In a bookstore in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, an uncle with white sideburns is browsing the college entrance examination study materials, he looks left and right, looking east and west, if you think he is a teacher at a certain school or the father of a child, then you are very wrong.
The uncle's name is Liang Shi, and he has spent most of his life doing one thing: taking the college entrance examination.
From 1983, when Liang Shi, a senior in high school, took the college entrance examination for the first time, he repeatedly lost battles, repeated defeats, and there was opposition from his family in the middle, obstacles to life and the prohibition of policies, but all this did not dispel Liang Shi's idea of participating in the college entrance examination and being admitted to college, until the end of the college entrance examination last year, Liang Shi, who was 54 years old, participated in the college entrance examination 25 times.
Why is the uncle obsessed with the college entrance examination, and what is the untold story behind this? Will he still take the exam hall of the college entrance examination again in 2022? For this kind of behavior of the uncle, do you support or oppose it?
His parents were teachers, but Liang Shi took the exam 3 times or did not enter the university, and finally had no choice but to go to the technical school
Liang Shi was born in a small town in Meishan, Sichuan Province, with five brothers and sisters, and his parents were also teachers.
At that time, Liang Shi's family was very enviable, especially in such an intellectual family, parents who were teachers were very concerned about their children's learning, so they would buy some books with Enlightenment ideas very early.
So while children of the same age were still learning pinyin, they could already tell many little stories such as Newton's discovery of gravity and Edison's invention of the electric light.
At that time in the town, everyone believed that the Liang family would be able to produce a college student, Liang Shi's parents were also full of expectations, they had taught books for a lifetime, and some college students had been cultivated under their hands, and their five children should always be able to have an exam on it, especially to them, the boss, he had the best results, and often took the first place in the whole school.
Compared with the eldest brother, Liang Shi appears to have mediocre qualifications, and Liang Shi in school also makes his parents very worried, he often does not write homework, and he misses class several times in order to watch the drama, but it is such a disobedient child, but eventually becomes the only child in the family who finishes high school.
Because the eldest brother did not pass the political trial at that time, he dropped out of school and chose to join the army, and several brothers and sisters also dropped out of school halfway.
The five children who have been leading since childhood, in the end, only Liang Shi is left on the road of learning, and people in the town will inevitably talk about it, as the last hope of the whole family, Liang Shi's parents also attach great importance to his learning.
In addition to the best food and clothing, Liang Shi's mother will often send some books and magazines to the school, under the good conditions created by his parents, the entire three years of high school, Liang Shi is diligent and diligent, serious study, and he is full of confidence in the college entrance examination.
In that era when the college entrance examination was just resumed, because of the lack of educational resources, there would be a pre-examination before the college entrance examination, that is, a screening was carried out one or two months before the college entrance examination to save educational resources.
When Liang Shi, who was very confident and assured his mother that he would be able to pass the exam, rushed to the first big exam of his life, he failed, and he did not even pass the pre-examination before the college entrance examination, so he lost the qualification to take the college entrance examination that year.
Looking at the disappointed mother, Liang Shi was very unwilling in his heart, he wanted to take the college entrance examination, wanted to be admitted to the university, so under the turnaround of his parents, Liang Shi went to a high school in Neijiang to repeat the study, with the lessons of the past, this time Liang Shi was more assiduous and more diligent, but fate seemed to be playing tricks on him, not only this time he failed to pass the college entrance examination, but the next time he still fell off the list.
Sometimes people need to admit their fate, but Liang Shi seems to have done with the college entrance examination, he has failed three times, he decided to repeat the study, this time has always supported Liang Shi's mother also began to oppose his re-reading, and relying on Liang Shi's father's relationship, they decided to send Liang Shi to the technical school to study, so that Liang Shi, who has a skill, can at least take care of himself in the future.
The stubborn Liang Shi still can't help his parents, since his parents said that the technical school is also a university, it is better to go to school for a few years, so Liang Shi, who wants to fight with the college entrance examination to the end, temporarily left the battlefield.
Liang Shi, who works part-time, gets married, and has children, his life continues to enter a new stage, but his heart that only wants to take the college entrance examination remains unchanged
Liang Shi, who thought that after graduating from the technical school, he could enter the state-owned enterprise as a technician as if he had graduated from a university, but overheard the teacher say that they could only work as a worker in the factory in the future, and Liang Shi, who did not compromise with fate, was even more unwilling to compromise with life, so Liang Shi, who did not attend the technical school for a long time, dropped out of school.
The children who went to school suddenly lost their voices, and their parents soon found out that Liang Shi had dropped out of school, so Liang Shi also quarreled with his mother, and he left home in a huff.
Liang Shi, who left home while doing odd jobs, studied, he went to a power plant, an equipment factory, and later to a timber factory, ordinary people run around with daily necessities, while Liang Shi is running around with books, and this process lasted for 5 years.
Of course, Liang Shi, who has participated in the college entrance examination for 5 years, has not been admitted.
By 1991, Liang Shi, who had a stable job in a lumber factory, was married, and this year, he was 24 years old.
For ordinary people, this age has either started working from college graduation or children have gone to school, but for Liang Shi, since the first college entrance examination at the age of 16, he has been on the road to college entrance examination.
