In 1977, Tang County resumed classes from primary school to high school. The grade a student attends is determined by the entrance examination. As long as you have the ability, you can go directly to the third year of high school.

Because Li Wenzhe had studied with his aunt Li Mei for several years before classes resumed, he was in the second grade when he entered school.

Among the younger generation of the Li family, only Li Wenbai has the best learning talent, the rest are not so good.

With Li Wenzhe's ability, this is already his limit.

However, he is also a playful person. He can study hard at home because of Li Mei's supervision, but no one supervises him at school.

So after entering school, the kid started to let himself go.

He was not very talented to begin with, played every day, and didn't focus on his studies, so as expected, he was held back a grade and sat in the second grade for two years.

For this, he was severely beaten by his old father.

Although Li Wenzhe loves to play, he never bullies others. If he sees someone being bullied, he will even go up to help.

But he probably didn't expect that his kindness would bring him trouble.

When he first entered school, Li Wenzhe saw several first-year male students bullying a girl of the same grade, so he stepped forward to help the girl.

He didn't take it seriously, but the girl did remember it.

After the first year, Li Wenzhe was held back a grade, and the girl was promoted to become his classmate.

The girl recognized him at a glance, and later, when she learned that he wanted to study hard and work hard to get into the third year of junior high school, she offered to tutor him.

Although Li Wenzhe didn't know why she did this, he still agreed.

Since her academic performance was among the best in the class, Li Wenzhe had no reason to disagree.

As time went on, the two became good friends. They entered the third year of junior high school together, and the girl continued to tutor Li Wenzhe every day.

Until today, after explaining the questions to him, the girl said that if both he and she were admitted to high school, she would continue to tutor him and strive to get into college together.

The girl's face was full of anticipation when she said this.

It was precisely because of her expression that Li Wenzhe felt so upset.

Because he is sixteen years old this year, he has to go to Wuhan University after the summer vacation.

He believed that if he told this to the girl, the more she expected now, the more disappointed she would be later.

He didn't want to see that kind of scene.

And he found that he seemed to be looking forward to it...

Li Wenzhe, who was full of thoughts, returned home after class and showed off three large pieces of watermelon that had been cooled with well water.

Hu Guilan walked in from outside and saw three pieces of watermelon rind in front of him. He was reaching for a fourth piece and quickly stopped him, "Xiao Ze, that's enough. If you eat any more, you won't have room for dinner later. If you still feel hot, go stand in front of the fan for a while."

Li Wenze withdrew his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then looked at the children in front of the fan. He shook his head and said, "Forget it. If I fight with them for the fan, they will make a scene to death."

"It's okay. They can't make a fuss as long as I'm here." Hu Guilan suddenly remembered something, turned around and looked around, and asked hurriedly, "Xiao Ze, where are your brothers and sisters? Why didn't they come back with you?"

Li Wenze was stunned for a moment, then his face changed and he shouted, "Oh no, I forgot about them, Auntie, I'll go find them."

After saying that, he ran out quickly.

Hu Guilan's daughter Li Ruike, youngest son Li Fengyu, Li Wenzhe's younger brother Li Shaoyuan, younger sister Li Leyun, and Li Mei's eldest son Li Bingjun.

These five people are in the same school as Li Wenzhe, but they are not in the same grade as him.

Usually they would come back together after school, but today Li Wenzhe was extremely upset, and the weather was too hot, so he forgot to wait for them and came back straight after school.

Li Wenzhe knew that other people were probably looking for him in the school at this moment, so he ran towards the school in a hurry.

Seeing him leaving, Hu Guilan couldn't help laughing out loud.

After a while, Li Wenzhe came back with several other people.

When they got home and saw that the adults were all in the house, the five forgotten people started to complain.

This was not a big deal. The adults comforted the five people and told Li Wenzhe not to forget it in the future.

The weather was hot and there was only one fan in the room. By the time everyone finished eating, their clothes were soaked with sweat.

Li Jiakang took out a fan and waved it rapidly while asking, "Xiaomei, you said before that the problem was caused by insufficient power supply... yes, insufficient voltage. It's been over half a month, why hasn't it been resolved yet?"

Given the Li family's financial situation, it is certainly impossible for them to have only one fan.

It’s just that the voltage is not enough, so it can only drive one fan, and the wind speed varies from time to time.

Li Mei replied helplessly, "Dad, let alone half a month, it won't be solved even in half a month."

"Huh?" Not only Li Jiakang, but everyone else exclaimed, "You mean we have to live like this for the whole summer?"

Li Mei was about to reply when she saw the light bulb go out and the fan slowly stop.

Seeing this, the children immediately wailed, "The power is out."

"It's stopped, so what are you crying about?" Li Mei said angrily, then explained, "If we want to solve the power shortage problem, we have to spend money, and it's a lot of money. The county simply can't come up with that much right now, so we can only make do for now. But don't worry, it's like this this year, but it may not be the same tomorrow."

In fact, Tang County was rich, but it was all used to buy equipment for factories in the first half of the year.

This is also the main reason for power shortage.

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