Chucheng

Yes, the little friends walked home together, and a series of laughter wafted across the field.

help the poor

In the second grade of junior high school, after the adjustment of class personnel, there are still five classes retained, one experimental class, two fast classes, and two slow classes. Whether it is at the school or family level, it is also said that children in slow classes are only required to complete the compulsory education required by the state.

Chucheng Middle School only arranges to live on campus in the second year of junior high school. Firstly, some students in the first year of junior high school are too young to take care of themselves; For their own children, parents do not want them to live in school.By the second day of junior high school, they generally began to grow taller. At the same time, in order to cope with the pressure of the upcoming graduating class, they were properly asked to leave their parents who have taken care of them for more than ten years, and live a collective life alone to improve the collective life. Ability is good for these students. At the same time, Chen Jie and Lin Yi are also full of expectations for the life in the dormitory.

住校生的课程比初一的时候要安排得紧得多，特别是实验班，目的很明确，就是学校专向重点培养，用来增加学校的升学率和知名度的，所以要求是严上加严。这点从课程表上就可以表现出来：早上5：30起床开始新的一天，15分钟洗漱，5：45-6：30到教室早自习；6：30-6：45是早操时间，6：45-7:15是早餐，7：15-7：45是早读，8：00到12：00是上午的四节大课时间；下午从1：00开始到5：00也是四节大课，晚上6：00开始上晚自习，一直到9：00结束，10：00宿舍关灯睡觉，一天满满当当的学习生活才宣告结束。

For Chen Jie, collective life is of course fresh and fun. Strictly speaking, he is still a naughty boy. Like his sister, compared with his peers, he has no signs of growing taller, and his face is childish. I am ignorant of the relationship between male and female students, but I can also understand what kind of people I like to stay with and when to keep a distance.

The collective dormitory is a row of two-story buildings, with boys on the first floor and girls on the second floor. In each room, there are seven bunk beds along the walls on both sides. Due to limited conditions, two classmates sleep in one bed, so There are a total of 28 students in a room.It is conceivable that such freshness and coke energy were not long before they were diluted by the densely arranged courses, and the most happy time left for them was to go to the dormitory for self-study at nine o'clock in the evening and turn off the lights, and there would be a period of chatting in bed time, but this time will not be long, because the teacher who rounds the room will appear at the window at any time, and after the students who do not follow the bedtime rules are invited to the door to feel the coolness of the night, the dormitory will gradually calm down .

What really made Chen Jie uncomfortable was not the group life in the dormitory, nor his academic performance.In the first year of junior high school, after hard work in the second half of the semester, with the help of Lin Yi, his grades also maintained a steady rise.Now after the shift, the seats have also been adjusted, and he no longer sits at the same table with Lin Yi and Lin Yongsheng, but fortunately, he has persisted in some of the original habits, such as writing vocabulary, so his grades in the entrance exams have not fallen behind.

What really made him uncomfortable was his financial situation. Originally, after he came to live in school, his parents also brought rice from home to exchange for meal tickets in the cafeteria based on what Chen Min spent in school. Prepare some canned dishes at home, such as fried lotus root, fried sausage, etc., and give three yuan pocket money every week.Make sure to spend money on the stove to buy a few dishes and eat a few meals after eating the dishes you brought. There is no evening self-study on Saturdays, and you can go home to bring vegetables after school on Saturdays.

However, since living in school, the first one or two months were normal, and the more I went to Chen Jie, the more I felt that such a plan was disrupted.First of all, there is a fixed amount of three yuan every week, but sometimes Chen Jie will occasionally buy some school supplies, so he has to pay out of this three yuan.Especially when Chen Jie knew that there was a second-hand bookstall at the school gate, he often went to the second-hand bookstall to spend money to buy some second-hand books to read, all of which were children's literature, juvenile literature, fairy tale kings, and some villain books, etc. Wait, these are hard to see in rural areas. For Chen Jie, it was like discovering a treasure. Basically, he would buy one or two copies at the stall every week.After coming and going, three yuan is not enough for food. Chen Jie knew that his family’s conditions were not good since he was a child. Others lived in brick houses, but his house was still adobe, so he never asked his parents for more money. , three yuan is already several times more than when my sister was at school. When my sister Chen Min was studying in Chucheng Middle School, she sometimes didn't spend a penny for a week.From this point of view, Chen Min has always been a role model for Chen Jie, so he thinks that three yuan is already the limit that his family can afford, and he can't ask for more money from his family.

