Chapter 175 Xiaopo's birthday - going to school

If school holidays are always on throughout the year, how happily and how quickly this year will go by; you see, how quickly a month or so of annual vacation goes by, and there is still not enough fun, and it is time to start school again!I don't know why the gentlemen love teaching so much, why don't they take two or three months off, don't they like to play?Even if you let it go for another "one" month, isn't it better than going to school now?Although Xiaopo thought so, he was not afraid of going to school.He is only afraid of his sister crying and his father getting angry; besides, he is not afraid of anything, there is nothing he dare not do.School starts right away, just like playing other games, he prepares happily.From my father's shop, I brought seven or eight writing brushes that had lost their hair due to insect erosion and hadn't been sold in two or three years.It's not that my father doesn't have good pens, but Xiaopo likes to use the ones with no hair, because it's more lively when picking the hair while writing.I also brought a large copper ink box, not for ink, but for collecting treasures picked up at any time-chalk ends, small dried betel nuts, palm date stones and so on.

My father bought new textbooks for me, and he and my sister read the pictures in the book one by one.My sister said: These new books are not as good as the old ones, because there are not so many pictures.Xiaopo sighed and said: Gentlemen don't know how to read pictures, but only know how to read characters, so what can we do! Everything is ready, but the book bag can't be found.Xiaopo and his sister searched all over the world, and even found it in the washbasin and under Mama Chen's pillow. Nothing!Finally, he asked the kitten Erxi if he saw it. Erxi meowed and led him into the garden, haha!It turned out that the book bag was hidden among the flowers.I picked it up and saw that there were some small cotton balls, half a broken leather ball, and some odds and ends bulging inside. It turned out that Erxi had no place to put these things, so he borrowed Xiaopo's book bag to make a treasure bag.He told his sister about this, and they loved Er Xi even more.Xiaopo said: When father is happy, you can ask him to buy a new book bag, and give the old one to Erxi.The younger sister said: She and Erxi bought a bookbag alone, and it’s not bad if they both go to school.But Xiaopo said: There is a pair of little white mice in the school, if Erxi goes, I am afraid that some of the mice will die!It seems that this issue should be discussed in detail when there is time.

It takes more than ten minutes to walk from home to school.Classes start at eight o'clock in the morning at school, and my elder brother Dapo always leaves for school around seven thirty.But Xiaopo left at 6:30, because his sister would send him to the intersection every day, and then he would send his sister home, and then she would send him to the intersection, and then he would send her back.After sending each other off seven or eight times in this way, seeing that my brother was ready, I reluctantly handed over my sister to my mother, and then went to school with my brother. Sometimes, he and his younger sister walked around to see Nan Xing, Sanduo, and Malay chicks.Xiaopo wondered: Why didn't the Nan Xings study in the same school as him; it would be great if we were together all day long!No, we all go to school separately, and we can only see each other sooner or later, which is really unpleasant.There are even more incomprehensible things: everyone is a student, but the books they study are different, and the way to go to school is different.Take Nan Xing for example, he only goes to school one day a month.That is to say: on the 1st of every month, Nan Xing took the tuition fee and handed it over to her husband, and there was no need to go again until the 1st of the second month.I heard that in the school Nan Xing entered, there was a principal, a teacher, a footman, and a student—Nan Xing.The principal, teachers, servants, and Nan Xing all come to the school on the first of every month.When everyone was present, the footman went to ring the bell, and it rang very loudly.As soon as she heard the bell, Nan Xing handed over the tuition fee to the principal.The servant rang the bell again, very loudly; the headmaster distributed Nan Xing's tuition fee to the teacher and the servant.The footman rang the bell again, loudly; and the headmaster and sir went out to dinner.After they left, Nan Xing snatched the brass bell and rang it louder; after a while of blissful shaking, he went home.When he entered school for the first time, he took the first Mandarin textbook, and now he has been studying for three years, and he still holds the first Mandarin textbook.His parents said: There is no other place in the world that saves money on books and pens and inks, so Nan Xing was never allowed to change to other schools.The principal and the teacher are also really enthusiastic about education and never stop.It is not their fault that there are too many schools in Singapore to recruit students.Xiaopo really wanted to join Nan Xing's school, but his father not only refused to accept the invitation, he even took the lead and said: Nan Xing's father is a fool!

