Learn one small skill every day

The police naturally believed the third-grade student's words, so the shop owner was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud.

Naturally, the collector's edition cards were no longer in circulation, but many people still show off the cards they bought in the past.

After all, this thing looks pretty good.

Over the past two years, Chen Tianzhuo's business has grown bigger and bigger, and it seems to be trending towards becoming the top school in the county.

When he was in third grade, he wasn't old enough, and many older students didn't respect him.

However, after he moved up to the fifth grade, almost no one in the sixth grade could keep him in check. Now all that's missing is a one-on-one match with the sixth grade leader, and then he can rightfully take over the title of the leader of Experimental Elementary School.

So, after school on the first day of the semester, Chen Tianzhuo went to see Bai Miao alone.

The two met in the newly built laboratory building on campus, a place that is usually deserted.

Two people did drown in the swimming pool during the summer vacation of fourth grade.

They sneaked into the school to swim during the summer vacation when no one was around, and they all drowned.

So now the entire swimming pool is simply abandoned, with no intention of being reused.

As long as there is no water in the swimming pool, no child will drown in it.

"what's up?"

Chen Tianzhuo had already learned to smoke. He slowly lit one, inhaling it with some enjoyment, pursed his lips, and offered one to Bai Miao as well: "Big brother, want one?"

"I don't smoke. Just tell me what you need."

"Maybe in a while, I'll have to fight with Zhang Feiyu from sixth grade. I want the position of the school's top dog."

Bai Miao sometimes couldn't understand their thought processes.

Even if you manage to get this position, what's the point?

But perhaps for them, whether it has meaning or not is not important.

"so what?"

"So I was thinking, could you teach me a few moves, big brother? Even if I only learn a little bit, I can still beat Zhang Feiyu to a pulp."

Seeing Bai Miao's questioning gaze, Chen Tianzhuo quickly explained, "It's not that I think I can't beat him, I just want to win gracefully, maybe Chen Xi will come to watch that day..."

Chen Xi is the object of Chen Tianzhuo's pursuit, and she is also someone who doesn't study much and just drifts along.

However, Chen Xi was not originally in this school; he transferred there midway through the semester. Just a few days after transferring, Chen Tianzhuo had already set his sights on him.

"Sigh... I get it. You don't want to get punched in the face too much, it'll affect your looks, right?"

"Yes, you understand me best, brother."

Bai Miao never imagined that one day he would be giving advice to two elementary school students fighting.

Bai Miao sighed. Chen Tianzhuo had helped him a lot over the years, and a little help from him helped him take the position of leader. Bai Miao didn't think it was a big deal.

"Okay, I'll teach you a few tricks. How much you learn is up to you."

"Thank you, brother!"

Chapter 243 Hidden Memories

“You can learn these things, but you can’t say that I taught you. If asked, just say that you saw them in books or on TV.”

"No problem! You can rest assured!"

Chen Tianzhu patted his chest and solemnly assured him.

In response to Chen Tianzhuo's fight, Bai Miao selected one or two commonly used boxing techniques. Once he learned them, taking down a sixth-grade hoodlum shouldn't be a problem.

"Simply put, pay attention to the position of the opponent's arm, then prepare your defense in advance, and find an opening to punch him."

After demonstrating the movements a few times, Bai Miao then instilled the mental techniques into Chen Tianzhuo.

"The last thing to note is that you must not get carried away and you must be careful with your actions."

"Ok, I know."

After that, Chen Tianzhu practiced on his own, but Bai Miao still agreed to check Chen Tianzhu's practice progress every day and correct some of his mistakes in the movements.

After Bai An entered the fifth grade, his parents became increasingly lax in their discipline. After the school cafeteria started providing breakfast and lunch, they stopped giving Bai Miao any money for food.

Jinsheng Teahouse has been open for so many years, and the two of them have been playing cards there for so many years, without ever moving an inch.

The teahouse owner, on the contrary, was more concerned about Bai Miao's life at school.

As soon as the proprietress saw Bai Miao carrying his schoolbag into the teahouse, she began to ask him how his studies were going since he entered the fifth grade.

With Bai Miao deliberately controlling his scores, his grades were roughly in the upper-middle range of the entire grade, neither good nor bad.

Those high-achieving students who received much attention started to have teachers plan to open tutoring classes for them after they entered the fifth grade, so that they could take the entrance exams for middle schools in the city.

Of course, this kind of thing is strictly confidential. In order to prevent the outflow of outstanding students, the county education bureau absolutely prohibits students from taking the entrance exams for schools in the city.

However, if a family has the means, they will definitely choose to send their children to study in a big city with better resources.

So even though it was only fifth grade, this tense atmosphere of exam preparation had already begun to spread in the class.

