When the summer vacation was just approaching that year, Zhao Shengyuan's house was air-conditioned. At that time, air conditioners were quite rare, because his father made some money from his business, so he added this appliance to the family.

The Xu Promise family, who lived next door, had never encountered such good luck, since she was sensible, the only thing that dangled in front of her eyes was the three creaking fans, the huge fans were rusty, and the wind made by these old antiques was all entrained in temperature on a hot day.

Zhao Shengyuan was very righteous and said that the air conditioner was easy to use, so let her go over to cool down.

"Look at you." Xu Promise laughed and scolded and went to his house to watch TV.

After that day, she began to dislike the old antiques at home, and ran to Zhao Shengyuan's house at night.

One night passed, Zhao Shengyuan's house had just started dinner, and the family of four was around a small square mahogany table, which was just full.

Zhao's mother said that she was boiling coconut chicken soup tonight, and asked her to come over and drink a bowl. Promise waved his hand hurriedly.

Zhao's mother asked her to make her own tea and drink it again. She welcomed Promise to go to their house to play, because Promise was a little girl who couldn't stay idle, and always helped her a lot unintentionally, sometimes helping their big yellow dog to bathe, sometimes folding the newspapers on the sofa neatly, and sometimes wiping the coffee table spotlessly.

On the contrary, it was Grandma Zhao, who didn't treat her very well. She thinks that the promise is too unprofessional, and she never talks about studying when she comes to Shengyuan, either watching TV or playing chess, and she is afraid that sooner or later she will lose her mind with playthings.

Dad Zhao weakly reminded: "Mom, Xiaonuo's score in the high school entrance examination is much higher than Shengyuan." ”

Grandma Zhao's wrinkled face suddenly pulled down, and said confidently: "Yuan'er is not necessarily stupider than Xiaonuo, his fallen grades will catch up sooner or later...... Just wait and see, I have a solution. ”

Zhao Shengyuan didn't chew a mouthful of rice carefully, and swallowed it violently, choking so much that he coughed incessantly, blushed and had a thick neck.

When he went to look for Zhao Shengyuan again the next night, he promised to find a strange big brother in his house. He sat on Zhao Shengyuan's bed, flipped through his previous homework book page by page, and for a moment, shook his head and sighed: "You kid, you love to fish in troubled waters." ”

He looks very young and doesn't look like a tutor.

Xu Yu stood at the door of the room for a while, plucked up the courage to interrupt their conversation, and shouted: "Zhao Shengyuan." ”

Zhao Shengyuan got up and ran towards her as if saved, and half-pushed and half-coaxed her to go in to meet the face-to-face visitor. I found out that this was Zhao Shengyuan's cousin Zhao Hongru, who came to help him with tutoring.

Zhao Shengyuan said with a flamboyant mouth: "My third brother's academic performance is good, after this summer, he will be a freshman!" ”

Zhao Hongru didn't buy it, and immediately erected the majesty of being a teacher: "Shengyuan, this is your classmate?" ”

"Yes, her name is Promise, and she lives next door to us!"

"Well, promise, you're welcome, but can you go out and sit in the living room, we're going to start tutoring." His serious tone was more like calling the shots than asking for her opinion.

Out of a mischievous mentality, he promised, "I'm not leaving, I want to see you tutoring." ”

"Then you are not allowed to speak."

Maybe it was a lack of experience as a tutor, this first tutoring was not as smooth as Zhao Hongru expected, and several times he looked at Shengyuan blankly, he felt a little ashamed in his heart, and he confessed that he was really illogical before and after.

promised to watch from the sidelines, and really didn't say a word, and by the time the tutoring was over, it was already nine o'clock.

Zhao Hongru took his navy blue schoolbag and left.

Xu promised to yawn and said, "Zhao Shengyuan, you are so pitiful." ”

Zhao Shengyuan put his index finger to his lips and sighed: "You be quiet, my grandmother hears it, and she will be unhappy again." ”

"Coward."

"You are!"

"Then is your cousin still coming late on a cloudy night?"

"It goes without saying."

"It's boring, then I'm not coming."

"Don't, if you don't come, who will I go to play chess?" Zhao Shengyuan was in a hurry, choking on spittle in his throat, covering his mouth and trying to lower his voice, for fear of waking up his grandmother.

