The high school entrance examination is two days on the 20th and 21st, and there is plenty of time, and there is a week of revision time. Of course, for the sake of insurance, everyone looked for seats in the examination room in advance, and only panicked on the day of the exam, and looked for a classroom for a long time.

Chen Yue has been reviewing every day for the past week, and the most is still in English. He knew that these three subjects accounted for the most points and were the three main ones, while political history was relatively weak, and it was open-book and simpler; Therefore, in revision, Chen Yue spent her energy on memorizing poems, practicing equations, and going deep into grammar. This is also the common practice of all people.

On the morning of the 20th, Chen Yue got up early, after washing his face and brushing his teeth, he looked at the time, and he could still seize some time, and he focused on these two courses in the morning for the Chinese and mathematics exams. When it was time to leave, Jiang Yang came to call him, and he excitedly picked up the test paper bag and ran out. They don't take exams in the same school, so they have to be separated, Jiang Yang needs to take the bus, and Chen Yue also has to take it, but unfortunately it is not the same bus. Although Renmin Road Primary School is not far from No. 1 Middle School, it is not close to home.

"I can take 1 way, which way do you take?" Under the bus stop sign, Jiang Yang asked.

"I have to go to the East End to do Route 18, let's go first." Chen Yue waved at Jiang Yang and crossed the street.

There were as many people on the bus as expected, but fortunately, this was the starting station, and even though there were many people on the bus, Chen Yue still found a comfortable seat to sit down. He looked around the car, most of them were holding test paper bags in their hands, and it was clear that they were also students of the high school entrance examination.

The car departed, and twenty minutes later, Chen Yue got off at the Century Square stop sign. After getting off the bus, there is still some distance from the test room of the destination.

He looked left and right at the familiar store and the intersection, and then turned a detour, and the school was on the same road. Got it! This is it. The doors were wide open, and students entered on the left, right, and right. At the school gate, there were many adults standing, and Chen Yue thought that they must be the parents of the children, and they came to visit in person for the children's exams. And his parents, in order to support the poor family, did not have time to accompany him. But he never blamed them, and he never envied the children who were accompanied by their parents. It's just an exam, so why make such a fuss. He thought: when the exam starts, the door will be closed. The group of parents stood outside, looking in panic at the distant corner of the school where their children had disappeared, their hands nervously clutching the doorway. At that time, they must have been looking forward to: Son, you must fight for breath.

Chinese and mathematics, these two subjects Chen Yue did not find any difficulty. If you have to make a comparison, in terms of interest, he prefers Chinese, but mathematics is easier to get points, it is not like Chinese, and there is an essay question at the end, as long as you remember the formula and clear your mind, no matter how difficult the problem can be solved. But then again, it is easier to put the Chinese test paper in front of you, and the key is to control the writing time. He has a bad habit of writing the second part of the reading comprehension first, and then returning to the accumulation and application of the first part. He felt that reading comprehension was always a lot of time, and his intuition told him that doing so would help buy time for later writing. He turned over the Chinese test paper and wrote on the topic: Youth. As far as this topic is concerned, there are many ideas that can be developed, but there are three lines of sentences below the title: 1. Please write based on your own actual experience, and learning from it will affect your grades. 2. Real names, school names, personal names, etc. are not allowed in the text, otherwise points will be deducted. 3. Considering the substantiality of the content, the article should not be less than 800 words. Oh! What he hates the most is these hints and requirements, if he wants to publish the paper himself, he will definitely mark: play freely according to the topic. He doesn't understand one thing, if there are tens of thousands of students, then there must be at least hundreds of teachers to read the essay, whether there is a single teacher to complete the correction, different essays, different stories from the same limited title. He admired these people from the bottom of his heart.

The last bell rang, and Chen Yue handed in the papers. He took a brief look at the classroom, and there were already many people who had already submitted their papers in advance, which was normal, and it was available everywhere. On the way home after the exam, he made an estimate for himself: there is a problem in mathematics that is not completely solved, and the language depends entirely on the creation of composition.

As soon as he got home at noon, his mother came out of the kitchen and asked him how he was doing in the exam and whether he was doing well. He replied with confidence—he could write it, and his mother praised him happily.

At half past two in the afternoon, Chen Yue had already arrived at the city station half an hour before the test, and when he was on the detour road to his school, a familiar figure jumped down the stone steps of a store and approached him. When he saw this man, he panicked. "Hey, Chen Yue." Cheng Peng beckoned and ran over in the distance.

