At the beginning of May, it was already a little hot. At noon, Jin Ling went to school from home, wearing only a white jumper with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs printed on it. After an autumn and a winter, the clothes were obviously a little small, and Jin Ling's belly bulged out from under the clothes, making people want to laugh when they looked at it. Huizi patted her stomach and said, "I'm so nervous about reviewing, and I don't see you lose weight, so it can be seen that you haven't worked too hard." ”

Jin Ling protested: "Judging a person by the size of his belly, this is too one-sided, right?" Maybe I've got too much knowledge in it! ”

Hui Zi said: "No matter what, girls still have to be slimmer." ”

Jin Ling thought to herself, here it is again, and the next thing is to mention weight loss or something. How did Mom become so nagging lately?

But when Jin Ling was walking on the road, he also felt that the appearance of a big belly was not very elegant. She breathed hard, sucking her stomach in as she went. Oh my god, this is so tiring! Jin Ling quickly gave up her plans to look slimmer and walked with a swagger.

At the school gate, a bunch of students from Xinhua Street Primary School were crowded, and people kept sweating profusely out of the crowd, carefully holding one thing in their hands, stumbling when they walked, as if they had forgotten how to take a step. Others shouted and beckoned more classmates to come and see. For a while, the traffic at the school gate was close to jamming.

Jin Ling caught a glimpse of Zhang Lingling and Li Xiaojuan crowded in the crowd, and hurriedly trotted up, shouting continuously: "Zhang Lingling!" Zhang Lingling! What are you looking at? ”

Zhang Lingling turned around, saw Jin Ling from the crack, and then became anxious: "Oh, why did you come!" It's a silkworm baby seller, and it's almost sold out! ”

An old man in his 50s stood up in the crowd, patted the crumbs on his body, and happily took over the conversation: "Sold out, sold out." ”

Immediately, many voices shouted at the same time: "Will you still sell it tomorrow?" ”

The old uncle said, "Maybe, maybe come, maybe not." ”

There was a chorus of lip smacking and grumbling all around. The children, big and small, began to scatter, and those who didn't buy surrounded those who bought, gossiping, all of them were very excited.

Jin Ling asked Zhang Lingling and Li Xiaojuan: "Have you bought it?" ”

Zhang Lingling held up a small plastic bag: "Oh, take a look." ”

Jin Ling leaned in enviously to take a closer look. There are a few tender mulberry leaves in the bag, and a few silkworm babies are gently wriggling between the thin leaves. The silkworm was only as long as two grains of rice, and its little head was very childish, as if it was a little surprised by the environment in which it was located.

Jin Ling shouted: "You didn't choose well!" Look, a few of them are dying! ”

"Where?" Zhang Lingling hurriedly opened the plastic bag.

Jin Ling stretched out his hand and pointed: "Look at this!" And this one! There are black spots on the body, it's moldy! ”

Li Xiaojuan and Zhang Lingling laughed backwards and forwards.

"What a mold!" Li Xiaojuan said with a smile, "That's a new breed of silkworm baby." The old uncle who sells silkworms said that white silkworms can only produce white cocoons, and black silkworms can produce colorful cocoons, some are light yellow, some are goose yellow, some are golden, and some are orange, which is very beautiful! ”

Jin Ling widened his eyes and asked, "Really?" Won't it be the old uncle who lied to you? ”

Zhang Lingling said: "He can't be fooled. Last year my cousin had a box of black silkworms, and I saw their colorful cocoons. ”

Jin Ling stopped talking. She was very annoyed, why didn't she come out of the house earlier? It's all because her mother forced her to memorize English words. But...... She thought again, it's useless to come early, she doesn't have a penny on her, isn't it for nothing to watch people buy it?

Zhang Lingling said to Li Xiaojuan: "Do you dare to let the silkworm baby crawl on your face?" ”

Li Xiaojuan shook her head timidly: "I don't dare." It's quite greasy. ”

Zhang Lingling said: "I dare." I dare to let the silkworm crawl on the tongue. ”

Jin Ling hit her with jealousy: "You brag!" ”

"Don't believe me? Don't believe you! ”

Zhang Lingling took out a soft little white silkworm from the plastic bag, spread it in the palm of his hand first, let the two girlfriends look carefully, and then opened his mouth wide, stretched out his tongue, and gently put the silkworm on the tip of his tongue.

