Hui Zi cleans up in the hallway. It was so dry that the brooms touched the ground, and the dust flew up eagerly, as if they were waiting for the purple broom to free them. Hui Zi used a gauze towel to bandage her head and mouth, but it still didn't work, and the dust choked her breathlessly.

She put down her broom and stood against the flower wall at the top of the staircase, breathing hard, trying to get some of the dust out of her lungs. That's when she noticed a small lump stuffed into the gap in the wall tiles. She was a little curious, and with a dig of her hand, a ball of paper rolled out of her bones. I flicked it on my toes, as if it were a math paper, and I vaguely saw some arithmetic formulas and hooks and forks on the red pen.

Hui Zi chuckled in her heart, she could almost understand who did it. She bent down to pick up the paper ball, opened it, and sure enough, it was a math test paper of Jin Ling, marked with a large score: 79. The writing is very large, almost a quarter of a piece of paper, which is quite vicious. It seems that he is still angry, and he notes with a red pen next to it: the fourth from the bottom of the class!

Hui Zi felt like she was on fire. She didn't want to do any more hygiene, so she went home with a broom and sat alone at the table sulking. The house was very quiet at this time, so she couldn't get angry if she wanted to, she reached out and picked up the microphone to call Jin Yiming, and said on the phone: I don't want to care about your daughter anymore, there is nothing I can do, please do it in the future! But the phone didn't work, and the university switchboard told her to wait. When Huizi put down the phone, the impulse quickly disappeared, and she felt that it was not interesting to say this, could she really let it go?

There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, sometimes it took half a day to climb one level, sometimes tom a few steps in a row, as soon as I heard it, I knew that Jin Ling had come back from school.

Hui Zi stood up and opened the door with a wave of anger, and at a glance saw Jin Ling's round face smiling. Jin Ling tilted her head to look at Hui Zi's face, she didn't know what had happened just now, and said with a smile: "Mom, why are you so bold?" You should be happy today! ”

Hui Zi grabbed the test paper on the table and slapped it on Jin Ling's hand vigorously: "Of course I'm happy!" I was so happy that I fainted! ”

Jin Ling glanced at the things in his hand, his face also changed greatly, and he said timidly: "Mom, listen to my explanation." Mommy ......"

Hui Zi interrupted her: "Okay, there's nothing to explain, the score already speaks for itself." And you are getting more and more disagreeable, you don't take the paper home after getting a bad score, and secretly hide in the corridor! I'm sure you're more than once......"

Jin Ling shouted: "No, it's this time!" ”

"Even this time can't be forgiven! It shows that this child of yours is no longer simple and dishonest. It's hard for mom to believe anything you say in the future. ”

Jin Ling cried and said, "I'm afraid you'll be angry if you know it......"

"Aren't I even more angry when you do this?"

"But I'm going to tell you today. I want to wait for myself to get a good score and then tell you about it. Here's my volume for today......"

Jin Ling hurriedly took out her schoolbag, her movements were so urgent that she almost tore the thin test paper in her schoolbag.

On the frontispiece are two very gentle numbers: 97. Next to it: Jumped to seventh in the class, very progressive! Please keep it up.

Hui Zihu looked at Jin Ling suspiciously: "Is it really your volume?" ”

Jin Ling pointed to the frontispiece: "Isn't this my name?" ”

"Didn't copy someone else's?"

"Mom!" Jin Ling protested, "We use AB papers for every test, who do I copy?" You can't stand up and look at Li Xiaojuan in front of you, right? Besides, she didn't do well in the exam as well as me this time, so she scored more than 80 points. ”

Hui Zi's face slowly softened, and she said, "I really can't understand how much difference can be between your exam scores and your test scores. Watching you learn is like watching an acrobat walk a tightrope, with a lot of sweat in the palms of your hands. ”

Jin Ling comforted Hui Zi very obediently: "Mom, I won't be like that again, I will do well in the exam in the future." ”

During the meal, Hui Zi had forgotten the unpleasantness just now, picked the eggs in the egg fried rice to Jin Ling, and said to herself: "It's still good to participate in make-up classes after school every day, it seems that you are suitable for individual tutoring." Did Mr. Zhang call other students? ”

Jin Ling shook her head first, thought about it and nodded, humming in a mosquito-like voice: "And Li Xiaojuan." ”

Hui Zi said: "She doesn't seem to have made much progress? This time, I scored 80 points, which is about the same level as before. ”

Jin Ling didn't know what to say, so she buried her head in her mouth and stuffed her mouth with rice.

Three days later, he took another test, and Jin Ling scored 94 points. It's a little less than last time, but it's not much different, it's basically on the same level. Huizi has reason to believe that Jin Ling's math scores have stabilized.

