After the New Year, a new semester has begun. With Mr. Zhang's enlightenment of "the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village", with the spirit of "Jiangdong's children are talented, and the comeback is unknown", and the determination of "the road is long, I will go up and down and seek". "Ghost Brother" discussed with Liu Jianshe and Zheng Lijuan that from this semester onwards, he would change his travel mode and improve his food mix - riding a bicycle to school and bringing dry food from home.

At first, both of them strongly objected on the grounds that it was unsafe to ride for an hour and a half, and that the family could afford to bring dry food, not to mention eating and drinking spicy food. "Brother Ghost" mischievously followed Zheng Lijuan's tone and said: Body and study are the key! Then he pretended to be embarrassed and said: The food at home is delicious, and I don't eat what I think about every day. The two of them had nothing to say, so they could only readily agree.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools", for this reason, Liu Jianshe deliberately threw his 26 moped that had been thrown in the corner, covered with dust and rust, trimmed, polished, wiped oil, and tossed all day before he met his requirements, a new look, and shiny tile. Zheng Lijuan was busy in the kitchen for half a morning, burning, steaming, sweet, and salty all came in one go, and specially made a large bottle of oily chili sauce, a bag of whole milk powder, and a box of sugar, which were stuffed into the backpack of "Ghost Brother".

Teacher Zhang suggested that he should read more extracurricular books, which can indirectly open his horizons, expand his scope of knowledge, and improve his comprehension ability. The sources of the books are, first, the school library, but it is not open to students for the time being; second, they are borrowed, but it is difficult to talk about when borrowing, lest people will not borrow them; when they are borrowed, they should be careful not to damage a little; when they return the books, they are all secondary, the important thing is that each book is information, and it is always inconvenient to consult it; second, he can only rely on buying books, and at the same time he accepted a bookcase given to him by Liu Jianjian, and he also imagined that he accidentally saw the bookcase of Mr. Zhang's house, with rows of books stacked as a whole. Originally, it was planned to buy a low-cost point in Liu Jianjian's original bookstore, but the original unit was also completely closed, employees were automatically diverted, Liu Jianjian's personnel files were all transferred, and he was responsible for paying retirement pensions.

In the end, he decided to reduce his quality of life. Although Liu Jianshe has never let him be shy, overstretched, and eat food since he was a child, he also saw his gray hair on his temples, his more and more lame right leg, and 20 yuan per week for meals and living expenses, which he insisted on again refusing Liu Jianjian's additional this semester. Therefore, he had to find a way to save money from the cost of meals and transportation, and change the bus to cycling, and change the three meals a day in the student cafeteria to one meal a day, and replace the other two meals with dry food. Transportation expenses to save at least 2 yuan per week, meal costs are controlled at 10 yuan per week, you can save about 10 yuan per week, at first, just to the nearby used book stalls to pan for gold, often encounter a lot of good books, Ba Jin's first edition of "Love Trilogy", He Shuyu's "Variations of Fate", what "Selected Contemporary Short Stories", "Tiananmen Poems", etc., the old is a little old, the price is cheap, you can buy several copies at a time, the yellowed pages are especially intoxicating. Slowly, the used bookstall could no longer support his "greed", so he "switched" to the Xinhua Bookstore to buy new books, and the strong fragrance of ink was refreshing.

The bookcase is getting fuller and fuller, and the "ghost brother" in the midterm exam is also getting better. Dry food bags are also getting more and more inflated, and for short-term storage, the cauldron helmet is relatively easy to store. But as the weather warms up, rats increase in vain, and the day is slightly better, and at night, the bamboo mat roof becomes their race track, or entertainment square. The incense that was sleeping squeaked, from the east, you chased me, sprinted to the west, and after a while, sprinted from the west to the east, and played the 100-meter relay race most of the night. What's more, they will sneak down through the gap between the ceiling and the partition wall, climb down the shelf bed, and search for it in the dormitory, leaving their relatives empty-handed. Just as he was about to touch the legs of the bed and climb up, he smelled the smell of fragrant pot helmets, and when he looked over, he saw the plastic basket hanging against the wall of the "ghost brother" bed. Sticking to the bed frame, easily jumping in from the top of the basket, full of food, gluttonous, after the round belly, the urine is thick, and there are no rats around, so they urinate here, not a drop leaks, and the drops seep into the fragrant pot helmet.

Then slowly return the same way, climb on the roof to watch the rats chase frantically, there is a bright eye to surround around, low three and four, stammering, then squeak a communication, hurriedly climb down, jump into the basket, which tube of pungent urine smell, there will be a fight because of the scramble, there are squeaky in the basket squeaky and screaming, but also accidentally fell out of the basket, smashed on the sleeping "ghost brother". He turned over and moved in his sleep, causing the rats to jump up and down in fright, and the movement was very loud. "Brother Ghost" was half-asleep and half-awake, stretched out his hand and patted the basket in fear, and suddenly it was quiet up and down.

In this way, there were several trips in one night. When you get up early to make the milk powder, remove the basket, and want to feast on it, you will be able to find rough bite marks, break them off with your hands, and throw them in the grass at the door for the rats to steal food during the day. As for the urine stains, after drying in the middle of the night, there is no way to judge whether it is the original or the filth of the rats, and only smells a fishy smell, so they will buckle and pinch, throw away, and can only eat with this unscrupulous rat.

The next day, in order to prevent the rats from harassing and invading again at night, they took out the military wooden box from the basket and placed it under the window, and they were safe that night, and they still slept quietly the next night, and the hungry rat connection race was also stopped. But when I cleaned the dry food in the box again, I found that the bottom of the box had been gnawed into a big hole, and I could advance and retreat freely, no wonder the night was as quiet as ever. The few remaining pieces have also appeared sporadically mildew, and they are still deducted and thrown away, and they are full of food with peace of mind. In this way, "big rats and big rats, no food for me", fighting with the rats night and night, and eating with the rats day and day.

In the "ghost brother" blowing the cool breeze of the summer evening, facing the sunset, carrying an empty bag of dry food home, but the house was empty, the neighbor's aunt informed Liu Chunyan that she had just given birth to a son today, and Liu Jianshe and Zheng Lijuan rushed to the town. "Brother Ghost" also turned the head of the car, rushed to the hospital excitedly, and saw for the first time the nephew who was like snow muscles and shaped like lotus roots, "Nanshan is a new phoenix chick, and the eyebrows are clearly not as good as the painting", "When the Star Golden Palace was born, it was said that the body palace clothes covered the snow muscles", overjoyed and danced excitedly.

In the joy and saving, the final exam came as scheduled, and the confident "ghost brother" once again fought on the battlefield, vowing to return to the top five thrones in the city. "Hard work pays off", although the ending is unsatisfactory, it is close, and the top ten in the city. When Mr. Zhang got the report card, when he was about to go on summer vacation, he still gave him a thumbs up and said: Brother ghost, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard!