Meng Yan's Transformation

Zhan Mengyan read under the moonlight every night, which made her feel a unique sense of tranquility and concentration, and she indeed achieved good results in the final exam.

It was winter vacation. Zhan Mengyan took the "Parent Notice" home and handed it to Zhan Yu. Zhan Yu saw the grades and teacher's comments on the "Parent Notice" and said with satisfaction: "Mengyan, I was right - you don't have to study hard after school, you can still get good grades. As long as you master a good study method, it is much better than studying hard. Mengyan, don't be proud. Try to make further progress in the next semester. After entering the third year of junior high school, work hard to get into a key high school..."

Zhan Mengyan was listening carefully to Zhan Yu's lecture, and Yunqing was eager to grab the "Parent Notice". Yunqing looked at Zhan Mengyan's final grades on the "Parent Notice", and tears blurred her eyes...

"Yunqing, I haven't even finished what I said yet, and you're already grabbing the Parent Notice. What the hell are you doing? Look, you're so excited, isn't it exaggerated? Mengyan just got a good grade in the final exam, is it necessary to make you burst into tears?" Zhan Yu said puzzled.

Yunqing said nothing. She just carefully opened the gauze wrapped around Zhan Mengyan's frozen hands and prepared to apply medicine to them. The color of the chilblains changed from deep red to light purple. They were red, swollen, and blistered. Pus and blood oozed from the edges of the blisters. The joints of her fingers were frozen hard, like a work of art just created by a sculptor. They had lost their original softness and agility. The nails also lost their vitality and became dull... Yunqing's tears fell on Zhan Mengyan's frozen hands. She choked and whispered, "You use this hand to melt the ice flowers on the window glass every night, right?"

Zhan Mengyan looked at Yunqing in astonishment, then said with a smile: "My left hand is just frostbitten, my right hand is fine. I write with my right hand now. The frostbitten left hand helps me correct the bad habit of writing with my left hand. Mom, didn't you often discipline me because I like to write with my left hand and the pen falls down easily? This time my left hand is injured, and it hurts as soon as I write with my left hand. It's much more painful than when you hit my left hand with bamboo chopsticks to correct me from writing with my left hand. This is God helping mom to discipline me, hehe..."

"Mengyan, your left hand is so frozen, and you can still smile. It's winter vacation now, and the nights are getting colder. I want to watch over you. I don't allow you to use your left hand to melt the ice, otherwise the frostbite on your left hand will rot more and more seriously." Yunqing said with concern, changing the medicine for Zhan Mengyan's left hand and re-bandaging it.

Zhan Mengyan looked at Yunqing's red eyes from crying, wiped her tears with her right hand and said, "Mom, I will listen to you and stop using my left hand to melt the ice flowers. Don't be sad..."

"What are you two whispering about? What about ice flowers and snowflakes? It's really confusing and I don't understand. The frostbite on Zhan Yingying's hands and feet when she was in Heilongjiang was much worse than Zhan Mengyan's now, and I didn't see you, Yunqing, shed a tear! Isn't it normal for children in Northeast China to have frozen hands and feet? Looking at your sour look, I really can't understand it." Zhan Yu asked even more puzzled.

"What can you understand? You just know how to be stingy and save electricity. Otherwise, why would Mengyan's hands be so frozen!" Yunqing retorted.

"Hey? Yunqing, you are constipated and can't poop, so you blame the earth for having no gravity! Explain yourself clearly, how can you blame me for Zhan Mengyan's frostbite on her left hand?" Zhan Yu said angrily, lowered his head, picked up a shoe and hit Yunqing with it.

Zhan Mengyan didn't want her father and mother to quarrel because of her, and she didn't want her father to know that she studied under the moonlight at night. She winked at Yunqing and said, "Dad, don't be angry. My hands have frostbite. How can you blame it on you? It's my hand that is too delicate. I get frostbite every year. This is the root of the disease left over from when I was in Heilongjiang. I heard that if you boil water with eggplant vine stalks and wash your frozen hands, the root of the disease can be removed by washing them several times. Mom, please go to my sister Guihua and get me some eggplant vine stalks. I will start washing them every day tonight." Zhan Mengyan pushed Yunqing out of the door while speaking, looking at Yunqing with pleading eyes.

Yunqing walked towards Guihua's house with tears in her eyes.

Time flies, the winter vacation is over in a blink of an eye, and the new semester has begun. Chemistry and physics, as new subjects in junior high school, have added many new contents. Zhan Mengyan's second grade nine class selected new chemistry and physics class representatives.

Zhan Mengyan was busy hosting the opening ceremony of the new semester and rehearsing a dance performance, and felt overwhelmed. She resigned from her position as class representative to the school's music teacher Zhang Lang, and planned to resign from all positions in the arts backbone team to the school's arts instructor after the school's opening ceremony.

Deputy monitor Zhang Yanli had always coveted Zhan Mengyan's position as monitor, so she spread rumors in the class that Zhan Mengyan was disheartened and would not do anything. One day during lunch break, Zhang Yanli and her classmates gathered in a circle and said, "Zhan Mengyan resigned from the position of music class representative. She thought she had a good voice and the music teacher Zhang Lang would keep her, but in the end, Xiao Liuhui became the music class representative. She had better resign from all positions. She thought the world would stop without her."

"Yes, yes, Zhan Mengyan is too arrogant. I think Yanli is more suitable to be the class monitor."

"Zhan Mengyan is too busy. She didn't even attend her self-study classes. She was busy preparing for the performance at the school's opening ceremony."

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The opening ceremony of the school started with the announcement of Zhan Mengyan. After the school leaders made speeches, there was a dance performance led by Zhan Mengyan. Finally, the ceremony ended with the singing of "Let's Row the Boat" led by Zhan Mengyan.