Born to Run

　　 "Ling Ling..."

　　 The crisp bells rang from far away. In the early morning of summer, the sun is warm and the morning breeze has the smell of vegetation.

　　 "Ye Qin, where are you going?"

　　 "I'm going to town."

　　 On the rural road from Shangyun Village to Xiaoli Town, Ye Qin leaned on the head of the car with one hand, touched the ground with his left foot, and greeted two teenagers who were also riding bicycles.

　　 "Ye Qin, did you pass the second high school? Yesterday I heard that your grandpa took your admission notice and wandered around the village committee."

　　 is a tall and thin boy who is riding a beautiful variable-speed bicycle. At this time, it is called a racing car in the villages, towns and villages. Next to him was a slightly shorter teenager, riding a brand new ladies bicycle.

　　 Ye Qin smiled, instead of answering the topic, he asked the two of them: "Zhang Jianping, Wang Wu, where are you two going?"

　　 "Go to town too." The tall and thin young man Zhang Jianping paused and scratched his head. "Something goes to school."

　　 "Go to school?" Ye Qin was slightly surprised. Everyone had graduated from junior high school and had been on vacation for a long time. Why did he go to school at this time?

"Oh, there is something hidden." Wang Wu curled his lips and pointed to Zhang Jianping. "His dad called back and asked him to go to high school and asked him to inquire about buying a No. 1 Middle School or Sanyang. How much does the middle school cost?"

　　 Yeqin understood this immediately.

　　 Xiushui No. 1 Middle School and Sanyang Town, where there is a high school, Sanyang Middle School not only recruits students who pass the test, but also has a high school entrance examination score that is too low and can be bought by paying extra.

　　 Ye Qin doesn’t know exactly how much it will cost. In short, it’s a huge amount, and not many people are willing to spend a lot of money each year.

　　 "Let's go."

　　 Ye Qin lightly stepped his foot and stepped on the pedal of the bicycle to start first.

　　 "Ye Qin, your car is so old that it jingles, can you catch up with us?"

　　 Zhang Jianping and Wang Wu followed, and the three of them walked side by side. Looking at Ye Qin's Phoenix Twenty-Eight Bar, Zhang Jianping shouted with a grin.

　　 "Yes, wait a minute, you won't be able to catch up with us." Wang Wu also yelled. Although his is not a racing car, the lady's bicycle is light and does not take much effort.

　　 The comparison of young people is actually the same whether it is urban or rural. Compared with Ye Qin’s Phoenix 28 Dagang, the two bicycles are undoubtedly more fashionable. In the three years of junior high school, whoever wants to have a bicycle like this will not be the focus, but it is more or less fascinating. .

The two-eight bars that Ye Qin rides have more than ten years of history. They were bought by my uncle when he was not married before. Some of the peeled paint parts have some mottled rust, and there is a wash on the back seat. Wrapped in a clean snakeskin bag.

　　 For variable speed bicycles, Ye Chin had been particularly eager to start from the sixth grade until the junior high school in the town. Thinking about the uncle or the sister-in-law, or the grandpa who would really give him one, if he rode such a bicycle, the speed should be too fast.

　　 But he himself knows that this kind of thing will never only happen in a dream...

　　 The daydream in his mind flashed, watching Zhang Jianping and Wang Wu suddenly accelerate from their sides and ride forward quickly, Ye Qin suddenly laughed.

　　 Holding the handlebars tightly with both hands, the person arched slightly, his buttocks lifted from the seat cushion, and the weight of his entire body began to fall on the bicycle pedals. The two-eight bars of the bicycle started with a heavier foot, and Yeqin seemed to exhaust every effort.

　　 After several consecutive kicks, Ye Qin's feet changed faster and faster, and the squeak of the flywheel chain suddenly became fast and urgent.

　　 bell bell bell, the crisp bicycle ringtone becomes more and more crisp.

　　 "Damn, he can fly!"

But four or five minutes later, on the winding Huangtu country road, two teenagers riding variable-speed bicycles and brand-new ladies' bicycles panting, looking at the creaking but fast disappearing in front of the Phoenix Twenty Eight Bars. For a while, he shook his head and sighed.

