Jolene often memorized math problems all night, and she couldn't even understand the meaning of the questions, but only by memorizing them in her heart did she feel grounded.

On June 18, Italy, which she supported, was out, and she cried again, crying while reciting the question when she returned home. Dad didn't let her work so hard and forced her to go to bed, but Jolene would sneak up and continue to memorize the question until the early hours of the morning.

My parents' quarrel was heard that night.

Qiao Jianjun lowered his voice, but he could still hear the excitement: "Originally, if you signed up, the child would be able to go to the second middle school, but you didn't report it! Now it's okay, the child is tired and has a nosebleed every day, are you willing?"

Li Lanzhi said without showing weakness: "Lulu and Nan Nan at that time, even if I didn't sign up, the second middle school was scrambling to get them, and others wouldn't talk nonsense at all. What about you, this girl, who is as stupid as a stone, and she can't get into the second middle school at all. Even if she is forced into it, she can't keep up, and it will only pull down the admission rate of the second middle school. What will my colleagues think of me then? How will her aunt laugh at our family? You don't know how I feel, so you know it!"

Qiao Jianjun said angrily: "What do you care what others think? You have paid so much for the second middle school, what is wrong with letting your children go to school? Where are you so mother-in-law, so ruthless!"

Li Lanzhi's voice suddenly raised: "We have three children in our family, and we have to occupy three places! Do you know how many people are staring at my position as the head teacher? If I have a little handle in someone else's hand, I will be kicked out again! How many years have I sacrificed for the sake of these three children, and now that my career has finally improved a little, you are trying to get me down? Qiao Jianjun, Qiao Jianjun, you are really selfish enough..."

There was a sudden "dream" in the bedroom, and the couple was startled, thinking that they had woken up their little daughter, so they stopped talking. Li Lanzhi went back to the room to sleep in a huff, and Qiao Jianjun returned to the wonton restaurant - his wife had a nervous breakdown all the year round, and he couldn't sleep at the slightest sound, so he rarely slept at home.

After her parents were quiet, Jolene pillowed her arms and tears flowed silently. This weekend is the independent enrollment of the second middle school, if you can't pass the exam, you will become the laughing stock of the whole family, right?

She likes the school uniform of No. 2 Middle School the most, and in her eyes, it is tantamount to the most beautiful armor. She is willing to do whatever it takes to get her.

The pen in his hand scribbled, and the line of words in the exercise book gradually became clear:

I hate Mom!

In a crowded sophomore classroom, old desks are piled with books, and the corridors and corridors are also full of books, as if the height of the books is directly proportional to the grades.

In the afternoon, there is a 20-minute break between classes. Some students were cleaning outside, and some were chatting together. Qiao Nan sat at the back of the classroom, using a roll as a cover, and looked at "Football Weekly" intently. Every few lines I read, the scroll moves up a little bit.

A dark shadow stood in front of him, and an ominous premonition surged into Qiao Nan's heart, and his heart rate instantly soared to 180. If the head teacher is standing in front of him, the magazine that still smells of ink will be taken away.

"Squad leader!"

Qiao Nan raised his head, and then saw two girls standing in front of him. Because of the huge study pressure, the girls in the second middle school usually consciously lose 3,000 green silk, saving a lot of time to take care of their hair, especially in the experimental class where the two masters are like clouds, the girls are like capable and neat female soldiers. However, judging from the back, it does have a bit of a meaning of "An can tell that I am male and female".

"What's the matter?" Qiao Nan casually pulled down the scroll and covered the magazine.

"Can't you kick Xue Dongmei out of our class? If we continue like this, we will all go crazy!"

"That's it, we are all in the same dormitory, Xue Dongmei doesn't take a bath, don't wash her hair, it's almost stinky to death! Every night as soon as the lights go out, she hides in the quilt and studies with a flashlight, so noisy that we can't sleep. This morning Kaneko said a few words to her, and the two of them got into a fight in the dormitory. Jin Zi grabbed her hair and immediately cried, saying that I had never seen such oily hair in my life, it was disgusting!"

Qiao Nan had already heard of what Xue Dongmei had done, but although he was the class leader, how could he take care of these things about girls? He scratched his head in embarrassment, and before he could speak, he saw Xue Dongmei coming over.

Xue Dongmei has the hairstyle of Sister Ma in "Sister Idler", wears a pair of very old-fashioned glasses, and the school uniform on her body is wrinkled. She said expressionlessly: "If you dare to chew your tongue again, I will jump off the building when I go back tonight." ”

A gust of wind blew, and everyone dared not speak. Because of Xue Dongmei's ruthlessness, they have all seen it.

