Doing It Over Again - Chapter 6

After the results of the mid-term exam came down, no one in the first class was surprised when they saw that the first place was Shen Shao. Anyway, they usually listen to the teacher’s name and praise Shen Shao, and they are already a little numb.

The first class in the afternoon was Chinese. After handing out the papers, according to previous habits, I had to read two compositions that were well written in the class for everyone to listen to. The name of the composition this time is “My Parents”. Among the many compositions describing how hard his parents worked and how much they cared for him, Shen Shao’s composition was particularly conspicuous, and even attracted the teachers of the language group to discuss it for the purpose of scoring. a lot of time.

The Chinese teacher of Class 1 is an old man who is retired and re-employed. Every time the whole class gets up and salutes to say “Hello, teacher” before class, the old man will return the salute seriously, and then let the classmates sit down and start the class.

“Everyone’s grades have improved this time. There are a few knowledge points with a high error rate. Students should pay more attention.” Teacher Gu talked about some of the places where everyone made more mistakes, and then picked up two copies that were not sent. Paper, “This time, there are two compositions that the teachers of the language group think are very good. I will read them to everyone, and the students will follow and learn more, and strive to write better compositions next time.”

The first composition was the composition of the representative of the Chinese class. Shen Shao listened to it below and felt that the little girl’s writing skills were indeed very good. The composition was very touching. It could be seen that her parents loved her very much, and she also Very sensible.

“The second composition belongs to classmate Shen Shao,” Teacher Gu picked up the paper and put it down, glanced at the students under the podium, “I heard some rumors recently, everyone is junior high school students, not those Children in the second and third grades need to know the difference between right and wrong.”

The whole class knew that Teacher Gu was talking about Shen Shao, so they all looked at him.

As if he didn’t see everyone’s reaction, Teacher Gu began to read Shen Shao’s composition.

“My mother was lying in a cold coffin. I wanted to cry, but I remembered that the adults said that if the tears fell at this time, it would make my mother unable to walk the cycle, so I held back the tears again.”

“The day Dad left, the weather was so clear that I could stand in the room and see the sweater under his suit jacket. The sweater was knitted for him overnight by my mother a few months ago, but now he is wearing this sweater. , to follow others to find happiness.”

Twelve-year-olds are still ignorant, but they are also very kind. The composition has not been finished yet. Many girls in the class have red eyes, and even the boys who are usually naughty are a little heavy. They can’t understand Shen Shaoguang. What kind of life is, but they know that now they can’t live without their parents at all.

However, Shen Shao did it, and he also studied seriously, with a good personality, and he treated people with enthusiasm. If they were still gossiping about him behind his back, it would be too bad.

After the Chinese class, the atmosphere in the class was more solemn than in the rest time. Yang Hongqiang put his arms around Shen Shao’s shoulders with red eyes and said, “Xiao Shao, my parents will be yours in the future. They like you.”

Shen Shao looked at Yang Hongqiang’s appearance, smiled and reached out to pat him on the back, and said heartily: “Okay, I will come to your house every day to eat.”

“That’s no problem, I’ll tell you, my mother’s craftsmanship, that’s what it is.” Tang Hongqiang raised his thumbs up, he didn’t feel so uncomfortable when he saw Shen Shao’s cheerful appearance.

Perhaps it was Shen Shao’s mood that infected other classmates, and gradually the atmosphere became more relaxed, but after this day, few people mentioned about Shen Shao’s parents, and instead went home to be filial to their parents, after all, their parents They are all there, and their father is not as bad as Shen Shao’s father.

Soon the classmates from outside the class also knew the content of this composition. Gradually, in their hearts, Shen Shao has become a model of a miserable life, but he has done everything well, and they have faintly regarded Shen Shao as their idol.

So in the atmosphere of hello, me, and everyone, the first semester of the first year of junior high was over, and Shen Shao returned to the country with the final exam results that ranked first in the county.

Because the house had not been lived in for several months, Shen Shao spent a day cleaning up the house, and even went out to find a handful of mosquito-smoky herbs to light, and put it in an unwanted enamel pot to smoke the house.

After the house was tidied up, it was already dark. Shen Shao had just finished washing his feet when he heard someone knocking on the door, and the uncle’s dog was barking badly.

“Shen Shao, are you at home?” The people outside the door seemed to see the lights in the house, so they raised their voices and shouted, “I’m Shen Quanfa, the secretary of the village committee. We have something to do with you.”

Shen Shao pulled the bolt and opened the door of the main room. He saw three middle-aged men standing outside. They were carrying something in their hands. The torches in their hands turned off after Shen Shao opened the door. He knew these three people. They were the secretary, director, and accountant of the village, so he immediately invited them into the house to sit down, and then went to the kitchen to pour three cups of tea for them.

The tea is one dollar per box of Kuding tea, but the three of them did not dislike it. After a few sips, Shen Quanfa put down the cup and said, “Shen Shao, I heard that you are studying in the top class of the experimental middle school. How are your grades? ?”

“It’s alright,” Shen Shao looked out the window and said with concern, “Uncle Shen, how do you keep going at night?”

“It’s okay, I heard from our family’s Fengwa that you won the first place in the county this time, but it’s a fight for our Shenjia Village. A few days ago, people from other villages asked me,” Shen Quanfa said. My daughter is in the second year of junior high school in the experimental middle school, so she knows some things about Shen Shao at school. “This time we are here to send you something on behalf of the whole village. You are one and a half old children, so how can you celebrate the new year?”

Every year during the Chinese New Year, the village will send some New Year’s goods to the poor households in the village. Originally, a child like Shen Shao who was not an adult would not be counted in the village, but Shen Quanfa felt that this child was promising after knowing Shen Shao’s achievements. She will become the golden phoenix of Shenjia Village, so after discussing with the village committee members, it was decided to add Shen Shao a place.

