Xi Shaoyuan went downstairs and turned on his phone to ask the driver to pick him up.
As soon as he took out his phone and opened WeChat, Xu Qing's red dot popped up: "Shao Yuan, Happy New Year's Eve."
No need to scroll, you can see his last message on the same screen: "Since you're here, why aren't you watching it with us?"
The news happened a long time ago, on the day when I watched the movie.
In addition to Xu Qing's blessing, Xie Cheng, Huaxu, Du Feiyang, Tan Ming, Zhang Qi, Xu Haobo, Lu Lingshan... and many others sent their blessings to Xi Shaoyuan, except Zhou Xiu's.
Xi Shaoyuan turned off the screen and did not reply.
…
While Zhou Xiu was working on a math Olympiad puzzle, she heard the sound of her cell phone ringing in the living room.
Liu Mei accidentally clicked on her WeChat interface, saw the red envelope and subconsciously grabbed it.
After Liu Mei ordered it, she was shocked. "Why is it so big?"
Two hundred dollars.
Liu Mei thought it was an ordinary red envelope of one or two yuan or a few cents.
It turned out that the students in Class 24 initiated the red envelope rain because they did well in the exam, so they were particularly generous in distributing red envelopes this year.
The main person sending out red envelopes is Yuan Ruoyi. She promised to use her lucky money to give out red envelopes, and she took on the responsibility of giving out the red envelopes herself. Each red envelope was worth 200 yuan, so the students had no interest in playing and were only focused on grabbing the red envelopes.
"Xiu'er, I just ordered a red envelope for you, is that okay?"
Liu Mei felt happy when she clicked the red envelope, but suddenly she realized that she had grabbed thousands of red envelopes and felt terrible.
Zhou Xiu finished her homework and looked at it on her phone. At this time, the WeChat group was already filled with Du Feiyang’s landscape pictures.
Du Feiyang, who was still in China a few days ago, is now in a small town near Alfa Mayo Mountain. He is broadcasting a live morning broadcast to everyone.
He wished everyone a happy new year with a row of white teeth, and Du Feiyang really did as he said and sent back many high-definition and beautiful landscape pictures. High-definition photographs were displayed one by one in the group. These magnificent mountains, across the screen, were scenery that Zhou Xiu had never seen before.
She stared at it for a long time and picked out a picture of the scenery to save.
Liu Mei asked again: "Did Mom do something wrong?"
Obviously she understood the ways of the world better than Zhou Xiu. Their family is poor, so they shouldn't take advantage of this little thing and let others look down on them.
Zhou Xiu shook her head, "It's okay."
Zhou Xiu usually doesn't participate in such red envelope grabbing activities. Her financial situation is rather tight, and she can't afford to give out red envelopes, so she simply doesn't grab any.
It is not good to just grab the red envelopes without sending them out.
She sighed and gave out a red envelope with a painful feeling. In addition to the red envelope that Liu Mei had just grabbed, an extra thousand yuan was added.
They only give out as many as you grab, which is not very friendly.
As soon as she sent out the red envelope, it was drowned in the collective red envelope rain.
The students who got Zhou Xiu's red envelope said: "I wish to be blessed by the top student's counterattack and continue to pass the exam next semester."
"Wow, I actually got Zhou Xiu's red envelope!"
“Dip, dip, dip!”
System: [Young man, you will earn more money in the new year. With a solid foundation, next year will be a year of rapid wealth. 】
Zhou Xiu smiled and said, "Well, I appreciate your good wishes. 】
The countdown to New Year’s midnight begins at this second, and thousands of fireworks bloom together, as bright as daylight.
Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei were so curious that they ran to the rooftop to watch the fireworks. They pointed at the previous one and said it was beautiful, then they thought the current one was the most beautiful.
Like a child who has not experienced much of the world, his eyes are full of curiosity.
Zhou Xiu returned to the room and resigned himself to his fate and continued to lay the foundation.
This semester we are just dealing with the general subject exams for high school. There will be two competitions in the next semester. It can be imagined that the situation will be very intense and every second counts.
Instead of complaining about lack of time later, it is better to start preparing now.
…
On the first day of the new year, Liu Mei took out the newly bought clothes and gave them to her daughter.
Liu Mei recalled that in previous years Zhou Xiu always picked up old clothes from her cousins to wear. Although they were not happy about it, they did not say anything, causing Zhou Xiu to suffer in vain for many years.
