Yuan Yuxiao took the key she picked up, and then remembered that when she went to eat dumplings at noon, she thought that she could meet her parents, and she could be too lazy to bring the key. I don't wear much in the summer, and it's a bit awkward to put the keys in my trouser pockets, so I don't have to bring them if I can.

He didn't expect that after the lunch break, his parents didn't come home and went straight to work, and he forgot about not bringing his keys and walked to the park.

Now he can only hold someone else's key and stare at his own door.

It seems that I have to wait until my parents get off work, and today's cooking is bound to be delayed. Fortunately, today, even if he has many mistakes, he will not be blamed.

It's just that I have to pass a little time for idleness, and the best pastime at the moment is to take out the key I picked up again, and smell the alluring girl's body fragrance with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.

After sniffing for a while, he boredomly poked the key into the keyhole, and after a slight stroke, the key entered the keyhole very easily, almost as if it had slid in, or even as if there was a magnetism in the keyhole that sucked it in.

It is also habitually twisted lightly. Trumpet......

There was a soft sound, and to his dumbfounding, the lock was opened!

The ease with which the lock opens and the smoothness of peeking in is a feeling, both go hand in hand.

He was taken aback, and with some disbelief, he pulled out the key, looked at it blankly for a while, and thought for a while.

It is said that a key opens a lock, and the key he picked up opened the lock of his house!

Although he had occasionally seen such a coincidental event with a very small probability in the past, it was the first time he had come to experience it himself.

Most importantly, at this moment, he naturally subconsciously refused to explain it by coincidence......

Fate! It must be fate!

He must have some kind of secret connection with the owner of this key......

Who is that girl with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers? What does it look like?

The wild imagination that had just been extinguished burned again.

But now he didn't have time to think too much, he put a stop to the thoughts that were about to surge and might be out of control, and let romanticism give way to realism first.

Once you're in the door, find a place to store your keys. There was a small cylinder on the chest of two drawers that had been filled with prickly heat powder, and after using it, my mother put some needles, threads, small buttons, etc., which were well sealed and could retain the fragrance. He found a paper medicine box, poured the contents of the prickly heat powder tube into it, put the key into the tube, and put the small tube on the small bookshelf nailed to the wall, and then hurried to the rice.

Just wet my hands, there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, there was a young man standing at the door, holding a bicycle.

His family's old-fashioned bungalow was low, more than a meter lower than the street pavement, standing in the house and looking out of the door, he tilted his head slightly, and the young man in the backlight of the sunset looked very majestic.

The young man looks not much older than Yuan Yuxiao, but his temperament seems calm and old.

"May I ask if Yuan Yuxiao lives here?" He asked.

"I am."

The young man who seemed to be old was very straightforward as soon as he spoke, and he was very fast, "My surname is Hong, I am from the tax bureau, you passed our recruitment examination and were hired." Do you have any ideas? ”

This series of words that lacked the necessary foreshadowing was like a torrential rain, which gave him the kind of haste and hectic that he was drenched in before he could open his umbrella.

"Oh, oh......" He shook the wet rice grains on his hand, and was stunned for a moment, his mind full of rice water, muddy.

It took a long time to remember that three months ago, he was ordered by his parents to take the tax recruitment exam. At that time, the preparation for the college entrance examination was at the last moment, and he basically didn't take such an exam too seriously, after all, in these years, going to college is the first choice for everything. He took the recruitment exam just on the orders of his parents, and it was also a warm-up. Three months have passed, and I thought that I didn't pass it, and I almost forgot about it completely.

Today, someone suddenly stuffed this incident through the door of memory, and he needed a little time to react.

I was stunned for a while, and then I remembered that I should let this eldest brother surnamed Hong into the door first, this is the way of hospitality.

"Hong ...... Big brother, please come in and sit ......," he said, naturally remembering the admission letter from Wuhan University. Although this does not seem to be an optional topic, it seems to be the instinct of ordinary people to weigh both sides when there is a choice. He also began to quickly and urgently weigh the two admission information in his mind.

