Shengwang once imagined meeting Jiang Tian in a certain subject final exam room or summer camp.
He could imagine that scene, even the weather was cloudy, sunny, warm and cold, and whether the people around him were in a hurry or not, but he couldn't imagine what he would say. Maybe I will call you "brother", maybe I will say hello in a pretentious way, maybe... I will feel sad before I speak.
Later, when I learned that Jiang Tian had gone abroad, there was no room for imagination.
Sheng Wang devoted all his time to the competition, was busy and did not give himself a chance to sit in a daze. He was learning in a masochistic way. He considers himself smart, but far from being a genius. It took a long time to touch a tiger's butt at first, and it was even more obvious in the second half of the competition.
Compared with ordinary classmates, he can be jokingly called "hanging up", and he can be among the top people in the province and even in the whole country.
So he got the second prize at the provincial level in physics, specializing in chemistry and entered the selection camp. When he was in good condition, he was lucky enough to enter the national training team.
Parents and teachers are very happy, but he seems to be stepping in the void, and he can't achieve anything. One day, a red line suddenly hit his chest, and the people next to him cheered and told him "Congratulations, you have reached the finish line".
The self-enrollment thresholds of major colleges and universities are always piled up. The competition performance of Class A this year was generally good. Everyone held the awards and submitted application materials everywhere. Almost everyone got a few selection places.
Gao Tianyang's certificate is a single seedling, and his grade is not very high. At that time, he always joked that "I will become the only left-behind child". Sheng Wang couldn't stand it any longer. He spent a few days on the Internet with his notebook in his hand. He turned to several famous schools with suitable conditions. He helped him revise the composition and English materials for the preliminary examination, and handed in the materials. .
During that month, Gao Tianyang wished he would kowtow three times a day at him, and by the way rounded up his breakfast. Lao Gao's heart is thicker than the barrel of a cannon, so he doesn't think too much. He always brings Sheng Wang whatever he thinks is delicious. With the hamburger and Coke that he had brought for more than 20 days, Shengwang was automatically full when he saw him.
At the end of the month, the two hundred and five finally reacted and Sheng Wang was afraid. Switched to Chinese. He tried hard to recall the breakfast Sheng Wang had eaten before, got up early for the first time in the world and went to the cafeteria to line up, and entered the classroom with tofu brains, eggs and red cans of milk...
Then all day Shengwang didn't say a word except "thank you" when he got breakfast.
Before and after the winter vacation, the students who passed the preliminary examination of self-enrollment and the comprehensive ability test rushed to each university to take the exam. At that time, He Jin's signature was soft. Most of the classrooms were empty, and the classes could not be arranged. He often went to self-study all day long.
It rained heavily one day, and it was gloomy since the morning, and the classroom was lit with cold white lights. Sheng Wang stepped on the table bars, the books were spread on his knees, and he was brushing the questions one by one, when he suddenly heard the table top being knocked "toughly".
He was stunned and almost confused the time, as if he had returned to a certain day when he first came to the attached middle school. It was also raining heavily like this. He was lying on the table drowsy with a fever. Jiang Tian ran to the infirmary and talked to Gao Tianyang with a bag of medicine, as if he had knocked on his table like this.
Sheng Wang retracted his gaze from the topic, looked up in panic, and saw the monitor Liyu holding a form and asking him, "When are you leaving school?"
He was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know, maybe April."
Carp registered an approximate time on the form, and then looked at him a little worriedly: "You look so bad, are you sick?"
"No." Sheng Wang held the pen and pointed to the top of his head, and said, "It's illuminated by the light."
The carp walked away for a long time before he lowered his eyes.
After a long time, Sheng Wang suddenly remembered. The day Jiang Tian talked to Gao Tianyang with the medicine, he never knocked on his desk. He was not sick when he knocked on his desk.
It's only been more than a year, and he can't remember...
He sat silently for a while, hurriedly pulled out the earphones from the depths of his schoolbag and put them in his ears. He casually found a heavy metal rock playlist, and turned the sound to the maximum.
The classroom is too deserted.
The Affiliated Middle School has achieved a lot this year, and has harvested a large number of colleges and universities' referrals and discounts. Chili got the first-line admission qualification from the same school in Shengwang, Song Sirui and the others were recommended to be sent to the intensive class of the top colleges and universities in the province, and the carp went to Shanghai.
Gao Tianyang is probably born with drama itself, and self-enrollment has been twists and turns. He originally played well and got a 15-point discount, which is already impressive given the full score of 480. His parents were about to be happy, but when he came to the bridge, he repented and gave up with a big wave of his hand.
