Back to the third grade

Chapter 38

In the past few days, Lin's mother made several replacement sheets for Lin Mei.The school distributed only one bed sheet, not even a replacement.Mother Lin went to the wholesale market to approve ten meters in one go according to the blue and green grid pattern issued by the school, where she had someone cut it into pieces, and then she collected the edges when she came back.

Lin Mei was walking the thread. Mother Lin found that her daughter knew how to do needlework without a teacher. She was very skilled at finishing the edges. She would not use an iron to press a thread before sewing. Her daughter did not bother at all. As soon as I saw the edge of the cloth that was to be pulled back, I went to get the iron, folded it in first, ironed it again, compacted it, and then sewed it.

"It's up to your grandma." Lin's mother sewed, "Your little padded jacket was made by your grandma when you were young. I can't do it. It's troublesome since I was a child." But no matter how troublesome it is, grandma Lin Mei taught it. Well, Mother Lin also knows how to use a sewing machine, so that's what she was into at that time.

Lin Mei and Lin's mother came together and made five or six replacement sheets before stopping.

Mother Lin told her: "When you come back every weekend, remember to bring the dirty ones back, and don't wash your clothes over there. Sigh, I don't know if your military training will be a holiday?"

"I don't know, and I don't know where to train. It will be miserable if I pull it out." Lin Mei said.The simple training at school is to stand in a military posture. If you pull it out, you may have training methods such as running circles and climbing up and down.

The high school that Lin Mei attended did not have military training at all. When she told her classmates who went to other schools in the future, she realized how hard they were.The training in school is to be exposed to the sun, and some will be taken to the nearby military academy for training. I heard that the countryside is full of big mosquitoes, which are very poisonous, and they fly up in large numbers!It looked like a horror movie.

After No. [-] arrived soon, Zhou's father drove to pick him up again. Anyway, the two little girls went together without much trouble.In the last two days, Mother Lin made the rest of the sheets, and when she got in the car, she said to Zhou Yu, "Zhou Jie, Auntie saw that the sheet you sent was only one, so she made a few more sheets for Lin Mei and you. Replace the set, go to school and ask Lin Mei to bring it to you."

Zhou Que immediately said, "Thank you, Auntie!"

Of course, Zhou's father found out that there was only one bed sheet, but what he did was to give Zhou Qian money to buy it again at school. "There must be a lot of bed sheets in the logistics. When the time comes, find your Uncle Zhang and ask him to take you there." Zhou's father said.

Zhou Yu can't go to acquaintances as confidently as Zhou's father, because she doesn't know that uncle Zhang well either.In fact, I really didn't want to go. After Lin's mother said, she quietly took Lin Mei's hand and said, "Thank your mother for me."

Lin Mei said: "Actually, I also have credit for your sheets, I sewed two for you."

Zhou Yu shook Lin Mei's hand vigorously: "Then I thank you first!"

Zhou Hao also followed Lin Mei's example and cut her hair short. After seeing Lin Mei cut her hair short that day, she went back and told Zhou's father that she might have to cut her hair for military training.Zhou's father called Uncle Zhang and said that he really needed to cut his hair. The task on the first day of military training was to cut his hair. Both boys and girls asked for haircuts.

Zhou's father asked very clearly, "The sideburns can't stay there, right?"

How could Uncle Zhang know such details?He said vaguely, "It's best not to stay, the first grade is very strict every year."

So Zhou Hao even shaved his sideburns.Lin Mei still has sideburns, and even her buoys are a bit long.She had it cut in a hairdresser. The hairdresser saw that it was a little girl, so she cut it according to Gigi Leung's hairstyle.

As soon as Zhou Yu said, Lin Mei stroked her bangs, "Looks like I have to fix it over there." Zhou Yu liked Lin Mei's hairstyle quite a bit, but regretfully said, "That won't look good."

"It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not, what matters is the school's regulations." Father Zhou answered.

Zhou Yu pouted at Lin Meixiao, and said quietly, "I want to bring a walkman, but my dad won't let me."

Father Zhou heard it, "You want to listen to your tape. If you listen to English, I won't let you take it?"

"I brought an English tape!" Zhou Que said.

