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Liu Xia's unexpected return home made Mao'er ecstatic. He held Liu Xia's neck for a long time and refused to let go. Then he kept looking at Liu Xia's face. He couldn't believe that he saw his uncle again so soon. .

Liu Xia took him to play on the hillside for most of the day, and didn't run home with him until the rain fell at dusk.

Liu Xia felt very at ease, the rain was gurgling outside the window, and he was no longer alone in the empty and cold dormitory, he was in his own warm home, the cat was holding a milk bottle in his arms to drink contentedly, there is nothing better than this It made him more satisfied.

When Liu Kui sent Liu Hai to the capital after the new year, he planned to stay for at most two or three days, but he actually came back half a month later.

Zeng Guangtong had already returned to work in the college, and Zeng Huaichen accompanied him to see all the places of interest in Kyoto, big and small, before letting him go. When he came back, he brought a lot of things, including six bags of milk powder.

The Liujialing Brigade has had no cows and cubs for the past six months, and of course there is no milk. The cats have been drinking milk powder for more than three months.

In fact, the cat is more than three years old and can eat, but Liu Xia is superstitious about Wang Junyu's statement that drinking more milk is good for health.

When it comes to dealing with the cat, the family members will follow Liu Xia as long as they can do it.

The large and small scars on Liu Xia's stomach made the whole family feel guilty.

Liu Xia was in a hurry when he left school, and he didn't see his teacher, so no one gave him homework.But Liu Xia didn't dare to really give himself a vacation. After returning to his cave, he played with the cat for more than two hours. After the cat fell asleep, he began to take out his books to do homework after class.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night, but it would take at least three days for Liu Xia and the others to go out.

Liu Xia learns from playing around Mao'er's knees every day, and can only devote three or four hours a day to playing with Mao'er, but the two of them are very happy and content.

At dusk on Saturday, Liu Kui and Liu Yu came back. The stone-breaking work was not over, they were just so homesick that they didn't want to do the work until they came back.

The house suddenly became lively, and Xiumei boiled two large pots of boiling water for dinner.

Liu Xia is going back to school tomorrow, so it's too dark to take a shower today.

The bathtub was custom-made by Liu Kui and his father-in-law, and it was only used during the Chinese New Year. It was a circle larger than ordinary bathtubs, and the depth was three times higher. It was also spacious for Liu Xia and the cat to sit together. It won't splash the water all over the place again.

The two of them just played naked in the bathtub, the cat loved to take a bath like this, every time when it was time to come out, it would always be abusive and refused, today Xiumei decided to let the two of them have a good bath.

Water was always boiling on the stove, and Liu Xia felt that the water was not hot enough, so Xiumei used a ladle to add hot water to the basin.

When the family was chatting and laughing, the door was pushed open, and Liu Miao and Liu Mudan came in. Liu Mudan was still holding two badly rolled homework books.

Liu Miao said: "Peony did all her homework wrong and lost her eraser. She has to come here and borrow Xiaowei's eraser."

Xiumei cleared the stone table by the stove, brought the kerosene lamp and the eraser, and asked Liu Mudan to sit there and correct her homework.

Liu Mudan was one year older than Liu Wei, and she was supposed to go to school the year before last, but she cried to death and refused to go to school. Last year, it seemed that Liu Wei, who was younger than her, had gone to school, so Liu Fulai forced her to send her there.

Although Mudan's smell is choking from far away, Liu Fulai is a good person, and Liu Changqing's family has never disliked his children.

Liu Xia rubbed the cat's ashes bit by bit with his hands. The cat was not honest at all, and kept pouring water on Liu Xia's hair with his small hands.

Liu Mudan wiped the eraser a few times, then blew vigorously, watching Liu Xia and the cat making trouble in the basin, after a while, she suddenly asked Liu Xia: "Uncle Xiao Xia, you still bathe in the same basin as the cat, Are you really not afraid that he will kill you at all?"

As soon as the words fell to the ground, only the cat's happy laughter was left in the room, and even Liu Wei and Liu Rui stared at Liu Mudan without saying a word.

Liu Miao, who was talking to Liu Yu, just froze for a moment, then stretched out her hand and pulled Liu Mudan's arm violently to lift her up. Before Liu Mudan could figure out what was going on, Liu Miao had already thrown her out of the door .

Liu Mudan was crying in the yard, Liu Miao was scolding her crotch mouth, and no one in Liu Changqing's family went out to persuade her.

They all knew that Liu Mudan was a little careless, but what she said today, she was a real fool, and it made Liu Changqing and the others angry.

Liu Mudan is a child, how could she know those mysterious and mysterious things, those words can only be heard from the adults at home.

The whole family looked at Liu Xia worriedly.

Liu Xia tightly shut his mouth, staring blankly at the door.

Mao'er picked up some water again, and sprinkled it on his head with a grin. Seeing that Liu Xia didn't respond, he tilted his head to look at Liu Xia's face: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

He was so focused on playing with Liu Xia that he didn't hear Liu Mudan's words at all, and he didn't understand when he heard them.

Liu Xia came back to his senses in a flash, brushed his hair, tried to smile, and scratched the cat's creaking nest with both hands: "I'm so caught, I want you to wet my uncle's hair and make you skin... "

The cat was particularly afraid of being tickled, and would hide from left to right and laugh so hard that he couldn't breathe.

Liu Changqing and Liu Kui spoke at the same time, as if Liu Mudan had never been here just now.

In the evening, Liu Xia played with the cat until after ten o'clock. After the cat fell asleep, he held the cat and read English books until it was almost dawn.

