"Mom, when are you coming back to live?" Before going to bed, Tao You sat on the bed and called Tao's mother, pulling at the threads emerging from the quilt with one hand.
"It may take a few days, what can I do?"
Tao You rolled his eyes: "Who will go to the parent-teacher meeting tomorrow, you or dad?"
"Tomorrow is the parent-teacher meeting." Tao's mother said with surprise in her tone. She had obviously forgotten the matter. She was silent for a few seconds and said, "I'll go there on leave."
——Actually, if you don’t have time, you can ask dad to go.
It wasn't because he was afraid of being scolded because of his poor grades, but because Tao You really felt sorry for Tao's mother. When she went home yesterday, Tao You saw the dark circles under Tao's mother's eyes that almost reached her chin, and they couldn't cover them even with makeup. When has Mother Tao ever been so tired?
"Okay." Tao You said, "I feel like I did pretty well in the exam this time. After school tomorrow, I made an appointment with Song Yimian and the others to visit Grandma Tang."
"·슷슷·슷·"
"Hello?"
There was sudden silence on Tao's mother's side. Tao You thought there was something wrong with the mobile phone signal. When she took it off, she saw that it was still on a call and there was no note indicating that the signal was bad, so she put the phone back to her ear.
"Hello, mom?" Tao You called again.
"······"
There was still no response from the other side.
--its stuck? I didn't even hang up the phone and went to work. strangeness.
Just when Tao You was about to hang up, Tao's father's voice came, "Xiaoyou, isn't there a parent-teacher meeting tomorrow? Your mother has planned to take you out for dinner after it's over."
——Why did she suddenly have to eat out? Mom always advocated cooking it at home, so why would she take the initiative to suggest going out to eat? If dad wanted to take her out to eat, it would be somewhat credible.
It's certainly not that simple.
"But the parent-teacher conference is held after school in the evening, and dinner time just happened to be stuck." Tao You said.
"·슷····" The other side fell into silence again.
Tao You curled her lips and leaned on the bed. She strongly suspected that Tao's father and Tao's mother were discussing strategies to deal with her.
"Well, that's really unfortunate." Dad Tao continued, "Then it's not appropriate to go to Grandma Tang's house. Look, you have two periods of self-study in the evening. It's just an hour after school for dinner. It will take almost half an hour to get there. Should we just go to Grandma Tang's place to have a meal and then leave? Let's go on weekends and spend more time talking to her. "
"What are you talking about?" came the suppressed voice of Tao's mother, "Is it a matter of when to go?"
"Then what else to say. Either you come."
The sound was a bit muffled. It must be that Tao's father covered the receiver of his mobile phone.
——They thought they were pretending well, and they whispered so loudly, for fear that I wouldn’t be able to hear them. .
Tao You sighed silently, "Tomorrow night for self-study, we can choose to go to the laboratory to do homework, or we can choose to go home. It just so happens that Gu Yi and the others don't have tests at night, so the four of us happen to go to grandma's house together, and we can accompany her after dinner. she."
"····슷·"
Tao You turned her cell phone on speakerphone, cut off the thread from the corner of the quilt, and wrapped it around her fingertips a few times while patiently waiting for Tao's father and Tao's mother to reply.
"Xiaoyou," Tao's mother's voice came again, unexpectedly gentle.
Tao You raised his eyebrows and responded.
"Let's talk about going to Grandma Tang's house after weekends. We have to go to school tomorrow, Thursday, and the day after tomorrow. After studying at school, go home and go to bed early. We also have to go for a run in the morning. Don't be late." Although Tao's mother softened her voice, she said The words are still full of refutation.
"It's not 슷슷..." Tao You was anxious and wanted to know why she wasn't allowed to go to Grandma Tang's house. Didn't she always agree readily before? Why did she find so many excuses this time?
"Okay, the doctor is here, hang up now. It's getting late. You can go to bed after finishing your homework. Send the time for the parent-teacher meeting later and I will be there on time. Good night." Mother Tao lowered her voice and said: As he spoke hurriedly, a third person's voice appeared faintly in the background. Just as that person spoke, Tao's mother had already hung up the phone.
Tao You looked at the phone that automatically restored the chat page, and his right eyelid suddenly jumped up, feeling a little painful. First\./Posted\./Updated\./New`..Mobile version (The next page will be more exciting!)
. She lowered her eyelids, raised her hand to press her eyebrows and rubbed them gently, but she still couldn't stop the disturbing twitching.
Tao You looked at the extinguished mobile phone screen and had some guesses in his mind that he wanted to verify.
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In the last class of the second day in the afternoon, the head teacher ordered everyone to clean up the classroom in an orderly manner, and drew chalk drawings on the blackboard, and then asked them to continue studying on their own while he went back to the office to prepare for the parent-teacher meeting.
"Xiao Youyou, I'm going to grandma's house later. Have you contacted her?" Hong Xiqi boldly turned her head and asked, playing with Tao You's pencil case.
Tao You's eyebrows moved slightly, and he shook his head and said: "It was too late yesterday, so I didn't call, but I sent a message. Just go there in a while. Grandma Tang will definitely be at home at this time."
"Okay." Hong Xiqi nodded, took out the half-drunk milk tea from the drawer, sipped it in his mouth, and asked Tao You, "Would you like to drink it?"
Tao You shook his head in shock: "Where did you get the milk tea?!" He peeked outside the classroom.
Hong Xiqi waved to Tao You, leaned into her ear and said, "The takeaway we ordered for the physical education class just now."
"Hush! Keep it a secret!"
Tao You stared and opened her mouth in surprise. She didn't expect Hong Xiqi to do such a bold thing, "There are so many surveillance cameras in the school, aren't you afraid of being caught?"
Hong Xiqi shook her finger, "The small forest in the southwest corner of the stadium is a blind spot for surveillance. Those who order takeout are all there, and many students are ordering, especially during dinner. The school was not strict during that time, so there was no Got caught.”
In fact, ordering takeout is not a new thing in No. 1 Middle School, and many people in the first class have ordered it. But because the students were all picking up the classes quietly, it was only during the afternoon to the end of school.
In the beginning, I still picked up takeaways in the corner next to the school gate, passing through the back of the administration building. For a period of time, the school paid special attention to it, sending teachers and installing surveillance cameras to catch students who ordered takeout, and issued punishments and warnings.
But often, one wave comes after another, and students are not afraid of being caught at all. They even start to change places to get takeout, and the time is specifically chosen when the school management is not so strict. Teachers rarely caught them in action anymore. Gradually, as long as those students did not go too far and blatantly ruined the school atmosphere, those teachers became too lazy to take care of them.
"Would you like some? Let's meet together next time." Hong Xiqi invited Tao You.
"No, no," Tao You refused. It's better to do less things that break the rules. Who knows what will happen in the next second. If you want to avoid harming yourself, don't participate from the beginning. "You should also follow them less. Takeaways, who knows when the school will check them, and there have been a lot more people ordering takeaways recently, so it won’t be long before they are put under control.”
Hong Xiqi put the milk tea back in the drawer and changed the subject: "When the parent-teacher meeting starts later, we will go to Grandma Tang's house, right?"
"Um."
songs not at home."
Tao You looked at Song Yimian suspiciously, as if trying to distinguish the truth from what he said.
Song Yizhen took a drink of water from the water bottle uncomfortably, his eyes flashed, and he said calmly: "I called Grandma Tang this morning, and she said she was not at home today."
"Then you are so sure that she will be there on Saturday?" Tao You looked back at Song Yimian's eyes firmly. For the first time, he clearly saw a trace of panic in his eyes, but it was quickly covered up by him, like Tao You seem to be hallucinating.
Song Yimian lowered his eyes and quickly browsed the magazine to distract himself, "Just wait until Saturday to call and ask." His mind was racing, thinking of countermeasures to deal with Tao You.
"Oh." Tao You nodded in agreement, "Xiqi, I won't go today. I'll study on my own later."
"Why?" Hong Xiqi asked doubtfully, "Didn't we agree?"
Tao You glanced at Song Yimian and said, "Song Yimian said that Grandma Tang is not at home today and will go on Saturday."
"That's it, okay." Hong Xiqi said, "Then I'll spare Saturday. First\./Posted\./Updated\./New`..Mobile.Version"
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There were still a few minutes before the end of get out of class. Tao You turned his wrist to relax and casually asked Song Yimian, "Do you know something?"
"Huh?" Song Yimian glanced at Tao You, laughed, and returned his eyes to the magazine, "What do I know?" He knew that Tao You would not get over this matter so easily. \./hand\./machine\./version\./no\./wrong\./first\./post~~
Tao You judged in his heart whether what Song Yimian said was true or false, but he also felt that he was a little too calm. How could a person remain so calm when he was lying.
"Don't be nervous. My parents told me." Tao You continued to deceive him.
