i was my mistake

Anyway, there is only a corridor between them, which is not much different from living in the same room.

In fact, today is already Thursday, and there will be another day of class tomorrow, and it will be a weekend again.

Soon it will be winter vacation.

As life stabilizes, the days go by faster and faster.

I always feel that the college entrance examination is already in front of my eyes, and I even occasionally feel such a trance:

Maybe one day when I wake up, the college entrance examination will be over.

Everything is like a dream.

"Okay, let's review English today, Chen'er, what is the English word for cloud?"

"Huh? Another surprise inspection?"

"That way you can learn every moment."

"Ah... clouds... cloud... this is very simple, let's change the grammar or something!"

"Are you so confident today? Then test you..."

……

The time went on and on like this, past noon, came to the afternoon, and then entered the evening.

Under the shroud of the dim setting sun, there was no one in the classroom.

Ye Chen was turning the last chair onto the table, turning his head slightly to look out the window.

Those dappled sunlight reflected a beautiful painting in the classroom.

"What are you doing? You're still in a daze. Let's go. Jinyu is still waiting for us downstairs." Wan Qing stood at the door, casually carrying a schoolbag, and said lazily.

"Here we come..." Ye Chen hurriedly looked away, and quickly ran to the door of the classroom.

There were no students' voices heard in the school, only a few teachers gathered in twos and threes, walking towards the cafeteria.

Many teachers live in the school dormitory, even couples live in the dormitory.

The dinner in the cafeteria is open for them, and of course students can also eat there.

——Those students who are left to make up homework or make up classes will occasionally be taken by the teacher to have dinner in the cafeteria.

Although it is much more refined than lunch, it is not too different, but it is still a rare memory for students who have been there.

Wanqing went to eat.

It was Guang Qiutang who stayed for a heart-to-heart talk, talking about life and the future for a long time.

At that time, she didn't really see these things clearly, and she always felt that Guang Qiutang was talking nonsense. At the same time, she thought that she would always have many opportunities when she was young, and she had an inexplicable self-confidence. can change the world.

When the spirit is high, everyone will have it...

She sighed, locked the door with a key, and walked downstairs unsteadily.

Today, there are many people setting up stalls at the school gate, most of which are cheap snacks or relatively rare small items.

For example, a ruler that allows people to draw flowers with their eyes closed, or a plastic pistol loaded with BB bullets...

Don't think that high school students can't buy these things. In fact, high school students already have a lot of pocket money at their disposal, and occasionally they really buy some new gadgets to make themselves happy.

Even Wan Qing, who wished to spend every penny in half at that time, bought a dog ornament at the school gate that could shake her head.

The thing was originally supposed to be placed on the car as a decoration, but the boss sold it as an interesting toy. He also said that it can be shaken for a long time just by touching it, which is close to the principle of a perpetual motion machine.

At that time, she really believed it, and even thought that as long as she could break through the bottleneck, she could really invent a perpetual motion machine.

She also tried a few times herself, until she learned more and relearned the knowledge she hadn't learned before, and then realized that making a perpetual motion machine is simply a dream, and it is impossible at all.

After all, nothing in the universe is in perpetual motion.

The concept of perpetual motion is against the laws of nature.

Zhao Jinyu was squatting in front of a small stall, fishing for goldfish with a paper net, but he couldn't catch any goldfish.

"What is Jinyu doing?" Ye Chen asked curiously.

"Fishing goldfish, it's so difficult, I can't catch it no matter what..."

"Shall I try?" Wan Qing became interested.

"Here." Zhao Jinyu pointed to a large pile of paper nets at his feet, and he didn't know how much she bought in one go...

I'm afraid that the money spent on paper nets can buy several goldfishes, right?

The boss was overjoyed, apparently he didn't expect there to be such a generous student.

"Can this be fished out?"

"Yes, it takes skill. Even I can't guarantee success every time." The boss picked up a paper net and demonstrated it to them. The speed was so fast that the three of them didn't even realize it. Being fished into another normal net bag, "You see."

"I'll try again!" Zhao Jinyu seemed to be on the fence with this thing, and it seemed that he wouldn't leave unless he got one himself today.

Both Ye Chen and Wan Qing tried it once, but it was obviously not that easy. The net bag would melt if left in the water for a long time, but if it was too hard, it would break when picking up the fish.

This kind of control requires a lot of practice.

And practicing at a stall means spending far more than buying a goldfish.

Or maybe ten can be bought...

Since Zhao Jinyu didn't leave so fast, Ye Chen and Wan Qing just wandered around the door.

In fact, there are only a few stalls. Compared with others, those selling snacks are more attractive.

A big boxy iron box was placed on a small tricycle. When the owner shook it vigorously, some glutinous rice cakes would be squeezed out of the hole.

He used that kind of small shovel for plastering walls to gently light everything, making them roll into balls and fall into the crushed sesame seeds below.

You can buy ten of them for [-] cents. After you bite open, the inside is sweet and fragrant red bean paste, which is suitable for eating while walking on the road.

Many people gather here just to buy a copy, so that the journey home will not be too boring.

"How many you want?"

"Ten."

"Ten, right?" The boss picked up the lid of the foam lunch box, quickly counted ten, then inserted two toothpicks into them, quickly handed them over, and threw the received twenty cents aside. Put in a biscuit tin.

