What Song Jianguo and Qiao Qin didn't expect was that before December was over, the Ding family came to the house to chat twice, and asked the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, who was in business, to listen to her advice.
Wang Junyang's mother is very supportive of the Ding family's establishment of a store. This year, Qizhou people are gradually getting richer. Although they can't compare with the Shanghai stock market, their consumption level is also increasing year by year.
"Food, food, housing and transportation" and "food" came in second. Although the restaurant was hard work, it was very profitable when it was opened.
In the end, the Ding family made up their minds to open a small restaurant near the courtyard, selling barbecue and dumplings. With the money to buy out their seniority, they began to look at the storefront.
As a parent, you can only allow yourself to collapse for a while.
The Ding family has two children, and the pressure and burden of a son and a daughter are heavier than that of a one-child family.
There is an old saying, "It's not a blessing if you lose your horse", the "layoff" of the Ding family seems to be a bad thing, maybe it's a turning point
In mid-January 1999, the last semester of the third grade of the Primary School attached to the Normal School was about to end.
The final exam has been completed, and the speed of the third grade is one day slower than that of the first grade and the second grade.
Song Qiaoxi is not worried about her grades, she can hold on for another year by memorizing the knowledge she has learned in four years of primary and middle school, and the final exam is still a simple mode for her.
Because of Chu Jin's outstanding grades, the director of the grade department and his parents mentioned skipping grades at the mid-term parent meeting.
However, Chu Jin himself did not agree, Song Jianguo and Qiao Qin also felt that it was more important to let Chu Jin grow up like a normal child than a cramming education.
It's just Wang Junyang and Ding Yi, these two troubled brothers and sisters have reached the third grade, and their grades are still the same.
Fortunately, Wang Junyang's mentality has always been good. At this time, it is useless to worry about it. It is better to relax and enjoy the "last carnival" in the past few days before the results are released. Anyway, the results are already a sure thing.
Ding Yi's mood has not been very good recently, and so is Ding Miao, Song Qiaoxi noticed that both of them became reticent to talk.
Song Qiao Xiquan didn't know about Ding's father and Ding's mother being "laid off", and did not tell the rest of the "Little Five Gang", not even Chu Jin.
But eight or nine-year-old children are so smart, Ding Yi and Ding Miao are both thoughtful children, how could they not have guessed that something went wrong at home
No matter how stupid Wang Junyang was, he had guessed something from the conversation between his parents, not to mention Chu Jin. In fact, he heard everything the uncle and aunt of the printing factory said at the door of the boiler room that day.
It's just that the children are very tacit, no one takes the initiative to mention this, and everyone gets along as usual.
Every kind child is using his own way to carefully safeguard the self-esteem of the Ding brothers and sisters.
Going home from school that day, five children lined up to get off the bus.
Song Qiaoxi took out the toffee lollipop that her father brought back from a business trip from the side pocket of her schoolbag and distributed it to everyone. The five children were stuffed with candy, and no one spoke.
When I walked into the reception room of the compound, I saw the janitor painting paste on the bulletin board at the door, and there were several bulletins on the bench beside him, pressing a stone.
"Grandpa Zhang, what's the announcement?"
With sugar in her mouth, Song Qiaoxi tilted her head curiously.
Uncle Zhang held a small bowl in one hand and a brush in the other and smiled at Song Qiaoxi, "The dolls are out of school? The new leader of our newspaper office has been appointed, just ask your parents when you go home, it's cold, go back to the house Boo, don't stand on the tuyere, it's easy to catch a cold."
"Well, I see, thank you Grandpa Zhang."
Nodding, Nuo Tuanzi took two steps to catch up with his friends.
There is not much homework today, the friends are very tacit, and the group first went to Chujin's boiler room to "find fish".
The boiler room was much quieter than usual.
Ding Yi stopped arguing with Wang Junyang, and held a notebook in his hand to write and draw, and no one would show it to him.
Ding Miao put down her schoolbag. She didn't read "Xianshu" today. She borrowed an Olympiad problem from Chu Jin and sat next to him and began to write the problems.
"Xixi, are you playing Monopoly?"
Wang Junyang asked her angrily, as if he was afraid of breaking the "silence" atmosphere in the room...
"I don't want to play, I want to read a book."
Sitting on Chu Jin's bed, waving "Jane Eyre" in his hand, Song Qiaoxi shook his head.
