Ma Dali carefully put the sweet potato into the corner of the cloth bag and replied with a smile: "I have no choice but to apply to Chongqing University."

"Ah!" Jia Shuangqi laughed excitedly and asked in surprise: "You also want to go to Yuda?!"

Ma Dali raised his eyebrows, with a look of surprise on his honest face.

"Why? You want to take the exam too?"

Jia Shuangqi's face turned slightly red, and he whispered, "I-I have no choice. My parents said that I can only try to get into Chongqing University and can't go too far away. I won't consider any universities outside my hometown, and I will never agree to any universities outside my province."

Not only did her parents not support her, but her aunt and cousin also didn't support her, so she had no other choice.

Ma Dali laughed bitterly: "I... I have no choice. My brother hasn't come back from the countryside yet, and my two sisters are still in school. If I go far away, I won't be able to take care of them."

His parents are gone, and he is the eldest in the family. It is his responsibility to take care of his younger siblings, and he cannot shirk or escape from it.

If he went to study in another city, he would not be able to take care of his family and his two younger sisters.

Jia Shuangqi sighed softly: "My grades are not very good, and it is too difficult to get into Chongqing University. My parents even said that if I can't get into Chongqing University, I won't study anymore, and I'll just continue working in the grain industry."

"I'm not sure either." Ma Dali smiled bitterly: "We only have Yucheng University in our school, no other schools. I can't leave home, so I can't leave Yucheng. If I fail the exam, I... I will probably choose to repeat the year."

Jia Shuangqi pouted in grievance: "I told my cousin that if it doesn't work out this time, let me repeat a year and give it a try. This time it's only half a year, I haven't learned enough. In fact, if Lingling hadn't helped me with the questions every day, my grades would definitely be worse. If I had more time, maybe there would still be hope."

In the past six months, she has made rapid progress and her grades have risen rapidly, and most of the credit belongs to her good deskmate.

"Next year's exam will probably be even harder." Ma Dali said honestly, "When the college entrance examination was resumed last year, it was winter, and many people didn't know about it. This time it's a national exam, and we have to compete not only with the students in our class, but also with so many other students. The first year's exam questions shouldn't be too difficult, after all, we are a group of students with different abilities. But next year will be different, and the exam questions will definitely be more difficult than this year."

"Then what should I do?" Jia Shuang said with tears in her eyes: "I... I don't want to waste this opportunity. You all go to college, but I work and get married... I want to go too."

"Study hard." Chen Xingling closed the lunch box and said, "Relax and relax. It doesn't matter how you do in the exam."

"Yes!" Ma Dali echoed, "Since we are here, we should make the best of it. Anyway, we will definitely give it our all. As for the final results, we should be more indifferent."

Jia Shuangqi sniffed and quickly recovered his composure.

"That's right! Anyway, no matter how we do in the exam, we have fought hard for our college entrance examination. I have lost more than 15 kilograms in this period of time, and my parents are very distressed. Hehe! They said they have never seen me work so hard."

Ma Dali smiled innocently and asked, "Chen Xuexue, what about you? Which university are you going to apply to?"

"Same as you guys." Chen Xingling replied with a smile: "I have no choice but to try my best to pass the exam. If I pass, I will continue to study. If I fail, I will repeat the year."

Her husband and son both came from Chongqing, and she was reluctant to leave them, so she could only go to Chongqing University.

I have to admit, it’s really not easy to get into a good university not far from home - the competition is too fierce!

Among the thirty or so students in the class, more than half of them chose to apply to Chongqing University, because it is a key university in the south, well-known far and wide, and more importantly, it is very close!

Jia Shuangqi glanced at her with a reproachful look and scolded her with a smile: "You are still repeating the grade! If you need to repeat the grade, how many people in our class can pass the exam!"

"Yes!" Ma Dali, whose academic performance has always been in the middle level, said enviously: "Chen Yu's academic performance in all subjects is very good, and there is no bias in any subject. As long as he performs normally, he will definitely be able to enter the best major in Chongqing University."

