Duan Qiyan has been an ambitious person since he was young.
When he was in the first grade of elementary school, he set a grand ambition - he wanted to become the most noble captain of the school.
As we all know, the captain has to hang a small badge on his arm. The badge has a white background with three bars marked with red lines. Each bar is a dual symbol of identity and strength.
On Monday mornings, the captain also had to stand at the school gate to check whether every student who entered the school was wearing a red scarf. During the eye exercises during the break, the captain had to lead the squadron leaders of the entire grade to inspect each class and record the names of every student who did not do the eye exercises seriously.
Every qualified team leader should implement the policy of "self-sacrifice and selfless dedication", adhere to the code of conduct of "coming from classmates and going to classmates", and take "serving classmates and protecting classmates" as their own belief.
Duan Qiyan deeply understood the responsibilities and significance of the captain's work. In addition, his grades were excellent, and he was known as the "No. 1 Warrior of the Normal School Attached Primary School". Teachers of various subjects praised him highly. Finally, when he was promoted to the third grade of primary school, he received the appointment letter and signboard of the captain from the grade group office.
That was the highlight moment in Duan Qiyan’s life.
Every Monday morning, Duan Qiyan always appeared at the entrance of the Normal School Attached Primary School early, with his hands behind his back like a middle-aged male teacher in his forties or fifties, and his belly slightly protruding - he had no belly at all, but he consciously imitated the standing posture of the head teacher.
This guy is sick—this was Tang Tingting’s first impression of Duan Qiyan.
It was a cold winter day, and the cold wind of the twelfth month of winter blew on Tang Tingting's face like a steel knife. She was wearing a thick cotton coat, but she was still shivering in the cold wind, while Duan Qiyan stayed outside the school gate as if nothing had happened, running and jumping, full of energy.
When the third-grade students see Duan Qiyan, they all say hello to him. They hear names like "Captain Duan", "God of War Duan", "Brother Duan", and "Boss Duan" all the time, and the place is filled with an unhealthy atmosphere of forming cliques and factions.
Tang Tingting also studied at the Normal School Attached Primary School. She was in the same grade as Duan Qiyan, but in a different class. She raised her head proudly and walked past Duan Qiyan without even looking at him, but Duan Qiyan called her, "Tang Tingting from Class 2!"
Tang Tingting, who was only ten years old, raised her chin even higher, almost to the sky. She thought to herself, I will never say hello to you!
Unexpectedly, Duan Qiyan said, "Tang Tingting from Class 2! You are not wearing a red scarf! Today is Monday and the flag is being raised. You can either go to the school gate to buy one or go home!"
Duan Qiyan's tone revealed the majesty and arrogance of someone in a high position.
Tang Tingting was stunned.
Duan Qiyan pulled his captain badge and reiterated the school rules.
The three brightly colored stripes on the sign were like three red arrows piercing Tang Tingting's eyes. Tang Tingting had no choice but to unzip her schoolbag and try to find 50 cents from it - the red scarf sold at the school gate store was 50 cents a piece.
Unfortunately, Tang Tingting is penniless.
She forgot to bring money.
Tang Tingting and Duan Qiyan looked at each other in the cold wind.
Time passed by, and Tang Tingting negotiated with him: "Please let me in. It's freezing. I want to borrow a red scarf from my class. If I can't borrow one, I won't go to the flag-raising ceremony."
She even condescended to call out, "Captain Duan."
Duan Qiyan ended their friendly conversation with a roar: "No! You idiot! The school has its own rules!"
Tang Tingting was almost deafened by him.
She yelled, "You have a loud voice, what's the big deal? What are you yelling for? It's like a rooster crowing!"
The head teacher, who was squatting by the fire in the security room, heard the noise and went out with his thermos cup. He walked towards Duan Qiyan and Tang Tingting, and Tang Tingting thought to herself, "This is not going to happen," and even prepared to turn around and run back home.
The grade director was the most brutal teacher in the entire grade. He often pulled students to the door of the corresponding class and scolded them loudly in front of the whole class until they cried. His educational policy treated boys and girls equally and killed all grades in the school, making countless heroes shed bitter tears.
Tang Tingting must not be caught by the head teacher!
Because she won't listen to the lecture. She will definitely talk back to the director, and it will turn into a verbal fight, and the consequences will be disastrous!
