In 1988, I was busy at home studying for the college entrance examination, because in the previous year's college entrance examination, I missed the university entrance examination by one point.
But I have always refused to admit defeat, and I always think that my failure in the exam last year was caused by not playing well, so I must repeat the study for a year and fight again.
But the conditions of my family are not very good, although the family is only a dozen kilometers away from the county seat, because my parents are not in good health, and my father is a perennial medicine person, who can send me to high school, I have already worn off a few layers of skin on the back of my neck, where can I continue to review?
But pity the parents of the world, although the family is really poor, Shan Shan father still promised to let me take the exam again next year, but I can't stay in school, and I usually have to do farm work at home.
At that time, there was a kind of night school cram school in our county, which was specially designed for young people in society.
My home is not too far from the county seat, so I help my father work at home during the day, finish work around four or five o'clock, ride that old bicycle to the cram school in the county seat, and go home at 9 o'clock in the evening.
Over the past year, I have been living such a tired but hopeful life almost rain or shine, and seeing the college entrance examination date getting closer and closer, my heart has become more nervous.
Although I feel full of confidence in my heart, after all, there is last year's failure in the front, and if I fall off the list again, it will be completely useless.
I clearly remember that it was on the afternoon of July 6, 88, and I rode my bicycle towards the county seat, because the college entrance examination started too early the next day, so I could only go to the guest house one day earlier.
Unlike in the past, when I was in a hurry to go to class, today I walked in a good way, and I was even in the mood to look at the scenery on the side of the road.
Because I didn't concentrate on cycling, suddenly, I felt a gust of wind rushing towards me, and when I quickly pulled my eyes back to the scenery on both sides, I was startled.
It turned out that a jeep was rushing towards me at a gallop, and I could already see the expression of the driver in the jeep.
Fortunately, I was a young man, and my intuition just now saw the danger a second earlier, and I didn't want the bicycle, so I jumped straight into the ditch on the side of the road.
My man dodged, but the bike was knocked out of the way, and there was a sharp braking sound, and the jeep slid out of the way before stopping.
Although I was not hit by a car, the ditch on the side of the road was a dry ditch, and the whole person was lying in it, one foot must have been broken, and several dry branches were stuck in my body, and I immediately became a bloody man.
After the jeep came to a stop, the two people above ran directly to the ditch and called me. Thankfully, I was injured but still conscious.
In that case, I was taken to the county hospital by jeep, and after some examination, my right leg was broken and I was put in a cast, and my left leg was also stuck with two holes in a tree branch, but fortunately there were no blood vessels.
Although it can be regarded as a thrill, but tomorrow is the college entrance examination, and I was so anxious that I lay on the bed and cried.
The driver of the jeep was at a loss, and when he learned that I was going to take the college entrance examination tomorrow, he also panicked, so he had to look at the other one, obviously his leader.
The man was about forty years old, and patiently reassured me not to rush, since the matter has come to this point, no matter how anxious you are, you will not be able to solve the problem.
The man asked me in detail with a pleasant face, and said that his daughter was also taking the college entrance examination this year, and she was living at the school a few days earlier, so why are you still riding a bicycle?
Knowing that I was a fresh graduate who failed last year, and had been riding a bicycle to the city for night school every day for a year, the man didn't show any disgust.
On the contrary, I saw a little appreciation from his eyes, and he comforted me not to worry, this year's college entrance examination will definitely not be able to catch up, and now your task is to recuperate with peace of mind, take care of your body, and continue to review for another year, and the next year will be more certain.
Hearing what he said, I didn't make noise or cry, but just cried silently.
Indeed, the middle-aged man in front of me looks like a leader, how can he know the predicament of a poor child like me? What a light sentence he said about repeating his studies for another year is an unbearable burden for me.
The middle-aged man certainly didn't think of it so much, he comforted me for a while, kept watching the time, and finally got up and left, leaving the driver to accompany me for one night, saying that he would pick up my family tomorrow.
After the man left, the driver chatted with me, and I realized that the man just now was the director of education in our county, and he had just returned from another high school in the afternoon to inspect the preparation for the college entrance examination.
