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He Xiaochuan said again: "Qiqi's tuition is lost!"

Lin Dong, Mu Xinghe and Jiang Xiaojun were stunned at the same time. In front of the students who focus on learning, losing tuition fees is a big deal. The three of Lin Dong were stunned for a while, and Lin Dong was the first to ask, "Where did you lose it?"

He Xiaochuan said, "I don't know."

"Go back and look for it?"

"Looked for it, but didn't find it."

Lin Dong thought for a while, and then asked: "When I came to school, I fell on the road, did you find the place?"

He Xiaochuan said: "I found it. We went there by bicycle, but it still didn't exist."

"Look again." Lin Dong turned to look at Mu Xinghe and said, "Xinghe, let's help Qiqi find it again."

Mu Xinghe immediately replied: "Let's go."

Losing tuition fees is really not a trivial matter. The five of them were very nervous. First they searched inside the school, but couldn’t find it. Then they went out of the school to look for it, but they still couldn’t find it. The five of them couldn’t be reconciled. They kept searching on the way back and found Dongdajie. After the street, they returned to the place where the bicycle fell, and the five people did not leave, and sat together by the small ditch.

Lin Dong and the others did not speak.

Kiki drooped his head.

After a while, He Xiaochuan asked: "I have searched all over the place, and I guess someone picked it up, so what should I do now?"

Lin Dong said: "Go home and tell Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang frankly."

Qiqi looked up and asked, "How do you say?"

Lin Dong said, "To tell the truth, you lost the money."

Kiki said dejectedly, "My dad won't believe it."

Lin Dong asked: "Why? Your dad doesn't even believe this, so what does your dad believe?"

Qiqi said in a low voice: "My dad doesn't believe what I say. He must think that my dad used the money to buy things and eat. He deliberately didn't pay the tuition. He would beat me to death and not give me food."

Lin Dong shivered when he thought of Qiqi's father's shoes.

He Xiaochuan looked at Qiqi sympathetically.

Jiang Xiaojun said: "Then you have to go home, otherwise you won't get the new books? You won't go to school? Later, everyone else signed up, but you didn't sign up. My uncle won't break your leg when you go home."

Qiqi said: "Then I won't go home!"

"Why are you going if you don't go home?"

"I will work part-time to earn tuition fees, and I will come back when I earn enough."

Qiqi sat up and left with an empty schoolbag on her back.

Lin Dong quickly stood up, grabbed Qiqi and said, "Qiqi, don't go, let's find a way."

Qiqi said with a crying voice, "What can I do, I can't even find the money."

Lin Dong said, "Then where do you go to work?"

Qiqi said: "I go to restaurants to wash dishes to make money."

"Why don't you go to a restaurant?"

"Eating is included in the restaurant."

Sitting by the river, Mu Xinghe turned his head and said, "Hey, Qiqi, I really admire you for being so thoughtful at this moment."

Lin Dong continued: "Xinghe, Qiqi is uncomfortable enough, stop mocking him."

Mu Xinghe stopped talking.

Jiang Xiaojun frowned and looked at Qiqi.

Lin Dong said, "Why don't we pay him the tuition fees?"

Qiqi was taken aback, looked at Lin Dong blankly, and said, "I don't have any money to pay you back now."

"You pay us back the money you earn during the summer vacation."

"it is good."

Lin Dong immediately took out money from his trouser pocket, took out more than 50 yuan in change, thought for a while and said, "I still have 200 yuan in my schoolbag and in the piggy bank at home. I'll get it for you when I go back."

"No, I have it here too." Mu Xinghe stood up, took out more than 100 yuan from his trouser pocket and said, "It's all my pocket money."

Jiang Xiaojun said, "I have more than 80 yuan."

He Xiaochuan took out his trouser pocket, didn't take out a dime, took off his schoolbag, and finally found out all his belongings, including fifty cents and ten cents, it was only more than ten yuan, all of which were handed over to Lin Dong. Lin Dong squatted down, put all the money on the ground, and counted them one by one. After counting all the changes, it was 290 six yuan, plus the two yuan in Lin Dong's schoolbag, the total was 490 six yuan.

But the tuition fee for the first grade of junior high school is 500 yuan, which is obviously not enough.

Lin Dong looked at the three of Mu Xinghe and asked, "Do you still have any?"

The three of Mu Xinghe said together: "No."

Lin Dongwen turned around and asked, "Qiqi, do you have no money?"

Before Qiqi opened his mouth, He Xiaochuan said, "He has already eaten up all the money on his body."

"It's still four yuan short, or I'll go home and get it."

