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Chapter 17: Sorrow Makes You Fat Like a River

  Rebirth of a Fat Girl's Youth Diary

  I am on a diet. — Mark Twain

  Gu Xiang and her mother discussed it, she wanted to go to school early.

  So I started getting up half an hour earlier every day and arriving at school half an hour early.

  Gu Xiang deliberately ate only half a meal for breakfast.

  After putting down her school bag in the classroom, Gu Xiang ran to the playground to run.

  Because her physical strength is quite poor now, she chose jogging.

  Because she knew she lacked exercise, Gu Xiang didn't dare rush too fast and controlled her breathing to run at a steady pace.

  She also brought an English CD and carried a CD player with her to listen to English dialogues.

  The cinder track is 400 meters around.

  Gu Xiang ran into the second lap and felt out of breath.

  Didn't dare to force it, so I changed to a jog, running and stopping, and somehow managed to complete the half-hour task.

  It's almost October and it's still quite cool in the mornings.

  Gu Xiang ran a sweat, went to the water pool to wash his face, and he became more spirited.

  She used to be very sleepy during morning reading classes, but today she found that reciting texts was much more efficient.

  At lunchtime, Gu Xiang still followed the rule of one meat dish, half a meat dish and one vegetarian dish.

  But meat dishes can't be fried chicken legs or fried fish fillets, and semi-meat dishes are also tomato scrambled eggs that aren't greasy.

  But the rice was reduced by half for Auntie.

  To lose weight, carbohydrates still need to be eaten less. Her current food intake has already exceeded the normal range by a lot.

  Caught up with an adult man's appetite.

  It turned out that Li Wei found that she had cooked very little rice today and thought it was because Auntie had cooked too little, so she wanted to share her own rice with Gu Xiang.

  She said that, and Lin Jiahuan also rushed to give her own rice to her.

  Gu Xiang: ……

  No choice, I could only tell my little friends about wanting to lose weight.

  Li Wei advised her: "What if it's bad for your body? My mom said that girls can't lose weight when they're growing up."

  Her parents are both doctors.

  Lin Jiahuan said with understanding: "I think you've lost weight and look better!"

  Gu Xiang is confident in controlling her weight without harming her health.

  I just thought I was still young and didn't bother with these things before.

  After the third class in the afternoon, she was a little hungry and ran to the small grocery store to buy a 2-yuan boiled corn on the cob.

  Everything went smoothly for a day, but when it was time to eat dinner, Gu's mother saw that she had only filled her bowl with half a scoop of rice and asked her why she ate so little.

  Considering the previous two days, Gu Xiang wanted to ride her bike to and from school. Her mom thought of Gu Xiang having a premature love affair. Gu Xiang didn't dare tell the truth, so she told her mom what she had come up with that morning.

  "Tang Lulu said that her father wouldn't let her eat her fill, saying that after eating full, the blood would flow to the stomach to help with digestion. The brain's blood supply would be insufficient, making it easy to get drowsy."

  "Then after a while, the blood will digest and come back up."

  Gu Xiang: "......"

  Gu's mother added some more rice for Gu Xiang, but after finishing one bowl, she refused to eat any more.

  Gu's mother had her drink two more bowls of milk-white carp soup, and eat another small carp, but didn't let her have any more food.

  Gu Xiang ate until she was about 80% full, but the two bowls of soup were soon not enough, and by half past five she was hungry again.

  There is indeed a lot of food at home, but calories can't be ignored either.

  Gu Xiang wanted to find something to eat, but she couldn't disturb her mother, or else her mother would have to make fried pork chops for her again.

  She finally found a tomato in the refrigerator, washed it and ate it.

  Luckily, when doing her homework, she doesn't easily get distracted and doesn't find it hard to bear either.

  It was already ten o'clock in the blink of an eye, and Gu Xiang went to bed after washing up.

  When she was on the bed, her stomach growled twice.

  Her mother reached out and touched her stomach, saying: "I'll cook you a midnight snack. Eat it before going to sleep."

  "Don't mind me, I just drank too much water."

  "Mom also felt it was quite late and said: 'Hmm, go to sleep. Tomorrow mom will buy you beef noodles for breakfast.'"

  Gu Xiang unconsciously swallowed his saliva.

  The mosque is just becoming popular here.

  A small bowl of ramen noodles only costs 4 yuan, but her mother would definitely buy her the 5-yuan one. And she would also get an extra two slices of beef.

  My stomach cooperated and growled twice.

  Forget it, just go to sleep early.

  After persisting for a week, Gu Xiang's body had already adapted to the morning jogging and eating seven or eight tenths full.

