Chapter 27: Keeping a low profile
After more than a month of hurried passing, the rest of the time, Ruan Wan and the other three played extremely happily - anyway, the homework was done before, and it turned out that playing without worries really made people feel relaxed, and they couldn't wait to be happy.
And the happy times pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the start of school is imminent.
During the summer vacation, Ruan Wan exchanged several letters with Qi Xuan one after another, in which he asked her for the photos this time, and she slapped him back. That kind of black history, who would show it to others!
Unfortunately, she couldn't destroy the photos. So, they were washed out anyway. The teachers who were in charge of the photographs washed out all the photos and then asked the parents of the girls what they wanted - each of them could get five for free, and then they had to pay a certain amount of money for the processing. There's no way, it's not so convenient to wash photos this year, and there are too many photos that day, if everyone gives them all, it's really a lot of money.
If others would be disappointed by this, Ruan Wan would undoubtedly be "full, full, surprised, and happy"! Can't take too much, okay! Great! However......
"Anyone who has my family's Xiaowan, one for everything. โ
That's right, Grandma generously sent Ruan Wan to hell.
At this moment, Ruan Wan's heart was broken.
What made her even more speechless was that if her grandmother thought these photos were good-looking, the problem was that she didn't think her grandmother thought these photos were good-looking at all! In fact, her grandmother never stopped laughing from the second she saw these photos.
As it turned out, Ruan Wan's hunch was quite correct.
After getting these photos, my grandmother made a photo album to collect them, and cherished it on the bookshelf in her room, saying "When I'm unhappy, take it out and take a look", Ruan Wan almost wanted to cry. In the photo, she is painted with two straight eyebrows, with a red egg face and a bloody mouth, and she dances with a serious expression...... The contrast is simply overwhelming!
However, my grandmother was really disgusted, and after struggling several times without success, she had no choice but to give up.
In this way, in this magnificent atmosphere, her third year of junior high school arrived.
Compared to the first and second years of junior high school, the learning atmosphere in the class has become more tense. And in this tense atmosphere, Ruan Wan's love is a little responsible. There is no high school in the town, that is, it is the last year she has been in the town for a long time. High School, University...... Even if she had made up her mind to come back and settle down after graduation or take her grandmother out to live with her, it would have been seven years later. And during these seven years, she was no longer able to see her grandmother all day. Just thinking about this in advance is a little depressing.
However, it is also the only way to grow.
Even if she told her grandmother about this trouble, she would probably just pat her head and smile and say, "Silly."
In the third year of junior high school, a chemistry class was added, and Ruan Wan had poor grades in science in high school in her last life, but fortunately, she was still able to cope with these subjects in junior high school. However, by the time she reached high school, she estimated that she would throw herself into the arms of liberal arts again, but she really didn't have much talent in science - even if her memory became good now, some things didn't work by rote.
But compared to the past two years, her time to learn other things has indeed been compressed. On the one hand, her grandmother asked her to do this, and on the other hand, it was also because of the sudden increase in homework.
No way, for these students, the "high school entrance examination" is also a very important exam that can affect their lives.
Indeed, there are many high schools in the county, and to put it mildly, as long as you take the high school entrance examination and want to continue studying, you are not afraid that there will be no school. However, there are still big differences between schools.
The best ones are "No. 1 Middle School", "No. 2 Middle School" and "County Middle School", the first one is the provincial focus, and the last two are the city focus. Although there are still many of the remaining high schools with the "county key" brand, everyone in the local knows that their gold content is definitely not as good as the first three.
Although Ruan Wan's town and county are not poor, they are not very rich in recent years. The more places like this, the more eager parents are to hope that their children can learn to jump out of here and move towards a better future, not because they don't love their hometown, but because of the nature of "water goes to a higher place". In this case, everyone knows the truth that "if you want to get into a good university, you must first go to a good high school".
But the number of new students in a good high school each year is not unlimited, but limited.
As a result, thousands of troops and horses crowded the single-plank bridge in advance.
Ruan Wan They are not students in the county itself, they are just students in the town, and they don't have any natural advantages, so hard work is the only thing they can and must do.
