I miss the days when I resumed classes at Linhai High School

In July 1991, after three hours of bumpy driving on the dusty road, my classmates and I came to Linhai to take the college entrance examination. The test center was set at the Huipu Middle School at that time, which is now Foreign Languages. For us rednecks, many were firsts. It was the first time to be so far away from home, the first time to stay in a hotel, the first time to use a telephone, everything was so novel. There is a telephone in the Taizhou hotel we stayed in, but the free calls are only between rooms. During the three years of high school, boys and girls rarely talked to each other. One month before graduation, classmates began to send each other photos and write graduation messages. This invisible wall was slowly pushed open. On the first night of our stay, we either visited each other in the guest room or picked up the phone to harass each other. It seemed that the purpose of our trip was not to take the college entrance examination. Years later, someone reported to me that on such a serious day, with the instigation of a group of gay friends, my husband actually bought a bouquet of plastic flowers and gave it to the girl he liked in a hotel. The girl was so angry that she cried. , but he refused to admit it to his death.

Failing in the college entrance examination was something I expected. My first-year college entrance examination score was 100 points away from the admission line. That year, only five students from our class were admitted to college. In September, almost all the students, without exception, came to Haihai to participate in the re-study. At that time, there were two famous high-school undergraduate classes in Linhai, one was the Jinshan high-school college for liberal arts students, and the other was the Dongzhi high-school college for science students. The year we graduated, for some unknown reason, it was against the rules to hold senior high school classes. My husband was a class monitor, and he failed the college entrance examination in his first year. At the end of August, he rushed to Linhai without hesitation and contacted teachers from Taizhou Normal College to form a liberal arts class. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the teaching point was located near the Elderly Park. In the following year, the teaching point was changed several times. Returning to high school is the day when we really leave our parents and start living independently. We have to rent our own house and find our own canteen to solve the problem of eating. My husband had already rented a house when he was working as a class. In Dongguo Lane next to East Lake, Chun Gen, Fayou and him lived in a room on the second floor. Three small beds less than one meter wide were placed close together. Xueqiu, Qiaoling, Jufang and I rented at the house of their landlord's brother, a blind old man. Our rental house is only separated by two walls. If you open the window and make a louder sound, you can carry a message. Occasionally, when we girls buy something delicious, we put it in a basket. As soon as he heard me shouting, he ran downstairs and stood outside the door, craning his neck to watch me put the basket down from the window with a rope. Sometimes I would tease him, and the basket would almost fall to him. After catching it, I suddenly lifted it up and he was not annoyed. He pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and smiled happily at me.

?We live very close to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, and we bought meal tickets through a senior student at Du Middle School. Our three meals have been provided there this year. There is a small commodity mall by the East Lake, and there is a famous restaurant called Taizhou Restaurant at the door. The wontons and fried buns there are particularly delicious, but I can only go there occasionally to have a toothpaste. At that time, our families were not rich, so returning to overseas to study in a high school was a huge expense, and many families could not afford it. Some students worked as substitute teachers in primary and secondary schools in the first half of the year, and used the money they earned to pay for their return to high school in the second half of the year. .

I can see the East Lake when I open the window. Every morning around six o'clock, the sound of reading can be heard outside the window. Three male classmates sat under the big willow tree by the lake, reading Chinese in very non-standard Mandarin, and reading politics, history and geography in very standard Duqiao dialect. My husband often puts a pen in the jacket pocket of his khaki jacket and takes it out from time to time to scratch on the book. Sometimes he closes the book, raises his head and starts to endorse. At the other end of the lake is Xin Rong Kee Restaurant. As night falls, the hotel's neon lights begin to shine, reflecting the sparkling waves on the lake. The music from the restaurant floated leisurely along the lake. The most popular songs that year were "Falling in Love with Someone Who Never Goes Home" and "Crying in the Sand".

The teaching point is some distance away from the rental house, so bicycles are a necessity. There was a broken bicycle at home, and I wrote home to ask my father to transport it to Linhai. It is very troublesome to check in a bicycle. It takes at least half a month and up to a month to transport it to Linhai. My husband had a semi-new bicycle, so I had to take his bike to school. The back seat of the bicycle is very high. He rode slowly in front. I followed the car and jogged a few steps and then jumped up. My butt landed firmly on the back seat. If I was unlucky, I would have to try jumping several times in a row. times. The road conditions were bad, and I was embarrassed to hold his waist, so I had to hold the iron frame under my butt tightly with both hands. The weather is very cold in winter, and my hands and feet are numb from the cold. When I rode to the slope next to the old philosopher, I jumped off the car. He was pushing the car in front, and I followed him to help him get study materials. When everyone pushes a cart, they hold the faucet with both hands, but he always holds the faucet with his left hand and rests his right hand on the seat cushion. After getting married, I would occasionally ride on the back of his bicycle from Duqiao to southern Sichuan. He always thought I was too heavy. In fact, I had not gained weight at that time. I asked him why he didn't think I was too heavy when I was in high school, and he laughed.

