"Is something broken in your house?" Song Qiaoxi sniffled, looked left and right with wide eyes, trying to find the source of the smell, "I'll take it out for you when I go upstairs and throw it into the trash can? "
"..." Chu Jin's face was even more ugly.
"Change of sheets in the morning?" Song Qiaoxi saw Chu Jin's blue and white sheets in the basin in the corner of the room.
Usually his sheets are on weekends, and his mother asked him to take them home and wash them in the washing machine.
Huh? Didn't you just change the sheets last weekend
It's only been a few days wow...
Hmm, but Chu Jin has always been obsessed with cleanliness. He likes cleanliness the most, so he can change the sheets if he wants to.
Without thinking much, Song Qiaoxi turned around and walked towards the corner of the boiler room, thinking that she would be a "living Lei Feng", and said as she walked, "I'll help you take the sheets upstairs, put them in the washing machine first, you can wash and change quickly. Clothes, hurry up, I'm still waiting for you to unpack the Christmas presents!"
Before she took a step, Song Qiaoxi was grabbed by Chu Jin's shoulders. Before she could react, she was pushed out of the boiler room door.
"You go upstairs, you don't have to worry about it here..." Chu Jin's voice came out with a "bang" sound of closing the door.
With his hands on his chest, Song Qiaoxi stomped his feet at the door of the boiler room, "What, what happened to this person today, it's weird..."
Back at home, Song Qiaoxi sat at the desk, playing with the golden snitch necklace that Grandpa Chu gave, and soon forgot the little awkwardness just now.
She decided that tonight, she would call Grandpa Chu and thank him for the gift.
By the time Chu Jin opened the door of Song's house with the key, Song Qiaoxi had already cooked breakfast and set the dishes.
This is the first time in so many years that he wakes up later than Song Qiaoxi, and it is also the first time that he eats the breakfast prepared by Song Qiaoxi...
The two of them finished their breakfast in silence.
After breakfast, Song Qiaoxi took him by the arm into the study, stuffed the exquisite wooden box into Chu Jin's arms, and said with anticipation, "Quickly open it and see, is your Christmas present very good? Grandpa Chu from Beijing gave it to me. A golden snitch necklace from Harry Potter, it's amazing, how did Grandpa Chu know that I like Harry Potter?"
The box in Chu Jin's hand was heavy, and when he opened the lid of the brown-red wooden box, he was greeted with a taste similar to his childhood memory, the fragrance of red sandalwood.
In the wooden box, flannel and silk were placed for shock absorption, and in the box, lay a beautiful crystal ball.
The transparent center of the crystal ball is a miniature version of the castle in the sky in Hayao Miyazaki's movie "City in the Sky".
Turn the crystal ball upside down and straighten it, and snowflakes are flying in the sky city.
"There's a switch below?" Song Qiaoxi's eyes were sharp. When Chu Jin turned the crystal ball back, she saw a small switch at the base of the crystal ball.
The boy's fair and slender fingers flicked, and the crystal ball released the theme song of "City in the Sky".
The melody of "City in the Sky" is soft and soothing, with a touch of ethereal undertones.
In the study, the little boy held the crystal ball and lowered it deliberately, so that the little girl could see it clearly.
The city in the sky in the crystal ball perfectly restores the prototype in the movie, and all the details are exquisite, as if everything in this small vacuum world will become real.
"Grandpa Chu wrote a card for me, don't you have it in your box?" Song Qiaoxi looked into the box and found the card, "Oh, there is."
She picked up the card and handed it to Chu Jin. He put the crystal ball in her hand and took the small card.
The words on the card are vigorous and powerful pen words, which read, "Grandpa watched the movie "City in the Sky" and liked it very much. Thank you for sharing such beautiful things with me. I hope you will always be kind, honest, and have glorious future."
At the inscription, is a small red auspicious cloud-shaped seal, which is a variant C.