"Cheng Peng?"

"Listen, I'm here to advise you. You won't have to take the exam this afternoon. ”

"Why?" Chen Yue asked in surprise.

"I'm just giving you a reminder that you must persevere, and I can't help it. But trust me, I'm here for your good. ”

Chen Yue shook her head, "No, I have to take an exam." Chen Yue pushed Cheng Peng away sideways, and then, he turned around and asked, "Where are you taking the test?" Why don't you take the exam? ”

"You're still worried about me? I'm in No. 3 Middle School, and I'm standing at Century Square just to remind you. ”

Chen Yue shook her head again and continued to walk towards the school.

"Hey, why don't you listen to my advice," Cheng Peng chased after him, grabbed his wrist, and said anxiously: "Do you know that you have already known to him about the previous report of Xu Qiangqiang in the class, and he will come to you today." ”

There were constant marketing announcements from the shops on the streets, as well as the noise of pedestrians and the streets. Listening to Cheng Peng's explanation, Chen Yue didn't have time to think about what it meant, but just asked curiously, "Xu Qiangqiang?" Come to me? ”

"Yes."

"But even so, I still have to take the exam." Chen Yue quickened his pace and ignored him.

Seeing that he was so stubborn and had already walked around the detour at the end, Cheng Peng shook his head and turned around to leave the bus stop.

Chen Yue walked on the way to the examination room, and did not take Cheng Peng's persuasion to heart. But when he was about to arrive at the school gate, someone behind him suddenly put his hand on Chen Yue's shoulder and walked side by side with him. Chen Yue shrugged, trying to shake the man away, but the man hugged him tighter.

"Yo, kid, where are you going?"

"Go to the exam. Hey, it's over, it's that school, what are you doing? ”

"What are you trying to test, it's so boring, I invite you to go online."

Internet? What does it mean, Chen Yue doesn't understand, and she doesn't want to understand.

"I want to take an exam, I want to take an exam." Chen Yue only thought about the exam and said hurriedly. He looked back at the school gate, only to see that it was getting farther and farther away, and finally disappeared from sight.

"Let go of me, I'm going to the exam." Chen Yue stopped on the sidewalk, not moving forward.

"Bastard! Walk. The man pushed him forward with force.

Chen Yue felt that something was wrong, thinking that this person might be some kind of ruffian or hooligan, he couldn't help but be frightened, and he had to start yelling for help from passers-by. But it was too late, and he gagged the man behind him with his hand, and led him into a dark alley, and then through the alley to a path full of weeds and mud, and then walked along the path for some distance.

"Where is this? Let me go back. The man behind him finally let go of him, and he was so anxious that he immediately shouted, "I want to take an exam!" ”

Unexpectedly, three people came from under the haystack from the small hole in the back and surrounded him.

"Long time no see, my dear classmate Chen Yue."

Chen Yue immediately looked back and saw that it was Xu Qiangqiang, who had been expelled from the class.

"What do you want to do?"

"What? Who knows, I'm honored to meet you here. Xu Qiangqiang said slowly and intimidatingly as he approached, and then shouted violently: "But it's very irritable!" As he spoke, Xu Qiangqiang waved his two fists.

With two punches in the middle, Chen Yue bent down and couldn't stand steadily. Then came his shouts for help, but the shouts only lasted two or three times, and he fought for the people on the left and right. His shouts were indistinct in a tremble.

"Why are you hitting me?" Chen Yue asked loudly while crying, but he immediately found the answer himself.

What a stupid question, Xu Qiangqiang did not answer.

Now, Chen Yue is no longer calling for help, he is too scared to have the guts, he has already been appointed, crying in pain, crying and begging for Xu Qiangqiang's forgiveness. But it was useless, Xu Qiangqiang didn't eat this, and pressed his whole body him. The two people next to him squatted down and grabbed Chen Yue's hand, smiling slyly. Next, Xu Qiangqiang was even more vicious. After a while, Chen Yue's face was covered with handprints, and her eyes were crying undecently. "Let you mind my business, let you take care of it, let you take care of it..."Xu Qiangqiang still kept patting and venting.

After Xu Qiangqiang felt that he was enough and satisfied, he stood up.

