Chapter 8 Little boy, many troubles (1)
A year later, Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian graduated from Qiuzhi Primary School and successfully entered Yuanfei Middle School, three kilometers away from Jincai Courtyard.
Yuanfei Middle School is an old middle school with junior high school and high school. According to school district division, most children who graduated from Qiuzhi Primary School will be admitted to Yuanfei Middle School, while others choose to go to private junior high schools or pay sponsorship fees to study in better schools in other school districts.
Gu Guoxiang is right. Yuanfei Middle School has a bad reputation. Parents in Jincai Courtyard even call it Garbage Middle School. Its admission rate is very bad and has always been a heartbreaking problem for parents in the school district.
Although Pang Shuisheng knew that Pang Qian's grades were not very good, he still wanted her to take the entrance examination for private junior high schools with the idea that a miracle would occur. Gu Mingxi and most of the children in their class were also there.
When Pang Qian was taking the exam, he felt that he was reading a book of heaven. Those math application questions were really terrible. A pool had a water storage capacity of XXX, and there were three water pipes in it. Each of them had a different water release speed. This was not counted. There were three floor drains in this pool, and each floor drain had a different water leakage speed. These water pipes and floor drains were released for a while and leaked. How long would it take to fill the pool with water? Pang Qian was even dizzy when she saw the question, so where could she do it.
Naturally, she and most of the classmates in the class did not pass the written test, but Gu Mingxi fell into the interview.
This is not the middle school where Gu Guoxiang had a relationship. When several teachers saw the two empty sleeves under Gu Mingxi's shoulders, and then saw the resume and written test scores of the classmate in his hand, they were all shocked.
However, private junior high schools have the qualifications to enroll independently. In response to Gu Mingxi's situation, the admissions teacher also specifically explained to Li Han, stating that the school did not mind Gu Mingxi's disability, but because the students in the school are all the best in each primary school, the competitive atmosphere is strong and the learning pressure is very high. They are afraid that Gu Mingxi will be more difficult to follow in such an atmosphere.
Li Han just smiled and said, "I understand."
After Gu Mingxi returned home with his mother, Pang Qian came to him as soon as possible and asked him how the interview was.
To be honest, Pang Qian was a little confused about her thoughts. Do she want to, or do she not want Gu Mingxi to pass the interview? Unexpectedly, Gu Mingxi asked her this question in a sympathetic way.
"Do you think I'll pass, or you're not?"
Pang Qian refused to answer him, but just asked: "Have you passed it?"
"No." Gu Mingxi shook his head with a smile, "I don't have arms, you know that it's quite a problem for me to go to school."
Pang Qian stared at his face, pondered his thoughts for a while, and then sat down next to him after confirming that he was not unhappy, saying, "Talking nonsense, what's the trouble with you going to school."
Gu Mingxi looked at her with a smile, without saying a word.
In the summer of 1997, Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian received an admission notice from Yuanfei Middle School. Pang Shuisheng immediately measured the size of the new school desk, and once again asked the carpenter to help Gu Mingxi customize a new desk.
Because of the recommendation of the primary school teacher, Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian were once again assigned to the same class. The head teacher, Teacher Cao, learned about Gu Mingxi's situation in advance and agreed to let Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi continue to be classmates.
The admission matters of the two children were completely solved by Li Han and Pang Shuisheng, and Gu Guoxiang did not interfere at all. He went to work with a calm face every day, and after get off work, he didn't even look at Gu Mingxi when he walked by him.
Gu Mingxi would still call him dad. Sometimes when he encountered difficulties in life, he would go to him to help him. For example, he would help him twist a tight bottle cap, or take something placed high up, or even ask his dad to help him take off his pants and wipe his butt because he wanted to untie the bowel movement. At this time, Gu Guoxiang would go over and help, and then walk away silently after finishing.
