Chapter 69 Where are Tianyi and Mingjie?
During Wang Mingjie's college entrance exam week, no one in the family dared to speak loudly. Wang Gang was the most outrageous, always walking on tiptoe when he got home.
She didn't dare turn on the TV in the living room, but Xie Mei wanted to continue watching Zaohua and Tongsuo, so she asked Wang Gang to move the TV into the bedroom.
Wang Fang worked at the cotton mill during the day and returned home at night. It just so happened that Xin Tianyi was also on vacation because the college entrance exams were taking up space in the classrooms. When she returned to school, it would be the final exams.
Xin Tianyi and Wang Fang discussed whether to choose liberal arts or science. Wang Fang thought both were acceptable. She believed that even if Xin Tianyi was not good at science now, it did not mean that she would always be bad. In short, Wang Fang had confidence in Xin Tianyi.
Xin Tianyi felt that her mother's confidence was simply blind self-confidence. In the final placement test, Xin Tianyi failed math.
When the math test was handed out, Cheng Tianlan took a look and immediately told Xin Tianyi that when she went to the office, she heard the math teacher say that the questions in this exam were not difficult and that there were very few people in the class who failed math.
Xin Tianyi has made her decision; she wants to study liberal arts.
If you didn't do well in your previous life, you will live again with the same brain.
She'd spent countless more years studying science than anyone else, but she just couldn't seem to crack it. Since it was already like this, it was best not to force it.
Three days after Wang Mingjie finished his college entrance examination, there was finally laughter and joy in his family.
Then the high school students took their final exam, and after the exam the summer vacation of 1991 officially began.
Xin Tianyi applied for the liberal arts program, and the teacher informed everyone that the results would be posted at school the day before school started, and only then would everyone know which class they would be assigned to.
Cheng Tianlan was a little reluctant because she had signed up for science.
Cheng Tianlan's grades were well-balanced, with equal strengths in both arts and science. However, her eldest brother, Cheng Tianye, insisted that she study science, as did her second brother. Finally, at everyone's urging, Cheng Tianlan signed up for the science major.
But she had another reason: the arts subjects required too much writing. Her hands hurt. It wasn't as easy as the science subjects.
After Xin Tianyi heard Cheng Tianlan's reasoning, she felt that this person's actions were very consistent with her personality. Cheng Tianlan was not just lazy. She was too lazy to ride a bicycle. She was too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer, so she rode Cheng Tiandong's bicycle to and from school every day. Every time she finished her homework, she would show off her skills and say, "I'm so tired. Why did I have to write so many words?"
But it was also true that Cheng Tianlan was reluctant to leave Xin Tianyi, knowing that they were destined to separate and could no longer be classmates. On the day of vacation, Cheng Tianlan hugged Xin Tianyi and squeezed out a few tears. She told Xin Tianyi that during the summer vacation, she would often go to visit Tianyi and asked Xin Tianyi to promise that even if they were in different classes, he would not forget her as a friend.
Xin Tianyi smiled and wiped the tears from Cheng Tianlan's face, saying how could she forget, since they were not separated and were still in the same school.
When Xin Tianyi was packing his schoolbag, he moved the photo he had tucked into his book to the small compartment of his schoolbag. Cheng Tianlan saw it and immediately asked for the photo, saying she wanted to see it again.
That was a group photo of Xin Tianyi and the others. It was taken under a tree at the cotton mill, with the help of Wei Ran's elder sister.
Xin Tianyi and Bai Xue stood in the front, followed by Zhang Yang, Yuan Dabao and Wei Ran.
Wei Ran had also grown taller, even taller than Yuan Dabao. Of course, the tallest was still Zhang Yang, who stood behind Xin Tianyi on the left.
The photos were delivered to Xin Tianyi by Zhang Yang and Yuan Dabao. Xin Tianyi even asked Bai Xue if she had come to pick up the photos, but Yuan Dabao vaguely said that he had delivered them. When asked again, Yuan Dabao refused to say anything.
Later in the spring, Bai Xue came to see Xin Tianyi. The two held hands and talked for a while at the school gate, and then Bai Xue hurried away.
Whenever Xin Tianyi wanted to ask how to find her, Bai Xue would change the subject. When she finally left, she just said that she would come to find her.
In the photo, Yuan Dabao's face was closer, visible between Bai Xue and Xin Tianyi, while Wei Ran pushed up his glasses, which was caught in the photo. And Zhang Yang...
Cheng Tianlan placed the photo in Xin Tianyi's hand. She said to him mysteriously, "You must come and play with me during the summer vacation, otherwise I won't tell you the secret."
"Secret?" Xin Tianyi looked at Cheng Tianlan curiously, "What secret?"
"Anyway, it's related to you." Cheng Tianlan said mysteriously, "I'll tell you when you come to see me."
After she finished speaking, she deliberately exaggerated, "It's a very big secret. If you don't listen, you will regret it!"
But this summer, Xin Tianyi was not in the mood to play.
Xie Mei survived the end of the TV series "Fence Woman and Dog" and also survived the end of Wang Mingjie's college entrance examination. On the day when everyone was relieved, Xie Mei suddenly couldn't eat.
At first, everyone thought Xie Mei had heatstroke. When Xin Tianyi returned home from vacation, everyone was still trying to cool Xie Mei down.
Xin Tianyi saw with his own eyes that Xie Mei was breathing rapidly, and quickly told Wang Fang to send Xie Mei to the hospital.
No one knew whether to send Xie Mei to the hospital, as she had no other symptoms besides not being able to eat. However, Xin Tianyi persisted, and Wang Fang and Wang Gang, seeing that Xie Mei was still unconscious, called a taxi and took her to the hospital.
On the way to the hospital, Xin Tianyi sat next to Xie Mei, holding her hand tightly, and kept telling Xie Mei: Grandma, I am here, and my mother is here too.
After being sent to the hospital, the doctor examined Wang Fang and Wang Gang and said that the old man had difficulty breathing, and his blood oxygen saturation and heart rate were constantly decreasing. They asked him to ask what he thought, otherwise, he should go home.
Wang Gang stood there in a daze, asking in disbelief what it meant.
Wang Yuxiu said to Wang Gang, go in and see your mother and ask her if she wants to go home.
Wang Gang was stunned for a moment. He walked into the ward at a loss. The moment he saw Wang Fang sitting on the bed holding Xie Mei's hand, he could no longer bear it.
Wang Fang didn't cry. She held Xie Mei's hand tightly and asked her in her ear, "Do you want to go home?"
Xie Mei nodded. She wanted to go back to her own home.
At night, everyone stayed in the bedroom to watch over Xie Mei.
Wang Fang fed Xie Mei some water for the last time, but Xie Mei could no longer drink. So Wang Fang dipped a cotton swab in the water and applied it to Xie Mei's lips.
Xie Mei didn't have the energy to speak. She would open her eyes and glance at Wang Fang in a daze, then fall asleep again.
I don’t know what time it was, but Xie Mei suddenly pulled Wang Fang who was lying on the edge of the bed.
Wang Fang immediately raised her head and heard Xie Mei say, "Where are Tianyi and Mingjie?"
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