Exclusive Memory Chapter 6 Part 3

 As soon as New Year's Eve passed, time began to fly by, but Liu Qi appeared nonstop. Either with a real person, or with calls and texts.

I'm usually not careless, but I'm a person who can't say "NO", so every time Liu Qi appears I hide or find excuses to evade. It's a pity that this person's perseverance is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

I can't tell him directly: We are not suitable, please keep a distance from me. Because other than asking me out for dinner, going out, and asking me if I was okay, he didn't show any signs of crossing the line. If I'm not careful, it will make me very petty.

Fortunately, I have a good excuse - tutoring.

Among the three tutoring jobs I took, besides Peng Yu, there is also a third-grade child and a junior third-year student. Everyone has three and a half days a week, and the level of the three people is different, and I have to read books each time, organize materials, and prepare for the next day's teaching. So it adds up to being busier than when school started.

The most difficult thing to teach is the girl in the third grade, whose nickname is Youyou. She used to attend the children's class of Cambridge English and learned a little bit, and now she has learned a little bit in elementary school. When she was listening to the class, her spirit was very bad, and she liked to be distracted. She is small, and all her learning motivation can only be supported by interest, but she herself is not very interested in English. But the parents are a model of looking forward to a daughter becoming a phoenix, wishing that she would become a foreign language genius in one breath. Youyou's mother would suddenly push the door in from time to time and ask us if we were thirsty or not. In fact, I know that this mother just wants to see if I have hurried the time for her child's class, whether it is worth twenty-five yuan an hour, so she can find an excuse to come in and spot check at any time.

That afternoon, I asked Youyou to copy the letters. She fell asleep on the table as she wrote.

I called out to her two or three times, and she propped her head up and rubbed her eyes wearily.

"Teacher Xue, I'm sorry." She apologized carefully.

"What's wrong? Didn't sleep well?”

"I practiced ballet for a long time in the morning and wanted to sleep."

"You're still learning to dance?" I didn't know about this, but I saw a piano in the living room and thought she was practicing the piano.

Youyou nodded, and immediately reported to me her winter vacation arrangements: "Take your class in the afternoon of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday go to the Children's Palace in the afternoon of Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to learn ballet, practice the piano every morning, and do homework in the evening. After the New Year, ballet classes were transferred, sometimes moved to the morning. ”

After I heard it, I felt like fainting, and I almost said: Your parents are enough to torment you.

But now I am also a teacher in front of her, so I can't talk nonsense, so I patted her head and said a universal educational phrase: "Hard work is also for your own good, so please work hard." (I think I got this phrase wrong but this was as close as I could find)

I now realized that it was not that she loved to desert and was difficult to teach, but that the child really had limited energy.

Youyou raised her head and asked, "Teacher Xue, did you grow up like this before?" 

"Almost." I laugh.

At that time, I was also in the third grade, and I had just arrived in City A from a small county town in other places. My mother was afraid that I would fall behind other children, and asked my father to send me to the Children's Palace to learn dancing and painting.

"No, I studied folk dance and pipa." Saying that, in order to confirm, I also made a Xinjiang neck dance movement in front of her. (pipa is like a lute)

She immediately bent her eyes and smiled, "I've seen our teacher do it, and I want to learn it too, but it's really difficult."

"It's not difficult to say, but I can teach you a trick. You put your whole body against the wall, and then repeatedly think about touching your right shoulder with your right ear, and then touching your left shoulder with your left ear." I said, and demonstrated again.

Youyou got up from the chair, ran to the base of the wall, and took a mirror to try what I just said a few times. But in the end, she gave up, sat back and said, "Why do I move like a duck's neck cramps."

I was amused. I used to think that this kid didn't like to talk very much, and she never communicated with me. I didn't expect it to be quite fun.

I said, "I have a cousin, who is tall, and even worse, who was sent to learn to swim. The first time she went back to the swimming school, she said that she was afraid of the water and said that she did not dare to go into the pool. As a result, the coach didn't say a word, picked her up like an eagle catching a chicken, and threw her into the water with a hula hula and a hula. ”

Youyou stared into my eyes, "What happened next?"

"Later?" I recalled the scene that my father had repeated countless times in front of me, and couldn't help but say, "Later, she did it. Hit the water hard, two or three times the ground, but actually floated, and then she learned to swim on the spot. Climbing to the edge of the pool, she remembered to cry. ”

Hearing our laughter, Youyou's mother pushed the door again, and the sound of me chatting with Youyou stopped abruptly.

When her mother went out, Youyou asked in a low voice: "Teacher Xue, did your cousin become an athlete? Will she participate in the Olympics?"

"No. I didn't become a dancer either. Very few people can succeed."

"If that's the case, why does my mother have to ask me to learn?" Youyou lowered her eyes.

I thought about it and said to her, "Mom and Dad have their reasons. Sometimes what adults want you to learn, it is not necessary to become a dancer or musician, but to make you more cultivated and more connotative, and more people will like you in the future. ”

Youyou looked at me half understanding.

I blinked my eyes, "For example, there are two boys in Youyou's class. One is good at studying, good at sports, and can play the piano very well; the other can't do anything, and his homework is poor. Which one do you think you like?" ah?"

"First of course." Youyou immediately affirmed.

"So, that's how others see you." I say.

Later, Liu Qi asked me to eat again. At the Lanzhou ramen restaurant, I said these things about Youyou out loud. I chose this place right, there are so many people, there is a smell of oil smoke everywhere, the table is greasy, and because the business is good, sometimes I have to share the table with several people I don't know. In this case, it is completely impossible to cultivate ambiguous feelings between men and women.

Liu Qi put down his chopsticks and said, "Xue Tong."

"Huh?" I didn't lift my head, I just sucked the noodles into my mouth, making a very unladylike "chichi" sound.

"I've seen you play the pipa."

"When?" I wondered.

"At the welcome party of your college last October, you wore a pink cheongsam, sat on the stage, and played the song "Yangchun Baixue" on behalf of the student union."

I pulled a tissue and wiped my mouth, "That, don't mention it. It was originally the department beauty named Xihua who was going to perform a Korean dance, but she suddenly got angry with the chairman and said she couldn't do it. Then they asked me to fill in like a duck on the shelf, so they ran to make up the music numbers, and borrowed clothes and musical instruments for me temporarily, but I suddenly forgot the song halfway through the play, so I had to bite the bullet and play the first part twice, and then walked off the stage in despair." 

This incident is still a nightmare in my life.

I have a good habit. I don’t like to recall things, so I try to drive them out of my mind and don’t think about them. After a while, it's like I really forgot.

After a while, I remembered something, and said to Liu Qi: "Speaking of which—my department is holding a welcome party. Why are you here?"

Liu Qi chuckled, and said embarrassedly, "I'm going to hang out with them, I want to visit beautiful women."

I patted my buddy on the shoulder, "You have nothing to be shy about. I also like to watch beautiful women, next time we will watch together. "Then I started counting where our school squatted and waited for the most beautiful women. In the end, it turned into me researching and comparing in front of him, which department's beauties are of high quality, and both internal and external.

Listening to me gushing about this, Liu Qi's expression was a little strange, and he said: "In fact, no matter how beautiful others are, they are no better than the person in my heart."

"Of course!" I took the subject, "There is usually no more beautiful and greatest woman in a boy's heart than his mother." ”

I said this philosophical remark with a sense of pride, so I picked up the bowl and drank half a bowl of soup. When he looked at Liu Qi again, I felt that his expression was even more strange.

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