She said a little uncomfortably, "Xiu'er, don't always wear that blue cotton coat of yours. Wear something festive for the New Year. Try this one."
Zhou Xiu got a red and white down jacket, which is a particularly bright and white color.
Liu Mei also took out the skin care products she bought for her daughter from her room.
Liu Mei specifically consulted her neighbors for advice. "Xiu'er will be seventeen this year. She is a big girl now. She needs to wash her face every day."
She didn’t have the conditions to dress herself up before, but now she has the conditions and Liu Mei is willing to spend money on her.
Zhou Xiu looked at Liu Mei who specially gave her an unknown brand facial cleanser. Although she was happy, she couldn't help laughing.
She picked up the facial cleanser, glanced at the chemical composition table on the back, and said earnestly, "Don't waste your money next time. Polyethylene glycol, sodium lauryl sulfate, hexadecanoic acid, these ingredients are too irritating and will rot your face if you apply them on it."
Liu Mei stared in confusion.
Zhou Xiu patiently explained them to her one by one.
After hearing this, Liu Mei was terrified: "No wonder the girl downstairs always has acne marks on her face. Xiu'er, we don't need it, we don't need it."
She threw the newly bought facial cleanser into the trash can with a painful look, saying, "But Xiu'er should also pay attention to her image."
Zhou Xiu couldn't resist Liu Mei's nagging, so she studied for a while, opened Taobao and bought some basic sunscreen and facial cleanser.
system:【……】
Okay, Xiuxiu tends to listen to her mother.
Even the temptation of money cannot seduce her.
During the winter vacation, Zhou Xiu studied for half a day and spent the remaining half of the day collecting money at the noodle stall to relieve the pressure on her parents.
After Zhou Cheng started to earn some income, he ordered milk for his daughter every day, and provided her with bone soup and chicken soup every day, which helped to make up for the nutrition that Zhou Xiu had been missing for the past ten years.
Because Zhou Xiu was good at math, the young white-collar worker who ordered eight servings of noodles at Zhou Cheng's noodle stall the day before was inexplicably attracted to this girl.
After the New Year, he was queuing up to buy noodles and witnessed Zhou Xiu quickly calculating the cost of ten servings of noodles.
He secretly recorded a video and posted it to his TikTok account.
This account inexplicably became a little popular.
In the vaguely shaking picture, a pretty girl was concentrating on doing her homework, and suddenly a group of workers came to the stall to eat. The foreman had just finished ordering food when the boss started typing on the calculator. Without raising her head, the little girl said:
"I miscalculated. The total cost for 10 servings of noodles should be 135.5."
It seems that the content is not important, the protagonist is important. Such a pretty girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket and her serious profile immersed in homework is really beautiful.
Coincidentally, one day a classmate from Class 24 accidentally found this video on the Internet and was shocked.
Lan Xin rubbed her eyes and said, "Isn't this Xiu Xiu?"
If you only look at her profile, you might not be able to recognize her, but everyone is so familiar with her posture as she concentrates on doing homework.
Only Zhou Xiu is an oddball who can persist in studying in a noisy environment.
Yuan Ruoyi was also surprised and didn't quite believe it.
Zhou Xiu...how come she's at a snack stand like this?
Although the classmates around her were not from wealthy families, they were at least from wealthy families. The terrible environment in the video made it difficult for Yuan Ruoyi to associate it with Zhou Xiu.
Fortunately, at the end of the video, there are a few photos secretly taken by young white-collar workers. In the photos, Tan Ming is standing aside with a sullen face, doing hard labor.
He was usually neat and tidy, but now he looked unexpectedly disheveled.
As soon as Yuan Ruoyi's doubts emerged, they were suppressed.
Tan Ming can be regarded as the most proud and spoiled boy in the class. When he first arrived at Yude to attend junior high school, he wished he could ride in a sports car to school every day.
As soon as he entered high school, he learned from Yuan Shao to ride a Harley motorcycle, just like a spendthrift.
If Lu Lingshan had not publicly expressed her dislike for such brainless flaunting of wealth, Tan Ming probably would not have learned the word "low-key".
Yuan Ruoyi sent the video to Tan Ming and asked, "What is this?"
After watching this video, Tan Ming felt terrible and was devastated.
I only went there once, and at first I thought that my miserable look would not be seen by acquaintances. It turned out that it protected acquaintances, but I never expected that it could not protect passers-by.
Tan Ming pretended to be calm and answered Yuan Ruoyi: "Social practice during winter vacation."
