Xu Zhuo and his friends followed Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie all the way to the gate of the compound. They were not in a hurry to go home, but rode their bikes to play somewhere else. Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie did not have time to waste, so they naturally went home on time.
When they got home, dinner was not ready yet, but they went upstairs to call Ruan Qiuyue to sit down in the room, open the unfinished questions and continue to do them. After finishing the questions, they read books and learned a knowledge point thoroughly.
Ruan Qiuyue had nothing else to do with them, so she read books and did homework every day. She had read more books, written more homework and done more questions with Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie in the past six months than in the previous two or three years of school.
Downstairs, Feng Xiuying was busy making dinner in the kitchen.
It was rare that Ruan Changfu got off work early today. He went straight to the kitchen after he came back. When he washed his hands and wiped them with a dry towel, he saw that Feng Xiuying's eyes were a little red, so he asked, "What's wrong with your eyes? Who bullied you when you went out?"
Feng Xiuying continued to cut vegetables, "I have lived in a compound for so many years, who would bully me when I go out?"
Ruan Changfu listened to this voice, "Did someone bully you at home?"
Feng Xiuying said, "Your good daughter, you were not at home at noon, and she went crazy again at home, making Qiuwen and I unable to get off the stage, and she also slapped Qiuyang. Qiuyang's face was swollen, and it took a long time to apply the compress before it went down. After arguing for a long time, the family didn't even have a meal, and they all left halfway through the meal."
Ruan Changfu frowned when he heard this, "What's wrong with her again?"
She asked herself and answered, "You must have provoked her again. She has a bad temper and speaks harshly. If you don't provoke her, she's fine. She's quiet and silent. Once you provoke her, she'll be unreasonable and won't let you off easily."
Feng Xiuying put down the knife in her hand, "How dare I provoke her? I almost worship her as my ancestor, serving her food and drink every day, and never letting her wash a bowl or sweep the floor. I just gave her a few words of instruction. Don't I have the qualifications? I'm also afraid that she won't learn her lesson and do something wrong outside. Then it will be a disgrace to us as parents."
Ruan Changfu asked: "What was she doing outside?"
Feng Xiuying turned on the gas to cook, "Why did she go to school dressed like that today? She was obviously showing off. When she got to school, she attracted a group of boys. They said that the commander's son went to the classroom to find her."
Ruan Changfu continued to ask, "Then what?"
Feng Xiuying said, "What else do you want? Isn't that enough for me to say a few words to her? I didn't dare to say anything. I just told her in a nice way not to think about things that she shouldn't think about and to use her mind on the right path. . "
Ruan Changfu: "I think you are overthinking it. Qiuwen has been in the limelight since she was a child and has always been the focus of the school. Xiaoxi is just good-looking and attracts the attention of a few boys. Isn't this normal? At their age, which boy doesn't like pretty girls?"
Feng Xiuying: "How can it be the same? Qiuwen is not trying to attract attention. She is excellent and should be paid attention to and praised. It is not good for Xiaoxi to just rely on her face to show off. , do you really think it's okay?"
Ruan Changfu thought for a moment and asked again: "Where is she? Hasn't she come back from school?"
Feng Xiuying said while cooking: "She's back, just like her ancestors, she went upstairs and into the house as soon as she came back."
Ruan Changfu breathed a sigh of relief and said nothing more, calling Feng Xiuying: "Hurry up and finish cooking and have dinner."
After Feng Xiuying finished cooking, the family came back from outside and came downstairs, and gathered in the kitchen and dining room in a short time, served rice, took bowls and chopsticks, and sat down at the table to eat.
While eating, Ruan Changfu looked carefully at Ruan Qiuyang's face and found that there were indeed some faint marks of being beaten on her face. Naturally, he didn't ask about it after the incident, so as not to make a fuss again.
He was not worried about the other people in the family, he could control them all, but he found that he could not control Ruan Xi.
This girl was either not right or she would not let others have an easy time.
He did not mention the quarrel and fight at home at noon, but just asked as if chatting about family matters: "Xiaoxi and Xiaojie, today is your first day to go to school officially, how do you feel?"
Ruan Xi did not want to answer, so she touched Ruan Jie with her arm.