At the moment when Tang Tingting was most panicked, Duan Qiyan took out fifty cents from his pocket and stuffed it into Tang Tingting's palm: "You are so scared that your face turned pale. Do you need money? I'll lend it to you. Go buy a red scarf."
This was the longest speech Duan Qiyan had ever said to Tang Tingting.
He didn't look at her when he spoke.
He was also examining the students passing by.
Suddenly, the winter sunbeams seemed to gather above his head. His faults of being picky, venomous, arrogant, and pretentious became proof of his ability to endure hardships and take responsibility.
He took off his gloves and his knuckles were red from the cold.
Tang Tingting threw him a tube of frostbite cream: "Don't freeze to death."
She turned and ran straight to the convenience store.
The head teacher came late. He asked Duan Qiyan: "What happened to Tang Tingting from Class 2?"
Duan Qiyan showed the tube of frostbite cream: "She got the medicine for me."
The head teacher patted Duan Qiyan on the shoulder. He took Duan Qiyan to the security room to warm himself by the fire. Although all the students in the school hated this teacher, Duan Qiyan had a good impression of him.
The head of the grade even gave Duan Qiyan his own thermos cup to cover his hands. He solemnly introduced the child to the security guards: "This child is called Duan Qiyan, the best and smartest student in our grade! He gets full marks in every exam. He is only in the third grade, but he has already started to learn Olympiad mathematics. The Olympiad mathematics teachers all say that he is a good seedling. In such a cold day, this child stands guard outside without complaining, not being lazy at all, and is very disciplined! He will definitely be a talent among talents in the future and can bring glory to the country."
The security guards all echoed.
Duan Qiyan heard words like "How amazing", "What a handsome guy", "This child's parents make us parents so envious".
Duan Qiyan, who was only ten years old, had already learned how to respond to the compliments from adults. He nodded calmly, but held the thermos cup of the head teacher tightly in both hands.
The head teacher told him: "Duan Qiyan, when you have great potential in the future, don't forget to come back to your alma mater, the Normal School Attached Primary School."
Duan Qiyan agreed without saying a word.
He wants to make his reputation as “the No. 1 War God of the Normal School Primary School” spread throughout the world!
He is the next generation's Hua Luogeng, Chen Jingrun, Einstein, and Marie Curie!
Thanks to Tang Tingting's kind help, Duan Qiyan did not get frostbite this winter.
Duan Qiyan found such a useful frostbite cream for the first time, so he asked his father to take him to the pharmacy to consult professionals. The staff of the pharmacy told them: "Ah, this frostbite cream is imported from the Northeast, 14 yuan a tube, do you want a new one?"
Fourteen dollars!
Duan Qiyan was shocked.
He originally thought that the ointment was only one dollar a tube, and he lent it to Tang Tingting fifty cents, which was equivalent to clearing the debt. He never expected that the frostbite ointment could be sold for fourteen yuan! Tang Tingting was really a hidden talent.
After this calculation, he actually owed Tang Tingting a huge sum of money.
As the first warrior of the Normal School Attached Primary School, the famous "Captain Duan", he has always adhered to the working principle of "not taking a single needle or thread from the masses" since he took office. His deskmate once bribed him with a Pikachu doll and a 4x4 toy car, but he refused them all. How could he fall into Tang Tingting's hands
So Duan Qiyan explained the situation to his parents.
His parents almost laughed themselves into death, saying he was so silly, and he felt a sense of sadness and sadness that he was not understood. Fortunately, although his parents said he was silly, they actually gave him 14 yuan and asked him to return the money to Tang Tingting from Class 2.
It was a morning in the second semester of the third grade. The third grade students were lining up at the classroom door, waiting for their head teacher to lead them to the playground to do morning exercises.
Duan Qiyan seized the opportunity and strode towards Tang Tingting from Class 2.
Tang Tingting is the monitor of Class 2. She finally lined up the team, and then Duan Qiyan appeared. She frowned tightly and asked, "What are you doing?"
Duan Qiyan handed her a yellow paper envelope with a line of words written on the cover: "If you borrow, you must return. It's not difficult to borrow again."
Tang Tingting quickly stuffed the envelope into her desk drawer. The classmates around her asked her, "What did Duan Qiyan from Class 1 give you?"
