Chapter 240: Born to be cheap
"Hey, Lao Li, did you pay attention to what Su Rui said?"
Lao Wang sat on the edge of Ziyang's bed, wearing a pair of beach pants, shirtless and crossed Erlang's legs, chatting with Ziyang with a shaking. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What?" Zi Yang rolled his eyelids and said weakly.
Xiao Su said that Brother Chic often goes there to drink coffee and ...... "seems to be afraid that Ziyang's ears are not good, and when Lao Wang said the word "often", he deliberately lengthened his tone.
"Of course I noticed, and I still need to say it!" Ziyang rolled over impatiently. I had insomnia last night, barely slept all night, and my mind was a mess of things.
How could he not hear the meaning of this sentence?
With such a high level of consumption in the coffee shop, ordinary white-collar workers may not be able to spend it there every day, but this chic brother often goes there - running so far is definitely not just for drinking coffee, Sima Zhao's heart can even be seen by Lao Wang, how can Ziyang not know.
As if Ziyang was not annoyed enough, Lao Wang shook his head and said to himself: "A cup of coffee costs dozens of yuan, and a biscuit costs more than a dozen oceans, this guy is really bloody in order to soak horses!" ”
How could Zi Yang not see that Brother Xiao was interested in Su Rui, but what could he do? People have a lot of money, they are fashionable and handsome, and they are poor and sour from the countryside, what do you compare with others?
After the last Loulan expedition, Ziyang and Brother Chic have nothing to do with each other, this time they met, I feel that Brother Chic is more chic than last time, and the changes are so big that it is like being reborn, whether it is personal image or dress, they are advancing with the times (of course, that was before they were beaten fat. )
In contrast, he Li Ziyang is still very poor, and his quality of life has not only not improved, but has decreased a lot. I don't dare to eat too much for three meals a day, the money in my pocket is less than 100 yuan all year round, and the whole body is full of bargains from roadside stalls.
In order to kick out these troubles in his mind, Ziyang deliberately diverted the topic and said, "What happened to you when you sent Xiaoli back to school yesterday?" Come back so late! Is it a waste of people? Why didn't I leave you overnight? ”
Lao Wang rubbed here for a long time, and finally waited for Ziyang to ask about yesterday's events, and said triumphantly: "Hey, hey, I won't tell you!" ”
After that, he got up and walked away, leaving Ziyang with a confused face.
Seeing Lao Wang sitting in the living room humming a little tune, Zi Yang shook his head, he didn't have the heart to be curious about Lao Wang's romance. Looking at the time, it's almost time, and it's time to go to a tutoring class.
This job was arranged for him by a tutoring company, and the child who needed tutoring was just in his third year of high school and was going to be admitted to college next year.
At first, Ziyang felt that he was not qualified for such a difficult job, after all, he had been in college for two years, basically he had not learned anything, he had not done anything, he had not made any progress in his studies, and he had long forgotten about the set of high school.
The first time I went to the other party's house to attend classes, I was also impressed, and after the two parents welcomed him in, they stood by and watched, obviously not at ease with him.
On the first day of class for new teachers, parents always have to inspect the goods, and the test for Ziyang is a test paper, on which several wrong questions are painted with red giant crosses, and Ziyang's teaching career also starts from these forks.
Zi Yang took the test paper hard, "Hmm, let's take a look at what is said in the title of this question first......" just like that, he explained while reading the question - hey, don't say it, it turned out to be smooth sailing, and the knowledge that had been forgotten for a long time miraculously came back.
The hard work of studying hard for a year in high school was not in vain, and it finally came in handy.
After the two-hour course, Ziyang held 40 yuan and set out on the way home with emotion.
"I didn't expect me to be so good!"
In fact, Ziyang has not always been as wimpy as he is now, he also had a strong time in high school, when he was known as the little prince of mathematics, physics and chemistry, there is no unsolvable exercise in front of him, no matter how difficult and complex the problem can be solved in his hands, watching him do the problem like a cow is enjoyable.
Looking back now, high school was the pinnacle of Ziyang's lifelong knowledge reserves, when he knew astronomy and calculated planetary orbits, went down to geography to draw ocean currents and monsoons, memorized the chemical periodic table backwards, and wrote 300 catchy Tang poems. Able to do trigonometric function problems and solve high-element multiple equations. Know the difference between either and neither, and understand the meaning of Newton's three laws of motion......
Ziyang's knowledge in high school has reached the entrance level of the first university, but later he did not want to make progress, and his self-control was too weak, so the next two years were deteriorating and gradually degrading.