Chu Jin was all too familiar with this seal.
"Grandpa Chu is really caring, you say, did my dad tell him that I like "Harry Potter" and you like "City in the Sky"? Let's call Grandpa Chu at night, thank him for the gift he gave us ." Song Qiaoxi turned the crystal ball upside down, stared at the "snowflakes" flying in the sky and said to Chu Jin.
"Well." Chu Jin glanced at her and replied softly.
He glanced at the bright red seal again, lifted the piano bench without any hesitation, and put this card with the sheet music he brought back from Beijing last time.
Chu Jin doesn't think he is a kind person. In this world, he only cares about people who are truly kind to him.
After so many years, he has never forgiven those who hurt his parents and himself as a child, and his anger and hatred have never diminished.
The calm and indifferent in front of Song Qiaoxi and Uncle Song and Aunt Qiao is often just a disguise.
Pretending to be completely forgetful of past abuse, disguising the hatred in your heart, and pretending to be a "good student" just to keep them from worrying.
In his view, pure "kindness" is weakness and incompetence, and "kindness" also requires strong ability as a support.
Only one thing, he did not hide.
Chu Jin made no secret of his determination to become stronger.
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At the "Double Dan" party, the votes for "the students' favorite program" have been sorted out, and the school radio station announced that the dance "Barabala Cherry Blossom" by the Hot Dance Club won the first place.
The broadcast time was in the afternoon's big class break. All the students in the first experimental class, with complex expressions, heard the burst of cheers from the students in the second experimental class next door.
The same experimental class, the classroom of the first experimental class was much quieter, the students did not cheer, most of the students were doing the questions seriously, and a few whispered and whispered.
"The second class is too exaggerated. It's so loud. I think our class, Gu Wei, dances very well."
"Who asked Song Qiaoxi from the second class to be the C position? The 'Crooked Nutren' in our class is still in the first experimental class based on relationships. When the first year of junior high and the second year of junior high, the 'Crooked Nutren' probably won't be able to stay in the first experiment. class."
"That's right, Song Qiaoxi from the second class has always been the first in their class. Last month's exam, the division ranked in the top 30."
"Yeah, when Song Qiaoxi was in the second year of junior high school, she would definitely be in our class. She came in, and there was one less place in that class, so let's try to keep the place in the first class..."
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"Brother Jin, why is no one cheering for me?" Gu Wei, with a small curly hair on his back, poked the arm of his deskmate who was immersed in the questions, and asked doubtfully, "Is it because I'm not good enough to dance?"
"..." Chu Jin paused for a while, really not knowing how to explain to this little "crooked nut" with a lack of roots.
At the top of the foreign language school food chain, no one cares about your talent, teachers and classmates only care about your grades.
For transfer students like Gu Wei who were "stuffed" by school leaders, if they study well and dance well, that's the icing on the cake.
But if you just dance well, the result will be the tail end of the crane...
In the eyes of the students and teachers of the experimental class, only good academic performance can win respect.
"Do you know that from the first to the second year of junior high school, the classes are divided according to the total grades?" Chu Jin lowered his head and continued to calculate the problem, reminding Gu Wei, "You should supplement the language, and ask your father to find a tutor who will give you the language. You're pulling too much."
"Oh... I know, but the language is really too difficult, and I don't want to fail the language every time." Gu Wei's face was sad, and he scratched his head with both hands, suddenly thinking of something, Mysteriously, he approached Chu Jin again, "My mother said that the things have been bought. She came to Qizhou from the UK in February to celebrate the Chinese New Year with us. By the way, I will bring you things back."
"Thank you." Chu Jin stopped writing and nodded to Gu Wei.
"I'll give you my phone number, you can make an appointment with me, and I'll give it to you during the winter vacation." Gu Wei's eyes are typical of Daou Shuang, and his eyes reveal the light of gossip, "Brother Jin, hardcover is a limited edition, then Expensive, who did you buy it for?"