So when Liang Shi's parents thought that their son who got married and had children and had a stable job could live with peace of mind, Liang Shi ran to take the college entrance examination again, and this time, they could no longer threaten Liang Shi with words that they did not give living expenses, and all they could do was hope that their son could quickly enter the university.
Not surprisingly, Liang Shi was still not admitted this time, and the results were worse and worse, and what affected Liang Shi's college entrance examination road more was that in the second year, a policy was introduced: social personnel who signed a labor contract could no longer participate in the college entrance examination, unless it was proved by the enterprise.
Therefore, in addition to studying while working, Liang Shi this year also had to go to the soft and hard bubble of his boss, which allowed him to participate in the college entrance examination that year as he wished.
Liang Shi fought like an undead warrior on the college entrance examination field year after year, until a new national policy was introduced that married people over the age of 25 could not participate in the college entrance examination.
At this point, Liang Shi's dream of college entrance examination for many years was shattered.
Liang Shi also struggled to take the adult college entrance examination, although that time the results were good, admitted to a college in Nanjing, but liang Shi, who has struggled for so many years on the college entrance examination field, has aimed far more than such a school, his goal is Sichuan University.
In this way, Liang Shi, who had been going to college for more than ten years, was forced to accept his heart, and the holy land of the college entrance examination that he had set foot on again and again finally disappeared from his life like a cloud of smoke.
Liang Shi, who returned to normal life, did not have such a smooth sailing, his timber factory closed down the following year, and Liang Shi, who became a laid-off worker, had a one-year-old son at this time, and Liang Shi, who was under great pressure, chose not to be a worker this time.
So he began to start a business, frustrated in the examination room, proud of the business field, fate did not joke with him, he looked at the building materials market, after borrowing tens of thousands of yuan from relatives, he opened a small building materials shop, and in this small shop, Liang Shi earned 1 million a year.
In the following years, Liang Shi continued to grow bigger and stronger, becoming a famous local rich man, at this time Liang Shi can be described as a happy family, no worries, and became a real winner in life, but these are the views of others, Liang Shi knows that he still has a regret.
Liang Shi, who entered the pension mode in advance, drank tea every day, listened to the drama, and sometimes played mahjong, for which Liang Shi's wife was very headache, watching her husband bored every day, so she discussed with Liang Shi to open a hot pot restaurant, but just when the hot pot shop was about to be finalized, Liang Shi looked forward to returning from the battlefield for many years.
In 2001, the Ministry of Education canceled the age limit of the college entrance examination, which made Liang Shi, who was full of regrets, excited, he began to buy books and move books to his home in a bunch of piles, and his wife did not stop seeing the situation, originally opening a hot pot restaurant was to let Liang Shi soak in the mahjong field every day, seeing such a passionate Liang Shi, his wife was also very supportive.
In this way, Liang Shi, who has not participated in the college entrance examination for 10 years, has returned.
But people are old, memory, understanding is bound to be inferior to young people, so again and again to participate in the college entrance examination, again and again failed to return, in Liang Shi's entire college entrance examination career, the best score is to cross the second line, but because at that time he only had the mathematics department of Sichuan University in his heart, so he gave up that opportunity.
Liang Shi was never admitted to Sichuan University, which he had been looking forward to for a long time.
Liang Shi, who has been chasing the university all his life until the end of the college entrance examination last year, has participated in the college entrance examination 25 times, he has become a well-known college entrance examination nail household, he also agrees with this statement, after all, his children have been admitted to famous universities and master's degrees have graduated, he is still on the road to the college entrance examination.
In recent years, Liang Shi, who has received widespread attention, will be interviewed by someone after the end of the college entrance examination, and the most asked question must be whether he will take the college entrance examination in the next year? And the answer that got the most was: yes.
In last year's interview, Liang Shi said that he is no longer a non-Sichuan university, in fact, as long as he can go to the second college, and he is ready to take the liberal arts examination next year.
It seems that these words are very common for ordinary people, after all, the choice always varies from person to person, seeking truth from facts, especially for the college entrance examination, which can determine a person's life.
But for Liang Shi, his choice meant he struggled with the gaokao 25 times, and finally he compromised.
The teenager who had been encouraged by his mother to buy back science magazines as a child compromised, or he finally got old.
Liang Shi said: I will still take the college entrance examination, there is no deadline.
Some people live in poverty, like scavengers on the streets of the city, wandering away and having no place to live, but there are still people who lean in the corners of the walls and absorb knowledge under street lamps, even if they only read scrap newspapers that can protect them from the cold;
Some people live a rich life, just like Liang Shi, who has a million fortunes, living a good life, rich and worry-free, but he will also pick the lights and fight at night, looking for his dreams again and again on the college entrance examination field.
Everyone, poor or rich, has their own pursuit of things, no matter what they do, like the branches of a tree, there will always be a direction towards what they like, and this is persistence.
Liang Shi is now 55 years old, he took the college entrance examination once a year 25 times, this kind of valuable persistence should be what we want to learn, but some netizens think that Liang Shi is self-deception, his persistence is stupid, is not able to recognize themselves. Maybe people will have a delusion once in their lives, don't ask the way forward, don't ask the way back.
In this life, there must be a delusion, do not ask the way forward, do not ask the way back.