Therefore, all of Chen Jie's expenses came from the three yuan a week, including the usual school supplies, used book fees, test paper fees, team member fees, etc.When I first lived in school, I felt that there were not so many expenses. As the weather became colder and colder, Chen Jie felt that the dishes he brought could not last for three days. When the students in the dormitory eat together, they will share with each other. They usually finish eating two cans of food in two days, and use the remaining money to eat for a day or two, so that they have to stop cooking for the rest of the day. For two or three days, I couldn't eat a meal.This happened frequently, and Chen Jie had gradually gotten used to it. Whenever he stopped cooking and eating, he would use the excuse of going to the school where used books and newspapers were sold to pass the time.What he is most afraid of is that such a situation will be discovered by his classmates and make fun of his family's poverty.

No, last month's midterm exams were scheduled on Thursday, Friday, and June. It happened to be the three days when Chen Jie was completely out of food. Playing checkers inside (this classmate brought the checkers to the dormitory to play)—the class teacher on duty, Mr. Zheng, found out and confiscated it.The strict teacher Zheng will definitely not return it. If he finds it, he may even let his parents come to school. This is what Chen Jie doesn't want to see.In order to make up for the loss of the classmate in the same shop, he compensated half of the price of the classmate's checkers - three yuan, and the result was that he was ready to starve for three days.He could hold on to the exams for the first two days, but on the morning of the third day, he was so hungry that he insisted on finishing the morning politics exam. He fell asleep on the seat weakly, and everyone went to the cafeteria to eat , he is the only one in the classroom, usually he would take this opportunity to look for books at the old book stand at the door, today he is completely hungry and has no strength at all, so he doesn’t want to go anywhere, only one belief is still supporting him Look at him: Persist in the afternoon exam, he can go home, and he can have a good meal when he gets home.

When he was drowsy, there were footsteps in the classroom, and he stopped beside him. He felt a hand put a plastic bag in the drawer of his desk, and he opened his eyes. Song's eyes saw that it was a butter bread wrapped in plastic paper, tears welled up from his eyes immediately, he saw a figure walking out from the door of the classroom, he saw that it was Wei Guo.He was very moved. Weiguo noticed him when he needed help the most and gave him help without asking why, which saved him from embarrassment when facing his classmates.

In the silent classroom, with tears of gratitude, Chen Jie swallowed the bread full of the deep friendship of Weiguo. He was as timid as a frightened mouse, afraid of making the slightest sound.

Before and after the winter solstice, the dawn was very late. When the wake-up bell rang at 5:30, there was still silence in the dormitory. Chen Jie was awakened by the wake-up bell. He knew that today was Saturday again, and he was hungry again and hadn’t eaten for two days.Maybe it's because winter is here and he already consumes more energy, so he feels hungrier than usual.When the bell rang, the students in the dormitory did not move. Generally, this silent situation lasted until 10 minutes before class, and everyone would get up from the bed as if they had been shocked collectively, and hurriedly put on clothes and shoes. Get water and wash your face.

Chen Jie woke up. Like most of his classmates, he didn't like to stay in bed until the last moment before rushing to wash up.He often gets up as soon as the light is on, and he likes to do things leisurely.Today he was a little hesitant, the bed was so comfortable, the low temperature in the early morning outside was cruel to him who had been hungry for two days, he struggled for a while, and saw Wei Guo put on his clothes and holding a washbasin out.He got up slowly, put on his clothes, and when he was putting on his shoes, a pair of trousers fell on the ground. He knew it was a classmate named Zhou on the upper bunk, so he picked up the trousers and threw them on the upper bunk bed.All of a sudden, he was stunned. He found a green two-yuan bill lying crumpled on the ground. Chen Jie felt blood rushing to his head. The two-yuan bill was enough to feed him for two days!He has been hungry for two days. In the morning, he was ready to continue to be hungry. Now there are two yuan lying in front of him. Hunger prompted him to make a move that overcame his reason: the sound of Weiguo's footsteps outside the door