"You won't listen!" Zhou's father said.

Probably because they got to know each other really well, the father and daughter actually quarreled in front of Lin Mei and Lin's mother.

Lin Mei pulled Zhou Jin, shook her head lightly, Zhou Yan turned her head to look out the car window and said nothing.

Mother Lin also hurriedly smoothed things over, "The child is young and ignorant. Lin Mei didn't read books at home during this time, but kept watching movies. She even got a card and sat there watching every day. I think she worked hard for a year. I didn't care too much when I relaxed. The children know it."

Zhou's father glanced at Zhou Yu, who was still fuming, from the rearview mirror, and didn't say anything.

Zhou Yu leaned on Lin Mei's shoulder and said, "I just got my ears pierced, what do you think should I do?"

Military training is definitely not allowed to wear earrings. In fact, Zhou Jie may not be able to wear earrings for three years in high school.She just hit it, and it will live for a long time if she doesn't wear it.

"Stick it with tea leaves. Otherwise, it will grow." Lin Mei said.

Father Zhou in the front seat heard this and said to Zhou Yu, "Look at the tea leaves at the back, take them with you."

If you quarrel, you still have to bow your head first.

Zhou Que dug out a can of tea in the back seat, it was still unopened.Anxi Tieguanyin.

Lin Mei felt that the possibility that the tea that Zhou's father put in the car was fake was relatively small.When Zhou Hao opened it, a refreshing tea fragrance wafted out, and even the smell in the car was much better.

Zhou Jie poured the tea into his hands and picked out the stems, and it took him a long time to find one.

... There may be fewer tea stems in good tea.

Lin Mei said: "It's good to wear only one ear piercing. Unilateral ear piercing is still popular."

Father Zhou glanced at Lin Mei from the rearview mirror.Zhou Jie said "Lin Mei said" almost every day at home, and what Lin Mei said was correct here.

Sure enough, he saw that his daughter didn't look for tea stems anymore, and poured the tea she had been holding in her hands for a long time back into the tea pot, smiled and stuffed the tea stem into her ear hole: "Really?" Then he was very happy.

Father Zhou's mood is a bit complicated. He talked with his colleagues, and they all said: "Children nowadays don't listen to their parents. They talk more to their friends and classmates than to their parents!"

When I got to school, I went directly to the dormitory this time.

The dormitory was being cleaned, and the corridor was dripping with water. The dormitory aunt had already forgotten about Zhou's father, and when she saw that he was about to go in, she yelled: "Are you the parent? It's not like you won't be allowed in!"

Zhou Hao tugged on Zhou's father's sleeve to claim it: "He is my father!"

The dormitory aunt looked carefully at the father and daughter before nodding in satisfaction and waving to let them go.

Room 204 has been cleaned. One of the two girls is stepping on a stool and the other is hanging the curtains. They were startled when they saw someone come in.

Lin Mei immediately smiled and said, "Hey, we are all in class one. My name is Lin Mei. This is Zhou Jin. You are also in class one, right?"

The girl standing below said, "Are you here? Your beds are all reserved, with name tags on them. After you make them, go to our classroom to get your military training uniforms and textbooks."

There are four bunk beds in the room, and the two upper beds near the windows are empty.Lin Mei thanked her, and quickly climbed down, beckoning from above to ask Mother Lin to pass her the burden.

Zhou Yu also followed suit to climb up. It was the first time she lived in the dormitory, and it was the first time she made the bed by herself, so she had to watch Lin Mei gesture by herself.She also waved to Zhou's father: "Dad, give me the luggage." "

Father Zhou doesn't mind going up to make the bed for his daughter, but there are classmates next to him. He is worried that he will lose face in front of his classmates if he makes the bed. He also wants his daughter to exercise by herself.Besides, he climbed up for fear that the bed board would be crushed.

Lin Mei brought two large plastic sheets, threw one to Zhou Yu and said, "Lay it on the bottom." Generally speaking, there are more newspapers, because the bed boards are ordinary wooden boards, and it is not very clean to lay mattresses directly. Lin Mei Before coming here, I went to the hardware store and cut two thick plastic sheets.

Zhou Hao imitated Lin Mei and spread out the plastic sheeting.