This book had been on my parents' bookshelves before. When I was eight years old, I was curious to read it. My mother suggested that she read it when she was a year older.
No, although the Lunar New Year hasn't passed yet, as soon as the Gregorian New Year is over, she shouts that she is a nine-year-old cub.
If the glutinous dumplings act coquettishly, no one can resist it.
After grinding with my mother several times, "Little Grinder" finally got this book.
I also curiously asked my mother what story this book told and why she was not allowed to read it when she was a child.
Mommy blinked her eyes mysteriously, "Jane Eyre tells a very beautiful story, but if Xixi is too young, she may not be able to fully understand the emotions in it. You'll know when you read it? Mom suggests that you read a few more. Second, reading at different ages will give you different insights. After reading it, you can communicate with your mother, and my mother likes this book very much."
At the beginning, Qiao Qin did not advocate that her daughter should be exposed to romance novels at such a young age.
But after thinking about it carefully, although the book "Jane Eyre" is a love story, the independent spirit of the heroine is still worth learning for children.
Moreover, she saw that in the courtyard, many senior girls began to read Taiwanese pocket romance novels. Qiao Qin felt that a healthy and correct view of love can be brought into contact with cubs from an early age, and should not be blocked like "flood beasts". .
It is a very cute thing to be guided by parents and make their cubs yearn for good feelings.
Now the children are not the same as the people they were born in the 1960s and 1970s. Each one of them has a good brain and understands everything. They cannot be treated as ignorant cubs.
Song Qiaoxi held "Jane Eyre" and just read two chapters.
Jane at the beginning is a ten-year-old girl, so there is not much obstacle to reading. Xiao Nuo Tuan quietly turned the pages of the book, and she read it very slowly.
No one accompanies Wang Junyang to play games, and he also took a copy of "Detective Conan" from the chest of drawers and sat on the bench at the door, flipping through it boredly.
The room was very quiet, with only the occasional sound of flipping books and the sound of brushes touching paper and pencil.
"Vice President Jiang, alas, look at my mouth, now it's President Jiang!"
It seems to be the voice of Uncle Li of the editorial department, a colleague of Dad Song and Dad Wang.
The sound insulation of the boiler room is not very good. If someone speaks in the open space outside the door, it is easy to hear. Children with small ears can hear it clearly.
"Congratulations, President Jiang, Gao Sheng!"
Uncle Li's warm voice.
"Little Li, don't, don't, don't be the president after get off work..."
It was Jiang Qisheng's father, and the two of them chatted politely for a few words and then parted.
Song Qiaoxi widened her eyes and looked up from the book.
The other little friends also stopped their work and looked at each other with complicated eyes.
"Jiang Qisheng's father, is the president now?"
Song Qiaoxi puffed out her cheeks and bit a finger in disbelief.
"Hey, his dad has become the number one, then he's going to be jumping up and down again..." Wang Junyang rolled his eyes at the door and stuck his tongue out, "Then we're not afraid of him, we'll see Jiang Qisheng in the past two years. Until we all take a detour."
"It was Jiang Qisheng's father who took the lead in restructuring the printing factory and outsourced the entire field," Ding Yi's voice was muffled. He pushed on his glasses and sighed, "Otherwise, my father and those uncles and aunts would not be 'laid off'."
"Ding Yi... ... "
Ding Miao glanced at him with a tone of reproach.
Ding's face was flushed, and he held back his mouth in grievance, but this time he didn't listen to his sister's words and shut up, "Why, I'm not wrong, it's his father who used the printing factory to make an operation for his political achievements, obviously he can't outsource it. Yes, it’s not like my mother’s textile factory closed down because of poor performance! I heard everything my uncle and aunt said in our living room that day, why would Jiang Qisheng’s father dare to do it? Or the president!”
"Do you think this is useful? Saying this will keep Dad's printing factory from restructuring? It will keep Mom's textile factory from going bankrupt?" Ding Miao put down the pen in her hand and retorted Ding Yi unceremoniously, "It's your lord's business. It’s not something we can blend in, instead of thinking about this every day, it’s better to raise your grades, don’t worry your parents every day, we take care of ourselves, and they will have a lot of peace of mind.”
