The silkworm babies all have cocoons, one is pale yellow, one is golden, one is orange, and the rest are snow-white. Some are standard ellipses; Some of the two drums are thin in the middle, like a peanut; Some are like eggs, one small and the other larger. Take one and shake it in your hand, the cocoon shell is hard, and something in it "grows" and sounds. Hui Zi told Jin Ling that the thing that makes a sound is a silkworm chrysalis, which can be eaten with fried oil and has high nutritional value, and there is this dish in restaurants outside.

Jin Ling couldn't bear to say, "But they're still alive!" It's cruel! ”

Jin Ling used a plastic bag to hold the silkworm cocoon and put it in the school bag. Hui Zi asked her what she was doing, and she said she was going to show it to someone.

"Don't touch it in class, beware of the teacher confiscating you."

Jin Ling said with a big grin: "Don't I even have this self-control ability? ”

Hui Zi thought funny: It's strange to have it.

At work, Huizi received a call from Xinlan. Xinlan told her that the foreign Chinese language school will expand a fee-paying class this year, charging 40,000 yuan per student, and many parents have already registered.

Hui Zi was surprised and asked, "Why do you want to collect 40,000?" Wasn't it only 25,000 last year? ”

Xinlan smiled: "Can last year's yellow calendar be turned over this year?" Prices are also rising every year! ”

Xinlan became a member of the foreign Chinese language school.

Huizi thought, 25,000 can still struggle to make it up, 40,000 is too terrible, after paying the tuition, does the family still want to live? Besides, what about Jin Ling going to high school in the future? What about going to college? has to pay like this, and it is not enough to strip her and Jin Yiming of their skins and boil oil.

Huizi said: "Forget it, it is better for her to be admitted, but if she can't pass the exam, she is not blessed, who let her be born in an ordinary family like us?" ”

Xinlan shouted: "Hey, didn't you swear a few days ago......"

"That was the other day. Now my ambitions have vanished and everything is realistic. ”

Mrs. Yu heard the call from Huizi and said approvingly: "I see that you are in a good state of mind this time." Why do you want to push yourself into a corner? Ordinary middle school is not for people? ”

Hui Zi sighed and said, "People go to high places, and water flows to low places!" There was inevitably a look of loss on his face.

After getting off work in the evening, Huizi didn't go home directly, but turned into the vegetable market to buy vegetables. When he was looking down to bargain with a fishmonger, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a chubby jumping figure out of the corner of his eye. Hui Zi quickly raised her head and shouted: "Golden Bell!" ”

Jin Ling didn't expect to meet her mother here, and she was stunned for a moment. She carried a heavy schoolbag on her shoulders, and it was the bag of silkworm cocoons in her hand, and the smile full of joy froze very awkwardly on her face.

Huizi said: "I don't go home after school to do my homework, I'm here to run!" ”

Jin Ling opened her mouth, and was about to say something, but Hui Zi said sharply: "Don't tell my teacher to leave you to make up the class!" Could it be that your teacher's family has moved to the vegetable market? ”

Jin Ling grinned and tried to make a flattering smile: "I didn't say that the teacher's family lives here!" You see, it's classmates...... We have an extracurricular group......" As if she suddenly noticed something, her eyes widened, and she reached out and pointed forward: "Mommy, look! Arrived a truckload of tomatoes! ”

Hui Zi subconsciously looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, there was a truckload of tomatoes unloading, and there was already a commotion around it surrounded by people who wanted to buy it. This is the fresh vegetables that are transported by the public vegetable market to make adjustments, and the price is much fairer than that of the hawkers.

Hui Zi followed the crowd for a few steps before she remembered the golden bell. When I looked back for her, there was still a shadow! It turns out that the little thing uses the "golden cicada shelling" meter. Hui Zi was amused and angry for a while.

Huizi bought vegetables and went home, picked and washed, and was almost busy before Jin Ling came back. Before Jin Ling came back, she was preparing for her mother to be angry, so she wrote a few big words on a piece of paper in advance: "Words count!" Before anyone entered the door, they first carried the piece of paper with a small stick and sent it in, almost stabbing Hui Zi in the face.

Hui Zi said angrily: "Aren't you afraid that I will ask you where you are going after school?" I don't ask. ”

Jin Ling put away the paper and stick, shrunk her head and entered the door, she didn't dare to shout that she was hungry, and she didn't dare to go into the kitchen to ask Huizi what she was eating today, so she slipped into her room and opened her schoolbag to do her homework quietly.