"I want to take an exam, I want to take an exam." Chen Yue no longer knew whether the exams had begun and whether the doors of the school were closed.

"Still want to take the exam?" Xu Qiangqiang and the few people surrounding Chen Yue settled down and said a few words. Xu Qiangqiang bent down and spat at Chen Yue's face. Chen Yue only felt a wet nose on the bridge of his nose, and a viscous liquid scratched his skin.

"Hey, brethren, I have a great idea." Xu Qiangqiang grinned and smiled at the people around him.

"Give me back what you're going to do." Chen Yue immediately felt that something was wrong, and the admission ticket in his pocket was forcibly snatched away by Xu Qiang.

"There you have it, this is it."

"Big brother, are you going to..."A man in a short shirt next to him asked Xu Qiangqiang in a low voice.

"Hehe," Xu Qiangqiang smiled, and suddenly—with a thud, the card in his hand was torn in half.

"Ahh My admit card, no! Chen Yue stretched out a hand with all her might, raised her head slightly and shouted, "No! No! ”

Xu Qiangqiang stacked the two half-cards that were torn apart and continued to tear them apart, two into four, four into four. "No, no, no, stop!" No matter how Chen Yue on the ground shouted, it didn't help until Xu Qiangqiang threw the fragments into the air. Chen Yue stopped shouting, lowered his arms in shock, and fell his head, and the fragments in the air fell all around, and one piece was attached to his face, shaking slightly.

There was another cry of fear, mixed with laughter.

"Haha—your wonderful high school life—it's over—it's over." Xu Qiangqiang smiled and threw away the fragments of paper and strode away with the three people beside him. They walked side by side into the street.

All this was too unexpected, too sudden, Chen Yue's nerves had not eased up, he was extremely emotional, he was still crying, his body was in pain, but the most unacceptable thing for him was that he had no chance to go to the examination room again, and there was no need to sit on the table with dozens of classmates and write the test papers, and then wait for the papers to be handed in.

The land is covered in the shadow of a wall of trees on all sides. Not far from Chen Yue, there was a family on the opposite side of the pond with a beautiful two-story house. At this moment, a girl stood on the balcony on the second floor of the house, and the girl heard the crying and ran upstairs. She immediately noticed that she saw a boy fall to the ground. What was he doing, the little girl quipped, looking at the people on the ground.

"Mom, I found a strange little guy, I need to go check it out." The girl ran down the stairs, greeted her mother, and ran out the door. The girl walked across the path in the middle of the pond to Chen Yue's side and stood behind him.

"What's wrong with you, did you throw it away for grandpa?" The little girl asked.

There was no answer, and there was still a cry. The little girl realized that he must have been heartbroken, so she did not speak, but looked intently into the boy's eyes.

As time dragged on, the painful organ sensations in the body gradually recovered, and the tears slowly dried up. Chen Yue rolled over and put her hands on the ground. As soon as she turned over, the girl took a step back, "Oh, you're so sloppy, look at what you're dirty about." The little girl said.

Chen Yue tried to sit up, and when both hands could move, she found the debris on the ground. There was a piece of floating ground far away from him, and he couldn't reach it. The little girl immediately understood.

The girl helped him retrieve the piece of paper and handed it to Chen Yue. "What do you want this dirty thing for?" She asked.

Chen Yue finally saw the girl's face, a red little face, with two thin willow braids, the girl was standing, but she happened to be the same height as him sitting on the ground, at most five or six years old.

"Thank you." Chen Yue didn't answer her, and took the piece of paper she handed over. He looked at the piece of paper in his palm, it was clear that it was a complete admission ticket not long ago, and he couldn't stop crying again.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" The girl walked closer to observe him.

Chen Yue wiped her eyes and nose with the dusty cuffs, and whispered reluctantly, "I... It's okay...", he said as he tried to get up as he struggled to get up, but his back hurt and he fell down again.

"They all cried, and they said they were fine, what a weirdo."

"I'm really fine, you don't have to worry, don't worry, yes, I'm fine."

"Where are you going?"

"Go back."

"Where are you going?"

