Time is like a blade, leaving traces.

The college entrance examination admission scores came out, and Cheng Ying and Liu Meiting were both admitted to the university they wished, which made many people feel relieved.

Cheng Ying's first choice was Xiamen University, which was subject to majors. Although the major may not be that good, at least it was the place she wanted to long for. There was no bustling noise, only the sunlight shone on the ground through the leaves, and only the fragrance of pineapple flowers all year round.

Xiamen is a romantic city, with coastal cities that should be beautiful. Studying there can fulfill her dreams. The efforts and sweat she has worked hard and she has been rewarded.

Let’s talk about Liu Meiting. She finally chose to fill out her application for Wuhan University of Technology. In central China, she also came to the admission letter more than ten days later. Although this is not the university hall she dreamed of, it is at least not that bad. With flowers, poetry and distance, what else can I regret? Besides, this place is not very far from Pinghai County, at least it is not a remote area, so it is not easy to come back.

Liu Meiting set up a banquet at home, Fang Ning and the others were all over, and Yu Xiaole was there. He met his future father-in-law and mother-in-law through the table far away, and even clinked wine glasses with his father-in-law. However, the latter knew nothing and continued to pour wine down the table with a smile.

Yu Xiaole secretly smiled at her, making the fierce Liu Meiting blush. This shameless guy is really not a false reputation.

On this day, everyone has times to be happy, and of course there are also unhappy things, just like the winners and losers theory mentioned by Liu Meiting that night, after the college entrance examination, most senior high school students did not get into their ideal university or failed the college entrance examination and failed, and failed.

Some people locked themselves in the house and thought for a long time, and chose to continue to repeat the school at Chucai Middle School. Some people felt that this road was too difficult and had no time to review. They felt that they were not the material for studying at all, so they simply chose to work outside.

In fact, as she said, there is no complete loser. The key is how you think. If you fail the college entrance examination now, you cannot determine your future fate.

Fang Ning and Cheng Xi saw Cheng Ying off at Changsha Huanghua Airport.

The turtle-shaped steel metal frame supports the glass of the dome. Countless steel beams crisscross the top, with tempered glass on the top, and a height of 40 or 50 meters in the center. Huahuang Airport has always been connected with the international community, so it is not surprising that pedestrians coming and going up or down from the elevator, and everyone's faces are written in a hurry, with the indifference of modern society.

Fang Ning and the others were waiting in the waiting hall. The plane had not arrived yet and there was still time to talk.

Cheng Ying suddenly asked Fang Ning, "Do you think the college entrance examination is fair?"

Fang Ning shook his head and said, "Unfair. These are just products of exam-oriented education. It is a bit too hasty to determine a person's fate through the college entrance examination. Some people are not good at studying and are the tail ends of the crane in the class. Can you say that he will definitely achieve nothing in the future? Some people have good grades, so will they be able to adapt to society? These are all uncertain."

"What you said makes sense, but your understanding of the college entrance examination is also too one-sided." Cheng Ying shook her head, "Since the Sui Dynasty, there was an imperial examination system. From then on, China has entered a relatively fair stage of selecting officials for thousands of years. Today, so many people say that the college entrance examination is not good, but in fact you can't think of a better system than the college entrance examination. You can't return to the 'eligy and honest'. Whoever is filial to go to college, nor can you return to the 'nine-ranking Zhongzheng system'. Whoever has a good family background will go to college. So the college entrance examination is still basically fair."

Fang Ning: “…………”

"You don't understand what I say now, you will understand it later." Cheng Ying waved her hand, very lonely.

Under the night, the plane with bright lights flashed through the stratosphere. Fang Ning could see the wings swaying slightly and flashing by through the window.

Then the sound of the airport broadcast was repeated, and Cheng Ying should leave.

"Don't send it, go back early." Cheng Ying held the plane ticket and ID card, dragged a gray suitcase in her hand, and stood on the slowly upward elevator, dressed in a cool dress, with her ponytail sagging. When she turned around, the faint freckles on her face had already disappeared. She looked back at Fang Ning and the other two standing side by side in the waiting hall. She didn't say anything, but kept waving.

Fang Ning had a kind of intuition that this ordinary and persistent girl finally completed her transformation in three years of high school.

