"Mom, I'm admitted to junior high school~" Fang Mumu happily ran in from outside the gate.

Today is the day when the results of the small test are released, when the sky is slightly bright, Fang Mumu got up from the bed, and after some time waiting, she finally waited for Yuan Chengle to come to find her. When she and Yuan Chengle walked to the school gate, they found that it was not only the two of them who were anxious to see the results, and there were already a circle of people in front of the notice board not far from the school gate, not only students, but also many parents.

What caused the commotion of the waiting crowd was that it was almost noon, and the three teachers who came from the direction of the office, led by the director of the academic affairs office, walked here with his hands behind his back and his head held high, and did not take anything. The two teachers behind him were not as relaxed as he was, one carrying a small wooden bucket with traces of paste on the edge of the barrel, and the other holding a cylindrical red paper in his arms, which everyone in the room knew was the results of the small exam they were waiting for.

When the three teachers were about to walk to the notice board, the head of the academic affairs department waved his hand to the crowd of onlookers who looked at the three of them and said, "Come on, come on, parents, students, everyone give way, it's time to release the list." ”

The dean of academic affairs said lightly, but Fang Mumu felt that her whole body was tense because of nervousness, and her cold palms couldn't stop breaking out in a cold sweat, she believed that most of the students and parents present were as nervous as her.

At this moment, Yuan Chengle seemed to notice Fang Mumu's abnormality, stretched out his hand to hold her cold hand, and calmed her nervousness with his eyes.

The onlookers and parents consciously divided into two groups as the dean's voice fell, making way for them.

The director of teaching walked through the way out of the way, walked to the notice board, and then supervised the other two teachers to post the red list with the results of the small test on the notice board. The three people who finished posting saw the onlookers and parents rush up again, blocking the way for the three of them, and the director of academic affairs coughed twice, "Parents and students, please let us out first." ”

Fang Mumu looked through the gap in the crowd as the dean of academic affairs said polite words, without the slightest attitude of 'please', he looked like a powerful housekeeper in ancient times.

The onlookers and parents were separated again by the words of the dean of students, making way for a way, and when the dean of teaching and the two teachers walked out through the crowd in front of the bulletin board, the students and parents who had been separated swarmed towards the notice board.

The dean of academic affairs looked at the crowd behind him and patted his chest, probably glad that he was walking fast. Subsequently, he fled the scene with the two teachers behind him, although the release of the list is a happy day, but the atmosphere of competing to see the results is not the first half of the pleasing one.

Fang Mumu, who was at the outskirts of the crowd, didn't have time to admire the three teachers slipping away, she stood on tiptoe, trying to find her name through the cracks in the black crowd. After trying to tiptoe to no avail, Fang Mumu began to jump high on the spot.

"You got the first place in the exam." Yuan Chengle, who had a height advantage, just casually glanced at the gap in the crowd in front of him, and saw his and Fang Mumu's names.

Fang Mumu didn't stop jumping high on the spot, but turned his face while jumping, and looked at Yuan Chengle in disbelief, "Really? ”

"Really! Lying to you doesn't do me any good, let alone fun. Yuan Chengle looked up and down Fang Mumu who was still dancing with a serious face.

Yuan Chengle's serious appearance made Fang Mumu believe in his words very much, so she danced more happily in place, originally she was still looking for her name in various directions on the bulletin board, after listening to Yuan Chengle's words, her eyes locked on the direction, staring at the upper left corner of the bulletin board.

Finally, after a few jumps, Fang Mumu saw her name, and she also found that her name was followed by Yuan Chengle's name. So, she refused to give up and stopped jumping in place.

"Did you deliberately take second place?" Fang Mumu, who had exhausted some physical strength because of jumping, gasped, raised his head and stared at Yuan Chengle's eyes carefully, for fear that he would have a slight struggle to get by.

Yuan Chengle shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "How is it possible?" "Then it's clear: If I can take the first exam, how can I be second.

Fang Mumu looked Yuan Chengle up and down suspiciously, but did not say a word.

The onlookers gradually dispersed after a long period of time after the release of the red list. Yuan Chengle and Fang Mumu, who had been waiting on the periphery of the crowd and had not left, walked towards the bulletin board at this time.

"You're only one point more than me." Yuan Chengle looked at the results and said with a hurt expression.

Fang Mumu turned her head to look at Yuan Chengle, and when she saw a hint of joke in Yuan Chengle's injured expression, she raised her chin and said arrogantly, "However, your math is a perfect score." After speaking, Fang Mumu snorted lightly, and didn't give Yuan Chengle a chance to speak, and turned around and left the notice board directly.

After Yuan Chengle touched his nose, he followed Fang Mumu's footsteps, walked to Fang Mumu's side and said, "Who made you careless?" ”

In this way, the two walked together in the direction of home with the joy of the harvest of the small test, and after arriving in the alleyway where the two were located, the two waved goodbye and went home.

Fang Mumu couldn't suppress her joy, and wanted to share the good news of her admission to junior high school with Yu Cai immediately, but as soon as her words fell, she noticed that something was wrong, she saw Fang Jian sitting in the courtyard facing the sun with a gloomy face, his messy hair didn't know if he had just fallen asleep, or if the wind was blowing outside.