After spreading the plastic sheeting, Lin Mei took off the shoes and threw them down, started laying out the mattress, then spread out the quilts that were not in use for the time being, and finally put the sheets on the pillows, took out the towels and quilts and put them on the pillows, and finally hung up the mosquito nets .

The girl who hung the curtains said, "You are so well prepared!"

Mosquito nets must be hung, this must not be spared.Otherwise, mosquitoes will bite people to death.

Lin Mei stood up directly, and Lin's mother, who could see her head down, shouted in fear: "Can you do it? Be careful!"

You can touch the ceiling when you stand up straight. Lin Meizao prepared two sticky hooks. First, take one apart and save it into a plum blossom shape, and stick it in the middle of the top of the bed. Then hang the mosquito net on it, and the other The boards are disassembled and two sticks are attached to the walls on both sides of the included angle, so that the mosquito nets can be erected by fastening the two sides of the mosquito net again.

She finished hanging up neatly on this side, and Zhou Jin called for help on the other side: "Lin Mei! Come and help me!" Ma Dan!What's wrong with this mosquito net?
Lin Mei came down and went up to her side again, and couldn't tell what was wrong for a moment. Finally, the two of them shook off the mosquito net and realized that they had held it upside down and couldn't find the head.After reorganizing it, it was hung up quickly.

Put the rest of the luggage in your own locker, and hang it with a small lock.

The mosquito nets, sticky hooks and small locks were all called by Lin Mei to remind Zhou Jin.Father Zhou wanted Lin Mei to take care of Zhou Jing in the dormitory, so he could rest assured.

Lin Mei and Zhou Yu packed up, and they took their wallets hand in hand and prepared to go to the classroom to lead the military training uniform and books.Lin Mei asked the two girls to borrow the bedroom key to match.

After hanging the curtains, the girl eagerly went to get her key, and said, "My name is Huang Ling. To get a key, go to the store on the west side of the school. There is a red signboard selling small locks. The store with the key is cheap and only accepts one piece. The one at the gate of the school charges one yuan and five."

Lin Mei said thank you, and said, "We just have to go out, do you have anything to help?"

Both Huang Ling and the girl were taken aback, and looked at each other embarrassedly, Huang Ling said: "Then if it's convenient for you to bring me back a piece of soap, it's the kind of soap for washing clothes, I forgot to bring it. "

After Lin Mei asked, she took Zhou Jie out.Zhou's father and Lin's mother had already waited for them in the corridor, and the four of them went downstairs together to the outside. Zhou's father said, "Then we won't accompany you to the classroom? Do you have enough money?"

Lin's mother directly took out another [-] plugs to Lin Mei, "If there is anything missing, buy it directly, or call home and let me deliver it to you."

Lin Mei brought three hundred by herself, and pushed the fifty back and said, "No, I have everything. The money is enough."

Zhou's father said to Zhou Yu, "With Lin Mei. The two of you here are from the same school, and you are more familiar than others."

Zhou Yu hugged Lin Mei's arm and smiled, "Dad, don't worry, we'll be fine together."

Mother Lin was still a little worried. The girl had never left her side since she was so old, and her eye circles were a little red.

Lin Mei took Lin's mother's arm, Zhou Yu took her father's hand, and sent the two adults to the parking place.

Mother Lin said, "If you suffer from military training and call back, Mom will find someone to write a case report for you."

Zhou Yu's eyes lit up as soon as she heard it, and she looked at her father.

Father Zhou smiled and shook his head and said, "Teach me well, I really can't bear to ask your Uncle Zhang to write you a fake note." Then he said to Lin Mei, "Lin Mei is also, if you have anything to do, go directly to your Uncle Zhang. He said that you, like Zhou Jing, are his own children." Zhou Jie and Lin Mei are very close, and Zhou's father is willing to take care of Lin Mei, because he is Zhou Jie's good friend after all.

Lin Mei thanked: "Thank you uncle."

Zhou's father drove away with Lin's mother, and Lin Mei went to the small store at the door to buy a piece of soap and then went to match the keys before returning to school.It's just that this is the second time for them to enter the campus, and they are not familiar with all the places, so they can only rely on the knowledge of where the teaching building is. Fortunately, they found it after asking two or three people.