? It is most likely to breed love when you are in high school, when you are young and your hormones are secreted strongly. Teachers don't care about us, parents don't care about us. Groups of male and female classmates often visit each other, but at that time most students were very conservative. Falling in love was a shameful thing, and if their parents found out, their feet would be broken. Even if Lang is in love with his concubine, he keeps it deep in his heart and does not show it. Of course, there are also a few students who abandon their studies for love.

In November, the school suddenly had a few days off. Six of us rode bicycles from Linhai to Huangyan Jiufeng and took a group photo there. When we came back, we went to Yongquan via Ma Tou Mountain and stayed one night at Xueqiu's house. This is what we did The only hike for six people.

Mathematics and geography have always been my Achilles heel. I was confused when I encountered the question of East and West Meridians, and I knew nothing about solid geometry. I often ask him for advice with information, and he always takes the trouble to teach me over and over again. Sometimes he will sigh helplessly when he sees that I still don't understand. Our son is also not good at math and geography. He always blames me for the reason, "Your mother was very bad at math and geography when she was studying. You just followed your mother!"

In a blink of an eye In the summer, there were more and more mock exam papers, but my math and geography still didn’t improve. The day of the college entrance examination was getting closer, and I started to suffer from insomnia. I couldn't sleep all night long. I was scared when I saw the bed every night and couldn't eat. I lost a lot of weight all of a sudden. So I started drinking brain supplements and Sun God, but they had no effect. I don’t know how I survived the three days of the college entrance examination, but I knew I wouldn’t pass. On the night after the college entrance examination, he sneaked over and invited me to watch a movie. The two of us walked from East Lake to the cinema on Jinshan Road one after another. I forgot what the movie was about. I only remember that he treated me like a gentleman when we entered. I bought a cold dog ice cream with many raisins embedded in it. This kind of ice cream is still on sale in Yaoda Supermarket. When I see this kind of ice cream, I will think of that night, and a smile will appear on the corner of my mouth. In fact, nothing happened that night.

In August, the college entrance examination results are released. He was admitted to the Law Department of Sichuan University, but I still failed, 50 points away from the admission line. I stayed at home and didn't dare to go out, for fear of being questioned by my neighbors. We didn't seem to have met each other during that summer vacation, but through several letters, he encouraged me to repeat my studies for another year. At the end of August, I went to Linhai to rent a house and sign up to re-study. This year, Meixiang and I rented a house on Ziyang Street and ate in the cafeteria of the Grain Building. There was a breakfast shop opposite the rental house, and it was very busy at three or four o'clock every morning. The noise made us sleep deprived, so after living there for two months, we moved to a nearby three-story building. Shortly after we moved, the street caught fire and the rental house burned down.

?When I was in high school in my second year, the pressure became even greater. I often thought about this question that year: What should I do if I fail to pass the college entrance examination again? I was often surrounded by a kind of fear and anxiety, which made me never dare to take my studies lightly again. I read late into the night every night, and I don’t dare sit in bed to review when it’s cold, for fear of falling asleep. Although there is still little improvement in mathematics and geography, the scores in Chinese, politics, history and English have improved significantly. In April, I signed up for the early admissions of Taizhou Teachers College. Different majors had different subjects. I applied for an English major and only took four subjects: Chinese, English, Politics, and History. I was very confident about this exam. After finishing the exam, I went back home and confidently told my mother that I could pass the exam. A week later, I went to the Education Bureau on Ziyang Street to look at the interview list and found that my name was written on a small blackboard at the door. The English major ranked second in the city. No matter what my interview score was, I would definitely be admitted. I still clearly remember the moment I walked out of the Education Bureau. I felt that the sky was so blue and everything in the world was so beautiful. I went back to the rental house and sold all the books. I happily went home and told my parents the good news. I remember that that year, the city’s English major only recruited 7 students, 5 of whom were committee-trained students. They had to pay a committee-training fee of 8,100 yuan to the Education Commission. This was a huge expense at the time, and interview scores were crucial. My mother personally accompanied me to the party school for an interview. In the end, I still came in second overall. The first place was Yang Honglan, a repeat student from Datian. While others were busy reviewing and rushing to take the college entrance examination, I was already staying at home leisurely. I wrote to him in Sichuan and he wrote back to express his congratulations. During the year when I was reviewing my studies, we exchanged many letters. He sent me review materials in Sichuan. I took a hazy photo and sent it to him. Received unanimous praise from roommates.

?The days of returning to high school are finally gone. I am very grateful to Taizhou Teachers College for its early admissions policy, which gave me the opportunity to go to college. If I take the college entrance examination, I may be able to go to college for the rest of my life. Can't go to university. At the same time, I am even more grateful and miss these days of high school. The lifelong partner Xueqiu and I chose was both a high school classmate and a classmate of the high school class. Without the time of getting along and understanding each other during the high school class, our relationship with our significant other would not be the same. Always limited to high school classmates. Finally, I attach two very meaningful old photos. One is a group photo of the six of us at Jiufeng, and the other is a photo I tore off from the admission ticket for Taizhou Teachers College’s early admissions.