hope for redemption

It was past eleven o'clock when Jiang Xi woke up in a daze, probably because she was too tired to tidy up the room yesterday, and fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow last night, and had no dreams all night.

Jiang Xi didn't wake up naturally, but was awakened by the sun. Jiang Xi hated this bay window as much as he liked it before.The dazzling sunlight hit his eyelids so brightly that his whole face was burned. Jiang Xi turned over irritably and pulled the quilt up to cover his head, then lifted the quilt slightly over his nose, leaving a small Hole for the nose to breathe.

Consciousness gradually came back, Jiang Xi blinked, his eyes felt a little uncomfortable, something must have entered.I reached out and rubbed it, but it didn't work.

"tsk"

Lifting off the quilt, she straightened her body, and the light gray silk quilt slid down her skin, revealing her white and shapely chest. The sun hit the skin like a layer of gold, making her whole person glisten.

Opening his eyes dizzily, Jiang Xi was dazzled by the sunlight for a moment, but then he was shocked by the scene outside the window.The straight water embankment in the distance meets the endless blue sky, and the lush tall forests on both sides are shaking their oily green leaves and claws, and there are small farmers in twos and threes wearing straw hats scattered in the small wheat fields.

Jiang Xi didn't know how to describe his current mood, his heart was filled with satisfaction and heavy, which made him feel the reality of life.

The dissatisfaction of waking up in the morning was swept away.

Jiang Xi lifted the quilt and got up.

The first sight is a beautiful body, uh, yes, Jiang Xi likes to sleep naked.And it's the kind of naked sleeping that likes to be covered with a quilt, which is the case all year round.

Jiang Xi likes the satisfaction brought by the skin touching the soft cashmere, and the sense of security brought by the gravity blanket tightly wrapping the body.

"Ah! I am still so handsome today!" Jiang Xi stood in front of the full-length mirror, pressing her curly hair while observing herself in the mirror and said with satisfaction: "How can there be such a beautiful face in this world?" people!"

Jiang Xi was very satisfied with herself today, and then turned her head to get a pair of underwear from the drying rack.

Wearing underwear while choosing clothes.

I chose a white hooded short-sleeved sweater from Dickies, a pair of light golden brown cargo shorts from GXG, and a pair of low-top retro casual shoes from STARTER.

But Jiang Xi didn't put them on, just tore them off the hanger and threw them on the bed.Then he picked up the cashmere bathrobe that was thrown on the carpet, tied it casually, and then picked up the phone and left the room.

As soon as he walked out of the room, a wave of heat came over his face. Jiang Xi turned on VOA, clicked on any listening material and set it to double speed, then threw the phone on the cooking table, turned on the air conditioner in the living room, and turned on the sound in the bathroom. go.

The eyes were still uncomfortable, Jiang Xi walked to the sink, leaned forward and gently opened his eyes with his hands to observe what was going on carefully, but he didn't expect that when he lifted his eyelids, a bunch of eyelashes rolled out.

"I'm cao!" Jiang Xi blinked in shock, her face was full of disbelief, her eyelashes were so fine that they rolled inward and poked into her eyelids!

"Are my eyelashes so long?!" Jiang Xi finally digested this weird fact, and hurriedly went to the mirror to look at her own eyelashes, observed them carefully, and then said complacently: "It's long and Alice! As expected of me!"

After giggling for a while, he began to wash up, listening to the double-speed English broadcast while simultaneously translating in his mind.

When the materials were finished, Jiang Xi also washed up, grabbed a bottle of toner, patted it on, and walked out of the bathroom.

I poured a glass of water and drank it while looking at the Chinese of the material I just listened to. Compared with what I just translated, there was no difference, so I breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there is no regression.Jiang Xi thought to herself.

Looking at the time again, it was almost [-]:[-], so I quit VOA, opened NetEase Cloud and clicked a playlist.

After changing my clothes, I scratched my hair, sprayed on sunscreen in a wild way, picked up my phone and went out.

I stopped a taxi at the door, opened WeChat, and reported the address to the WeChat message sent by my mother.

After the phone call at the latest, my mother added it to her WeChat according to the address book, and then sent the location and time.

