Chapter 44, Grandpa Grandpa
In the second half of October, the school organized a mid-term exam, and the start of the semester seemed like yesterday, but I didn't expect that half of the semester was already over.
At the flag-raising ceremony last Monday, Meng Xin, Ake, Lao Wu, and Xiao Wu were personally commended by the principal.
Righteousness and courage awards.
It turned out that it was because of the group of habitual thieves who were caught by them, and I don't know if they were involved in several thefts, and they were also involved in the drug trade.
It took more than a month for the police station to uncover one of the city's largest drug trading dens.
In order to protect Meng Xin and the others, the police department has been hiding the matter and not revealing any news, so as not to bring danger to several students.
Now that the case has been basically concluded, the director personally called the principal of No. 1 Middle School to praise Meng Xin and others, and gave a reward of 200 yuan to each person while sending a certificate of commendation.
Principal's Message at the Conference:
Responsibility is a responsibility, but also an honor, but also a kind of display.
Every student should have a sense of family responsibility and social responsibility.
We must have the courage to take responsibility and live up to our time.
The passionate and exciting language, as the protagonists of the incident, gave a halo of "heroes", making Meng Xin and the four of them become the school's heroes.
The happiest thing is that because of this incident, the principal also personally approved Ake's application for the poverty grant, which made the four of them really happy for a long time.
In the ensuing high school entrance examination, Meng Xin seems to have been regarded as a key object of investigation.
Every day, the head teacher Lao Zhou and the classroom teacher hinted to her bitterly, just saying that the principal personally pays attention to your grades, don't give me a basket.
There is no need to worry about Ake's grades, the veritable top students, even Lao Wu and Xiao Wu are also in the top five in the class.
Only Meng Xin not only delayed some classes this half semester, but also affected his grades somewhat because of his injury.
I could only take advantage of the last week or two to step up my review and brush up on the questions, and I didn't even sneak out of school on weekends to find Lu Yiming in the hospital.
I don't know if it's Meng Xin's illusion, after feeling drunk, Lu Yiming was avoiding her intentionally or unintentionally.
Doesn't send unsolicited messages and calls.
At first, I just thought he was too busy.
But a woman's sixth sense will feel weird, and there is no problem with it.
Every time he called, he would immediately connect, and he would also chat with her, listen to her complaints, and comfort her. It feels pretty much the same as before.
The first high school entrance examination in high school came as scheduled, and Meng Xin played normally.
She is rarely nervous about exams, and she used to be talented and temperamental. Now it's because of hard work and diligence.
After the exam, it is a weekend at the end of the month.
After leaving the school gate, he made a call to Lu Yiming, but he didn't answer, he should have been in surgery.
"Let's go, let's go home!"
Accustomed to his overtime and busyness, Meng Xin didn't bother, and got on the bus home with Lao Wu.
"Sister Meng, there is a place here, you can sit."
Ake didn't go to the training class this week, firstly, because he took the high school entrance examination, and everyone wanted to take a break. Second, with the bursary, he was less stressed and wanted to go home to see.
The bus runs every hour, and it takes about two hours from the city to the terminal in the suburban town.
There are many stops along the way, and people who get on and off the bus come and go, and it's not lively.
Ake occupied a back seat for Meng Xin, Meng Xin was not particularly tired, after all, if she stood for two hours, her legs would still be a little unbearable, and the three of them stood in the back together to talk to her. It's not boring to talk and laugh along the way.
As we approached the last few stops, there were more empty seats, and at last only four people were left sitting side by side in the back seat of the bus.
The scenery along the way is becoming more and more familiar, with the blue sky and white clouds overhead, the mountains and rivers in the distance, and the vegetable garden courtyard nearby.
It is the place that Meng Xin is most familiar with.
A feeling of home,
Comfortable, comfortable, warm and pleasant.
"Grandpa, I'm back!"
Meng Xin's home is a separate two-story small bungalow with an independent courtyard, and the yard has a courtyard full of flowers carefully cultivated by her grandmother and half a vegetable patch in the corner that her grandfather fought for.
Grandpa cleaned the courtyard of the house and kept it in order. Although it is not a large family, it is also considered a middle class in a small town.
"It's Xin Xin who is back, a few of you go into the house and sit together, come and have a cup of tea and rest."
Grandpa heard the sound and went out of the yard, and saw Meng Xin and the four of them, beckoning them to come into the house to rest.
"No, grandpa, let's go home first, and come back tomorrow to play with Xin Xin."
Xiao Wu and Lao Wu waved goodbye, their family is still a distance, especially Xiao Wu's family is near the school, and they have to walk for more than 20 minutes.
"Grandma, I helped Xiao Xin's schoolbag in the house, my mother is still waiting for me, I'll go first."
Ake helped Meng Xin take his schoolbag into the house, greeted his grandmother in the kitchen and turned around and went out.
Ake's house is also an independent courtyard, right next to Meng Xin's house, but it looks much worse.
The red brick house on the first floor was still built to make money when Uncle Ouyang was there, and the quality of the red bricks was still good at that time, although the walls were not painted with cement and white ash at the back. But the quality of the house is not bad, and it is not a dilapidated house.
I heard my grandfather say that the Ouyang family originally planned to build a two-story house, but Uncle Ouyang had an accident just after building a floor, and Aunt Ouyang didn't have the energy and money to clean it up, so she kept living in a rough house.
Ouyang's family has a large vegetable garden, the fence is simply enclosed with branches, and a few fruit trees are planted in front of the house and behind the house.
I remember when I was a child, I especially liked to go fruit picking with Ake, and then climb to the top of his flat building to play.
"This kid left without taking a sip of water."
When Grandma poured tea from the kitchen, Ake's figure had already walked out of the door, shaking his head and not saying anything more.
"Grandma, give me tea, I'm dying of thirst."
When Meng Xin followed his grandfather in, he happened to hear his grandmother chattering, so he said coquettishly to the old man.
"Here you go, little ancestor, I still know that I will come back, and I thought that I would not be able to find a home when I grew up."
Although the old man complained in his mouth, he still looked carefully at the little granddaughter he hadn't seen for two months.
"How did you lose so much weight? Is school food bad? Old man, go and find out the wild gastrodia I bought a few years ago, tonight I just killed the chicken and stewed it for the baby to make up for it, you look at this face, it is so thin that it is no more meat. This baby too, don't learn what other people lose fat, fat is good-looking. ”
Usually this is the case, grandma keeps chattering, and grandpa and Meng Xin cooperate with her to do this and that.
"Okay, I'll cook tonight's meal, you can help with it."
Grandpa's cooking is delicious, especially what hard dishes to be made at home, grandpa is in charge.
"Great, there's a big dinner to eat tonight."
The three grandparents and grandchildren were happy and busy in the kitchen together, and it didn't take long for the kitchen to overflow with a burst of aroma, which aroused the gluttony in Meng Xin's stomach, and habitually grabbed a piece of freshly served chicken with his hand.
"You kid, your hands haven't been washed yet, and you don't know how to hold chopsticks, so you like to grab them with your hands, and they will break when they get hot. It's so big that it's not in shape, just like when I was a child. ”
Grandma noticed her small movements, reached out and patted Meng Xin, and asked her to hurry up and wash her hands and prepare for dinner.
"It's delicious, I'll go wash and pack food."
Meng Xin ran away with a smile, and grandma could only shake her head with a smile, full of doting expressions.