Back to the third grade

Chapter 35

Because of inertia, Lin Mei and Zhou Yu went to Xinhua Bookstore first.

"Do you want to buy two high school tutoring books?" Zhou Yu asked.

This time, the two changed places after entering the bookstore and went to the high school.However, Lin Mei felt that she had learned enough and didn't want to learn any more, so she picked up an English-English dictionary, a set of four- and six-level vocabulary.Both of these will be needed in the future, and the English in her head is not enough for further English, and she has to start supplementing it.

Zhou Que also took an English-English dictionary to see if it didn't work, and then took an English-Chinese dictionary.One piece to checkout.

When the two lined up, Lin Mei asked, "When are you going to America?"

Zhou Yu said: "My dad is doing it for me. My mom is in the United States. Let her send some materials over there. It is more convenient for me to apply. But I think it is difficult. I didn't know when they divorced I'm two years old, I still don't remember much. The household registration has been canceled long ago, how can she prove that she is my mother?"

This is indeed a problem.Lin Mei understood very well, but she was still very confident in Zhou's father's energy.After getting along these few days, she also understood that Father Zhou's real power as the director of the office is not small, and all municipal departments can probably speak for themselves.

The two wandered from the basement floor to the top floor in a bored manner, and stood at the door of the bookstore in a daze.Zhou Que asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lin Mei thought about a diversion, "Would you like to go to my house to watch VCD? I have a camera at home, we can rent a few more."

Zhou Que responded immediately: "Okay! What movies do you have at home?"

Zhou Yu's family also has a VCD player, or two, all given by others.But Zhou's father didn't allow her to watch it. The DVDs kept at home were also older movies like The Sound of Music and Roman Holiday.

"I've watched Roman Holiday no less than fifty times!" Zhou Yu was very resentful. There is also a video store in front of her house, where she can rent movies to watch, but Zhou's father thinks that there are pornographic DVDs there.

"Do you think his thinking is too backward? I don't believe how he can work like this? He's so rigid!" Zhou Yu thinks that Zhou's father's thinking is too problematic, he looks like an old man hundreds of years ago.

Lin Mei thinks that Zhou's father is probably just too protective...

In the end, the two of them rented Jurassic Park full of "blood and violence" from the video store, which was strongly requested by Zhou Que, and she couldn't let go of it after seeing it.Lin Mei rented a night interview with vampires, to relive the rivalry between the two handsome guys and the most evil beauty Loli.Lin Mei always felt that her cute loli started from this movie.

The two went to Lin Mei's house and saw Lin's mother coming home at noon. They saw the two of them sitting in front of the TV with Coke and a few popsicle sticks beside them. , call your dad and say you can’t go back.”

Zhou Jie got up happily to say hello, and when he called his dad, it became: "Dad, I won't go back tonight, I'm staying at Lin Mei's house... yes, yes, yes, I'll tell auntie."

Mother Lin came to answer the phone, "It's okay, it's okay, they are doing well, they are watching TV, okay." After hanging up the phone, Mother Lin said, "Your Uncle Zhou said that you can't watch TV for more than one hour. Otherwise, it's time for bad eyes, how long have you two been watching? Go out and walk around."

Zhou Yu covered her face with an "embarrassing" expression and lowered her head. Lin Mei patted her sympathetically, and went over to her mother and said, "It's almost over, and we'll have dinner after watching this movie."

Mother Lin is very talkative: "Then watch it, it's time to eat after watching it. I didn't know that Zhou Jie was coming, and this dish is probably not enough. You can take her down later to see what she wants to eat and then buy some."

Zhou Jie heard a loud voice saying in the living room: "Auntie, no need, I can eat anything!"

The movies are pretty long and are three parts.After watching the film, Lin Mei dragged Zhou Yu to the deli downstairs: "Buy some cold dishes or stewed pork? What do you eat?" She had ten yuan in her pocket.

Zhou Que said, "No need to buy it! I'm mad at you for doing this!"

Lin Mei: "I'll eat it too. You're not the only one eating it, uncle, give me a pig's head meat worth ten yuan." Passed the money over, and carried the pig's head back.

Mother Lin looked at the pork head and said, "Is this your favorite food? You don't even ask Zhou Jie if you want to eat this."

