Chapter 17: Mother and Daughter Talk
City No. 1 Middle School will hold a monthly exam every month, and at the end of each monthly exam, there will be a parent-teacher meeting to analyze the results.
Therefore, every week before the monthly exam, the whole No. 1 Middle School is full of a strong learning atmosphere, and everyone wants to "cramm" and strive not to be "criticized" at the parent-teacher meeting. But there are exceptions to everything, and the Xiangying class of this year's senior high school is wonderful, and the review before the monthly exam is even more relaxed than usual! In fact, it is because every monthly exam in a middle school is to disrupt the class to take the exam, whether it is a key class or an ordinary class, it will be mixed together, and the low-key school does not know whether it is a student or a scumbag sitting next to you, and the school is thinking that every exam will simulate the college entrance examination to take the test, so that students can form habits. The class was disrupted, and the review was not carried out in their own class, so of course the students in the Xiangying class felt liberated, and even felt that there was nothing better than the exam!
Under the "supervision" of King Yama, the students of the Xiangying class lived every day like the final sprint before the college entrance examination. According to the school's schedule of study, it was supposed to be half past seven in the morning to start reading and self-study, and King Yama insisted on mentioning that he would start memorizing the texts at 6:50, and the other classes had only finished the texts of the first unit, and their class had memorized the required chapters of the whole book. The lunch break, plus the lunch time, was supposed to be two hours, but King Yama simply shortened their lunch time to 20 minutes, resulting in everyone in their class now rushing to the canteen almost as fast as "Bolt", and even the canteen aunt sympathized with them, and they didn't tremble when they saw the food in their class, and they also picked more meat. After lunch, I have to rush back to class, do 30 minutes of math practice and 30 minutes of English reading, and other students have time to rest, they really don't have anything at all, but they "dare not be angry". Fortunately, there is one thing that is that there is no accommodation in the first year of high school, so there is no need to study at night, otherwise I dare not imagine how "hellish" the study pressure is. But even if there is no evening self-study, the amount of homework every day is too much, and you have to complete the task to go home from school, the students of the Xiangying class are now studying non-stop at school, and they are also studying non-stop when they get home, eating and bathing are instantaneous, because if the speed is not fast enough, the rest is not enough, once the rest is not enough, it will fall behind others, the class is all immortals, and you can't lose.
Every time the monthly exam, the students in the Xiangying class are extremely excited, that is, they take the opportunity not to read the textbooks, and they want to do everything else, and even some people take advantage of the fact that they are mixed in other classes, and they make up for sleep in the evening when they are studying. In fact, the monthly exam review is not in the learning plan of the students in the Xiangying class, the monthly exam only tests one or two units of knowledge, they are already about to learn the content of the whole semester, and the practice has already been done, so it is really not the opportunity to make up for sleep now. All in all, in the review evening self-study on the eve of the first middle school exam, if the students next to him are sleeping the whole time, there is no doubt, Ta must be the top student in the Xiangying class!
At the end of the monthly exam, the results will be announced.
The way No. 1 Middle School announced its results was very cruel, and the school's honor roll was facing the school gate, directly showing the results. The honor roll is super big, big enough to hold the names and grades of the students of the entire school, it is still bright red, and those with good grades feel extremely honored, and those who fail the exam feel extremely ironic. The whole list is divided into three grades, the first reaction when entering the school gate is to look from right to left, the first in the upper right corner is the penultimate first place in the first year of high school, 50 students in each column, and the bottom one in the first column is the fiftyth from the bottom. By analogy, the one in the lower left corner of the honor roll is the first place in the third year of high school, and I don't know what kind of mentality the school has to show its results in this way.
In the first monthly exam of the first year of high school, the Xiangying class is undoubtedly the biggest winner. The leftmost column of the first-year section of the honor list is all occupied by the students of the Xiangying class, because the results of the Xiangying class are much more prominent than the results of other key classes, and the school retains a whole column that only shows the ranking of the 30 students in the Xiangying class, which is particularly abrupt in the entire dense honor list.
After the results of the monthly examination were announced, the school immediately began to hold a parent-teacher meeting, and the time was set for the next day when the results were announced.
The whole class of the Xiangying class thought that they would finally be able to see the good face of King Yama in this monthly exam, after all, the average score of their class was several tens higher than that of other key classes, and they had to be proud of who else, King Yama should be able to let them take a breath. It's just that I didn't expect that at the parent-teacher meeting, King Yama almost "reported the worries but not the good news", and was analyzing the weaknesses of each student throughout the whole process! The students of the Xiangying class were really said by the king of Yama with a blue and white face, and they had never heard a good word in the mouth of the king of Yama, and the students of the whole parent-teacher meeting could only talk in their hearts that the king of Yama "can't speak" so say less!
The point of criticism of the king of Yama is really unusually harsh. For example, the last place in the class, in fact, is also ranked thirtieth in the grade, and this grade is a school that should be praised no matter which school it goes to, but the king of Yama also has to say that the thirty-first place in this monthly exam is only ten points away from her, and she is about to catch up with her, and he also says that she is not working hard enough, and she should not be at this level if she wants to be a student in the Xiangying class. The whole parent-teacher conference also used this female student as a negative example, and the girl lowered her head and cried. The parents did not agree with King Yama's words, and felt that their children were good enough, but they had to admit that the strict teacher was a high apprentice, and the results of the Xiangying class were indeed much better than those of other classes, so they could only secretly say to their children: "Today I finally met your homeroom teacher, and I am really ruthless." If you work hard, it's good to survive these three years, and you can become a master if you suffer hardship! ”
However, the king of Yama almost "reported the sorrow but not the good news", that is, there were still situations where she praised and she rejoiced. Du Ruosheng and Jiang Wen got full marks again, and King Yama was full of praise. The students in Xiangying's class really don't know what the brain structure of the two immortals is, how can they be so good at learning, how can the distance between people and people be so big, the third place in the whole level is still sixty or seventy away from the full score, and they think that they are playing very stable, what kind of monster genius can return to the full score!
