It happened to be a weekend, so David added lessons for himself and asked a tutor to teach him until the afternoon.
His tutor, called Jack, is a top student from the University of Pennsylvania, aged in his early thirties, experienced, and among the students he taught, several were admitted to Harvard.
This is also the reason why David is so confident. In his opinion, he is just not willing to learn. Once he is willing to learn, Harvard will not be easy.
But these days of study and test, let David a little panic ah.
Getting into Harvard wasn't as easy as he thought.
Jack said to him very gently: "Lower the goal, such as from Harvard, to what an ordinary book, two months is still possible."
David thought of seeing Nada do the problem only by playing games to avoid himself, and thought of Ekin with Nada through the problem, couldn't help but regret, had known to study hard.
Why did he waste all those years, or he could have just come back and played pussy to Nada.
At this point, it's not his style to give up halfway, and it's nice to pretend to be a bitch in front of Nada. He's gonna keep it up!
Thinking of this, David encouraged: "Jack, you should believe in your own ability, I believe that your more than ten years of experience, will be able to save me this prodigal son of students."
Jack did not say anything more. He had taught students who were worse than David, but it was the first one who was so privileged as David and willing to work hard.
For his ambitious heart, he has to teach well.
After the day's tutoring, David asked him to stay for dinner, but Jack refused, and he told him, "You are poor in basic, now it is too late to slowly make up the basic, you can only quickly go over it and use the tactic of sea of questions to make up for this defect. You should take a good look at the information I left for you."
David naturally agreed. After a few minutes of psychological construction, he still chose to open the computer and play games.
It's the same with playing a few games and then learning, David thought calmly.
*
Nada went home this weekend.
She needs to do a lot of work at home, so she has to come back at least once a week, otherwise Asma is afraid to go to school to find her.
She cut the tree killed by lightning from the mountain, carried it to the home, and split it thin, one wood pile up, the outside wall is covered.
Such a tree can make the family use at least half a month.
He went to the well to draw water, and had to go back and forth seven or eight times before he could fill the pot of water at home.
These finished, her physical strength has been exhausted, the palm has been ground red, tired for a day, the home will not give her a meal.
Even to give her a bite to eat, it seems to be cheap to outsiders, very tight guard.
In all her years in this town, Nada had never seen a family treat a child so badly.
She lifted the lid of the boiler and there was only a little bit of crust left in the pot.
As soon as she looked, she knew that Asma had not even done her share of cooking, only served rice for three people.
Back in the living room, she looked at Asma and the room where they let out a little fluorescent light from the TV, exhaled a cold breath, and returned to her own small room.
The bread she had prepared in her schoolbag would solve the embarrassment.
The next day, two guests came to the house.
Nada got up early and Asma stuffed her with fifty dollars so she could go to the market to buy food.
Nada raised her eyebrows slightly. It was the first time Asma had given her money, though only to buy groceries.
Asma said: "Buy a kilo of pork, a grass carp, a kilo of cabbage, four pieces of white tofu..."
She said it carefully, smiling from ear to ear, and asked, "Did you remember?"
Nada looked at her smiling face and looked behind her. The two guests were staring at her, smiling.
Nada felt a sudden, cold prick in her heart.
She nodded calmly on her face and, without speaking, lifted her foot and walked out.
She had not gone very far when she looked back into the house and saw Asma and Mason both smiling around the two guests. One of the guests was so sharp that she seemed to catch Nada's gaze and turned her head right into Nada's. She gave Nada a friendly smile. Although the scar on the corner of her eye gives her a slightly sinister look.
Nada walked in the direction of the market without looking back.
Asma offered the two guests a cup of tea and said, "You saw my niece, too. Isn't that great?"
"That's right." The man with the scar in the corner of his eye said that she was the Jacod that Asma had been talking to Mason about before, and that he had been in prison. Jacod said, "Tall, good looking, very nice."
Asma said, "What about this salary?"
Jacod asked, "How was your grade?"
The smile on Asma's face froze.
"We need smart people for this job," Jacod says. "If the grades are bad, the pay is what it is."
Asma muttered, "What does that have to do with grades? Isn't it just babysitting?"
Jacod said: "You don't need to know that, your niece has a very nice face, but if you are a fool, you will pay more than 30,000 a year."
Asma was suddenly silent. Mason handed over a good cigarette and whispered, "She's doing well. She studies at Nanyang Middle School. You know, Nanyang has to be one of the top twelve hundred in the city.
Jacod heard Nanyang, a little surprised, smiled, "Your niece in such a good school, you still let her out to work?"
"It's a difficult home," Mason said awkwardly. "She's got a --"
Before she could finish, Tyler opened the door and came out of the room with a glint in his eye. "Mom, Dad, what are you doing?"
Asma said with a straight face, "Why did you come out? You didn't go inside and do your homework!"
Tyler gasped. "Are you asking Nada to work?"
Mason and Asma have no intention of keeping Tyler in the dark, so they ask, "How can Nada pay for your education if she doesn't work?"
Tyler's eyes lit up, his cheeks flushed, and his voice rose with excitement. "Are you serious?"
Mason looked at her mood, some hesitation, "of course serious, the last two months, dad will definitely transfer you to Nanyang, will not affect your exam, rest assured."
