"I haven't chased you?"

Ye Qin held the wooden stake on the roadside fence, turned around and looked at the big yellow dog that had disappeared, and breathed a long sigh.

I was chased for a while, and the aunt from the neighbor's house in the middle saw it and drove it with a broom. She should have beaten the big yellow dog back, otherwise... Ye Qin shook his head. Even if he was the fastest runner in junior high school, he could not run four legs with two legs.

The bamboo basket and straw hat were still in Chen Zixi's hands, and Ye Qin was not in a hurry to look for it, and was about to go home and take a look. Grandpa got the notice of his admission to Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and he really didn't know how to deal with it now.

He naturally wanted to go to school, but the second elder is old and it is not easy to support him in high school. The tuition fees for the last year of junior high school are all sent to him by his uncle who worked outside.

After walking along the loess road for a while, Ye Qin saw a lush osmanthus tree, lushly covered with a large area. This osmanthus tree, also known as the osmanthus tree, has a variety of osmanthus. According to my grandfather, it has been nearly hundreds of years. The trunks are two people holding each other together. Every year from September to October, osmanthus flowers bloom, and the rich fragrance can be smelled even a few hundred meters away.

Moreover, at that time, Ye Qin and his grandparents would lay bamboo mats under the tree to dry rice, and their sister-in-law and their family came back, and everyone would climb onto the tree with bamboo poles or people to start making osmanthus.

The county flower in Xiushui County is osmanthus, and the osmanthus tree at the door of Grandpa Ye Qin’s house is quite famous in several villages around. Every year, it can benefit a little from selling ornamental osmanthus. Those who buy it back make osmanthus tea, osmanthus cakes, etc., which are of many use. In the first month of the year, there is a cup of osmanthus candy water, which is indispensable and is considered a festive celebration.

Behind the osmanthus tree is an old house combining low red bricks and compact earth walls, with green tiles and red walls hidden among the green branches and leaves.

Compared to osmanthus trees, the house was naturally built later, but it has been a bit old now, but the courtyard is clean and tidy.

"Grandma, I'm back."

As soon as Ye Qin entered the yard, he saw an old woman with silver silk sitting under the shade of a tree peeling edamame. The edamame in the farm is not the kind that is cooked together in the night market, with some beer and drinks, but instead the shells are removed and tender beans are left. Fried with some green peppers, which is a good dish. If you add some diced meat, it will be delicious and appetizing, and it is one of the best vegetables in summer.

"Where is your straw hat and basket?" Liu Lanzhi looked at Ye Qin's empty hands, and the straw hat that she went out in the morning did not fly away, and immediately asked strangely.

"Where is Chen Zixi." Ye Qin walked to the water tank in the yard, picked up the wooden ladle and scooped the water, and wiped his face whole.

"You'll get it back later."

A hint of anger appeared on Liu Lanzhi's vicissitudes of face, and she pointed at Ye Qin, "I told you not to take her around anymore. The sun is so big, what should I do if I have heatstroke? Her mother disliked us very much. Last time she said it was not nice at home, you..."

"I know, I know."

Ye Qin walked to Liu Lanzhi with a smile and squatted down, then pulled a handful of edamames in front of him, and then peeled them up.

It’s not that my grandma doesn’t like Chen Zixi, but my grandma has liked this girl since she was a child. She used to have a bit of delicious food at home, so she saved it from leaving it for others.

But everyone has grown up in the past two years, and Chen Zixi's family is getting better and better. Her grandparents don't care, but her mother has muttered several times in private, not allowing him to take Chen Zixi around like when he was a child.

Ye Qin actually knew that his grandmother was so strong and shameless, and could not stand any quarrels or disputes, and even some of the arguments that he was involved in.

Chen Zixi's uncle left Shangyun Village more than ten years ago to explore the big city. With his flexible mind and down-to-earth and hardworking, he got home in just a few years. At first, everyone only knew that he had made money. In the past two years, he was already a famous entrepreneur outside Xiushui County.

Chen Zixi's father also followed his uncle to Linzhou a few years ago. Now he is a small boss, and he has bought a house and a car. Ye Qin can gradually feel the invisible gap.

After peeling a handful of edamames, Ye Qin guessed that Chen Zixi should have almost arrived home, and no longer listened to grandma's nagging. He turned around and left the house. It was time to bump into Chen Zixi wearing a straw hat and carrying a bamboo basket, humming a cheerful tone all the way.

"Go back quickly."

Ye Qin sent Chen Zixi to the camphor tree not far from her house, and took the straw hat she was wearing. He just fanned the straw hat as a fan, and the corners were curled up a little ugly, so it was smoothed by Chen Zixi.

Under the shade of the tree, it seemed that because of the hot weather, the girl's face was a little rosy, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead, and a few strands of hair were attached to it.

"Ye Qin..." Chen Zixi looked at Ye Qin carrying the straw hat on his head, carrying a bamboo basket and shouted suddenly.

"Hmm? So what's wrong?" Ye Qin turned around in confusion.

Chen Zixi lowered her head slightly, looking like she wanted to speak but stopped. She paused, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face, "It's okay, you go back first."

"It's really okay? Then I'll leave." Ye Qin raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Zixi.