"Hey, you're not available...... But does your cousin really know how to teach, I don't think he speaks very well. ”

The next night, Xu Yu didn't go to Zhao Shengyuan, so he stayed at home to help his mother do handicrafts. The manual work they do is mainly manual strung together by hand, which is a bit laborious, but the operation is very simple and everyone can learn it as soon as they learn it, so the women and children who are idle at home in the neighborhood earn their little money by doing this kind of work.

promised not to go anywhere during the day, follow her mother to string watch chains at home, it is rare not to go out tonight, and to stay and work, my mother simply begged for it, and seized the opportunity to nag her, so that she would not run to Zhao Shengyuan's house in the future, and it would have a bad impact on it.

A few days later, one evening, Zhao Shengyuan knocked on the door with a plate of pistachios, saying that it was brought by a guest at home, and his father sent him to deliver some.

It was Xu who opened the door for him, and Zhao Sheng saw that it was her, and asked her why she didn't go to him these days.

He promised to break open a kernel and eat it, and said casually: "Didn't you say it before, you won't be free to go, so you won't go." ”

"Who said that we are not available, we will study in advance in the future, and we will get out of class on time at half past eight."

"I won't go when I'm free, your cousin is so fierce, no different from a tiger."

Zhao Shengyuan smiled, "How come, my third brother asked about you last night, and said that you look quite clever and would be happy for you to come and listen." ”

Zhao Hongru did say this, but Zhao Shengyuan omitted some details by himself, that is, when he checked his homework last night, Shengyuan inadvertently mentioned the promise that his cousin's class was not very good, and after that, Zhao Hongru proposed to let her come to audit.

Xu promised to expect that Zhao Shengyuan was of course looking at her, and with her as an outsider present, Zhao Hongru couldn't criticize him too hard, at least he had to save a little face. However, she ignored Zhao Shengyuan's little slippery head for the time being, and started to look for him again the next night.

This night, Zhao Hongru was talking about Ouyang Xiu's "Picking Mulberries", he read it aloud in a low voice, and then asked Shengyuan to explain the gist of the poem.

Sheng Yuan muttered for a long time and couldn't tell why.

Zhao Hongru did not blame, only laid out a blank paper, under the lamp, and wrote these two lines: "Xingyun is under the boat, the empty water is clear and fresh, and the pitch is still connected, and it is suspected that there is no sky in the lake." "The font is vigorous and powerful, and it is handsome and neat.

He talked about the gist of the words, and picked out the "empty water" and "doubt" in it and explained it carefully, and after a while, it was half past eight, and the class was almost finished.

Zhao Hongru asked Xu Promise: "Promise, what do you say I said today?" ”

Xu Yu did not answer, but learned Zhao Shengyuan's name, and asked him: "Third brother, I will also come to listen to the class in the future, okay?" ”

"Of course!" Zhao Hongru laughed with a sense of achievement, and a pair of thick and black sword eyebrows stretched slightly.

Zhao Shengyuan, who was sitting on the side, suddenly held up the middle finger wrapped in a band-aid and asked, "Why did your hand hurt?" ”

"I didn't get hurt, I just wore out the skin by hand."

Her hands didn't look like those of a teenage girl at all, and the other fingers without band-aids were covered in different shades of lines.

Zhao Shengyuan said unabashedly: "It's ugly, you look at me, it's much smoother than you." ”

Zhao Hongru came out at the right time to play a round: "It's still smooth, you're a man, I'm embarrassed to say!" ”

After returning home, the promise was still angry. This is the first time she has been angry with Zhao Shengyuan, or maybe she is angry with herself - these rough hands have made her lose face as a girl.

One day after this episode passed, Zhao Shengyuan sneakily stuffed a bottle of something for her, and said with a hippie smile: "This is for you, don't be angry." ”

When Xu Promise looked at it, it turned out to be a bottle of Orona.

Zhao Shengyuan put on a boastful posture: "Take it, this is brought by my relatives from Hong Kong." "At that time, anything that came from Hong Kong was worth a hundred times.

On her 15th birthday, he gave her an electronic watch, also saying that it was a Hong Kong product brought by a relative, and later found a large number of the same model at the stall in front of the school, eight yuan and five one. She chased after him and beat him up.

But this time, she didn't expose him, but was a little moved by his rare good memory. Since then, every day before going to bed, she rubs her hands with this "good thing". Although it's a fake, the effect is still good.

Because the foundation of the promise is better than Zhao Shengyuan, and she is more conscious, Zhao Hongru's requirements for her are relatively relaxed, and he did not leave her homework after class, nor did he force her to take notes. After two weeks, the three new scratch papers promised to be bought were all finished.