Jin Ling hated herself very much, why she always couldn't do what she said. For example, she promised her mother not to affect her studies because of silkworm raising, but the silkworms are obviously kept at home, and she can hear the sound of them chewing mulberry leaves when she does the exercises. If she doesn't look at the silkworm baby every 20 minutes, she simply has a pain that she will die immediately.

After going there for the second time, Hui Zi interfered in the room. Hui Zi raised her voice and shouted, "Jin Ling, what are you doing?" Jin Ling was inspired and hurriedly replied: "I'll go to the toilet." ”

The silkworm baby is placed in the kitchen, and the toilet must be passed through the kitchen, and the reason for the golden bell is very sufficient. If you can't control people from pooping and peeing, your mother can't restrict her from going to the toilet, right?

When Jin Ling ran to the toilet for the third time, Hui Zi became suspicious and followed her. Jin Ling came out of the toilet in a pretended manner, and when she raised her head, Hui Zi was staring at her with her arms folded and her eyes blazing.

"What are you doing watching me go to the bathroom? I'm not a prisoner. Jin Ling muttered weakly.

Hui Zi said with a smile: "Really went to the toilet?" Pee or poop? ”

"Pee."

"Why didn't I hear the pee?"

Jin Ling thought regretfully: I should really say that it was poop.

In order to put an end to her mother's distrust of her, Jin Ling simply drank a stomach of cold boiled water, and the fake drama was really done. In less than half an hour, she was about to pee. When she passed by the door of the living room, she shouted generously: "Mom, come and listen!" She deliberately left the door of the toilet open, allowing the sound of peeing to come out for a long time. But my mother stopped listening, as if she had seen through her tricks.

This Saturday, when Jin Ling came out of the toilet for the tenth time, she found that the silkworm baby had eaten the last mulberry leaf in the house. She reported this discovery to Huizi in time, and Huizi said helplessly: "Take 2 cents to buy it." ”

In the days of reviewing for the exam, Jin Ling's favorite thing to do is to help her mother go downstairs to buy things, because only at this time can you take the opportunity to play for a while, look at the cat in the snack bar, and pay attention to whether the burden of the candy waterer at the street has come and whether there are any new tricks.

It's very boring today, the burden of the candy doer didn't come, the yellow cat in the snack bar is gone, Jin Ling pinched 2 cents in his hand, and walked slowly to the school gate. She was suddenly dumbfounded: What? Why can't the old man who sells mulberry leaves disappear? Usually he sits at the school gate with a large basket of green mulberry leaves, waiting for the business of the children who bought silkworm babies. 2 cents a small pocket, if you are too little, he will smile and add a few pieces to you.

The grandmother, who was setting up a newsstand at the school gate, said to Jin Ling, "Why did he come today?" There are no students going to school today, and he can't do business! ”

Jin Ling asked, "Do you know where his family lives?" ”

Grandma shook her head and said, "Oh, I don't know." The old man seemed to have come from the suburbs by car. ”

Jin Ling's heart suddenly panicked. What to do? Where to find mulberry leaves for silkworm babies to eat?

The silkworm babies in the shoe box all raised their little heads high and turned around, as if to say to Jin Ling: "I'm hungry!" I am hungry! ”

Huizi complained to Jin Ling: "Don't you get the silkworm back, right?" Where to find mulberry leaves in the city now? Rather than let it grow half old and starve to death, it is better not to save it at that time. ”

Jin Ling was very sad by Hui Zi's words. She flipped through her address book and called her friends one by one. Yang Xiaoli, Li Xiaojuan, Zhang Lingling, Liu Yaru...... I asked them all, and the answer was no, I had never seen a mulberry tree anywhere. Only Shang Hai said with certainty: "Yes." My cousin has one at home. It grows taller than a house, the leaves are the size of a palm, and the mulberry fruits are black, purple, black and purple, and they are so sweet......"

Jin Ling thought he was verbose, and couldn't wait to interrupt him: "I'll talk about it later, you tell me where my cousin's house is first, and how I can get there by car." ”

Shang Hai hesitated on the other end of the phone: "Ouch, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid this ......"

