"Jiang Qiaoxi, what do you want to do when you grow up?"
Lin Qile asked him.
Not only did they ask him at night, they also continued to ask him during the day, but Jiang Qiaoxi refused to say anything.
"What is it? Can't you tell me?" Lin Qile asked.
Jiang Qiaoxi was annoyed by her questioning and could only reply: "You wouldn't understand even if I told you."
We are all in the fourth grade and are both Young Pioneers, so what does “you won’t understand even if I tell you” mean
Lin Qile thought this and became more depressed. She ate the shrimp chips in her mouth depressedly, making a crunching sound; she pulled Poppy Elf's light blue hair depressedly, lying on her back on the bamboo mat depressedly, staring at the ceiling with wide eyes, and then staring at Jiang Qiaoxi who was sitting next to her.
After dinner, Jiang Qiaoxi leaned against the wardrobe again, writing his homework next to Lin Qile.
Lin Qile remained lying on his back, glancing up at his face unconsciously.
Jiang Qiaoxi's eyelashes are long and curly, and when he lowers his head, they cover half of his eyes. Jiang Qiaoxi's lips are a little thin, probably because his skin is too pale, his lips are a very light and tender, petal-like red.
When Jiang Qiaoxi was writing, not only was his pen moving, his mouth was also opening and closing from time to time, silently calculating something. Jiang Qiaoxi checked back and forth between the calculation paper and the pages of the book, his eyelashes rising and falling.
Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly raised his eyes, and Lin Qile's stunned face was reflected in his dark eyes.
Lin Qile kept this stunned look on his face and turned over stiffly on the bamboo mat, pressing his hot face downwards.
After the National Day holiday, when I returned to school, all the hibiscus flowers were in bloom. Du Shang yawned and read the text "Fire Cloud" with his classmates. He tilted his head and found that Lin Qile was staring at the Chinese textbook, not following along, and kept swallowing.
Duchamp leaned over to take a look and found that the text in Lin Qile's hand was not "Fire Cloud" at all, but "I Love the Bayberry in My Hometown".
The Chinese teacher was very angry: "Student Lin Qile! Not only did you not finish your holiday homework, but you even brought the wrong Chinese textbook when school started!"
Lin Qile stood up to be criticized. Qin Yeyun sat behind her and sneered, but was also called up by the Chinese teacher.
"Qin Yeyun, you're still laughing! Where's your homework? You two are a pair of miserable sisters!"
Du Shang asked, are you going back to play house with Jiang Qiaoxi tonight
Lin Qile was walking home from school with her schoolbag on her back, among her friends. She lowered her head and pinched the Tamagotchi she had snatched from Cai Fangyuan. The small buttons were almost broken by her, but the Tamagotchi didn't seem to have changed at all.
Du Shang advised earnestly: "Cherry, please stop wasting Jiang Qiaoxi's study all day long—"
Lin Qile said: "I didn't delay his studies."
Duchamp said: "How can it not be delayed? How can he concentrate on his homework if you play next to him all day?"
Lin Qile looked back at Jiang Qiaoxi and found that Jiang Qiaoxi was walking behind her and looking at her.
Lin Qile turned around and continued to pinch the Tamagotchi with his head down.
When they arrived at the entrance of the Workers' Club, Lin Qile returned the Tamagotchi to Cai Fangyuan and parted ways with them.
Only Jiang Qiaoxi followed Lin Qile, walking along the same road towards their homes.
Electrician Lin came back from get off work early on his bike and said, "Qiaoxi, your father went to the city post office!"
Lin Qile felt that Jiang Qiaoxi's steps suddenly stopped.
"I didn't see clearly what was written on the parcel list," Lin the electrician said with a smile, "it looks like a parcel forwarded from Hong Kong, sent to you."
Manager Jiang Zheng didn't come back until 7pm. He went to the city and not only asked the driver to move the parcels from the post office, but also bought some fresh fruits and asked Jiang Qiaoxi to deliver them to the parents of the students at the Qunshan construction site. He usually didn't care much about his son and asked his co-workers at the construction site to help take care of him.
Lin Qile stood at the door of his house, holding a bunch of Guangxi bananas. Lin Qile looked up first and said sweetly, "Thank you, Uncle Jiang!"
She secretly asked Jiang Qiaoxi: "Who sent you the package?"
No matter how reserved and calm Jiang Qiaoxi usually was, no matter how much he pretended to be an adult and kept silent, he couldn't hold back his excitement at this moment. His eyes were shining: "My cousin."
