When Hong Kong returned to in 1997, I was preparing for the college entrance examination, but I actually had no intention of paying attention to this matter. If anything, it should be that the Chinese people are more impressed by the song Andy Lau .
However, I didn’t particularly like this song at the time, nor did I like Andy Lau very much. The song I listened to most that summer was probably Ren Xianqi’s song, especially "Rely". At that time, there was a radio cassette player at home, and there were also a lot of pirated tapes that cost ten yuan for four in the town. After listening to them over and over again for a holiday, I could sing almost all the songs, and even learned all the interludes of "Dream of Red Mansions".
It’s actually not quite accurate to say this, because the biggest worry at that time was not whether I would pass the exam, but whether I would pass the exam, because I couldn’t afford to study anyway, and I had to go out to work, so I was still thinking about where to move bricks and mortar. Screw problem.
Moreover, my family was also harvesting wheat at that time, and the weather was hot. Because of the college entrance examination, I was not asked to work that year, but sometimes I still had to help when I was too busy. After all, the labor force at home was limited.
During the college entrance examination, I lived at the construction site where my dad worked, with another classmate. Because our middle school is in a town, and the test centers are all in the city, there is no place to live. If you have relatives, you can seek refuge with relatives. If you don’t have relatives, you can’t live in a hotel, right? How expensive! The cheapest guest house provides a pot of boiling water, a single bed, and four people in a room for eight yuan a day.
The foundation was being excavated for the project at that time, and construction was going on day and night. The sound of the machine was rumbling and dinging non-stop. The two-kilowatt light bulb outside also passed through the cracks in the door and window. It was basically impossible to fall asleep. , on the contrary, I felt sleepy as soon as I entered the examination room.
Every morning at around seven o'clock, others would get up to get ready for work. My classmates and I bought a steamed bun and ordered a dish from the construction site cafeteria. In fact, most of it was cold green chili peppers. We put a piece of it into the steamed bun and then rode a bicycle for half an hour to the examination room.
At that time, the college entrance examination was still three plus two, liberal arts, politics and history, science, physics and chemistry. I majored in liberal arts. Except for Chinese and politics, which had too many words to write, I handed in the other papers at least an hour in advance.
is the fastest in mathematics. The paper was handed out half an hour in advance. I read it first and I had a general idea. I basically finished everything I know how to do in five minutes after the test started. There is no point in doing it if I don’t know how to do it. I want to do it. Hand in your paper. The invigilator said no, it would take at least half an hour to hand it in. After staying up for more than twenty minutes, just after half an hour, I handed in my paper and went out.
At that time, the full score was 150. After the test, I felt that I would have no problem if I passed 100, not to mention 134 in mathematics, but the result was only over 60 points. Not to mention English, I don’t know much about it in the first place, so I can only be confused when I wake up after sleeping. In the end, there were only more than 60 points. History and politics were stable, a little higher than when I repeated the course the second year.
I returned to the construction site at noon, had a meal, and lay on the bed for a while. Because the construction site started working at 1:30, I couldn't sleep, and I had to ride a bicycle to the examination room at that time. After leaving the construction site, I bought a fifty-cent ice cream and went to take the exam after eating it.
I didn’t have a deep impression on the college entrance examination that year. If I did, it should be that the female teacher who invigilated the exam had a very beautiful floral skirt, which I had never seen in the middle school in our town. Furthermore, after arriving at the examination room early in the morning, you will see classmates who can only ride a bicycle for forty or fifty miles to live at home, standing outside the examination room, eating steamed buns and flipping through books to review.
I finished the exam in two and a half days and rode a bicycle 30 kilometers home, but it was all downhill, so it was okay. My dad asked me to buy a bag of fertilizer in the town when I went back and carry it back on my bicycle. It was a little better at that time, and I could hold down the front of the car so that the front of the car wouldn't rise.
A few days after returning home, he went to school to fill in his application form. In fact, I refused in my heart, but I was also bored at home. There was no entertainment in the countryside at that time, and I couldn't play mahjong. Apart from watching TV, there was really no entertainment, so I went to school and played with my classmates in the name of volunteering. One play. The
exam was taken by myself, so I know how well I did.So filling in the application form is more casual. You have to prepare to go out to work anyway, so just feel free to do it. It took about ten days after I finished filling out the application form. Starting from late July, news came one after another that some students had been admitted. I often went to the classmates’ homes to congratulate them. In fact, they just went to eat, drink and have fun.
At that time, the enrollment expansion had just begun. There were about fifty people in our class, and no more than ten people passed the test. Most of them had to repeat the class, so they were all ready to continue being classmates after school started.
I waited at home for the summer vacation, and my family didn’t let me go out to work. Seeing some of my classmates leaving for school, I was actually very disappointed. When the final results came out, they were not too bad. I felt that I could still save some time, so I decided to repeat the exam in the end.
That summer was probably the longest summer I have ever experienced so far. I was bored, anxious, confused, had nothing to do, and didn’t know what to do. The black-and-white TV at home is still a knob-type TV. I turn it on every day when I have nothing to do, and I have no intention of watching it. Occasionally, if I have a few dollars, I will buy a few bottles of beer to drink.
I think I was wandering around town with my classmates once. When I was very bored, I went to the video hall and watched a few movies. Two of them were probably Jet Li kind of martial arts movies. I have watched them all, and the other one was "Titanic". 》. Except for the unplayable part, I didn’t feel much about Ruth. Instead, it was the little gangster state that Jack was in before he got on the boat and hooked up with Ruth. Now that I think about it, it feels like me at that time.
That was also grandma’s last summer. My uncle was a school teacher, and my grandma stayed at his uncle's house that summer, that is, in the school. Every day, she had to look at the good news posted in the school to see if my name was on it. When the summer vacation was about to end, and everyone else went to college with their college entrance examination notices, my grandma finally came home and asked me to repeat my studies.
Later I watched some youth TV dramas, from the 1960s and 1970s to the 1980s and 1990s. Looking at the state of young people in the city in the 1960s and 1970s, with their clothes open and riding bicycles aimlessly on the streets, I realized that this is called youth, and it is very similar to my state that summer.
After that summer vacation, I went to repeat my studies. Half a year later, my grandma passed away, and my youth was over. Because, if I still lie down in the future, no one will care about me, and I have to rely on myself.