Mu Xinghe said: "Don't be so troublesome, I'll go to my classmate to borrow five yuan."

"is it okay?"

"no problem."

Lin Dong handed the money to Qiqi and said, "Qiqi, you can't lose it this time. When we arrive at school in a while, Xinghe and I will give you another [-] yuan, and you can use it to pay tuition. Remember that during the summer vacation Pay us back."

Qiqi was so moved that she didn't know what to say, she almost cried and said, "Lin Dong, thank you, thank you so much."

"Don't cry, take the money and pretend to be safe."

"Okay, I'll put it in the mezzanine, it will never fall here."

"it is good."

Qiqi took off the schoolbag, grabbed the zipper with his fat hand, and pulled it hard, a roll of something fell out, five people looked at the ground at the same time, and then saw a roll of money on the ground, He Xiaochuan quickly squatted down to pick it up , Expand and count, exactly 500 yuan.

He Xiaochuan looked at Qiqi.

Qiqi said pleasantly: "This is my tuition fee. I haven't lost my tuition fee. I put my tuition fee in the mezzanine. Who put it for me?"

After Qiqi finished speaking, he felt that the surrounding environment was not right. He turned to look at Lin Dong and the others. For some reason, he felt that the four of them seemed to be burning with anger and wanted to beat him up.

He quickly explained: "I don't know, I don't know when I put the money in the mezzanine, if I knew, I wouldn't cry, I, I, I will return the money to you, don't be angry , I’ll go home and ask my dad to make delicious food for you, don’t be angry! Lin Dong, I’ll give you the money, and I’ll give it back to you. I asked my dad for pocket money to buy you something to eat.”

Qiqi returned a handful of money to Lin Dong, and just as Lin Dong took the money, Mu Xinghe, Jiang Xiaojun, and He Xiaochuan pushed Qiqi to the ground and beat him together. Foot, the four beat and cursed.

"Didn't you say the money was lost? Didn't you say you couldn't find it?"

"Are you looking for it seriously?"

"Still crying, you still have the nerve to cry!"

"As a result, we didn't go to school or class, and we ran back and forth for so many miles that we almost lost our eyesight. Please help me find money."

"Make you careless, make you careless!"

"..."

Qiqi hugged his head and let Lin Dong beat the four of them. After the beating, he wrapped his schoolbag up and said to Lin Dong aggrievedly, "I'll ask my dad for money when I go home, and I'll treat you to tofu nao tomorrow morning."

Mu Xinghe raised his hand to hit Qiqi: "You—"

Qiqi quickly hid behind Lin Dong: "Lin Dong, save me."

Lin Dong said: "Okay, let's go back to school quickly, there is still class."

Qiqi hurriedly said, "Okay."

The five trotted to the school, sweating profusely. After running to the school, Qiqi and He Xiaochuan went to sign up. Lin Dong, Mu Xinghe and Jiang Xiaojun arrived in Class 1 ([-]) of junior high school. They had just stood at the door of the classroom when the bell rang It rang, that is to say, the three of them were absent from class for two classes. It happened that the class teacher was in class in this class. The class teacher came down from the podium and passed in front of the three of them, saying: "You three come with me."

The three of Lin Dong glanced at each other, lowered their heads at the same time, and followed the head teacher to the office. Once in the office, the head teacher threw the book on the desk, sat on the chair, pushed his eyes, and pointed at Lin Dong, Mu Xinghe and Jiang Xiaojun. Started cursing on the forehead.

It is wrong to say that three people are absent from class, and it is a very bad learning attitude. This is not acceptable. After the class teacher said everything about "hanging the head, piercing the buttocks", "chiseling the wall to excuse the light", etc., he asked: "Why did you go to school in front of me?" Didn't come to class for two classes?"

Jiang Xiaojun said: "My brother lost his tuition fee, we went to help find it. We were too anxious at the time and forgot to ask you for leave."

"Have you found it?"

"I found it."

"That's fine, each of you should write a one-thousand-word self-criticism. Write it in the form of a composition, and tell the story through. It is required that the paper is neat, the font is serious, the language is beautiful and smooth, the logic is clear, there is a beginning and an end, there is a theme, and it must also be educational. And your reflections, understand?"

The three of Lin Dong wailed inwardly.

The class teacher continued: "Leave it to me tomorrow."

The three should be together.

Coming out of the office, the three hated Qiqi had itchy teeth. When they got home from school, they pressed Qiqi on the bed and beat him up. Qiqi's father asked why, and Lin Dong and the others immediately threw Qiqi into the tuition fee. Tell Qiqi's father about the dragon incident, and Qiqi's father will teach Qiqi a lesson.

