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Tan Ming hasn't returned home yet, unaware that his WeChat account has exploded.
Du Feiyang and a few people knew about Tan Ming's sudden death playing basketball at school, and the WeChat group that had been silent for a long time returned to the excitement.
Du Feiyang, Tidbits, Yu Qingyan, Tan Ming, and Xu Qing have been friends since junior high school. But since Tan Ming likes Lu Lingshan, the relationship with the tidbits has not been so good.
Only Du Feiyang has a strong relationship with him.
The news of Tan Ming's almost sudden death filled this long-silent group with 999+ news.
Yu Qingyan asked, "What's the matter with Tan Ming?"
Du Feiyang told several other people the news from Tan Ming's mother, focusing on the golden four minutes of rescue. Because four minutes after cardiac arrest, brain tissue will be irreversibly damaged due to lack of oxygen.
Du Feiyang said, "That's why I didn't become the stupid son of the landlord's family, thanks to Xiuxiu." The
others were silent for a while, and then said in shock, "Xiuxiu is awesome
!"
Yu Qingyan said, "The monitor also Awesome."
Xu Qing took a rare bubble: "It was Xiuxiu who just happened to call me."
Tan Ming took out the crumpled one hundred yuan from his wallet, obviously to repay his favor, but Zhou Xiu ended up His father gave him a hundred dollars. After all the calculations, it doesn't seem to be of much help today.
He frowned, opened WeChat and asked, "So how should I thank her? She doesn't want money."
Tan Ming asked sincerely.
Trivia reply: "Tell me, you are the solution set of 2X > 4."
Two to positive infinity.
Tan Ming: "..."
No, although he is a scumbag, he can't insult people like this, right?
The tidbit said directly: "What is Xiuxiu lacking the most? Isn't her English performance the most fatal thing? If her English is as good as ours, she will be soft on the scholarship."
Tan clearly understands.
Zhou Xiu is indeed more suitable for a scholarship.
Therefore, Tan Ming frowned and thought about how to improve his English grades. It was impossible for Zhou Xiu's family to hire a tutor or go abroad to study in an English-speaking environment. After thinking for a long time, Tan Ming asked Xu Qing for help.
Xu Qing simply said a few words.
Tan Ming, who was instructed, quickly formed an English study group, and by the way, he pulled all these people into the group.
"You also have a share. Zhou Xiu also helped you improve your mathematics, physics and chemistry last semester."
Everyone: "..."
We didn't say we didn't help, did we?
Tan Ming didn't mention Zhou Xiu's family background to them, but chose the one that saves money, is cheap and popular when choosing the event arrangement. He picked a time when Zhou Xiu went to biology class and asked her to watch an English movie.
In the evening, Zhou Xiu received news one after another that several people had made an appointment to watch a movie together, and she couldn't help frowning.
Zhou Xiu rarely watched movies, and the only impression of watching movies was when the school organized to watch patriotic movies in high school. If Zhou Xiu was allowed to arrange her spare time, she would definitely not think of going to the movies.
At this time, Zhou Xiu timely remembered a task issued by the system.
System: [Watching an English movie, the core lines can reach the level of simple memory, reward 200BRM. 】
Although Zhou Xiu thinks she can't do it, she is willing to try to challenge herself. She replied to the tidbit, "Okay." On
Monday, Zhou Xiu picked up her schoolbag after her biology class and was about to buy a movie ticket.
Xu Qing stopped her, "You don't need to buy it, Tan Ming has already bought it. Let's go have a meal first."
Senior high school students are still making up classes during the winter vacation, and the school's canteen is still open for business. Xu Qing and Zhou Xiu went to the dining hall to have a light meal.
The other students in the biology class saw it and smiled kindly.
After eating, Xu Qing and Zhou Xiu took the subway to the cinema.
When they arrived at the entrance of the cinema, Xu Xu and Yu Qingyan had already had hot drinks in the rest area.
The two were dressed in exquisite and beautiful clothes, and their bodies were covered with the taste of Bai Fumei, which made the public movie theater look like a high-end restaurant.
Du Feiyang arrived a few minutes late, he saw the bracelet on Tan Ming's wrist sharply, turned his back and laughed half-dead.
He said, "Mother clearly feels sorry for him now. I specially made a bracelet for him, so that he is not allowed to stay up late or not eat on time."
