Chapter 43 Chapter 42 Breakpoint (No.228 - No.237)

Five days later is the parent-teacher conference. The results of the final exam are not as oppressive as the mid-term exam. It may be because the joy of the holiday has diluted the panic. After leaving the crowded classroom, there is no need to make intuitive and naked comparisons with the people around you. Naturally, people will feel uncomfortable few. After my dad came back from the parent-teacher meeting, he said that Zhang Ping praised me for making great progress.I snatched the dense ranking list, squatted down by the coffee table and looked at it carefully. The full score in mathematics is 150, and I actually scored 120 this time!You know, last time my math was still hovering around 80 points, I failed!

The other subjects are not much different from the midterm exam, but according to my calculations, this time I am probably in the top 30 of the class, an improvement of more than ten. Holding the ranking list, I was so happy that I couldn't close my mouth. I immediately wanted to rush to the room to send Yu Huai a text message. "By the way, Geng Geng, I talked to you, Mr. Zhang, and we all think that you still have great potential. If you study Chinese in the sophomore class of high school, there must be no problem in the first line. Work hard. , maybe you can go to a school of the level of China University of Political Science and Law."

I paused as I walked back to the room. "Oh, there's still half a semester left, let's talk about it." I said with a smile. The winter vacation is coming with a bang. The winter here is really too cold here. I didn’t have any desire to go out during the whole holiday. I slept until ten o’clock every day before getting up. After washing up, I ate something casually. At that time, I made a "study plan" with great ambition. Just after the holiday, I went to the largest book wholesale market in our city and bought all the textbooks and workbooks for mathematics, physics and chemistry for the next semester.

Of course, I am not so diligent by nature. The reason why I make plans, apart from my usual love of "re-becoming a person" and planning my life, is the encouragement of the final exam results and Yu Huai's supervision. After I texted him to announce the good news, Yu Huai's reaction was: "You can do better in the exam." I have no doubts about it.My ambitions are all in the next semester, I will prove that I can also study science, even if I am stupid than others, just fly first. My dad started lobbying me again at dinner time, and took Xiao Linfan on a "winter morning run" every day-what a joke!Faced with Xiao Linfan's gloating face across the dinner table, I had to secretly roll my eyes.

A kid like Lin Fan who is less than ten years old has a lot of energy.Last year, I don’t know if it was the sports lottery or the welfare lottery organization that paid for a lot of colorful fitness equipment for citizens in our community, forming a small playground and quickly triggering a battle between the bear group and the elderly group .Although Lin Fan's classmates don't live nearby, there is an elementary school next to my community. During the holidays, the children use this paradise as a base. Lin Fan also met many new friends because of this, and runs every day I went downstairs to play for hours before coming up.On a snowy day with howling north wind, he can also play as a steaming meat bun.

This kind of vigorous vitality is in stark contrast to my lifeless high school student who either sits in front of the TV or sits in front of the desk and thinks hard every day at home. However, Lin Fan's good days came to an end soon.In the second week after the start of the holiday, Aunt Qi enrolled Xiaolin Fan in a Mathematical Olympiad class, an English class, and a Taekwondo class that is popular among different age groups in our city recently. I couldn't help but imagine that little bean sprouts yelled in vain and tried to kick the board, but in the next second he curled up like a prawn with tears in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, before I was happy for a few seconds, I learned that my dad, who was so wicked, had also enrolled me in taekwondo classes. So I went to the provincial exhibition hall to attend classes in the cold weather with the little boy whose head was just up to my shoulders.Xiaolin Fan put on a white taekwondo uniform, looking very energetic.And me... "Sister, it's very pretty. You wear this, it looks like a sauna suit." My first taekwondo class was also my last.Because most of the students in the elementary class are children, their bodies are very soft, and stretching the ligaments is trivial; and I, when the coach helped me stretch my legs, screamed worse than the woman who found the dead body in "Conan" .

Wu's can't write, anyway, my dad is determined to let me go out in the wind and snow every day.It just so happens that New Oriental has just started to expand from its base camp in Beijing. Every winter and summer vacation, it will come to second- and third-tier cities like ours to hold short-term training courses.My dad managed to snag a third-row spot with the help of his colleagues in the office and paid a little extra for the reservation fee, so he felt extremely good about himself. "So?" I looked up from the pile of books. "There is no need to have psychological pressure, Dad doesn't find it hard."

