The midterm exam was shortly after the school sports meeting. Song Tang, who had been showing an upward trend, had expected the results plummeted, and fell from tenth in the class at the end of last semester to outside the 30th place.

But the overall situation is still improving.

Taking advantage of the few days when Song Yuan was detained, after Song Tang was discharged from the hospital, both sisters moved to the school to live. On weekends, Song Mei would come to talk to her sister and have a meal. The school was not closed on weekends, so the two sisters would not have no place to go on weekends.

Song's mother has also been here twice, once when Song Tang moved the dormitory, and once before Song Yuan's detention ended, she seemed to be here to send living expenses to her daughter, so she was probably guarding against something.

She was sick and had no job, so she probably didn't have much money to take. Fang Chang'an, Song Tang and Wang Ke had eaten in the cafeteria several times together, and she could clearly feel that she was spending money very restrainedly, and seemed to be planning for the long term.

But she had two years of high school life after that, and it was obviously not enough to complete her studies by relying solely on some money given by Song's mother.

On the weekend after the May Day holiday, there was only one day off on the weekend. Fang Chang'an and Wang Ke did not go home. Song Mei, who was preparing for the college entrance examination in a month, took time to accompany her sister. She went to the cafeteria to have dinner at noon on Sunday. Fang Chang'an came back after playing the ball and followed her.

The two sisters used the same plate and made three dishes and three steamed buns. When they were cooking, Fang Changan looked at Wang Ke and the little girl also looked at him. Obviously she didn't understand what he meant. She thought he was sad for the two sisters. She used her eyes to signal him not to do this, which would make them feel sad.

Seeing that she was not enlightened, Fang Changan had to say it straight and said, "How about we both cook together, there is no need to use two."

Wang Ke rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to him.

Fang Changan had to cook two dishes by himself, and took two steamed buns, and sat opposite the two sisters with Wang Ke. Listening to Wang Ke talking to them in unison, after a while, he suddenly asked, "Sister Mei, how much money do you have with Song Tang?"

Song Mei and Song Tang were both stunned for a moment. Song Mei adjusted the hair hanging from her forehead and thought for a while and said, "Tang Tang and I used to have some money. Some time ago, my mother gave us more than 1,000 each. Now there are almost 3,000 yuan in total. What's wrong?"

Fang Changan smiled and said, "I have been following Momo's uncle to buy stocks. The momentum has been very good recently. If you feel at ease, you can leave some money on them and give me the remaining money. I will help you buy stocks. When you want to use the money, tell me that I will give it to you again, and maybe you can make a little profit."

Song Mei and Song Tang were both a little surprised and looked at each other. Wang Ke was afraid that they would not believe it, so he explained: "He has been buying stocks since the first day of the New Year and has made a lot of money."

Fang Changan smiled and said, "The main reason is that the stock market is in good shape recently and should not lose money."

Song Mei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll give you the money when I go back."

Song Tang also raised his head, and his pure eyes looked at Fang Chang'an, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Thank you."

Fang Changan smiled and said, "Don't be polite. If you make money, you will come back and treat me to a meal."

Song Mei smiled and said, "Okay."

Fang Changan said again: "After the college entrance examination, do Sister Mei have any plans?"

Song Tang and Wang Ke both looked at Song Mei when they heard this. Song Mei hesitated for two seconds and smiled and said, "I want to go out to work during the summer vacation."

Song Tang said: "I'll go too."

"You are not old enough, and others don't want it. The state stipulates that you must be at least sixteen years old."

Although it was a rebuttal, Song Mei spoke in a gentle tone, looking at her sister and smiling, "It's all for next year."

Song Tang thought for a while and said, "There will always be recruited by companies or factories."

Fang Chang'an smiled and said, "If Song Tang, you are going to work, I actually have a place to recommend it, and it is very likely that you will be recruited."

Song Tang turned his head to look at him, Fang Changan smiled and said, "Shen Mo's parents' companies are all outside the province. They can be employed in the name of interns, not for employment. They are considered to experience life. Of course, it is best to pull Shen Mo together."

Song Tang hesitated and said, "Isn't this great?"