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　　 Xiaoli Town is the northernmost town in Xiushui County. Today is not a day to go to the market, but the main streets in the middle of the town are still quite lively. Especially in the section of the vegetable market, there are many vendors along the street. The cries of chickens and ducks are intertwined with the sounds of various vehicles and pedestrians crossing the street from time to time.

　　 Ye Qin carefully rode his bicycle across the street, and soon came to a street behind the town government.

　　 The town has developed rapidly in the past few years. This old street, which was still dilapidated in Yeqin's first grade, has now built rows of three-story buildings with white tiles.

　　 The regular asphalt road on the ground, the first floor is the storefront, and the second and third floors live. There are still a few places in the distance that were rebuilt under planning after the demolition and relocation. They are incomparable with the cities and counties, but they are quite regular and can be seen.

　　 It may be because the time is still early, except for one that sells breakfast along the street, the other rolling shutters are tightly closed.

　　 In front of the shop closest to the corner of the street, Ye Qin jumped off the bicycle, leaned the corner of the bicycle aside, and took off the cloth bag from the back seat of the car.

　　 raised his head and looked at the building in front of him. The security door on the second and third floors next to the rolling door was closed and hidden. The residents who wanted to come upstairs had already gotten up.

　　 Ye Qin stood in front of the door and took a breath. Instead of pushing the door directly in, he knocked on the metal panel of the anti-theft door.

　　 "Who?" Soon a voice came from inside.

The door was opened by a chubby middle-aged woman, looking at Ye Qin standing outside, she was slightly stunned, and then she put a smile on her face, "Ye Qin, it's you, why are you here? ?"

　　 "Yeah." Ye Qin nodded silently. This middle-aged woman was his stepmother Wu Fengqin, but after so many years, he couldn't say anything.

　　 "There are some dried fish here. Grandma asked me to bring them and add some dishes to you." Ye Qin passed the package in his hand and didn't speak much after entering the door.

　　 There are many streams in Xiushui County. These dried fish are basically powered by Yeqin carrying a battery along the small river ditch. The equipment of the electric fish is also simple, that is, a battery with a metal conductive pole and a dip net.

　　 "If you sit down, I will pour you a glass of water."

　　 Wu Fengqin took the package in Ye Qin's hand, and the smile on her face became close.

"No trouble." Ye Qin waved his hand. He didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he took the lead. "I was admitted to the second high school, and my father and grandma are getting older, so I want to ask if you want to help me. Pay some tuition and I will pay you back in a few years."

When Wu Fengqin heard the words "high school" and "tuition", the smile on her face suddenly froze. She was taken aback, and then she gave a dry smile, "I was admitted to high school. Second Middle School?"

　　 "Second Middle School." Ye Qin hesitated a little, then replied in a low voice.

"That didn't pass the entrance examination." Wu Fengqin seemed to relax a little while listening, "Well, let me tell your dad." She turned her head and took the dried fish that Yeqin had given into the kitchen. , Did not pour water, but went upstairs.

　　 "Who is here?"

　　 Ye Qin was about to sit down on the stool in the guest hall when he heard a male voice upstairs.

　　 Although it was upstairs and downstairs, the voice was still clearly audible. After hearing the man's voice, Ye Qin almost subconsciously left his seat and approached the stairs unconsciously.

　　 "It's Ye Qin here." Wu Fengqin's voice followed.

　　 "What is he doing?" The nonchalant voice of the man talking upstairs sounded again.

　　 "He was admitted to high school, come here to ask for tuition."

　　 "Oh-" The male voice dragged a long pause, seemed to ponder for a long time before asking as if he was half a beat, "One or two?

　　 "No. 1 Middle School?" Wu Fengqin chuckled, her voice raised a little high, "It's not bad to be able to go to No. 2 Middle School. It's not bad to go to No. 1 Middle School. Hehe, your Ye family doesn't have that good Feng Shui..."

　　 "Second middle school seems to have nothing to do with it." The male voice didn't seem to hear Wu Fengqin's sarcasm at all, but spoke slowly.

