In the third year of secondary school study, I began to plan for graduation assignments.

To be honest, someone as premeditated as me is the only one in my class, and the only one in my class of graduates. When my innocent classmates shed tears for friendship and were sad for so-called love, I was racking my brains to find out which classmate's father or mother had the right to influence the whereabouts of a secondary vocational graduate.

The hard work paid off, and I finally found this kind of person, but she was not my classmate, but an alumnus of my class. Coincidentally, she happened to be a junior high school classmate of her roommate Chen Li.

When I mentioned Chen Li before, I forgot to tell my brother that Chen Li is from the provincial capital and is a graduate of the No. 9 Middle School in the provincial capital.

When I learned that the alumni turned out to be Chen Li's junior high school classmate, I couldn't tell how happy I was, I simply thought it was God's favor, because, in my opinion, with this relationship, it is much easier and more natural to get close to that alumnus.

found an appropriate opportunity to mention the alumni quietly, but Chen Li actually despised her very much. I said that I had never heard Chen Li mention her in the past two years, and I didn't see Chen Li have any dealings with her, so they didn't appreciate each other. It's normal for classmates not to appreciate each other.

That alumnus is called Zhu Zhenyi (in fact, it doesn't matter if her name is mentioned or not), and she is an arrogant and domineering person. Arrogance and arrogance were a common problem for the children of officials in that era, Chen Li didn't understand this "law of nature", so I couldn't accept it, but I still tried my best to instigate Chen Li to let me and Zhu Zhenyi "connect up".

With the first contact, I went to find Zhu Zhenyi and no longer wronged Chen Li. I can see that Chen Li is indeed very cold to people like Zhu Zhenyi.

I have a purpose, and I don't care about that.

In a word, I tried my best to become Zhu Zhenyi's most trusted person. Maybe my brother won't believe it, if I don't go to her for two days, Zhu Zhenyi will come to my bedroom to look for me. In front of me, her domineering and domineering was useless.

After I became the person Chu Zhenyi trusted the most, when she talked about her brother who annoyed her, I understood why she was annoyed and became a kind of concern, so I found an opportunity to behave in front of her parents.

Zhu Zhenyi is annoyed that she has to tutor her younger brother who is in the third year of junior high school every weekend. It's really God's care, you know, tutoring people is my forte, brother, think about it, what kind of role Qi Zhengli is, I can tutor him in mathematics!

I told Zhu Zhenyi what I was willing to relieve her troubles, and Zhu Zhenyi was so moved that she almost cried in front of me. She literally took me for an angel who had come out to save her. You know, for a girl who is just starting to fall in love, weekends are golden times.

In this way, Zhu Zhenyi took me to her house. What kind of home is that? It is also a building, it is also a two-story building, and it also has a yard, and in comparison, my uncle's and aunt's building is worse than the thatched house at the east gate of my house. It was so luxurious, so luxurious that I didn't dare to enter her door when I first walked into her yard.

In this way, I performed well in front of Zhu Zhenyi's parents without a trace, because, after a semester, Zhu Zhenyi's younger brother's grades have improved significantly under my tutoring.

In this way, at the end of the semester, I did not charge a penny of tutoring fees, but only accepted a box of wine given to my father by Zhu Zhenyi's parents, and this "righteous" behavior not only moved Zhu Zhenyi to a mess, but also enhanced my status in the hearts of her parents.

Because, everyone thinks that I am going to pay for the tutoring fee.

In this way, I became the most popular person in the Zhu family.

Thinking about it now, I still admire myself back then. It takes a lot of effort to turn a middle-class student into an upper-class student, but I managed to do it, and I only used it for two days every weekend.

Again, the word - racking your brains.

Rack your brains to enhance learners' interest in learning, rack your brains to teach learners the most suitable learning methods, rack your brains to change learners' "I want to learn" to "I want to learn......

Finally, two months before graduation, at the dinner table where Zhu Zhenyi's parents warmly invited me to dinner, I deliberately led the topic to the graduation assignment, and very subtly conveyed a message to Zhu Zhenyi's father - I was struggling with the graduation assignment.

I don't know how to thank my father, Zhu Zhenyi, would let go of this opportunity to express his gratitude, so my graduation assignment to work in the Yangjiang County Civil Affairs Bureau became a fact in the next few minutes of conversation.

Brother, don't be surprised, let me tell you, Zhu Zhenyi's father is an important leader in the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, this kind of thing is difficult to compare to the sky in the eyes of ordinary people, and her father's phone call is enough. Brother, think about it, if it weren't for this relationship, how would I get close to Zhu Zhenyi?

That night should have been the most exciting night for me, I couldn't sleep when I was lying in bed, so that Chen Li, who slept in my lower bunk, scolded me for thinking of spring. No wonder she, I'm tossing and turning on the top bunk, and her lower bunk can still be affected?