"Shen Mo's parents mainly do house business. Real estate sales are always recruiting people, and the threshold is relatively low. Of course, if you can't help selling the house, the basic salary is very low. As long as you sell a house, you will help Shen Mo's parents earn dozens of times the income you earn from your salary... Frankly speaking, even if you are old enough and go to work in other places, the work you can do is very limited."

Song Tang was still a little hesitant, but Wang Ke said expectantly: "After saying this, I want to go there, I haven't made any money yet."

Fang Chang'an smiled and said, "Then let's go together."

Wang Ke immediately heard his subtext and blinked his eyes and asked, "Are you going too?"

"Go and have a look, just treat it as a traveler, and why not make money?"

Song Tang turned to look at his sister, Song Mei thought for a while and said, "I think it's OK. Anyway, you guys are together, and there's a way to take care of them outside."

He paused and said, "I'll look for it again to see if there is any other job."

Fang Chang'an frowned slightly, a little suspicious that Song Mei was about to drop out of school, but she didn't say anything, and said with a smile: "Sister Mei, you have no age limit. Moreover, many people will go to work to experience life after the college entrance examination, and many people recruit summer workers."

Song Mei nodded with a smile and said, "Thank you."

"Don't be so polite. Song Tang and I are classmates, and we are going to be divided into classes soon. I guess there will be no class next year. I have to cherish the time of my classmates, right?"

After dinner, they went back to the dormitory. Song Mei also went back with her sister. Fang Chang'an took a nap and was about to go to Shen Mo's house to return books. She sent a text message to Wang Ke. Then she waited for her in the girls' dormitory and went to Shen Mo's house together.

Shu Mei was playing badminton downstairs with Song Tang, but Wang Ke simply didn't go upstairs, so he followed him downstairs and returned the book by himself, and found another book "Tanyilu" to read slowly.

Before we knew it, more than two hours passed, and when we heard something outside, Wang Ke, Shen Mo and Shu Mei were all back. The two girls soon arrived at the study room, and Shen Guoqing, the mixed-race raccoon, was also in with him. He was yelling with Shen Mo's heels, and then he was picked up by Wang Ke. He looked fat again. He lay on Wang Ke's chest and leaned up, revealing his round belly cutely.

“It seems to be fatter again.”

Wang Ke hugged the cat and said with some uncertainty, not knowing whether it was really heavy or the illusion that he hadn't seen it for a few days.

"I think it's heavy again, too."

Shen Mo nodded, patted Shen Guoqing's head, closed the study door, and whispered to Fang Chang'an: "Brother Chang'an, are you really going to work?"

"We don't care, but if Song Tang doesn't work, where will the subsequent tuition and living expenses come from?"

Shen Mo nodded with his cheeks and then looked at Wang Ke. Wang Ke looked at her again. Finally, Wang Ke asked, "Brother Chang'an, what's wrong with Song Tang?"

"I don't know what happened, but it's obvious that Song Tang and Song Mei sisters had a quarrel with Song Yuan, so they must be prepared to have no financial resources in the future."

Fang Chang'an is really hard to say about this matter. He not only needs to consider Song Tang, but also for Shen Mo and Wang Ke. Such things will directly impact the moral bottom line between them. For their age, there may be certain psychological shadows... And as the party involved, the impact and harm Song Tang received can be imagined.

As for Song Mei, after slowly inferring some relatively overall outlines, he felt even more pitiful and respectful.

Although Fang Changan said it several times and didn't know what happened to Song Tang, his approach was obviously speculation. Therefore, the two girls were a little dissatisfied with his concealment. They looked at each other and reached a consensus with their eyes. Since he didn't want to say it, he would not force him to ask.

"Are you going to work, too?"

"Otherwise I'm not at ease with you three. If something happens, will I, as the one who comes up with the idea, be responsible?"

"Hmph."

The two girls snorted, Shen Mo laughed again, and said excitedly: "I haven't worked yet, so where are we going?"

"Look at where your parents have a company, and then we choose a place and just treat it as a trip, and go wherever we want."

"Well... Then I'll wait and ask."

Shen Mo smiled sweetly, looked at Wang Ke, and then said, "Would you like to say something to Cheng Juan?"

"You can ask whatever you want."

"Then I'll call her."

