As the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Ye Zhao ran downstairs quickly and found Su Yingmin.
Su Yingmin was standing on the side of the road smoking. He saw Ye Zhao running over and quickly stamped out his cigarette butt. "How did you know I was waiting for you here? Is get out of class over?"
"I saw you upstairs."
"How is it? Are you adapting to the new school? Are any classmates bullying you?"
"Not bad." Ye Zhao replied casually. Her only requirement for the new school was that she could take the college entrance examination. As for her classmates, she didn't care.
Su Yingmin took out a paper bag from the car, which contained a box of Song Rongji bird's nest cake and a box of Song Rongji ginger candy.
"I brought you some delicious food from Hong Kong."
Song Rong Ji is the century-old bakery owned by the Hong Kong government that Ye Zhao wants to cooperate with and make her first fortune in the future. She opened the box, took out a piece of ginger candy and ate it. It had a more unique fruity aroma than ordinary ginger candies and was very special. No wonder it could dominate the market.
"Is it tasty?"
"tasty."
"I queued for half an hour to buy Song Rongji." When Su Yingmin smiled, his face looked as silly as Maitreya Buddha.
"Thank you, Uncle Su. You really love me. My dad never cared about me. It was Aunt He who came to handle the transfer procedures this morning." Ye Zhao deliberately slandered Ye Dingguo.
"Your father is busier than us."
"Uncle Su, do you often go to the Hong Kong government?"
"I go there once or twice a month to sign the bill."
"So... have you heard from my mom?"
Su Yingmin patted Ye Zhao on the shoulder, "Are you still thinking about your mother?"
Ye Zhao chewed the ginger candy, frowned slightly, and kicked the stones under his feet. "That day at the door of your office, I heard what you said to my father."
"What did I say?" Su Yingmin was obviously nervous.
Kicking the stone under his feet to the side, Ye Zhao did not answer.
Su Yingmin smiled awkwardly: "Did you hear me tell your father that he was responsible for her death and I advised him to be nicer to you?"
Ye Zhao nodded obediently.
"There are some things your father may not have told you."
There are more and more students leaving school on the road, some walking in twos and threes, some riding bicycles recklessly. They stand under the trees to make room for pedestrians.
Ye Zhao looked up and saw Bai Lu got into a taxi. Bai Yunlian seemed to be in the car as well. Bai Yunlian was obviously staring in her direction. Ye Zhao pretended not to see it and turned her eyes away.
"My dad won't tell me, so can you tell me?"
"The 'she' I mentioned is not your mother, but your biological sister. Your mother gave birth to twins."
"Twins?" Ye Zhao was very surprised. This information was not in the original book.
"Yes, you have a twin sister. The conditions were too bad at the time. Your mother gave birth to you too early, and your father had no experience, so your sister could not be saved and died shortly after she was born."
Her father has no experience? Did her mother really give birth to the child secretly on Chitose Island
"Didn't my mother give birth to me in a hospital?"
"Your parents didn't get married. Your mom wanted to go back to the city, but she didn't want to, so she gave birth to the baby in secret."
"On Chitose Island?"
"You know?" Su Yingmin smiled, "Your father told you that you were born on Chitose Island, right?"
Ye Zhao responded vaguely, and she couldn't say that it was just her guess.
Today's words also solved a big puzzle she had been having for some time. Since it was not her mother who was "dead", it was definitely good news for her. It was easier to find a living person.
Su Yingmin asked her to get in the car and go eat together.
"I'm not going. My sister is waiting for me at home."
"Go back and take your sister with you."
"We ate at the landlady's house without informing her in advance. She must have prepared the meal. I was afraid she would be unhappy."
Su Yingmin didn't force it: "Then bring your sister to our house for dinner this weekend."
Ye Zhao smiled and nodded, "Uncle Su, about my sister's school..."
"Oh, I asked someone to arrange for your sister to go to school. She will attend Zengwuwei Primary School as a temporary student. She just needs to fill in the information before school starts."
“Are there no other formalities required?”
"unnecessary."
Ye Zhao had always been worried that she would need a household registration booklet or something, and might even have to ask her second uncle and aunt for help. Now it seems that she was worrying too much.