Tang Tingting said seriously: "It's something for the grade group. I'm the monitor of Class 2 and the captain of the grade. I've told you all! You can't open your eyes when you do eye exercises, otherwise I'll tell the teacher!"
Tang Tingting's trick of "diverting trouble" successfully diverted the attention of the classmates. Everyone was reflecting on whether they had opened their eyes when doing eye exercises, whether they had hindered the class and burdened Tang Tingting's work, so they naturally stopped paying attention to Duan Qiyan from Class 1.
Tang Tingting held her head high and followed her class teacher to lead her classmates to the playground.
Familiar music sounded, and all the students in the school began to do radio gymnastics. Tang Tingting glanced at the area of Class 1 casually, and her breath suddenly stagnated - she suddenly realized that Duan Qiyan was doing radio gymnastics very seriously!
He was more serious than the student leading the exercise in front.
He squatted, bounced, raised his hands, and had a solemn expression, as if he was not doing radio gymnastics, but participating in the World Olympic Gymnastics Competition. His sportsmanship also influenced several boys around him - the boys in that circle were like members of the men's gymnastics team, completing every radio gymnastics movement with high standards and high posture.
Sure enough, Duan Qiyan’s thought process is different from that of ordinary people.
But his status in the primary school affiliated to the Normal School has always been very high.
No student could defeat him.
From the third grade to the sixth grade, Duan Qiyan was always the first in his grade in every exam, without exception. He also won the Hua Luogeng Competition Certificate and was praised by the principal and vice principal. The competition class of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School heard of his reputation and extended an olive branch to him, sincerely inviting him to participate in the selection exam for the competition class in 2004.
He said in the sixth grade (one) class: "I will still be the top grade in the provincial No. 1 Middle School! I will always be the top warrior of the Normal School Attached Primary School!"
All the boys in the class shouted in response: "The First War God! The First War God!"
At this time, Tang Tingting happened to pass by the window of Class 1. She was holding a stack of test papers and looked sideways at Duan Qiyan. Their eyes met. Duan Qiyan was sitting on the table, and she raised her chin as usual. A boy said, "Tang Tingting from Class 2 is so arrogant and so wild. I really can't stand her. Isn't she much worse than our Brother Duan?"
Tang Tingting stopped.
Duan Qiyan's heart tightened, and he immediately tried to smooth things over: "She is she, you are you, and I am me..."
Before Duan Qiyan finished speaking, Tang Tingting pushed open the window and yelled at the boy who had just been talking nonsense: "Why are you so arrogant! How many brothers do you have? Do you agree to be a brother? You are taking advantage of others' power and calling me a brat. If you can't stand me, I will dig my eyes out!"
Tang Tingting has a sweet appearance and likes to wear pink and light blue clothes, but she is extremely fierce when she curses, like a thug. The most terrifying thing is that her grandfather opened a martial arts school in the provincial capital. She is the monitor and cultural committee member of Class 2. Because she often says that "martial arts is also an art", the head teacher agrees with her and lets her take charge of Class 2. She is very powerful.
Duan Qiyan felt that Tang Tingting was very arrogant and violent, and did things without thinking.
With prejudices against each other, the two of them were admitted to the competition class of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, and thus began their six-year career as classmates.
At the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, Duan Qiyan failed miserably.
He met a very scary person - this person is called Lin Zhixia. She looks innocent and beautiful, but she is violent and cruel inside. She ranks first in the grade in every exam. When she plays Go with her classmates, she is extremely vicious and never shows mercy. She will not stop until all the classmates are left.
In order to defeat Lin Zhixia, Duan Qiyan studied late into the night every night, but to little avail. His class ranking even dropped significantly.
Even Jin Baihui from the next class could leave Duan Qiyan far behind.
High school life at the Provincial No. 1 Middle School was not as glorious as Duan Qiyan had imagined, but only endless bitter tears.
Duan Qiyan's father said, "Your school's competition coach always told me and your mother not to push you too hard. My dear, ever since you entered junior high school, your mother and I have not dared to control you because we know that you are under a lot of pressure at school. Your father has never been to college, and your mother has been to a junior college. With your parents' foundation, if you can be admitted to an undergraduate program, it will be great news for our family. Do you understand, dear son?"
Duan Qiyan said, "Lin Zhixia's parents don't have a high level of education either."