Li Xiaojuan immediately felt disgusted, and hurriedly turned her face away, not looking. Jin Ling stretched her neck desperately, and without blinking her eyes, she watched how the little silkworm squirmed, rolled, and struggled on the tip of Zhang Lingling's tongue.

Zhang Lingling pointed to his mouth triumphantly and said slurredly, "How is it?" See? ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the expression on her face suddenly froze in horror, her eyes were wide open, her mouth was half-open, and her cheek muscles twitched slightly.

Jin Ling shouted: "Where is the silkworm? What about your tongue? ”

Zhang Lingling slowly stretched out his tongue: there was nothing on the tip of his tongue. She said in a crying voice, "I swallowed the silkworm!" ”

For a few seconds, the three girls looked at each other and couldn't say anything. Jin Ling tried to put her head close to Zhang Lingling's half-open mouth, and her eyes were eager to pop out of their sockets, sliding down the other party's throat, from the esophagus into the stomach, tracking the process of the chasing silkworm being devoured and digested alive.

Li Xiaojuan timidly asked Zhang Lingling: "...... you Is it uncomfortable? ”

Zhang Lingling reluctantly made a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said, "It's crawling around in my stomach." ”

Li Xiaojuan's face was pale, and she shrank her shoulders as if she was afraid of the cold. "It's horrible." She whispered.

Zhang Lingling shouted coldly: "I'm going to vomit!" ”

She couldn't wait to run under a tree, bent over, and threw up until she convulsed and burst into tears. Jin Ling walked up to her, patted her on the back sympathetically, and took out her own kettle from her school bag and asked her to drink some water and rinse her mouth. "Okay, you must have spit out that silkworm." Jin Ling said.

Zhang Lingling gasped and threw the plastic bag containing the baby silkworm to the ground with palpitations. "I don't want to see them again." She turned around and ran into the school gate as fast as she could.

Jin Ling stood alone under the tree, aiming at the plastic bag out of the corner of her eye. The little silkworm in the bag didn't know what was going on, and was still trying to crawl around, even with the whole pocket moving slightly. Jin Ling's heart was beating like a drum, and his hands were sweating. Pick it up? To pick it up or not to pick it up? It's something someone else threw away! Beggars will pick up things that others don't want, and classmates will definitely laugh at her when they know about it. But is that all there is to it? Let these silkworm babies lie on the side of the road and be trampled to death by pedestrians? Crushed by a wheel? Or like that poor little bird, pinched to death by naughty little kids?

Jin Ling stood in the early summer sun, her face was slightly reddened, and beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose.

She finally glanced around quickly, and seeing that no one was paying attention to her movements, she bent down sharply and grabbed the plastic bag in her hand.

Oh my God, I hope no one will see it, no one will see it!

She turned her back, unloaded the schoolbag behind her shoulder, pretended to take something from the bag, and took the opportunity to put a bag of silkworms in the schoolbag. Then she didn't dare to carry it on her back, and carefully hugged it with her two arms, like holding a thin vase that would be crushed at any moment.

On the way, the English teacher pointed to the schoolbag in Jin Ling's arms and asked, "The strap is broken again?" Can't even remember to ask your mother to sew it when you get home? ”

Jin Ling was hesitant, and he didn't know what he answered.

The first session is a math class, which deals with practical problems. Jin Ling couldn't sit still, and the little silkworm in her schoolbag seemed to be crawling around in her heart, itching. She felt two of them crawling out of her bag, and she felt one of the larger ones pressed against the other smaller one, and the smaller one was squeaked and screamed. She couldn't help but reach under the desk and touch the pocket containing the silkworm, so she dragged it out to see, and was sure that there was no problem, so she put her mind at ease and sent the pocket back to her school bag.

