which has a history of more than 100 years. The quadrangle is large and consists of a front and a back yard. The front yard is a two-storey wooden building in the shape of a hollow square, with a bluestone slab inlaid patio in the middle, and a two-story rectangular building facing the street on one side. The gate of the entire courtyard is on the side of the rectangular building, facing the street side by side. The entrance door is a walkway leading to the front yard, and there is a watch room near the patio. The duty room is exactly at one end of the patio diagonally, with an opening at the other end leading to the backyard. The backyard was a garden more than 50 years ago, but it was abandoned and emptied into a vacant lot.

The courtyard was originally a teacher's dormitory. Five years ago, after the school built a new dormitory for faculty units nearby, it was only used as a single dormitory for teachers who had just been assigned or newly transferred. After one of the dormitories on campus was deactivated, the school built two rows of bungalows in the backyard vacant lot to serve as dormitories for freshmen this year.

Liu Xiyue is divided into two houses, and the second room is at the top. There are four double-layer iron frame beds in the dormitory, and the six bunks are labeled with names and notes, Feng Fangfei is on the right hand side of the door, Lan Lingmei is on the window inside, and Liu Xiyue is on the bed. The upper bed on the left hand side of the door is Gu Xiangming, the upper bed by the window inside is Liang Qingfeng, and the lower bed is Zhu Geqi. Because there were no lockers, only six people were arranged, and the two lower beds by the door were used to store sundries.

After dinner, the six of them returned to the dormitory one after another, chatting and continuing to make clothes and beds.

"The school is okay, but this dormitory is too bad." Liang Qingfeng said.

"In the osmanthus forest under the teaching building, there are only three rows of osmanthus trees, which is too few." Gu Xiangming said, "In our place, when it comes to 'forest', it is all in pieces. The same is true for the cherry blossom pond, the radius is probably less than ten meters, and there are only two circles of cherry blossoms, and there is not a single ancient tree. In our country, thousand-year-old trees are common. ”

"There are benches under the osmanthus tree, and it must be beautiful to read a book under the tree when the flowers are blooming and the leaves are green. There are spring flowers on the small rockery in the middle of the cherry blossom pond, which bloom in winter, and the small golden flowers are very sweet. The cherry blossoms surround the pond, and the flowers fall into the pond and spread on the water, which is fascinating to think about. Look out the window, the cosmos under the ginkgo tree are blooming beautifully, as if welcoming us. ”

"Liu Xiyue, you really have a soft spot for kindergarten teachers!" Gu Xiangming sighed.