Peach and Plum Do Not Speak

Chapter 24:

For An Zhi, the most difficult thing in her elementary school was never just getting along with her classmates in the textbook, but her rapid rise in height, which prevented her from skipping grades.

At the beginning of the first grade, because of the unfamiliar environment and her relatively obedient personality, and because her grandfather is also a teacher, she has a natural respect for the teacher, and she can still listen to lectures in class. Later, I couldn’t listen anymore, because in the front row, she couldn’t sleep.

When she felt bored, she began to practice calligraphy and copybooks. I want to have a nice font like Yanxi. After all, I was a child, and sometimes the copybooks felt boring, so I began to look at the picture book secretly. The two wall-mounted bookshelves on the second floor of Yanxi, she specially divided a large corner, and put a lot of story books and picture books suitable for her to read, both in Chinese and English, and she could just stand up and get them.

Xiao Anzhi is also very clever, she will not read it in the Chinese class, because it is the class teacher’s class. She practiced calligraphy at most. I won’t watch it in English class either, because the English teacher can tell stories, teach them to sing nursery rhymes, and let them practice conversations.

So most of the time she watched it in math class, so it was very blatant. In the beginning, she would secretly look at it. Except for the math teacher asking her to do a problem or helping her fellow deskmate, An Zhidu surreptitiously looked at her reading picture book, and sometimes she became fascinated by accident.

In the condescending position of the podium, every move of the pupils below is actually watched by the teachers. The math teacher who just graduated has a fresh enthusiasm for teaching and a hot and fragile teacher’s dignity. She endured it once, the second time, and the third time she couldn’t bear it anymore. She confiscated An Zhi’s reading picture books and called her to the office.

The whole class of elementary school students was in an uproar.

You know, one month after the start of school, An Zhi has become the so-called “children’s children” in Class 1 or 3. She is very good in all subjects, and she looks so white and cute (although she is a little short…), she is super good, and she can ask her any questions. The clothes are also beautiful. One day at school, she wore a yellow sweater, light blue suspenders, and a dark blue denim jacket. The pockets of the jacket had a pattern of bunny ears. She was so cute that many schoolgirls gathered around her and asked where they bought the clothes.

She also often brings baked cookies and egg tarts to school for everyone to eat, and she has super beautiful parents! Everyone in the class wanted to be her friend.

Because she was a newcomer and was younger than most of the students in the class, the head teacher did not let her be a class cadre.

However, she was called to the office! I heard that parents are also invited to the office!

In this place of the office, except for the class cadres, those who are called in will be criticized!

Some daring students in Class 1 and 3 followed behind the teacher’s buttocks, poking their heads at the windows and doors.

The teachers in the first grade office each have a desk with thick and tall workbooks and the like.

During the break, the math teacher came in with a sullen face, and An Zhi slowly moved her feet behind her.

The head teacher of Class 13 saw her coming in, and raised his eyebrows: “What’s the matter? Teacher Yang?”

Mathematics Teacher Yang has already spoken: “If you don’t listen to the class well during class time, read extracurricular books! More than once!”

The English teacher at the back table glanced over.

The head teacher didn’t speak. After all, it was the math teacher who called in. It was her responsibility to deal with it, so she watched it first.

“Tao Anzhi! What’s the matter with you? Don’t you plan to learn? If so, I’ll ask your parents to pick you up!” Math teacher Yang threw the Grimm fairy tale picture book on the table.

“Teacher!” An Zhi said anxiously, “Don’t look for my aunt, she is very busy with work!”

“Then tell Teacher Yang, why don’t you listen to the class?” the head teacher said.

An Zhi pouted and tapped her feet on the ground. After doing a few small movements, she finally said, “But… I can do it…” She looked innocent and even said with a little grievance.

“You can?” The math teacher was surprised, “What can you do?” She thought Tao Anzhi was just smarter and quicker. Unexpectedly, the child began to break his fingers and said: “Can multiply and divide two-digit numbers with three digits, column and vertical, decimal addition and subtraction, and four operations…”

“…”

The math teacher was skeptical. According to what she said, these are the contents of the fourth grade of elementary school. She got up and found a paper for her, “You do this paper first.”

“But the next class is physical education…” You can go to the playground to play, and you don’t have to keep learning what she knows in the classroom.

The math teacher glared at him and An Zhi closed his mouth, but he still looked a little unhappy. At this time, the head teacher had to smooth things out, “Okay, let’s do the paper, and go to gym class when you’re done.”

An Zhi thought for a while, took the paper, and glanced curiously.

“It’s fine if you don’t know how to do it, but you can’t lie to the teacher, and you have to listen to the class obediently.”

“I did not lie.”

“Then sit here and write the papers.”

