End of August.

When middle school started, the first-year junior high school students and the first-year high school students had to attend military training a week in advance. Ji Huai rented a house for Ji Shishi next to the school, but she didn't want to rent a house.

"Brother, I can stay in the dormitory."

The dormitory fee is only 100 yuan a semester, and there are no water and electricity bills. However, the house next to the school charges 500 yuan a month for a small room, and you have to pay the water and electricity bills yourself. It is too expensive.

"Where are you going on Saturday and Sunday?" Ji Huai asked.

Ji Shishi choked, thought for a while, and whispered, "I don't know if I can live in school."

"You need a quiet environment, and you can't save this money." Ji Huai did not let her go, but insisted on renting this room for her and paid the rent for half a year.

Ji Shishi could only accept it and felt very guilty because she had caused trouble to her brother again.

Before the military training, Zhang Ying bought her two bottles of sunscreen, plus some basic set such as cleansing oil, facial cleanser and moisturizer.

Ji Shishi habitually refuses. She always feels that these things are very expensive. Even if the money given to her by Ji's father and Lin Anna is enough for her to finish her studies, she still feels that she should not spend it randomly.

"If you stay in the sun for a week, you will get sunburns by then. Shishi is so white, but she can't get tanned." Zhang Ying said with a smile, and told her to wear sunscreen and reapply it frequently.

"Okay." Ji Shishi responded obediently, with a grateful tone, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

Military training has begun. The weather is very hot and the instructors are very strict. They have to train on the large playground for seven or eight hours every day.

The school issued two sets of uniforms and a white hat. Many girls in high school have learned how to dress up.

Ji Shishi was a little shy at first, but when it was break time, the boys would buy water, while the girls would put sunscreen on their faces and arms for fear of getting tanned. But she was embarrassed to make up for it and always kept quiet.

He sat quietly and took the training seriously. In the end, he was rated as a pacesetter and received a certificate.

Provincial cities and cities are different.

The first is the size of the school. Provincial No. 1 Middle School is much larger than the school she attended before, with many teaching buildings and standard laboratories.

When she took a physics class for the first time, she went to a spacious and bright laboratory. Everyone had their own seat and could operate. Seeing her classmates operate skillfully, she was actually very panicked.

She had only seen these large-scale equipment in books. Like a country girl who entered the city, she really felt the difference.

Her brother once said to her: If you work hard to go up, you can see more and better scenery. For you now, this is the only way for you now.

Ji Shishi lowered her eyes and listened hard to the teacher's explanation on the stage. Sometimes she would look distractedly at the tall buildings in the city outside the laboratory.

Wide roads, tall buildings, strong academic style, rich learning resources...

From that day on, she was like a sponge, frantically absorbing the knowledge she needed.

She must go far on her own.

Children in the city have a rich spare time life, and they can also take guitar classes, piano classes, painting classes, and basketball classes on weekends... Ji Shishi clearly understood the gap for the first time.

She knows nothing except reading, can draw dogs into cats, is tone-deaf, and has never seen a piano with her own eyes.

Only now do I know that poor grades can be made up for by special talents. Students with special talents who are admitted to the same university as them are likely to be nearly a hundred points lower than them. If not, they can go abroad for gold-plating. It is said that the threshold is also very low.

However, it is said that it requires hundreds of thousands of support.

When she opened her eyes again and again, she once joked to her brother that the world was unfair.

She was really tired and almost wanted to cry. There were many things she didn’t understand or know how to do.

The elder brother did not refute her words, but looked at her very seriously, "Shishi, life is not a marathon."

Ji Shishi is confused, isn't she?

Ever since I was little, my teachers have also said that life is a marathon and we have to win at the end.

"It's a relay race." Ji Huai didn't say much, and then spoke again, "Your sister-in-law is going to take the exam to the capital, and we will go to the capital then."

From that day on, Ji Shishi’s goal became again: to get admitted to a university in the capital!

Life is not a marathon, it is a relay race, so start with her and keep running. Even if she cannot catch up with her classmates who are far ahead of her due to her parents, she still has the mission of her generation.

Her high school life turned into boring study again.

She was studying when others were in interest classes, and studying when others were having fun and shopping. She seized every minute to study questions. Her schedule on Saturdays and Sundays was the same as going to school. She never dared to relax because she knew that she would never

He is not a smart person, but hard work can make up for his weakness.

Winter and summer vacations are the time for her to preview the content of the next semester and review the content of the previous semester.

When she came in, the ranking of the whole school was not high. The provincial No. 1 Middle School gathered the best students in the province. There were more than 1,300 students in the entire grade. Her ranking was in the 300th place, while the Provincial No. 1 Middle School was the same as the City No. 1 Middle School.

, there are experimental classes, key classes and parallel classes.

Ji Shishi's class is a key class, and there are ten such key classes in the entire grade.

Chen Sheng was in the class next to hers, ranking more than fifty places behind her.