The class placement notice downstairs has not been released yet, but there are already classes in the teaching building!
Only the second floor of the first grade is in a mess, and the doors of each class are wide open, and students come and go.

He Qi went to the first floor to rinse the mop, and saw Lin Mei and Zhou Yan at a glance, and waved, "Lin Mei! Zhou Yan! Here!" Jin: "What class are you in?" Lin Mei is in Class [-], and her first name is her.

Zhou Que said, "Class One."

He Qi said, "Then we are all in the same class." After he finished speaking, he turned on the faucet, went upstairs with a mop, and said, "Mei Lu, Zheng Kai, Tu Hai, and a class from our attached middle school." Zhang Xu is in Class [-]. Class [-] and Class [-] also have a few from our attached high school." Then they are not familiar with each other.

"How many classes are there?" Lin Mei asked.

"Ten classes." He Qi snapped, "There are seventy people in our class! Damn it! That's enough people."

There are ten classes in the first grade, with about seventy students in each class?Lin Mei and Zhou Yu were also shocked, this was much more than the people in the attached middle school.

"I saw some classes were in class just now? They started school so early?" Zhou Yu asked.

"They only start classes in the second grade, and there is no holiday for the third grade." He Qi told another bad news.

Lin Mei and Zhou Yu looked at each other with tragic expressions.

He Qi said, "I thought our school was strict, but now that I see other schools, I realize that our school is still somewhat human."

The three of them walked and chatted a little slowly, and when they arrived at the door of the classroom, a boy came out and scolded: "You just rinsed a mop and ran to the Yellow River to wash it?"

He Qi said, "Can you be a little more graceful in front of the ladies? Come and introduce, this is Zhang Xu, from Class [-] of our attached middle school." Turning around, he introduced to Zhang Xu, "This is also from our attached high school, this is Lin Mei , the week is exhausted."

"Hey, female champion!" Zhang Xu has a pair of particularly agile eyebrows, which are twitching at the moment. He blinked at Lin Mei, "Beauty, I need your advice in the future."

He Qi quickly stomped on him, Zhang Xu is good at everything else, but his mouth is cheap.

It's not popular to see people calling "beauty" now, but Lin Mei is used to it, and said: "Okay handsome guy, let's help each other in the future."

He Qi looked at Lin Mei curiously with "So you are like this", Zhou Yu was angry just now, and now he also smiled on Lin Mei's shoulder.Zhang Xu bent into a shrimp with a pop, "You are awesome!"

There are only cleaning boys in the classroom.He Qi said: "Teacher Zhao didn't come today, and asked other teachers to come and open the door for us." He pointed to the pile of military training uniforms on the podium and said, "Go up and get them by yourself, one per person, and register your name after you finish. "

Teacher Zhao and Teacher Zheng are really different types.

Lin Mei and Zhou Yu looked at the list of school uniforms displayed on the podium, and more than 40 names had already been signed.

He Qi leaned the mop on the podium, knelt down and flipped through the military training uniforms for the two of them, "Both boys and girls are the same, there is no difference. Girls usually wear three sizes: S, M, and L, while boys wear XL, XXL, and XXXL." Four sizes, XXXXL and XXXXL. Which size do you two want? Let me know in advance, this dress is too fat."

If you take it yourself, you can take it apart and check it casually. He Qi found three or four clothes that looked cleaner and put them on the podium, saying: "It's best to try, some buttons are missing." The quality of these clothes is not good, there is no attached The clothes are of good quality.

Military training uniforms are actually sportswear, sky blue and white. It is said that this color design should look better than the dark blue one in the attached middle school.But after Lin Mei put on the top, she pulled the baggy clothes and said, "This size is almost like XXL." Short and fat, it only covers the buttocks in terms of length, but it is enough to fit Lin Mei who is [-] pounds heavier.

The clothes are too ugly, but there is no other choice.Lin Mei and Zhou Yu didn't bother to pick another one, anyway, it's impossible to look good anyway, so let's just this body.Holding the clothes to sign, He Qi put the rest away and mopped the floor, saying: "It is said that the money for the clothes has already been included in the tuition fee, so you don't need to pick any more. Just take the books over there in a bag, and everything will be fine." It's good. But it's better to check if there are any missing pages."