Tan Ming turned his face expressionlessly and glared at Du Feiyang.
Xu Qing went to buy four servings of popcorn and coke and handed them to several other people. He said to Zhou Xiu, "Watching more English movies will help your English. I'll pay attention to memorizing the lines later."
Zhou Xiu nodded.
A group of four people walked into the movie theater, and a group of handsome men and beautiful women walked together, causing the people in the movie theater to be so amazed they couldn't help but look sideways.
Only Zhou Xiu was still wearing a school uniform and carrying a schoolbag. Dressing up is standard middle school student appearance.
"Look, look over there, there are a lot of handsome guys and beauties." The young lady whispered in Xu Qing's direction.
"It's nice to be young while still carrying a schoolbag."
"Are they taking their sisters to the movies?"
"Don't console yourself, they're obviously bringing their girlfriends here, okay?"
Until they saw another person, The voices of the ladies and sisters stopped abruptly: at the other end of the movie theater, at the ticket gate for single people, a handsome boy like a star walked into the movie hall silently.
How do you know it was set up by a single person? A girl chased after him and asked for contact information and was stopped by the staff. She was angry and took out her mobile phone: "Which movie is this , can I still buy a ticket?" The staff shook his head regretfully, "I'm sorry this theater has been reserved."
At the ticket gate of another theater, Tan Ming and Du Feiyang walked in front with popcorn and Coke. Xu Qing took two servings of popcorn and didn't ask for Coke.
Zhou Xiu neither likes popcorn nor coke. I didn't ask for the snacks in Xu Qing's hand.
Xu Qing had to take two copies by himself.
Halfway through the movie, Du Feiyang and Tan Ming received news of the school basketball team's temporary training camp. I originally planned to accompany Zhou Xiu to watch a movie all afternoon, but now I can't help it.
Yu Qingyan also has urgent matters to deal with. She leaned in and said softly, "I'm sorry Sister Xu Xiuxiu, I'm in a hurry and I can't watch the next one." The
tidbit whispered: "Enough is enough after watching this, come back next time."
In the dark environment, Yu Qing When Yan got close to Zhou Xiu, she found that she kept reciting lines in her mouth.
She's not watching a movie, she's memorizing lines.
The people around were immersed in the movie, either nervous or happy, only Zhou Xiu was memorizing the movie lines seriously. She doesn't seem to care how the plot goes, because she's busy reciting lines.
Yu Qingyan: "..."
Zhou Xiu watched most of the movie, her head swelled, and she realized that she was already reciting it. She exited the theater, walked outside and tried hard to recall the lines she had memorized. She took out her pen and asked the system:
[Are 20 core lines enough? ]
Zhou Xiu is not quite sure what the core lines are, she has to ask the system before writing. Only 200 yuan, what if you are asked to write 200 sentences? This Zhou Xiu couldn't even beat him to death.
System: [...]
Okay, you have the final say.
[Frozen 2, recite 20 core lines to the level of simple memory, reward 200RMB. 】
Zhou Xiu wrote it down with a swipe.
She read and wrote, starting with simple lines, line by line.
When she finally got ten sentences and read the tenth sentence, she got stuck.
"Now I know you're true—"
She stumblingly recalled, and corrected herself: "Now I know you're my true north cause, cause..."
Zhou Xiu couldn't help holding her forehead, why is English so difficult.
Even rote memorization can be wrong.
Give Zhou Xiu a series of numbers, and she can memorize it by gritting her teeth, but she is not good at English. At this time, another male voice
continued lightly: "cause I am lost in the woods. Up is down, day is night, When you're not there."
With its own characteristics, it is magnetic and low-pitched.
His voice was so soft that it seemed to be blown away by the wind.
Zhou Xiu heard it and hurriedly memorized it, grabbed the pen and wrote it down, when the last word fell.
[Ding - "Frozen 2" core lines 20 lines recited to the level of simple memory, reward 200RMB. 】
She looked back and found that it was Xi Shaoyuan.
Xi Shaoyuan glanced at her, turned around and left the cinema without saying a word.
"Now I know you're my true north cause I am lost in the woods. Up is down, day is night, When you're not there.."
Lost in the forest made me discover that you are my Big Dipper, guide me in the direction. In your absence, I was upside down, day and night.
...
Zhou Xiu was rewarded and waited outside the cinema for the friends who had finished watching the movie to come out.
