The next day.

Early in the morning, Niu Dehua's father got up early.

Niu Dehua's father is also a staff member of a public institution. Generally speaking, he does not have to go to work during the weekends, so every weekend, Niu Dehua's father usually sleeps in a little and does not get up until around seven o'clock.

However, this weekend, unlike in the past, Niu Dehua's father got up early even during the break. The reason was naturally not that Niu Dehua's father was notified to work overtime at the company, but that there was something very important to their whole family today - his son's school was going to hold a parent-teacher meeting.

For this reason, Niu Dehua's father got up shortly after Niu's mother did as usual when he was working.

"Why are you up so early?"

Mother Niu, who was busy with breakfast and housework in the kitchen, looked up when she heard the noise. When she saw that Father Niu had walked in wearing only a vest, she took a glance and continued to work. She asked without even looking up, but there was a hint of complaint in her tone, "Why are you getting up so early today when you have a day off? Why don't you sleep a little longer?!"

"It's not early anymore, it's already past six!"

Father Niu turned around and glanced at the time on the wall clock in the living room. It was already 6:18 in the morning, but the sky outside was already bright. There were bursts of noisy hawking sounds coming from the vegetable market not far away, which seemed to have a strong flavor of the city. "Besides, didn't I get up this early when I went to work in the past? Today is about the same, so I'll just treat it as work!"

There was a hint of helplessness in Mr. Niu's tone, but Mrs. Niu, who had been with her husband for decades, already knew his habits very well. She knew that although her husband spoke like this at this moment, he was very proud in his heart.

Everyone wanted to attend this parent-teacher meeting, the old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Niu, if for no other reason than because their son had achieved the best result in his personal history, a score of over 630 points.

God have mercy on them. It's not like Mr. and Mrs. Niu had not attended parent-teacher conferences before. But at that time, they mostly went to be criticized. So when they heard the word "parent-teacher conference", the couple were terrified, fearing that after going to school, they would be "favored" by the head teacher in public and be socially embarrassed in front of other parents.

But this time it was different. Their son Niu Dehua’s grades improved, and they, as parents, had completely turned around!

So when Niu Dehua brought back the decision to hold a parent-teacher meeting, the couple had an argument over who should attend the meeting.

Niu's father thought that he should be the one to open it, after all, he had attended it before!

However, Niu's mother believed that she was the first one to agree that her son Niu Dehua should repeat his senior year at No. 2 Middle School, so she should also attend the parent-teacher meeting. After all, without her first consent, it was not certain whether her son Niu Dehua could get such good grades!

But in the end, Niu's father was better. With his enthusiasm and level of presentation, he successfully convinced Niu's mother to sleep with him and got a spot to attend the parent-teacher meeting.

But Niu's mother didn't point it out, she just reminded quietly, "Keep your voice down, don't disturb Dehua!"

"He's still asleep?" Hearing Niu's mother's reminder, Niu's father carefully turned his head to look in the direction of Niu Dehua's room, fearing that even a slightly larger movement would disturb Niu Dehua who was still "resting" in the room.

But when Father Niu saw that the door of the room was still closed, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Mother Niu who was kneading dough to make omelettes, "It's good to sleep, so get some rest! He's usually busy with tutoring, and he finally has a weekend. I feel a little distressed when I see him working so hard!"

Ever since Niu Dehua chose to repeat his senior year, he seemed like a different person. He no longer ran around when he had nothing to do. Whenever he had some free time, he would read a book. He had no social life at all. Even when he contacted his classmates, they only talked about study.

Naturally, the cow's father and mother saw this change.

At the beginning, Niu's father and mother seemed very happy. They secretly felt that Niu Dehua had finally grown up, knew that he should plan for his future, and his self-control had become much stronger. He no longer thought about going out to play when he had nothing to do.

But as time went on, the couple felt less and less happy.

On the contrary, Niu's father and mother felt more and more uneasy and worried as they watched Niu Dehua live like an ascetic every day.

Niu's father and mother couldn't help but worry. In the past, the couple's schedule in summer and autumn was generally to go to bed around 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening and get up around 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning. This habit has been developed for decades.

But since Niu Dehua started repeating a grade, his parents gradually discovered that their son Niu Dehua seemed to be sleeping less and less.

When Niu's parents were sleeping at 9 or 10 p.m., they found through the light in the crack of Niu Dehua's room that their son Niu Dehua's light was on; when they got up at 2 or 3 a.m. to go to the toilet, they found that Niu Dehua

Once or twice, Niu's father and mother would feel very relieved, thinking that Niu Dehua had finally grown up and knew how to cherish time and work hard. But as time went on, the couple began to worry. There were even several times when they wanted to talk to their son, asking him to pay more attention to his work and rest schedule and not to work too hard just for the sake of a few points. As a result, although the scores did improve in the end, his health was also dragged down.

Even the worst result is that your body is worn out in the end, but your grades are also dragged down and do not improve, resulting in nothing in the end.

But later the couple discussed it and decided to wait and see. If their son Niu Dehua continued to work as hard as before, the couple would pretend they didn't see anything and let it develop.

But if Niu Dehua continues like this, the couple can no longer just ignore it. They must intervene and mediate. After all, the child is their own and they would feel sad if he got a little bit hurt, not to mention the normal staying up late now.

Sure enough, after careful observation by Niu's father and mother, the couple discovered that, as they expected, their son Niu Dehua really did not take his health seriously and stayed up late every day to study with the lights on, which made the couple angry and distressed.

So the next day, the old couple, Niu's father and mother, confronted their son at the dinner table when Niu Dehua came home from school in the afternoon, and asked him how late he studied every day.

