The bell rang,

After the exam,

Classes are over,

There is no class in the next class,

There will be no classes in the future,

High school is like this,

Say goodbye to ......

On June 7 every year, the country opens a science and technology program.

On the eve of the college entrance examination every year, Huining County will inevitably experience a rain wash.

Every year, the college entrance examination season can make the streets and alleys of the whole town crowded and noisy.

At this time of year, all the parents who stick outside the test center are more anxious and nervous than the people in the test room.

On the evening of June 8, 2011, Wen Xiaoguo and the others gathered at the foot of the rockery on campus, next to which was a huge white jade statue, the main body of which was composed of several heavy books and a sailboat, implying that the sea of learning is endless. On the pedestal of the statue is engraved the school motto of the second middle school: morning and evening, oral recitation of the heart.

At this time, each of them also had their school uniforms full of the names of those who stumbled and staggered past their youth. And each of these names is engraved into this eternal story in the memories related to youth and time in their limited lives.

"What time are we going to stay tonight?" Yao Xiaoyou said:

"You can stay as long as you want, and no one cares about it now?" Chen Wen said

"I used to be afraid of being supervised by teachers, but now that no one cares about us anymore, it seems that I am a little uncomfortable." Liu Jun said with some helplessness and frustration:

"Come, brothers, Tashan will not fall, brothers will not disperse!" After Chen Wen finished speaking, he took out a box of Hongta Mountain, except for Yao Xiaoyou, everyone handed one to them, and Wen Xiaoguo also ordered one.

"This was our last night together in high school. I don't want to go back to sleep, and you don't want to sleep either. Liu Jun said:

"We have stayed up in this place for more than a thousand days and nights, three o'clock and one line, wearing stars and moons, but it seems that we have never seriously felt the sunrise on campus. Why don't we stay until dawn tonight and watch the sunrise in No. 2 Middle School? Wen Xiaoguo said:

"This is a good hope, anyway, I don't want to go back to sleep." Liu Jun said:

Yao Xiaoyou asked everyone: "What are you going to do this summer?" ”

"Part-time job, can you still do it?" Liu Jun said:

"Where are you going to work?" Raven Says:

"I haven't figured out where to go, I'm going to the construction site anyway." Liu Jun said:

"I went to Ningxia, and our family has relatives who open restaurants in Ningxia, and I may go there." Raven Says:

"I'm going to work with you, too." Chen Wen said:

"I'm a mother, you also work? Don't tease Young Master Chen! You take out two bottles of your father's collection of good wine, and then go to the tobacco and alcohol store at the entrance of your community to sell it, which is enough for you to soak in the Internet café and billiards hall for a summer vacation! Liu Jun said:

"You know the, I want to make some money for myself, and then give Xiao Pan a mobile phone before she goes to college." Chen Wen said solemnly:

"Big brother, I also want to be your woman, do you still want it?" After Liu Jun finished speaking, everyone laughed on their backs.

"Liu Jun, Ruiwen, when are you going to work, I'll go with you! Let's go to Ningxia together, shall we? Wen Xiaoguo said:

"Really?" Raven Says:

"So let's make an appointment? When do you go? Liu Jun said:

"I want to go home for a day or two and then leave." Wen Xiaoguo said:

"I'll rub, Brother Guo, how much do you have to love money? In such a hurry? We finally finished the exam, why do we have to go home and sleep in bed for a few days and nights? Liu Jun said:

"Oh, since it's decided, let's leave early, what kind of lazy sleep, haven't you heard the phrase why sleep for a long time before you die, and you will sleep forever after death? What about you? After Wen Xiaoguo finished speaking, he gave Ruiwen a trouble-making look.

"As long as I don't leave tomorrow, I can do it, it's up to you." Raven Says:

"Beautiful!" Wen Xiaoguo snapped his fingers at Ruiwen as he spoke,

"You all went to work, I plan to go to my Xi'an during the summer vacation, and my aunt keeps saying that I will go to Xi'an to play after the exam." Yao Xiaoyou said:

"Your aunt? It is...... You, you, that, aunt? Wen Xiaoguo asked hesitantly,

Yao Xiaoyou understood what Wen Xiaoguo meant, and replied bluntly:

"Well, it's my mom."