"My dad was so angry that he bought a feather duster." Gao Tianyang said proudly: "After I was in elementary school, he vowed to engage in Buddhist education, and this time he almost broke his merits."
Sheng Wang asked him, "Why don't you offer discounts? The college entrance examination is a big move?"
"I don't want to go to that school anymore, I suddenly realized that I want to go crazy while I'm young." Gao Tianyang said, "Wait, my buddy will go to Beijing to accompany you."
The group of people who were recommended left the school in mid-April, Sheng Wang was always calm, Song Sirui and the others went crazy. On the day I left, I had to create a little atmosphere. I threw the hill-like test papers accumulated in high school from the top floor, and the white paper floated all over the floor like snow. The Political and Religious Office, please go to drink the last cup of tea.
Sheng Wang was implicated innocently, and was punished to scan the exam paper with those stupid birds, and he was not allowed to leave until he had finished. Then the group of two hundred and five from Class A rushed downstairs while laughing and cursing, helping them.
Yang Jing rolled her eyes and asked someone to send a junk car to them and pile up papers for them.
It was already a little hot in that season, and after cleaning up the mess, Sheng Wang was sweating a little. He bought a bottle of ice water at the Xile convenience store where the clerk had changed, and took off his school uniform jacket.
The moment he threw his jacket over his shoulder and walked out of the school gate with water, the bustling crowd of people in the world passed through the street in front of him.
His frantic and restless youth had come to an end in a hurry, once in his life, and he could never look back.
Because of the walk, Sheng Wang's summer vacation was twice as long as others, but he didn't stay at home for long. In fact, since Jiang Tian left, he has rarely returned home.
To say there is no resentment is false, but more to avoid it. As long as he went back to the house in Baima Longtang, he couldn't help but think of many things.
He went to Brother Chu, who was in the tutoring class, took over what Jiang Tian had done, used the months of vacation to save a sum of money for himself, and unbound all the bank cards that Sheng Mingyang gave him.
Brother Chu has developed well in the past two years. He doesn't want to focus on the attached middle school, and has established branches in several districts in the city. He said that the scale is now large and the demand is also large. Let Shengwang University not forget him while working hard, help him when you have time, and be a golden sign for him by the way.
Sheng Wang said: "For the sake of a good relationship, I can offer a discount and not charge you the advertising contract fee."
Brother Chu laughed and gave him a big red envelope before school started.
Compared with a businessman, he is more like a jerk, and he shows loyalty in his gestures, but the way to express his loyalty is relatively simple, that is, money. He likes Sheng Wang's character very much, he happens to be able to chat, and he is extra generous every time he pays. In the long period of college career that followed, this became the confidence of Shengwang's independence from Sheng Mingyang.
Of course, independence alone is not enough.
The first time Sheng Mingyang found out that his son was no longer spending his money was after Sheng Wang went to Beijing. He rarely checked the status of those cards, and only watched for a while when the relationship between Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian was discovered. He was a little surprised to find that the spending had stopped a long time ago, but he didn't take it seriously.
He admits that he knows Sheng Wang very well, and knows that his son is used to being extravagant. He slips away to pay for dinner with anyone, but he is a bit arrogant and a bit lazy, and the unbinding of the bank card is at best a temporary impulse, out of resistance to some past events. It won't take long for it to be tied back down.
But he waited for a long time, and he did not wait for the so-called "expected".
What really made him feel that his son was gradually out of control was when Shengwang was in his sophomore year. During a holiday, he went to Beijing on a business trip. During this period, he contacted several old business friends for a meal, and called Shengwang too. While chatting during the banquet, he realized that Sheng Wang's major had changed, and he didn't know anything about it.
At the beginning, Shengwang said that the qualification was obtained through the competition, and the chosen major was naturally related to the competition subject. But he switched to economics after only one year in that major and did a double major in law.
Sheng Mingyang asked him what he thought. He didn't explain any reasons, but said, "If you don't like it, change it."
Sheng Mingyang himself did not agree with this kind of behavior of changing after a few days of study, and always felt a little sloppy, but he didn't know much about Shengwang's original major, and could not give a sloppy supporting reason, so he had to give up.
Sheng Wang sometimes encounters Chili in class. Her major is law. After class, if the time is right, we will have lunch or dinner together. But not two of them, but three—
Under the threat of feather duster, Gao Tianyang performed smoothly in the college entrance examination and successfully fulfilled his promise of "accompanying Shengwang in Beijing". His school is not far from Shengwang, and you can go around left or right, and you can get there by bus a few stops.
