Chapter 65: A Long Overdue Letter
When he received the admission letter from the county No. 1 middle school, Chen Zimo didn't have much joy, but felt melancholy in his heart, and couldn't wait to hope that time would pass faster, and he would be able to see Su Yingying when the time came - he hadn't seen him for half a year, and he didn't even have a letter, Chen Zimo would laugh at himself very self-consciously every time he thought about it, how could a white swan look at a toad? When parting, Su Yingying was just polite and polite, nothing more. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But he still really wanted to see Su Yingying soon, maybe he could really be assigned to a class again, and then be a tablemate.
This is not Chen Zimo's simple reverie, on the contrary, the possibility is very great.
Because as we all know, after admitting freshmen to high school every year, the county No. 1 middle school will rank the students with the best grades according to their high school entrance examination results, and so on.
Then, after the end of the final exam of each half semester, the class will be rearranged through the grades, and the sense of competition among students will be stimulated to a greater extent.
The students in the errand class went with them like sheep......
Seeing that school was about to start in a week, Chen Zimo prepared the book fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees early and put them in his schoolbag, and the daily necessities needed to live in the school had been prepared and put together, waiting for the day of school to come.
It's been nearly four weeks since my father went away, and he hasn't come back yet.
Chen Zimo was worried and missed his father, but he couldn't get rid of the hatred that had accumulated for a long time in his heart. This time, my father has been out for so long, and he is more and more angry - I am going to start school, and you, you are not coming back?
Evening.
Chen Zimo was cooking dinner in the kitchen when he received a letter from Hou Qiang.
In fact, this letter was delivered to the radio room of the village committee brigade department not long after the results of the high school entrance examination, and Wang Ju, the women's director at that time, also called the villagers to take the letter on the radio, and shouted Chen Zimo for three days in a row. It's just that Wang Ju is the daughter-in-law of Li Zhizhong's cousin Li Zhibin, and she has a grudge against Chen Zimo, so when she called Chen Zimo's name, she deliberately read it vaguely, so Chen Zimo didn't hear it.
Today, when Hou Qiang went to the radio room to get the letter, Wang Ju was not there, so Hou Qiang rummaged through it himself, found Chen Zimo's letter, and took it and sent it to him.
Looking at the familiar handwriting on the envelope, Chen Zimo's heart was pounding with excitement - it was Su Yingying's letter!
Looking at the date again, Chen Zimo was dumbfounded.
A month ago, the letter had arrived, why wasn't his name called on the radio?
With his long-term practice of magic, his ears and eyes are far beyond ordinary people, and if his name is shouted from the loudspeaker of the village committee, he can definitely hear it. Moreover, since the end of the high school entrance examination, he has stayed at home except for occasionally going out to buy some vegetables and meat at the small shop in the village, and he has never left Lianggouji Village.
Soon, he thought of Wang Ju, Li Zhibin's wife, the women's director, and the girl in charge of the village committee's radio room!
When he stopped Li Zhizhong from demolishing the house, he also scolded Wang Ju.
Chen Zimo scolded angrily, but he didn't bother to see it like a woman's family, so he couldn't wait to open the envelope, took out the pink printed letter paper that was neatly folded and still exuded a faint fragrance, took a deep breath, and unfolded the letter:
Chen Zimo
First of all, congratulations on your successful admission to the county No. 1 middle school, however, you have not yet received the admission letter. Don't be surprised, I was in my mother's office and happened to see your name on this year's freshman admission list, so I wanted to write you a letter to tell you the good news in advance.
I'm sorry, since I left Fuqu Township Middle School, I haven't been in touch with you, you know, before the high school entrance examination, each of us has endless test papers every day, and there are endless knowledge points to review, so in order not to affect our learning, I didn't write to you.
Another thing, I hope you can forgive me, I can't fulfill the promise I made when we were separated, because my parents asked me to go to high school in the city.
Seriously, I'm so grateful to you that you were the only one who saw me off when I left Fuqu Township Middle School. Thank you also for giving me a quiet learning environment during our two-year period at the same table, so that I did not have any worries and pressures. Of course, I would like to thank you for standing up bravely that day, teaching a scumbag, maintaining the dignity of the teacher, the discipline of the class, and also, protecting me.
You know, I'm not really good at communicating with my classmates, and neither are you, right?
So, I don't know what to write anymore, so be it.
Get in touch more in the future.
Sincerely.
Salute.
Su Yingying
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After reading this letter, Chen Zimo was stunned - Su Yingying went to the city No. 1 middle school, not the county No. 1 middle school!
I looked forward to it for a long time, waiting for the start of school, and I wanted to see her soon.
But how can I see her?
Su Yingying, who has a conceited and arrogant personality and has never been socially friendly and has no friends, can take the initiative to write to him, indicating that she has regarded him as a friend. And judging from the content, between the lines, there is also a concern and nostalgia for this friendship at the same table.
Therefore, Chen Zimo felt that if he gave himself enough time as a toad, could be with Su Yingying often, and slowly changed himself to become better and better, then, sooner or later, Su Yingying would be willing to fall in love with him. But if the two are not in the same class, not in the same grade, not in the same school......
How else can we be together so often and enhance friendship and affection for each other?
Chen Zimo suddenly thought that on the first night of his father's trip, he had talked to him specifically, saying that he had entrusted someone to handle it for him, so that he could enter the city No. 1 Middle School to go to school. At that time, for the sake of Su Yingying, Chen Zimo did not hesitate, and behaved extremely stubbornly, refusing his father's proposal unkindly. Now I know that Su Yingying went to the No. 1 Middle School in the city, but it is too late. Not to mention that my father doesn't know when he will be able to come back, even if he comes back now, it's too late.
