stepping into the night

The Ruan family's parents were considerate of the two children, and deliberately let the siblings sleep more during the holidays, so they did not wake them up when they went to work in the morning, and even the movement of getting up and tidying up was as light as possible, so as not to disturb the sleeping in the living room Ruan Chu cooked breakfast for the siblings in a steamer over a simmer.

The tutoring institution does not require arriving at 09:30 a.m. like when Ruan Chu was working as a teaching assistant in the summer vacation, and because his student tutoring time is in the afternoon, he only needs to sign in at the institution before [-]:[-] a.m.

But he has already developed the habit of getting up early, and now he is still thinking about making New Year gifts for Lin Jiang and his roommates. He got up before eight o'clock, packed himself up, put the folding desk on the tatami, and sat cross-legged On the side, start sketching the puppet to be made with pen and paper.

The first one is for Lin Jiang. Ruan Chu frowned and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know what kind of puppet he wanted to make for Lin Jiang. It's okay, he wants to give Lin Jiang the most perfect one.

But he still doesn't know what color Lin Jiang likes, what smell he likes, and what preferences he has, which makes Ruan Chu feel a little frustrated—when he thought he and Lin Jiang were already very close, but Then I realized that I didn't really know Lin Jiang.

The quartz clock hanging on the white wall swayed towards the [-]:[-] position, and the sketch on the paper was less than half.

Ruan Chu put all the paper and pens into the old document bag he used to put the certificates, got up and knocked on the door of the small room to remind his sister to get up early for dinner.

"Brother." Ruan Yun quickly came out of the room, her hair was still messy, she walked up to Ruan Chu on the woolen slippers knitted by her mother, and said good morning to Ruan Chu while suppressing a yawn.

"I did my homework late last night?" Ruan Chu Mingming remembered that the door of Ruan Yun's room was closed when he came back, so he must have fallen asleep.

"Well, no." Ruan Yun shook her head, "Maybe it was because I had too much time at the end of the semester, and now I feel sleepy after the holiday."

"Then go back to sleep after eating," Ruan Chu helped her push down a bunch of hair on the top of her head, "Remember to eat three meals on time, otherwise it will be bad for the stomach."

——This was what Lin Jiang said to him last semester when he was guarding him to eat on time.

"Don't sleep, I made an appointment with my classmates today to go to the bookstore to buy the real test papers for the college entrance examination." Ruan Yun rubbed her eyes and smiled sweetly at Ruan Chu.

"Okay, then you can eat out with your classmates at noon. I don't think there are many meals in the refrigerator. You may not be able to cook at home." Ruan Chu thought for a while, took his schoolbag from the sofa, and took out a few hundred from the interlayer. The yuan was put in Ruan Yun's hands, "After buying the books, go shopping with your friends and buy something you like."

Ruan Yun, who couldn't stop yawning, woke up immediately, and hurriedly pushed back the several hundred dollars that Ruan Chu put in her hand: "No, no, no! I haven't used the money you gave me on my birthday last time. And I didn't touch the one you gave me before the start of school last semester, brother, you can keep it for yourself, it's much better that you gave me, I don't need it."

"Brother has a job now. It's okay. You can save it for emergencies. You will need to buy more teaching materials and school books when you are in your second and third grades." Ruan Chu said warmly with a smile.

Ruan Yun bit her lip, knowing that Ruan Chu wanted to indirectly relieve her parents' burden of earning money to support the family, so she didn't refuse any more, and obediently accepted it.

——When I was in elementary school, the school would ask students to voluntarily order a variety of youth literature books every school year on the grounds of broadening their knowledge, but in fact it was not very beneficial.Parents who ordered once also discussed and complained in private, but none of them wanted their children to be outliers in the class who were named by the teacher and didn't order a single book, and they would still pay the hundred or so yuan.

This is the period that Ruan Yun feared the most every school year when she was a child.She knew that her family was not well off and her parents were working hard, so she didn't even tell her parents who left early and returned late, but every time the head teacher quieted down the whole class before class and asked her to confirm again and again by name alone. Everyone looked at her strangely, blushed and nodded to express that they did not subscribe to a single publication.

This situation will continue until the booksellers come to the school to collect the magazine subscription fee for each class.Ruan Chu, who was only in junior high school, quickly noticed something abnormal in her sister's depressed state for a while, and only found out about it after asking her repeatedly on the way to pick her up.

Ruan Chu didn't say anything, just silently held his sister's hand tightly, and then at this time of every school year, he would use the money he saved from living expenses to let his sister subscribe to the magazine.And at the age when he can go out to work part-time, Ruan Chu will deliberately leave an extra part of his salary for Ruan Yun.

——He has already deeply experienced the loneliness of being a different kind. Even though he knows that neither he nor his sister is wrong, the best he can do is to make his sister no longer feel the embarrassment he once felt.

Ruan Chu quickly packed up and went out to the direction of the tutoring institution. When he arrived at the front desk, it was close to nine o'clock, and he ran into Lin Jiang who also came over at this time.

"Morning senior." Ruan Chu greeted Lin Jiang with crooked eyebrows.

"It's nine o'clock, it's still early." Lin Jiang held a stack of materials in her hand, rolled them into a tube and held them in the palm of her hand. After checking in at the front desk with Ruan Chu, they walked side by side to the tutor's lounge. He couldn't help but smile a little, and tapped Ruan Chu's head lightly with the rolled-up information.

