Back to the third grade

Chapter 31

Zheng Kai was very talkative, although Lin Mei and Zhou Yu asked him if his classmates wanted to go to see Teacher Zheng's fashion together, he was silly: "No such thing, you misheard."

This is too stupid to pretend to be technical.

Lin Mei couldn't bear to expose him, and said directly: "We just want to go to see Mr. Zheng, let's go together."

Zheng Kai looked helpless "Why are you so ignorant", nodded and agreed: "Okay, our appointment is this Saturday afternoon, please don't tell others anymore, it won't affect you well."

So, under the hot sun on Saturday afternoon, Lin Mei and the others climbed the stairs covered in sweat.

Teacher Zheng's family lives in a family courtyard not far from the attached middle school.Zheng Kai secretly inquired about the address of Mr. Zheng's house, which building, which floor and which household he lived in.

They didn't call beforehand, and gathered at the vegetable market behind the school after lunch.Zheng Kai said: "Let's go early. When everyone has lunch and has not had time to take a nap, go and leave as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble for Teacher Zheng."

He arranged very carefully and thoughtfully, and everyone said that we must be obedient.

Even Zheng Kai asked for anything to give.First of all, people should not let people find out that they gave Teacher Zheng a gift, so a beautifully packaged cigarette and alcohol are all PASS.

"We are going to thank Mr. Zheng, so even just write a greeting card." Zheng Kai said very emotionally.

Lin Mei, Zhou Jie and Mei Lu actually went to buy cards and wrote one or two words of blessing, family happiness and good health.

At this time of noon, no one went out at all, and there was no one in the family courtyard quietly.Zheng Kai led them in quietly like ghosts entering the village, went upstairs quietly, and knocked on the door quietly.

"Mr. Zheng, Mr. Zheng?" Zheng Kai couldn't knock it open for a long time, and he didn't dare to knock too loudly to disturb the neighbors taking a nap, so he called in a low voice.

After a while, the door finally opened, and what came out was a black and thin old lady with small feet.

The old lady lost all her teeth, and Zheng Kai was startled when she opened the door.

The old lady smiled and said vaguely: "Which one is covering the door?"

Zheng Kai looked at the house number and said uncertainly, "We are looking for Mr. Zheng, is this Mr. Zheng's home?"

The old lady didn't know if she heard it clearly, so she nodded and let them in.

The room was dark, and there was a cupboard at the door, which actually enshrined Guan Erye. The gold paint on the incense burner in front of the altar was all off, it was dirty and old, Lin Mei saw that half of the cigarette butts were still stuck in the incense burner.

The floor is ordinary concrete, and an old wooden sofa is placed against the wall, the brown cushions on it are frayed.

After the old lady let them in, she walked straight inside, and they hurriedly followed, and saw the old lady moved into the back room with her little feet, which turned out to be the bedroom!Then the old lady took off her shoes, lifted the quilt and lay down!
Several people hurriedly withdrew and stood in the living room at a loss.

It is obvious that there is only one old man in the family. If the old lady is Teacher Zheng's aunt, then she is still a patient.Maybe people were resting, but they knocked on the door and woke them up to open the door for them.

What next?Who knows when Teacher Zheng will come back?Who knows if this is Mr. Zheng's house?
Mei Lu said anxiously: "Let's go out." The door is not closed yet.

Zheng Kai hesitated and said, "It should be this one."

Lin Mei looked around, pointed to another room and said, "The table over there looks like our paper."

There was a big table by the door of that room against the wall, and stacks of snow-white papers neatly stacked on it looked like scrolls.

Zheng Kai was bold, and gave He Qi his schoolbag to carry. He went in and looked through the papers, and said with certainty: "It's from our class. I didn't look in the wrong place."

"Then what should we do now?" He Qi said.

"Put the things down and let's go." Zheng Kai said.

After everyone took the presents out of the schoolbags, it became apparent whether they were high or low.

What Lin Mei brought were two bags of Xinjiang golden silk dates, in large packages.These were purchased by the logistics of the textile factory. Mother Lin took a few bags home from a nearby building.In addition to eating at home, I also sent two bags to my grandma, and asked Lin Mei to bring the remaining two bags.