"Then I'll take you back."
Ye Zhao didn't want Uncle Su to take her there. First, it was close, second, the road was narrow, and third, she wanted to keep a proper distance from the people on her father's side.
"No need to trouble Uncle Su. My way back is very close and the road is narrow and inconvenient." Ye Zhao said as he heard a roar behind him. He turned around and saw Zeng Xiang riding out on a motorcycle.
Look, a ride is coming.
"Hey! Zeng Xiang!" Ye Zhao called him.
The roar passed by my ears...
It was awkward. I didn't know whether Zeng Xiang didn't hear her or heard her but ignored her on purpose.
Just when she was feeling disappointed, she saw a motorcycle parked under the shade of a tree in front. Zeng Xiang didn't look back, but it seemed that he was obviously waiting for her.
Ye Zhao hurriedly said goodbye to Uncle Su, then jumped and ran towards the motorcycle.
Su Yingmin was confused. It was only the first day of the little girl's school, so why was she hanging out with male classmates? How could she do well in the college entrance examination
"who is this?"
"The landlady's son. Goodbye, Uncle Su."
When she ran to the motorcycle, she saw Zeng Xiang looking her up and down with a strange look on his face.
Ye Zhao suddenly realized that she was wearing a long skirt. How could she ride a motorcycle in a skirt
They were both stunned at the same time.
Ye Zhao turned around and looked at Su Yingmin. Uncle Su was still standing in front of the car looking at them.
Whatever. Her skirt is quite wide. Didn’t the heroine in A Moment of Romance also sit on the hero’s motorcycle like this
Ye Zhao took a single step and got on the motorcycle. His movements were smooth and smooth, without any hesitation at all.
After sitting on it and adjusting her skirt, Ye Zhao stared at Zeng Xiang's helmet. She found that she didn't have one. "Is it okay not to wear a helmet?"
In this era, there was no requirement to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle.
BKing didn't answer, just said: "Sit tight."
Woo… Boom…
The motorcycle started smoothly. Ye Zhao had nowhere to hold on to with her hands. She couldn't hold on to the big man directly, so she had to hold on to the rack on the back seat of the motorcycle with her backhand.
"Be careful!" Su Yingmin reminded loudly with concern behind him.
"oh."
The sun was strong at noon and the breeze was hot. Ye Zhao held on to the back seat with one hand and held a paper bag with the other to block the sun.
There were many pedestrians on the road ahead, so Zeng Xiang drove relatively slowly. There were fewer pedestrians behind, so the motorcycle started to accelerate. It happened to be a downhill slope, and a gust of wind blew, almost blowing up her skirt.
Ye Zhao was so scared that she quickly held down her skirt. The scene was a little funny. She shouted, "Brother Xiang, drive slower."
Zeng Xiang was used to riding a motorcycle alone, and he accelerated subconsciously just now, so he didn't care about the person on the back seat. Suddenly he heard Ye Zhao seemed to be saying something to him, so he braked quickly, but he braked too quickly and the girl on the back seat hit his back hard.
It was like a pig hitting a tree, not only hitting its chin but also its chest.
This collision made Ye Zhao's soul fly out of his body. He was so angry that he punched him on the back without holding back: "Why are you driving so fast!"
This hammer directly knocked the skinny monkey and the fat guy into the pit.
“What the hell!” The skinny monkey who was eating fish balls at a roadside stall bumped into the fat guy, “What’s going on?”
Fatty looked at the two people on the motorcycle with his mouth wide open—
Zeng Xiang did not resist after being beaten. He just took a deep breath and looked impatient, but his tone was surprisingly calm. "Are you sitting well?"
Ye Zhao, who had tidied himself up, was no longer angry and patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go."
As the motorcycle drove away, Shouhou and Pangdun looked at each other, and Pangdun concluded: "Brother Xiang must have been possessed by evil spirits."
After returning to Xiaoxilou, Ye Zhao got out of the car and walked in front, peeling and eating ginger candies as he walked. The ginger candies had a fruity aroma and were so delicious that they were addictive.
