In a blink of an eye, it's Saturday again. This Saturday, Xiang Nuan's school is going to hold a parents' meeting. Xiang Changkong didn't get up early to go to the vegetable market as usual, but got up early to go to Xiang Nuan's school.
Because the entire third grade of senior high school held a group parent meeting, so many parents came to the school, and the parking space outside the school was already full of cars.
Xiang Changkong took the subway there, and after arriving at the school, he stood in the garden with a large group of parents waiting outside.
Today's parent meeting is mainly divided into two parts. First, in the school auditorium, parents of the whole grade listen to the leader's speech together, and then each class will hold a small parent meeting in the classroom.
It was still class time, and Xiang Nuan felt a little uneasy when he heard the noise outside.
Her brother should have come, he has always been a punctual person.
Xiang Nuan was not the only student in the classroom who was distracted by the parent-teacher meeting. The math teacher stood on the podium and reminded aloud, "I haven't finished class yet, isn't my heart flying? Or do you think this exam was too good? "
I just organized a mock test in my grade. I took the test on Wednesday, and the paper was corrected in two days. I was rushing to announce the results at today's parent meeting.
Although the papers for some subjects have not been issued yet, everyone has already inquired about their scores when the class representatives registered their scores. The scores of each subject are added together, and the total score can be compared with the line drawn on the grade.
Xiang Nuan still hasn't been able to take the first-line exam. There is less than a month left for the first-diagnosis examination. Everyone says that the results of the first-diagnosed exam and the college entrance examination are similar. If this is the case, then she has no hope of taking the college entrance examination. .
She knew that she was not as smart as her brother since she was a child, and she did not expect to be admitted to a key university like Xiang Changkong, she only needed to be able to take an ordinary book. But now it seems that even this is a luxury.
Xiang Changkong was already sitting in the school auditorium, waiting for the leader to speak. The parents sitting next to him didn't look like a kid in high school when they saw that he was so young.
He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Are you also the parent of Class Three?"
Xiang Changkong nodded and said "um", "I helped my sister here."
The man suddenly said, "No wonder you look so young."
In the auditorium, leaders of various disciplines, grade leaders, and vice-principals all came and spoke on the stage one by one. Xiang Nuan's class is over, and they haven't finished speaking yet.
Shen Lin was on duty today. He went to the podium to wipe off the teacher's blackboard writing in the previous class. When he turned around, he saw Xiang Nuan sitting in his seat with a sad face.
He thought about it, walked over to her, and glanced at the math paper she put on the table: "What's wrong?"
Xiang Nuan was startled, seeing that it was Shen Lin, and subconsciously covering his papers with his hands: "It's nothing."
Shen Lin helped her eyes on the bridge of her nose, and said to her, "No need to cover it, I have seen it all."
Xiang Nuan's ears warmed slightly when he thought of the bright red duck egg on his test paper. Shen Lin didn't care about this, but said a little strangely: "You did the 21st big question, but you didn't do the 20th question? The 21th question is harder than the 20th question."
Xiang Nuan pursed his lips and said, "21 Questions My brother told me something similar before."
It was because she saw that this question was very similar to the one Xiang Changkong had told her before, so she did this question first. According to the ideas that Xiang Changkong told her before, she really solved it step by step.
Shen Lin said: "Oh? Is your brother good at math?"
Speaking of his brother, Xiang Nuan was still very proud: "Hmph, my brother is not only good at mathematics, he is good in all subjects, and he is smarter than you."
"Really." Shen Lin raised his eyes again and looked at Xiang Nuan, "Then why didn't you solve the 20 questions? Wouldn't you know what he didn't say? That means there is something wrong with his teaching method."
Although Shen Lin is someone he likes, Xiang Nuan is still unhappy when he says this about his brother: "Why didn't he teach well! Then why don't you say that Teacher Luo didn't teach well!"
Shen Lindao: "I think successful education is to let students learn to think for themselves. Even if they encounter a question type they have never seen before, they can find a way to solve it. This is more useful than teaching them a hundred questions."
Xiang Nuan curled his lips and said, "I think the method you mentioned depends on the students' own IQ."
Shen Lin thought for a while and said, "Then I'll teach you for a month, and see if your brother taught you better or I taught you better."
Xiang Nuan blinked. If a scholar like Shen Lin could give her a free lecture for a month, then she would only make a profit: "Deal."
When they were halfway through another class, the language teacher was informed that the meeting of the main parents in the auditorium had ended. The head teacher came over to ask everyone to pack up and adjust the tables and chairs. Parents began to gather in the corridor outside the classroom.
The school stipulates that after the parent meeting starts, students can leave school one class earlier, but most students stay at the school and wait for their parents to go together.
Xiang Nuan didn't dare to say hello to Xiang Changkong, he just hugged the packed schoolbag and sneaked away from the back door alone.
After leaving school, she still had a bitter face. She failed the monthly exam last month. Although Xiang Changkong didn't say anything to her, she felt uncomfortable. This time, she failed the mock test again. I wonder what her brother would think when he saw her report card
She kicked the pebbles on the road, and didn't want to go home. She took out her phone, looked through her contacts, and finally sent Xu Lian a message: "Sister Xu Lian, are you free now? Can I find you? ?"
Xu Lian was in the store at the moment, and Xiang Changkong told her that Xiang Nuan was going to have a parent-teacher meeting today, so she might not be able to cook at noon, so she asked her to come back in the afternoon. Seeing Xiang Nuan's news, she was a little surprised: "Your parent meeting is over?"