He knew that he was too much. As a middle-aged man who was over 100 years old, he actually felt angry with his biological son like this. However, when facing Gu Mingxi every day, Gu Guoxiang felt very depressed. He was afraid that he would lose his temper again after talking to his son. Although Gu Mingxi did nothing wrong, Gu Guoxiang just couldn't stand him, his appearance, his appearance, his appearance, and his attitude when facing him - he was always respectful, polite, but also alienated.
This situation lasted for a month. One day, Gu Mingxi and Li Han sat together to eat watermelon. The watermelon was cut into slices and placed on the table. Gu Mingxi lowered his head and chewed it directly on the melon peel. His face was inevitably covered with juice. Li Han occasionally used a towel to wipe his mouth, and he suddenly said calmly.
"Mom, you are thirty-nine years old, have another baby with your dad."
That night, Li Han closed the door and communicated with Gu Guoxiang seriously with tears almost collapsed. They were no longer young, and when they talked about this topic again many years later, the atmosphere was inevitably a bit heavy.
Finally, they agreed not to contraceptive again in the future and let everything go naturally. If the baby really comes, he will be born.
Half a month before the start of school, Pang Shuisheng suddenly thought of a very serious problem.
Yuanfei Middle School is not close to Jincai Courtyard. How should Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi go to school?
Most of the other children in the courtyard who attended Yuanfei Middle School took bicycles, and a small number of them took buses. However, Gu Mingxi could not ride a bicycle, and it was not convenient to take buses alone. The only solution was to let Pang Qian take buses with him to school.
Now Pang Qian quits.
After graduating from elementary school, grandma gave her a particularly beautiful women's bicycle, 22 inches, pink and blue. She has always been thinking about riding her bike on the street like an adult after going to junior high school. Now her father asked her to accompany Gu Mingxi to school by bus. She was very, very, very unhappy!
It takes ten minutes to walk from Jincai Courtyard to the bus stop, and there are four stops to take the bus, and it takes another five minutes to get off, which takes much more time than riding a bike. Pang Qian lost her temper at her father: "I don't! I don't! I'm going to ride a bicycle to school! I hate taking the bus the most! People are almost being squeezed down!"
Pang Shuisheng said: "What should I do if Mingxi?"
"..." Pang Qian couldn't answer, and finally said in anger, "I care about him! Why do I have to do anything I do with him! I hate it so much!"
Pang Shuisheng couldn't handle Pang Qian anymore. His daughter was already twelve years old and he could no longer beat her up. When he went to Li Han next door to discuss this matter, he was not careful and was heard by Gu Mingxi.
Gu Mingxi walked to his mother and Pang Shuisheng and whispered: "Mom, actually... I can learn to ride a bicycle and ride a bicycle with Pang Qian in the future."
Li Han was startled: "How do you ride a bike? How do you turn the direction and how do you brake?"
"Use your shoulders to guide the direction. Actually, I tried to play with Pang Pang when he was practicing driving in the courtyard before, and I could ride it." Gu Mingxi bent down and showed them both shoulders, "It's just a little more troublesome to brake, but it's okay to ride it slower."
"No!" Li Han strongly opposed, "The courtyard is a courtyard, the street is on the street, there are so many cars on the road, it is too dangerous for you to ride a bicycle!"
Gu Mingxi ignored Li Han's words and took advantage of the summer vacation to work. He asked Zhu Huiqiang, who was in the same courtyard to borrow a bicycle and asked Pang Qian and Zhu Huiqiang to practice in the courtyard every day.
Zhu Huiqiang's car is a man's style, with a bar in front, which is inconvenient for Gu Mingxi to jump off the car. He rode on the car, leaning deeply, resting his shoulders on the handlebars, and slowly circling along the flower bed in the courtyard.
He looked up at the front hard, and his posture was very difficult, but Pang Qian still complained from the side: "Gu Mingxi, you are riding too slowly! It's slower than a snail!"
After hearing her words, Gu Mingxi subconsciously accelerated the speed of his foot. The bicycle did get faster, but it was even more difficult for him to control the direction. If he was not careful, the dragon head would shake violently. Seeing that it was about to hit the wall, Gu Mingxi could not brake, so he simply stepped on the ground with his feet and fell to the ground with his car.
