Back to the third grade

Chapter 97

The newly made dumplings went down to Sanlian, let alone steamed stuffed buns?When Lin Mei and Lin's mother were sent away by their uncle, Tao Tao had already been caught by his aunt to chop cabbage again.

My aunt shouted: "Meimei will make dumplings early tomorrow!"

Lin Mei:

Uncle drove them off in an old white van, driving and stopping carefully on the road. The cars on the road were all the same, and the difference between the two cars could be more than [-] steps, so I was afraid of rear-end collisions.

"The road is too slippery." Uncle looked at the road and said.

"Are you going to get up early tomorrow?" Mother Lin asked.

"We'll be at the warehouse at four o'clock." Uncle said with a deep sigh.

"Can you hold on like this? Don't be exhausted, you are not young anymore. You can't compare with when you were in your 20s." Mother Lin said.

The uncle smiled, and the wrinkles on his face had a nostalgic beauty under the lights of the night road, "I have to work for another ten years, so I can earn more money for my two children."

"Without people, everything is useless." Mother Lin said, "Remember, nothing is as important as your body."

The uncle touched the cigarette but didn't smoke it, and said, "I can't help it, I'm the only one now. I also don't want to let my children help me. It's troublesome to hire someone, and I'm going to have a lawsuit that can't be cleared up. I'm going to let Taotao read it out." Yes, as long as he can read, I will pay him."

He turned his head and smiled at Mama Lin, pointed at Lin Mei with his chin raised and said, "Don't worry, Meimei is here to help me. We Meimei are smart." He said to Lin Mei, "Uncle told you, what you said Hell, I asked your aunt to buy it with a loan. Isn’t she out of work now? I asked her to get a layoff certificate, and there are discounts on the loan.”

Lin Mei didn't quite understand: "Where is the land?"

"It's at the dog factory. Last time we went to the dog factory, you said that it was close to the city. In the future, if there is no place to build houses in the city, we will go there to build them. I think it will take a few years. Like the city Compared with other land, the land over there is still cheaper. If you buy it and put it aside, it will be regarded as an investment, and it will only cost 5 to [-] yuan." The uncle said.

Mother Lin looked at Lin Mei, "When did you tell your uncle this again?"

"...I'll just say it casually." Lin Mei didn't recognize it.

Uncle turned his head and patted Mama Lin: "I'll listen to what the child says makes sense."

Mother Lin said: "Don't listen to her all the time, she doesn't understand so much as a child. Didn't you also buy it in Beijing? Why are you saving so much house?"

"It's just a small two-bedroom house that's more than eight years old. It's for children to go to school." Uncle said Lin Mei, "Right? Meimei?"

Lin Mei nodded blankly.

"I even bought a shop!" Mother Lin said.

"It was rented out and paid for, and the money will come soon." Uncle said.

After getting out of the car, Lin's mother took Lin Mei's hand and walked towards the house in the dark. While reminding her to be careful of the ice on the ground, she said, "Our house is not short of houses now."

The next day, Lin Mei remembered that she would go to her grandma's house after dinner. Mother Lin left a note telling her to go back at eleven o'clock, because her aunt would order her to do some work if she went early.

Lin Mei thought it was really possible, so she simply stayed at home and did her homework.Tonight is New Year's Eve, and it is estimated that after dinner, I will stay at my grandma's house until nine or ten before returning.If I don't do my homework now, I won't be able to write a day today.

As a result, Tao Tao called at around nine o'clock: "Sister? I asked you to do my homework! I'm going now! Don't go out!"

Lin Mei heard the aunt on the other end yelling: "...you just do your homework and bring homework, what are you doing with a cannon?!" Then the phone hung up.

This was the first time Tao Tao asked for homework so actively.

Lin Mei put the steamed sweet potatoes and boiled corn at home on the fire, and Tao Tao arrived in about 10 minutes.He brought a schoolbag, which contained several homework and half-bag guns.

"Sister, I picked this for you! Let's set off cannons, shall we?" Tao Tao took out a bunch of cannons and piled them on the coffee table.

Lin Mei brought out the hot sweet potatoes and corn to him, "Didn't you say you came to do your homework?"

"Can we play for 10 minutes first!" He even brought a lighter and incense!
Sandalwood took a bundle, in addition to the lighter and cigarettes.But as soon as he took it out, he quickly stuffed it in, not daring to look at Lin Mei.

Lin Mei had no choice but to pretend not to see it.

The two went to the balcony with incense sticks and cannons. Lin Mei placed two flower pots on the balcony. It is unknown when the flowers were bought, but they had been placed on the balcony of Lin's family for at least five or six years.Lin Mei stuck the sentry cannon into the soil, lit the fire, and the cannon burned to the end. The cannon rushed out and exploded in mid-air with a bang!

After the two cannons had been fired, Tao Tao said, "Let's fire off the one with one hundred rings again?" He also brought two sets of one with one hundred rings and one with two hundred rings.