If someone asks for more, he will use the deeper part of the foam lunch box to fill it.

A lunch box is divided into two parts, so there is no waste at all.

Ye Chen looked a little greedy, and was about to ask Wan Qing next to him if he would buy a copy, but found that her gaze was elsewhere, looking a little absent-minded.

"Ruoruo, look, this is Yinjiang High School." A well-proportioned, healthy-looking young man said to the girl beside him with a smile. Judging by the school uniform she was wearing, she should be from the steelworks junior high school.

From kindergarten to elementary school, and then to high school, there are schools in the steel mill. Except for Yinjiang, which has an independent name, the others are called steel mill kindergarten, elementary school and junior high school.

"It's so big."

"It's a pity that it will close soon."

"I saw it for the last time... After I graduate from junior high school, I have to go to another school!"

"Yes."

"Ms. Ji! Why did it have to be dismantled?"

"There are many, many reasons."

"Oh - well, let's go back and eat shaved ice later! Teacher Ji still needs to knead it! This kind of 'Kacha Kacha' crushed by hand!"

"Haha, you still want to eat shaved ice in such a cold day?"

"Hmm! It's not easy to melt shaved ice when it's cold!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go back and make it for you—does the school want to go in and have a look?"

"Can you go in?"

"of course can."

"Of course it's good, it's good for one more person to remember it!"

The young teacher led his students into the iron gate, but was stopped by the security guard at the gate.

They laughed and said something among themselves, and the security uncle let them go in and visit by themselves.

"The steelworks junior high school is about to be demolished..." Wan Qing couldn't help but sighed, talking to herself.

"Huh? The junior high school is also demolished?"

"To be precise, it will be merged into other schools, but the original one will still be demolished, renovated and expanded."

Ye Chen studied in the steel factory school since he was a child.

Kindergarten is, elementary school is, junior high school is, high school is also...

"Ah..." Ye Chen suddenly couldn't imagine the feeling that a child who grew up near the factory would one day go to a school other than the factory's school.

It is like a young man who left his hometown and returned to his hometown, only to find that the well for drinking water has disappeared, and the old cowshed has also been demolished. The village has been connected to electricity and tap water, but everything It's all different from what I remember.

Those familiar things will eventually disappear.

……

42. Country Church

City H is not a mountainous city, but it is not a complete plain city either. It should be regarded as a mixture of hills and plains.

There are some mountains here, but they are generally not high, and they don't give people a sense of majestic shock and oppression.

Pieces of farmland and meandering rivers are located between these small hills. Although the bus can reach the place, it still has a primitive feeling-the only modernization is probably the cement road under the feet.

The marble and plaster columns attached to the wall distinguish this place from the nearby farmyard.

A four-storey chapel is located here. Its shape is not special, there are not so complicated patterns, and there are not many beautiful edges and corners.

The bell tower stands alone, and compared with this church, it is as slender as a chimney.

"I still remember when I was a child, the city was not well developed. The place we lived was almost a rural area. There was nothing interesting near the factory dormitory building. When I went to the city occasionally, I would see the magnificent clock tower in the center of the city. It's been a long time..." Ye Chen raised his head and let the wind blow his hair, "I always think that the whole building is full of gears that rotate in perfect harmony. The exquisite machinery and the beauty of technology are like the wind. Blow into my head."

"Yeah." Ye Chen finished what he wanted to say, and the only thing left for Wan Qing was to sigh.

People's interests and hobbies are often determined in childhood.

Probably because of this, I later chose to do some mechanical maintenance work.

And compared to the later convenient electronic age, Wan Qing still prefers items with purely mechanical structures. Although, if you really want to say, circuit boards are much more delicate, the subtlety of machinery can be seen with the naked eye. The shock and pleasure that comes are far more intense than the circuit board.

"When I went to the pawn shop last time, I saw the bell tower again, and then I found that it didn't seem to be very tall."

"It must be extra tall for me when I was a child."

Zhao Jinyu didn't hear them talking at all, she was clutching her chest in pain, retching a few times against the grass.

This morning's bus was driving too wildly, and the road was bumpy, so that she was not used to taking the bus, and her stomach was overwhelmed. And spit out the posture.

"Imayo, are you okay? How about taking a break?"

"Well...take a break." Zhao Jinyu took a deep breath and squatted on the ground. The fresh and cool air in the countryside made her pale face gradually turn rosy.

"Drink some water?" Wan Qing took out a can of hot water from Ye Chen's schoolbag that she poured into the glass in the morning, unscrewed the lid and brought it to her mouth.

"I bought mineral water..."

"It would be more comfortable to drink something hot."

"Um...thank you."

The water cup is printed with the words commemorating the autumn tour of the steelmaking plant in 88. Although it has been used for many years, it is still strong, but the tea leaves have been soaked too much, and the cup body is slightly yellowed.

Zhao Jinyu held the glass and sipped some hot water, squatted for a long time before standing up, and let out a long breath: "That's a lot."

"Okay... then shall we go in?"

"let's go."

This is a small church, and the believers are generally people from nearby villages. Although today is not a special day, the church is still quite lively. There are many bicycles parked at the door, as well as a black Santana and two vans. , several children were running around their parents, playing loudly.

There is a long table on the small square at the entrance, sitting on a well-dressed monk and an old nun who looks almost 50 years old.