In the next semester of the fifth grade, Chu Jin won the gold medal in the provincial Rio math competition, and was named by the dean as the flag-raiser for the opening ceremony of the new semester.
After the flag-raising ceremony, the flag-raiser will stand on the high platform. After the school leaders have finished speaking, the principal will come to talk with several outstanding flag-raisers as an encouragement for the new semester.
He was on the stage, looking at Song Qiaoxi's face from a distance, it was not bloody, it was as white as a piece of paper.
Not only was a small face pale, but even his lips were bloodless.
At that time, Chu Jin's heart skipped a beat as if he was being grabbed by something.
As soon as the opening ceremony ended, the other flag-raisers were excitedly waiting for the principal to speak to them. Chu Jin directly greeted the dean and went back to the classroom first.
There are a total of six floors in the primary school attached to the Teachers College. It is an old tradition for many years. The first grade is on the first floor, the second grade is on the second floor, and the third grade is on the third floor...
By analogy, the sixth grade is assigned to the sixth floor of the highest floor.
Chu Jin ran all the way back, strode up the stairs, and jumped up in two quarters.
His brows were furrowed. The more he thought about it, the sooner he was going to be blown away by Song Qiaoxi. She knew that eating too much seafood would cause a slight allergic reaction, so why couldn't she control her mouth
It really doesn't make people worry, next time Aunt Qiao cooks seafood, just peel two shrimps for her to try it out, and then go to the pole to peel shrimps and crabs for Song Qiaoxi, he is a puppy!
Fortunately, before going out, he took the stomach medicine from the medicine drawer.
The classroom of the sixth grade, class five, at the end of the corridor.
As soon as Chu Jin climbed to the sixth floor, he saw Mr. Li, a math teacher, walking towards him with a handout and a teacup, and asked him suspiciously, "Oh, Chu Jin came back so early? The principal didn't look for you?"
"Well, I found it, and I'm done talking about Teacher Li."
Not wanting to explain more, Chu Jin replied casually, nodded to Teacher Li, and walked quickly towards the classroom.
The large troop in the class has just entered the class, the bell has not yet rang, and the front and rear doors of the sixth grade and fifth class are open.
From the back door, I saw Song Qiaoxi lying on the desk at a glance.
Over the past year, although Song Qiaoxi has not grown as tall as the other girls in the class, she has lost a lot of weight unconsciously.
If it is said that Song Qiaoxi in the fourth and fifth grades is still a soft and glutinous, meaty little dumpling, but now she still has cute baby fat on her face, but her appearance is completely irrelevant to the meaty dumplings.
Chu Jin frowned and asked himself to stabilize his emotions at the door. Although he was anxious, he was afraid that he would speak too loudly and make Song Qiaoxi uncomfortable. After all, she was unwell, and it was already uncomfortable.
After a few seconds of pause, his eyes swept to her back.
There is a dark mark on Song Qiaoxi's pleated skirt, like a stain
No, like...
bloodstains.
Standing at the door of the classroom, Chu Jin froze in place, scratching the back of his neck uncomfortably.
He has no experience with this, but in the fifth grade of primary school's physical hygiene class, the teacher talked about the "physiological maturity" of male and female protagonists, early puberty, the development of primary and secondary sexual characteristics to varying degrees.
With Chu Jin's IQ and learning ability, what he has heard will basically be unforgettable.
The Primary School Affiliated to Teachers College is the best primary school in the whole of Qizhou. In the millennium, it has attached great importance to the education of students' physical health.
Physiological and hygiene classes are taught by the school doctor and auntie. The menarche experiences of boys and girls are all explained in great detail.
Chu Jin understands that Song Qiaoxi is menstruating...
Fortunately, they were sitting in the last row of the classroom, and no one should have noticed the marks on her skirt except themselves.
He raised his foot and walked to the desk. After Chu Jin sat down, he tilted his head to look at Song Qiaoxi's bloodless face and asked, "You...are you here?"
Song Qiaoxi pursed her lips tightly, her eyes were red, she looked at him aggrievedly with her head on her arm, and said nothing.
After a few seconds of pause, Chu Jin saw that she was about to cry because of her grievance, and hurriedly whispered, "Don't be afraid, the teacher said that this is the meaning of growing up, not a bad thing."