Ruan Jie usually did not speak, but Ruan Xi wanted her to deal with Ruan Changfu, so she said seriously: "Uncle, it's quite fresh and exciting. In the morning, we will take the books to clean up, and in the afternoon, we will attend the opening ceremony." Ruan Qiuyang
could not help laughing when he heard this - bumpkin.
Ruan Changfu looked at Ruan Xi and asked, "I heard that the commander's son went to the classroom to look for you guys?"
Ruan Jie pursed her lips and glanced at Ruan Xi. Before she could say anything, she heard Ruan Qiuyang say, "Not only that, I sent them back from school just now. I sent them all the way from school to the gate of the compound and watched them enter the compound before leaving."
After listening to what Ruan Qiuyang said, Ruan Changfu asked Ruan Xi directly, "Xiaoxi, are you friends with Xu Zhuo?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and said directly, "Don't try to beat around the bush. I don't care if he's the commander's son or the deputy commander's son. In my eyes, he's just a gangster. I don't like him at all."
Puff...
Ruan Qiuyang almost spit out the rice in his mouth.
What did Ruan Xi just say?
Did she say she didn't like the commander's son?
Seeing her reaction, Ruan Xi turned to look at Ruan Qiuyang and said, "You don't have to laugh. I said I don't like him. You think he's good, but he won't say a word to you. What do you think? Are you jealous?"
Ruan Qiuyang's face turned green and he gritted his teeth in anger.
Ruan Xi stretched out his chopsticks to pick up some food and sighed, "Some people are only worthy of the son of the commander's adjutant."
As soon as she said this, Ye Qiuwen, who was sitting next to Ruan Qiuyang, suddenly turned to look at Ruan Xi. After taking a look, she realized that her reaction was wrong and quickly lowered her head to eat, but her face had already turned red in an instant.
Of course, she didn't say anything, otherwise it would seem that she was trying to cover up something.
Ruan Qiuyang didn't understand what Ruan Xi meant by this sentence. She just thought that Ruan Xi was just talking nonsense, saying that they were not worthy of the commander's son, so she said angrily: "The commander's son is just playing with you!"
Ruan Xi laughed, "It's so funny, you can't eat grapes, so you say grapes are sour."
Ruan Qiuyang was so angry that she wanted to find something to stop her, but was stopped by Ruan Changfu's glare.
Ruan Changfu said to Ruan Xi again: "Since you said so, I have nothing to say."
After that, he looked at everyone at the table and said sternly: "The school has a clear rule that you are not allowed to fall in love, just like in the army! I don't allow any of you to violate school rules and regulations. You must abide by the rules wherever you are!"
Seeing that no one responded, he had to forcefully ask: "Do you understand?!"
So she got a mixed response: "I know."
After dinner, Ruan Xi didn't stay downstairs for long, and went back upstairs to study.
Not long after she closed the door and sat down, Ruan Qiuyue opened her homework book and pressed it under her palm. Suddenly she looked at Ruan Xi and asked: "Sister, Ye Qiuwen is in love with the son of the commander's adjutant?"
Ruan Xi was stunned when she heard it - is her observation ability so strong?
You can't talk nonsense about things without evidence. Even if she hates Ye Qiuwen, she would not make up stories about Ye Qiuwen in such matters, so Ruan Xi shook her head and said, "No, I just said that casually, saying that they are not worthy of the commander's son and deliberately made them unhappy."
Ruan Qiuyue said, "But I saw Ye Qiuwen's reaction, it seems to be true."
Ruan Xi glanced at Ruan Jie, then at Ruan Qiuyue, "I didn't pay much attention to this."
Ruan Qiuyue thought about Ye Qiuwen's reaction at the dinner table, and then affirmed, "It really is like that. After you said that, she was suddenly poked, looked at you, and then her face turned red."
Ruan Xi cleared her throat, "Don't worry about it, hurry up and do your homework."
Seeing that Ruan Xi didn't want to care about it, Ruan Qiuyue had to collect her thoughts and picked up the pen to do her homework.
Because Ruan Xi was targeted by Xu Zhuo on the first day of school, it was as if she was covered with Xu Zhuo's poke. Others did not dare to approach her, which made her gain more peace and tranquility.