Zhu Huiqiang and Pang Qian both ran up. Zhu Huiqiang felt sorry for his car, and Pang Qian was naturally more worried about Gu Mingxi. She helped him up, patted the dust on his body, and said angrily: "Don't practice anymore! You can't ride well in the courtyard, so how can you ride to school!"
Gu Mingxi didn't say anything, twisted his neck, rubbed his chin against his right shoulder, and lowered his eyes stubbornly.
Pang Qian thought for a while and suddenly said, "Or, I will ride a bike to take you to school in the future."
"No!" Gu Mingxi spoke quickly. He was already thirteen years old and began to look like he was. His facial contour was no longer as round as he was when he was a child, but gradually showed some edges and corners.
His voice was a little different, a little low and hoarse, no longer so crisp. Under the sun, his forehead and nose were covered with small beads of sweat, and Pang Qian also saw a layer of thin fluff growing on his lips.
She asked strangely: "Why don't you? I have a lot of strength and can move you."
"I would rather go to school than take you." Gu Mingxi pursed his lower lip and stepped onto the bicycle to practice. It seemed that he was riding fast for a moment of anger, which scared Zhu Huiqiang to chase after him.
Inevitably, he fell again and again. In the end, Old Man Zeng, who was looking at the door, couldn't stand it, so he confiscated Zhu Huiqiang's bicycle and drove several children home.
When Pang Shuisheng came back from get off work, Old Man Zeng called him and told him what had happened in the past few days.
Although Pang Shuisheng was not well-educated, he was not stupid. He thought about it all night in bed, and the next day he was thinking about it with paper, pen and drawing in the factory. After thinking about it, he couldn't help it and went to Gu Guoxiang's office.
Three days later, Gu Guoxiang handed Pang Shuisheng a drawing and a sum of money. Pang Shuisheng used the money to buy a men's bicycle, pulled it directly to the factory, put on the welding mask, and equipped the new car with a new device according to the drawings - a stainless steel frame mounted on the faucet, which allows Gu Mingxi to control the direction without bent down; the foot-pedal brake on the right side of the front wheel can make him brake suddenly with his feet.
When Pang Shuisheng brought this bicycle to Gu Mingxi, Gu Mingxi was surprised. He rode on the bike and tried it all over the place, but he didn't fall once.
On September 1st, the new semester will start. Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi ride to school together.
From the beginning of entering the school gate, Gu Mingxi gained countless strange eyes and whispers.
This was what he expected, and he was not unhappy about it. Instead, Pang Qian gave those curious people countless big eyes.
After parking the car in the carport, Pang Qian met Wang Tingting. Wang Tingting was her good friend in elementary school. After entering junior high school, they were divided into another class. When they got together, they were naturally very intimate. The two of them bit their ears and whispered.
Gu Mingxi walked beside them calmly with her schoolbag on her back, and suddenly heard Pang Qian screaming: "Really?!"
Gu Mingxi was startled and turned his head to see Pang Qian blushing excitedly. She held Wang Tingting's arm and asked repeatedly: "It's true? You didn't lie to me! Didn't Xie Yi pay the sponsorship fee to go to No. 5 Middle School? Why did he still get from Feidu!"
Wang Tingting said: "It's true. My neighbor is Xie Yi's classmate. He said that Xie Yi refused to go to No. 5 Middle School because he thought it was too far away. He said that he would study the same place in junior high school and would be able to get into No. 1 Middle School in the future. Ah, look, Xie Yi..."
Pang Qian immediately turned around and looked. The first thing that caught her eye was a red bicycle. A boy rode on the bike and "brushed" like a gust of wind and passed by them.
If you do a questionnaire for the girls in Qiuzhi Primary School and ask them who is the most special boy in the school? Nine out of ten girls will answer: Of course it is Gu Mingxi.
And Pang Qian is the remaining tenth, and she will write down one stroke by one: Xie Yi.