After a few minutes, the action was repeated again. Jin Ling knew in her heart that this was not right, and it shouldn't be like this in class. But she couldn't control herself, as if she was about to die if she didn't look at it.

Shang Hai leaned his head over and asked her in a low voice, "What are you looking at?" ”

Jin Ling pushed him away with his elbow: "Go!" ”

Shang Hai said wistfully: "It's really not interesting. ”

Teacher Zhang finished writing a question on the blackboard and turned around. The topic is like this: the weight ratio of coal stored in the two coal warehouses A and B is 8:7, if the coal reserves are transported from warehouse A, warehouse B transports 6 tons, then, warehouse B is exactly 14 tons more than warehouse A's coal, how many tons of coal are in the two warehouses A and B?

Teacher Zhang propped up both sides of the podium with his hands outstretched, and his eyes swept around the classroom. A few classmates had already raised their hands, but he didn't shout, he wanted to find those who didn't pay attention and didn't raise their hands.

Leng Buding shouted: "Golden Bell! ”

Jin Ling's body jumped instinctively, her head pulled out of the drawer in a panic, squeezed out a bright smile, and looked at the teacher flatteringly.

Teacher Zhang picked up a piece of chalk from the table and threw it fiercely at the golden bell. The moment he made a move, he realized that Jin Ling was a girl, and his wrist shook slightly. The chalk turned around and hit Shang Hai's forehead like an eye, snapped it, and bounced it and landed on Li Xiaojuan's desk. Li Xiaojuan hurriedly took the chalk and sent it back to the podium respectfully.

Shang Hai was shocked and annoyed, covering his forehead with his hand and protesting, "Why are you beating me?" ”

Teacher Zhang was about to say something, but Jin Ling suddenly shouted in his seat: "Teacher, I will!" ”

The teacher swallowed back the words that the teacher didn't say, and looked at Jin Ling with his mouth half-open, and he really couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

Jin Ling stood up to herself and said, "I really will." You can do this with a series of equations, let the number of copies per copy be x. ”

The teacher nodded helplessly: "Okay, please go to the blackboard and do it." ”

Jin Ling walked up to the podium happily and smiled happily, and used a not-so-simple equation to solve the problem. She didn't realize that Teacher Zhang had almost torn her to shreds three minutes ago.

But after class, Shang Hai didn't give up on her. Shang Hai said: "I ate that chalk head just now, and I received it on your behalf. ”

Jin Ling jumped up: "Blame me? Did I invite you? ”

"You've got to pay for the damage." Shang Hai insisted.

Jin Lingyi stretched out his hand and turned his head: "Are you hurt?" Did it bleed? Where? ”

"But there's a good chance I'm going to get a concussion. If you go a little further down and throw it into your eyes, you will be blind. ”

"But you're not blind now."

"I'm mentally hurt."

Jin Ling was so entangled by him that he had no choice, and said helplessly: "Okay, I'll compensate you." The contents of the stationery box, except for pens, you can ask for anything. ”

Shang Hai resolutely pushed away the stationery box: "I want the contents of your school bag." ”

Jin Ling suddenly threw himself on the desk and blocked the drawer with Huang Jiguang's posture of blocking the gun's eye. "No, absolutely not!" She blushed with anxiety.

Shang Hai took a step back: "Then take a look." Just take a look. ”

"You can't even look at it!" Jin Ling showed a resoluteness that he had never been before.

Fortunately, the class bell rang again, and Teacher Xing entered the classroom with the textbook. Jin Ling breathed a sigh of relief and thought to herself, what a life-saving ringtone.

As soon as school ended, she hugged her schoolbag and walked outside as fast as she could. Shang Hai shouted to her unwillingly from behind, she was so panicked that she didn't dare to turn back, her steps were as fast as a rabbit fleeing for her life.

That night, Hui Zi found the shoebox containing the silkworm baby when she was making the bed for Jin Ling. Jin Ling pressed the shoebox under his quilt, afraid that the silkworm baby would suffocate to death without seeing the day, and imitated the practice of diving while swimming, found a plastic straw for drinking soda, poked one end into the shoebox, and exposed the other end outside the quilt. Hui Zi didn't care when she made the bed, and when she pulled the quilt, the straw fell off, and the shoebox almost overturned.