At that time, he was studying in a key high school, and the school's teaching methods were famous for "perverts" in the city, and when he was a freshman in high school, the teacher had already completed all the three years of high school courses, and the next two years, one year was used for review, and one year was used for exams.
The essence of this cramming education is "practice makes perfect" - that is, to enrich your problem-solving skills with the tactics of a sea of questions, when the books and papers on each student's desk are piled up several feet high, and the darker and worse the books, the deeper the student's hard work.
After a year of question sea tactics, the remaining year is the exam war, mock exams, small exams, big exams, joint entrance examinations...... The college entrance examination papers of the past ten years are just appetizers, and there are all real questions and mock papers issued by various provinces, cities and regions...... The more distorted and perverted the question, the more popular it is with teachers...... At that time, there was basically a small test in three days, a big test in seven days, a class test, and a grade test...... There is also a city-wide unified examination at the mid-term and end-of-term.
The intensity of learning in this environment is so exaggerated that it can literally destroy a person's will. Get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, turn off the lights at 9 o'clock in the evening, self-study in the morning and self-study in the evening, and add regular classes, thirteen classes a day, in addition to eating and, sleeping for exams......
Their homeroom teacher said at that time that entering this high school, one foot has already stepped into the university, and maintaining this learning intensity in the university is like having fun......
It's just that Zi Yang soon realized the fuck up of this matter - the national enrollment is a quota system, and the enrollment quota of a province is fixed, and the effort you make is not to improve your own knowledge - just to squeeze others down.
In other words, your table mates may be a stumbling block to your future studies.
How ruthless, these pupils have already experienced the cruelty of competition.
In the context of such an era, Ziyang only studied seriously for one year, and the next two years were basically fooling around, but because the foundation was firmly laid, his skills have not completely degraded.
After the first successful demonstration, Ziyang gained the trust of his parents, and every time he went, he quietly withdrew from the child's small bookstore, no longer staying by the side to listen.
“…… XXX station has arrived, passengers arriving at the station please get off. ”
The sound of the bus stop sounded, and Ziyang, who was still napping, opened his eyes suddenly, this student lived quite remotely, and every time he came to tutor, he had to take the bus for 1 or 2 hours.
It stands to reason that today should be the last class of this semester, and I don't know if I will give a "bonus" or something.
Zi Yang thinks that this semester is teaching conscientiously, and he has to do his best to the rhythm, with his intelligence and excellent eloquence, even if it is a piece of wood, he can say that it has blossomed, how can he be in the top ten of the grade, right?
The bald middle-aged uncle opened the door for him with a smile: "Xiao Li is here?" Come in and come in, there are a few questions that the child will not ......."
Zi Yang changed into slippers and asked politely, "Are the exam results out?" What about the score? ”
"Very good, a lot of improvement from last semester!" Parents gave high praise to Ziyang's teaching.
The student was shy and showed him the report card in his hand. Zi Yang glanced at it and frowned inadvertently, this score is still far from his expectations.
Although this student is quite obedient, he looks wooden, thin and weak, and looks stunted.
Ziyang wanted to come to the test paper to take a look, and several wrong questions were marked with red crosses, which was very eye-catching, "Isn't this the few questions I just taught last time?" ”
The boy scratched his head and did not speak.
Zi Yang patiently explained to him: "You see, this kind of question actually has a routine, let's draw inferences from one case and understand it thoroughly...... You should pay attention to the fact that I am not teaching you the solution of a problem, but the idea of understanding this type of problem......
Let's read the problem first - remember that every piece of information, every number given in the problem is useful and will definitely be used in the process of solving the problem, and what we do is take this information and then tie it together with the formula we have learned...... If any knowledge point is not solid, we will go back and think about it again, so that the same mistake will not be made again in the future......"
After talking dryly for two hours, the child nodded frequently and continued to bury his head in solving the problem, Ziyang looked at his hard work, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, this child is not born to learn material, such a sincere teaching, even a cow will do the problem. If I had such seriousness back then, Tsinghua University and Peking University would not have been a problem......
Unlike many classmates who are tutors, Ziyang is trying his best to teach others well, and sometimes he can't wait to be like the ancient master teaching, grabbing his heavenly spirit cover and pouring all his skills into his brain. It's a pity that I met the elm head, and I couldn't do anything.
Looking at the watch, when it was time, Zi Yang breathed a long sigh of relief, no matter what, he had done his benevolence and righteousness, and then it was up to him to see his own creation.