Zhou Hao hurriedly said: "Auntie, I also like to eat pork head meat."

Mother Lin laughed: "Lin Mei is just greedy, don't mind. Eat more later."

After dinner, Mother Lin went to bed. Zhou Jie didn't dare to watch, and said to Lin Mei, "Let's go to your room." The two turned off the TV and went into Lin Mei's room.

Seeing the air conditioner, Lin Mei thought of it and urged Mother Lin to find someone to modify the air conditioner. Mother Lin kept saying that she was too lazy to do the trouble.

The rest of the room was still the same as before, the books and papers on the table were not cleaned up.Lin Mei has neglected them for two days, and now she feels as if she has been in another world when she sees them.She felt like a scumbag. She used to hardly put down her papers, and she almost had to take them with her when she went to the toilet. It was too heartless to throw them away after the exam.

Lin Mei thought about it for a while, stepped forward to pack up the books and papers that represented her painstaking efforts, and went to the kitchen to find nylon ropes to tie them up.Zhou Yu helped her up and asked, "Are you going to give it to your brother?"

Lin Mei felt sorry for these books again, "Let's take a look, he won't even read it." This is for sure, Tao Tao probably flipped through it before the exam, and wouldn't open it at all in the rest of the time.

Zhou Yu said that he would stay here, but at night, when Mother Lin came back from get off work, she carried a bag full of things, and when she entered the door, she shouted, "Zhou Yu, your father brought your clothes."

Father Zhou is really good. After knowing that his daughter was going to live with a classmate, he rushed to pack his daughter's clothes, toothbrushes, etc. into two big bags at noon, brought them to get off work in the afternoon, and brought them here before leaving work in the evening.I just ran into Mama Lin at the door.

"Your father also gave me a bag of crabs." Mother Lin didn't want it, but she didn't want to chat with others at the gate of the family courtyard, so that people could see that it would have a bad influence.Had to bring it back.

"Raw and cooked?" Lin Mei came out with Zhou Yu, and when she heard that there were still crabs, she squatted down and rummaged through a pile of plastic bags on the ground, and finally brought up a box tied with a nylon rope, she was dumbfounded when she saw it: "Hairy crabs? !" Turn it over and look at the packaging, it's still from Yangcheng Lake.

Mother Lin didn't pay attention to it at all just now, it was just a black plastic bag, thinking that the crabs were from the fish market, she quickly took them over and said, "It's not cheap!"

One is about two taels, with a weight and a label on it, and an anti-counterfeit phone.

Mother Lin was in a dilemma. Lin Mei could understand it, thinking that it was just an ordinary crab that suddenly turned into such a high-end product, and she was a little guilty of accepting it.But it seems stingy to go back and forth again.

Mother Lin asked them: "Do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you." What's there?Isn't it just a few crabs?have eaten!

Ms. Lin has never cooked crabs at home. She remembered that someone in the yard liked to eat crabs, so she called to ask how to make them. After writing it down, she went to the kitchen and cooked all four crabs in one go.

The three of them chewed according to the case, and the table was full of messes.

After eating, Lin Mei wanted to help clean up. There was a lot of rubbish on the table. Mother Lin said, "Take Zhou Jin to take a shower, and I'll clean it up here."

The two little girls hid in the bathroom and took a bath. Lin Mei touched her clear ribs when she applied the bath liquid, and felt that she was actually quite thin now.

Zhou Que was a little taller than her, and the two of them were washing and playing in the bathroom, and even compared their chests.

Lin Mei said: "Your breasts are bigger." Zhou Jie, who was flirting with her, was so shy that she went up to grab her.The movement of the two in the bathroom was clearly heard by Lin's mother outside.

After washing, Zhou Jie changed into the pajamas her father specially sent her, and the two of them sat in the living room watching the dishes to dry their hair.After tidying up the kitchen, Mama Lin also came to sit on the sofa: "I'll also see what dishes you borrowed."

In the afternoon, I actually finished watching both movies, so I want to watch them again.Good movies don't get tired of watching again and again, and most importantly, entertainment activities are too poor these days.

Zhou Jie quietly asked Lin Mei: "Did we disturb Auntie watching TV?"

