Chapter Seventy-Six: The Noon Meeting
It was easy to stay up until noon after school, Li Man quickly packed his schoolbag and prepared to go home for lunch. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info have been accustomed to standing on the podium for decades, and I am in charge of my class, and now sitting under the podium has become a master, which is really a torment. I have passed the fourth level of college English, and I have not fallen behind in the postgraduate English, and now I have to sit in the classroom and learn twenty-six letters, which is really boring, only mathematics is still a little interesting, but the math teacher is too accented and sounds laborious. When Li Manman thought that such a day would be at least three years away, he felt bored.
Riding back home, as soon as I entered the door, I heard a voice in the living room, a burst of fragrance from the kitchen, and Li Manman's stomach began to gurgle.
"Ouch, Big Red is back! Come inside, you're tired from the morning's class, aren't you? "Grandma walked out of the living room and happened to see her granddaughter with her bicycle tied.
"It's okay, not too tired!" Li Manman lifted his schoolbag and entered the corridor, "I'll send the schoolbag back to the house!" With that, he went upstairs. The two-story small building of Li Manman's house, downstairs is the master bedroom of Li Tianxue and Lin Xiujuan, and there is also a guest room, plus a study. Upstairs live Li Manman and Taotao sisters and brothers, one person has a large bedroom, the bedroom is divided into a sleeping area and a study area, and there is a common living room, which is quite functional.
"Dahong, is it difficult to go to school today?" As soon as Li Manman came downstairs, he was pulled aside by his little cousin and asked in a low voice.
"It's okay! How? Why do you ask this? Li Manman looked at his little cousin curiously, this thing is still in elementary school, because he failed all subjects, he has been left two grades, Li Manman doesn't believe that he is interested in the middle school curriculum.
"Hey, I'm just asking, if it's difficult, I'll mix in elementary school for another two or three years, and when I'm older, my mother won't force me to go to middle school!" The little cousin explained embarrassedly.
"If you don't go to school, what do you want to do? Compulsory education is nine years, and junior high school is mandatory! Li Manman wanted to look at this idiot like this cousin who didn't want to be motivated.
"You also said that compulsory education is nine years, shouldn't I just go to primary school for nine years? Why do you go to middle school? Zhou Zuqi looked at his little cousin strangely, thinking that she was so smart, how could she not figure it out!
"Ah, that's okay? But it shouldn't be explained that way! Li Manman was dumbfounded by his little cousin's explanation, you said that this thing is so good at exploiting loopholes, why is he not interested in learning?
"Why not, aren't they all nine years?" Zhou Zuqi felt that he was finally smarter than this cousin whose parents were treated with despisis.
"Old uncle, can he agree? You've forgotten about the last beating! Li Manman didn't bother with this question, and changed the topic and asked.
"When the time comes, what do you want to do so far now? It's a big deal to be beaten, what are you afraid of? "Zhou Zuqi has been used to it since he was a child, and he doesn't care about the beating of this meal or two.
"Oh, I see, good luck!" Li Manman walked over to his little cousin, not wanting to pay attention to this thing anymore.
The living room was full of people, the uncle's family and the old uncle's family were there, Taotao was playing with the tin frog under the eaves of the porch, giggling and laughing.
What makes the day today, and how can it be so aligned? Li Manman muttered in his heart and walked into the living room and sat down beside his grandmother.
"Grandma, what's the matter today?" Li Manman asked his grandmother in a low voice.
"It's nothing, it's not your first day of junior high school, congratulations to you!" Grandma Li took her granddaughter's hand and explained. Li Manman was dumbfounded, she couldn't have imagined that this was the reason, in her previous life, Li Manman was really a free-range type, from elementary school to junior high school, in addition to the exam, my father would ask for the scores, and if I didn't take the test, I would beat him up if I didn't do it well, and at other times I didn't care about my own studies at all, even in the most nervous senior year, the family was not too nervous, and on the day of the college entrance examination, it was said that the family went to send the exam like later generations, only Li Manman entered the examination room alone, and there was no nutritious meal at noon! I didn't expect to enjoy this kind of treatment because I was in junior high school, Li Manman felt that he couldn't believe his ears.
"Aha, you guys are stupid when you look at Dahong, but you must be frightened by the dragon!" Zhou Zuqi looked at Li Manman's stunned appearance and quipped.
"Brother, that's not frightened, that's flattered!" Taotao raised her head and said to the little cousin in the house.
"I said, why are you so nitpicky, kid!" Zhou Zuqi reproached his cousin's dissatisfaction.