Chu Jin took out the wallet from his schoolbag. When he asked Gu Wei a few days ago, he took the time to go to the bank opposite the compound to withdraw money.
He counted out twenty red notes from his wallet and handed them to Gu Wei, "Thank you, Auntie Hard."
"Ah, it seems, it doesn't take so much..." Gu Wei looked at the thick stack of money in his hand, feeling that the amount of money was a bit hot.
"You hold it first, and you will retreat more and make less." Chu Jin lowered his eyes and continued to calculate the problem, and said in a low voice.
"Oh, but, Brother Jin, did you buy it for Xixi?" Gu Wei's spirit of gossip has never been extinguished, and he asked while counting the money, "The two of you have already written about your life after marriage, fanfiction. The comics are more exciting and well drawn, I will print them out for you tomorrow to see."
"..." Chu Jin stopped writing.
He has always known about fan fiction. There are boring people who keep writing on the post bar. What the hell is fan comics
Gu Wei excitedly said: "I heard from the senior sister of the Hot Dance Club that it was drawn by an art student from the Second Affiliated High School of Normal University, and he is quite talented. The fan comics were only drawn when you were six or seven years old. What is the name of the latest issue? 'Bedwetting Incident', puff hahaha, I didn't expect you guys to be so cute when you were young!"
Chu Jin's hand clenched the pen, and the fingertips turned white.
Art students from the Second Affiliated High School of Normal University, love to draw comics, and know everything about their childhood...
In the art classroom of the Second Affiliated High School of Normal University, ten kilometers away from the foreign language, Ding Yi was holding the clipboard and drawing vigorously when suddenly he sneezed several times in a row.
"Oh my god, Ah Chi..." Ding Yi pushed his glasses and rubbed his brows.
The round-faced little girl next to her handed over a heart-to-heart tissue, and Ding Yijie said, "Thank you."
"These two are really good friends you grew up with? Won't they get angry when you draw their stories?" The round-faced little girl who is also an art student asked curiously. She also has elementary school classmates who speak foreign languages, like I remembered something again, and then said, "I heard from my elementary school classmates who studied foreign languages, this Chu Jin looks very difficult to mess with, usually always has a cold face, and his eyes are fierce."
"Oh, Chu Jin is a paper tiger, don't be afraid of him, as long as you have a good relationship with Xixi, with Xixi in front, Chu Jin will not get angry." Ding Yi picked up the pen and continued to draw calmly.
"Then are you sure that Song Qiaoxi won't be angry?" the round-faced little girl asked.
"Huh?" Ding Yi stopped writing, inexplicably felt a little guilty, "Xixi, Xixi should, won't you be angry..."
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The winter holiday in 2003 is coming, and the "Little Five People's Gang" has finally merged. It is no longer the "Little Four. People's Gang" without Ding Yi.
Although the five friends did not go to a school for one semester and gathered in the boiler room again, they did not feel strange at all, just like when they were children.
Two girls, Song Qiaoxi and Ding Miao, occupied Chu Jin's bed. The two boys moved chairs "shun" from the neighborhood committee next door and leaned against the end of the bed to watch TV. Chu Jin was still sitting at the desk, as if no one was around in the "noisy" environment. brushing questions and reading books.
The day Wang Junyang just finished the final exam, he told his parents as soon as he got home that he wanted to take the old TV and DVD player at home to the boiler room in Chujin.
As the name suggests, he wants to watch original English movies and TV series with Chu Jin to improve his spoken English.
When the parents of the Wang family heard it, they slapped their thighs wildly, and almost wept with joy.
"Oh, our family Yangyang finally knows how to study. It's helpful to let him take foreign language exams and go to school with Xiaochu and all the other top students! This is to gather people and divide them into groups, wife, don't you think?" Father Wang Delighted.
