Chapter 4 fourth quarter

brush-- Eighteen-year-old elder brother Cao Runsheng, holding the handle of the shovel tightly with both hands, leaning forward and back on his legs, shoveled a full shovel full of sand and stones mixed with sand and stones from the Shaoliang, and threw it into the double-layer wire net.The sun has set over the peaks of the Qinling Mountains, and the warm sunshine shyly shines on the beach. The severe cold is beginning to subside, and the river water is shining. He glanced at the river embankment on the opposite bank intentionally or unintentionally, and the willow branches with no leaves stood in the sky. On the sandy ground of the river embankment under the tree, he left footprints of him and her cuddling together. It was the first time in his life that he came into contact with the opposite sex. , the first hug and kiss, the first time I heard a beloved person sing for you, it will be burned into my heart forever, and it will be unforgettable.Every day when he walked down the river beach, he couldn't help but take a look at the section of the embankment where he sat with her, and the section of the estuary where he waded across the river with her on his back, every day.

He later understood that her saying she couldn't go into the water was an excuse.She said that going to school to get the newspaper was just to delay the time, so that all the peasants who were eager to work in the rice fields on the river beach would go away.From this we can go further. During the basketball league in the county, the female players often helped the male players to wash their clothes. Xiaolan always searched the sweat-stained clothes and pants from his bedside in time and washed them clean. Clean, folded neatly, and put it on his bedside, other female students can't get in their hands at all.She often watched him from the sidelines, handed him towels, and orange water when he was on stage... It seemed that she already had feelings for him, but she was confused, but felt that Xiaolan and herself were both in the same class and Xiaohe The fellow countrymen on the North Shore are naturally more familiar and closer.Unexpectedly, she suddenly kissed him on the cheek, which made him at a loss, and threw her from his back into the river in a panic... What a coincidence!

On the school's basketball court, he jumped up and grabbed the opponent's rebound like a moon in the air, rushed through layers of interceptions, and could bring the basketball across the midfield in one go. The ball seemed to be stuck in his palm. Rarely took it off, then jumped up, held the ball with one hand, and dunked it down. There was a sound of brushing the net, and the ball did not even hit the edge of the ring. The movement was simple and the posture was graceful.Around him, he is often accompanied by a group of admirers.But as soon as he sat in the classroom, his magic power, his charm, completely lost its luster, and he was just an ordinary student.He had never thought about falling in love, let alone which girl in the class could be his object of pursuit. Although rumors had spread that there had been a "four couples" in their class, he and Liu Xiaolan were not included.In all fairness, he just didn't think about it!

Once something unexpected happens, once something unexpected happens, Cao Runsheng's heart can no longer be at ease.He was sitting on the last row of desks in the classroom, his eyes couldn't help moving away from the books, over the heads of the rows of boys and girls, and rested on Liu Xiaolan's disheveled hair, which was a little yellow in color and the bottom ends It was even a little red, but it was so fluffy and soft, and it trembled as she wrote. Basketball games between classes are often held.He is active in his own kingdom of freedom, and he can't help but search and scan the spectators outside the court. Once he finds Liu Xiaolan in the crowd, his success rate of catching rebounds is even higher, and the speed of dribbling the ball across the midfield is even faster. The starting shot is almost perfect, of course, the posture is more graceful and simple.In contrast, if Liu Xiaolan is found not watching from the sidelines, no matter whether she catches a rebound or jumps up to shoot, she will often perform abnormally, which makes the head teacher sigh.He scolded himself in his heart: What's wrong with you?Still doesn't work.

The tense graduation exam is imminent, followed by the important college unified exam that determines the direction of life.The classroom lights stay on all night.The wives of several teachers from rural areas used two abandoned work-study workshops to run a small restaurant, selling cold noodle and red bean porridge, open day and night, and earn money for the evening meals of the students who drive late.In fact, it is only a few top students in the class who really struggle in the hot summer season. Because they have the confidence that they will pass the exam, they are more motivated to study hard. , Still go to bed on time, get up on time, some students have already made up their minds: once the graduation exam is over, they will automatically return to the countryside to work in agriculture.Cao Runsheng just planned to touch him, but if he couldn't, he would naturally go home to farm.In the classroom, under the shade of trees on campus, and by the small river next to Wuli Town, it is the world of fresh graduates.Under the shade of willows by the river, he and Liu Xiaolan were reciting English vocabulary.

"Xiaolan." He called. "Hmm." Without turning her head, she was reading the words. "Take a break! My lips are numb from reading." "You rest! I don't..." "If you can't get into college, what's the use of learning English?" Runsheng said, "I went home that day, and I was muttering English in the backyard, and my mother's chicken ran up to me in a daze, thinking that I Call them! I just realized that more than a dozen little piglets raised by my father also came out of the gaps in the pigsty and kicked my feet, thinking that I was feeding them..."

