March 2002, Beijing, China.

The streets were lined with colorful flags, which were supposed to flutter in the wind, but now they remain motionless. The roofs of houses on both sides of the street are full of people, the windowsills are full of people, the roadside trees are full of people, and the places where people can get down on the sidewalks are full of people. The airtight human wall made a roaring noise. In the air, the helicopter is circling, and the vibration of the propeller is mixed with the human voice, making it more noisy.

The big horn on the lamppost suddenly made a sharp noise. Along with the heroic song, the voice of the chief announcer of the city's radio station came out loud and echoed in the streets:

"... today is Saturday, March 15, 2002. More than a month ago, on Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, 7117 meters above sea level, Dawa Yangzong, a 14-year-old Tibetan girl, opened the national high school entrance examination. The national high school entrance examination relay is expected to travel to major high schools across the country, with 170 million participants..."

The examinees moved steadily along the white line drawn on the road, waving to the crowd on both sides from time to time, attracting huge cheers. Wherever they went, the crowd within the cordon immediately surged outward. The police in charge of maintaining order had one every three or five meters, sweating to block the crowd.

At the end of the street, majestic and across the Dongpei river is the newly completed Dongpei bridge. The design of the stay cable is quite modern.

An actor dressed as a panda is dancing at the bridge head. At that time, there was no more famous animal image in China. It is the mascot of the Asian Games - Panda Panpan.

Behind panda Panpan stands a group of kindergarten children. Everyone's small face is smeared with two regiments of red, and the middle of the eyebrow is dipped in Rouge with a rubber head to make a red dot. The little girl's head was tied with a black hairpin and a bow tied with pink wrinkled paper, while the little boy's paper bow was tied under his neck as a bow tie.

The children each had a little red flower and waved it up and down under the command of the teacher.

"Welcome! Welcome!"

In the neat array of red flowers, there is always a sense of rhythm, which is different from others. When others go up, they come down, they go up, and they always step in the gap of slogans.

The teacher followed the red flower and pulled out the girl. The girl staggered out of the line with shy eyebrows and drooping eyes.

"This child is too high-tech. your parents worked together to study you to temper the teacher's will, right? When the fourth warm welcome is on one leg, can you understand? If you can understand, you can order one."

The girl looked at the teacher blankly and couldn't help nodding when she heard the question.

"Not nodding, one leg!"

The girl was stunned and looked at the teacher stupidly. Finally, she seemed to understand and fell on her knees with a plop.

"Oh, my heart." the teacher suddenly covered his chest, turned his head, pointed his fingers at his head, and compared with the people next to him, "broken child... Missing a string."

Several children who were practicing waving little saffron came together to coax: "lack of string, lack of string!"

In the laughter of the crowd, the little girl named Elizabeth turned around, covered her ears and plunged her head to the ground like an ostrich.

Today is Elizabeth's seventh birthday.

In half an hour, she will receive a big gift that no child on earth has ever seen. My life has changed since then

Jack Sparrow gasped and stood up from the wooden door. "Do you know how many people are waiting in the university? Do you want to kill yourself? My God!"

"What time is it?" just nowJames Norrington, the representative of international candidates, smiled, picked up the alarm clock, looked at his watch, suddenly stood up and exclaimed, "when did it break? Why didn't you remind me earlier? It's too late for you!" he threw the alarm clock, grabbed the globe and ran away.

Jack Sparrow had just regained his upright position. He was stunned by the speed of the wind. He woke up for a long time and hurried to follow.

They went out of the welcome gate and looked around - the street must be impassable, so they had to drill into the alley. On weekdays, the bustling alley is empty, and people are blocked at the intersection between the alley and the street.

Sparrow chased after Norrington: "clothes!... mom, it's blocked. It must be too late. There's only eight minutes left."

"This way." Norrington did not respond to his companion's anxiety. He looked around, chose a road and began to run wildly. While running, he took over the big bag containing international candidates' clothes and began to change clothes.

This shortcut is a back alley. Residents pile clothes racks and sundries on the side of the road. Candidate Norrington knocked over five clothes racks, two bicycles and three thermos bottles in turn, and hurdled over a basket of eggs and several football balls.

Sparrow, who chased after him, tripped over the things knocked over in front, harvested some lingerie, silk scarves, cotton gloves and egg shells, and finally successfully sat on the coal football pile.

"Are you a disabled person?" Norrington, who had changed his clothes, cheered sparrow, adjusted his state, pointed forward with his hand, "this side of the path is the bridge..."

At the end of the path, there were thousands of people. A short man hopped behind the crowd, but he couldn't see anything. He had to look back bored. Suddenly he saw the two running, and his eyes lit up: "international candidates are here!"

Everyone stood on the street and got nothing. Now they all turned around when they heard the speech - they could catch a living one! The crowd shouted excitedly and rushed over. They were surprised and ran back; The crowd chased behind, and the scene was very spectacular.

In the alley next door, a boy was lying on the window with an unhappy face. He looked out on tiptoe every few minutes. He could only hear the roar from a distance in the street and could see nothing. He looked tired, pulled the wooden thorn on the window frame and muttered bitterly, "but I just want to go out and see what foreigners look like!"

Dad sat in the armchair reading the newspaper and sniffed, "there are so many people outside, you can't see the foreigner when you go out..."

The father and son watched Norrington and sparrow pass through the hall one after another.

"Excuse me! Thank you! Excuse me!" Norrington walked with the globe.

Dad's newspaper fell on the ground: "the candidate... Raised a ball?"