The growth rate of the silkworm babies in the shoe box is almost by leaps and bounds before they "go up the mountain", and the strips become long and transparent, and when you breathe, you can see the body fluids on both sides of their belly pressing up and down like a water pump, which is very interesting. Whenever fresh mulberry leaves are sprinkled in, they will become very excited, no longer as picky as when they were children, but find a place to put their mouths nearby, their heads desperately little by little, the black match-like mouth makes a slight "click" sound, and then the mulberry leaves disappear little by little, like magic.

When the silkworm baby's body turned from pure white to light yellow, and its body length began to shrink slightly, Hui Zi said very experiencedly: "It's time to go up the mountain." ”

Jin Ling hurried to fetch the thin branches that had been prepared and arranged them in a criss-cross manner along the four corners of the shoebox. Sure enough, there was a silkworm probe probing and climbing up. Halfway up the climb, as if something was wrong when I thought about it, I went down again, ate a few bites of mulberry leaves very critically, and climbed again at a different angle. Jin Ling was a little anxious for it, and reached out to pick it up and put it between a few branches, so that it would not hesitate and struggle. The silkworm baby didn't appreciate it at all, and stubbornly crawled down from between the branches, and this time it simply didn't move.

Hui Zi said, "Don't touch it, it has to choose a suitable home for itself." ”

Jin Ling is angry that the silkworm babies refuse her help, believing that they have too low IQ and do not understand feelings after all. If it was a dog, and the owner was so good to it, it would have been so happy that it would have been so happy that it didn't know the heavens and the earth. Jin Ling said regretfully: "I really want to have a dog!" ”

Hui Zi turned her head and pretended not to hear. She thought it was hard for her to raise a child, how could she add a dog? That's all the work of the idle class.

When he got up the next morning, the first thing Jin Lingtou did was to go to see the silkworm baby. She saw that two very thin cocoons had formed between the branches, one snow-white and the other yellow. Through the thin silkworms, you can see that the body of the baby silkworm has shrunk very small, curled up in a ball in the cocoon, and the head moves hard, spitting out the silk one at a time, and thickening evenly along the perimeter of the thin shell.

Jin Ling ran to Hui Zi and Jin Yiming's room and said, "I have an idea, can I be a silk expert in the future?" ”

Jin Yiming put a sweatshirt on his head and replied: "Of course you can, your father will support you in whatever you do." ”

Jin Ling turned to Hui Zi and said, "Mom, what about you?" ”

Hui Zi said: "I hope you will be an accomplished silk expert." ”

Jin Ling then began to imagine: "I want to start by planting mulberry trees." I have a large garden where the mulberry trees are colorful, golden, pink, lake blue, rose purple, duck protein, apple green...... My silkworms weigh at least half a catty each, and they can eat 5 kilograms of colored mulberry leaves in one meal, and they can go up the mountain to form cocoons in 10 days. What kind of mulberry leaves to eat silkworms, what color cocoons to bear. There are also those who eat mixed mulberry leaves, and produce cocoons called 'dream combination' colors, which are the most wonderful colors in the world. I send these cocoons to my own factory, where I pull out the silk and weave it into silk. Listen, here's what I want to do: I'm the greatest fashion designer in the world, and I make clothes that are made only from my own silk, so there's no one to compete with me. My models are superb, and they are proud to be my models. Every year when Hollywood holds the Oscar ceremony, my office is busy, because the application letters for pre-ordering fashion are faxed one after another, and the secretary says that she is too tired and her eyes are dazzled, so I have to give her a bonus. There's a plane parked right outside my office, waiting to transport fashion to Hollywood. Of course, this money is paid by the movie stars, who makes them so eager to be beautiful? ”

Hui Zi couldn't help but smile and asked, "Did you make money?" ”

Jin Ling looked sad: "Yes, why did I accidentally make a lot of money?" The secretary always came to me and asked: there is too much money to fit in the house, do you want to throw some off the balcony? ”

Hui Zi stiffened her face and said, "You shouldn't leave cash in the office, you should buy a cash truck to transport money to the bank for you." ”

"What if the bank thinks I have too much money and the vault can't fit it?"

"It's easy to do, distribute it to each bank, and each family will send a car."

