Chapter 4 Changes

  When they got outside, Guo Ming's mother looked unhappy and frowned, saying: "Are you really giving up on Ming?"

  "It's not that I want to give up, but tomorrow there won't be any more opportunities, right? There are still over 90 days left, do you think tomorrow will create a miracle?" Guo Zheng shook his head and sighed: "Rather than this, it's better to just go with the flow. At worst, he'll attend a third-rate high school, and when the time comes, I'll find someone to see if we can buy him into a university."

  "It can only be like this." Guo Ming's mother thought for a moment, nodded, and then seemed to remember something, hurriedly saying: "Right, I'll go buy some pork ribs for Ming'er, and stew soup for him when I get home. You stay here and watch him."

  "I know, be careful on your way." Guo Zheng said in a low voice.

  Perhaps neither of them had thought that this was exactly the turning point for Guo Ming. The disappointment they once had would eventually become an unimaginable great joy.

  Guo Ming felt an intense, stabbing pain all over his body, as if every bone in his skeleton was being shattered into pieces. The excruciating pain made Guo Ming let out a loud, blood-curdling scream.

  Guo Zheng, who was also watching Guo Ming, was startled and saw his son's face suddenly contort, with bright red blood flowing from all seven orifices. He immediately became frightened and loudly shouted for help.

  The doctor and nurse rushed over, an old doctor furrowed his brow and said: "What's going on here?"

  "I don't know, he just suddenly became like this." Guo Zheng then anxiously said: "Doctor, you must think of a way, I only have this one son! Even if it means bankrupting the family, I won't regret it."

  The doctor thought for a moment, but couldn't figure out what was going on. As he approached Guo Ming, he suddenly caught a whiff of a foul odor. With his many years of medical experience, he could tell that it wasn't the patient's bodily waste. He seemed to remember something and shook his head, thinking that such a thing simply didn't exist.

  But he lowered his head and sniffed again, and his face changed slightly. One hand gently opened Guo Ming's clothes, and on Guo Ming's originally smooth skin, a large amount of thick, pitch-black substance appeared. As Guo Ming's clothes were opened, a pungent smell that ordinary people could hardly bear wafted out.

  The people present almost fainted, and even Guo Zheng was stunned, his feet involuntarily retreating several steps as he hastily covered his nose.

  He naturally saw the source of the stench and changed color, saying: "Doctor Li, what's going on here?"

  This sixty-year-old Dr. Li is highly skilled in medicine and is the best doctor in the county. It's said that many big hospitals in the provincial city offered him high salaries, but he just has some nostalgia for this county town and doesn't want to leave.

  "Isn't that the legendary washing of the marrow?" Dr. Li thought to himself, but he also believed it was something from a martial arts novel and immediately denied this answer. He placed his right hand on the pulse, and after a moment, he said: "There are many toxins in the human body, and for some reason, your son has expelled all these years of accumulation. But don't worry, his five organs and six viscera are all good, now we just need to observe the changes."

  Fortunately, it was this old doctor. If it were another one, he would have definitely interrupted Guo Ming's detoxification process. The old man was actually tempering Guo Ming, and with that one palm, he completely expelled the toxins that had accumulated in Guo Ming over the years. From then on, he would welcome a brand new life.

  Actually, when a person is first born, their body is the cleanest. After growing up in the postnatal period, toxins accumulate in the body for a long time. Moreover, infancy is the most intelligent stage, at which they learn ten times faster than ordinary people, and can easily master several languages.

  Three days later, Guo Ming was discharged from hospital and returned home.

  He locked himself in his room as soon as he got home, because he wanted to quietly think about the changes within his body. He wasn't a fool, and after careful consideration over these past few days, he finally came to a conclusion: that he had encountered the legendary "dog shit luck" and met a chivalrous hero. His eyesight used to be around 4.8, but now it far exceeded the highest 5.3 - what kind of concept was this? Moreover, he felt his body becoming even stronger. His skin used to be slightly dark, but now it was smooth as jade. But these weren't the most important things - the key point was that his memory had reached an astonishing level. Although he couldn't say he had a photographic memory, Guo Ming could confirm that his memory had increased by at least tenfold.

  He opened an English dictionary and began to look through it quietly.

  Three hours later, Guo Ming's mother knocked on the door and said softly: "Ming'er, it's time to eat."

  Guo Ming did not respond, Guo Ming's mother found it strange, pushed the door in, and saw that her son was deep in thought, shaking her head with relief. Although Guo Zheng had given up on his son, but as a mother, she had never given up on him.

  As her son was studying diligently, Mrs. Guo did not disturb him and quietly withdrew.