An Zhi was thinking about going to the playground, took the paper and lay down on the table, grabbed the pencil and started to write without even needing paper. After half an hour, she finished writing.

“Teacher, can I go to gym class?”

An Zhi slipped out of the chair and looked at the Grimm’s fairy tales on the math teacher’s desk. The math teacher looked at the math papers she had done.

The math teacher said that she would return it to her after she finished the physical education class. After she went out, the math teacher was still in disbelief. He pointed to the question of the paper and said to the head teacher: “Did you see that she can calculate the multiplication and division of three-digit numbers by mouth. Come out, and this question, she can use simple calculations…and can calculate the area…”

The head teacher said: “It’s very smart! The language is the same. I can recognize a lot of characters and have good expression skills.”

The English teacher over there came over, looked at the paper, and said, “interesting…””

After playing for a while, An Zhi was called back and ran to the office, “Teacher?”

The math teacher gave her an elementary school math Olympiad. “You can skip the lectures in the future. You can do the topics in this book. If you don’t understand, you can ask the teacher, but do you have to complete the assignments?”

An Zhi was panting and her forehead was slightly wet. She took the book and sweetly said to the math teacher, “Thank you, teacher.”

Great, I can finally stop listening to addition and subtraction hahaha!

The math teacher looked at her dimples, almost smug, and didn’t know what to say.

The child also had a bigger smile: “Teacher, can you give me back my fairy tale book??”

“Also, teacher, can you not tell my aunt about this?” She held her little hands and made a pitiful “please, please” look at her.

math teacher:…

This is such a cute little kid!

The math teacher didn’t tell Yan Xi, but the head teacher told Yan Xi.

In the evening, Yan Xi and her were reading a book on the second floor. The room was extremely warm. An Zhi lay on the pillow and flipped through the book, her calf swaying and swaying. Yan Xi asked her tentatively, “Did something interesting happen at school today?”

An Zhi rolled his eyes and said, “No.”

Yan Qi secretly smiled: I learned to lie…

This is a good thing. She is very happy to see that An Zhi is getting more and more lively. Today, Grandma Liu also told her that An Zhi had a good time in gym class and was sweating all over.

She also didn’t expose her, “Oh, like this…”

“Sit up, don’t lie down,” Yan Xi patted her and saw that she was reading a fairy tale book again, “Is this book so beautiful?”

An Zhi sat up, leaned in front of her, and said seriously, “I found a problem!”

Um? Yan Xi looked at her.

“Snow White was saved by the prince, Sleeping Beauty was saved by the prince, and Rapunzel was saved by the prince…Why are they all saved by the prince? Isn’t the prince busy?”

“Huh?” With a slight smile in the corner of Yan Xi’s eyes, she looked at An Zhi: “That was not saved by the prince, who else could have saved it?”

“The princess can save the princess! Why do you have to save the prince!” An Zhi said with a serious face, almost waving his little hands.

Yan Xi was amused by her serious appearance, she blinked her thick eyelashes and thought slightly: “Your point of view is very interesting!”

An Zhi felt that she had been praised, and was even more excited. She lay on Yan Xi’s knee with a sweet dimple: “Is it! Is it!”

puff! Yan Xi raised his lips, “Then these princesses will marry the prince after being rescued by the prince. What if they were rescued by the princess?”

“Then the princess will marry the princess!” Xiao Anzhi said nonchalantly.

Yan Xi was stunned for a moment, then smiled again. She thought that An Zhitong said nothing, and didn’t know what she said. She hesitated for a while, but she didn’t say something like “it’s impossible for a princess to marry a princess”. All children’s kind and innocent and curious thoughts should be encouraged. Fairy tales can make children see and feel the truth, the good and the beautiful, that’s enough.

She also didn’t want to tell her that the original versions of these fairy tales were so cruel and dark.

“Isn’t it possible?” An Zhi was lying on her knees, Xingyuan’s eyes blinked.

Yan Xi thought that she should wait for her to find out when she grows up. Besides, there is nothing wrong with it. In some parts of the world, this is also possible.

So she nodded: “Yes.” Of course the princess can save the princess, or marry the princess, everything is possible.

An Zhi was very happy after being affirmed, she put her little head into Yan Xi’s arms and rubbed it twice. Yan Xi laughed, now it’s so natural to act like a spoiled child… She patted her head naturally.

When it was time to go to bed, An Zhi was on Yan Xi’s bed, and she helped arrange the pillows.

Yan Xi had prepared a room for her, just across from the room, and bought her a lot of plush dolls according to the child’s favorite dress, a 1.2-inch bed, a large wardrobe, a desk, and a small bookshelf. Yan Xi wanted to cultivate An Zhi’s habit of sleeping alone.