Tyler took a few steps to Jacod and said quickly, "Nada is number one in Nanyang High School! She's smart, you want more money!"
Mason and Asma were stunned.
Tyler turns to the Masons and says, "Mom, Dad! It is because she went to Nanyang, the grades will be so good, she took advantage of the school! If I go to Nanyang, even if it is only two months, I can still be the first in the class! Dad! Oh, mother! I'm not worse than Nada!!"
Mason looked ugly. "Is she really number one in her grade?"
Tyler saw her face, afraid of her regret, fists involuntarily clenched, "Yes, the last time I went to her school, her classmates told me, she has been lying to us, lie to our poor grades, she is a white eyed Wolf ah!" If she gets into a good university, she will fly away and never come back! I'm not like her! Dad, Mom! I want to go to Nanyang, I can definitely do better than her!"
Mason's face was livid and he looked at Jacod with clenched teeth. "You heard me," he said. "My son is very good.
When Tyler heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a secret pleasure in his heart. What if Nada got a good grade, his parents chose him over her and him, and he was their favorite child!
Jacod looked at the family with amazement.
Jacod said, "Let me check it out first, and if what you say is true, I can increase it to fifty thousand."
Fifty thousand a year!
It's like earning for nothing!
Asma and Tyler are overjoyed, but Mason isn't. He looks dark and doesn't know what he's thinking.
Nada returns home with a load of food and sees the man with the scar on his eye talking kindly to Tyler. Tyler talks excitedly to the man about his school life and tries to highlight his excellence.
Asma took the food in her hand and smiled at her, "Go wash your hands and peel an apple for you Jacod."
Nada answered and sat down in the living room. Without speaking, she lowered her head and began to peel the apple with the knife in her hand.
Jacod kept looking at her and suddenly asked, "How are you doing in school?"
Nada looked up at her and calmly replied, "Not so."
Jacod says, "Average? It can't be? I think you have a good look."
Nada said nothing.
Although she is used to rough work, but the fingers are still white and slender, holding the fruit knife fingers fly, the blade flashes dazzling cold light, in less than a minute, she cut a clean apple - even the apple skin did not break.
Jacod looked at her showing this skill, smiled and said: "I heard that peeling the apple will not break means that the left brain development is good, language, logic, judgment and reasoning ability is good, abstract thinking is also good, generally so that the academic performance will not be poor."
Nada clapped her hands and looked up at Jacod.
Jacod said, "I have never read a book, so I admire you people who read books."
Nada glances at Tyler, who just had a happy conversation with Jacod, but now Tyler is sitting on the side, not competing, not acting out, and even smiles at her as he looks at her.
Nada handed Jacod the apple and said politely, "Jacod, eat the apple."
Jacod took over, still smiling at her.
Nada got up and said to him, "Help yourself. I'll do my homework."
Jacod said, "You can do it here. I want to see you do your homework."
Nada stopped, went to her room, and took out the papers.
She sat upright on the table for a long time without writing down an answer. After a while, she got up and walked out.
Jacod stopped her and asked, "What are you doing?"
Nada calmly replied, "I'll ask questions."
Jacod said, "I can borrow your phone."
Nada looked at him quietly. After a few seconds, "Thank you, Uncle."
She took Jacod's cell phone, pressed it in one digit at a time, and then pressed Dial out.
Soon, a familiar male voice came from the opposite side, "Hello! Who is it?"
Nada lowered her eyes and said quietly, "I want to ask you how to solve the first multiple-choice question on your math paper." When a is equal to 8, the monotone interval of f (x) is this path."
David almost fell out of bed over there. "Huh? A math paper?"
"Teach me," Nada said.
David: "..."
He found his math paper in a pile of books, and he hasn't started yet!
He hesitated and said, "You wait, I'll take the pen."
As soon as the words came out, he knew he had been betrayed! He used to be able to tell the answer just by looking at the question!
David's face blushed and blushed, but before he could think of an explanation, he heard Nada answering, "A few steps... Is that right? ab 8 > (1 a) (1 b)..."
David: "Huh?"
Nada: "So this is A, f(x) < 2?"
David: "..."
Nada nodded, "I understand, I will calculate again myself, thank you."
Then he hung up the phone.
David: "..."
Nada politely returned Jacod's phone, sat back down to write the question, and after a while, stood up again.
Jacod asked, "What's wrong?"
Nada said, "Problem."
Jacod smiled and looked at her, "I see that you are thinking clearly, maybe you can do it for a while."
Nada calmly replied, "I won't."
She looks at Jacod. "Uncle, can I borrow your phone?"
Jacod lent it to her without further ado.
Nada answered the phone and said, "I want to ask you a second big question."
David: "..."
Nada read the question, as if afraid to disturb the guests, while looking at the paper, while walking out of the house, when she had reached a certain distance, she turned her eyes on the paper, and shouted out David's name.
David wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Jack. Jack nodded to him. Then David lowered his voice and asked seriously, "I am... Has something happened to you?"
At this time, Nada's face was calm, but when she heard David's words, she held the paper and her fingers shook slightly. She raised her eyes and looked around, pretending to be nonchalant. She saw that her uncle was standing in the direction of her home, and his eyes were watching her darkly.
It's like watching prey.