It's been at least two years, Lao Mu hasn't asked Mu Zhen about his studies, it's not that Lao Mu doesn't want to pay attention, the key is that Mu Zhen's results in every exam are satisfactory to Lao Mu, and there is no need to impose constraints, so Mu Zhen made full use of his free time and read more extracurricular books borrowed from Ma Sanye.

On the fifth day after the end of the exam, it was another hot day, Mu Zhen accompanied Mu Bao at home as usual, the brothers had their own advantages, Mu Bao was going to be in the first grade after the start of school, and naturally became a prospective student, under the teaching of Lao Mu, he already knew hundreds of Chinese characters, Mu Bao was no longer the child who used to play with the stacked blocks and ride a horse with a bench, at this time he was also sitting on the table and writing his own words. Mu Zhen, who was sitting on the side, had already been attracted by the wonderful plot in the book, the fascinating storyline, and the fascinating mountain scenery had already made Mu Zhen immersive. Reading the fascinating place, Mu Zhen felt that she was a character in the book, and she was also eager to try and travel to that ancient battlefield called killing.

Just when the two brothers were busy, Lao Mu, who went to the town education committee for a meeting, didn't know when he was standing in the courtyard. I saw him standing in the scorching sun with his hands on his hips, looking up at the sky from time to time, as if he was in trouble again, and sighed there, and the brothers were so shocked that you look at me, I look at you, completely without the concentration and obsession just now.

Lao Mu, who stood on his waist for a few minutes, took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, "whooped", struck a match, lit the cigarette, and then threw the match on the ground and stepped on it with his feet, lest there were still embers left in the match, the brothers gave each other a look, did not speak, Lao Mu actually walked into the room, stared at Mu Zhen who was reading for a full minute, Mu Zhen put down the book in his hand, and looked at his father, Lao Mu strained his face, his lips moved a few times, he did not speak, and then his face turned a little blue:" Do you want to look at the grades, and do you still have the heart to read the extracurricular books?"

Lao Mu was full of anger, and his voice was not only a little trembling, but also frustrated.

Mu Zhen immediately felt that a catastrophe was coming again, the wounds brought by Lu Shuang had just healed, and a new injury was about to begin.

Lao Mu threw over a report card, which clearly read: Chinese 83, mathematics 75, English 81, physics 98. Mu Zhen no longer pays attention to the next few subjects, only the results of these subjects are enough to make Lao Mu crazy, and his head slams to the ground, and he immediately swells like a bucket, and presses heavily on his neck.

Lao Mu was a little angry: "With such an achievement, do you still have the face to sit here?"

Mu Zhen didn't respond, he looked at the report card, and the grievances in his heart immediately burst out, and tears couldn't help but flow down like beads of thread. These days, he has not told his family what happened to him, not that he didn't say it, but he didn't dare to say it, and if he had to say it, this storm might have come earlier and more violently.

Mu Bao on the side looked at his father's angry appearance, turned his head to see his brother crying bitterly, knew that things were not good, stood up and ran out.

"Tell me what you're doing this semester?" asked Mu Zhen with a gloomy face.

Mu Zhen sobbed and did not answer.

The silence made Lao Mu's emotions even more excited: "After the last midterm exam, I went to your school at night, and happened to meet you outside the classroom window to fight with people, this year, you don't need to ask, you know what you did in school? Now with such results, what can you do in the future? In order to let you study with peace of mind, we have specially found you a place to stay, but you are good, you regard studying as child's play, can this grade be worthy of the people who stay overnight?"

Lao Mu was silent for a few minutes, took two puffs of his cigarette, and continued what he thought was the right tirade. In a word, this achievement is enough to show that Mu Zhen did not study hard in school, as for what he did, Lao Mu said a lot, but in Mu Zhen's opinion, these reasons are all nonsense, not marginal, and the unfair treatment for a month in a row, how to mention it to Lao Mu? This month, not to mention review, is to learn new knowledge, but also just to look at the flowers, that often have a suicidal state of mind, who can tell him, the teacher does not understand him, the classmates alienated him, that kind of environment is simply tormenting himself, to be able to get this result, but also with a solid foundation of early learning, otherwise it is a problem to pass this exam.

Mu Zhen is still silent, he doesn't need to explain, no matter what Lao Mu says, this achievement is inevitable, he has seen this gloomy face countless times, this face is already commonplace for Mu Zhen, maybe after the incident, Lao Mu will become more rational, and then use his own practical actions to make up for the psychological gap brought by this achievement to Lao Mu.

Lao Mu's complaint continued, Mu Bao who ran out of the door came back, followed by his mother Xiuhua, as soon as he entered the door, Xiuhua heard Lao Mu's crazy roar, on the way, she heard Mu Bao say that Mu Zhen did not do well in the exam, Lao Mu was angry at home, she felt that things came too suddenly, not afraid that Lao Mu would criticize a few words of Mu Zhen because of his grades, but afraid that Lao Mu would hurt his nerves because of anger and make matters worse for the family.

"Look, how can you be so atmospheric?" Xiuhua entered the door of the house, first persuaded Lao Mu, and then he took the report card in front of Mu Zhen and looked at it.

"How many places can this score rank among the students who took the exam?" Xiuhua deliberately wanted to divert the topic and asked casually.

"With this result, what else can you rank?" Lao Mu's tone still contained twelve points of anger.

