Chucheng

Chapter 6

Everyone is laughing, because only in labor, everyone is equal, there is no barrier, and laughter is the most free.

Lin Yi wrote in her diary that day:

... In this way, the unpleasant things this morning passed, and the four of us spent the afternoon amidst laughter.Because I am a girl, the only bamboo planted became my lucky tree, and I will definitely protect my lucky tree.Although on the surface we each have our own tree, in fact any tree is the fruit of the joint labor of the four of us. Chen Jie got blisters on his hands because of planting the tree, and said it didn’t hurt, haha, this idiot kid.

Xu Yanbing came to me after school and said that she was kind enough to water the tree planted by her cousin and Wang Weiwei (they were cleaning the toilet, but after the two of them finished, they planted a crooked camphor tree at the door of the toilet) , As a result, they were still teasing her all afternoon, asking whether Chen Jie and her were in the same family. I was very angry when I heard that, and I must tell my aunt about this.But today I am still very happy. Everyone experienced happiness in labor and deepened friendship...

At noon on Sunday, Lin Yongsheng waited anxiously at home, and ran to the door from time to time to look at the east road—because Chen Jie promised him yesterday after school that he would come to his house to see silkworms today.Lin Yi next door would come to his house almost every day to see the silkworms he raised. This morning, she also came to help him replace the silkworms with mulberry leaves.His earliest silkworms have hatched for five days. Although they haven't had time to shed their skins yet, these ant-sized things have a lot of appetite. In addition, the mulberry trees have just grown leaves now, and it hasn't been long before the fresh leaves are replaced. Will be bitten into small holes one by one.It's not time for lunch, and it's time to change the mulberry leaves for the second time - his mother always said that he was too careful, if only he was so attentive to his homework.

"Yongsheng, Chen Jie hasn't come yet?" Lin Yi's voice sounded outside the door, she scraped the mud off the rain boots on the steps of the door, and then walked in.

"No, I told him that I would come, I don't know why I haven't come yet." Lin Yongsheng said dejectedly.

"Hi! What are you talking about? Am I here?" Before Lin Yongsheng finished speaking, Chen Jie appeared at the door.

"It's really about Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here!" Lin Yi said happily: "We were talking about you just now?——What a coincidence, why didn't I see you when I went out?" Lin Yi was still wearing the one she usually wore. A bright yellow jacket, with neatly combed hair, two braids hanging behind the ears, and a yellow bow tied on top.

"I saw you going out and followed you quietly, trying to scare you, but I didn't have time!" Chen Jie smiled slyly, dodged Lin Yi's punch like a joke, and said apologetically to Lin Yongsheng: "Yongsheng, I'm really sorry. My sister just came back. Today she insisted on me playing chess with her. In the end, the last game of chess was obviously a "grind", but she didn't admit it. I didn't come here until she admitted it. I'm really sorry. !"

Lin Yongsheng put down the mulberry leaves that he was clearing up early at this time, and hurriedly greeted his two good friends: "Come and see, you all come and see." He took them to a table near the window in the east room, on which there was a circle. The small-shaped box is the house that Yongsheng made for silkworms.

Some light green mulberry leaves piled up in the middle of the box are covered with some small black dots the size of ants. Some silkworms are devoting themselves to eating the leaves, while others lie on the leaves and remain motionless.

Chen Jie pointed to a silkworm and asked, "Yongsheng, look, why is this silkworm shaking its head?"

The other two classmates laughed when he said a word, and Lin Yongsheng said: "Maybe it's about to shed its skin. Often when it's time to shed its skin, silkworms are like this——keep shaking their heads."

They studied the silkworms for a while, and Chen Jie and Lin Yi helped to dry the fresh leaves and replace them with water-stained leaves—this was also taught by Lin Yongsheng, otherwise the new silkworms would suffer from digestion bad and die.Then they went to the North Embankment to pick mulberry leaves together. There was a dense forest above the North Embankment. During this period of time, the sky was cloudy and rainy. Fortunately, it didn't rain today.

Along the way, Lin Yongsheng explained his silkworms and his methods of raising them to Chen and Lin, which caused them to ask Lin Yongsheng various questions from time to time. He said to them: "When I go back later, I will give you some silkworms. You will know after raising them yourself." The two of them stopped asking endless questions and happily walked on the North Embankment. Picking leaves and looking for fungus for a long time.

When they got back to Lin Yongsheng's house, it was almost dark, and Lin Yongsheng's mother had already prepared dinner, so the two of them kept dinner for another time, and then went home carefully holding the silkworm box - the silkworm box was Lin Yongsheng's silkworm box. Yi folded it with calendar paper.