  On Monday morning, Gu Xiang specifically weighed herself after using the bathroom.

  The pointer is pointing at 63.

  Awesome!

  She lost 4 pounds since school started!

  But it's impossible for all of them to have lost weight last week, probably most of them slimmed down because they started school.

  But this effect is also quite inspiring!

  But Gu Xiang didn't have too much time to think about it either, because Teacher Jiang told them that the school would be having a monthly exam before National Day!

  It's only one week before the monthly exam and they just told us, isn't that outrageous!

  Many students were immediately panicked. Lin Jiahuan was one of them.

  During class break, she ran to Gu Xiang's position and said with a crying face: "Why is there a monthly exam all of a sudden? I don't know anything yet."

  Gu Xiang asked her in a low voice: "Didn't your uncle tell you?"

  Lin Jiahuan said: "Don't mention it, last time my uncle knew I was reading a miscellaneous book, I've been hiding from him."

  Gu Xiang organized her notes, which were written in a scattered manner on cheap yellow notebooks bought from street vendors for 30 or 50 cents.

  She only flipped through a hardcover notebook that had been useless at home. That hardcover notebook seemed to be given away when buying something, it was very thick, and she had always complained about the ugly cover before.

  Thinking of the monthly exam, Gu Xiang felt that during the holidays, she should go buy two thick notebooks.

  She wants to have a correction book, preferably one that can be used until junior high school.

  The content taught in the previous month was not much, and only three main subjects of language, mathematics, and foreign languages were tested.

  Gu Xiang has notes in hand and feels it's not particularly difficult.

  Language and English rely on accumulation, mathematics relies on doing exercises.

  After finishing her homework every day, Gu Xiang recites Chinese texts and English vocabulary for half an hour.

  When she was left alone, she would copy all the questions from Wang Houyong and Huang Gang's test papers into her notebook and do them again.

  Wang Gang's test paper had a phased test. Gu Xiang decided to do all the questions first and then test himself.

  Tang Lulu and Li Wei both have their own review plans and are not in a hurry.

  Lin Jiahuan is like the end of the world every day.

  But Gu Xiang asked her how her review was going, and she hesitated and couldn't say clearly.

  Gu Xiang saw that her notes were also a mess, so she took her own notes back to make copies.

  Lin Jiahuan said with a bit of embarrassment: "I brought it back home, what are you watching tonight?"

  Gu Xiang said: "It's okay, I'm now reciting what's in the book, and the questions I've done aren't on this topic."

  Lin Jiahuan was surprised and asked: "Did you buy extra test papers outside of class?"

  Gu Xiang then told her about what had happened when she and Tang Lulu went to the New China Bookstore.

  Lin Jiahuan regretfully said: "I should have bought one too!"

  Gu Xiang didn't say anything, she thought Lin Jiahuan hadn't fully grasped the current lesson yet, so it wasn't necessary to do extra work outside of class.

  But learning habits can't be changed overnight, and she didn't want to discourage Lin Jia Huan's enthusiasm.

  Gu Xiang asked Tang Lulu if she had written the stage test, and Tang Lulu said no.

  Two people counted together and decided to start doing this volume before the self-study class, and then stay a little longer after school. The two of them exchanged test papers and corrected each other.

  Although homework can be done at home, the feeling of doing it at home and in school is different after all.

  Gu Xiang did pretty well all the way, and his draft flew up during calculations.

  Because many questions have been done several times, it's really effortless to write them down.

  They all finished their exercises quickly and completed a 100-minute test paper before the self-study class was over.

  Of course, speed is only one aspect. Another aspect is that the purchased test papers are not as targeted as those specifically designed by teachers, so there won't be too many time-consuming questions, and the time written on the paper must have some water content.

  After fifteen minutes of checking, Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu swapped their test papers.

  Tang Lulu got 95 points, with one fill-in-the-blank question and half of a big question wrong.

  Gu Xiang got two fill-in-the-blank questions wrong and scored 96 points.

  After getting the test paper, Gu Xiang couldn't help but smile bitterly.

  She got two questions wrong. One was that she misread the question and the other was to pick out a rational number from a pile of numbers, but she missed one number.

  With just these two simple mistakes, she didn't notice anything when she checked.

  Tang Lulu also lost a few points which was quite unjust, it was just a calculation error.

  Also belongs to the kind that can be avoided.

  "After all, I still can't do it too quickly! I've read this question several times and I still haven't figured it out!" sighed Gu Xiang.

  Tang Lulu said: "Because we are too familiar with the types of questions above, the test is actually worse."

  Gu Xiang also agreed.