Many years later, two words were popular in the Great Heavenly Dynasty, one was called the rich and handsome man, and the other was called the male god. If Pang Qian, who was twelve years old at the time, could master the usage of these two words, she would definitely slap her thigh excitedly: "That's right! Xie Yi is a rich and handsome man! She is still my male god!"
However, Xie Yi, who was thirteen years old at the time, was just a short, rich and handsome man, and at best he was a little male god.
Xie Yi, Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi graduated from Qiuzhi Primary School in the same class, but they are different from their class. In the sixth year of elementary school, he was a star student in the school. He was good-looking, excellent in grades, and versatile. He performed violin solo performances in art performances every year. Xie Yi's family background was very superior. When he was in the third grade, he thought the cement table tennis table in the school was too bad, so his father waved his hand and sponsored five brand new competition-specific table tennis tables to the school, which caused a lot of sensation in the school.
Xie Yi is a very maverick boy. He has done many things that others cannot understand at all. For example, he always refuses to be a class leader, refuses to go to the school's small radio station as a host, refuses to take exercises, and refuses to represent the school in various messy competitions.
The most famous thing Xie Yi has ever done is that he gave up the opportunity to take the E-City Foreign Language School exam during the process of junior high school. After this news came out, the whole grade was in an uproar.
City E Foreign Language School is a magical existence for primary school students in the city. What’s special about it is that primary school graduates cannot apply for the school independently, but require the school to recommend it. Usually, three to five exam places are given to each primary school, and finally, according to the exam ranking, they are admitted according to the exam ranking.
In order to get recommended places from their respective primary schools, parents do everything they can. They ask tutors to make up for their children to improve their grades, come to the teacher all day long and even give money and gifts.
Gu Guoxiang also wanted Gu Mingxi to get this recommendation opportunity, but was finally persuaded by Li Han. She said: "The foreign language school lives in the school, how can Mingxi study?"
Gu Guoxiang thought about it carefully and had to give up.
But Xie Yi refused after the teacher asked him for this quota.
He said: "I don't want to take the exam. The school is so remote, without watching TV or playing games, it's like going to jail. What's the point?"
Xie Yi's parents even respected his son's opinions and did not force him at all.
Later, after the exam, Qiuzhi Primary School recommended that the three students who had been tested in the past were not admitted to the foreign language school. The grade leader got the exam paper and quietly organized a few top students to trick them into using the competition exercise papers, asking them to take the same time to do a test.
The test result was that among the more than a dozen students, only Xie Yi and Gu Mingxi reached the admission scores of the foreign language school. Of course, they would never know about this.
After Xie Yi parked the car in the carport, he came over with his schoolbag. He didn't know Pang Qian and Wang Tingting, but he knew Gu Mingxi. He smiled and said hello to him: "Hi, Gu Mingxi, what class are you in?"
Pang Qian didn't understand the world of academic masters. She just stood beside Gu Mingxi stupidly and looked at Xie Yi quietly.
Xie Yi is really a very beautiful boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, red lips and white teeth, a bit like Jimmy Lin. Moreover, the clothes he wears are very fashionable, the schoolbag he carries and shoes he wears are also very fashionable, and his whole body is clean and refreshing, and his temperament is three streets away from the sloppy boys in the class.
Hearing Xie Yi’s question, Gu Mingxi smiled and answered him: “Class (6), where are you?”
"What a coincidence, I'm also Class 6!" Xie Yi raised his eyebrows and his eyes were bright. At this time, he noticed the two little girls beside Gu Mingxi, and smiled at them: "Hi, hello."
Pang Qian's face turned red in an instant, and even her walking became particularly reserved and artificial. Gu Mingxi looked at her strangely and asked, "Pang Pang, what's wrong with you?"
Pang Qian glared at him, but she felt very happy.
She was so happy! Xie Yi, who was wearing a black suit and playing the violin at the art show! She was actually going to be in the same class as him!
Chapter completed!