The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 1 The college entrance examination in July of that year

When he was a child, Wang Shaodong, who was born in a valley, had dreamed of living in a big city countless times.On TV, high-rise buildings, heavy traffic, colorful lights and neon lights, and all kinds of novelties that cannot be seen in the valley all make me intoxicated and envious.

However, when he grew up and graduated from university, when he really started to work hard in the so-called big cities, Wang Shaodong realized that although there are many tall buildings, there are no tiles for him, and the traffic is crowded, which only brings troubles that make it difficult to move. The meaning of the never-ending neon lights at most is that when you look up to see the stars, what you see is only the white night sky.

The 11 years of urban life brought me, besides the exhaustion of body and mind, perhaps, it is the growing nostalgia for the valley that nourished my childhood, youth and youth.

The longer he lived in the city, the more he felt that his soul did not belong here.

On a night of lightning and thunder, at a reunion of classmates, when Wang Shaodong, who was so drunk and delirious, opened his eyes again, he was stunned.

What he saw was Ma Guanghui, his high school class teacher.

Beside Ma Guanghui, Han Kang, the monitor of his high school, stood.

Han Kang has thick eyes and a fine beard on the corner of his mouth.As for himself, he was lying on the bed covered with blue checked sheets, the electric fan above his head was turning vigorously, but the room was so hot that it was hard to breathe.

Everything is so real and familiar scene, yet it seems to be dreaming.

"The college entrance examination will be in half an hour, and you are still sleeping?!" Ma Guanghui looked at himself seriously, dissatisfied with his performance.

In half an hour, I will take the college entrance examination?

July 2002, 7?The last college entrance examination organized in July?
Wang Shaodong suddenly remembered that on that morning 15 years ago, he had overslept in a daze. If the monitor and class teacher hadn't come to wake him up, he might have missed the first mathematics college entrance examination.

Wang Shaodong laughed. What he laughed was not that he could catch up with the first math college entrance examination, but that he had an extra chance to choose at the crossroads of his life.

college entrance examination?
It's been 15 years, how can I remember trigonometric functions and chemical equations?Not to mention mathematics, physics and chemistry, I am afraid that Chinese is my best subject, and now I can't get a score above [-].

Since God gave me a chance to choose again, why should I take the path I don't like?

Laughing, Wang Shaodong turned over and got up from the bed, and quickly put on his clothes. He was wearing a light blue summer school uniform with the words of Luzhong No. [-] Middle School printed on it.

"Thank you, Teacher Ma." Wang Shaodong bowed to Ma Guanghui gratefully.

Ma Guanghui put his hips on his hips, obviously not very proud of his well-mannered students, but said impatiently: "Hurry up and enter the examination room! Don't dawdle here!"

He didn't know that what he woke up was not an ignorant young man longing for college life, but a sloppy uncle with a 34-year-old soul who yearned for rural life.

Wang Shaodong didn't get nervous because of the teacher's stern tone, he was not a sensitive young man, he said to his class monitor and good friend Han Kang: "Kangzi, go to the exam, this year's math questions are not difficult .”

Han Kang's overall grades are good, but his math grades have never been high or low. If he performs well, he can get 120 points in the test. If he does not perform well, he will just pass at most.If you want to test the key points, such a math score is not enough.

Fortunately, the mathematics in the 2002 college entrance examination was relatively simple. Han Kang performed very well in mathematics that year. He scored 132 points in the test, with a total score of 654 points. He was successfully admitted to the Medical Department of Qilu University.

Back then, Wang Shaodong entered the examination room recklessly because he overslept, which affected his performance. He originally had a score similar to that of Han Kang, but in the end he only scored 601 points, a score that is not above or below.In the end, Wang Shaodong went to Qilu Normal University, School of Life Sciences, majoring in biological sciences, a non-teaching major in a very embarrassing normal college. After graduation, he sold medical equipment in Quancheng, earning 6000 yuan a month.

And when Han Kang, who was also in Quancheng, occasionally got together with Wang Shaodong, he was also full of complaints and exhausted.

Han Kang's monthly income is much higher than that of Wang Shaodong, with a monthly income of more than [-] yuan. However, in Quancheng, where the average house price is more than [-] yuan, such an income seems to be equally weak.

Why do people have to live so tired?Wang Shaodong was puzzled.

Ma Guanghui was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Han Kang, and said, "You enter the examination room."

Han Kang nodded and left in a hurry.

Looking at the teacher in charge who was staring at him, Wang Shaodong felt that if he packed his bed and went home now, Ma Guanghui, who always thought he could pass the first line, would drag him into the examination room excitedly.

The importance of a first-line quota was incomprehensible when he took the college entrance examination in his previous life, but later he heard from his classmate Ma Lili, who was a teacher, that it was precisely because his class Han Kang and Wang Shaodong passed the first-line entrance examination scores. , Ma Guanghui, their homeroom teacher, won the city-level excellent homeroom teacher, and because of this honor, he was successfully hired as a first-level middle school teacher.You know, there are many people who have waited for more than ten years for this title, but they can't get it.

It can be said that Ma Guanghui's fate is also in his own hands, and he must not just walk away at this time.

Moreover, if I go home now, I am afraid that my parents will be disappointed and cry a lot.

Although I have decided not to go to university, it is necessary to pretend to enter the examination room for two days, and at the same time use these two days to quietly think about the next step.

So, Wang Shaodong took the stationery bag next to the bed, and under Ma Guanghui's gaze, hurried towards the No. [-] teaching building.It's a pity that this time, I really can't help this young head teacher who has only been working for three years.

The last one to enter the examination room, but he was as relaxed as if he had answered all the questions perfectly.

There was always a smile on Wang Shaodong's face.

The moment the test papers were handed out, it proved Wang Shaodong's previous judgment that he really didn't know a single question.

Wang Shaodong was very puzzled. If you say that you can learn nothing after 15 years, then what is the significance of learning now?
After quickly guessing the answers to the twelve multiple-choice questions, Wang Shaodong's first college entrance examination subject was over.

Wang Shaodong remembered that he once had a very strange dream. He dreamed that he fell asleep during the college entrance examination, and then with a magic pen in his hand, he finished all the questions with a brush, and the results were very good when the results came out.Thinking of that dream, Wang Shaodong couldn't help laughing at himself.

However, when he looked at the line "July 2002, 7 at 7:[-] am" written by himself on the draft paper, the smile on Wang Shaodong's face suddenly disappeared.

"In another ten days, the 3 Sanhuang Chai chickens raised by my family will get bird flu, and then all of them will die in three days. That time, the family lost more than [-] yuan. For this reason , my mother got sick in a hurry, if it wasn't for my passing the college entrance examination to make her happy, I'm afraid it would be really difficult for my mother to recover so quickly."

Avian influenza, a poultry infectious disease that makes farmers feel dismayed.Once infected, the whole group will die, and a large number of farmers will lose their money.

On July 2002, 7, two thousand wood chickens of Wang Shaodong’s neighbor Ma Zhentang’s family got bird flu and died in three days, and then two days later, on July 15, Wang Shaodong’s farm also began to contract bird flu and caused casualties. Three days later It died on July 7th.Then, within two days, the farms of brothers He Jiaqing and He Jiaxiang had the same result.

Thinking of this, Wang Shaodong's face revealed a look of uneasiness.

No, the tragedy must not happen again.

The incubation period of bird flu is very short, only three days. That is to say, by the time I finish my college entrance examination tomorrow, the three chicken farmers and one duck farm in Taohualing Village, Dazhai Township, should not be infected yet. The bird flu virus, everything, should be in time.

(End of this chapter)