The location shown on WeChat is a villa called Xinming.

Jiang Xi took a taxi for about 10 minutes, because the location of the villa is already outside the county seat, in the outskirts of the city, so it is a little more expensive and costs 15 yuan.But still much cheaper than taking a taxi in Australia.

Jiang Xi shook his sore arms and walked towards the door. Yesterday's workload was really heavy, Jiang Xi thought to himself.

"Do you have an appointment?" the waiter at the door bowed and asked while welcoming Jiang Xi in with a smile.

"Uh, yes." Jiang Xi was a little uncertain, and then took out his mobile phone to call his mother.

The call was connected not long after, and my mother's pretendingly soft voice rang in my ears again: "Hello? Xixi, are you here yet?"

"Yeah" Jiang Xi has adapted since yesterday's call, and responded with a deadpan expression.

"You find a waiter and ask him to take you to Jinghong Pavilion. Mom and Uncle Xiao are waiting for you here."

"Okay, got it." Jiang Xi hung up the phone after hearing this.

This villa is next to the road, built on the lake, and surrounded by several small islands with trees scattered around.The architectural style of the entire villa is the style of Suzhou and Hangzhou, with blue tiles and gray walls, and gravel paths winding on the grass.

Jiang Xi found a waitress and gave her name. The waitress gave Jiang Xi a meaningful look and then led him the way respectfully.

Walking into the villa, you will find that the decoration inside is particularly emotional. The design of the courtyard is a small sparkling pond in the middle, and there are a few koi in it.The waitress led Jiang Xi through the carved wooden lattice corridor, walked around for a while, and then stopped in front of a small and exquisite fountain stone and green plants.After docking with the person standing at the door, I heard the person at the door say to me: "This gentleman, please follow me."

Jiang Xi followed him into the door, and the man led himself to the third floor, and as soon as he entered the third floor, he saw a sign with three big characters "Jinghong Pavilion" written on it.The man raised his hand and knocked on the door, only to hear a sonorous male voice say: "Come in".

The waiter stretched out his hand to help Jiang Xi open the door, and gestured sideways to invite Jiang Xi to enter.

Jiang Xi walked in with a blank expression, and the waiter followed behind and closed the door.

The interior decoration of the room is very elegant, the wall-mounted desk is full of thread-bound books, the long dark pear wood table, the carved chair of the same style, and there is a small table next to the window, with a small table on it. An empty incense box with golden carvings was placed on the table, wisps of thin smoke with an unknown aroma floated up from it.

The cold air was mixed with the smell of incense, and Jiang Xi saw a fat middle-aged man in a suit sitting on the master. The man was obviously much older than his mother, and there were a few white strands in his black hair. Hairy, bronzed face wrinkled.As the saying goes, appearance comes from the heart, no matter how he pretends to be kind and friendly, the utilitarianism between his brows still cannot be hidden.

Jiang Xi thought this was his stepfather.

My mother was sitting on the left hand side of my stepfather, and beside her was a little girl who was three or four years old.Sitting on the right side of the stepfather was a boy in school uniform and glasses. Jiang Xi could clearly see the expression on the boy's face, holding back his anger.

"Xixi is here! Sit down, sit down!" Seeing him coming in, my mother quickly put down her phone and greeted her warmly, obviously with the attitude of a hostess.

"Just sit next to Xiaoyao." Stepfather put down the teacup and said to himself with a smile.

"Hello, Uncle Xiao." Jiang Xi greeted blankly, then walked towards the seat next to the boy and sat down.

As soon as Jiang Xi sat down, he felt the obvious cold snort from the person next to him, and then moved the chair to the side.

"Hehe, Xixi this is Xiao Yao, your Uncle Xiao's son." Mom came out with a smile to smooth things over: "At this time your sister, Xiao Keran, came to Ranran to say hello to my brother."

"Hello, brother!" The little girl opposite Jiang Xi said with a sweet smile while sitting on the stool.

"Hello." Jiang Xi also returned a smile.

Jiang Xi has no feelings for this child, neither likes nor dislikes, just treats him like an ordinary child.

"Xixi, we've already ordered. See if there's anything else you want to eat." Mom handed Jiang Xi the menu on the table.

