After the bet with Li Miaoyu, Wei Qingfan's life remained the same as before. He continued to read and deal with the homework he needed to do.
No one really wants to win this bet, right?
Of course, if he could win, Wei Qingfan would definitely still be willing to win. The problem is that he can't win.
In most fields, anything from zero to ninety percent can basically be achieved through hard work. The only difference lies in how much effort you put in. After reaching ninety percent, talent may really be more important than hard work.
Wei Qingfan was already ranked third in the class at the beginning of last semester. He really wanted to try to move forward, but after analysis, he basically confirmed that unless Li Miaoyu's scores dropped on their own, he would be in trouble for the rest of his life.
No one hopes to surpass her.
Maintaining his current grades, he is confident that his grades will improve even further after he enters his senior year of high school to review.
But I really haven’t thought about it in the top ten of my grade.
He didn't expect to take the Qingbei exam. For most provinces in the country, the two schools combined in the entire province only had less than 100 places. If you don't have talent, you really can't compete.
This is not his ambition. It is true that the resources of these two schools are better, but based on the schools he can go to now, the benefits brought by these improvements are not so obvious.
However, even though he had already thought about it and made his decision, he still consciously reduced the time he spent reading extracurricular books in front of Li Miaoyu, whether it was school or the library.
Even in the classroom, if he was reading extracurricular books one moment and found Li Miaoyu coming the next moment, he would immediately take out the textbook or exercises and study them seriously.
This may not necessarily have much effect on improving his grades, but if his grades improve, Li Miaoyu will definitely be very happy, thinking that her bet inspired him and brought about the improvement in his grades.
This also brought another result: Li Miaoyu was happy, but his mother was unhappy.
Because after the bet, Wei Qingfan never read any study-related books where Li Miaoyu couldn't see them.
This made his mother very dissatisfied, and she scolded him more and more times. Fortunately, the midterm exam results came out. Although Wei Qingfan's class rank was still third, his grade ranking had reached forty-two, which was a very obvious improvement.
This time, my mother and wife were finally happy.
Wei Qingfan soon discovered that some people were still unhappy.
After the mid-term exam for the first and second grade of high school, the senior grade also took a heavyweight exam. It was a large-scale test jointly issued by 18 well-known colleges and universities. Her results were not ideal, and her class ranking was still first, but her grade
The ranking dropped to just outside of thirty.
It seems that because of this, Li Wanyi's mood has been depressed for a long time, she often seems to be in a daze, and her smile has significantly reduced.
In late April, the weather has completely warmed up. You can smell the fragrance of flowers wafting in the wind at home, on the road, and on campus. When Wei Qingfan went to his grandma's house to climb a tree and cut some acacia flowers on a weekend and came back, he saw Li Wanyi squatting.
Wash shoes in the yard.
Her hands were stained with soap suds and she held the brush, but did not move. She squatted beside the basin in a daze.
Huang Hua seemed to have noticed it, lying down under the grape trellis that was dyed green again, staring at her blankly. When Wei Qingfan came back, she looked at him again, then put her chin on her front paws and closed her eyes.
After closing my eyes, I lay there leisurely and rested for a while.
"Aren't your legs sore?"
Wei Qingfan didn't deliberately step lightly, but Li Wanyi didn't notice him coming at all, so he shouted, then picked up a small stool with his feet and moved it to her butt.
Li Wanyi came back to her senses, glanced at him, then breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the stool and continued to clean her shoes. Then she sniffed, turned around and said, "What are you holding? It smells so good!"
"Acacia flower."
Wei Qingfan shook his head at her, "Steam it and eat it later, let's go together. I got it while climbing a tree and my hand was pricked."
Li Wanyi continued to clean her shoes and whispered: "No, you can eat."
"I told you to come over and help me after cleaning the shoes. You made them taste better than my mother..."
Before Wei Qingfan finished speaking, he saw his mother sitting in the main room looking at him, so he quickly stopped and smiled, "Mom... I have made so much, is it enough to eat?"
Wang Shuhua said: "It's enough, it's definitely enough. What I cook isn't delicious. Can it be enough?"
"Who said that?"
Wei Qingfan immediately became furious, "Did my dad say that? It's so heartless and tasteless...I will scold my dad severely when he comes back!"