The motorcycle was parked in the yard. Zeng Xiang followed behind. When going upstairs, Ye Zhao felt a little regretful for punching Zeng Xiang just now. She peeled another ginger candy and turned back to hand it to Zeng Xiang: "Please have some candy."
“I don’t eat sweets.”
“It’s delicious.”
The ginger candy was handed to his mouth. Should he eat it or not? Zeng Xiang obviously hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to open his mouth to take it, he heard Xiaoqin shouting from upstairs: "Sister, are you back?"
It was Xiaoqin who heard the sound of the motorcycle and ran down.
"If you don't want to eat it, forget it."
Seeing that the boss was indifferent, Ye Zhao took back the ginger candy in his hand.
Zeng Xiang just watched the candy at his lips go into Xiaoqin's mouth the next moment.
He didn't want to eat candy, he really didn't want to eat candy, but his taste buds seemed to be hooked suddenly, and he didn't get satisfaction. Although his face was calm, his heart felt like it was bitten by ants. He was very unhappy.
upset!
He swallowed and went upstairs first.
Lunch was almost ready. Aunt Qiao poked her head out of the kitchen and saw Ye Zhao holding a paper bag of Song Rongji. She asked curiously, "Oh, it's from Hong Kong. Who sent it?"
"A friend of my dad helped me transfer to another school. It smells so good. Is the beef brisket stewed?"
Aunt Qiao laughed and said, "Your nose belongs to a dog, you can smell it."
"Aunt Qiao, are you praising me or disgracing me?"
"Of course I praise you. How was it? Did you have a good first day at school?"
Aunt Qiao smiled with satisfaction, "I specifically told him not to let others bully you at school."
"No wonder! Thank you, Aunt Qiao, you are the best to me." Ye Zhao took the opportunity to act coquettishly and stuffed all the Song Rongji into Aunt Qiao's hands.
Ye Zhao washed his hands and helped bring out the dishes: braised beef brisket with bamboo shoots, fried egg with leek, lettuce with garlic sauce, and a king flower and pork rib soup, three dishes and one soup in total.
"Let's eat light today."
"It's very rich. The aroma of the beef brisket makes my mouth water."
Xiaoqin said eagerly, "Me too."
Aunt Qiao teased Xiaoqin: "Give me money, and I'll make delicious food for you every day."
Xiaoqin was very smart. She had already figured out Aunt Qiao's hard-mouthed but soft-hearted personality, and dared to talk back to her in a low voice, "My sister gave me money."
"Your sister gave me that little bit of money for meals, so I can't do anything with it."
"My sister said, Aunt Qiao, whatever you cook, we'll eat."
"The little mute is really good at talking back." Aunt Qiao looked at Ye Zhao and said proudly, "In just a few days, Xiaoqin's face has become rosy because of my care. In at most half a year, I want to turn her yellow hair into jet black."
Ye Zhao drank the soup and said, "Aunt Qiao, if you open a restaurant, there will definitely be long queues every day, from the beginning to the end of the village."
Aunt Qiao raised her eyebrows, "Who has time to cook for others? I might as well play a few more rounds of mahjong. Xiangzi, it's time to eat! You always urge me to eat, hurry up!"
Zeng Xiang chewed the last bit of mint in his mouth before coming out of the room.
Aunt Qiao asked Ye Zhao: "Is he serious in school?"
Huh? Ye Zhao didn't dare to tell tales.
"Very serious."
Sleep seriously, daydream seriously, and draw darts on draft paper seriously.
Aunt Qiao: "There is still one year left. If you work harder and get into a technical secondary school, is there still hope?"
It is not easy to pass the high school entrance exam to technical secondary school in this era. Given Zeng Xiang's current condition, that is basically impossible.
Ye Zhao looked at Zeng Xiang's expression, which said, "I am not afraid of poor grades, but I can't work hard either," and then looked at Aunt Qiao's sincere eyes full of expectation... She smiled awkwardly: "There is hope! Of course there is."
After hearing what Ye Zhao said, Aunt Qiao was delighted: "I think two hours of tutoring every night is not enough, it should be three hours."
Cough! Cough cough cough!
