Doing It Over Again

After the results of the mid-term exam came out, no one in class one was surprised when they saw that No.1 was Shen Shao.Anyway, they usually listened to the teacher's name and praise Shen Shao, and they were already a little numb.

The first class in the afternoon is Chinese. After handing out the papers, according to the past habit, I have to read two well-written compositions in the class for everyone to listen to.The name of the essay this time is "My Parents". Among the essays about how hard my parents worked and how much they cared for me, Shen Shao's essay was particularly conspicuous, and even attracted teachers from the Chinese group to discuss it for scoring. A lot of time.

The Chinese teacher in class one is a retired old man. Every time before class, the whole class stands up and salutes "Teacher is good", this old man will seriously return the salute, and then let the students sit down and start the class.

"Everyone's grades have improved this time. There are a few knowledge points with a relatively high error rate, and students should pay more attention." Teacher Gu talked about some places where everyone made mistakes, and then picked up two copies that were not handed out. Paper, "This time there are two compositions that the teachers of the language group think are very good. I will read them to everyone. Students will learn more and strive to write better compositions next time."

The first composition was read by the representative of the Chinese class. Shen Shao listened to it and felt that the little girl's writing skills were really good. The composition was very touching. It can be seen that her parents love her very much, and she also Very sensible.

"The second composition is from student Shen Shao." Teacher Gu picked up the paper and put it down again, and glanced at the students under the podium. "Recently, I heard some rumors that everyone is a junior high school student, not those Children in the second and third grades should know how to distinguish between right and wrong."

The whole class knew that Teacher Gu was talking about Shen Shao, so they all looked at him.

Teacher Gu pretended not to see everyone's reaction, and began to read Shen Shao's composition.

"My mother was lying in the cold coffin. I wanted to cry, but I remembered that the adults said that if tears fell at this time, my mother would not be able to reincarnate, so I held back the tears."

"The day my father left, the weather was so clear that I could see the sweater under his suit jacket clearly when I was standing in the house. The sweater was knit by my mother overnight for him a few months ago, but now he is wearing this sweater , followed others to find happiness.”

The 12-year-old child is still ignorant, but he is also very kind. Before the composition is finished, many girls in the class are red-eyed, and even the boys who are usually naughty feel a little heavy. They can't understand what Shen Shao has done What kind of life, but they know that now they cannot live without their parents at all.

Shen Shao did it, and he is serious about studying, has a good personality, and treats people enthusiastically. If they still gossip about him behind his back, it will be too bad.

After the Chinese class, the atmosphere in the class was more dignified than before during the rest time. Yang Hongqiang put his arms around Shen Shao's shoulders with red eyes and said, "Xiao Shao, my parents will be your parents from now on, and they like you very much."

Shen Shao looked at Yang Hongqiang's appearance, smiled and stretched out his hand to pat him on the back, and said heartily: "Okay, I will come to your house every day for dinner from now on."

"That's no problem, let me tell you, my mother's craftsmanship is just like this." Tang Hongqiang raised his thumb, seeing Shen Shao's cheerful appearance, he didn't feel so uncomfortable anymore.

Perhaps Shen Shao's emotions infected other students, and gradually the atmosphere became more relaxed, but after that day, few people mentioned the matter of Shen Shao's parents. Instead, they went home and became filial to their parents. After all, their parents They are all there, and their father is not as bad as Shen Shao's father.

Soon the students from the foreign class also knew the content of this composition, and gradually Shen Shao became a model in their hearts who had a miserable life experience but did everything well, faintly regarded Shen Shao as their idol.

So in the atmosphere of hello, me, everyone, the first semester of the first year of junior high school ended, and Shen Shao returned to the countryside with the No. 1 final exam score in the county.

Since the house had not been lived in for several months, Shen Shao spent a whole day tidying up the house. He also specially found a handful of mosquito-smoking herbs and lit it, and put it in an unnecessary enamel pot to smoke the house.

After the house was tidied up, it was already dark. As soon as Shen Shao finished washing his feet, he heard someone knocking on the door, and the uncle's dog barked violently.

"Shen Shao, are you at home?" The person outside the door seemed to see that the lights were on in the house, so he deliberately raised his voice and shouted, "I am Shen Quanfa, the secretary of the village committee. We have something to ask you for."

Shen Shao pulled the latch and opened the door of the main room, and saw three middle-aged men standing outside, carrying something in their hands, and the flashlight in their hand was turned off after Shen Shao opened the door.He knew these three people, they were the secretary, director and accountant of the village, so he invited them into the house and sat down immediately, and went to the kitchen to pour three cups of tea for them.

The tea is Kuding tea that costs one yuan a box, but the three of them did not dislike it. After a few sips, Shen Quanfa put down the cup and said, "Shen Shao, I heard that you are studying in the top class of the Experimental Middle School. How are your grades?" ?”

"It's okay," Shen Shao looked out of the window, and said with concern, "Uncle Shen, why are you traveling at night?"

"What's okay? I heard from Fengwa in our family that you have won the No. 1 exam in the whole county this time, which can be regarded as an embarrassment for our Shenjia Village. People from other villages asked me a few days ago," Shen Quanfa said. My daughter is in the second grade of the experimental middle school, so she knows something about Shen Shao's school, "We are here this time to give you something on behalf of the whole village. You are a half-grown child and haven't prepared anything. How can you celebrate the New Year?"

Every year during the Chinese New Year, the village will send some New Year's goods to the needy households in the village. Originally, an immature child like Shen Shao would not be counted in the village. However, after Shen Quanfa knew Shen Shao's achievements, he felt that this child was promising. He will become the golden phoenix of Shenjia Village, so after discussing with the members of the village committee, it was decided to add Shen Shao to one of the places.