Seeing Jin Ling like this, Hui Zi felt that her daughter was still quite acquainted, and she couldn't say a few words if she wanted to, so she was cooking and cooking in the kitchen alone.

During the meal, the two of them were also silent, each with their own thoughts. Jin Ling prayed that her mother would never force her to tell her secrets, and that she would not break her promise to her grandmother. Hui Zi is thinking that she must find a way to find out, where did Jin Ling go after school? Delaying study is still a trivial matter, in case you are deceived by bad people, isn't it to make motherhood regret for life? After all, she is a 12-year-old girl, and she is round and beautiful, and everyone loves her.

Only Jin Yiming didn't notice the dullness at the dinner table, he was very emotional today, because the public security bureau came to arrest a graduate student in their department, because the graduate student stole a computer in a store, and after being discovered, he actually killed a witness in a frenzy.

"Lesson, lesson!" Jin Yiming looked at Jin Ling with his eyes, "This graduate student has always been excellent, and when he was admitted to our department, the total score was the first!" Look, it's such a thing. I heard that his mother fainted when she received the news. Who can withstand such a blow? It is not easy to cultivate a person, and as soon as his mind is evil, he will destroy himself and his family! It can be seen that the first thing is not the first important thing to do well in school, but to know how to be a person. ”

Hui Zi's face was white. Jin Yiming's words added to her worries, so that she couldn't help but tear up the previous contract and make up her mind to find out Jin Ling's "secret". She secretly looked at Jin Ling with her eyes, and Jin Ling also secretly looked at her, and as soon as the two of them made eye contact, they quickly separated, pretending that nothing was wrong.

The next day, Hui Zi rushed home from work before 5 o'clock, didn't buy any food, and rode directly to the gate of Xinhua Street Primary School, hidden under the shade of a tree, and stood with some old men and old ladies waiting to pick up their grandchildren.

A kind old lady stood bored and took the initiative to talk to her: "Is the child in the first grade or the second grade?" Is there no elderly person at home to help take care of it? ”

Hui Zi muttered vaguely. The old lady muttered to herself, saying things like the children were too late for school and had too much homework.

A group of children came out of the school gate, all of them junior students, lined up in a regular manner, and after crossing the street, they raised their hands to say goodbye to the escorting teacher. The old lady received her grandson, and immediately took the schoolbag for the little grandson, and handed a ham sausage to the child, and the grandfather and grandson walked back hand in hand.

Half an hour later came the middle grade children. This group is not as well-behaved as the children just now, as if they have springs under their feet, they walk all over, their heads keep turning back and forth to exchange interesting news, and then they kick the stones on the road as balls. The teachers on the side were tired enough from class all day, so they didn't bother to care anymore at this time, just watch them not rush onto the road.

After 6 o'clock, the sixth-grade students began to walk out of the school gate one after another. They did not form a team, but followed the situation of completing their homework in self-study classes, and those who completed the fast went first, and those who completed the slow went later. The school gate is like a big mouth carved out of reinforced concrete, spit out two at a while, two at a while, and refuse to vomit once happily.

Hui Zi hid herself behind a plane tree, so that Jin Ling could not see her as soon as she left the school gate. She saw Jin Ling's squad leader Hu Mei coming out first, then Liu Yaru, and then Ni Zhiwei, the boy who was always raised by Jin Ling's anger. Then the gate spit out the little fat golden bell, she was walking hand in hand with her good friend Yang Xiaoli. Hui Zi** thought: It's not bad, it seems that her homework is not slow.

Two girls broke up outside the school gate, one to the left and the other to the right. Jin Ling walked fast when she was alone, as if she was going to a very important date and time was running out. The purple cart followed, diagonally across the road from the golden bell.

Jin Ling entered from the alley next to the vegetable market, and only quickly patronized a small stall selling Japanese cartoon books along the road, then turned into another alley familiarly, walked about 20 meters away, stopped outside a very old iron gate, and reached out to ring the doorbell. Hui Zi stood at the entrance of the alley, borrowing a newsstand with a canopy as a cover, her eyes wide and she didn't dare to be negligent.

