Chapter 67: The Diary [15]

Monday, December 25 was cloudy

Today is Christmas in the West, last night, the class leader He Liwei and several class cadres have decorated the classroom, he used colored crepe paper to wrap the lamp tubes in the classroom, and cut the colored wax paper into ribbons, front and back, left and right diagonally pulled into a rice shape and hung on the ceiling, the whole classroom was full of festive atmosphere at once.

A huge Christmas tree was painted on the poster on the back wall of the classroom, and the students wrote their wishes to their good friends and teachers in the blank space, hoping that everyone would make further progress in the new year.

In the evening today, Mr. Xiao Zeng carried a large package into the classroom, and told everyone with a smile that today is Christmas, and I wish you all a happy holiday! Although Christmas is a Western holiday, and we have not had the tradition of this holiday, there is a custom of giving gifts to each other on Christmas Day, I believe we will all like it, who will refuse gifts? There are many gifts in this package, some are donated by students, bought with class fees, and some are provided by teachers, each student can reach into the package to draw a gift, so that everyone can get a Christmas gift today, everyone cheers happily!

Teacher Xiao Zeng carried a package along the desk of each student in front of a circle, each student drew a gift, I opened my gift and found that it was a beautiful photo frame, I did not expect that there was a picture of Xiao Zeng teacher wearing a mopping white gauze skirt, standing on the podium as the host of the whole body photo, I was very happy! Teacher Xiao Zeng stood next to me and said happily, I also want to see who is the most destined with me, to draw my gift, it seems that we are the most fateful!

Hu Bo drew a fountain pen, Song Limei drew a locked notebook, everyone was very happy to get a gift, and was packing their schoolbags and preparing to go home, my tablemate Huang Cheng suddenly fed me, since the second day of school was arranged by Teacher Zeng to sit next to me, Huang Cheng rarely spoke to me like a mute, except for an occasional exercise that I didn't understand. I was a little surprised to take the initiative to find me today, I looked at him puzzled, he handed me the gift he drew and I wanted to exchange my photo frame with me, it stands to reason that Mr. Xiao Zeng's gift is so commemorative, I won't change it if I kill me, but I hesitated when I saw Huang Cheng's gift, I didn't expect him to draw a brand new table tennis racket. Table tennis racket is my brother has been arguing for a long time to buy something, Dad is too expensive to buy him, the recent death of my mother made my brother a lot more sensible, no longer pestering Dad to ask for a table tennis racket, if I can give my brother a pair of such rackets then how happy he should be, I was moved.

When he was about to take out the photo of Mr. Xiao Zeng in the frame and give it to Huang Chengkong in the frame, he suddenly became anxious, grabbed the photo frame and put it in the schoolbag and ran out, I was inexplicable, it seems that Huang Cheng doesn't want the photo frame, what he really wants is the photo of Mr. Xiao Zeng, is it possible that he likes Mr. Xiao Zeng, even if he likes it, it will be no fun, Mr. Xiao Zeng is about to go to the United States, and it is sad to think about it!

Moderate snow on Friday, December 29

In the past two days, my father went to Wuhan on a business trip, and I took care of my younger brother at home. Ever since he gave his brother the table tennis racket, he finally had a smile on his face. Grandma Liu, who was next door, occasionally came over to give us some delicious food she cooked, and every time she came back, she would always stand in front of her mother's portrait for a while, muttering to herself, "Why did such a good person leave!"

Grandma Liu raised six reed hens and a big rooster in a fence in her backyard, my mother reclaimed a small vegetable garden in our backyard before her death, which was planted with small cabbage, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, leeks, lentils, etc., don't underestimate this small vegetable garden, most of the vegetables on my dinner table are provided by this small vegetable garden, when there is overproduction, my mother will take fresh vegetables to distribute to the neighbors, Grandma Liu's family is the one with the most shares.