Song Yimian couldn't help but feel even more panicked when he heard her half-sentence. Under Tao You's gaze, he slowly turned a page of the magazine, turned around, smiled, and asked in a slow tone: "What did your uncle and aunt tell you? Why didn't you say anything even half of it?" He placed his index finger under the magazine. Slightly bent, he kept rubbing the magazine cover.
If you look carefully, you can also see that Song Yimian's pupils are dilating and his breathing rhythm is somewhat faster. It's a pity that Tao You didn't notice this.
——Why are you so gentle all of a sudden?
"You really don't know?" Tao You looked Song Yimian up and down and asked. Anyway, if she was lying and someone kept staring at her and asking various questions to test her, she would have given up the choice a long time ago. She didn't believe that Song Yimian had such a strong psychological quality.
Song Yimian's expression remained unchanged, and he rolled his eyes, as if he was really thinking about what he should know, and then looked at Tao You silently with raised eyebrows.
——To be so calm means you really don’t know.
Tao You snapped his fingers and said casually: "It's okay. My parents also told me that Grandma Tang is not at home today."
After saying that, she turned back to her homework.
Song Yimian slowly loosened his grip on the magazine, closed his eyes to eliminate the tension, and took a breath quietly. Fortunately, he kept it in mind.
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"Mom, this way." Tao You waved to Tao's mother who was walking in the distance at the school gate.
"The parent-teacher meeting starts in two minutes. I thought you wouldn't be able to catch up with you."
Tao's mother tidied her clothes and followed Tao You into the classroom.
The class is already full of parents.
"Shujiang, you're here." Mother Song greeted Mother Tao warmly.
Mother Tao sat down and responded with a smile: "I was almost late."
"Mom, I'll leave first." Tao You pointed to the door, said hello to Song's mother and left.
Mother Tao watched Tao You go out, turned around and whispered to Mother Song: "Zhilin and the others don't know when they will come back. They said they can't buy air tickets recently. I still have to stay in the hospital for a while, and Xiaoyou still has to go." I need to trouble you to take care of me for a while."
Song's mother said nonchalantly: "What's troublesome is just using extra pairs of chopsticks when eating. You've been working hard." Xiaoyou is very well-behaved and doesn't have to worry about sex at all, unlike Xiaoan who gets into trouble every day. "
"It's hard work for you to take care of you in the hospital every day. I see that you are quite haggard and have a lot of gray hair. But blame me, you let Xiao Song know this this morning."
"How about Lao Song and I go replace you for a few days?"
Tao's mother took out a bottle of water from her bag, took a sip, and waved her hand: "No, Lao Tao and I take turns accompanying each other at night. It's okay. It's been so long. It's the last minute, so there's no need to change. The situation is different." We have always been following, so it may not be clear if someone changes suddenly. Xiao Song knows his priorities, so it’s okay, as long as Xiao You doesn’t know.”
"But how long do you plan to keep it secret from her? I heard that she is going to Seoul in the next two days..." Song's mother said worriedly.
Tao's mother closed her eyes and rubbed her tense eyebrows with one hand: "Let's wait until Saturday. I'm afraid it will affect her study. You also know her temperament. She loses focus and can't calm down at the slightest disturbance. She is a sophomore in high school. What a critical time, her grades are still going up and down, I'm really worried..." She and Tao's father are also very worried, fearing that Tao You's emotions will be out of control when he finds out, and it will affect him later. Academically, what should I do if I am distracted in class and cannot keep up with the teacher's rhythm?
Mother Song patted Mother Tao on the shoulder and comforted: "I think you are just too worried. Xiaoyou is also a grown-up girl, and she understands it very well. Besides, it's just that she can get into the first class. (Next page More exciting!)
Her ability and determination have been proven. She did very well in this exam and made great progress. Why are you worrying so much? "
"If you ask me to tell you this, Xiaoyou has already guessed it. You think she has been kept in the dark all this time." Song's mother said, "It's better to tell her earlier, so you don't have to be so worried and keep it secret." You kept it secret, she will find out sooner or later."
Mother Tao held her forehead and frowned, "Forget it, I'll confess everything on Saturday anyway."
The head teacher walked into the classroom with an official smile, followed by the study committee member, who handed out the report card: "Parents, this is the report card for this midterm exam. You can check it by yourself. The parent-teacher meeting will start immediately. If you have any questions, You can ask anytime.\./Handphone\./Machine\./Version\./No\./Wrong\./First\./Post~~".