The schooling methods of the two Malay girls were different again: their school was a Malay school.They don't go to school until eleven o'clock in the morning every day, and when they arrive at school, they go home after seeing their husband.I heard: In their school, it is not the teachers who teach the students, but the students who teach the teachers.The course they are in charge of is "eating".At eleven o'clock, they would not go to school to advise the gentlemen on what to eat, but the gentlemen could not come up with an idea anyway, and they would have to stay hungry until night!When they arrived at school and met their husband, they just said, "Today is coffee and rice and fried vegetables." Then they bowed to the husband.Mr. quickly wrote this menu on the blackboard.When he finished, they bowed again, and went home hand in hand.Xiaopo also wanted to enter this school, because he could teach Malay gentlemen many things.But my father always looked down on the Malays for some reason and forbade Xiaopo to go!

Two Little Indias study in English schools.There are Chinese children, Indian children, etc. in the school; there are also American teachers with white faces, high noses, and blue eyes, and the teachers are all big girls.Xiaopo thought from time to time: If I change schools, I must enter this English school first.There are all kinds of children there, how fun; besides, there are teachers with white faces, high noses, blue eyes, and they are all big girls!If I study hard there and the master likes me, maybe they invite Xianpo to be a teacher; although Xianpo doesn't have blue eyes, she is a girl anyway!

The way the two little Indians go to school is also very interesting: they go to school one day and take one day off, because they both pay a share of the tuition fees, and the two go to school alternately.Today my brother will go, tomorrow my brother will go.The blue-eyed gentlemen couldn't tell who they were, so they didn't know.When it comes time for the semester exams, my elder brother prepares for English, while my younger brother prepares for geography. See how easy it is!Who can memorize a lot of books, that is, gentlemen, don’t some of them teach Mandarin, and some teach singing?It can be seen that a person can't do everything, right?Little India's approach is really reasonable, everyone holds a corner, which saves trouble and remembers clearly.Xiaopo thought: If he put on his red silk treasure and turned into an Indian, and then asked the girls to paint their faces black, he could follow the example of little Indians and go to school one-on-one every day.well!Difficult to handle!Father won't let them do this!When I asked my father, my father must have said: "Cantonese people go to Guangdong schools, there is nothing else to say!"

If Xiaopo is envious of Nan Xing, he is really pitiful.Sanduo doesn't go to school at all, and stays at home every day looking at a bearded, toothless old man who wears big glasses, reads and writes, and works all day long!No singing and no gymnastics!The most powerful thing is: there is not even a picture in the book, and the whole book is full of small black characters!That is to say, Sanduo, who can defeat himself, can endure this hardship; if someone else, he would have shouted "Down" more than 500 times a day earlier!Yes, San Duo knew more words than anyone else.But he only knew the words in the book, and when he changed the place, he would be blinded.For example, if you ask him about the advertisements on the street and the characters on the door plaques of the shops, he will say in a low voice: "These characters are different from those in the books, so I dare not say it!" Poor Sanduo!

Although Xiaopo envied other people's schools, it was not that he didn't love the school he attended.There are more than two hundred students there, both male and female.There are also a dozen or so teachers who can recognize words without looking at pictures.They all love Xiaopo, and Xiaopo loves them too.Xiaopo especially loves Mr. Director at his level, because this gentleman speaks loudly and can sleep standing up on the podium.As soon as he fell asleep, Xiaopo slipped out to play for a while.When he wakes up and speaks aloud, Xiaopo will sneak in again, absolutely no conflict.It's half past six, go to school!Carry the book bag on the back, in addition to the paper, ink, pen and inkstone, there is also the treasure of red silk stuffed in the bag, so that the image can be changed at any time.

