When the second middle school came out, Wei Chenglin was even more nervous than Qiao Lin.

When he learned that Qiao Lin was not admitted to the second middle school, he was even more disappointed than Qiao Lin.

The reason is simple, he has grown up with Jolene since he was a child, and he treats Jolene as if he were his own sister. Especially after the death of his father, his mother did not have much time to take care of herself, and he relied on Jolene more.

In this exam, Qiao Lin is indeed a pity, the second middle school recruited ten classes, a total of 400 people, and Qiao Lin happened to take the 401 exam. In fact, there are still 40 places in the second middle school, and the kind that pays the "school construction fee" according to the score, but according to the conditions of the Qiao family, they can't afford to pay this money.

Wei Chenglin shook his piggy bank, very depressed. Obviously, he couldn't afford to pay the money either.

At dinner, Wei Chenglin heard his mother talk about it, and he couldn't eat anymore. Sister Linlin is a famous little tear pack on Jixiang Road, and for her, such a blow is really a bit heavy.

He hadn't finished his meal, so he went upstairs to look for Jolene. In order to comfort his sister Linlin, he also took a can of canned yellow peaches from the refrigerator, because Sister Linlin loves sweets.

To his surprise, Qiao's house was exceptionally quiet. Qiao Lin and her mother are at home, Li Lanzhi is ping pong and washing dishes in the kitchen, and Qiao Lin is slumped on the sofa watching TV.

There was an infertility ad on the TV, and it seemed that the ad had been going on for a while, and Jolene was watching intently, but there was no focus in her eyes.

Wei Chenglin took out the canned food from his arms, gently put it on the coffee table, squeezed out a smile and said, "Sister Linlin, I took your favorite canned yellow peach." ”

Jolene also laughed with two dimples: "Thank you, but you can take it back and eat it, I don't like sweets." ”

Wei Chenglin panicked all of a sudden, scratched his head and said, "How can that be done? I'll leave it for you!"

Jolene said weakly, "Okay. ”

Wei Chenglin was very afraid of such a Sister Linlin, he would rather she cry loudly, so that he could comfort her. He rubbed the can, at a loss, only to hear Jolene say again: "You don't have to worry about me, I always don't do my best, and make some useless efforts..."

"No!" Wei Chenglin was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and his chubby face began to sweat again.

Li Lanzhi shook a rag, and her face was very ugly: "Cheng Lin, go home and do your homework! It will be your turn in a year, don't end up like this!"

Wei Chenglin's face flushed, he snorted a few times, and reluctantly went home. He really wanted to accompany Qiao Lin again, but he also knew that Li Lanzhi might not like him, because his grades were too poor, he knew how to play all day long, and any self-motivated parent didn't want his child to make such a friend.

Wei Chenglin walked out of Qiao's house sullenly and sat down at the top of the stairs, his chubby figure was as cute as a panda, but a fire burned in his heart.

"Chenglin, why are you sitting here, not afraid of mosquito bites?"

"Hmm... Brother Qiao Nan!" Wei Chenglin stood up and patted the dust on his buttocks.

"Tomorrow I'll have a holiday, let's go to Ruiyang's house to play games! I haven't abused you two for a long time, I don't know how much you've grown!" Qiao Nan said heartily.

Wei Chenglin was happy all of a sudden, and grinned. He likes to play games with Qiao Nan the most, although he loses badly, but he fights very happily.

"Brother Qiao Nan, Sister Linlin seems to be very sad, you have to comfort and comfort her. Wei Chenglin told before going home.

"Oh, got it!" Qiao Nan said nonchalantly.

Qiao Lin didn't eat or drink for a few days, Qiao Nan didn't care at first, and then felt that this matter was a bit serious, so she rarely became gentle: "Hey, little friend, you are the eldest in the family, even if you can't get into the second middle school, I will raise you with my sister, what are you afraid of?"

Jolene was still drawing the little swallow's eyes with a pen, and before she knew it, the whole sticker had turned blue, but she didn't say a word.

"You... Is there anything you want to eat?hash browns?skewers?KFC?" Qiao Nan thought about it with all his heart, and finally said helplessly: "Is it okay for you to say something? Is it really my brother begging you?"

"What are you so used to her doing?" Li Lanzhi wrung the wet towel in her hand and said mockingly: "I spent so much money and attended so many tutorial classes, but in the end I couldn't even pass the second middle school exam, which made people laugh out of their big teeth! If you can't pass the exam, you still have a face, and you have to coax with good words, and you are used to some bad problems! Qiao Nan, don't care about her, she loves to eat or not, and she loves to drink or not!"