The textbooks are placed next to the military training uniforms. They have been divided and tied together with nylon ropes so that everyone can carry them.

Both Lin Mei and Zhou Yu picked up the bags casually, unpacked them and looked through them one by one, but they couldn't be tied together again, so they had to carry them away.

"Are you doing anything this afternoon?" Lin Mei asked He Qi holding her clothes and books.

He Qi hurriedly said, "By the way, the class will gather at one o'clock in the afternoon, and it is said that the haircut will be cut."

Huang Ling and them happened to run into each other downstairs, and when they saw Lin Mei and Zhou Yu coming back with books and clothes, she quickly came over to take their clothes, and helped carry a few books, Lin Mei took the opportunity to give her the soap.

"Thank you, I'll give you the money when I go back. I didn't have any change just now, so I just went to change it." Huang Ling said.

The three of them arrived at the dormitory, and this time they were all there, and there were still people looking at the mosquito nets that Lin Mei and Zhou Yu had hung up. A girl with a doll's head sat on the lower bunk and said, "I'm going to buy a mosquito net too, forget about this. Is there a small shop at the door?"

"Go and ask." A girl with a ponytail said.

Huang Ling said, "Come here, help me pick one up!"

Two of the girls in the room immediately helped Lin Mei and Zhou Qing get the books.One girl said, "I'll fetch water for you."

Lin Mei said, "Thank you, my name is Lin Mei."

Week exhausted, "week exhausted."

"Zhou Qing, are you celebrating?" the girl said, "My name is Jia Lu."

Lin Mei interrupted solemnly: "It's too much to read." Being chased and beaten by Zhou Jie, Lin Mei was beaten and hurriedly explained, "Ancient meaning is a kind of musical instrument, a musical instrument." This should be blamed on Zhou's father, pretending to be X and flipping through ancient books It’s a name, but the meaning is not quite right until I got the account, so when Zhou Yu introduces himself to others, he likes to add: “It’s an ancient musical instrument.”

After the girls introduced each other, it was almost eleven o'clock. Huang Ling said, "Let's go eat early? Otherwise, there will be no food."

It makes sense, several people took out their own rice bowls, and some people didn't use the school-issued ones, they brought their own stainless steel lunch boxes.As a result, when she reached the stairs, Lin Mei saw Mother Lin came back out of breath, with a plastic bag in her hand, and she could tell at a glance that it contained cooked food.

"Mom." Lin Mei gave the rice jar to Zhou Hao to pick it up.Mother Lin gave her the plastic bag and said, "Your Uncle Zhou and I bought the roast chicken for you and Zhou Yu. This is your classmate, right? Let's eat together then."

Huang Ling and the others laughed and said, "Thank you, Auntie." Huang Ling even shouted behind her, "Wu Jiaojiao! Have you locked the door yet?"

Wu Jiao shouted angrily from above: "Huang Ling!!"

A bunch of people laughed, Lin's mother laughed too, Huang Ling smiled and continued to shout, "Don't lock it if it's not locked! Let Lin Mei go up and put something!"

Lin Mei wanted to send Mama Lin out for a while, but after hesitating for a while, Zhou Yu said, "I'll take it for you, and you can take Auntie out. You can come to us directly in the cafeteria, and I'll bring you the rice bowl. What do you eat? ?”

"Is there any noodle soup? Eat the noodles." Lin Mei said.After eating in countless canteens, she found that noodle soup is the most error-prone meal.Stir-fried vegetables are easy to have a uniform taste, and there are also strange dishes like eggplant, beans and tomatoes fried together, and the ingredients in the noodle soup are much more regular.

Zhou Yu promised and went up with two rice bowls.

Lin Mei sent Ms. Lin to the school gate, and Ms. Lin said, "Go back. Your Uncle Zhou parked the car on the side of the road. He didn't turn off the engine. I'll go out now." Ms. Lin looked at her daughter really reluctantly. Trim her hair and say: "This is too short. Let's keep it after military training. Girls still look good with long hair." After a while, I will tidy her clothes again, "Change the clothes when they are dirty, don't wash them. Take it home and wash it in the washing machine."

