uncle and nephew

Su Shi's new home was the house that Su's mother rented in the county. It was a simple two-bedroom apartment. It was three streets away from Su Shi's school and it took about 15 minutes to walk.Mother Su's work is not very busy, but she still has to go to work from nine to five.Su Shi's admission procedures have been completed long ago. On the day of freshman registration, Su's mother sent Su Shi to the school gate, and patted him on the shoulder, "Son, this will be your school from now on."

Su Shi looked back at his mother, and suddenly realized that her mother was not as young as he remembered. The thin and tall mother in his memory now looked about the same height as him.These years, my father has been busy outside all the year round, and my mother works alone in the county town, and it must be very hard for me to remember my grandfather and myself.Su Shi bent his lips, "Mom, go to work, don't worry about me."

Mother Su nodded, watching Su Shi enter the school gate, she left uneasy.

L County is a small county with a population of less than 40. There are five elementary schools, three junior high schools, and two high schools in the county.The tenth middle school that Su Shi was going to was the one with the highest quality of education among the three junior high schools, and the one with the most promotions to the first high school.

Su Shi looked for a long time on the bulletin board for class division at the entrance of the teaching building before he found his name, put his hands in his pockets and walked into the classroom of the second class.The head teacher of class two was a very young man, who stood on the podium and smiled at Su Shi, asking him to find a place to sit.The classroom was filled with people one after another, and the head teacher called the names according to the list, and began to talk about some questions.Su Shi frowned slightly after listening for a while, because according to the graduation school, the second class is a dormitory class, and the whole class has to study by itself until nine o'clock every night.Of course it was no problem for these boarding students, but for Su Shi.

After the teacher finished speaking, he announced that everyone would go to the meeting place on the playground to meet the instructors and the venue for tomorrow's military training. Su Shi got up and walked to the teacher and asked the question.The young head teacher looked at him silently for a while, and finally said: "You can go to the Academic Affairs Office and ask the head teacher later, and she will transfer your class."

Su Shi answered in a muffled voice, went up to the fourth floor anxiously, knocked on the door of the Academic Affairs Office, and opened the door only when he heard someone talking inside. There were two people in the room, and a middle-aged woman was sitting behind the desk. A middle-aged man was sitting, and when they saw Su, the two walked in, their eyes fell on him, and the woman asked, "What's the matter?"

"Teacher, I'm Su Shi in class two of the first year. Because I'm a day student and can't go to evening self-study, the teacher asked me to ask if I can transfer classes." Su Shi lowered his head and said.

The female teacher looked at him for a while, then turned her gaze to the male teacher, "Mr. Liu, there are not many people in your class, so just let him go to your class."

Teacher Liu seemed a little reluctant, and looked at Su Shi for a while, "Which elementary school did you graduate from?"

"Yongning Town Central School." Su Shi hurriedly replied.

Teacher Liu frowned, "Then how many points did you score in the graduation exam?"

Su Shi's brain turned for a moment, and he replied, "289 points."

There are three subjects in the graduation exam, mathematics, Chinese, and English.Su Shi didn't do very well in the math test, but his grades were already among the best in his original school, and if he was thrown in the tenth middle school where top students from various elementary schools gathered, he would probably be an ordinary grade that could no longer be ordinary.

Teacher Liu nodded, turned around and said to the female teacher, "Actually, there are enough people in our class. Even if I want it, I want a high score. But forget it, let's just have one more." He looked out of the window with his head. The assembled people had already dispersed, and the students scattered towards the school gate, "You can go to the playground tomorrow morning to have military training with the people from Class [-]."

Su Shi responded slowly, then turned around and left the office.

Su Shi was not in a good mood.He knew that there were more smart and good students in the tenth middle school than in the town, but he was regarded as a good student since he was a child, a treasure in the hands of all the teachers, but now he was so obviously underestimated by others, his The mood is naturally very low.

He began to dislike the school a little.Everything here is very strange to him, he has no friends, no acquaintances, and no Sun Letian who has been by his side since he was a child.But he knew that he had to adapt to this kind of life, he had to study hard, and then he could be admitted to No. [-] Middle School and continue to be in the same school as Sun Letian.

This is an agreement between the two of them, and he cannot break his promise.

Looking back at those days later, it was probably the most cautious time in Su Shi's life.At that time, the young Su Shi fell into a completely unfamiliar environment, surrounded by people he didn't know. They gathered together in twos and threes, as if they had known each other a long time ago, but he was the only one who seemed out of tune with everything.But he didn't dare to take the initiative to speak to anyone. The shyness of the young man, the pride of the young man, and the inferiority complex of the young man were intertwined.