  Guo Ming's mother was watching TV waiting for her son, but an hour passed and he still hadn't come out. She looked at the time and it was already 1 o'clock. Could it be that Ming had been motionless in front of the computer for five hours? A glimmer of delight flashed across Guo's eyes - her son's change of heart about studying was good news for herself. Who wouldn't want their own son to study well? In the past, she didn't dare mention her own son when chatting with neighbors about how great their kids were. She could only awkwardly nod along. Maybe from today on, her own son would surprise her.

  She sneaked a peek and smiled as she returned to the sofa, saying softly, "Today Mom will see just how long you can study without moving."

  As time slowly passed by, Yu Xia's eyes became somewhat tired and she couldn't help but fall asleep on the sofa.

  She suddenly shuddered and woke up from her sleep, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and looked at the wall clock in front of her, only to find that it was already five o'clock. In these few days when Guo Ming was injured, Yu Xia was so worried about him that she didn't sleep well, but today she actually slept for four hours.

  Subconsciously thinking of something, Yu Xia hurried to her son's room. She gently opened a door crack, and through the crack, her son was writing quickly, seemingly calculating something. In the end, Yu Xia still couldn't bear it, opened the door to Guo Ming's room, walked in, patted Guo Ming's shoulder, and softly said: "Ming'er, take a rest!"

  Guo Ming's finger paused, and he looked up at his mother, only then realizing that he had been sitting there for a very long time. He glanced at the clock on the table, and his pupils constricted in surprise: "How is this possible? I've actually been studying here for nine hours!"

  "Hehe, tomorrow, learning isn't a one-time thing, come, go to the living room, mom will heat up some food for you."

  Guo Ming stretched his waist and smiled: "Mom, heat up some dishes for me first! I'll go out later."

  "Alright!" Yu Xia smiled and turned away.

  Guo Ming supported his chin, with a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth. After nine hours of study, Guo Ming was convinced that he had changed, and his memory had reached a terrifying height. Guo Ming believed that three months would be enough, and by then he would give everyone a surprise.

  The next day, Guo Ming rode his bike to school for class, but he wasn't there to attend classes, rather to pick up books. The school was very open-minded, and since graduation was near, as long as you thought you couldn't continue studying at school, you could go home to study, of course with your parents' signature.

  Guo Ming's departure was not missed by anyone, except for Shui Mengyao's gaze lingering on him for a moment. After that, no one paid attention to this seemingly insignificant person again. Guo Ming saw all of this and vowed that one day he would use his own strength to prove the error of their ways back then.

  Guo Ming left, actually close to the college entrance examination, the teacher did not teach new lessons at all, it was all about exams. This morning's exam, this afternoon the teacher will discuss the papers. Every day is like this. Guo Ming came here and didn't learn much either. He simply went home, there was no one he missed here, nor was there anyone who missed him. It was as if this place was just a transit station in his life, mission accomplished, leaving without any emotional attachment.

  Guo Ming brought back all the books, which startled Yu Xia and she hastily asked: "Ming, what's going on?"

  "Mom, trust me, I'll bring the admission notice of No. 1 Middle School in front of you, don't worry about anything else. I have my own plan." Guo Ming said seriously.

  Looking at her son's determined gaze, Yu Xia smiled and nodded slightly. She said softly: "Son, you've grown up, okay, Mom won't ask about your affairs anymore. Is there anything I can help you with now?"

  "Yes, mom will go to the bookstore later and buy all the middle school entrance exam papers from previous years for me. The more the better." Guo Ming said with a smile.

  Guo Zheng was very strict with Guo Ming's pocket money, but he never restricted his studies. Yu Xia was even more so, she could sense that her son had changed, and since the accidental fall into the water, he seemed to have become a different person, and it was a change for the better. She bought all versions of the trial papers from the bookstore, hundreds of them. This would normally scare someone half to death. But Guo Ming just smiled lightly and said: "Mom, from now on, you only need to pay attention to the latest trial papers, don't worry about anything else."

  Yes, Guo Ming is about to start his first closed-book study session. He first carefully studies the textbook, thoroughly mastering the knowledge in it before moving on to practice questions. After finishing all the previous practice questions, more than half a month has passed, and his first important exam is approaching - the monthly test, which must be taken every month.

  Guo Ming put down his work and rode a bicycle to school. The exam is tomorrow, and today the exam rooms will be assigned. He came to pick up his admission ticket.

  As soon as Guo Ming arrived at the classroom, he sensed that the atmosphere in the classroom was not right. His own arrival had also caused some students' faces to change slightly. What exactly happened? Guo Ming didn't understand, but he wasn't going to ask either. He went to his isolated seat in the back row, took out a middle school entrance exam practice test from his backpack and started reading it.