Chapter 22
Boom!
Xu asked the brain is blank, heartbeat is a little out of control
Emotions for a moment some chaos, fear, nervousness, or excitement intertwined
Obviously is a hot day, Xu asked body but cold out of a goose bumps
Xu asked to use all the self-control to let themselves calm down, at least face calm
She pinched her nails into her palms to keep her body from shivering, and asked Wen Yiming in a faint voice, “What do you mean? I don’t understand what you’re saying And when did I say I know the college entrance exam is in two months? Don’t spit on me! This word will be publicized and you will be held accountable”
In his heart, he had several questions
Who exactly is Wen Yiming?
Why did he know about the college entrance exam?
Did he come here too?
Even if he was, then why did he know that he was also dressed?
What is the connection between her and him?
As for the college entrance exam, wasn’t it reinstated in ’78?
It was October ’77, two months later Was she misremembering history?
Or was the current era not the one she knew at all, just similar?
A series of questions wound into a knot in Xu Wen’s heart, unraveling into a mess
“This is not the place to talk” The road was filled with students coming and going, Wen Yiming pointed to the playground with his free hand, “Go there and talk”
Xu Man bit his lower lip and nodded to follow him
Wen Yiming picked a place where the lights were dark and stood still
Xu Man realized that Wen Yiming seemed to particularly like hiding in places where he could see others but they couldn’t see him
The first time he met him was like this, eating in a restaurant was like this, in Little Sixth Street was like this, and now it’s still like this
“Xu Man, do you not remember me at all?” Wen Yiming spoke first
Xu Wen: “???”
She squinted her eyes at the dim light and carefully looked at Wen Yiming
Wen Yiming wasn’t wearing his glasses, his face was a bit sweaty, and his hair was a bit disheveled, but it didn’t prevent Xu Man from seeing him clearly
Xu Man pondered again and again, very sure that she has never seen in two lifetimes, not to mention do not know Wen Yiming, shaking his head and asked him back, “We know before?”
“Not really!” Wen Yiming affirmed, “But I’ve seen you before, and I’m very impressed with you Last summer, when you had a fever and went to the clinic for an infusion, I was right next to you”
Xu Man carefully recalled, but nothing came to mind
But there was indeed such a time when he had a fever and was given an infusion
At the time of the summer and fall seasons, Xu Man caught a cold, the first time she had gotten sick since she was born
In her previous life, she had been in exceptionally good health, and could usually fight off colds and fevers without medication
Besides, her living expenses were limited, so she couldn’t afford to eat if she bought medicine, so she tried to put up with it
But the original owner of this physical quality is not as good as her, more or less a little malnutrition
The cold not only did not get better, but also more and more serious, until the high fever fainted in the classroom, was sent to the clinic at the school gate
At that time, Xu asked the whole person burned to a muddled nightmare has been a little confused, with a drunken like out of the picture
She later woke up from the fever, really don’t remember if there was anyone else in the hospital bed next to her
Because at that time, especially sad
Both sad that she didn’t have to wear it back and sad that she couldn’t afford to eat after the infusion and had to go hungry again
“And then?” Xu asked, thinking that since he’d mentioned it he must have had something else happen that day that revealed where she came from
“You were so burnt that you were talking nonsense” Wen Yiming said this looking straight at Xu Man
Xu Wen’s heart thumped, her face didn’t show, she didn’t even say anything, waiting for him to follow
“I heard you say a few words of nonsense, saying that you wanted to go back, and also said the word ‘reform and opening up’ Xu asked, you’re also reborn back, right?” Although it was a question, Wen Yiming’s tone was extremely certain
Reform and opening up was indeed not a word that should have appeared in the year seventy-six
Xu Man also caught a key word “also” from Wen Yiming’s sentence
Xu Man remembers his grandmother saying that Wen Yiming was mute and honest before, and that he was not good at studying, and that he failed to pass the high school exam the year before, and that he was suddenly enlightened after a car accident last year that hit his head
So Wen Yiming was reborn in that car accident?
Xu asked him tentatively, “From which year were you reborn back?”
“Ninety-eight years” Wen Yiming answered truthfully, “What about you?”