"Usually around 2 or 3 o'clock, right? Sometimes I go to bed early, maybe around 12 o'clock!" Niu Dehua answered casually while eating dinner. However, after answering his parents' questions, Niu Dehua looked at his parents curiously and asked, "What's wrong, mom? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

After hearing Niu Dehua's answer, Niu's father and mother were almost worried to death.

In the past, the couple worried that their son Niu Dehua, although always opinionated, was never focused on his studies. But now, they worry that Niu Dehua is becoming more and more opinionated, but is focusing too much on his studies. He wishes he could spend 25 hours out of 24 on studying.

So after Niu Dehua asked, his mother, who felt sorry for her son, took the lead in speaking directly, saying, "It's like this, Dehua. Mom and Dad know that you have changed your mind now. That's not right. Ah, you should turn over a new leaf. That's not right either. You should repent and make a new start..."

Unable to bear his wife's nagging, Father Niu directly took over the topic, looked at his son and asked in a gentle voice, "Dehua, your mother doesn't mean anything else. I just want to say that you have changed a lot compared to before, and this change is positive and for the better. Mom and dad see it and are very happy."

"Yes, yes, that's what I mean!"

Mother Niu quickly took over the conversation, "But Dehua, you've changed too much. You go to bed at two or three in the morning, and get up so early in the morning... Sometimes I see you get up before six in the morning, right? How can I bear it if you keep going like this? It's okay for one or two days, but if you keep going on like this, your body will definitely not be able to bear it!"

When seeing his parents' behavior at the dinner table, Niu Dehua couldn't help but laugh, but his parents were worried and concerned about him after all, so while he found it funny, he also felt touched.

So Niu Dehua explained to his parents, "No, no, Dad, Mom, the sleep time is always enough! It's like this, if I usually go to bed at two or three o'clock in the morning, I will get up later in the morning! Similarly, if I go to bed after 12 or 1 o'clock, I will get up earlier in the morning!"

"And I will take a nap at noon! This way I can get more sleep! And after dinner, I will also take a nap during that time. Not to mention that after I come back from evening self-study, I will take a rest first and then start studying after sleeping for a while!"

Niu Dehua's sleep time is squeezed out from these scattered fragments of time. This ensures that even if Niu Dehua studies until late at night, he will not lose much sleep even if he sleeps less than eight hours a day.

"Besides, the reason why I'm having such a hard time now is because I didn't work hard enough in the past three years!"

Niu Dehua is well aware of this. He knows why he is so tired now and thinks it is all his own fault.

But the fact is indeed like this. If Niu Dehua had worked harder in his three years of high school, he would not have barely got a score of third-tier university in the college entrance examination, and in the end he could not even get into a second-tier university!

If we trace it back further, it can be traced back to Niu Dehua's junior high school.

If Niu Dehua had worked harder in the three years of junior high school, he would not have only scored a score that could get him into No. 2 Middle School in the high school entrance examination. If Niu Dehua could go to Ruxu Middle School or Ruxu No. 1 Middle School, Niu Dehua would not be so successful now.

But if that's the case, then when Niu Dehua was in elementary school...

if......

If, if, if, where do so many ifs come from!

There is no such thing as "if" in life. What's past is past, and what's lost is lost. Time cannot be reversed. Life is not like a game where you can save the game. If you feel you didn't play it well, you can go back and play again.

Life is like this. If you make a mistake, you make a mistake. If you make a mistake, you have to pay several times the price to make up for it. Even if the mistake is very big, it is impossible to make up for it at all.

Many people will never understand this truth in their entire lives. They will only blame others and think that the problem is with the world rather than themselves. They will be angry and resentful. They are resentful that this society did not give them a chance, a chance to display their true talents and knowledge, but they have never thought about where they get the real talents and knowledge from after only receiving nine years of compulsory education.

Niu Dehua obviously understood this principle very well, so when he clearly knew where his problem lay, he resolutely spent several times more time and energy to make up for his past.

Unlike most people who do useless work, fortunately, Niu Dehua's efforts were not in vain. After spending so much time, Niu Dehua finally saw the results, and this result made Niu Dehua happy and willing to work so hard.

Hearing their son Niu Dehua say this, Niu's parents felt distressed and sad. However, even though Niu Dehua explained it this way, they were still skeptical and felt that Niu Dehua was not telling the truth.

So even though Niu Dehua had already said this, Niu's father and mother still persuaded their son not to work so hard and try to go to bed earlier in the future.

In order to reassure his parents, Niu Dehua thought about it for a while and agreed after taking a bite of rice. This made Niu's father and mother smile. They felt that everything at home was getting better. This change made them feel at ease and happy.

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Listening to what Father Niu said, Mother Niu couldn't help but paused, sighed helplessly, and said softly to Father Niu, "Why are you sleeping? You got up a long time ago! When I got up, I found that he started studying in the room."

Niu's mother's words made Niu's father's expression freeze. He couldn't help but exclaim, "What's going on? It's started again?! Didn't we just resume our normal routine a few days ago? Why are we working so hard again?! What if the grades don't catch up and something goes wrong with our body?!"

"No, I have to go talk to him!" As he said that, Father Niu was about to knock on his son Niu Dehua's door in his slippers and have a good chat with Niu Dehua, telling him to really take care of his health!

"Why disturb him while he's studying! He's already up, are you going to let him sleep now?!" Mother Niu stopped Father Niu from knocking on the door and glared at him. "Alright, alright, since you're up, wash your face and brush your teeth! I'm responsible for my son's affairs, I'll talk to him! I'll let him take a nap after breakfast, don't worry!"

After hearing what Niu's mother said, Niu's father gave up the idea of ​​knocking on his son's door. Instead, he listened to Niu's mother, turned around and went to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth.

After all, at 9:30, the parent-teacher meeting that Niu's father attached great importance to would be waiting for him, so he had to prepare well.

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