The classroom was silent, except for the rustle of pens across the paper, and a few occasional coughs.

There were two invigilators standing in front of and behind the classroom, and one walking back and forth in the classroom, with falcon-like eyes patrolling the entire examination room.

It was an ordinary exam, but it wasn't ordinary – everyone in the classroom was wearing police uniforms.

Whether it is a teacher or a candidate, the difference is only a few beans or a crutch on the shoulder card, while the test subject on the blackboard in front of the classroom is written - "Field Investigation".

It's not the police who take the exam, they're still students, as for why students wear police uniforms-

That's because this is a police academy, and it is a state-owned police academy directly under the Ministry of Public Security of Huaxia State, and it is known as the criminal police academy of the cradle of Sherlock Holmes in the East.

As the name suggests, the Criminal Police Academy is a school that specializes in training professional criminal police officers such as investigation, forensics, and criminal science and technology.

Ding Jiu is a student in the field of trace examination in the field of forensic science and technology.

On-site investigation is the job of their trace inspection students, the importance is self-evident, Ding Jiu usually works hard, although he should play a lot, but he didn't miss his homework, and the answer to the paper was quite smooth.

Time always flies very quickly in the examination room, Ding Jiu felt that the bell rang not long after he finished answering, and turned his head to look at a fat man not far behind him, who was still struggling to write.

When the invigilator heard the bell, he took the paper away as soon as he grabbed it.

The fat man who seemed to have been robbed of his daughter-in-law had a rich expression, his face was anxious at first, then he slowly despaired, and finally his face was like ashes.

Ding Jiu not only was not sympathetic, but even laughed out loud, causing the fat man to look up at him angrily.

This is the last exam before the holiday, and after the teacher left with the papers, the classroom was like a frying pan, and he went back to the dormitory with a few figures who rushed out to change clothes to catch the high-speed train.

The fat man behind Ding Jiu rushed over in two steps, choked up, and howled miserably at Ding Jiu:

"Why is this year's question so difficult! I'm hanging! ”

Looking at the fat man's face in front of him with so painful facial features crowded together, Ding Jiu couldn't help but laugh and scolded:

"Who told you to sleep in class, and you only started touching the book before the exam, and you don't hang up who hangs."

The fat man wailed, "Then how can you blame me! I wake up so early every morning, and I have to run and do housework, can I blame me for being sleepy when I sit down to class? It's over, if I fail, I'll have to be smoked to death by my dad! ”

Ding Jiu gave him a blank look, packed up his things and walked out of the classroom, turned back to the fat man and said:

"If you don't go, you won't be able to catch up with the high-speed rail, and you won't be able to go back to your home, so you won't have these troubles."

When the fat man heard this, he quickly stopped his "crying", ran to the dormitory with a smoke, and said as he ran: "There are no points, go home for the New Year, and fight again next year." ”

Seeing that he ran more than ten meters away in a blink of an eye and didn't look back, Ding Jiu shook his head and scolded the dead fat man.

This fat man's name is Zhang Dahai, he is a fellow villager of Ding Jiu, the two grew up together in open crotch pants, junior high school and high school are in the same class, and when they get to college, they report together without discussion.

The fat man said that this was fate, Ding Jiu felt that it was because of this kind of bad fate that caused him to be in the wind of Yushu, and he was delayed by the fat man and has never fallen in love until now, and he always dislikes the fat man for this reason.

But to be honest, the relationship between the two is not generally good, and to describe it specifically, it can already reach the level of entrusting a wife and children, of course, after one of them dies.

Ding Jiu also hurried to the dormitory, I don't know why there is plenty of time, but everyone likes the class closest to the end of the exam, and Ding Jiu and Zhang Dahai are not exempt from vulgarity.

After changing their clothes, they rushed to the station with their suitcases, and finally caught the high-speed train home.

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Now the traffic is developed, and it is not like taking the green train before, the road is bumpy and slow, although the school is more than a thousand kilometers away from home, but it only takes four hours, and the time on the high-speed rail is spent in the time of fat people chatting and farting and bragging.

Because the fat man loves to brag and talk like a cannon without points, Ding Jiu also gave him a nickname called Zhang Dacang.

