After the mid-term exams, the course was rapidly accelerated, and there were days when new classes were being held one after another. Strangely, everyone noticed that the quality of endorsements and homework testing required by teachers gradually relaxed, and even the class teacher sometimes controlled it, and sometimes did not see it. However, everyone ran more diligently in the lab, repeating the same experiment several times to make sure that everyone really understood it before changing to something new.

In a biochemical mock exam, one person is divided into a table and enters the laboratory in batches. When it was Jiang Yang's turn, he stood on the table that the teacher had given him, which was full of experimental instruments, two beakers, a few test tubes, an alcohol lamp, a graduated cylinder, and a container of uneven size like a funnel.

The simulation began, Jiang Yang didn't know where to start, he didn't understand the experimental class at all, he didn't know anything about chemistry, and he had to do some experiments. At the end of the exam time, the teacher starts to check the results.

"What's the matter with you?" The teacher walked up to Jiang Yang's table and stood up and asked him.

"Teacher, lo and behold, I'm done."

"Where is it done? Your color is not right, the color is wrong, do you understand the color change? Do you think the test tube next to it is dripped in at random? ”

"Teacher, I don't understand."

"Didn't you teach it many times before I didn't understand?"

"Yes, I was taught, but... That..."

"You pour this one in and take a look."

"Which one?"

"This." The teacher pointed to a test tube and said.

He did it according to the teacher's instructions, but the teacher found that the color was still wrong, "It should be yellow." The teacher said, "Did you pour the test tube into it too?" ”

"I don't know, I see." Jiang Yang said with a bitter smile.

"Okay, okay, your name is Jiang Yang, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay, you can go out and call the next one in."

After the mock test, the teacher announced everyone's test results on the podium, and after the announcement, a few names were called. "A few of you, remember, come to the lab at noon today to see how other students do it, and then do it yourself until you can do it." The teacher came up with a good idea: let each of these failed students assign a student with excellent grades to go to the laboratory in the free time at noon and teach one-on-one.

Jiang Yang listened to who he should teach him to do experiments - a good student, which was really an honor.

"Dong Hongling," when class ended, Gu Ling found his classmates.

"What's the matter?"

"You're teaching Jiang Yang the simulation experiment at noon, right?"

"Hmm."

Gu Ling approached her and whispered, "Otherwise, you can rest at home at noon, and let me teach him." ”

"You?" Dong Hongling looked at her and smiled: "I know you want to help him, and you also helped me save trouble." But I remember, Gu Ling, you don't like chemistry class either, worry..."

"No problem, I have to listen carefully to the necessary test points for experiments like this, otherwise I won't be able to pass."

"Okay." Dong Hongling nodded and replied, "You are willing to help me teach him, I am very grateful, and I will fulfill you both." But you have to promise me to teach him, or the teacher will blame me for not teaching him well. ”

"Look at what you said, nothing will be done. But don't worry, even if I skin him, I will teach him! Gu Ling replied resolutely.

"Alright then, that's it, and he'll entrust it to you." Dong Hongling smiled and patted Gu Ling on the shoulder.

On the way home from school in the morning, Jiang Yang learned that Gu Ling taught him at noon, and his joy made him unable to settle down at noon, and he just wanted to go to school in a hurry. He didn't ask Chen Yue to go to school with him today, because he made an appointment with Gu Ling very early.

As soon as he came to the classroom at noon, Jiang Yang brought Gu Ling to the laboratory. She taught him to operate step by step, Jiang Yang listened very carefully, he was ready to operate well to pass this exam, and now it was Gu Ling who taught him, and he couldn't be half-hearted. Soon, he understood the whole process.

"Thank you, I really don't know how I would have passed such a complicated exam without you." Jiang Yang said with a smile.

"It's nothing, it's supposed to help your classmates." , Gu Ling smiled, and when she saw Jiang Yang looking at her, she continued: "The exam is tomorrow morning, and the head teacher said that there will be a lottery before the exam, and I would rather draw biology and physics." ”

"However, I think you can also complete chemistry on your own, this can not teach me, you don't have to worry about the lottery, I also hope to draw physics and chemistry, biology does not understand at all, and the teacher does not care."