“Can’t I sleep with you?” At that time, Xiao Anzhi looked at her pitifully, and Yan Xi’s words “Tao Tao will sleep alone in the future” were completely incomprehensible. She remembered Anzhi crying in her sleep. Just like that, she temporarily dismissed the idea of letting her sleep alone.

It’s still too cold, let’s wait until summer. Yan Xi thought.

After Yan Xi took a shower, dried her hair, and combed her hair, she still had the familiar scent of gardenias. Then took the book and went to bed.

The bed was warm and soft. In order to lull him to sleep, Yan Xi would read some warm and warm books before going to bed. He recently read Tagore’s “Gitanjali”.

“In this sleepy night, let me give myself to sleep and trust to you. Let me not force my sluggish spirit to prepare a perfunctory worship for you. It is you who put the night to cover the day. The tired eyes are renewed in the fresh joy that awakens them.”

Yan Xi’s voice is gentle and patient. Her voice is undoubtedly very suitable for recitation and storytelling. The ending is light and crisp, and it can be worn with a soothing rhythm. After reading Chinese, she can read English, and her English is also very good. She has an Oxford accent, which is different from Mandarin, and has some aristocratic elegance.

An Zhi often doesn’t understand what she reads. She only feels a kind of care, a gentle and endless care, like being treated as a little princess. Sleeping by Yan Xi’s side is far away from nightmares and anxiety.

When she was eight years old, An Zhi had not grown to 115cm, and she was still short. The head teacher thought about it for a long time and decided not to let An Zhi skip grades. She said to Yan Xi, “Although An Zhi is very smart and has good grades, she has to consider the child’s well-being. Psychological development characteristics, self-care ability, and most importantly, communication with peers. If you skip a grade, you will not be able to communicate with your older classmates, which will affect your child’s physical and mental development…”

Yan Xi thought about it for a long time, and also consulted Grandpa Yan and Grandma Yan, and decided not to let An Zhi skip grades. Although An Zhi was not interested in learning what he had learned, he still did not reject school life.

What made her saddest was her height. Seeing that the better classmates in the class were jumping up one by one, she was not very tall by herself. Other than that, no major worries. Every day she goes to school, Yan Xi goes to work, and sometimes she picks her up from school and holds parent-teacher meetings. Grandma Liu said with a smile that their relationship is better than that of mother and daughter, everything is in harmony, Yan Xi is very fond of her, and she is well-behaved.

Except for the occasional bizarre collision of tastes.

Yan Xi: “Why is the tomato scrambled egg sweet?”

An Zhi: “It’s always sweet. Grandma Liu said to put salt. I said to put sugar. It’s sweet and delicious.”

Yan Xi: “Tomatoes with sugar are simply dark dishes.”

Although An Zhi didn’t know what “dark food” was, she knew that this was not a good word for adding sugar to tomato scrambled eggs, she puffed up her face: “I always eat sweet, so I have to put sugar! I have to put sugar!”

Yan Xi: “It’s useless for you to be cute, I don’t care about other dishes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes are salty! This is a matter of principle!”

An Zhi: “Ow! Ow! Ow! Tangtangtang!”

Grandma Liu almost bowed with laughter beside her.

They went back to Yan’s old house on weekends, sometimes Yan Xi would take her out to play, sometimes with Liu Yiyi or Yan Yinan.

“Spring has hundreds of flowers and autumn has the moon, summer has cool breezes and winter has snow. If you have nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world.” The four seasons are sweet, full and beautiful, and they are over in an instant.

When she was in the third grade, she was only 120cm tall, and she was a year younger than her twins. Because her genes were so good, she was already 135cm. Although she was taller, she was still very bearish. She pointed at her and smiled, “It only grows five centimeters a year. Little Dwarf”. An Zhi was too angry to ignore them.

Yan Xi has been in the TV station for three years and has excellent ability. The Youth Department column of Bei Shi will have a column with college students as the main audience. In each issue, some domestic humanities scholars and young talents will be invited to share the stage with some cutting-edge ideas in the academic world, hot spots and important events in the society and people’s livelihood. , to communicate and debate.

Yan Xi’s plan was adopted. The leader saw that she had a good image and excellent speech, so she was responsible for the host of this column. Yan Xi, who holds the two positions of host and director, is even more busy. Sometimes I have to work overtime when I go home. In this case, Yan Xi is afraid of affecting An Zhi’s sleep, so he no longer agrees to An Zhi sleeping with her.

Since she was 9 years old, An Zhi has been sleeping in a room by herself, and Yan Xi has very little time to read her bedtime stories.

She is so busy, the time to go home is getting late, and she always comes back when the night is heavy. Because of this, I even gave Grandma Liu a salary increase. When the call came back, the background voice on her side was often noisy.

When he got home, Yan Xi’s face was always lazy and tired, and he would talk to her so that she didn’t have to wait for her. But An Zhi didn’t listen, because she could only see her once a day, and if Yan Xi felt something, she would try to come back as early as possible after that, and even bring some work home to do.