After he finished speaking, he took out the cotton sweater jacket that he had prepared all year round from the hole of the table. It was originally reserved for Song Qiaoxi to take a nap as a small pillow. Today...
"You put your coat around your waist, and I'll take you to the school doctor's office. The school doctor's auntie should have everything you need..."
Unfolding the sweater jacket, Chu Jin handed it to Song Qiaoxi and said in a very soft tone.
Song Qiaoxi blinked twice, hearing what Chu Jin said, she felt less ashamed. Just now she was still worrying about where to buy sanitary napkins.
"Oh..." She nodded, took the sweater obediently, tied a knot around her waist with two sweater sleeves, raised her head and asked softly, "what if I get dirty?"
"I'll wash it for you, but it's not that you can't wash it off."
Chu Jin spoke in a casual tone, as if he was talking about an ordinary thing. He took out a black Jansport bag of the same style as Song Qiaoxi from the hole in the table and casually put it on his shoulders.
"..."
Song Qiaoxi lowered her head, almost walking out of the classroom door against the back wall.
The school doctor's office was next to the teacher's office on the second floor. Two people walked from the sixth floor to the second floor, and Chu Jin stopped at the entrance of the school doctor.
"Auntie the school doctor will have that... . . . what, she said in the last physiological hygiene class that if a classmate encounters a problem, you can come to her."
Chu Ji put his hand on the railing and whispered to Song Qiaoxi.
"...Oh, I see." Song Qiaoxi grabbed the sleeves of the sweater at her waist with both hands, and just turned around to knock on the door when she suddenly turned around and asked, "Where are you going with your schoolbag? Teacher Feng's Chinese class."
Because there are often Math Olympiad training, non-main courses like music, art, and physical education, Chu Jin is often called by Teacher Li to the old red brick building to do problems.
However, Mr. Li never takes up the main courses such as Chinese and English.
Chu Jin is now carrying a schoolbag downstairs, which makes Song Qiaoxi feel very strange.
"I, I have something to do, I'll be back soon."
Chu Jin tugged at the strap of his schoolbag, turned around and walked down the stairs quickly.
Looking at his back, Song Qiaoxi exhaled and knocked on the door of the infirmary.
"Come in."
The voice of the school doctor's aunt came from the room.
Pushing the door and entering, Song Qiaoxi saw the aunt who was familiar with the school doctor, and finally said with relief, "Auntie, I'm here, and I even got my skirt on..."
"Song Qiaoxi? It's alright, that proves that you have grown up and are a big girl." Auntie the school doctor stood up and walked to her side, bent down slightly and patted her shoulder, "Auntie has sanitary napkins here, come here, I'll give you one. , do you know how to use it?"
"Yeah. I know."
After taking the sanitary napkin from the school doctor's aunt from the cabinet, Song Qiaoxi whispered thank you again.
"Don't be afraid, it's a good thing. The little girl will have this day. Auntie is watching TV shows. In some places abroad, the little girl will be invited to celebrate her menarche. It will be lively for several days."
The school doctor aunt comforted her.
"Thank you Auntie." Song Qiaoxi felt much better.
Going out and turning right to go to the bathroom, Song Qiaoxi wiped the blood in her panties with a tissue, and stuck on the sanitary napkin awkwardly.
She glanced at the blood on her skirt and sighed.
It seems that I will be wearing this sweater all day today.
Stepping on the bell to return to the classroom, Song Qiaoxi found that Chu Jin had not returned.
"Where did Chu Jin go?"
Teacher Feng stepped on her small heels, walked to Song Qiaoxi's side, and asked with a frown.
"He..." Song Qiaoxi held back for a long time, afraid that Teacher Feng would make trouble for Chu, so he resisted and defended, "He forgot something in the red brick building, it seems to be an Olympiad paper or something, so he went to get it. ... "
Teacher Feng sounded a little unhappy, raised his eyelids, "Mr. Li let him go?"
"Probably not."
Song Qiaoxi said, and lowered her head, not daring to look into Teacher Feng's eyes.
"Okay, when Chu Jin comes back, let him go to my office. If you study well, you can't miss class for no reason."
Teacher Feng took the book and walked away, his face obviously not good-looking.