"Uncle~"
Li Wanyi's greeting came from the courtyard, "Just in time, Wei Qingfan is looking for you."
Wei Qingfan poked his head out and saw his father stopping on his bicycle. He hurriedly greeted: "Dad, are you back?"
Wei Peng first responded to Li Wanyi, and then asked his son: "Why are you looking for me?"
"It's okay. I just cut acacia flowers from my grandma's house and I'm going to steam them for lunch. Don't you like them?"
"It's quite a lot, very good, very good."
Wei Peng smiled with satisfaction, "Make some more after dinner and send some to your uncle and uncle's house."
"I know."
Wang Shuhua didn't argue with her son. Zhenji was angry to death earlier and asked again: "Did your grandma keep it at home?"
"No, they wanted to stay, so I carried them over."
"Then you can send it over when it's steamed."
Wang Shuhua said, took the acacia flowers and took them to the kitchen. After a while, she came out again and shouted: "Wanyi, come over and help me after washing your shoes."
She was calling for help, not for eating. Li Wanyi could not refuse, so she dried her shoes, washed her hands, and went to the kitchen to help.
After lunch was ready, Wei Qingfan took a photo with his camera, then ordered a large bowl to be sent to his grandparents before coming back for dinner.
Today is Sunday, the senior year of high school has a half-day break in the afternoon. Wei Qingchan went home and is not here.
After eating, Li Wanyi helped clean up, and Wang Shuhua didn't refuse. He went to the kitchen and asked her: "How is your father's condition?"
After Li Yan recuperated for a period of time, his physical recovery was far less than expected, and it was difficult to even walk alone.
Then he went to the hospital for a review, but the results were not satisfactory. The doctor told him that he needed further treatment, otherwise he might become paralyzed, and even after the treatment was over, he could only live on crutches.
Li Wanyi suspected that her father had been deceived, but now it was too late to pursue the case, and her parents did not have the idea or courage to go to the factory boss to pursue the case, so they had to bear the consequences themselves.
Wang Shuhua knew that Li Wanyi's father was hospitalized again, and often chatted with her to ask. Li Wanyi did not hide it, and said with a smile: "It's very good. The doctor said that he can be discharged from the hospital in two days."
Wang Shuhua breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's good, as long as everything is fine."
"Um."
Li Wanyi nodded, but her heart was still heavy.
During this treatment, all the compensation given by the factory was used up, and the family's small savings were also used up.
Moreover, after the treatment, her father could only live on crutches.
He can no longer support this family like before.
Her mother was in a bad mood, her younger siblings were also in a panic, and her younger sister was still crying when she called.
Li Wanyi is the eldest daughter in the family. When she was a child, she helped take care of her younger siblings, cutting grass, herding sheep, cooking, picking wheat ears, picking peanuts... doing everything she could. When she grew up,
Her father went out to work, and she helped her mother take care of things inside and outside the home.
This has developed her independent and strong character, and she is relatively strong in some things. For example, when she is bullied by others, because she is an older sister, she has to protect her younger siblings from being bullied.
The nickname "Yi Dad" is directly related to this.
However, after all, she was just an eighteen-year-old high school girl. Her toughness and hard-working and sensible attitude in front of her classmates could not help her solve the current family dilemma, or even alleviate her heavy and desperate mood.
"Your father will be a useless person from now on... Mom has no skills either. I have never even left our county. We have to farm at home. Your father, younger brothers and sisters have to be taken care of, and I can't go out to work..."
"Your younger brothers and sisters still have to support...what should I do?"
Li Wanyi washed the dishes silently, her mother's embarrassed and crying voice when she made the phone call still echoed in her mind.
She understood what her mother meant and what she had not said.
She can understand her mother's mood and thoughts, and is not resentful, just uncomfortable.
From a very young age, she heard adults say that she wanted to go to college, and that she had to take the college entrance examination before going to college. She didn't quite understand these meanings, but she vaguely formed a vague understanding from the adults' words:
If you can go to college, you will be very powerful and a promising person.
She made up her mind at that time that she must go to college!
For this goal, she studied very hard and seriously and went to school for more than ten years.
The goal is getting clearer and getting closer.
She is very confident that she can get into a good university, one of the top universities.
Now, there is only one month left to reach that goal...
But it became the end point that she could never reach in her life.