Absinthe

Hao Ai quickly established a friendship with Zhong Xiu by taking a bath together by relying on his dead skin and shame.

Zhong Xiu still looked indifferent and alienated, he was not warm to anyone, but he was a little more patient with Hao Ai.

The chemistry quiz on Thursday night, the teacher corrected the paper very efficiently, and the results came out on Friday afternoon.The class representative came out of the office, walked to Zhong Xiu's seat with a stack of papers in his arms, and exclaimed: "Zhong Xiu is so good, the test is so high, it seems that Ning Xueba's status is not guaranteed."

Ning Xueba, as the class representative said, was called Ning Yue, and he was transferred to this class at the end of the first semester of high school.He has been in the competition class before. The teaching resources of No. [-] Middle School are more inclined to science. The competition class has always been the trump card of No. [-] Middle School. It is divided into math, science, chemistry, and student competition classes. Most of the students who can enter the competition class have participated in provincial and national levels. The competition has won the ranking, and the teachers who teach are also experienced.No. [-] Middle School's heavy-duty online rate is mainly brought about by competition classes.

In order to arouse the enthusiasm and competitiveness of the students, No. [-] Middle School has to re-transfer classes after the mid-term and final exam results come out every semester, and those who fall out of the top [-] in the grade will be transferred to parallel classes.Ning Yue has always been in the top ten in his grade, but for some unknown reason, he came to the parallel class on his own initiative.

At the beginning of school, the teacher posted the report card of the final exam of last semester in the class. Ning Yue was No. 1. His score was obviously different from that of his classmates. No. 2 was almost [-] points behind him.He is very popular in the class. He is good at studying and does not put on airs as a student. No matter who comes to ask questions, he will take the trouble to explain them to others until they understand them. The teacher often asks him to go up and give lectures to everyone during evening self-study. .

Lu Fayan looked over curiously, "Hey, how much did Zhong Xiu take?"

He took Zhong Xiu's chemistry test paper and took a deep breath - Zhong Xiu got a full score in the test.

"Full marks! Awesome!"

Hao Ai also turned his gaze, and Lu Fayan asked him, "How much did you test this time?"

"Here." Hao Ai handed him the paper, which was okay and barely passed.

The next chemistry class teacher gave the test papers, and before speaking, he specially praised Zhong Xiu, "Student Zhong Xiu got full marks in the test, he is very good, and his level is more than enough to compete in the class."

The students turned their heads to look at Zhong Xiu and cast admiring glances, but his expression was the same as usual.

The end of get out of class was approaching, and half of the paper was still unfinished. Hao Ai turned his head and asked, "Can you explain these questions to me after class?"

Zhong Xiu took his paper, looked at the topic circled in red pen, and nodded: "OK."

Zhong Xiu spoke carefully, and Hao Ai listened carefully.He found that Hao Ai was very smart, and he could solve many wrong questions with just one point.Occasionally, Hao Ai would mutter, "So there is such a solution."

"This kind of solution is not uncommon. The teacher told a similar variant question."

"is it?"

"I didn't listen to you when I saw you in class." Zhong Xiu took out his chemistry textbook and turned to that page. Hao Ai was a little dazzled by the dense notes. In order to distinguish his memory, he even used different colored pens.

Hao Ai looked at it and said: "The handwriting is so beautiful, if I can write such words..."

Zhong Xiu poured cold water on him: "It looks good, but if you can't write the inscription well, the teacher won't give you more points if you write the words in a fancy way."

It is a holiday at 05:30 on Friday afternoon. Hao Ai's family is in the county seat. It takes more than an hour to drive home from school, and he has to change trains on the way.When I got home, it was already dark, and every house had turned on the lights, only the windows of my own house were still dark.

The room was terribly quiet, only a small light was on, and the lonely light made the surroundings seem to be getting darker.

This is the old house left by my grandfather. I have lived in it for many years.The house is low and backlit, dark and damp all the year round, and has a musty smell.

My uncle's family also lived here before, but they bought a house in the urban area two years ago and wanted to take my mother to live here too.But my aunt was not happy, and always quarreled with my uncle. Although my uncle was always submissive to my aunt, he was very filial. He was worried about leaving my mother here alone.

Grandma knew that they would quarrel because of herself, and she was unwilling to add burden to them, so she was determined not to live with them, and it was useless to persuade them.

Uncle had no choice but to agree to her.He thought of a compromise. He is an elementary school teacher in the county. He usually lives in the county when he goes to work. He can also take care of his mother and go back to the city to accompany his children on Saturdays and Sundays.Sometimes during holidays, he would take the child over to accompany his grandma.

The old man was lying on the couch. At first Hao Ai thought she was asleep, but when he got closer, he found that she was looking at the ceiling with her eyes open.

"Grandma." He whispered.

Grandma saw that he was back, and wanted to get up, "Is Ai Ai back?"

"Well, you're back. Do you want to go out? I'll help you out."

Grandma stood up slowly, and spoke slowly, "I won't go out, I'll spend the afternoon sunbathing outside."

"Okay." Hao Ai didn't force her, and helped her move forward.

"Ai Ai, have you eaten yet?"

Hao Ai didn't have dinner, but he was afraid that if he said it, his grandma would cook for him, it would be too troublesome, and it would be inconvenient for her to walk.So he said, "I've eaten."

Hao Ai helped her to the sofa and asked, "Do you watch TV?"

"Don't look, what are you supposed to do, don't worry about me, I'll be fine sitting here." Grandma drove him back to his room.

"Have you been feeling unwell these days?"

"No, I'm fine. Don't worry about it so much, kid." Grandma said.

"Well, I see." Hao Ai nodded sadly.

Every time he came back in the past, he would bring his grandma some pastries bought in a pastry shop near the school, or other rare foods in the county.But since she got sick, grandma followed the doctor's advice and her teeth were not very good, so she couldn't eat many things.

When grandma was not sick before, although she was old, her legs and feet could not relax, and Hao Ai could never see her when she came back from school.But then I got sick, my legs and feet became inflexible, and there were many complications, so I had to take medicine to control it.

Hao Ai thought that she would lose her temper and throw things like other sick old people. After all, she would be very irritable when she was bedridden and unable to move around.But she did not show too many negative emotions, but has been actively cooperating with the treatment and rarely troubled her family.

"Grandma, are you running out of medicine soon?"

Grandma thought for a while and said, "No, don't buy it yet."

Hao Ai opened the special medicine drawer under the TV cabinet, and found that several medicine boxes were empty, "Why didn't you tell me when you finished taking the medicine? Uncle also asked last time."

Grandma seems to have just remembered: "Huh? Have you finished eating? Oh, look at my memory, I forgot."

Hao Ai was a little angry: "Can you not know if you have finished eating or not? Didn't I tell you to tell me a few days in advance when you are about to finish eating?"

"It's okay to eat less for a day or two."

"That won't work."

After chatting with grandma for a while, Hao Ai sent her back to her room to sleep.He went to his room to look for something to satisfy his hunger. After searching for a long time, he found a bucket of instant noodles in the cabinet.Uncle went back to the city after work this afternoon. There was no hot water at home, so he took cold water and poured it into the pot. While waiting for the water to boil, he opened WeChat and saw the photo posted by Qu Yihang in Moments. Hot pot barbecue beer milk tea, made up a nine-square grid.He looked at the instant noodles he had just unpacked again, and he became even hungrier.