Until the end of Teacher Feng's Chinese class, Chu Jin did not appear. In the second class, Chu was sweating lightly, carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder, stepping on the class bell and entering the classroom.
This class is an art class. The representative of the art class, Ding Yi, sent everyone a drawing book for the new semester. The class was bustling.
"Hey, where have you been?" Song Qiaoxi touched Chu Jin's arm with her elbow and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Feng can't find you in one class, so I asked you to go to her office. I just covered you up and said You went to the red brick building to get things, if Teacher Feng asks, don't help."
Chu Jin said, "Oh, I'm going to get out of class."
"Will Teacher Feng trouble you?"
Song Qiaoxi asked.
"No, it's probably just a few criticisms of education. It's not what you said. As long as you get good grades and don't cause trouble, the teacher will never embarrass people too much."
Chu Jin glanced at her and shrugged indifferently.
After he finished speaking, he took out a thermos cup from his schoolbag, put it on the corner of her desk, took out a Dove chocolate, put it in the hole of Song Qiaoxi's desk, and finally took out a dark-colored plastic bag. stuffed into her open bag.
He unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup in a daze, and a burst of hot water vapor hit his face. Song Qiaoxi could smell the strong smell of brown sugar.
Ah, it's brown sugar water!
Song Qiaoxi remembered that Li Xiaoran at the front desk told her once again that during menstruation, she could not touch cold water, she could not eat ice cream, she had to drink hot brown sugar water, and if she had a stomachache, she could eat some chocolate to ease the discomfort.
Li Xiaoran's mother is an internal medicine doctor. As the daughter of a doctor, if anyone in the class has a headache, she will take the initiative to teach her classmates some common sense of health care.
"For me?"
Song Qiaoxi held the thermos cup and took a small sip of the sweet brown sugar water.
Chu Jin was silent, took out the exercise book from his schoolbag, spread out the draft book and started to work on the questions.
After screwing on the lid of the thermos cup, Song Qiaoxi looked into the hole in the table. Inside the black plastic bag were two packs of sanitary napkins, one for daily use and one for night use.
Looking at Dove Chocolate lying in the corner, the shame and grievances of the morning seemed to have disappeared.
She never felt that Chu Jin was an outsider. When Chu Jin bought something "private" like sanitary napkins for herself, she would only feel very at ease and would not feel particularly shy.
The two children ate and slept together, and grew up hand in hand. Song Qiaoxi's reliance on Chu Jin was obvious, and her trust and love for him were undisguised.
Suddenly, Song Qiaoxi remembered something, grabbed the corner of Chu Jin's clothes and asked, "Where did you go to buy it? The school gate is closed, you won't..."
The management of the elementary school attached to the normal school is very strict. Students are not allowed to leave the school gate during class, but there is a low wall that is not so high near the bicycle shed for teachers.
Occasionally some senior students would climb the wall and skip class, but nearby, the school janitor and the dean of the school often go on patrol, and if they are caught, they will be punished for standing, and they have to stand in front of the whole school when the national flag is raised every week. Face-to-face inspection.
Wouldn't he really take such a big risk and go out just to buy these things
"You won't go to the teacher's carport to climb the wall, skip class and go out to buy it!"
Song Qiaoxi widened her eyes and asked him in an angry voice.
Chu Jin sighed, picked up the thermos cup from the corner of the table and stuffed it into her arms, and said helplessly, "Can't you stop eating and drinking?"
After that, no matter how Song Qiaoxi asked, Chu Jin stopped paying attention to her.
In school all day, except for changing sanitary napkins a few times between classes, her abdomen was slightly swollen, but Song Qiaoxi had no other discomfort.
If it wasn't for the sweater tied around her waist, she would have almost forgotten that she was still menstruating.
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That night, when Song's mother got home from get off work, she found a Chu Jin sweater hanging on the balcony, and Song Qiaoxi's green pleated school uniform skirt, dripping slightly on the ground.
Song's father was socializing again at night, so he won't go home for dinner today.
Mom knocked on Song Qiaoxi's room door, "Xixi, are you back?"
When Song Qiaoxi heard her mother call her, she opened the door "hoola", got into her mother's arms like a baby, and held her mouth in grievance, "Mom..."