Wen Yiming, who was in his forties in 1998, was called a wimp instead of a mute in the mouths of his wife and neighbors
He did not go to college in his past life, according to the steps assigned to the factory work, the work at that time okay, and then the factory efficiency is getting worse and worse, even the wages are not issued, bias he married a tigress, smacked him not to make money on his non-playing that is scolded at every turn scolded him for being a loser
The days of aggression is twenty years, and then catch the wave of layoffs, his wife divorced him, his children are adults also do not need to manage
Once drunk to drunken back to the hole in the wall of the road was hit, and then woke up back to twenty years old
Xu asked blinking, back to Wen Yiming: “seventy-nine years”
Wen Yiming: “”
It is true that reform and opening up took place in 1979, but Xu Man obviously did not tell the truth
Wei Zhuang is not big, if a college student is sure the entire commune is a household name
But in his previous generation, he had not heard of any female college students from Wei Zhuang who had passed the college entrance examination in the first year of the resumption of the college entrance examination
So Xu Wen is lying
Wen Yiming also went to the Taoyuan production brigade to inquire
Unfortunately, the production brigade’s impression of Xu Wen was that she was smart, quiet, and pretty
Only a few people said that after she went to high school, she seemed to be less talkative and more scholarly than before
But this is also a normal phenomenon, Wen Yiming has no way of knowing exactly what year Xu Wen was reborn
Wen Yiming didn’t force Xu Man to answer, it made no difference which year she was reborn
“Xu Man, there is no one else here, the matter of rebirth which said which I won’t tell anyone about you after we separate in a while Of course I won’t admit it if you tell others that I was reborn” Wen Yiming changed his usual pretense of being gentle and spoke particularly bluntly, “I will confide in you today because I feel that in a sea of people, we are of the same kind I’m not willing to watch you make a fool of yourself You study well, and so on the winter examination to the university you can leave this poor place Wouldn’t it be nice to be a phoenix flying out of Weizhuang? Why marry yourself off so early? Or marry a big-headed soldier like Lu Yuanzheng?”
“Taking the university entrance exam in winter? Won’t the college entrance examination resume next year?” Xu Wen was truly shocked
Like Wen Yiming said, today’s conversation will rot in each other’s hearts, will not be publicized, and no one will believe it
Xu asked simply will be wrong, set of words is not, ask questions
Wen Yiming looked at Xu Wen strangely, “You are not seven nine reborn back? How come you don’t even know this?”
Xu Wen spread his hands, “It was you who said I was reborn You didn’t believe me when I said I wasn’t”
Wen Yiming: “”
He had always been convinced that Xu Man was of the same kind as him, and at this moment, he was really a little unsure
He stared suspiciously at Xu Man for a long time and smiled, “Okay, no matter if you’re reborn or not, since I’ve said it I’m entitled to give you a hand In October, the country will announce the resumption of the college entrance examination, and the first college entrance examination will be resumed in December The seven or eight years of college entrance exams you mentioned is the resumption of the normal summer college entrance exams”
There was and is only this one winter college entrance examination, which is not considered a normal college entrance examination So long afterward in word of mouth, many people thought that the college entrance examination was restored in seven or eight years
Xu Man was also one of them
In the end, it is not enough to learn history in a practical way
Just as Wen Yiming’s voice fell, the lights out bell rang
Xu Man’s heart was in turmoil, leaving behind a sentence “Thank you for your honesty” He was about to run back
“Wait”
Wen Yiming called out to Xu Man and returned the stack of books he was holding in his arms, “I’ll return the notes you lent me, and I’ve also bought some textbooks for you You don’t want to marry Lu Yuanzheng, if you lack money I can give you a loan first”
“Thanks!” Xu Man took the books and notes, not refusing this time, “I’ll look for you if I need to”
Xu Man ran back to the dormitory, touching the dark to Wen Yiming returned her notes and sent the textbook to the upper bunk empty bed, and fumble into their mosquito net
“Ask, what’s the situation with this Wen Yiming? How come he comes to you twice in three days? It can’t be two men fighting over a woman, right?” Shao Yue excitedly asked
Before Xu Wen could say anything, the dormitory door was knocked on, and the teacher on duty warned, “It’s lights out, don’t talk anymore”
Shao Yue immediately shut up
In fact, before the school was not strict about lights out, many students were not willing to go back to the dormitory after the evening self-study, picking the light to read at night
Later, the school was afraid of political problems and ordered that everyone must return to the dormitory on time
As a result, students could not study in the classroom but in the dormitory instead Not allowed to turn on the lights, then light to play aluminum flashlights to study
The school had no choice but to arrange for the teacher on duty to check the dormitory
In the past, there were also checking the dormitory, just to protect the safety of the students and prohibit the night stay, now the more strict control, do not allow to talk and do not allow to pick the light to read
Like Shao Yue such disciplinary caught first warning, warning will not listen to deduct points, then the whole dormitory will be punished
After a while, I think the teacher on duty is far away, Shao Yue again spoke: “Ask?”
