south wind into my arms

Chapter 3 Our Distance

Lu Sheng was taken to the Admissions Office.

Headmaster Wei and Director Ding, one on the left and the other on the right, walked beside her like the two guardians, causing her an invisible sense of oppression.She was a little nervous, her body was slightly stiff, and she even walked cautiously, far less determined than when she came.

While walking, Director Ding suddenly said to Lu Sheng, "You..."

Lu Sheng responded immediately: "Ah?!"

Director Ding was taken aback by her, "Don't be nervous, you're sweating..."

Lu Sheng's face was hot, and he touched his forehead indiscriminately, his palms were wet.

In the office, after the three of them sat down, Director Ding asked, "Let me ask one thing first, why are you not accompanied by your parents?"

Lu Sheng replied without thinking, "My mother doesn't have time."

"Well, what's your name?"

"Lu Sheng."

"how old are you?"

"I'm going to be twelve soon."

Director Ding pushed his glasses, "It's a bit late for this age to learn tennis, but it's okay. Come here, and I'll measure your height."

In many competitive sports, height is an important factor affecting performance.In tennis, taller people have a huge advantage.So when choosing tennis seedlings, Director Ding always looks at height first.

A strip of yellow tape with a standard scale is stuck vertically on the white wall of the office.Director Ding asked Lu Sheng to stand next to the tape, and put a plastic ruler on top of her head.

As a broken-down sports school, Shuqing Sports School has always used this traditional method to measure height when enrolling students.

"1.5 meters five, not bad," Director Ding was quite satisfied with the figure, and he asked Lu Sheng to sit back.Then he spread out a form and recorded Lu Sheng's name, age, and height on it.

After writing this, Director Ding asked again, "What are the heights of Mom and Dad?"

"Mom is about 1.6 meters five."

Director Ding nodded, and wrote a number in the column of "mother's height". After a while, he looked up at her: "Where's Dad?"

Lu Sheng was silent.

Director Ding stared at her for a while.For a girl of this age, her eyes are always clear and clean. Director Ding couldn't bear to ask any more questions.

But the [-] next to him couldn't hold back anymore and asked Lu Sheng, "Don't you know who your father is?"

"My mother said he was a bastard."

Director Ding frowned and glanced at Principal Wei. He didn't want to hide his dissatisfaction at the moment.

Principal Wei's attention was all on the gossip about Lu Sheng's life experience, and he didn't notice this subordinate's expression.

Director Ding coughed dryly, and he crossed the column of "Father's height", and then said comfortingly, "It's okay, you are of good height now, and your mother is not short, and you will definitely grow taller in the future."

Lu Sheng was a little ashamed that she couldn't tell her father's height. She tried to search for other information about her height in her mind, and said suddenly, "Well, I seem to have grown very fast in the past year."

"Really?"

"Hmm! Xiaoxi said his father said that this year I look like a seedling in June."

What nonsense, I can't understand a word!

Director Ding complained like this in his heart, but nodded calmly on the surface, "Yeah, why did you suddenly jump up, did you eat something nutritious? Did you drink milk?"

"No."

Director Ding didn't inquire further, he asked a few more questions, and Lu Sheng answered them one by one.

Finally, Director Ding asked: "Lu Sheng, do you know our enrollment system?"

"Yes, you will be charged for the first year."

This summary is really accurate...

Under normal circumstances, students in the first year of enrollment are not considered formal students, but just trial training, and they have to pay their own tuition fees for trial training.After one year of trial training, if all the tests pass, the school will formally recruit the student as a "seedling". At that time, he only needs to spend some room and board expenses, and the tuition fee will be subsidized by the state.

Lu Sheng asked hesitantly, "I only have half the money, can I study for half a year first?"

Director Ding saw her clutching her schoolbag tightly.The schoolbag was really torn, with several open threads, and the plastic cartoon decoration on the surface had been mottled and peeled off; the seemingly strong fabric had a few small holes worn out at the corners, exposing the books and an unknown object inside.

He thought to himself, this schoolbag is from his ancestors...

Principal Wei saw that Lu Sheng kept pinching his schoolbag, and suddenly his IQ went online. He asked Lu Sheng, "Did you bring the money?"

"Hmm!" Lu Sheng unzipped his schoolbag and took out a rectangular box from it.

Principal Wei and Director Ding looked at the box curiously.Then, they saw her open the box and take out a ball of plasticine, a few beautiful girl stickers, and five or six glass beads.Crash, put them all on the table, it's dazzling.

Director Ding's eyes were straightened: "You don't want to use these treasures to pay for tuition, do you?"

"No," Lu Sheng replied with a blushing face. She opened the folded poster and took out a few old postcards. Finally, it was time to witness the miracle—a neatly laid out RMB appeared on the bottom layer of the box.

"Cough." Director Ding felt that his idea just now was really stupid. The terrible thing is that he said this stupid idea... He rubbed his nose and blamed him, "Why didn't you just bring the money?"

"Afraid of being discovered."

Principal Wei smiled and said, "The little girl is quite a thief."

Director Ding saw that she treated the money so carefully, so he couldn't help asking: "Is this money given by your parents, or did you save it yourself?"

"I saved it myself."

really.

Principal Wei: "How did you save it? This is a lot of money!"

"I ran to school and home after school, and I could save money on meals."

Not easy.Director Ding was suddenly moved.

Director Ding and Principal Wei looked at each other, and they both saw approval in each other's eyes.After all, this little girl is of good height, and the tuition fee is not a problem. The most important thing is that they are really short of students...

