After dawn, Qiao Nan can go back to school, and Xue Dongmei will continue to stay in the hospital to hang the bottle. Her mood has stabilized a lot, she is no longer so anxious to study, and even said goodbye to Qiao Nan with a smile and made an appointment to meet at school.

Qiao Nan was in a good mood, and she didn't want to see her mother with a gloomy face and her sister with red and swollen eyes as soon as she walked out of the hospital. Qiao Lin was young in the end, and when she saw that her brother was fine, she immediately ran over and hugged him: "I'm scared to death!"

Qiao Nan patted her on the back, and even smiled kindly, at this moment, the "grievances and grievances" between the brothers and sisters all disappeared. Although, after less than three minutes, the two will quarrel again.

Li Lanzhi stuffed the breakfast into Qiao Nan's hand, said coldly, "nonsense", and strode away.

Jolene wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and whispered, "Mom didn't sleep all night last night, and I saw her crying!"

Qiao Nan expected it, looking at her mother's back, guilt welled up in her heart. But I was guilty for a short while, and on the way to school with my sister, I teased her a few words, and I forgot the guilt to the clouds.

Qiao Lin jumped on the road: "By the way, Uncle Wang asked me just now, why didn't you buy buns today? He left you twenty! Are you a pig? Eat twenty buns at a time?"

Qiao Nan instantly became nervous and covered her sister's mouth: "What did you tell him?"

"I didn't say anything, I just said you went to the hospital. ”

"That's good. Qiao Nan let go of his hand and said, "If you dare to tell your mother..."

"Then take the hush money. Jolene held out her hand and spoke about the business with great skill.

Qiao Nan gritted her teeth, took out a few yuan of change from her trouser pocket, and put it in her sister's hand. Jolene was very proud, made a face at her brother, and ran away with her schoolbag.

The brother and sister parted ways at the school gate, and Qiao Nan stepped up the stairs with long legs, eating the pancakes and fruits that his mother bought for him. When he returned to the classroom, it was just before the first class. He opened the classroom door, and his classmates subconsciously looked up at him, and for a moment, the classroom was exceptionally quiet. But in just a few seconds, a burst of warm applause suddenly broke out, and Xu Wei's second cargo stood up and cheered.

Qiao Nan stuffed his mouth full of pancakes, and was stunned by his classmates. He went to the isolation ward for a day and a night, how did he come back and become a big hero?

It wasn't until the bell rang that the classroom fell silent. Xu Wei pretended to touch his tears, with mixed feelings: "Don't hide it, we all thought you were going to hang up." ”

"You're just going to hang up!"

If it weren't for class, Qiao Nan really wanted to hang up this second cargo and beat it.

However, Qiao Nan did feel the changes in his classmates. Maybe in their eyes, they really went to the ghost gate and went to the ghost gate for a while, and they also survived the day in fear. For these eighteen or nineteen-year-old children, "death" was originally too far away, but this false alarm made them grow up a lot overnight, so that they understood what gratitude and happiness were.

Xue Dongmei had another day of hanging injections before she was sure that she could be discharged from the hospital. Considering the actual situation of her family, and considering her academic performance, the school helped her pay for the hospitalization fee in a low-key manner, which was not much anyway. After being discharged from the hospital, Xue Dongmei first went to the principal's office to express her gratitude. and promised Principal Xu that when she has the ability, she will definitely repay the money.

Principal Xu just smiled and didn't take it to heart. and clearly told Xue Dongmei that the school was just cherishing her talents, and would not use this to promote her, so that she could rest assured. However, a few years later, when the "Hope Scholarship Foundation" of No. 2 Middle School was established and Xue Dongmei was the person in charge of the fund, Principal Xu truly realized what it meant to be "a promise of a thousand gold".

Xue Dongmei returned to the classroom during the evening self-study, and she walked quickly with her head down, just not wanting to attract attention. Although her classmates all knew about her movements, everyone tacitly lowered their heads and made their own papers, as if they had made an appointment in advance.

As soon as Xue Dongmei sat down, Wang Yan, who was at the same table, handed her a bunch of rolls and whispered: "This was just sent today, and I will talk about it tomorrow." ”

The rolls are neatly folded, and depending on the subject, they are separated by post-it notes. Xue Dongmei's heart warmed, her lips squirmed, and she said in an almost inaudible voice, "Thank you." ”

Wang Yan also muttered "You're welcome", and then found a few notebooks and put them in front of Xue Dongmei: "This is what Squad Leader Qiao asked me to give you, and this is the note he took in the past two days." ”

The notes from the student days were tantamount to personal martial arts secrets, and Xue Dongmei didn't expect Qiao Nan to lend them generously to herself. As she scribbled on it, she thought that sometimes the word "thank you" was too pale.