The girl behind her kept asking. And he was in a lot of pain and couldn't control his emotions, so he shouted, "I'm fine! Thank you for your concern, I'm about to go back to the exam, please don't ask this and that, okay, I'm in a hurry. ”

The girl took a few steps back in astonishment and did not speak, but quietly watched the strange man on the ground move in the mud and weeds, and from time to time she stopped to catch her breath. The girl shook her head in bewilderment, then turned and ran home, shouting, "Oh Mom, I met such a strange and strange person today, and said that I was his friend. Mother! It can't be true, right? ”

The alley leading to the street was narrow, dark and dark, and the ground was wet. Chen Yue had no choice but to lie on the spot and wait, he didn't have the strength to stand up, but he was already trying to hold on to the stone bricks on the wall and struggle to stand up. His legs were still shaking. Despite this, he only wanted to get back to the exam room.

He walked out of the alley, looked left and right, and in a panic, he found that he had lost his direction, so he wanted to ask a passer-by. He made up his mind to ask a middle-aged man who was about to walk by. "Uncle, may I ask."

The uncle stopped, tucked the book in his arm, and looked down at him.

"That, which way to go from Renmin Road Elementary School?"

"It's all the way on."

"Thank you."

The door was firmly closed, and Chen Yue walked to the doorman and asked by chance, "Can you let me in for the exam?" ”

"I can't." A man sitting in the guard's room replied directly.

"Please, this is my admission ticket." When he showed the smashed, smashed, pieces of paper to the doorman, he realized how unspeakable he was.

"Walk around, madmen are not welcome."

The doorman inside looked at the little guy who was covered in dust from head to toe and shook his head resolutely. If his clothes were dirtier, he would have felt like a beggar.

Chen Yue continued to compete in front of the guards, shouting and crying to enter the exam, handing him the test papers, and asking him to take the test more or less. But the doorman didn't know about it, saying that it was already past the exam time, and that he didn't look like a student at all, so he would never let him enter the school for half a step, and the school gate would never be opened for him.

Until the end of the exam, Chen Yue was completely disappointed, the door was opened, but there was no need to enter. His English score is zero, and then a new question appears, what will he do tomorrow, and tomorrow's exam, is it a zero score? On the way back to the station, he couldn't help but cry again.

What should I do, when I got home, my parents asked him how he did in today's exam, how would he answer? There is no way, yes, and there really is no way. An unprecedented feeling of helplessness, where no one can help. For Xu Qiangqiang, he cursed him, cursing him that no matter how far he went to the end of the world, he would be unlucky and fall on his heels, and he had no other way than this.

The next morning, Chen Yue pretended to say hello to her mother as if nothing had happened, and went out with the test paper bag. Outside the door, Jiang Yang was waiting for him to take a companion with him. When Chen Yue saw Jiang Yang, the first thing he found was that he was holding a large textbook in his hand, and he realized that today was an open-book exam.

"Chen Yue, you don't bring books?" Jiang Yang asked in surprise when he found that he had not brought a reference book with him for the political history exam.

"Ah, I forgot."

Running home, he finds a political history book. There should have been a few more books for extracurricular reference, but as soon as he thought of the admission ticket, he gave up taking the information book in frustration, thinking: I won't need it anyway. The two said goodbye at the stop sign as they did yesterday.

Without the admission ticket, he still couldn't help himself with the familiar pace, got on the No. 18 bus, and got off at the destination. He was nervous again, afraid that the guy would come out of some corner yesterday and catch him, and he was so frightened that he had just turned the corner leading to the school and stopped. After all kinds of psychological struggles, he reluctantly walked back. Why risk going to a school that has already lost its eligibility for the exams? He thought that even if he lost his admission ticket, he hoped to explain it to the teacher in the examination room, and maybe he would still be able to get permission. But there was another detail that he had to care about, and they — if they were waiting for him to take the bait on the road — were hiding on the edge of the remote pond and waiting for him. How will he cope? What is the purpose of coming here? What is the value of bringing these textbooks? Chen Yue stopped under a tree on the sidewalk to think about his thoughts, and after a while, he felt a little hot and turned around and walked to the front of a store. He walked aimlessly in the corridor outside the store, feeling an indescribable sadness in his heart. Later, he felt that it was too hot to stand here, so he simply pulled out the mat and walked into the store, finding a row of chairs by the aisle and sitting down. The store was bustling with people, and from time to time there was the sound of cashiers and customers talking at the checkout desk.

Chen Yue lowered her head and looked at the soles of her feet, her shoulders shrugged, and she had no energy. When he closed his eyes, he thought that at this time he was sitting in the classroom with a pen and filling out the test papers, anxiously looking for answers in the reference book, while he was sitting here. He felt ashamed and uncomfortable. He wanted to go back to the classroom, he wanted to pick up the pen so much, but all this could not be done, and he blushed with guilt.

