bamboo horse journal

After the first monthly exam, the school organized a parent meeting.Xu Xia was standing on the playground waiting for her mother, and when she saw Xie's mother, she greeted politely: "Hello, Auntie, Xie Qiu is cleaning the classroom."

Xie Qiu won the first place in the grade, and Xie's mother was naturally happy. Seeing Xu Xia, she even reached out and touched his head: "Xu Xia has grown so much taller."

The two families used to live in the same building, but later Xie Qiu moved. Even though it was nearby, Xu Xia was in school and "leaved early and returned late" every day, and Xie's mother hadn't seen him for a long time.

Xu Xia showed her big white teeth: "So you want Qiu... Xie Qiu to grow up, he's a little worse than me."

Xie Ma smiled and said, "Okay, Xiaoqiu must surpass you."

Xu's mother also arrived, and entered the teaching building with Xie's mother.Xu Xia went to the commissary to buy two breads and waited for Xie Qiu at the door.

Classmate A asked him: "Xu Xia, do you want to play in our dormitory?"

Xu Xia turned her head and asked Xie Qiu who had just come out: "Are you going?"

Xie Qiu nodded: "Okay."

A said in admiration: "Xie Qiu, you are really awesome, you are more than 2 points better than No.30."

Xie Qiu smiled: "It's just luck this time."

The dormitory in the first year of high school is a room for eight people, with a big table in the middle and beds on both sides.Seeing that there was no air conditioner, Xu Xia asked, "Is it very hot where you live?"

A: "Aren't you talking nonsense? No one can stand the temperature in City C. Fortunately, it's getting colder now. I'm afraid of the summer vacation of my sophomore year of high school. Thinking about it makes me feel horrible."

Xu Xia clicked his tongue and saw A take out a deck of cards from the closet and asked them: "Are you playing cards? B also has cards there."

A group of people swarmed up: "Fight!"

There are a total of 6 people in the dormitory, which happen to be divided into two groups, Xu Xia naturally wants to be in the same group as Xie Qiu.Then, everyone discovered that Xueba, it seems, is a bit weak in card skills?

B laughed loudly: "Xie Qiu, your skills are really...have you been studying hard since you were a child?"

After B said this, the group next to A stopped playing, and everyone surrounded Xie Qiu to watch him play cards.

Xu Xia: "Go, go, have you ever seen someone who can't fight landlords?"

Xie Qiu was also very helpless: "I have never been very good at playing poker, my skills are poor, and I was born."

Xie Qiu is usually not very talkative, and his grades are good. Everyone thinks that he is a bit cold. After such a disturbance, the relationship has improved a lot.

The dormitory next door also came to visit to play, but they didn't have enough cards, so they didn't play cards anymore, so they just sat there and chatted.

After talking for a long time, the parents' meeting was almost over, and a group of people packed up and went back to the classroom for class.

Seeing Xia Xiaoqi's dismay, Xu Xia said to Xie Qiu, "Brother Qi must have been yelled at by her parents again."

Xie Qiu sighed: "Seventh brother seems to have never come out to play except for one time during the summer vacation. I think it's not good for parents to control too strictly."

Xu Xia: "Seventh brother did well in the exam, my mother didn't even blame me for my poor exam."

Xie Qiu: "There are very few people who don't care about grades like your parents, so don't show off in front of Seventh Brother."

Xu Xia: "Alright."

After returning home from school at night, Xu Xia and Xu's mother talked about Xia Xiaoqi: "Mom, fortunately you are not Seventh Brother's parent."

Xu's mother snorted: "I just don't think it's necessary to be so strict in grades, as long as people don't crook themselves. If I really take care of it, will your grades be like this?"

Xu Xia expressed curiosity: "Why do you guys ignore my grades? Are you not afraid that I won't be able to find a good job if I fail the college entrance examination?"

Father Xu, who was watching TV on the sofa, replied: "If you have money, live a rich life, dress well and eat well; You are responsible for your own life, whether you are rich or poor, being healthy, happy, and family is better than anything else. Xu Xia, we don’t care how you study, but you must not do things that hurt the world, you know have no idea?"