Xu Zhuo usually did not bother her in school, but waited for her at the school gate after school. Sometimes he and Chen Weidong were alone, sometimes they were a group, sometimes with cigarettes in their mouths, and sometimes riding bicycles.
Because Ruan Xi did not take his car, he walked more often later.
Because they gradually came into contact more and became familiar with each other unconsciously, Ruan Jie was no longer nervous and afraid when facing Xu Zhuo and his group, and occasionally she could even say a few words to Chen Weidong.
Chen Weidong liked to tease her and usually called her "little devil."
Ruan Jie didn't know why he called her a little devil, and didn't dare to ask at first. Later, when they got to know each other well, she asked Chen Weidong: "Why do you always call me a little devil? I'm only two years younger than you."
This kind of address feels like adults calling children, little devil, little devil.
As a result, Chen Weidong said: "Because you are a timid little devil, just call you little devil to be more friendly."
Ruan Jie: "..."
Suddenly I was speechless.
After one week of school, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie completely adapted to the life of the new semester, and their daily study life gradually got on track. During the day, classes at school were used as review, and all spare time was used to learn new knowledge.
Ruan Xi still takes Ruan Jie to learn new knowledge, because Ruan Jie's self-study ability is not very strong.
Due to limited time, Ruan Xi does not want to waste another year on the college entrance examination, and she cannot leave Ruan Jie alone here to face Ruan Changfu and Feng Xiuying, so she takes Ruan Jie to study every minute.
Every day's life content, in addition to studying, is still studying.
In class, it is also studying, and not in class, it is also studying.
Every day is a little different. The first is on the way home from school, Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong will follow them, and the second is to go home to eat, face other people at home, and occasionally need to deal with them.
The days are mechanically repeated and pass quickly, as if the sunrise and sunset are the same every day.
During many sunrises and sunsets, the position of the sun changes from north to south, and the temperature on the ground changes from the cold winter to the hot summer.
Although Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie study every day, the main content of the school is not study, and even learning book knowledge is not important. Compared with learning knowledge, learning to work and learn agriculture, ideological and political education are the most important. From
time to time, the school will organize everyone to work and study in the suburban farms, and will also frequently take ideological and political classes. Teachers and students study the Communist Manifesto and Marxism-Leninism together, and let everyone make ideological reports.
Another thing is to hold a meeting to remember the bitterness and sweetness, and gather all students together to eat coarse food.
Today is the day for the recollection of bitter past and sweet past, and the school started cooking wild vegetables with rice bran early. When school was over in the morning, the teachers of each class asked the students to go home as usual, and each of them had to bring a bowl and a pair of chopsticks to school.
After lunch, when it was almost time for school, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went to the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks.
Ruan Hongbing is now in the first grade and has to participate in activities like everyone else, so the eight children in the family went to the kitchen to ask Feng Xiuying for bowls and chopsticks. Feng Xiuying directly took the smallest bowl for Ruan Hongbing and put it in his schoolbag.
Ruan Hongjun stretched out his hand to her again, "Mom, give me a small one, give me a small one."
There were only two small bowls in the family, not even half the size of a palm. After giving them to Ruan Hongbing and Ruan Hongjun, the remaining bowls were the ones used for meals at home, so Feng Xiuying took out these bowls and gave one to each person.
When it came to Ye Qiuwen, she asked as usual: "How about this one?"
Ye Qiuwen shook her head and said: "It's better to use a bigger one."
She has always been a role model in school, and she must eat a lot.
Feng Xiuying had no choice but to go to the bowl cabinet to get a big bowl and handed it to Ye Qiuwen.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie took the bowls and didn't stay for long. They packed up their bowls and chopsticks and went out with their schoolbags.
Ruan Hongjun started wailing as soon as he left the door, saying that he didn't want to go to school to eat pig food.
Every time I think of the bitter past, I eat the things that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie used to feed pigs in the countryside - rice husks mixed with chopped wild vegetables picked from the wild, boiled in water, how disgusting it is.
Ruan Xi also wanted to wail - I didn't expect that I would have to experience eating pig food in my lifetime!
Not long after I sat down at school, the bell for class rang. The class monitor directly organized the classmates to line up outside, gather on the playground with their bowls and chopsticks, and go to the big iron bucket one by one to get the bitter past rice.
