On Sunday afternoon, Zhao Lele returned to school with her schoolbag and the rice and a large bottle of pickles that she would hand over to the cafeteria the next week, and she was willing to spend money on a cheap dish such as shredded potatoes and Chinese cabbage in the cafeteria after eating the pickles.

The boarding conditions of the school are not good, not the usual eight-person dormitory, but a large dormitory converted from an old classroom, with multiple beds on bunk shelves in one room, which can sleep dozens of people up and down.

Zhao Lele handed over the food to the canteen before returning to the dormitory, there were many people in the dormitory, she didn't dare to put things in the dormitory, unless she could stay in the dormitory all the time. When she first started in the dormitory, she was stupid and didn't know the situation, and the pickles she brought from home were secretly eaten on the table. She asked around, but no one admitted that although it was a worthless pickle that every household had, for her, less meant buying more food in the cafeteria, and it was also a loss for her who did not have much money at hand.

Since then, she hasn't kept anything outside, even her clothes locked in boxes.

"Zhao Lele, why are you here?" Yao Guihua, who was on the top bunk of Zhao Lele, lowered his head and asked. In a dormitory with dozens of people, in addition to the girls in the same class, there are female classmates in other classes, Yao Guihua and Zhao Lele are not in the same class, but the relationship between the two is not bad.

"I'm far away." Zhao Lele replied casually, but Yao Guihua didn't really want to know the reason, she just said hello and waited for Zhao Lele to go to the cafeteria together.

"Hurry up, there are no good dishes in the cafeteria later." Yao Guihua's family conditions are a little better, unlike Zhao Lele, who only eats pickles.

Zhao Lele and Yao Guihua went to the cafeteria together, and the two of them lined up to find a window seat to sit down after beating rice, and Yao Guihua also had a celery fragrant dried pork shredded when he bowled.

"The food in the cafeteria is getting worse and worse, and there is less and less shredded meat." Yao Guihua complained while eating, saying that he couldn't find a few shredded meat, and he was in the name of a meat dish.

Zhao Lele ate pickles and chose to close her mouth and eat quietly, she felt that Yao Guihua was in the midst of happiness and did not know the blessings.

Yao Guihua is used to Zhao Lele's silent character, she doesn't need to answer, she just wants to find someone to listen to her complain.

Although Zhao Lele envies Yao Guihua's good food, most of the classmates in the school bring pickles from home to eat like her, and she has no dissatisfaction or inferiority, everyone is the same person, no one laughs at anyone, Yao Guihua is a minority after all.

"Zhao Lele, look, is that your brother?" Yao Guihua pointed to a boy at the food window and asked.

Zhao Lele squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully for three seconds: "That's my cousin." ”

"My cousin is also my brother, what class is he in? You see that he bought braised pork, he is really willing, and he doesn't know how to share a little of you. Yao Guihua's family conditions are good, but there is not much money in her hands, and she is reluctant to buy hard dishes such as braised pork. This dish can be eaten at home after the holidays, and it is not cost-effective to buy this expensive dish at school, she would rather use the money to buy snacks.

"They all say that he is just a cousin, why should he divide me when he eats meat, and he is not his own brother." Zhao Lele didn't want to pay attention to Zhao Xiaoming's every move.

"Hey, when school started, your dad sent you to school and gave you two dollars for pocket money, and two dollars for your cousin. When he took the money, he said that he would take care of you as his own sister, and he didn't remember you when he ate meat. Yao Guihua was upset for his friend.

"There are so many people in the cafeteria, it's normal that he didn't see me, I'm done eating, can you leave?" Of course, Zhao Lele knew the reason, but she had no intention of telling outsiders the truth about the discord between the two, let alone meeting Zhao Xiaoming face-to-face at school.

Yao Guihua saw Zhao Lele get up, and she also stood up after eating about the same, and the two left the cafeteria together. On the road from the cafeteria to the dormitory, Yao Guihua was still indignant, and it seemed that she was wronged.

"Okay, I'm going to the classroom for self-study, do you want to go?" Zhao Lele interrupted Yao Guihua's chatter.

"No, my grades are not as good as yours, and it's useless to study, I just want to get my graduation certificate smoothly." Yao Guihua's grades are not good or bad, her family has already arranged the future for her, and her mind has long been on studying.

Zhao Lele met Zhao Xiaoming on the way to the classroom, the brother and sister collided head-on, the two looked at each other and turned their heads and walked away, neither of them wanted to talk to each other in school, let alone let their classmates know that the two were not in harmony, so they only pretended not to know each other and did not see it.

Zhao Lele walked into the classroom with a book, and everyone was quietly reading the book and doing the questions. She put down the book and looked at the inspirational slogan on the wall - knowledge changes fate, and also took out the paper and began to brush the questions frantically.

Zhao Lele was conducting a nervous review, and in the last period of time, even the scumbags became serious under the teacher's knock, and she didn't dare to relax. Every day, I was reluctant to give up after learning until the lights out time, and I had to secretly go to the toilet to endorse it. I am also the first to wake up in the morning, just to take advantage of the little time before the morning exercise.

The head teacher was happy in her eyes, and she also gave examples of praise in class, calling on all the students in the class to learn from her. The teacher's words made Zhao Lele's popularity in the class worse, and in the last month or so, the fate of most of the classmates was to go home and continue farming, just pretend to be serious and show the teacher, why be stupid and really desperate.

The head teacher didn't want the scum in the class to affect the learning of good students, so he formed a study group of several promising students with good grades and opened a small stove for them individually.

Zhao Lele felt that it was unfair for the teacher to do this to other students, but she knew the benefits of doing it to her. She lent the test papers sent by the teacher to the students in the class who were interested in learning, and asked them to copy a copy, and how much they can learn depends on their ability.

After she got the test papers, she also asked Yao Guilan, but the other party directly refused: "I don't want it, there are too many test papers issued by the teachers in our class to finish them, I just want to make a few fewer copies, my hands hurt to write every day, and the teacher said that it was not enough." ”

"The teacher is also good for us." Zhao Lele also doesn't like mountains of test papers, but she can't say that the teacher is not good with her conscience.

"I know, but I can't go to school again, and no matter how many test papers I do, it's useless." There was a trace of sadness in Yao Guilan's words that she didn't even notice, she didn't like the arrangements made by her family for her, but her family's advice was reasonable, and she agreed to learn a craft after graduation.

Zhao Lele wanted to comfort her, but she thought that her family's situation was not as good as Yao Guilan's family, and she didn't know where her future was, and she didn't have the heart to persuade her.

"Okay, you don't care about me, you still study hard, if you can go to college, I can brag to others in the future, my good friend is a college student." Yao Guilan saw that Zhao Lele was depressed, but turned her head to comfort her.

"My parents let me take the secondary school exam." Zhao Lele confided in his good friend.

"What? Didn't your homeroom teacher always persuade you to go to high school and take the university entrance examination, and you didn't tell your parents when you went home? Yao Guilan asked in surprise.

"I said, my family's conditions are not good, so I ......" Zhao Lele's words did not continue, everything was silent.