At the end of June 1990, the midsummer sun was still dazzling and hot, but my mood was so dark with guilt! Why? Because the junior high school with a total of only three years of schooling was read by my students for five years, of which the first grade was repeated once, and I told my father with a straight face that "laying a mathematical foundation again". Then, after I took the middle school exam for the first time in the third year of junior high school, the results came out and looked "completely finished", not to mention that the secondary school, the middle school teacher and the ordinary high school at that time, the school would not take me in, because my total score in the middle school entrance examination was not even 300 points. Later, in the summer vacation of that year, I worked as a small construction site worker for nearly 40 days, and finally lost more than 10 pounds of meat and earned home 400 pieces of ocean in black and thin, in exchange for the trust and compassion of my father and mother, who were willing to nod their heads and allow me to repeat the study for a year in the third year of junior high school. As a result, after the results of the summer middle school examination in 1990 came out, my score was 434 points, although the score was 150 points higher than that of myself in the previous year, but in the end, I lost too many points due to the results of the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and I was 50 points away from the admission score line of the ordinary high school, so I was once again tragically defeated! "Waste! Eater! You're just a proper foodie! "My dad scolded me in a fit of rage and sprinkled me with dog blood!" I can't help it anymore, who let himself fail the test twice? No wonder Daddy is angry! So I had to endure.
Because I failed the middle school entrance examination again, my parents, who have always been strong, also felt that they had lost face after the people in the coal mine family area, so that it was as if my son had failed the middle school examination again, but it was as if my father and mother had not been admitted to high school, which made the two of them lose their heads and lose face. "Where else did you not get into school, do you still have the face to stay at home?" One day during the summer vacation, my father was still angrily yelling at me. In fact, I don't want to find something to do, try to be less stuffy at home, go outside to breathe the wind, and relax! Either, I'll get a foam thermos and go outside to sell popsicles. "You can do anything, in short, you should find something to do, anyway, you haven't learned it later." My dad said with a twinkle in his eye.
So the next day I got on my bike and hung up a foam box, went to the cold drink factory near the coal mine family area to pick up 200 various popsicles, wore a straw hat and looked down to pedal the bicycle, and rushed all the way west in the direction of Beijing. Because that was the first time in my life that I had come out to sell popsicles! I'm especially afraid of meeting acquaintances! This is by no means that I am too stingy to be afraid of acquaintances eating popsicles in vain, the key is that my "popsicles" are really shouting! I always feel shy and embarrassed! So I had to ride desperately to the distance, trying to go to a place where I was not familiar with life, so as to avoid the embarrassment of meeting acquaintances as much as possible!
I rode west along National Highway 102 for more than 40 miles, and in one breath I rode to the boundary of Tongzhou District in Beijing. Of course, you can't go to the city to sell popsicles, so you have to go to the village on the outskirts of Beijing to try your luck. On a street in Songzhuang Village, Tongzhou District, I got off my bicycle, like a deserter from a movie who returned to his hometown, and when I reached out and probed to pick out no one in the four places, I clutched the handlebars with both hands and shouted coldly: "Ah ice - sticks!" Oh hey! Oh, my God! This "popsicle" was shouted by me like a tiger! The sound of "Ah Bing" was still quite loud, but the tail of the "stick" was almost something that only I could hear! Hey! What a shame! Life is not easy to live in the world, it turns out to be so difficult!
However, no matter how difficult things are in life, as long as you can be open-minded, brave and desperate to take the first step, the next thing in the future can often be naturally completed! For example, my second and third "Buy popsicles" that day shouted louder than the last word! On the first day, I sold out most of the 200 popsicles, and of course I had to leave a few popsicles to entertain myself! It was so hot that my heart was nervous, so my mouth was very dry and dry! But the wonderful taste and sense of accomplishment of being able to make money soon swept away his original shyness and cowardice! On the first day of selling popsicles, I made more than 20 yuan, and the 20 yuan in the 1990s had only a lot more purchasing power than the 200 oceans today!