Lin Mei: "Mom, don't worry, I'm fine at school."

Saying goodbye to Mama Lin for the second time, Lin Mei felt very uncomfortable.When she came back from studying abroad, every time she entered the house, she felt a terrible feeling of emptiness.When Lin's mother saw her coming back, she seemed to be alive again, cooking her this and that.

Now that I live in school, I think about it again.

Lin Mei hesitated, whether to go to the house to catch a cat or something, to relieve Lin's mother.I don't know if there are any stray cats and kittens on the campus of Provincial One...

The cafeteria is already full of people.When Lin Mei passed by, they had already prepared a meal.What Zhou Qing made for Lin Mei was plain noodles with ham sausage. Plain noodles are fine dried noodles with tomatoes, an egg and two green vegetables.

Zhou Que said, "Huang Ling paid for you."

Just as Lin Mei was about to say thank you, Huang Ling said, "It happens to be the soap money."

Soap is also two pieces.

There are all kinds of things in everyone's rice bowl.Like Lin Mei, Zhou Jie and Huang Ling also served plain noodles with ham sausage.Wu Jiao, Jia Lu and the others were eating rice, but Wu Jiao ate a portion of fried cabbage and vomited after taking a bite.

Lin Mei said, "He was born?"

Wu Jiao: "Bah, it's bitter!"

"The cabbage is probably not edible now." Lin Mei said, this dish should go down.

Wu Jiao had no choice but to take the rice jar to beat two tiger-skin green peppers, but seeing that the green peppers were half-cooked and turned black and charred.Wu Jiao took a bite, disgusted as if taking medicine.

Huang Ling asked: "How is it?"

"There's too much water, it's watery." Wu Jiao looked enviously at Lin Meisan's noodle soup, "I'll eat vegetarian noodles next time."

Jia Lu made scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Although there were many more tomatoes than eggs, they were barely edible, but there was green pepper in them.

When they finally went out, both Wu Jiao and Jia Lu couldn't resist going to the small shop to buy a piece of bread.

After returning to the dormitory after dinner, I remembered that there was still a roast chicken sent by Lin's mother. The store tore it up, and Lin Mei gave up one piece, and put the rest in the cabinet.

After that, everyone closed the door and began to take a nap.Because it was not yet twelve o'clock, when two people lay down on the bed and were about to take a nap, the others were too embarrassed to talk.Wu Jiao and Jia Lu directly avoided going out, saying that they were going to buy mosquito nets, they would go shopping after shopping, and went directly to class after a while.

Lin Mei didn't have the habit of taking a nap either, but she followed the crowd and lay down, pulling the mosquito net to form a small world of her own.After a while, she heard Zhou Yu humming softly, and she couldn't see clearly even with the mosquito net hanging on, but she guessed that Zhou Yu still brought the walkman.

When it was fifteen minutes to one, Lin Mei got out of bed and started calling for someone.Huang Ling got up with sleepy eyes, Lin Mei asked in surprise, "Are you really asleep?"

Huang Ling nodded and said, "I can fall asleep when I lie down."

Just as Wu Jiao came in, the voice in the hallway amplified as soon as the door was opened, and the rest of the people also got up and were folding towels and quilts.

"Have you gotten up yet? Get up quickly, the haircut is going to be cut this afternoon, and the haircuts for those who went first have already started downstairs!"

Everyone speeded up and ran to the teaching building, and saw a few young haircutters sitting in the open space in front of the building, both male and female, and all of them were quite non-mainstream. All of them have their hair upright, and there is a student wearing an apron sitting in front of each of them. The boys all have their cut cuts, and the girls all have their ears cut into doll heads.

There are also students queuing up to watch, some excited, some laughing at their classmates, some screaming when they see their hair cut, and most of the last ones are girls.

Lin Mei saw that there was a girl whose hair was grown down to her waist, she hid behind her friend and dared not go forward.

Lin Mei looked at these hairdressers and said to Zhou Que: "I think these people should be students from a nearby hairdressing school." They came here to practice.

Zhou Que rejoiced: "Fortunately, we cut it..."

(End of this chapter)