Su Shi left the school gate and walked along the road to go home. At this time, L County had begun to develop. Some old buildings had been demolished, and a new-style garden community had been built. There were cars and people passing by on the street, but no one he knew.When Su Shi got home, his mother hadn't left work yet. He checked the time, washed the rice, put it in the rice cooker and pressed the switch.

In the past few years when my grandfather was ill, Su Shi learned to cook simple meals.Although uncles, aunts and elder brothers and sisters-in-law are very concerned about the elder and the younger, there are always times when they are too busy to take care of them.At that time, Su Shi gradually learned to cook rice or noodles, and occasionally he could take in Sun Letian who came to eat.

Su Shi washed his hands, lay on his back on the bed, and picked up the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that he had watched before going to bed yesterday from the bedside table.When Su Shi was young, he had read some comic strips or juvenile versions of "Three Kingdoms", but now that he was a few years older, he suddenly realized that he only read the book for fun.

When Su Shi left Yongning Town this time, in addition to bringing some clothes and daily necessities, he also took away the books left by his grandfather. This was the only thing his grandfather left for him, but it was enough for him to use for life.

When Su's mother came home from get off work, she could smell the aroma of rice. She opened the door and saw Su Shi lying on his back in bed, already asleep, with a hardcover "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by his hand, and his long eyelashes trembling slightly with his breathing.Mother Su took a blanket to cover Su Shi, and kissed him gently on the cheek.

Su Shi has been very sensible and obedient since he was a child. He was still a child when he was sent to Yongning Town, but now he has grown into a handsome young man.The past few years by Grandpa's side made him more restrained.Su's mother sighed slightly, she seemed to have missed too much of his growth.

Mother Su woke up Su Shi after she finished cooking dinner. Su Shi rubbed his sleepy eyes to wash his hands, then helped to carry the dishes and serve the dishes.When the mother and son sat down at the table to eat, Mother Su thought for a while and asked, "Son, how is the new school?"

Su Shi swallowed the food in his mouth before replying, "Well, very good. The shifts are finished today, and the military training will start tomorrow."

"Then what class are you in?" Su's mother wanted to communicate with Su Shi more, and even wished to make up for the time she was not with him.

Su Shi lowered his eyelashes, "Class [-], the head teacher teaches English, and it is said that he teaches it very well."

"Oh, that's good." Su's mother bit her lip, not knowing what to say, so she could only keep adding food to Su Shi.

Su Shi ate quietly. In fact, he also wanted to talk to his mother more, but since he was a child, he was reticent. In addition, in recent years, he has been with his mother less often, and he has not been very close. In the end, he didn't take the initiative to say anything.The mother and son care about each other, but they can't express it.

Su Shi arrived at the school early the next morning, and there were already quite a few classmates on the playground, in small groups.Su Shi walked slowly, but didn't know which pile was the eighth class Mr. Liu was talking about.It wasn't until later that I heard someone yelling "Class [-] gather here" before I moved towards it.

The content of the military training for junior high school students is very simple, but a few instructors are hired in the local garrison to teach the queue.Because the students in the class are all graduated from the five primary schools in the town, there are always a few acquaintances, so during the break, some people sit together and chat, some use their remaining energy to go crazy, and the boys play ball and joke together , Girls in twos and threes went to buy water and popsicles together, and went to the toilet.Only Su Shi squatted at the meeting place in a daze, dazed in a daze.

He began to miss Sun Letian, the person who was always by his side no matter what.

"Hey, that boy over there, can you slow down when we walk in the queue and take care of us two girls?" Su Shi was startled when someone patted him on the shoulder suddenly, he raised his head, and the sunlight dazzled him He narrowed his eyes unconsciously, and then slowly realized that the girl standing in front of him was a girl.

When walking in the queue, most of them stood in a four-way column. On Su Shi's left was a fat guy whose name he couldn't remember, and to the left were two girls, one fat and one thin.And the one who was talking to him now was the skinny little girl outside.Su Shi glanced at her, "Oh." He said that he heard it.

The girl shrugged her shoulders, held hands with the chubby girl beside her and ran to the side to play.

Su Shi's personality was originally reluctant to talk to strangers, but after changing the environment, he became even more depressed.So during the entire military training, apart from exchanging names with a few boys around him, he learned that the little fat guy next to him was called Tang Xing. After a brief acquaintance, that girl became the only girl Su Shi had ever spoken to.

On the afternoon of the end of the military training, everyone saw off the instructors and was summoned back to the class by the head teacher, Mr. Liu.A group of people were asked to stand in line in the corridor, and then seats were arranged by matching men and women. So, naturally, Su Shi became the same table as the only girl who had spoken to him.

Later, Su Shi finally remembered the name of this noisy little girl who always looked happy, Lin Baibai.