What Zhou Jing sent was a coffee set, a can of coffee and a can of milk powder.This is a bit expensive gift in today's supermarkets.

For the rest of Zheng Kai and the others, He Qi carried a big bag of walnuts and put them on the ground heavily.

Zheng Kai is the most thief, he took American ginseng.As soon as it is put out, he is the highest.

A group of people put down their gifts and went out quietly. They ran downstairs and said that Zheng Kai was not kind. He asked everyone not to bring too conspicuous things, but his gift was the most expensive!
Lin Mei, Zhou Yu, and Mei Lu walked behind, keeping a distance from the boys.Mei Lu said, "Do you know what disease Mr. Zheng's relatives have?"

is cancer.And it's been over ten years.

Teacher Zheng’s aunt is 94 this year. She was diagnosed with cancer when she was 76. But she is so old and her family has no money, so the doctor suggested conservative treatment for her.As a result, until now, my aunt and grandma are still alive and strong.I just went to a big hospital every three to five years to see a doctor to see if the cancer cells had developed, and prescribed some medicine to go back and it was over.

The matter of their visit to Teacher Zheng has been carefully kept secret, and no one has really spoken out loudly.Lin Mei thought they had done the same before, but at that time Lin Mei never cared about these things, and did not discover the "little secret" among the top students at all.

Teacher Zheng didn't ask them one by one, but told Zheng Kai and Lin Mei, the girls who left greeting cards, to let them concentrate on doing their studies well now and stop being distracted. "You can get good grades in the exam, the teacher is happier than anything else!"

After saying this, Teacher Zheng picked out the previous papers and criticized them, and said to Lin Mei: "Your grades are fine. You might as well relax and read some extracurricular books during the recent period. Usually Are you watching TV at home?"

Lin Mei shook her head blankly, and Teacher Zheng said: "You can watch TV, listen to music, and relax if you have nothing to do. Don't be too tense. With your current grades, as long as you perform normally, you will be fine."

There is a countdown at the back of the classroom, the exam time has been set, June 6, June 25 and June 6 for three days.The reason for delaying the exam for three days is that it does not increase the pressure on the candidates. The previous two days were too stressful, and some candidates would not be able to rest well, so this year's senior high school entrance examination will be three days.

Lin Mei cautiously said to Teacher Zheng: "Mr. Zheng, I discussed it with my mother. I want to pass the exam..."

"Save one..." Teacher Zheng was a little startled, and his eyebrows frowned, "I'll see your grades in other classes, it's good that you have this intention, the teacher will tell you later." Teacher Zheng patted her on the shoulder and sent Lin Mei out.

When I came back, I asked Teacher Xu, Teacher Gao and Teacher Yu.Teacher Yu is a physics teacher and the head teacher of Class [-]. Her desk is next to Teacher Zheng. After hearing what Lin Mei said just now, she found out the grades of Class [-], as well as the paper that Lin Mei handed in last time. When the teacher came to ask, she said: "Lin Mei's grades are still good. She has a solid foundation, is also careful in answering papers, and rarely makes mistakes."

Teacher Zheng felt relieved after asking around, shook his head and said, "This parent doesn't know how to force the child. I think Lin Mei has really worked hard this year."

Teacher Yu is also an old teacher, and said vaguely: "It seems that she followed her mother?"

Teacher Zheng nodded deeply, and the two teachers exchanged glances, and Teacher Yu said, "It's no wonder."

"I heard from her mother that she can control herself at home. She doesn't watch TV or read miscellaneous books. When she gets home, she goes into the house to study, and she can't come out unless she is called out." Teacher Zheng said.

Teacher Yu frowned and said, "I think you should tell her family members to let the child relax properly, and don't push yourself too hard. Also, don't let the family situation affect the child's performance. After hard work for a whole year , In the end, if you don’t do well in the exam, the child will definitely collapse.”

At night, Lin Mei was startled when she came home. "Where did you get the cake?" There was a pretty big cake on the TV cabinet.Mama Lin was cooking in the kitchen and shouted at her: "Auntie Zeng gave you the cake in logistics. Eat it. They ordered too many, and there are no children at home, so I brought it back to me."

