…
Tan Ming hadn't returned home yet, so he didn't know that his WeChat had exploded.
Du Feiyang and the others knew about Tan Ming's almost sudden death playing basketball at school, and the wechat group that had been silent for a long time returned to liveliness.
Du Feiyang, Huaxu, Yu Qingyan, Tan Ming, and Xu Qing have been friends since junior high school. But ever since Tanming liked Lu Lingshan, his relationship with Tidbits has not been so good.
Only Du Feiyang has a strong relationship with him.
Talking about the news of his almost sudden death filled this long-silent group with 999+ messages.
Yu Qingyan asked: "Tell me what's going on?"
Du Feiyang told several other people the news he had inquired from Tan Ming's mother, and focused on the golden four minutes of rescue. Because four minutes after cardiac arrest, brain tissue will be irreversibly damaged due to lack of oxygen.
Du Feiyang said: "So it's thanks to Xiuxiu that he doesn't become the landlord's stupid son now."
Several other people were silent for a while, and said in shock:
"Xiuxiu is awesome!"
Yu Qingyan said: "The squad leader is also awesome."
Xu Qing made a rare fuss: "It was Xiuxiu who just called me."
Tan Ming took out the crumpled one hundred yuan from his wallet, obviously to thank him for his help, but Zhou Xiu's father gave him one hundred yuan instead. After a while, it seems that I didn't help much today.
He frowned, opened WeChat and asked, "So how should I thank her? She doesn't want money."
Tan Ming asked sincerely.
Reply to tidbits: "Tang Ming, you are the solution set of 2X > 4."
Two to positive infinity.
Tan Ming: "..."
No, even though he is a scumbag, he can't insult people like that, right
Tidbits directly said: "What is Xiuxiu lacking the most? Isn't her most fatal thing in English? If her English is as good as ours, she can get a scholarship and get soft."
I understand.
Zhou Xiu is indeed more suitable for a scholarship.
So, Tan Ming frowned and thought about how to improve his English performance. It is impossible to hire a tutor under the conditions of Zhou Xiu's family, and to go abroad to study in an English environment. After thinking for a long time, Tan Ming asked Xu Qing for help.
Xu Qing said a few words briefly.
Tan Ming, who was instructed, quickly formed an English study group, and by the way, pulled these people into the group.
"You also have a share. Zhou Xiu also helped you improve math, physics and chemistry last semester."
Everyone: "..."
Didn't we say no to help
Tan Ming didn't mention Zhou Xiu's family background to them, but when choosing the activity arrangement, he chose the one that was cheap, cheap and popular. He picked a time when Zhou Xiu was in biology class, and asked her to watch an English movie.
In the evening, Zhou Xiulu couldn't help frowning when he received news that several people were about to watch a movie together.
Zhou Xiu seldom watched movies, and the only memory of watching movies was when the school organized patriotic movies in high school. If Zhou Xiu were to arrange her spare time, she would definitely not think of going to the movies.
At this moment, Zhou Xiu remembered a task issued by the system in due course.
System: [Watching an English movie, the core lines can be memorized easily, reward 200BRM.]
Although Zhou Xiu thinks she can't do it, she is willing to try to challenge herself. She replied to the tidbit, "Okay."
On Monday, after Biology class, Zhou Xiu picked up her schoolbag and prepared to buy movie tickets.
Xu Qing stopped her, "You don't need to buy it, Tanming has already bought it. Let's go have a meal first."
Senior high school students are still making up classes during the winter vacation, and the school canteen is still operating normally. Xu Qing and Zhou Xiu went to the dining hall to have a simple meal.
The other students in the biology class saw it and smiled friendlyly.
After eating, Xu Qing and Zhou Xiu took the subway to the cinema.
When they arrived at the entrance of the cinema, Huaxu and Yu Qingyan had already had hot drinks in the rest area.
The two dressed exquisitely and glamorously, with white and rich beauty written all over their bodies, making the popular movie theater look like a high-end restaurant, and their aloof aura made people retreat three feet away.
Du Feiyang arrived a few minutes late, he saw the bracelet on Tan Ming's wrist sharply, turned his back and laughed half dead.
He said: "Now Mingming's mother loves him so much. She specially bought him a bracelet, and he is not allowed to stay up late or miss meals on time."
Tan Ming turned his face expressionlessly and glared at Du Feiyang.