She called Cheng Juan in the study. Cheng Juan was obviously shocked when she heard that they were going out to do summer work. However, after Shen Mo talked about the situation, she became a little excited and said, "Then I'll go too... But you have to tell your parents first, otherwise what should we do if we don't want to do?"

"Yeah, I'll ask them later."

She hung up the phone, ignored Fang Chang'an, took Wang Ke's hand and left the study again, went to the living room to discuss with her mother about working in the summer vacation.

"Work? Where to go?"

Shu Mei had just shoveled the shit for the two cats, and was holding Shen Aiguo and watching TV to scold him as uneasy as Shen Mo was when he was a child. When he heard this uneasy daughter, she began to feel uneasy again. She sighed secretly in her heart, but did not refuse directly. She first asked back and found out the situation.

Shen Mo also sat down next to his mother, scratched Shen Aiguo's claws, then raised his head to show his smiling face that was even more cute than Shen Aiguo: "Go to your company, I'm not old enough, and other companies don't mean to ask me."

Shu Mei laughed and said, "What would you do? Serve tea and pour water?"

"No, I want to do formal jobs, the kind that can make a lot of money, don't think of lying to me for another five or ten yuan, I want to treat the same as others..."

The little girl first bulged her cheeks and accused her of the bloody and tears of being squeezed by her mother before, and then she said proudly: "We go to sales and sell houses. I know there is a commission... If I can't sell it, I can't give it the basic salary, but you are not allowed to deduct the commission."

Shu Mei glanced at Wang Ke and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't deduct it, I promise."

"Then do you agree?" Shen Mo opened his eyes wide and was very happy.

Shu Mei nodded with a smile and said, "I agree, but your father doesn't know yet. When he comes back, you can tell him yourself."

"When will Dad be back?"

"He just called and said he would come back for supper."

"Uh-huh!"

Shen Mo nodded vigorously and asked again: "Where are there any cities to choose from? There are houses that can be sold."

"You tell your father first, and you will choose a place after he agrees... how many of you will go?"

"I, Ke Ke, Song Tang, Cheng Juan, and Fang Chang'an, five... Song Tang's sister doesn't know if she will go, at least five of them anyway."

Shu Mei nodded with a smile.

Fang Chang'an and Wang Ke were always not good enough to stay and wait for dinner, so he borrowed the first volume of "Tanyilu" and found another book "Earthquake Engineering", and took it out together, and put the latter book outside. When she went to the living room to say goodbye to Shu Mei, she was indeed a little strange and asked, "Why do you think of reading earthquake books?"

"I just saw it."

Fang Chang'an explained a little embarrassedly, "Isn't there a continuous earthquake in the East China Sea last month? I happened to see it on the news. I was bored and went to check it out. I found that there were so many earthquakes in our country. It happened several times this year, including those in the sea and those on the ground. A few days ago, there were earthquakes in Qinghai and Tibet... I was a little curious, what should I do if it really happened, whether there is a plan, or how big the earthquake can the house withstand... I happened to see this book, so I took a look."

Over the past six months, Fang Chang'an has been here every two weeks and has borrowed many books, literature, computers, finance, history and other categories. Therefore, when he heard what he said, Shu Mei didn't care and smiled: "There is no way, our country is too big... It's better to take advantage of the strong desire for knowledge, learn more."

Fang Chang'an said goodbye to Wang Ke. Shen Mo teased her for a while, wrote homework for half an hour, and then played two piano songs. Shen Chengli came back when he was about to have supper. Shen Mo immediately ran out of the piano room when he heard the voice, "Dad, Dad, I'll discuss something with you..."

Then he talked about the summer vacation work and added: "Mom has agreed."

Shen Chengli glanced at his wife and smiled and said, "You two have decided, it's useless for me to object. OK, dad agrees too."

Shen Mo was so happy that he ran back to his room and sent a group text message with his mobile phone. He shared the good news and seemed to have started chatting again. After a while, Shen Chengli washed his face and came back. Seeing his wife sitting on the sofa reading a magazine, she sat down next to her and sighed: "You decided without discussing it with me."

Shu Mei smiled and said, "I have considered it. It's pretty good. First, let her experience life, second, it's also considered helping Song Tang, third..."
To be continued...