She finished copying and turned back to look at the boy. His brow furrowed, and his right hand kept writing and drawing, as if he was delving into some tricky problem. It is said that focused boys are the most attractive, and it is no wonder that so many girls secretly like him.

It's unbelievable, this young man actually stayed with him in the hospital all night, and talked to himself so much! Xue Dongmei turned her head, only to find that her cheeks were burning again.

In the girls' dormitory of No. 2 Middle School, in room 409, a group of girls were chattering and discussing.

"Yesterday, Mama Li came to understand the situation, and we didn't count us, saying that we thought she was dirty, and the things she brought were not hygienic, and we ignored her kindness again and again, which caused today's situation. What's the matter! It's obvious that she doesn't understand people, okay?"

"You also know Mama Li's temper, if this problem is not solved, she will ask again and again until it is solved. What to do now, we have to give her an explanation!"

Seeing that Xue Dongmei was about to come back, Huang Jinzi saw the walnuts on the table, and had an idea: "Hey, let's eat the walnuts in front of Dongmei!"

Wang Yan frowned in disgust: "Don't do it! I heard that this was picked up from the mountains, it is so dirty, who dares to eat it?"

Huang Jinzi said: "I heard my mother say that such walnuts have the highest nutritional value, otherwise Dongmei would not treat them as treasures and give them to us to eat!"

Zhang Juan shook her head again and again: "I have a pimple in my heart, and I don't dare to eat it." I want to eat you!"

The walnuts were brought back from home by Xue Dongmei after the Spring Festival, and almost all the walnuts at home were sold, and her father specially set aside five catties for her to make up for her brain. So in her impression, this is a rare good thing. She put it on her roommate's table without saying a word, whether they liked it or not.

In order to change the impression of her classmates that she "slammed the door", she put a large handful on each table. Her silent efforts were only exchanged for a few "thank yous". Although her roommates didn't throw it away in front of her, they didn't eat it either, and she could see it clearly.

Huang Jinzi said: "That's it, let's rock-paper-scissors, whoever loses will eat the first one, if there is no adverse reaction, let's eat it separately, okay?"

Everyone agreed, but the golden son still lost. She said with a sad face: "The first advocates are often the deepest victims, and this is really true!"

Zhang Juan had already smashed the walnuts and put them in the hands of Jinzi. Huang Jinzi frowned, and his face was bitter. Wang Yan, who was holding the wind at the door, urged: "Hurry up, she has walked through the corridor, eat quickly!"

The moment the door was pushed open, Jinzi swallowed the walnut with tears in his eyes. She cried and laughed exaggeratedly, and patted her roommates on the shoulders helplessly: "Wow, it turns out that walnuts are so delicious!"

Xue Dongmei happened to hear her praise, she was stunned at the door for a moment, but she didn't squeak, and walked straight to her bed. Huang Jinzi was not discouraged, but said loudly: "It's really delicious!

Huang Jinzi is no longer the weird expression of crying and laughing just now, Zhang Juan will be suspicious, smash one open and eat it, and is full of praise: "Wow, it's really delicious!"

Xue Dongmei was climbing up the bunk, and when she heard their praise, she suddenly stopped and slowly turned her head. Huang Jinzi said sincerely: "Bring us some next time!"

Xue Dongmei was stunned for a few seconds and nodded: "Okay." ”

"Oh, that's right!" Zhang Juan took an unopened bottle of facial cleanser from the table and handed it to Xue Dongmei: "My sister came to see me today and brought me some toiletries." I'm using enough facial cleanser until I graduate, so you can help me use this bottle!"

Xue Dongmei jumped down the ladder but did not take the facial cleanser. When she first entered the dormitory, she washed her face with soap, but the group of girls in the city laughed and said, "Wow, there are still people who use soap!" When she took a shower, she didn't use shower gel, and her roommates laughed again. Since then, she has never bathed with them again.

The ridicule of the past is still echoing in her ears, and her crushed self-esteem has not yet grown, if she had followed Xue Dongmei's previous temper, she would have knocked it over with one hand, and proudly left a sentence "Who is rare". However, the adventures of the past two days also made her restrain a lot, and she hesitated again and again, but still took the facial cleanser from her roommate's hand.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in an instant and secretly wiped the cold sweat off their foreheads.