"What is this?" Hui Zi opened the lid of the box inexplicably, "Oh my God! Where did the silkworms come from? ”

She immediately called Jin Ling over to ask. Jin Ling insisted that these silkworms were picked up by himself.

"Because I'm afraid they're going to die. If I don't pick them up, they'll die. They're that big! Jin Ling emphasized again and again.

Hui Zi slammed the shoebox on the table: "Amazing! I actually learned to pick up things that people don't want on the street! Know why your classmates don't? They are afraid that silkworm raising will be distracted and affect their learning! ”

Jin Ling wanted to say "no", looked at her mother's face, but didn't dare to say it.

Hui Zi pointed to the shoebox on the table and said, "Go, throw it in the trash for me." I wasn't allowed anything live to come into the house until the exam was over. ”

Jin Ling blinked desperately, blinking a bulging bag of tears. She tried to put the bag of tears into Hui Zi's sight.

Hui Zi was unmoved: "Forget it, don't do this to me, I won't be soft-hearted." ”

Jin Ling was silent.

Hui Zi said, "Do you throw it away?" Don't you listen to your mother? Are you going to be a bad boy that mom doesn't like? ”

Jin Ling lowered his head, moved to the table half step by step, picked up the shoebox, and moved out the door step by step. The reason why she walked so slowly was because she hoped that her mother would change her mind after suddenly relenting.

But my mother was silent in the room.

Jin Ling walked to the balcony, opened the shoebox, and emptied a dozen silkworm babies into the trash at once. At this time, her tears really came out, and she shrugged her shoulders and cried so sadly.

Hui Zi came out and stood at the kitchen door with her arms folded: "Thrown away?" Throw it away and do your homework. I haven't memorized English today. ”

Jin Ling said in her heart: What a ruthless mother, a cold mother, a stepmother who is more stepmother than Cinderella and Snow White's stepmother! She wiped away her tears in a rage, walked past her mother with her head held high, and stomped on the ground in protest.

Mom shouted again: "Beware of the downstairs neighbors' opinions!" ”

Jin Ling replied to her: "I don't care!" ”

She sat down at her desk and opened the English book, but the tears flowed down her face, ticking and ticking the pages of the book. Raise your hand and wipe it with your sleeve, only to wipe it and it flow out again, which is even more turbulent than when you don't wipe it, as if your eyes are a new faucet, and the water will automatically come out when you touch it. She cried and thought aggrievedly, what is the meaning of being a human being? In addition to learning or learning, there is no happiness at all, there is no freedom at all, it is better to be a silkworm baby, the silkworm baby at least has a child like her to like!

After a while, when the tears ceased, her mind began to move again, and she said to herself, "I'll just take a look!" One last look! Let's see if the silkworm baby is dead. ”

She got up and left the table and walked out of the room on tiptoe. There was no movement outside, and my mother probably went back to the living room to read the newspaper. She struck a ballet pose and jumped on her toes into the kitchen, trying not to make a sound. As soon as she entered the kitchen, she was stunned, almost unable to believe her eyes: her mother was squatting by the trash can on the balcony, holding a candle in one hand and picking up the silkworm babies from the bucket one by one and putting them back in the shoebox.

Jin Ling was puzzled and asked, "Mom?" ”

Huizi looked up and saw that it was Jin Ling, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I think about it, let's pick them up, it's a life, what do you say?" ”

Jin Ling jumped up and hugged her mother's neck: "You are so good! I like you so much! ”

Huizi patted her hand and asked her to come down: "Be careful not to flash your mother's waist, and don't want to think about how heavy you are." ”

Jin Ling said coquettishly: "Make a request: you kiss me." ”

Hui Zi said, "I should make a request to you." ”

"Okay, you can mention it." Jin Ling straightened up from Hui Zi's back.

"Promise me, don't delay your studies for silkworm raising, okay?"

Jin Ling pursed her lips and looked at her mother and nodded heavily.