An hour later, Chen Yue couldn't sit still and paced up and down the corridor outside the door. He wanted to go home, lie in bed, and be alone. However, he can't go back earlier than his mother, which will cause her to be suspicious. He went back to the bench and sat down. I just sat there for a while, and then walked out again. When he walked out of the door for the last time, he saw a lot of people on the side of the road and at the bus stop, these people were holding test paper bags in their hands, and it could be concluded from the fact that they were all holding textbooks in their hands, and they were about to go home after taking the test at Renmin Road Primary School. It seems that either they turned in their papers early, or the exam was over. He wasn't sure if he had actually finished the exam, nor was he sure when it would be.

"Auntie asks, what time is it?" Chen Yue approached the cash register and asked a lady in work clothes inside.

As soon as no one was coming to checkout, the lady looked at a TV (which I later realized was a computer) and said, "Eleven o'clock." She replied without looking back.

In this way, it will be time to hand in the paper in another half an hour. He waited .... Wait. Suddenly, he vaguely heard the tinkling of a bell in the distance. Chen Yue got on the bus and went home, and wandered around like this all morning, and she really didn't want to go. When he was about to enter the house, Jiang Yang stood on the threshold of his house, saw Chen Yue coming back, hurriedly walked out, and said, "Chen Yue, how did you get tested until now, but it's no wonder, you must have found the answer, and you have checked it many times." I? Forget it, I can't read the exam, I remember that the answer to a question in history is in the textbook of the first semester or the second semester of the third year of junior high school, but I didn't find it for a long time, and I was so angry that I took out the book of the second year of junior high school and flipped through it, but it still didn't work. I didn't think I could waste too much time on this topic, so I went around it, and it was really unfortunate to think about it. ”

"What about politics?"

"Politics is quite simple," Jiang Yang continued: "It's all over, how about it?" Let's hang out in the afternoon. ”

He was silent.

"Huh?"

"Ah, okay."

Before Jiang Yang went home, he held on to the iron gate pole, "Hey, by the way, Chen Yue, how did you feel about the exam in the past two days?" He asked.

Hearing Jiang Yang ask him like this before going home, he was silent for a while and couldn't speak, he definitely wouldn't brag about himself, but he didn't say anything about the fact that the admission ticket was torn up. When Jiang Yang asked him for the second time, he slowly replied in a low voice, "It's not good." ”

Not very good: Jiang Yang knew that Chen Yue had always been modest, so his answer was not very good, and he must have such a character.

After eating lunch at noon, Jiang Yang didn't bother to take a nap, said hello to his parents and ran to Chen Yue's house. It just so happened that Chen Yue's mother was at home, and when he just stepped into the living room, his mother asked him how he did in the test and whether everything went well. However, Jiang Yang's grades were always not satisfactory, he shook his head and said, "No, it's bad." ”

The mother immediately smiled and asked, "Do you know when the score will come down?" ”

"I don't know, but I think we'll find out soon."

While playing in the garden, Jiang Yang found that Chen Yue was a little absent-minded, seeing that he was always sad, since the nervous review and the final high school entrance examination were over, he should relax.

"I said Chen Yue, what's wrong with you? I haven't been talking. When the two of them sat on the stone bench and watched the scenery in the distance, Jiang Yang asked strangely.

"I'm fine."

"Are you okay again? Oh! Of course. I've never heard of you having something to do, you're like that, when you have a bitter heart, you're depressed alone, and when you're happy, you forget to share it with others. ”

Chen Yue has been hiding his thoughts from Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang is also tolerant and generous, and if his friends don't want to say it, he will never get to the bottom of it. Sitting alone at the head of the bed at night, Chen Yue thought about what his reaction would be if he told Jiang Yang about this, as a friend who has played since childhood, is it worth helping to vent his evil anger. He could think of Jiang Yang's surprised expression, and what he said was sure to surprise him. And this encounter must have nothing to do with Jiang Yang. It is not difficult to conclude that Xu Qiangqiang's revenge on him is actually the consequence of him going to the office to denounce him for staying. He regretted his recklessness, but there was no turning back now, and there was still a long way to go. As for how he did in the exam, Chen Yue was scared when she heard her mother mention it.