It's just that the Baofu Temple Bridge and Wudaokou are congested all the year round. He often sits on the bus scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks, while frantically sending WeChat messages in the group saying "I'll be there soon" and "I see the door", while desperately stuck in the traffic flow . So the three of them will never be on time for their lunch and dinner.
Gao Tianyang changed his bike in a rage. There is often a "demon wind" in that area, and people often arrive, and their minds are also blown away.
Sheng Wang believed his evil at first, and was quite moved. Later, the more I looked at it, the more wrong it became. Finally, one day, I dragged him and asked, "To be honest, Lao Gao, did you come to Beijing to accompany me or to chase Chili?"
Gao Tianyang has been in the world for 20 years. For the first time, he blushed like a monkey's butt and said, "What are you talking about, of course I'm with you!"
Sheng Wang said with a "ha", "Fuck you."
Gao Tianyang's silly hat spirit lasted for two years, stepping on the tail of the sophomore and finally succeeded in taking down Chili. So the three-person squad turned into a young couple and a single dog.
While Sheng Wang was relieved that 250 was enlightened, he felt that he was a dog.
One time, I met a friend from the student council at dinner, and the man couldn't help laughing at Sheng Wang's disgusting face being fed dog food, and joked, "What are you afraid of, look for it! With your face, just say you want to fall in love, a The girls from the department can rush over, but are they afraid they won't die from anger?"
He meant to make a joke, but after saying this, several people on the table looked at each other and fell into a strange silence. Gao Tianyang winked at him, the frequency was like a twitch. He didn't know what he said wrong, and he drank the soup with his eyes, nose, nose and mouth. Sheng Wang lowered his eyes and ate, but there was nothing unusual on his face. He swallowed the food in his mouth, took another sip of ice water, and then smiled at his friend and said, "It makes sense."
Chili bit the straw next to him and added, "He is so busy, how can he be so busy."
The student council member said, "Oh," twice, "That's right."
University is different from high school. You can't go to the end just by brushing up on questions and engaging in competitions. But Shengwang still keeps himself very busy, with double majors, student unions, activities and competitions, and projects with teachers. It seems like I can't get through without filling up the 24 hours.
Time flies fast when people are busy.
High school is calculated by days, college is calculated by years. It seems that after sleeping a few times and opening his eyes a few times, it suddenly came to an end in a year.
One second he was a freshman who just entered the school, and the next second he became a senior.
He was blocked by the girls behind the building, and when he heard the other party calling him "senior", he felt like he was in a trance. At that time, he had an enviable job, and he seldom went back to school except for papers and formalities.
The girl is not tall, and when she laughs, there is a pear vortex on the corner of her lips, which is very sweet. She said: "I'm also a law school student. I always thought you and Sister Li Jia were a couple and didn't dare to confess. Later, I found out that she has a boyfriend, so I came here boldly, and it took me a long time to block you. Senior, it's New Year's Day soon, the new year is new, can I be your girlfriend?"
Not far from them, the college is holding a New Year's Day party, and the sponsorship is still from the outreach department of their student union. But Sheng Wang seemed to have just realized it. He was stunned for two seconds and said nonchalantly, "What day is it today?"
"Number 29," the girl said.
Sheng Wang nodded.
Strangely, he had been out of the Affiliated High School for a long time, but when he heard the words "end of the year" and "New Year's Day", his first reaction was still "the Affiliated High School used to hold art festivals at the end of the year".
In the past, the Affiliated Middle School held an art festival at the end of the year, and the event ended very late. There were so many people on the No. 3 road that people who managed to squeeze back into the dormitory were sleepy. When I opened my eyes again, the year was over.
Obviously he has done a lot of things, filling up the day to the full, but his memory has not been updated in time. Occasionally in a trance, the mind is still before, before, before...
"Senior, do I have a show?" The girl wasn't shy, and she evenly held out her hand and shook it in front of him.
Sheng Wang came back to his senses and said apologetically, "I'm sorry."
"Ah..." She dragged her tone and asked again, "Why? Am I not good-looking? I think it's pretty."
Sheng Wang was amused, nodded and said, "It's pretty. But..."
The girl blinked, waiting for his "but" to follow.
Sheng Wang looked at her, and suddenly felt that time was really magical. The rumors that once circulated in the attached middle school were no longer mentioned in a few months.
No one around here knew that there was a person in his old past who only stayed for a while and left, but he stared at the blank space for a long time.
Sheng Wang turned up his collar to block the wind of the winter night.
He smiled at the girl and said, "I like boys."