It was only then that Lin Mei remembered that Mama Lin seemed to be watching TV dramas every night. She also asked the same question. Mama Lin said, "I just watched it because I was bored. Otherwise, what would I do at night? Anyway, there is nothing to watch, so let's watch your movies."

Compared with the slow-paced movies like Interview with the Vampire, Lin's mother admired Jurassic Park more. Lin Mei and Zhou Quan, who had watched it in the afternoon, were talking quietly.

"I saw on the plate that there are such parks in the United States." Zhou Que said.

"It was built based on this movie, do you want to go and see it?" Lin Mei also had the idea of ​​visiting as much as she wanted before she went out, but she forgot about it later.Later, except for the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and the National Gallery of Art, she has never been to any other place.It's almost like going for nothing.After returning to China, many people asked her this and that, and some people went to her to learn from her before going on a trip. After hearing that she didn’t know anything, they were surprised: “Why don’t you know anything?” Lin Mei had no choice but to show them .

Zhou Jie now has a completely touristic attitude towards going to the United States, so all she cares about is where to go for fun.She whispered to Lin Mei: "I heard that Mike lives in Los Angeles, do you think I can meet him there?"

Lin Mei: "...you might as well go to the Avenue of Stars, there should be his handprint over there." Honey, Mike probably wouldn't go shopping by himself.But she told Zhou Jie that if you meet someone who looks like a star, you should boldly go up and ask for a group photo and autograph!

Zhou Hao suddenly realized: "Then I have to tell my dad to let him buy me a new camera!"

Lin Mei: "..." Uncle Zhou, this is by no means me leading Zhou Jin down, you have to believe me!
When Zhou Wei left the next day, Mother Lin asked her to take the last crab in the refrigerator back to her father, steam it, and eat it hot at home.

Zhou Jie didn't want to take it, mostly because he thought it would be troublesome: "You can eat with your mother."

Lin Meicai didn't care about her, packed another bag for her along with her two big bags, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you out."

When she was sent to the gate of the family courtyard, she could see the building of the attached middle school across the road, and could vaguely hear the sound of the construction site over there.At this time, the school is still in class, but they seem to have been kicked out of the school.

Zhou Que said, "Let's talk at school tomorrow."

Although they should be considered graduates, they haven't received their graduation certificates yet, and they are still students in the attached middle school for the time being.Teacher Zheng said that he would come to school after the exam, and he still had some things to explain.

Lin Mei: "Okay." Waved Zhou Yu away.

When they arrived at school the next day, Teacher Zheng said that they should arrive around ten o'clock.What Zheng Kai informed was that cleaning might still be needed, so everyone should be prepared.

At that time, someone shouted: "Why do you need to clean up? Didn't you all graduate?"

As a result, Lin Mei arrived at school around [-]:[-], and there were only about [-] students in the class.At a quarter past ten, Teacher Zheng hurried over to take a look. At least fifteen people in the classroom hadn't arrived.

"Don't worry about those who haven't arrived. Let them come to me when the time comes." Teacher Zheng was still so majestic.

There are two things to ask them to come to school. One is to remind them that they can check their scores after July [-]th.Teacher Zheng copied the phone number on the blackboard and said: "It was also notified in the newspaper. I guess there must be some of you who don't like to read newspapers. Write down the phone number now, and remember to call to check the score. If someone's score is not the same as Your estimate is too far off, hurry up and ask someone to check it, don’t think that there will be no mistakes in the senior high school entrance examination, the teacher who corrects the paper is also a human being, maybe someone will correct the mistake.”

Teacher Xu is not here today, it is said that he was taken to correct the paper.The students in the class let out a happy wow, and they all wondered if Teacher Xu recognized their class papers, would he be merciful and give them more points?
Teacher Zheng sneered: "It's a good idea. Everyone corrects the papers together, and each person corrects a few questions. How do you think it is changed? The names are all sealed. Even if it happens, it's just your money." Bad characters, even your Teacher Xu can’t recognize them.”

"In short!" Mr. Zheng tapped the blackboard with chalk, "Everyone pay attention and remember to check the scores. After the scores come out, the admission scores of each school this year should also be released, and the admission notices will be sent to the schools at that time. Just come and pick it up on the [-]th of July."

After finishing this matter, I will send money.Everyone is a burst of happiness wow.