"Mom and dad are partial to you, grandparents, grandparents, grandparents... aunts and uncles also only like you. You all think that I am not doing my job well in drawing cartoons, and our family values women over men!"
Ding Yi, who had always been gentle, became extremely emotional, dropped the notebook and pen in his hand, grabbed his jacket, and rushed out the door.
"Ding Yi!"
Song Qiaoxi got up from the bed with a grunt, and hurriedly put on her shoes to chase after him.
Wang Junyang threw down the comic book and went out, turning around and shouting, "Don't go, I'll find him..."
Picking up the book Ding Yi dropped from the ground, carefully blowing off the dust on the paper, Song Qiaoxi took a closer look, and the whole book was full of cartoon characters drawn by Ding Yi.
There are independent characters, small comics, simple storyboards, and even the cartoon image of the "Little Gang of Five" in it.
Each person's character is vividly displayed by Ding Yi through his brush.
The little curly-haired three-headed little man looked like himself, with a string of candied haws in his left hand, a small cake in his right hand, and food residue on his mouth
He looks so intoxicated!
Chu Jin is also very recognizable. Ding Yi painted him a heroic Taekwondo uniform, and made a splitting move that made Jiang Qisheng feel frightened. The movement was smooth and handsome, and it looked particularly sassy.
Pfft, this little boy playing games with his neck stuck must be Wang Junyang, because Wang Junyang has a single eyelid, Ding Yi directly turned his eyes into a slit
No wonder he had to let others see it. If Yangyang saw it, he would probably hunt him down for several streets.
Huh
This beautiful little girl with glasses must be Miaomiao. She is really beautiful sitting quietly by the window and reading a book.
Don't brag, Ding Yi draws really well!
She found an eraser, carefully wiped off the spots that had been accidentally smeared on the ground just now, closed the book and stuffed it into Ding Yi's schoolbag.
After moving the stool Wang Junyang threw at the door, Xiao Nuo Tuan put the stool beside Ding Miao, climbed up and put his head next to his little girlfriend's cheek, "Miao Miao, don't be angry, Ding Yi definitely didn't do it on purpose, it's not beautiful if you are angry. ."
Ding Miao shook her head and pushed her glasses with her thin white fingers, "Xixi, I'm not mad at Ding Yi, nor do I object to his drawing cartoons, I think Ding Yi has a talent for drawing cartoons, it's just... … . "
Sighing and pausing for a while, Ding Miao continued, "It's just that what my parents are worried about is whether he can have the basic ability to survive in the future. He likes comics, and he can go to the Academy of Fine Arts in the future. "
"That's true... ... "
Song Qiaoxi nodded in agreement, Miaomiao is really mature, she can always think farther than her when she thinks about problems.
Compared with Miaomiao, plus the extra few years in my memory, I am not as good as Ding Miao like a young lady. Why is Miaomiao so calm and rational in analyzing problems
"Actually, you don't need to worry about him, Ding Yi understands the truth, and he figured it out in a while." Ding Miao looked up at Nuo Tuanzi, lowered her head and said softly, "I don't have Ding Yi's talent in painting, so I only I can study hard, my parents have been laid off, and study is the only way out for me... "
"Miaomiao..." Song Qiaoxi took Ding Miao's slender arm and rubbed her face up, "Don't worry, uncle and aunt's restaurant will be very successful, and will make a lot of money, your parents will cook. So delicious, their restaurant will become the most popular restaurant in our Qizhou city! No, it will be popular all over the country! At that time, you and Ding Yi will be the second generation of rich, and I can also go to your restaurant to eat. hey-hey... ... "
Ding Miao laughed "puchi".
Song Qiaoxi's encouragement and comfort will never be late, and will always appear on time when she is in the lowest mood.
She is so nice, always like a warm little sun.
There was a knock on the iron door of the boiler room.
Outside the door is Wang Junyang's loud voice, "Open the door, we're back!"
Chu Jin got up, went around the two of them to open the door, Ding Yi and Wang Junyang walked in together, Ding Yi lowered his head and gave Chu Jin a fist.
It looks like it's alright.
The two little girls smiled at each other.
Song Qiaoxi stuck out her tongue and sighed in her heart, is her sister Miao a magician
Ding Yi is really honestly back!
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The day the third graders got their grades last semester was January 18, and there were still two weeks before the end of the semester.
However, since the final exam has been completed, the cubs are obviously relaxed.