  As they chatted, Tang Lulu mentioned that during the long vacation, she wanted to go to the city library and buy some reference materials, asking Gu Xiang if there was anything he wanted her to bring back.

  Gu Xiang had wanted a composition book that could help her solve problems last time. Now she has one more, and she wants to buy another volume.

  Not like Huanggang's trial papers, but past monthly exams, mid-term exams and final exams of various schools in the county.

  They are all relatively difficult materials to deal with. However, Tang Lulu agreed to help her take a look.

  Lin Jiahuan has also worked hard to review during this period of time.

  She used to be a procrastinator and only knew how to rush when her butt was on fire. Normally, she could drag out doing homework until 9 or 10 o'clock.

  However, the learning atmosphere on Gu Xiang's side is too strong now. Sometimes when eating, Gu Xiang and Li Wei, Tang Lulu are all talking about review things.

  Gu Xiang also brought her notes back for her and told her that she could ask if she had any questions. Anyway, they all have mobile phones.

  Lin Jiahuan didn't say anything out loud, but she was deeply moved in her heart.

  After all, it's the first formal exam for freshmen in high school, so everyone attaches great importance to it.

  She felt that there was a natural indifference between good students, and many people who seemed to have a good relationship would not share materials or anything in front of exams, let alone be willing to spend time on her, a poor student who had entered through the back door.

  She followed their pace and read through all of Gu Xiang's notes.

  Never mind how much you've grasped, at least you have some impression now.

  The day before the exam, Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu, Li Wei three people were reviewing notes. It was like highlighting key points in college again.

  Then put all the questions together and let everyone take them back to do again.

  Lin Jiahuan did not participate, Gu Xiang also circled her once.

  The monthly exam is approaching soon, although the preparation time was a bit rushed, but Gu Xiang still has confidence in it, she had put all her efforts into it during her daily life.

  Besides, everyone was hastily prepared.

  Lian Lin Jia Huan both feel they can do well on the exam, their confidence has increased greatly.

  The monthly exam was arranged in our own class.

  To prevent cheating, the tables were placed upside down with the opening of the table facing forward.

  Then the seats were randomly assigned by Teacher Jiang.

  Two classes in the morning and one class in the afternoon. After finishing the exam, there is only one self-study class left.

  Because the next day is National Day holiday, the main subject teacher assigned homework without mercy.

  Gu Xiang went to Teacher Wang's office and took three test papers. Teacher Wang also assigned some exercises from the workbook.

  Teacher Jiang, just two copies of the handouts are enough.

  The language teacher also has two copies, but she says that composition must be written. A composition of 700 words is quite a lot.

  In self-study class, classmates are all quite restless, busy checking answers.

  Because Teacher Jiang said he wouldn't collect draft paper, Gu Xiang wrote her answers on it.

  Three people came down, with only two or three small questions different, until the last big question.

  The last big question has three small questions, which are exploratory and rule-based, and are more troublesome.

  Their answers for the last small question were completely different!

  Tang Lulu wrote down the questions from memory and the three of them did it again separately.

  It turns out that Gu Xiang was right, and Tang Lulu made a mistake in the last step. Li Wei's thinking was completely wrong, so she lost all 4 points for this small question.

  After calculating the scores, Gu Xiang got full marks.

  Tang Luolu made a mistake in one fill-in-the-blank question and one step of the last small question. The score is between 96 and 97, depending on how the teacher judges it.

  Li Wei was quite unfortunate, apart from the last question, she also got a 3-point multiple-choice question wrong. She only scored 93 points.

  Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu were originally going to practice their English, but seeing Li Wei's expression, they went on to do other things instead.

  Her face didn't look good after calculating the score.

  Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu didn't know what to say to comfort her either.

  Lin Jiahuan was beside herself with anxiety. She saw that Gu Xiang and the others had finished answering, but in fact she had also copied down the answers.

  But she sat on the edge of the stage! And no one was with her either!

  Gu Xiang copied one for Lin Jiahuan.

  Huang Xinyi beside Gu Xiang was much quieter. But Gu Xiang thought she should also be quite concerned, during the monthly exam review, she was reading books during class breaks too.

  Gu Xiang also gave her one.

  After the school bell rang, Li Wei, who looked unwell, silently packed up her bag.

  Gu Xiang and Tang Lulu didn't say much either.

  Lin Jiahuan excitedly ran over and pulled Gu Xiang saying: "I did especially well this time! I got 85 points!"

  Li Wei quickly looked up and glanced at her, and Gu Xiang noticed that her eyes were red.

  Alas, these two people were born to be incompatible!

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