The money I made from selling popsicles gradually allowed me to regain my pitiful presence. However, soon more news came that I was particularly "pleased" - an old classmate who re-studied in the same junior year as me in different schools and maintained the "Book of Two Places", and the famous "Lan Girl" also regrettably dropped the name of Sun Shan! "Alas! Wait until the beginning of September, we have not been admitted to any school, this time I am afraid that I really did not have to study! One night at the end of July, Lan and I met on the road outside the coal mine family's hospital, and Lan Girl, who had long hair and a round face, was wearing a pink dress and eating a "Smurf" brand cream ice cream that I handed her, and said with a dark look. Don't worry, "Let the bullets fly for a while and see!" There must be a road before the car to the mountain, and the boat to the bridge is naturally straight! "I pretended to be light and breezy to comfort Aunt Lan."
In Songzhuang Village, Tongzhou District, Beijing, there is a courtyard with a three-story building, and that family looks like a rich family! There is always a beautiful girl in the house who comes out to buy my popsicles, and she is my old patron! During the summer vacation in that distant era, I often traveled tirelessly and rode my bicycle to the Tongzhou District of Beijing to sell popsicles, but in fact, I mainly went to the girl's house! It turned out that their family ran a village-run kindergarten, because I would often generously give the girl a large profit, originally, people bought a hundred and eighty popsicles, why don't I respect people according to the treatment of "big customers"? Besides, the point is that I may have been born with the talent to talk to beautiful girls. I got acquainted with the girl as soon as I came and went. Suddenly, one day at noon, the girl ate a popsicle and asked me if I still had school? A big guy sells popsicles like this, and it looks like a thing for a long time! alas! I sighed, and told the girl the bad thing about my failure to pass the exam twice in a row, and said desperately and pessimistically that I was afraid that I was cornered and had no way to learn!
The girl blinked at the two big black eyes that were as good as the grapes of Jufeng, tugged at her long hair for a while, and then suddenly remembered and reminded me: "You seem to have an agricultural secondary school in Sanhe County, Hebei Province, and there are many majors in the school. I listened to the girl as if I had been empowered! Oh! This information is also asymmetrical! The agricultural secondary school opened in Sanhe County is unknown to the students of my county, but no one in Tongzhou District, Beijing! So I quickly gave the girl some popsicles to thank her, and rode home on my bicycle.
Envelopes, stationery and stamps are readily available in my house! I wandered around the bedroom desk for a while! Why? I'm engrossed in the belly! I want to personally write to the principal of the agricultural secondary school, "a hand" handwritten letter to a letter! I sat down at the writing desk, sucked enough ink into the pen, spread out 400 square meters of manuscript paper, and solemnly wrote: "Dear Principal Liu: Hello! I am Niu, a student who graduated from junior high school for the children of the Sanhe Coal Mine workers. This year's middle school entrance examination results were not good, and he was not admitted to the ordinary high school in our county. I myself have loved literature since I was a child, and now I am glad to learn that there is a secretarial major in your school, and I am very happy, I don't know if the respected Principal Liu may accept it or not. "Oh yo! In short, I rounded the pen and wrote several manuscripts for the agricultural principal Liu!
Hey yo! This man! If luck comes, it can't stop it! Jiayin came in a few days! It is said that the administrative level of the head of the agricultural college is the county and division level of the Eight Classics! Principal Liu, the first in command, was destined not to write back to me in person, but he specially entrusted Teacher Zhao, deputy director of the school's teaching office, to reply to me! In his reply, Director Zhao enthusiastically welcomed me to the school on behalf of all the teachers and students!
My parents soon saw the reply letter from the county agricultural school with a bright red official seal. "Oh, since that's the case, then you can report to that school when you start summer." My parents had no choice but to agree to let me continue studying! In early September, during the high autumn season, I packed up everything and pushed my bicycle outside the family building. "Hey! I'm waiting for you here!" Let's go! "An old classmate from the same school is already waving at me!" Oh! It turned out to be Lan Girl! hey! She's dressed pretty today! [Cover your face] [Victory]