A month later, less than a month before graduation, I went back to Qijiatun.

I had to tell my father, of course, Qi Zhengzhe, and my uncle and aunt about my decision to go back to Yangjiang County to work.

It is a kind of respect to inform my uncle and aunt of this decision, and I hope to gain his understanding by telling Qi Zhengzhe, and what makes me most worried is to inform my father.

When I informed Qi Zhengzhe of this decision, Qi Zhengzhe's expression was very complicated, and it took a full minute for him to say a word, "I really didn't expect this." ”

"I'm sorry." I say.

"It's common sense to think about it, but I haven't thought about it in this direction." Qi Zhengzhe barely squeezed out a smile, "The relationship has been done?" ”

"This ......"

"You don't have to be embarrassed, according to what I know about you, you must have all the relationships before you came to tell me, right?"

"I hope you understand."

"Ahem, what do I not understand? I understand and support all the decisions you make, but ...... Uncle Hao ......, "Qi Zhengzhe and I have the same concerns. If you want to understand, Qi Zhengzhe is indeed the person who knows me best, and he even knows what I am most worried about.

"I came back to talk to him about it."

"I thought it was a deliberate communication with me." Qi Zhengzhe said without self-deprecation.

After dinner in the evening, the family sat at the dinner table and talked for a long time. My father and uncle drank another glass of white wine.

It was a very heartwarming scene. Maybe it's because it's rare for me to come back, even Qi Zhengli has been sitting there.

Qi Zhengli's current situation, uncles and aunts have been able to fully accept it. The appearance of him after returning from prison - being in the mainstay position in the "Zhengzhe Department Store" gave his uncle and aunt a reassurance. All they want now is to wait for their two sons to get their wives back, and they will help bring their grandchildren and enjoy their old age in peace.

I forgot to tell my brother that when the "Zhengzhe Department Store" opened, my aunt's steamed bun shop was permanently closed.

When the chatter was over, the Qi Zhengzhe brothers went to the store, and my father and I went back to the bungalow. Qi Zhengzhe's eyes before he left made me feel his love for me—he was worried about how I would communicate with my father about the graduation assignment.

I followed my father into his room, my heart beating a little panicked. Everything was still the same: a wooden bed, a chaise longue (this chaise longue was kept in my room during my junior high school years, and my father would lie on the chaise longue for a while at night when I was tired while I was doing my homework), and a seventeen-inch black-and-white television on a wooden box on the butcher's bench.

It's still the original taste. A little musty and a thick smell of smoke. There were several cigarette butts and some soot lying on the ground next to the deck chair.

"Still not sleeping?" Father said with a smile. My father's wrinkles deepened as he laughed. In the two and a half years that I was in secondary school, my father gained a little weight, but his hair became grayer and grayer.

"There's something I want to discuss with my dad."

"What's the matter?" The father sat down in a recliner.

"Graduation assignments." I sat down on the edge of my father's bed. The old-fashioned wooden plank bed is like this, and the two piers at the front and back are very thick, which is very convenient for sitting.

"You mean assigned to work in the country, right? Some people have also told me that the newly assigned secondary school students basically have to go to the countryside to exercise for a year or two, unless there is anything to do with it. The household registration in our county will not be divided too far away, and it should be transferred to Hongzhuang, Wujiatun, and Shalu. "It seems that my father has long been concerned about my graduation assignment.

"I mean......" I suddenly found it hard to say.

"I'm sorry, Kiki, but you also know that our family doesn't have this relationship. But don't worry, Dad also inquired, and he will come up in a year or two, and he will be transferred to work in the county civil affairs bureau. ”

"I'll probably go back to work."

"That's for sure. Wherever it comes from, it is distributed, this is the principle of distribution. Does Kiki want to go somewhere else? "My father didn't understand me.

"I mean, I'll probably go back to Yangjiang County to work."

"What?" The father stood up from the recliner all of a sudden, his face pale, "Yangjiang County? How could you be assigned back to work in Yangjiang County? You are a Qijiatun hukou. ”

"I mean maybe, Dad." My heart beats faster. The father's reaction was too strong.

"There is no such possibility. No one knows that you are from Yangjiang County, how can you be assigned to work in Yangjiang County, unless you ...... By the way, do you want to go back to Yangjiang County? Who did you mention it to? "Father seemed to understand something.

"I, no, I, who am I talking to? I'm afraid—" I'm flustered. My father's eyes scared me. "I'm worried, Dad, you know?"

"You must have mentioned it to anyone." My father sat down in a chaise longue. His hands rested naturally on the arched armrests on either side of the chaise longue, his eyes fixed on one spot, his expression glazed.

"Nope." My voice was weak.