The reputation of Xiushui No. 2 Middle School in the past few years is not good. There are sayings in the county that there are talents in one middle school and hooligans in the second middle school. In the past two or three years, it has been replaced by an experienced principal and vigorously rectified the atmosphere. After introducing a lot of excellent teachers, it gradually got better.

　　 However, this is the case. Such a bad impression cannot be changed overnight.

"What do you think." Wu Fengqin's voice seemed to be a bit complaining, "I tell you, Xuan Xuan will be in the second half of the second half of the year, and my elementary school teacher's salary is not enough. If you start this, It’s so big, high school for three years, every year. University... university, Xiushui No. 2 Middle School is able to get a bachelor’s degree, and Ye Qin, let’s say it, is high school. The city spends a lot of money..."

"I know, I know." The male voice was slightly excited, "I don't have money, and I can't pay. There is nothing to study in the second middle school, fifteenth and sixteenth people, when I was so old, They all earn their own food."

　　 "I didn't ask you to say so absolutely." Wu Fengqin's tone softened a little when he heard the man's excitement, "I mean, give it a little bit, so that your relatives don't look good."

"What are you going to give!" The man upstairs became more and more intense. "Their father and son, and their brothers and sisters, have been cursing for so many years, so let them continue to curse. I don't rely on my grandparents and sisters in this life. My brother is living well, and I don’t expect my children to provide for the elderly. They live their lives, I live mine..."

　　 The voices upstairs continued, but Ye Qin couldn't hear it at all when he heard this. He stood at the top of the stairs, clenched his fists, his body was tight, and his hair seemed to stand up all over his body.

　　 The line of sight in front of him seemed to be a bit blurred, just like that, I don't know how long he stood.

　　 Ye Qin didn't wake up suddenly until the sound of pattering footsteps came down the stairs again.

　　Wu Fengqin, who came down from the upper floor, saw Ye Qin standing at the top of the stairs. She was taken aback for a moment. Then she smiled and shouted in harmony: "Ye Qin, eat here at noon..."

　　 Ye Qin turned around abruptly and ran out of the door.

　　 "Ye Qin, Ye Qin..."

　　 Wu Fengqin hurriedly yelled twice. When she left the house, the boy in the blue undershirt had already stepped on the bicycle and rode away without looking back.

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　　 On the way back, the sun had already risen, and the yellow dirt roads were a little pale by the blazing sun. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

　　 On a steep and long slope, Ye Qin got out of the car and wiped his face with an undershirt. His eye sockets were slightly red, and it was not known whether sweat or something got in his eyes.

　　 The temperature is height, and the weather is hot, but Ye Qin's body is trembling slightly, and only feels a chill all over his body.

This is the third time I went up to ask for tuition. The first two were the first and third grades of middle school. In those two times, my uncle took him. He was distracted. I don’t know what my uncle talked to that person, but I went back. On the way, my uncle's face is always not pretty.

　　 And this time, he heard it downstairs.

　　 He didn't know if it was deliberately told to him, or if he unintentionally came up with his inner thoughts, but these are not important anymore.

　　 He remembered his uncle’s earnest words before going out to work, “Ye Qin, you have to fight for your breath! You don’t have parents to care about, you still have grandparents, and uncle...”

　　 There is also the phrase that Grandpa often said to him before, "As long as you can read it, we will sell the house and also offer you to study."

　　Comparing the two, and looking at the man who didn't even show his face downstairs, Ye Qin only felt sick.

"what!"

　　 Ye Qin suddenly shouted loudly on the road, the suffocation that squeezed in his chest seemed to make people breathless.

　　 "Ye Mingwang, you have the ability to live, but don't have the ability to support, what a man are you!"

　　 "Wu Fengqin, you are a great elementary school teacher!!"

　　 "I will never be looked down upon by you for a lifetime!!!"

　　 "I don't want to go to school and go to work!!!"

　　 "Ye Qin, you have to stand up ah ah ah ah -"

　　 The chain of the bicycle snorted, the gears turned fast, and the tanned yellow mud road, the teenager pedaled the bicycle vigorously, sometimes venting loudly, and sometimes gritted his teeth.