In a moment, the iron door opened, and the person who opened the door didn't know what to say to Jin Ling, who smiled and raised his bulging face. She almost jumped into the door.

Hui Zi was very anxious, and from the angle from which she was standing, she could only see the golden bell outside the door, and she couldn't see whether the person who opened the door was male or female, old or young. Hui Zi was determined to find out the situation, so she didn't care if Jin Ling would find out in a hurry, so she leaned on the newsstand with the bicycle she was holding and said, "Please take a look." "Lift your legs and run down the alley. The people who were buying newspapers around the newsstand saw Huizi, a woman in her 40s, who was suddenly anxious as if she was fighting a fire, and they all raised their heads to watch her run. Someone also asked with concern: "Has her wallet been picked?" The more kind-hearted people didn't care to ask more, and ran after her, with a posture of being righteous and brave to help her recover her wallet. Hui Zi had to stop, turned back to the person behind her, and said, "It's okay, I'm running to train my body." Only then did the person who ran with her stop, and put on a face of anger that he had been deceived.

After this delay, when Huizi rushed to the outside of the iron gate, Jin Ling and the person who opened the door had already intimately supported them up the steps at the door of the small building. Hui Zi was surprised to find that it was the back of a gray-haired old lady, who was holding a crutch because of his weak legs.

This back is so familiar! Hui Zi thought hard in her heart. Who's this? How could Jin Ling know her and come here after school every day to spend some time? As a result of killing time, Jin Ling's homework was not delayed, but also improved day by day! Strange and strange......

Hui Zi walked back to pick up her bike. The stall owner stretched out his hand and said, "2 cents." ”

Hui Zi was inexplicable: "What 2 cents?" ”

"I'll help you look at the bike, don't you have to pay 2 cents?" The stall owner was full of words.

Hui Zi had something in her heart, so she didn't bother to say anything, took out two coins and threw them at the stall, pushed the cart and left. Halfway through the road, she remembered: Oh my God! Isn't this old lady Sun Shuyun, a famous special teacher earlier? Last year, the "March 8" Women's Day Magazine held a big party for people from the women's circles, and Sun Shuyun was also taken to the venue by Mrs. Yu in a small car to sit at the venue. I heard that Mr. Sun inherited someone's inheritance. Oh my God! I can't remember it for a while!

Hui Zi was so excited by her discovery that she forgot to ride her bicycle and pushed it all the way home. At the entrance of the building, she met Jin Yiming, who entered the door before her, and she panicked and stammered to him: "It's amazing, it's terrible......"

Jin Yiming also panicked, and asked her repeatedly: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

Huizi stood downstairs and told Jin Yiming what she had found. Jin Yiming breathed a sigh of relief: "Is it okay for you to calm down in the future?" Thankfully, I don't have a heart condition. ”

Hui Zi said in surprise, "You let me calm down? This is what happened to Jin Ling! ”

"In short, as long as Jin Ling is not kidnapped, you don't have to be so excited."

Huizi didn't care about Jin Yiming's attitude, and while following him upstairs, she panted and told him that Sun Shuyun was not an ordinary special teacher, she was famous all over the country, and she knew Teacher Sun's name when she was in elementary school. She doesn't know what kind of math teaching method Ms. Sun has created, and she can't figure out what it is, but in short, it's amazing.

"Think about it, it turned out to be her who gave Jin Ling a make-up lesson every day! My God, Jin Yiming, think about it! ”

Jin Yiming stood at the door of the room, took out the key to open the door, and said, "This thing is a little strange. Maybe Teacher Sun's children are classmates with Jin Ling? Are you a good friend? Teacher Sun did Jin Ling a favor by the way? ”

Hui Zi said, "I have to ask. ”

Jin Yiming hurriedly said, "Don't ask." Since Jin Ling treats the matter as a secret and keeps a tight line with us, it is better for you to follow the wishes of the child. ”

Where can Hui Zi endure it? As soon as Jin Ling came home, she smiled and circled around Jin Ling, asking her daughter if she was thirsty, whether she was hungry, and whether she was tired from studying. Jin Ling was frightened by her question, and ran to the room and said to Jin Yiming, "Did Mom take any wrong medicine today?" ”

Jin Yiming scolded her: "Don't talk nonsense! Mom is fine, why take medicine? ”

Jin Ling said seriously: "I heard people say that taking the wrong medicine will cause hallucinations and strange behavior. ”

Jin Yiming burst out laughing, making Jin Ling feel that his father was also a little nervous.