Jin Ling thought for a while and said, "It's still too troublesome." I think it's best to donate it all to Project Hope. ”

Hui Zi said, "It's okay, so as not to provoke others to think of bad ideas." ”

Jin Yiming couldn't help but shout: "Okay, breakfast hasn't settled yet!" Jin Ling helped Dad do something and went buy a few fritters. ”

Jin Ling said, "Really! Dad is so unromantic, how could he suddenly think of fritters? Rain on someone's parade! ”

Jin Yiming said: "I'm afraid that your dream is too beautiful, and you will make mistakes when you do the exercises after a while." ”

Jin Ling said with confidence: "No." ”

When she took the money and went downstairs to buy fried dough sticks, Huizi said to Jin Yiming, "Do you think this thing is a bit weird?" Jin Ling's math scores are too fast, and he can't ride a rocket so fast. ”

Jin Yiming thought about it and admitted that it was a little fast. But he also thinks that this is "a natural success", and Jin Ling has been subservient to others all these years, and there should be a time of "blockbuster".

"Is she stupid? She's not stupid at all. In the past, she couldn't get good grades in the exam because she didn't learn well and was too playful. Girls are like this, they are sensible when they say they are sensible. You, you can worry less about snacks in the future. Jin Yiming said.

Huizi is not as optimistic as Jin Yiming. Being a mother is born to worry about her life, she has to worry about her child's bad grades, and she has to worry about her child's good grades. She was going to go to school in a day or two to ask Teacher Zhang about Jin Ling's situation.

Teacher Xing didn't know where to get a few previous entrance exam papers from foreign Chinese schools and took them to Zhang Lingling's cram school for everyone to do. Jin Ling went home after finishing it, and told Hui Zi that she had the highest score: 82.

Hui Zi laughed at her: "82 can still be regarded as the highest score? ”

Jin Ling immediately exclaimed: "It's so difficult! You just don't know how hard it is! If you don't believe me, try my debut question: Write 10 idioms that start with the word 'one'. Remember, it's an idiom, the kind that can say allusions, not just just make up four words. ”

Hui Zi wrenched her fingers and said: "'A thousand miles a day', 'A dime does not pull out', 'A pillow of yellow sorghum', 'A promise of a thousand gold', 'A penny is worthless', 'One drum of energy', 'One exposure to ten colds', 'One stone and two eagles'......"

Hui Zi is a little stuck. Usually, there are so many idioms that start with the word "one", and if you want to say 10 of them, you feel as if your thinking is blocked, and the words are blocked in your throat and can't rush out.

"How? Can't you? Jin Ling looked at her mother's joke triumphantly.

Hui Zi suddenly held back two more: "'One word is a thousand gold', 'one meal is a thousand gold'." ”

"3 'daughters', too many repetitions, deduct points!" Jin Ling shouted.

"What about you? How many more can you name that are different? ”

"'Blockbuster!' Defeated'! ”

Hui Zi laughed, admitting that she was getting old and couldn't react as quickly as Jin Ling. Now she knows that it is not easy to get a high score in the exam, first of all, you have to be able to do it, and secondly, you have to mobilize the inventory of your brain in a short period of time, and you can't allow any gaps and omissions. The slightest difference is missing the 100 points you were looking for.

She thought to herself that it was really unscientific to ask her child to score 100 points.

One afternoon, she held a meeting in the magazine office, and Mrs. Yu talked endlessly about the next issue of the manuscript task, layout arrangement, advertising to be pulled, etc., and when she looked at the clock after the meeting, it was already 6 o'clock. Huizi said to Mrs. Yu: "I have to go, my daughter doesn't have a key with her, and she can't enter the house after school." ”

Mrs. Yu hurriedly grabbed her: "There is one more thing, the cover photo ......"

Hui Zi replied to her angrily: "Use your own." ”

Mrs. Yu shook her head and said to the other people: "Has Zhao Huizi reached menopause?" Why hasn't the mood been right these days? ”

Huizi heard this, but she didn't bother to answer. She hurried to the carport to get out of the bike, rode it and slammed it home. It's not fun to come home late, Jin Ling has a lot of homework to do every day after dinner: a list of foreign language phrases that need to be memorized; a comprehensive language paper with several units of word explanations; A math paper, perhaps plus an oral arithmetic problem, or an application problem. If you can't get the language and add another essay, it will be even worse, Jin Ling's eyes will be boiled like rabbit eyes, the upper and lower eyelids will fight, and you can't rub them hard. Hui Zi specially prepared a bunch of eye drops for her, which was stimulated by drugs when necessary.

After 6 o'clock, the traffic on the road was not too crowded. Hui Zi found Jin Ling's classmate Li Xiaojuan at the intersection very close to her home, the child was standing on the side of the road with a big schoolbag on his back, his head tilted high, and he didn't know what he was doing. When Hui Zi got closer, she found that there was a yellow-green caterpillar hanging down a thin filament on the tree, swinging leisurely and very leisurely.