Lin Mei opened the cake box and saw that it was a big ten-inch cake, so much that she couldn't finish it all by herself, and the weather was so hot.

When Mama Lin came over with the dishes, she saw Lin Mei gesticulating with a cake knife, "What are you doing? Don't eat too much, you have to eat? Why don't you just eat porridge with cake?" Mama Lin said.

"No, I can't finish so much, so I just split half of it and let my aunt take it away. If you bring it to work tomorrow and call your aunt, she will definitely be willing to come and get it." Lin Mei said.

"What are you going to do with them? Tao Tao is not at home. You can eat as long as you want." Mother Lin was not happy.

Lin Mei: "The weather is too hot, and it won't fit in the refrigerator. Even if you eat it with me, you won't be able to finish it. Let your aunt take it back. Grandma and grandpa can eat it. It's so soft that it doesn't take your teeth."

Lin Mei felt that she had arranged it quite appropriately, and Mother Lin hugged her emotionally and said, "My daughter is really sensible."

Lin Mei was embarrassed, and felt that Lin's mother was easily moved now.

Halfway through the meal, someone knocked on the door suddenly.Lin Mei wondered who knocked on the door, but Lin's mother had already gone to answer the door and said, "It's your uncle, I asked him to bring his VCD player over here."

"Why move the VCD player?" The second monk Lin Meizhang was puzzled. His uncle had already moved the VCD player in, along with the cable and the remote control.

"Are you eating?" Uncle said sweating profusely.

Mother Lin said: "Let's put it aside and eat first. You can go and take half of the cake with you later."

Uncle went to the kitchen to wash his hands and came out and said, "Save it for Meimei to eat."

Mother Lin said: "Meimei can't eat so much by herself, so take it home for mom and dad to eat. They have bad teeth when they are old, and the cake tastes soft."

Uncle sat down to eat, and said to Lin Mei: "After a while, Uncle will connect the camera for you and you will be able to read it. Uncle will also bring you a lot of dishes. Tell Uncle after you finish watching. Uncle will borrow them for you."

Lin Meimei smiled and said, "I'm going to take an exam." Why are you running to watch the DVD now?

After dinner, Lin's mother and uncle were tossing about the machine in the living room, and Lin Mei went back to the house.After about twenty minutes, Mother Lin suddenly called her over: "Come and see, come and see."

Lin Mei passed by as if to make her mother happy. The heavy subwoofer sounded from the TV. On the screen was the crowded traffic that was somewhat distorted in the heat. A strange deep female voice said: "...you can also understand the value of human life, then We can also..."

Then there is the majestic ending song.

Terminator II, translated version.

The uncle said: "I saw this at home, watch it from the beginning." He took out the disc and put in another one, and soon the opening title of MGM's Lion's Roar appeared.

Uncle stood up and said, "Look."

Mother Lin asked Lin Mei to sit down and watch a movie, and she took the cake to send uncle out.

Lin Mei was really confused. After sitting for a while, she stood up and wanted to go back to the house. Mother Lin closed the door and came back and said, "Why don't you look? Look."

Lin Mei said weakly: "I'm going to take the exam... I'll read it after I finish the exam..."

Mother Lin really has nothing to do with this hard-working child.In the past, Lin Mei had to delay her summer homework until the last day, but it can be said that she worked hard to achieve this.

She remembered what Teacher Zheng told her, and sat on the sofa and called Lin Mei back: "Mom has something to tell you."

Mother Lin paused the movie, and Lin Mei came back obediently. Mother Lin thought for a while and said, "Your Teacher Zheng called me in today. She said you didn't take the provincial six exam and wanted to take the provincial one exam? Didn't you always use the provincial six exam?" As a target?"

Lin Mei said that the results of the most recent mock exam had been confirmed, "I think I can try to save one."

"I can't change my volunteer application. Have you thought about it?" Mother Lin didn't dare to say "what if I don't pass the exam", for fear of hurting the child.

