Rebirth of a Fat Girl's Youth Diary

  Time flies and it's already August 29th, the day for registration at Hualu Middle School.

  Gu's mother took Gu Xiang to sign up. Originally, Gu Xiang was going to go by herself, but her mother wasn't at ease and insisted on following her.

  Because there was also a class division exam, registration was not in the classroom, but in the teaching office.

  Her mother was going to rush her to go in the morning, but Gu Xiang said there's no hurry, all new first-year students are registering on this day, and there will definitely be a lot of people.

  The mother and daughter had lunch, took a nap, and didn't leave until two o'clock.

  Hua Road Middle School is not far from Jiefang Road Shopping Mall. It takes only 5 or 6 minutes to get there by electric bike, said Mrs. Gu.

  Arrived at the administration office, indeed there were very few people. The several windows for receiving payments had almost no one.

  The teachers in the teaching office also told them that fortunately they came late, and there were so many people in the morning that they couldn't even stand in the room.

  When waiting for the payment, I also met Tang Lulu, who came with her father.

  Tang Lulu's father wore a pair of frameless glasses and looked quite elegant.

  Gu Xiang and they talked about last time's matter again and thanked each other once more.

  Tang Lulu asked her: "How's your review going?"

  Gu Xiang honestly said: "It's okay, but I don't remember any of those texts from language class that I memorized."

  "Really? You're not very good at memorization? In the past, you were always the best in the whole class when it came to dictation."

  Gu Xiang laughed: "Really? I used to have a good memory, but it was short-term, and I'd forget once I turned around."

  Tang Lu nodded and leaned in close, saying in a low voice: "You recite 'Swiftly' and 'The Teacher Says', the rest is still memorizing ancient poetry. But this part of the score isn't very high, mainly it's testing comprehension."

  Gu Xiang looked at her like this and knew it was probably inside information.

  The class division exam is very important for everyone, directly related to their three-year learning environment.

  Her dad directly found someone for her. Tang Lulu's family probably had to be reserved and went to get some key points.

  Tang Lulu also wanted to tell her that their parents had already paid the money.

  Tang Lulu mentioned before leaving: "Mathematics will test a lot of knowledge from the first year, and it seems that the difficulty is quite high. But everyone has difficulties, if you can't do something, just skip it for now, make sure to get all the ones you know right."

  The school arranged the exam rooms according to the first letter of their surnames, so they weren't together. They each went to look for their own exam room then.

  The exam is scheduled for the second day morning, starting at 8 o'clock. The math and English exams will be held in the morning, and the language exam will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

  Gu Xiang was still a bit nervous, it had been many years since she last took an exam.

  In addition, Tang Lulu also pointed out the exam content to her in the morning, so Gu Xiang took out her language textbook and recited all the lessons that Tang Lulu had mentioned. She also read through the key ancient poems that the teacher had organized before the exam several times.

  Gu's mom also had a pretty strange attitude towards her, and she hadn't seen her so nervous before the junior high school entrance exam.

  The next day, Mrs. Gu sent Gu Xiang to school.

  It seems that Dad's suggestion to buy a bicycle was right, after all, Mom can't get up early every day to take her to school.

  She arrived quite late, almost seven fifty. The school was quiet.

  As soon as she walked to the stairs, she saw a short-haired girl standing on the stairs with her head down picking up something. Several pens were scattered on the stairs, and when she looked at the girl again, she was holding a broken transparent pen bag in her hand. The pen bag must have burst suddenly.

  Gu Xiang quickly helped her pick it up. After she picked it up from downstairs, the girl also picked it up all the way down the stairs.

  There were some students passing by in between, but they were all busy avoiding and no one stopped to help.

  "Here you go." Gu Xiang handed her the pen.

  The girl saw Gu Xiang and was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly at her.

  When Gu Xiang arrived at the examination room, the invigilating teacher was asking everyone to put all irrelevant items on the podium.

