August 30, 2002.
It's the day of high school's first semester report.
I remember that it was a hot day and the sky was clear and blue, not a cloud at all.
My parents and I, a family of three, came to the main urban area of Chongqing for the first time in our lives.
Since the direct jurisdiction of Chongqing City in 1997, people in Chongqing City have been accustomed to calling the original core urban area the main urban area, and the various prefecture-level cities and counties under its jurisdiction are called "districts and counties".
The terrain of Chongqing is complex, with many high mountains and deep valleys.
When expressways and high-speed trains are not in operation, it is very troublesome for various districts and counties to travel to the main urban area.
It takes several hours to get from Wujia Village to Lianghe Town, and then it takes nearly two hours from Lianghe Town to Fubei County. Finally, it takes more than seven hours of long-distance bus ride from Fubei County to the main city...
This is without any traffic jam!
In addition, we were not familiar with the trains and routes, so we wasted a lot of time when changing trains, and even got stuck in traffic jams on the outskirts of the city.
So it actually took two full days from Wujiacun to Caiyuanba Automobile City in the main urban area!
This is because Fubei County is relatively close to the main city. If it is a village in the mountains in some areas of southeastern Chongqing, it will take longer...
Young people who have not experienced that era would never dare to imagine it.
Seventeen years later, in 2019, I returned to Lianghe Town. It only took 80 minutes in total from getting on the train at Yucheng North Station to arriving at Lianghe Town!
Two days, and 80 minutes... This huge time difference is the change of the times and the development of science and technology.
Taoist magic cannot do this, only science and technology can.
Just like Master said: The era of Xuanmen Jianghu has passed, and the new era belongs to ordinary people and technology. We practitioners are essentially the afterglow of the old era.
Of course, these are all things for later.
Back to business.
On August 30, 2002, my parents and I walked out of Caiyuanba Railway Station together. We were all deeply shocked by the city scene that greeted us.
People, lots of people!
Cars, lots of cars!
People going south and north crowded each other and made a lot of noise. The honking of cars, the cries of vendors, and the smell of cooking fumes from the station hotel...were intertwined into a scene of fireworks on earth.
As far as the eye can see, there are densely packed high-rise buildings, row after row.
The surfaces of some tall buildings seem to be covered with a large amount of glass, reflecting a dazzling golden halo.
This was extremely impactful for me, who was coming to a big city for the first time.
Including my parents!
The two of them have lived in Wujia Village for a long time, and they don't even go to Lianghe Town very often. Not to mention Fubei County, I can count the number of times I have been there on one hand.
Uh... Actually, I have only been to Fubei County once or twice, but I spent more time in Lianghe Town.
Now coming to a real big city, it can be said that I am stunned.
At that time, the gap between urban and rural areas was incredibly wide.
"This, this is the city? It's really, really, really..."
My dad opened his mouth wide, as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out.
My mother was a little confused.
I was the first to come to my senses, put my arms around their shoulders with a smile, and said.
"Mom and Dad, don't be so surprised. Your son and I are about to study in this bustling city! What's more, our family has a savings of hundreds of thousands, which is not bad in the city."
My mother frowned.
"That money was mainly earned by you, not by me and your father. It is reserved for you to find a wife!"
Well……
I was speechless for a while and complained in a low voice.
"Mom! How old am I? Fifteen or sixteen years old. You are already thinking about your wife."
"When I was fifteen or sixteen, I already had a secret conversation with your dad."
I:"……"
To be honest, my parents had free love that was rare in rural areas at that time.
I was afraid that she would continue talking, so I quickly changed the subject and led them out of Caiyuanba Bus Station. Then I called a taxi directly and prepared to take a taxi to Yucheng No. 1 Middle School.
My parents didn’t want to take a taxi because they thought it was expensive, but I forced them into a taxi.
To be honest, it was my first time in the city and I was shocked when I saw the bustling scene and the tall buildings. But it doesn’t mean that I feel inferior and timid, or that I always want to save money.
joke!
Although from the perspective of history and the world as a whole, the glorious era of practitioners has passed. But from an individual perspective, practitioners are far more powerful than ordinary people, and they are far more capable of making money than ordinary people...
If it weren't for the fact that I promised Master to study hard, I would definitely be making a lot of money by going out to show people Feng Shui and solve various supernatural events!
Arriving at Yucheng No. 1 Middle School, the low-key and simple gate exudes a sense of history and bookishness.
I habitually want to check out Feng Shui.
But he was surprised to find that there was an expert who disrupted the pattern of this place, and it was hard to tell for a while!
I thought to myself.
"It is worthy of being a top-notch school that has been established for nearly a century. It has a profound foundation. It is also looked after by Xuanmen experts. But there is no need to rush. Anyway, you have to study here for three years and study slowly."