"...What are you working hard for?" My dad didn't expect that my hard work didn't get my gratitude at all. Nonsense, who wants to trek half of the city in winter to go to a medical university to listen to New Oriental!My dad is still enrolled in the morning class, which starts at 8:30 and ends at 4:30. In order to earn money, there are more than 200 people in the small classroom, and a class of two hours will cause polio!Do you want to murder your own daughter? ! My dad raised his head, laughed and said, "If you play this game with me, then show me!" ... But he probably never expected that I would send him a text message after the first class, saying that it was because I was ignorant before, and thanking him for his hard work.

My dad would never understand how his daughter could suddenly be so gentle and sensible. Because the first class just started, I started to look around and do health exercises because my butt hurt from sitting on the chair with a small movable table. Suddenly, at the corner of the classroom, he caught sight of Yu Huai. I had heard about New Oriental's teaching methods before, so I didn't show the novelty and excitement of the students around me. In order to attract the attention of the students during the high-intensity training, all New Oriental teachers have to work part-time as stand-up comedians.In fact, after the class, I have a deeper understanding: New Oriental's class is not so difficult, if the teacher does not teach serious knowledge.

The female teacher who taught us the listening class was named Renee, a senior student at China Foreign Affairs University and a native of Beijing.This is the first time I heard about this school that recruits students in advance.This female teacher looks very ordinary, but her temperament is outstanding.She wears very stylish clothes, baggy, but exceptionally good-looking, with a pure Mandarin accent and a slightly husky sexy voice.She is also the only one among the four teachers who doesn't tell jokes very much, of course it may be to save energy. During recess, I finished copying the last few notes on the blackboard, and looked up to see her leaning against the podium, looking expressionlessly at the laughing high school students below. I could feel her sense of superiority, which was not arrogant, passing through the sky above the noisy crowd in the hot classroom with a hint of coolness. What is she thinking?Will her daily life be rich and interesting? Will I grow into such a woman in the future? I closed the notes that were full of confusing words for my listening comprehension, a complex emotion of melancholy but eager to try rose up in my heart, and I even forgot to find Yu Huai for a while. The recess was delayed by me. When the class resumed, I saw Yu Huai go back to his corner and sit down, so I took out my phone and sent him a text message. "what are you doing?" He quickly replied: "Class." "What class do you have during the holidays?" "Learn cross-stitch." bastard.I gritted my teeth and continued: "Then what do you think I'm doing?" "Aren't you doing cross-stitch too?" I froze and instinctively looked in his direction.Blocked by many heads, I saw through the gap that Yu Huai grinned at me and showed a mouthful of small white teeth. During the lunch break, I bounced across a long row of chairs to find Yu Huai. Somehow, a person you see every day at school, even if you like it, you don't think much of it.But meeting her unexpectedly outside of school made me a little shy.How strange. "Shall we eat together?" "Okay." He buttoned his jacket. We're going to have lunch alone off campus.I started to dig into the ground with my toes uncontrollably. "When did you see me?" I asked with a smile. "When you entered the classroom, you rushed in like a bear and brought down a row of stools. Anyone can see you." Yu Huai looked at me with contempt. I get up at ten o'clock every day, and suddenly I get up at seven o'clock, and it is inevitable to be late.I scratched my nose embarrassingly. "But you are really good at grabbing such a good seat. It was very late when I found out the news, so I can only sit in this kind of ghost place. I can't even see the blackboard clearly." "Isn't there still a TV?" I pointed to the several TVs hanging in the middle of the classroom. "I had a small blister in my right eye this morning. I don't know if it's a stye. I can see things a bit blurry. It hurts after staring at the TV screen for a long time." He picked up his schoolbag and tugged at my sleeve, "Let's go. " Before I reached the gate, the phone in my pocket rang. It turned out to be my dad. I picked it up suspiciously: "Dad?" "Why don't you come out? Everyone is almost gone, right? I'm at the door. I'll take you to lunch at noon today." My head thumped. "Why?" I asked tremblingly. "Why, why?" my dad smiled warmly, "it's strange that Dad invites you to dinner, you talk about you, you don't study well, and you send me a text message to say thank you, isn't it right for Dad to create learning conditions for you? Is it right? Who did your child learn this from, and you should be polite to your father. " How bad am I to my dad?As a result, he received a thank you text message and ran to the place where I was in class excitedly to invite me to dinner?So emotional, so impulsive, so willful, is my dad a Pisces?Are civil servants