Ruan Chu blinked, but didn't hide, just pursed his lips and smiled.

The two came quite early, and there were only a few teachers in the lounge who were tutoring the students in the morning, so the two sat down in the same seat as they had dinner together yesterday.

Lin Jiang unrolled the rolled-up materials, smoothed the slightly rolled corners with her hands, and handed them to Ruan Chu: "This is the materials for the school's Guangqi class. I went out this morning to find a print shop to print out a copy. Here you are, but most print shops don’t open until after 08:30, so it’s a bit late to come here, so you can check it out in advance.”

"Okay." Ruan Chu was a little flattered.He just inadvertently heard Lin Jiang mention this matter yesterday when he was chatting with Lin Jiang, but he didn't expect Lin Jiang to be so concerned, and even brought him all the materials by the way, and immediately took the share with both hands as if he had found a treasure. material.

"I compared the comprehensive tests and grade point rankings of the students who were admitted to the Guangqi class over the years." Lin Jiang put one hand on her cheek, and looked sideways at Ruan Chu, who was carefully reading the information she gave. , explained the details to him in a soft voice, "It's no problem to rank in the top 5% of the school. The Guangqi class is a bit similar to the experimental class in junior high school. The class requirements, progress and resources will be better."

Students who enter the Guangqi class are almost full of classes all day, but they can take the internship school at the end of the sophomore year. If they are strong enough, they can go directly to the internship at the earliest in the third year, be hired directly, and stay in the internship school. The chances of turning positive are also much higher.

For Ruan Chu and Lin Jiang, this is a good opportunity for them to enter the society early and become truly financially independent without burdening their parents.

"Normally, the college will have the counselor introduce the situation of this class to you during the sophomore meeting," Lin Jiang looked at Ruan Chu's profile, and his eyes fell on his beautiful eyes, "but you know in advance now Depending on the situation, if you want to take the exam, you can prepare in advance.”

"Okay." Ruan Chu let out a sigh of relief after reading the document, carefully put the document into the old file bag that he carried in his schoolbag, then turned to look at Lin Jiang, and thanked him solemnly.

"There's nothing to be thankful for," Lin Jiang laughed. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a page with some graphics in Ruan Chu's transparent file bag, but she didn't think about it. The grade point test should be higher. Your original score in your major in the college entrance examination is the first. However, in the comprehensive test score, in addition to the intellectual education score, the moral education score and the cultural and sports score are not small. The department does not need to participate. If you have time, you can take a few Essay competitions and other activities, try to get as many points as possible."

Ruan Chu thought about it carefully, and found that he didn't have any extra points for moral education in the last semester except for being led by Ye Xingzhi to do a few logistics. get it.

"At that time, I will tell you about the activities that don't take up time and add more points." Lin Jiang saw that he suddenly came over and looked a little worried, and couldn't help but soften her heart, and even stretched out her hand to rub him The movement of the hair is also lighter.

The two of them didn't take Qiang Wu's witty and eccentric words too seriously before he left yesterday. As a result, Qiang Wu, who came here today with a big schoolbag on his back, saw them sitting at the table one on the left and one on the right, leaving the last space between them. The one in the middle wrinkled his fleshy face, and the two tutors couldn't help laughing.

"I was only shown by a young couple while playing games yesterday, Teacher Lin and Teacher Ruan," Qiang Wu pouted, "Don't sit next to me and show me like this, okay? "

Both of them were taken aback for a moment, and then their ears turned red to varying degrees.

Lin Jiang cleared her throat, calmly picked up her things, got up and changed her seat, sat next to Ruan Chu, moved Jiang Wu's chair to her right, and said calmly: "Are there any questions in the homework that you don't know? "

Qiang Wu smiled with two small dimples, rolled his eyes, sat down on the chair with his big schoolbag, honestly took out his winter homework, and when Lin Jiang was about to explain the wrong questions in the homework to him He said: "Mr. Lin, but Mr. Ruan wants to dictate words for me before class."

"..." Lin Jiang put down the exercise book in her hand calmly, leaned back on the back of the chair, and said calmly: "Then let Teacher Ruan dictate for you first, and then read the math after the dictation."

Ruan Chu lowered his eyebrows and smiled lightly, and called up the vocabulary recitation list for Qiang Wu that he had prepared from the memo on his mobile phone, and leaned forward slightly so that Qiang Wu could hear more clearly when dictating.

"You guys have such a good relationship." After finishing the dictation, Qiang Wu took the dictation book to Ruan Chu for correction, leaned on the table and tilted his head to look at the two people, and sighed, "The math teacher in our class always competes with the English teacher. .”

"School and cram school are of course different." Ruan Chu took a glance, making sure that Qiang Wu had memorized all these words, and then put the dictation book back to his hand. "Every teacher is different at different stages. If there are fixed teaching targets, if they fail to meet expectations, they can only spend more time teaching more students.”

"Then if you teach students in the same class in the future, will you compete with each other?" Qiang Wu looked curious.

"No." Lin Jiang raised her eyebrows imperceptibly, turned her head to look at Ruan Chu, with a faint smile on her lips, "I don't want to bully Teacher Ruan like this."