Lin Qile had never seen Jiang Qiaoxi so happy before: "What did he send you?"
Jiang Qiaoxi replied: "Books, teaching materials."
Lin Qile thought it would be some snacks or toys. After all, it was sent from Hong Kong, so it must be fresh.
Her eyebrows drooped in disappointment.
Jiang Qiaoxi's cousin brought him a letter, saying that it was the first time to send books to the inland city of Qunshan, and he didn't know if it would go smoothly. If it did, he would send Qiaoxi new books, tapes or videos from Hong Kong every month: "I hope you can study hard over there and take control of your future!"
Lin Qile sat on a bamboo mat next to Jiang Qiaoxi. She couldn't understand the English textbooks sent from Hong Kong, but she could understand this short letter written in Chinese characters.
Jiang Qiaoxi's cousin has very beautiful handwriting.
"How old is your cousin older than you?" Lin Qile asked.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "Sixteen years old."
Lin Qile was stunned for a moment. Sixteen years older? At this age, shouldn't he call him "uncle"
"He is twenty-five years old?" Lin Qile calculated.
Jiang Qiaoxi said to her: "My brother is fourteen years older than me. My cousin was originally his cousin, and later became my cousin."
Lin Qile blinked and stopped asking.
Mother Lin brought in a plate of oranges and cut apples: "Why did you send so many things?"
Jiang Qiaoxi stood up from the ground and said hurriedly, "Excuse me, Auntie, I'll clean it up."
Mother Lin said, "Yingtao, put away your comic books quickly so that Qiaoxi's books have a place to go. Otherwise, how will you study?"
Study, study. In the eyes of adults, it seems that the only thing children have to do every day is to study.
At the end of October, Lin Qile was walking on the way to school and saw many adults around him sighing over newspapers.
The Chinese stock market is still plummeting. It has been three months since July, and there has been no improvement.
Lin Qile didn’t understand what the word “stock market” meant. She had only seen the red and blue lines drawn on black cloth on TV. The adults’ faces would change constantly because of the unpredictable trend.
"Cherry!" Once, Uncle Cai came to Lin Qile's house for dinner and pointed at the financial program on TV and said, "Recommend a stock for uncle to buy."
Lin Yingtao sat on the adults' laps and ate boiled edamame. She could neither understand the programs on TV nor what the adults were saying. She watched the densely packed stock names scrolling across the screen for a while.
"Travel to Mount Tai!" she said, suddenly pointing her finger.
"What?" Uncle Cai confirmed again, "Taishan tour?"
Uncle Yu was peeling peanuts by hand and said, "You can't just ask people to buy, right? You have to tell them why they buy it!"
Lin Yingtao couldn't explain it. When adults teased children, it was just like that. They just had to listen to the children's silly and stupid words.
Lin Yingtao picked edamame and said, "I've been to Mount Tai. It's so beautiful! And there are so many people there!"
Lin Qile now approached the newsstand, stood on tiptoe and stretched her head to look at the financial page. There was only one newsstand near the Qunshan construction site, and workers were the ones coming and going. The boss saw her and smiled and said, "Cherry, are you also speculating in stocks?"
Lin Qile asked politely: "Uncle, has the price of Mount Tai tourism increased?"
She asked this question in a serious tone, making the adults around her laugh. Someone actually opened the newspaper and took a look for her: "It's falling! I tell you, all these broken stocks are falling."
Lin Qile left the newsstand and returned to her friends carrying her schoolbag, unable to hide her frustration.
During the break, Jiang Qiaoxi heard her mumbling beside him: "Uncle Cai likes money so much, I won't really make him lose money..."
Not everyone could hear Lin Qile's quiet unhappiness. Du Shang continued to watch "White Horse Roars in the West Wind" in the classroom. He seemed to have given up learning Kamehameha and began to study the inner strength in Jin Yong's martial arts. Yu Qiao made a bet with the boys in the class: the A-League was about to enter the next round, and Yu Qiao's idol, Liaoning striker Qu Shengqing, had scored 16 goals in the first 23 rounds.
There was almost no suspense about his winning the title of top scorer of the year.
Because of his height advantage, Yu Qiao was always pulled to the podium by the female monitor to help clean the blackboard. While cleaning, Yu Qiao told the boys from the next class who loved playing football outside that Liaoning Fushun would definitely win the football league championship this year. If not, he would buy another year's worth of "Sports Weekly" next year and lend it to everyone in the school!