The proprietress also asked Bai Miao's parents about their plans, but Bai Miao's parents just said that since they wouldn't pass the exam anyway, they might as well just go to high school. After all, the middle school would be decided by lottery, and they would go to whichever school they were drawn from.

Bai Miao originally thought that elementary schools in this era didn't have exams, but he found out that it just wasn't time to start having exams yet.

However, another possibility is that families with the means have already been secretly tutoring their children since they were in the lower grades.

Terrible.

Although he said he would finish the game after elementary school, Bai Miao also planned to take the entrance exam for a school in the city.

After all, Bai Miao also hoped that Bai An could get out of this situation.

Staying in such a place means not only a poor home environment but also very poor educational resources.

Once they get to a school in the city, at least they can board there, and their parents only need to send living expenses on time.

If you want to take the entrance exam for a school in the city, you don't need to go all the way to the city. Some schools in the city will send people to the districts and counties to secretly organize the exams. Only specific people will know the location and time of the exams.

With Bai Miao's current grades, no one will specifically come to inform him.

Therefore, Bai Miao planned to ask Zhang Ze about the relevant situation.

This kid has consistently ranked first or second in his class. His homeroom teacher wanted him to be the class monitor, but he always refused.

Bai Miao also asked him why he didn't want to be the class monitor, and Zhang Ze's answer was that refusing to be the class monitor was cooler than being the class monitor.

And speaking of which, this was something I learned from Bai Miao.

Zhang Ze firmly believed that Bai Miao possessed the ability to be the top student in the grade, but had simply been holding back his true strength for many years.

Bai Miao felt that he was almost seen as a hermit in Zhang Ze's eyes.

The next day, when Bai Miao went to find Zhang Ze, Zhang Ze again thought that Shengshoutang was planning something.

In the past two years, the two have had virtually no private communication. When Zhang Ze met Bai Miao, he only gave him the expression one would give when meeting underground party members.

It's clear he's really enjoying it.

"Two things. The first thing is that I feel that Shengshoutang may be about to start."

"So it's happening again... We've thwarted their schemes twice already, what are they planning this time?"

The two victories made Zhang Ze eagerly anticipate completely destroying Shengshoutang and bringing a perfect end to his primary school.

"I don't know, so you'll need to leave my information on your end as well."

"must."

"The second thing... if you hear that any schools in the city are coming down to recruit students, remember to tell me, or help me register. I want to go too."

Zhang Ze gave me a knowing look: "I knew you had a lot of tricks up your sleeve, and you were definitely not willing to stay in such a small place. I will let you know about that later, but my family said that we usually take the test once in fifth grade and once again in sixth grade. The two scores are weighted together to determine the list of students to be admitted."

"Row."

After things were mostly settled for junior high school, Bai Miao began to focus on collecting information about Shengshoutang.

Having learned from the previous two failures, Shengshoutang will undoubtedly be more cautious.

But their actions can cause injury or death to children.

By keeping an eye on this point, Bai Miao believed he could detect something was wrong immediately.

"Big brother, do you think I'm playing correctly?"

After school, Chen Tianzhuo was diligently preparing for the competition. After a day, Bai Miao noticed that Chen Tianzhuo's movements were quite impressive.

Although they are just some very basic movements, Chen Tianzhuo was able to reach this level in just one day, which shows that he has quite good talent.

"Okay, keep it up."

Bai Miao praised Chen Tianzhuo and then asked him about his plans for junior high school.

"Junior high? Hey, what plans can I have? I'll just go wherever I can. What about you, bro? You're probably thinking of going to the city, right?"

How does everyone know where I want to go?

Chen Tianzhu smiled shyly: "Brother, I've been out in the world for a long time and I know a lot of people. I can't guarantee anything else, but when it comes to knowing people, I guarantee I know a lot more than you do."

"I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just feels like the way you look at other people, and the way you speak, is different from us. You seem a bit too mature."

Chen Tianzhuo scratched his head: "I've tried to imitate your tone of voice, but I just can't get the feel for it."

Bai Miao sighed: "If you had parents who only knew how to play cards all day long, you would be like me, thinking about yourself early on."

Chen Tianzhuo lowered his head, his mood visibly somber: "Big brother... my mom is just a small stinky tofu vendor, and my dad likes to drink. Sometimes when he's drunk, he goes out to gamble, and when he loses money, he comes home and beats my mom... Your parents may gamble, but they wouldn't get angry because they lose money, would they..."

Bai Miao thought to himself that over the years, his adoptive parents seemed to have never argued about playing cards.

I don't know if it's because they don't care about winning or losing, or because the stakes aren't high each time.

But thinking about it now, it still feels very strange.

Is it really possible for someone to make a living solely by playing cards?

Could there be some hidden story behind my adoptive parents?

No matter how hard Bai Miao tried to recall, he couldn't remember anything special about his parents.

Aside from playing cards, they didn't seem to have gone anywhere else.