Chucheng

When he got up, he immediately stepped on the two yuan bills under his feet, and then, while tying his shoelaces, he held the money in his hands as if nothing had happened, and took the washbasin to the faucet to wash his face.

Outside the building, a half moon hung in the air. Chen Jie was nervous and excited at the same time. He seemed to have forgotten that he was a boy from a poor family and was doing something shameful.The water from the faucet is close to zero, and it is freezing cold when it touches your hands. Many children in the second grade of junior high school can’t even carry a towel, or they are afraid of the cold, so they directly use the middle part of the towel to wet the area larger than their fist and put it on their face. Just wipe it off to wash your face.Therefore, many students are prone to get chilblain and inflammation at this stage. This is completely caused by insufficient warmth and poor sanitation under harsh conditions.

After Chen Jie finished washing and returned to the dormitory, the students started to get up one after another.At this moment, Chen Jie couldn't care about other things. He imagined that he could eat hot steamed buns for breakfast, which slowly excited his already unconscious stomach.

Morning self-study is usually spent in reciting English, Chinese or politics. The teacher walks between the seats, reminding the students who are dozing and chatting to pay attention to classroom discipline.Chen Jie's attention was not on reading at all, he was sitting on pins and needles in his seat, on the one hand because of the awakening of his stomach brought about by imagining food, on the other hand because of the uneasiness brought about by the act of picking up money; in the classroom, watching Seeing some classmates whispering, he even suspected that they were discussing his behavior of stealing money. Now he is like a frightened ostrich, he doesn't care about so much, he just wants to bury his head in the sand and escape from all this.

Finally, after 60 minutes of morning self-study and morning exercises, Chen Jie silently followed the breakfast eater, and bought two meat buns with the money he picked up, which slightly relieved his two-day hungry stomach.Slowly, he felt that he had gradually returned to normal, just like other students.Like a puppy that fell into cold water, it started to curl up in the corner of the room, and after licking its fur dry, it was finally able to stretch out and walk out into the sun.

Nothing happened all morning. Chen Jie thought that maybe that classmate didn't care about his money being lost, or maybe he thought he had lost it somewhere else. Just when Chen Jie was secretly rejoicing, the thing he was most worried about was happened.

At noon, he went back to the dormitory after eating, and the matter of losing money was being discussed in the dormitory, and Chen Jie's heart suddenly rose to his throat.He clearly felt that the eyes of his classmates looked at him differently. Moreover, when he was leaving the dormitory, some classmates avoided him obviously. They were talking loudly, but when he left, they stopped all of a sudden. Live to discuss.He pretended not to know anything, put the bowl under the bed, and when he was about to leave, a voice stopped him.

"Chen Jie, stand up for a moment. I lost the money. Did you see it?" It was his classmate Zhou who was in the upper bunk who asked him.

Chen Jie's head slammed and he felt dizzy all of a sudden. When he turned around, he saw four or five classmates looking at him. There was no kindness on their faces, and they obviously thought he was the suspect.

"I - how do I know -" In the quiet dormitory, Chen Jie's voice was so small that he could hardly hear himself.

"You haven't eaten in the cafeteria for a few days, how do you suddenly have money to eat?" A fat classmate next to him asked.

"I—" Chen Jie felt that he was about to collapse, and he stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer.Now that it was picked up on the ground in the morning, they probably wouldn't believe it.

"What are you doing? I lent money to Chen Jie." At this time, Wei Guo jumped down from a top bunk inside and said, "Chen Jie, why don't you tell me? I see you have been making noise for a long time. Zhou Shijun, have you looked for it yourself?" Wei Guo was two years older than them all, and he was a head taller than the average classmates. As soon as I entered junior high school, I was appointed as the monitor by the teacher.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wei Guo went on to say: "Now, Zhou Shijun, search carefully, including in the quilt, in the clothes, and under the cotton pad. Everyone also help to search under the bed, thank you everyone Chen Jie, what are you still doing, look for it quickly." Seeing that no one was moving, Wei Guo first said to Chen Jie.

So everyone slowly spread out to help find them at their respective berths.Chen Jie also started to tidy his own bed. Wei Guo bent down and searched under Chen Jie's bed. As expected, he took out a washbasin and lifted it up and said, "Zhou Shijun, what is this?"

Everyone looked back and saw that a green two-dollar banknote was wet and stuck to the bottom of an enamel washbasin. The crumpled smiling faces of two ethnic minority girls made all the students laugh when they saw it. One of the students said : "Zhou Shijun, how did you stick the money on the basin? It surprised us all."