Huizi jumped out of the car and said to Li Xiaojuan: "Don't move it, caterpillars are very powerful." ”

Li Xiaojuan turned her head and smiled politely: "Auntie, I know, I think it's to write an observation diary." Today, the teacher read an article written by Jin Ling about silkworm babies in the class, and it was really well written. ”

Hui Zi was very happy in her heart. Some people praise their daughters, and mothers are of course happy. At this time, she suddenly remembered that Li Xiaojuan was participating in a math make-up class with Jin Ling, so she asked her, "Is Jin Ling home?" ”

Li Xiaojuan said: "I came back early." I'm late today because I'm on duty. ”

Hui Zi asked in surprise, "Didn't Teacher Zhang leave you to make up classes every day?" ”

Li Xiaojuan was even more surprised than her: "Teacher Zhang? No, he never left us to make up the lessons. ”

Hui Zi said in her heart: It's bad, it's a big problem, Jin Ling doesn't stay in school after school every day. She didn't care about saying anything more to Li Xiaojuan, so she turned around and rode to the school again.

It was half past six o'clock, and the school's playground and playground were empty. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the school building, and the closed glass windows reflected golden lights. Hui Zi rushed into the building in a panic and saw that the "countdown clock" made by the principal was showing the shocking number "36 days". Hui Zi ran upstairs in three steps and two steps. The first, second, and third floors were all silent, only on the fourth floor, there were still some people writing homework in the sixth grade classroom, and there were two teachers "Zhenshan Tower" who generally sat on the side of the podium and did not move, waiting for the students to finish the questions and send them up for inspection, and those who passed waved their hands and let them go.

Hui Zi leaned on the windowsill and looked inside, and there were no classmates in Jinling's class in either classroom.

A teacher saw her poking her brain outside the door, so she came out and asked her who she was looking for, Huizi asked Teacher Zhang who had not seen the first class, and the teacher smiled and said, "His wife is about to give birth, can he still go home?" ”

Hui Zishen went downstairs with one foot and one foot shallow, and her whole body was so soft that she didn't have any strength at all. Where does Jin Ling go after school every day? Why would she lie to her family? Is there something bad that has been done?

The more I thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and I couldn't even think about it anymore.

By the time Hui Zi returned home in a hurry, Jin Yiming had already returned, clumsily scooping rice and cooking rice in the kitchen. Jin Ling stood by the pool and pointed at her father, her schoolbag was still on her shoulder, and she looked like she had just arrived home. The father and daughter talked and laughed very easily.

Hui Zi shouted, "Jin Ling, come here!" ”

Jin Yiming and Jin Ling's two heads poked out of the kitchen at the same time, and both of them were taken aback. Seeing her mother's grim face, Jin Ling didn't dare to disobey, so she walked out of the kitchen and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Hui Zi asked a series of questions: "What time is school today?" Did you go home immediately after school? Where are you going? Where do you go to play every day? As soon as she looked up and saw Jin Yiming following out of the kitchen, Huizi became even more angry: "Take care of your daughter!" Ask her what she does during this time of day! ”

Jin Yiming was a little confused: "What are you doing?" Didn't the teacher give her a make-up lesson? ”

"Jin Ling, you said it yourself, did the teacher make up the lesson?"

Jin Ling stubbornly raised her head: "Yes, it was the teacher who gave me a make-up lesson!" ”

"But I went to school today, and Mr. Zhang went home early. I also met Li Xiaojuan, who said that there was never such a thing as making up classes. How do you explain that? ”

Jin Ling lowered his head and said nothing.

Hui Zi said sadly: "You really want to play, you can tell your mother, I don't absolutely forbid you to have your own time, but you shouldn't make up lies......"

Jin Ling suddenly interrupted Hui Zi's words: "I'm not lying! It's true! If it wasn't for the make-up classes, how would my math scores improve? ”

Jin Yiming hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, this is a reality in front of us. ”

"It cannot be ruled out that there are other reasons for this." Hui Zi said, glaring at Jin Yiming fiercely, because he did not cooperate with the educational work she was doing at this time.

Jin Ling said very sadly: "Mom doesn't believe me. My mother always thought I was a bad boy and refused to believe that I had good grades. ”

Hui Zi found that Jin Ling's eyes were already a little red, and she didn't know whether to believe it or not. She said blankly, "But why don't you tell me the truth?" Where the hell did you go after school? ”

Jin Ling pleaded, "Mom, please allow me to have a secret, okay?" You adults all have your own secrets, and so should I. I certainly didn't do anything bad anyway. ”

Jin Yiming played a round with a smile on his face: "Okay, my mother agrees, Jin Ling does have this right." In the future, when the time is right, Jin Ling herself will tell her mother, Jin Ling, right? ”

Jin Ling said, "I promise." ”