In the evening, when Jin Ling was doing her homework, Huizi found an excuse to sit next to her and asked her softly, "Do you think your mind is very organized these days?" ”

Jin Ling said, "Yes." ”

"Calculations are not prone to error?"

Jin Ling nodded.

"Every time you do a problem, there's a voice reminding you what to do?"

Jin Ling became vigilant and looked at her mother with a frown: "What do you mean?" ”

Hui Zi smiled: "It's nothing. I mean...... You have to cherish ...... It's not easy...... It's true. ”

"Mom!" Jin Ling screamed very seriously.

Huizi knew that it would be difficult to ensure that the words "Teacher Sun" would not be leaked if she continued to speak, so she hurriedly escaped from Jin Ling's room.

Huizi, who has always been serious, couldn't sleep well for a few nights, and when she thought of Teacher Sun's help to Jin Ling, she was excited, and she felt that she owed something to others. The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, not to mention that this is the most authoritative guidance on the eve of the Golden Bell exam? Jin Ling's grades have improved immediately, how can Hui Zi not be grateful?

Huizi discussed with Jin Yiming that she would visit Teacher Sun once and express her gratitude in person. Jin Yiming thinks that this is not appropriate, and it is likely that the old man is unwilling to admit this matter to the outside. Hui Zi retorted to him: "How can this be done? Now that I know, pretending not to know is my faux pas, and I can't do such a ruthless and unrighteous thing. ”

As a result, Huizi still insisted on going.

You can't go empty-handed, it's etiquette. What kind of gift to give so as not to be abrupt or tacky, Hui Zi took a lot of thought. At first, I wanted to buy some supplements, but I thought it was too general; changed to a set of purple sand tea sets, but I still don't think it's appropriate; In the end, it was changed to a set of "The Complete Works of Jin Yong" with a larger font. The elderly have nothing to do, and it should be appropriate to look at Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

Hui Zi rang the doorbell of the iron gate at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which naturally meant to deliberately avoid the golden bell. The old man came and opened the door with a crutch, and took Huizi as a doctor who followed up the elderly in the street hospital, and repeatedly stated that she was in good health and did not need to be examined. Hui Zi couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm not a doctor, I'm Jinling's mother." ”

The old man's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Hui Zi unhappily: "She told you about the make-up class?" ”

Hui Zi hurriedly confessed that she had followed Jin Ling.

The old man was silent for a while, and then said, "We have an agreement that if this matter is known to others, the make-up class will be stopped immediately. So, you'd better tell Jinling not to come back. ”

Hui Zi was shocked, and a cold sweat came out in a hurry, and she asked the old man why this was. The old man said that there was no reason, she was just taboo for adults to insert into her and her children's world.

"Then I'll leave immediately, just when I don't know anything."

"But you already know." The old man said stubbornly, "The way I play with Jin Ling has been broken by you, and it won't be interesting to continue doing it." ”

"Jinling's math scores have just improved......"

The old man waved his hand: "You are wrong, it's not my credit, I didn't help her with anything." I just gave her confidence in herself and made her understand that she could do a good job. She did her homework, I sat by and watched, and that's it. ”

"She trusts you......"

"She can trust you, too, can't she?" The old man smiled faintly, "She's a very cute child, and she wants to be good." It's a pity that our game is going to be discontinued. ”

"Can't ...... anymore"

"No, I can't. I never take back what I've said. ”

Hui Zi looked at the old lady's stubborn face, and felt so remorseful that she almost ate herself.

brought "The Complete Works of Jin Yong", of course the old man refused to accept it, but only agreed to take a look, and let Jin Ling take it after reading it. "I'm not worth the money for this set of books." She said this to Hui Zi.

When Jin Ling went back that evening, he was turned away. Grandma Sun only agreed that she would go once a Sunday in the future to help weed and transplant seedlings in the garden. Jin Ling went home so angry that he announced a hunger strike, but unfortunately it only lasted for 2 hours. In the face of her mother's sincere apology, the soft-hearted Jin Ling must forgive her no matter what.

The good thing is that math scores have been steadily rising, and they are in the top 10 of their class. Maybe Sunday visits have always been Jinling's motivation to learn, and she doesn't want to disappoint her grandma, who likes her, right?