He secretly contacted the poster and quickly asked him to delete the video.
He comforted himself by thinking that Zhou Xiu himself might not be willing to let others know these things.
Yuan Ruoyi & Lan Xin: "..."
Understood immediately.
They quickly put the little episode behind them.
…
Half a month later, Huaxu and Yu Qingyan came back from their vacation abroad and continued to make an appointment with Zhou Xiu to tutor them in English. After not seeing each other for nearly a month, both of them were surprised.
The first thing Yu Qingyan said when she saw Zhou Xiu was, "Xiu Xiu seems to be a little taller."
The tidbit said: "It's a little white."
Yu Qingyan took several steps back and squinted her eyes to look her up and down. "Sister Xu is right."
She seemed to be able to taste some of Zhou Xiu's looks.
"It would be better if it were a little whiter." Yu Qingyan said, touching her chin.
Huatui snapped his fingers proudly and said, "I originally wanted to study fine arts, and I can't make a mistake with this."
"Stop talking about this. Come on, Xiuxiu, let's test your success in learning English during the winter vacation."
Huaxu called Xu Qing and asked, "Is the monitor here? Come over and correct the test papers."
Huaxu shamelessly handed all the holiday homework assigned by her English teacher to Zhou Xiu, and Yu Qingyan also stuffed a few test papers into her hands.
"Xiu Xiu, write well. We spent a lot of effort to find these test papers for you. Please write well."
Zhou Xiu took the test paper on "Deep Love and Loyalty" handed to her by her sisters. Although she was skeptical, she started writing quickly.
Huaxu took a book and read it aside, and set the alarm on his phone.
But Zhou Xiu didn't need an alarm clock. She didn't find writing the test boring, so she kept writing until Xu Qing came.
Xu Qing received a call from Huaxu and was out of town and couldn't get away.
So he found Xie Cheng in the library. Xie Cheng handed the text message to Xi Shaoyuan without even batting an eyelid.
"Your Xiuxiu, are you going?"
Xi Shaoyuan's face changed when he saw this and he asked him, "Xie Cheng, what do you mean?"
Xie Cheng closed the book he had been reading, held his chin and said, "On New Year's Eve, you went to Zhou Xiu's house."
"Shao Yuan has never paid so much attention to a girl."
On New Year's Eve, Xie Cheng had originally made an appointment with Xi Shaoyuan to attend a party, but he didn't show up for a long time, so he called Xi's driver.
Except for New Year's Eve, all the previous signs of something being wrong were just clues in Xie Cheng's view.
"I said, how could Shaoyuan lose a game?" Xie Cheng said calmly.
Xie Cheng was referring to the game that Class 24 and the Wynners played together on Christmas. The result of the game was that Xi Shaoyuan lost, and Zhou Xiu got a lot of gifts.
It would be fine if other people lost, but that was Xi Shaoyuan.
Xi Shaoyuan didn't want to reply to Xie Cheng, and his face became darker and darker.
He replied neatly: "No."
Xie Cheng directly sent a message: "If you don't go, I will go?"
Xi Shaoyuan turned off his phone with a dull expression and went to the city library.
Huaxu was so sleepy that he fell asleep lazily on the table, while Yu Qingyan started reading a mindless campus cartoon. The more she read, the weirder her smile became. Zhou Xiu straightened his back and frowned, puzzled.
Xi Shaoyuan walked into the library and found Zhou Xiu.
He walked a little closer, pulled out a chair and sat down. Yu Qingyan heard a slight noise and turned her head to see——
She opened her mouth wide, and the girl in her hand fell to the ground with a thud, hitting Huaxu's leg.
Huaxu raised his head, yawned lazily, looked carefully at the person in front of him, quickly retracted the yawn, and smiled reservedly.
Yu Qingyan asked, "Why are you here, Master Yuan?"
Xi Shaoyuan said: "Xu Qing is not available, I happen to be in the library."
Behind the Scenes & Yu Qingyan felt inexplicably complicated: "..."
It’s better not to bring the squad leader to the next activity. Why did you summon this great god without even saying hello? You didn’t even give people time to prepare.
Although he is indeed the top student in English in the whole grade, tutoring Xiuxiu is the best choice.
However, Yu Qingyan only thought that she was here to see Huaxu and Zhou Xiu today, so she didn't even put on makeup properly. Her hair was only washed two days ago. At this moment, she just wanted to disappear immediately.
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