"Hey," Dad knocked on his head, "Why are you comparing yourself with others? There's nothing to compare. Dad drives an Alto to get off work, and the boss drives an Audi. Did Dad say anything at home? Isn't that a different principle?"
Duan Qiyan treated him like his father's buddy: "When we become rich in the future, I will buy Dad a big Mercedes..." He thought of the various luxury cars in Jiang Yubai's family and said, "I will buy a Hummer, Land Rover, Bentley, and Rolls-Royce!"
Not only was his father not moved at all, he even knocked on Duan Qiyan's head: "You are so stupid! You are a spendthrift. You start wasting money before you even make any! Dad doesn't want your car. Dad likes to drive an Alto."
Duan Qiyan laughed. He and his father patted each other on the shoulder, took the schoolbag from his mother, rode his bicycle, and rushed to the Provincial No. 1 Middle School at a leisurely pace.
The road from home to school was full of Duan Qiyan's alumni. Duan Qiyan heard the alumni say: "The school's centennial celebration is coming, what program is your class preparing..."
Centennial Celebration!
Duan Qiyan's mind became active.
He may not rank at the top of the school's honor roll, but he can shine at the school celebration ceremony. If he successfully performs a super funny skit, won't he be known as the "Zhao Benshan of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School"
The more Duan Qiyan thought about it, the happier he became, and he rode faster.
He ran into the classroom of Grade 2 (17), fearing that he would be late and Jiang Yubai would snatch away his reputation as "Zhao Benshan of Provincial No. 1 Middle School". According to his observation, Jiang Yubai was the most scheming boy in the class, and he simply disdained to associate with Jiang Yubai.
However, Jiang Yubai's contribution to the class was enormous. He provided perfect costumes and props for the "Changes" crew of Grade 2 (Class 17), and even Duan Qiyan couldn't help but marvel at it.
The clothes that Jiang Yubai gave to Duan Qiyan looked very much like an old scholar from the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. He put on the clothes and glasses, and walked in the rehearsal room as if he didn't recognize any relatives.
Director Shen Fuxuan shouted through a loud speaker: "Duan Qiyan! Duan Qiyan! Please come over here! Develop some rapport with your wife in the play!"
The whole class burst into laughter.
Duan Qiyan was in adolescence, so he certainly understood what those laughs meant. He stood there, refusing to go over, and Tang Tingting yelled at him from the opposite side: "Why are you so embarrassed, Duan Qiyan, if you can act, act. If you can't, give the role to someone else! Our class finally borrowed the rehearsal room, and time is very tight!"
Lin Zhixia echoed, “It’s really nervous.”
Jiang Yubai hit the nail on the head: "If we don't perform well and fail to pass the preliminary selection, we won't have the chance to go on stage, and it will be a waste of the script that our classmates have worked so hard to write."
"Oh my god," Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai sang in unison, "Will Class 18 laugh at us?"
Jiang Yubai looked at Duan Qiyan: "Is there any need to say this?"
Duan Qiyan was provoked by him, and rushed towards Tang Tingting like the wind, shouting at her: "Wife!"
A few boys in the corner were still teasing each other.
Lin Zhixia snatched the director's loudspeaker and shouted, "Classmates, we are a team. It is not easy to film this play. Every character has been carefully polished by the screenwriter team, who stayed up all night for a week. The head teacher trusts us, and the screenwriter team, director team, and props team are all busy running around. I hope everyone will not laugh at the characters in the script. The final effect of this play is the result of the joint efforts of all of us. Duan Qiyan's seriousness is obvious to all. Respecting every student is not only for this play, but also for ourselves."
Jiang Yubai suddenly realized that Lin Zhixia's core idea of coordinating the team was nothing more than two points: first, everyone is equal, and second, others are oneself - this is a very high level of thought, which Jiang Yubai has not yet reached. He looked at Lin Zhixia quietly, and when Lin Zhixia turned her head and looked back at him, he looked away again.
He was wearing a suit from the Republic of China era, with a slightly tight collar. He pulled his tie. Duan Qiyan, who was standing opposite him, shouted to Tang Tingting again, "Wife!"
This time, the whole class was silent.
Tang Tingting's face flushed. She was wearing a cheongsam and couldn't move forward or backward. She was about to open her mouth, but she forgot her lines. Director Shen Fuxuan couldn't stand it anymore: "Tang Tingting, you and Duan Qiyan go to the side to review the script. I'll explain the scene to Jiang Yubai and the others."
