I miss my days in Linhai High School.

In July, 1991, I bumped on the dusty road for three hours, and my classmates and I came to Linhai to take the college entrance examination. The test center was located in Huipu Middle School at that time, which is now a foreign language. For us hillbillies, many of them are the first time. The first time I was so far away from home, the first time I stayed in a hotel, and the first time I used the phone, everything was so novel. There is a telephone in the Taizhou hotel where we stayed, but free calls are limited to rooms. During the three years of high school, boys and girls rarely accosted each other. One month before graduation, students began to exchange photos and write graduation messages, and 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 seems that the purpose of our visit is not to take the college entrance examination. Many years later, someone reported to me that on such a serious day, my husband, encouraged by a group of good friends, actually bought a bunch of plastic flowers for his favorite girl in the hotel. The girl was angry and cried, but he never admitted it. I expected to fail in the college entrance examination. My first year's college entrance examination score was 1 points below the admission line. That year, only five students in our class were admitted to the university. In September, almost all the students, without exception, came to Linhai for re-reading. At that time, there were two famous advanced classes in Linhai, one was the Jinshan Advanced Class for liberal arts students, and the other was the Dongzhi Advanced Class for science students. In the year when we graduated, for some reason, it was illegal to hold advanced classes. My husband is the monitor, and he also failed in the college entrance examination in the first year. At the end of August, he went to Linhai without hesitation, and contacted the teachers of Taizhou Teachers College to form a liberal arts class. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the teaching point was located near the park for the elderly, and several teaching points were changed in the following year. It is the day when we really leave our parents and start living independently. We have to rent a house and find a canteen to solve the problem of eating. My husband had rented the house when he was in class. In Dongguo Lane next to the East Lake, Chungen, Fayou and he lived in a room on the second floor, with three small beds less than one meter wide next to each other. Snowball, Qiaoling, Jufang and I rented in their landlord's younger brother's house, and they were blind old men. Our rented house is only separated by two walls. If we open the window, we can send a message if the voice is louder. Occasionally, we girls buy something delicious and put it in a basket. As soon as he heard my propaganda, he ran down from upstairs and stood outside the door, craning his neck to watch me put the basket down from the window with a rope. Sometimes I would play tricks on him, and the basket was caught by him, and I suddenly slipped it up. He was not annoyed, but pushed his glasses on his nose and giggled at me cheerfully.

? We live near the traditional Chinese medicine hospital. We bought a meal ticket through a senior in Du Zhong, and our three meals have been settled there this year. There is a small commodity city near the East Lake, and there is a famous restaurant in front of it, Taizhou Restaurant. The wonton and fried buns there are particularly delicious, but you can only go there occasionally to have a rare sumptuous meal. At that time, our families were not rich, and it was a big expense to come to Linhai to attend advanced classes, which many families could not afford. Some students took classes in primary and secondary schools in the first half of the year and used the money they earned to pay for the second half of the year.

I can see the East Lake when I open the window. Every morning around six o'clock, there will be a loud reading sound outside the window. Under the big willow tree by the lake, three male students read Chinese in nonstandard Mandarin and politics, history and geography in standard Du Qiao dialect. My husband often pins a pen in the upper pocket of khaki jacket, and takes it out from time to time to draw on the book. Sometimes he closes the book, raises his head and begins to recite. On the other side of the lake is Xinrongji Restaurant. As night fell, the neon lights of the hotel began to shine, and the reflected lake was sparkling and beautiful. The music of the restaurant floated leisurely along the lake. The most popular songs of that year were "Falling in love with someone who doesn't go home" and "Crying for sand".

The teaching point is a distance from the rented house, and bicycles are a necessity. There is a broken bike at home. I wrote home and asked my father to check it to the sea. It is very troublesome to check bicycles, ranging from half a month to a month before they can be shipped to the sea. My husband has a semi-new bike, so I have to go to school in his car. The back seat of the bicycle is very high. He rides slowly in front. I run a few steps behind the car and then jump up. My ass falls firmly on the back seat. I have to try to jump several times in a row when I am unlucky. The road was bad, so I was embarrassed to hold his waist, so I had to hold the iron frame under my ass tightly with both hands. It's so cold in winter that my hands and feet are numb with cold. When I rode to the slope next to the old philosopher, I jumped off the car. He pushed the car in front and I followed him to help him with his study materials. Everyone holds the faucet with both hands when pushing a cart, but he always holds the faucet with his left hand and puts his right hand on the seat cushion. After getting married, I occasionally went from Du Qiao to southern Sichuan on the back of his bike. He always thought I was heavy, but I was not fat at that time. When I said that I was studying in the advanced class, why didn't you think I was heavy? He smiled.