Go to the living room and greet the parents (ask for money), "Uncle, it's time, I'll go back." ”
The parents, who were watching TV in the living room, hurriedly got up and handed it to Ziyang with forty yuan in their hands.
"It's over, huh? Teacher, we see that you are teaching very well, and the child's grades are improving very quickly, I want to continue to invite you next semester, we don't need to go through an intermediary, how about just coming to class? He will deduct my money again......"
Pinching the forty yuan in his hand, Zi Yang was a little disappointed, "Okay, I'll go back and think about it." Looking at the pile of bananas and apples on the coffee table, Ziyang licked her dry lips, and her heart became more and more uncomfortable.
Every time he came to class, the middle-aged man was very enthusiastic, but he never invited him to eat some fruit or anything, and many times he didn't even bother to pour him a glass of water.
Zi Yang felt a great humiliation, Lao Tzu is so dedicated, you don't even say a polite word. There's no respect for that, and you want me to come back? It takes me 2 hours to go back and forth for a class, so I'll pay for you?
I secretly made up my mind that I wouldn't do this job after I went back, earning money from selling cabbage, and with the heart of selling white powder, people were not grateful at all, so why bother.
After standing on the bus for more than an hour, I felt tired when I returned home, and I saw Lao Wang sitting on the sofa puffing out, and the appearance of dancing eyebrows in the morning was like two people.
"What's wrong? Put on this stinky face, it's the same as who owes you 40 yuan! ”
"I got into a fight, and the gym fired me!" Lao Wang said in a sullen voice.
"What's the trouble again?"
"Mess with me, they deliberately find fault with me! When I was working as a sparring partner today, a coach didn't know what I ate, and his mouth was very smelly, so he deliberately asked me for something, saying that my posture was not standard, and that I couldn't block well...... I scolded him twice, and he actually scolded me for being a bad writer, saying that I was here to eat! also said that Lao Tzu is not worthy of being a sparring partner! ”
The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and he walked around the room with his fists clenched, like an angry bull.
"Damn, isn't this smashing your job in front of you? Can you bear this kind of thing? Zi Yang sat on the sofa and poured a large glass of cold water with a grunt.
"Of course I couldn't bear it, I said at the time that I didn't accept the heads-up, don't beep if you can do it. That guy relied on his big size, didn't take Lao Tzu seriously at all, and said that he was going to break my leg - as a result, Lao Tzu was beaten all over the ground with three punches and two kicks, and if it wasn't for a few other people next to him to stop him, I would have beaten him and begged for mercy! ”
"Isn't that enough, why did you get expelled?"
"Alas, that's what makes me the most angry! After B was beaten by me, he actually went to the curator to complain, saying that I was using a trick, and that I was talking badly about the curator behind my back...... Isn't this the fucking the wicked suing first? Lao Tzu hasn't even seen the curator a few times, but he often says that the curator's level is too good or something...... The curator listened to his words and told me on the spot, you have been expelled, don't come to be a sparring partner in the future! ”
"Your curator is also a fool, just listen to him talking nonsense alone?" Ziyang also became more and more angry the more he listened.
Lao Wang sighed again: "Is there any way?" He is an honorary coach hired by the boxing gym, and he has won awards in official competitions in provinces and cities, and the boxing gym relies on him to attract students. If people know that they were beaten like this by a sparring partner who I have no background, who would go out of their way to ask him to teach boxing. ”
"The coach who was beaten by me also threatened me that he was not allowed to mention this matter outside in the future, otherwise I would not be able to eat and walk around!"
"What a pocket! ! Have you paid for this month? Zi Yang was also indignant, but he was more concerned about Lao Wang's remuneration, and Lao Wang's sparring partner was a monthly end. The family also pointed to his money to open the pot.
"Didn't give it! He said that he was teaching me a lesson, and that if I was not convinced, I should not want to find something to do in other gyms in the city in the future. ”
"Grass! It's so deceitful! Blackie, stop playing games, get up! Ziyang stood up angrily.
"Why are you going?" Seeing Zi Yang's big reaction, it seemed that he was angrier than him, and Lao Wang was stunned for a moment.
"Go to that guy and settle scores! Don't do anything, damn it! Lao Tzu wants to do the right thing for heaven! "Ziyang was already holding back the fire today.
As soon as Lao Wang heard that there was going to be a fight, he immediately became excited, rubbed his fists and said with shining eyes, "Bring a snakeskin bag!" ”
"If you have a snakeskin bag with hair, you have to him in person!"