Xu Man didn’t sleep, but his heart was in turmoil and he didn’t want to talk, so he pretended to be asleep
Shao Yue shouted twice and stopped disturbing Xu Man
The impact of Wen Yiming’s words was too great
A while ago, Xu Man gave birth to the idea of quitting school and marrying someone because she thought that the college entrance examination would be resumed only next year
This year does not sound long, the average family bite the bullet and endure But Xu’s family is not an ordinary family
This is the era of eating a big pot of rice, for the time being does not allow the individual economy, small places do not even have a way to earn extra money
The Xu family was already poor, and has always struggled to make ends meet
Now Sang Xiaoqing is pregnant again, equivalent to the Xu family less a labor force will also add a little one to eat
This year will be a particularly long ordeal for everyone in the Xu family
In this case, Xu asked to still insist on going to high school in the eyes of everyone who can not go to college is really very unintelligent, especially selfish
Schooling was the most important thing for a family decades later, but not in the 1970s
Instead of “knowledge changes destiny,” this era was all about “a wide world with great possibilities”
Every era has its own unspoken rules
Whether in her last life or in this life, Xu Man is just an ordinary person, she does not have the courage to go against the times
At the very least, she didn’t dare to be like Wen Yiming, who wanted to go against the grain and get into business in advance by relying on that little bit of foreknowledge of the future
Now individuals doing business is against the law If you are caught, you will be paraded through the streets and sentenced to imprisonment
Besides, Xu will not be able to do business, she has not even been to work
The Xu family treats Xu Man very well, so she can’t be selfish and only think about staying alive until she gets into college, regardless of how the Xu family lives
A family of four generations crowded on a kang, can not see a meal of meat and fish all year round, but also have to pay in advance at the beginning of the year the end of the money
Only those who have been really poor know what it means to be a hero for a penny
If Xu Man were a selfish person, she would have put up with it for another year, but she wasn’t Marrying out was the only solution she could think of to solve the Xu family’s difficulties
However, when Xu asked Wen Yiming for the first time on a blind date with Xu asked to find the inner resistance, she can not do a teeth and eyes closed to marry a stranger to live
The “marry out” is not really want to be a village woman around the stove man
In the end, she has never been married and fallen in love, or will aspire to marry love marriage
To put it bluntly, Xu Wen is neither want to settle for and do not want to drag the Xu family for a year, but also temporarily unable to change the status quo, impulsive temporary intention to marry
Waiting for the real thing, but she is backing out
These days, looking for an object can not be a child’s play, Xu asked the words are put out, regret certainly can not be reversed
Luckily, Dongsheng’s phrase “Ma Ma” ruined her blind date, and she was actually relieved that she wasn’t angry
But being criticized is also a trouble She doesn’t really care, but she’s afraid that the Xu family will be affected
At this point, Lu Yuanzheng’s marriage proposal was the perfect solution to all the problems caused by Xu Man’s impulsive behavior
In Xu’s eyes, her marriage to Lu Yuanzheng is really like a deal if her relationship with Dongsheng is not taken into account
He gave her a house and freedom, and she raised his children for him
This is very fair
And about because she didn’t meet Lu Yuanzheng on a blind date, Xu Man didn’t resist spending time with him
All of this would have been perfect for Xu Man, but today Wen Yiming told her that she had remembered wrongly, and that the college entrance exam would be held in December, not next year, but this year
There are less than four months to go, bite the bullet and get through it
Wen Yiming also said, two months later will announce the resumption of the college entrance examination
Then, when the Xu family knows that they can go to college, they will support her for four months, and even Sang Xiaoqing won’t have a problem with her going to school
Xu Man thought, if what Wen Yiming said was true, then was this marriage still necessary?
Just got engaged today, and then he’s going to break it off right away? What should she tell the Xu family?
How should she mention it to Lu Yuanzheng?
Also, why did Wen Yiming tell her this?
According to Wen Yiming, Xu Man and him had only met once, why was he willing to help her? Why did he stop her from marrying Lu Yuanzheng?