Hypoxia era

The dinner, which was delayed for 15 minutes because of being beaten and scolded, finally started.

A family of five sits at the dining table, each with a plate of heated synthetic nutritional mud. The aunt's face is cold, and the two children who have just received a lesson dare not speak.

Xiao Dadu looked at this, looked at that, and coughed: "Isn't it all good, as for being so arrogant..."

Snapped.

Aunt Xiao slapped the spoon in front of her husband, "Try saying one more sentence!"

Xiao Dadu hurriedly apologized, half-truly and half-jokingly laughing at himself: "Blame me, it's useless to blame me, otherwise I wouldn't let the two children crawl around outside."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The old lady who had been silent in the main seat said, "They are all from this family. The two children have suffered. Which of you husband and wife didn't clamp their buttocks and work hard? It's true that I'm useless. Yes, dragging you down!"

The old lady has a pair of slender eyes, which look very piercing when she gets angry.

"Oh, mom, don't say that." Xiao Dadu couldn't resist his wife's violent temper, nor could he resist the old lady's sharp mouth, so he had to admit his mistake, "I'm talking nonsense, don't get angry."

Seeing the incident coming to an end, Xiao Sifang stood up cleverly, divided the glutinous rice cake into five equal parts, and divided them one by one.

"Grandma, Bamian and I will definitely pay attention to it in the future, let's add food first."

Mrs. Xiao glanced at her, and then eased her expression, "My granddaughter is still caring."

The spoon made a slight sound when it hit the bottom of the plate.

When everyone was about to eat, Aunt Xiao glanced at the two cubs and asked, "Are you two about to get grades in your graduation exam?"

As soon as this was mentioned, the other two parents also became concerned.

Although the children have never worried them about this aspect, they rank among the best in the eight-grade school system every year, and they were both selected for the special student reserve list last year, equipped with a communicator.But the graduation exam is different. The result of this exam will truly determine who gets the only special student quota in their district.

The outer city is divided into 220 eight districts, and each district will select one of the graduates of the year as a special student every year, giving him the qualification to enter the inner city for further studies, and at the same time cover all the normal expenses of the school.

But it is not so easy to get this quota. According to the incomplete statistics of the population at the end of last year, the number of refugees in outer cities has exceeded 40 million, and each district has a population ranging from 50 to [-]. Among them, the number of fresh graduates No less than three thousand, it is truly one in a thousand.

Xiao Bamian replied: "Tomorrow."

"Okay." Mrs. Xiao nodded, "If you can win another special student, then even if the old woman dies tomorrow, she will have no regrets."

Twenty-three years ago, the only special student in this district was her eldest son who died prematurely, that is, Xiao Sifang's father.

"Bah, bah, bah." Xiao Bamian hastily put bad luck on her, "Grandma, you will definitely live a long life!"

"Your mouth is so sweet." Mrs. Xiao was amused by him, "You are also grandma's caring grandson."

While speaking, his withered fingers reached into the sleeves, vigorously stroking the large number of black spots covered by the fabric.

There is nothing to regret, as long as she is not compared with the people in the inner city, she is sixty-two this year, which is considered a long life.

After dinner, Xiao Dadu and his daughter-in-law went to the construction site to do open-air work. The old lady was very weak. After walking outside with her two children for a few minutes, she went back to her room and continued to lie down.

The wind energy accumulated during the day brings brightness to the night, and the light bulbs hanging around are like stars that are about to fall.

Xiao Sifang stood next to the two-meter-square earthen platform at the door of his house, lifted the windproof cloth on it, and a pile of tatters was exposed in the light.

These are mechanical wastes discharged from the inner city to the garbage dump in the outer city. After being sorted twice at the garbage dump, she went to the garbage dump to pick them up carefully.

After moving a small stool, she stuck to these junks as soon as she sat down, with the goal of never letting go of any valuable parts.

Xiao Bamian sat down on the earthen platform, and swayed his legs in front of her to attract her attention, "Are you bored or not, Fatty Chen said that he will release an interview with Cen's father tonight, let's go to his house to watch it together."

"Don't go." Xiao Sifang slapped him on the leg, "Don't bother me at this time, go quickly."

"Okay, okay." The boy jumped down, but he still didn't leave immediately, and said stubbornly, "You like beautiful things so much, you won't cry secretly if you miss the beauty of Papa Cen's prosperity?"

Xiao Sifang put down the rags in his hand, clenched his fist and waved towards him.

When the younger brother finally rolled and crawled, she sat down on the bench again.

No matter how beautiful it is, it's not hers, so don't waste time on it.

After working hard for an hour, the children's noisy voices finally came from afar.

"Sifang, we found a lot for you—a lot!" The children, ranging from eight or nine years old to five or six years old, hugged or pulled, excitedly bringing the things they had just dug out of the garbage dump to Xiao Sifang. .

