In the early morning, the door of the east room was opened from the inside, and Ah Li, dressed in a lotus pavilion jacket, walked out of it.
In the past, she was the first to start this family, but today she is not.
On the dam, Runsheng and Tan Wenbin sat opposite each other, lowering their heads to polish the sickle in their hands.
When Ah Li passed by, Runsheng looked up and smiled at the girl: "It's early."
The girl stopped, then moved into the house and went upstairs.
Although he didn't speak, the previous pause was even the biggest response.
Pushing open the door of the room and walking in, the boy was not awake yet, and the girl began to admire the paintings hanging on the wall by herself.
There are three completed paintings, the first of which is the little yellow warbler.
The woman in the painting is not blue-faced and fanged, but appears restrained and subtle, swaying and marching in her posture, her lips and teeth seem to be talking, as if she wants to come out of the picture scroll, singing and dancing.
The second picture is a kind white-haired old woman, sitting in the yard basking in the sun, with a black cat sleeping on her lap.
The third picture is a middle-aged man, who seems to have deliberately blurred his image, only drawing his back, but the bronze coin hanging around his waist has been depicted very carefully and the organization is extremely clear.
A lot of thought was put into the background of the three paintings.
The first painting has a sense of illusion, the second painting is warm and desolate, and the third painting is very depressing.
When Ah Li was looking at it seriously, Li Zhuyuan woke up.
The boy walked to the girl's side and watched with her for a while.
After washing up, he played chess with the girl as usual, and now he played three sets together, which greatly improved Li Chaiyuan's efficiency in losing chess.
"It's breakfast!"
Every day is Aunt Liu's shout, which kicks off the official start of the day.
Runsheng and Tan Wenbin came back from the fields together, the autumn harvest was over, and the fields were busy these days, so Tan Wenbin deliberately got up early to help.
He had never suffered hardship, and he had blisters on his hands when he did this, but he didn't take it seriously and picked it out with a needle on his own.
Even Li Sanjiang told him to stop doing it, but Tan Wenbin responded with a smile:
"It's okay, strong and strong."
At the end of the early self-study, Li Chaiyuan and Tan Wenbin walked into the classroom.
There is a pot of flowers on Zheng Haiyang's desk.
Tan Yunlong did not directly tell Li Zhuiyuan whether there was anyone above, nor did he continue to follow up with Li Zhuiyuan on the details of the follow-up investigation, but sometimes, no news is also a kind of news.
This means that the three of them have been removed from this matter.
Although he and others have been there and left a lot of traces, they will definitely be able to find out if they are carefully investigated, but there is a specialization in the art industry, Li Chaoyuan doesn't know if Yu Shu is back or someone else, but after all, they are not professional in the field of criminal investigation, and their perspective will instinctively ignore the existence and role of "ordinary people" in it.
During this time, Tan Wenbin studied very seriously, and in addition to accompanying Li Chaiyuan to go to the toilet during class, he was doing questions by himself.
"Chasing the Secret Scroll" is now printed and sold by the school, Tan Wenbin saves a lot of trivial matters, but his current exercise book is specially made, designed by Li Chaiyuan alone for his own learning progress and situation.
If it weren't for his memory being much better than that of ordinary people, his "academic performance" might have regressed.
But his ability to teach people to learn has been greatly improved, as if he was not in high school, but in a normal school.
Binbin is still cheerful, can joke, play tricks, and sings and harmonizes with Li Sanjiang when eating at home.
But in his own time, he will be more silent because he seems to have something to do all the time.
After a while, he would bring the learning problems and death problems he had summarized to Li Zhuiyuan to solve.
Li Chaiyuan could feel that these problems were really difficult for Tan Wenbin to understand, and he must have done rounds of screening to overcome them.
Slow growth is a kind of happiness.
And overnight maturity is often not enviable.
In the past, Tan Wenbin shouted that he would also take the "Haihe University" exam, and he was more inclined to make wishes, but now he is really realizing it step by step, and he has become very focused.
A retired philosophy professor at the Family Institute once said this to Li Chaiyuan, saying that there are two types of smart people in this world, one is a smart person like Li Chaiyuan, and the other is a smart person with clear cognition.
The former is that the brain is too easy to use, learning everything quickly, no matter how envious outsiders are, they can't imitate it.
But the latter is no worse than the former, that is, at a certain age of life growth, you know what to do in the next stage, and you can make plans and work hard to implement them.
