After a simple rebirth

Chen Weisi and his classmates agreed to meet at three o'clock. Not many students had cell phones, so they could only meet on the first floor of the bookstore to avoid missing anyone.

Fu Ying went out after Fu Ma went out. It’s better to go there early to take a look. Once others arrive, it will be difficult to shop.

The bookstore was neither too far nor too far from the pedestrian street. There was no direct bus to the place, so Fu Ying got off the bus near the pedestrian street, crossed the overpass and walked two more stops to the destination.

The store has three floors, with stationery, teaching aids, calligraphy and paintings. The entrance is decorated in an antique style, which is considered one of the landmarks.

There are more paper books here, and electronic reading has not yet replaced people's reading habits, so this bookstore is quite popular.

But Fu Ying knew that after five or six years, the bookstore would be hit too hard by the Internet and would no longer be able to operate. The store had to shrink, part of it was sublet, and the remaining space was transformed into selling mainly calligraphy and paintings.

Fu Ying arrived at the door, the automatic door opened, and light music was playing inside. Like Xinhua Bookstore, the first floor also sold hot books and stationery.

Fu Ying followed the sign to find the high school teaching materials and began to look through the materials and test papers.

She has teaching materials and has also bought the "Complete Solution to the Textbook" that the teacher mentioned. She is also doing mind mapping and it is convenient to look up information online. But after looking through the materials, she decides not to buy any because there is nothing suitable.

As for the test papers, she already had the Wusan test papers and the Huanggang test papers. She only planned to buy another set of test papers to test and improve herself from time to time. The school teachers were also collecting various test papers for them to do, so it was not necessary to buy a bunch of useful and useless test papers.

Although she also thinks that the tactic of doing a lot of questions is very useful, she does not do the questions blindly. She likes to understand the knowledge points of each test paper before doing the next one.

If you blindly do ten or eight sets of real test questions, you will make the same mistakes next time if you don't know how to do them. It is definitely more efficient to remember the knowledge points of one question each time than to do it ten times.

After looking at a lot of them, she only chose one set of liberal arts papers. The others were good, but she felt that they did not provide much improvement for her.

Fu Ying went upstairs again and looked at some books on memorizing words. She remembered that many authors had summarized synonyms and antonyms, which could really brighten people's eyes, but not many people could remember.

She planned to buy it for Fu Zhe.

Fu Zhe's grades are now at the top. Firstly, it is because people in his hometown have a hard time learning English and since everyone is not outstanding, Fu Zhe is not left behind. Secondly, it is because English in junior high school is not that difficult and most of the vocabulary is basic.

Fu Ying planned to go over the grammar system with him after returning home. Now that he was familiar with the grammar, the only thing left was to memorize words and collocations. If Fu Zhe was not encouraged to take the initiative to learn English, Fu Ying was afraid that it would become more and more difficult for him to learn and he would not be willing to learn.

The books published by top students are still useful. Fu Ying took a fancy to a book jointly published by Peking University students, which sorted out synonyms and antonyms.

Afraid that she would get too absorbed in reading and miss the time, Fu Ying simply took the book to the door and read it slowly. Some of the words she had forgotten were recalled bit by bit.

"Fu Ying, when did you arrive?"

Fu Ying looked up when she heard the voice. It was Liu Jiao, the person she wanted to see the most at the moment.

"Not long. I just happened to need to buy the test papers, so I came to take a look in advance."

"Damn, you've changed. You didn't read these before, you only read romance novels. But before the high school entrance exam, you suddenly made a comeback and you became too fond of studying!"

Fu Ying smiled.

"It just so happens that your teacher has recommended any test papers. I want to see if there is one that suits me. I want to buy a set, but they all look the same and I can't decide."

"No way, are you serious? I haven't bought much of these. I'm only in the first year of high school!"

Liu Jiao said this and went to the high school teaching supplementary books with Fu Ying.

"I think the ones recommended by teachers are all similar. Didn't your teacher mention that?"

"Yes, but different places are different. We all took the national exam, so it's good to read different opinions. I have the answers for Wusan and Huanggang."

"Now that you have these two, then you can practice the must-do questions and the sprint papers. My teacher said that the must-do questions are more classic, and the sprint papers are jointly published by teachers from No. 1 Middle School and are more in line with the college entrance examination."

Fu Ying took the two test papers from Liu Jiao and read them carefully.

"Which one did you do more? I haven't done any of the questions from No. 1 Middle School."

"We just do the test papers given by the teacher. How are your grades now? I heard that the questions in No. 1 Middle School seem to be more difficult. I think you can do well in No. 1 Middle School."

Fu Ying nodded.

"My grades are okay, so this is it. I'll pay the bill first. I don't know when they will arrive."

Liu Jiao was curious.

"You're such a top student, how much is okay? I don't believe your grades will drop much."

Fu Ying smiled. She didn't want to be so Versailles. If she asked, she would just tell her.

"Not bad, not bad. Number one in the grade."

Liu Jiao was so shocked that she couldn't help but slap her arm.

"Oh my god, you're actually number one in the grade. I thought you just did exceptionally well in the middle school entrance exam, but it turns out you're even better in high school."

Fu Ying was about to explain with a smile when Chen Weis and Zhang Yuan came in, so she shut up and paid the bill first.

Three sets of sprint papers, one set of liberal arts papers, and a vocabulary book, all of that was 150 yuan, and I had to pay out of my own pocket.

