Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sugar Paintings and Teeth
Although Teacher Shan verbally said that the training camp would start "next week", in fact, on the next Sunday, the sprint training began. The way of training is also very simple, that is, to do problems. Make papers in the morning, talk about papers in the afternoon, and add 2 "method lessons" from 6 to 7:30 in the evening. In the face of such a high-intensity learning task, not to mention elementary school students, even adults may not be able to bear it, let alone Lin Miao, a small body who graduated from kindergarten.
After studying from morning to night all day, Lin Miao not only felt that her body was hollowed out, but her soul was almost out of her body.
As the key training goal of Teacher Shan, Lin Miao has at least 60% of her firepower, especially when she talks about the papers in the afternoon, Teacher Shan is almost one-on-one.
But then again, Mr. Shan is actually quite anxious. Among these four students, Lin Miao has the highest hopes for her. Then from an objective point of view, on the basis of the Olympiad, Lin Miao is the weakest. Even if Lin Miao won the third place in the school's qualifiers, this does not mean that Lin Miao's level is already higher than Lei Ruirui, at most, it is the comprehensive strength of the combination of test-taking ability and psychological quality, which is slightly stronger than the little girl.
Last week, Lin Miao had just finished digesting the content of the Olympiad for the fifth grade, and the efficiency was indeed high. But now there is only one week left, and it is obviously impossible to let Lin Miao easily eat the content of the sixth grade while doing the general review.
In order to let Lin Miao grasp all the knowledge points he lacked, Teacher Shan even opened a small stove for Lin Miao. The content explained in the evening was almost all the routines that Lin Miao hadn't had time to learn, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he had specially opened an extra class for Lin Miao.
Lin Miao had been squeezed all day on Sunday, and when she woke up on Monday morning, she obviously felt tired for the first time since she was reborn.
But what about being tired? Who in this world is not tired? Even if he worked as a secretary in the district government office in his previous life, and outsiders saw him as glamorous, but who can understand the bitterness of staying up late to write until three or four o'clock in the morning? Compared with the tremendous pressure of the leader having to see the speech at dawn the next day, but there are only three lines of words on the word, this little gadget Nima is an egg!
Lin Miao brushed his teeth, washed his face, cheered up, and when he arrived at school, he was still a good man.
Under the careful guidance of Teacher Shan, Lin Miao gritted her teeth and carried it day after day.
Regardless of whether you understand the core meaning of the various Olympiad routines, you will swallow them first, and then you will see the performance in the exam.
From Monday to Thursday, for four consecutive days, Lin Miao came home every night and almost fell asleep.
In this kind of difficult situation, the creation of "Miscellaneous Conversations in the Small Courtyard" was naturally put on hold for a whole week.
It's Friday.
Just when the physical strength and energy of the 4 children of the Olympiad team had all reached the limit, Teacher Shan finished the paper in the afternoon, and finally did not poison Lin Miao and them again.
She put down the chalk, clapped her hands, and said earnestly: "Students, although I still have some content to finish, we won't be in tonight's class." Today everyone goes home early and rests early in the evening. Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, we will gather in this classroom on time. If you have parents who want to come together, you can also come. The school has arranged a bus, which will send you directly to the examination room, you must be full for breakfast, lunch and lunch break, the school has arranged, you just need to take the exam with peace of mind. Do you have any more questions?"
Lin Miao raised her hand.
Teacher Shan smiled kindly and said, "What's the matter?"
Lin Miao said succinctly: "I get motion sickness. ”
Teacher Shan: "......"
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Motion sickness is an unsolvable problem. But fortunately, the place where the exam took place was not far away, at the Children's Palace on Hubin Road. Walking from Tianji Lane, the pace is fast, it takes about half an hour to arrive, and it takes 20 minutes at most by bicycle.
Lin Miao's request to go alone was agreed to by Teacher Shan, and tomorrow morning, Lin Guorong or Jiang Ping would send him over.
At half past three in the afternoon, Lin Miao and the four of them left school early.
Lin Miao and the other 3 teammates took different paths, and when they left the school gate, they were left alone.
I was reborn for more than a month, and I was used to seeing the way home.
Lin Miao's feeling for these old buildings now has also changed from nostalgia to disgust.
Along Bailifang Road, Lin Miao did not turn into the alley again, and walked straight all the way to Lianjiang Road, before turning a corner.
A few hundred meters ahead, I walked to the mouth of the nameless alley leading to my small courtyard, and across the road from the alley, there was a burst of aroma.