Our family followed the reporting guidelines included in the admission notice, looked at the guide signs on the roadside, and went directly to the teaching office to apply for admission.
Then he went to the class room assigned in advance to sit and rest for a while, waiting to meet the class teacher first before he was taken to military training by the school!
That's right...
In our high school, we have to enroll in military training.
First, they will undergo military training for a week, then return to school and officially start their high school career.
I chose a window seat and sat down.
Suddenly, I heard a familiar and pleasant female voice next to me.
"Classmate, can I sit next to you?"
Look up.
It’s actually Yao Nan!
She had long hair and was wearing a white floral dress. A very cute pair of cartoon style leather shoes. The whole person looks youthful and beautiful.
It’s just that I haven’t seen her for a summer vacation, and I feel like she has become a little prettier again. Maybe it’s because you’re in high school and your clothes are better than those in junior high school, right?
She looked at my surprised expression and sat down with a smile.
"If you don't say it, just take it as acquiescence. Let me introduce myself, my name is Yao Nan. What's your name, classmate?"
I:"……"
"Come on, you're a little bored."
Yao Nan immediately burst out laughing.
She nudged my shoulder with her hand.
"Hey, we can be in the same class and still be classmates. Shouldn't you be happy? Come on, give me a smile."
"Happy, of course I'm happy! Look, I have happiness written all over my face."
I deliberately drooped my face and squeezed my eyebrows into another word "囧".
She laughed again when she saw this.
This girl seems to smile a lot more than she did in junior high school.
Good-looking people are always more popular.
After Yao Nan sat down, the classmates at the front and back tables all took the initiative to chat with us. When I found out that we were in the same class in junior high school, we were all amazed...
Soon, the head teacher came in carrying a cardboard box. After introducing myself as Huang Xiaobo, I asked my classmates to introduce themselves one by one. It was considered the first class meeting of the semester.
Then there is the issue of meal cards in the canteen - inside the paper box, the school has recharged fifty yuan for free in advance for each student. You can use it in the cafeteria at noon today, and of course you have to pay for it after that.
Yao Nan's parents insisted on having lunch with us.
There was no choice but to eat together as a family.
Originally, I was worried that my parents were from rural areas and their education level was not high. It would be awkward to have nothing to talk about with Yao Nan's parents.
But I didn’t expect that my dad didn’t have any stage fright. He talked freely during the dinner, ranging from social and economic development to urban construction and so on... I was stunned!
Secretly asked my mother what happened?
she whispered.
"Actually, your dad watches it on TV. Since you gave us a new color TV half a month ago, we can receive more channels. Your dad watches it every day. He also said he wanted to go south. When it comes to making a career in Shenzhen, I say that with the rapid socio-economic development, there are many opportunities there."
Well……
I didn’t expect that my dad still has a heart that yearns for the distance and hopes to keep tossing!
But think about it, I have this personality, obviously inherited from my parents.
But I didn't pay much attention to this matter, I just thought it was just a talk.
After all, as my cultivation is getting higher and higher, and I am also good at Feng Shui, which is the favorite of the rich, and the most useful spells and spells, isn’t it easy to make money?
I am fully capable of feeding and feeding them!
After lunch, buses parked outside the back door of the school - these were ready to take us to a youth military training base on Gele Mountain.
There is only one car for each class, and naturally parents cannot follow them and have to go home on their own.
Yao Nan's parents asked subordinates from their work unit to drive them to the main city.
Because there is no need to run to the station, queue up to buy tickets, wait for the shuttle bus, transfer... and other troubles. It takes less than ten hours to drive directly from Yucheng No. 1 Middle School all the way back to Lianghe Town.
Just find a place to stop for a meal and rest along the way.
So they insisted on dragging my parents along with them in their work car back home. This way you don’t have to take a long bus ride and have to transfer several times...
After a lot of pushing and pulling, I finally nodded and persuaded my parents to go back with Yao Nan's parents. Also more convenient.
Yao Nan and I were assigned to class one (ten) of high school, and we got on the tenth bus and headed all the way to Geleshan on the outskirts of the city.
Chongqing is called a "mountain city" - in the entire world, it may be regarded as a special and strange city.
A prosperous metropolis can be developed among the lofty mountains!
In the main city, there are hillsides visible everywhere. The road is also high and low, and extremely complicated. So many years later, when the Internet was developed, it was called the 8D Magic City...
The bus drove for about an hour, from the bustling urban area with many high-rise buildings to a remote mountain.
There is a youth military training base here - it was once a secret communications engineering base, and after the reform and opening up, it gradually became its current purpose.
Military training, the conditions are naturally very difficult.
As soon as we arrived, men and women were immediately separated into dormitories.
The boys' dormitory is a huge, long and narrow dormitory building at the far west end of the military training base.
