The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect to see Liang Xin, a dark and thin girl like Liang Xin after opening the door, with an unprepared expression on his face, he frowned and said, "Who are you?" ”

"I ......" Liang Xin took a step back, looked back at Shu Qinghua, and said busily: "Shu Qinghua, someone from your family has come." ”

Shu Qinghua sat at the dining table to eat, and only responded lightly: "Oh." ”

When Liang Xin was speculating about the identity of a middle-aged man, he had already entered the house with a black briefcase. Xian was very familiar with the environment of Shu's family, went to the sofa and put down his briefcase, took out a cigarette, lit it and sat on the sofa, took a puff and asked, "Where is Mama Zhang?" ”

No one answered, and Liang Xin just stood by the side of the door, looking in a little curiously. I saw the man take a few more puffs of cigarette and asked, "Who is this little girl?" ”

"You don't have to worry about it." Shu Qinghua finally spoke, and put down his chopsticks when the voice ended.

Liang Xin was interested, went around to the dining table, cleaned up Shu Qinghua's dishes and chopsticks, and took them to the kitchen to wash.

"The babysitter you found yourself?" The man's voice came into the kitchen.

Liang Xin slowly washed the pots and chopsticks while listening to the people outside. Of course, Shu Qinghua's expression is as good as he always is, cherishing words like gold, and basically doesn't say anything. And this middle-aged man is probably his own father.

Seeing that Shu Qinghua didn't speak, the man said again: "Okay, I don't care, I'll sleep at home tonight." ”

"I'll go out when you're home." Shu Qinghua finally spoke up.

Liang Xin put away the washed dishes and chopsticks, couldn't help but look out with curiosity, and saw the middle-aged man extinguish the cigarette that he had smoked more than half of his hand in the ashtray, and then said: "Tsinghua, this is also my home, I am your father!" ”

Shu Qinghua was silent, went to pick up the schoolbag he was carrying, and said, "Liang Xin, go to school." ”

"Oh......" Liang Xin responded, hurriedly picked up the apron and wiped his hands, then took off the apron and went out of the kitchen.

Shu Qinghua had already walked to the door with his schoolbag on his back, Liang Xin followed, turned around and politely said to the middle-aged man: "Uncle, we went to school." ”

The middle-aged man inhaled and said angrily: "Go!" ”

Shu Qinghua opened the door and asked Liang Xin to go out first, but he stopped his movements and said again: "The money is gone, you can stay at home." ”

"Huh? I said, how the hell do you spend your money? Is it burned? I make money effortlessly is ......"

"Bang!" The sound of the door closing cut off the middle-aged man's voice.

Liang Xin silently glanced at Shu Qinghua's expressionless face, and didn't dare to speak, just followed him. After walking for a while, Shu Qinghua took out a piece of money from his pocket and gave it to her.

Liang Xin took the money, silently put it in his pocket, and asked out loud for a long time: "Are you really not going home tonight?" ”

Shu Qinghua kept walking: "It's not something you should take care of." ”

Liang Xin shrugged and closed his mouth.

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When he arrived in the classroom, separated from Shu Qinghua's front and back seats, Liang Xin didn't care about him anymore. Although, the classmates in the class seem to be very concerned about the two of them.

Liang Xin sat down in his seat, took out a math workbook and an English book, and planned to eat these two subjects in the evening self-study. There are two periods of self-study in the evening, the first period is English, and the second period is mathematics, which is just right.

That is, only the middle school in the town has such conditions, and the classrooms in the village primary school are not turned on by electric lights. Only the principal's office and the teacher's office have it, and teachers often work overtime at school to correct homework.

Liang Xin immersed herself in hard study, starting from the textbook, pondering the definition of formula examples, and then trying to do the questions by herself, which was very effective. She hasn't found a way to speak English yet, but she's just rote memorization.

During recess, she couldn't hold back her hunger, so Liang Xin secretly lowered her head and nibbled on the cake. As she was gnawing hard, someone knocked on her table.

Liang Xin raised her head, stuffed the cake into the belly of the table, and saw that it was two girls whose names she couldn't remember. The girl gathered around her table, bent down, and said mysteriously: "I heard that you walked with Shu Qinghua after school?" ”

"yes." Liang Xin nodded, there was still unswallowed cake in his mouth, and his speech was a little slurred.

"You've known each other for a long time? What are you going out for? The girl asked again, her voice muffled.

Liang Xin probably knew the gossip psychology of the little girl at this time, as well as the ability to spread rumors, so she didn't dare to say vaguely: "I didn't do anything, it's just that his family lacks a nanny, so I'll do it." ”

"Why did I ask you to be a babysitter?" The girl still asked.

