Chapter 34: Feeding the tiger with oneself.

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When Chen Qiao woke up, his sister-in-law had already gone to work at the cement factory in his father’s dump truck, taking all her luggage with her.

His sister was memorizing words.

She was so self-disciplined.

Today, Chen Qiao still couldn’t appreciate his sister’s sleeping face.

“Do we need to memorize words today?”

Chen Feifei asked.

“Of course.”

Well, with his sister by his side, he is also very self-disciplined.

My mother has been working at the health center for a long time.

The health center is busiest on market days.

No matter what day of the week, all staff members are tried to be present, and they take turns to rest on weekdays.

Many elderly people, including middle-aged men and women, come to the town to buy and sell things at the market, and also to see a doctor and get medicine.

There are also some left-behind elderly people who seem to be seeing a doctor, but in fact they come to chat with the doctor.

I can feel the hustle and bustle of the street while still at home.

I can hear all kinds of hawking sounds early in the morning, especially the commercials recorded on loudspeakers.

They are very penetrating and have a slight crackling sound of electricity.

The three-wheeled vehicles collecting scrap go around the whole town, and the motorcycles selling glutinous rice cakes are very recognisable because of their special beeping sound followed by a melodious tune.

After breakfast, Chen Feifei asked, “Ah Qiao, are you going to the market?”

“Yes, I want to repair my watch.”

Chen Qiao said, shaking the blue electronic watch he bought for ten yuan.

He guessed that the battery was out of power.

It’s inconvenient not being able to check the time anytime and anywhere.

I can’t afford a mobile phone for the time being, so I’ll have to use a watch for a while.

“You’ve been using this watch for years, right? If it doesn’t work, buy another one. Ask mom to reimburse you. Let’s go out.”

There are rows of motorcycles parked along the riverside.

Motorcycles are still the main means of transportation these days.

The streets are bustling with people everywhere, shoulder to shoulder and with no end in sight.

Chen Feifei held Chen Qiao’s hand, afraid that he would get lost and be lost in the crowd.

There are small vendors setting up stalls along the street, including fruit stalls, local specialties, daily necessities such as three items for ten yuan, and some clothing, shoes and socks from other places.

They say they are authentic, but those who know will not understand.

This place is close to Xijiang Province, and many people like spicy food.

The piles of peppers on the stalls are like small mountains.

A charlatan who can tell fortunes and an experienced master who can cut people’s hair with scissors.

The stalls selling cockroach and rat poison also sold calendars as thick as dictionaries, which told what to do and what not to do.

The cover of the book on underground lottery was a Hong Kong beauty queen, and there were also several pages of photos inside.

There are three watch repair stalls, actually they are three brothers.

In addition to selling watches, they also sell computers, Tetris game consoles, Subor game consoles and cartridges.

There are no interesting new cartridges, they are all antiques.

After all, Subor has been out of date for a long time.

Children in the city are all playing PSP and other things.

Only children in the countryside are still playing Subor, but they will soon be replaced by computer games.

It turned out that the electromagnet was out of power, so I just replaced it with a new button battery.

On market days, the most popular items sold are shoes and clothes, especially clothes for the elderly and children, which take up the entire ceiling.

Add to that the clothing and electrical appliance street which is open every day, and the number of people selling is quite considerable.

There was a video store among them.

The disc packaging inside looked more advanced than those sold at street stalls, but they were actually pirated.

It was just that the goods had been inspected, so they did not have many small problems like the goods sold at street stalls.

The content of the disc did not match the packaging.

I bought Pokemon, but it turned out to be Digimon.

I bought Dragon Ball, but it turned out to be Nine Dragon Ball.

Chen Feifei naturally liked to look at beautiful clothes when she went shopping, but it was not fun for her to go shopping alone.

She asked her brother to go with her, but he refused to go.

He would rather go shopping alone secretly.

Then when the two met, her brother ran away like a thief.

But recently her brother has been particularly obedient.

Chen Feifei only looks but does not buy.

She will use the clothes rail to take down the clothes she likes and measure them in front of her body.

These days, stalls don’t even have a full-length mirror, let alone a place to change clothes.

She relies entirely on Chen Qiao’s eyes to act as a mirror for evaluation.

Chen Feifei also picked clothes for Chen Qiao and asked him to try them on.

This is why Chen Qiao didn’t like shopping with his sister in the past.

He didn’t want to be a dress-up doll.

In Chen Qiao’s opinion, most of the clothes are old and ordinary, mostly printed T-shirts and some leftover long-sleeved shirts.

The pants are all jeans and sweatpants.

There are basically no skirts or hot pants.

My sister’s two nightgowns were brought back by my mother when she went to the county town for further studies.