"No, you go back!" Chen Zixi shook his head gently.

"Okay." Ye Qin turned around and left with a bamboo basket in one hand. After walking a few steps, he suddenly raised his right hand and waved it, waved, "See you back!"

...

Cicadas sing and know.

Ye Qin walked back home along the path. Before he could enter the yard, he heard a loud voice, "Ye Qin was admitted to high school, this is a big deal. In a few days, he called Mingxia and Mingfang to come back to sit down. I will go to the town to ask the boss, he has really not been decent for so many years..."

"You're so old. You couldn't control him before, but now you can still control him." Grandma's nagging voice rang in the yard.

"Grandpa, grandma!"

Ye Qin entered the yard and shouted to the two old men who were talking.

"Ye Qin is back."

When the two old men saw Ye Qin entering the door, they stopped talking at the same time.

Ye Guandi was slightly hunched over and his forehead was very high. Compared to Liu Lanzhi, who was cleaning up the branches and leaves on the ground, although his hair was not much, he was as bright as a young man.

"Here, put the basket next to you first, you can hold it yourself."

Ye Guandi's cheeks covered with gullies had a faint smile. He picked up an envelope that had just been placed on the wooden table and handed it to Ye Qin. There was a sense of relief in his slightly turbid eyes.

Ye Qin took the envelope from his grandfather, and he knew that he asked Chen Zixi to pay attention to the admission letter sent.

When Ye Qin opened the envelope, his hands trembled unconsciously. There was a folded colored offset paper inside. The cover caught his eye was a six-story teaching building with an admission notice written on it.

The inside page of the notice reads Ye Qin, junior high school student ID number... Congratulations on his admission, etc., and the bottom is Xiushui No. 2 Middle School and Time, with a red steel seal.

Although he already knew that his performance in the middle school entrance examination was not particularly ideal, and he could not go to No. 1 Middle School and was preparing to give up, Ye Qin was still slightly excited when he looked at the notice.

In 2002, there were still not many students who could go to high school in Xiushui County. Elementary and junior high schools have nine years of compulsory education, which is nothing to say, although a considerable number of people who dropped out of primary and junior high schools in Xiaoli Town for various reasons.

The key is to go to junior high school and high school, which requires a high school entrance examination. Although the educational resources of Xiushui County are not as exaggerated as those in the central and western regions, there is still a big gap in the south and other regions.

For example, in the township middle schools in Xiaoli Town, there are basically three or four hundred students in the first class of junior high school, but only a few dozen people can go to high school in the end. According to the admission score line, there are no more than fifteen people in the county town No. 1 Middle School, and there are only more than 30 people in the other township middle schools with high schools. According to the proportion, it is not even 6 to 1.

It is said that the college entrance examination is a one-plank bridge that thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge. In fact, in the county, town and rural areas, a large number of people have been screened for the high school entrance examination. Whether it is because of grades, family, or considering technical secondary school or technical school, there are not many people who can enter high school.

only……

Ye Qin had learned about it before that it was not cheap to go to high schools in the county. At this time, the tuition and miscellaneous fees were high, and he had to stay and eat. To be honest, if you have parents, even if you are working in farming, you can still pay for it.

But he leaned against the two elders who were about to reach seven in the morning... Ye Qin felt a little headache after thinking about it.

"Lanzhi, get more vegetables at noon today and get the rice wine made last year." Ye Guandi took out a pipe from his waist, sat on the stone bench under the osmanthus tree, and shouted in the direction of the kitchen.

"You know how to eat."

Liu Lanzhi's voice came out in the kitchen. Although she was a complaining tone, she could still hear the joy in the words.

"Grandpa, I..."

Ye Qin looked at the admission notice repeatedly and silently put him back into the envelope. He looked up at the old man who was pressing tobacco in his tobacco pipe, opened his mouth, and some words were at the edge of his mouth, but he couldn't speak.

Ye Guandi pulled a match and smashed his mouth. The light blue smoke floated, and his voice was a little low, "You go to the town with me tomorrow to find your dad. You are going to high school, this is a big deal. No matter what, he."

"Grandpa, I'd better go by myself."

Ye Qin looked at his grandfather smoking a dry tobacco. When he thought of their relationship, he felt a little reluctant to say.

"You go by yourself? Can you go?"

Ye Guandi finished smoking the tobacco from his pipe and knocked the ash on the soles of his shoes, and there was a little indescribable meaning in his eyes.

"Grandpa, just let me go by myself. It's more than ten miles away, and I'm riding a bicycle very quickly."

Ye Qin also understood what his grandfather meant, but after all, it was his own business to go to school. If he didn't say it, he would ask his grandfather to say it, and he might have a quarrel again. Moreover, he would have been riding a bicycle with the old man for more than ten miles.

The old man knocked out the ashes in the pipe, then twisted a small handful of tobacco from the cloth bag hanging under the pipe, and pressed it into the pipe. When he heard Ye Qin's words, he paused first, and then sighed softly, "You can go, just say whatever you should say, don't be afraid, this is definitely something you want to learn."

Ye Qin took the envelope containing the admission notice, gently slapped the palm of his hand, and sighed silently.
Chapter completed!