Cai Fangyuan turned around from the front seat and played with his Tamagotchi. He, Jiang Qiaoxi, and Lin Qile said in low voices, "If Yu Qiao loses again this time, he will graduate."
"Why?" Lin Qile asked.
Cai Fangyuan said: "He only lost once in the Champions League. Let me tell you, Yu Qiao is particularly unlucky this year. I don't know why."
Yu Qiao's luck was indeed very bad this year. On December 5, 1999, the Chinese Jia-A League entered its final round. Shandong Luneng Taishan beat Wuhan 5:0 at home, and Liaoning Fushun tied with Beijing Guoan.
In the end, Luneng Taishan won the league championship with a 1-point advantage.
Yu Qiao said that Luneng Taishan's victory was all due to luck. But a week later, in the second round of the Chinese FA Cup final, Luneng Taishan defeated Dalian Wanda Shide 4:3 and won the FA Cup championship.
Yu Qiao was in a terrible mood. But apart from Yu Qiao, almost everyone, all the hosts of the sports channels, and all the young people on the construction sites in the mountains were cheering for the first "double champion" in the history of Chinese football - Shandong Luneng Taishan Team. This national football legend was born.
Cai Fangyuan's father even got a football signed by Luneng Taishan striker Su Maozhen and coach Santarachi, and happily put it at home, inviting old workers such as Electrician Lin and Team Leader Yu to come and appreciate it.
At the end of 1999, Zhongneng Power Plant Primary School started its first final exam of the school year. Cai Fangyuan was heartbroken: "The world is about to end, and we still have to take final exams!"
The school does not allow students to escape early. No matter who you are, you must sit in the classroom and finish the test paper honestly.
Jiang Qiaoxi, who only scored 10 points when he entered the school, was said to have been admitted to the fourth grade of the power plant primary school by "using connections". In this final exam, he actually won the first "quadruple champion" since the school was founded. There were only four exams in total, and he got four full marks. "It's even better than Luneng!" the head teacher exclaimed.
After school that day, Lin Qile rushed home. She excitedly shouted from a distance: "Dad, our results are out!!"
When Lin the electrician heard her making such a fuss, he also became excited and asked, "How did you do in the exam?"
Lin Qile came up to him and said: "Jiang Qiaoxi scored four hundred points. The teacher said he is the 'quadruple champion'!"
Electrician Lin was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Okay, okay..." He then asked: "So how much did you score?"
Yu Qiao and his four companions happened to be carrying their school bags and passing by Lin the Electrician's house. Yu Qiao was unhappy and did not want to make Lin Qile happy, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "Uncle Lin, Lin Qile also scored 100!"
Electrician Lin asked, "Really?"
Yu Qiao shouted, "The four gates add up to a little over a hundred!"
As Cai Fangyuan laughed heartily, Lin Qile rushed out of the house with her schoolbag on her back and rushed over. Yu Qiao ran much faster than her. In the dormitory area of a huge construction site surrounded by mountains, it was time to get off work. There were uncles and aunts everywhere on the road, and they were employees riding bicycles to the canteen for dinner. Yu Qiao shuttled through them like the wind, and Lin Qile chased after her desperately.
She was out of breath, but she couldn't catch up with him or hit him. Lin Qile was very competitive and refused to admit defeat.
Many adults stopped their bicycles to tease Lin Qile: "Cherry, hurry up and throw bricks at him!"
Some adults also said, "Yu Qiao! How dare you run so fast!"
Jiang Qiaoxi walked past Lin Qile's house and reached the intersection. He saw Yu Qiao stopped just across the street, as if deliberately letting him go.
Lin Qile walked over and punched Yu Qiao hard in the stomach.
Cai Fangyuan asked in his ear: "When will you return to the provincial capital?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "I don't know."
Cai Fangyuan said boredly: "I am also going to the provincial capital during the winter vacation this year. My mother asked me to attend the same cram school as you."
Jiang Qiaoxi listened and nodded.
"You have to teach me when the time comes," Cai Fangyuan begged with a sad face, "How would I know what to learn in the provincial capital?"
"Are you the only one going?" Jiang Qiaoxi asked, "Aren't they going?"
After Lin Qile finished beating Yu Qiao, she had to listen to Yu Qiao's fake "It really hurts" before she finished. She put on her schoolbag and walked back with Yu Qiao. She saw Jiang Qiaoxi and Cai Fangyuan standing at the intersection waiting for them.
Lin Qile suddenly laughed: "Jiang Qiaoxi!"