? Love is most likely to breed when you are in advanced classes, when you are young and full of hormones. Teachers don't care about us, and parents don't care about us. Boys and girls often visit each other in groups, but at that time, most students were very conservative. Falling in love was a shameful thing, and if parents knew about it, they would be broken. Even if the mistress is interested, she keeps her heart shut. Of course, a few students have neglected their studies for love. In November, the school suddenly had a holiday for a few days. Six of us rode bicycles from Linhai to Jiu Feng, Huangyan, and took a group photo there. When we came back, we went to Yongquan via Matou Mountain and stayed at Snowball's house for one night. This was our only outing.

Math and geography have always been my dead bones. When I come across the topic of East longitude and West longitude, I am puzzled, and I know nothing about solid geometry. I often ask him for information, and he always takes pains to teach me again and again. Sometimes I still don't understand it, and I sigh helplessly. Our son can't learn math and geography well either. He always blames me. "Your mother was poor at math and geography when she was studying, so you followed your mother!"

In summer, there are more and more mock exams, but my math and geography are still not improving. The day of the college entrance examination is getting closer and closer. I began to lose sleep. I couldn't sleep all night. I was afraid when I saw the bed every night, and I couldn't eat any food. I lost a lot of weight at once. So I began to drink brain tonic juice and sun god, which had no effect. I don't know how I survived the college entrance examination these three days, but I know I can't pass it again. On the night when the college entrance examination ended, he sneaked over and invited me to see a movie. We walked from East Lake to the cinema on Jinshan Road in tandem. I forgot what the movie was about, except that when I entered, he bought me a cold dog ice cream with many raisins embedded in it. This kind of ice cream Yaoda supermarket is still on sale. When I see this kind of ice cream, I will think of that night, and my mouth will smile. In fact, nothing happened that night.

in August, the college entrance examination will be released. He was admitted to the Law Department of Sichuan University, but I still failed in Sun Shan, 5 points short of the admission line. I stayed at home and dared not go out for fear of being questioned by my neighbors. We didn't seem to have met 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 rent a house in Linhai to register for re-reading. This year, Mei Xiang and I rented in Ziyang Street and ate the canteen in the Grain Building. The rental house across the hall sells breakfast. It is very lively at three or four o'clock every morning, which makes us sleep too little. So after living for two months, we moved to a nearby three-story building. Shortly after we moved, the street caught fire and the rented house was burned down.

? In the second year, when I was in the advanced class, the pressure was even greater. That year, I often thought about this question: What should I do if I fail in the university? Often surrounded by a kind of fear and anxiety, I never dare to take my studies lightly again. I read late into the night every night, and I dare not sit under the covers to review when it is cold, for fear that I will fall asleep. Although mathematics and geography have not improved much, Chinese, politics, history and English have improved significantly. In April, I signed up for the early enrollment of Taizhou Teachers College. Different majors got different subjects. I applied for English major and only took four courses: English, English, Politics and History. I was so confident about this exam that I went home after the exam and told my mother with confidence that I could pass it. After a week, I went to the Education Bureau of Ziyang Street to look at the interview list, and found my name written on a small blackboard at the door. The English major ranked second in the city. No matter what my interview results were, I would definitely be admitted. I still clearly remember the moment when I walked out of the Education Bureau. I felt that the sky was particularly blue and everything in the world was so beautiful. I went back to the rented house and sold all the books, and rushed home to tell my parents the good news. I remember that there were only seven English majors in the city that year, five of whom were commissioned students, and they had to pay 8,1 yuan to the education commission. At that time, it was a big expense, and the interview results were very important. My mother personally accompanied me to the party school for an interview. In the end, my total score was still second, and the first place was Yang Honglan, a repeat student in Daejeon. I have stayed at home leisurely while others are busy reviewing for the college entrance examination. I wrote to him who was far away in Sichuan, and he wrote back to congratulate me. In the year when I re-read, we passed many letters. He sent me review materials in Sichuan, and I took a hazy photo and sent it to him, which was unanimously praised by my roommates.

? The days of returning to higher education are finally gone forever. I am very grateful to Taizhou Teachers College for its early enrollment policy, which gave me the opportunity to go to college. If I take the college entrance examination, I may never go to college. At the same time, I am more grateful for and miss this period of high recovery. Snowball and I have chosen a life partner who is both a high school classmate and a high recovery class classmate. If we don't get along with each other and get to know each other these days, our relationship with the other half will always be limited to high school classmates. Finally, I attached two meaningful old photos, one of which was taken by the six of us in Jiu Feng, and the other was torn from the admission ticket of Taizhou Teachers College.