Xu Qing went to buy four servings of popcorn and Coke, and handed them to several others. He and Zhou Xiu said: "Watching more English movies will help your English. I will pay attention to memorizing the lines later."
Zhou Xiu nodded.
A group of four people walked into the movie theater. A group of handsome men and beautiful women walked together, causing the people in the movie theater to be so surprised that they couldn't help but look sideways.
Only Zhou Xiu was still wearing school uniform and carrying a schoolbag. The dress is a standard middle school student appearance.
"Look, look over there, there are many handsome men and beautiful women." The young lady whispered towards Xu Qing's direction.
"Still carrying a schoolbag, it's nice to be young."
"Are they taking the sisters to the movies?"
"Don't comfort yourself, okay, they obviously brought their girlfriends here—"
It wasn't until they saw another person that the voices of the girls and sisters talking stopped abruptly: at the other end of the movie theater, at the ticket gate for singles, a boy as handsome as a star walked into the movie hall silently.
How did you know it was set for one person? A girl chased after her and asked for her contact information, but was stopped by the staff. She took out her mobile phone angrily: "Which movie is this? I bought a ticket, can't I?"
The staff shook their heads regretfully, "Sorry, this theater has been booked out."
At the ticket gate of another theater, Tan Ming and Du Feiyang walked in front with popcorn and coke. Xu Qing took two servings of popcorn, but no Coke.
Zhou Xiu neither likes popcorn nor Coke. No snacks in Xu Qing's hand.
Xu Qing had no choice but to take two copies by herself.
Just halfway through the movie, Du Feiyang and Tan Ming received news of the school basketball team's temporary training camp. Originally, I planned to watch a movie with Zhou Xiu all afternoon, but now I can't help it.
Yu Qingyan also has urgent matters to deal with. She leaned closer and said softly, "I'm sorry sister Xu Xiuxiu, I'm in a hurry and can't watch the next episode."
Tidbits whispered: "It's enough to watch this show, come back next time."
In the dark environment, when Yu Qingyan approached Zhou Xiu, she found that she kept chanting lines.
She is not watching a movie, she is reciting lines.
The people around were immersed in the movie, nervous or happy, only Zhou Xiu was reciting the lines of the movie seriously. She didn't seem to care about the plot, because she was busy memorizing the lines.
Yu Qingyan: "..."
Zhou Xiu watched most of the movie, her head swelled, and she realized that she had almost lost her memorization. She exited the theater, went outside and tried hard to recall the lines she had memorized. She took out her pen and asked the system:
[Are twenty core lines enough?]
Zhou Xiu was not quite sure what the concept of the core line was, she had to ask the system before writing it. There are only two hundred yuan, what if you are asked to write two hundred sentences? This Zhou Xiu couldn't do it even if he was beaten to death.
system:[…]
All right, you have the final say.
[Frozen 2, the reward is 200RMB if you recite 20 lines of core lines and reach the level of simple memorization.]
Zhou Xiu wrote it down with a brush.
She wrote while reading, starting from simple lines sentence by sentence.
When she finally made up ten sentences and read the tenth sentence, she got stuck.
"Now I know you're true—"
She stumbled and recalled, and corrected: "Now I know you're my true north cause, cause..."
Zhou Xiu couldn't help but support her forehead, why is English so difficult.
Even rote memorization can make mistakes.
Give Zhou Xiu a string of numbers, and she can memorize them by gritting her teeth, but not in English.
At this time, another male voice continued lightly: "cause I am lost in the woods. Up is down, day is night, When you're not there."
The male voice is extremely light, pure and pure like the soundtrack of a movie, with its own characteristics, magnetic and hoarse.
His voice was so soft that it could be blown away by the wind.
Zhou Xiu heard it and quickly memorized it, grabbed a pen and wrote it down, when the last word fell.
[Ding—Recite 20 core lines of "Frozen 2" and reach the level of easy memory, reward 200RMB.]
She looked back and found that it was Xi Shaoyuan.
Xi Shaoyuan glanced at her, turned and left the cinema without saying a word.
"Now I know you're my true north cause I am lost in the woods. Up is down, day is night, When you're not there.."
Lost in the forest let me find that you are my Big Dipper, guiding me. In the days when you are not around, I am upside down, day and night.
…
Zhou Xiu received the reward and waited outside the cinema for his friends who had finished watching the movie to come out.
