Chapter 37 Chapter 37 How is he better than me? !
Shen Moer raised her head from the book and looked sideways at Fu Mingze, with a slightly surprised expression. She asked knowingly, "Fu Zhiqing, is there anything you need to apologize to me for yesterday?"
Fu Mingze choked, opened his mouth, and said after a while: "You took the trouble to buy a box for me. I shouldn't have refused, and I shouldn't have said those words. I'm sorry."
Shen Moer looked at his handsome eyebrows and raised the corners of her lips imperceptibly, but her expression was indifferent: "Oh, this matter, it doesn't matter, my father likes the box very much, so he kept it for use."
Fu Mingze: “…”
I was speechless for a moment.
He couldn't say that he tossed and turned all night, suddenly regretted it, and wanted the box again.
After all, she herself said that giving him something was not her intention to keep a distance or sever ties with him. So, that box was something she had spent a lot of time and effort to buy purely for him. Even if he didn't want her to pay for it, he could just take the thing and return the money to her.
Who would have thought that just one day later, the box had a different owner?
Fu Mingze frowned slightly, just like when he suddenly heard yesterday that she was going on a blind date. Besides being surprised, he also felt a little upset.
"As for what you said, I can actually understand it. Fu Zhiqing, you have helped my family a lot. Now I have to trouble you to help me with my homework. It is normal for you to feel impatient." Shen Moer lowered her eyes and said in a flat tone.
Fu Mingze was choked again and was speechless for a long time. For the first time, he felt that he couldn't explain himself even if he had a mouth full of words. His lips moved for a long time and he squeezed out a sentence: "I really didn't mean that."
Shen Moer glanced at him calmly and said, "Maybe I was thinking the wrong thing."
Fu Mingze: “…”
Even if his memory is bad, he still remembers what happened yesterday.
The conversation between them now was exactly the same as yesterday, except that the words were changed.
"I apologize."
Fu Mingze reluctantly reiterated it again, with a hint of unconscious weakness in his usually cold eyes and brows.
Shen Moer looked at him carefully, nodded and said, "It's okay." Then she lowered her head again and continued reading the textbook.
Fu Mingze secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes unconsciously falling on the delicate and vivid eyebrows and eyes of the person next to him, but he quickly looked away the moment she slightly turned her head.
Shen Moer carefully read that question type, then quickly turned another page, pointed to a paragraph of text and a formula on another page and asked Fu Mingze. Fu Mingze sorted out his thoughts and explained it in the most concise and clear words possible.
Ever since Shen Moli asked him to help with tutoring, he began to review the high school courses at the last minute. He has been reviewing for several days and can naturally handle the math problems of the first year of high school with ease.
Time passed quietly, and the two of them stopped thinking about those trivial things. One studied seriously, and the other worked hard on the questions, until the voice of the naughty child sounded beside them: "Oh my god, Fu Zhiqing is really teaching Sister Moer to study!"
Shen Moer's thoughts were interrupted. When she raised her eyes, she met the hairy black grape-like eyes. She raised her eyebrows slightly and asked, "What else?"
Shun'er sold out his friend right away: "Maomao said you two are dating! Hahaha!"
Shen Moer: “…”
Angrily, he tapped Maomao's head with a book: "Stop talking nonsense. Have you finished your homework?"
Maomao rubbed his head and laughed, "It doesn't hurt. I'm not talking nonsense. When my aunt was dating someone, she always took me with her. She took me to the park and to the river bank. After she married my uncle, she never took me with her again."
Shen Moer felt her face getting a little hot, but she still said righteously: "That's your aunt. We are neither in the small park nor on the bank of the stream. We are studying. This is the same as sitting in the classroom and studying together."
The naughty kid was quickly convinced. He puffed out his chest, put his feet together, and saluted crookedly, saying proudly, "Report to the commander, Soldier Maomao has successfully completed the mission and all the work has been done!"
Shun'er was not to be outdone and immediately saluted: "Report to the commander, soldier Shun'er has also successfully completed the mission and finished all the homework!"
Shen Moer: “…”
She let the two naughty kids take a break and move around freely. She got up and went into the kitchen to cut the extra egg pancake she made at noon into three pieces. She took it out and divided two small pieces for the two kids and gave the big piece to Fu Mingze: "I made too much at noon. I have to go to work soon. Have it as a snack to fill your stomach."
Fu Mingze smiled and accepted the call readily.
Although the egg pancakes were cold, they were still salty, fragrant and chewy. The two naughty kids ate them with their mouths full of oil. After eating, they licked each of their fingers that had held the pancakes, and solemnly promised Shen Moer that they would come back tomorrow!
If you have good food to eat, you are a fool if you don’t come.
