Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 50 New Year's Eve
After dinner, Chen Zhou accompanied his father Chen Jianguo for a walk.
After taking a walk and washing up at home, he went into his room and opened the fresh test paper.
Of course Chen Zhou wanted to take a vacation, but it was obviously impossible.
The winter vacation officially begins on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month and ends on the evening of the 7th day of the first lunar month, when we return to school for evening self-study.
In total, it takes nine days.
But the papers Wang Xuehui distributed in the afternoon had a total of 12 sets, with 4 extra papers in mathematics.
On average, it’s more than one set a day.
Anyway, these papers have to be done sooner or later, so just finish them first and don’t delay your important work.
Chen Zhou took out another can of mental potion and took a sip. It tasted exactly like the Danniu drink!
Start doing the test paper.
On the first night after returning, Chen Zhou didn't go to bed until 3:30 in the morning after finishing two sets of papers.
The next morning, he slept until eight o'clock, just like he did during the monthly exam.
After having breakfast, Chen Zhou started a new day.
Because I knew Chen Zhou was studying, I was afraid of affecting his studies.
Chen Jianguo handed over a series of small tasks during the Chinese New Year, such as pasting Spring Festival couplets, to Chen Zhou's younger brother Chen Xiao.
In previous years, Chen Zhou was the one who did these small things, and Chen Xiao just had to follow behind him.
But this year is different. This year, Chen Zhou is a real "college entrance examination candidate" and is now the focus of the whole family.
Chen Xiao looked at Chen Zhou's room hesitantly, only to see that the door was closed.
He wanted to call Chen Zhou, but he didn't dare to, for fear of being kicked by Chen Jianguo.
Chen Xiao sighed, and had no choice but to go to work reluctantly.
At this time, Chen Zhou was reading the Six Subjects Encyclopedia in the house.
He found that there was a very reasonable saying by the ancients: Review the past to learn new things.
By reviewing the textbook again, Chen Zhou had some different feelings.
Some subtle, imperceptible knowledge blind spots were all discovered by him and became new supplements to the knowledge points in his brain.
Two days before the New Year, Chen Zhou reviewed textbooks during the day and solved test papers at night.
Apart from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, I don't want to waste any more time.
To the extent that the neighbors thought it was New Year's Eve and Chen Zhou had not returned home yet.
Chen Jianguo would proudly say that his son was reviewing.
Until 5pm on New Year's Eve.
Chen Zhou opened the door and prepared to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner.
This year, everyone in the Chen family came to Chen Zhou's house to celebrate the New Year.
There are Chen Zhou’s grandparents, his uncle’s family, and his younger uncle’s family.
This has long been the custom. Chen Jianguo has four siblings, excluding his younger sister. Chen Jianguo, his older brother and his younger brother, a total of three people, take turns to take care of New Year affairs every year.
It is important for the whole family to have the New Year’s Eve dinner together and celebrate the New Year together.
This is also what Grandpa Chen Zhou has always advocated. He said that as a family, we should celebrate the New Year in a lively manner.
Everyone is here, the food is ready, and it’s time to start the New Year’s Eve dinner.
In previous years’ New Year’s Eve dinners, the adults talked most about how the previous year had gone, whether there were any good career options, and what they were planning to do next year.
This year, although we talked about these things, the topic soon shifted to Chen Zhou's studies.
The whole family already knew Chen Zhou's results in the joint entrance examination of six schools, and they also knew that Chen Zhou had ranked first in Chinese.
Everyone praised Chen Zhou and urged his younger brothers and sisters to learn from their older brother.
Perhaps these children were the only ones who were unhappy during this meal .
After dinner, Chen's sons and daughters-in-law cleaned up the mess together.
Grandpa and grandma called Chen Zhou aside, and grandpa took out a red envelope and handed it to Chen Zhou: "Xiao Zhou, study hard, our Chen family is waiting for your good news next year!"