"Isn't it true, our child is finally successful!" Wang's mother also said with great wealth: "The old TV and the VCD player that nobody wants can't be taken to Chujin, who lost our family, your uncle two days ago. Let your dad move the DVD player newly sent from the factory, Lao Wang, let's buy a new TV for Chu Jin."
In this way, on the first day of the winter vacation, Chu Jin was stunned as he watched Uncle Wang's commander install the TV and DVD player in the boiler room.
However, what confuses Song Qiaoxi is that Wang Junyang clearly said that he is learning English by watching the original film. The strange thing is that she has never seen Wang Junyang bring a CD of English movies or TV series.
On the contrary, he always sees him hiding some discs with colorful covers, and beats to death not to let her and Ding Miao two girls watch...
Every time Wang Junyang "learned spoken English", he would pick when she and Ding Miao were not around, and would pull the curtains in Chu Jin's room so tightly that he couldn't see the situation in the room from the outside.
Not only this is very strange, Wang Junyang will take Ding Yi to watch it in addition to watching it by himself.
Song Qiaoxi couldn't understand, didn't Ding Yi hate learning English the most? Who said at that time, "I don't learn bird language..."
On the twenty-eighth day of the new year, Dad Song also returned to Qizhou from Beijing to celebrate the New Year.
He brought back two suitcases. In addition to the Beijing-flavored dim sum that his wife and daughter-in-law like to eat, he was going back to Taicheng on the second day of the lunar new year, the souvenirs brought by his wife's family to the old man, and two sets of customized modified Tang suits.
These two sets of clothes are New Year's gifts from Mr. Chu to his two children.
On the first day of the new year, Song Qiaoxi and Chu Jin wore a Tang suit from Mr. Chu, and paid New Year's greetings through MSN and Mr. Chu's video in Beijing.
The little girl is young and cute, her hair is combed into two high ponytails, which hang naturally over her shoulders. The little boy wears a dark custom-made Chinese dress, with a straight and handsome figure. The two children are too seductive to stand together.
Old Man Chu's assistant helped to operate MSN, and Song Qiaoxi saw Lucky alive and well at a glance.
"Happy New Year, Grandpa! Good luck and good health in the Year of the Sheep!" Song Qiaoxi waved to Grandpa Chu in front of the camera and pulled Chu Jin.
Chu Jin nodded slightly and said calmly, "Hello, Happy New Year."
"Xixi, do your best, Happy New Year." Grandpa Chu, also wearing a dark Tang suit, sat in the reception room and said hello to the two children, his eyes full of love.
"Lucky, Lucky, do you remember me?" Song Qiaoxi said.
"Ouch!" Lucky exclaimed excitedly from the speaker, but the quality of the video was really mediocre, and it was still laggy.
"Grandpa, tomorrow we will go to Taicheng to see my grandma and grandpa. Thank you for the gift you gave us. The winter vacation is too short to go to Beijing. When the summer vacation is over, we will go to Beijing to see you together." Song Qiaoxi and Grandpa Chu again After a few chats, the video call ended.
The computer at home was a little stuck, and there was a video image of Grandpa Chu smiling and waving to them on the screen.
She tilted her head, Xixi looked at the computer screen, and then at Chu Jin who was standing beside him jokingly said: "Chu Jin, to be honest, it may have been a long time, I really think you and Grandpa Chu look a bit like, look , your noses are almost identical."
"Where does it look like? I don't think it looks like it at all..." Chu Jin said lightly, avoiding her eyes.
Song Qiaoxi stuck out her tongue, "I think it's pretty similar anyway, and Grandpa Chu is really nice."
"Hey..." Chu Jin didn't answer, just smiled slightly.
He didn't want to quarrel with Song Qiaoxi during the Chinese New Year, nor did he want the little girl to think too much.
He admits that he is selfish, and if there are any uncertain factors, it will affect the current family, and Chu Jin will definitely not let this happen.
