Grow up together

Chapter 14 Two Children
"Dear teacher, I have a lot to tell you:"

"When I first came here, I was still ignorant, and sometimes I had a little temper."

"Today, the one standing here is still myself. There is no more mud on my face, and I wash my handkerchief and socks by myself."

"I can also sing, dance, draw, and tell stories, and understand a lot of truths."

"Dear teacher, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!"

At the kindergarten graduation ceremony, Xu Cheng took Li Qiuyang's chubby hand, and under the guidance of Lin Wanzhou, they recited the "Graduation Poem" collectively.

Like other children, Xu Cheng's face was wiped white, and there was a red spot between her brows. If you look carefully on her cheeks, there are a few diamonds shimmering in the sun.

The parting atmosphere infected many people, even the most mischievous Li Qiuyang burst into tears, "My father insisted on letting me come today, and whipped me with a belt all morning! Huh~"

Except for the relatively special experimental primary school, the admission list of other primary schools has been announced. Many children ask each other which primary school other people will go to, and those who cannot go to the same school will check each other with red eyes to comfort each other. Be good friends with each other.

Lin Wanzhou came out of her "circle of friends", searched, found Xu Cheng who was squatting in the shade and eating bananas, and ran over anxiously.

"Xu Cheng, did your mother take you to take the entrance exam for the experimental primary school?"

"Go."

"Then how did you do in the exam?"

"It's not that the result hasn't come out yet, I don't know much about it."

The elementary school entrance examination was Xu Cheng's first experience like this. Sitting in front of the interviewing teacher felt like sitting in front of HR looking for a job.

The difficulty of the test questions varies, the simple ones like self-introduction, the difficult ones made Xu Cheng, an adult, stunned for a long time.
Draw dozens of items on a picture, and let you remember what is there; the teacher draws a pattern and erases it, and let you draw it again; use cubes to make figures, and let you count how many pieces there are in total
Xu Cheng deeply realized that the gap widened at this moment, and ordinary families have to make up for those things that are related to the children of the household.

It even requires you to diverge your thinking!

For example, there is a question, and the interview teacher suddenly asked: "The ball fell into the river, how would you solve it?"

Xu Cheng thought for a long time, and finally replied weakly, "Can't children play by the river?"

God knows what the correct answer is!
Anyway, after answering this question, the teacher's face immediately darkened, so Xu Cheng had to put in a little hard work for himself in the final poetry recitation session.

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

"Old age should burn and roar at sunset"

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

This poem by Dylan Thomas was memorized by Xu Cheng after watching "Interstellar", and he never expected it to come in handy here.

"How did you do in the exam?" Xu Cheng deliberately talked too much about Lin Wanzhou, but he knew that Lin Wanzhou would definitely be admitted to the experimental primary school.

"It feels pretty good." Lin Wanzhou thought about it, "I have prepared all the questions the teacher asked."

Then she thought of something, and stared nervously at Xu Cheng with fluttering eyelashes like butterfly wings, "Xu Cheng, you must have read the information my mother gave you, right?"

How could Xu Cheng think that he would have to look at the practice questions to prepare for an elementary school entrance exam.

What he thought was a certainty at first, but now he is not so confident that it will be done, just in case, he gave Lin Wanzhou a vaccination first.

"Will you be angry if I don't pass the exam?"

"Yes!", Lin Wanzhou pouted, and pointed at Xu Cheng's eyebrows angrily, "I told you to prepare well, if you don't pass the exam, Xu Cheng is a stupid pig!"

Xu Cheng ate the last piece of banana, "Then you still want to give birth to a piglet for me?"

"Xu Cheng!"

Lin Wancong groaned in embarrassment, gesturing to pinch Xu Cheng's arm, but Xu Cheng dodged deftly, and the two started chasing each other in the campus, like many childhood sweethearts bickering.

Whenever the sun shines brightly in summer, the dream of summer slowly unfolds.

That IBM laptop has been kept at home since he bought it back. Anyway, He Ying didn't use it, so Xu Cheng simply moved to his bedroom and became his personal belongings.

In later generations, the simple thing of designing web pages may be easily done by many computer enthusiasts.