After passing the first intermediate examination, Chen Sheng maintained his original level, while Ji Shishi improved by more than fifty.

In fact, Chen Sheng is the kind of smart person who may be born to study. He doesn't need to work hard to get a pretty good score. Ji Shishi is different. She is a very hardworking person, almost all the time

All was spent on studying and studying to the extreme.

This ranking made Chen Sheng feel a sense of crisis. He stopped talking about shoes and games with the buddies he had just met in the dormitory. He used to go out to play games over the wall, but now he is a little more serious.

When the final exam came, Ji Shishi once again advanced to twenty-two places, and Chen Sheng also made progress, advancing by more than forty places. The further forward, the harder it becomes.

This improvement actually did not attract much attention from teachers. It is normal for rankings to fluctuate during the last semester of high school.

Ji Shishi really came into the teacher's attention in the next semester, when she returned from the winter vacation and took the exam to separate arts and science classes in her first year of high school.

Ji Shishi, who had been reviewing all vacation, improved by 105 points in this exam and ranked 111th in the entire grade. Such rapid progress surprised the teacher in the class.

After the liberal arts and sciences are divided into classes, the liberal arts and sciences will select the top 50 students to form a class. This class is called the "experimental class". The experimental class's class location is different from other classes. It is located on the top floor of the tallest building in the entire school.

, except for the laboratory, there are only these two experimental classes.

The people in this class are competing for the top colleges at home and abroad. Each of their goals is to go to the top universities, and they are among the group of people who have the best chance of getting admitted.

It is a pity that Ji Shishi did not enter the experimental class this time, and fell behind by one place.

She was very sad that day. She wanted to cry but couldn't. She felt very depressed and uncomfortable. She didn't go back to the classroom until close to six o'clock.

Because today is Friday, most of the students in the dormitory have also gone back, so she is walking on the school road alone.

"Aren't you going back?"

Hearing the sound, she turned her head and saw Chen Sheng walking towards her with a backpack on his back and a bag in his hand, probably going home.

She was not a talkative person. Since entering high school, she had not spoken to Chen Sheng except for a chance encounter before.

"Monitor." She shook her head, still used to calling him that.

Chen Sheng was a little embarrassed, "I saw this ranking, you are very high, I feel ashamed."

He actually doesn't have much of a competitive spirit. He just wants to get into a key university and play games and basketball. He used to be number one and didn't think too much about it, but now he feels like he's being crushed.

Hearing what he said, Ji Shishi was not very happy, but rather depressed, "...I want to enter the experimental class."

For this goal, she dared not relax even a day during the holiday.

Chen Sheng was suddenly choked. He didn't know what expression to put on his face. After a while, he said, "There will be a chance next time, but you are just a little bit close. The number of people in the experimental class is not fixed. They can't pass the exam."

The first fifty will be kicked out."

I said this to Ji Shishi and also to myself. When she goes to the experimental class, she won't be able to see her anymore. No, he has to go to the experimental class too!

As soon as this idea came up, he was shocked.

"Thank you." Ji Shishi was comforted.

Chen Sheng followed her and said casually, "I go back every week, but why haven't I met you on the high-speed rail?"

"I'm not going back, I'll live there." Ji Shishi pointed to a house outside the school wall, which was specially rented to students.

"No wonder." Chen Sheng smiled.

Ji Shishi said nothing.

Walking all the way to the school gate, Chen Sheng looked at her from the corner of his eye from time to time. Compared to junior high school, she seemed a bit taller and paler?

Her hair is of great quality, right? It looks very smooth, does it feel the same? Chen Sheng suddenly felt a little itchy and shrank the hand on his side, feeling ashamed of the dirty and dirty thoughts in his heart.

It was a bit raw, but I couldn't help but look over there out of the corner of my eye, and pursed my lips, feeling a little dry.

All the way to the door, Ji Shishi didn't notice anything strange about him. She had been distracted, worrying about the few questions she shouldn't have done wrong in the last exam. It would be better if she was more serious.

After leaving the school gate, she used to turn right alone and then go back to the rental house. Halfway through, she remembered that there was Chen Sheng beside her. She stopped, turned around and waved to him, saying softly, "Bye, monitor, and be careful on the road."

After saying that, he turned around and left again.

Chen Sheng thought she was cute and cute. For the first time, he felt his heart pounding, his ears felt hot, and his face felt hot.

The young man's subtle emotions quietly rose.

Return home.

Chen's mother cooked a table of food and specially bought two large river shrimps, which were fished and sold by nearby villagers. These two were the only ones available, and the price was not cheap.

Although Chen Sheng was reluctant to leave and went to the provincial capital, Chen's father and Chen's mother were very proud in their hearts. They would cook a big meal every week when they came back, for fear of wronging their son.

Chen Sheng looked at the big meal on the table and suddenly thought of Ji Shishi.

If she rents a house alone in the provincial capital, doesn't that mean there is no one to cook for her?
To be continued...