The competition between society and life is under great pressure, but most people are pushed into the next stage of their lives to participate in the competition with confusion and confusion, but what if they can start planning and preparing for the competition two or three years in advance?
At that time, there were actually very few competitors around you.
Xue Liangliang is the genius among the latter, because his eyes can not only see two or three years later, or even twenty or thirty years later.
This is not a big god, nor is it a prophecy, but people really have the ability to see the main contradictions and explore objective laws.
Although there is a phone, it is not so convenient to make a phone call after all, and there is really nothing to talk about directly, so the two are still used to communicating by letter.
Last time, Li Chaiyuan mentioned the issue of the exercise collection in the letter, and by the way, he also told Xue Liangliang about Tan Wenbin's ideas.
Xue Liangliang's reply said that Tan Wenbin is a business genius, and he is sure that this industry will definitely be a large blue ocean in the future and has broad business prospects, because the Chinese people's emphasis on education is a cultural instinct.
Xue Liangliang also said that if Tan Wenbin wants to continue to do this in the future, he can invest a sum of money, and suggested that it is best not to limit yourself to the influence of personal brand, it is best to use the label of the Nantong Education Examination to discuss cooperation with the famous middle schools, and then use the entire city as a big brand name to build it.
Li Chaiyuan told Tan Wenbin Xue Liangliang's words, Tan Wenbin was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then slapped his thigh:
"Zhen, this is a great man!"
But when Li Chaiyuan asked Tan Wenbin if he was willing to do this business, Tan Wenbin shook his head, he didn't want to.
He wants to go to college, he wants to continue learning.
Since he had already boarded this boat, he wanted to go on a long voyage, really see the scenery in the distance, and then go to that destination.
For this reason, he also added with great interest: "My parents are both in public units, so I don't have to worry about pension."
That's right, people who have seen the horror of life and death but can still maintain an optimistic and positive attitude are indeed difficult to make money again.
For lunch, Li Chaiyuan did not go to eat with Tan Wenbin, he got into a bus parked on campus, and all kinds of food and drinks were prepared on the bus.
Principal Wu still led the team, and Teacher Yan served as an assistant, and the bus set off and drove to Jinling to face the Provincial Mathematical Olympiad competition.
The other six classmates in the car were eating and drinking non-stop along the way, very happy.
Li Chaiyuan ate some food to cushion his stomach, and then leaned against the car window and looked at the scenery outside the window.
Wu Xinhan noticed and sat down to ask if it was prepared and not to his taste.
Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and said bluntly that it was because his living conditions were good before.
This answer made Principal Wu stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face.
Those who can be the principal will not be bad in dealing with people, the difference is to see who is worthy of being used.
Therefore, he liked this simple and straightforward boy, with him, no pretending, and no tiredness.
Wu Xinhan helped Li Chaiyuan get out of the back seat of the car so that he could lie down and rest.
The school rents a bus to take the exam into consideration and tries to slow down the fatigue of the journey as much as possible.
When I arrived in Jinling, I stayed at the hotel.
Everyone else is in the standard room, and Li Chaiyuan is a single room.
No one thought it was unfair, and the six classmates knew that they were able to pass the city competition thanks to the boy's help.
At this moment, Li Chaseyuan was lying on the bed, holding Wei Zhengdao.
The door was knocked.
Li Chaiyuan got out of bed and was about to open the door, when he heard Principal Wu's inquiry from outside: "Who are you?"
"I am Xiaoyuan's brother."
"Brother?"
The standard room between Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan is opposite Li Chaiyuan.
At this moment, Teacher Yan is in another room, taking the six classmates to do the Mathematical Olympiad papers, and the exam will start tomorrow.
Wu Xinhan's door has always been open, so that he can pay attention to the situation there of Li Zhuiyuan, he is like a giant python guarding the treasure in mythological stories.
Li Chaiyuan opened the door and saw someone coming, and he smiled.
The person who came was Xue Liangliang.
Haihe University is in Jinling.
Xue Liangliang handed his student ID card to Principal Wu for inspection, and only then was he able to pass the security check of the giant python and was allowed to meet with his baby.
Closing the door, Xue Liangliang smiled and said: "Xiao Yuan, you principal, really cherish you tightly."
Saying that, Xue Liangliang bent down and stretched out his hand to pinch the boy's face.
"Come, let me breathe in the spiritual energy of a prodigy, help me cultivate the Tao, and rank in the immortal class as soon as possible."
"Then Brother Liangliang, you shouldn't suck me."
Xue Liangliang: "......"