After all, after the exam, everyone became more lively. Even Teacher Zheng was not so serious. He was amused by them before he said seriously: "The money collected for your papers and tutorial books at the beginning of school is not used up. , each person is 51 yuan and [-] cents, and I will go to Zheng Kai and Mei Lu to register in a while, and then come back for some change. If they don’t come today, they are unlucky! They don’t have a share of the money!”

The class let out howls of welcome, and some people stomped and clapped.

After finishing the business, Zheng Kai and Mei Lu began to stand up and distribute money according to the group enthronement.Teacher Zheng is in the mood to chat with everyone, but the content is not very pleasant.

"Is the paper easy this time?" Teacher Zheng said with a smile.

Lin Mei nodded subconsciously, and there were also many people whispering: "It's hard to die, teacher!"

"Difficult? Difficult? It's because you didn't read the book carefully!" Teacher Zheng raised his voice all of a sudden, "A lot of the questions are our after-school exercises! We copied the original questions! If you fail the exam, then you don't want anyone else. Blame it, just blame yourself."

There were really some people who didn't know, so Gao Yuan immediately turned his head left and right and asked, "Really? There are also exercises after class?"

Zheng Kai registered his name, and He Qi helped him calculate the money, and the two looked at Gao Yuan and nodded silently.

Gao Yuan screamed: "It's a loss! It's a loss!"

Teacher Zheng was not angry either. He stood leaning against the podium table, pointed at Gao Yuan and said, "This is a question that has not been reviewed properly. As long as you review it, it will be a question for rewarding points!"

"Which paper is the most difficult?" Teacher Zheng asked curiously.

She was standing in line with Lin Mei and the others, very close to Lin Mei, and looked at Lin Mei when she asked.

"The last big synthesis has a lot of trap questions." Lin Mei said, this is her personal experience.

Many people nodded with sympathy, but Guo Xinxin just kept his head down when he said this, with a disheartened expression on his face, and now even the circles of his eyes were red.

Teacher Zheng came over and patted her on the shoulder, and her tears fell down, and then she cried and twitched, lying on the table with her arms folded.Lin Mei hurriedly stuffed the napkin to her, gently patted her arm and whispered to her: "Don't cry." Guo Xinxin is definitely the most wronged one, he can sing June Feixue.Even she didn't know how to comfort her.

Teacher Zheng said: "It's useless to regret now. If you work hard, you won't regret it now. The main subjects in the front are simple, and the last big comprehensive should be to increase the score. It's just to increase the score. Don't worry. Cried."

She also patted Guo Xinxin, "Work harder next time, don't be sad."

After Mr. Zheng left, all those who paid the money also left in a hurry.He said it was cleaning, but Teacher Zheng didn't say anything. Someone asked Zheng Kai if he would still clean it, and Zheng Kai said, "If you want to clean it, you can do it."

The man couldn't believe there was such a good thing: "The monitor, I'm leaving."

Zheng Kai smiled: "Who won't let you go?"

So everyone jumped up, as if they didn't know that they had to clean up.

Lin Mei and Zhou Yu were almost the last to go to collect the money.Mei Lu asked them to write their names, and then said, "I'll give you one hundred and three and a half together, and you give me a dime."

Lin Mei was going to go grocery shopping later, so she deliberately brought some change, gave Mei Lu 51 cents, and after receiving the money, found [-] yuan and gave it to Zhou Jin.

Mei Lu asked: "What did you answer the question about the body cycle in biology?"

"Pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation." Lin Mei said, seeing that Mei Lu's expression was wrong, she was shocked: "...you can't make a mistake, right?"

Mei Lu said quite flatly: "I didn't think about it until I came out." After speaking, she smiled and didn't want to say more.

After coming out with Zhou Que, Lin Mei sighed, "Mei Lu made a mistake."

Zhou Que said: "At that time, people's minds were easily confused, and sometimes they just couldn't remember what was on their lips."

Lin Mei looked at Zhou Jin anxiously: "You don't have it..."

Zhou Yu said: "Actually, there are some English listening comprehensions that I just filled in. I passed a few words without being able to understand them clearly."

Lin Mei felt that her tongue was three inches short, and she said after a long time: "...What about the back?"

Zhou Que said, "Everything went smoothly afterwards."