"Chen Wen, if you have a mobile phone, take it out and play a song." Raven proposed:

"Oh, yes, wait a minute, I'll pick one." Chen Wen took out Nokia and flipped the screen a few times, and Pu Shu's song sounded:

That laughter reminds me

Those flowers of mine

In every corner of my life

Quietly open for me

I thought

I will forever

Stay by her side

Today we

Gone

In the vast sea of people

They're all old

Where are they?

That's what we're like

Each goes to the end of the world

La-la

Lala la miss her

La-la

Is she still driving

La-la

La-la-la-go

Some stories

I'm not done yet

Then forget it

Those moods

In the years

It's hard to tell the real from the fake

Here now

Overgrown with weeds

There are no more flowers

Good thing it used to be

Have your spring, autumn and winter summer

They're all old

Where are they?

That's what we're like

Each goes to the end of the world

In the summer night of 2011, the wind blew through the Huailiu kapok on the campus of No. 2 Middle School, the tips of their hair, their fingertips, and their youth.

Yao Xiaoyou tightened the zipper on the chest of his clothes, and before he knew it, the cigarette ash in Chen Wen's hands fell to the ground together.

Wen Xiaoguo recuperated at home for two days, and in these few days, he wanted to find a suitable opportunity to communicate with Lao Zhao about his trip to Ningxia. After dinner, Ah Luo and his mother were cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, Lao Zhao was watching the weather forecast in the next room, Wen Xiaoguo felt that it was easier to communicate in this scene, so he took the initiative to find Lao Zhao for a showdown.

"There's something I want to tell you." Wen Xiaoguo's eyes did not look at Lao Zhao when he spoke.

"What's the matter?" Lao Zhao glanced at Wen Xiaoguo, and continued to watch his TV after speaking.

"I want to go out and work in the summer."

"Why? Have a good rest at home, and help your aunt do some farm work when you are bored. ”

Lao Zhao put down the TV remote control in his hand, turned around and sat down in front of Wen Xiaoguo.

"I've already made an appointment with my classmates."

"Don't go, there is no shortage of you at home to earn money now." Lao Zhao dissuaded.

"Just let me go. This year's summer vacation is so long. I don't want to stay at home. ”

"Okay, if you really want to exercise, I'll find you my comrades-in-arms and friends in a few days, and arrange you to them, and I'll be more relieved."

"No need, I'm going to Ningxia with my classmates."

"Xiaoguo, tell you the truth, do you still hate your uncle?"

"It has nothing to do with this, I just want to try if I can survive in this world if I leave this home!"

Sensing the seriousness of Wen Xiaoguo's tone and the firmness of his attitude, Lao Zhao shook his attitude.

"Then you have a good rest at home for half a month, and you can go if you want."

"I want to leave tomorrow and go to the county seat to meet my classmates."

"What! Leaving tomorrow? Lao Zhao was a little anxious. He looked at Wen Xiaoguo's face, still with that expression, like a stranger, like an outsider, his face was calm and a little numb.

After Lao Zhao stared for a long time, he turned his head and continued to watch TV, but his attention was not on the TV program at all, Lao Zhao moved his body to the back of the chair, lit a Lanzhou cigarette, and the two stopped talking.

Wen Xiaoguo guessed that Lao Zhao acquiesced.

In the middle of the night, Wen Xiaoguo hadn't slept yet, he had already packed his backpack, the things in his bag were very simple, in addition to a few changes of clothes, there was also a book, Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" complete works, this was his favorite book in high school, one day he bought a pirated copy at the bookstall at the school gate, because the genuine books were too expensive to buy, and the book always had the old photo of him and his father sandwiched in it.