Jin Ling shouted anxiously: "What are you afraid of! ”

Shang Hai said: "No, my cousin's house is far away, and it takes 3 hours to take a long-distance bus and pass a ferry......

Jin Ling hung up the phone without waiting for Shang Hai to finish. She thought hatefully, unless Shang Hai was mentally retarded, he was deliberately playing tricks on her! Come to school on Monday and teach this kid a good lesson.

Jin Ling didn't sleep well all night, and always had nightmares. I dreamed that the silkworm was dead and turned into green zombies, and pus was coming out from under the buttocks. I dreamed that the silkworm baby had metamorphosed into a moth, flying out of the shoebox one after another, endlessly, and the whole house was squirming with those gray and ugly little things, and her parents and she could only hide in the toilet, close the door, and call the police on 110 for help.

In the middle of the night, Jin Ling woke up once and went to the kitchen to look at silkworms with her slippers. Hui Zi was one step ahead of her, leaning her unkempt head over the shoebox. Hui Zi looked up and saw Jin Ling, sighed and said, "How pitiful the little thing is. ”

Jin Ling's eyes turned red and asked, "Are they going to die?" ”

Hui Zi couldn't say for sure, "Maybe they're a big creatures?" ”

As he spoke, even Jin Yiming got up to look at the silkworm. Jin Yiming came up with an idea: "Try if they eat lettuce leaves?" I also raised silkworms when I was a child, and I have the impression that lettuce leaves can be fed instead of mulberry leaves. ”

Hui Zi clapped her hands and said, "Really! How did I not think of it? It seems that there is such a thing. ”

Before 6 o'clock the next morning, Huizi got up and went to the vegetable market. It is the time when lettuce is on the market, and you can pick up a lot of lettuce leaves on the vegetable market. Hui Zi hurried back, rinsed the young leaves with water, dried them, tore them into shredded leaves, and sprinkled them into a shoebox. The heads of a family of three are crowded together, all anxiously waiting to see a miracle.

The miracle did not happen, the silkworm baby did not give face at all, and simply turned a blind eye to the tender vegetable leaves around him, and still raised his head pitifully and looked around in circles.

Jin Yiming criticized them bitterly: "It's too pampered! It's so spoiled! I won't give in at all. ”

Hui Zi echoed, "Not bad at all! Delicate like an only child now. There is really a kind of silkworm with what kind of child. ”

Jin Ling defended the silkworm baby: "They haven't seen lettuce, so how dare they eat it?" If you were asked to eat wild vegetables you had never seen before, would you dare? ”

Jin Yiming said: "It depends on when, if you are very hungry, you dare." Life is more important than taste, of course. ”

Hui Zi laughed at him: "It's like playing the piano to the cow!" Can silkworms have human thinking? ”

While they were arguing, Jin Ling quietly opened the door and went out. She is determined to find mulberry leaves for the silkworm baby, even if she searches all over the city, even if she is a beggar temporarily, as long as she can save the silkworm baby's life.

The proprietress of the snack bar in the alley greeted her with a smile: "Jinling Jinling, the yellow cat is at home today, and it is calling you." ”

Jin Ling said: "I'm not available. After walking a few steps, he turned back and asked, "Do you have mulberry trees in your house?" ”

"Mulberry?" The proprietress was asked inexplicably, "I don't even have a root of grass in my house, and there will be mulberry trees?" ”

Jin Ling ignored her, turned her head and walked forward.

Jin Ling walked in the opposite direction to the school, and walked through several alleys in a row. Every time she passed by someone's door, she would peek inside through the crack to see if there was anything she hoped to find. Some people's walls were low, so she tried to tiptoe to climb the low walls, and carefully searched the courtyards from the walls.

Once, when she was climbing up the wall of someone's house, a hand grabbed her by the collar, and the man grabbed her by the collar and pulled her down hard. Jin Ling was caught off guard, slipped to the ground all of a sudden, and squatted on her buttocks.