Lin Mei saw that it was past eleven o'clock, pulled him back and closed the balcony door and said, "Don't let it go, you're quarreling with the neighbors. You said you came to do your homework, but now you haven't written a single word. I should go to grandma soon." Home. How about your homework?"

Tao Tao looked at the time, and went to get another five sentry guns and said, "I don't have time to write anyway, so I'll put a few more and we'll go!"

The homework was brought back as it was, and my aunt saw Tao Tao came back with her schoolbag and said, "How much did you write?"

Tao Tao didn't let her read it, so he went to the back room to put his schoolbag and said, "I wrote a lot!"

Today is still making dumplings. Tao Tao is chopping cabbage in the kitchen. My aunt is wrapping here and looking into the kitchen from time to time: "Be careful not to chop your hands!"

"Got it!" Tao Tao chopped until the chopping boards rattled, sounding like they were demolishing a house.

That night my uncle went home to eat a plate of dumplings and then went out to drink. He agreed to come back at nine o'clock to send Lin Mama and Lin Mei back.But after eight o'clock, Lin's mother told her grandma to take Lin Mei away.

"How do you two go? Let him come back to see you off." Grandma said.

"If he really drinks until nine o'clock and comes back, how dare he let him drive? The two of us walked back slowly." Mother Lin said, pushing Lin Mei to get the clothes.

"Then this road is not safe." Grandma was worried.

"There is Qiangqiang." Lin Mei asked Qiangqiang to come over and put on the leash.Such a big dog squatted in front of Lin Mei wagging its head and tail. Grandma smiled and said, "That's right, you two can hold it."

But in the end, Tao Tao was asked to go back with them, "Bring your homework, and stay at your aunt's house at night and don't come back. Let your sister give you guidance." The aunt said.

Tao Tao has no objection, there are still cannons fired at the aunt's house.Lin Mei doesn't like shooting cannons very much, it's all his in the end.As soon as I heard it, I happily went to put on my coat, and said, "I'll take the dog!"

Walking on the road, Mama Lin was carrying the leftovers stuffed by her grandma.Lin Mei holds a flashlight, and Tao Tao leads the dog.Mother Lin walked in front and said, "Talk slowly, you siblings, watch your feet carefully, and don't step on places where there is ice."

Tao Tao said to Lin Mei: "Sister, do you know that a student from No. [-] Middle School jumped off the third floor and fell to his death."

"What's going on?" Lin Mei hadn't heard anything about it, "It wasn't in the newspaper."

"All the schools in our area know about it," Tao Tao said.

Like Lin Mei, the student is in the third year of high school, and her academic performance may have declined.The school held a parent meeting before the holiday, and may have publicly criticized the student and the student's parents at the meeting.After the parent returned home, he taught the child a lesson, maybe the words were a bit harsh, and the child jumped out of the window of his house in the middle of the night, with his head down and dead.The next day someone went to work in the morning and found out. I heard that the parents didn’t know that the child was not in the house when they knocked on the door. down.

Lin Mei remembered the notice sent by the school during the holiday.

Mother Lin, who was walking in front, turned around and said, "Is it true? This is too scary."

Tao Tao said: "Someone in our class was a junior high school student with the one who jumped off the building. I heard it was true."

Mother Lin sighed and shook her head: "It's a crime..."

Probably because of this, Tao Tao was going to set off cannons when he arrived at Lin Mei's house, and Lin's mother told him to set off less, so as not to disturb the neighbors to sleep.Then he coaxed him and Lin Mei to wash their feet, changed their clothes and went to watch TV in Lin Mei's room.

Tao Tao was overjoyed when he saw the VCD player on top of Lin Mei's TV: "Sister! What kind of discs do you have here?"

Lin Mei said: "There are some movies your father gave me, and there is also a Meteor Garden."

Tao Tao squatted in front of the drawer to pick out dishes, "The girls in our class are almost fascinated by F4, what Daoming Temple, beautiful work... Sister, which one do you like?"

Lin Mei thought for a while and said, "Ximen."

Tao Tao said: "That playboy?"

In fact, Lin Mei likes Ximen and Meizuo the most when she reads comics. Ximen's episode [-] and meeting are very romantic, and Meizuo is cute when taking care of her mother and sister.But the other two most popular ones didn't feel much.

Tao Tao put down the plate to watch, but Lin Mei ignored him and sat on a chair to do her homework.

Mother Lin went to bed and said, "The living room is paved for you. Don't look too late and go to bed early. You will do your homework with your sister at home tomorrow morning, and you will go back with your sister at noon." Then she told Lin Mei, "Don't look It's too late, go to bed early."

Lin Mei tends to forget the time when she reads a book, and she feels like it's already eleven o'clock after she hasn't read for a long time.There is no way, it is too late to come back, it feels like it is usually seven or eight o'clock.Seeing that Tao Tao was still looking at the dishes, she said, "It's time to sleep, don't watch."