"Brother Liangliang, what are you holding in your hand?"
"Some Jinling specialties, I know you are too lazy to bring big and small bags home, so I will prepare some food and try it with you."
He took out a lot of snacks from the bag, one of which was a brine duck.
Li Chaiyuan picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece and tasted it.
"How is it?"
"It's delicious."
"I can't get used to this thing." Xue Liangliang shrugged, "But whether it is a public or a private company, they like to give out saltwater ducks during the New Year's holidays."
"Personal tastes are different, I like to eat lighter ones."
This duck, except for the salty taste, is basically white.
"Hey, do you know, the first time I read your letter saying that you were in your third year of high school, I thought I had read the wrong word, and then I thought if you wrote the wrong word, why didn't you tell me earlier that you were in the junior class before?"
"I told you."
"Is there any?" Xue Liangliang thought for a moment, "That must have been because I was distracted at the time, so you are going to take the college entrance examination next year?"
"Hmm."
"Well, are you coming to be an alumni?"
"Okay."
"Really?"
"Well, really."
Xue Liangliang showed joy, and then took out a letter from his pocket:
"You have made me, a lobbyist, have no sense of accomplishment; Well, this is a letter from Luo Gong to me to you, you have seen it, he wants me to persuade you to apply for our school in advance."
The college entrance examination is still early, but the competition has already begun.
Although the provincial examination is said to be tomorrow, when the results at the city level come out, the werewolves have already smelled blood.
This mainly depends on the gold content of the small division, plus Li Chaiyuan's exaggerated age.
President Wu mentioned to Li Chaiyuan that many colleges and universities have been saying hello recently, and they will start a real hunting operation after the provincial examination.
Wu Xinhan is very happy because his middle school is not yet qualified.
Although teaching quality work is an overall matter, the effect of a leader in a specific circle or even industry is also very considerable, which can bring more attention and resources to the school.
"Okay." Li Chaiyuan accepted the letter, "When will you admit me in advance?"
"Poof......" Xue Liangliang had just raised his cup and drank water, almost half of it was spit out, he wiped the corner of his mouth, "So impatient?"
"Ang."
"Your attitude makes me think that there is a treasure hidden under our school."
"No need for treasures, just die."
"Don't, don't, I'm most afraid of Xiaoyuan's ghost stories."
"Huh?"
"Campus ghost story."
"Oh, really, I don't believe it."
"I'm very timid."
Li Chaiyuan just looked at him like this, staring intently.
Xue Liangliang shrank his neck: "That's different, she's not a ghost, she's not dead, she's hot."
Li Chaiyuan asked suspiciously: "Is there anything hot under the river?"
"When the provincial examination results come out, we can go through the process, I think you can get a perfect score in the city exam, and there will be no problem in winning an award in the provincial examination, and you will definitely be able to meet the early admission conditions."
In fact, Xue Liangliang's statement is not accurate, the conditions are not calculated this way, but the conditions are set to save screening costs.
"Well, I took leave, and when you go back, I will be cheeky and go in the same car as you."
"Huh?"
"My internship and employment have been completed, and I will go to the mountain city early next month."
"Oh, you want to go see your sister-in-law before you leave."
"Your sister-in-law shouted quite smoothly, I thought you would be afraid and disgusted with them."
"I hate the Bai family very much, but she can get the Bai family back underwater, I think it's good, that's where they should be."
Xue Liangliang took a deep breath, spat it out again, and muttered in a low voice: "Isn't that still my dedication?"
"Then do you want to write it into the local chronicle for Brother Liangliang? After all, you have also made great contributions to protecting the territory and the people."
"Hahaha, that's too ugly, and when people see this in the future, they will probably have to scold me and the person who remembered this matter as a little fool."
"Then you still want to see her?" "After going to the mountain city, I don't know when I will be able to come back, let's take a look first, this is a fixed task after all."
"Like my grandfather and grandfather who pay public grain?"
"Hey, you kid, don't think I can't see it, you're pretending to be a child!"
Xue Liangliang directly threw Li Chaiyuan onto the bed and began to tickle him.
After Li Chase kept begging for mercy, he let the boy go.
After chatting for a while, Xue Liangliang was ready to leave:
"Come on, take the exam tomorrow, I will wait for you outside the examination room."
"Hmm."
At this time, the knock on the door sounded again.
"Who are you?" Principal Wu on the other side of the door spat out the letter again.
"I'm looking for Xiaoyuan, I'm his brother."
"It's my brother again, Xiaoyuan has so many brothers in Jinling?"
