Chapter 7: Praised
The morning sun shone obliquely through the glass window and fell on every little face who was serious about reading.
The morning reading began.
Yulan thought that she would just stuff the homework book underneath, but it didn't matter much what the teacher commented.
Unexpectedly, Teacher Miao praised her by name in class, and even used her homework as a model to post on the propaganda board in the corner of the classroom for students to exhibit.
Magnolia immediately received the attention of the whole class.
Yulan is embarrassed, she wants to keep a low profile, the writing can only be regarded as neat, and there is no beauty at all, who knows that she can be used as a role model.
When Teacher Miao praised Yulan, Chen Dong'er clapped her hands desperately, her little hands were red, and she looked proud, as if she was praised for herself instead of being at the same table.
After class, Chen Dong'er couldn't wait to ask Yulan how to write such beautiful words.
Magnolia bared her teeth and smirked, could she tell her that she was an adult in her core so that she could write well?
She fooled Chen Dong'er seriously: "My brother taught him, he learned calligraphy, and his handwriting is very beautiful." My brother thinks my handwriting is not good. ”
Yushu did learn calligraphy, and he wrote very beautiful pen characters.
Chen Dong'er's eyes widened: "Your brother is really amazing! This is not good-looking, so what kind of words are good-looking? I can't write such words." ”
After speaking, she lay on the table in frustration: "I write very seriously, but my hands don't obey the call, and I can't write well." ”
Yulan touched her head and comforted her: "If you practice more, you can write beautifully." My brother made me write every day. ”
Those who pay attention to this scene find it particularly funny, a 6-year-old child seriously touching the head of a girl who is about the same height as her, how to look at how to coke.
Chen Dong'er didn't notice that she was pouting and a little deflated. She was impatient and kept sitting and writing. It took her a long time to complete the homework assigned by the teacher.
Yulan just fooled Chen Dong'er over, and as a result, she made another limelight in math class - she got all her math homework right, and she was the only one in the class who got it all right. As you can imagine, the homework has been posted on the propaganda board again.
Teacher He, who teaches mathematics, praised Yulan with a smile and then called on the students to learn from Yulan.
Yulan smiled weakly and pushed all the credit to her brother Yushu. She couldn't help but be a little discouraged, she wanted to keep a low profile, but she didn't expect to be high-profile.
But looking at the envious eyes of others, Magnolia satisfied her vanity a little. It's better to let it be, she can only comfort herself in the end.
Thanks to the performance of the class in the morning, during the lunch break, some students in the dormitory invited Yulan to take a nap in their dormitory.
Yulan thought about it and didn't refuse, her stomach was easy to belch when she slept on the table, it was unsightly to use a stool to sleep in the classroom, and it was good to have a place to take a lunch break.
The student dormitory is located upstairs from the Yulan classroom, and there are two dormitories for men and women. Up the stairs is the girls' dormitory on the right, and the boys' dormitory is on the left.
Magnolia went to the girls' dormitory.
There are four rows of tripods at the entrance to the door, and on the shelves are washbasins, and in the basins are towels, toothbrushes, tooth cups, etc.
Next to the tripod is a 60 cm wide and 2 m long table. On the table against the wall are neatly placed pickles and bean curd brought by the students from their homes. A few washed empty lunch boxes were scattered aside.
Under the table is a row of various thermos with labels with their names on them.
The whole classroom is about 50 square meters, except for these places where sundries are placed, and a one-meter-wide aisle, the other spaces are tightly packed with double-layer iron frame beds.
There are only these two dormitories in the entire Central Primary School. Students from Year 1 to Year 5 live together, so the space is cramped.
Boarding students usually go to the classroom for self-study, and meals are also solved in the classroom, and the dormitory is only used as a sleeping place, so there is nothing inconvenient.
The bed was a single bed, one meter wide, more than enough to sleep two seven or eight-year-old children.
The girl who invited Yulan is called Xu Meng, 8 years old this year. She is half a head taller than Magnolia, with short neck-length hair, slightly curly bangs, thick eyebrows and big eyes, much like a male doll. There are some freckles on his round face, his mouth is a little wide, he loves to talk and laugh, and the whole person looks playful.
The dormitory was quiet, some of the beds were already sleeping, and some of the beds were still empty.
Xu Meng lightly took Yulan's hand and climbed into bed from the foot of the middle bed.
Yulan thought that because the students in the lower grades all slept in the lower bunks, in case they had to climb to the top bunk, their little arms and legs were really difficult.
Hearing the movement, the girl who was resting with her eyes closed on the bed next to Xu Meng opened her eyes and looked at the two of them.
Xu Meng seemed to be very familiar with her, and whispered: "My classmate, I didn't go home at noon, I asked her to come up for a nap." ”
In the dormitory, students often invite classmates to come in and play, and the girl is not surprised.
She smiled at Magnolia, and Magnolia smiled back.
Xu Meng said to Yulan: "We are from a village, and she is in the third grade. ”
Yulan asked Xu Meng: "Don't you turn on the alarm clock, will you oversleep?"
Xu Meng explained: "No, there is a preparation bell fifteen minutes before class. It's too late to get up when the bell rings. ”
Although it is summer, because the room is a wooden structure, and the indoor light is not very good, it feels a little shady.