Of course Shen Shao refused to accept it, but Shen Quanfa's attitude was very firm and he still kept the things.

After sending the three of them out, Shen Shao went back to the house and looked at the things distributed in the village.Two catties of lard, five catties of vegetable oil, three catties of fresh pork, three catties of bacon, and a chicken weighing two or three catties. These things may be nothing in the future, but they are not bad at the moment.

After packing up his things, Shen Shao decided to buy some New Year's goods tomorrow. Although he is the only one, don't be too sloppy.

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Shao went to the city. After buying the New Year's goods, he rushed home. On the way, he met people from the same village who were going home, so he walked with them.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that after his rebirth, his memory was exceptionally good, as if his soul had been washed again, and even his hands and feet improved a lot faster than in his previous life.Of course, it may also be because of a different state of mind that you can do things with ease.

As long as he has seen people he meets on the road, he can find out from his memory who he is a family member with and which acquaintances he is related to.At the beginning, he didn't notice that his memory had improved. He just thought that it was normal for him to change from a middle-aged man to a child, and his brain became sharper.But it has been nearly half a year since he was reborn, and he felt that at this time in his previous life, his brain didn't seem to be so good.At that time, he had to recite those classical Chinese texts many times before he could recite them fluently. Now it is much easier to recite them than in his previous life.

He couldn't figure out what was going on, so he didn't think about it at all. Anyway, incredible things like rebirth had happened, and his brain became a little smarter, but it wasn't so strange.

"Shen Shao, you bought so many things by yourself, why don't you celebrate the New Year with your uncle?" A man named Shen Guanghui from the same village saw that Shen Shao was carrying a lot of things and felt that it was difficult for him to carry them with his hands, so he asked him to put them away. Put it in his pick, anyway, he is used to doing crop work, and the pick is empty, picking more than ten catties of things, it's almost like not picking anything.I heard that excessive exertion of a half-grown child will affect his height. He can help as much as he can, and it's not too much trouble anyway.

"The uncle's family asked me to live together, but I don't want to bother the uncle's family all the time," Shen Shao replied with a smile, "I have to live by myself in the future, it's better to learn to be independent earlier."

Hearing this, Shen Guanghui felt quite uncomfortable, and became even more contemptuous of the behavior of Shen Shao's father, Shen Jianbing. For the sake of a wild woman outside, he made his wife so angry that she committed suicide by drinking medicine, and even ignored her own son. do things?

Fortunately, Shen Shao was sensible and motivated, otherwise he would have ruined a good boy in vain, but he heard that Shen Shao was particularly popular with teachers in school, and his grades were among the top in the county.Except for Shen Shao, their Shen family village has never had such a capable child.

"It seems that our little Shao has grown into a little man." Shen Guanghui smiled, and said nothing else. Shen Shao's uncle, Shen Jianjun, is an honest man, but unfortunately his family's conditions are not very good, and he may be powerless towards Shen Shao.

Now that everyone is not rich, and Shen Shao is a half-child eating a poor old man, not to mention that studying costs money, how can Shen Jianjun afford it?

The fellow travelers didn't mention this, and Shen Shao was relieved. He knew that his uncle and aunt were kind people, but the two cousins ​​didn't like him very much. I have long been used to celebrating the New Year alone.

On New Year's Eve, Shen Shao got up early in the morning, set up firewood to stew everything that should be stewed, and cut the vegetables that should be cut. After a while, the smell of meat came out of the pot.

When Shen Hong and Shen Yuan passed by the door of Shen Shao's house, they also smelled the smell of meat. Shen Hong smelled it and said in a low voice, "Sister, Shen Shao is stewing meat at home."

Shen Yuan glanced at the smoking chimney: "You don't care what he does, he doesn't eat our food anyway."

"Who said he didn't eat our family's?" Shen Hong snorted, "Come on, let's go home and eat meat. Mom bought a braised duck yesterday. I smelled it in the cupboard this morning. It's delicious." She has braised duck to eat, but Shen Shao doesn't.In the past, the village advised parents to have a son, so as not to die.Now that Shen Shao has no parents and has good grades, it is rumored that his parents will adopt Shen Shao.But she and her elder sister are the children of their parents. Their family is poor, and they can only buy a new dress after the Chinese New Year. Why should they spend money to support Shen Shao? Is it because he is a boy?

Liu Shulian heard what her second daughter said in the courtyard, and sighed. After the two sisters returned home, she criticized Shen Hong a few words, but seeing her daughter crying sadly, she couldn't bear to say any more. She didn't say anything outside. Seriously, but the child took it seriously.Thinking of this, she sighed, and she stopped thinking about chopping up a braised duck leg and sending it to Shen Shao.

At noon, when Liu Shulian's family was eating, Shen Shao came over with an enamel bowl, which contained a bowl of ready-made fish: "Uncle, Auntie, this is my pickled fish. You have to taste it. You need to eat it every year during the Chinese New Year." I have more than enough."

Seeing that the fish was steaming, Liu Shulian was afraid of burning Shen Shao's hands, so she hurriedly took the pickled fish in his hand, and picked some braised duck and cooked bacon from an empty bowl and stuffed them into Shen Shao's hands. Breathe a sigh of relief.

When Shen Shao left with the bowl, Liu Shulian and Shen Jianjun looked at the delicious sauerkraut fish that night. They felt very uncomfortable, a little guilty, a little guilty, and a little helpless.