"I'll go talk to the teacher," Gu Ling said, walking towards the office. However, her arm was immediately grabbed by Jiang Yang.

"What are you going to do?" Jiang Yang asked her.

"I'll go and explain your situation to the teacher, ask the teacher to help prepare the experimental equipment, and teach you biology by the way."

"Right now?"

"Well, right now."

The two entered the office, and after Gu Ling explained the situation, the teacher promised her that she could help prepare the instruments, but the teacher finally asked, why only teach Jiang Yang. At this question, both of them looked embarrassed. At this time, the head teacher also looked at this side jokingly, she couldn't see anything strange between the two, and she didn't think about it in that direction. "Gu Ling is very good, he is a good example for helping his classmates improve their studies, great!" The head teacher shouted to this side on her desk, "Jiang Yang, you can't live up to the kindness of your classmates, knowing that your grades are poor, although the biological experiment test only accounts for 20 points, it is also very important." ”

After the biology teacher agreed, he went to the laboratory to prepare. The head teacher then walked up to her student.

"You have to work hard, your parents often call me now, worry about you, and make you anxious." The head teacher said to Jiang Yang.

"Thank you."

The biological experiment didn't seem to be so easy to understand in front of Jiang Yang, and after teaching for half an hour, he still couldn't grasp his head, and finally the class bell rang in the afternoon, and there was still no progress at all.

"You did a terrible job in biology class." On the way back to the classroom, Gu Ling complained.

Jiang Yang blushed and smiled slightly bitterly.

"Let's come back after school in the afternoon, okay?" Gu Ling asked.

"Good!" Jiang Yang agreed.

In the laboratory after school, only Jiang Yang and Gu Ling were left. Gu Ling said and did at the same time, and the explanation was also easy to understand, which made Jiang Yang very patient to listen. He could feel Gu Ling's worries about his grades, and taught him tirelessly, hoping that he could pass the exam. Perhaps test scores don't matter, and both parties understand that their junior high school careers are coming to an end, which is likely to lead to separation, and they are just learning how to care for each other. This is the last semester. I often hear adults say that the love they talk about in school is nothing more than looking for novelty and having fun. Is there such a risk between them, and there is no doubt that if the two do not communicate after the final exams in a few months, how long will this relationship last? New things, new relationships, new crises: the crises that make two people who are close to each other have to separate in the end.

Jiang Yang liked this feeling very much now, and for a while he talked about digressions to please Gu Ling, and for a while he started to study the experiment, so that Gu Ling would know that he was listening. She didn't have the slightest caution when talking to him, she could say whatever she wanted, and Jiang Yang was also frank, which made the two very harmonious personalities. When Gu Ling saw with his own eyes that Jiang Yang could complete the experiment without guidance, he was relieved.

At six o'clock, they hurriedly picked up their schoolbags and left the laboratory, and by this time it was almost dark, and the two of them walked briskly home. On the way, they still looked at each other's faces from time to time. Jiang Yang was so happy that he kept looking for topics and talking about all kinds of things he encountered on the road. Gu Ling didn't care if it was a topic he liked, and followed with a few words. The two chatted very speculatively.

The next day for the exam, there is indeed a need for a lot. The whole class lined up in a long line to a window, where there were three notes on the table, the students who drew lots came to take two of them, and the other was immediately torn off by the staff in the window; Then put the prepared three slips of paper back on the table.

Jiang Yang unexpectedly selected biology and chemistry, which was the subject he had just practiced yesterday. Even though he regretted that physics didn't have anything to do with him, he was still happy.

"Chen Yue, what are you?" After Chen Yue finished drawing lots, Jiang Yang stepped forward and asked.

"Biology and Physics." Chen Yue happily replied that he was not worried about what he would draw at all.