When Chen Jie came home, the family was having dinner, and Guo Jingtao was watching TV at his home.Seeing him come back, he asked: "Chen Jie, where have you been? I haven't seen you all afternoon. Eh, what are you serving?"

The awkwardness between children is easily forgotten. Maybe neither of them remembers what happened in the classroom yesterday morning. This is childhood, and it is also the envy of every adult.So when Chen Jie saw Guo Jingtao asking, he said proudly without any concealment: "It's a silkworm, have you seen it? Look at it, it's eating mulberry leaves!"

At this time, Chen Min heard that she also held the bowl and looked over her head. Her mother said from behind: "Little brother, come and eat quickly."

"I've already had dinner at Lin Yongsheng's house." Chen Jie replied without even turning his head, as if he was afraid that the silkworm would be snatched away by Guo Jingtao and Chen Min, he tightly protected the box with both hands.

"Taotao... come and eat—" Guo Jingtao's mother's sonorous voice rang out from outside.The two of them are not far away, there are only two families in the middle, so they often walk back and forth.

"Oh, it's coming—" Guo Jingtao's voice was no lower than his mother's, "Oh, Chen Jie, can you send me two silkworms tomorrow?" He ran to the door and turned around to ask Chen Jie .

"Okay, but you can't bully people anymore..."

When Guo Jingtao heard him say "Yes", he didn't even listen to the rest of the sentence, so he ran out.

Two little guesses

In the middle of the second semester of junior high school, a rumor came from the experimental class that Chen Jie was in, saying that after the final exam of the first grade of junior high school, the five first grade classes in the school would be adjusted to highlight the role of the experimental class. The last ten students who fail to meet the standards of the experimental class will be transferred to the ordinary class, and those who have good grades in the ordinary class will be transferred to the experimental class at the same time.

The students who heard the news immediately came with their own thoughts. Wang Weiwei and Guo Jingtao have been the laggards in the class all year round. At the starting line, because of strength, the grades have been trailing in the class. Both of them thought that the school's policy was aimed at them both, so they no longer expressed any hope.Chen Jie's grades in primary school were originally average, but because of her sister Chen Min's exceptional performance in Chucheng Middle School, a lot of points were added for her younger brother.At the same time, in the interview test held by Teacher Chucheng at the elementary school, he accidentally answered a competition question that the teacher was explaining in class, and immediately made the admission teacher look at him with admiration, thinking that he could recruit a good seed like Chen Min again, so He was admitted to the experimental class on the spot.After arriving in the experimental class, all the students in the class were selected from the best, and his grades were almost the same as those of Wang Weiwei and Guo Jingtao. In the final exam of last semester, there were 66 students in the class, and the grades were 54th in the class. Hearing this news, he was very sad. The delicate man became more and more nervous.In addition, Lin Yi, who was admitted from the same elementary school as them, was at the top of the class, and Lin Yongsheng was also in the middle. Neither of them had any worries about transferring classes.Wei Guo and Xu Yanbing are also top students in their respective primary schools. Now one is the class monitor and the other is the secretary of the Youth League branch. Naturally, their grades are among the best, and there is no need to transfer classes.Therefore, Chen Jie was in the most dangerous situation. If he failed the exam, he might slip into the ordinary class.

No, after class, Chen Jie sat silently on the seat and fiddled with the pen in his hand, and didn't want to go out of the classroom to play, thinking about his fate in a few months.Lin Yi at the same table looked at him, poked his arm and said, "What's the matter, you look sad?"

Chen Jie replied: "I'm in danger this time. It turned out that the teacher recruited me after seeing my sister's good performance in this school. Now I might be sent to another class."

Chen Jie has a gentle personality, unlike her cousin who always fights against girls like her cousin, so Lin Yi didn't want to see Chen Jie really leave the experimental class. Seeing his worried look, she encouraged him and said, "Now there are three more days before the final exam." In a month's time, work harder and make a surprise attack, based on your current results, it should be no problem to improve a little bit."

"I'm doing well in mathematics, history, and geography, but I'm struggling with politics, English, and Chinese." Chen Jie murmured after thinking.

At this time, Lin Yongsheng poked his head from behind and said, "Chen Jie, my English is not good either, why don't you come and help us, Lin Yi, how can we improve our English?"

"Judging from the situation of changing the test papers every time, Chen Jie's word mistakes are deducted a lot of points. This needs to strengthen memory. Why don't you just do what I do now and take time to write [-] words every day, can you do it?" Lin Lin Yi said.