It turned out to be a female cadre of the neighborhood committee wearing a red armband. She snorted and asked, "What for?" Why climb the walls of other people's houses? ”

Jin Ling explained: "I'm looking for mulberry leaf ......"

"Looking for mulberry leaves? Will anyone in this city grow mulberry trees? There's no way to lie to me! Yesterday someone on our street was stolen......"

Jin Ling was so angry that the hairs on her body were about to stand up. Suspect she's a thief? Take her as a thief? It simply doesn't make any sense! She took advantage of the lack of attention of the cadre of the neighborhood committee, shook her shoulders vigorously, lowered her head, slid out of the man's hands like a fish, ran away with her legs, and lost no time in turning around and shouting: "I am a thief!" You're going to catch it, you're coming! ”

The other party naturally refused to be fooled, he didn't know what to mutter, and turned around and walked into another door.

Jin Ling crossed another side street and found an iron gate with a fence. She grabbed the fence with both hands and leaned against the iron gate to look inside. It is a very old building with a garden, the building is not large, with a pointed roof, round wooden lattice windows, and a thin chimney sticking out of the roof, like a house drawn in a fairy tale book. The best thing to see is the garden, which is full of flowers and plants in early summer. Fuchsia roses, strings of red dancing like flames, pale pink impatiens, calamus probing the brain, phalaenopsis hiding in the grass and smiling coquettishly. Looking at the corner of the wall again, oh my God, isn't that a mulberry tree leaning on the corner like a big brother and not moving? Look at its fat, round leaves, and green mulberry fruits have already borne between the leaves, like bulging pimples growing on the face of a young man.

Jin Ling was so excited that she almost didn't scream. Her heart began to beat wildly, imagining the silkworms at home eating tender mulberry leaves, imagining how the green juice of mulberry leaves flowed into the white and transparent body of the silkworms, how to make the body fat and mature...... She covered her mouth tightly, for fear that she would laugh out loud if she wasn't paying attention.

There was no one in the garden, and the iron gate was closed tightly. Jin Ling looked at the door, although it was a bit high, the iron bar on the door could be used as a stepping foot, and it was no problem to climb over the iron bar.

Jin Ling climbed the iron bar and began to climb over the gate. She was very nervous, for fear that she would be caught and beaten as a thief again. And because it was the first time in his life to try such an adventure, I couldn't help but feel excited and proud, as if I had become half of Zorro. Fortunately, she landed safely in the courtyard without an accident, and no other figures appeared in the alley during this period.

Mulberry leaves are so green, so fat, so tender! She gently pinched a slice in her hand, and looked carefully at the part of its leaf that bulged out because of the full juice, thinking that it would soon wither when it left the branches, and it would become food for the belly of the silkworm baby. She sincerely felt sorry for the mulberry tree and felt sorry for it. So she hesitated to stand by the tree, not knowing whether it was better to pick it up or not.

"Who is it? Who's there? Suddenly, an old voice came.

Jin Ling was startled, her little face immediately turned white, and her body instinctively lowered down, wanting to cover herself with the help of branches.

"Don't hide, I see you." The voice continued.

Jin Ling straightened up helplessly, lowered her head and didn't dare to look at people, just waiting to be scolded in her heart. Maybe they'll beat her up. When she beat her, she couldn't run away? Where do you run from? Climb the gate again?

"How did you get in? What are I picking my mulberry leaves for? The old man's voice had moved to the golden bell. Jin Ling secretly lifted her eyelids and looked at it, and was immediately relieved: it was a white-haired old lady with impaired mobility, and she still had a crutch under her arm! Ha, if such an old lady wants to catch the golden bell, there is no way!

Although the old lady said that she was on crutches, her waist was stiff and straight, and her eyebrows and eyes were not without majesty. She stared sharply at Jin Ling, and said very clearly, "What about you!" What are I picking my mulberry leaves for? ”

Jin Ling wanted to tease her, tilted her head and said, "Can't you pick it up?" Is your name written on the tree? ”

The old lady cried out, "Ha! The attitude is not good! What is your name? Which school? ”

Jin Ling thought to herself: A fool will tell you. Isn't it for you to call the school to complain? After making up his mind, he closed his mouth, straightened his neck, and said nothing.