Wen Xiaoguo opened the window, sat on the edge of the bed and looked carefully around every corner of the room, the window blew in the cool breeze of the summer night, and also into the song of the nightingale and the sparse chirping of crickets in the distance in the countryside. He didn't tell Lao Zhao's lover and Ah Luo about his departure tomorrow, because in his own heart, he didn't deny that this outing contained elements of escaping from this family.

Why do you want to go to Ningxia? Wen Xiaoguo himself didn't know, subconsciously just wanted to leave here as soon as possible, the farther away from this home, the better, he had never been far away, but he felt that Ningxia had at least escaped from Gansu Province. He always wanted to go outside, because he knew that if he didn't go out, he would mistakenly think that his eyes were already full of the whole world.

On the eve of leaving, Wen Xiaoguo didn't plan to sleep, he wanted to say a quiet goodbye to the family with a sleepless gaze.

"Xiaoguo, have you slept?" Knocked softly on the door, with Lao Zhao's voice.

Wen Xiaoguo opened the door, Lao Zhao walked in, he originally wanted to try to dissuade Wen Xiaoguo again, but when he saw the packages that had been packed and the bed was neat, he completely dispelled this idea in his heart.

Lao Zhao stood by the bed for a few minutes, and the bunch of rhetoric he had originally thought of was useless, so what was the point of coming in by himself? Lao Zhao thought for a moment, then took out an old mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Wen Xiaoguo, it was the Motorola V3 that Lao Zhao used before.

"You take this, get another phone card in the town tomorrow, go out, call home if you have something, and remember to call home once in a while." Lao Zhao said:

Wen Xiaoguo hesitated for a moment, but still took the phone.

Lao Zhao looked at Wen Xiaoguo carefully, in fact, he has always loved this boy in his heart, although there is a gap between the two of them. Lao Zhao stood by the bed, his eyes roaming around, and his mind kept thinking. Suddenly, I remembered something important. He took out a crumpled black wallet from his pocket, counted it, and took out eight hundred yuan from it and handed it to Wen Xiaoguo.

Wen Xiaoguo looked at the banknote in Lao Zhao's hand and didn't accept it for a long time.

"You take the money, and I'll take you to the bus station tomorrow morning." Lao Zhao said:

Wen Xiaoguo hesitated for a long time, stretched out his hand and pulled out two from Lao Zhao, and said:

"Two hundred is enough, when I earn the money, I will pay you back when I come back."

Lao Zhao smiled, he felt that Wen Xiaoguo's stubbornness at the moment would definitely transform into the backbone that a man should have in the future, which was very similar to Wen Xiaoguo's father.

"Originally, I didn't want you to step into society so early, but then I thought about it carefully, your uncle and I went out at the age of 16 and falsely declared my age to join the army. You're 18 years old now, and you should be able to go out and break through, okay, go to bed early, and we'll go out together tomorrow. ”

At dawn the next day, although the sky was already shining, the sun had not yet climbed up from the eastern hills. Ah Luo was still asleep in his dream, and as soon as Lao Zhao came out of the house, he saw Wen Xiaoguo standing on the low wall of the garden in the courtyard. Although it is late summer, the temperature in the early morning on the Loess Plateau is still a little cool.

Wen Xiaoguo looked at the mountains in the distance, the green cornfields, the sparrows playing on the electric poles in the fruit grove in the backyard, and the wild swallows that chased and flew by from time to time, and he wanted to firmly remember the summer in his hometown. He thought back to the winter scenery of his hometown, the silver-like wrap after the heavy snowfall, the vastness and snow white between heaven and earth, when the ice and snow had not melted, the only thing that could distinguish the boundary between heaven and earth was the dusk sunset, and the curling smoke in the chimneys of every household in the evening, which added a little bit of the vastness and silence of the lonely city and a million mountains, and he also had to firmly remember the winter of his hometown.

Wen Xiaoguo took a deep breath and stretched his waist, the air was so fresh, at this time, he hoped that his body could completely blend and dissolve in the countryside, even if he didn't sleep all night last night, he was still refreshed.