Song Qiaoxi and the others have always been very early in the classroom. As soon as they entered the door with milk bags in their mouths, they were greeted by the chubby dunk Jiang Qisheng.
But this time, his attitude was better than every time he saw the "Little Gang of Five" before, the little mung bean's eyes were as big as soybean's, and he greeted warmly with a familiar look, "Oh, good morning everyone! Come on! Come and come! Eat the little raccoon noodles as a snack!"
The glutinous dumpling muttered in his heart, is this the weasel greeting the chicken for the New Year
Jiang Qisheng suddenly "changed his sex", it's really a little hard to accept that he is so kind to her...
"In order to celebrate my father's appointment as the president of the newspaper, I used pocket money to wholesale a box of crispy noodles for everyone to eat!" Jiang Qisheng seemed to be accustomed to the silence of the "Little Gang of Five", and Little Fatty was still smiling. "Come and eat, I have one request, that is, can you leave me all the Water Margin cards in it? If not, don't force it, but if it is a rare card, please leave it to me... "
"puff!"
A mouthful of milk in her mouth almost spurted out, don't say, Jiang Qisheng is so cute and silly
Even Wang Junyang and Ding Yi couldn't help laughing out loud, "Jiang Qisheng, because of the 'Water Margin Card', everyone is stunned, right?"
Jiang Qisheng smiled embarrassedly.
Little Fatty thinks carefully, can Song Qiaoxi still guess
Recently, the "Water Margin Hero Card" has become popular in the whole school. Jiang Qisheng and his little followers are crazy and obsessed. He is saving himself the "Water Margin Hero Card" in the name of Dad Jiang Gaosheng.
During this time, among the cubs, various spontaneous "card trading behaviors" were formed, and there was even a chaos of "buying cards and selling cards".
Ding Miao had already analyzed with them the "scam" of the "Water Margin Hero Card".
Except that Chu Jin was not interested at all in things, the remaining three cubs were a little excited at first, but because they didn't want to become the "idiots" in Sister Miao's mind, they didn't join the group.
Knowing that Jiang Qisheng didn't have any bad intentions this time, as long as he didn't do anything bad, Song Qiaoxi was not in the mood to "raise the bar" with him.
Trying to squeeze an embarrassing but polite smile on his face, the sticky glutinous dumplings held the milk bag and said, "Thank you Jiang Qisheng, I have eaten breakfast, so I won't eat the crispy noodles."
"Thank you, I don't eat it either." Wang Junyang waved his hand, took out a few packets of beautifully packaged imported biscuits from his schoolbag, and sent them to the "Little Five People's Gang". "
Ding Yi waved the chocolate biscuits with foreign characters to Jiang Qisheng on purpose, and returned to his seat with his schoolbag on his back.
Ding Miao doesn't like sweets, so Song Qiaoxi gave her barely enough to eat, but she was afraid that Xiao Nuo Tuan would be unhappy.
Even her tablemate Zhao Xin is not interested in the Jinsha chocolates that she regularly "offers" every day, let alone Wang Junyang's chocolate cakes
He refused neatly and walked around Wang Junyang with the kettle back to his seat.
Chu Jin took the biscuits and stuffed them into the side pocket of the glutinous dumplings schoolbag.
The final exam results of the last semester of the third grade are still not surprising.
The first in the class was Chu Jin, and the second was Ding Miao. Song Qiaoxi dropped one place this time and took the fourth test.
The third place surprised many in the class this time. It turned out to be Zhao Xin
After class, Zhao Xin first came to Song Qiaoxi, who was sitting in the last row of the classroom, holding a box of Jinsha chocolates.
Since the first day of the first grade, Xiao Nuo Tuan was almost caught by the teacher because of eating this stuff, which has caused a serious "psychological shadow" on Jinsha Chocolate.
"Brother, please forgive me..." With a refusal all over his body, Song Qiaoxi hid behind Chu Jin, "Don't give me Jinsha chocolate again, I'm really scared... "
Zhao Xin's voice was as small as a mosquito's, holding up a box of chocolates at a loss, "Xixi, that, Miaomiao doesn't eat it, I remember you like it, so you can stay. I, I'm sorry for you, this is I did better than you in the test..."
With this operation, the glutinous dumplings were completely covered up.