  Gu Xiang quickly put away her backpack, grabbed her pencil case and found her seat.

  She had just sat down when the short-haired girl she had bumped into on the stairs came in.

  Two people were in the same examination room.

  Before long, the bell rang.

  After Gu Xiang got the paper, he first reviewed it as a whole and found that the difficulty was quite high. Many of them required the use of shortcut methods for calculation. If they were calculated in a straightforward way, a lot of time would be wasted. However, the actual difficulty was slightly lower than what Gu Xiang had expected.

  The knowledge in the new first-year textbook accounts for about 30%. Moreover, the coverage is very broad, from the first unit to the last unit.

  Gu Xiang had only previewed half of the book and thought it was enough, but unexpectedly there were still unseen parts. She could only rely on her memory to do it.

  After finishing, there is still plenty of time left.

  Gu Xiang thought of his own calculating ability and was afraid that he might have made a careless mistake, so he rechecked all the questions.

  Until ten minutes before the roll was collected, I did it from head to tail again.

  There are twenty minutes of rest time between the two exams, but because the math test paper is more difficult, the air pressure in the exam room is relatively low.

  Gu Xiang went out and looked around but couldn't find a toilet. She asked someone and found out that this building didn't have any toilets, they were located somewhere else.

  After being directed, Gu Xiang circled around a few times before finding the restroom, and there were a lot of people, with many queuing up.

  By the time she came back from the toilet, the break was almost over.

  The girl I met on the stairs came over and asked her, "Gu Xiang, my pen is broken. Only one pen can write, I'm afraid it won't be able to write later, can you lend me one?"

  Do you know her? Gu Xiang handed her a pen while trying hard to recall, but he really had no impression of this girl at all.

  The other person seemed to have noticed it too and said: "I am Li Huo."

  Gu Xiang had no impression of this person at all, but seemed to have some recollection of the name.

  Li Wei also said: "We were desk mates in third grade, and then I transferred schools."

  She mentioned her desk mate, and then Gu Xiang remembered she was coming.

  In elementary school, Li Wei seemed to have two braids, now this short-haired doll-like hairstyle is completely different from before.

  English is still normal difficulty, Gu Xiang has worked hard before the exam, and it's not difficult to do.

  Her listening skills are even simpler, she followed foreigners in her previous life and forced herself to integrate into that circle.

  After finishing the English exam, everyone finally relaxed a bit. Their faces also looked much better.

  Her mother came to pick her up and take her home for dinner.

  The sun was still very harsh at over 11 o'clock, Gu Xiang looked at her mother who was sweating profusely and wearing a white sunscreen scarf, squeezed in the crowd waiting for her, feeling heartbroken.

  "Mom asked her: 'How was the exam? Were the questions difficult?'"

  Gu Xiang said: "Math is a bit difficult, the whole book of grade 7 first semester was tested."

  "Didn't you just review half of it?"

  Gu Xiang was a bit distracted, she was still thinking about Li Hui's affairs. Since Li Hui and she were in the same junior high school, why did her memory of Li Hui only stay in elementary school?

  She didn't say a word, and her mother thought she was in low spirits because of the poor exam results, so she comforted her by saying: "It's okay, as long as you did your best. Besides, if you think it's difficult, others won't find it easy either."

  Gu Xiang noticed that the road his mother was taking didn't seem to be the shortest one he remembered. But it seemed like yesterday they had come from a distant route, and when asked, Gu's mother said: "The bridge on the other side of Yuejin is under repair, the car can't get through."

  Gu Xiangfu suddenly realized what was wrong and quickly turned around to head back. Fortunately, there were many parents picking up their kids on the road, which was crowded, so they hadn't gone far yet.

  Afraid of being late, Gu Xiang directly got off from behind the electric vehicle and ran back and forth against the flow of people and vehicles.

  Gu's mother still didn't know what she was going to do and anxiously shouted at her from behind.