Jiang Xi took the menu and took a quick look at it. Fish head with chopped peppers, husband and wife lung slices, stir-fried pork with green peppers...

Yep, it's all spicy.

There is no dish that I can eat, and there is no dish that I like to eat.

But I guess my mother doesn't know what I like to eat.

Although this incident was expected, my heart still couldn't help but throbbing when it was bloody in front of you.

Jiang Xi added scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded pork with fish flavor and sweet and sour pork ribs.

"Where's the class analysis form?" Jiang Xi returned the menu to his mother and went straight to the topic.Jiang Xi didn't want to say anything, just wanted to finish class selection and have dinner before leaving.

"It's in my bag, we'll watch it after dinner." Mom took the menu with a smile, shouted to the door, and a waiter came in to take the menu away.

"No need, just show me now." Jiang Xi poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip and said.

The smile on the mother's face was a little stiff, Jiang Xi pretended not to see it, and drank tea with her eyes downcast.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

"Let's watch now, anyway, the food hasn't been served yet." The stepfather broke the silence.

"That's fine," my mother took out a green mesh file bag from her satchel, and handed it to Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi reached out to take it, and unzipped it. Inside was a stack of papers full of data.

"If you don't understand the previous data, you don't need to read it. Just read the summary at the back." Stepfather said while drinking tea.

There are eight documents in total, the first one is the class analysis form of Class 26, Jiang Xi felt a little headache looking at the pile of icons and data, so he gave up his own analysis and turned directly to the last page to read the summary.

Each file contains the introduction of the head teacher, the highest and lowest scores in the class, awards won by the class, and so on.

There is nothing to say in the summary of class 26, which can be simplified into one word: good.Two words: very good.Three words: very good.

Okay a little bit unreal.

Jiang Xi looked at the next book, which was from Class 1.

Like Class 26, the good ones are unreal, and the excellent ones are unreal.

Then there is class 2, which is worse than the previous two classes. The overall performance fluctuates a bit, and the summary is also very pertinent.Nothing.

25 classes.When Jiang Xi saw this class, he raised his eyebrows in surprise. If he remembered correctly, Lin Wang was in their class at this time.

Then I opened the class analysis form of class 25.

Class 25 is better than Class 2. Although there are fluctuations, it gradually stabilizes, indicating that this class is developing in a good direction.

"Class 1, Class 2, Class 25, and Class 26 are all top classes. Xixi, you'd better choose among these classes. Of course, if you want to choose an ordinary class, my mother also supports it. After all, the teaching level at home and abroad is different. If you enter the top class, the pressure will be greater, and my mother does not want you to have such a great pressure." Seeing that she has finished reading the first four books, the mother said calmly: "Of course, my mother also believes in you. If you are stressed, you will be motivated. Therefore, Uncle Xiao and I still prefer you to choose the top class, especially Class 26. The head teacher of this class and Uncle Xiao are classmates, and also the vice principal of No. [-] Middle School. The teachers in the class are the best in No. [-] Middle School. There are also children of some of my mother’s colleagues in the class, it would be best if you go to his class.”

Mom paused, took a sip of tea and continued: "Xiao Yao is also in this class, and you two brothers can take care of each other."

"Don't call me that, he and I are not brothers." Xiao Yao's cold tone sounded in Jiang Xi's ear: "He better not choose this class."

Jiang Xi's fingers that turned the page paused, and chuckled lightly. He didn't say anything and didn't look at his mother's expression, and continued to look at the data sheet.

"Xiao Yao! Why did you talk to your Aunt Zhou!" The stepfather's annoyed voice sounded in the room.

Xiao Yao didn't reply, just played with his phone with his head down.

The atmosphere fell into embarrassment again.

"Class 1 is also very good, not worse than Class 26. Uncle has many colleagues whose children are also in this class, and the mathematics taught by the head teacher in Class 1 is very good. Isn't mathematics the biggest shortcoming for liberal arts students now? "The stepfather pretended to reprimand Xiao Yao, changed the subject, and recommended Class 1 to Jiang Xi.

