Rebirth: Those Years When I Was a Bad Student

After dinner in the evening, Zhang Guohua and Lin Cai'e announced something.

They decided to take over the breakfast shop next to where Lin Cai'e worked. The previous owner quit because he had to go to the city to help his son take care of his children, and recently he was renting out the shop.

Lin Cai'e was a little tempted after seeing it. First, the location was very good, close to the school with many people coming and going. Second, Zhang Guohua would no longer have to look for odd jobs outside, and opening a breakfast shop would definitely make more money than now.

After hearing what they said, Zhang Yumian agreed with both hands.

In fact, they opened this breakfast shop in their previous life, and the business was pretty good. Because it was close to the school, there were a lot of people in the morning. I remember that in order to save more money, they chose to push a cart to the school gate to sell at night.

At that time, my mother went to the gate of the junior high school and my father went to the gate of the senior high school. As the college entrance examination was approaching, many students just stayed at the school gate.

At that time, her parents cooked meals for her so that she could eat well, and brought them to her. But she never took them because she didn't want her classmates to know that the people selling dinner at the school gate every day were her parents, and she would avoid them even if she saw them.

At that time, she was inferior, cowardly, and vain, and did things that hurt her parents.

She will never forget the smile on her dark face and the white teeth on her father's face when he saw her just after she left the school gate. When her father turned around to get the lunch box from under the cart, she lowered her head and ran away in a hurry.

Although she didn't look back, she seemed to see her father's lost expression, saw his eyes darkening little by little, saw him turn around and put the lunch box back, and saw him looking for and looking at her from behind in the crowd.

Even though she knew everything, she still left without looking back and escaped from her father who loved her.

Before I knew it, tears were already welling up in my eyes.

"Mianmian, why are you crying? What happened?" Lin Cai'e asked anxiously. As soon as she looked up, she saw tears in her daughter's eyes.

Lin Cai'e sat next to Zhang Yumian, wiped her tears with tissue, hugged her and rubbed her back, trying her best to calm her down.

Zhang Guohua, who came out of the bathroom, was also confused. He just asked what was wrong when he received Lin Cai'e's gaze. He just silently poured a glass of water, took a small stool and sat next to his daughter, quietly accompanying her.

It took Zhang Yumian a while to calm herself down. She didn't want to cry in front of her parents and make them worry, but she couldn't help it.

"Mianmian, can you tell your parents what happened?" Zhang Guohua asked from the side.

Zhang Yumian looked at his father's frowning eyebrows and slowly smoothed them out with his hands. "Nothing happened. I just felt that my parents had worked too hard. When I go to college, I will study hard and make a lot of money so that you can enjoy a retirement life."

Zhang Guohua and Lin Cai'e looked at each other and said, "Mom and Dad, it's not hard. You just need to study hard. You don't need to worry about making money."

As parents, they are not afraid of hard work at all. As long as their children are well, they are willing to give everything.

Zhang Yumian nodded.

Then she wiped her tears and said, "Mom and Dad, I support you opening a store, but you only need to buy breakfast and don't do other work, otherwise your body can't bear it."

Glancing at her parents' expressions, it was clear that they didn't think so. Zhang Yumian pursed her lips and said, "How about this, we sell breakfast in the morning, and we can make some fresh noodles to sell in the afternoon, and we don't have to look for other odd jobs."

She remembered that there would be a shop nearby next year that specialized in selling fresh noodles. Business was not very good at first, but it got better and better. After all, fresh noodles were much more delicious than dried noodles.

If possible, mom and dad can stop making breakfast and just sell fresh noodles.

"Mianmian, this is a good idea," said Zhang's mother happily.

"Then let's do this. It's hard to find a half-day job. Staying at home is a waste of time. It makes people anxious." Zhang Guohua touched Zhang Yumian's hair and said proudly: "My daughter is smart."

I don't want my parents to sell breakfast at the school gate, not because I'm afraid of being embarrassed, but because if they sell breakfast, they have to get up at three or four in the morning to prepare. If they go to the school gate at night, they won't have much time to rest throughout the day, and their bodies won't be able to bear it.

But if I sell noodles, I can buy a machine myself so I can finish the work early and go home to rest.

The next day, when Zhang Yumian arrived at the classroom, she found that the three of them had already arrived.

Cheng Yao was reading a book with his head down, Zhang Wentian was yawning while eating breakfast, and Zheng Yue was lying on the table to catch up on his sleep.

Zhang Yumian sat down and said slowly, "Yueyue, you got up so early, isn't it a bit of a loss to sleep now?"

Zheng Yue raised his head, looked straight ahead and said, "Mianmian, you are right. I'll go wash my face and come back, and then we'll start." After that, he rushed out of the classroom in a hurry.

Zhang Yumian took out an English book, turned around and said to the two people behind him, "Wait for Yueyue to come back, then we'll start."

Junior high school English texts are generally not very long, and there are usually one or two texts in a unit. The content is also more daily conversations, not so obscure and difficult to understand. Zhang Yumian thinks it should still be possible to review them with them.

Zhang Yumian prepared to read a paragraph first, and they should read it out loud first, and not learn dumb English. If the pronunciation is wrong, they will be corrected, and by the way, they will be familiar with the phonetic symbols in the process, so that they will not be so unfamiliar when the teacher teaches.

The second step is to translate each paragraph, find out the subject, predicate and object of each sentence, as well as the grammar and common phrases in the paragraph.

In this way, the knowledge you learn through your own discoveries will be remembered firmly, learned more solidly, and you will have a greater sense of accomplishment.

......

After Zheng Yue finished talking about the knowledge point, Zhang Yumian added, "You didn't find the object correctly, and you forgot a grammar, which is the singular and plural. Although this is a small problem, it often appears in multiple-choice questions and error correction."

Zheng Yue said a little disappointedly: "Yes, yes, it's true, Mianmian, am I too bad?"

Zhang Yumian: "How could that be? Now tell me what you just learned."

Zheng Yue: "I learned two phonetic symbols, countable and uncountable nouns, the first person, and..."

Zhang Wentian listened to Zheng Yue listing them one by one and couldn't help saying, "That's amazing. I feel like I've learned more in this half hour than I did in the whole year before."

Then he clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Teacher Xiao Zhang."

Zhang Yumian patted his arm with the book and said, "Okay, you can talk about it next time. Now let's review the knowledge points that Yueyue just mentioned."

Cheng Yao: "Teacher Xiao Zhang's method is very useful. We will continue tomorrow."

Zhang Yumian always felt that with Cheng Yao's foundation, only the phonetic symbols were unfamiliar to him, and everything else was fine.

Zheng Yue said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, it's because my foundation is too poor, so I took up all my time. I will review it carefully when I go back this time, and I won't do it again next time."

"Hey, what's the big deal? I'm not as good as you. If it were me, it probably wouldn't be over yet," Zhang Wentian said comfortingly.

"Yueyue, don't worry. It's like this at the beginning, and you will become more and more familiar with each other later," Zhang Yumian explained.

"Really?" Zheng Yue asked with her big bright eyes.

“Really, you have to believe in your teacher Xiao Zhang, and even more so, believe in yourself.” Zhang Yumian also made a gesture of encouragement.

In fact, this is not to comfort Zheng Yue. In fact, her English grades were average before. After high school, she met an English teacher who taught them in this way.

As a result, her scores on idiom papers gradually improved a lot. She even relied on this foundation to pass the Level 4 exam in one go after entering university.

So sometimes learning methods are also very important. Often if the method is right, it will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

She believes that as long as she persists for a period of time, there will be significant results.