Fang Mumu put away his joy, lowered his head and walked to the door of the kitchen in an orderly manner, not daring to raise his eyes to look at Fang Jian. Her ears did not droop with the lowering of her eyes, but stood vigilantly, not daring to let go of any sound. She was afraid of her father, who was sitting in the yard without saying a word, and she was even more afraid of how she would deal with her father's sudden speech.

When Fang Mumu saw the threshold of the kitchen in front of her, she heard the sound of Yu Cai busy inside, the sound of the blower was the loudest, it probably wanted to declare its unshakable position as the king in these sounds.

Fang Mumu thought that as long as he raised his feet and stepped into the threshold in front of him, he should be out of his father's sight and enter a safe area, and the fear in his heart would be somewhat calmed.

"Come here." Fang Jian's voice was neither high nor low, tepid or hot, and he couldn't hear any emotion.

Fang Mumu withdrew the foot that she had just lifted and was about to step out, she stood in place, slowly raised her head, looking at Fang Jian who was sitting in the courtyard without fear of exposure, his face was still gloomy and terrifying, but his eyes were not as focused on her as Fang Mumu imagined, but looked in the direction of the door.

The fear in Fang Mumu's heart was slightly alleviated because of his discovery.

"Can't you hear me, do you?" Fang Jian's voice was slightly higher than it had just been, and this time, the tone of his voice was mixed with his authority as the head of this family that could not be questioned.

Fang Mumu's little fear that had just been calmed down doubled down on her, and she immediately responded in a small voice, "I heard it." With that, she slowly walked towards Fang Jian step by step.

Fang Mumu felt that the journey to her father in front of her was too long, and she felt that she had walked for a long time. She was afraid that her father would rush over to him because he hadn't walked up to him for so long, and pull her straight and neatly to her. She tried to speed up her pace, but it seemed that this was already her fastest speed at this time.

"Dad~" Fang Mumu finally walked up to Fang Jian, she lowered her head.

"You seem to have forgotten how to smile at me, Dad." Fang Jian didn't look back, he frowned, squinted his eyes slightly, and still looked ahead.

Fang Mumu raised his head in a panic, "No... No. As she spoke, she smiled, but the smile at the corner of her mouth that was about to reach her ears was more ugly than crying.

"You're in junior high school?" Fang Jian maintained the same posture.

"Yes." Fang Mumu carefully answered Fang Jian's question, she wanted to read the deep meaning of his words from Fang Jian's expression, but she was still too young and immature.

"Where did you get into junior high school?" After Fang Jian finished asking the question, he smacked his mouth, and his posture changed as a result. He pulled a cigarette and a match from his coat pocket, which he held in his mouth, and then he held the deflated matchbox in both hands to ignite it. It's just that the movements of his hands stopped, as if he was deliberately waiting for Fang Mumu's answer.

The smile on Fang Mumu's face froze, "I don't know yet, it depends on where the score is in junior high school." Fang Mumu felt that this was the longest thing she had said to her father.

"Oh." The match in Fang Jian's hand was lit after rubbing it on the matchbox several times, and he put the match close to the head of the paper cigarette and lit it. After extinguishing the remaining sparks on the match with his hand, Fang Jian took a deep breath of the paper cigarette he was holding, and his mouth spit out choking smoke, although under the scorching sun, he couldn't see the appearance of the smoke clearly.

"And how much did you score?" After Fang Jian took another puff of cigarette, he lowered the hand holding the cigarette to his knee, and his eyes shifted from the direction of the door to the burning cigarette butt.

"198 points." After Fang Mumu finished speaking, he was afraid that Fang Jian had no idea about the number of scores, and then added, "Two points out of a full score." ”

"Do you make the rankings?" Fang Jian took another puff of the paper cigarette in his hand.

"First place." When Fang Mumu said her ranking, she was proud in her heart, and she wanted to use such a ranking to tell her father that she was a material for reading.

"Then I must go to the county to go to junior high school, and at worst, I have to go to the township to go to junior high school, right?" Fang Jian's eyes looked in the direction of the door again, but Fang Mumu felt that his eyes were farther away than the wooden door.

"It should be." Fang Mumu didn't know why, when she heard her father say that she was going to go to the county or the township to go to junior high school, her heart was a little empty, she had asked her mother because of the same question, and her mother just said that she would see it when the time came, and there was no follow-up. Is it time for this to happen?

"It's a pity you're a girl." Fang Jian said slowly.

After Fang Mumu heard Fang Jian's words, the wound that had been hidden in her heart for a long time was turned over, and it was even torn off to form a scab, although she still maintained a stiff smile, her eye sockets had been dyed red by the torn past wounds.

Fang Jian slowly turned his head and looked at Fang Mumu who didn't speak, "So, I don't have any extra money to send you to junior high school." After finishing speaking, Fang Jian stood up and staggered towards the main house.

Fang Mumu saw the smug smile on the corner of his father's mouth, as if to say that this is your retribution for being the first. After Fang Jian entered the house, Fang Mumu sat down on the ground, the smile on his face was still deadlocked, and the tears that came out of his eyes seemed to have too many indescribable grievances.