Jolene suddenly pillowed on her arm and said with tears in her eyes, "It's good that I'm dead." ”

Qiao Nan hurriedly covered her mouth: "Little child, what can't die!"

Li Lanzhi glanced at her and said, "I haven't learned anything else, but I have learned to cry, make trouble, and hang myself!" Alas, she is really used to being a big lady!"

Qiao Jianjun coldly pushed the door in, and said to his wife: "The children are like this, you can say a few words!"

"Let's get used to it, wait for another two or three years, go to a vocational school, and come out early to earn money. ”

Qiao Jianjun had a gloomy face and said loudly: "Linlin, don't worry, Dad will find a way for you to go to a good school!"

"If she is short of one, she will have to pay 10,000 yuan, you are so capable, you will pay for your daughter!" Although Li Lanzhi was laughing, there was a little helplessness in her words: "I don't know that the family's hundreds of thousands of foreign debts can be paid off in the Year of the Monkey, is it possible that I can still borrow money from relatives with a shy face? I want to borrow from you, I don't have that face!"

Qiao Jianjun was upset, sat on the sofa, habitually touched his pocket, and touched for a long time, but he didn't find a cigarette. He suddenly remembered that in order to save money, he had stopped smoking for a long time.

Jolene was crying silently, which was more uncomfortable than crying loudly. Qiao Jianjun said again: "Linlin, don't cry, Dad is here, Dad will find a way for you!"

Qiao Nan leaned his face in front of his sister and said with a smile: "Let my brother carry you! When you were a child, you liked to let me carry you the most, as long as I carried it, you wouldn't cry." ”

Jolene smiled tiredly: "No need, I'm not in the mood." ”

Qiao Nan coldly grabbed her sister's hand and hugged her on her back. Jolene suddenly exclaimed, and forgot to cry.

Qiao Nan said proudly: "Look, you have to carry my brother's back!"

Although Jolene didn't want to admit it, she did feel more relieved than ever when she was lying on her brother's back.

Qiao Lin has been having a mess these days, and her brother asked her to go to Sun Ruiyang's house to play games, but she didn't want to go. She sat in the wonton restaurant in a daze, watching her first Korean drama - Blue Life and Death Love.

The heroine got leukemia and finally died, and that scene was really full of pale and weak beauty. Qiao Lin watched it, and cried with the male protagonist.

"If I have a terminal illness, will my mother be nicer to me? Is it okay to forgive me for doing something wrong?"

She was talking to herself, and vaguely heard her father talking on the phone in the kitchen, and her father said, "Yes, it's like this now, a good junior high school is better than a good high school... You're only a freshman, don't worry about it, I'll go to the second middle school to find someone first... Well, okay, I'll talk about it when you come back next week. ”

As soon as Jolene heard this, she knew that her father was talking to her sister on the phone. My sister will be back next week, and she can nest in her sister's arms like a kitten again, but she is not as happy as she used to be.

Qiao Jianjun kept sighing in the back kitchen, he took a deep breath for a long time, took off his apron, and walked out: "Linlin, there are no guests coming to this point, I'll go out." If there is a call, I will follow, and when a guest comes, he will say that I am out. ”

"Oh..."

Jolene was very numb to the reaction to the outside world, her father went out, she didn't react, the male protagonist of "Blue Life and Death Love" was hit by a car and died, she didn't react, and the phone rang for a long time, but she still didn't respond.

The phone rang tired, so Qiao Lin grabbed the microphone without any strength: "Hello, Qiao's Wonton House." ”

In the evening, Sun Ruiyang's mother Chen Yun, Wei Chenglin's mother Zhao Yanfen, and Qiao Nan's mother Li Lanzhi met in Chenglin Supermarket. This "three-way meeting" was initiated by Chen Yun, because she went to the old house in the afternoon to pack up her things, and happened to catch the three children who were playing games.

"This problem is very serious, and I blame my grandson for going to Japan and bringing a game console for my son. I've locked up the console, but the kids are smart, and they're going to think of something else. "Chen Yun is a native of Shanghai, and she speaks softly, with the delicate appearance of a little woman.

Li Lanzhi also said: "Qiao Nan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he looks sullen and doesn't speak, but he is eighty percent of the things he does to play games, and I will teach him another lesson when I go home, so that he can stop leading children to play games." ”

Zhao Yanfen permed her earthy curly hair, wore a pilling T-shirt, and pretended to sort out the accounts, but she was actually in a state of confusion. She understood what the two neighbors meant—they didn't want Cheng Lin to continue playing with their children, after all, their children had to study hard.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Chen Yun continued: "Especially Cheng Lin, he..."