However, they are formal units, and they have to go through the process. If children want to enroll, they must get the consent of their parents.

So Director Ding told Lu Sheng: "When your mother is free, ask her to come to the school. Parents' signature is required for the admission procedures."

Lu Sheng bowed his head and remained silent.

Director Ding is very good at observing words and expressions. He can understand such a child without any effort.So he asked, "Does mother disagree?"

Lu Sheng didn't know how to answer this question.She was cruel and took out all the money in the box and put it in front of Director Ding: "Teacher, please accept the money first."

Director Ding thought for a while, then suddenly smiled, "Well, since you trust me, I'll keep the money for you first. If you can't enroll, I'll return it to you... Don't worry, I won't let your mother know When he said this, he paused for a while, seeing her quietly relieved, he continued, "When is your mother at home? Let me go to your house and try to convince her."

"Is tomorrow okay?"

"Okay, tomorrow morning?"

"Ok!"

After seeing off Lu Sheng, Principal Wei and Director Ding sat together and discussed around the record sheet just now.

Director Ding: "The height is fine, let's see after practicing for a while."

Principal Wei: "I think this little girl is someone who does great things."

Director Ding didn't expect the principal to give such a high evaluation. He was a little curious and asked, "Why do you know that?"

Principal Wei: "It's not easy to save such a large sum of money at such a young age? She looks very poor, and she probably doesn't have enough food or clothing. It's really rare to keep so much money and not spend it."

This angle is really... unique.

Principal Wei sighed leisurely: "She's only 12 years old. I'm 52 this year, and I can't do what she does."

Director Ding couldn't help asking: "Principal, I would like to ask, how much is your monthly pocket money?"

Principal Wei stretched out two fingers.

"two thousand?"

"two hundred."

"..."

Director Ding thinks, compared with the principal's wife, his wife is really a little angel.

The second day is Saturday.

Although he didn't have to go to school, Lu Sheng woke up early.Mom played very late yesterday and is still asleep. Lu Sheng didn't dare to wake her up, so she dressed and got out of bed lightly.

She went downstairs to have some breakfast, and bought one for her mother to bring up.Then she sat by the window and watched the human fireworks outside.It was still very cold in the early spring morning, and people were all dressed tightly and gathered around the breakfast stall.The fat aunt in a white apron is frying deep-fried dough sticks, and the little uncle is steaming buns. When he opened the big bamboo steamer, white water vapor rushed out, covering the whole picture like fog.Their lively little daughter shuttled through the mist, and Lu Sheng seemed to hear her laughter.

Lu Sheng didn't know how long he sat there. When Mr. Ding passed the breakfast stall, the sun was already high.

She quickly woke up her mother: "Mom, someone is here to find you!"

Mom was quarreled and was a little angry.

Director Ding looks gentle, gentle and harmless, such an appearance can easily give strangers a sense of security.After he entered the door, his attitude was humble, and Mother Lu's temper did not show up after all.

After Director Ding met Lu's mother, he was a little suspicious of whether Lu Sheng was her biological daughter.First, there is no one who treats his daughter like this, shouting and drinking, without feeling distressed at all; second, the mother is very beautiful, but Lu Sheng is only delicate and pretty, the two are not alike at all.

Of course, this skeptical practice is an inner complaint, not an outspoken one.

The conversation went well today.The main reason is that Director Ding concealed the fact that "you have to pay tuition fees", and only said that Lu Sheng looks good, you can try to play tennis, the school teaches for free, and let the children go there by themselves after school.

Since she didn't need to spend money and worry about it, Mother Lu agreed.

Although she still sneered, "Lu Sheng is worthless, you guys are mistaken."

The matter was finalized in this way. Director Ding took a parent's knowledge letter and asked her to sign it. Then he called Lu Sheng over and said, "You can go to school today, why don't you go with me?"

Lu Sheng couldn't wait for it: "Yeah!"

Director Ding asked Lu Sheng to go out first when he was leaving. He had something to tell his mother.

Lu Sheng went out very obediently, and then Lu's mother looked at Director Ding warily, "What do you want to do?"

"It's nothing." Director Ding pushed his glasses, "Do you mind telling me how tall Lu Sheng's father is?"

"roll."

"Is it 1.8 meters?"

"roll!!"

Director Ding rolled away without changing his expression.When he came out, he saw little Lu Sheng's bright eyes and bright eyes, so he smiled and said, "Your clothes are okay, but your shoes are not. Let's go, I'll take you to buy a pair of sneakers."

"Ok!"

When the two walked out of the alley and passed the newsstand, Lu Sheng stopped suddenly, "Read the newspaper."

Now she is full of joy of being able to learn tennis, and she can't wait to read the news of Nanfeng and re-measure the distance between them.Once that distance was a huge moat that could not be crossed, but now, there is finally a road connecting each other.

Although the road is long and long.

But hope is the best thing in the world.isn't it?

She picked up a copy of "Sports Weekly" and saw the headline at a glance:

Nanfeng crashed, life and death are uncertain!
Lu Sheng's head buzzed, as if he had been hit hard by a dull hammer.

Director Ding saw that Lu Sheng's face turned pale in an instant, the hand holding the newspaper trembled, and even her whole body trembled slightly.He was a little worried: "What's wrong with you?"

Lu Sheng didn't answer, but just stared at the newspaper, and she read the small piece of news word by word.

Then, Director Ding saw this quiet and tough little girl suddenly lose control, holding the newspaper and crying loudly, crying heartbreakingly, distraught.

(End of this chapter)