In fact, Jiang Xi has already read all the materials of all liberal arts classes in No. [-] Middle School, and he already has a plan in mind.

He intends to choose class 25.

In fact, Xiao Yao didn't say that he would not choose Class 26, just based on what his mother said just now, "The head teacher of this class and Uncle Xiao are classmates, and they are also the vice principals of the No. [-] Middle School. There are also children of some mothers and colleagues in the class." I would not choose this class myself.

One is because I don’t want to be treated differently because of my special relationship, and the other is because there are children of my mother’s colleagues in this class, those colleagues of my mother are either rich or expensive.

The relationship between adults is very complicated, especially the relationship between people like my mother and the others is even more complicated.Money, power, etc. connect them together, as well as their children.The quality of the relationship also changes with the relationship between them.

What was supposed to be a clean and pure relationship in youth was forcibly tainted with the atmosphere of social utilitarianism.

Jiang Xi hates this the most.

Originally, Jiang Xi planned to choose Class 1, but as soon as his stepfather said, "Uncle has many colleagues whose children are also in this class", Jiang Xi dismissed this idea.

Only classes 25 and 2 are left.It's pretty obvious who to pick.

Besides, aren't Lin Wang and the others in this class? Looking at Lin Wang's appearance, the head teacher of this class should be easy to get along with.

"I want to go to class 25." After Jiang Xi made up his mind, he combined the materials in his hand, raised his head and said to his mother's eyes.

"Class 25?" Mom looked at Jiang Xi with some doubts, then frowned and continued: "Can't Class 1 work? Class 1 is better than..."

"No, just class 25." Jiang Xi interrupted without waiting for his mother to finish speaking, showing his firm attitude.

Mom heard that she and her stepfather looked at each other, and the stepfather smiled at his mother and said, "Just listen to the child, Class 25 is also very good."

"But, but, the head teacher of class 25 is gay!" Mom shouted excitedly.

"Is there any problem with homosexuality?!" Hearing what his mother said, Jiang Xi's eyes instantly turned cold, and he stared straight at her and questioned.

"Xixi, I just..." My mother seemed to realize that she had lost her composure, and hurriedly explained, but she didn't know how to explain it, so she couldn't speak for a while.

"Okay, don't get upset about these little things." The stepfather quickly smoothed things over: "Jiang Xi, are you sure you choose Class 25?"

"Yes" Jiang Xi said firmly, looking into his stepfather's eyes.

"That's fine, then I'll send a message to Principal Liu." While the stepfather was talking, the door of the box was also opened, and the waiters came in with the dishes, interrupting what the mother wanted to say next.

The stepfather glanced at his mother, and shook his head secretly to signal her not to say any more. Seeing this, the mother had no choice but to soften her body and acquiesced to Jiang Xi's choice.

After the dishes were ready, the stepfather said let's start, and the people on the table picked up their chopsticks one after another and began to eat.

"Jiang Xi, your school status has been completed, and the secretary will send you the school uniform and school card later. The school card is uniformly issued by No. [-] Middle School, so you can only use temporary ones. That's okay, right? ?” said the stepfather, taking a bite of vegetables.

"Yes." Jiang Xi replied blankly, holding the shredded fish-flavored pork in front of him.

"Let your mother take you to take photos later. If you want to enter the school, you also need to have an inch and a four-inch photo in your hand. The four-inch photo should be posted on the school card. Sometimes you need to use You'd better have all the photos up to one inch in size."

"I have a ready-made one in my mobile phone, can I use this directly?" Jiang Xi was a little disgusted when he heard the photo, put down his chopsticks, turned on the phone, found the ID photo taken in Australia before, and handed it to his stepfather.

The stepfather looked up and said, "This is fine too, you can send it to your mother."

"Well, I also have one-inch and four-inch photos." Jiang Xi put away the phone, sent the photo to his mother, then turned off the phone and put it back in his trouser pocket, picked up a chopstick and picked up a bite of tomato scrambled eggs and said.

The implication is that there is no need for my mother to take me out to take pictures.

"That's good." The stepfather took a sip of tea and continued, "Then when do you plan to enroll?"

"When is the soonest?" Jiang Xi asked.