Take another look at the time on the envelope and think of the day my father left......
Chen Zimo was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table, got up and strode out--Wang Ju, raised by a son of a bitch, you stinky bitch, a good thing for a bad old man!
If he could receive this letter in time, he would have agreed to his father's proposal that night, and was grateful to his father for thinking about him, running for him, and asking for connections for him, so that he could enter the city No. 1 middle school and high school.
No, the relationship between father and son will be eased a lot.
However, Wang Ju withheld his letter and didn't let him know - Chen Zimo, how could he not be angry?!
Outside, it was already dark.
Chen Zimo's face was gloomy, and he walked along the main street to the village committee compound, and found that the gate was closed, and the windows of all the houses in the courtyard were unlit. He was at the door of the village committee compound, like a hungry old wolf, grinning back and forth for a while, then turned around and walked towards Li Zhibin's house - Damn, if I don't give Lao Tzu an explanation today, I'm not done with you!
In the hot summer, in rural areas where air conditioning is not yet widespread and electricity supply is insufficient, power outages are common at night.
Therefore, the villagers are accustomed to eating outside the street gate with a bowl at dinner, the street is spacious and airy, and at night, it is much cooler than indoors.
Li Zhibin's house is in front of Hou Qiang's house.
It was the time to eat, Hou Qiang and his wife and children were eating on the cement steps on both sides of the street gate, chatting with the neighbors who were eating outside on the opposite side and left and right, and saw a thin figure walking briskly from afar, although the sky was dark and he couldn't see the face clearly, but Hou Qiang still saw that it was Chen Zimo from the figure.
It was still seven or eight meters away, so Hou Qiang greeted with a smile: "Zimo, have you eaten?" If you haven't eaten it, ask your aunt to serve you a bowl, and the fried beans at home today ......"
"Thank you, Uncle Qiang, auntie, I've eaten it." Chen Zimo accosted him as he walked over from them quickly.
"Huh? What's wrong with this kid? Hou Qiang's wife was surprised.
Hou Qiang was also puzzled, but then he thought of the time on the letter he had brought to Chen Zimo before, he quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and shouted while getting up and chasing after him: "Zimo, Zimo, you wait, uncle has something to tell you!" ”
The door of Hou Qiang's house is more than ten meters away from the door of Li Zhibin's house.
While speaking, Chen Zimo had already come to Li Zhibin and Wang Ju, the two of them and their son and daughter were sitting on a small stool eating and chatting, and suddenly saw Chen Zimo standing in front of them with a gloomy face, and couldn't help but show surprised eyes.
"Wang Ju, my letter has arrived a long time ago, why don't you call me to take the letter on the radio?" Chen Zimo gritted his teeth and asked.
"I shouted, I shouted for three days in a row, you didn't hear it, I thought you didn't want it." Wang Ju tilted his head and stared, while turning his head to the neighbors with a sneering face, he said: "Look, this is the son of Chen's lame family, he really came back with his father, and he thinks someone is back, how arrogant?" Come up and talk to me in this tone, I'm also your elder anyway, do you know what politeness is? No tutor stuff! ”
At this time, Hou Qiang had already rushed over, grabbed Chen Zimo's arm and pulled it back, while persuading: "Zimo, if you have something to say, go, go to your uncle's house first, don't make noise here, let the neighbors laugh." ”
"Uncle, let me go." Chen Zimo struggled not to let Hou Qiang drag him away, glared at Wang Ju angrily, and said: "The new village committee compound is not far from my home, I have never been out of the village for a whole summer vacation, and I stay at home every day...... If you call my name, how can I not hear it? ”
Wang Ju had an indifferent expression on his face and sneered: "Who are you asking?" How do I know if you have donkey hair in your ears? ”
"You just deliberately withheld Lao Tzu's letter!" Chen Zimo couldn't help but scold.
Wang Ju is not a temper to be messed with, although the old and young masters of the Li family are now afraid of Chen Cripple, but she, a woman, is not afraid. Because she has long been accustomed to the social atmosphere in the countryside, the old ladies are splashing and rolling, and the men are all scared. Moreover, whoever really beats a girl will be laughed at by others, especially men with some prestige and fame in the countryside, and they will not quarrel with old ladies on the street. So in the countryside, it is very common for old ladies in the neighborhood to quarrel with each other, but it is rare for old men to quarrel with other people's ladies.
Now listening to Chen Zimo, a half-grown child whose hair has not yet grown, dare to find the door of the house and scold her on the street, Wang Ju immediately went crazy, got up with one hand on his waist, and pointed at Chen Zimo's nose with the other hand and scolded: "You are a deflated calf who has a mother and no mother, I just deducted your letter, what's the matter?" If you have a kind, you're going to hit your grandmother and me! Bastard, don't say it's you little bastard, it's your father's dead lame man, and I'm not afraid of grandma! ”
Seeing this, Li Zhibin hurriedly put down the bowl and got up, shook his hand and slapped his daughter-in-law, and said angrily: "Go back!" What to sprinkle on the street? ”
"Li Zhibin!" Wang Ju suddenly screamed bitterly: "You, you soft thing, others have bullied your wife at the door, you don't help me, and beat me in turn, that thing under you let the dog gnaw?" ”
"Go back!" Li Zhibin grabbed Wang Ju's hair, let her cry, and dragged him into the house.
Hou Qiang picked up Chen Zimo, who was trembling with anger, and turned around and walked quickly to his yard.
On the street, everyone began to talk about it.