Jiang Yubai is the male lead of the play and the soul of the whole play, and his position is quite important. When Shen Fuxuan and Jiang Yubai were discussing the characters, Tang Tingting and Duan Qiyan were sitting beside them "reviewing the script".
It was Tang Tingting's first time wearing a cheongsam, and it was also Duan Qiyan's first time seeing her wearing one. He simply didn't know where to look. He had to look at Tang Tingting when he was talking to her, but when he looked at her, he felt something was wrong! It was as if the sound of his classmates' booing was ringing in his ears again.
He and Tang Tingting are innocent.
What's more, Tang Tingting is so scary!
Tang Tingting stepped on the crossbar of the bench, took out a bag of spicy strips from her schoolbag, tore open the strips with a "swish", took a bite, and tilted her head to look at him: "Have you finished memorizing your lines?"
"There is still one page left." Duan Qi Yan said.
Tang Tingting handed the spicy strips to him. At first, he was reluctant to eat them. When Tang Tingting was about to call other students over, he reached out and grabbed a few more strips, stuffed them into his mouth, and the more he chewed, the more delicious they became.
"Be careful," Tang Tingting reminded him, "Don't get it on your clothes."
He stretched his neck and continued to eat the spicy strips like a giraffe drinking water.
Tang Tingting looked at him with interest: "You are quite interesting. During the years in elementary school, you were flying in the sky. When you met Lin Zhixia in junior high school, you returned to the ground."
"Are you familiar with Lin Zhixia?" Duan Qiyan asked her.
"Of course," Tang Tingting said, "I'm Lin Zhixia's best female classmate."
"Where are the male classmates?"
"Nonsense, of course it's Jiang Yubai."
Duan Qiyan said impatiently, "Why are you so fierce? My wife in the play is gentle and virtuous. Can't you learn from Wan Chunlei and Lin Zhixia?"
Tang Tingting sneered, "You are so arrogant. I have nothing to do with you. I act with you only for the sake of Shen Fuxuan and Jiang Yubai. Do you understand? And how can you see Wan Chunlei and Lin Zhixia being gentle and virtuous? They are not easy to mess with. Mind your own business, you bastard."
"Dead ghost" was a line in the script, and Tang Tingting said it without thinking. But she didn't mean to flirt with him, she just wanted to mock Duan Qiyan.
Duan Qiyan was indeed struck by her sarcasm. He held the spicy strips in his hand and sat there, motionless like a stone statue.
Shen Fuxuan was still arranging the show: "Tang Tingting, Duan Qiyan, get ready to start!"
Tang Tingting ran towards Shen Fuxuan quickly, with a serious and responsible attitude towards work, while Duan Qiyan seemed to be playing big shot and turned a deaf ear to what Shen Fuxuan said.
"Duan Qiyan, this is the last time to notify you! Get ready to start!" Shen Fuxuan issued an ultimatum.
Duan Qiyan had just walked to the center of the rehearsal room. He closed his eyes, imagined himself as an old scholar, and walked slowly. He accidentally bumped into Tang Tingting, who threatened him in a low voice: "If you bump into me again, I'll twist your arm."
Duan Qiyan was somewhat out of the play, yet also somewhat into it.
He found the pattern and lived up to everyone's expectations by performing the role of an old scholar. Shen Fuxuan praised him frequently, and even Jiang Yubai's acting skills were beaten by him - Jiang Yubai often played role-playing games with Lin Zhixia during class breaks, playing all the characters in history books. Unexpectedly, Jiang Yubai's acting skills were just so-so. It was incredible!
Duan Qiyan took the initiative to find Lin Zhixia and recommended himself: "Don't play role-playing with Jiang Yubai, play with me and Tang Tingting. Aren't our acting skills much better than Jiang Yubai's?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Qiyan noticed that Jiang Yubai was watching him from the side. His hair stood on end. Jiang Yubai wanted to pull him outside the classroom to talk, but Duan Qiyan immediately left this place of trouble and never mentioned the word "acting" to Lin Zhixia again.
When Tang Tingting heard about this, she said, "Don't you want to get in between Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai? Isn't that boring?"
It was five o'clock in the afternoon when they walked out of the gate of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School side by side. The red sunset reflected the vast campus and became the scenery behind them. Tang Tingting held her notebook and walked a few steps, then asked again: "Why don't you ride a bicycle recently?"