For the first time, Liu Xia wanted to go to school more than he wanted to stay at home.

Even Mr. Jiang was surprised by the way he studied hard after returning to school. This situation became more obvious after the results of the second grade pre-examination came out and more than 600 pre-selected and eliminated students packed their bags and left the campus.

Liu Xia became like other students who had better grades and felt that they might be admitted to university. They rarely even went out for 10 minutes between classes, and buried themselves in books all day long.

Shao Yan was very awkward, and asked Liu Xia what kind of stimulation he had suddenly become like this.

Liu Xia refused to say anything.

One day, Shao Yan accidentally found a piece of paper in Liu Xia's English book, on which was drawn a hideous stick figure with the word 'Liu Peony' written on his stomach.

He thought that Liu Xia had a crush on a girl named Liu Mudan in the school, so he secretly inquired about it, and found that the school didn't have that name at all.

Shao Yan couldn't hold back anymore, he insisted on telling Liu Xia who beauty Liu Mudan was.

Liu Xia said viciously: "Beautiful? That's a disgusting person than the Bone Demon! You're so ugly! If you chop it up and feed it to the livestock, it's too salty! You're a bad grandson."

Not only did Liu Xia's frenzied study enthusiasm not diminish after a summer vacation, but it also showed signs of upgrading after entering the second year of high school. Wang Zhanjie, who became his math teacher, felt that if he dared to continue like this, his eyes would have to be ruined.

Just when Wang Zhanjie was going to talk to him about this problem when Liu Xia went to him alone for homework tutoring on Sunday afternoon, Liu Xia came to him first.

Liu Xia felt that he might not be born to be a good student, so he tried his best. He put the portrait of Liu Mudan in each of his books, warning himself to work hard, as long as he saw that picture, he would Thinking that if he didn't get into college, Mao'er would have to live in a place full of disgusting people like Liu Mudan.

But he found that he could control his body, but he couldn't control his mind.

In the last two months of the first grade, he persisted very well; in the two months after the start of the second grade, he also persisted.

But now it is becoming more and more difficult to persevere, one lesson after another, one after another homework, endless exercises and vocabulary, Liu Xia found that his memory and analysis ability are constantly declining.

However, there was no problem for a day or two after returning to school on Sunday. Occasionally he was dragged by Shao Yan to play table tennis between classes, and in the next class he could recover the previous high concentration. state.

He didn't know what was wrong with him.

After listening to him, Wang Zhanjie pondered for a while: "People are different. Don't be like those classmates who sit in the classroom all day long. You are still the same as before. You can play when you need to in class, and listen carefully in class to succeed."

Liu Xia said anxiously: "I want to go to college, I must go to college, I didn't get in like that before."

Wang Zhanjie said: "You seem to have the habit of previewing your homework before, but now you make yourself too nervous and focus on the homework assigned by the teacher every day, and you have lost this good habit.

Try it in the future, be more careful and in-depth during the preview, concentrate your energy to the limit during class, and try it for a while. "

For the rest of the time, Liu Xia followed what Wang Zhanjie said. After class, he would play table tennis with Shao Yan or run a few laps on the playground. Preview it carefully.

He found that his memory and analytical ability were restored.

In the final exam of the second grade, Liu Xia's notice stated that he was ranked 110th and third in the whole year of science.

In the two summer vacations of the first and second year of high school, Liu Xia lived relaxed, happy and extremely nervous.

He is relaxed and happy because he stays in the home he likes, and the cat is right in front of him; he is nervous because he has been previewing the homework for the next semester, and he has never stopped practicing calligraphy. The homework assigned by the teacher can make people exhausted.

In the summer vacation of the second year of high school, Liu Hai still failed to come back. Zeng Guangtong enrolled him in an English class, and added a letter from Liu Hai to the letter Liu Hai wrote back, explaining the situation in particular.

Along with Liu Hai's letter, there were also several books and review materials for Liu Xia. Among them was a set of teaching reference books for an English teacher in a high school in Kyoto, which Zeng Guangtong asked a friend for him.

Among those books, there is also the fifth volume of "Les Miserables" that Liu Xia has been looking forward to for a long time.

Liu Xia spent a week reading the book, and then felt uncomfortable for several days.

He never imagined that he would feel sorry for Javert's death. When he was reading the first four volumes, he was always worried about M. Madeleine, worried that Javert would expose him, worried that Javert would make excuses to frame him, but now, Javert Wei committed suicide.

Liu Xia couldn't understand Javert's pious belief in the law, so he couldn't understand Javert's confusion when he felt that he had betrayed the law for his conscience.

And Eponine, like Liu Xia, couldn't understand Eponine's wishful love, but he liked Eponine very much, sometimes even more than Cosette, Eponine's death made her sad, and she was not worth it, From the beginning to the end, Liu Xia didn't like Marius very much. He liked Enzola who didn't play much.

Of course, it was Jean Valjean who made Liu Xia most sad. Liu Xia never knew what "sentimentality" was, but when he saw that "he used to be able to lift Fauchelevent's carriage, but now he doesn't even like a pen." "Heavy" this topic, eyes instantly filled with tears.

He looked at Jean Valjean who could only drink a glass of water, watched him arrange the inheritance for Cosette in the flashback, and his dislike for Marius reached its peak.

He watched Jean Arang lie down forever. In the darkness, the light of the archangel could comfort Jean Arang's soul, but it couldn't shine into Liu Xia's heart. He was depressed for several days.

He said to the cat who looked at him worriedly: "If we don't learn from Jean Valjean in the future, a fool will hurt himself and give up his favorite person to others!"