The articulate older children put it aside and emphasized: "We found all of them according to your requirements, and we didn't take any of the particularly bad ones!"

A dozen or so children stood in a row, all squinting and smiling. They all ate glutinous rice cakes in the evening.

"Thank you."

The children replied in unison: "No~yes~thanks~"

"But Sifang." An older child called her name with a puzzled look on his face, "Why do you keep picking up these things? My father said they were all broken."

"I also want to know why."

"I want, too!"

The voices of the little radish heads talking together were quite harsh, Xiao Sifang had to make a gesture to make them quiet, and from the corner of his eye, he saw a small robot with half of his body missing in the rags they had just brought, and he had an idea .

"Then be good and be patient, and I'll use these to make something fun for you."

The children cheered, immediately shut their mouths tightly, and circled around her, staring at her hand without blinking.

She took out the small robot less than [-] centimeters long and put it aside, put on the gloves again, and began to purposely select some waste products to disassemble first.After spending more than ten minutes getting the parts she wanted, she untied her bag and took out the odd-shaped tool.

It didn't take much time for her to assemble the parts. She quickly put the self-made spring into the small robot, and then simply installed a stand on the other half of its body, took out her scarf, and tore it off. The next piece is tied around the neck of the little robot as a cloak to cover the ugly bracket.

"Okay." Xiao Sifang put the little robot on the ground and turned the clockwork.

The little robot came back from the dead, and Gada Gada walked away.

The children were stunned, "Wow——"

Seeing their careful touch and exaggerated exclamation, Xiao Sifang felt a little astringent in his heart.

A mutilated wind-up toy amazes them, while the children of second-class citizens in the inner city dismiss intelligent robots.

She hated this gap, hated the so-called inborn disqualification from the people in the inner city.

Early the next morning, Xiao Sifang, who had a sore back and aching back after working all night, was still sleeping soundly under the covers when he was woken up by a heavy knock on the door.

Aunt Xiao yelled from behind the thin door panel: "You still can't sleep to death, can you? Hurry up and get up for me, the people who reported the grades have all passed Fatty Chen's house!"

what.

Lifting the quilt, Xiao Sifang sat up, rubbed his eyelids that were still glued together, and answered vaguely.

"If the old lady is up and you still don't come out, just go where you came from, and don't stand in front of me!"

The effect of this sentence is so powerful that Xiao Sifang, who was planning to be a dead pig just a second before being scalded by boiling water, immediately jumped out of bed.

When I got out of the room, I found that the old lady had woken up early, and she was sitting by the window looking forward to it after tidying up her whole body.

Xiao Bamian, who was poisoned first, told her secretly that the old lady couldn't sleep, and got up before six o'clock to wait for her grades.

The graduation exam is completely different from the usual exams. Usually, the exam results are displayed on the big screen in the school. Only when the graduation exam results are released, the school teachers will visit each household one by one, not only to inform the specific results , but also for the future work arrangements of these students.

All student work is assigned in packages, and the better the grades, the greater the options.

Simple and crude.

"Here we come." Xiao Dadu waved to the old lady outside the window, and ran to the door of the house in three steps, opened the anti-sand curtain, and invited the two teachers who came together to come in.

Xiao Bamian, who was drinking water, saw someone choke, coughed several times before saying: "Principal?!"

Why is the headmaster here?

The headmaster was very serious. He glanced at the two children standing together and said, "Both of you avoid it. Before talking about your grades, there are other things that you need to discuss with the old lady."

Granny Xiao's body subconsciously leaned forward.

Xiao Dadu and his wife looked at each other and started to chase people away, "Let's go, go back to your own room and stay there. I'll call you two after talking about things."

Clearance is complete.

The headmaster first walked up to the old lady, held out his hand and shook her, "I haven't seen the old lady for many years, I was the one who reported the results of your family's diligence and frugality test for special students, do you remember?"

Tears flashed in Old Madam Xiao's eyes, "Remember, how can I forget."

The principal smiled, let go of her hand and said solemnly: "It was a pleasure to come here again, but this time it is difficult. We have held several meetings in the school, but we can't make a decision. We can only discuss this matter." It’s up to your parents to decide for themselves.”

Xiao Dadu became nervous, "What's wrong, tell me quickly."

The principal sighed, "This time the number of special students falls on your family again..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Dadu beamed, "Oh, what's the problem? Are we afraid of being famous?"

Aunt Xiao slapped him on the back, "Listen to the principal!"

"...This matter, the embarrassment is that the two children in your family are too promising." The principal smiled bitterly, "Both of them got full marks in this graduation exam, and they are also candidates for special candidates. They are all excellent, and we have no statute for the only quota.”

The three parents of the Xiao family were stunned.

"If we have the ability, the district would like to provide both, but the various tuition fees we have to pay when entering the inner city and the purchase fees for various items including oxygen are several times that of second-class residents. It is really impossible to save so much……"

"I'm sorry, this problem can only be left to you to decide..."