Seeing that it was almost time to start work, Shen Moer urged them to wash their hands and put away the textbooks and pencils they had brought.
Fu Mingze also went to wash his hands. While the two naughty kids were packing their textbooks, he took out a three-jin food coupon from his pocket and handed it to Shen Moer: "You can't always eat and drink for free."
Before Shen Moer refused, he said, "Your family owed the brigade a lot of work points for building the house. Uncle Shen Qi should have used up all the food coupons for the past two months. I usually eat at the educated youth camp, so I don't need food coupons."
After a pause, he added, "I don't have any more."
The words of refusal came to Shen Moer's lips, but she had to swallow them back.
Judging from the apparent income, after building the house, especially after building such an expensive bathroom, her family should be struggling to make ends meet.
At least it's impossible to subsidize him with food from time to time.
Shen Moer took the food coupons and glanced at Fu Mingze's slightly thin face. She thought that it would be the same if she could find a way to give him back the three kilograms of food coupons later.
I don’t know how long it took him to save up these three kilograms of food coupons.
Seeing that she accepted the food coupons, Fu Mingze secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He wanted to give her 30 kilograms of food coupons at once, but the problem was that if he, a poor educated youth who didn't even have a good piece of clothing, really took out 30 kilograms of food coupons, the girl might think he had done something sneaky.
Glancing at Shen Moer's slightly pointed chin, Fu Mingze frowned, thinking to himself, Mingming had good food at home during the days when the house was being built, so why didn't she gain any weight?
The two of them went out with their own thoughts. After walking a few steps, they heard the sound of a bicycle bell. Shen Moer looked back and saw her father riding a 28-bar bicycle quickly coming over. She stopped, her eyes widened in surprise, and walked a few steps to greet him: "Dad, when did you learn to ride a bicycle? Where did you get this bicycle? Why are you back in the middle of the day?"
Shen Shaoyuan twisted the brakes, got off the bike unskillfully, greeted Fu Mingze first, and then patiently answered each question one by one: "I borrowed Xu Weiguo's bicycle to learn before, this bike is his. I came back to talk to you about the registration for the competition. The commune primary school said that the registration deadline is today, you have to quickly make a list and register."
When she heard about this, Shen Moer immediately said, "I have roughly thought of a candidate. Let's go to the captain to discuss it together?"
Then he said to Fu Mingze, "Fu Zhiqing, please send Maomao and Shun'er away. I have something to ask the captain."
Fu Mingze nodded: "It's okay, go quickly."
It was the first time that Shen Shaoyuan rode a bicycle properly, and he didn't dare to bring anyone with him, for fear that his precious daughter would fall. The two of them pushed the bicycles and walked quickly towards the captain's house, leaving three people, one big and two small, standing there and watching their backs.
Maomao and Shun'er were whispering to each other.
"What kind of competition are you talking about? Commune Primary School, isn't it a competition for primary school students?"
"Didn't Sister Moer say that she had chosen the candidates? Even if it's a competition for elementary school students, not everyone has to participate. I'm such a bad student, I definitely can't participate."
"Well, I'm just an average student, so I definitely won't be able to attend. That's fine, it has nothing to do with us."
Fu Mingze, who had listened to the entire conversation between the two naughty kids, patted their heads speechlessly and said, "Okay, I'll take you to the village."
This is the entrance to the village, and there is a stream not far away. Children can be in danger whether they run out to play in the water or run out of the village. We can send them into the village and they will be fine where there are more people.
Fu Mingze sent the two of them to a fork in the road not far from home, stopped, and took out a few fruit candies from his patched pocket. He gave four to Maomao and two to Shuner.
Primary school students have already learned arithmetic, so four candies and two candies don’t even require arithmetic knowledge.
Shun'er was not one to swallow his anger, and he immediately protested: "I have two fewer than Maomao!"
Fu Mingze nodded, not feeling that there was anything wrong with his division: "He performed well today, the extra two are a reward for him."
Maomao immediately became proud: "Is this a reward for my good performance? Oh, oh, I performed well and got a reward!"
Shun'er had a big question mark on his face, and asked Fu Mingze a soul-searching question: "How is he better than me?!"
They started doing their homework together, finished it together, ate together, washed their hands together, and even when he saluted, he was no worse than Maomao.
Shun'er didn't understand, didn't comprehend, and felt very aggrieved.
Fu Mingze thought to himself that he had good eyesight and was good at speaking.
On the other side, when Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan arrived at Zhou Mancang's house, Zhou Mancang was about to go out. When he heard that there was something to discuss, he hurriedly let the two into the house.