"You don't say? If you don't say it, I won't let you go. Follow me! ”

Jin Ling thought about not going with her, but her footsteps moved involuntarily, as if the old lady was being held by some magic.

The old lady is in front, and the golden bell is in the back. The old lady was on crutches, but she was majestic and high-spirited, like a victorious general who returned to the court; Jin Ling hung his head in despair, wrinkled his nose and bitter face, like a captured soldier.

After entering the small building, the old lady designated a chair for Jin Ling to sit down, but she stood straight opposite Jin Ling.

"I said I wouldn't let you go if I didn't let you go. You have to tell me the truth, there's a lie I know. Do you believe it or not? The old lady squinted triumphantly, and there was a cunning and keen light in her eyes.

Jin Ling cried out unconvinced: "Who lied to you?" Why should I lie to you? Don't you just have a mulberry tree? Your mulberry tree is so big, with hundreds or thousands of leaves, can't you pick 10 of them? But my silkworms are dying of hunger, and they haven't eaten all night! It's true...... They...... I'm dying of starvation......"

Jin Ling suddenly choked up, feeling both scared and aggrieved. She thought that she couldn't cry casually in front of strangers, she had to hold back, she had to hold back! Damned tears did not obey orders and fell like pearls with broken threads.

The old lady bent down with difficulty, looked carefully into Jin Ling's eyes, and asked with some surprise, "Are you crying?" Do you think I've broken you? ”

Jin Ling raised his arm, quickly wiped his eyes, and replied bluffingly: "Who is crying?" Who do you think you are? Cheapskate! ”

The old lady said very seriously: "I'm not a stingy person, I just don't like people touching my things without saying hello." Would you like it if it were you? ”

Jin Ling whispered, "I thought you wouldn't agree to ......"

"In general, of course I wouldn't agree. But ......"

"But I have a special situation, really!" Jin Ling looked pitifully into the old lady's eyes and said, "My silkworms are so hungry that they are dying!" ”

The old lady laughed: "Quite good at words." So please tell me honestly, what's your name? Which school are you a student at? ”

"Will you call my teacher?"

"No, I just like to ask. It's my habit. ”

Jin Ling whispered her name and said that she was a sixth-grade student at Xinhua Street Elementary School.

"Who's your homeroom teacher?"

"Teacher Xing."

The old lady smiled again: "I know her." ”

Jin Ling jumped up: "How could you?" ”

The old lady was very proud: "Why wouldn't I?" You Teacher Xing have also been my students. ”

Jin Ling sighed lightly: "Oh my God! "She thought it was incredible, incredible! She stole mulberry leaves and stole them to the teacher's teacher's house!

The old lady asked with concern, "Sixth grade?" Are you about to take the middle school exam? ”

Jin Ling suddenly remembered that there was still a bunch of homework waiting for her to complete at home, and she went out without saying hello. When she thought of her homework, her heart became heavy, and she turned into a frosted eggplant for a while.

"Which middle school do you want to go to?" Did Mr. Xing ask you to fill out the form? ”

"Fill it in. My mom wanted me to go to a key middle school. ”

"Your mother wants you to take the test?" The old lady's eyes sparkled and pressed Jin Ling, "It's just your mother's wish?" What about yourself? ”

"I don't know. I also thought in my heart, but I didn't feel sure. I wasn't a good student in my class. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Studying is not good. Mostly math. I never finished in the top 10 of my class. No, I took the exam once in the second grade, only once. ”

The old lady looked at her thoughtfully: "You are very frank. I like kids like you. ”

Jin Ling thought to herself: What use do you like? You're not the principal of a key middle school.

"Tell me something interesting about your class." The old lady demanded.

Jin Ling was preoccupied, for fear that her mother would scold her if she went back late, so she didn't want to talk about it. But if she didn't talk about it, she was afraid that the old lady wouldn't give her mulberry leaves, so she reluctantly said it.