But my sister looks good in anything she wears.

The town is not big, so it is easy to run into acquaintances who come to the market together, or classmates Chen Qiao and Chen Feifei, or relatives, and we often say hello along the way.

Among them, Lin Na and her sister Lin Yu are helping to look after the family’s fruit stall, selling seasonal fruits such as pineapples, bayberries, etc.

Some of the fruits sold by their family are grown by themselves, and the rest are purchased.

On market day, Lin Na’s family was divided into three stalls.

Her father and mother each manned one stall, and she and her sister had another.

On market day, they had to pay two yuan to the management staff for setting up a stall, and they would also be given a stamped invoice as proof.

Among Chen Qiao’s classmates, most are only sons, and most only daughters have parents who hold important positions and have to take the lead in complying with family planning policies.

Most of the male classmates who are not only children are like him, with an older sister.

Very few parents pay the extra birth fee to give birth to a younger sister.

Female classmates basically have either a younger brother or a younger sister.

In order to have a son, some of them would gather three sisters or even more.

This has also led to many people who lack sisters becoming sister-con, including Chen Qiao.

When Lin Na saw Chen Qiao and Chen Feifei shopping, she instinctively covered her face and turned her head away.

She didn’t feel embarrassed when she saw other classmates before.

If they didn’t say hello to her, they would just ignore each other.

But today, for some reason, when Lin Na saw Chen Qiao, she didn’t want him to see her working at the stall, and her inferiority complex was filled with anger.

Chen Qiao walked straight towards Lin Na.

This was one of the reasons why he went out to the market.

In addition to the school, outside the school was also an important place for relationships to ferment and heat up.

“Good morning, Lina. How’s your business today?””fine……””Not good at all. I only sold it for ten dollars, and the guy kept finding faults. It was so annoying.”

Lin Yu was outspoken, holding a wooden stick with a plastic strip tied to it to drive away mosquitoes attracted by the fruit scent.

After asking the price, Chen Qiao bought two pieces of pineapple slices soaked in salt water and two kilograms of bayberry.

Lin Na picked out big and good bayberries specifically for Chen Qiao.

This child is so honest.

Chen Qiao has relatives selling fruit, but they only cater to regular customers.

If you buy two kilograms, they will weigh out three kilograms for you, and there will be some bad ones mixed in.

The scale used to weigh pounds is still a beam scale.

When Chen Qiao wanted to pay, Chen Feifei took the lead in taking out the change, which was just enough and no change was needed.

“Sister, I want to buy it.”

Can’t he just pretend in front of girls?

“It’s all my money.”

Chen Feifei rolled her eyes at Chen Qiao and said, “It just so happens that I want to eat too.”

“Your classmate?”

“My deskmate.”

“Wow, my female classmate, have you been bullied by her?”

Chen Feifei said with an interested smile.

“Of course not.”

No one knows who is bullying whom.

After a stroll, it was almost ten o’clock when I got home and I could prepare lunch.

Since mom is not coming back for dinner, dad does not need to worry about it.

At noon, I will make fried rice with last night’s leftovers.

I wanted to go back to my hometown and ask Xinyu to join us, but there were guests coming to grandma’s parents’ house today, and there were delicious food.

They also asked Chen Qiao to stay for dinner.

Naturally, Chen Qiao wanted to accompany his sister.

After Chen Qiao finished watching the weekend special of the animation club this week, Chen Feifei turned on the DVD and started watching My Lucky Star, a classic cliché idol drama with a decent racing scene, real racing scenes.

Chen Feifei held Chen Qiao on her lap.

When the plot was tense, she squeezed Chen Qiao’s arms so hard that they hurt, so she used him as a pillow.

When Chen Qiao was a child, he didn’t understand what idol dramas and female-oriented novels were.

He just watched TV and read novels, and he enjoyed them very much.

Chen Qiao was not in a hurry to write a novel.

It was also important for him to accompany his sister.

He enjoyed this peaceful and comfortable time.

The two of them stayed on the sofa until 4:30.

Chen Feifei picked up the remote control, pressed the pause button and said, “Let’s go to the vegetable garden to water it and pick some vegetables.”

It’s clearly the crucial part of the plot, but I’m amazed that my sister can hold back this feeling of stagnation.

Usually my mom goes, and on Saturdays when there is no evening self-study, my sister goes.

Yesterday evening, my mother carried the urine bucket at home to water the vegetables, and my sister and Xinyu accompanied her.

The vegetable field is not far from home.

Walking on the country road with winding paths and traffic, the loess road surface has been hardened by the sun and is somewhat cracked.

The canal water made a gurgling sound, and there were many tadpoles and disgusting-looking red silk worms in the ditch.

