That year, my bet with you
On June 15, 1990, Li Li, who was sitting in the school auditorium waiting for the grade meeting, was patted on the shoulder by someone in the back row, and she turned her head.
Pei Shangxuan with thick eyebrows and big eyes asked her with a smile: "Li Li, who do you think will win the Hercules Cup?"
On June 8, the World Cup in Italy kicked off. Li Li was not interested in football at first, but her uncle was a football fan. He was inexplicably excited since the World Cup, and when the alarm clock rang in the middle of the night, he got up to watch the football.
Li Li was woken up by the alarm clock, and when she woke up, she found that her arm had been bitten several times by mosquitoes. She felt extremely itchy, and walked to the kitchen to get toilet water in a daze, and saw her little uncle playing with the black and white 14-inch TV.
She walked over to help, yawned and tilted the antenna down, and the picture really became clear. The little uncle, who is not yet married, is usually close to her, and when she wakes up, he drags her to watch it together. So Li Li sat down and watched the live broadcast of the first football match in her life—Argentina vs. Cameroon.
Argentina is the defending champion. The little uncle pointed to the short man on the screen who was constantly being brought down by the Cameroonian, told Li Li in an excited tone that he was the world champion Maradona, and then angrily accused the African of brutal fouls. She glanced at the man who fell on the court indifferently, his face was painful.
Anyway, she couldn't sleep anymore, so Li Li took the language books from the room, and recited the ancient prose that she was going to write silently in a few days. She glanced at the TV occasionally, not understanding how a dull game could make her little uncle so excited.
Then, the commentator Song Shixiong's sharp voice reached Li Li's ears, "'Zon of the Wind' Kaniggia will replace Ruggieri."
"Son of the Wind"? The title is kind of interesting. She raised her head, and on the TV, the slender and handsome man on the sidelines instantly caught her attention.
The next day, Li Li looked through the "Weekly Radio and Television News" to find out the rebroadcast time of the football match. She turned on the color TV to watch reruns of the opener. She saw him with flowing blond hair, his blue and white team uniform, and his light and flexible movement—he really deserves the nickname "Son of the Wind".
Since then, she has fallen in love with football and Argentina, which is a deep-rooted love. She is not easily tempted, but once she likes it, she will last forever.
Li Li looked at Pei Shangxuan's well-featured face, and said six words, "Of course it's Argentina."
"I guess it's Germany." The boy was in high spirits, with a wide mouth and a dazzling smile. Li Li turned her head away without saying a word—they are different, not conspiring with each other.
Pei Shangxuan patted her on the shoulder again, and she had no choice but to turn her head away again.
"Do you want to make a bet? I bet on Germany." He was full of confidence, as if he was sure of winning.
Li Li didn't quite understand what was going on with Pei Shangxuan today, why did she insist on arguing with herself about this issue? She sat at the same table with him every three weeks, and had no interaction other than that.
Li Li's class is different from other classes. She has a head teacher who likes to be creative. In order to prevent unnecessary emotional entanglements caused by men and women sitting at the same table for too long, the head teacher came up with a way to rotate the same table every week. Li Li didn't take it seriously, but she was used to using a mask of obedience to cover up her indifferent heart. She didn't care who was sitting next to her, and no one would care about her anyway, so she felt that Pei Shangxuan's behavior was quite abnormal.
"I bet on Argentina." She said slowly. Before she had time to ask him what the bet was, the grade group leader announced the start of the meeting, and let the silent and stern voice of the audience hit the eardrums with the sharp howling of the microphone, she covered her ears and turned around.
On July 8, Argentina lost to Germany in the final, and Li Li's favorite "Zonda" was suspended. The director cut a close-up shot of Caniggia, his lonely eyes are unforgettable. At the same time, Li Li also lost to Pei Shangxuan.
Back to school during the summer vacation, Pei Shangxuan was proud of his victory while copying her summer homework. Not to be outdone, she raised her eyebrows and said, "I don't remember us ever talking about stakes."
Pei Shangxuan was taken aback, annoyed by this mistake. He tilted his head to look at Li Li, and then smiled, "Well, just remember that you owe me a bet."