After everyone drew lots, when they walked to the laboratory, they chirped and quarreled.

"What's yours?"

"What's yours?"

The classmates excitedly looked at my note, I looked at your note, and there was a lot of discussion. The formal test venue is much the same as the mock test, with one desk for each person, and the final result of the experiment is the same as what needs to be done in the simulation.

Chen Yue and Jiang Yang happened to be in the same examination room, and they were lined up on the rightmost wall. Halfway through the exam time, most of the students have finished their experiments and left the classroom. Jiang Yang was a little distracted at this time, he remembered that there should be one more step in the final debugging microscope operation, and he scratched the back of his head at a loss. Chen Yue finished the experiment at this time and noticed Jiang Yang's predicament, he wanted to help him and give him a reminder, but the teacher was very strict, so he had to give up.

At the last class meeting, the head teacher happily announced to everyone that before leaving this wonderful family, we should hold a graduation celebration in our own class. The class teacher said that the date would be set for the day after the school day, and that everyone could bring whatever food they wanted to eat on that day. And she will also spend some money to buy some delicious food for everyone to bring to class. After the head teacher put forward this suggestion, everyone invariably expressed their great pleasure and couldn't help but cheer loudly.

After a long sensation, the head teacher patted the podium: "Quiet students, there is still something important." ”

The head teacher beckoned to the class leader and handed her a stack of cards. "This is your admission ticket, and...", the head teacher said as he passed a rectangular flyer in front of each group, "This piece of paper has your corresponding exam location, remember not to run to the wrong exam room that day, if you run wrong, they will not recognize it." ”

"Remember! Take them all and write them down. The head teacher repeatedly emphasized and said solemnly.

The students carefully wrote down their corresponding exam schools in their notebooks, and none of them dared to memorize them with their heads, even those students in the back row who didn't care about the exams.

Three days later, it's time for the celebration. In the morning, Chen Yue came to Jiang Yang's house to play, and they were happily preparing for the afternoon celebration in the room. Each of them put the snacks they bought on the table, looked at them, and put them in their bags again. They wish they were going to school with their snacks now, but unfortunately there were still two hours left for the class teacher's scheduled time.

"Oh, Jiang Yang, you bought so much."

"I've got a lot of change in stock, and I guess I'll need it today." Jiang Yang said with a self-righteous smile. Chen Yue also smiled happily.

"Really?" Xiao Ai heard the two of them screaming like crazy in the room from a long distance, and she entered her brother's room without knocking, "You didn't borrow three yuan from me, otherwise you would have very little there." Really, buy so much to go to school and give it to others? ”

"Sister, you really shouldn't mind, today is our important day, of course you have to be willing to spend it. Do you say it's Chen Yue? ”

"Yes, yes, after all, it's the last day of school, so I have to spend it happily."

"Jiangyang is the last day, you don't have to." Xiao Ai said to Chen Yue. Chen Yue paused for a moment and looked at Xiao Ai strangely.

"Chen Yue, what my sister means is that you still have a chance to stay in No. 4 Middle School and study in high school, but I don't have any hope of staying. Ai, huh? ”

"Can you pass the exam with you?"

"I didn't say it, I didn't think about taking the fourth middle school exam."

"I really don't understand, why do your teachers have such an early holiday, is it so early in the second semester of the third year of junior high school? We still have to take classes for half a month, it's not fair! The younger sister complained to the two of them unconvinced.

"Okay, okay, Xiao Ai, you'll be able to enjoy this vacation in another three years, oh no, two years." After Jiang Yang finished talking to his sister, he chatted with Chen Yue again.

Xiao Ai stared at his brother without being funny, looked at Chen Yue again, and then walked up to him and asked him, "Chen Yue, let me see what you have bought?" Well? Chen Yue handed the bag full of snacks to her sister and replied, "My mother bought them for me, mostly apples, oranges and fruits." ”

"Gee, you shouldn't have brought these sour stuff to the celebration, you should have prepared more crispy fries and cookies like my brother did. If it were me, it would be better with some milk candy. ”

"Sugar? Forget it, I think someone in the class will definitely bring it, especially the girls, they will definitely bring their belongings, Gu Ling told me that she will bring a big box of toffee, and she will invite me to eat. ”

"Who is Gu Ling?" The younger sister suddenly turned her face to her brother and asked.