Of course Shen Shao refused to accept it, but Shen Quanfa’s attitude was very firm, and he still kept things.

After sending the three out, Shen Shao returned to the house and looked at the things sent by the village. Two catties of lard, five catties of vegetable oil, three catties of fresh pork, three catties of bacon, and a chicken that weighs about two or three catties may not be a big deal in the future, but they are not bad now.

After packing up the things, Shen Shao decided to buy some New Year’s goods tomorrow. Although he was alone, he should not be too careless.

Early the next morning, Shen Shao went to the city. After buying the New Year’s goods, he hurried home. On the way, he met people from the same village who came home, so he went with them.

I don’t know if it was his illusion, but he felt that after his rebirth, his memory was exceptionally good, as if his soul had been washed again, and his hands and feet were much faster than in his previous life. Of course, it is also possible that because of different moods, it is easy to do things.

As long as he meets the people he meets on the road, he can find out in his memory who he is in the family with and which acquaintances are relatives. He hadn’t noticed that his memory had improved at first, he just thought that it was normal for him to become a child from a middle-aged person and his brain to become smarter. But it has been nearly half a year since he was reborn, and he felt that at this time in his last life, his brain didn’t seem to work so well. At that time, when he recited those classical Chinese words, he had to recite them many times to recite them fluently. Now, it is much easier to recite them than in his previous life.

He couldn’t figure out what was going on, so he just didn’t think about it. Anyway, unbelievable things like rebirth happened, and his brain became smarter, but it was not so strange.

“Shen Shao, you buy so many things by yourself, why don’t you spend the New Year with your uncle?” A person from the same village named Shen Guanghui saw that Shen Shao was carrying a lot of things and felt that it was difficult for him to carry it with his hands, so he asked him to carry the things. Put it in his pick, anyway, he is used to working on crops, and the pick is empty, picking more than ten kilograms of things, which is almost the same as not picking things. I heard that half-old children are too hard, which will affect their height. If he can help, he will help, and it will not be troublesome anyway.

“The uncle’s family asked me to live together, but I don’t want to bother the uncle’s family,” Shen Shao replied with a smile, “I will always have to live on my own in the future. It’s better to learn to be independent sooner.”

Hearing this, Shen Guanghui felt a little uncomfortable, and even more contempt for the behavior of Shen Shao’s father Shen Jianbing. For the sake of a wild woman outside, he was so angry that he committed suicide by drinking medicine, and even his own son was ignored. This is a human being. do things?

Fortunately, Shen Shao was sensible and motivated, otherwise he would have ruined a good boy in vain, but he heard that Shen Shao was especially popular with teachers in school, and his grades were ranked among the top in the county. Except for Shen Shao, their Shenjia Village has never had such a capable child.

“It seems that our little Shao has grown into a little man.” Shen Guanghui smiled and said nothing else. Shen Shao’s uncle Shen Jianjun was an honest man, but unfortunately the family conditions were not very good, and he was also helpless to Shen Shao.

Now that everyone is not rich, and when Shen Shao is half the size of a child eating a poor old man, not to mention the cost of studying, how can Shen Jianjun afford it?

The traveler didn’t mention this, and Shen Shao was relieved. He knew that the uncle and the aunt were kindhearted people, but the two cousins ​​didn’t like him very much. He didn’t want to make the uncle’s family unhappy because of himself. New Year’s Eve alone, you’ve already gotten used to it.

On the 30th day of the New Year, Shen Shao got up early in the morning, set up firewood and simmered everything that should be simmered, and cut the vegetables that should be cut. After a while, the smell of meat came out of the pot.

When Shen Hong and Shen Yuan passed by Shen Shao’s house, they also smelled the aroma of meat. Shen Hong smelled it and whispered, “Sister, Shen Shao is stewing meat at home.”

Shen Yuan glanced at the smoking chimney: “Whatever he does, he didn’t eat our food anyway.”

“Who said he didn’t eat our family’s food,” Shen Hong snorted, “Come on, let’s go home and eat meat. Mom bought a braised duck yesterday. I smelled it in the cupboard this morning. It’s fragrant.” She had braised duck to eat, but Shen Shao didn’t. In the past, the village persuaded parents to have another son, so as not to die. Now Shen Shao has no father or mother, and his grades are good. It is rumored that his parents will adopt Shen Shao. But she and her sister are the children of their parents. The family is poor. They can only buy new clothes after the New Year. Why should they spend money to support Shen Shao? Is it because he is a boy?

Liu Shulian heard what her second daughter said in the courtyard and sighed. When the sisters returned home, she criticized Shen Hong, but seeing her daughter crying sadly, she couldn’t bear to say it any more. She didn’t say anything outside. It’s true, but the child takes it seriously. Thinking of this, she sighed, and she stopped thinking about cutting off a braised duck leg and sending it to Shen Shao.

At noon, when Liu Shulian’s family was eating, Shen Shao came over with an enamel bowl, which contained a bowl of cooked fish: “Uncle, auntie, this is the pickled fish I made, you can taste it, it takes a new year for Chinese New Year. There’s more.”

Seeing that the fish was steaming, Liu Shulian was afraid of burning Shen Shao’s hand, so she hurriedly took the pickled fish in his hand, and picked out some braised duck and cooked bacon from an empty bowl and stuffed it into Shen Shao’s hand, only to see him accept it. Breathe easy.

When Shen Shao left with the bowl in hand, Liu Shulian and Shen Jianjun looked at the fragrant pickled fish in the evening.