It's already three o'clock, and Chen Weiss said that there should be eight people coming out for the party, which means half of them haven't arrived yet.

It was hard to chat with so many people, and it was easy to disturb others, and it was too hot outside. There were not many milk tea shops outside at this time, so we stayed on the first floor of the bookstore and wandered around for a while.

Liu Jiao couldn't help but ask about Fu Ying's grades and study methods, and Fu Ying briefly explained.

In the end, there were nine people. Fu Ying didn't expect Liang Weiyao to show up as well, but when she thought about it, it made sense. Liang Weiyao and Chen Weisi were admitted to the same high school, and their families were both in the city, so they naturally became familiar with each other.

Now that everyone is together, we are ready to go play.

What else can a group of high school students do? If you say they are shopping, they are just walking on the streets.

The girl was in front and the boy was behind, walking through the entire pedestrian street aimlessly, not knowing what to do. Fu Ying just wanted to eat chicken wings.

The pedestrian street is the old city area, where there are many old shops, such as dessert shops and so on.

Fu Ying wanted to eat the curry chicken wings from one of the restaurants. They also had other dishes, such as green bean soup, but Fu Ying loved the chicken wings the most. They were 5 yuan each, but the meat was delicious and the curry flavor was just right.

The boys were not interested and there was not enough space for so many people, so Fu Ying just bought the food and ate while walking. She didn’t know where she was going, so the boys led the way.

Then we took them hiking!

Fu Ying was convinced. Who would be a good person to go hiking for a class reunion?

Fortunately, the mountain is not high, so I just treat it as exercise.

Those straight men not only ignored the girls but also competed to climb to the top of the mountain, leaving Fu Ying and the other two girls behind to walk slowly.

As a result, the one with the worst physical strength was not Bao Ling, who looked the thinnest, but Liu Jiao, who had been muttering all the way.

"These guys are crazy, why are they climbing a mountain and running so fast?"

Liu Jiao was so tired that her lips turned pale. Fu Ying asked her to rest for a while and listened to her continue to curse. Then she and Bao Ling supported her while laughing, and finally reached the top of the mountain after fifteen minutes.

It's sunny today and visibility is okay. I can see part of the city from the top of the mountain, mainly the old town in the distance. The houses are not tall and can be seen.

After resting for a while, the group of boys got bored and started clamoring to go down the mountain again.

Fu Ying asked them to decide what to eat in the evening first, and then go down the mountain in that direction, so as to avoid taking a long detour.

The boys looked at each other, undecided.

In fact, Fu Ying couldn't think of what to eat. She just wanted to eat spicy shrimps. The shrimps in that restaurant were not sea shrimps, but they were big and flavorful. They were delicious. She had been there for a colleague's party before.

But Fu Ying didn't say anything. For a high school student, 70 yuan per person was too expensive. She couldn't ask others to pay a lot more money for what she wanted to eat, and she couldn't treat everyone either.

Liang Weiyao said he wanted to go home to eat, so there were 8 left.

In the end, they decided to eat at McDonald's. They were going in the same direction as Liang Weiyao, so they could go down the mountain together.

Well, Fu Ying hasn’t eaten it for a long time. Spicy chicken leg burger with ice coleslaw is her favorite.

It would be faster to go down the mountain. When they reached the fork in the mountain, they waved goodbye to Liang Weiyao, and the rest of the group went into McDonald's.

The restaurant had a second floor, so they took their meals upstairs. There was no one there, so the eight of them occupied a long table.

It was only half past five when they finished eating. Fu Ying didn't want to think about games, so everyone just chatted freely in groups of three or four.

Chen Weisi was curious about Fu Ying's test paper. Fu Ying showed it to him and Chen Weisi looked betrayed.

"You've changed. It's fine that you scored higher than me in Chinese in the high school entrance exam, but now you're doing so well in all subjects. What should I do? We agreed to be poor students together, but you became a top student behind my back! And you even bought so many test papers to do!"

Fu Ying stared at him speechlessly.

"I didn't agree with you to be bad students together, don't slander me!

We are all in high school, there is no buffer time, there will be no more learning opportunities later than high school. After junior high school, there is still high school, but after high school is college. If you don’t seize this turning point, you can only rely on your life after work, but who knows the future!

Rather than hoping for a turnaround in the future, it is better to seize the opportunity now and live up to yourself.”

Everyone was stunned by her words. Zhang Yuan, who was already working, felt even more deeply about it, but his parents were divorced and he had no choice but to work after finishing junior high school.

It's not that I haven't thought about persuading a few brothers to study hard and cherish the opportunity. But this kind of thing still depends on one's own understanding, not a few words of preaching.

Fu Ying took the initiative to break this atmosphere, changed the topic and asked about other students' situations.

At 6:10, Fu Ying said goodbye to them and went to wait for the bus.

The last direct train was at 6:30. She didn't have a cell phone and couldn't contact Fu's father to pick her up at another stop, so she had to go home early.

I don’t know if they played until the evening or if they dispersed soon after.

When Fu Ying returned home, her family had already eaten. No one worked overtime on Sunday night, and there were relatives around. Fu Ying simply said hello, said she had also eaten, and went upstairs.

She went upstairs to put the papers away and started to make the bed sheets. Dad Fu did it in their room, and Fu Ying did it upstairs.