Tidbits, Tan Ming, Du Feiyang, and Xu Qing came out side by side, and found Zhou Xiu sitting on the table outside, scribbling a page full of movie lines.
Tidbits was taken aback: "..."
This fucking is too serious, how did Zhou Xiu grow up, did she eat a lot of cute food
Grass, Momo stepped forward and rubbed Zhou Xiu's head vigorously, messing up her hairstyle.
Xu Qing took over the draft paper and took a look, "It's not bad to be able to memorize so much in a short period of time. It's unexpected. It would be even better to go back and consolidate it."
He took out a pen and quickly corrected it: "Here, and here, there are grammatical errors."
The audience who left the movie theater one after another, their smiles admiring the handsome guy gradually froze: "..."
The three of Tan Ming & Du Feiyang & Trivia were silent: "..."
In the future, I may not want to bring the monitor out when watching movies.
…
Near the end of the year.
Zhou Cheng was so busy at his noodle stall that the couple often made miscalculations when they collected money.
If it wasn't for Zhou Xiu to correct him, he might have lost a lot of money.
At the beginning of this kind of small business, the profit is not high, then the calculation is wrong, and the hard work will be in vain. But their education level is very low, and this kind of mistake cannot be avoided.
Zhou Xiu simply taught her father how to count quickly and cleverly. She asked Zhou Cheng to memorize some fixed combinations, such as noodles + eggs, noodles + shredded chicken, noodles + eggs + chicken wings, noodles + shredded chicken + soy milk... according to the probability frequency permutation.
As long as the customer reports that there are these things in the combination, it will be fine on this basis.
Zhou Xiu also suggested that Zhou Cheng change the price to some number that is easy to calculate. Zhou Cheng felt a pain in his head when he heard it, and shook his head dizzily, "No, no, I don't understand."
"Xiu'er, I can't remember."
Zhou Xiu shook her head helplessly, directly wrote a few combinations and marked the price on the back, "Then get a signboard and make a set meal, it's 50 cents or a dollar cheaper than buying it loosely, and all customers will definitely choose the set meal."
Zhou Cheng heard this method, simple and rude, he nodded frantically: "This is good, this is good!"
After Zhou Cheng solved this problem, the efficiency increased significantly. He is extremely busy, leaving early and returning late, and can stand by the noodle stall for more than ten hours a day.
Seeing this, Zhou Xiu couldn't help persuading him: "Don't work so hard, is the money more important than your feet?"
Zhou Cheng scratched his head foolishly, "I didn't expect to make so much money selling food here."
Zhou Cheng already felt very honored to be able to hold a wedding banquet for the villagers in the countryside. He is too good-for-nothing to even farm well, causing his wife and daughter to suffer from hunger and cold.
Zhou Cheng can earn 50 or 100 yuan each time he cooks banquets for other people's houses. Sometimes the host will give two hundred yuan generously. Although this kind of work is not common, it is not bad in the valley where the per capita annual income is only 3,000 yuan.
Now the income from running a small stall is shocking to Zhou Cheng, who can support his whole family with his own skills. No matter how hard he worked, he could afford Xiu'er's education even if he gritted his teeth.
Liu Mei flipped through the calendar and asked Zhou Cheng, "It's almost Chinese New Year, when will I buy the ticket to go home?"
Zhou Xiu froze when she raised her head to drink water, she clenched the water glass tightly.
Zhou Xiu didn't plan to go back to that hideous "home" again, that place was not considered home to her.
Zhou Cheng was stunned as he counted the money, and he buried his head and said casually: "I'm too busy with business, so I won't go back."
Zhou Cheng was not so happy counting the money.
If Grandma Zhou wanted to sell Zhou Cheng, Zhou Cheng would not complain. But she was going to sell his most beloved daughter in exchange for a bride price for her nephew, and Zhou Cheng would not go home for the New Year.
Liu Mei secretly pursed her lips, and whispered to Zhou Xiu, "Your father blamed your mother-in-law and sold you for a bride price."
She also complained.
"Then I'll tell your mother that I'm busy this year and I don't have time to go home."
Zhou Cheng counted the money and didn't even answer.
On New Year's Eve, Zhou Cheng bought a lot of fruits and vegetables, two chickens in his left hand, and two ducks in his right. Liu Mei carried a heavy load of pork, and bought some shrimps, crabs and seafood for a rare taste.
The New Year's Eve dinner was very sumptuous.