She owed this bet for fifteen long years.
Thirteen and a half-year-old Li Li is a girl with low self-esteem. She was not good-looking, and her family called her "ugly". Over time, Li Li turned from being sad about her appearance to being completely indifferent to her appearance, which seemed like breaking a can. She used to wonder why the aunts in kindergarten always played with the latest toys for other children, and the boys in elementary school always helped other girls with manual labor. After entering junior high school, she realized that everyone loves beauty.
She no longer hides and cries aggrievedly, but grins her mouth wide, and smiles vigorously, even though it is pouring rain in a corner of her heart.
Li Li's academic performance is very good, and the throne of the first grade has never fallen into the hands of others. Before the first exam in the first grade of elementary school, the little uncle helped her review math, patted her head and said, "Xiao Li, if a girl is not pretty, she must find a way to become smarter, otherwise no one will really want her in the future. "
Li Li seems to understand, but since her uncle wants her to be a smart girl, she will do it seriously.
Li Li came from her mother's surname, and her father divorced her mother before she had a clear memory. Her mother, Li Meiqing, took her back to her natal family and changed her surname. Li Li once got out of the mouth of her uncle from a young age—her own father's surname was Liu, and her original name was Liu Li.
She couldn't find any traces of her father at home, Li Meiqing erased all traces, but Li Li was still in front of her eyes. After entering middle school, Li Li often thought that she might be the thorn in her mother's heart, reminding her of her failed marriage all the time, but she couldn't get rid of this burden helplessly. From this, she deduced another possibility—does that unimpressed father hate herself more than Li Meiqing
Children with low self-esteem are generally more sensitive and precocious than their peers, Li Li is like this. She dances rubber bands with other girls at school, argues over which of the Little Tigers is more handsome, and secretly discusses that a certain boy likes a certain girl. She laughed the loudest among these people, and she looked just like a silly girl of this age. However, she never smiled when she was out of everyone's sight.
The fourth class that Li Li was in was the class of the famous beauties in the grade, and some good people secretly selected the "flowers of the grade", and several of them were in Li Li's class.
The attractiveness of the beautiful girl is astonishing. In the election of class cadres, she was elected by a high number of votes without exception, and she took on such honorable but relatively easy positions as class leader, organization committee member, and literary and art committee member. The position of study committee member held by the first grader was also easily taken away by the weak and weak Qiu Yuerong who said "I don't want to be a labor committee member". Li Li smiled generously and worked hard as a labor committee member.
The labor committee member is a hard job—he has to watch the students on duty every day after cleaning the classroom before going home. It's okay to meet a girl on duty, but a boy
But each of them sneaked away in different ways as soon as the get out of class was over, and Li Li chased and intercepted him more than once or twice. During the school cleaning, she, the labor committee member, spent a long time mobilizing the boys with eloquence on the podium, which was not as good as the urging of the beautiful monitor.
Before the bet with Pei Shangxuan in mid-June, Li Li wrote a resignation letter and resigned from the class labor committee. This incident made her quite a sensation in this school that had only been built for thirty years. Her class teacher Tao Haijuan, who likes to be unconventional, was very excited when she saw the words "resignation letter", and immediately circulated it in the office, even the principal was alarmed.
The labor committee official said that it was not big, that is, he wore the two bars of the squadron leader on his left arm; thing, and the school has records. So this matter got into a lot of discussion at the end, and Li Li was invited into the principal's office.
The benevolent and kind-hearted Principal Shen smiled very much like the Maitreya Buddha that Li Li's grandmother took her to worship in the temple. Li Li was sitting upright on the sofa in the principal's office, clasping her hands on her knees.
Principal Shen took her resignation letter and first praised her for her beautiful handwriting. Li Li raised her head, grinned and said that it was thanks to her little uncle for urging her to practice calligraphy.
Before talking to Li Li, Principal Shen asked Tao Haijuan to find out about her situation—for a girl under the age of fourteen, resignation is a term belonging to the adult world.