Duan Qiyan spoke the truth: "Didn't I have to kneel down in a scene in the production of 'Changes'? On the day of the performance, I knelt too hard and broke my knee. I couldn't ride a bike for two weeks, so I took the bus."
There was no trace of pain in his heartless tone.
Tang Tingting was stunned.
She remembered Duan Qiyan standing guard at the school gate in elementary school. No matter how cold the wind was, he never slacked off. Even when his hands turned red from the cold, he never complained. Also, in the first year of junior high school, he made a bet with Jiang Yubai that if he lost, he would accept the loss. No matter how embarrassing it was, he never cheated.
He knelt so many times during the school anniversary performance of "Changes", but never raised any opinions with the writing team, nor did he complain during rehearsal or after leaving the stage, even though he couldn't even ride a bicycle.
Tang Tingting's eyes were red. But she blocked them with her notebook, and the sunset light fell all over her again. No one except herself discovered her secret, and no one guessed her confused mood at the moment.
She pretended to be calm and asked him, "Is it that serious? How badly did you fall? Have you been to the hospital?"
"Damn it," Duan Qiyan said, "Do I need to go to the hospital for such a minor injury?"
Tang Tingting said angrily for no reason: "If you don't want to go, then don't go!"
She left Duan Qiyan behind and walked towards the bus stop alone.
Duan Qiyan stood there, not understanding what he meant.
Tang Tingting's words and deeds often make Duan Qiyan feel incredible - Tang Tingting is the class's cultural and arts committee member. Except for being sweet in front of Lin Zhixia, she is fierce and rude in the eyes of others. You say Tang Tingting is not gentle and delicate enough, and her tear point is very low. When the class organized to watch a series of movies such as "Cats and Dogs" and "The Chorus", Tang Tingting cried loudly.
In short, there is a lot of mystery surrounding Tang Tingting.
Duan Qiyan was thinking when Jiang Yubai passed by him from behind and called him, "Duan Qiyan."
Duan Qiyan was panicked: "Ah?"
Jiang Yubai stared at his expression for a while, then said, "Your face is as red as your ears." Then he asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Duan Qiyan said: "Female classmate."
Before he finished speaking, his stomach started to growl. He had eaten lunch in the school cafeteria at noon, but he was not full, so he was naturally hungry in the afternoon. Jiang Yubai took out a strawberry bread from his schoolbag and handed it to him: "I only have this, try it."
Duan Qiyan opened the package and took a bite. He thought it was the most delicious bread. He devoured it ravenously, his mouth full of the aroma of strawberries. He immediately asked, "Is this what you brought for Lin Zhixia?"
Jiang Yubai put his hands in his pockets: "If you eat it, I brought it for you."
Wow, pretty cool!
Duan Qi Yan stopped talking.
Jiang Yubai continued: "When we were leaving the school, I was walking behind you and Tang Tingting, and happened to hear you two chatting..."
"You are eavesdropping!" Duan Qiyan pointed his index finger at him.
Jiang Yubai held his index finger and gently bent it in his direction: "Knee problems are not trivial. You should go to the hospital if you can. Or you can tell me the symptoms and send me photos via QQ. I will ask the doctor at home to see you and bring you some medicine tomorrow."
Duan Qiyan said, "Come on, stop caring about me. We are not that familiar with each other."
"This is not a question of whether we are familiar with each other or not," Jiang Yubai analyzed to him, "I am a member of the cast of 'Changes'. I also wrote the script for a day. When the script was finalized, I was the first to review it and was responsible for arranging props and costumes. I didn't put cotton pads on your pants. I didn't think carefully. I am just making up for the responsibility I didn't fulfill. Don't feel pressured."
Duan Qiyan was frightened by Jiang Yubai.
That night, Duan Qiyan took a picture of his knee with his digital camera at home, and then sent the picture to Jiang Yubai via QQ. Jiang Yubai brought a doctor to give him a live consultation, which made his parents very nervous, thinking that he had a terminal illness. Fortunately, the doctor said that it was nothing serious and that he could just spray some medicine.
The next afternoon, Jiang Yubai indeed brought two boxes of medicine to Duan Qiyan.
Duan Qiyan's injuries healed very quickly after a few days. In less than a week, he was fully recovered and was playing and playing with the boys in the corridor again, hugging each other, jumping and running, looking very happy.