Zeng Xiang choked on the soup.
"From 7 to 10 o'clock, three hours, you study, he studies too. I asked others about the tuition fee, it's usually one dollar per hour, I'll give you three dollars a day, how about that? You can have one or two days off every week."
Even if you take two days off a week, wouldn't you get 60 yuan for a full month of work? This perfectly solves the problem of accommodation and food.
The temptation is too great.
But the boss couldn't possibly agree to that, as he had so many activities every night. At 12 o'clock last night, she heard the sound of his motorcycle coming back.
"That's fine with me, but Aunt Qiao, you have to ask him if it's okay."
"You have to do it no matter what. Before you get into college, I have the final say." Aunt Qiao made the decision in a domineering manner, "You are not allowed to hang out outside at night. You can't find a tutor as suitable as Xiao Zhao, who lives at home, even if you light a lantern outside. You have to cherish her. Do you hear me, Xiangzi?"
Zeng Xiang ate silently.
This was tacit agreement. Ye Zhao and Aunt Qiao smiled at each other in tacit understanding.
After lunch, Ye Zhao was feeding the fish in the water tank on the balcony. Seeing Xiaotian eating watermelon in the yard, she called out to him, "Didn't you say you would talk to me after school?"
Xiaotian threw the watermelon rind into the trash can next to him, and then came upstairs. What he meant was that their band must have Zeng Xiang. Zeng Xiang was the soul of their band and they could not do without him.
"Then can I still join? Although I'm not very professional in music, I know a little bit about everything." Ye Zhao has always worked very hard for what he wants to achieve.
Xiaotian is a little chubby, talkative and outgoing. He pulled a stool over and sat down, saying, "It's fine for you to join, but you have to convince Brother Xiang to participate in the competition. We're called the Wen Tianxiang Band, and we can't do it without Brother Xiang's guitar."
"Why doesn't he want to compete?"
"It's a long story, so I won't go into details. You just need to convince Brother Xiang."
Ye Zhao smiled awkwardly, "I don't even know the cause and effect, how can I convince you?"
"You can do it. I saw you coming back on Brother Xiang's motorcycle. Not everyone can sit on the back seat of Brother Xiang's motorcycle." Xiaotian said with a nasty smile.
Ye Zhao nodded as if he understood something. It must be because he was his tutor that he gave him some face. But it would not be appropriate to act as a lobbyist rashly. They were not that familiar with each other.
"When is the game?"
"The preliminary round will be next week, and the final round will be the week after next."
"If persuasion fails, can I do it for him?" Ye Zhao once again tried to take the boss' place.
Apparently Xiaotian is a die-hard fan of the boss, he said with a smile: "It would be meaningless if Brother Xiang didn't attend."
Ye Zhao also smiled and said, "Okay, okay, she will try her best."
"If we win the prize, can you lend me the prize money first? I will return it to you in two months."
Xiaotian seemed to have no concept of money, "It doesn't matter, it's not important."
"It's a deal then." It's great to make friends with the natives.
Ye Zhao walked to school in the afternoon. After having a bad experience, she never wanted to ride Zeng Xiang's motorcycle in a skirt again.
After arriving at school, she went to get new books. When she climbed up from the first floor to the third floor with a pile of books, Skinny Monkey and a few others were secretly smoking in the corner of the corridor.
They were crookedly occupying most of the aisle. When Fatty saw Ye Zhao coming over with a book in his arms, he nudged Skinny Monkey with his elbow and said, "Here you go."
Ye Zhao saw Fatty and Skinny making eyes at each other from a distance, and thought that the grade office was just in front of her, and if these bastards dared to do anything bad, she would make a big fuss.
As a result, when she walked over, she saw that her grandchildren either moved to the side to avoid her or secretly retracted their outstretched feet. They were all very well-behaved.
What the hell is this.
She walked forward a few steps and heard someone behind her greet her: "Brother Xiang! You're so early today."
I see!
Ye Zhao looked back and saw Zeng Xiang walking towards him slowly with his hands in his pockets and a bag on his back.
"Ye Zhao!" Teacher Zhou called her from the front office door, "Come here for a moment."