in our city working too leisurely? ! I was so frightened that I couldn't care about anything, and ran out under Yu Huai's surprised gaze. As soon as I stepped out of the gate, I saw my dad cheerfully. "dad……" My dad still maintained a high spirited state of mind: "Go, get in the car, there are students near the medical university, and the restaurants must be full. I'll take you to a place farther away for dinner." I was tongue-tied when I heard a call from behind: "Geng Geng! Geng Geng!" My dad's eyes naturally drifted to my back. I turned my head stiffly inch by inch, and then squeezed out a very surprised smile in an instant. "Yu Huai? You also come to New Oriental? Why didn't I see you? Which row are you sitting in? Hehehe, what a coincidence!" Yu Huai: "Geng Geng, are you stupid..." I quickly covered his unfinished words with a loud voice: "Dad! Let me introduce you, this is my deskmate, Yu Huai, who studies really well. He is the first in our class in the total exam. He often helps me He is very enthusiastic about teaching math problems!" Both were taken aback by my exuberance.Yu Huai threw a puzzled look at him, then turned his head and nodded politely to my dad with a smile: "Hi Uncle, I'm Geng Geng's deskmate, Yu Huai." Yu Huai's self-introduction distracted me inappropriately. Geng Geng Yu Huai.Although it has been half a year, but any time, suddenly hearing these two names lined up together, my heart still trembles. It really fits well. My dad didn't realize it, and smiled kindly at Yu Huai. "Yu Huai? Oh, I heard Mr. Zhang praise you during the parent-teacher meeting. I heard that you participated in some national competitions and won prizes. That's amazing. If my family Geng Geng had half of you, I would be so happy. Thank you." You always take such good care of her." My dad patted Yu Huai on the back, and he looked like a formidable leader, which made it hard to bear to look at. "Go! Let's eat together!" Quickly say "No need, uncle", quick!I gave Yu Huai a serious look. But Yu Huai scratched the back of his head, grinned and said, "Then thank you uncle!" My dad turned and walked over to the parking lot, motioning for us to follow.I was so angry that I kicked Yu Huai - it would be strange if I could eat this meal! "Why are you so stingy, can I still eat your family? Look at how generous your father is!" "That's not the case!" I was anxious to bite him. "Then why do you always look like you have a ghost in your heart." After he finished speaking, he followed my dad carelessly. I looked at his back silently and sighed softly. You are the ghost in my heart. This was the worst meal I've ever had. My restrained performance was in sharp contrast to the "father and son" who hit it off right away.They chatted all over the place, and my dad usually didn't know if he was being ignored by me too much. When he met a young man with a little knowledge, he could talk so enthusiastically, and I couldn't get in a word.Yu Huai went too far against customers, and I don't know if it was to retaliate against me for preventing him from eating rice, but he actually said to me with a smirk, "Geng Geng, eat more vegetables, you are welcome." It just pissed me off! But on the other hand, I can taste the sweetness faintly in my heart. Look at how well my dad gets along with his uncle.Although I was the only one who had enough foresight at the scene, they still didn't know the great significance of this meeting, but they would suddenly realize that it was so when they recalled it later. Uh-huh.Most definitely. I was having fun in my heart, and I suddenly felt that the scene was quiet. "What's wrong?" I asked confusedly. It turned out that when they were chatting, they found that I was staring at a plate of dishes on the table in a daze, and giggled to myself for a long time, which was extremely weird. Being so stared at by them, I got up and said I was going to the toilet. Unexpectedly, when they came back, they saw a disagreement in their conversation, and they actually got into an argument. "But uncle, I disagree with what you said just now. Many so-called sages in ancient China did not leave much good influence. What they admired was the way of entering the world by taking the shortest way to the south. Take a step back when you are wrong, and advance when you are right. Two steps, to put it bluntly, it’s still speculation.” I listened blankly. Is this person Yu Huai?Is he usually such a cultured person? "You are still young," my dad laughed, and he still sounded lenient and elder-like, but I could see that he was taking Yu Huai very seriously, "Knowing current affairs and speculation are essentially human tendencies The instinct to avoid disadvantages is a matter of degree, there is no need to be so extreme. You may not like to hear some words, but people, the less you know about certain things, the easier it is to form stubborn and simple views." Yu Huai was a little dissatisfied, but he seemed to have listened, and was thinking with his head down. "What did you mean just now that prejudice stems from ignorance?" he asked, tilting his head. My dad suddenly asked me: "Geng Geng, what do you think?" What do I think? I instinctively glanced at Yu Huai, nodded without thinking, and said, "I think what Yu Huai said makes sense. As a human being, it's better not to...don't