The tidbits and Tan Ming, Du Feiyang, and Xu Qing walked out side by side, and found that Zhou Xiu was sitting on the table outside, scribbling and painting a page full of movie lines.
The tidbit was taken aback: "..."
This is too damn serious, how did Zhou Xiu grow up, did she eat so much cuteness?
Grass, Trivia stepped forward and rubbed Zhou Xiu's head vigorously, messing up her hairstyle.
Xu Qing took the draft paper and glanced at it, "It's not bad to be able to memorize so much in a short period of time. It's unexpected. It's even better when I go back and consolidate it."
He took out a pen and quickly corrected: "Here and here, the grammar is wrong."
The audience who left the theater one after another, admired the handsome guy's smile gradually solidified: "..."
Tan Ming & Du Feiyang & the trio of tidbits, all kept silent: "..."
I may not want to bring the monitor out to watch movies in the future.
...
the end of the year is approaching.
Zhou Cheng was so busy at his noodle stall that when the couple collected money, they often miscalculated.
If it wasn't for Zhou Xiu to correct it, I'm afraid I would have lost a lot of money.
At the beginning of doing this kind of small business, the profits are not high, and the miscalculation will be in vain. But their literacy level is very low, and this kind of mistake cannot be avoided.
Zhou Xiu simply taught her father how to calculate the number quickly and cleverly. She asked Zhou Cheng to directly memorize some fixed combinations, such as noodles + eggs, noodles + shredded chicken, noodles + eggs + chicken wings, noodles + chicken shreds + soy milk... According to the probability Arrangement of high and low frequencies.
As long as the guests report that there are these things in the combination, it will be fine to calculate on this basis.
Zhou Xiu also suggested that Zhou Cheng change the price to something convenient to calculate. Zhou Cheng's head hurt when he heard it, and he shook his head dizzily, "No, no, I don't understand."
"Xiuer, I can't remember.
Zhou Xiu shook his head helplessly, wrote a few combinations directly and marked the price at the back, "Then get a signboard and make a set meal. It's 50 cents or 1 piece cheaper than buying a random one. Customers will definitely choose the set menu." Zhou
Cheng heard this . The method is simple and rude. He nodded frantically: "This is good, this is good!"
After Zhou Cheng solved this problem, the efficiency increased significantly. He was very busy, leaving early in the morning and returning late, and he could stand by the noodle stall for ten hours a day.
Zhou Xiu couldn't help but persuade him: "Don't work so hard, what matters is your feet or money?"
Zhou Cheng scratched his head naively, "I didn't expect to make so much money selling food here.
" Zhou Cheng already felt honored to do the wedding banquet. He is too rubbish, he can't even farm well, causing his wife and daughter to starve and freeze.
Zhou Cheng earns fifty or one hundred yuan each time he cooks feasts for other people's houses. Sometimes the host will give two hundred yuan generously. Although this kind of work does not happen often, it is not bad in the valley where the per capita annual income is only about 3,000 yuan.
Now the income from setting up a small stall is frightening for Zhou Cheng. He can support his whole family by his craftsmanship. No matter how hard you work, you can still afford Xiu'er to read.
Liu Mei flipped through the calendar and asked Zhou Cheng, "It's almost New Year's Eve, when will I buy a ticket to go home?"
Zhou Xiu raised her head to drink water stiffly, she clenched the water glass tightly.
Zhou Xiu didn't plan to go back to that disgusting "home", which was not really home to her.
Zhou Cheng was stunned when he counted the money. He buried his head and said casually: "The business is too busy, so I won't go back."
Zhou Cheng was not so happy when he counted the money.
If Grandma Zhou wanted to sell Zhou Cheng, Zhou Chengcheng would not have any complaints. But she was going to sell his most distressed daughter in exchange for her nephew's dowry, and Zhou Cheng would not go home for the New Year.
Liu Mei secretly pursed her lips and whispered to Zhou Xiu, "Your father blamed your mother-in-law for selling you for a bride price."
She also complained.
"Then I'll tell your mother that I'm busy this year and don't have time to go home."
Zhou Cheng counted the money and didn't even answer.
On New Year's Eve, Zhou Cheng bought a lot of fruits and vegetables, two chickens in his left hand, and two ducks in his right hand. Liu Mei, carrying heavy pork, bought a rare shrimp, crab, and seafood to try.
The New Year's Eve dinner was very rich.
