When I came to Jiangdu from a small county town, it was the end of May 1986, and I was about to graduate from middle school, so I had to go back to the place where my hukou was located to take the graduation exam. At that time, the family already had a house in a corner of Jiangdu that was not too big, but it was enough to live in. When his father came to Chaotianmen Port to pick up Ash, there was no difference from before the separation, the only thing that was a little different in Ash's eyes was Jiangdu, the city where Ash was about to live. At that time, the port was not as it is now, it was a step-by-step ladder to the sky, which felt quite tall and long. In the past, when I went back to my hometown with my parents, I would also pass through Jiangdu, and the general route was from the port to the railway station, which is basically a route that Ash rarely goes to now. So there is no very specific impression, and this time Ash is really going to live in this city, so I pay attention to this city that is about to belong to Ash, and Ash is about to belong to her.

The streets are not clean and there are many, many people, everyone is busy, and of course the busyness of that time and the busyness of the present seem to be no longer the same thing in the sense. Just after walking the tall and long ladder, Ash hated the city a little, maybe it was too many people, the waiting place at the No. 1 (now No. 401 tram) station was full of people, what made Ash hate was not these people, but the scene after the car came, people all rushed up like a straw fighting for their lives, and it may not be very appropriate to describe it as rushing, because the momentum is enough to compare the people that Ash once saw on TV in response to Mao's call for the spirit of steelmaking. With the crowd, Ash barely moved and stood in the carriage full of inexplicable smell (because you almost don't have to move, and the people behind will push you into the car), and his father stood next to Ash and carefully protected Ash, although Ash had lived independently for three years at that time, and was already a fourteen-year-old young man, but at that moment his father's love was deeply reflected.

Standing in the carriage with a shaky edge, desperately looking out of the window, Ash wanted to know the city too much, because this was about to be the place where Ash lived. But nearly 20 years have passed, and the scenery on the way Xiaozhi has almost forgotten it, I don't know if it's because his mood was already resisting at that time or because there was really no good memory along the way, the only thing that still has an impression is the "Jiangdu Hotel", it is estimated that the reason for Xiaozhi's record is not at that time, but in that era, there were very few decent hotels in Jiangdu. I still remember getting off at Qixinggang and then turning to No. 2 (now No. 402 tram), for people like Xiaozhi, who are used to taking long-distance buses, the time on the road is not very long, from the arrival of Jiangdu Port A little more than an hour after returning home, my mother has already prepared a meal and waited for Xiaozhi to come back. The first time I enjoyed a semi-active gas shower in my own home, I still felt good, although it seemed to be different from what Ash had seen on TV and movies before (I later realized that most of the movies and TV that Ash saw when I was a child described stories happening in cities like Beijing and Shanghai).

This is a two-bedroom house, the ground floor, the front of the door is also inserted in front of the door before the planting of roses and grapes in front of the door, I heard my mother said that after the construction in front of the door is completed, these things do not know where to plant, I knew this, I should have had a place to plant flowers and grass on the top floor, maybe this is the usual thought of some people with a local atmosphere! is like the feeling of the father described by Mr. Zhu Ziqing in his "Back", simple and a little honest. Now that I think about it, even Xiaozhi, who was relatively independent at that time, was the same, it was always difficult to achieve the same thinking as the people around him in a short period of time, stubbornly preserving his usual way of thinking and thinking mode, perhaps this itself is also a characteristic of the Chinese, which was confirmed on the third day.

Because the day I arrived was Saturday, on the third Monday, my mother took Ash to the middle school behind the house, because Ash's household registration had been separated from the unit and fell into his own residence in this place, so the choice of school was not up to Ash and Ash's family. When I got to the school, I found the director of the grade level, it was a look that Ash didn't remember at all, whether it was a man or a woman, I don't remember, but in my memory, he took Ash to Ash's class, and asked Ash to wait at the door for a while to go in and talk to the teacher inside, it was a very young teacher, probably the kind that had just graduated from school for a few years, glanced at Ash from the classroom, and then asked the classmates to be quiet, and then let Ash in, It's natural for Ash to stand at the door and raise his hand to salute a Young Pioneer, (at that time, Ash was not yet fourteen years old, so he didn't quit the team, it was originally when he was about to leave the original school, the head teacher asked Ash to write an application for joining the group, but I don't know why the Youth League Committee of the class at that time actually didn't respect the opinion of the head teacher, and more than half of the students thought that Ash was not yet old enough to make an exception, and although Ash was the deputy squadron leader, his usual performance was too incompetent, As a deputy squadron leader, more time is spent on the blackboard newspaper of the class and grade.,Hehe,It seems that Ash has not been doing his job since he was a child.). When Ash raised his hand above his head and shouted the "report", the originally quiet classroom suddenly became lively and the hall burst into laughter. (If it weren't for the head of the grade, there would be no way to end the scene), the young female teacher was a little overwhelmed there, I don't know if it was because of Ash's actions or the reaction of the whole class, she completely lost her assertion, and in the end, it was the grade director who suppressed the students and stopped making noise, but the whispering continued, perhaps for this reason, Ash was placed next to the class president. Being ridiculed inexplicably, Ash really didn't understand what's going on, for Ash and Ash's previous school, this was supposed to be a really normal action, but it was ridiculed like this, but maybe everyone is still young, and this matter didn't leave anyone with any talk or anything like that, because Ash's approach was at least correct and deserved.