Xu Xia: "I know."

(Xie Qiu's home)

Xie's mother was not stingy with her praise to her son, Xie Qiu patted his head in embarrassment: "Mom, stop talking, I'm not that good."

Xie Ma's eyebrows curved: "Praise should be praised, hey, you remember to help Xu Xia, this child looks very smart, no matter how you pass the exam..."

Xie Qiu found it funny: "Okay. I'm going to do my homework first. Go to bed early."

(Xia Xiao Qijia)

Compared with the harmonious and warm atmosphere in the other two's homes, Xia Xiaoqi's home is much more dignified.

Father Xia's tone was light: "Say, what's wrong with you?"

Xia Xiaoqi kept her head down, not daring to speak.

Father Xia raised his voice: "I asked you why you did so poorly in the exam?"

Xia Xiaoqi shuddered: "No, I don't know."

Father Xia slapped the table: "I don't know? What is your mother thinking about all day? Are you still thinking about it? You are a high school student now, do you think you still have a vacation? Look at that Xie Qiu in your class." , the first grade, why don't you do well in the exam? You can't learn from others!"

There are more than 1200 people in the whole grade, Xia Xiaoqi has more than 200 people, and is the third from the bottom in Class 7.She really wanted to say that she didn't think more than 200 people were that bad, but she didn't dare.

She could only nod: "Yes."

Xia's father's eyes were burning: "Why don't you do your homework for me, and lead Ha'er to stand up and look good?"

Xia Xiaoqi quickly rolled back to the room.

The first monthly exam established Xie Qiu's image as a "student master" in everyone's minds.The few people who got acquainted in the dormitory that day asked him about topics they didn't understand. Seeing that Xie Qiu was gentle and patient, others also came to ask questions. Gradually, there were more people around Xie Qiu.

Then, Xu Xia felt abandoned.

Xia Xiaoqi laughed at him: "Do you know that you look like a resentful woman now?"

Xu Xia reserved the seat for the students who came to ask questions, and seeing Xie Qiu surrounded by the crowd, said softly, "That's pretty good."

In junior high school, everyone didn't pay much attention to grades, let alone students who took the initiative to ask questions, so Xie Qiu, who has always been quiet, didn't have many friends, and now he has no acquaintance except Xu Xia.Xu Xia has always hoped that Xie Qiu can make more friends, and that he has many other lives besides studying.

Although they are still learning now...

Xia Xiaoqi suddenly asked, "Aren't you going to confess?"

Xu Xia: "What's the confession?"

Xia Xiaoqi: "Nothing."

Xu Xia was baffled.

Soon there will be a long National Day holiday. Xie Qiu celebrates his birthday in the lunar calendar. This year happens to be during the long holiday. Xu Xia intends to take this opportunity to further develop the relationship between Xie Qiu and other students.

Xie Qiu clearly refused: "First, I don't need any excitement; second, I'm poor and have no money to invite them to play."

Xu Xia had no choice but to give up: "Just call Seventh Brother, okay?"

Xie Qiu: "Do you think Seventh Brother can come out?"

Xu Xia: "...That's right, it seems that the two of us are going to live a two-person world."

Xie Qiu: "Isn't it like this every year?"

Xu Xia's birthday was in the summer vacation, and he would call his friends out to play, and when it came to Xie Qiu's birthday, besides his family, only Xu Xia came to wish him "Happy Birthday".

Xu Xia: "So I want you to make more friends."

Xie Qiu said in a low voice, "You are enough."

Xu Xia didn't hear: "What?"

Xie Qiu: "Nothing."

Xu Xia instinctively felt that he had missed something very important, but he also knew that Xie Qiu would not tell him, so he turned around and did his homework.

On their birthday, as usual, the two rode bicycles around most of the W area, and sat on the stairs by the river to chat at night.

Xu Xia took out a box from her bag: "This year's birthday present."

Xie Qiu received the gift, Xu Xia smiled and said, "Every time I take it home and unwrap it, is it because I'm afraid I can't help complaining about me in person?"