Grandma Liu is also a warm-hearted person, her Luhua hen lays 4 to 5 eggs for her every day, she is reluctant to eat these eggs, except for the occasional dozen to our family, the rest are all saved, save a certain amount of these eggs and the neighbors to exchange food stamps, oil stamps, cloth stamps, in exchange for the most cloth stamps. Grandma Liu has a pair of skillful hands, and a piece of cloth becomes a placket or a pair of pants in three or two days after it reaches her hand. Grandma Liu's house does not have a sewing machine, all rely on the needle and thread in the hand to sew out, I see the most picture after returning home from school every day is the hunched Grandma Liu sitting at the door of the house holding a piece of cloth there to sew, next to a bamboo sewing basket, there are bits and pieces of everything. As long as my mother has free time, I will sit next to my grandmother and accompany her to do needlework, my mother's needlework skills are basically learned from Grandma Liu, and my brother and I now have a lot of clothes and pants that Grandma Liu helped us make.

Such a kind grandmother has aged a lot after the death of her mother, and the partner who chatters together every day is suddenly gone, which is not a small blow to Grandma Liu, after New Year's Day, Grandma Liu decided to go to Wuhan to her son, maybe no one chats with her every day Grandma Liu is too lonely, I heard the news I have a sour nose, tears almost flowed out, why is it that with the growth of relatives and friends left you one by one, this growth is too painful!

Saturday, December 30 is fine

It snowed heavily overnight last night, and when I opened the door this morning, I saw that there was a thick layer of snow on the roof, on the treetops, on the road, on the faucet, and on the wire where the clothes were drying.

The heavy snow stopped this morning, and with the first rays of light in the east, a layer of gold dust was sprinkled on the earth, and today will be a sunny day after the snow. I went to the small vegetable garden in the backyard to pick up the snow, picked a handful of beetroot moss, quickly went home to wash the pot and wash the bowls, fried the vegetable moss, and put down the bowl of noodles, this is my brother and I breakfast.

After eating the noodles, Hu Bo was already waiting for me at the door to go to school together, as soon as I saw me come out with my schoolbag Hu Bo handed me a small gift box, I opened the gift box and saw that it was a beautiful ballet girl music box, this music box is what I dreamed of, the first time I saw this music box in the glass window of the craft gift shop, I was deeply attracted by the beautiful dress of the ballet girl, but unfortunately the expensive price discouraged me, I didn't expect Hu Bo to give me such an expensive gift, I was a little overwhelmed. 'It's too expensive, I can't ask for it!' The words are not finished, Hu Bo said that she did not send it, it was given to me by her brother, her brother has now begun to practice in the workshop, not long ago I just paid the internship salary, although not much, but the next day I used this money to buy this music box, her brother has long known about my mother's death, has always wanted to buy a gift to comfort me, he hopes that I listen to the music in this music box when I am unhappy, maybe I will forget my troubles, I am really moved to hear Hu Bo say this, I didn't expect Hu Jun to be such a careful person, when he played with his ass when he was a child, he was bullied by him, remembering that Hu Bo used to say that Hu Jun secretly looked at my photos, I don't know why I have a strange feeling in my heart.

After school today, the whole class will spread the desks along the corners of the wall to form a circle, the annual tea party will be held tonight, life committee member Li Wei in front of each student to distribute a piece of peach crisp, a handful of melon seeds, a bottle of Arctic Ocean soda. Teacher Zeng and He Liwei stood in the center of the classroom together to preside over tonight's tea party, tonight's teacher Zeng wore a red cotton jacket to look extraordinarily young, she gave us nearly 20 minutes of opening remarks, nothing more than to say that we are the rising sun, is the future of the motherland, we are in the youth, youth is beautiful, but also short, we should cherish the good time in front of us, because everyone has an infinite future waiting for you in the distance. These big truths are said by teachers every day, but as teenagers, we are really difficult to understand, if we can really understand, I don't think we are teenagers!

The main game of the tea party is to beat the drum and pass the flowers, He Liwei took a small stick with his back to everyone and knocked on the podium, we passed a thing called a sandbag one by one, and when He Liwei's small stick stopped beating, he saw whose hand the sandbag was, who was going to the center of the classroom to perform the show, we were very nervous all night staring at the sandbag, for fear of falling into their own hands, everyone had a great time.