I only hope that I can accompany Song Qiaoxi and grow up with her until the little girl around me is an adult and has the ability to choose independently.
Before that, Chu Jin didn't want to be separated from Song Qiaoxi for a day.
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On the night of the Lantern Festival, Song Qiaoxi held a bowl of colorful small dumplings, sat on a small bench and watched the Lantern Festival party set by CCTV 1, while blowing his breath and carefully biting open the purple dumplings, the sweetness inside was the smell of rose and purple potato. of.
"I'll go out tomorrow morning, don't go to the boiler room in the morning." Chu Jin also came out of the kitchen with a bowl of dumplings and sat on the sofa behind her.
On the TV, a group of animated little old men and little old ladies shook their heads and sang: "This year, honor our parents, our parents! Our parents! Of course, it's still Melatonin! Melatonin..."
Song Qiaoxi's attention was attracted by the TV, she raised her head and asked, "Ah, where are you going tomorrow?"
"Just go out, maybe come back after lunch, you don't have to wait for me to have lunch." Chu Jin said.
She didn't ask much, "Oh, okay."
During this winter vacation, sometimes when Wang Junyang plays basketball, he will ask Chu Jin to go with him. Song Qiaoxi also heard that the boys from the experimental class called Chu Jin and asked Chu Jin questions.
Everyone was not in the same class, and they all met new friends. Song Qiaoxi was very happy. She also hoped that Chu Jin would be more cheerful and make more friends.
At noon the next day, Chu Jin did not come to the house for lunch.
Mom and Dad went to grandparents' house, Song Qiaoxi was about to start school, so she stayed at home to finish off her winter vacation homework.
During lunch, my mother left a plate of fried dumplings for Chu Jin, fearing that he would be hungry when he came back in the afternoon.
At noon today, Song Qiaoxi didn't have a lunch break. She sat at the desk and glanced downstairs through the bay window from time to time to see if Chu Jin was back.
At half past one in the afternoon, she was a little drowsy, and when she looked up, she found that the curtains in Chu Jin's room had been drawn.
"Ah, back?" Song Qiaoxi stood up from the chair.
Thinking that he might not have eaten lunch, he would definitely be hungry at the moment, Song Qiaoxi ran to the kitchen and microwaved the fried dumplings made by his mother, put it in the Lock & Lock box, took a pair of chopsticks and ran to the boiler room.
"I brought you fried dumplings, are you hungry?" Xixi put the transparent lunch box on the desk.
"You put it there, I'll eat it later," Chu Jin took out a paper bag from the black schoolbag and handed it to her, "For you."
Song Qiaoxi walked up to him, took the paper bag, and opened it to take a look.
Inside the bag are four original hardcover limited editions of "Harry Potter", and a gift box DVD of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", signed by JK Rowling.
"Yes, it's for me, is it a New Year's gift?" Song Qiaoxi's eyes widened, and she touched the cover of the hardcover edition. There was a pound price tag on the back of the plastic seal, "This is, this is bought from London?"
"Gu Wei's mother brought it back." Chu Jin smiled, raised his hand and poked the little girl's tender cheek, "Didn't you say that you haven't seen enough movies?"
"Ah! I like it so much!" Song Qiaoxi jumped up happily, hugged Chu Jin's arm and said, "Thank you, why are you so nice..."
She thought that there was a DVD player in Chu Jin's room, and said to him, "Can we watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone again now?"
"Do you want to see it?" Chu Jin asked with a smile.
The orientation of the TV is just right on the bed. Usually, if a few friends watch any movies or cartoons, they will sit in a row and lean on Chu Jin's bed to watch.
Song Qiaoxi took off her shoes naturally, climbed onto the bed, and set the quilt as a cushion according to the "rules" that everyone usually watches movies.
Chu Jin put the CD into the DVD player, and the familiar background music played. As soon as he turned his head, Song Qiaoxi greeted him warmly, "Come here, come to the bed!"