There are three floors in total, with twenty dormitories on each floor.
Yucheng No. 1 Middle School is very big. We have thirty classes in the first grade. So it is equivalent to having two dormitories for the boys in one class.
There are more than a dozen people living in one dormitory, and the environment is quite harsh.
For example, the temporary military training dormitory where I live has a total of fourteen people living there!
The scariest thing is that I can't take a shower...
As for the weather in Chongqing, which is known as the "stove", it is impossible to take a bath in September, and it is also the time for boys with strong hormone secretion in adolescence. The smell in the dormitory was so sour and overwhelming.
It's simply unimaginable.
Fortunately, when I returned to the dormitory after military training every day, I secretly put a charm on myself to weaken my sense of smell - otherwise I would be so smoked that I wouldn't be able to sleep!
To be honest, the intensity of high school military training is just like play to me who has already stepped into the secret power. The amount of physical energy consumed and the training of muscle strength is not as good as just boxing...
So every night, other students in the dormitory were crying and screaming and their whole bodies ached, while I was reading calmly. Preview the learning content for the first semester of high school.
I asked Wang Dachun for this book before - he had a cousin who just graduated from high school and gave him all the high school textbooks.
This guy definitely didn’t want to read it, so I asked for a few copies.
This operation shocked my roommates!
For example, my brother who slept on the upper bunk, his name was Li Zhuo, looked at me in horror.
"I said Angkor, are you a little too serious? You started to preview during the military training."
Duan Xinyu from the shop next door also came over and sighed.
"Brother Wu, I thought I was serious about studying. But you, after military training, can still read at night in a smelly dormitory. Brother, I'm convinced!"
As he said this, he clasped his fists as if to admit defeat, which made some people around him laugh.
I laughed too and put the textbook away.
"Okay, I won't read anymore."
As a result, there was a commotion in the dormitory.
14 boys aged fifteen or sixteen are mixed together, and the topics they can talk about...well...except girls, and girls, and girls!
Everyone started discussing which class has the most beautiful girl in this class. Who can rate the top class flower, or the top class flower or something?
We chatted until 10:30 in the evening, when the instructor came to check and urge us to go to bed, and everyone became honest.
I lay on this narrow bed, holding my head in my hands, staring at the bed board of the upper bunk.
I don’t know why, but the image of Master appeared in front of my eyes...
Her pretty face, her delicate nose, her beautiful eyes.
She smiled at me, gently rubbed my hair with her hands, and said, "Ah Chong is so good."
Close your eyes.
That voice, face and smile are still in front of you!
Lingering.
I tried the sleeping technique but found it difficult to fall asleep.
My mind is a little confused.
well……
I sighed softly and sat up helplessly.
"Forget it, I can't sleep, let's go out for a walk."
Although it is strictly forbidden to leave the dormitory at night during military training, if you are caught by the instructor, you will be finished!
But am I the kind of person who is afraid of things?
What's more, ordinary people definitely can't catch me.
As for the military training base in the mountains, it might be scary outside at night...then it's not even within my scope of consideration!
I really hope there are some monsters or something.
Throughout the summer vacation, I didn't encounter any evil things.
My hands are itching!
I carefully opened the dormitory door and walked in the long silent corridor late at night...
I am proficient in internal martial arts and have exquisite control over every muscle and force in my body. The feet rise and fall, just like a cat walking, silently. At the same time, he also uses Qi to cover himself, which can have the effect of "blindness".
Don’t worry if you encounter an instructor on patrol.
No, when I walked out of the door of today's dormitory building in the corridor, I saw two instructors on night duty smoking and chatting there.
I suddenly had a bad idea - I wanted to play a prank.
He picked up a stone from the side, threw it out, and landed next to them with a clatter.
"who?"
The two instructors were startled and looked around.
One of them said soothingly.
"Maybe some small animals ran past. After all, this is inside a mountain, surrounded by forests. Some small animals are normal."
"That's right, you're right..."
Another echoed.
But in fact, the expressions on both of their faces were a little horrified. It was obvious that he was feeling nervous.
This stopped me from trying to play any more pranks - don't really scare the instructor.
Walking out of the dormitory building, there is a concrete path. At the end of the trail is one of the military training grounds.
The street lights were dim and the vision was blurry. There are barbed wire fences on both sides. Beyond the barbed wire fence, there is a dense forest.
When the night wind blows, the leaves rustle, as if someone is whispering.
Ordinary people walking here at night would definitely get a numb scalp.
"Don't tell me, the spiritual energy in this mountain is more abundant than in schools in the city. Absorbing some is better than nothing."
I just planned to use my inner energy to create a connection between inner energy and outer energy.
At this moment, a very soft female voice suddenly sounded behind me...