Zhou Cheng has been soaking in the kitchen since noon, killing chickens and geese, peeling crabs and scalding shrimp.
Liu Mei and Zhou Xiu cleaned up diligently and tore off the old Spring Festival couplets and happy talismans from last year. Zhou Cheng suddenly remembered something, and shouted to his wife: "Come and see a fire, I'll go buy some drinks."
Zhou Xiu likes to drink coconut milk very much.
But in previous years, they were not allowed to eat at the table during the New Year's Eve, and the drinks for the New Year's Eve were not hers.
Zhou Cheng ran a few streets and finally found Zhou Xiu's coconut milk in a large supermarket, and he hugged it back sweatingly. At this time, Zhou Cheng saw Xi Shaoyuan's shadow on the street.
He shouted, "Master Xi."
Xi Shaoyuan turned his head inadvertently.
Zhou Cheng asked him, "Why don't you go home for dinner, it's New Year's Eve."
Xi Shaoyuan said: "We don't have the habit of New Year's, I just took my mother to the airport."
Zhou Cheng was stunned for a while, and inexplicably felt that this young master was so pitiful, he said, "Would you like to come to my house for a meal, I did it There are so many dishes!"
Xi Shaoyuan was silent, neither answering nor refusing. Zhou Cheng simply pulled him up and led him home.
Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei are setting dishes one after another, putting rice on the table and chopsticks.
They were stunned when they saw the person Zhou Cheng brought home.
Zhou Cheng humbly said: "Mrs. Xi is not at home, let's celebrate the New Year together this year."
Zhou Cheng has cooked a lot of dishes. He usually cooks too many feasts for the villagers, and when he is in the country, the Zhou family's annual New Year's Eve dinner is also He made it himself. But never really cook only for wife and daughter.
This time, he made a lot of things. Beer duck made of beer lemon, shredded chicken mixed with sesame oil, spicy stir-fried crab, boiled shrimp, delicious black chicken and wolfberry soup, Ganmei basil short ribs, brightly colored Dongpo Meat.
There was a full table, full of color and fragrance, and the fragrance hooked the neighbors who couldn't help but come over to eat a piece of meat.
Hand-shredded chicken with sesame oil, the chicken shreds are tender and tender, and the chicken skin is tender and fatty but not greasy.
The crabs were stir-fried to the extreme, and the beer duck had a mellow taste with a scent of wheat. After eating Dongpo meat and drinking chicken soup, the mouth was full of oil.
Zhou Cheng poured himself white wine, subconsciously treating Xi Shaoyuan as an adult, and poured him half a bowl of white wine.
Liu Mei scolded him: "Master Xi is still a child like Xiu'er, what are you messing around with?"
Zhou Cheng poured him coconut milk again, and took the half bowl of white wine to drink by himself, "Hehe, this is Aren't you too happy?"
Xi Shaoyuan said, "It doesn't matter."
He finished the bowl of wine.
Zhou Xiu's parents ate very quickly, and so did Zhou Xiu, Rao Shi's most important New Year's Eve dinner was finished within an hour.
Xi Shaoyuan ate some food after drinking, and sat on the sofa with a red face as if he had fallen asleep.
Zhou Xiu finished cleaning the table, and after washing the dishes, he found Xi Shaoyuan lying motionless and closing his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep. The small sofa is only wide enough for one person, and he can't even put his legs down.
Why do you come to squeeze this pitifully small place without sleeping in your own warm and spacious villa.
Zhou Xiu shook Xi Shaoyuan, and Xi Shaoyuan said vaguely, "Xiuer, stop making trouble."
Xiuer, stop making trouble.
Zhou Xiu was stunned on the spot.
The name "Xiu'er" is only called by Zhou Cheng and his wife and some elders who are close to Zhou Xiu in the countryside. Zhou Xiu's classmates know another meaning of the word "Xiu'er" and rarely call Zhou Xiu this way.
Zhou Xiu pursed her lips and looked at Xi Shaoyuan who was asleep with a cold gaze.
After a long time, Zhou Xiucai pushed him to wake up: "Go back to your own house to sleep."
Xi Shaoyuan opened his eyes, a layer of water mist covered his eyes, and the tear moles around the corners of his eyes sparkled. He was confused for a while, and then his eyes gradually gradually Focus restored.
Xi Shaoyuan stood up, "Yeah."