"Well, tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?!" Jiang Xi couldn't believe it when he heard the time. He just selected a class and can go to school tomorrow, which is too fast.

"Your student status has already been entered, and the only thing left is to set the class. Now the class is set, and your file will be in the hands of the head teacher of class 25 around dinner time. School uniforms, school badges, etc. will be finished by you You can get it. Your uncle also bought a set of textbooks and supplementary materials for you directly from the bookstore of the Education Bureau. Explained to Jiang Xi while removing the fishbone.

"Uncle?" Jiang Xi was a little puzzled by the word that popped up out of nowhere. He thought about it for a while, and only remembered that he had a biological uncle, but he had already settled in Shenyang, and he might not come back once in four or five years. It was impossible. It was the book he took for himself.Then he was an uncle who came out of nowhere.

"It's the uncle of your mother-in-law's family. He is now the director of the Education Bureau. He helped you transfer your school status." Seeing Jiang Xi's puzzled face, my mother reminded me a little unhappy: "When you were young, he still I hugged you and bought it for you, hahaha, don’t you remember?”

Jiang Xi twitched the corners of his mouth speechlessly, but didn't answer.

Adults are like this, trying to remind you of someone with some trivial things from your childhood.Sometimes it’s a row of wahhaha sometimes it’s a pack of Mimi.

"Mum, is that the uncle who gave me Feifei and invited me to eat ice cream last time?" Xiao Keran asked while holding a spoon.

"Yes, baby." My mother immediately laughed when she heard her asking this question, and that smile contained the maternal love that Jiang Xi hadn't seen for many years.

"Then I'll go to school tomorrow." Jiang Xi couldn't help feeling a little irritable when he saw this scene, and quickly turned his eyes away and said.

"There are monthly exams on the 29th and 30th." Xiao Yao suddenly said next to him.

My mother frowned when she heard this, glanced at her phone, and then said, "Why don't you go to school after the National Day holiday, Xixi?"

Jiang Xi also took out his mobile phone and took a look. Today is already the 24th.

"No, just tomorrow, I just got used to it in advance to see what level I am." Jiang Xi put down the phone and finished the last mouthful of rice in the bowl with the soup, wiped his mouth with a tissue and said.

"That's fine, you can get used to it in advance, and you have to tell your mother if you don't get used to it." After thinking for a while, my mother agreed.

"Then where do you live, Jiang Xi?" Stepfather suddenly changed the subject and asked.

"No. 117 Qingnian Road," Jiang Xi replied.

"What?! Youth Road?! Where is the vocational school?!" My mother was anxious when she heard that: "That place is so messy, no way, Xixi, you should move here and live with us."

"Need not."

"no!"

Jiang Xi and Xiao Yao's voices of rejection sounded at the same time.

"I've tolerated you living in our house, I can't tolerate your son living in our house anymore!" Xiao Yao stood up and roared a little excitedly.

"You!" Mom didn't expect Xiao Yao to disrespect himself in front of so many people, his face suddenly turned pale, his eyes were red with grievance, and then angrily pushed the chair away, got up and left the box.

"Xiao Yao! Where's your upbringing?!" The stepfather's face was also a bit ugly, his face turned blue, and he held back his anger.

"I won't move into your house, don't worry, I still don't like the little things in your house." Jiang Xi glanced coldly at Xiao Yao who was on the verge of fury, picked up his phone and pulled some toilet paper, He stood up and said, "Uncle Xiao, thank you for your hospitality today. I'm going to see my mother."

After speaking, he went out.It doesn't matter what the expressions of the two people in the room are.

As soon as Jiang Xi walked out of the box, he looked towards the end of the corridor and saw his mother leaning against the window, smoking a cigarette and weeping.

Jiang Xi pursed the corners of his mouth and walked over, stood opposite his mother and took the cigarette away from her hand, and put it in his mouth.Pass her the tissue in your hand.

Then he also leaned against the window, took a drag on the cigarette, and exhaled a smoke ring.He lowered his head, stared straight at his mother's red eye sockets and said, "This is the family you sold me and wanted to gain a foothold in?"

The author has something to say:

aha!Finally got to this plot line! ! !I'm so excited! ! !