  Gu Xiang didn't dare stop along the way and ran all the way back to school in one breath.

  She was heavily pregnant and when she stopped, she couldn't even catch her breath.

  But still had to hold one's breath and rush to the examination room.

  She finally knew why she couldn't remember Li Wei!

  Because in his previous life, Li Wei fell into a pit on his way home after finishing the class division exam.

  The incident seems to have occurred near Yuejin Bridge.

  Li Wei broke an arm and a leg, and stayed at home for more than two months to recover. When she returned to school after her injury healed, she couldn't keep up with the school's curriculum and had to take a year-long leave of absence.

  At that time, things were still quite lively. Later on, when Gu Xiang sometimes walked home from school by herself, her mother would repeatedly warn her not to take the shortcut and head towards Yuejin Bridge.

  Fortunately, at the staircase entrance, Gu Xiang met Li Wei again.

  Li Wei saw her and handed over the pen in his hand, smiling and saying: "Return the pen to you, I just found it inside for half a day."

  Gu Xiang leaned forward, propping herself up on her knees and took a deep breath.

  Gu Xiang finally came around and took the pen from her, asking: "It's so late, why aren't you leaving? Doesn't anyone come to pick you up?"

  Li Wei replied: "No one picked me up, so I walked back myself. My grandmother is sick and my family is at the hospital. But my home is just on XX Road, it's close."

  The road Li Wei said is quite close, just near Yuejin Bridge.

  "My mom said that Yuejin Bridge is under repair, don't go through there, take a detour."

  "Oh, I knew that, I just came from there these past two days. There's no one working on the other side either, it's just that the road is a bit difficult to walk."

  Gu Xiang had a number in her mind, and she figured out that it was probably eight or nine out of ten.

  They had talked all the way to the school gate, and people were almost gone. Gu's mother was waiting for her with an electric tricycle.

  "Where have you been? You scared me to death!" said Mrs. Gu with some reproach.

  "I lent my pen to a classmate and forgot."

  "Can't you take a pen in the afternoon?" Mrs. Gu said to her, and then she saw Li Wei was there too, so she didn't say anything more.

  Li Wei called out to her.

  Gu's mother recognized her at a glance and said, "It's Li Wei, you've cut your braid! Auntie almost didn't recognize you. You're getting prettier and prettier."

  Li Wei's face turned red as she said: "My mom said that my hair is too long and it's a waste of time, so she had me cut it short."

  Mrs. Gu nodded and said: "Our family's Gu Xiang also said that, and went to have her hair cut too."

  "Mom, why don't we invite Li Wei to have dinner with us? There's no adult at her home anyway."

  "No need, Auntie," Li Wei hastily waved her hand. "My parents left me some food, I can just heat it up when I get home."

  "Your mother is still very enthusiastic, immediately saying: "You still have an exam this afternoon, you go back and cook your own meal, won't that take up all your time and make you miss your nap? What if it affects your language exam in the afternoon?"

  Li Wei was also in a difficult situation. In fact, her family also attached great importance to this exam, but last night her grandmother's illness suddenly worsened, and in the middle of the night, her parents were called away by the hospital, fearing that they would not see the old lady for the last time.

  In the morning her mother came back for a while, instructed her some things, and then went to the hospital again.

  She didn't feel good in her heart either, otherwise she wouldn't have failed to notice that even her pen bag was broken this morning.

  Gu Xiang saw that she was still hesitant, so he said to Gu's mother: "You go back first, I'll walk back with Li Wei."

  The little electric car of Gu's mother can't hold the two of them, fortunately the road is not far away, and after reminding them to pay attention to safety when crossing the road, she went back first.

  Gu Xiang and she walked home, of course, taking a safe detour.

  Li Wei didn't say much, Gu Xiang thought she had something on her mind, so he also didn't speak much.

  Today is the day of the class division exam, so Gu's mother specially stewed an old hen for Gu Xiang to supplement her nutrition.

