Doing It Over Again - Chapter 7

On New Year’s Eve, the village that used to be a little quiet became extraordinarily lively. The sound of firecrackers, the laughter of children, and the barking of dogs made the night noisy during the day. Shen Shao lay on the bed and fell asleep listening to the noise outside.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, he made himself a bowl of glutinous rice balls. After eating, he locked the door, put his mother on the grave and went to the county town.

The county town on the first day of the new year was very lively, because the second-hand house that Shen Shao bought had old appliances in it. Before he rented out the second-hand house, he moved the appliances into the rental house where he lives now. He turned on the TV, which was replaying the Spring Festival Gala last night. The hosts used standard Mandarin to read which company congratulated the people of the whole country for a Happy New Year. The smiles on their faces could not be picked out by a magnifying glass.

Although it was a program twenty years ago, some programs were still very exciting. Shen Shao watched TV for a while and felt a little bored, so he simply went to the study to pick up a book and sit on the sofa to read. When I was looking at the wonderful place, I heard the noise from downstairs. I walked to the window and saw that it was the dragon dance parade that had come to this street. There were many people watching the performance on both sides of the street, laughing. Yes, noisy, clapping, the festive atmosphere is very strong.

Shen Shao lay by the window and watched for a while. After the dragon and lion dance team passed by, he walked back to the kitchen, heated up the leftovers he brought from his hometown, and had a meal. They have a custom here for Chinese New Year. They can’t eat newly cooked meals at noon on the first day of the new year. They have to eat the leftovers from last year, which means there is more than enough food every year.

Looking at the newly hung calendar on the wall, Shen Shao sighed with a smile. It was 1997.

People who don’t pay attention to the economy don’t know that the world will face a major economic crisis this year. Some countries’ banknotes will depreciate significantly, and many factories will close down. However, China has found a new path in this crisis, and the economy will be able to develop and consolidate step by step. .

Although Shen Shao had the intention to take advantage of this opportunity to do something, it was a pity that at the age of 12 he could not do many things, like seeing a gold ingot behind the glass door, which he could see but not touch.

Don’t think about things that you can’t think of. Shen Shaozhong has lived his whole life, and the best thing is his mentality, so after the new semester comes, he put the things that he couldn’t do to the back of his mind.

At this time, some domestic magazines are advocating how independent the students of Xiaoyang country are, how well the children of Xiaoyang country have performed in the summer camp between the two countries in Huayang, and how badly the children of Hua Guo have performed. Many times, when Shen Shao flipped through a magazine, the author sighed in a tone of worrying about the country and the people, why are other people’s children so good, why are our children so bad, and what happened to our children?

In other words, when other teachers tell stories, how powerful the children’s divergent thinking is, and how stupid their own children are, as if in another 20 to 30 years, China will usher in a large wave of stupid middle-aged and young people.

Shen Shao himself doesn’t like this type of article very much. It is true that other people’s children have advantages, but their own children also have a lot to praise. More than ten years later, an internet celebrity said these two words, “You can’t praise other people’s children for being honest, and your own children are stupid; if other people’s children are lively, they are smart, and their own children are lively, they are messing up.”

And it turns out that after 20 years, the children who have been criticized by these experts and professors as useless adults are no worse than other children.

In terms of learning, Shen Shao became more and more handy. He had already read more than half of the books in the second year of junior high before he finished reading it. Because the atmosphere of the junior high school is very simple, coupled with Shen Shao’s background, he gets very little jealousy at the first place at his age, but gets more and more praise and envy.

There is not too much pressure in learning, so Shen Shao signed up for two interest classes to learn calligraphy and piano. On weekends or holidays, he went to the interest class to attend classes.

There are not many interest classes at this time, but the teachers there are real materials, especially the teacher who teaches calligraphy. Although he has silver hair, he can write with very strong wrists and good calligraphy. Very strong, Shen Shao saw his words and was envious, and the word “National Essence” sparkled in his mind.

The female teacher who teaches piano is a retired teacher from the Conservatory of Music. She is very serious when she teaches, but she is also very attentive. Although the students in the interest class secretly say that she is Shitai Shitai, they are very in awe of this teacher. .

For Shen Shao, this kind of study life was something he never dared to think about in his previous life. Later, he also thought about how great it would be if he had money to study hard and attend the interest classes he liked. But the time that has passed is gone, and even if he has money, he cannot buy it back.

Now that he has finally realized his dream journey in life, what reason is there not to work hard for himself?

Time slipped away little by little, and Shen Shao quickly became a student in the third year of junior high school. Because of the two years of good and delicious nourishment, he was not malnourished during the important period of physical development, and his stature had grown a lot. Good grades and sports sticks made some girls secretly fall in love.

Sometimes when he arrives in the classroom, he finds that there will suddenly be an envelope with a cartoon printed on it and a scented envelope in the drawer of his desk. Before this time, he felt helpless, and silently spit out that he was the one who seduced the innocent and ignorant girl. uncle.

He accepted the letter, but he never responded, let alone publicize it to embarrass the person who wrote the letter. Although his move made many girls die, few of them “loved and hated”.

“Shen Shao, how many love letters have you received this month?” Yang Hongqiang smacked his lips, looking at Shen Shao with a look of envy and hatred, “I heard that the school flower has a crush on you, do you know?”

“I don’t know,” Shen Shao shook the chemistry book in his hand and said with a smile, “I only know that you just borrowed my chemistry homework from me.”