Liang Xin's mouth was clean, and he said, "I don't know, why don't you ask him?" I'm just a poor family and want to make some money. ”

"What can he ask? Who would dare to ask? The two girls muttered, straightened up and left.

Liang Xin was free, and hurriedly lowered his head and continued to nibble on the flatbread - filling his stomach is more important than anything else!

Filling his stomach, when the bell rang again, Liang Xin still buried his head in the textbook.

After two periods of evening self-study, the school does not allow students to stay in the classroom for more. At most, it will be like leaving the lights on for 10 minutes, and all the lights in the school building will go out. Liang Xin packed up her desk, stuffed books into the belly of the desk, only took a book of English and stuffed it into her satchel, and went to Wang Ting to go back to the dormitory together.

Wang Ting also brought an English book and held it in her arms. She followed Liang Xin out of the classroom and asked the same topic when she walked into the darkness: "Did you go to Shu Qinghua's house tonight?" ”

"Hmm." Liang Xin nodded and didn't say much.

I don't think anyone knows the details of Shu Qinghua's family, and Liang Xin also chose to hide all the speculations he saw. To be someone else's nanny and take other people's money, you must have professional ethics and not spread other people's gossip everywhere.

Wang Ting looked at Liang Xin in the dark and asked, "His family is very rich, right?" ”

"Yes, a two-story house with a sofa, a TV and a gas stove!" Liang Xin said.

"So what are you going to do?" Wang Ting asked again.

Liang Xin continued: "Cooking, washing dishes and chopsticks, what else can you do? Next time I will take my dry food with me and eat it hot at his house, or I will starve to death." ”

"Won't you eat with his family?"

Liang Xin smiled: "How can I eat with others?" Didn't I get paid? ”

"Oh......" Wang Ting nodded slowly: "It's pretty good, you can learn from him." ”

Liang Xin wants to talk about learning or something, don't mention it, but it's okay to watch some unusual things, guess and guess the past plot of the Shu family. As far as I saw tonight, the contradiction between Shu Qinghua and his father was not a little deep. Moreover, this Shu Qinghua's mind is really deep! It's definitely not what your peers should be.

Along the way, Liang Xin answered all the questions asked by Wang Ting, and she couldn't see perfunctory.

When she arrived at the dormitory, Wang Ting put the English book in her hand on the mat, and her eyes swept to the mattress and pillows on Liang Xin's bed, all of which were half-new and not old, and there was not a single patch. After sweeping, she unconsciously looked at herself again, and her eyes darkened slightly.

At this time, Liang Xin also took off his broken satchel and put it on the bed, then went to the bottom of the bed to take the basin and said to Wang Ting: "Go out and fetch water and wash." ”

"Go ahead, I'll wait a minute."

Wang Ting didn't want to be together, so Liang Xin had to take the basin out by herself. As soon as I walked out of the dormitory door, a girl caught up behind me, and she took her arm very intimately and said, "Let's go together." ”

Liang Xin turned her head and saw that it was Zhou Xiaoxia mentioned by Wang Ting in the morning physical education class. Because she wanted to ask her if she wanted to buy porridge tickets, she specially paid attention to who Zhou Xiaoxia was today.

This week, Xiaoxia really looked at her family background and was better than the average rural family, with two braids, and a red flower head rope tied to the end of the braid, which was bought for money. The clothes are also relatively new, and they should all be newly made by the family when I was in junior high school. looks relatively ordinary, but the expensive teeth are neat and white, and the smile is a plus.

"Okay." Liang Xin responded to her words with a smile, and did not reject the closeness of others. Of course, she also estimated in her heart that Zhou Xiaoxia was like this because of Shu Qinghua.

Sure enough, before she walked to the faucet, Zhou Xiaoxia asked several questions about Shu Qinghua. The questions were similar to those asked by others, and Liang Xin answered them all, in the most conservative terms.

went to the faucet to brush her teeth and wash her face, and Zhou Xiaoxia took Liang Xin's arm to fetch hot water together. In the queue, Liang Xin didn't ask her about Shu Qinghua again, but asked her: "Do you drink corn porridge every morning?" ”

"Drink, what's wrong?" Zhou Xiaoxia asked rhetorically.

Liang Xin said directly: "Today, my sister-in-law came to give me a lot of cornmeal, I want to change the porridge ticket and sell the porridge ticket, do you want it?" ”

"What are you selling for?" Zhou Xiaoxia didn't understand: "Don't you drink it yourself?" ”

Liang Xin shook his head: "I can't afford to drink." ”

"That's ......" Zhou Xiaoxia thought for a while and said, "Then you sell it to me, I won't bring cornmeal from home next week, and I'm tired and panicked." ”

"Thank you." Liang Xin said happily.