Zeng Xiang just walked up to her side, and Ye Zhao handed him a pile of books, "Put them on the table for me. Thank you."
Zeng Xiang hesitated. In his life creed, it was okay to help the weak, but there was no such thing as "approachable". Seeing Ye Zhao stuffing the book to him, his hand stretched out uncontrollably and took the new book steadily.
Then he watched Ye Zhao trot all the way to the office.
Skinny Monkey and Fatty looked at each other in understanding. Fatty said, "Look, he must have been possessed by an evil spirit."
The skinny monkey said three words indignantly: "There is something evil!"
"She obviously looks very innocent." The two old friends were puzzled.
In the office, Teacher Zhou called Ye Zhao over and wanted to know her real situation.
If Ye Zhao is really a good seedling, they will definitely take him seriously. Not to mention Peking University or Tsinghua University, even if he is admitted to Sun Yat-sen University, it will break the school record.
"In the future, teachers may have to set up a special tutoring group on weekends to give special lessons to students with good grades who need to make up for their shortcomings. Among Chinese, math, English, biology and chemistry, which subject do you do well in, and which subject do you need to make up for your shortcomings?"
Ye Zhao didn't want to attend tutoring anymore. She smiled and said without being modest, "Teacher Zhou, I'm good at both arts and sciences. I don't have any weaknesses in any subject."
No shortcomings! He said it so confidently! Even Teacher Zhou was a little excited.
"Well, the first monthly exam for all subjects will be held tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Let's see your results then."
Ye Zhao said it was no problem.
"Teacher Zhou, can I skip the rest of the tutoring this month?"
"Why?"
"I'm busy... If I don't take the tutoring, can I..." Ye Zhao was a little embarrassed, "Can I get a refund for the tutoring fee?"
Teacher Zhou looked at Ye Zhao's embarrassment and couldn't help asking, "Are you having difficulties at home?"
Ye Zhao nodded: "It's a bit difficult."
Someone had already explained the relationship between Bai Lu and Ye Zhao to him in detail this morning. Wasn't Ye Zhao's father very rich? Why did he even want to save money on tuition fees
Teacher Zhou's mother died early, and he grew up with a stepmother. He suffered a lot when he was a child, so he understood the saying "if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather" very well and sighed deeply on the spot.
Yuxin Middle School can waive tuition fees for families in need, but Ye Zhao's family is obviously not well-off, so she does not meet the requirements.
"Do you want to discuss this with your family? If necessary, you can ask Teacher Zhou to talk to your father."
"No, no, my dad doesn't care about me."
It really is. He doesn't even care about his own daughter's studies. This is what a real father is!
Although Bai Lu was innocent, she was the beneficiary, and Teacher Zhou's balance quietly tilted from Bai Lu to Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao didn’t know what Teacher Zhou was thinking. She just wanted to save time. Time was life to her.
"After taking the exams tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I won't come to the make-up classes for the time being, is that okay?"
Teacher Zhou was helpless: "It depends on how you do in the exam. If you really have no shortcomings, then it's up to you."
"Thank you, teacher."
When Ye Zhao went out, Bai Lu just came in. She came to ask Teacher Zhou for the registration form for the comprehensive science competition.
Teacher Zhou was tidying up the desk. He glanced at Bai Lu. He was still in a dilemma at noon, but now he was no longer hesitant.
"Bai Lu, the teachers discussed this at noon and decided that for the sake of fairness, the student with the highest total score in math, physics, chemistry and biology in the first monthly exam will represent our school to participate in the competition."
Bai Lu's smile froze slightly. Wasn't it agreed that the quota would be given to her? Was it related to Ye Zhao? Did she report her, and the teacher was afraid of getting in trouble, so he decided to use the test scores to decide
"You just need to maintain your level and it will be no problem to get first place."
Bai Lu had no choice but to nod obediently: "I understand."
Things always develop unexpectedly. There were two monthly exams on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the results came out during the Wednesday night self-study. In this monthly exam, someone in their class got the first place in the district, which was unprecedented.
It is said that the grade office was in an uproar! Some teachers even cried with joy!
(End of this chapter)