"That's good." Lin Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Mei didn't dare to speak for a long time, she was afraid that Zhou Yu would get angry.The two have been together for so long, she really cherishes Zhou Jie.

It was Zhou Jie who smiled and said, "Aren't you? I'm not so narrow-minded. I'm jealous of you if you do well in the exam. Don't think too much, I know it well, even if you don't do well in English listening, getting a grade is enough. It was because I failed the English test on the first day that I performed better later on, so it was a blessing in disguise.”

Lin Mei hurriedly said, "That's right."

Seeing that Zhou Hao was really not angry, Lin Mei was relieved.

For the remaining few days, Lin Mei watched one video in the morning and one in the afternoon every day. Mother Lin asked her if she wanted to also buy a VCD player for home.Lin Mei said no, "This thing is updated very quickly. Buying it is a waste of money."

Mother Lin still wanted to buy it very much. Lin Mei hurriedly told her that the family should save some money. Now that the house price is [-] square meters, why not buy another suite?

After the high school entrance examination, Lin Mei was confident about her future, so she naturally shifted her attention to other places.

"Buying a house..." Mama Lin really didn't think about it, she said in a bit of embarrassment: "I saved some money, I was planning to wait for you to go to high school to pay sponsorship fees, and to save money for you to go to college , but I still owe a little to buy a house.”

Lin Mei suddenly became a good student, and Lin's mother naturally saved the sponsorship fee.

Lin Mei asked: "Then how much is our family saving now?"

"More than 3 yuan." Mother Lin said, "It's not enough to buy a house."

Lin Mei made a final decision: "Loan."

The price of [-] is rare!The price will rise slowly, it is better to buy early than late.

Lin's mother and Lin Mei have been discussing family matters, especially after Lin Mei has shown her ideas now, Lin's mother really didn't ignore her words as a joke.After work, I asked people how to buy a house now.

"Sister Tao, I want to buy a house, how do I get a loan?"

Mother Lin nodded: "Yes, the child is growing up, and I want to save a house for her."

Some people said: "Why are you in a hurry? Our factory may have to build a house, so we can find a way to divide it up? What's more, your beautiful house

Mei's grades are so good, maybe she will take the exam to another place in the future, wouldn't it be better to buy it at the place where she went to college? "

After hearing this, Mother Lin came back and asked Lin Mei, "Would you like to buy it at the place where you went to college in the future?"

Lin Mei immediately said: "No need, I will definitely come back after finishing college. Buy a house first, and the price of this house will gradually increase in the future, so it will be cheaper to buy it earlier. Our family does not need money right now, money If you put it in the bank, it will depreciate in value, and you can use it as an investment, buy a house with a loan, and then rent it out to repay the mortgage, and the burden is not heavy."

Mother Lin asked her uncle about this, and she said on the phone: "What kind of brains do you think this kid is now? I didn't even think of it, she said the same thing."

The uncle said on the phone: "Meimei is fine! Don't take what she said seriously. Someone has already done this. If you want to buy it, you can buy it. It's not difficult to pay off the mortgage like this. Meimei is doing well now. You earn her a suite first and put it away, and she will not lose money whether she lives in it or sells it in the future."

Uncle is vigorous and resolute, not to mention that compared to Lin Mei, his son is a son, so he should prepare a suite for his son.

So within a few days after Lin Mei said it, I heard that my uncle had gone to buy a house with Lin's mother!
Mother Lin ran away about this matter for several days, and she was tanned. When she came back at night, she poured a jar of water and said, "The purchase is finished, and the loan is also settled. Your uncle is more troublesome, he has no job. , so I called your aunt as a guarantor."

Lin Mei was somewhat shocked: "...have you already bought it?"

Mother Lin looked at her strangely: "I bought it. Didn't you say you want to buy it?"

Lin Mei: "..." She just didn't expect them to be so fast.

The house is an existing home.Although my uncle is not doing business now, I can still find a few buddies when I call. The buddies pointed out a real estate, and said brother, you can buy it with confidence. There are two elementary schools next to it. After that, the house price will definitely go up. Up!
As soon as Mama Lin said it, Lin Mei said, "The room in the school district is not bad. What floor is it on?"

Ms. Lin: "...how did you hear about it, kid? I don't know what a school district room is. Your uncle is on the eighth floor, and our house is on the third floor. The building is too high for me to climb."