"Ah, nitpicking? Haha, I'm laughing to death! Li Manman reacted when Taotao corrected his little cousin, and couldn't help laughing when he heard that his little cousin said the wrong idiom again.
"Xiao Qi, I asked you to study hard, what are you reading? Two idioms in a row are wrong! The little uncle's face turned red and he looked at his son who didn't know what he was wrong with.
"Huh? Isn't that what you read? I've been saying that, why haven't they said I'm wrong? Zhou Zuqi scratched his head suspiciously, looked at the people in the room who were laughing, and said.
"As for your friends, one by one is the same as you, don't talk about the eldest brother and the second brother, don't talk about the goods of the nest, what can they know?" The little uncle squirted his son.
"Dad, you can't talk like that, they're angry!" Zhou Zuqi defended his friend.
"It's about morality, fighting together, failing exams together, repeating grades together! Look at you, you're a year older than Da Hong, Da Hong is in junior high school, and you're still in the fourth grade! You can't use dim sum! The little uncle hated that iron could not be made of steel, and said to his son.
"Oops, my stomach hurts!" Zhou Zuqi clutched his stomach and shouted, "I want to go to the toilet!" "I went out and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Sister, this is what you said about that day, right?" Taotao looked at the disappearing figure of her little cousin and asked.
"Ahem!" Li Manman peeked at the adults in the room and squeezed his eyes at Taotao, "I'll go see if the rice is cooked!" Before the adults could react, they slipped into the kitchen.
Li Tianxue looked at his daughter's disappearing figure, and then looked at his son who was having a good time under the porch, and said to his little uncle with a wry smile: "You criticized Xiao Qi just now, look at my family, on the surface, he is a good boy, but in fact, he has a belly of ghost ideas!" ”
"I think the children are very good, how can they be like what you say!" Grandma Li is unhappy, next generation, her eldest granddaughter is so good, she looks good, studies well, is capable and smart, and her grandson is even taller, filial and capable.
"Mom, don't protect the child, the child will take care of it!" Li Tianxue said helplessly to his mother.
"When you were a child, I didn't beat you or scold you, you didn't look good, which of your five sisters and brothers took a finger from me! It's not all a good family now! Grandma Li said to her son unceremoniously.
"Got it, Mom, you're right, children are good children!" The little uncle saw that his mother-in-law was angry, and wanted to turn over the past and tell it one by one, so he hurriedly coaxed.
"Mom, go see Xiao Yongzi, it's time to pee!" Uncle who has always been wooden came to a stroke of genius at this time, Xiao Yongzi is already five years old, and the person who still uses it gives him urine.
"Hey, I'll take a look, save my pants again!" Grandma Li quickly stood up and went to the eaves of the porch to see her grandson.
Li Man slipped into the kitchen, the kitchen at home is not big, seven or eight square meters, Lin Xiujuan, the little aunt, the little aunt, and the eldest cousin are all in it, the vegetables are chosen, the vegetables are chopped, the rice is boiled in the earthen stove, Lin Xiujuan is stir-frying on the liquefied gas stove, and a kitchen is crowded.
Seeing Li Manman squeezing in, the eldest cousin said to Li Manman: "It's very hot in this house, what are you running in for?" Don't mess around, let's go out and have fun! ”
"I'm here to see if there's anything I can do to help?" Li Man poked his head into the pot.
"Let's play! There's no place to put your feet here, aren't you still squeezing in to be trick-or-treating! Lin Xiujuan waved the spatula while pushing her daughter out.
"You really didn't want me to help?" Li Manman walked out and made excuses for himself, "It's you who don't want to help, it's not that I'm lazy!" Hey, by the way, leave me a little bit of the pot, I want to eat the pot! ”
"Got it, I didn't leave it for you once!" Lin Xiujuan couldn't laugh or cry at her daughter's words.
Li Manman sat under the pomegranate tree, holding his cheeks, bored!
"Sister, do you have something fun today?" Taotao pinched the tin frog, came over, and looked curious, he is now in the third grade of Shixiao, his grades are good, and his popularity is also good, in fact, in his previous life, Taotao will mix, and he will travel all over the world, his brother and daughter-in-law complained to Li Manman, saying that more than half of the salary he earns every month is used for personal contacts, and the family can't count on it at all.
"No, you should listen to the lectures when you go to school, where can you ask around for interesting things! This semester, you're going to get rid of your mistakes! Li Manman said with a serious lesson.
"Got it!" Taotao frowned, looking at her sister with annoyance, such a boring person, who would play with her! No one plays how lonely it should be! Hey, let's stay with her more in the future, who made her his sister!