After getting off the high-speed rail, Ding Jiu dropped a taxi home, and after the two of them carried their luggage to the car, Ding Jiu looked at the familiar scenery outside the window, and the fat man in the back seat smacked his lips, and leaned forward to Ding Jiu and said:

"Ding Jiu, what are you doing when you go back? It's not interesting to stay in your old house, why don't you come out for an appointment? ”

The fat man slapped it twice, and Ding Jiu said helplessly: "I won't go out, I have to go to my grandfather's grave first when I go home." ”

The fat man sighed when he heard this, and said: "You are really filial, every year during the New Year's Festival, you will go to your grandfather's grave to burn paper money, this is all feudal superstition, and you have learned Uncle Marcos's dialectical materialism in vain." ”

The fat man who received Ding Jiu's white eyes smacked his lips, and then said, "Then let's find time again, I'll come back to you." ”

Ding Jiu hummed and didn't say anything more.

Soon the car arrived at the gate of the town, one of Ding Jiu and the fat man was going to the west of the town, and the other lived in the east of the town.

Ding Jiu got out of the car at a fork in the town, let the fat man go home in the car, and walked to the old house with his suitcase.

The westernmost part of the town is some old courtyards, which were originally called Dingjia Village, and the surname Ding is the big surname in the village.

Later, the town was built, and even next to the village, the young people in the village all went to live in the town, and there were only some old people left in Dingjia Village.

When he arrived at the door of a slightly mottled house, Ding Jiu stopped, put down his luggage, and patted the big iron gate at the entrance of the courtyard.

Soon after the knock on the gate, I heard the sound of staggering footsteps in the courtyard, followed by the sound of the bolt opening the door, and a crack opened in the courtyard door.

Ding Jiu called with a smile: "Grandma, I'm back!" ”

Seeing that it was Ding Jiu, the courtyard door opened, and an old woman with a slightly slumped back smiled kindly:

"It's a long time, the school is on vacation, come, hurry in, it's cold outside."

This is Ding Jiu's grandmother, when she just graduated from elementary school, Ding Jiu's grandfather, who had been sick for many years, died of cerebral hemorrhage, leaving Ding Jiu's grandmother to live alone in the courtyard of her hometown.

Several children proposed to take the old man to live in the town, which was also convenient to take care of, but after repeated persuasion, Ding Jiu's grandmother was reluctant to leave the old house, saying that she was not used to living in the building, and no one spoke.

In desperation, several children each took some money and helped to renovate the old house, and the matter of picking up the old man was done.

However, Ding Jiu came to see his grandmother every time he had a holiday for the New Year, and he also did his filial piety for his busy father.

Hearing his grandmother's words, Ding Jiu responded with a smile and entered the courtyard with his luggage.

Not long after sitting on the kang, grandma was busy bringing Ding Jiu all kinds of dried fruits, fruits and sugar for the New Year.

Ding Jiu hurriedly got up to help, and it took a while to work before the two of them sat down to rest and chat.

As he spoke, he had to do what Ding Jiu had to do every time he went home, and went to the grave of his grandfather, and his grandmother said:

"It's getting late, I won't go today, it's dark at night, the mountain road is weird and it's not easy to walk, let's go again tomorrow."

From the time I came back from the high-speed train at noon to the town, it was already more than six o'clock in the evening, and it was dark early in winter, and it was dark outside.

Ding Jiu looked at the sky and said, "Okay, listen to you." ”

Every time Ding Jiu goes home to see his grandmother, he also has a task, which is to go to his grandfather's grave, which is also because he is the only male in the family.

Ding Jiu has four cousins, he is the youngest in the family, and he is also the only grandson of Ding Jiu's grandfather on the family tree, and his characters in the family tree are long, which is the origin of the word Jiu in Ding Jiu's name.

And the old rule is that when worshipping ancestors during the New Year's Festival, a man on the family tree must be required to preside.

Although I don't know how many people will abide by these old rules now, my grandmother values them very much.

And Ding Jiu's father and uncle and second uncle were busy with work, and they couldn't return to the old house most of the time, Ding Jiu was unwilling to go against his grandmother's wishes, so he consciously took on this task.

Countrymen generally go to bed early, Ding Jiu and grandma talked again, about eight o'clock, seeing that grandma was a little sleepy, Ding Jiu helped grandma roll up the futon and let grandma lie down and rest.

Ding Jiu felt that the time was too early, played with his mobile phone, and did not close his eyes and sleep until more than twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.