Lin Mei has already figured it out, she can do it all over again, it is simply unreasonable not to seize this opportunity!

"Let me try it, I think I'm still confident to pass the exam." Lin Mei said quite relaxed.

Mother Lin couldn't relax, she hesitated for a long time: "Meimei, mother, I just hope that you will be safe and happy in this life, and you don't need to be famous. If you live a good life, mother can rest assured. This year you Mama feels a little uncomfortable for forcing herself like this." As she spoke, Mama Lin's eyes turned red, and she asked her daughter cautiously, "Did you hear something outside? Are you unhappy? Tell Mama?"

Lin Mei drew a row of embarrassing words in her heart, knowing that she was playing off.

Not all parents can ignore the changes in their children.Especially when the change is huge.Lin Mei thought that Mother Lin would be overjoyed with her progress and hard work, but in the end, mother was actually worried?

Lin Mei could guess what Lin's mother was thinking. She couldn't laugh or cry and wanted to say that she heard that Lin's father would be awkward for two days to find a wife and have a son on a blind date, but now she doesn't think so.

The moment she knew that Papa Lin's life was getting worse and worse, she completely let go of her previous obsessions.What's more, after she knew that Grandma Lin wanted to raise an outsider's son, and had to make up for the fact that she had no grandson to inherit the incense, she no longer hated Grandma Lin, but thought she was pitiful.

Grandma Lin and Papa Lin are people who have never understood it after a lifetime.It's so pitiful, she really can't bear to add insult to injury again.

Lin Mei wanted to laugh just thinking about it.She knew very well that Father Lin was far from being so miserable now.He is now in the bliss of being introduced to a young country girl by Grandma Lin. Of course, it has finally been proved that a person from the city with a registered permanent residence in the city can no longer scare the country girl.Grandma Lin's old ideas are outdated. Daddy Lin, who was dazzled by the bright future that Grandma Lin shaped, finally found that the little girls were more willing to take advantage of the Lin family to find a job, and they didn't like him at all.

She was very happy just thinking about it.You see, she knew that Papa Lin and Grandma Lin were happily walking into the pit, but she just wanted to stand by and watch the fun. It was so blissful to see her enemies bring on their own troubles.

"Mom, I don't care about them at all." Lin Mei said with a bright smile, "I will get better and better in the future, but they will only get worse."

But in the eyes of Lin's mother, Lin Mei's attitude just shows that she is really studying hard for the injustice in her heart.Mother Lin was angry, "Is it worth it for you to ruin your health for those people? Your teacher Zheng has said, let you relax. If you want to take the exam, you can take the exam, but you must relax! These discs are found for you by your uncle. Here it comes, do you want to see it?"

Do you force candidates to watch DVDs?
Lin Mei immediately said, "I'll watch it, I'll watch it! Can I watch it once a week?"

Mother Lin said, "Okay, then you can watch it today!"

Lin Mei hoped helplessly that watching foreign language films could help her improve her sense of language.She is actually reviewing it for the third time now.

She pulled out the translated ones and tried one by one, and saw that there was actually a whole set of godfathers. She put one in and found that the compression was quite good, so she read it with peace of mind.

Mother Lin accompanied her for a long time and went to the bedroom to read the newspaper. She said that the translated lines were too small and it was too much effort to read.But even if she went to read the newspaper, she still sneaked a look at Lin Mei two or three times, fearing that she would sneak over to read the book again.

Lin Mei couldn't be more embarrassed.When talking to Zhou Yu and the others the next day, the four of them laughed so hard, Zhu Hai patted the table and laughed, tears came out.

After laughing, Zhu Hai said enviously, "That's great! If only my mother would force me to watch movies too!"

Lu Lu rolled her eyes: "You are so beautiful! Your mother forced you to read books."

Mei Lu is also hanging out with Lin Mei and the others now, she said to Lin Mei: "My dad said the same thing, he said he would go fishing next week and asked me to go too, so I won't go! There are mosquitoes drying in the fish pond and so on. Too much, and the water is very dirty and smelly!"