  The chicken soup had mushrooms and wood ears added to it, and all the floating oil was skimmed off.

  Gu Xiang finished her meal and drank two more bowls of soup.

  Sweating profusely on a sweltering day is actually quite refreshing.

  Li Wei really has something on her mind, and Gu Xiang seems to have noticed it.

  Gu's mother used her old trick again and pressed down the rice for her, but she didn't seem to notice at all and finished a whole bowl. Looking at her slender arms and legs, it didn't seem like she could eat that much either.

  After lunch, Mrs. Gu went to wash dishes.

  Gu Xiang took out the language textbook to recite, saw Li Hui staring blankly beside her, and pulled her together to look. They carefully recited the two texts that Tang Lulu had mentioned.

  Li Wei wasn't very familiar with these two texts either, and she stuttered as she recited them several times before becoming fluent.

  Gu Xiang asked her how was her exam this morning.

  She thought for a moment and said: "Mathematics is not very good, the content is too miscellaneous, there are several simple calculations that I didn't think of a method, wasting a lot of time."

  Gu Xiang said: "It's nothing, everyone is having a hard time, I don't feel too good either."

  When it comes to learning-related things, Li Wei's mind slightly relaxed.

  Seeing Gu Xiang still flipping through her book, she suddenly smiled slyly: "I remember when we were desk mates, you never memorized your lessons."

  Gu Xiang slapped the book on her face and pretended to be sentimental: "I'm getting old, my memory is not good anymore!"

  Li Wei burst out laughing along with her.

  After washing the dishes, Mother Guo borrowed a recliner from across the street and had Li Wei and Gu Xiang take a nap together.

  Li Wei was already preoccupied and had a tense morning after taking an exam, so she fell asleep soon after lying down.

  Gu Xiang heard her even breathing and slowly fell asleep too.

  After waking up from their noon nap and washing their faces with cold water, both of them felt refreshed.

  The language papers in the afternoon were all relatively basic things, and what was tested was just the basic skills.

  Tang Lulu and Gu Xiang said that those two texts were actually tested in the paragraph dictation, which can add up to 7 or 8 points.

  The topic was done smoothly, Gu Xiang followed the principle of "it's better to kill by mistake than to let it go", and filled every line of understanding with satisfaction.

  The question actually made me laugh a bit, for example, there was one that asked "What did the author mean by describing the night as pitch black?"

  Gu Xiang began to ramble on, "Recounting the specific environment and time of what happened back then", "Creating a repressive atmosphere", "Reflecting the darkness of society at that time"…… She wrote down everything she could think of, and even praised the author for being ingenious and clever.

  Forget it, maybe the author didn't think that much!

  She also remembered seeing it on Weibo last time, in the understanding of the high school entrance examination questions, there was a question asking why the author wrote the story's environment as a rainy day. The students were also dragged into it, and the standard answer was even more meaningful.

  The original author later clarified on Weibo that it was actually just raining outside when he wrote the article...

  These people who make questions actually have quite big brain holes.

  After finishing the Chinese exam, Gu Xiang and Li Wei walked out of the school gate together.

  Li Wei's mother was also waiting outside.

  Seeing her being taken away, a stone in Gu Xiang's heart was finally put down.

  In the evening, Mrs. Gu received a phone call and asked Gu Xiang to pick her up, saying that it was a classmate looking for her.

  Gu Xiang originally thought it was Tang Lulu, but after answering, she found out it was Li Wei.

  Li Wei was still a bit shaken and also somewhat relieved, saying: "My dad just came back and told us that the foundation pit on the other side of Yuejin Bridge collapsed at noon. It happened during our lunch break, it scared me to death!"

  "Is anyone hurt?"

  Li Wei: "No, over there is a construction site, except for workers, nobody passes by."

  "You also know it's a construction site." Gu Xiang teased her.

  Li Wei smiled and said: "Gu Xiang, thank you."