Xu Meng pulled Yulan to lie side by side on the bed, and carefully pulled the thin quilt to cover Yulan's belly, like a caring young lady.
Yulan was just thinking about closing her eyes to recuperate, but her eyes were closed, and she slowly fell asleep unconsciously.
In the silence of the afternoon, time seemed to stand still.
Suddenly, a piercing bell pierced the silence, like a stone thrown into the calm water, and suddenly rippled, and the stagnant picture was injected with vitality and began to flow again.
Yulan sat on the bed and rubbed her face, her head still a little confused.
She turned her head to look at the people in the dormitory, everyone was getting up one after another, and then unhurriedly dressed and took books to the classroom.
Xu Meng took a wet towel from the basin on one of the tripods, wiped it on his face, and then handed it to Yulan, motioning for Yulan to wipe it too.
Magnolia shook her head and refused.
Xu Meng didn't mind, put the towel back in its place, and took Yulan's hand and walked to the classroom.
Her palms were not dry, her fingertips were slightly cold, and Yulan obediently followed her and said thank you to her.
Xu Meng laughed dryly twice and said, "Eh, you are too polite." In the future, if you don't have a place to sleep at noon, you can go to my place. ”
This is also Yulan's fault, she has become accustomed to casually saying "please", "thank you", "it's okay" and other common polite words in later generations, but she has forgotten that this is not the case in the countryside now.
Therefore, this "thank you" felt particularly abrupt to Xu Meng's ears.
The classroom was a bit noisy.
Yulan and Xu Meng parted and returned to their seats.
Chen Dong'er was turning over her satchel and pouring the contents of her schoolbag onto the desk. She finally found all the things she needed for class, and then swept the useless things into her satchel as if they were garbage.
Magnolia stood by and watched her finish everything, and watched her tidy up their desks before she sat down and took out her books from the drawer.
She actually doesn't understand Chen Dong'er a little, these scattered things can be done with just a stationery box, but she always likes to stuff everything into her schoolbag together.
Every time Yulan watched Chen Dong'er look for something, she was either fumbling with her hands in her satchel, or pouring all the things on the desk like just now, she was speechless.
Yulan asked her why she didn't use the pencil case, and Chen Dong'er said, "It's too heavy, I don't want to bring it." ”
Magnolia black line.
She was thinking about whether to sew her a simple pencil case first, saving her time every time she was looking for something.
There are only two math classes in the afternoon.
Teacher He finished the content of the textbook, assigned homework after class, and then said that he would teach everyone to sing another song.
The classroom suddenly became lively. Everyone was talking very lively, and the classroom suddenly became a chatter.
No wonder everyone is so excited. Most of the first-grade classes are Chinese and mathematics, and the others only have two moral education classes on Monday, two physical education classes on Wednesday, and two labor classes on Friday.
There are no music classes and art classes for the time being, so everyone is so excited when they hear Teacher He say that he wants to teach everyone to sing.
Teacher He wrote "Let's Swing the Sculls" on the blackboard, wrote the Jane below, and then left the classroom.
When he returned, he was holding a half-used accordion.
The piano is a luxury, and no one in the school knows it, so there is no provision in the school.
The accordion is the most commonly used instrument. Female teachers in schools basically use it.
Teacher He lowered his head to adjust the scales, and the classroom gradually became quiet.
Yulan, like everyone else, sat with her arms folded and listened carefully to Teacher He singing while playing the piano.
In the past, when I was in school, every time the teacher taught everyone to sing, Yulan was always the happiest.
The beautiful melody, the melodious singing, and the female teacher who plays the piano concentratingly are all beautiful like a painting, which makes people's hearts stir.
Magnolia remembers that she used to have a thick notebook that was used to copy lyrics. There are many well-known songs, as well as various TV songs later.
She learned film and television songs very quickly, and when she learned them, she copied the lyrics in her notebook and taught her friends to sing. Every time she walked on the path home with her friends, those familiar melodies were hummed countless times, and Yulan was very proud, although she didn't know what she was proud of.
Mr. He taught with all his heart, and the students also studied hard. By the time a song is learned, the lesson is nearing its end.
Chen Dong'er excitedly pulled Yulan's arm and shouted: "Lan Lan, I have learned! I have actually learned! I can't memorize the book for half a day, and I have memorized all the lyrics in half an hour." ”
Regardless of whether Yulan was listening to it or not, she recited the lyrics fluently in one breath.
Yulan was very helpless, and when Chen Dong'er finished shouting, dancing and making trouble, Yulan said without much care, "You can memorize the Chinese textbook as a lyric." ”
However, I guessed that Chen Dong'er must have disdained Yulan's statement, and sure enough, as soon as Yulan's voice fell, Chen Dong'er began to pout.
She sighed: "Teachers can't do it, let alone us." ”
Magnolia spread her hands: "Well, there's another stupid way." Copy the book, copy it twice if you can't remember it once, and copy it three times, five times or ten times if you can't do it twice. Copy it until you can memorize it. ”
Chen Dong'er glared at Yulan, as if to say, "Can you still come up with a more unreliable way?"
Yulan actually didn't say a word: "Wait until you start English classes later, this is the best way to memorize words." This was the stupid method she used most often to take the self-exam.
However, seeing Chen Dong'er's loveless look, Yulan thought about not hitting Chen Dong'er for the time being.