7. The first monthly exam

The studies in junior high school were indeed not very tight, and what the teacher said was not too difficult to understand. Su Shi secretly told himself that he had to learn to adapt to such a life and remember that he was no longer a top student in such an environment. , no teacher will pay attention to yourself, and everything must be done by yourself.

Although Su Shi didn't like to talk, he was still easy to get along with. As long as others talked to him, he would always respond with a good attitude, and getting along with the front, back, left, and right was fairly smooth.Soon he knew the names of the people around him.

At the same table is the girl named Lin Baibai, across the aisle on the left is a little fat man named Tang Xing, and at the back table is named Zhang Ning. It is said that he is ranked No. 1 in the class in the entrance examination, and his English is very good. He really likes the class teacher Liu The teacher likes it.He seems to be a bit proud of top students, but he is still quite enthusiastic. Every time Su Shi asks him a question, he will know everything.

In the first physical education class, the teacher simply nodded and asked everyone to move freely. The girls dispersed in small groups, and the boys yelled to play basketball together.Su Shi stood there thinking about whether he wanted to go back to class, and suddenly stretched out a hand to pat him on the shoulder, "Let's go play together?"

Su Shi glanced at the basketball court, "I'm not very good at playing." Su Shi was telling the truth, he was not very good at sports, and he and Sun Letian went up and down the town more often, playing ball seriously There are very few sports.

Zhang Ning pulled him away familiarly, "You are so tall, it's easy to get acquainted after playing a few more times."

Su Shi didn't refuse anymore, and walked to the basketball court with Zhang Ning, and several other boys on the court also warmly greeted Su Shi.Su Shi suddenly felt that it was not that difficult to blend in with them.The boys' friendship is actually very simple, and it's also very strange. He and many people on the court have never spoken a few words at all, but after playing together, they suddenly became friends.

So, during lunch break and physical education class, Su Shi would have an extra hobby, playing basketball with everyone.Adolescent boys are very active. Sometimes when there is not much homework, everyone will make an appointment to play for an hour or two after school before going home. Su Shi is also willing to participate.

After Su Shi came home late with sweat on his face several times, Mother Su finally asked what was going on with Su Shi. While washing his face, Su Shi replied, "Play with the classmates in the class."

Mother Su nodded and didn't ask any more questions. When Su Shi came home the next day, she saw a new set of jerseys and a pair of basketball shoes that looked quite expensive in her room.Su Shi was stunned for a moment, then came out with his slippers on, leaned against the kitchen door, watched his mother cooking, and said softly, "Thank you, Mom."

Mother Su turned her head and smiled at Su Shi, "Silly son, thank you for what you say to Mom."

One month after school started, Su Shi ushered in his first monthly exam for junior high school.The monthly exam of the tenth middle school only takes three main subjects of language and mathematics, each with 120 points.

When the grades came down, Su Shi frowned. Except for English, which was not bad, Su Shi's other two grades could only be considered average.There are more than 500 people in the grade, and he ranks in the top [-].Although Su Shi knew that he would no longer be able to take the top few places like he did when he was a child, but this result did not make him disappointed in himself.

The average number of people admitted to the No. 100 Middle School in the Tenth Middle School is only more than [-] people each year. Su Shi always felt that he had to ensure that he had to be in the top [-] of the grade to be admitted to the No. [-] Middle School, but it was only the first monthly exam. He really didn't know what to say.

Tang Xing leaned over and said, "Oh, Su Shi, your English is so good, you are only a few points behind Zhang Ning's English. If I have your grades, my mother will definitely give me a lot of pocket money."

Su Shi glanced at him, twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly, but didn't speak.At noon that day, Su Shi didn't go to the basketball court. Instead, he spread out the exam papers and looked at the questions he did wrong one by one.

There were not many people in the classroom at noon, most of them were too lazy to go home, and they didn't like to go out and wander around. After lunch, they went back to class to rest.Su Shi's deskmate Lin Baibai was one of them.

Lin Baibai came in after having dinner with a girl, chatting and laughing, and was surprised to see Su Shi doing a question, "Oh? Su Shi, why didn't you go to play."

Su Shi looked up at her, "Too lazy to move."

Lin Baibai glanced at the paper in his hand, "Why are you looking at it now, didn't the math teacher say that he would come over to talk during the self-study class in the afternoon?"

"I know." Su Shi frowned slightly, and replied lightly.

"Su Shi, you..." Lin Baibai wanted to continue talking, but Su Shi interrupted her impatiently, "Are you annoying?" Then he stood up, opened the door and left the classroom.

When he walked out of the teaching building and was blown on his face by the wind, Su Shi felt a little better. He began to wonder if his attitude just now was a little inappropriate. The other party was a girl after all, so there was no malice, but asking him to go back and apologize was just right. Su Shi, who was in the second stage of middle school, couldn't speak again.

Su Shi raised his hand to scratch his messy hair, decided to go to the toilet, and then went back to the classroom to sleep for a while.When Su Shi came out of the toilet, he suddenly heard someone calling his name behind him. He turned around for a moment, and found that it was his math teacher, so he hurriedly said, "Teacher." In fact, Su Shi was a little surprised. The head teacher, most of the teachers didn't recognize the names of everyone in the class, and he has always been unknown, so he was surprised that the teacher could call him by his name.

The math teacher's surname was Wang, and he should have just graduated a few years ago. He walked up to Su Shi, and the two walked side by side naturally.Teacher Wang said, "Have you sent out the test papers, have you read them?"

Su Shi nodded, "I see."

"I took a look at the report card of your class and found that your English score is very good. Everyone's Chinese test is generally average this time, and your Chinese score is not bad. From this point of view, your math score is actually pulling your overall score. It's your hind legs." Teacher Wang said with a smile, "I took a look at your math test paper and found that you did a good job on the last big difficult question, but you made a lot of mistakes in the first few easy questions."

Su Shi didn't know what he wanted to answer, so he could only nod, "Yeah."

"So I think it's because you usually practice too few questions, and you think these questions are easy, so you just look at them roughly when you do your homework." Teacher Wang's voice was very gentle, without any reproach, but it made Su Shi's ears red , He really hasn't put in as much effort as before in the past month. He is anxious to finish his homework and play basketball every day, so he does his homework very quickly and his accuracy rate is not very high.

Teacher Wang lowered his head and took a look at Su Shi. He felt that Su Shi must have understood what he meant, and nodded, "Then I will do all the questions you did wrong in the notebook again later, and bring them to the office to show me." .”

"it is good."

"Then you go back." Teacher Wang turned around, and suddenly turned around and said, "Su Shi, I think you will show me better results in the next midterm exam, right?"

Su Shi suddenly felt that his irritability this afternoon was gone, and he nodded seriously, "Yes, yes." Teacher Wang smiled with satisfaction, turned and returned to the office.Su Shi stood in the corridor in a daze, then curled the corners of his lips, it's so good, someone is expecting him and believing him.

When Su Shi returned to the classroom, Lin Baibai was lying on the table doing homework. When he saw Su Shi walking in, he raised his head and said, "Oh, Su Shi, lend me your ruler. I can't find it."

Su Shi was hesitating whether to say sorry, seeing her like this, heaved a sigh of relief, took out a ruler from the pencil case and handed it to her.Lin Baibai frowned, "Thank you." Then he buried himself in his homework.

When returning home at night, Su Shi calmly took out the report card and handed it to his mother, and said, "Mom, I didn't do very well in the test this time, but I will definitely do better in the next test."

Su's mother was a little surprised that Su Shi, who had always been reserved, would take the initiative to say such words. She raised her eyes and saw Su Shi's bright eyes hiding a little anxiety. She bent her lips and smiled, closed the report card, and put it in a book Li, stretched out his hand to rub the soft hair on Su Shi's head, and said gently, "Then mom will wait to see your next grade."

Su Shi opened the corners of his lips and nodded.

During dinner, Su Shi received a call from Sun Letian.On average, Sun Letian called Su Shi once a week. The main content was to report on his current situation this week. Why did he figure out a difficult question today? I have to tell Su Shi about everything.Su Shi held the phone and listened quietly. He could almost imagine Sun Letian's beaming eyebrows on the other side of the phone, and he couldn't help but bend the corners of his eyes.

After Sun Letian finished his report, he began to ask Su Shi, "You said last week that the monthly exam this week, did you get your grades? How did you do? Are the questions in the mid-October exam difficult?"

Su Shi thought for a while and replied, "I didn't do very well in the exam this time."

Sun Letian was silent for a while, and then replied, "That's because you haven't adapted to the new environment yet. The next exam will be fine, and you will definitely surprise your classmates with your good grades."

Su Shi raised the corners of his lips, and asked after a while, "If I don't do well in the next exam, do you still believe me?"

Sun Letian did not hesitate at all, "Of course I do! And I promise you will pass the exam next time."

Su Shi held the phone quietly, and suddenly felt warm. No matter when, that person would believe him, even if he was not by his side.When he was about to hang up the phone, Su Shi suddenly said to the phone, "Sun Letian, I will definitely fulfill the appointment, and I will not let you down."

Sun Letian's voice was also very serious, "Me too, Su Shi, I won't let you down either."

Su Shi hung up the phone slowly, and looked up out of the window. The stars were twinkling in the sky, just like the eyes of the boy on the other end of the phone, dazzling and bright.