Since it is the first parent-teacher meeting of this high school freshman entering No. 1 Middle School, there is also a special link, which is also the tradition of No. 1 Middle School. And the so-called special link is to find a famous lecturer to give psychological education to students.
This time, the parent-teacher conference is a little different, in previous years, it was a psychological education for students to relieve the pressure of learning, but this year's psychological education theme is called - Gratitude to Parents.
The so-called famous lecturer, of course, has its own merits. The psycho-educational speech on the theme of thanksgiving to parents moved most of the teachers, parents and students present to tears, and a small number of them also had red eyes and lowered their heads.
The lecturer told many great stories about parents, including the story of a poor single mother supporting her child to go to college, and it was this story that moved most of the audience to tears. It tells the story of how a poor and uneducated mother raised her children by herself and supported them to go to college. The mother lives in a backward and remote mountainous area, and has to walk more than ten kilometers every day in order to earn meager money to support the life of the mother and son. The child is also very competitive, studies very hard, and finally even gets admitted to a first-class university in China and gets a full scholarship. But the tuition fee was settled, but the living expenses were still not available, and the family couldn't even pay for the travel to the university. This mother was really great, she sold the largest labor force in the family, an old ox that was too old to plow and couldn't plow, and went to sell blood when the money was not enough, and finally managed to raise the money for the child to go to college. At first, the child studied very hard and got a first-class scholarship every semester, but slowly the child got a glimpse of life in the big city and later made a girlfriend. The child's vanity grew, and he began to spend money lavishly, even going in and out of bars, clubs and other places where money was burned, and frequently asking his old mother for living expenses. One day, the child went out to dinner with his girlfriend and saw a figure he was familiar with in a garbage dump, which he recognized as his old mother, who was a blow to the head and realized that he was a bastard! At that time, the child's mother also saw the child, but she did not call the child, or even pretended not to see it, because the mother knew that she was too embarrassed to look like a child. Later, the child refused all entertainment life, broke up with his girlfriend, rededicated himself to studying, and finally graduated with the first grade in credits. At the graduation ceremony, the child took his mother's hand and went on stage to tell his story and tell how great his mother was.
The speech was very wonderful and touching, and almost touched the audience, and Sheng's mother was one of them, and she couldn't help crying. But Du Ruosheng sat next to her, expressionless throughout the whole process, and it can be said that she was the only girl in the audience who was not infected by the speech. In fact, this can't blame Du Ruosheng for being too indifferent, she already has an old soul in her fifties living in her body, these chicken soups for the soul are useless to her, and she still has to be realistic. The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, the child wants to raise but does not wait, the so-called gratitude is not by words, but by action.
At the end of the speech, the lecturer also assigned a "homework", which was to ask the students to go home in the evening and wash the feet of their parents.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Du Ruosheng was at home.
Du Ruosheng took a basin of hot water, walked to Sheng's mother who was watching TV, squatted down, and wanted to help Sheng's mother wash her feet.
Sheng's mother was startled by Shengsheng's actions, and she couldn't hold the remote control in her hand and fell on the carpet. When he reacted to what Sheng Sheng wanted to do, his eyes were instantly wet, and he said with a whimper: "Mom didn't move you when she saw today's speech, thinking that you didn't take it to heart, Mom really didn't expect you to wash Mom's feet." ”
"Mom~ Am I bad for you? How can you doubt your daughter's filial piety? Du Ruosheng said helplessly.
"It's not. You've always been so sensible and have your own ideas, and you haven't let us worry about it, and you're so promising. My father and I always wonder if we did anything good in our last life, so we can have a sensible child like you in this life. We have been working hard to become a parent who makes you proud, but Shengsheng is really good, we can't keep up with your growth speed, you are already sensible and filial enough, you don't have to do anything, we are afraid that we are not worthy of being your parents. Sheng's mother touched Du Ruosheng's head and said her true thoughts.
"Mom, what nonsense are you thinking, you and Dad brought me into this world, it's great enough, you are the first great parents in the universe, okay!" Du Ruosheng pretended to be angry and responded to Sheng's mother's words.
Du Ruosheng knew the true feelings of Sheng's mother and Sheng's father for the first time tonight, she never thought that her too good and sensible would bring pressure to her parents, she always thought that they would only be proud of her, and they should have been ready to enjoy happiness a long time ago. Du Ruosheng thinks that she has to change her thoughts and opinions, she should be like a 16-year-old girl, she is no longer the female devil in the fashion industry in her previous life, and her identity from now on is just Du Ruosheng, that's all.
23:30 p.m
At this time, Du Ruosheng had already fallen asleep. Sheng's father came out of the room, and said to Sheng's mother, who was still sitting quietly on the sofa in the living room, with sleepy eyes, "Not sleeping yet?" I have to be sleepy again at work tomorrow, don't come back and complain about being scolded by the manager, I don't comfort you. ”
Sheng's mother glared at Sheng's father, and responded dissatisfiedly: "Got it!" ”
Sheng's mother avoided making a sound and cautiously returned to her room.
Dad Sheng turned around and went into the kitchen, planning to prepare tomorrow's breakfast, but his mouth was still chattering: "I haven't slept so late, and I forgot to prepare breakfast, and I will definitely be annoyed and verbose when I wake up tomorrow." Fortunately, I'm still here, otherwise what would you do with this stinky old woman~"