Back to the third grade

Chapter 3

The tables and chairs have been counted, there are two more tables and four more chairs.These are all the property of their class, and of course it is impossible to hand them over.

The boys carried things to the classroom with all their brains, and they didn't count when they carried them. After carrying them, they found that there were too many, and the whole class felt that they had taken advantage of it.

A girl moved one of the tables to the side of the lecture hall and placed it by the window, and put two new potted plants on it.Another table is placed at the back of the classroom for rags.

Lin Mei saw that the girl had a special temperament, so she must be a class committee member.When she started collecting homework, she knew that she was a study committee member.The Chinese teacher likes her very much, and the Chinese teacher is their class teacher.So this girl can be regarded as a little celebrity in the class.

Lin Mei remembered that her surname was Mei, but she couldn't remember what was called Mei.

Mei wiped the blackboard with a rag, and wrote on the blackboard with the newly-acquired chalk: Hand in homework: Chinese, hand in composition and summer homework; math, hand in summer homework; English, hand in copying words.

Someone below asked: "Should the exercise book be handed in?"

Student Mei turned her head: "No, the teacher will explain it in class."

Lin Mei and Zhu Hai looked at each other, and they both showed escaped smiles.

After collecting the homework, the official cleaning began. The head teacher was a fat lady. Although she smiled softly, she was actually very strict.Lin Mei still remembers that her surname is Zheng.

Teacher Zheng came over to take a look, and asked classmate Mei: "Mei Lu, have you collected your homework?"

By the way, classmate Mei's name is Mei Lu.

Teacher Zheng nodded after knowing that the homework was collected, and then said to the boy: "Zheng Kai, tell everyone to go back after cleaning, and wipe the lamps and windows too."

That tall boy was the class monitor, and Lin Mei completely forgot about him. The memory of her classmates in the past three years plus a piece of memory is not as impressive as seeing him "protecting food" today.

Zheng Kai waited for Mr. Zheng to leave, and asked people to put the table together, and asked the tall boy to stand up and clean the lamp tube and windows, with someone below to support him.He was the first to go up to wipe it, and the boy who was helping him kept saying, "Be careful, be careful."

Lin Mei is addicted to cleaning. She took a rag and cleaned all the corners. She even wiped the hinge of the classroom door.Mei Lu came over and wiped her hand between the door and the crack of the door to see that there was no dust on her hands, and praised her: "Good job."

Lin Mei: "..." It feels weird.

Zhu Hai and Zhou Yu were waiting for her, Zhu Hai said: "Let's go, let's go. It's almost eleven o'clock."

Lin Mei threw away the rag, the dirty one could only be thrown into the trash can, and it was not good to return it to Zhu Hai.She asked Zhu Hai: "Do you want more?" Zhu Hai shook his head, "Throw it away, throw it away."

Lin Mei went to the teacher's office to borrow soap to wash her hands, and called Zhu Hai and Zhou Yu: "Come and wash, too."

Zhu Hai: "..."

Zhou Que: "..."

Zhu Hai and Zhou Yu washed their hands with Lin Mei with indescribable excitement and admiration. After they walked out, Zhou Yu went to push the bicycle.Although she goes to school here, she doesn't live in the family courtyard, but in the house of her father's unit.

The two of them were waiting for her at the school gate.

Zhu Hai said to Lin Mei: "Just now Mei Lu was really boring."

Lin Mei thought it was a little awkward, but it was also quite interesting, mainly to see a child pretending to be an adult.Zhu Hai said: "I just can't see Meilu like that, she would flatter Teacher Zheng."

Lin Mei did not expect that everyone's interpersonal relationship has become so complicated now.Sanguan Xiaoxiao was washed away.Maybe she had the impression that everyone was fooling around at this time, which was the mindset of an adult like her.

"She just wanted to play the boss in front of you." Zhu Hai said.

Lin Mei also regretted a little: "I shouldn't have done so much." If you want to do it, just go home and do it.