"Thank you. Xue Dongmei whispered: "The bread you gave yesterday, and... Today's facial cleanser. ”

Huang Jinzi smiled: "What is this! Let's classmates, these are all trivial things, don't take it to heart!"

Xue Dongmei nodded lightly, maybe the weight of the word "classmate" should be experienced a little bit!

In the blink of an eye, in late April, the SARS situation is improving little by little, and the business of wonton restaurants has gradually recovered. On the weekend evening, the three children gathered at the wonton restaurant after a long absence, Qiao Lin and Wei Chenglin were doing their homework bitterly, and Sun Ruiyang was watching "Harry Potter" attentively, leisurely doing oversight.

"It's really unfair, why can we do our homework and Brother Ruiyang can read novels?" Wei Chenglin said indignantly.

Qiao Lin replied: "If you have the ability, you have also been specially recruited into the experimental class of the second middle school." ”

Wei Chenglin pouted: "Is it difficult to study well, and do everything right?"

"Of course, if you can be like Ruiyang, then if you go to an Internet café for a week, your mother won't talk about you. Qiao Jianjun said, bringing out three bowls of wontons.

Sun Ruiyang smiled: "Uncle Qiao, I also want a fried egg." ”

Qiao Jianjun exclaimed: "Ouch, I forgot! Ruiyang is half a young man, and the amount of food is much bigger than before!"

Sun Ruiyang laughed twice, Qiao Lin's mouth was full, and her big eyes stared straight at him. Sun Ruiyang was stared at uncomfortably and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jolene swallowed the wonton and said, "My dad said you've grown into a half-sized man, but I haven't seen any changes!"

Sun Ruiyang pushed his glasses: "Quantitative change will eventually cause qualitative change." ”

Wei Chenglin asked Qiao Lin for help: "What do you mean?"

Jolene shook her head like a rattle: "I don't understand either." ”

Sun Ruiyang was very helpless, so he had to bury his head in the bowl and eat it in a big gulp. Qiao Jianjun took out the fried eggs, watched the three children gobble up with relief, and said to himself: "When Ruiyang was born, he was as thin as a kitten cub, and he had been living in the hospital, but he didn't expect to grow so big. ”

Qiao Lin interjected: "I still remember that he had asthma when he was a child, and when it was spring, Aunt Chen wouldn't let him go out, so we went to his house every day to play with him." ”

Wei Chenglin said: "I also remember that Brother Ruiyang has been wearing a mask since he was a child!"

"It's not easy for you children to grow up healthy and healthy. Qiao Jianjun sighed.

"Yo, SARS hasn't passed yet, Sun Xiucai actually dared to come to the restaurant to eat. The sliding door was opened, and it turned out that Xu Wei was coming, and Qiao Nan followed behind.

"Brother Xu Wei!" Sun Ruiyang greeted happily and explained: "My mother's studio is about to open, and I will run out if I don't care about it today." ”

Qiao Nanhu said with a threatening face: "Don't you catch a cold by eating a bowl of wontons, or your mother will come to my house to cry again." ”

Sun Ruiyang stuck out his tongue: "My mother is too careful, don't pay attention to her." ”

Several children laughed, and the sliding door was opened again. Everyone looked towards the door and saw a man in a school uniform with short ear-length hair standing at the door.

"Xue Dongmei?"

"I heard from my classmates that the wontons here are very delicious, and we are about to graduate from No. 2 Middle School, so we have to try them. Xue Dongmei said a little shyly.

"Oh, oh. Qiao Nan hurriedly put the schoolbag aside and said, "Come here and eat." ”

"Good. ”

The three children at that table covered half of their faces with their books and looked at the extremely embarrassed table with malicious intent. Qiao Nan didn't look back, and said coldly: "Still watching, do you want to be beaten?"

The three children were immediately frightened and fled without a trace.

Xue Dongmei was amused: "The one with the ponytail is your sister?"

"Hmm. ”

"Looks cute. ”

The three of them were completely speechless, Xu Wei couldn't stand this kind of embarrassing chat, so he ran away in advance under the pretext of going home to take a shower. Qiao Nan finished eating in two bites, and said to Xue Dongmei: "I'll go home too, you wait for me for a while." ”

"Hmm. ”

After Qiao Nan left, Qiao Jianjun cleaned up the table, Xue Dongmei spread out the book, and memorized the English words seriously. Qiao Jianjun caught a glimpse of her rough hand, a thick calloon was grinding on the middle finger of her right hand, and when she was writing, her hand was a little disobedient. Maybe studying is not in a state today, Xue Dongmei wrote, and suddenly sobbed.

