Shape

Chapter 5

As soon as the two entered the door, they felt the atmosphere was strange. Liu Fan was talking to Father Liang, but when he saw the two children, he immediately shut up, glanced at Li Yichu, then looked at Liang Xuan and said, "Xiao Xuan, do you have enough pocket money? ?”

Liang Xuan and Li Yichu sat down on the sofa and replied, "It's enough, what's wrong?"

Liu Fan glanced at her husband, and said with a flickering expression, "Oh, it's okay... I just asked, if it's not enough, you and Yichu will tell us."

Li Yichu smiled and said, "Aunt Liu, the money is enough."

Liang Changping was a little tired: "Go to sleep."

Liu Fan nodded: "Well, you guys go to bed early too."

After speaking, he followed Liang Changping back to the bedroom, leaving the two young men staring at each other.

Liang Xuan also walked to the bedroom, and said as he walked, "You take a bath first, and I will wash it later."

Li Yichu went back to the bedroom and went to the bathroom with his pajamas, only to find that he didn't take the shower gel in the middle of the wash, the sink was outside the bathroom, Li Yichu hastily dried his body, put on his pajamas and planned to go outside to get the shower gel.While opening the bathroom door, he heard Aunt Liu talking to Liang Xuan in a lowered voice.

"I lost 100 yuan at home two days ago. I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure out how to lose it. At night, your father went to Yichu's room to find a wrench to repair the gas stove. I saw the comic book he put under the pillow. The book is very Expensive? Xiaoxuan, I haven’t had time to tell your dad about this. You and Yichu have a good relationship. Tell him later that children don’t take money from the family. Forget it this time. The money will be spent. , he...he is not my own son after all, if I beat and scold him, he should bear a grudge against us in his heart, and when the neighbors heard about it later, they said we were biased..."

Li Yichu was stunned for a few seconds, and quickly realized that he returned to the bathroom with the shower gel.

Li Yichu turned on the shower and showered it from head to toe. When he closed his eyes, he remembered a few years ago. At that time, he was in the third year of junior high school and was facing the entrance examination. He knew his true level. problem, so I was very serious during that time.Although he has been trying to make Aunt Liu feel more comfortable, he has deliberately scored a middle mark in every exam, but when it comes to the big exam, he still wants to seize the opportunity. The gap between the key class and the ordinary class is clear to everyone.

Liang Changping is a teacher at the No. [-] Middle School. According to No. [-] Middle School's policies, teachers' children can directly enter the key classes of No. [-] Middle School, but Liang Changping only has one place.Liang Xuan's grades at that time were no problem to get in, but for the parents, the most important thing is to make a foolproof choice. Liu Fan insisted on giving the quota to Liang Xuan, but Liang Changping said that this is a waste of a quota, so it is better to give the quota to Li Yichu .Liu Fan thought that with Li Yichu's grades, even if he entered the key class, he would be slowed down, and the gap with his classmates would be too big, which would not be conducive to his study.The couple had been arguing for a long time. Liu Fan refused to budge because of his son. As the entrance examination was approaching, the family did not have a day of peace.

It took some time for the two boys to realize what their parents were arguing about. Liang Xuan immediately said that he didn't want the quota and gave it to Li Yichu.Li Yichu still remembers how angry Liu Fan was at that time. She taught Liang Xuan directly in front of the other three people: "It's not that you didn't get a low score in the exam! You fell out of the top fifty at the end of last year! What if this time If you didn’t pass the exam, do you want to repeat it for a year or go to ordinary classes? Why don’t you understand my thoughts?!”

Li Yichu knew the reason for Liang Xuan's low score in the exam. At the time of the final exam, Liang Xuan's grandfather suddenly became seriously ill, so the Liang family and his wife rushed to the hospital with their two children in the middle of the night. A roomful of relatives were busy in the hospital. , no one has time to pay attention to two small children.Li Yichu fell asleep sitting on the recliner outside the hospital. Liang Xuan was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he covered him with his own clothes, and squinted beside him all night wearing only a sweater.The next day, Liang Xuan started to have a fever when he sat in the examination room, and then barely finished the exam, his grades were unprecedentedly poor.

Liang Xuan's attitude was very firm: "Mom, if you insist on giving me the quota, I won't take the exam."

Liu Fan was almost fainted by this sentence. Liang Xuan was her pride since she was a child, and she never worried about big or small things. Although she was not close to her, she was very filial and never confronted her like this.In a fit of anger, Liu Fan punched Liang Xuan's arm with a fist, and then he began to cry: "You are going to piss me off, aren't you?!"

Li Yichu was startled by the fist, he subconsciously defended Liang Xuan, took a few steps forward to block Liang Xuan, and said, "Aunt Liu."

Liu Fan knew that he had ruined his face in front of Li Yichu this time, so he no longer hesitated, looked directly at Liang Xuan and said, "You don't listen to me, right? Well, from now on, you don't have a mother like me."

From this day on, Liu Fan started a hunger strike.