When Zhou Rong came out, the three of them went to the school gate and one of them bought an ice cream. They ate as they walked and finished eating at the intersection. Zhou Rong got on his bike and left.Zhu Hai needs to take the bus, and she doesn't live in the family home.Zhu Hai's grandmother works in a textile factory, and she lives in her mother's house now, and their family has moved away long ago.

Lin Mei turned to the vegetable market, bought fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, and cut a piece of wax gourd. When she saw that the pork belly was only [-] yuan and a catty, she cut another catty of meat, and there were skins.Take the big and small bags home, put on an apron and go to the kitchen.

Stir-fried pork belly with cucumber, scrambled egg with tomato, winter melon soup.After stewing the rice, Lin Mei called Mama Lin to tell her not to buy vegetables, and she made them all.

"My daughter is really amazing." Mother Lin said happily on the phone.

Recently, Lin Mei often cooks porridge and stir-fries green vegetables. After going back and forth, Lin's mother accepted the fact that "the daughter can cook". Yesterday, she called her grandma and grandfather and said, "My daughter can do it!".

Mother Lin came back and brought her ten bags of yogurt, a big bag of sorbet and ice cream, and bought a poached chicken.

The dining table suddenly became richer.After dinner, Ms. Lin refused to let her wash the dishes, saying that the logistics had recently purchased, and she had told them that she wanted a box of Coke, and asked her if she wanted Sprite.

Lin Mei: "No, no more Coke."

Mother Lin brought her a custard ice cream, "Don't you like to drink it? Drink it, it's cheap to buy in logistics."

Lin Mei ate ice cream and suspected that "50kg" would not be far away.

The homework was over, and Lin Mei sat down to watch TV for the first time in the evening, and the serious case group [-] was being shown. Many actors were familiar, but the case was all forgotten, so it was time to revisit it.

Mother Lin asked, "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"There will be a meeting tomorrow and I will pick up the book," she said.

"Then you go to visit your grandma in the afternoon, and I will go there in the evening, and we will have dinner at your grandma's house." Mother Lin said.

Mother Lin has an older brother, and Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin live with their son.Lin Mei didn't have a good impression of her uncle and aunt's family, so she frowned upon hearing this.

Mother Lin patted her neck: "Go, school is about to start, go and see your grandma."

"It's okay to see grandma. But you don't have to eat at their house, right? I can't get used to my aunt's cooking..." Lin Mei looked at Mama Lin pitifully.

My aunt is a very contradictory person.When she was a child, Lin Mei only thought she was annoying, but later she found out that this person is actually very strange.

There are nine children in my aunt's family. She is a girl and was given to others to raise her since she was a child.Only got it back after work.My uncle said that when the two fell in love, my aunt liked to take my uncle to the Muslim Street, especially when I got off work at noon, so my uncle would treat her to beef noodle soup.

At that time, the introduction seemed to be done at once. After my uncle and aunt got married, I discovered that my aunt had a habit of cooking, which was to put vegetables desperately.For example, to make a fish, she would put two catties of soybean sprouts in it and cook a big pot, even the fish tasted like bean sprouts.When I went to eat at my aunt's house, Lin Mei remembered that there was always a super big basin in the center, with leftovers around it.

My aunt also likes to say: "Because of you coming, I have cooked so many dishes!"

Mother Lin said: "No, you are going to start school, you should go to grandma's house for a meal."

Lin Mei was downcast.If everyone she met after she came back was looking forward to it, then the last thing she looked forward to was her aunt, and the thought of dealing with her for another ten years made her feel heartbroken.

She still remembers telling her grandma after work that she could no longer wear the clothes in the closet and wanted to buy formal ones.It was just chatting, and the next day my aunt took an orange women's suit jacket and said she would give it to her.

It's very similar to the one Qiu Ju wore in the lawsuit.

Lin Mei took it and wanted to say "throw it in the trash".But urged by her grandma's eyes, she thanked her and accepted it.Since then, my aunt has been saying for six or seven years that "Lin Mei has no clothes after work, so I gave her all my clothes".