He took his sister out of the house. "Go and see Nan Xing first, okay?" "Hurrah." Go around a street and find Nan Xing. "Go to school, Xiaopo?" Nan Xing asked. "No. What about you?" "Me? It's not number one yet." "Ouch!" Xiaopo envied Nan Xing so much! "Let's go find Sanduo?" "Don't go! Sanduo didn't memorize the book yesterday, so he stood at the door for punishment, his head was so tanned. I secretly made him a hat out of banana leaves. ! Was seen by that bad old man, picked up the big cigarette bag, Kou Bang! Give me a shot! Look, this big bag!"

Sure enough, there was a big bump on top of Nan Xing's head, the color was between blue and purple! "Ah!" Xiaopo felt sorry for Nan Xing. After thinking for a while, he said, "Nan Xing, let's go on a date tomorrow and knock down that bad old man, okay?" "His cigarette pouch is long, long, long! You Before he got close to him, he swung the pipe, bang bang! It will hit you on the head! Okay, I dare not go again!" Nan Xing touched the big bag on his head, feeling a little bit like "I was once caught by a snake. Bite, I have been afraid of well ropes for three years." "Go and steal his cigarette pouch first!" Xiaopo said.

"No! Sanduo said: besides the big cigarette bag, the old man also has a cane! The old man often reads: If you don't have a cane, don't plan to teach!" "Cane?" Xianpo didn't understand. "Oh, a cane?" Nan Xing didn't know what a cane was, but he was used to hearing what Sanduo said, so he always felt that he had seen this kind of thing called a cane. ——I dare not say what it must be like. "What is a cane? Second brother!" Xianpo asked Xiaopo. Xiaopo rolled his eyes: "It's probably a very powerful little dog that only bites people's calves!" "That's terrible!" Xianpo said tremblingly. Xiaopo knew that this old man was a bit difficult to mess with, so he had to say something else: "Let's go to Little India, how about?" "I've already gone to school, I just passed here." Nan Xing replied. "Anyway, one of them is always at home. Don't they go to school one by one?" Xiaopo asked. "Today they had a meeting at school. They had snacks and ice cream to eat. That's why they all went. They said: one goes in first to eat, and the second comes out after eating. In this way, they have to change at least ten times! It's a pity! , My face is not black; otherwise, I will go with them too! Dim sum, Bingjiling! Huh!" Nan Xing seemed to be quite pessimistic about life at the moment. "Bingjiling! Dessert!" Xiaopo and Xianpo said together, licking their lips. After staying for a long time, Xiaopo said: "Go and see the little Malay girls?" Poor little boy". "Going to school too? So early? I don't believe it!" Xianpo said. "Really! I even gave them a back! They said: A gentleman fell off the bed this morning, and he didn't know how to get back up, so I came to spread the word to the students, and everyone thought of a good idea." "Ugh!" Xianpo was very worried about this gentleman who fell out of bed and didn't know how to get back up. "It would be nice to turn the bed over and cover him; it saves the trouble of getting in and out of the bed," Xiaopo said, and stayed for a while: "But it depends on what kind of bed it is: rattan beds are fine, if iron The bed is a little tight!" "It's not bad to sleep on the floor, you don't need a bed," Xianpo said. "It's so fun to have such a teacher! I rushed to tell my father tomorrow and sent me to a Malay school," Nan Xing said. "If you want to go, I will go too. But you have to carry me to school every day!" Xianpo said. "Yes!" Nan Xing was very happy that Xianpo valued him so much. "Okay, Nanxing, see you tonight! I have to go to school!" Xiaopo said. "Come back soon! Xiaopo! Let's call again!" Nan Xing begged sincerely. "Definitely!" Xiaopo smiled, took his sister and sent her home.When he arrived at the house, his brother had already left. He was busy striding and running to the school.