Chapter 22

The magazines and essay collections that Si Cheng bought with his own money and borrowed among his classmates had already become as dirty as pickled vegetables.

Buying books is expensive, so she might as well go to the bookstore to read.

After reading the book, she went to the “Dream Bookstore” next door and used the money given to her by her father to buy two famous books: “Dream of Red Mansions” and “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”.

Many famous works are novels, and Si’s father and mother may not necessarily allow her to buy them. But if she buys those of the Four Great Classics with good writing and historical significance, Si’s father probably will not stop her.

Sure enough, after she took the two books back, Si’s father asked about it.

“Cheng Cheng, reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber won’t affect your study time? Although these are classics, they are also novels. You read the short stories in the useful extracurricular magazines before, which are useful for writing narrative essays, so you just read them. You can’t finish such a long novel in a week, it’s a waste of time.”

Si Cheng used the reason he had thought of and said, “Dad, Dream of the Red Chamber is the best work in terms of writing style and human nature, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms contains a lot of righteousness. I want to learn the principles of being a person and doing things from books. These two masterpieces can be passed down in the world and no one can surpass them. They contain great wisdom.”

Father Si smiled and said, “Oh, you are preaching to me. Fine, you can read whatever you want, but you are not allowed to buy romance novels or martial arts novels. Otherwise, your pocket money will be deducted. Also, you have to keep up your grades, otherwise these books will be confiscated.”

After finishing his work, Mr. Si would read books in his spare time.

Apart from playing cards and drinking, he also read books. However, he was not well educated, so he mostly bought books and magazines such as “Story Club”, “Military Expo”, and “Legends of the Past and Present and Martial Arts Edition”.

In the past, he allowed Si Cheng to read these books, but later, after Si Cheng entered junior high school, he forbade him to read them.

Mother Si groaned, “Just spoil her. The books are so expensive. I’ve spent over 100 or 200 yuan on books these past two months. How much can she really read? Wait, if she can get into the top ten in the final exam, I won’t be named Li anymore.”

Si Cheng pretended not to hear. He sent the books back to the second floor and went downstairs to help with the stall.

My father’s customers already knew that she would be back on weekends, and some of them would come over specifically to eat when Si Cheng came.

Occasionally I would tease her and ask her if she had researched any new dishes. Since she was such an excellent cook, she might as well study some royal cuisine.

He also asked her with a smile if she knew what the imperial court cuisine was.

Si Cheng was neither humble nor arrogant, nor was she stupid. She just expressed her thoughts in a few words and said that she would study it and might have to wait until the winter vacation.

This made the group of older brothers and younger uncles who were watching the fun laugh.

Today, we heard that she did well in the midterm exam, so we ordered more dishes to congratulate her.

That night, the night snack stall’s revenue exceeded 900 yuan.

The next day, Si Cheng didn’t have to teach his mother how to cook, so he returned to school early.

The weather is getting cooler, so the prepared dishes can be kept for a few more days.

Grandma pickled some bacon herself and fried a glass jar of it for Si Cheng, enough for her to eat for two days.

I also boiled four eggs for her and asked her to eat two each today and tomorrow.

I also gave her a bag of apples and oranges for her to eat over a week.

Finally, with his grandmother’s love, Si Cheng took a bag of food, carried his schoolbag, and took a bus to the bus station, then found an Internet cafe to continue writing his novel.

The novel has been written to more than 30,000 words and has more than 10,000 floors.

It attracted a large number of readers.

But Si Cheng had no time to communicate or interact with readers. He just kept his head down and wrote, which made readers feel insecure and afraid that Si Cheng would run away one day.

Readers set up a reader group for Si Cheng, and only after Si Cheng joined did he add the group manager as a friend, which made them feel more at ease.

After writing another three thousand words and uploading them, Si Cheng went to catch the bus and arrived at the school before twelve o’clock.

When she returned to school this time, Si Cheng clearly found that her roommates were more enthusiastic about her. In the past, it was because of food and extracurricular books, but now there was a bit of sincere admiration in their enthusiasm.

She came to her senses and realized that she was ranked second in the dormitory, after the recognized female academic master Tan Yanyan.

Another girl with better grades than her lives in the mixed dormitory next door.

Some people asked her about her study methods, some wanted to borrow English reference books and walkman from her, and some saw that she brought new copies of “Dream of the Red Chamber” and “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” and wanted to borrow them from her.

Si Cheng responded one by one.

As for the study method, just study hard, memorize by rote, and then apply it flexibly. You should also arrange your time reasonably and restrain yourself. Don’t waste your limited time on meaningless things. It is best to write a weekly plan.

Find and fill in the gaps, focus on studying your weak subjects, and strengthen the subjects in which you are good.

Reference books and walkman are not available for loan as she uses them frequently, but if they want to buy them, she can help purchase them.

You can borrow “Dream of the Red Chamber” and “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, but you have to promise her that you can’t read them in class and that they can’t be confiscated by the teacher. You have to take good care of them and don’t make them as dirty as her magazines, which are dirty enough to pickle pickles.

If the book is really confiscated by the teacher, the teacher should return it to her, but she has to communicate with the teacher.

The girls in the dormitory had no money to buy walkman and English reference books, so they had to give up.

After becoming one of the top students in his studies, Si Cheng became a “cold and arrogant academic bully”. Apart from hanging out with his bed-mate, he didn’t dare to promote friendship with other girls, for fear of losing his status as an academic bully.

After entering December, the school will hold a New Year’s Day party.

The girls used their spare time to prepare the program, and Si Cheng was forced to sign up because she had lost weight and became prettier, and she could hum a few lines occasionally, so the cultural and entertainment committee member forced her to join the program.

Influenced by Si Cheng’s academic progress, the girls in the class all worked hard to study.

No one wants rehearsal to take up study time.

Si Cheng didn’t want to waste study time, so after much thought, he signed up for singing English songs.

If there is no dancing, just play music and let her sing solo.

After knowing this, the head teacher didn’t say anything. For these junior high school students, it was good to be able to sing an English song completely.

First of all, you have to have good English grades so that you can finish singing smoothly.

This is very beneficial to learning.

As for the dance program, the cultural and entertainment committee member had to find a few more girls to complete it.

For the next month, Si Cheng decided to write a short story every week and a long story of three to five thousand words.

The second time he received several payments for his manuscripts was in mid-December. This time it was only over a thousand yuan. Although the amount was much less, Si Cheng was not dissatisfied.

She already has 3,500 yuan in savings and a few dozen yuan in pocket money for living expenses, which is enough for her current needs.

period.

Her resourceful readers recommended her novel to an editor of a good publishing house, who fell in love with her work after reading it.

I contacted her and wanted to commission her to write an article for publication. I hoped that she could sort out some character settings and plot, and we could have a friendly communication.