"Students, a science and technology festival is being held in the city, and the school has issued a notice to solicit various ideas and inventions and send them to the city to participate in the competition. I hope that everyone will actively sign up to participate, give full play to their imagination, and come up with any good ideas. In the class meeting, the head teacher said.

Several buddies suddenly looked at me at the same time.

The head teacher also noticed this and set his eyes on me.

I looked at everyone's eager eyes, and I really wanted to find a pile of books to block myself, and then turn into a cat and escape.

Such competitions have also been held in elementary and junior high schools, and are not taken seriously by teachers compared to Olympiad competitions. They feel that this kind of competition is just to enrich the students' extracurricular life, and there is no substantial reward, and it does not help their own academic learning or the school's teaching performance.

When I was in elementary school, I joined out of pure curiosity. At that time, I learned from a magazine that I could make a toy drum out of matches, cans, and square cloth. I wanted to play with this toy myself, so I made it by hand according to the instructions in the magazine.

That day, I brought the toy drum to school and shared it with Yan Jinfeng, and she was still smiling so happily at that time, and she cast an affectionate and adoring gaze at me. Time flies, and now the toy drum is still at home, but Yan Jinfeng is already a passerby.

At that time, the other students in the class were also attracted to borrow my toy drums to play, and from then on I was regarded by my classmates as little inventives.

There was also a time when I was in junior high school, and as soon as the notice of the competition was delivered, I was recommended by my classmates to the homeroom teacher. The head teacher had a red paper notice in hand, and he threw it to me excitedly.

I was very excited when I received the paper, like revealing a royal list. It's a pity that I didn't come up with any ideas after racking my brains, and it was easier to learn, so I couldn't extricate myself from learning, so I didn't make anything.

At that time, I still felt quite guilty, maybe if this task was handed over to someone else, someone else would take advantage of this opportunity and hand over an ideal report card. But if you think about it, who would value such a game without major utilitarianism? Back that day, when the head teacher squinted his eyes and shirked this errand to me, this competition notice was already a piece of waste paper in his eyes, and I just helped throw it in the trash.

Now, such a competition has appeared again, and with the recommendation of my classmates again, I still received this military order.

I didn't want to participate, but it just so happened that a few days ago I had a whim to revamp my compass.

Every time you draw a circle, you always have to take a ruler to measure the radius you need, which is troublesome. Even if the measurement is good, it is easy to loosen when drawing, and the size is not accurate. Why can't you just attach a ruler to the compass and break it to accurately select the radius?

With this in mind, I drew a drawing, adding a ruler to the compass, and using clever storage, the compass still folds easily into a strip.

After seeing my design, the class teacher was very appreciative and gave me a privilege for the first time - to skip two nights of homework and use the evening self-study time to make things.

Oh, my God! This is equivalent to playing for nothing! When did the school take it so seriously? Allowing me to put aside my study tasks and engage in this garbage competition? You don't have to do your homework, even if you can't do it or win a prize, you're happy!

But I'm a responsible person, and since the class teacher believes in me, and since I have the hope of the whole class, I should live up to everyone.

I pulled out some cans from my house, and these thin sheets of iron were easy to cut and just enough to be used as a compass body. Then I took scissors, pliers and other tools, sang a song and went to school.

On the way, I met Lin Ximeng.

"What's so happy?" She said.

"The school collects all kinds of ideas and inventions and sends them to the city to participate in the competition, and your class has also notified you."

"Uh-huh, but no one in our class attended."

"I signed up."

"yes, I remember, you're good at this, you participated in it when you were in junior high school."

"Haha, I didn't actually participate in junior high school later, but this time I had a good idea."

"What's a good idea?"

"I've designed a new compass." I briefly shared my thoughts with her.

"Uh, I don't understand, it sounds abstract." Lin Ximeng said with a smile.

"Haha, I'll make it for you when I go back, and you'll understand. The teacher gave me two nights to do it without doing my homework. ”

"It's so cool!"

"Uh-huh, so I'm very happy today, the materials and tools are in the bag!" I patted my bag behind me.

"I wish you success!"

"Thank you!"

We chatted all the way, and after parking the car at the school, we walked up the stairs together, and Lin Ximeng was on my left.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed from the left side of Lin Ximeng.

"Ouch!" Lin Ximeng screamed and covered the back of his head.

I saw that the person was Lu Feng, who had just raided Lin Ximeng's head again, interrupting our fiery chat.

After Lu Feng rushed up the stairs, he looked back at Lin Ximeng, then at me, and smirked vigorously, without saying anything, his eyes were full of surprise.

I had the urge to rush up and beat him up, but I hadn't come out of the comfort of chatting with Lin Ximeng just now, and I couldn't open my legs in the face of the sudden situation at this time. I thought to myself, why should a righteous gentleman like me have the same knowledge as this villain, it is better not to be impulsive, I want to compare him with an extraordinary and steady bearing.

