Class was in progress, and there were few people on the campus of Experimental High School. A girl walked under the tree, looked around quietly, and then took out a piece of paper from her school uniform pocket.
She unfolded the paper, taped the four corners, and quickly posted it on the commendation board.
In the classroom of Class 18, Grade 12, Chinese class.
Cai Fangyuan passed a note over from the front.
"Are you a woman or not? You are so confident when reading pornographic comics."
Lin Qile had a stomachache and was lying on the table. She picked up a pen and wrote on it.
"So what if I read it? You can write but I can't read it!"
Cai Fangyuan replied: "Even Huang Zhanjie felt embarrassed."
Lin Qile dragged his sick body and wrote: "He is him and I am me! I don't dislike him, you can let him rest assured!"
After a while, Huang Zhanjie blushed and asked secretly: "Lin, Lin Qile..." He didn't dare to look at her, his ears felt like blood was dripping.
When Lin Qile heard this, she wanted to roll her eyes at first, but after a while, she couldn't help laughing. Cai Fangyuan was also laughing wildly with his shoulders shrugged in the front.
After class, Lin Qile did not go downstairs to do the morning exercises. She lay on the desk, still feeling very uncomfortable.
Qin Yeyun ran to the team of Class 18 before doing exercises. She came from the back and saw that Yu Qiao, the physical education committee member, was standing at the front, and Cai Fangyuan, the pig-head, was also in the front.
Many teachers were patrolling nearby.
"Jiang Qiaoxi, Jiang Qiaoxi!" Qin Yeyun called from behind.
Jiang Qiaoxi turned around and saw Qin Yeyun with curly hair.
Qin Yeyun and Jiang Qiaoxi had no contact with each other at ordinary times. They only became more or less "acquainted" when they went to the bookstore together last time.
Qin Yeyun found this very exciting, especially when she called out the three names "Jiang Qiaoxi", several girls from the surrounding classes looked at her openly or secretly.
This also includes Cen Xiaoman who turned her head inadvertently in front.
"Do you have any change with you?" Qin Yeyun felt her vanity suddenly filled up. She didn't need to find an excuse to talk to Jiang Qiaoxi. She was righteous, well-reasoned, and upright.
She lowered her voice and said, "Lin Yingtao asked me to help her buy something!"
Jiang Qiaoxi put his hand in his trouser pocket to feel for money. He asked, "What do you want to buy?"
"Which class are you from?" a teacher shouted from behind, "Go stand in your class's line!"
Qin Yeyun said hurriedly: "Why don't you go buy it for her!" She walked closer to Jiang Qiaoxi and whispered a few words, then ran away with a smile.
Jiang Qiaoxi stood there, stunned for a moment, then turned to look at her.
After the break, the campus was full of students going back to class. There were three grades and the school was packed with people. Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head in the crowd and walked into the school supermarket. He was tall, his photo was always hung on the school's commendation board, and he had a face like this, so few people didn't recognize him.
Jiang Qiaoxi always had change in his trouser pocket, which he used to buy cigarettes from the senior high school student at the Little White House. He walked around the supermarket, and people looked at him and stared at his hands.
There were too many students and it was very noisy.
Jiang Qiaoxi bought a pack of sanitary napkins for girls, three or five chocolate candies, and two packs of shrimp chips, and put them in a bag. When he paid, he lowered his head to pay, and the students in front and behind him were whispering.
Walking back to the second floor of the high school from the supermarket, Jiang Qiaoxi happened to pass by the square in front of the campus. He lowered his head and walked on his way. The cold wind of December blew into his collar, but Jiang Qiaoxi didn't feel cold.
He was still thinking about how to hint to Lin Yingtao to study for TOEFL.
"Jiang Qiaoxi!" Someone suddenly came over and called him, "Someone has written you a love letter again, and it's posted on the commendation board!"
Jiang Qiaoxi raised his head.
He heard someone whisper behind him: "Jiang Yulu?"
On the east side of the experimental campus square, under a row of plane trees, more and more students came to watch the fun. They pointed at the piece of paper posted on the commendation column, laughing and joking, and some even raised their mobile phones to take pictures.
