The Lin family's house was very old. There were five or six steps from the yard to the main hall, and there was a high threshold on the top of the steps. It was easy for Lin Dan to push Lin Shuanzhu out, but it was difficult to send him back. Even though she was extremely strong, it took her some effort.
Lin Shuanzhu heard his granddaughter's heavy breathing and said distressedly, "Let's eat in the house from now on. It's troublesome to move around."
"The house hasn't been swept for half a month, and there's dust everywhere. When we were cooking hot pot, the heat rushed into our bowls. We had better eat it all outside. Besides, you can't stay at home all day. I bought you a wheelchair so that you can go out when you have nothing to do. Otherwise, you'll feel suffocated." Lin Dan said casually, "It's okay. Tomorrow I'll ask Fang Bo to buy two bags of cement and sand to fill these steps and thresholds into slopes to make it easier for you to get in and out."
Lin Shuanzhui sighed again after hearing this, and said guiltily, "Dan, I was foolish and dragged you down. I originally thought that if I found you a grandmother, you would have a hot meal at home when you go to the fields, and someone would help you with the housework, so you could have less work to do. I didn't expect Jiao Xiao'e to be such a worthless person."
Lin Dan shook his head without saying anything, turned on the color TV, put the remote control in Lin Shuanzhu's hand and went out. She still had a large basin of clothes and quilt covers to wash, and after washing them she had to clean the room. She would not be able to fall asleep unless she was busy until eight or nine in the evening.
Zhou Cuicui was lying on a small table doing her summer homework. From time to time, she heard the sound of clothes being beaten coming from next door. The three older brothers in the room would occasionally laugh for a while, but they would also shout things like "rob the landlord, bomb, king bomb", which made her upset. In fact, she almost cried today out of grievance. Why did these people despise her family so much, but be so polite to that wild girl Lin Dan? Did she deserve it?
However, even though she was full of indignation, she could not do anything, because her eldest brother had repeatedly warned her before he left that when facing these teenagers, she should neither try to please them nor distance herself from them, but just treat them as ordinary friends, and then concentrate on studying, because only children who study hard can gain recognition from the audience.
Zhou Cuicui has always listened to her elder brother. She really didn't do anything in the past half month. She just did her summer homework seriously. She managed to finish the last diary the day before school started. Lin Dan is in the same class as her, and she never handed in her winter and summer vacation homework at the beginning of each school term. Now that her grandfather broke his leg, it is even more impossible for him to hand it in, right? However, she was thick-skinned and never took it seriously even when the teacher kicked her out of the classroom. She was still late, left early, and skipped classes, which annoyed the whole class. If the three older brothers knew that she was this kind of person, they would probably hate her too, right?
Thinking of this, Zhou Cuicui's eyes suddenly lit up, and she immediately ran to the next door and asked loudly: "Lin Dan, have you finished your summer homework?"
Lin Dan, who was rolling up his sleeves and twisting the sheets, suddenly froze in his expression. Then he remembered that the original owner seemed to have never done homework.
Lin Shuanzhu stretched his neck and shouted, "Dan, registration starts tomorrow, so go and do your homework! You can leave the clothes and sheets for washing tomorrow; they won't get soaked in the basin." It was obvious that he also knew that his granddaughter was a super lazy poor student.
Lin Dan loosened her grip, and the half-wrung-out sheets fell directly into the water. She didn't even look at Zhou Cuicui, and went back to the house after saying yes. Her usually heroic back suddenly looked very desolate.
In order to fully showcase rural life, the program team also assigned Zhou Cuicui two photographers to follow her, so she came over deliberately to embarrass Lin Dan. Whenever Lin Dan asked to borrow her homework book to copy, she would righteously refuse her, letting the people of the whole country see who is a good student and who is a bad student. However, Lin Dan did not follow her script at all and just left, leaving Zhou Cuicui in a state of embarrassment as to whether to leave or stay.
She pushed against the iron gate, not giving up and said, "Haven't you done any homework at all? It's too late to catch up now. Four big notebooks, thirteen papers and ten diaries, you can't finish them even if you spend days and nights." So hurry up and ask me to borrow my homework book to copy!
Lin Danli ignored her, moved a small square table and a small stool from the house, placed them under the eaves, and turned on the light bulb above his head.
Zhou Cuicui hesitated. The cameraman was still filming. She didn't dare to directly persuade Lin Dan to copy homework, as that was something only bad students would say.
After Lin Dan finished decorating the open-air study, he ran back to the house to look for his homework book. My goodness, when she came, summer vacation had already passed for a month and a half, but the original owner's homework books were still brand new and had never been opened; the thirteen papers were emitting a strong smell of ink, and the front and back pages were full of questions, but the answers were all left blank; the diary only had a date and weather written on the first line of the first page, and that was it.
Lin Dan touched the original owner's handwriting, his expression indescribable.
Zhou Cuicui stared at Lin Dan's face which had darkened several shades, and couldn't help but purse her lips, trying hard not to laugh.
When she raised her voice to ask Lin Dan if she had finished her summer homework, the three city teenagers had already stopped playing Landlord and were listening attentively.
"The black girl must not have done her homework. Her grandfather broke his leg and she has to go to the hospital to take care of him. How can she have the time?" Kang Shaojie said firmly.