When Chen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan told him about the matter, Zhou Mancang was so happy that he rubbed his hands together: "Can the primary school of our brigade sign up for this provincial competition? If we win a prize in the province, the city, county and commune will give us rewards? In order to encourage everyone to participate, the county will give an organization award to anyone who organizes more than five people to sign up. What is the county award?"
Zhou Mancang felt that he was really wise. He had gone to the trouble to get a teacher's spot from the commune and opened art classes in the brigade's primary school. It had only been a short time, but the benefits of having art classes were already evident.
They were guaranteed to win a county-level organizational award. In the entire Liuqiao Commune, apart from the commune primary school, there was only their Yangliu Brigade Primary School. If we rounded it off, their Yangliu Brigade Primary School would rank second in the entire commune!
Zhou Mancang was so excited that he said "OK" several times.
Shen Moer then talked about the list she picked out from the "pop quiz" and also talked about her concerns: "I picked six children, three boys and three girls. Before the competition, they all have to use their spare time for tutoring and also take time to practice at home. I know the three boys, and they are all relatively doted on by their families. I think their families should support them. Of the three girls, two usually help with housework after school, and one sometimes has to ask for leave to go home to work. I'm afraid their families don't want them to learn."
This is also the reason why she came to Zhou Mancang first.
Zhou Mancang frowned and asked, "Do we really need these three girls?"
He wanted to say, couldn't they just pick boys out of the six? But when he saw Shen Moer's calm but determined look, he couldn't say it.
After a moment of silence, Zhou Mancang waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Just tell me your name and I'll take care of the rest."
Shen Moer breathed a sigh of relief and filled out the registration form that Shen Shaoyuan brought back on the spot. She then went to the brigade headquarters with Zhou Mancang and stamped the brigade's official seal on the registration form. Shen Shaoyuan took the registration form and rode his 28-inch bicycle back to the commune.
It was time for work and classes in the afternoon, so Shen Moer hurried to school after leaving the team office. After arriving at school, she told Cheng Tao about her registration for the provincial competition.
Cheng Tao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "No wonder you let the children take the test in class, it is to screen out the talents, right? Great, Teacher Shen." He gave a thumbs up.
Shen Moer smiled and said, "Then these children won't have to attend the following physical education and self-study classes. I'll give them some last-minute cramming."
Cheng Tao smiled and said, "That's what we should do. I hope you can have a successful start and win honor for our Yangliu Brigade Primary School."
Shen Moer: "I will definitely try my best to fight for it."
As they were talking, Shen Lingling, who had come in at some point, suddenly sneered and said in a sarcastic tone, "Ha, you are really like a toad yawning, you are so arrogant. We have only had art classes for a few days, and the students can only draw squares or circles, but you dare to organize them to participate in the provincial competition? Don't let them fail to get the honor and make a fool of themselves in front of the provincial government."
Shen Moer turned around and glanced at Shen Lingling.
Shen Moer actually found it quite strange. Shen Lingling used to have a good reputation in the village, and she also cared a lot about her image, pretending to be quite decent in front of others. Now, she didn't know if it was because her family's reputation had plummeted, or if she had been stimulated by something, but she became weird and didn't even try to pretend.
Shen Moer glanced at Cheng Tao again and found that Cheng Tao's expression did not change at all, as if he was not surprised at all by Shen Lingling's sarcastic side.
Okay, Shen Moer understood.
It seems that Cheng Tao has long seen through what kind of person Shen Lingling is. Shen Lingling probably knows it too, so she simply stops pretending in front of Cheng Tao.
That being the case.
Shen Moer asked coldly, "Teacher Shen Lingling has so much teaching experience. I wonder what kind of competitions she has participated in with her students? In the annual exams, the students' scores should be among the best in the entire commune, right? By the way, I remember that you seemed to have participated in the recruitment of workers in the commune's textile factory. Why didn't you go to be a worker? Is it because you don't want to go?"
The main purpose of hitting someone is to hit them in the face.
Shen Lingling was almost going crazy, especially when Shen Moer mentioned the textile factory recruiting workers. Shen Lingling didn't know how Shen Moer knew about this, but she really didn't want anyone to know. She was a high school graduate, and she failed the exam to become a worker in a textile factory, so she could only return to the village in disgrace to be a teacher.
She has always said that she loves education and is willing to devote her youth to grassroots education.
Shen Lingling didn't dare to look at Cheng Tao's expression. She grabbed the textbook and ran away.
Cheng Tao, who was watching the whole process, had a gossipy expression on his face. He had never heard that Shen Lingling had passed the exam to work at a textile factory.
However, Cheng Tao glanced at Shen Lingling who was running away in a hurry, and then secretly glanced at Shen Moli who had already sat back at the desk. He secretly sighed in his heart that female comrades were really powerful when they got angry, and it was really powerful to see the good-tempered comrade Shen Moli get angry.