However, what embellished her was not time, but Cheng Ying himself.

After seeing Cheng Ying off, Fang Ning felt very emotional. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, and he felt very upset.

"Let's go back." Cheng Xi said calmly.

On the way back, Cheng Xi took the initiative to take his hand and walked side by side on the road, with camphor trees lingering, pedestrians parked on the zebra crossing, and traffic flowed across the street.

They stood on the sidewalk money, red lights appeared, and traffic with lights flashed through the front.

She held her hands tighter, and was even a little scared. This beautiful girl was a little scared and afraid of the future.

Why do people grow up?

She wanted to live like this, but she had to face reality. Only when people grew up can they mature.

Fang Ning also held Cheng Xi's hand tightly, his fingers intertwined, warm and strong, and did not let go.

"Fang Ning, have you thought about all these high school you want to go to or what kind of college you want to go to?" Cheng Xi opened her red lips lightly, with a tremolo. This was the first time she took the initiative to ask Fang Ning about her thoughts.

Fang Ning thought for a while and said, "Actually, I want to study in a place where no one knows it, but that's not realistic at all. So let's be more realistic. High school will be No. 2 Middle School, where is my dream, and what about university? Not sure, but it won't be too far away. I won't go to coastal cities or remote cities. You know, I'm a home-loving person, so it's better to be closer. At least for a short holiday like May Day and National Day, I can still come back home."

"Um."

He paused and said, "Look, you can go to a university that is not close or far away. When you graduate in the future, find a job you like. It doesn't matter if you don't have much money. You are happy every morning from 8:00 to 5:00, and then there is someone who loves me and I love. You are happy every day from 6:00 to 8:00 every day. If you have no future, you have no future. Happiness is your own, not defined by others."

"It's really unpromising, but it's also very desirable." Cheng Xi said softly.

Fang Ning smiled slightly, "Let's work hard for such a boring life!"

"Yeah!" Cheng Xi nodded heavily.

The plane returning from night passed over their heads, leaving white exhaust gas.

…

Time goes back half a month ago, flowers bloom in June, and the junior high school entrance examination will be after the college entrance examination.

The last ten days of life in the third year of junior high school can be described as boring, with three points and one line every day, day after day.

Then there are a lot of exams. Although the junior high school exams are not as heavy as high school, they are considered a heavy burden for students at this stage of Fang Ning and others. Moreover, they are just when they are growing up and they are prone to sleep when they go home to do the exam questions at night. Fang Ning often becomes unconscious and then falls asleep.

When I woke up, I was already in bed.

There is no way, so I can only go to school early to copy the test papers made by other classmates.

Time is tight, and the teachers fill them with various systematic knowledge, and at the same time, exams come one after another, big and small, endlessly.

At first, Fang Ning and the others were exhausted from preparing for the battle, but later they experienced many battles and could face it with a smile even in the exam.

Yu Xiaole stood in the corridor and was breathing with a breath of wind, a little sad. Since Liu Meiting finished the college entrance examination, the two of them had few chances to meet. She had a new life, and Yu Xiaole was too busy to stop. However, when he was free, he would still remember what the girl said to him on the night of the college entrance examination. He had no idea where the love arose and went deeper.

So Yu Xiaole rarely spoke, and he began to study hard and worked hard to catch up with Liu Meiting in the future.

In the years of youth, there is always someone who perseveres and is cautious for another person.

Fang Ning was dormant, and his class scores were at the middle level, neither too high nor too low. In self-study classes, he reviewed high school knowledge and laid a solid foundation for his upcoming high school career. The same is true for Cheng Xi. They always have similarities.

He held his fingers and counted days day by day until ten days later, Fang Ning finished his last set of math test questions and suddenly woke up.

The day that said the countdown to the high school entrance examination in the lower left corner of the blackboard has completely reached "zero".

This also means that the long-awaited high school entrance examination is coming soon!

When school was about to end in the afternoon, Huang Minyi summoned all the students to return to the classroom. No one was absent. He sat in his original seat and quietly waited for the class teacher to speak.

Huang Minyi turned around and wrote on the blackboard, "Happy Third Junior High School."