Blinking his eyes and hugging Chu Jin's arm, he didn't understand what happened to Zhao Xin
"No, you did well in the test. This is the result of your own efforts. I'm sorry for what I did? If you work harder, you will strive to surpass Miaomiao and Chu Jin."
She scratched her head, a little embarrassed.
Zhao Xin is a good person, but his thinking is weird every time.
Her implication is obvious, it's normal for a little rookie who exceeds her level to wow!
This semester... No, since I started elementary school, Song Qiaoxi really hadn't studied much of other homework, except for studying English well with Sister Qiu Meng.
The exams are purely based on "earning the money", relying on the knowledge points that have been learned.
"I, it's because my mother hired a tutor for me," Zhao Xin looked like he was about to cry, his voice trembled slightly, he looked back at Ding Miao's place, lowered his head in a guilty conscience and said in a low voice, "I, I I just don't want to be so far away from Ding Miao, I want to be closer to her, I didn't mean to steal your third place..."
Suddenly, Song Qiaoxi's little brain experienced a series of "electrical and flint" shocks.
She stared at Zhao Xin, let go of Chu Jin's arms, stood up with both hands on the desk, tilted her head and asked with interest, "You don't like it, no, you fall in love... . .. "
Before she could finish speaking, Zhao Xin blushed like a monkey's butt, shoved the chocolate into the hole in her desk, and rushed out of the back door of the classroom as if escaping.
"Let's learn..."
In the second half of the sentence, Xiao Nuo Tuan frowned and muttered to himself.
What's so shy about this
Like learning, love learning, isn't it their responsibility as a qualified socialist successor
The job of their students is to study.
Before I saw that Zhao Xin was not as diligent as Miaomiao in learning, he must have been nurtured by her sister Miao for a long time, and she fell in love with learning!
This is something to be happy about. Why does Zhao Xin have to explain it to himself
I have never understood Zhao Xin's brain circuit, Song Qiaoxi sat down on the bench in frustration, took out the box of Jinsha chocolates from the hole in the table, and looked at Chu Jin as if asking for help, "Hey, do you think Zhao Xin is a bit Strange wow? Love learning, is it so hard to tell?"
Chu Jin's pen paused for a moment, and looked up into her eyes.
After staring at her for a long time, he burst out laughing.
He shook his head, the corners of his lips had a beautiful curvature, and even the peach blossom eyes were bent into curved Xuanyue. It was rare to see Chu Jin smiling so beautifully.
That's right, Song Qiaoxi's definition of Chu Jin is beauty.
It's not handsome, it's not handsome, it's the kind of beauty that has nothing to do with gender, he is really beautiful when he smiles, really is a big beauty...
"Take it as if he was studying."
Chu Jin said softly, looking at Nuo Tuanzi's wide almond eyes and a small face with baby fat, with a dazed and cute expression.
He shook his head a little helplessly, and continued to write with his eyes down.
Song Qiaoxi is more than a year younger than herself, she looks so small, and she is still a small glutinous dumpling. I don't know what "like" means, so I don't understand what Zhao Xin is shy about.
But Chu Jin felt very lucky. He was selfish and didn't want Song Qiaoxi to wake up so early.
The later Xiao Nuo Tuan understands the world, the later she understands the meaning of "like", the better. I hope she can always be carefree and worry-free.
With him guarding her and not letting any bad things hurt her, Chu Jin even had more selfish thoughts. He hoped that Song Qiaoxi would never grow up in front of him.
The little girl nodded ignorantly, shook her head again, pouted her mouth and frowned slightly, holding the box of "hot" Jinsha chocolates in her hand at a loss.
After a while, she seemed to want to ask something more, Dudu's lips opened and closed again, her watery almond eyes drooped slightly, and she looked at him pitifully like a puppy.
"Don't worry, if there is anything else you don't understand, think slowly and ask me anytime." Chu Jin put down the pen in his hand again, comforted her softly, glanced at the box of chocolates in her hand, and couldn't help thinking Doudou Xiao Nuo Tuan, "How about you eat a piece of Jinsha chocolate and think slowly while lying on the table?"
"Ow..."
This time Song Qiaoxi understood that Chu Jin was teasing her, knowing that she loved face the most, and deliberately mentioned the embarrassing incident of the first grade.
snort!
Officially announced... ...
Chu Jin is no longer the beauty in my heart!