Xie Qiu: "Yes."

Xu Xia scolded with a smile: "I've raised you for nothing."

Xie Qiu: "Have you thought about which university to study in?"

Xu Xia: "No, isn't this just freshman year, it's still early."

Xie Qiu smiled: "You really are, you are not in a hurry at all."

Xu Xia: "My uncle never panics, how about you, Tsinghua University or Peking University?"

Xie Qiu: "If I say Tsinghua, will you laugh at me?"

When Xu Xia asked "Tsinghua University or Peking University", he was indeed joking. The top universities in China always sound so far away. Besides, Xu Xia has never had any idea about scores. He only knows that Xie Qiu has good grades, but He also didn't quite understand how good it was, but now seeing Xie Qiu's serious expression, he realized one thing: Xie Qiu's grades were far behind him.

At the same time, he was also thankful that the gift he carefully selected was not in vain.

Xu Xia: "No, my children's self-confidence cannot be beaten. Come on, Qiuqiu. Then I can tell others that I know a brother who is studying in Tsinghua, hahaha."

After chatting for a while, the two went back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers. What made Xu's mother's eyes widen was that Xu Xia got into the room and started studying as soon as she came back.

"Old Xu, Lao Xu, please pinch me." Xu's mother patted Xu's father beside her, "Am I awake?"

Xu's father stared at the TV without turning his eyes: "Wake up, wake up, I said the protagonist will save him."

"..." Xu's mother was angry, "Look at it, you are so absorbed in watching TV, are the names of all the TVs now called vixen?"

Xu's father waved his hand: "There is no vixen in this one, but there is in the previous one."

Mother Xu: "..."

On the other side, when Xie Qiu came home, his parents lit candles on the prepared cake and sang birthday songs.

With a smile on his face, Xie Qiu made a wish that he would make every year.

I hope that my family and friends will have a safe and smooth life, I hope that I can be admitted to Tsinghua University, and that Xu Xia will live better and better.

After the candles were blown out, Xie Qiu turned on the light in the living room and found that the corners of Xie Ma's eyes seemed to be a little red: "Mom, are your eyes uncomfortable?"

Xie Ma turned her head to cover up: "I didn't have a good rest at night, just sleep more."

Father Xie stood between the two of them and pulled Xie Qiu to sit down: "Come on, let's cut the cake. We haven't seen each other for a long time, let's have a good chat."

A thought flashed through Xie Qiu's mind, too fast for him to grasp.

After chatting with his father, he was busy unwrapping Xu Xia's present again, and the thought that made him feel a little scared was completely forgotten.

When he was a child, he often went to Xu Xia's house to play, and had a lot of contact with his uncles and aunts. At least he felt that his uncles and aunts were normal. Why was Xu Xia's brain circuit so confused?

When Ultraman was popular in primary school, Xu Xia gave him a colorfully painted Ultraman toy, and proudly said that he thought it looked the most beautiful when painted with many colors; when he was in junior high school, he was creative, and once A pennant was directly sent to him, with four big characters written on it: Health!day!quick!happy!

Xie Qiu almost fainted on the spot.

I don't know what Xu Xia will do this time.

Xie Qiu carefully opened the packing box, for fear that he would be burnt out from the lightning.

In the box, a small "English Pocket Book" is lying quietly, waiting for the owner's favor. There is also a handwritten post-it note next to it. , academic success!

"..." Xie Qiu twitched the corners of his mouth, not knowing what expression he should put on.

Xu Xia sent a message: "How about it, isn't the gift nice?"

Xie Qiu: "... not bad, not bad, I'm going to do my homework."

Xu Xia, a fool, really thought that Qiuqiu, his gift, liked it very much: "Okay, okay, next time I will buy you the latest tutorial books, no need to thank brother."

On the other side of the screen, Xie Qiu couldn't hold back his laughter.

He suddenly had the inspiration to write a book, the name is "Xu Xia's Notes on One Hundred Operations of Gusheng", um, it's very easy to write, it's not short of material at all.

The author has something to say: Thank you!