This big brother Hong didn't seem to have any intention of entering the door, he didn't even pick up his bicycle, he still held on to the handlebars, and said with a smile, I'm here to inform you, just talk and leave, I still have to run several houses.

Yuan Yuxiao didn't have time to grind in her mind, so she muttered from her mouth in a hurry: "Wait for my mother to come back......"

Many years later, Yuan Yuxiao would secretly blush when she recalled her words.

It's just that at this moment, his reaction is almost normal, he is only a high school graduate after all.

This big brother Hong couldn't help but smile when he heard Yuan Yuxiao's words, and Yuan Yuxiao was a little embarrassed when he smiled.

"And when will your mother come back?" Brother Hong obviously saw Yuan Yuxiao's embarrassment.

"It's going to be soon—it should be fast, it should be fast......" Yuan Yuxiao chanted repeatedly, as if Tang Seng recited a few more words of Amitabha, and Guanyin would soon be revealed.

In fact, his words did not fall, a figure covered the sunset, and his great mother, who rescued the suffering, appeared behind Brother Hong.

It was indeed time for her to come home from work.

"Ahh Mom, this is ...... Brother Hung of the Inland Revenue Bureau...... Brother Hong, my mom is back! ”

After introducing the two parties, he began to imagine how his mother would react when she heard the news from Brother Hong, and she would be stunned, he thought.

Indeed, today is a day of miracles that catch people off guard.

Brother Hong turned around when he heard this, and immediately smiled, "Hello Auntie, your child has been hired by the tax bureau, I specially came to inform you, I don't know what your child thinks?" "It's still the kind of arrows, without any foreshadowing and transition, I don't know if it's his habitual way of speaking, or if he's really too short on time.

Yuan Yuxiao's imagination was indeed insufficient, his mother's reaction was completely lightning speed, her surprise only flashed in her eyes, and she immediately smiled like a flower: "Okay, good, that's a good thing!" He must be happy if he can have any ideas! ”

Obviously, his mother's memory of this incident was stronger than his, and it was about to flash.

Yuan Yuxiao also quickly changed his mind this time, and he immediately thought that it was still a kind of roundness for his mother to deal with people, and she had always been like this, never dismissing people's interests.

"Really?" Brother Hong glanced at Yuan Yuxiao with a smile as if he were verifying.

Yuan Yuxiao hurriedly replied with a polite smile. He has been used to being represented by his mother since he was a child, and he is very comfortable with this state.

Brother Hong continued: "In that case, come to our bureau next Thursday to report and fill out a form." ”

"Xiaoxiao, next Thursday, remember!" Mother asked.

Yuan Yuxiao felt that she should cooperate with her mother, so she nodded instinctively.

At this moment, he felt like the kind of situation where parents and teachers communicate after a parent-teacher conference, and he is an observer. He's been through it too many times.

He thought that his mother's answer was out of a kind of politeness, and his mother's politeness always had her reasons, and Yuan Yuxiao admired her mother's way of handling things from childhood to adulthood.

It's just that sometimes it's inevitable that there will be strange feelings in my heart. For example, now, she and the big brother Hong of the tax bureau are talking so lively, saying everything as if he will really go to report, he still feels that his mother's politeness is a little too much, and now he promises to report to the tax bureau, and if he doesn't go at that time, he will lose his trust.

Of course, after he went to study at Wuhan University, the tax bureau or something would not appear in his life at all, and it didn't seem to be a big deal whether he was untrustworthy or not.

But this is still a bit in conflict with the parents who taught them to be honest and kind.

After a little hesitation, he finally mustered up his strength, and silently recited in his heart, "Ready—get up!" Then he said:

"Brother Hong, actually...... I have been admitted to Wuhan University! ”

When this sentence came out, his heart was full of apologies, one for his mother, because he had wiped her face a little. One is for Brother Hong, because ...... Because of what, he didn't think about it for a while.