Jiang Qiaoxi came over.
Jiang Qiaoxi,
I am Lin Qile.
The little rabbit died. Do you still remember it? It was four years old...
Unfamiliar handwriting, but familiar words. Jiang Qiaoxi tore off the paper.
In the classroom of Class 18 of Grade 2, Lin Yingtao sat in her seat gloomily, drinking the hot water Huang Zhanjie had poured for her. Only a dozen students had returned from the class, most of them chatting. Yu Qiao asked her, "Does it still hurt?"
Lin Yingtao's face turned pale, and she nodded as if she was in pain.
She herself found it very strange. This was not her first period, so why was it so uncomfortable
Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly came in from outside the door. Lin Yingtao looked up at him unconsciously. He walked closer and closer until he stood beside Huang Zhanjie's desk. He threw a white bag in his hand into Lin Yingtao's arms.
Lin Qile looked up at him.
Jiang Qiaoxi also looked down at her.
More and more classmates came back from outside. Lin Qile didn't understand why. She opened the bag and saw the sanitary napkin inside. Her cheeks flushed. Jiang Qiaoxi stood beside Huang Zhanjie without saying a word. Maybe he was too tall, so Huang Zhanjie felt very stressed sitting in the middle.
"Um, um, I'll go get some more water," Huang Zhanjie was about to stand up with the water card, "Xueba Jiang, do you want me to help you—"
Class monitor Feng Letian walked into the doorway at this time and said blankly: "Student Lin Qile, Jiang Qiaoxi, Teacher Chen wants you two to go to his office!"
Lin Qile and Jiang Qiaoxi stood obediently beside the desk of their homeroom teacher, Mr. Chen.
One tall, one short, one big, one small, one male, one female. Lin Qile lowered his head, looking listless. Jiang Qiaoxi put his hands behind his back, raised his head, and looked out the office window, absent-minded.
Teacher Chen looked at the two of them and felt that the matter was becoming more and more difficult.
"What's going on?" he asked.
Lin Qile was confused: "I don't know either."
Teacher Chen looked at Jiang Qiaoxi who was standing aside. He had tried his best to persuade Jiang Qiaoxi not to give up the training camp.
"What's wrong with you?" Teacher Chen looked at Lin Qile, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Lin Qile nodded and said, "I've asked for leave."
"Oh, yes," Teacher Chen responded, "Not bad, you still insist on teaching."
Class 18 of Grade 2 was repeatedly on the commendation list because of Jiang Qiaoxi. Lin Qile was an excellent student who transferred from the South Campus. He was very well behaved and obedient in school, and his grades were also good.
"Lin Qile, have you ever written a letter to Jiang Qiaoxi?" Teacher Chen asked frankly.
Lin Qile's two big round eyes opened.
"I have." she said honestly.
Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly lowered his head and looked at her.
"When was it written?" asked Teacher Chen.
"When I was in junior high school." Lin Qile said.
"When you were in junior high school?" Teacher Chen put his hands on the back of the chair and sounded relieved.
"Teacher Chen, Jiang Qiaoxi and I were neighbors in elementary school," Lin Qile raised his head and said, "We live next door to each other."
"so what?"
"So when he moved away, I missed him a lot, and there was no one to play with," Lin Qile said, "so I wrote him a letter."
She spoke frankly, but after all, there was really nothing outrageous in Lin Qile's letter. She was only thirteen years old at the time.
It was only because of his boldness and sincerity, because of the fantasies of his peers, and because of Lin Qile's courage to enter the Experimental High School at a young age, that rumors spread and intensified, which more or less led to the consequences later.
"That's how it is..." said Teacher Chen.
Jiang Qiaoxi said from the side: "Teacher Chen, her parents and I are in the same unit. They all know about this. You can call them and ask."
He seemed afraid that Teacher Chen would not beat him.
Teacher Chen started to have a headache when he heard Jiang Qiaoxi mention the word "parents". He really didn't want to be associated with Jiang Qiaoxi's mother.