speculate, it's better to be sincere." What does it mean to offend two people with one sentence?That's who I am. Yu Huai disliked me as a low-level supporter, and on my dad's forehead, there was a line of big characters written sadly: "Women are not allowed to stay in university". When I went back to class, Yu Huai said to me: "You have such a good father, who is so thoughtful, smart, and far-sighted. Why can't these advantages be reflected in you?" He shook his head as if he was serious and said, "I'm really blind for nothing." I didn't know how to fight back, so I had to change the subject: "Hey, let's change seats. You can sit in my seat. I can see the blackboard clearly, but I'm eating chalk dust. Are your eyes better?" He suddenly smiled, shook his head, and said, "Geng Geng, you are really a girl with a good heart and a simple heart." The rhythm suddenly changed from tiger father and dog daughter to verbal praise, and I couldn't keep up.Yu Huai after chatting with my dad is really strange. Yu Huai looked at me with a smile and said, "However, the previous generation thought a lot and did a lot, so the next generation will naturally be more innocent." After he finished speaking, he patted my head without warning and said, "Geng Geng, I really envy you." Then he went back to his seat, leaving me alone at the gate in a daze. "Should I change it or not!" I shouted. "Don't change! I can react faster than you when I sit outside the door in class. Change it." Yu Huai's back is still familiar to me, tall and broad, but thin, so he walks unsteadily, with a carefree look, always carefree, always straight, always sunny.Yet at one point, he made it plain that he wasn't that simple. He is so pure, but he said, I really envy your simplicity and honesty. I already knew he was great. But that's not the real reason why I feel like he's so far away from me. I suddenly realized that although I have been sitting next to him for ten hours a day, and I am so familiar with his profile that I can draw it by heart, I don't really know him.Occasionally, I feel as if I understand him a little better—for example, I find that he is vulnerable and unconfident because of competitive exams, but it is only a moment of resonance and intimacy, and the next second, I am back to the original point. On our timeline, all I have are fragmentary breakpoints, and I can't piece together a complete Yu Huai. During dinner that night, my dad praised Yu Huai grandly at the dinner table. In a nutshell, the students admitted to Zhenhua are really extraordinary. Not only do they have good grades, but they are also well-rounded, thoughtful, and cover a wide range of subjects. Although they are still young and immature, their future is boundless. I was worried that my dad would have an idea after they argued, but I didn't expect such a high evaluation.I was elated when I heard it, but I had to hold back, deliberately acting indifferent. My dad said a thousand words and ten thousand words, but finally got back to the main topic: "Geng Geng, you have to learn from others." "Well, of course." I nodded. My dad was taken aback. In the past, every time he praised neighbors or relatives, I always frowned and used silence to express my disdain. However, what a lovely man my dad was. He attributed all this to his daughter finally understanding his painstaking efforts. New Oriental lasted for eleven days and ended before the Spring Festival. Yu Huai only persisted for a week. He still didn't agree to change seats with me.On the day he left early, I seemed to have a premonition, and I turned my head frequently, every time just in time for him to stand up and walk outside. I texted him: "What's wrong with you?" "Urgent urination." "How long has it been? You have peed so many times, and you don't mind tossing about it. Is there something wrong with it?" "You're the one who's wrong." "Look at me, it's been several hours, and I haven't gone to the toilet once." He didn't return for a long time. When I almost forgot about it, my phone vibrated suddenly. Yu Huai said, "Of course, lazy people have big bladders." ……damn it.I closed the phone, angrily, but couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth. do you know?It's a very happy thing to text someone you like, to hurt each other intimately, but never mention whether you like it or not. Anyway, I just found out now. Later, Yu Huai told me that he went to the toilet because he poured water to force the fever down, but the fever didn't go down, and his bladder almost failed. After all, Yu Huai still failed to suppress the growth of the stye with the simple methods of steaming his eyes, and was hospitalized with a fever. I asked my dad for money to buy a small recording pen and started recording the content of the teacher's lectures.Of course, in order to save electricity, I did not record the parts of telling jokes, molesting the classmates present, and oral serialization of "Death is Coming". I put the voice recorder and the carefully copied notes in the desk and kept them, and sent a text message to Yu Huai. "You take good care of your illness. I have copied all the content of the class and recorded it. Don't worry, I won't let you miss important content." Alas, how sad my dad would be if he knew that he was not the first man he cared for and cared for in his daughter's life.