Maybe it was because of the wounds, maybe it was because of the blood, and I soon fell into a deep sleep.
When I woke up, I saw that my parents were with me in front of my bed, and the man from yesterday, that is, Director Zhang, also came.
My parents didn't say anything about compensation to each other, but just took my hand with tears and said: Child, if you don't die, there will be a blessing in the future, maybe you are destined to have no college, and there is no endless road, so you will die of this heart.
Director Zhang has been comforting my father, and he must have been paying attention to the change in my expression. And I have always been that unwilling demeanor, and it is not an exaggeration to even say that I gritted my teeth a little, and I didn't take their persuasion seriously at all.
In the end, Director Zhang comforted me and said: Xiao Huang, don't be discouraged, I can also see that you are a very motivated student, and yesterday's incident must be my responsibility, delaying your college entrance examination, but I will definitely not ruin your future.
As long as you really have the ability, when you are well, I will arrange for you to go to No. 1 Middle School to repeat your studies for a year, and I will be responsible for all expenses.
But Director Zhang also said that in addition to paying my tuition and living expenses, everything depends on your own efforts, and he can't and won't help me.
For me, this news is tantamount to pie in the sky.
You know, I wasn't admitted to the county No. 1 middle school when I was in school, and now I can go in there to repeat my studies, and even send me living expenses, so I can't improve by leaps and bounds?
Just like that, I was about to die just now, but in a blink of an eye, my spirits soared, and I even learned to be polite, and said to Director Zhang: As long as I can enter a middle school to repeat, I really can't ask you to pay for living expenses.
So, the matter was finalized.
I lay in the hospital for a month before I went home, and of course I didn't get the college entrance examination that year. In the days since I got home, I was actually quite worried in my heart, afraid that Director Zhang's words would not count, and even more worried that he would forget me completely.
Fortunately, everything I was worried about did not happen, at the end of August, the principal of our township middle school came to inform me and asked me to go to No. 1 Middle School on the 30th to register, my heart just landed, packed a few clothes and went directly to school.
On the first day of registration, I met Director Zhang again.
It turned out that his daughter's college entrance examination that year also followed in my footsteps and had to come back to repeat, and today he is still here as a parent.
In that way, not only did I successfully enter the cram school of No. 1 Middle School, but I naturally did not have to pay the tuition fee, and Director Zhang even really wanted to give me living expenses, but I refused. After all, I am also a person who wants to be faced, and I still charge him living expenses, which is a bit too shameless.
And I became classmates with his daughter Xiaomei. In terms of grades, Xiaomei is worse than me, and out of the psychology of courtesy, I often help her improve.
Especially English and Chinese, which are my strengths, and with my tutoring, Xiaomei's grades have improved significantly.
Director Zhang naturally heard a little about our approach, and occasionally on a weekend, he would even ask Xiaomei to ask me to go to his house to improve my life.
After coming and going, this person who once delayed my college entrance examination was like my own uncle.
In the college entrance examination in 89, I was admitted to a key university in Shanghai with a score of 45 points higher, and Xiaomei was also admitted to a key university in the provincial capital.
Because of the experience of repeating a year of high school, and because I often went to her house to play that year, after going to college, Xiaomei and I became a couple.
In 1993, Xiaomei and I were admitted to graduate school in Zhejiang together, and we finally came together from high school classmates to college long-distance relationships.
We got married after graduating from graduate school, and stayed in Shanghai to work after marriage, and the former Director Zhang and the current father-in-law have long since retired, and later came to Shanghai to help us take care of our children
For many years, my father-in-law and I would occasionally talk about those days.
My father-in-law has always emphasized one point, that is, from my eyes lying on the hospital bed, he saw too much perseverance, so he decided to help me, as for the psychology of "atonement", at most it is incidental.
My father-in-law said, "How can a person who doesn't know how to save himself be able to get help from others?" It was precisely because you knew not to give up at that juncture that you moved him.
And I have to sigh that a car accident that was enough to ruin my life really changed my life completely, the difference is that I chose the latter between misfortune and happiness.