The next day after school, three men were eating instant noodles at the dining table, but Liu Fan still locked himself in the bedroom and couldn't come out.Liang Xuan knocked on the door for a long time, and said good things for a long time, but Liu Fan didn't seem to hear him.Li Yichu put down his chopsticks and returned to his bedroom, sat in front of his desk and looked at the stack of books on the table. He read each book, each book was filled with notes, and each book was the result of staying up late until two or three o'clock .Li Yichu sat for a long time, his eyes were filled with unbearable moisture, he raised his head and sniffled, got up to look for Liang Xuan.

Li Yichu cut to the chase: "Liang Xuan, I can't go to the key class. My grades are not good, and I can't keep up with the progress of the key class. It will be very difficult."

Liang Xuan looked at him and said, "I will teach you."

Li Yichu turned his gaze away, looked at the basketball in the corner and said, "I'm not a student, even if you teach me, I don't want to learn. Tian Tian will be the bottom one in the class, what a blow."

It took Li Yichu a lot of effort to convince Liang Xuan that he was still able to get a medium score in the entrance examination and was assigned to the ordinary class.

It's not that Li Yichu has no regrets in his heart, and he also thought that he still got a high score in the exam and entered the key class, but what about after that?How is he going to stay in this house?Liang Xuan and Liu Fan are relatives, but he is just a sojourner.The three members of the Liang family can quarrel and have conflicts for various reasons, but not because of him.

When Li Yichu came out of the bathroom, the door of the master bedroom was closed, and the door of Liang Xuan's room was ajar. He stood at the door thinking for a few seconds, and finally returned to his room with a wry smile.

He has already been charged without knowing anything about it, so why bother to explain it?What's more, people don't care about the truth.Because he is not his own son, what he cares about is not whether he is good-natured, but not to make him feel that adults are partial. Today is about stealing money, and tomorrow there will be other things.If there is only Liang Xuan in the family, then Uncle Liang and Aunt Liu will definitely ask thoroughly if he stole the money. , it is only right and proper for parents to educate their children.

Li Yichu took out the comic book from under the pillow. The cover was very crafty to the touch. Li Yichu originally planned to put this book in the most conspicuous place in the room, but now it seems that it is better to hide it.Li Yichu knew better than anyone else that his innocence in this family was not important, the most important thing was that he could stay in this family, and it was better to maintain the superficial peace than to make the relationship tense.Since he was a child, he has done many things against his will in order to please Liu Fan, and at the same time he has been silent about many things. Now that there is one more thing, it is not a big deal.

Li Yichu's legs were almost healed after three or four days. Apart from looking a little purple, there was no problem with walking.Liang Xuan didn't know what he was busy these days. Li Yichu went to his classroom several times at noon to find someone, but his classmates said he was not there, but at night they went home together. When Li Yichu asked, Liang Xuan said that he was not busy.

Next week is the May Day holiday, and Li Yichu's class will organize an outing to the Martyrs Memorial Hall in a neighboring county.Li Yichu actually likes to organize extracurricular activities in his class, because every time such activities can make him a small profit.Students like to eat snacks when they go out, but they often don't bring much with them. They are all spoiled children at home. They only carry a small bag when they go out to play, so as not to carry too much weight.Only Li Yichu was different, every extracurricular activity, he would carry a big schoolbag filled with all kinds of snacks, and carefully hand it out to his classmates under the teacher's nose when he arrived at the activity place.

The weather was fine on the day of departure, and the sun was already shining brightly when we left the school at 50:[-] in the morning. A class of [-] people took a bus to a neighboring county.

The site of the Martyrs Memorial Hall is quite large. A group of students followed the tour guide and arrived at noon. The head teacher asked everyone to eat around the grass. Li Yichu followed the old method and asked a student to chat with the teacher to divert her attention. He was busy looking for snacks for the students. , and keep a good account in the notebook, so that it is convenient to return to school and settle accounts with classmates.The contents of a schoolbag were quickly divided up, much faster than he usually sold a bag of contents.

Li Yichu flipped through his schoolbag, and there was only a pack of crispy noodles left, and then he remembered that he forgot to leave his lunch.But it may be because he has been busy all the time, he doesn't feel hungry, but he is very thirsty from the sun.There is a small supermarket in the Martyrs Cemetery, but the prices are two or three times more expensive than outside. A bottle of mineral water costs five yuan, which is worth Li Yichu's daily meals.While everyone was eating and chatting, Li Yichu went to the bathroom alone, took a few handfuls of water from the faucet and drank it, then washed his face and neck with cold water, and did not return to the lawn to gather with the troops until he felt less hot.

After visiting the entire memorial hall in the afternoon, it was past four o'clock. The head teacher specially approved that there is no need for evening self-study today. Students in one class went home by car one after another. Li Yichu didn't want to go back, so he asked the head teacher for the class key and went back to school for self-study.

Li Yichu usually studies very hard. There are no geniuses in this world, and he has no unique capital. Although his grades are average every time, he knows where his level is, where his progress is, and where his mistakes are. Make up little by little.