Only then did Lin Dong and the others vent their anger. When they got home, they began to rack their brains to write a review. Although it was difficult to write, the three of them finally finished writing. Write a [-]-word composition." After finishing speaking, he took Lin Dong's composition review to class to read, and praised Lin Dong for his excellent writing.

Lin Dong couldn't laugh or cry.

But the matter finally passed, and Qiqi kept the agreement and invited the four of Lin Dong to drink tofu nao, and the five of them went to school together again.

Although Qiqi and He Xiaochuan are not good at studying, they are very active in going to school. Every morning, they ride their bicycles and shout all over the street, "Lin Dong is going to school", "Xinghe is going to school", "Xiaojun is going to school" "Since Qiqi and He Xiaochuan went to junior high school, Lin Dong didn't need to look at the clock anymore, and he was always on time when he went to and from school.

Occasionally, on rainy days, the five of them couldn't ride their bicycles, so they walked to school with umbrellas, and didn't go back to Dongdajie at noon, so they just had lunch at the fast food restaurant next to the school.

Saying that it’s enough, in fact, Qiqi and He Xiaochuan must have enough to eat. Every time they don’t get enough pocket money from home, they have to rub against Lin Dong. Before they can get up with Lin Dong, they are kicked twice by Mu Xinghe.

Qiqi had to rub against his cousin Jiang Xiaojun, and He Xiaochuan was taken care of by Lin Dong and Mu Xinghe. Occasionally, five of them wanted to eat instant noodles, and the five of them had to buy five barrels of instant noodles and five packs of instant noodles, otherwise they would not be full.

After running for a semester like this, all five of them have grown in stature, and all of them are taller than their own mothers, but Lin Dong, who is the least, has a little baby fat on his face. Ruan Xinping stood up, held Lin Dong's face in his hands and said : "What should I do? My baby is just a little baby fat."

Lin Dong put his arm around Ruan Xinping's shoulder and said, "Didn't you say that I would look better if I didn't have baby fat?"

"Good-looking is good-looking, but you have grown up."

"When I grow up, I will marry a daughter-in-law and leave my mother."

"I don't marry a wife."

"Nonsense." Ruan Xinping asked softly, "There are so many girls in your class who like you, do you like any of them?"

"No, I don't like girls."

"Then you like boys?"

"I don't like boys either."

Ruan Xinping smiled, pinched the flesh on Lin Dong's face and said, "You are right now, but when you meet love, you will be different."

Lin Dong smiled slightly, and the faint dimples at the corners of his mouth made him look clearer and more beautiful. He said in a melodious voice, "Let's talk about it when we meet. It's still early. Learning is the main thing."

Ruan Xinping's smile faded, and she said, "Yes, the focus is on studying, and the winter vacation is coming soon. How many days do you have for the winter vacation?"

Lin Dong said, "A week."

"So short?"

"Because the high school entrance examination will be in June next year, and the teachers all want to make a dash for it. It is related to our high school entrance examination results and the admission rate of Jinli Middle School."

"That's right." Ruan Xinping nodded and said, "Then you can't go back to the imperial capital after Chinese New Year? Can't you see grandma and grandpa?"

Lin Dong nodded: "Mom, I'm sorry."

Ruan Xinping raised her hand to touch Lin Dong's head and said, "There's nothing to apologize for. After you finish the exam, our family will go and have fun. Then you can just spend time with grandma and grandpa."

"okay, I get it."

Lin Dong's family planned not to return to the imperial capital for the Chinese New Year, but before the Chinese New Year, news came from the imperial capital that Mr. Ruan was ill and needed an operation. Although it was not a major problem, Ruan Xinping was really worried and wanted his family to return to the imperial capital , and didn't want to delay her son's studies, so she finally decided to let Lin Dong continue her studies in Jinli Town. She and Pei Zhiwei went back to the Imperial Capital. After all, they haven't been back for a year, so it's not appropriate.

After returning to the imperial capital, Ruan Xinping handed Lin Dong over to Lin Lihua, only to learn that Lin Lihua returned to the countryside every year because Uncle Xiaochuan was imprisoned last year. The house is not enough. At this time, Mu Xinghe said: "Let Dongdong live in my house. My family has land to live in. Dongdong and I go to and from school together. Aunt Ruan and Uncle Pei, don't worry, I will take good care of Dongdong. of."

Ruan Xinping, Pei Shiwei, Lin Lihua and Lin Dong looked at Mu Xinghe at the same time.