Jiang Yang stopped in time. "Classmates." As soon as he said it simply and clearly, he immediately chatted with Chen Yue about what kind of food a classmate in their class would bring. The younger sister knew that he was infarcting her, and she was not very happy, and she was overjoyed when she saw them, and only cared about the happiness of the two of them, and regarded her as an outsider. She pouted and left the room.

When the two good friends came to the classroom, everyone was there. Soon after, the head teacher also came.

"Let's have a good bite to eat today." The head teacher shouted at everyone.

Then everyone excitedly put together a few tables, and a few companions gathered in a circle, and then chatted and ate snacks brought from home.

Seeing the classmates talking and laughing, the head teacher nodded with satisfaction; Then, she went to the office and brought two boxes of red apples and personally went down to the stage to deliver them to everyone.

"Thank you, teacher."

"Thank you, teacher."

The students were very polite to accept the fruits handed by the teacher. After delivering the apples to everyone, they sat back down on the podium. At this time, two classmates came over together, "Teacher, for you." As he spoke, the two students put the snacks in their hands on the lectern. Oh, thank you. The head teacher hurriedly thanked. After that, I came to bring more food to the head teacher, "Oh, thank you, thank you." She didn't have time to thank them all, her lectern was already full of food, and she hadn't eaten any of them.

"Alright, alright, I've got enough." Another classmate came, it was Chen Yue. "Chen Yue, you see that the teacher can't put it on the table, so let's take your oranges back and share them with everyone." The head teacher said to Chen Yue. Chen Yue nodded and turned to go back, but the head teacher immediately stopped him.

"Hey, Chen Yue, come here, you see that I have so many here, and the teacher can't eat it, why don't you help me distribute it to the next few tables of classmates." I think they have a pitiful amount on the table. ”

"Okay, thank you, teacher." Chen Yue answered obediently, and then distributed snacks on the lectern for everyone.

Chen Yue walked to the back row with a bunch of food in both hands, there were indeed a few tables, and he did not hesitate to send them to them. "Chen Yue, thank you so much." A girl looked at Chen Yue with emotion and thanked her.

"You're welcome."

Chen Yue looked at the other tables, and he saw that Cheng Peng's table was almost finished, so he also sent some food to that table, including two boxes of potato chips and two bottles of drinks. After he put the food on the table, he was about to send it to the next table, however, Cheng Peng grabbed his wrist with agility at this time. "Wait." Cheng Peng didn't look at him, but gnawed on the ham in his hand, and after a while, he asked in a low voice, "Which exam room are you in?" He wanted to ask Chen Yue this question a few days ago, but he had been hesitating, and he couldn't help but ask it today.

"Renmin Road Elementary School." Chen Yue replied. As soon as he finished replying, Cheng Peng let go of his hand.

Then, he took a carton of milk and a few pieces of fruit candy and walked to Zhang Pingping's seat, where he saw her sitting alone at her desk, sullenly eating the watermelon given by the teacher. On her desk, there were three loaves of bread and a bag of biscuits, and nothing else. He put the milk and fruit candy he brought on Zhang Pingping's table, and said with concern: "Why do you eat here alone?" Let's sit down with everyone. As he spoke, he pointed to the row of students gathered in front of him.

Zhang Pingping lowered her head and replied to him in a low voice: "I have always been alone. ”

Chen Yue carefully recalled this sentence and felt a trace of pity for her, "I hope you can be happier." He reassured.

At four o'clock, the food that should be eaten is finished, and the fun is enough. The head teacher instructed everyone to clean up before leaving, and left a sentence: "Go home and review more, understand the key points that the teachers often talk about several times, and don't be late on the day of the exam." So – all the best to all of you – come on. ”

"Good!" Everyone shouted in unison, and the party ended.