At this time Zhou Shijun also blushed: "It's all my fault, I'm sorry, Chen Jie, I wronged you."

At this time, Chen Jie also stood there blankly, unable to say anything, and he didn't know what to do. Looking up at Wei Guo's smiling face, he felt even more ashamed.

After school, Wei Guo stopped Chen Jie and said he wanted to go home with him.Chen Jie doesn't know how to ride a bicycle yet, so he always walks home or rubs against the bicycles of his fellow villagers. Weiguo's home has to pass through Chen Jie's Chucheng Village, and he always rides back and forth by bicycle.Wei Guo pushed the cart and walked on the road with Chen Jie on the left and right. Wei Guo was much taller than Chen Jie, which seemed a little uncoordinated.

"I'm sorry, monitor, thank you for hiding it for me, I will pay you back." Chen Jie said first.

"You still, I think you don't eat in the cafeteria for almost half a week every week. What's your situation? Is it difficult at home?"

"I——I don't know what to say." Chen Jie responded contradictoryly.

"Tell me about it!" Weiguo stopped the cart and looked at Chen Jie with encouraging eyes.

So Chen Jie whispered to Wei Guo about the situation during this period of time. At first, Wei Guo suspected that he used the money to go out and play game consoles. Some of the money was used to buy second-hand books, and at the same time he didn't want to ask his family for more money, so he could only starve for time.

After hearing Chen Jie's words, Wei Guo thought for a while and said, "I'll follow you to your house later."

Chen Jie quickly said: "Why are you going to my house, you must not tell my parents."

"Don't worry, I have my own solution, so I won't tell your parents." Wei Guo said solemnly, but Chen Jie was skeptical.

On the way home, Wei Guo said again: "Chen Jie, you don't have to pay me back. Teacher Zheng wants me to build a book corner in the class, so that everyone can donate their books and put them in the book corner, so that each other Borrowing, didn’t you buy a lot of books? You can put them in the library corner, and if you donate a lot, you can get some subsidies from the class fee. Do you think it’s feasible?”

Chen Jie looked at Wei Guo, and his voice trembled with emotion: "Squad leader, thank you for being so considerate for me, I will never spend money on books in the future."

"It's not wrong to like to read books. I also like to read books. With the book corner, we can share good books with each other." Wei Guo said clearly.

In the evening, Weiguo had dinner at Chen Jie's house, and specially asked for dried vegetables such as lotus root balls, fried sausages with bream and pepper that Chen Jie brought to school. When eating it, she shouted that it was delicious, and Chen's mother said that she liked it so much. From now on, she would ask Chen Jie to bring more vegetables, and also bring some to Weiguo.After hearing this, Wei Guo smiled and blinked at Chen Jie. Chen Jie immediately understood Wei Guo's plan, and now he thanked the monitor from the bottom of his heart for keeping the secret for him.

"Oh, monitor, my good monitor!"

Laugh out of discord

From Weiguo's point of view, Chen Jie is a special classmate with a gentle personality but unyielding. He has been praised by the math teacher Mr. Gong since he entered school. He was the only one who was completely correct in the entrance examination questions, so he was given the correct answer. I was deeply impressed. Later, under his observation, this Chen Jie was often ranked No. 2 in mathematics, but his scores in other liberal arts were terrible. In addition, he also found that Chen Jie could not eat for two or three days. The first time he saw him lying on the desk alone after being hungry for a few days, he hurried to buy him a piece of bread, and the second time he went back to the dormitory just in time to see Chen Jie hesitating in front of the money on the ground——Chen Jie Jack thought he hadn't seen it.Since the incident of losing money, Wei Guo used his wit to resolve Chen Jie's embarrassing situation, and used the opportunity of the class to run a book corner to save Chen Jie from spending on books. Wei Guo and Chen Jie have become inseparable instead. Good friends, we also eat the dishes brought from home together, and sometimes Wei Guo will accompany Chen Jie to save money: the two of them only order one dish in the cafeteria and eat together.On the contrary, Chen Jie felt that eating with the monitor gave him more confidence and courage in front of his classmates.

Weiguo's prestige comes from his innate physical condition. For example, he is 1.7 meters tall and is the tallest in his class. He goes to school two years later than his classmates, so he is much more mature than his classmates. ;The other part comes from his grades, his total grades and another classmate Xu Yanbing are often in the top two in the same grade.Regardless of teachers or classmates, there is a kind of heartfelt praise for students with good grades. These advantages make him more comfortable in handling class affairs and full of confidence in everything.For example, he made the students in the dormitory believe that it was because of Zhou Shijun's sloppy tricks that he stuck the money to him.