When Xue Dongmei turned to leave, Qiao Nan couldn't help but say, "Classmates, why are you so stiff?

Xue Dongmei sneered: "I'm sorry, I'm here to take the university entrance exam, and I can't afford to talk about the friendship between classmates!"

Then he turned and left, never giving anyone a chance to speak again.

Qiao Nan felt that he was too a failure as the class leader, he had a strong sense of responsibility, but he didn't know how to deal with the problems between girls. Just when he was downcast, his tablemate and friend Xu Wei returned. He had just finished delivering the garbage with his classmates, and he was sweating profusely, so he picked up his school uniform shirt and wiped the sweat on his face.

The shirt blocked his view, he didn't see the book under his feet, he tripped over it all of a sudden, and the hash browns he bought when he was delivering the garbage flew out.

The girls laughed and said in the tone of "Kong Yiji": "Xu Wei, you have a new scar on your face!"

In the first experimental class, Xu Wei is indeed a Kongyi-like existence, because "only when he is there, can he laugh a few times". When Xu Wei heard the ridicule, instead of being annoyed, he lay down on the book and said with some intoxication: "I am practicing the principal's call and wandering in the sea of books!"

Everyone laughed, Qiao Nan couldn't stand it anymore, and pulled him up with a black face: "Isn't it a shame?"

Xu Wei smiled, returned to his seat and sat down, and asked, "What's the matter, that group of girls just now treated you as a friend of women again, and came to complain?"

Qiao Nan gave him a blank look: "They trust me!"

"Yes, if I don't trust you, how can a low-key classmate Qiao Mutou become the president of our class?" Xu Wei teased: "You pay attention, maybe there will be your future girlfriend here, that's not for sure." ”

"Cut!" Qiao Nan didn't bother to pay attention to him, and looked at the roll intently.

Xu Wei took out a football-shaped key ring from his trouser pocket, threw it on the table at the same table, and said: "My dad went to South Korea for a visit a few days ago, and he just brought back some World Cup souvenirs, which I just took out of his office. Didn't your family Linlin take the second middle school exam this week? You can help me give it to her, so that she can take the exam well. ”

Qiao Nanqi said: "When did you become so interested in Qiao Lin? I can tell you, she is still a little child who doesn't know anything, if you dare to play any crooked ideas..."

"Phew, why are your thoughts so dirty!" Xu Wei chirped: "She has called me 'Brother Xu Wei' for so many years, I have to look a little bit like a brother, okay? Where is it like you, I don't buy any gifts, and I bully people so much all day long!"

Qiao Nan was dumbfounded, reflected for a while, and continued to read.

In Qiao's wonton restaurant, Sun Ruiyang was teaching Qiao Lin math problems, and Wei Chenglin was holding a copy of "Dragon Ball", munching on melon seeds, watching it with relish.

Sun Ruiyang quietly read the question: "A water reservoir has a certain amount of water, and the river water is evenly stored." 5 pumps can be drained for 20 days, 6 same pumps can be drained for 15 days..."

Qiao Lin flipped through another book, but her mouth consciously took Sun Ruiyang's words: "It takes 12 pumps to pump in 6 days, and the formula is..."

Sun Ruiyang asked in surprise: "You... Aren't you all right? Teacher Li still asked me to tell you?"

Jolene said honestly, "I don't, I don't understand a single question, but I've memorized it all." ”

Sun Ruiyang was dumbfounded, in his impression, it was natural to memorize English and Chinese, and the first time he heard that someone had memorized the entire Olympiad questions.

Jolene continued to flip through other books and said, "The question you just read is in the middle of page 20, it seems to be the fifth question. ”

"Sister Linlin, you are so amazing!" Wei Chenglin, who was immersed in reading comic books, couldn't help but raise his head.

Qiao Lin shook her head and said, "I'm not good, the people who come up with these questions are great." I don't know where so many reservoirs can be pumped, and I don't know why the water in the pond is put and filled at the same time... That's why their brains are the most powerful. ”

A few children were talking, and Qiao Nan came to eat after class. He gave the football-shaped key ring to Jolene and relayed Xu Wei's words to her. Jolene held the keyring and immediately took the key off her neck and hung it on the keyring.

Qiao Nan ate wontons and said to himself: "You said that you are as thin as a monkey and as black as a piece of charcoal, why are there so many people who sparsely soften you?"

Qiao Lin had long been accustomed to her brother's "ridicule", and she shouted "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon", and slapped her brother on the back. Qiao Nan was choked again, until tears flowed out and the cough was cured.