So Mr. Li was stricter with them, and the students in the class began to work their own. If there used to be people playing in class and outside after class, now there are no more. Even if they go to the toilet together, they must be quiet when they go out, for fear of disturbing other classmates. Song Ting and Ruan Wan didn't always go to Yu Qiaoqiao to play after class, and the time for the three of them to meet became after school at noon, after school in the afternoon, and after school in the evening.
That's right, they've also started to study on their own.
Faced with the "first time", the students were extremely excited.
"Evening self-study!" Song Ting once said with great longing, "I heard that the fried rice cakes sold outside the school at night are super delicious, and I have always wanted to try them! Let's go eat together after class?"
Ruan Wan agreed, and ordered a wax in advance for her and other hopeful classmates. Because......
Fifty minutes is a long time compared to the 10 minutes after class!
This was fully verified in the evening self-study on the first day.
The evening self-study program that began at half past six and lasted until nine-twenty, three classes, one hundred and fifty minutes. In the first class, some students enthusiastically took out their newly purchased workbooks for revision materials, and some students began to do their homework; in the second class, some students began to wander, and some students began to take out their Chinese textbooks or writing papers; and in the third class, they began to take out their Chinese textbooks or writing papers......
Quite a few people knelt!
If you can roar out, everyone's heart must be like this - it's really hard!
And then again, this process can go on for a whole year...... No, high school too, four whole years!
It's almost like life loses its luster in an instant!
Among the tearful classmates, Ruan Wan's mood was also very complicated. She, a miserable reborn daughter, has been studying for four years in the past years, and now she is ...... I have to do it again. She originally thought that she could survive it, well, she could indeed survive, but it was still so difficult. Fortunately, I got used to it after staying up, and there was indeed a lot to do. As an adult, Ruan Wan is more able to control her desires and arrange her time reasonably than a child of this age, which is her advantage, and she will naturally continue to maintain it.
At the same time, all the teachers have become "pretenders", appearing secretly at the front door, back door and window from time to time, making it impossible to be guarded!
In such a busy time, Ruan Wan ushered in her fifteenth birthday.
Just like she once told Qi Xuan, her birthday is October, which is the time when osmanthus flowers are fragrant.
There are many ancient osmanthus trees in the town, and every season, the osmanthus flowers will compete to bloom, and every household can smell the sweet fragrance of people without going out. During this time period, even if you drink white porridge, you seem to be able to drink the taste of osmanthus candy. If you go to the water's edge, you will see that the river that flows through the middle of the town is full of osmanthus flowers - and there are osmanthus trees planted on the banks of the river. So the river also became the sugar water river.
There was also an osmanthus tree in her grandmother's yard, and she and her grandmother liked to pick a few long branches and put them in her brother's room in the house. So during this time, Ruan Wan's dreams were sweet.
And osmanthus sugar osmanthus cake is a must-eat for her birthday every year.
Fifteen is a very important birthday for a girl - at least in town. According to Grandpa Wang's recollection, when her grandmother was fifteen years old, her family specially organized a big banquet for her, and for three consecutive days, everyone who passed by could sit on it and eat a bite. It was also in that year that my grandmother, who rarely appeared in front of people, showed her face in front of outsiders. I don't know how many young men were shocked, and immediately worshiped her as the "goddess of dreams", but unfortunately the next year, she married to the province with a rich dowry and married her grandfather.
When Ruan Wan heard this, she asked her grandfather about the situation again. Grandpa Wang sighed, and only said, "You still have to wait for your grandmother to sue you", and refused to say anything more anyway.
However, now that the fifteenth birthday of the girl in the town has long been gone. Grandma didn't have such plans, in fact, in private, her old friends talked about it.
"You really don't want to do it for Xiaowan?"
"No, I don't. โ
Grandma replied in a very affirmative way, not because she didn't have the money, nor because she was afraid that she would be coveted after she did it. Rather, it is said that "the fire cooks the oil, and the flowers are brocade", and the prosperity is always empty, and she had all the good fortunes in the world until she was seventeen years old, but what was the result? Her own daughter, who had pampered her so much, was willing to pile all the best on herโand yet she suffered a loss of her husband.
Therefore, she only hopes that her granddaughter, her Xiaowan, can celebrate a birthday in a low-key manner and live her life in peace.
That's enough.