"That can't be so atmospheric, the child is no longer a child, take such a result, but also analyze the reason, if the question is difficult, everyone does not do well in the test, then it is nothing! There is no need to be so angry!" Xiuhua's words are obviously thinking of reducing the fire to Lao Mu, he is worried that Lao Mu will be angry and cause irreparable damage to the family.

Lao Mu listened to Xiuhua's words, and suddenly became dumbfounded, Lao Mu only looked at the child's grades, and didn't think of so much, he never looked for the reason from the test papers, every time he only looked at the number of grades, this has already become a yardstick for him to evaluate Mu Zhen's strengths and weaknesses, and now Xiuhua raised this question, and he really didn't think about it in his mind.

Lao Mu turned around and rode out without saying a word, Xiuhua hurriedly shouted behind him: "It's noon soon, where are you going?"

Lao Mu did not respond, and the car had already left the gate and got on the road at the head of the village.

Lao Mu saw Mu Zhen's results for the first time, it was a plummeting feeling, he was stunned for a moment, he didn't believe his eyes, Mu Zhen's excellence in the past two years is something he is used to, so how can he accept this result? As Xiuhua said, he went to the school to check Mu Zhen's ranking with his identity as a teacher, and at the same time understood the reason why this exam was a test paper.

Lao Mu rode all the way like a fly, so he quickly arrived at Qingcheng Middle School, found Director Zhang, and explained that he wanted to see the report card of the third year of junior high school, Director Zhang naturally gave him face, took him to the office, and took out the score entry sheet that had just been put in from the drawer and handed it to Lao Mu.

The transcript is ranked according to the total score, Lao Mu found Mu Zhen's name in the fifth line, and then Lao Mu looked at the results of the top four subjects, compared to Mu Zhen's results, in addition to the first place is much more than Mu Zhen, the individual scores of the other students are not much higher than Mu Zhen, but for Lao Mu, he feels that Mu Zhen's grades are still abnormal, and he thinks that the reason for the abnormality is not in the papers, but in the days of Binhu Middle School.

Lao Mu didn't forget to thank Director Zhang, and hurriedly rode to Binhu Middle School, he wanted to go to Binhu Middle School to find out, this semester, Mu Zhen's study and life there, is it really as he imagined, playful, no work.

When I arrived at Binhu Middle School, it was already noon, and Lao Mu saw that there was a person in the office who was checking the test papers, Lao Mu knocked on the door and walked in, and the teacher was still concentrating on searching there without raising his head. Lao Mu leaned over: "Is Director Liu here today?"

"Is there anything you need to do with him?" said the teacher, still flipping through the test paper without raising his head.

"I want to know about Mu Zhen's study!" Lao Mu said what he wanted to do directly, he was too eager to know how Mu Zhen was doing in school this semester.

The teacher who was flipping through the test paper raised his head suddenly, looked at Lao Mu and asked, "Mu Zhen, do you want to know Mu Zhen?"

"I'm Mu Zhen's English teacher, my surname is Gu, I'm checking Mu Zhen's English grades?" the teacher introduced herself.

"He didn't take the exam here, and the papers can't be here!" Lao Mu said as if reminding.

"How do you know?" Teacher Gu glared at Lao Mu, looking at Lao Mu a little familiar: "You are Mu Zhen's parent!"

"Yes, I am Mu Zhen's father, and I also came here for Mu Zhen's study!" Lao Mu introduced himself.

"During the period before the exam, I took a leave of absence, so I didn't take the exam here during this period, and I really don't know much about Mu Zhen's exam, so I don't need to look for his papers. After Mr. Gu finished speaking, he paused for a moment, and then said: "The results in the class this time are not ideal, except for an outstanding student who did not take the exam, the best score has not even passed 70 points, so I don't think it is possible, if Mu Zhen takes the exam, it will definitely not be so bad, and I didn't see Mu Zhen's results on the summary report card at all, so I wanted to find his test paper from the paper, I really didn't know that Mu Zhen didn't take the exam here!"

Lao Mu thought that Mu Zhen's English score was 81 points, is it still the best here! But Lao Mu was embarrassed to say, he felt that if he said it, Teacher Gu would be disappointed somewhat.

"What do you think Mu Zhen is studying this semester?" Lao Mu felt that Teacher Gu naturally taught Mu Zhen, so he knew a little bit about Mu Zhen.

"Mu Zhen, this kid, is smart and studious, he is a good student, but he ......" Teacher Gu suddenly stopped when he said the word "just".

"Please keep talking, I won't mind!" With Lao Mu's intuition, Mr. Gu's following words were what he wanted to hear the most.

"Hey, I don't know what happened, it's just that when I was about to ask for leave, I heard that Mu Zhen was in early love with a girl at school, I don't believe it, but it did make the school full of storms!" Teacher Gu originally wanted to clarify something for Mu Zhen, but he didn't know where to start, so he especially accentuated the tone of the three words "don't believe".

"Puppy love?" Lao Mu was surprised when he heard this, he couldn't imagine that his son would do such a thing at school, Lao Mu's mind was in chaos, as if he had stumbled into the abyss, he could hardly remember anything, and he didn't know what he said, so he staggered out of the office.

Teacher Gu, who was following behind, thought about Lao Mu's sluggish expression, regretted that he had said too much, and looked at Lao Mu's departing figure blankly, and a dark cloud hung over his heart.