Time flew by and it was December 8th. The Su family went to live in the town two days in advance, fearing that the weather would be bad on the day of the exam and making it inconvenient to travel.
As expected, it drizzled on the day of the exam, and many students arrived at the test center with their trouser legs and shoes soaked. Standing in the cold wind, they stamped their feet and rubbed their hands together to get a little warmth.
Even so, he was still muttering to himself, and even though his fingers were red from the cold, he was reluctant to put down the book in his hand.
On the other hand, the Su family was dressed warmly and waiting outside the school gate.
Daya and Su Qianshan were still chatting and laughing, as if they were not the ones who were going to take the exam.
Even Si Ya was chatting with San Ya about a new novel she had read, and she was acting out the dialogue between the male and female protagonists in the book with great emotion, and the two of them were laughing together.
"Come on, kids, check your pencil cases to see if you've missed anything." Su Qing checked their stationery one by one.
Su's mother and Wen Li held hands tightly, wanting to say something but not knowing how to start.
Heiye hid not far away, holding his pipe in his mouth, neither putting in the tobacco nor lighting it. Xiaowu and Xiaoliu sat beside him, their chubby hands reaching into Heiye's pockets to keep warm.
"Mom, relax. It's only three days and the exam will be over soon." Daya hugged Su Qing and comforted her.
"It's okay, Daya, Mom is not nervous, not at all. Would you like to drink some ginger tea that has just been poured into the thermos?" Su Qing was about to open the lid of the thermos with trembling hands.
I don’t know if it’s because of the cold, but I twisted the lid of the thermos for a long time but it didn’t budge.
"Mom, I don't want to drink."
"Here, have an egg, I..."
Cheng Fangyi couldn't bear to watch and pulled Su Qing away. Her nervous look would make the children nervous too.
"Wife, listen to me, it's just a test, you don't need to be so nervous."
Since the countdown began about thirty days ago, Su Qing has been a little nervous.
Every morning she gets up when the children wake up, and every night she stays awake after the children go to bed. Her dark circles and bags under her eyes stand out among the crowd, and the children, in turn, worry about Su Qing's mental state.
"I know, I'm not nervous. Move aside. I'll go check if everything is ready for the child."
Even though Su Qing himself had experienced the college entrance examination, he couldn't avoid feeling nervous and anxious when facing it again.
What's more, she is now accompanying her child to take the college entrance examination as a parent, so she will have to consider it more than when she was a candidate.
She could only keep finding things to do to temporarily forget the tension and anxiety.
"Wife, you have to believe in the children. You, mother, and sister-in-law have done your best to create a good review environment for them. You have done your part. The rest is up to them."
Su Qing listened carefully and suppressed her anxiety. "I know, I know. I won't force food on them anymore, okay?"
As soon as Su Qing finished speaking, he heard someone calling him.
Following the sound, I saw the village chief and his friends.
Because they were in a hurry, the tips of their noses were all red on the coach.
"Village chief..." Su Qing replied.
The village chief jumped off the donkey cart and walked towards the Su family with shallow and deep steps, sighing.
"You guys had the foresight to come to town early. Look at my shoes, they're all muddy. If I had known earlier, I would have let the children stay at their aunt's house for a few days, and they wouldn't have suffered so much."
The village chief looked down at his shoes and trouser legs covered in yellow mud, with a bitter expression.
"No one expected it to rain. Come on, I just happened to bring some ginger tea. Let's have some to warm ourselves up."
Su Qing took the military water bottle hung on the donkey cart by the village chief and filled it with half of the water.
After the village chief took it, he first handed it to the children, passed it around, and finally to himself.
"I still have some here. Drink it. It's hard to travel in such a cold weather."
The village chief looked at his grandchildren who kept breathing on their hands and handed them the kettle. "Okay, thank you for your help. I was just worried about how to warm the children's hands and feet."
Everyone waited for a long time before the school gate slowly opened.
After a final check of their belongings, Su Qianshan and the others were sent into the examination room by Su Qing and his group.
Looking at the children's backs as they walked away, Su Qing felt a lot of emotions in his heart.
I thought I would never have the experience of sending my child to take an exam in my life, but who knew it would happen in this parallel universe.
"Cheng Fangyi, do we need to be old?"
In the blink of an eye, the children are taking the college entrance examination, which means that in a few years they will each start their own families and careers.
"No, we are young."
…
Three days was neither short nor long, and the sky cleared up on the afternoon after the exam.
Candidates came out of the examination room one after another. Some were excited, some were dejected, some were enthusiastic, and some were dejected...
"Mom, I want to eat some pork elbow to nourish myself." San Ya threw herself into Su Qing's arms and said coquettishly. She was the only one in the family who chose the liberal arts major, so when it came to answering the same large-scale questions, Daya and the others' answer sheets looked neat and simple, but hers didn't leave a single gap.
In her words, denseness is her self-esteem as a liberal arts student.
So after three days of exams, she felt like her hands were no longer her own.
"Okay, whatever you want to eat will be made."
"Mom, I want to eat roasted brain." Xiaowu took the opportunity to order food.
"Ask your dad. If he can buy you some pig brains, Mom will roast them for you."
"Oh, the most beautiful mother in the world, are you going to do it for me?" Xiao Wu said coquettishly in a pinched voice.
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