"Thanks for what? Mutual benefit. Zhou Xiaoxia laughed, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

When they arrived at the faucet, the two put aside the topic and turned the hot water first. After making hot water, we went to the toilet together. Leave your things still in a clean place in the toilet and crouch down next to the pit.

When she went to the toilet and lifted her pants, Zhou Xiaoxia picked up the topic just now and asked, "By the way, how poor is your family?" Poorer than Wang Ting's family? ”

"How poor is Wang Ting's family?" Liang Xin asked unconsciously along the topic.

"But it's poor." Zhou Xiaoxia tugged at her gown and said, "There are seven brothers and sisters in the family!" There is not enough land to eat. Didn't you spend the past two days with her every day, didn't you notice that she didn't change her clothes and ate very little every day? The patriarchal preference in Lotus Village is particularly strict, and it is a miracle that she can come to school, and the others are picking lotus pots and selling lotus roots at home. She has low self-esteem, she doesn't play with other female classmates in the class, she is alone every day, and she pretends to be very tall......"

Liang Xin listened to Zhou Xiaoxia's words and sorted out her pants and clothes. When I looked up, I saw Wang Ting standing at the door of the toilet, looking straight at her, with frost on her face. Liang Xin slapped Zhou Xiaoxia's arm twice, Zhou Xiaoxia looked up at Wang Ting, and suddenly stopped talking. She secretly stuck out her tongue, hurriedly went to carry her basin, and said like a slouch: "Liang Xin, go quickly, the water is going to get cold." ”

Liang Xin looked embarrassed, she didn't realize that there was anything wrong with Shun Zhou Xiaoxia's words, but now she was making trouble behind her back. Wang Ting's face was so ugly, it seemed that she had offended someone. She didn't dare to say hello to Wang Ting, so she hurriedly went to take the basin and ran away with Zhou Xiaoxia.

When she got outside, she calmed down for a while before she spoke: "What should I do?" It seems to be angry. ”

"I'm angry." Zhou Xiaoxia disagreed: "It would be strange if she wasn't angry." ”

Liang Xin exhaled on his back - what a disaster came from his mouth!

Zhou Xiaoxia didn't put this matter at ease, only Liang Xin felt uneasy. She took a shower in the dormitory, went out to wash her feet and clothes, dried up, and memorized English words for a while, but Wang Ting didn't come back.

When Wang Ting came back with the mixed water, the lights were turned off after sitting down. Liang Xin glanced at her twice in time, as if she saw her two eyes red, as if she had cried. She groped her way around in the dark, silently.

Liang Xin hesitated for a while, and while everyone was still talking, she went up and pulled the corner of Wang Ting's clothes, and whispered, "I'm sorry." ”

Wang Ting ignored her, brushed her hand away, wiped it for a while, went out to splash water, and fell asleep when she came back.

There was no obvious bed separation in the bunk, Liang Xin lay next to her, and whispered: "Don't be angry, my family is much poorer than yours, and I don't have a father." Now my mother doesn't want me anymore, I live with my grandmother. ”

Wang Ting's body moved, and it took a while to turn over, face Liang Xin, and said, "Go to sleep, what is there to say." ”

Liang Xin was relieved to see her, and she was also relieved in her heart. was about to close his eyes and sleep, when he suddenly heard Zhou Xiaoxia say, "Wang Ting, are you still angry?" Don't blame Liang Xin, she didn't say anything, I said it. ”

Wang Ting lay on the bed for a while, her face was red, she didn't want her affairs to be brought out. At this time, Zhou Xiaoxia said in the dormitory again, it was like Ming Huanghuang inserting a knife into her heart. She can pretend not to know about the toilet, how can she pretend to be at this time?

Liang Xin can probably understand the psychology of inferiority complex and extreme self-esteem mixed together, she raised her head slightly, blocked Zhou Xiaoxia's words and said: "Wang Ting is sleeping, if you have something to say in private tomorrow." ”

"I'm like this, dare to act, what's there to hide?" Zhou Xiaoxia still said.

Liang Xin sighed and said helplessly: "Zhou Xiaoxia, don't say it." ”

"No, Liang Xin, what can't I say?" Zhou Xiaoxia sat up from the bed and said dissatisfied.

"Say it! You say! Our family is poor! I just can't afford to make new clothes and eat! You're satisfied! Wang Ting suddenly hammered the bed, sat up and screamed, and the dormitory suddenly fell silent.