In fact, she didn't suffer any grievances at school during the day. Chu Jin took good care of her and didn't let her do it when she got home. After washing her in the bathroom and changing it, she went back with her skirt and sweater soaked in the basin.
But at this moment, Song Qiaoxi couldn't help it when she saw her mother, the heat in her chest rushed to her face, and her tears flowed uncontrollably.
"What's the matter? Who bullied us Xixi, talk to my mother."
Seeing that her daughter had changed into clean clothes, Qiao Qin probably guessed it, and sat on Song Qiaoxi's cot with her shoulders in her arms.
"Mom, I'm on my period, and I'm bleeding a lot..."
Even if she knew that it was a normal physiological phenomenon, Song Qiaoxi still sat on her mother's lap, hugged her mother's neck and said aggrieved.
"Have you changed the sanitary napkin?"
Mom asked, pulling the broken hair from her forehead behind her ears.
"Um."
Song Qiaoxi nodded.
"Does your stomach hurt? Is there any discomfort?"
Mom asked with concern.
"Just, a few days in the morning, my stomach was a little uncomfortable, but it disappeared after that. Chu Jin poured me brown sugar water..."
She answered honestly.
"That's alright, tell your mother if you feel uncomfortable, don't be afraid. It's your period, which means we Xixi are a big girl." Mom patted Song Qiaoxi on the back and coaxed her like she was a child, "you have to figure it out for yourself. Days, look at the irregularity, you should keep sanitary napkins in your schoolbag, you know? You should wash your pants with cold water, and then change them to your mother to wash them for you. If you grow up, you will leave home and go to college. If you have to wash it yourself, if you wash it in hot water, it will leave a mark."
"Well, I see, but I don't want to leave the house..."
Rubbing her face against her mother's neck, Song Qiaoxi smelled the smell on her mother's body and felt very at ease.
After dinner in the evening, Chu Jin went back to the boiler room to study, his mother was preparing lessons in the study, and his father had not yet arrived home.
On the first day of school, there was not much homework. Song Qiaoxi finished her homework early, lying on the bed and watching "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabana".
The "Harry Potter" trilogy was given to her by a friend of her father's publishing house in the millennium. Later, when her father went to Hong Kong on a business trip, he also bought a set of original English books for Chu Jin.
During that time, Song Qiaoxi was simply obsessed, madly fascinated by the magical world of Harry Potter, and dreamed of receiving an admission letter from Hogwarts when she was eleven years old.
At that time, she was crazy about Amway's book, but Wang Junyang only loved computer games, Ding Yi was interested in animation, Ding Miao subscribed to "Science Fiction World" magazine, and was addicted to various science fiction and the future world. I'm not interested in Western magic at all.
No way, Song Qiaoxi could only make a "brainwashing" recommendation to Chu Jin.
Finally, one afternoon, she found Chu Jin sitting upright at the desk, engrossed in reading the Chinese version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
After that, Chu Jin read the English version bought by Song's father many times, and even discussed the plot with Song Qiaoxi.
The two almost quarreled because of the Sorting Hat, Song Qiaoxi stood firmly in Gryffindor, and Chu Jin liked Slytherin.
However, it was also because of this incident that Song Qiaoxi remembered that in the old memory, Chu Jin finally became a very bad and bad villain.
That's why Song Qiaoxi was so nervous when he said that he would go to Slytherin if he received an admission letter from Hogwarts.
More than once, Song Qiaoxi would hold the book, stick to Chu Jin and ask again and again, "Can't we go to Gryffindor together?"
"I want to go to Slytherin."
Chu Jin always answered calmly, with no room for manoeuvre.
"Why, why don't you come with me to Gryffindor?"
Song Qiaoxi tried cheating, but it didn't seem to work.
Chu Jin will finally give her an ambiguous answer, "Because I am a snake."
She would lie down on Chu Jin's bed in despair and roll around like a puppy. Even in the magical world of fantasy, Song Qiaoxi never thought that one day she would be separated from Chu Jin.
Until the sixth grade of primary school, at the end of September, the first preliminary examination of primary school was over, and after the first parent-teacher meeting of the new semester opened in the primary school attached to the normal school...
Only then did she realize that it was really possible for herself and Chu Jin to be separated when she was about to enter junior high school.