The gentle principal looked at the girl who was smiling unscrupulously and even a little ugly, it was hard not to be shocked by the coldness in those eyes. He kindly asks her why she is determined to resign.
"Make the best use of everything, someone is more appealing than me." Li Li said lightly, "And, it's boring."
"Then... what to do to be interesting?" Children in the rebellious stage don't like anything.
The index fingers of Li Li's left and right hands were circling each other. She lowered her head and happily played, and replied calmly: "Principal, this is a matter of self-confidence. At this stage, my self-personality has not yet been fully formed. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life without self-confidence. If I continue to be a class leader, it will only make me feel more and more frustrated, and then form an inferiority complex.”
Principal Shen was completely dumbfounded. Is this something that first-year junior high school students would say
Li Li walked out of the principal's office and found Pei Shangxuan standing at the end of the corridor, drawing something on the concrete floor with his toes. She hesitated for a moment, then walked over to the same table who only sat together once a month.
In fact, sitting in the third row of the classroom with Pei Shangxuan's height is absolutely wasteful, and his vision in both eyes is 1.5. Every time Li Li changed to sit at the same table with him, she would always slander him for being such a person who doesn't love learning. Sitting in the front row of the classroom is simply an insult to the teacher.
Pei Shangxuan is considered an outlier, his studies are so-so, but he can win the favor of every teacher. It's useless for Li Li to be unconvinced, because this boy belongs to the good-looking type. More than once, she heard girls discussing in private which boy was the most handsome in the grade, and every time she heard someone nominate Pei Shangxuan. Li Li was not very impressed with this tablemate who only sat together every three weeks, but when she looked at him after listening to other people's comments, she actually became more pleasing to her eyes.
"Pei Shangxuan, what are you doing here?" Li Li walked up to him, raised her face slightly and spoke.
"Uh... uh, is it because of me that you resigned?" the boy asked stammeringly, his eyes flickering.
Li Li was startled, and couldn't help but wonder where did he come to his conclusion, "Hey, don't you think yourself too great?" Resign for him? What a joke!
Pei Shangxuan seemed to be relieved, but he was still muttering, "Last time you caught me as a student on duty and I escaped. I thought you were angry because of this."
If he didn't mention it, Li Li completely forgot about it. She grinned and punched him in the chest with her clenched fist. She giggled and said: "I forgot, now I think about it, I have to beat you up."
"I don't make up when it's outdated." Pei Shangxuan turned around and ran down the stairs, and made a "V" sign to her.
A boy like Pei Shangxuan is destined to become a famous figure in the school, but it refers to aspects other than academic performance.
Most of the students admire two kinds of people: the first type of people are outstanding in reading, their brains are ridiculously good, making people wish they were born a year later than the other party to avoid taking the exam together; the second type of people are used to fishing in troubled waters, sports, fighting, eating, drinking and having fun It is "bad" to call each other brothers and sisters together. In contrast, the second group is more popular because of the subconscious resistance of boys and girls in the rebellious period to conformity.
When Pei Shangxuan entered the school, he had a fight with senior seniors. Almost every school has some bad students who like to bully and blackmail juniors. Limited to the disadvantage of body, ordinary students will be bullied obediently, but Pei Shangxuan doesn't care, he fights with the opponent, even though he was flattened to the point of glory, he became famous because of this fight.
Pei Shangxuan is a famous person in the first grade, he dismisses good students who study hard, but Tao Haijuan came up with a system of rotating tablemates, because every three weeks he is forced to be at the same table with bookworm Li Li, he is full of dissatisfaction willing.
Pei Shangxuan doesn't have any feelings for Li Li, he likes to see beautiful women like most boys. Except for occasionally borrowing Li Li's homework and plagiarizing a few words with her, he basically kept the conversation to about thirty sentences a week. He didn't care about Li Li's indifference towards him. Everyone knew that she was a good student who listened carefully in class and didn't say a word of nonsense.
The few days at the same table with Li Li are usually the most depressing time for Pei Shangxuan. He always thinks that Li Li is a weird person who is hard to get close to. Take away the test papers that require parental signatures. When Pei Shangxuan turned back to the classroom, he saw Li Li crying in the deserted classroom.