Tao Tao hummed, as if he was unresponsive, he turned around after a minute: "Going to sleep?" Then he clutched his stomach and thought for a while, "Sister, I'm a little hungry."

Lin Mei expected it, and went to the kitchen with him and said, "I brought back croquettes, fried octopus and crispy meat, as well as corn and sweet potatoes. What do you want to eat? Shall I serve you a bowl of instant noodles?"

Tao Tao was moved and said: "Sister, you are so kind to me!" At home, his mother would definitely say, "What to eat? It's time to go to bed. What to eat? The kitchen is cleaned up! Let's eat tomorrow morning!"

Lin Mei kicked him out, served him a bowl of instant noodles, put a few meatballs in it, and served him. It was almost 11:30 when he finished eating and then cleaned up the dishes.The spring bed had already been set up in the living room, and Lin's mother spread two thick quilts for him in fear that he would be cold, with an electric blanket underneath.

Lin Mei told him: "Turn on the electric blanket when it's cold in the middle of the night." Because the heating stopped at twelve o'clock, the temperature has already started to drop.

Tao Tao is now 1.8 meters big and sleeps on the spring bed, which seems a bit small. He lay down on it, and Lin Mei tucked the quilt for him before turning off the light and returning to the room.

It made Tao Tao very embarrassed, but his sister always took care of him.

On the morning of the first day of junior high school, Lin Mei and Tao Tao were doing homework all morning.She wrote her homework quickly and finished it before ten o'clock.I have nothing to do and wanted to take Qiangqiang downstairs and let it run around. Tao Tao wrote his homework and shouted: "Sister! I will take him there after I finish writing!"

"You write better." Seeing that he was so eager, Lin Mei decided not to compete with him for this job, so what would she do?I go to my grandma's house for dinner at noon, so I don't have to cook.There are two boxes of vegetables on the balcony, so there is no need to buy vegetables.

After Tao Tao finished his math, he immediately put Qiangqiang on a leash and prepared to take him out, "Sister, I'll take Qiangqiang out for a walk, sister, where are you going?" Turning to the kitchen, Tao Tao got stuck.

Because he saw his sister squatting on the ground and wiping the floor tiles with a newspaper.

"Sister?!" Tao Tao was shocked!He felt that this kind of thing didn't suit children like them!
Lin Mei: "It's finished." She threw the newspaper balls into the trash can, put away the watering can, washed her hands and said, "Finished? Take Qiang Qiang out to play, stay away from those who set off cannons, and don't blow up the dog." , otherwise you can’t hold it.”

Tao Tao: "...Sister, why are you doing this?"

"It's so beautiful when it's wiped clean." Lin Mei said.

Tao Tao: I really don't understand my sister's hobbies!

That night, Zhou Que called, "I'll call you at noon, but you're not at home, go to your uncle's."

"Yes, happy new year." Lin Mei said with a smile.

"Haha, you're happy too!" Zhou Yu said, "I'm looking for you to ask you, will you go to watch the fireworks tomorrow night?"

Lin Mei thought about it and decided to refuse, "I won't go, I've been very tired these days and want to have a good rest." In previous years, I wasn't so tired, but this year it was mainly due to making too many dumplings.Especially the steamed stuffed bun that my aunt said she wanted to bring to the people in the rented house. In the end, the stuffing was not enough, so I chopped a radish and put it in. Anyway, I haven't been idle until today.

Zhou Yu said disappointedly: "...Oh. Well then, let's see you at school. I wanted to play with you."

"See you at school." Lin Mei said, "Anyway, it's coming soon."

Zhou Que said, "Oh, by the way, Mei Lu called me for New Year's greetings, did she call you?"

Lin Mei said, "Not this year, but last year."

"I sent her an email, and she replied to me." Zhou Yu sighed and said, "I really think she worked really hard there. She just moved out of the host family, and the new place is upstairs every night. She played loud music as if at a dance party, and she didn't dare to protest, and she said that there were no windows in her room, and sometimes she had to open the door for ventilation, and she had to pay attention to the movement in the corridor, as soon as there were footsteps coming It’s really hard to close the door immediately.”

Zhou Jie couldn't imagine what a room without windows would be like, wouldn't it be a basement?

Lin Mei said: "You won't do this, don't you live with your mother? That's fine."

"Yeah." Zhou Que said, "I'm just a little scared... My mother said, let me go after the exam, in July."

Lin Mei said in a low voice, "Is there enough time?"

"It's too late, my mother will do it for me, it's pretty fast." Zhou Yu sighed, "We won't see each other as soon as I leave... That's why I want to see you more while I'm still here."

Lin Mei smiled lightly and said: "Don't worry, even if you go there, we are still friends. How easy it is to meet now, and you can also video at ordinary times. The ends of the world are like neighbors."

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(End of this chapter)