Aunt is the kind of person who gives you ten dollars, but wants to make people accept 100 dollars.She wanted to be a good person, but she was reluctant to spend money and bleed.What Lin Mei later learned from her aunt was never to try to please both sides, either to be a sincere person and just say so if she didn’t like it;

The next day, Lin Mei brought a large sturdy schoolbag to pick up the books.She guessed that next year will be the third year of junior high school, and the school will definitely distribute a lot of tutoring materials, and it is estimated that there will be many books.

Sure enough, as soon as I entered the classroom, there were piles of books on the podium and the floor under the podium.Mei Lu and Zheng Kai, who were standing on the podium handing out books, had nowhere to go.

The leaders of each group went up to collect the books, checked the numbers and passed them to the people in the first row, and then passed them down one by one.From eight o'clock to ten o'clock, there were still books coming in non-stop. After a while, someone shouted outside: "The third class is going to take the papers!"

After sending out one, Mei Lu shouted on it: "Is anyone's book broken, check it quickly, and change it right away."

Everyone buried their heads in checking the textbooks and flipped through them quickly, just like the God of Gamblers shuffling cards in a movie.One book was not checked, and the second book was handed down.

Lin Mei did some calculations. There are 41 books in total. Mathematics, Chinese and English each have two workbooks plus examination papers.

Fortunately, she had the foresight and brought a big schoolbag.

Meilu said: "Recently, books will be distributed. Remember to remind each other. If he doesn't come, let him go to the teacher's office to pick up the books." Then, everyone will be asked to bring 630 yuan tomorrow. The extra books and papers have not yet been charged. .

It was supposed to be a book distribution after the meeting, but it turned into a meeting after the book distribution after arriving at the school.It was heard that the small factory manager was unable to make it in time, so the meeting was canceled in the end.

Lin Mei had a slight impression that it seemed to be their new teaching building, the one with five floors in the future, and a complex building. The small factory manager was soliciting sponsorship from the city and wanted the city to allocate funds.

Since there was no meeting, Mei Lu took the schedule from Teacher Zheng and copied it on the blackboard for everyone to copy.

Lin Mei thinks that Mei Lu will also be a successful person in the future.She is a different serious type from Zhou Jie.The directions of efforts are different, but they are all obviously powerful people.

Lin Mei memorized the books home, pasted the copied curriculum on the photo folder, and prepared the books according to the curriculum of the first day, as well as exercise books and notebooks.

In the afternoon, she took ten catties of red dates and ten catties of rock sugar prepared by Mother Lin to grandma's house.

Lin Mei's uncle bought out his seniority before the textile factory failed, and started a small business.There are losses and gains. He bought this house with his business money, but it should be last year that his uncle lost all his money by speculating in stocks. Now he is planning to find a unit to move in or continue his job.

When my uncle was rich, he even brought Hong Kong chocolates to Lin Mei.

"Meimei is here?" Uncle squatted in front of the chess stand at the gate of the family courtyard and said, coming to pick up the red dates and rock candy she was carrying, "Let's go, your aunt made something delicious."

Lin Mei had a bitter face, and the uncle smiled and said, "Uncle also bought roast chicken."

As soon as I entered my uncle's house, grandma and grandpa were sitting in the house watching TV, and the kitchen was smoky.Lin Mei looked at the kitchen vigilantly, said hello to grandma and grandpa, and got in.

She has learned a long time ago, just take the initiative before her aunt cooks.

"What is Aunt doing?" She poked her head and saw that Aunt had cut a lot of eggplants, "Burning eggplants?"

My aunt took out half a bowl of meat that had been frozen for an unknown period of time from the refrigerator and said, "Your uncle brought it back from eating out. I think it's just right to cook it together."

Lin Mei's scalp is numb, the leftovers she brought back!She can also understand aunt, isn't this the same as a meat dish?
She pushed her aunt out three times in a row, took an apron and put it on herself: "Auntie, let's watch TV, I'll do it."