"Yes, my family Chenglin is stupid, loves to play, and loves to come up with bad ideas. I'll teach him a lesson when I go home and tell him to stop playing with Qiao Nan and Ruiyang!" Zhao Yanfen interrupted her excitedly.

"Sister of the Wei family, I didn't mean that..."Chen Yun eagerly explained: "I mean, Cheng Lin will also go to junior high school next year..."

"Okay, I know everything, you can go back first, I still have to do business!"

Zhao Yanfen unceremoniously ordered the eviction of customers, and Chen Yun and Li Lanzhi had to leave in a huff. After the two neighbors left, Zhao Yanfen felt that her attitude was a little too much. After the death of her husband, she became more and more sensitive, and when others said the word "no" to Lin, her anger rushed to the top of her head.

It's just that her son is really unlucky, and he is counted everywhere.

Cheng Lin came to the supermarket in the evening, looking no different from usual, Zhao Yanfen asked, "Where did you go to play?"

Wei Chenglin replied very honestly: "I went to the wonton restaurant to read." ”

Zhao Yanfen poked her son's head and said indignantly: "Your grades are not good, who doesn't dislike you? In case their grades drop, they don't put all the blame on you? Do you still have a little backbone to ask for yourself?"

Wei Chenglin was inexplicable, but he also felt wronged, and he didn't even want to eat, so he sat on the pony at the door of the supermarket, sulking silently.

Zhao Yanfen was on fire in her heart, so she only cared about sorting out the accounts, and when she saw that the hour hand pointed to nine, she realized that her son had been sitting outside. She hurriedly chased after her, and saw her son staring at a place in a daze, tears streaming down his face.

"So wronged?!"

"Hate me? That's what you adults think, my friends are only Brother Qiao Nan, Brother Ruiyang, and Sister Linlin!" Cheng Lin held back for a long time before he shouted out aggrievedly.

"You..."

"In school, some people play with me because I don't have a father, and the teacher asks them to help me; some people don't like to play with me, but because I don't have a father, so they don't dare to win me, and they have to let me do anything, otherwise the teacher will talk about them, but it's not fun to play like this!" Wei Chenglin cried and said: "But Brother Qiao Nan and Brother Ruiyang are not like this, they can win me, I will win me, and they will never remind me and make me realize that I am a child without a father!"

Zhao Yanfen was dumbfounded, and tears flowed involuntarily - she thought that the child didn't understand anything, but she didn't know, it turned out that the child understood everything in her heart.

"Don't cry, it's my mother who is not good. I'll go find you Aunt Li and Aunt Chen tomorrow, okay!"

Cheng Lin hiccuped from crying, wiped away his tears with the back of his hand, and said to his mother: "I heard just now, Sister Linlin has been admitted to the second middle school! You go to Aunt Li tomorrow, she must be in a good mood!"

It was already late at night, and Qiao's family gathered at the wonton restaurant, unable to recover from the good news from the sky.

Qiao Jianjun asked uneasily: "Are you sure there is a vacant place, did you hear it right?"

Qiao Lin blinked her eyes and nodded vigorously: "Our homeroom teacher personally called, she said that a child had immigrated, so there was a vacant place in the second middle school, and I happened to take the 401 exam, so this opportunity came to me." ”

Li Lanzhi also said: "I just asked the junior high school teacher, and it's true. ”

Perhaps because she had experienced too much despair, Qiao Lin's reaction was very calm, and Qiao Jianjun cried with joy. He walked around the wonton restaurant several times, and finally went to the bedroom and took out a passbook and handed it to his wife: "Let's take it for the third child for dialysis first!"

Li Lanzhi exclaimed, "Where did you get the 10,000 yuan?"

Qiao Jianjun smiled mysteriously: "I saved it, and I borrowed some from my old comrades-in-arms today." ”

Li Lanzhi didn't care about asking, so she called her grandmother. Jolene looked at her dad and asked, "Dad, did you save your money for me?"

Qiao Jianjun smiled proudly: "Of course, your mother didn't sign you up, so I saved the money." At that time, I thought to myself, if you don't have enough scores, my father will spend money to send you to No. 2 Middle School. ”

Jolene blinked, and tears rolled down again: "So, you quit smoking?

Qiao Jianjun touched his daughter's head and said, "Hey, what is this little sacrifice? When you have a child in the future, you will know that doing anything for your child is unconditionally worthwhile." ”

Jolene pursed her lips, walked around behind her father, hugged her father's shoulders and cried.

Qiao Jianjun said with a smile: "Silly Nizi, don't be afraid, no matter what happens, there is still your father in this family!"