She came home in high heels and took off her coat. She likes to wear grey and occasionally dark blue. Grandma Liu would send her coat to dry cleaning, and what An Zhi would do was stuff her coat with all kinds of candy. Yan Xi has always suffered from low blood sugar, and sometimes he is busy with meals, so An Zhi has lived with her since then. Her task is to make sure that Yan Xi has candy in her pocket and in the car.

Many nights, Yan Xi would work in the living room to check information. An Zhi was holding his book beside him. In order to understand what elementary school students are learning, Yan Xi bought a set of textbooks for each subject from grade one to grade six and kept them at home. Anzhi has been reading books from senior years since the second grade.

Yan Xi occasionally read the script of the host, and she listened quietly. I just want to stay by her side for a little longer, but sometimes I can’t hold it and fall asleep.

Yan Xi would take her to her room to sleep and cover her with the quilt. Then he left a crack in the door of the room. An Zhi didn’t know until many years later that as long as Yan Xi was at home at night, she would come to see her when she was asleep. Don’t worry until she’s sure she’s really asleep.

On weekends, An Zhi would either stay with Grandma Liu, or go back to Yan’s old house. Even if he went back to Yan Xi, he would hurriedly stay with Grandpa Yan and Grandma Yan for a while, leaving An Zhi in the old house and returning to Taiwan.

“Xiao Wu is too busy, how can his body handle it?” Aunt Xin was worried. When she was talking, she was making dumplings in the kitchen and adjusted Yan Xi’s favorite Sanxian stuffing.

“Young people, you should be busy with your career.” Xiao Yutong, the elder sister-in-law of the Yan family, was helping.

“I may be an old antique, but I still hope that Xiao Wu can find someone who treats her well, and starting a family is the most important thing.” Aunt Xin was talking nonsense, while picking up dumplings and dropping them without delay.

An Zhi accidentally broke the dumpling skin and leaked the filling. She hurriedly made amends.

Xiao Yutong said: “Xiao Wu is only 24 years old, don’t worry, your career is important.”

“Why don’t you worry, I listened to Nannan, she has no partner after graduating from university, and she has never agreed to anyone chasing her. How can I go on like this?”

“Isn’t this fate missed?…Hey, Anzhi, you…Pfft, it’s alright, just don’t leak it.”

An Zhi shyly put down the deflated and severely malnourished dumplings in his hands.

“Xiao Anzhi, does your aunt have a boyfriend or not?” Aunt Xin asked her.

“Boyfriend…” An Zhi repeated blankly.

“Aunt Xin, how does An Zhi understand this kind of thing?” Xiao Yutong smiled, and Aunt Xin also smiled: “That’s right, I’m confused.”

An Zhi asked, “What is a boyfriend?”

The two adults laughed: “Xiao Anzhi is also curious about this, and yes, now children, you don’t need to tell them, you will understand. TV, there is too much information in the computer.”

Xiao Yutong said to her: “Boyfriend is someone who likes you and treats you well, and will become a husband in the future, um, just like me and your uncle, and then set up a family… give birth to… a bear, ahem, give birth to a child …”

In the past two years, Xiao Yutong felt more and more that the twins were too torturous, and the more that An Zhi was cute and cute, and she was happy to take her, she explained to her carefully.

An Zhi listened stunnedly.

Xiao Yutong looked at her and added with a smile: “An Zhi, you don’t have to worry, even if your aunt gets married, you can stay here. You are part of this family.”

“Yes, yes.” Aunt Xin also said.

An Zhi’s small mouth opened, as if he was going to say something, but he didn’t know what to say. After a while, a smile appeared.

The conversation between the two adults continued.

“Seriously, Auntie Xin, I don’t think women can get married so early, and they only have a few years of free time. Once they get married, they will soon have children. If they have children, they will have no life of their own. I, for the first few years of having twins, have been suffering from postpartum depression… I am now widowed like parenting!… So I don’t recommend Xiao Wu to get married so early…”

“Hey…you don’t have to worry about getting married, you can get married first…”

The dumplings made by adults have delicate pleats on the snow-white dough, like ingots of ingots, which are very cute.

Yan Xi should like it very much.

An Zhi looked at it and started dumbfounded.

At night, she was reading alone, the room was brightly lit, and the night was deep.

An Zhi has not lost sleep for a long time.

Outside the window, the light of the street lamp is cold.

For the first time, she felt that the world of adults was very far away, Yan Xi was a very gentle and considerate adult in front of her, and maybe in places she couldn’t see, she would also have her own life, which seemed to be a world she didn’t quite understand.

On the wall of the entrance of the room where they lived, the two tall strokes were far apart, and so was the gap between them, a long, long time.