Cao Muchen, the feminine boy, subconsciously looked at his expression and was almost certain that his friend had a crush on the black girl, otherwise he would not deliberately say these words to explain for her. You know, this guy is notoriously cold-hearted. When Herbalai fell into the swimming pool and was about to drown, he could still stand on the shore and watch with a smile. How could he care about the affairs of a stranger?
The fat boy Shen Jiayi sighed and said, "Luckily the three of us are here to record the show, otherwise we would also be part of the army of people rushing to finish homework. Thinking about it this way, I feel a little lucky!"
"Fuck you, go and take a look." Kang Shaojie threw the cards in his hand and ran away. The two friends quickly followed.
Jiao Xiao'e received instructions from the program team and wanted to use the three free laborers whenever she got the chance. When she saw them coming out of the house, she immediately waved and said, "Xiaokang, Xiaocao, Xiaoshen, help me water the radish seedlings in the vegetable garden."
"Mrs. Jiao, are you sure?" Kang Shaojie curled the corners of his lips with a smile.
When Jiao Xiao'e thought of the great achievements of these people, she suddenly felt a little dispirited. During this period, she ordered these three children around a lot, but the results were all terrible. Ask them to weed the vegetable garden, they can shovel the vegetable seedlings as well; ask them to wash dishes, they can smash dozens of dishes in the house at once; ask them to clean the house, they can create a sandstorm, and the swept places are dirtier than the unswept places; ask them to wash clothes, they can wash good clothes full of holes, and after finishing, they put on an innocent face, apologize and say that they didn't do it and need to practice more. Their acting skills are all very good, and they look very sincere and guilty at first glance, making people want to get angry but can't find a way to vent.
Jiao Xiao'e was tortured by them and felt very miserable, but when her laziness struck, she couldn't help but ask them to work, which would bring even more brutal revenge. If they were really asked to water the plants this time, they might drown all the radish seedlings in the garden.
The program crew was also convinced by the three young masters. After half a month, they found that the poor rural life had no effect on their transformation. The landlords were still landlords and had not become successors of socialism.
Feeling a little uneasy at Kang Shaojie's smile, Jiao Xiao'e quickly waved her hands: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll go water the fields myself later." Without Lin Shuanzhu's help, she realized how hard it was to "face the earth and back to the sky."
Kang Shaojie took the pottery basin and went to the next room, where he saw the black girl lying under the eaves doing her homework, her brows tightly knitted, and she looked very distressed.
"Girl, open the door for me and I'll return the basin to you." He raised the thing in his hand.
Lin Dan put down his pen and walked over, trying to take the pottery basin back through the iron gate, but saw the tall boy holding it higher and said as a matter of course: "Open the door and let us in."
"What do you want?" Lin Dan pulled the bolt.
"To repay you for dinner, we're here to help you with your homework." Kang Shaojie walked around her and went straight to the corridor, and politely greeted Lin Shuanzhu in the main room.
Shen Jiayi and Cao Muchen finally understood his purpose, but they did not show any difficulty. Isn’t it just tutoring a second-year junior high school kid to do his summer homework? so easy!
Eight photographers and Zhou Cuicui also came in, and the Lin family’s courtyard was immediately filled.
Lin Dan frowned, but did not chase him away. She could deal with Jiao Xiao'e without mercy, but she would not take the kindness of these children for granted. They would only need to stay for a few minutes and the three of them would go back on their own without her saying anything, so why bother? Thinking of this, Lin Dan sat down calmly, picked up his pen and continued to do his homework.
Kang Shaojie curiously flipped through the homework books on the table and exclaimed, "Oh my God, math, Chinese, English, physics, and thirteen papers and ten diaries. Not to mention finishing them in one night, even if you borrow someone else's homework book to copy, you may not be able to finish it. But don't be afraid, the brothers are here, and they will help you find a way!"
What solution? Cao Muchen and Shen Jia looked at the boss together.
Kang Shaojie winked: Tell her the answer!
Okay! Considering that it is rare for Jie Zi to have a good impression of a stranger. Cao Muchen nodded imperceptibly.
Okay! Because Hei Yatou’s cooking is so delicious! Shen Jiayi also nodded imperceptibly.
The three of them reached a consensus and then stretched their necks to look at the math homework book in Lin Dan's hand. Several cameras were also aimed at this little hand that was writing furiously.
It is not an exaggeration to use the idiom "writing at a furious pace" to describe Lin Dan's homework speed. Before the three teenagers had even finished reading the questions, she had already written down the answers. She finished one multiple-choice question in one second and one fill-in-the-blank question in three or four seconds. Even the argumentation questions took her less than half a minute, and her handwriting was particularly neat and beautiful. Before the others could react, Lin Dan had already finished one page and turned to the next without slowing down at all.
You're just guessing when you write so quickly, right? No wonder you don’t need to borrow my homework book to copy! Zhou Cuicui thought this in her heart and said it out loud: "Lin Dan, you are not doing this right. You must do your homework well and not fool the teacher. You will be in the third year of junior high school next semester. How can you get into high school if you continue like this?"
Lin Dan didn't bother to pay attention to her and quickly wrote out the answers.
Kang Shaojie originally wanted to make a joke to help the little girl cover up, but his expression suddenly became serious. When Cao Muchen took a closer look, he was shocked. Wow, he didn't expect that there was such a genius hidden in this poor mountain village!
Only the fat boy Shen Jiayi couldn't figure out the situation. He waved his hand and said, "Just write whatever you want. The teacher won't check it seriously anyway."
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