"Xiao Zhou, don't listen to your grandfather." Grandma glared at her husband and took out a red envelope and handed it to Chen Zhou. "Xiao Zhou, you look so thin now. Grandma will give you another red envelope. You should buy more delicious food to replenish your body. Grandma but she will take care of your health. Did you hear me?"
"Yes, your grandma is right. You really can't just focus on studying and ruin your body. That's unnecessary," Grandpa added.
Chen Zhou looked at the kind faces of his grandparents and felt extremely warm in his heart. He put away the red envelope and promised his grandparents that he would study hard and take good care of his health.
After chatting with his grandparents for a while, Chen Zhou was called over by his uncle and aunt.
My uncle was a little embarrassed to speak, so my aunt spoke first: "Xiao Zhou, can you please help your cousin with his tutoring when you are free? He is now a sophomore in high school and will soon be a junior. His grades are neither good nor bad, and we are very worried."
"Helping Chen Yong with his studies, there will definitely be no problem." Chen Zhou thought it was something else, which made him nervous.
After thinking for a while, Chen Zhou said, "But, uncle, aunt, I definitely can't do it during the winter vacation. I don't think I can spare the time. Can you wait until I finish the college entrance examination?"
The uncle immediately said, "Okay, okay, of course. You are taking the college entrance examination right now, and we can't possibly take up your time. I just said let's talk about it after the exam. Your aunt is afraid that you will have other things to do after the exam, so she insisted on talking about it now."
My aunt quietly pulled her husband's sleeve to express her dissatisfaction. How could he say that to me in front of the children?
Chen Zhou naturally noticed this little action, smiled and said, "That's no problem, I will definitely put this matter first when the time comes."
After saying that, Chen Zhou noticed that his uncle was waving at him. He was about to walk towards him, but was stopped by his aunt.
The aunt took out a red envelope and stuffed it into his hand.
Although Chen Zhou repeatedly said that he was older, he still stuffed the red envelope into his pocket.
After saying something to his uncle and aunt, Chen Zhou walked towards his uncle.
My uncle doesn't have anything to ask for help, as his child is still in elementary school.
He wanted to make an appointment to play a game of League of Legends with Chen Zhou.
Even though Chen Zhou calls him uncle, in fact, uncle is only a dozen years older than Chen Zhou and is not even forty yet.
I have great interest in these emerging online games.
And League of Legends was the game that Chen Zhou taught him to play last year.
Chen Zhou couldn't help feeling ashamed. It seemed that he had brought up a middle-aged man who was addicted to games.
As for whether he would pick his feet or not, he didn't know.
I politely declined my uncle's invitation, saying that I couldn't play games. If I played games, it would easily ruin the enthusiasm for learning that I had worked so hard to build up.
My uncle expressed his understanding and prepared to contact his friends who play games with him to team up on New Year's Eve.
At this time, Chen Zhou's aunt came over. As soon as she saw her husband's appearance, she knew what the two had just talked about.
Before the aunt could ask, Chen Zhou said, "Aunt, it wasn't me. It was my uncle who asked me. I still need to study. I'm a good kid."
The young aunt was stunned, and recalled the scene of catching the two men playing together last year, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Chen Zhou hurriedly smiled and planned to slip away first as a sign of respect.
The young aunt took out a red envelope and stuffed it into his pocket: "Xiaozhou, do your best in the exam next year and set an example for your uncle. I made a bet with him that if you can get into a key university, he will quit playing games."
Chen Zhou glanced at his uncle and asked, "When did you make the bet?"
"When you were just repeating your grade..." After a pause, the uncle continued, "Who would have thought that you would be so strong now!"
Chen Zhou thought for a moment and asked again, "Are you really going to quit?"
The uncle looked at the aunt, then looked at Chen Zhou, with hope in his eyes: "Can you not quit?"
Chen Zhou ignored him and turned to his aunt, "Aunt, don't worry, my uncle has decided to quit smoking!"
The aunt smiled happily and the uncle stared at him helplessly.
Chen Zhou silently said to his uncle in his heart: "I'm sorry, uncle, I don't want to cheat you..."