Lin Ximeng also seemed to be immersed in the enthusiasm of chatting with me just now, and did not scold Lu Feng, but acted as if nothing had happened.

After Lu Feng glanced at us a few times, he fled mischievously like a weasel.

Lin Ximeng didn't mention to me who that person was, and I didn't ask who that person was. We continued to climb the stairs as if nothing had really happened. But what were we talking about? I can't remember, and Lin Ximeng can't seem to remember either.

Until the staircase of the part, we were silent, not saying a word. That was the hardest part of my journey with Lin Ximeng.

Lu Feng, Lu Feng, I still shouldn't have coaxed you, I should have rushed up and pressed you to the ground and beat you to death!

In the evening self-study, I started work as originally planned.

While the sound of the tip of a pen touching paper comes from someone else's seat, the crisp sound of metal colliding with metal comes from my seat. From time to time, some envious and jealous eyes were directed in my direction, and I could feel their gazes, but I still buried my head and pretended to be a serious handicraft. I feel that this look is handsome, and my heart is happy, enjoying the supreme glory of standing out from the crowd.

I was complacent, but I accidentally cut my hand while cutting a piece of metal. I couldn't laugh anymore, so I quickly wrapped a tissue around the wound and pressed it carefully. The pain is not very painful, but I am more nervous, if this can be discovered by the classmates, it will be a big problem. It's like just playing a handsome game one second, and falling into the mud the next second, directly negative points.

"Hey, Mao Xiaoer, I forgot to bring an English dictionary today, can I borrow yours?" Qiao Qiao suddenly turned around.

I was taken aback, so I quickly hid my hand under the table and said, "Well, yes, I'll give it to you later." ”

While I was rummaging through my schoolbag with one hand, Qiao Qiao asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?" The action is so strange. ”

"Ah, nothing." I replied as I struggled to pull out the dictionary and put it on the table.

"What's wrong with your other hand?"

I looked at Qiao Qiao with a smile and a smile: "Uh, it's really nothing, the dictionary is here, you can take it." ”

"Ahh Cat Xiaoer, you cut your fingers! Yang Mo next to him shouted.

This is over, I thought to myself, I'm afraid my classmates in the neighborhood have heard it.

Sure enough, even Tian Xiao turned around.

Under their coercion, I had to take out the severed hand.

"I have a Band-Aid, I'll give it to you." Qiao Qiao said, and quickly pulled out a band-aid from his bag.

"No, I'll just wrap it in paper."

"You're welcome, it's faster with a band-aid." Qiao Qiao said and resolutely put the band-aid on my desk, "Take it, and I should borrow the payment from your dictionary." ”

After speaking, Qiao Qiao took the dictionary and turned it back.

I picked up a band-aid and replaced the tissues and it looked much better.

Yang Mo and Tian Xiao didn't pay much attention to it, and when they saw that I was nothing serious, they went back to do their homework.

After a while, Qiao Qiao turned around again: "Why don't you have a letter label on this dictionary?" ”

"I'm too lazy to draw, I can estimate which pages the first letter of the corresponding word is, and then turn to it." I said. I'm really different in this regard, I believe in my instincts, I can go directly to the pages where the first letter is located, and then carefully flip through the dictionary order to find it, so why mark it on the side?

"That's not very convenient, I'll mark it for you."

"Huh? No. I'll draw it myself. ”

Qiao Qiao grinned and turned back. By the time she turned it around again, the dictionary had changed.

On one side of the opening of the dictionary, small squares are staggered with watercolor pens of different colors, and the squares are neatly marked with black letters, and under the squares are covered are the pages of the words corresponding to the English letters.

"I'm done, thank you." Qiao Qiao said playfully.

"Uh, you really helped me mark it?"

"Small!" Qiao Qiao turned back after speaking.

I stared blankly at the dictionary, the squares, red, green, yellow, and blue, strung together like jewels on a bracelet, and like a rainbow, so beautiful that only the most ingenious craftsman in the world could create such a brilliant work.

I tried to look up some words through the letter tags, and it was much easier than before. Qiao Qiao is right, there are better tools, why stick to the traditional stupid method?

Later, I made the compass and it was easy to use and fold. It just so happened that the school's teaching and research team also received a teaching aid design competition, and my compass was recommended to participate in this competition at the same time. Under the guidance of the teacher, I wrote the instructions for the use of the compass, filled out a patent application form, and then handed over all the materials to the Head of Year to deal with.

After that, I never heard from the compass, so I just let it sink into the sea, and the crude little thing didn't matter at all.

The important thing is that I played two nights of self-study in vain and avoided two days of homework. But that's not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that I received a gift from Qiao Qiao, what a precious gift!

I decided to treasure this dictionary, it is the result of Qiao Qiao's hard work. When I looked at it, it was as if I saw Qiao Qiao, so beautiful and elegant; When I held it, it was as if I was holding Qiao Qiao's love in my hand, so warm and heavy.