Lin Miao touched his pocket, grabbed a large handful of gross tickets of varying amounts, and took a closer look, it should be a huge sum of more than 50 yuan. In addition to his manuscript fee, there is also a part of the savings from the 3 yuan given by Lin Guorong every day.
- But it shouldn't really be said to be saved.
The main reason why he was able to save so much change was because Lin Miao usually didn't have much opportunity to spend it. The school canteen has never been open, and when I get home from school, it is mostly dark, and the small grocery store next to the school is closed early.
Lin Miao looked at the money and quickly stuffed it back into her pocket.
In '94, a 6-year-old child stood on the curb with so much money, it was very easy to be robbed.
Feeling a little hungry, Lin Miao looked at the car left and right and trotted across the road.
First, I went to a cake shop with the stove outside the house and the store area was only three or four square meters, and bought a plum vegetable pie. Even after more than 20 years, this kind of cake is still sold in Dongou City, and the price has not changed much.
More than 20 years later, this cake sells for 8 yuan a piece.
At this time, the price is 2 yuan.
For Lin Miao now, this cake is still a little big, he took the cake wrapped in oil paper and plastic bags, blew the hot air, and took a small bite, while greedily walking towards another stall on the side.
It was a stall selling candy paintings.
The so-called sugar painting is to paint with hot maltose.
In front of Lin Miao's stall, there is a snow-white smooth marble in the middle, the hot syrup meets the cold stone, it will immediately cool and form, before the sugar painting is completely frozen, the stall owner master will pick up a bamboo stick, stick it to the bottom of the sugar painting, and wait until the bamboo stick and the sugar painting solidify together, and then use a special tool to scrape the sugar painting off the marble piece by piece, or insert it on the straw pillar on the side, or sell it directly to a child.
And there is another fun of buying candy paintings, that is, you can turn a pattern first through the small game of spinning the plate, and then let the master make one on the spot according to the pattern. Among the patterns around the turntable, there is often a big dragon, which will make children who have never seen the world mistakenly think that it is the one inserted on the straw pillar next to it that is at least three or four times the size of other sugar paintings, but in fact, if you really turn to this dragon, the master will only make you a pocket dragon.
Lin Miao switched to the dragon once when she was a child, and after being deceived about her feelings that time, she never took care of the sugar painting master's business.
There was no one in front of the candy painting stall at this time.
Lin Miao walked up to the sugar painting master, dug it out in his pocket for a long time, took out two steel jumps, handed them over, and said, "Here's one." ”
Listening to Lin Miao's old-fashioned tone, the sugar painting master couldn't help but smile, took the money, found another one, and said, "One dollar." ”
"Oh...... It's so cheap......" Lin Miao took a bite of the flatbread, her brows furrowed slightly, and there seemed to be something wrong with a certain tooth in her mouth.
The sugar painter smiled and said, "Little friend, your family is so rich?"
"It's okay. Barely getting by, it's just that I'm hungry anyway. Lin Miao said, reaching out and gently flicking the arrow.
The arrow stopped after two turns, pointing right at the dragon.
Lin Miao's eyebrows and feet jumped slightly.
Then I saw the sugar painter take the spoon used for painting, scoop a spoonful of syrup, and wave it on the marble with a swift movement, while chatting with Lin Miao: "Barely getting by, you still spend so much money? This big cake costs 2 yuan, right?"
"Hmm. Lin Miao nodded.
The sugar painter smiled and said, "I can't even afford to buy it and eat it!"
Lin Miao listened a little desolately, self-reflection that he shouldn't have been so careful when he was a child, which made the sugar painting master lose an iron fan.
But half a minute later, when he took a dragon-shaped sugar painting smaller than he had in his impression from the sugar painter, this guilt was thrown directly out of the clouds.
Nima, is this a dragon or an earthworm?
This damn profiteer, seeing that I am a person, deliberately fooled me, right......
Lin Miao took the earthworm disguised as Jackie Chan and returned to the other side of the road speechlessly.
He licked the candy, he didn't think there was any special taste, thinking that the money was spent in vain, he sighed and bit off the faucet directly.
The teeth were bitten on the hard sugar painting, and the pain in the heart was immediately reflected to Lin Miao's cerebral cortex.
He brushed away his tears in pain, and then his tongue mixed in his mouth, mixed with a mouthful of bright red blood, and spat out a snow-white tooth.
Lin Miao was stunned for a moment, licked the empty gums, and said with tears in her eyes: "The first tooth in 1994 came earlier than I expected......