Zhou Jie's father gave her Mike's CD a long time ago, and wanted her to relax more.She and her father have already formed a united front, and they decided together that Zhou Jie should not go to study abroad for the time being, and wait until high school.

Zhou's mother kept it a secret, and Zhou's father promised Zhou Yu: "Your mother will leave it to me, and she will call you again, and I will block it for you!"

Zhou Jie and her father giggled together.

"I'm relaxed now! My dad doesn't force me anymore, and my mom can't control me even if she's far away. She still has something to do on her own side. Last time I told her to get her married to her boyfriend as soon as possible. It's been like this for five or six years, how about getting married earlier?" Zhou Yu said.

"Your mother is not willing?" Lin Mei asked.

Zhou Que said, "Neither of them is willing." She really felt that people in the United States were very strange. "He and my mother have a joint account, and the two of them transfer money into it every month. The tuition fees, living expenses, summer camp expenses, and cram schools for the two children are all paid by this man. Then the two of them jointly pay the utility bills and rent. Last time the water pipe in their toilet was broken and it cost a lot of money to ask someone to repair it, and the two of them even had an argument about whether the money should be paid from the joint account! Listen! It is said that the man has to check the account every month, and they have to keep the bill when they go to the supermarket to buy."

Zhou Jie's three views were obviously shattered, she said to Lin Mei: "What's the point of them living like this? I asked my mother, did she also mean to make peace with that side when she asked me to go there? That man's two children are being raised over there, so my mother wants to take me there too, and let that man also raise me?"

Lin Mei couldn't help laughing, Zhou Jie rolled her eyes and said, "She said she also paid a lot, and I should have done it."

Zhou's mother revealed what she said inside and outside the words, and after Zhou Yu heard it, she was even more opposed to studying abroad.Even if she goes, she doesn't plan to live with Zhou's mother.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the countdown numbers on the blackboard behind are also decreasing at an alarming speed.

Recently, there has been a trend of asking each other about nationalities in the class.

Just like what Mr. Zheng said to Lin Mei and Zhou Yu when they reported the three good things in the market, one point more at this time is one point of protection.Who can pat their chests and guarantee that they will not perform abnormally in the examination room?

This is also the reason why the small factory manager is so anxious about their sports scores.A point earned is a point.

And the policy of extra points for ethnic minorities has become a life-saving straw for everyone.

But there are not so many ethnic minorities in the school. The only one who has been famous for a long time is Tu Hai, who is of Bai nationality.So it became popular to "change the nation".This not only needs to be able to find someone to change the ethnicity as soon as possible, but it is best to find a relative of a minority in the family.Otherwise, changing the nationality casually would take the country's rules and regulations too seriously.

Ordinary people don't have that much energy.

Li Jun came over proudly one day and said, "I'm Hui! Remember, I won't be able to eat pork in the future, so don't cook pork when you ask me for dinner."

"How come you are Hui? Your parents are both Han." We have been in the same class for many years, and even our parents work in the same factory. Who doesn't know who?

Li Jun said so and so on.

His father is indeed a Han nationality, but although Li's mother is registered as a Han nationality, it is said that his grandfather is a serious Muslim.His grandma was of the Han nationality.At that time, Li's mother did not follow his grandfather after she was born, but followed her grandmother, so she became a Han nationality.Isn't it tossing extra points now?The Hui nationality is also considered a minority, and can also get extra points.

So Li's mother took Li Jun back to her mother's house and told his grandfather that Li Jun was changed to Hui nationality by the next generation.

"My grandpa even took me to the mosque and someone named me Muhammad, and gave me a copy of the Koran." Li Jun said quite curiously, "He never called my mother before, and now every Zhou Du called me and asked me to eat there, and asked my mother to buy me new pots and bowls, saying that these were for me."

Li Jun said that his grandfather's family ate beef and mutton every day, and a group of people envied: "Then you don't eat mutton skewers every day?"

"How expensive beef and mutton are! Your grandfather is really rich!"

He Qi deliberately asked him: "Then you really won't eat pork anymore?"

Li Jun chuckled: "My mother told me to eat whatever I want at home, but when I go to my grandpa's house, I must not say that."

(End of this chapter)