"Okay, I get it. You two should go back to class," Teacher Chen added, "Lin Qile, if you still feel uncomfortable, go to the school hospital. I see that you don't look well."
Lin Qile hurried out, and after hearing this, he turned around and said obediently, "Thank you, teacher."
There were four strange girls standing outside the office door, and there were more people joining in the fun. A teacher in the office called out, "Hey, girls, come in!"
Lin Qile walked out along the corridor and heard a question coming from the door behind him: "Don't you know that the school has surveillance cameras?"
Jiang Qiaoxi sent a text message to Lin Qile during the third class, saying, "It is very important to study well."
Lin Qile replied: "Why did you buy chocolate?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "Don't you girls eat chocolate when you have a stomachache?"
Lin Qile said: "I heard that eating chocolate will make the pain worse."
Jiang Qiaoxi said, "Then wait until you are ready before eating."
Lin Qile asked: "What's going on? Why are you talking about that letter again?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said, "Don't worry about it."
It has been a long time since anyone mentioned that past event, the mountains, the countryside, the love letters... Jiang Qiaoxi was always difficult to approach, and it seemed that mathematics was the only thing on his mind. Half of the students in the Experimental High School were directly promoted from the junior high school, and they had never seen Jiang Qiaoxi like a normal student.
Therefore, it was difficult for Felinger and others to understand what Jiang Qiaoxi was talking about when he sat in Huang Zhanjie's seat during the break and chatted with Lin Qile, Yu Qiao and others with a chuckle.
Jiang Qiaoxi said on the phone: "Since everyone says that you and I are in a premature relationship, why should I stay so far away from you?"
Lin Qile finished her shower and tied her wet hair into a knot hanging behind her head. She squatted on the floor at the corner of the bed and petted the cat.
The cat purred and lay softly against the back of her feet.
Lin Qile held his phone and said unhappily: "You guys are all pigs..."
When Jiang Qiaoxi heard this evaluation, he was stunned.
When she was young, Lin Qile was always unbridled. She seemed to be afraid that others could not hear her clearly, so she would shout very loudly at the intersection: "Jiang Qiaoxi!"
Jiang Qiaoxi hated this name so much that he thought more than once that when he grew up and left this place, he would give himself a new name with some meaning.
But he could never forget the laughter that Lin Qile had made. Why on earth was she so happy when she saw him
Later, when Lin Qile grew up, she pronounced the three words "Jiang Qiaoxi" no longer with confidence, but softly, with some concerns, as if she was afraid of being heard by others and afraid of disturbing him.
Especially at night, when the two of them were talking on the phone, Lin Qile would say softly, Jiang Qiaoxi, Jiang Qiaoxi, Jiang Qiaoxi
The word "西" no longer has a smile on its face, but has a slender and trembling ending tone, the tone moving upward, carrying a kind of incomprehensible doubt, unpredictable uneasiness in the heart, and perhaps also expectation, joy, worry, and loss.
Jiang Qiaoxi found that the cherries were ripe, although not yet fully ripe. But he could already see their redness.
After the final exams, Jiang Qiaoxi decided to go to Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year. He did not participate in the national training team assessment in the end. He told Lin Qile that he would go to Hong Kong to get his TOEFL score.
"Do you want to take the exam?"
Lin Qile complained that the exam fee was too expensive and he had no money.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "My cousin will pay you."
Lin Qile said: "Then I can't pass the exam either!"
"I told you to learn but you didn't." Jiang Qiaoxi scolded.
"Is there a Disneyland in Hong Kong?" Lam Chi Lok brought up another topic.
"Yes." Jiang Qiaoxi said.
"Hong Kong must be fun." She said enviously.
"Is there anything you would like?"
"have no idea."
Jiang Qiaoxi said, "Then I'll just buy whatever I want."
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Notes to this chapter:
＊Hong Kong Disneyland: Located on Lantau Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong, it officially opened on September 12, 2005. It is the fifth Disneyland in the world, the second in Asia, and the first in China.