There was really nothing to remember about the last school life that year, because the memories were chaotic and couldn't be a little beautiful, and some just watched the classmates skip school one by one, fight, and kick football, so anxious that the homeroom teacher often stood behind the teacher's window of Ash on the second floor of the school and shouted at the class of students who were collectively skipping class: "Come back, you come back to Ash". But no one came back, and Ash's footsteps were among the group, because there was really no need for one person to stay in the empty classroom that originally belonged to more than thirty people.

In fact, most of the time Ash can't listen to it in class, it's not the relationship between the teacher's good and bad speech, because the time of the exam is already next month, and Ash has no time to adapt to the teacher's unfamiliar explanation and re-understand the surrounding learning environment, the only thing to do is to read his book well again and again. Because the seat is by the window, Ash has a lot of time to look out the window at the playground that has now been replaced by a teaching building that does not exist, more often Ash is thinking about Ash's former classmates, so he wrote down a letter for the first time in his life except for his family, maybe it was after leaving that he knew that many classmates had to be remembered by Ash, so the letters were also written one after another, and all this was seen by a classmate behind Ash, and the strange thing was that her thoughts completely surprised Ash, One day when Ash was writing a letter, a small ball of paper from Ash's head drew a sharp arc and landed on Ash's hand, perhaps this point is really familiar to Ash, almost no one has not experienced this kind of paper ball when he was studying, so when he got the paper ball, Ash did not look at who threw it, but carefully pressed it in the palm of his hand, looked up at the teacher on the podium and did not pay attention, and then carefully opened it in the crook of his arm.

"You have a lot of love letters, let me read them that day, and Ash can study them. Army"

It was a very beautiful girl with the same name as a boy, and Ash smiled and wrote a line of words on the back of the paper.

"I'm writing a letter to my classmates, not a love letter, you misunderstood." Then without looking back, the parabola that I used confidently and accurately when I was used to return to the place where the paper ball came from.

After a while, another ball of paper returned to Ash's desk.

"Go to the back of school after class, I'll wait for you."

"Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, something"

Because there were only two classes in the afternoon at that time, Ash estimated that after this class, everyone would have to prepare for a collective "escape". I didn't care, because since Ash came, Ash had seen this happen many times, because there had never been a case of one or two people skipping class together, as long as all the male and female classmates who skipped class almost all disappeared, even if there were a few people left, they would eventually leave after the class bell rang. Ash still hasn't figured out how they came to be so united!

After class, Ash began to organize his school bags, and he had already seen many students leave the classroom faster than the teacher. Relieved, this is the situation of a class in the last school that Ash attended.

At the back of the school, which is a place where Ash must pass to get home, there is a small forest of not many trees. Jun was already waiting for Ash on the side of the road, and when she saw Ash coming and motioning for Ash to go to a quieter place and sit down, behind a tree on either side that almost no one could see, she sat down and beckoned Ash to sit down.

"What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I just want to sit with you, I want to ask you a little bit about you."

"My business?"

"yes, you have a lot of differences."

"Oh, am I stupid?"

Jun laughed, indeed, a little boy with a rustic flavor is a little silly, at that time Ash was a little embarrassed and a little angry. But Ash really couldn't find anything to debate, and at that time Ash didn't have as many thoughts and the courage to resist as he does now (linguistically, of course, there are a lot of other things, even more powerful than many of his peers).

Jun smiled and smiled I don't know if it's the relationship between the sitting position, she fell on Ash's bent legs, Ash was frightened, and quickly reached out to hug it, the coat worn by the girl at that time was rarely pressed into the waistband of her pants, and it was summer, in a hurry, Ash's hand passed through her loose shirt, and the hand touched the skin on her back, coupled with the inertia of her falling, the palm stopped at the position of the strap of her underwear. At that moment, Ash didn't know what to do, and his hand was pressed under her back and inside her shirt, and she couldn't pull it out. Jun looked at Ash, didn't move and didn't mean to get up. The hand that used to be just holding a pen and paper was placed on the skin of a person of the opposite sex for the first time, and with such a sincere feeling of a completely different contact, Ash's heart beat harder than ever, and he enjoyed it, but Ash also knew that it would not work.

"You're really stupid"

Ash's face turned red to his neck, and he quickly wanted to withdraw Ash's hand, but it was pressed tightly, Jun looked at Ash and said, "You dare!" ”

Ash was so frightened that he didn't care about anything, and his hand retracted forcefully.

"I'm going back." Turned his head and ran away like a frightened rabbit, where was Junleng for how long Ash didn't know, but when she went to school the next day, she saw Ash still smiling like the same, but Ash didn't know how to face it. After that, until graduation, the army gave Ash a note, with the address of her home, Ash didn't look at it and put it in his trouser pocket, where the note went later, Ash didn't know, anyway, after that glance, Ash never saw it again, I don't know if it was not taken out when I changed clothes, and I washed it off when I washed it or what.

I don't know if it's because Ash really didn't read anything in the last month or because Ash himself can't adapt to everything in the city so quickly.,After graduating from junior high school, Ash wasn't admitted to a key middle school.,There are only two choices for Ash.,Repeat or work.。

Just when Xiao Zhi didn't know how to choose, that year Jiang Du began to recruit the last batch of workers who were "owned by the whole people". Although Ash's parents' idea was to let him repeat his studies, but in the end Ash still chose to take the exam, perhaps in the eyes of many people now, this is really not a very smart choice, but in fact, in those years, "national ownership" and "contract system" were almost like the difference between a person with a formal job and a self-employed person, only people of that era could understand why the choice in that environment was.

At the end of the year, Ash successfully entered the factory, although he was very thin in height and weight like a malnourished child, but began the real life of Ash in Jiangdu, at that moment Ash may really belong to this city, and whether this city belongs to Ash, no one knows.