Chapter 15
, he loudly interrupted me, "Zhou Xiaoyan, that's enough! It's useless to check the answers now.
Can we focus on tomorrow's exam?" Okay, okay.
I really want to dive into his mind and see what his answers are.
After the last exam, many classmates started throwing books and exam papers from upstairs.
Torn-up exams fluttered down like butterflies without wings.
Yang Lan also roared and threw his own exercise book down.
Seeing me holding onto the book and walking downstairs, he stopped me, "What are you keeping these books for? Are you planning to repeat a grade?" Regardless of whether it is good or bad, this is my only chance.
I won't have the opportunity to repeat a grade in my life.
I shook my head, "No, scrap paper can be sold for money!"
"He looked stunned for a moment and asked, 'How much does it cost?' 'Three mao per jin!' I replied.
'Why didn't you tell me earlier?' he grabbed me and said, 'Come on, let's go down to pick up the money.' 'Where are we going?' I asked.
'We're going downstairs to pick up money!' We picked up a lot of books and exercise books.
They piled up into a small mountain.
We sold them for over eighty yuan.
Yanglan bought two ice creams.
The sunset had already fallen, and the evening glow was grand and magnificent.
We sat on the flag-raising platform and ate ice creams.
I cautiously took a lick and laughed, 'This is my first time eating an ice cream cone, it's so sweet!' Yanglan handed me the just-opened ice cream in his hand and said, 'You can have this too!' I looked into his eyes and said, 'Yanglan, don't look at me with that pitiful gaze.
Regardless of the outcome, I have given it my all.
I'm fine, I don't need pity.' He averted his gaze and looked towards the direction where the sunset was setting.
The last ray of evening glow illuminated his eyes brightly and clearly.
He gently said, 'I'm not pitying you, I admire you.
I admire your perseverance, and how you can persist despite being hit time and time again.
Sometimes I wonder, if I worked as hard as you, maybe I could get into Tsinghua or Peking University.' I gave him a look.
'Dream on, getting into Tsinghua or Peking University isn't possible for ordinary people.
Hard work alone is not enough.' He playfully punched me and said, 'Hey, I'm a genius too!' That night, I called Zhaozhao sister.
'Zhaozhao sister, I finished the exam, I don't feel very good.' It was noisy on her side, but a few seconds later, the background noise disappeared, and her crisp and powerful voice came through, 'Don't overthink it, do your best and leave the rest to fate.
I believe you have already given it your all, so leave the rest to the heavens.' The next day, it started to rain heavily.
The old lady went out to play mahjong in the rain and ended up falling and breaking her leg, unable to move her arm either.
My parents were too busy and couldn't come back.
They asked me to take care of her at home.
The old lady lying on the bamboo bed was restless.
She complained that the food I made was not delicious, that the water I poured for her was too hot, and that I didn't wash her clothes clean.
Every day, she would curse at me, calling me a cursed girl who brings bad luck and loses money.
It was because of me that she slipped on the rainy day; otherwise, she wouldn't have fallen.
'I shouldn't have believed your nonsense back then.
It's impossible for you to get into college with such bad luck.
You should have drowned in a sewer when you were born, so that your father wouldn't have lost his job.
When I recover, I'll get your father to marry you off to that old bachelor in Wang Village and ask him for a dowry of three hundred thousand! I raised you for eighteen years, you have to repay the family.
Are you deaf? Is the mung bean soup cooked yet?' ...