Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

June 7, 2012, five o'clock in the afternoon.

The final bell rang for the last English test of the college entrance examination.

After the invigilator finished collecting the papers, he announced that the exam was over. The finally liberated young students were like piglets with the fence opened in a pigsty, swarming out of the teaching building.

But Xu Xing is an exception.

He looked at the high school seniors with energetic faces, sitting alone in the seats for the college entrance examination, as if they were still reminiscing about the previous English test.

Maybe when they go to college or enter the society, these college entrance examination students will miss this exam that was once the most fair.

But for Xu Xing right now, it was the time that made him most emotional.

Who would have thought that this young body, which had just grown up, would be inhabited by the soul of an old man just before the English exam.

I even just completed the college entrance examination English test paper based on my English proficiency gained from working in foreign companies for many years.

If nothing else goes wrong, the 70-point English score in his previous life will be rewritten by him himself.

As a person who has experienced this, after accepting the setting of rebirth and calming down, Xu Xing no longer thinks about the college entrance examination results, but instead enjoys the subtle joy of being able to do it again when time flies.

"Classmate, it's time to go." On the podium, the invigilator who had finished sorting out the test papers looked at Xu Xing's dejected look and said a little unbearably, "It doesn't matter if you don't do well in the exam. There is still a long way to go in life. Your parents still have to go."

Wait for you outside? Don’t let them worry."

Xu Xing, who was sitting in the examination seat, blinked and looked around to find that he was the only student left in the classroom.

"Thank you for your concern, teacher." Xu Xing thanked the invigilator without any intention of explaining. After packing up his stationery, he stood up and prepared to leave.

As a result, as soon as I stood up and took two steps, I felt something stepped on under my feet.

When I picked it up and looked at it, I found it was an admission ticket.

[Name: Yanchi vinegar]

Seeing this name, Xu Xing felt it seemed familiar for some reason. He looked at the photo above again and studied it for several seconds before he suddenly realized it.

Isn't this a graduate student with the same tutor as him?

Girls majoring in computer science are already rare, let alone a beauty.

But Xu Xing really didn't expect that that cold and beautiful classmate, who was cold and silent, actually had short hair when he was young?

If he hadn't been so impressed that the two of them ended up working in the same foreign company after graduation, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to tell.

During the college entrance examination, she and I were in the same examination room?

Xu Xing walked out of the classroom with this admission ticket and looked at the army of students in front of him who had already left more than half of the way. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone.

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Xing gave up and stuffed his admission ticket into his pocket.

Anyway, the test is over, and when it comes time to check your scores, even if you don’t remember your admission ticket number, just go to the school and ask the teacher.

With this in mind, Xu Xing came to the school gate and immediately saw his mother, Sun Wanhui, waiting here.

"Why is that brat coming out so slowly?" Sun Wanhui, wearing a lace straw hat, stood in the sun with sweat on her forehead. When she saw her son coming out, she immediately complained, "It's so hot."

Looking at his mother who was ten years younger, with the haggardness left by the years gone from the corners of his eyes, Xu Xing blinked and felt that he still needed to get used to it: "Mom, I suddenly realized that you are quite beautiful."

"Why?" When Sun Wanhui heard this, she frowned and became a little anxious. "Did you fail the exam? Ah? Is there something wrong with your English?"

Xu Xing: "...Why are you so ungrateful?"

"I still don't know your virtue? When you make a mistake, your little mouth is sweeter than a bee. I still don't know you, mother?"

"It's honey."

"I want you to take care of it!" Sun Wanhui couldn't bear it standing in the sun, so she pulled him and got into the car on the roadside.

As soon as I sat in, I suddenly jumped out of the car, so I quickly turned on the air conditioner in the car and waited until it cooled down before I sat in.

When the two of them finally got into the car, Sun Wanhui drove home and couldn't help but ask: "Tell me clearly, how did you do in the exam? Is there any drama in this book?"

"There must be something going on." Xu Xing said seriously.

His grades in his previous life were actually not bad, at least in Chinese, Mathematics and Physics, but he was only lacking in English.

At first, because he only scored 70 points in the English test, and no matter how much he scored in the other three subjects, he was still three points behind the first-class score line, so he could only go to an ordinary second-class college.

If it weren't for the subsequent changes in his family and Xu Xing worked hard to become a graduate student at Minhang University, he might have been lost to everyone in his life.

But now, if he were to start over again and take the 2012 College Entrance Examination English paper with his improved English level, he would be able to do it easily.

Not to mention the first line, even the major line will give you a chance to touch it. Just look at the English paper to see if you will be unlucky and get a few points deducted.

But Sun Wanhui didn't know this.

"You didn't get any scores, and you didn't get the answers right, how dare you say that?" Sun Wanhui started to say loudly, "In the last joint examination, you were only a dozen points higher than the first line, and the English paper was easy for you.