Xiang Nuan: No, my brother is still in a meeting, so I'll leave school first.
Xu Lian thought for a while, but instead of asking her why she didn't go home, she sent her her position.
Xu Lian: I'm in the store, come here
Xu Lian: Are you rich
Xiang Nuan: Yes, I took the subway very quickly.
There is a subway near their school that can go directly to Xingguang Park, and there is no need to transfer. When she arrived at Xingguang Park, she found Xu Lian's store according to the address, pushed the door and walked in.
Zhang Guoer, who was greeting the guests, looked at the door subconsciously and said to her, "Welcome to monster."
Xiang Nuan has always been following Xu Liandian's Weibo, but when he actually came to the field, he still felt very different. She always thought that Xu Lian was amazing. To be able to open such a stylish store in Xingguang Park, she looked at the candles in the store with novelty, and said hello to Zhang Guoer: "Hello."
Xu Lian walked out of the workshop, stood upstairs and called her: "Xiang Nuan."
Xiang Nuan raised his head and smiled happily at her: "Sister Xu Lian."
"Come up." She waved towards Nuan and said to Zhang Guo'er, "She's here to find me, you don't need to worry about it."
"Oh..." Zhang Guoer, as a prospective screenwriter, has a keen heart. Xiang Nuan... The surname is Xiang Ah, the same surname as Brother Xiang.
She still remembered that the younger brother said that he had a younger sister.
"Please help me wrap this." The customer in the store chose a candle and handed it to Zhang Guoer.
"Okay, please wait a moment." Zhang Guo'er glanced upstairs and went to wrap candles for the guests.
In Xu Lian's workshop, Xiang Nuan put down her schoolbag and looked at her console curiously: "Are these the tools you usually use to make candles?"
"Well, do you want to drink water?"
"Okay, thank you." She took the water that Xu Lian poured for her, picked up a candle that Xu Lian had just made and looked at it, "Wow, this starry sky cup is so beautiful."
It looks dull blue, but it is very clear under the light, and the tiny silver powder, like the stars dotted in the night sky, is dazzling.
"Do you like it? It's very simple. I'll teach you how to do it?"
"is it okay?"
Xu Lian smiled, walked to the cabinet where all kinds of sundries were stacked, and took a glass for her: "Just use this."
"Okay." Xiang Nuan followed Xu Lian to melt a pot of jelly wax, and then used paint to create the color of the starry sky.
"The color below is darker, you can match some purple, and in order to get closer to the night sky, you can press it with black."
"Okay." Xiang Nuan focused on color matching, as if doing a chemical experiment, "Is this okay?"
Xu Lian glanced at it and said, "It's okay if you think it's okay. Pay attention to the temperature. The bottom layer can't be too low."
"En." Xiang Nuan felt that the color was almost the same. He hurriedly added the gold powder, stirred it evenly, and poured the wax liquid into the glass.
When she was on the second floor, she was much more handy than before, and she was even able to distract herself and talk to Xu Lian when she was grading: "Sister Xu Lian, I don't want to go to college anymore."
Xu Lian paused while stirring the wax liquid and asked her, "Why?"
Xiang Nuan frowned and said, "I didn't take the exam again this time. I've really worked hard. I spend almost all my time except sleeping for reading..." She even cut out her favorite long hair, just to save a little time shampooing and combing.
Xu Lian didn't understand her very well: "Don't you go to college if you don't go to college?" Is it true that everyone in the Xiang family is so stubborn? Then she has three colleges... No wonder her mother said she went to Pheasant University.
Xiang Nuan said: "I've never been as smart as my brother since I was a child, and my grades have never been top-notch, but my grades are still fine in an ordinary university, and I've always planned to do so."
"Well, then why don't you want to read it?"
Xiang Nuan bit his lower lip subconsciously and said, "But it's different now. Since the accident at home, my brother has taken care of everything by himself, and even gave up on graduate school. He is different from me, he clearly So smart..."
If there is one person in Xiang Zhangkong who should continue to study, it must be her brother.
"I know that he gave up his postgraduate studies, and even gave up working in a big company, all for me and my mother. He gave up everything to let me continue to study, but I couldn't even get a pass. Although he didn't tell me, But I really don't know how to deal with him."
Her achievements are far from worth what Xiang Changkong gave up.
Xu Lian was silent for a while, took a sip of water from the water glass, looked at her and said, "I think you put too much pressure on yourself. Have you told your brother about these thoughts in your heart?"
Xiang Nuan buried his head and shook his head. Tell her brother she doesn't want to go to college? She couldn't imagine how he would react.
Xu Lian's cell phone rang, she picked it up and saw that it was calling from Xiang Changkong.
"Your brother."
Xiang Nuan looked at her nervously, Xu Lian answered the phone and said to the person on the other end, "Xiang Changkong, what's wrong?"
"Xu Lian, is Xiang Nuan at your place? I came out after the parent-teacher meeting to see that she was gone. I thought she was home, but when I got home, I found that she was not at home, and she couldn't get through to her phone."
Xu Lian said, "Well, don't worry, she's here with me."
"Oh, that's good." Xiang Changkong breathed a sigh of relief and said to her, "Then you want to come together?"
"Okay, I'll drive over here and buy some food by the way."
"No, no, I'll just go down and buy it."
"Okay." After talking on the phone with Xiang Changkong, Xu Lian raised her eyes to look at Xiang Nuan, "Let's go, go home. There are some things, talk to your brother face to face."