It's a pity that Xu Cheng was a mechanical dog who only knew CAD in his previous life. He never worked in the computer field, and he didn't learn many computer languages. The only thing he learned was VB, but because the VB language has been eliminated, after graduation Returned to school.

Fortunately, he has other advantages. Now he has a lot of time to improve himself. He just needs to learn something if he doesn't know anything. It doesn't matter whether it will be useful in the future, it is always right to improve himself.

Xu Cheng checked online what he probably needed to learn, and made a list on paper. When the heat was not so strong at three or four in the afternoon, he packed up his huge sum of 50 yuan and went downstairs to play on the pretext of , and then sneaked out of the community alone.

The destination is the Xinhua Bookstore in the city. Unlike the toy wholesale market last time, the bookstore is in the city center and far away. Xu Cheng chose to take the bus.

Six-year-olds have the convenience of six-year-olds, and those who are less than 1.2 meters in height do not need to buy a ticket.

"I need you I'm a fish"

"Air in Water"

"It's your narrow-mindedness and bad temper"

The city center is much more lively. The newly built Xinhua Bookstore building is very grand and modern. The song "I'm a Fish" is played on a loop at the door. Xu Cheng has to sigh how popular Ren Xianqi is at the moment.

By the way, why is it a fish?Shouldn't it be a fish?
With all kinds of questions in mind, he took the elevator all the way to the adult area, and took down a copy of "Java Language Tutorial" and "HTML Language and Web Site Development Technology" under the surprised eyes of many adults.
"This child will become a great weapon!"

"My son is still playing with toys in the children's area, look at other people's children."

Xu Cheng, who became a member of other people's children, was not in a hurry to take these books to pay. He first found a secluded place on the first floor, squatted in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows to ponder the contents of the books, and picked out comparisons from books with repeated contents. In detail, the province went home only to find that a lot of money was spent in vain.

After doing all this, Xu Cheng left time for entertainment. After all, it was hard to come to the library once, and he wanted to feel the cultural atmosphere of this era.

Among the densely packed books, a comic magazine attracted his attention - "Cartoon King".

It was as if the memory of the dead had begun to attack itself.

Xu Cheng clearly remembers that she was obsessed with it when she was in elementary school, and she secretly bought it with pocket money with a few friends, and took turns to read it. Later, when she grew up, she remembered this and found that it had been discontinued for several years.

Longguo's comics also experienced such a golden period, probably in the five years from 95 to 00, represented by "Youth Comics" and "Cartoon King", which just corresponded to the phrase "Northern Boys, Southern Cartoons", and their status was different. It is inferior to the later "Zhiyinmanke", "Comic Party" and the like.

In order to reminisce about his childhood, he took down a book and lay down in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows to read it. Although it was only black and white lines, the subject matter was very fresh, no less than the content of a certain Internet article in later generations, which quickly attracted Xu Cheng's attention. interest.

When he was immersed in it for an unknown amount of time, he accidentally raised his head, and happened to meet the little girl outside the window.

It should be the little girl from her mother-in-law’s house who is pushing a cart selling sweet potatoes outside. She looks about the same age as me, wearing loose old clothes, with jet-black hair, and a pair of watery eyes like peach petals like pear blossoms in spring with rain. Her eyes seem drunk and charming. Pitiful.

"What beautiful eyes."

Xu Cheng secretly sighed, lowered his head to turn to the next page, and finished it quickly. While continuing to turn the page, he raised his head and looked at the girl outside the window curiously, only to find that she was looking at him anxiously.

"Uh, haven't you finished watching yet?"

In the hope of the girl, he turned the page back again, seeing that the girl was struggling to read, he simply turned the whole book sideways, so that both of them could read it sideways.

The girl's mother-in-law seemed to have bad eyesight. When someone came to buy sweet potatoes, the girl had to go back to the stall to help her mother-in-law look after her. Xu Cheng waited for her, and continued to look down when she was free.

So, throughout the colorful summer afternoon, the two children shared the contents of a comic book through a glass.

The singing outside the window is still there.

"Without you is like a fish out of water"

"I can't live anymore"

"Can't Swim Around Together"

(End of this chapter)