Those with too small bowls would inevitably be criticized, and those with big bowls would naturally be praised.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie had a bowl that was neither too big nor too small. There was no criticism or praise. After receiving the meal, they followed the class team to the side, holding chopsticks and struggling with the pig food in the bowl. They felt uncomfortable in their stomach.
No matter how uncomfortable they were, they could not fall down. The teacher and class leaders were watching, and they had to finish it all.
Ruan Xi would always drag it out for a while, and mentally prepare for the rice bran and wild vegetables in the bowl for a long time, then close his eyes and hold his breath, forcing himself not to think about anything, and put it to his mouth and eat it quickly. After eating, he
felt uncomfortable in his stomach and wanted to vomit, but he endured it. If he couldn't bear it, all his efforts would be wasted.
Every time after finishing her meal and watching the teacher on the podium praising Ye Qiuwen for those who ate more, Ruan Xi squinted her eyes, resisting the urge to vomit and thinking - it is really not easy to be an excellent student, amazing!
She would rather not fight for such an excellent student, she would just be an ordinary student.
Being an ordinary student, she would just help Ruan Jie with her studies. She would not fight for such opportunities to show off, such as eating a hard meal like today, and working hard on the farm and carrying sacks like other days. She
really doesn't have the ability to fight.
After eating the bitter rice, they went to the faucet to wash the dishes and chopsticks. Ruan Xi washed the dishes and rinsed her mouth with water. Seeing that there was no one around, she suppressed her anger and pinched her face and suddenly said, "Pray that the four-man gang will fall quickly. It's really unbearable."
Ruan Jie was startled by her and almost jumped up. She hurriedly whispered, "Sister, don't talk nonsense!"
Ruan Xi spit out the water in her mouth and smiled, "It's okay, no one heard it."
Ruan Jie breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go back quickly."
The two washed the dishes and returned to the class team. Then they listened to the report meeting on topics related to bitterness and sweetness for half a day. There were still waves of people speaking on the rostrum, and Ye Qiuwen and Lu Yuanzheng were always indispensable at this time.
After the meeting was over, we returned to the classroom to rest for a while. It was almost time to go home.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went home with their schoolbags. They felt that the food they had in the afternoon was still piled in their stomachs, without any signs of digestion. Now they couldn't vomit even if they wanted to, so they could only wait for it to slowly digest.
As soon as the two walked out of the school gate, Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong came towards them. Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong each had two popsicles in their hands. When they came closer, Xu Zhuo handed one to Ruan Xi and Chen Weidong handed one to Ruan Jie.
"Have something sweet to relieve the tension."
Ruan Xi looked at Xu Zhuo, took a deep breath and took the popsicle, "Thank you."
Ruan Jie took the popsicle from Chen Weidong's hand and walked side by side with him beside Ruan Xi, while Xu Zhuo walked on the other side of Ruan Xi. The four of them walked forward while eating popsicles and talking, and they occupied a row of places on the side of the road.
Every time Ruan Qiuyang and Ye Qiuwen saw this scene, they felt very sad.
I don't know what's wrong with Xu Zhuo. It's been such a long time, and he still follows Ruan Xi around every day, either buying her food or drinks, without caring about her face at all!
Isn't he very arrogant?
Why is he not arrogant in front of Ruan Xi! It's
infuriating.
After becoming familiar with Xu Zhuo, Ruan Xi no longer refused the food Xu Zhuo bought for her, mainly because it was too strenuous to refuse, so she just accepted it. Of course, she would also return things to him, such as buying him a pack of cigarettes when she had nothing to do. She
said she didn't want to be friends with him, but after a long time, they were almost friends.
Today is Saturday, and the school is closed for one day on Sunday. After eating popsicles and walking to the gate of the compound, Xu Zhuo asked Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie to go out and play on Sunday. Of course, not surprisingly, Ruan Xi still refused.
It's not that she doesn't want to go out and play with Xu Zhuo and the others, but time is precious. It's rare to have a whole day, so she naturally has to use such a large amount of time to study and help Ruan Xi learn the knowledge that she hasn't learned yet.