This Tuesday is closed, and after a month, students have only ushered in a day and a half of vacation - they are free to study on Friday night, and they can leave school on Saturday and Sunday mornings, but they must return to school on Sunday afternoons. Qiao Nan originally planned to go back to school to study after eating, but she didn't expect her mother to come back with a gloomy face.

Jolene had a tantrum with her mother recently, and when she saw her mother come in, she didn't say hello to her, but turned around and buried herself in her homework.

Qiao Nan felt that something was wrong, because her mother went straight into the bedroom next to the back kitchen and cried in a low voice.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Qiao Nan asked uneasily.

Tears flowed down her fingers, and Li Lanzhi couldn't cry, not knowing how to answer.

At this time, the guests were almost gone, and Qiao Jianjun came out of the back kitchen and noticed that something was wrong with his wife. Although Jolene had a cold war with her mother, she was worried that her mother's old illness would recur, so she leaned on the door frame and eavesdropped.

Li Lanzhi thought that her youngest daughter would take the exam tomorrow, so she said solemnly: "Qiao Lin will go out first!"

"I don't! If you don't let me listen, I'll be even more cranky. Jolene clung to the door frame and said stubbornly.

Qiao Jianjun was so anxious that he stomped his feet: "It's all like this, what are you still hiding? The more you don't say it, the more the child mutters in his heart." ”

"Lan Yun has uremia. ”

The family's faces changed instantly, and the air froze all at once. Jolene rushed into the room, took her brother's hand and asked, "Uncle has uremia, what is uremia, is it serious?"

Qiao Nan was only a sophomore in high school, but he knew that it was a very serious disease. My uncle has always been frail and sickly, and he has this disease... The consequences are unimaginable. He knew that his sister and uncle had an extraordinary relationship, so he muttered and did not speak.

Qiao Jianjun was like falling into an ice cave, and he couldn't wait to look up to the sky and sigh - illness can't get along with this family! But he is the pillar of the family, and there is no way to be vulnerable. He sat down next to his wife and asked, "Where is Lan Yun now?" I talked to my mother on the phone yesterday, and she didn't say anything!"

Li Lanzhi cried more and more, and no longer had the image of a strong woman: "Lan Yun has been living in Lai County People's Hospital for half a month, and Gui Rong has been accompanying her in the hospital. If it weren't for the fact that Baoqing didn't even have the money to order a tutoring book, our mother wouldn't have told me at all. ”

Jolene vaguely knew the seriousness of the disease, and she grabbed her brother's hand, and tears welled up again. She wanted not to take the exam tomorrow and go back to Laixian County to visit her uncle. Uncle will feel much better when he sees himself, right?

The more Li Lanzhi thought about it, the more sad she became, and she couldn't cry anymore: "Among our three sisters and brothers, the third child got the best in the university entrance examination, but in less than half a year, he got lupus erythematosus, he wanted to grit his teeth and get through, but he didn't expect to get acute pneumonia again." At that time, where was the telephone at home? The telegram was not something that could be filmed, so when the school found us, he had been lying in the intensive care unit for a week. Fortunately, in Beijing at that time, the school cared about him very much, coupled with the good medical conditions, he finally saved his life, but he couldn't go to school, so he could only go home to raise him. I always thought that God would not be so vicious, but I didn't expect that in the end, he would get uremia..."

Qiao Nan has always been stupid, and he is not good at communicating with his parents, but when he saw his mother crying sadly, he was also like a knife, but he just stroked his mother's back and said in vain, "It will be fine".

Li Lanzhi cried for a while, then calmed down, and reprimanded the two children again: "Why are you two still here? Don't do your homework? And Qiao Nan, you are about to be promoted to the third year... Although your uncle is not lightly ill, he will not be a big deal for a while, and it is a good thing for the two of you to study hard. ”

The brother and sister were speechless and walked out of the room helplessly. Qiao Nan told her sister not to worry, and Qiao Lin just nodded and didn't listen at all.

Although Jolene is young, her mind is very heavy, she can't write her homework anymore, and she can't sleep at night when she lies in bed. The tapes of the "Flower Band" have been changed twice, and there is still no sleep. At that time, there was no computer at home, let alone a smartphone, so she could not find out how serious her "uremia" was. She tossed and turned, and finally made up her mind that she would go to her dog-headed military advisor Sun Ruiyang tomorrow, and he would definitely be able to come up with a good way.

Early the next morning, Qiao Lin came to the second middle school. Sun Ruiyang is in the first year of junior high school in No. 2 Middle School, which is regarded as a small examination for this exam, and helps maintain order at the school gate. He saw Jolene in the crowd and immediately saw that she was unhappy.

"What's wrong?" Sun Ruiyang asked quietly.