Lin Mei immediately said: "It's good, it's good, I can live in it after the building is low." In the end, this house is definitely not for investment, but for living in it.

Lin Mei was quite curious: "How big is the room?"

Mother Lin: "Didn't you say you want to rent out? Your uncle also said so, and bought a 120-square-meter house. Then you can recruit a few more tenants, one for each of the three rooms, and one for the living room. Three hundred for each person." In a month, the loan will almost come back.”

Ms. Lin didn't care about it after she finished shopping. It just so happens that Uncle is idle, isn't he?Let him take care of it. "Find him a job too, so as not to squat at the door every day to watch people play cards." Mother Lin said.

Once you've done that, it's almost time to check your grades.In the end, instead of waiting for Lin Mei to call on the 653th, on July [-]th, Zhou Yu called her and said, "My dad found out our grades, you got [-] points."

Lin Mei held the phone and let out a small wow, and Zhou Yu continued, "Your sports score is 58, and your test score is 595. I guess the five points deducted are for composition. You don't get full marks for composition."

Lin Mei couldn't speak now, and nodded repeatedly.

Zhou Jie made a joke: "Do you think you will be the number one scholar in our city?"

Lin Mei struggled to get her rationality out and said, "It's unlikely. There must be someone who deducted less composition points, as well as sports scores, and someone else has a full score? How many places are one point away? Impossible, impossible." But her mouth was grinning.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Mei couldn't sit still at home anymore. She walked back and forth in the room, swept the floor and wiped the table, and finally wiped the tiled floor of the kitchen with a newspaper, and finally calmed down.

When Mama Lin took the keys to open the door with the vegetables she bought, she saw her daughter jumping out of the kitchen with a rag in one hand and a newspaper in the other: "Mom! The grades are out! I passed the 653 exam." 653!!"

"Really!" Mother Lin didn't care about the bag or the food.

Lin Mei grabbed Mama Lin's hand and danced like an idiot, unable to utter a word of excitement.

That night, Mother Lin called her uncle. She said it again, and asked Lin Mei to repeat it with her grandma, grandfather, uncle, aunt, and Tao Tao. She also called other relatives and friends at home, and notified them all at once.

Uncle said that Meimei should celebrate that she did so well in the exam. After speaking, he went to book a restaurant and let the whole family go to the restaurant for dinner!
Mother Lin dragged her to buy a mountain bike no matter what Lin Mei said, pink!

Lin Mei comforted herself, for mountain bikes, you can buy them casually for one or two thousand in the future, and four or five thousand is considered a good car.With such a comparison, you can buy a brand-name mountain bike for [-] now, which is very worthwhile.She wants to ride this bike for ten years!
Then the small factory manager called her.When she heard a strange man when she answered the phone, she asked, "Who are you?"

The small factory manager looked very young on the phone: "Is it Lin Mei? I am your principal. Your grades this time are the first in our district and the best in our school. I congratulate you on behalf of the school." !"

Lin Mei's brain twitched for a moment: "Happy together, happy together."

The small factory manager didn't take it seriously at all. He laughed and said, "The school has discussed and decided to give you a red list, so that the students in the future can learn from you. There is also a bonus of 1000 yuan and a certificate. When will you come to school?" Come and get it."

Lin Mei: Mouth
Red list!Is that what she thought?

Lin Mei immediately called Teacher Zheng, who couldn't close her mouth with a smile, "Come over next Monday, I'll wait for you in the office."

Lin Mei, who had been too confused for a long time, saw that next Monday is tomorrow.

The school was out for summer vacation and it was empty.When Lin Mei arrived at the school, the school gate was ajar, so she went in by herself. As soon as she entered the teaching building, she saw the red list mentioned by the small factory manager.There is an enlarged card of hers on it!pieces!According to!

For the first time, Lin Mei discovered that her ponytail was crooked!When the photo is enlarged, the pimple on the nose is even more vivid!It is estimated that the color of the photo has been adjusted.

Lin Mei looked up for a long time, but she really couldn't recognize who the piercing head was on the red list...

"...We want to learn from classmate Lin Mei!"

Lin Mei covered her face while standing in front of this red list that praised her as a flower, what a shame!

(End of this chapter)