Liu Xiaolan couldn't hold back her laughter long ago, she leaned forward and backward with laughter, tears streaming down her face, she covered her sore stomach from laughing with one hand, and hit him on the head with a book in the other. "Really!" Runsheng said, "Those chickens and piglets..." "You are making a fool of yourself!" Xiaolan said helplessly, "You are so nervous about studying your homework, you are making a fool of yourself..." "Anyway, I didn't pass the exam, so you're not sure!" Runsheng said, "It's a waste of effort!"

"You have to fight for it!" Xiaolan said, "You..." "I have no energy in my heart, and my mind keeps breaking down..." "Stop thinking about it!" "Since carrying you across the river that night..." "What's wrong with carrying me across the river?" "Who wants you to kiss me on the cheek!" "Ah! You..." "Who asked you to sing 'Eighteen-Year-Old Brother' to me!" "Ah..." Liu Xiaolan blushed, looked left and right, covered her cheeks with a book, "Stop talking, I'm so ashamed..."

"Now I can't read the books, I always want to look at you; I can't listen to the lectures, and I always hear 'Ninety-nine that...'" "You don't think that's the case at all." Xiaolan raised her face, "Concentrate and prepare for the exam." "I tried, it doesn't work!" "Then what should we do?" She also sighed helplessly, put down the book, sat on the sand embankment with her hands on her knees, and said a little blankly, "We can't pass the exam, what are we going back to the countryside for? Thinking of leaving school soon, I feel really uncomfortable! What are you doing at home? Feeding pigs and chickens? Doing small business? It’s so annoying!"

"Raising pigs and chickens, that's what old women do! It's boring and boring." Runsheng said, "I've already set my sights on something—" "What?" Xiaolan said disapprovingly. "Beekeeping." Runsheng beamed with joy, "Take the bees, go south in spring, go north in summer, travel north and south, be free. If you are with me, our life is so interesting..." "What a beautiful idea!" Xiaolan smiled, "I'm not interested in those animals and poultry, and the bees buzzing all day, it's annoying..." "That's the sweetest cry!" Runsheng said, "The sound of a bee is not that of a fly..."

"I don't like it even better than Bailingzi." Xiaolan said lightly, "I don't like it! What should I do?" "Of course..." Runsheng lost interest. "As soon as I saw the honeycomb, I got goosebumps." Xiaolan said, "I can't even look at it!" "Oh!" Runsheng sighed, "I'm totally fascinated." "You love bees, so keep them!" In order not to disappoint Runsheng, Xiaolan said mischievously, "I love honey..." "I'll keep you full." Runsheng also smiled, "How much can you eat! A box of bees can brew..." "Okay, let's review your homework now!" Xiaolan picked up her English textbook from the grass, "I'm waiting to eat your honey, future beekeeping expert..." Cao Runsheng tossed sand and gravel, reminiscing about the life before leaving school, and he also found it funny. When he and she and nine out of ten male and female students returned to their own villages, the familiar and friendly Wuli Town Middle school immediately became strange and distant. It seemed that it was not just three or four months ago, but three or four years ago.All unrealistic fantasies have all settled in the back of the brain.Some students went to the city to work as temporary workers, some tied two bamboo baskets to the back of their bicycles, and went to sell fruits and vegetables; some bought small four-wheel tractors and started to transport them; The unit became a worker.He likes beekeeping. In order to buy the ten boxes of bees in Dongyang Village as soon as possible, he is now gathering all his energy to dig sand and gravel on the beach from morning to night. He is not afraid of the cold; Inspired by his future beekeeping career, he buries himself on the beach, almost in isolation. It was not so convenient to meet Xiaolan. Caocun was six or seven miles away from Liuzhuang. Although it was not far, he couldn't go to her frequently.Her parents are strict with her, especially sensitive to their daughter's contact with the opposite sex.There are no telephones in the villages, so communication is very difficult.He was working hard on the beach, but he didn't expect that Xiaolan had already entered a social enterprise, and was a staff member in charge of billing at the sand and gravel management station. She is still good to him.Runsheng thought with certainty that as soon as she sat in the office of the gravel management station, she assigned a driver with a beard to Cao Village to load his stones.Lovely Xiaolan, my heart hurts him!I have to look for her later, in order to congratulate her on having such a clean and labor-saving job, because of her kindness in assigning him a car to pull stones, and because he hasn't seen her for more than a month...he wants to see her very much now . His arms are extraordinarily strong, and when he throws sand and stones, he has to add the time wasted in finding her later in the day. "Run baby—" Hearing a friendly woman's call, he raised his head and saw Uncle Changcai waving to him, and his wife standing beside him was calling him.She brought food to Uncle Changcai, and the old couple are warmly calling him over to have dinner together...