Li Chaiyuan opened the door of the room and saw someone coming.
The person who came was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and although he was wearing plain clothes, he stood there, like a sharp knife.
"Grandpa Principal, he is my brother."
"Oh, okay, you brothers have a meeting."
Wu Xinhan waved his hand and swam back to his room.
The visitor stood at the door, did not come in, and said very bluntly:
"Grandma wants you to go back to Beijing."
Li Zhuyuan shook his head: "No return."
"Your mother used that kind of application report to make requests from above, grandpa is not allowed to intervene at home, but you can make choices for your own life."
"This is my choice."
"Although your parents are divorced, you are still a member of our family."
"My surname is Li now."
"No room?"
"No."
"Hmm."
The visitor simply turned around and left.
Xue Liangliang asked in surprise: "Who is he?"
"My dad's eldest brother's son."
It's not that Li Chaiyuan deliberately called him so indifferently, but he couldn't tell the difference for a while.
"Do your dad's relatives get along like this on weekdays?"
"No. It should be Grandpa Bei who gave the order to the family."
"Give an order? Not to mention, that person really looks like a soldier."
"He is."
"But, even if your parents are divorced, how can you get along like this, your mother won't change your surname for you, right?"
"Well, she did."
"Oh, no wonder."
"But that's not the main reason."
Li Chaiyuan knew that his Grandpa Bei was a very principled person, Li Lan used a special application to arrange for his son, so Grandpa Bei could only choose to approve of this, and his family was not allowed to intervene and influence this arrangement.
The boy now suspects that what Li Lan is doing is the same thing as Zhu Changyong, although not in the sea.
And the one who can come here to find himself is actually disobeying his grandfather's will, which is hard to imagine in the north family, if grandpa finds out, he will really break his leg.
Therefore, the other party's attitude is indifferent, just because he is used to this, and his own indifference is that he doesn't want to convey misunderstandings, for fear that they will feel that they can have room for operation.
Otherwise, if he reports to Grandma Bei wrongly, Grandpa Bei will be angry if he starts operating over there.
In the eyes of Grandpa Bei, Li Lan's arrangements for herself are like "the last wishes of her comrades-in-arms".
"Oh, by the way, if you were admitted in advance, would you still go to school?"
"I will go to the college entrance examination."
"Then do you want to accompany me to the mountain city to have fun?"
"No, ......."
Chase Li didn't really want to go far, at least for now.
"Forget it, it's nothing fun, my workplace is definitely not in the city, but in those ravines, except for the mountains and water."
"Okay."
"Huh?"
"I can go play."
Mainly recently, my hometown has died, and the frequency of occurrence has been greatly reduced.
At the beginning, I wanted to come out in a few days, but now, I don't see a single one in a month, and the theory is seriously out of practice, and there will be problems.
"Okay, I'll arrange it then."
"Can I bring a friend?"
"Is this still a problem?"
"Thank you, Brother Liangliang."
"Then you take the exam well, I'm leaving."
"Goodbye, Brother Liangliang."
At night, Li Chase went to bed early.
When I woke up in the morning, Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan took everyone to the examination room.
Coincidentally, Li Chaiyuan's exam seat is still in the row by the window, and when looking out, you can still see a ginkgo tree.
But this time, after the opening bell rang, he did not continue to look at the scenery in a daze, but lowered his head first and answered the question.
The questions are much more difficult than the city competition, and the intention of the questioners is purely to make things difficult, and you can even see their miserable smiles from the numbers and symbols.
Li Chaiyuan was empathetic, just like the feeling he felt when he gave Tan Wenbin a question.
After answering the questions, Li Chaiyuan handed in the paper in advance, and he walked under the ginkgo tree again and looked at the yellowed leaves on it.
He really wanted to suggest that the principal and grandfather also plant some in the school, but after thinking about it, it wasn't much necessary, and he probably didn't have many opportunities to see it.
Walking out of the examination room, Wu Xinhan and Teacher Yan immediately ran over, handing towels and water.
"How is it, Xiaoyuan?"
"Is the question difficult?"
"I made it all."
Hearing this, the stone that the two of them had already put in their hearts was compacted a lot.
The day after returning from the exam, it was the midterm exam.
Originally, Wu Xinhan thought that Xiaoyuan would come to his office to rest after the first session like the last monthly exam, so he even brought a thermos bucket, which contained chicken soup boiled by his wife.
But waited left and right, but didn't see the boy coming.