Now it was Brother Hong's turn to be taken aback, looking at Yuan Yuxiao and then at his mother, "What do you mean...... Going to college? ”

"Let's go to the tax office, we will give up this university!" Mother hurriedly said.

Yuan Yuxiao was really taken aback this time, he didn't know how to react for a while, he just stared at his mother, trying his best to judge whether this sentence was true or a ...... Etiquette.

Brother Hong showed his old success this time, he immediately smiled and said: "It's not in a hurry, you can discuss it, there are still a few days until next Thursday to report, and it depends on the situation of your report at that time." Good bye! ”

After speaking, he hurried to leave, at this time, Yuan Yuxiao's mother pulled his handlebar tightly, very warmly invited him to dinner, while asking Yuan Yuxiao to hurry up to the market to weigh some meat and buy a fish, mother has always been hospitable, but it is rare to stay so resolute, Yuan Yuxiao became more and more guilty, mother may be using this enthusiasm to make up for the lack of sincerity to the guests just now.

Brother Hong still said the same thing, there are still several families to run, and he insists on leaving.

Yuan Yuxiao's mother finally let go helplessly, but immediately snatched the rice pot that was panning for rice in Yuan Yuxiao's hand, and said I'm here to wash rice, you send it to Brother Hong, send it farther......

Looking at that demeanor, it seems that Yuan Yuxiao and this big brother Hong will immediately worship and become brothers.

No need to send it, no need to send it, Brother Hong pushed the bicycle and left. Yuan Yuxiao was naturally absent-minded and routinely went out to follow him.

Walking to the street, Yuan Yuxiao found that Brother Hong, who was side by side with him, was not majestic, and was even much shorter than himself.

Yuan Yuxiao's home is in the middle of the alley, and there are more than 100 meters away from the alley on both sides. When the two walked one or twenty meters, Yuan Yuxiao finally mustered up the courage and silently recited a sentence in her heart, "Prepare - get up!" After that, he opened his mouth with difficulty: "Brother Hong, I'm sorry ......"

"What's the point of saying I'm sorry?" Brother Hong smiled heartily.

"Because ......," Yuan Yuxiao said. If you apologize for your mother, wouldn't it expose your mother's lack of sincerity, and if you apologize for yourself, it seems redundant - if you think about it, there is probably no shortage of yourself in the tax bureau.

Brother Hong probably realized his embarrassment, and blinked, "You are a good student!" Please stay. ”

At this moment he seemed kind and mischievous.

After patting Yuan Yuxiao on the shoulder, Brother Hong got on the bicycle. Yuan Yuxiao waved her hand mechanically, said okay, and then stood up, watching Brother Hong's back disappear at the end of the long alley.

While watching, he pondered the meaning of Brother Hong's last sentence, "a good student", which means that he is an obedient "good student" who will obey his mother's decision after all? Or do you think he is a "good student" who is good at reading and should go to college?

Whatever it meant, he felt that this sentence said that he was immature, and this meaning was certain.

Yuan Yuxiao is indeed a good student and a good child, his academic performance has been okay, graduated from junior high school with the fifth place in the school and went to a key middle school, although the road to college is very crowded now, but he has never doubted that he belongs to one of the leading small group of people.

"Glory belongs to the new generation in the eighties", this is a phrase in the most popular song in the past two years, when the eighties came with hopes and dreams, going to college was the first choice for students, and this road was almost the only way to symbolize the beautiful destiny of tomorrow.

Originally, today's answer to such a two-choice question should have been without suspense. Admitted to the university, and it is a school that he is more satisfied with, this means incomparable to him and his family, and his father has already said it at noon, so it should be said that there is no other option to replace.

He took the recruitment exam three months ago and did it unintentionally. He estimated that his parents were just preparing a way back from the perspective of insurance, after all, he didn't know what the result of the college entrance examination would be at that time. This is tacitly understood by the family.

Now the results are out, and they are a very desirable one. It should be said that this alternate back road is completely meaningless.