She turned around and faced the fifty-six classmates present calmly. She was very familiar with each of them, so familiar that she was with each other day and night, and even knew each of them very well. However, at this time, what she wanted to say was not these, but what she wanted to say in the end was very serious, so she also carefully considered every sentence.

"I guess you see the title I wrote, maybe you think that teacher, you are playing word games again. I remember that when you first wrote these five words as the class meeting topic on the blackboard a few years ago, some of you said below that the teacher, you missed something... What did you miss? He said it was quotes, and there should be quotes on happiness! As a result, there was a lot of joyful laughter in the classroom at that time."

"I didn't explain at that time, because the time was not right. When did it come? Now is the time to explain."

Huang Minyi held his hands on the podium, his voice low, "Is there a quote for happiness? No, in my opinion, the third year of junior high school is originally happy."

There was a slight commotion under the podium, whispering to each other.

Huang Minyi raised his hand and lowered his voice, "First of all, because you can go to the third year of junior high school. In the past, without nine years of compulsory education, you rarely have the opportunity to graduate from junior high school. Junior high school is a period when your outlook on life and worldview begins to form, your eyes begin to become lofty, you have received complete education in the school, while you have gained knowledge, you have also gained friendship, and you have your own world."

"You have been studying for nine years. In ancient times, you were considered intellectuals. You are no less inferior to those students who studied hard. You have an independent consciousness, a pursuit and yearning for freedom, and can think about problems with your own mind. What else is happier than this? Secondly, because there is a relatively stable high school entrance examination and college entrance examination system. You can have the opportunity to go to high school or even college, continue to study, think more, see farther, and do more things. In your future life, your quality of life will be higher, and you can fight for a better tomorrow, which is also a kind of happiness."

"How much I envy your life. Seeing you struggling for the future in the classroom, I often think that if I have the opportunity to return to junior high school, I will do my best without any regrets. However, there is no if in life."

"As a class teacher, I know the hardship and tension of junior high school students better than ordinary people. However, after passing this level, a new world will appear in front of you. Learning in junior high school is harder, but if you don't pay some price, you can't cross this level. There is no way out. You are each a general, a general without soldiers, so you can only move forward alone."

"Some students are afraid of the high school entrance examination because they regard the results as too important. Although the results are important, what is more meaningful than the results is the process of struggle. After walking through the third year of junior high school and looking back at the third year of junior high school, you will be glad that you have such an experience, because this is the starting point of your life struggle. In the years to come, your journey may still be tortuous, and there may be some hardships. But you have the third year of junior high school and experienced the high school entrance examination. At that time, you may say: I have been through such difficult days as junior high school, what else can I be afraid of?"

"I saw a classmate who wrote something in a Chinese composition. I won't click on who it is. What's important is what he said." Huang Minyi held someone's composition test paper and said: "If there is one day, we no longer need to work hard like this, and everyone can easily enter their favorite high school and university. If there is one day, there will be no difficulties and obstacles in front of us. If there is one day, there will be no need to fight for employment anymore, everyone tells us: From now on, you don't need to struggle... Then, what do we need our generation to do?"

"Nothing can be happier than a struggle that will not be crazy or live at the best age!"

…

The trees in this hot summer are still lush, and cicadas are noisy among the trees. The horizontal bars on the playground have been painted several times, but those who sit on the parallel bars and look up at the sky together are no longer there.

There is a poem that suits the scene: Last year, today, the peach blossoms in this door were red, and the peach blossoms were not sure where to go, but the peach blossoms still smiled at the spring breeze.

Before I could express my feelings, the high school entrance examination arrived on a sunny morning.

Fang Ning and his team entered the examination room under the instructions of the teacher and started a few days of examination.

These days have also touched the hearts of many parents, not eating well and not sleeping peacefully.

"Ring-Ring--"

On the day after the middle school entrance examination, Fang Ning put down his pen, packed his pen bag, and looked out the window.

The examination room was crowded with many waiting parents, looking forward to waiting for the students to come out.

"I don't know how my son did the exam..."

"My daughter should be able to get into a good high school..."

"He won't let us down."

Fang Ning walked out from the downstairs of the examination room, quietly carrying his schoolbag, looking up at the sky, the sunlight entered his eyes, and said softly, "It's over!"

Very tired, but relaxed.
Chapter completed!