"Hello, Auntie! My name is Zhou Xiang."

"Hey! Hello Zhou Xiang! Welcome to our house. Don't bring anything next time."

It seems that she heard the previous conversation.

"Okay, next time I'll come with nothing."

The woman nodded. "Yes, otherwise, it would be a bit embarrassing for my daughter Meizi to visit your house."

"I understand. I won't do it again next time. Meizi, you don't have to follow these etiquettes when you come to my house to play, because my parents are in town. It's just me and my two brothers here."

Women speak directly, and Zhou Xiang also speaks directly.

The woman was slightly stunned. "How old is your brother? How do your parents feel at ease?"

"One is fourteen and the other is thirteen. Our parents are busy with work, so we will take care of ourselves."

"Oh! That's right, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy can take care of himself. Okay, I'm going to work. Qiushi, go to work with mom, and Xiaguo and sister can go to school!"

"Okay! Mom, you go first!"

The woman left with the youngest. Zhou Xiang looked at Xiao Chunmei and asked, "When you were preschoolers, did you always go to work with your mother?"

"Basically, we stay at home together during the holidays."

"Where do your parents work?"

“They’re all in the machine shop.”

This was one of the first companies in the county to shatter the iron rice bowl! With two working parents raising three children, and an elderly parent to care for, the burden must have been considerable. Both adults were frail.

Xiao Chunmei is a few months older than me and only a little taller, so she must be not getting enough nutrition.

The machinery factory was already in trouble at this time. Both employees worked in the same unit and were laid off together, which was the worst situation.

Xiao Chunmei poured out the ribs from the lunch box, cleaned it and returned it to Zhou Xiang.

Zhou Xiang stuffed it into his backpack.

After leaving Xiao's house together, Xiao Xiaguo walked to the end of the alley, where there was a small door leading to the third primary school.

There was a music class in the afternoon. The beautiful music teacher walked into the classroom holding a stack of music books.

"Please ask the arts committee member to come up and distribute the music books."

I received a thin music book that looked like a workbook. I flipped through it and it was pretty good. There were bean sprouts and numbers, mostly numbers from 1 to 7, but relatively few bean sprouts.

Zhou wanted to shake the textbook in his hand. What should he do? Should he find a music teacher to help him improve his music? He wondered if someone born tone-deaf could improve their skills.

In my previous life, I managed to pass the music class by singing along with the chorus. I don’t know if I can do the same in this life.

The beautiful music teacher started to call the roll. When Zhou wanted to stand up, the teacher was a little confused and asked, "Why are you sitting in the last row?"

"Quiet back there!"

The teacher didn't believe it. The noisiest people were at the back. Those who were slacking off and talking nonsense were all at the back.

Seeing that she didn't believe him, Zhou Xiang added, "Be at peace!"

The teacher understood and stopped talking. He continued to call the roll. After every student had recognized the characters, he began to teach everyone the simplified musical notation.

Students in the city have already learned some things in elementary school, so the teacher works very quickly and can finish the course in just one go.

Zhou Xiang was confused and didn't understand anything.

The school will not force students to be perfect. The school will definitely have no objection if you are good at one subject or your main subject. It's enough if you pass music and physical education, right?

Finally, the teacher announced that each class would perform at least two programs for the National Day performance at the end of the month.

These have nothing to do with me. Not to mention that I am tone-deaf, even if I could sing and dance, I don’t have time to participate. I have to go back to prepare for my second sister’s wedding banquet, so I must ask for leave.

The next morning, I didn't go out until after nine o'clock. The big break was after the second class, usually around ten o'clock.

No. 2 Middle School is very close, only about 20 minutes' walk away.

Zhou Xiang was easily admitted to No. 2 Middle School due to the lax management, and she was mistakenly thought to be a student of No. 2 Middle School.

Going along the road, it is customary to put the first-grade classroom at the back and the third-grade and third-grade classrooms at the front.

Occasionally, the sound of teachers lecturing can be heard in the quiet campus. Everything is so peaceful and beautiful.

"Ring, ring, ring." The bell for the end of get out of class rang.

The cheers of young and lively boys and girls filled every corner of the campus, which was the joy that was released.

Standing between the two tiled houses of Class 6 and Class 5 of the first grade, I looked at the students rushing out of the two classes, all with happy smiles on their faces.

The radio sounded, and the familiar gymnastics prelude began.

Soon, the students began to march forward, backward, left and right to expand the distance.

No, there were no students who deliberately hid backwards, and no students who were afraid to bend down and squat.

He didn't look at the students laughing in front of him.

Everything is so harmonious and beautiful.

It turns out that in my previous life, I was just a duck that suddenly appeared among this group of swans.

It turns out that all the mistakes are just because you entered the wrong circle.

A duck should stay with a flock of ducks so that it doesn't feel out of place.

"Classmate, are you okay? Which class are you from?"

My thoughts were brought back by a female voice, and I looked at the three girls standing in front of me.

Zhou Xiang just wanted to laugh. The concern in those three pairs of eyes was very genuine, without the ridicule and disdain of his previous life.

Yes, my clothes at this moment are high-end and beautiful.

"Thank you! I'm fine."

After saying that, he turned and left, saying goodbye to the humble Zhou Xiang in his previous life.

In this life, what you have is no longer afraid of any circle, any gaze or ridicule.

After leaving, Zhou Xiang seemed to have removed a layer of shackles, and his whole body was filled with a sense of unrestrained freedom.

The three girls looked at each other, feeling confused and as if lost.

Zhou Xiang, feeling extremely relaxed, smuggled out the packaged dried fruits at the corner.

I went to the post office and mailed it to a primary school in Xicheng District in Beijing.

The recipients always have a bad attitude towards packages that are sealed by themselves, so Zhou Xiang deliberately said that the package was sent to Beijing.

Sure enough, the recipient was calm and touched the outside of the package with his hand, and found that it was indeed hard lumps.

"Forget it this time, but next time, you are not allowed to seal it. You must inspect it for us before you seal it."

"Yeah, yeah! Got it, thank you!"

After filling in the address, the clerk weighed and calculated the package, and after about twenty minutes of hard work, it was finally completely stored in the small warehouse behind the counter.

Holding a small note, Zhou Xiang bought some letter paper, envelopes and stamps, copied the package number on the note, put it in the envelope and mailed it.

The mail was extremely slow at that time, with letters traveling twice as fast as parcels.

I went to the market, bought some vegetables, and then went home to cook.

When Wei Juan's mother saw her, she just snorted, and seemed to be quite proud of herself.

Zhou Xiang walked past without looking around, thinking that she had found a new son-in-law and was just feeling proud.

Three days later, on Saturday morning, Zhou Xiang had already agreed with his third brother and Zuo Heng to return to the town after school at noon.

There was a knock on the courtyard door. Zuo Heng opened it and saw a number of people outside. When he saw one of them, he quickly turned back and went into the house to call Zhou Xiang.

"The one outside with her hair pulled by an old man seems to be the blind lady."