Maybe this is the last night in the rural hometown, it happened to rain, there is constantly the sound of rain falling outside the window, there is no need to turn on the air conditioner, the interior is exceptionally cool, the furniture in the room is still bought when she got married, Zhao Cui probably only lived here for a few nights, but Ma Xiaoliang grew up here, spent his middle school years, and rarely lived here since he went to college.

For countless nights, under a not very bright table lamp, under the pressure of continuous learning, Ma Xiaoliang was suppressed for a long time, and could only look out the window from the house countless times.

Although it is not far from the urban area of Guanzhou, it is still a rural area, and even compared with the county seat, it is still an unbridgeable gap.

Since being admitted to the best experimental high school in the county, Ma Xiaoliang has started the residential school mode, going home almost once every half a month, and in the third year of high school, he basically goes home once a month.

The three years of high school passed in a hurry, and there were not many comparisons between classmates, and the basic thing I cared about was grades.

Ma Xiaoliang hung a map in his house, and when the pressure couldn't stand it, he stared at the city on the map and imagined the future.

When I was in high school, my teachers often said, "If you go to university, you'll be free!" One English teacher even said, "Do you know where the best university is?" Many people shouted out Tsinghua University and Peking University, but the teacher said with a little humor: "Suzhou and Hangzhou!" Hearing this, many people burst into laughter, too, since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are Jiangnan, and Jiangnan is very beautiful.

When it was time to actually take the university entrance examination, Ma Xiaoliang chose Soochow University in the first batch of undergraduates, and in the second batch of undergraduates, he chose the business school that was quite popular at that time, and the location was Lanzhou.

Lanzhou is located in the northwest, according to the experience of previous years, there are few times when the first choice is admitted, but that year (2003) is extremely popular, the second choice to fill in the Jiangnan University of Finance and Economics (the predecessor of Jiangnan University of Economics and Law), unsurprisingly also slipped, just when Ma Xiaoliang was thinking about repeating, on a hot afternoon, the phone rang at home, the other party was the admissions office of Shunde College, asked Ma Xiaoliang if he was willing, and gave three majors in computer, Chinese language and literature and business administration, Ma Xiaoliang hesitated, I chose Business Administration.

The reason why I don't want to repeat it is because the pressure is a bit high, and in addition to family conditions, I just want to go out and see.

Shunde is in Jiangbei Province, not far from Guanzhou, and on the day of school, Ma Xiaoliang's father went to send it, carrying clothes from summer to winter, as well as bedding and even dry food in his luggage.

When the train stopped at Shunde Station, Ma Xiaoliang, who walked out of Shunde Station, had the idea of going home, after all, you must know that compared with Guanzhou Station, Shunde Station is almost a small station, and when he came to Shunde College, looking at the school gate is not yet high school style, Ma Xiaoliang was completely deflated, but he chose to report, compared to these, Ma Xiaoliang is more afraid of repeating, suffering from gains and losses, you must know that it is not easy for rural students to go out.

The group that grew up with him since childhood, and the last to go to high school was only four or five out of ten, and there were only three people in the village who were finally admitted to university, and Ma Xiaoliang was one of them.

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