Standing outside the classroom door, Pei Shangxuan listened to Li Li's suppressed sobs, not knowing what to do.
Li Li came out with her schoolbag on her back and planned to lock the door, but was startled by Pei Shangxuan who was standing against the wall. She wiped her cheeks calmly, wiping away the last traces of tears.
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"I'll come back to get the paper." He rushed into the classroom, took out the test paper from the belly of the desk, and waved his hand to her who was standing by the door.
Li Li ignored it and rolled her eyes at Pei Shangxuan. Pei Shangxuan scratched his head in frustration, ran back cheerfully and said, "Li Li, I saw you cry." The expression on his face was as proud as if he had caught the opponent's handle.
Li Li pressed her hand on the door latch, and she said coldly: "You want me to lock you in the classroom overnight?"
Pei Shangxuan hurriedly escaped from the classroom, Li Li is the kind of girl who will do what she says and will never show mercy. The boy secretly nicknamed her "Hergman"—Li Li was not good-looking and had a bad temper. This nickname seemed to exist only to describe her.
"Why are you crying?" Pei Shangxuan asked curiously while waiting for her to lock the door.
Li Li walked with her schoolbag on her back, her hands in her jacket
In her pocket, she said casually: "Someone says you are an idiot to your face, even if it is true, you wouldn't be happy, would you?"
"Li Li!" Pei Shangxuan heard her go around cursing himself for being stupid, and his face changed with anger. Isn't it because he failed the math test, and she got the only perfect score in the whole grade? What's there to show off!
Li Li turned her head to see his angry expression, shrugged her shoulders, "Why are you so angry, anyway, isn't it enough for you boys to be flattered by beautiful girls?" She hopped lightly on the stairs, Pei Shangxuan wanted to imitate her He looked like this, but his steps were clumsy, and he stepped on the air and slid down the last two steps.
Li Li giggled, and she handed Pei Shangxuan her hand, "You say you are stupid, but you still refuse to admit it."
What she meant was that he really was a fool. Thirteen-year-old Pei Shangxuan didn't understand what kind of girl Li Li was, he just felt that she was a little different from others. The relationship between the two at the same table has improved since then, and of course the biggest beneficiary is Pei Shangxuan - it is more convenient for him to copy homework.
Pei Shangxuan and Li Li live in the same alley, where there are old houses with Shikumen structure. They are separated by four alleys, but they had never met before they became classmates. Pei Shangxuan is the king of children in this area, leading a group of children pretending to be the People's Liberation Army and rushing through the long and narrow alley all day long.
Once Pei Shangxuan met Li Li who was going to school at the gate of the alley, he asked in surprise if she had just moved here, Pei Shangxuan was sure that he had never seen her here. When the whole class came to the stage to introduce themselves on the day of junior high school registration, his first impression of Li Li was—this girl is so ugly! If he had met, it was impossible for him not to remember at all.
"I've lived here since I was a child." She didn't look at him, and walked straight towards the school.
Pei Shangxuan followed Li Li closely, "Why haven't I seen you?"
Only then did she look up at him as a reward, and said, "Because, I don't want you to see it."
Pei Shangxuan didn't understand. They were about the same age, but the brain development was clearly on two levels. Pei Shangxuan's world is a continuation of the era of childhood games, while Li Li observes the adult world with immature eyes.
Li Li's "resignation incident" made Pei Shangxuan feel guilty. Because before she handed over her resignation letter to the class teacher, she escaped from her job as a student on duty. He was in an inexplicably bad mood that day, and the work of wiping the blackboard by the students on duty after each class was done lazily and sloppily. There were even traces of chalk writing on the blackboard, so that the next teacher had to wipe it again before writing on the blackboard. again.
After school, Pei Shangxuan wanted to run away with his schoolbag on his back, but Li Li called his name from behind. They were not at the same table that week, separated by a row.
He kept walking, she chased after him and grabbed his schoolbag belt, "Pei Shangxuan, today you are a student on duty."