There was no rule in my aunt's house that a girl as old as Lin Mei could not be in the kitchen. She always felt that Lin Mei was too delicate, and it was time for her to learn to work.

She said: "Then be careful, don't pour too much oil, put more water."

Lin Mei repeatedly agreed, "I know, I know."

As soon as her aunt disappeared, Lin Mei generously poured a spoonful of oil into the pan, sautéed the onion, ginger, and garlic until fragrant, and then added the eggplant.Eggplant oil is delicious, and stir-fried is also very delicious.

As soon as Mother Lin came, she saw the second sister-in-law sitting on the sofa watching TV and eating watermelon, and then turned to see her daughter in the kitchen!Furious, he put down his bag and went in.

Lin Mei was cooking, when her mother came over and pushed her away and said, "I'll come, you go out and sit."

Seeing that her mother's forehead was still covered with sweat, Lin Mei said, "Go out and cool off."

Mother Lin said angrily: "How dare she let you cook!" Thinking of her brother, who was still watching chess outside, "So is your uncle!"

Lin Mei showed the leftover meat bowl to Mother Lin, and said quietly: "I don't want to eat what she made, can this be eaten? I will make what I want by myself."

Mother Lin was in the kitchen. After Lin Mei finished frying the eggplants, she was not allowed to do anything. After driving her out, she fried a large bowl of shrimp chips and gave Lin Mei: "Eat, let me see. There are also quick-frozen dumplings, and I will fry another plate of dumplings for you."

My aunt prepared a dish, which was stewed eggplant with leftover meat.Mother Lin also saw the soaked vermicelli, so she probably wanted to put the vermicelli in too.

When Lin Mei thought about it, she felt that this was pure waste.

Mother Lin asked Lin Mei to run quickly to buy two taels of minced meat, and was going to make an ant climbing tree for her with vermicelli.

Lin Mei ran to the gate, when her uncle saw her and called her, "Why are you running?"

"Buy minced meat." Lin Mei didn't say how her aunt's cooking was, as she and her uncle were husband and wife.

Uncle patted his legs and stood up: "I'll go with you, you little girl is going out to scare people."

There was a night market near my uncle's house. After buying minced meat, my uncle asked her if she would like mutton skewers and bought twenty skewers.

This time dinner is also rich.Uncle bought the roast chicken yesterday, and only half of it is left today.Lin Mei has long been used to the style of her uncle's family, so she is not surprised at all.

After setting a table, Lin Mei shook her cheeks and started to eat. The dishes were all cooked by her and her mother, and she didn't eat for nothing.

After dinner, my uncle went to return the mutton skewers and sent the mother and daughter out by the way.When I went outside, my uncle took out 300 yuan, "Meimei is in her third year of junior high school, and she has to work hard. Uncle will give me some pocket money. If you want something to eat, don't ask your mother for it."

Lin Mei didn't want it, she didn't understand the concept of her uncle losing money in stock trading back then, and it was only a few years later that she realized that his uncle's loss back then was probably not a small number.

"Hold it, your uncle's hand is loose. The 300 yuan will be gone in less than two days. You take the flowers." The uncle stuffed it into her hand.

Lin Mei looked at Lin's mother. "Take it, you just bought some stationery and tutorial books." Mother Lin said.

After returning home, Lin Mei said to Lin's mother, "Uncle is quite pitiful."

Mother Lin curled her lips: "You, don't look at your uncle now, he was a jerk when he was rich."

This Lin Mei knew that grandma and grandfather lived with Mama Lin in the past, and uncle didn't care if he was rich.Later, when I became poor all of a sudden, my conscience found out, and I took my grandma and grandpa over.

"Our family's life will get better and better." Lin Mei said with certainty.

She remembers very clearly that from now on, there will only be minor conflicts in their family, and there will be no major conflicts.Life is getting better every day, otherwise Lin Mei would not have the money to study abroad.

(End of this chapter)