Reaching out his right hand to touch his mouth and making a zipper action, Yang Hongqiang lay on the table and said, “Why do I think you are getting worse and worse?”

“Well, probably because you don’t like me more and more,” Shen Shao said indifferently, “Anyone who faces the same table for three years will get tired of it.”

“Your Majesty, you actually abandoned your courtiers and concubines,” Yang Hongqiang covered his acne-prone face and made a resentful portrait.

“Let’s watch “Wu Zetian” less, especially when you haven’t learned the IQ of other female protagonists.” Well, Qing palace dramas are not popular now, but all kinds of Tang palace dramas are popular.

Yang Hongqiang: “…”

Do those girls who have a crush on Shen Shao know that Shen Shao’s mouth is so poisonous? ! do you know? !

The classwork in the third grade is getting heavier and heavier. Originally, there were two physical education classes per week, but one was taken up by the mathematics class. The remaining class was a rare lookout time, but today Shen Shao’s physical education class did not go well. , after all, it is not a good thing for anyone to be angrily approached by fellow villagers of the same age.

The current Shen Zhengyang is still full of childishness. He is not like the competent people in the same village in his previous life. Instead, he is more like a cow who has been irritated, and the reason for his anger is still unknown.

“Shen Shao, don’t think your grades are great, just stay away from Zhao Xiaoxue!”

Shen Shao sighed silently, what kind of TV shows are children watching now, such lines are almost outdated, and who is Zhao Xiaoxue?

Seeing the indifference on Shen Shao’s face, the anger in Shen Zhengyang’s heart suddenly escalated, and he was so angry that he didn’t choose to say: “You are worthy of Zhao Xiaoxue with no father or mother? Don’t look at your poor family. A shabby house, what’s the use of good grades, do you have high school tuition? Your uncle is still begging for food in front of my dad, can he afford you?”

Several classmates who had a good relationship with Shen Zhengyang immediately booed and laughed, as if Shen Shao would lose face and could no longer raise his head in front of his classmates. They are all studying in class five, which is the ordinary version in the eyes of others, and they have long been dissatisfied with the people in the experimental class. They only know that these words will relieve their anger. As for whether it will cause psychological shadows to others, they have never thought about it.

The students in class 1 were angry when they heard that Shen Shao from class 5 said this, but now several men in class 5 were laughing at them, and they couldn’t help it. Yang Hongqiang pointed at Shen Zhengyang’s nose and said, “Fuck you, M, what nonsense are you talking about, what is Zhao Xiaoxue, we don’t know anything about Zhao Xiaoxue, you have to go crazy and go to the dog hole, don’t run wild here.”

As soon as these words came out, it was the first class of students who laughed. Although some people thought that Yang Hongqiang’s words were not funny at all, it did not prevent them from using this to laugh at the fifth class.

In the past two years, Shen Zhengyang’s family contracted the rice-making house in the village, and hired two villagers to help. Shen Shao’s uncle was one of them, so Shen Zhengyang used this kind of words to block Shen Shao.

If a half-aged child heard this, he would probably be so angry that he would fight with Shen Zhengyang, but Shen Shao felt that he could not have the same knowledge as a child, so after the classmates on both sides laughed at each other, he smiled and said slowly: ” Thank you for your concern, I will find a solution on the tuition fee issue, as for the student Zhao you mentioned… I’m sorry, I really don’t know her.” After saying this, he also showed an apologetic look.

Probably because Shen Shao was too graceful, Shen Zhengyang looked at the smiling Shen Shao, obviously the other party was very polite, but he just felt a secret fire in his heart was running around, but he couldn’t find a vent. He glanced at the surrounding classmates a few times, and found that many people looked at him with an expression of “you are ruthless and unreasonable”, and suddenly felt even more aggrieved.

“My uncle’s family is indeed in some difficulties. I would like to thank Uncle Fudong for taking care of my uncle.” To play the scene, where is the half-old Shen Zhengyang’s opponent Shen Shao? The fifth class students who were too pleasing to the eye began to think that Shen Zhengyang was making trouble unreasonably.

Isn’t it because he has a crush on Zhao Xiaoxue, and Zhao Xiaoxue has a crush on Shen Shao, and Shen Shao is not with Zhao Xiaoxue, what’s the matter with Shen Shao?

The half-child stance… is always less stable.

The two physical education teachers who thought that the children in the two classes would make trouble saw the matter resolved in a few words by Shen Shao, so they didn’t bother to ask a few more questions, and they didn’t see it all, but they had decided to tell the class teacher about the matter in private. one sound.

Today’s children, how old are they thinking of finding a little girlfriend?

Sure enough, when it was time for the evening self-study, Shen Shao was called by Li Lu to the head teacher’s office, and then he saw that the head teacher of class 5 was teaching Shen Zhengyang with his head down. When he saw him coming in, the head teacher of class 5 thought that Shen Zhengyang was also in his class. The top student, determined to save some face for him, stopped.

Shen Zhengyang saw that it was Shen Shao who came in, his face lowered, but he hated him in his heart.

As for Shen Shao, he still lamented how difficult the teacher’s conditions are now. The desks have fallen off a lot of paint and are still in use. In the office of less than ten square meters, there are several desks, which look very crowded.

Shen Zhengyang regarded him as the enemy’s brain waves, and he did not receive it at all.

This is probably the generation gap in the legend. How can an uncle who is thinking of going to the third, understand Shen Zhengyang, a second-year middle schooler?