"No." He refused and pulled her hand away.
"Why are you nervous, hurry back and sweep the floor." Li Li raised his eyebrows and raised his voice.
Just after school, it was the peak time for students to leave the classroom, and the corridors were full of students of the same grade. Thinking of him, Pei Shangxuan is a hero who stands up to the heavens and the earth. It is already very embarrassing to be yelled at by a weak woman to "go back and sweep the floor". He gritted his teeth, stared fiercely, and said angrily, "Men don't do sissy things like sweeping the floor."
Not only Class 4 was often caught by Li Li and went back to be the male students on duty to applaud and applaud, but the boys in other classes also whistled and booed.
Li Li smiled contemptuously, "If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world? With your virtue, a sissy who sweeps the floor is more manly than you."
Pei Shangxuan couldn't hold back his face anymore, and shouted loudly: "Ugly, who wants you to take care of it!"
She stared at him with strange eyes, and turned a deaf ear to the ridicule of others, "You think I really want to care?" Li Li threw down a rhetorical question, turned and walked back to the classroom.
Pei Shangxuan believed that Li Li's resignation had something to do with him, and when he heard that Li Li was asked by the principal to talk, he became even more uneasy. He sneaked to the door of the principal's office, looked through the open door, and overheard Li Li's reply.
Pei Shangxuan still couldn't understand what Li Li was talking about, but he firmly remembered the last word she said - inferiority complex. After returning home, he immediately turned to the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and found the explanation.
"Inferiority: despise yourself, think you can't catch up with others." Pei Shangxuan chewed on the meaning of the entry, he couldn't figure out why Li Li should despise herself.
Li Li's resignation took effect, and she returned the squadron leader's logo with two bars, and became a commoner with ease.
They sat on the high podium of the school, and the setting sun in the west left the last brilliance to them. Pei Shangxuan asked Li Li if she regretted it
Today was the last time she performed her duties as a labor committee member, and he made up for the job of a day student who escaped earlier.
"It's useless to occupy something that doesn't belong to you." She put her hands on her knees and replied softly.
Pei Shangxuan found that he really didn't understand what Li Li was thinking, and this cognition made him feel frustrated for a while.
On June 10th, Li Li excitedly said to Pei Shangxuan early in the morning: "I like someone."
He was taken aback and asked curiously, "In our class?"
Li Li shook her head, mysteriously refusing to tell Pei Shangxuan who she liked. He thought about it all morning, and at lunch time he pulled Li Li and asked, "Which class are you in?"
"What?" His nonsensical question made Li Li unable to react for a while.
"In the morning, you told me that I have someone I like." Pei Shangxuan curled his fingers and tapped her high forehead with a shudder. What kind of memory does this girl have
"Someone you don't know." Li Li's cheeks were blushing, and he felt shy, which made Pei Shangxuan feel a sudden chill.
He rolled his eyes angrily, "Li Li, who is he?"
"Caniggia." Li Li was forced to say the name of "Zon of the Wind". Not surprisingly, she saw Pei Shangxuan's blank expression. Li Li was happy, and she pouted at Pei Shangxuan in a high-spirited manner, "They say you don't know him anymore, he is the striker of the Argentine team, nicknamed 'Son of the Wind', I have never seen such a good-looking person." Said At this point, Li Li paused for a while, and added in her heart, "Of course you are not bad."
As a boy, Pei Shangxuan, who has nothing to do, will play football with his classmates on the playground, but he doesn't watch many football games. The World Cup games are broadcast in the early hours of the morning. At this time, he was sleeping so badly that he couldn't even get up.
Pei Shangxuan was not convinced, and went home to mobilize his non-fan dad to watch the game together. Li Li has often said things that make him confused, and he doesn't want to distance himself from her. As for why he was so concerned about the distance between the two, Pei Shangxuan couldn't figure it out either.
On June 15th, Pei Shangxuan asked Li Li which team would win the Hercules Cup in the school auditorium. Li Li insisted on Argentina, but he chose Germany. Years later it turned out that they were in the wrong place.