Plantain, snakeberry with small yellow flowers, dogtail grass and a bunch of wild flowers and weeds that could not be named grew on the roadside and in the cracks of the rocks.

I don’t know how many people heard when they were young that snakeberries are eaten by snakes, that snakeberries are fruits grown from snake saliva, that snakes crawl over and so on.

In addition to the fact that the snakeberries on the roadside are slightly toxic and not very clean, they may also be splashed with pesticides.

However, snakeberries are not as delicious as raspberries, blackberries, and mulberries.

Chen Qiao broke off a piece of dogtail grass and swung it around to play with it, then saw a straight wooden stick of the right length being played with.

Chen Feifei was holding a woven basket with a pair of scissors in it.

In recent years, Chen Qiao’s family has been allocated a very good vegetable plot, which is divided into four parts by a field-shaped water network.

Irrigation is very convenient and there is no need to run far to fetch water.

There are also snails to catch in the water.

Sweet potato vines are planted in the poor soil on the mountain where there is no time to tend them.

The vegetable fields here are planted with vegetables such as pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes and water spinach.

A plastic watering can is used to water the vegetables.

There is a wooden stick on the handle, countless small holes on the watering can, and a watering can.

My sister used a scoop, so Chen Qiao used a watering can.

He almost fell into the ditch when he was catching the water, which made his sister giggle.

My sister used a scoop, so Chen Qiao used a watering can.

He almost fell into the ditch when he was catching the water, which made his sister giggle.

When a sister and brother work together, work becomes less tiring.

Lin Na and Lin Yu, who were setting up stalls on the street, also began to pack up.

In fact, on market days, there were not many people after 2 p.m., and those who went out to buy things after dark were basically locals who wanted to get a bargain.

Wu Xinyu also finished today’s composition improvement class and was walking home with her schoolbag on her back.

She walked while looking at the composition on the test paper.

The test paper she was holding was not her own, but Chen Qiao’s.

This is the composition that the homeroom teacher Yang Fang used to explain and analyze in class today.

Previously, most of the time, she used her composition to explain and analyze, and she also praised Chen Qiao highly.

In this monthly exam, she scored 99 in Chinese and lost one point in composition, while Chen Qiao scored 100!

Although Yang Fang said that she wanted to encourage Chen Qiao to continue studying hard, the paper was neat and the handwriting became much neater.

But Wu Xinyu still borrowed the test paper from the teacher.

She was a little unconvinced and wanted to see what was so good about Chen Qiao’s composition.

After reading it, Wu Xinyu was a little discouraged.

She used fancy words to get high scores, and occasionally used some formats that ordinary people dare not use, but some uncommon words would occasionally become a deduction.

But Chen Qiao’s composition uses various composition techniques to the extreme, such as parallelism, metaphor, and quotations from famous people.

The events are clearly organized and have a simple beauty.

It was indeed good.

Wu Xinyu took a class with the math teacher in the morning and found out her math score.

It was full marks, not unexpected, but Chen Qiao also got full marks.

Wu Xinyu couldn’t accept the full marks in Chinese and math combined.

It’s not that she didn’t allow anyone to do better than her, but Chen Qiao was clearly in a relationship and yet he could do so well, making her, who studied hard, look like a clown.

Wu Xinyu also asked about Lin Na’s grades.

Her Chinese score was about the same as usual, 81 points, but she failed in math, which even made her math teacher angry.

He must have been influenced by Chen Qiao.

He did so well in the exam, but caused his girlfriend to fail.

There is no worse person than this.

Wu Xinyu is ready to feed the tiger with her own body by becoming deskmate with Chen Qiao to prevent Chen Qiao from continuing to influence Lin Na’s studies.

If she sits at the same desk with Lin Na, she will harm her current deskmate.

She was confident that Chen Qiao would not be able to affect her studies.

She also wanted to see how Chen Qiao studied secretly.

She thought that Sister Feifei must have given him special treatment.

As expected of Sister Feifei, Wu Xinyu also gave half of the credit for Chen Qiao’s good performance in the exam to Chen Feifei.

When Wu Xinyu and the head teacher Yang Fang suggested changing desk mates, they used the excuse that they wanted to exchange writing experiences with Chen Qiao.

They did not want to tell tales to break up Chen Qiao and Lin Na.

Also, they were both members of the persuasion team, and it would be more convenient for them to take their seats after each hygiene inspection.

Wu Xinyu and Chen Qiao are both good students among good students.

Yang Fang doesn’t think there is anything wrong with it.

It would be even better if they could have a good chemistry reaction.

It would advertise her composition class and more students would sign up for it next year.

Yang Fang already wants Chen Qiao to attend her class for free.