Chen Xingling was not at all careless: "In order to be admitted to Chongqing University and to have the priority to choose a major, we must get good grades. Let's work hard together!"

"come on!"

“Let’s do our best together!”

Jia Shuangqi suddenly remembered something and took out a large piece of blue paper from his schoolbag and handed it to Chen Xingling.

"Uncle Mo said it's been revised, so he asked me to show it to you."

Chen Xingling quickly thanked him and took it.

The place her fourth brother had given her was in a good location and had convenient transportation. She planned to build half of it while she had some money, and make a small garden or vegetable garden at the entrance and the remaining space.

She originally wanted to find a construction worker to build two floors in the traditional way, but Jia Shuangying accidentally mentioned that her neighbor across the street was a master builder, which made her change her mind for a moment.

The neighbor's surname is "Mo". He used to be a master who repaired Suzhou gardens. Due to the household registration relationship, he had to transfer to work here in the past two years. Master Mo's work is usually very easy, and he will take some private jobs from time to time.

Chen Xingling really likes garden-style buildings, but the place is too small, and he dare not even think about it.

After listening to what she said, Jia Shuangqi couldn't bear to let her best friend down, so she went to look for Master Mo across the street right after school.

When Master Mo heard that there was an acre of spacious space and an area six or seven meters wide that could be used as a yard, he immediately said that he could design it and simply sketched out the design in pencil.

A small pavilion more than two stories high, with a kitchen and a bathroom arranged on the left and right in the form of ear rooms, a small rockery pavilion with green grass, a snow-capped low wall and a round arch, a mini Suzhou garden has appeared, and many facilities for convenient life have been taken into account - Chen Xingling was overjoyed, and the next day he asked Jia Shuangyin to take him to Master Mo's house to ask for help.

Seeing her sincerity, Master Mo quickly agreed to help her improve the design, and offered to help her find a construction master in the same field to help if she wanted to start construction quickly.

Chen Xingling naturally answered yes happily.

After listening to her detailed explanation, Master Mo quickly made the first complete drawing.

After Chen Xingling arrived, he studied it carefully with Gu Qi for half the night. Finally, he put forward his opinions and hoped that Master Mo would make some modifications.

For example, more space is needed on the second floor to arrange two separate rooms and a bathroom, and the windows are all rows of traditional ancient-style hollow windows to ensure sufficient light.

In addition, the rockery was reduced in size and shortened, and the old trees planted by the original owner on the ground were left alone, and they were avoided from being dug up and removed as much as possible, and if possible, they would be kept.

After listening to this, Master Mo went to Shuiyue Road to inspect it several times, adjusted the drawings, and then asked Jia Shuangqi to send them over.

Chen Xingling read it carefully, then smiled in surprise.

"Okay, then it's settled. Xiaoxiao, when you get there, tell Master Mo to arrange for the workers to start construction as soon as possible."

"Oh oh." Jia Shuangqi looked at the drawing in confusion and shook his head: "Why does it look so much like a geometric figure to me..."

Chen Xingling laughed and said, "It's originally a combination of geometric shapes!"

"Shh~~" Jia Shuangqi made a hushing gesture and pointed at Ma Dali who was reading a book against the banyan tree.

Chen Xingling looked over and found that Ma Dali had fallen asleep without him knowing when.

Jia Shuangqi frowned and sighed, "He goes to the dock to carry goods after school, and at night he has to go... to carry manure. These days, several girls dislike his bad smell. He may have noticed it himself, and recently he has taken the initiative to sit at the single table at the back."

Chen Xingling whispered: "Working hard with your own hands is the most respectable. Labor is the most glorious, regardless of the type of work."

"Yeah." Jia Shuangqi pursed his lips and whispered, "He said he had to earn enough money for tuition. There are only two months left. He said that after the college entrance examination he will go to the lime factory to knock lime. He said the salary is higher."

When Chen Xingling heard this, he couldn't help but feel sad.