Shen Moer didn't care what Cheng Tao thought. She packed her things and went to class.
After class, during the break, Shen Moer called all six children on the list to the camphor tree next to the playground.
She didn't go to the office because she was afraid that Shen Lingling would go crazy again and say something inappropriate in front of the students.
When they heard that they were going to take part in a painting competition, the three boys looked very excited, without any psychological burden at all; however, the three girls hung their heads and were somewhat silent.
Shen Moer bent down and looked at them, and said, "You just need to work hard to learn what the teacher teaches you. The teacher and the team leader will communicate with the parents about other matters."
The girls were relieved immediately. The round-faced girl named Meimei was more outgoing. She exhaled exaggeratedly and said, "Teacher, you and the team leader must talk to my mother. Otherwise, if I don't go to collect firewood after school, my mother will beat me to death."
Another girl named Xiao Ye smiled shyly: "Yes, I will go to collect firewood after school too."
Shen Moer patted their heads and said, "Don't worry, the teacher and the team leader will talk to your adults."
The skinny and dark girl named Zhaodi hesitated for a long time and asked, "Teacher, can I not participate?"
She lowered her head, her skinny hands subconsciously rubbing the whitened and fuzzy corners of her clothes, and stammered, "My mother won't agree."
Shen Moer looked at her, was silent for a while, touched her head, and said, “Teacher and the team leader should try to get it from your mother first, okay?”
Zhaodi nodded and said nothing more.
Shen Moer: "Okay, you guys go back to class first, the tutoring starts tomorrow, I'll let you know the time and place tomorrow."
Several children ran away in all directions.
Maomao, the only one among the six people that Shen Moer was relatively familiar with, did not run away immediately. After everyone else had left, he said in a childish manner, "Sister Moer, Zhou Zhaodi's mother would not agree. Her mother is a stepmother. She has to do a lot of work at home. Sometimes she has no food to eat. She often growls with hunger. You can hear it during class."
Maomao is almost a head taller than Zhou Zhaodi, but they are actually the same age and are classmates.
Shen Moer recalled and found that there was no relevant content about Zhou Zhaodi in the original owner's memory. However, it was not surprising. The original owner was introverted and rarely interacted with the villagers. It was estimated that she had little contact with Zhou Zhaodi's parents.
So he asked curiously, "Where is her biological mother?"
Maomao shook his head and said, "Her mother wanted to give her a brother, but she couldn't, so she died, and then her stepmother came along."
The bear child looked up at Shen Moer curiously: “Sister Moer, is it difficult to give birth to a child? Is it more difficult than doing homework?”
Shen Moer touched his head: “Sometimes it’s difficult.”
I don’t know what the team leader said to the children’s parents, but when the tutoring officially started the next day, all six children arrived.
Shen Moer didn't care about these things. She even stopped her own extracurricular studies and focused on intensive training for the six children.
It was also because the content of cultural propaganda in this era was very simple and the theme was very clear, so Shen Moer dared to organize intensive training for the children to participate in the competition.
This is like taking an exam and knowing the scope of the exam in advance. You only need to prepare the corresponding content, which is relatively simple.
What's more, regardless of whether they can win the award or not, this is a rare opportunity for the children in the team.
While Chen Moer was busy, Fu Mingze suddenly became idle. When he had nothing to do, he no longer read books, but often went to the vegetable garden to weed alone.
Zheng Jiamin observed him for a few days and suspected that he was not going to the vegetable garden to pull weeds, but to think about life. After all, Fu Mingze had been pulling weeds for a few days, but the weeds in the vegetable garden didn't seem to have decreased.
Finally one day, Zheng Jiamin couldn't help but ran over to ask Fu Mingze: "Is your friend's problem still unresolved? Since that girl has found a good partner after such a long time, maybe he has already settled down. Your friend shouldn't have to worry about it, right?"
Fu Mingze looked up at him with a cold look in his eyes, which made Zheng Jiamin's scalp numb. After a while, he heard Fu Mingze ask an irrelevant question: "Have you ever been to the county cinema to watch a movie?"
Zheng Jiamin shook his head blankly: "No, doesn't the commune show open-air movies every now and then? There are only a few movies. There is no need to spend the money to go to the county cinema to watch them, right?"
Nowadays, there are only a few movies that are watched over and over again. Basically, everyone is familiar with each movie and has seen it more than three times.
Fu Mingze nodded in agreement: "That's right, why is it necessary?"
So what good could it be to coax a girl to go to the county cinema to watch a movie?
Zheng Jiamin had already forgotten that Shen Moer might go to the movies with her blind date, but Fu Mingze, who had heard him mention it, felt a little uneasy these days.
Tomorrow is Sunday.
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