Li Yichu was sitting by the window, working hard on a math test paper, he was a little confused when he reached the tenth question, he was unconsciously scrolling the test paper with his left hand, and listed various ideas on the draft paper with his right hand.

"Draw a line segment diagram, and you will understand it after looking at the diagram."

Li Yichu, who was being forced into a dead end by himself, was startled by the sound. He turned his head to see that Liang Xuan was leaning against the window sill and looking at the test paper in his hand.

Liang Xuan: "We talked about this test paper last week. This question is very biased. Few people in our class got it right. You can't formulate equations in the old way, you need to draw pictures."

Li Yichu stood up: "Why are you here?"

Liang Xuan: "I guess you will go back to school after the outing, so let's take a look."

Liang Xuan stood outside the window for a while, and originally planned to call someone directly, but seeing that Li Yichu was concentrating on the problem, he didn't bother him. Later, when he saw that his draft paper was getting more and more chaotic, and his thoughts wandered too far, he asked him to remind him.

Li Yichu said with a smile: "Come in, there is no one in the class."

Liang Xuan then entered the class, walked up to Li Yichu and sat down, glanced at his shriveled schoolbag, and asked, "I saw you carrying a big schoolbag on the bus this morning, what's in it?"

Li Yichu's heart skipped a beat. Why didn't he notice where Liang Xuan was in the morning? But it's too late to think about it. He has to find a reason to fool him. His eyes flicked back and forth between the window and the test paper for a few seconds, and then said: "Oh, yes My tablemate, she had a stomachache, so I helped her carry some food and hot water."

Of course Liang Xuan knew who Li Yichu's deskmate was, a very petite girl who really seemed unable to carry heavy things.

Li Yichu secretly glanced at Liang Xuan's face, and seemed to have no doubts about his excuse, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "What are you up to these days? Why can't I find anyone in your classroom?"

Liang Xuan was still in a trance.

Li Yichu looked at him closely, and pushed his shoulder with his hand: "Liang Xuan?"

"...Huh?" Liang Xuan came back to his senses and turned to look at Li Yichu: "What did you say?"

Li Yichu was speechless: "Forget it, it's nothing."

Liang Xuan's gaze returned to the table, and there was a row of books wrapped in white covers neatly stacked in the middle of the bookcases in front of him. The title of each book was written with a black pen on the spine, and the handwriting was clear and neat. , Every stroke is the style he is most familiar with.

Liang Xuan couldn't tell what was going on in his heart at the moment. For the first time, he felt that he was so stupid that he couldn't even read his own emotions. It was just that when he saw that all the books written by this girl were titles written by Li Yichu, his mind was very empty. , Forgot that I had something very important to ask Li Yichu today.

Soon the school bell rang, Li Yichu got up to pack his things, and left the classroom with Liang Xuan to go home.

The two of them still rode their bicycles to the snack street to eat. Liang Xuan chose a small pot soup shop. Li Yichu was just about to sit down when he entered, when he heard a person call him: "Li Yichu?"

It turned out to be Wang Xiaoyu, a classmate in his class.Wang Xiaoyu said happily: "Are you coming to eat? Great, I invite you."

Li Yichu hurriedly said, "Oh no, thank you."

But Wang Xiaoyu has already shouted at the boss: "Dad, this is my classmate, you don't want to take their money. Li Yichu, I haven't paid you the money I should have given you today. I will pay you back for today's meal. Don't push it." ah."

Li Yichu almost knelt down to Wang Xiaoyu, he prayed in his heart that Liang Xuan would not think too much, he agreed to his classmates first, and then immediately explained to Liang Xuan in a low voice: "He borrowed some money from me yesterday."

Liang Xuan looked at him: "How much?"

Li Yichu thought that one lie would cost ten yuan, and he really suffered, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue: "A dozen yuan."

Liang Xuan looked at him quietly for a few seconds, and when Li Yichu was about to call himself out, he lowered his eyes and stopped asking.

Li Yichu silently breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Liang Xuan put all the pork ribs in the soup into Li Yichu's bowl, and watched him finish the whole bowl of meat and rice before taking a symbolic sip of the soup.

After the two returned home, Li Yichu washed up and went back to his desk to continue doing his homework. After looking through his schoolbag, he found that he had also brought back his classmate's practice papers. When he returned to school in the afternoon, Wang Xiaoyu asked him to give him his own practice papers I took it back to school, but I forgot to take it out as soon as I got back to school.

This exercise paper was due early tomorrow morning. Li Yichu took a casual look and found that Wang Xiaoyu had made many mistakes in the types of questions that the teacher had already taught.It was late at night now, so of course he couldn't send the test paper back to Wang Xiaoyu for revision, so he used a pencil to write the steps and answers next to the questions that Wang Xiaoyu made mistakes, so that Wang Xiaoyu could quickly correct them tomorrow morning.

Li Yichu was serious about correcting, when he heard the knock on the door, he put down his pen and went to open the door.

Liang Xuan came in with the milk and put it on the table. He glanced at the test papers on the table. After a few seconds, he looked at Li Yichu and said, "Go to bed after drinking the milk."

Li Yichu nodded with a smile.