He couldn't sit still, not because he was worried that the chicken soup would be wasted, but because he was afraid that the boy would catch a cold from the wind when he went to rest elsewhere.
He went to Sun Qing's office first.
Sun Qing had just finished a proctoring exam and was sharing persimmon cakes with the teachers in the office.
After all, only those who have no grades will be involved in the whirlpool of qualifications to torture and struggle with each other.
The qualifications that fell from the sky are also qualifications.
In the future, when I bring it up, I will only say that I taught "who, who", and no one would really care about what you taught him.
You can even cover your mouth and say: "Actually, he is very smart, he doesn't need to bother us as class teachers, just develop freely."
It's the truth, but the listeners will only think you're really humble.
Just like Principal Wu indulging in yin and yang during meetings, everyone has inner spiritual needs, and Sun Qing's favorite thing to do now is to close her eyes and fantasize about the future before lying on the bed and going to bed.
"Teacher Sun, come out."
"Okay, principal." Sun Qing came out and handed Wu Xinhan a piece of persimmon.
Wu Xinhan took a bite and asked: "Where is Xiao Yuan?"
"He is taking the exam."
"Ah, haven't finished the exam yet? Didn't the papers have already been printed, and no one gave them to him?"
"No, Xiaoyuan said this time that he wants to take the exam according to the normal process and familiarize himself with the college entrance examination process."
The midterm exam is different from the monthly exam, it does not compress the time so extremely, but is divided into two days to simulate the frequency of the college entrance examination as much as possible.
"What a good boy."
"Teacher Su is very happy."
"Hehe."
Teacher Su teaches English, and Chinese and mathematics can be used as the first reversal, but she has never seen any exam English taken first, and she doesn't want to recall her glorious resume in the future.
At the end of each exam, Tan Wenbin did not answer correctly, but sat down and returned to his seat, either doing the questions or warming up for the next exam.
In the morning, some food will appear under his drawer.
It was sent by the squad leader Zhou Yunyun.
Even if Tan Wenbin lacks a string in his brain, he knows what the squad leader means, and he will return the gift and buy some snacks to send back.
But except for the exchange questions between classes, he did not have much contact with Zhou Yunyun, and as soon as school was over, he rode his bicycle to follow Runsheng's three wheels home.
Zhou Yunyun didn't continue to take the initiative, the two of them just occasionally gave some small gifts, and neither of them crossed the line.
Perhaps, this is the most beautiful throbbing of youth, and it is also the warm arc that will still appear at the corners of the mouth when rummaging through memories in the future.
When harvesting rice, he told Runsheng about it.
Runsheng turned around and asked: "When do you want a child?"
If it weren't for seeing Runsheng holding the scythe in his hand, Tan Wenbin would have wanted to duel with him.
Although it is still graded according to ranking, colleges and universities have their own channels to know the real scores.
Wu Xinhan's happiest thing these days is to sit in the office and answer the phone.
"Hello, I'm Wu Xinhan, the principal of Shigang Middle School."
Then wait for the following to introduce yourself.
Isn't this more fulfilling than during a military training review?
Unfortunately, Xiaoyuan had already told him to target the university, which made him lose more room for happiness.
On the night of the midterm exam rankings, Tan Wenbin returned to his home.
After handing the report card to his mother, his mother cried with joy.
When Tan Yunlong came back, his wife excitedly shared the joy with him, which made Tan Yunlong himself feel a little dazed and unreal.
He walked to the door of his son's room and wanted to push the door in, but he knocked on the door.
The son didn't say "please come in", but came over and opened the door.
"Go to the balcony and have a chat."
"Hmm."
The father and son came to the balcony.
Tan Yunlong: "I did well in the exam this time."
"It's still a little short, I have to keep working hard."
Tan Yunlong wanted to touch his son's head, but after raising his hand, he turned into a pat on his son's shoulder.
"Don't put so much pressure on yourself."
"Well, I understand."
Tan Yunlong took out a cigarette box, pulled out a cigarette, bit it in his mouth, hesitated for a moment, but still pulled out another one and handed it to his son.
Tan Wenbin suddenly felt a little moist in his eyes, and instinctively lowered his head to avoid his father's gaze.
It's ridiculous that when the scene I dreamed of actually appeared, what I was thinking in my heart was that I could go back in time.
He stretched out his hand and pushed away his father's hand handing the cigarette, and said:
"Dad, I'm quitting."
——
I'm not feeling well today, I'm in a bad state, I'm sorry.
(End of this chapter)