Seeing that Ruan Xi was not going, Chen Weidong said to Ruan Jie, "Little boy, then you come."
Ruan Jie shook her head quickly, "If I don't go, I won't go either."
Seeing that the two of them really couldn't make an appointment, Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong gave up again.
After sending Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie to walk for a while in the courtyard, they didn't go out and went home.
Every spare time for Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie was boring, especially the weekend. After getting up in the morning, washing and eating breakfast, they went upstairs to sit down and study. They studied until noon, went downstairs to eat, and then went upstairs to study again.
Just as Feng Xiuying complained, they didn't go downstairs except for eating time.
But there are special and exceptional times, for example, tonight there is a movie on the square of the compound, Ruan Jie is sitting at the desk reading, she reads for one minute and then gets distracted for five minutes listening to the sound of the movie, then there is no need to force herself to study.
It seems that Ruan Jie's mind has already flown away, and she can't study at all even if she is pressed at the desk. This state is the worst, so Ruan Xi closed the book and said to her: "Let's go, let's go watch a movie."
Ruan Jie knew that she was caught distracted, so she said embarrassedly: "Sister, I didn't mean it."
Ruan Xi just smiled at her, "It's time to relax and take a break, let's go."
Ruan Jie relaxed and was happy, closed the book and went downstairs with Ruan Xi.
But they came out a little late, and the movie had already started for a while, so it was impossible to get a seat in the front, so they could only squeeze at the back of the crowd and see a little of the movie screen through the gaps between the heads.
It was a movie they had seen before, so it didn't affect anything to watch it this way.
There were a lot of people in the square, crowded together, but there was no noise.
When Xu Zhuo was getting bored, Chen Weidong, who was sitting next to him, suddenly bumped his arm and asked him to look behind the row of people next to him. He looked in the direction Chen Weidong was looking, and saw Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie.
The two of them had a tacit understanding, and they got up and picked up the long bench and came out.
After coming out and finding Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, Xu Zhuo raised his hand and patted Ruan Xi's shoulder
. Chen Weidong called out, "Little devil!" Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie turned around and saw that it was them, so they raised their hands and casually greeted them.
Xu Zhuo put down the long bench in his hand and motioned Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie to stand on the bench to watch.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie stood up, and instantly they were more than half a head taller than the people in front of them, so they could naturally see the entire screen.
Seeing Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong also squeezed up, Ruan Xi thought about it and whispered in Ruan Jie's ear, "I don't really want to watch a movie. You and them watch it here. I'll go to the side to rest and wait for you. Is that okay?"
Ruan Jie knew that Ruan Xi was not so keen on watching movies, especially movies he had seen before, so he nodded.
Ruan Xi then carefully stepped down from the bench, intending to find a spacious place to sit and rest.
After studying in the room for a whole day, she was indeed very tired.
Xu Zhuo had long been bored watching the movie and wanted to go to sleep. Seeing Ruan Xi suddenly leave, he also jumped off the bench, leaving the space for Ruan Jie and Chen Weidong, and followed Ruan Xi. When he
caught up to the side, he asked Ruan Xi: "Why don't you watch it anymore?"
Ruan Xi turned to look at him, "I've watched it twice, and I don't want to watch it again."
She came to watch it with Ruan Jie, and since there was someone else accompanying her, she would not watch it.
Xu Zhuo said, "I'm tired of watching it too. I can even recite the lines. What do you want to do? I'll go with you."
Ruan Xi didn't want to do anything. She just wanted to find a place where no one was around to sit and relax.
So she walked around the square and found a place to sit down.
Xu Zhuo naturally followed her. After she sat down, he sat down next to her, relaxed his muscles, and suddenly asked, "You have been in the city for so long, have you seen any performances?"
Ruan Xi turned her head and looked at him with curiosity, "What performances?"
The crescent moon on her head was like a hook. Xu Zhuo looked at her and said, "Ballet, grassland female militia, model operas, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Red Detachment of Women... and singing dramas... The programs are different every week. It depends on what is being performed in the theater."
Ruan Xi was stunned and shook her head and said, "No."
The original body had not seen it, and she had not seen it either. It sounded interesting.
Xu Zhuo looked at her and smiled, "Do you want to go and see it next week?"
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