Qiao Jianjun hurriedly asked, "This classmate, what's wrong with you?"

"Uncle, do you have duct tape here?"

"Yes, yes, what do you want tape for?"

Xue Dongmei took the transparent glue and tied the ballpoint pen to her finger tightly and tied it tightly. Qiao Jianjun was taken aback: "What are you doing here?"

Xue Dongmei cried desperately: "I can't hold the pen in my hand anymore, it's so useless! Even if I write it in a bundle, I have to write it down! As long as I don't write for a while, countless people will surpass me." ”

Qiao Jianjun sat down opposite her, took her hand, removed the tape in circles, and said slowly: "You played with jumping rubber bands when you were a child, right?"

Xue Dongmei didn't squeak, and Qiao Jianjun said again: "My two girls liked to play jumping bands when they were young, and they jumped as long as they had time, but each rubber band couldn't last a few days, so they had to buy new ones." People, it's the same as a rubber band, it's held up day and night, and it will break soon. ”

Xue Dongmei cried: "No, if I don't hold it up like this, I will be thrown away..."

"Then don't eat, it's a waste of time to eat, and don't sleep, it's too much of a delay to sleep. Don't go to the toilet either, it will save a lot of time. Are you willing to live like this?" Qiao Jianjun took a breath and said, "People, just try your best to live, don't push yourself to a dead end." If that string breaks, there's nothing. You've just come back from the hospital, so you don't understand it, do you?"

Xue Dongmei was thoughtful and unconsciously stopped sobbing, and Qiao Nan also rushed back. Qiao Jianjun said: "You guys go back to school early, if you're too tired, take a break, and walk slowly to go further." ”

The two of them walked out of the wonton restaurant one after the other, and Qiao Nan handed a schoolbag to Xue Dongmei: "This is my sister's schoolbag, she hasn't used it, I don't know if you like it or not?" If you like it, take it first, and if you don't like it, I'll take it home." ”

It was a dark blue drawstring denim bag, so simple that it didn't have any patterns, but it was very generous. Xue Dongmei said: "It's so good-looking, I've never seen such a good-looking schoolbag in Hong Kong City." ”

"This is sent back from Germany by my aunt, one for each of our three siblings. My sister is in Shanghai, she said she doesn't need it, she uses it for my sister. My sister doesn't lack a school bag either, so this one has been kept at home. ”

Xue Dongmei's self-esteem was playing tricks again, making her resist the kindness of others, but the young man's clear eyes made her take it unconsciously and said, "I like it very much, thank you." ”

Qiao Nan laughed suddenly: "It's nothing, they're all classmates." If someone asks, you say it's my mom for you, so they don't have to gossip. ”

He even thought of all this, and he was not as careful as an "arbor". Xue Dongmei nodded and asked, "May I ask, why did you give me my schoolbag?"

Qiao Nan scratched his head, he really couldn't say anything - could it be that seeing her use the supermarket shopping bag, he didn't want to go? When he was in a hurry, he had an idea: "I helped you fill in the hospitalization information that day, and saw that you were born in May, isn't it going to be May soon?" Classmates, I finally want to leave some memorial!"

Xue Dongmei suddenly smiled, and Qiao Nan was surprised with a bright smile - it turned out that the girl looked so good when she smiled!

One early morning in early May, Qiao Nan looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one, he walked to Wang's steamed bun shop. Uncle Wang glanced at it smartly and stretched out two fingers. Qiao Nan nodded and whispered, "Well, twenty." ”

Uncle Wang quickly packed the bag and stuffed it into Qiao Nan's empty schoolbag - Qiao Nan was carrying a shopping bag in his hand, and all the review materials were contained in it.

Walking to the school communication room, Uncle Gu in the guard room checked his day student badge and glanced at the shopping bag in his hand vigilantly. Qiao Nan smiled: "Look, aren't these all books?"

Uncle Gu didn't embarrass him anymore, and Qiao Nan swaggered into the school gate. This kind of behavior of buying steamed buns for students without profit is really not something that ordinary people can stick to, but Qiao Nan persisted for three years. It's just that he didn't know that the schoolbag behind him had been faintly steaming, exuding a faint scent of buns.

Uncle Gu saw it clearly, and Li Lanzhi happened to walk into the school gate, so he naturally saw it. Qiao Nan brought buns to his classmates for three years, and the teachers naturally watched them for three years. But they looked at each other and smiled, shook their heads tacitly, and pretended not to see anything.