At the annual parent-teacher meeting, the most prominent are Song Dad and Qiao Mom. Other parents are used to the two couples sharing their excellent "parenting experience" on the podium every year, and this year is no exception.
Teacher Feng, the head teacher, said on the podium: "Every parent knows that this year, Chu Jin from our class participated in the Provincial Mathematical Olympiad and won the gold medal, and achieved the first place in the school in the preliminary examination of the primary school. Next, let us invite Song Qiaoxi's mother, who is also the guardian of Chu Jin, to share with us the successful educational experience, everyone applauds and welcomes."
After a burst of warm applause, Qiao Qin walked to the podium under the envious or jealous eyes of all the parents.
"It's Chu Jin again? Why is this child every year!"
"It is said that it is a gifted child. The teacher suggested skipping grades several times, but the child does not want to."
"I don't know what kind of cram school I usually go to. I also sign up for my children."
"This is a neighbor of our courtyard. What kind of cram school? Others' children still give tuition to lower-grade children, and they all rely on self-study."
"Math teacher Li said he was going to open a small stove for him?"
"Mr. Li told me that he was looking for some high school math Olympiad questions, staring at Chu Jin to do it, and helping him get the answer right. This kid is really good at using his brains."
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Qiao Qin smiled slightly on the podium. She knew in her heart that this time of year was the time to "pull hatred".
"Cough cough..." She whispered softly, and looked politely at the parents who looked at them, "Chu Jin, we usually don't care about it, we all learn by ourselves. Oh, children are usually too hard. , we all let him study for a while, the key is that he can't persuade him..."
"I think I have already done the high school questions for the usual Math Olympiad problems. Although I am a math teacher in college, the problem that my child is doing now is really difficult. I struggle to solve many problems," Qiaoqin paused. , went on to say, "There is also English. We like to read English original books, and we often watch English movies and TV shows. Parents are advised to buy more English extracurricular books, VCDs, etc. for their children..."
In fact, what Qiao Qin said was the truth.
They couldn't help Chu Jin's study, so they told the children to study less every day, pay attention to rest, and pay more attention to the body.
But in the ears of other parents, it is really full of "tea flavor", which is quite hateful.
After the parent-teacher meeting, Qiao Qin was left alone by Teacher Feng.
Song Qiaoxi and Chu Jin didn't leave today. In the sixth grade, they were reassigned to a duty group, and they happened to be on duty today.
The two children and other group members were arranged by the teacher to do some service work in the parent-teacher conference. They also thought that their mother was coming anyway, so they simply did their homework in the teacher's office and waited to go home with their mother.
Song Qiaoxi and Chu Jin were doing their homework on an empty table, and she heard the hustle and bustle of people in the corridor.
"The parents' meeting is over?"
She asked Chu Jin.
Chu Jin raised his head and glanced out the window, nodded, and continued to do his math Olympiad problem, "I guess it is, but Teacher Feng will talk to Aunt Qiao alone for a while, enough for you to finish your math homework."
"Oh... ... "
Song Qiaoxi replied sullenly.
While doing her homework, she turned the pen absentmindedly, when she suddenly heard a familiar voice, it was her mother and Teacher Feng talking at the door.
"... Chu Jin won the gold medal in the Mathematical Olympiad this time, and got the first place in the departmental examination. Several junior high schools in Qizhou came here to inquire about the news, and the scholarships offered were excellent. For example, the provincial The experiment, the Second Affiliated High School of the Normal University, and the No. 1 Middle School all came to us to ask for someone to be promoted directly to their top class."
Teacher Feng said earnestly.
"What about foreign languages? Mr. Feng, do you know what's going on in foreign languages? We have considered that the child's English is so good that we want Chu Jin and Song Qiaoxi to go to foreign language school together."
Mother Song asked.
"That's right, Foreign Language is a private school and has its own entrance exam, but the foreign language junior high school is under a lot of competition pressure. It's not a problem for Chu Jin to go to the top class. As for whether he can get a scholarship, it's hard to say," Teacher Feng paused. , continued, "According to Song Qiaoxi's basic test level, although he did well in the test, to tell the truth, it is very difficult to get into the top class in foreign languages. It is more realistic to go straight to the top class in our Second Affiliated High School..."
Let Song Qiaoxi's heart "squeak" and stare blankly at Chu Jin.