Liang Xin silently raised his hand to cover his face, feeling the silence of the dormitory at this moment, and already had a premonition that nothing good would happen in the future. Sure enough, as soon as she finished thinking about it, Zhou Xiaoxia stood up from the bed, pinched her waist and shouted: "You are poor, you are reasonable!" I said what's wrong with you? Which sentence is not the truth? Whoever looks down on you in the class, I think you look down on yourself! ”

Wang Ting was so angry that her body trembled, and she also knew that there was no one to help her in this dormitory. She was ashamed and hateful, tears fell straight down, but she couldn't help crying, then raised her arm to wipe her tears, gritted her teeth and said, "I don't want a poor student like you to be able to afford it!" Class garbage! Zhou Xiaoxia, you just have a little money at home, what else do you have? You look so ugly, and you still tie a safflower head rope, ugly on ugly! Ugly! ”

"You're paralyzed!" Zhou Xiaoxia was ignited, and when she got out of bed, she came to Wang Ting's side. Everyone else is watching the play, and no one cares about it at this time. Besides, if Wang Ting and Zhou Xiaoxia face each other, it must be Wang Ting who suffers.

Zhou Xiaoxia rushed here, raised her hand and pulled Wang Ting's hair and grabbed it. Wang Ting did not show weakness, and also reached out and grabbed Zhou Xiaoxia's hair. Zhou Xiaoxia's hair was longer than hers, and it was better to grasp it, and then there was a burst of tearing and biting each other.

Liang Xin put down his hands, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, got up and grabbed the two of them, and yelled: "Let go!" ”

The movements of the two stopped tearing each other, Zhou Xiaoxia gasped and snorted, and said, "She scolded me!" ”

"I'll let you go!" Liang Xin is still full of majesty, it is not that he has never trained children in his previous life. In her thirteen-year-old body, there lived a fifty-year-old elder!

The two were so fierce that Liang Xin hesitated, and Wang Ting spoke up again at this time: "If she doesn't let go, I won't let go!" ”

Liang Xin grabbed the two of them and said, "It's okay if you don't loosen it, I have scissors there, just cut your hair." If not, cut the clothes as well! Saying that, Liang Xin let go of his hand and wanted to turn over the scissors.

The two of them didn't know whether she was true or not, but they thought she was very bluffing, so they hurriedly let go of their hands at the same time and took a step back.

Liang Xin saw that they let go, and straightened up again, without scissors in his hand. Zhou Xiaoxia and Wang Ting hissed, their hair hurt, and the wounds on their bodies that were scratched out also hurt. No one else spoke in the dormitory, not even the head of the dormitory.

Liang Xin stood in front of the two of them, and said with a slight breath: "Everyone is watching, isn't it embarrassing?" ”

Wang Ting was silent, but Zhou Xiaoxia couldn't hold back her temperament, and said, "Who asked her to scold me!" ”

"Didn't I tell you not to say it? You're right to hurt people's self-esteem? Let you say privately, you don't understand? You don't have a brain? Liang Xin said with a stabbing word, which was completely different from usual.

Zhou Xiaoxia was trained to be silent, and Liang Xin calmed down for a while, saying, "You apologize to each other, you are all at fault." ”

Wang Ting refused to speak out of self-esteem, so Liang Xin had no choice but to reach out and touch Zhou Xiaoxia: "There are a lot of adults." ”

Zhou Xiaoxia looked at Liang Xin's face in the dark, hesitated for a moment, and finally said very cooperatively: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said bad things about you in front of others behind my back." But it's not bad, it's all the truth. You play with everyone, everyone won't dislike you, what's the point of you pretending to be high......"

Wang Ting pursed her lips, and felt that if she didn't open her mouth again, she would be ignored, so she had to say loudly: "I'm also sorry, I shouldn't have scolded you for being ugly." ”

"Am I ugly?" Zhou Xiaoxia suddenly rushed up again.

Wang Ting bit her lower lip and said for a while: "No." ”

At this point, it can be regarded as resolving the contradiction, Liang Xin exhaled, went up and grabbed the wrists of the two and said: "I am also at fault, and the matter is also caused by me." If you don't fight, you don't know each other, everyone is in the same class, and you just need to get along well in the future. ”

Zhou Xiaoxia looked at Liang Xin, raised her chin at Wang Ting again, and said very gentlemanly: "Hey! Be friends? ”

Wang Ting set her eyes on Liang Xin, Liang Xin pinched her wrist, and she said, "Do it, but ......"

"Know you're poor! Look at your worthless appearance! Will you die if you admit it? Sentimental! Zhou Xiaoxia said and took off Liang Xin's hand, got out of bed and went to her shop.

Liang Xin and Wang Ting were still standing on the bed, and suddenly there was sparse applause in the dormitory, and then it became more and more enthusiastic, and at the most enthusiastic time, they were stopped by the dormitory manager at the door with a roar-

"Hey! Where's acting?! ”