"My uncle has uremia!" Jolene asked with tears in her eyes, "Kobold Commander, is uremia bad?"

When Sun Ruiyang heard "uremia", Qingxiu's eyebrows twisted into a pimple, he searched in his mind for a moment, and said: "Uremia is not a terminal disease, it can be cured by replacing a kidney." ”

"Kidney replacement?" Jolene's eyes widened in surprise.

Sun Ruiyang's expression was very determined, he pushed his glasses, and tried to say more relaxedly: "As early as fifty years ago, there was a kidney replacement technology, and now that the medical technology is so developed, it is not a trivial matter to replace a kidney?"

A stone fell to the ground in Jolene's heart, and she sat down on the steps with her chest clutched, gasping, "That's fine." ”

"But... Kidney replacement not only has to have a suitable kidney, but also costs a lot of money. ”

Qiao Lin said indifferently: "It's okay, my aunt said before, no matter how much it costs, you have to cure my uncle's illness!"

The Sun family and the aunt's family are upstairs and downstairs neighbors, and Sun Ruiyang naturally knows everything about the aunt's personality. He smiled noncommittally and asked tactfully, "Aunt Li... Really that generous?"

"Over the years, my uncle has spent a lot of money on treatment, and my aunt has always given as much as my uncle spends, but my uncle doesn't want it. Jolene said with wide eyes. At that time, my aunt took the money for her uncle's treatment and went to Shanghai to take the university entrance examination, which only her family knew. She believes that even if she doesn't tell others, her aunt will already be a hell in her heart.

"That's good, if you have money and kidneys, you don't have to worry, I'll send you to the exam room!"

"Okay!" Hearing that her uncle was saved, Qiao Lin relaxed and said, "When I was a child, I lived in the countryside, and my grandmother's house and my uncle's house were next to each other, and my two families lived casually. My uncle was a very kind teacher, and he was kind to me! When he saw that I was thin, he ordered two portions of milk for me at my fourth grandfather's house, and one for Baoqing! In the spring, he took me and Baoqing to make kites, and when they were ready, he led us to the fields to release them; in the summer, he took me and Baoqing to the woods to catch them. In the autumn, we went to the mountains to pick chestnuts, and in the winter, we were taught to memorize poems at home. ”

In early summer, there was a cicada chirping from the tall poplar trees, and Jolene immediately came to her senses: "By the way, do you know how to catch it? It is to knead the flour into a ball, and then wash the dough in water, and finally only gluten remains." I rubbed gluten on the rod, and when I got to the woods, I saw Zhizhi, and stretched it out, and I grabbed Zhizhi!"

When Jolene said this, her big eyes flickered, like a puddle of water. Although Sun Ruiyang had heard these stories eight hundred times, he didn't mind Qiao Lin continuing to tell them. Maybe it's because the morning sun happens to shine on her, or maybe it's because she is full of liveliness... Seeing her like this, Sun Ruiyang also became very sunny unconsciously.

So he smiled and continued: "You caught a lot of knowledge, and finally took it home and fried it." ”

"Hehe, you've memorized it!" Qiao Lin stuck out her tongue and looked into the distance, as if reminiscing about that good time, and then said with some sadness: "Grandma and uncle never eat, and my aunt believes in Buddhism, so she doesn't eat it, so in the end, I ate it with Baoqing." At that time, the two of us were eating fried knowledge, watching "The Legend of the New White Lady" in the house, and watching "White Eyebrows", grandma and they were in the yard to enjoy the cool... At that time, I told them that when I grow up, I want to make a lot of money and treat my uncle, so that our family can always talk and laugh like this... I haven't achieved this goal yet, and I can't let anything happen to my uncle..."

Jolene's expression darkened, and tears seemed to overflow from her big eyes. Sun Ruiyang hurriedly pulled out a tissue from his schoolbag and said, "Don't cry, didn't I tell you, uremia won't die, your uncle is a good person, and God will bless him." ”

Listening to Sun Ruiyang's words, Qiao Lin was indeed much more relaxed, she wiped her tears, and said with a smile: "I really deserve to be my dog-headed military master!"

"Can you give me a nice nickname!" Sun Ruiyang smiled helplessly, inadvertently touched her head, and said with a smile: "Sample!"

"Whew! I'm relaxed, I'm ready to go to the exam!" Jolene clenched her little fists, full of fighting spirit.

"It's still early, but you can go and see the exam room first. Sun Ruiyang also clenched his fist, touched her fist, and said with a smile: "Xiao Dongxie, come on!"

Jolene nodded heavily and ran into the school building. Sun Ruiyang looked at her back and said to himself: "It's still so easy to deceive, just coax!"