Three-year companions are sorry to say goodbye. When everyone parted, they were hippie and smiling, talking and laughing, and there was no tension at all. Do they understand that the best friends and confidants who used to discuss problems together, overcome problems together, team up to the toilet together, and laugh together will all be separated today? They even think of today as if it were a normal day at school. Do they think that this departure is only temporary, and they can meet again, and they can go back to the ignorant first year of junior high school, and then get to know each other again? Wonderful – ephemeral.

The two boys walked in front of Gu Ling, and after Gu Ling separated from her good classmates, she ran over to walk with them.

"It's over—" Gu Ling sighed.

"yes, it's over." The two boys sighed together.

"When I think of when I first came to school, I feel so happy now, and I'm really reluctant." Gu Ling said as she suddenly thought of something, "By the way," she said, "Which school are you in the examination room?" ”

"I'm in No. 1 Middle School," Jiang Yang replied, and then asked her, "What about you?" ”

"Second middle." Gu Ling replied, "It's far away, I remember it's over there in the Children's Palace." ”

"No way, by the way, what about you, Chen Yue?" Jiang Yang turned his head and asked Chen Yue.

"He's at Renmin Road Elementary School, not very far." Gu Ling replied.

"Oh! That's really a coincidence, the three of us are not in the same examination room. ”

"yes, it's a pity."

"Gu Ling, which school are you going to take the exam?" Jiang Yang asked with interest.

"I've already thought about it, and I'll continue to go to the fourth middle school."

"That's... That said... Do you have to score more than 600 points? ”

"Well, come on, I'm going to do a good review." Gu Ling then asked him, "Where are you going to take the exam?" ”

This touched Jiang Yang's sore spot, and he said: "I also want to take the fourth middle school, but..."

Gu Ling lowered her head and didn't speak, she also understood his suffering. After walking for a while, "Then come on," Gu Ling raised his head and said confidently towards Jiang Yang: "You have to work hard, go home and review hard, and strive to be admitted to the fourth middle school, I believe in you." ”

In fact, Jiang Yang clearly knew his ability, and he also knew that Gu Ling also knew that not to mention more than 600 points, 400 points could not be accurate, and the No. 4 Middle School was a regular middle school, and the school would not accept it even if it was a point difference. Nevertheless. "Hmm!" Jiang Yang nodded confidently.

Walking down the long slope, Gu Ling stopped and ran from behind Jiang Yang to Chen Yue's side, "Chen Yue, what about you?" She asked.

"My dad said he wanted me to take the first high school exam, but I thought it was a bit difficult. I'm not sure yet. ”

"No, Chen Yue, don't listen to your father," Gu Ling said, "If you still regard me as your tablemate and your confidant for three years, you can promise me to take the fourth middle school exam, okay?" ”

Chen Yue looked at Gu Ling in surprise.

"Because of this, we may be in the same class again, maybe we are at the same table again." She said and giggled.

"No. 1 Middle School seems to be the most difficult school in the entire Chaohu Lake, right?" Jiang Yang said, "Chen Yue, the road is far away, there is no need to talk about walking, and you are tired of riding a bicycle, so you can only take the bus every day, which is a lot of consumption." ”

Chen Yue didn't expect Jiang Yang to also support him against his father's words, but in the end, in fact, he himself also wanted to go to the fourth middle school. The two walked next to Chen Yue on the left and right, waiting for his answer. Now it's really his turn to speak.

"I went back to discuss with my father, and I said that I would go to the fourth middle school, well, I would go to the fourth middle school!"

After listening to Chen Yue's words, the two smiled together with satisfaction. "That's it! Fill in the 28th volunteer to come to three cards and four in the middle! Gu Ling exclaimed humorously.

At the intersection where he left, Gu Ling said to Jiang Yang and Chen Yue while crossing the street: "I'll surprise you on the day of filling in the volunteers." With that, she didn't look back and ran into the village.