Jin Ling talked about several things in the class in a row, but the old lady didn't laugh, but looked at her with a very serious expression, which made Jin Ling's heart furious. Later, she told Zhang Lingling about accidentally swallowing the young silkworm, and the old lady laughed and said, "It turns out that your silkworm baby came like this." ”

Jin Ling was encouraged, and her original optimistic nature was revealed, her eyebrows, eyes, and nose began to become active, her face was smiling, her mouth was ruddy, and she spoke quickly and funny.

"Once in English class, the teacher called Li Lin to answer the question. Li Lin, do you know? The student with the worst grades in our class, her mother gave him a certificate of mild mental retardation. The teacher said: Li Lin, What's you

ame？ Li Lin replied: Bo Li. Boli is the name of a bird in our text. The whole class burst into laughter. Yu Fat'er was eating biscuits secretly at the time, and when he smiled, he squirted out the biscuit crumbs in his mouth for a long time, almost splashing on the teacher's face. The teacher became angry and stomped his feet on the podium. Who knew that the podium was too old, and the wood was rotten, and when she stomped on it, she just stomped the heel of her high heel, and she couldn't pull it out. Later, it was Yu Fat'er who went up to help her pull it out. ”

The old lady held her crutches in her hands and laughed so hard that she couldn't stand up straight. Jin Ling also smiled. The old and the young laughed.

"And so. Teachers like to scold people in class, and Teacher Xing scolds people like a chicken woman, cooing and cooing; Math teacher Zhang scolded people like crows, and when the whole class was silent, he screamed coldly; The English teacher scolds people the most fun, his head is like a caterpillar, and he sticks out his head every time he scolds......"

The old lady laughed so much that tears flowed out, and while wiping her tears with a handkerchief, she asked Jin Ling: "Don't say it, don't say it anymore, laugh off my dentures." ”

Jin Ling said: "Okay, I'll tell you when I have a chance in the future." ”

The old lady was on crutches and took the golden bell to pick mulberry leaves. I picked up no more, no less than 10 pieces. She looked at Jin Ling with a smile and said, "Promise me a request, okay?" After that, once a day after school, I will teach you math for half an hour, and you can get 10 mulberry leaves. ”

Jin Ling asked, "You?" ”

The old lady said, "You look down on me? Before I retired, I was a primary school teacher, specializing in mathematics for the final year. My surname is Sun, you can call me Grandma Sun. ”

Jin Ling tilted her head and thought for a while: "Is it okay to give 20 mulberry leaves?" As the silkworm grows bigger, it eats more and more. ”

Grandma Sun couldn't hold back a smile: "Okay, 20 pieces will be 20 pieces, and you will be treated preferentially." But I also have a proviso: don't tell your teacher, don't tell your family, your father or your mother. ”

"Why? That's not a bad thing! Jin Ling asked.

"It's because grandma also has self-esteem!" Grandma Sun learned the tone of Jin Ling, "Grandma has been your tutor, if you can't teach you to be a top-notch student, grandma will be embarrassed!" So, things between us are going to be done in secret. ”

Jin Ling was very excited, but she immediately thought of a practical problem: "It's okay to hide from the teacher, but it's not easy to hide from your mother." If I don't come home on time from school every day, she will definitely ask for it. What shall I say? ”

Grandma Sun thought for a while: "Just say that the teacher will help you make up the class and tell a little lie." Actually, it's not a lie, because there is indeed an 'old teacher' who is helping you make up for your lessons. ”

Jin Ling was completely relieved, grabbed the precious 10 mulberry leaves in his hand, and jumped out of the door. When she walked to the door, she suddenly remembered another sentence, turned back to Grandma Sun and said, "One last question: Why do you want to help me?" ”

Grandma Sun replied solemnly: "Because I like you." I help people I like, and I feel happy. Is this an answer okay? ”

Jin Lingha sighed, and said in a long tone like a singing: "I-also-happy-happy-you-"