Zhou Cheng has been in the kitchen since noon, killing chickens and geese, peeling crabs and boiling shrimps.
Liu Mei and Zhou Xiu cleaned up diligently, tearing off last year's old Spring Festival couplets and happy charms. Zhou Cheng suddenly remembered something and yelled at his wife: "Come and see me, I'll go buy some drinks."
Zhou Xiu likes to drink coconut juice.
But during the Chinese New Year in previous years, they were not allowed to eat at the table, and she did not have a share of the drinks at the New Year's Eve dinner.
Zhou Cheng ran for several streets, and finally found Zhou Xiu's favorite coconut juice in a large supermarket, and he carried it back sweating profusely. At this time Zhou Cheng saw Xi Shaoyuan's shadow on the street.
He yelled: "Master Xi."
Xi Shaoyuan turned his head inadvertently.
Zhou Cheng asked him, "Why don't you go home for dinner? It's the Chinese New Year."
Xi Shaoyuan said: "We don't have the habit of celebrating the New Year. I just sent my mother to the airport."
Zhou Cheng was stunned for a while, inexplicably felt that this young master Xi was really pitiful, he said: "Would you like to come to my house for a meal, I have cooked a lot of dishes!"
Xi Shaoyuan remained silent, neither answering nor refusing. Zhou Cheng simply pulled him up and led him home.
Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei are arranging the dishes one after another, putting the rice and chopsticks on the table.
They were stunned when they saw Zhou Cheng leading the people home.
Zhou Cheng said naively: "Mrs. Xi is not at home, let's celebrate the New Year together this year."
Zhou Cheng cooked a lot of dishes. He usually cooked too many banquets for the villagers. When he was in the countryside, Zhou's family's New Year's Eve dinner was cooked by himself every year. But never really cook just for wife and daughter.
This time he cooked a lot, beer duck made with beer lemon, shredded chicken mixed with sesame oil, spicy and fried crab, boiled shrimp, delicious black-bone chicken and wolfberry soup, short ribs with sweet plum and perilla, and colorful Dongpo Meat.
A full table was set up, full of color and aroma, and the aroma was so attractive that the neighbors couldn't help but come over to eat a piece of meat.
Shredded chicken with sesame oil, the shredded chicken is tender, and the chicken skin is tender and fat but not greasy.
The crabs are stir-fried to the extreme, and the beer duck tastes mellow, with a smell of wheat. After eating Dongpo meat and drinking chicken soup, the mouth is full of oil.
Zhou Cheng poured himself liquor, subconsciously treating Xi Shaoyuan as an adult, and poured him half a bowl of liquor as well.
Liu Mei scolded him: "Master Xi is still a child like Xiu'er, why are you messing around?"
Zhou Cheng poured coconut milk for him again, and took the half bowl of white wine to keep for himself to drink, "Hey, isn't this very happy?"
Xi Shaoyuan said, "It doesn't matter."
He finished the bowl of wine.
Zhou Xiu's parents ate very fast, so did Zhou Xiu, even the most important New Year's Eve dinner was finished within an hour.
Xi Shaoyuan ate a la carte after drinking, and sat on the sofa with a flushed face as if he had fallen asleep.
After Zhou Xiu cleaned the dining table and washed the dishes, he found Xi Shaoyuan laying motionless on his stomach and closing his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep. The small sofa, which is only wide enough for one person, can't even fit his legs.
Stay in your own warm and spacious big villa without sleeping, why bother to squeeze into this pitifully small place.
Zhou Xiu shook Xi Shaoyuan, and Xi Shaoyuan said vaguely, "Xiuer, stop making trouble."
Xiu'er, stop messing around.
Zhou Xiu was stunned on the spot.
The name "Xiu'er" is only known by Zhou Cheng and his wife, and some elders who are close to Zhou Xiu in the countryside. Zhou Xiu's classmates know another meaning of the word "Xiu'er", so they rarely call Zhou Xiu like this.
Zhou Xiu pursed her lips, and looked coldly at the sleeping Xi Shaoyuan.
After a long time, Zhou Xiucai pushed him awake: "Go back to your own home and sleep."
Xi Shaoyuan opened his eyes, which were covered with a layer of water mist, and the tear mole at the corner of his eyes gleamed. He was confused for a while, and then his eyes gradually regained focus.
Xi Shaoyuan stood up, "Yes."