Zhou Xiaoyun’s Happy Life

 Chapter 186 New Life

 Since then, Zhou Xiaoyun and his brother Dabao have lived a new life.

 In the morning, Zhou Xiaoyun always gets up at six o'clock as a habit. In the past, I had to ride a bicycle for more than half an hour from home to school and had to get up early every day. Now I have become so accustomed to getting up early that I can't even stay in bed.

Just take advantage of the early morning time to get up and memorize words, and the effect is quite good.

Dabao wanted to sleep in, but unfortunately Zhou Xiaoyun knocked on the door and told him to get up when he got up.

Dabao couldn't stay in bed for five minutes before his sister's insistent knocking on the door forced him to get up from the bed. No one could bear the magic sound that penetrated the brain.

 Get up, get dressed, wash up, and then memorize English words, texts, and politics with Zhou Xiaoyun.

Then the two of them went to the small restaurant downstairs to have breakfast. If they wanted to eat, they could have meat buns and rice porridge, if they wanted to eat deep-fried dough sticks and sesame pancakes, there were also various kinds of shredded pork noodles, wonton dumplings.

For two or three yuan, the brother and sister can eat well. The fried dough sticks only cost 20 cents each and are big and fragrant. The steamed buns only cost 30 cents each and have quite a lot of meat filling. Why bother making breakfast?

At noon, Zhou Xiaoyun would use a small electric rice cooker to make some rice. The brother and sister would make one dish and one soup every day, which was enough for them to eat.

Dabao doesn’t pay much attention to the number of dishes when he eats, but he must have enough portions. When Zhou Xiaoyun cooks, he always fills a big bowl. Sometimes if I can’t finish my meal at noon, I’ll continue eating at night.

Dabao has started to study at night. After eating every day, he has to go to class and doesn’t come back until after eight o’clock.

 Zhou Xiaoyun finished cleaning up alone and sat down to do his homework quietly and found that his efficiency had improved a lot.

Think about how the four brothers and sisters usually speak to each other when they are doing homework. It is like a busy vegetable market. There is no time when doing homework is not distracted. Now it takes half the time to do homework alone than usual.

 The extra time was just enough to read some books. In addition to classes, Xiaoyun also rented some books from the rental bookstore on the street to read.

 The four major Chinese classics, the world famous "Gone with the Wind" and "Jane Eyre", as well as "The Prose of Zhu Ziqing" and "Collected Works of Lu Xun", etc. Zhou Xiaoyun became more and more fascinated by the world of books.

 Personally, she likes San Mao and Xi Murong, and her favorite is Zhang Ailing. On the contrary, Roland thought it was quite average. For some reason, she was listed as one of the four most talented women in Taiwan along with the first three.

 San Mao’s travel notes are the most exciting part in the Sahara, especially her love affair with Jose, which made Zhou Xiaoyun sigh.

Xi Murong's writing style is delicate, and his poetry and prose are so elegant, just like a clear spring flowing, making people feel comfortable for a long time after reading it.

The most heart-wrenching thing is Zhang Ailing’s prose novels. The prose is extraordinary and makes people feel more and more interesting the more they read it. The novels make people feel sad and sad after reading them.

 Zhou Xiaoyun suddenly developed an infinite yearning for writers.

 She bought a thick and beautiful hard-cover notebook from the store and started writing some random articles with a pen.

 It’s similar to a diary, but it can’t be said to be a real diary. Anyway, I write whatever I feel like doing.

Zhou Xiaoyun, who was already good at composition, shined even more in composition. Even Teacher Kong began to regard Zhou Xiaoyun's composition as a model essay and recited it emotionally in front of the whole class in composition class and praised it.

Zhou Xiaoyun vaguely began to have an idea. Can he also write some articles and submit them to magazines? Don’t magazines like those specifically for middle school students all publish articles by students?

　　Just try writing a few articles yourself.

Of course I'm embarrassed to tell others, even Dabao doesn't know about it.

Zhou Xiaoyun copied several addresses from magazines such as "Middle School Students". Multiple submissions are allowed for one manuscript. If this one is not successful, which one may be successful?

Zhou Xiaoyun's extremely beautiful pen calligraphy came in handy. He copied the article neatly on the manuscript paper four times. Fortunately, it was only a short prose with only a few hundred words.

If it were longer, it would be a bit unbearable, and just copying the manuscript would be very tiring!

 Then put it into a registered mail, write the address and send it out. Of course, all of this is done secretly.

Dabao found it strange that his sister was mysterious and mysterious all day long. When he came back at night, he would often go into Zhou Xiaoyun's room without knocking.

Zhou Xiaoyun had calculated the time and put everything on the table. How could Dabao discover anything?

However, Zhou Xiaoyun still gave Dabao a stern warning: "Brother, when you enter my room in the future, can you knock on the door first and wait for me to open the door before you come in? It's too impolite to barge in like this."

Dabao said disapprovingly: "We used to be like this at home." Even the door was not a curtain, and people came in as soon as it was lifted. There was no such thing as knocking.

Zhou Xiaoyun was blocked, but still insisted on his opinion.

Dabao finally remembered the fact that his sister had grown up and was now a little girl, and nodded in agreement.

Song Mingli and Zhou Guomin came for a visit. Seeing that Zhou Xiaoyun and Dabao were living well, they went home and described it to their grandma: "Mom, don't worry! It's nice for Daya and Dabao to live there." "It's better to be more organized than adults. I have breakfast in the restaurant and I have plenty of time to make lunch and dinner. I'm not very busy with my studies now."

Grandma had to ask Song Mingli to take her there for a visit. She was relieved to see that Zhou Xiaoyun and Dabao were doing well as Song Mingli said.

However, after grandma came here to figure out the way, she always came over after lunch to wash Zhou Xiaoyun's clothes.

Zhou Xiaoyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He quickly grabbed the basin from his grandma's hand. There were two pairs of socks and underwear that he had changed last night. As for bulky clothes, I only wash them once when I get home on Sunday.

“Grandma, just leave this there and I’ll wash it myself. Don’t do it. Just let me do it by myself. I can wash clothes at the age of eight.”

Zhou Xiaoyun finally persuaded her grandma to put down the basin, but she couldn't help but go to get a broom to help sweep the floor.

　　If you are not allowed to sweep the floor, then you can wipe the table with a rag, or you can clean the kitchen. Anyway, grandma can always find something to do.

Zhou Xiaoyun feels that it is great to have a grandma, and this love warms her heart.

Dabao’s grades have improved recently. He went home and told Zhou Xiaoyun that he ranked ninth in the class in the quiz. Zhou Xiaoyun couldn't help but praise him for his high-spirited look.

 Well, it seems that the original consideration was right. Dabao saved the time of riding back and forth and studied more, which seemed to be quite effective.

As for Zhou Xiaoyun himself, he has always been diligent in his studies and has never failed to do well, and now he can't see whether he has made any progress.

However, it is true that I have a lot more energy.

  There is time to sleep and rest at noon, unlike at Third Aunt’s house where it’s hard to sleep even if you want to.

What's more, without the interruption of Xiaobao and Erya, Zhou Xiaoyun can basically control his own time at night, not to mention how clean and comfortable his ears are.

However, when Zhou Xiaoyun went home on Sunday, he did not forget to supervise the two of them on their homework for the week.

Xiaobao accepted the new task given by his sister and began to take Erya to do homework and read books together every night.

 (End of this chapter)