He even said to Tang Tingting, "I'm fine now!"
Tang Tingting avoided him and said, "It's fine now."
Tang Tingting walked forward, and Duan Qiyan stepped back: "Hey, did you cry that day?"
Tang Tingting had a bad feeling in her heart. She asked him, "Which day?"
Duan Qiyan said honestly: "I told you that the day I injured my knee, I was injured on duty!"
Tang Tingting's face turned pale and she cursed him crazily: "Cry like a ghost! Which eye of yours saw me crying! Get out of the way! Don't block me from delivering my homework to the teacher's office!"
She is a real murderer, Duan Qiyan thought.
Duan Qiyan ran away quickly.
After that, he and Tang Tingting had little contact. Although they were classmates, they might not say a word from morning to night. Days passed by and the classmates grew up. The year when he was promoted from junior high school to high school, Jiang Yubai transferred to another school. The year when he was promoted from the first year of high school to the second year of high school, Lin Zhixia skipped a grade and went to college.
The class was no longer the class they were familiar with. There was less and less laughter, the pressure of the competition was gradually increasing, and during breaks, at least half of the students in the classroom were obsessed with doing exercises.
Tang Tingting wants to go out for some fresh air.
She was holding a test paper, standing in the corridor, with her back against the railing. She looked up at the sky, which was dazzlingly blue, and she squinted slightly, tears streaming down her eyes - this was all because she was tired from using her eyes and had just put in a few drops of eye drops.
Duan Qiyan stopped in front of her.
"Are you crying?" he asked.
Tang Tingting said impatiently: "What the hell are you crying about?"
Duan Qiyan was very sure: "You really cried."
Tang Tingting pursed her lips and said nothing. She threw the test paper in her hand, turned around and walked back to the classroom. Duan Qiyan caught a glimpse of the bright red "71 points" on her test paper. This was the physics test paper for this week, which was extremely difficult. Duan Qiyan himself only scored 73 points.
Duan Qiyan pondered for a moment, then sat back in his seat, started to correct the first question on the test paper, and wrote down the simplest solution. When he encountered a question he didn't understand, Duan Qiyan would ask Shen Fuxuan or go to the office to find the teacher. After half a day's hard work, he threw a draft paper filled with the simplest ideas in front of Tang Tingting.
"Here's a reward for you!" Duan Qi Yan said.
Tang Tingting was about to tear the paper into pieces when Duan Qiyan rushed over to stop her: "Damn it, you bastard, at least take a look before you tear it up!"
Tang Tingting saw it clearly. She took back her hands and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Duan Qiyan said, "Lin Zhixia is gone, you have to rely on yourself, just go to Shen Fuxuan and the teacher to ask questions. I just greeted Shen Fuxuan, he is willing to explain the questions to you. I am good at math and chemistry, you can come and ask me if you don't understand these two subjects."
Tang Tingting muttered something in a low voice.
Duan Qiyan asked her: "What are you talking about? Speak louder?"
Tang Tingting looked up at him and said, "Brother, my scores in math and chemistry are higher than yours."
"Fuck, is this true?" Duan Qiyan was so ashamed that he wanted to find a hole to crawl into. This was even more embarrassing than when he called out "Your Majesty Jiang Yubai" three times in junior high school, but Tang Tingting suddenly laughed: "It's not true, I lied to you, you're so easy to fool."
Duan Qiyan seemed to have come back from the dead.
He turned away haughtily.
Tang Tingting stared at his back in a daze.
She remembered his advice: "Lin Zhixia is gone, you have to rely on yourself."
Tang Tingting was admitted to Tsinghua University through her own efforts. In fact, she had applied to the Department of Mathematics at Peking University, but her score was not high enough, so she had to miss out on Duan Qiyan and others. She wanted to save face, so of course she couldn't say it directly, and she always declared to the outside world that she had never considered Peking University.
Tang Tingting also said that she chose another school because there are more boys there. The more boys there are, the higher the chance of being single. She wants to have a good relationship in college and let her youth be immersed in the ocean of love.
Duan Qiyan was very angry with her.
He taught her on the street: "If you only think about dating, you are a complete idiot. There is no such thing as dating. It's boring."
"Fool." Tang Tingting also scolded him.