Because I got more than 90 points, all the students I heard this time said that the English paper was difficult, can you tell me the truth?!"

This is indeed true.

After all, with Xu Xing's original level, his English scores were basically maintained at around 80%.

Originally, even if I couldn't beat the first line by more than ten points, I could at least touch it.

But who would have thought that this year's paper was so difficult, and Xu Xing only got a score of 70. In the end, he regretted that he missed the first line by three points.

"Mom, you might not believe me when I tell you." Xu Xing propped his chin on his arm and looked out the window, his expression blurred, "I dreamed about the English test paper last night, and I am sure to win the test today."

"Do you think you are Confucius? Why did Duke Zhou entrust you with a dream?" Sun Wanhui was furious, "You are waiting for the score to come out. If you don't reach the first line, forget about the pineapple phone you promised!"

"Mom, you are quite literate, even Duke Zhou knows about dreams." Xu Xing laughed happily, but he didn't plan to explain any more. He would wait until the results came out, but he was stunned immediately, turned to look at his mother and asked, "What?

Pineapple phone?”

As soon as he asked, Sun Wanhui's cell phone rang.

Sun Wanhui took out a smartphone from her pocket, answered the call and said to the other end: "Oh, yes, that one is 79. Don't be too harsh. If it doesn't work for 79, I won't sell it."

"I got it, I got it, I'll take him back and he'll be right back."

"Hard work, hard work, about twenty minutes, very quick."

When Sun Wanhui answered the phone, Xu Xing stared blankly at the mobile phone in her hand.

The appearance of this phone was exactly the same as the Apple 4, but Xu Xing could clearly see the bitten pineapple icon between Sun Wanhui's fingers.

God steps on the horse and pineapple mobile phone!

Xu Xing looked at this icon in a daze, and for a moment he didn't know whether to complain or break into a cold sweat.

"I'll take you home and go directly to the store downstairs. You can make dinner by yourself, or go to your sister's house to eat, do you know?" Sun Wanhui hung up the phone and said to Xu Xing.

"oh."

Xu Xing agreed.

His mother, Sun Wanhui, owns a physical store selling clothes in a small alley in a nearby commercial street. She is very busy on weekdays, so it would be nice to find time to pick him up at this time.

By this time in 2012, e-commerce had developed very well and gradually began to occupy the physical store market.

At that time, Sun Wanhui failed to catch up with the trend of online shopping, so her sales dropped year after year. Finally, she was washed away by the wave of 2019. The store that had been in business for more than ten years was completely occupied by the landlord.

"Mom." Seeing the car approaching the door of his community, Xu Xing asked tentatively, "I think the business of selling things online is quite easy now. Why don't you try selling clothes online?"

"Things on the Internet are all lies." Sun Wanhui became angry when she heard this, "Have you forgotten? When you were in junior high school, someone called and said that you were hospitalized in a car accident and asked me to bind this and that.

You pay your medical bills, and then you end up calling someone online for 2,000 yuan."

"I'm telling you, the Internet can kill people. That guy in the next building, Xiao Wang, knows that, right? He's about the same age as you. He doesn't study all day long and just hangs out in that Internet cafe! He's a loser in this life."

"What else is there? Xiaoli, who is upstairs in our house, what a good girl she is? She started dating online, but ended up being cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars!"

Xu Xing opened his mouth slightly to say something, but his throat moved twice, and he chose to shut up for the time being.

Forget it, many parents these days do regard the Internet as a savage beast. Even if they don't deliberately resist it, the invisible precautions they should have are still obvious.

The world is changing so fast. In the 1970s and 1980s, we were still wallowing in the mud in the countryside. In the blink of an eye, we have entered the modern city of steel and iron and the invisible and intangible world of the Internet. We cannot blame them for not keeping up with the trend.

Moreover, Xu Xing's mind was not on this at the moment, but his eyes fell on his mother's pineapple mobile phone.

Apple phone...Pineapple phone...

This world may not be as simple as rebirth.

Xu Xing now had to figure out what changes had occurred in the world after his rebirth.

"I have to go to the wholesale market early tomorrow morning. You have a holiday and you should give me a place to relax. Don't run around everywhere, okay? If you don't have enough money, ask me for it. Don't pick and choose when you go out with your classmates." Sun Wanhui asked him

Delivered to the gate of the community, and finally warned, "Don't go to places like Internet cafes."

"Got it." Xu Xing opened the door and got out of the car, waved to his mother in the car, and watched her drive away from the intersection.

As a result, as soon as he turned around and walked into the community a few steps, his own PHS phone rang.

After picking up the phone, a very familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the other end: "Brother Xu! Are you going to an Internet cafe tonight?"

"Ah..." Xu Xing once again heard the voice of his high school best friend Li Zhibin. He was inexplicably touched, but he still joked, "My mother won't let me go to the Internet cafe."

"Why are you so cowardly! I'll pay for your internet connection!"

"The boss is awesome, see you in the evening."