"I'm not stupid." Duan Qi Yan declared.
Shen Fuxuan stood aside, quietly watching the fight between the two of them. After Tang Tingting left, Shen Fuxuan asked, "Do you really not understand, or are you pretending not to understand?"
Duan Qiyan asked back: "Are you really pretending to be stupid, or are you just pretending to be stupid?"
Shen Fuxuan is like a charlatan wandering around the world: "True and false, just like passing clouds and mist."
Duan Qiyan slowed down his pace. At that time, he still wanted to stay in Beijing.
After many twists and turns, he finally gave up the idea of working hard in Beijing and returned to the provincial capital where he was born and raised to live an ordinary life.
He became a mathematics competition teacher at the Provincial No. 1 Middle School.
Duan Qiyan returned to the Provincial No. 1 Middle School as a teacher, with a sense of "fate and reincarnation".
He tutored every student with all his heart and his phone was filled with parents' contact information. He realized that the things he felt adults had to do when he was a child were actually not easy at all, such as cooking, washing dishes, cleaning, and picking up and dropping off children - although he was not married and had no children, he could imagine it.
Soon after Jiang Yubai and Lin Zhixia got married, Duan Qiyan also saved money to buy a diamond ring. As a new generation of competition teacher at Provincial No. 1 Middle School, he brought Tang Tingting back to the campus of Provincial No. 1 Middle School.
On the rooftop of their high school teaching building, Duan Qiyan put the box containing the diamond ring into Tang Tingting's arms. Familiar feelings of shame and anxiety alternately surged into his heart. Duan Qiyan turned around and was about to run away, but Tang Tingting stopped him: "If you run away, we'll be done!"
Duan Qiyan walked back towards her with big strides.
"Is it OK?" he asked. "Is the ring big enough? Will I look respectable wearing it?"
Tang Tingting said: "Who wears this to work? I have to check circuits every day. This diamond is so bright that it hurts my eyes."
She hooked her arm around his neck: "How much is this ring?"
"About 100,000 yuan." Duan Qi Yan said.
Tang Tingting gave him a big kiss on the face: "Thank you, Brother Duan."
Duan Qiyan said: "Don't be polite, it's nothing."
"How much money is left in your passbook?" Tang Tingting asked again.
A cold wind blew past, and Duan Qiyan sniffed: "There are still more than 40,000."
Tang Tingting put on the ring and led him downstairs: "Hubby, I want to move to a bigger house. How about this, you can put the house under your name up for sale. It's in a good location and easy to rent out. As for me, with the efforts of my parents and myself, I will buy the house in full and add your name, okay?"
"It doesn't matter whether I add it or not," Duan Qiyan thought, "I won't rent out the house I live in now. I'll have a place to go after I have a fight with you someday."
Tang Tingting looked at him in surprise.
He looked at her too.
Tang Tingting said: "I won't kick you out."
Duan Qiyan touched her head randomly.
Tang Tingting felt a surge of anger in her heart. She dragged Duan Qiyan back to his apartment, and that night they made love together. The benefits of Duan Qiyan's years of physical exercise were fully demonstrated, and Tang Tingting couldn't help but feel pity and tenderness for him.
Afterwards, Tang Tingting sat at the head of the bed and drank water. Duan Qiyan huddled in the quilt and refused to come out. Tang Tingting comforted him: "Hey, I accepted your proposal and will definitely be responsible for you. Don't worry, husband."
Duan Qiyan said, "You are talking nonsense."
"No way," Tang Tingting patted his back, "I have been honest with you since I was a child, and I let you take advantage of me. Do you remember the frostbite cream from that year?"
This might be a marriage caused by frostbite cream, Duan Qiyan thought.
He suddenly had an idea.
On Monday afternoon, Duan Qiyan had no classes and had finished grading his homework. He took the bus and went to the Normal School Attached to the Primary School alone. He had not been back to see his alma mater for more than ten years. Now that he had a stable job and was about to get married, he wanted to take a look at the campus of the past. He stood at the entrance of the Normal School Attached to the Primary School for a long time. The reputation of "the first god of war" had long disappeared. The sound of reading aloud came from the teaching building, and an old man with pure white hair in the security room waved to him.
He smiled, took two steps back, turned around and left the elementary school gate, striding towards the future.
The author has something to say: The next chapter will be the Xiaojiang High School extra-chapter!
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