It was a gloomy Monday, with a damp smell in the wind. Groups of students wearing all kinds of cotton-padded clothes filed in. From time to time, someone could be heard asking, "How are you preparing?"
"Very good. I can't say I'm the first, but I can guarantee that I'll be in the top 50 in the class!"
"Bah, there are fifty-one people in your class six, okay?"
Tomorrow morning, the first grade of Qingyi Middle School will hold the first major exam since the freshmen entered the school. After two months of study, this will be a concentrated survey and comparison of the quality, overall situation and teaching effect of the freshmen. As we all know, there is a big difference between junior high school and high school. The elites and top students in the whole city are gathered together. Some people can quickly adapt to the rhythm of high school and continue to maintain their former glory and honor, while some people can't get into the state for a long time, give up on themselves, and gradually sink under the huge contrast.
This is the first important watershed in life, but unfortunately, we didn’t understand it at that age!
Of course, there was no "exam seat numbering system" like in later generations in this era. The computer randomly generated a student number after inputting the student number, which was convenient and fast, and could effectively prevent cheating. In 1995, the "old three methods" were popular in Qingzhou. If there were enough classrooms, the "empty seat system" was used, with the middle separated to leave one or two empty seats; if different grades took the exam together, the "flower arrangement system" was used, with students from grades one, two and three mixed together; but if there were not enough classrooms and only one grade was taking the exam, there was no other choice but to use the "mixed system", with students from different classes randomly arranged and combined to try not to let students from the same class sit together.
Cheating and anti-cheating is a long, lasting war that will never end!
The whole day was filled with people in a state of panic. Some were preparing cheat sheets, some were fidgeting, some were memorizing frantically, and some were so nervous that their faces turned pale and they were breathing heavily. Of course, there were also people who were confident and relaxed. Students with good grades became popular at this time. From time to time, some people came over to build relationships, chatted about family matters, and made countless promises in conversation, such as going to restaurants, playing games, sending snacks, buying comics, and even wishing they could become girls and simply give themselves to them.
The talented students of Qingyi Middle School gave a vivid description of this situation: fighting tigers means being close to brothers, and taking exams means building relationships. If you copy the left and the right, you will be bankrupt after the exam.
When class monitor Zhang Tianqi entered school, he was the top student in Class 3. In just one day, he received eight applications asking him to take care of the students during the exams. This person is very interesting. He has excellent grades and is also the class monitor. Compared with Wen Liang, the public enemy of Class 3, he has a very good relationship with people. Unlike most good students, he has an inexplicable sense of superiority. He either hates cheating or disdains it. He gives a sour face to anyone who tries to get in touch with him, and even threatens to tell the teacher.
He always pretended to understand his classmates' suffering, patted his chest and promised to do it. When he entered the examination room, the test paper was open, and he didn't seem to mind people around him taking a look at it. If you really have the ability, you can copy it all down. But the problem is, there was a guy with infrared vision who even drew the same picture in the geometry problem. As a result, Zhang Tianqi scored more than 130 points, and he still scored 90 points. There is no need to mention those who took a look at it once or twice. Although the effect of copying is better than doing it yourself, it is also extremely limited.
This has been an unsolved mystery that has troubled many "relatives" in the third shift for many years.
After the second get out of class in the afternoon, Gao Fan, the legendary student who sat in the row in front of Ren Yi, saw this situation and said disdainfully: "You don't do your homework at ordinary times, but you cram at the last minute! What a bunch of rubbish!"
Ren Yi was just about to go hang out with some of his good classmates, but when he heard this, he got annoyed and patted Gao Fan on the shoulder: "How can you talk like that? What do you mean by trash? Anyone with bad grades is trash?"
Gao Fan stood up. Although he was not tall, he was strong. He had a psychological advantage over a fat guy like Ren Yi. "Why, do you have any objections?"
Ren Yi was like Little Red Riding Hood seeing the Big Bad Wolf when he saw Liu Zhihe, but that didn't mean he was really timid. He grabbed the thick Chinese textbook and was about to throw it at Gao Fan's face. Wen Liang had long been on guard against his impulsiveness, so he grabbed his arm, shook his head and advised: "We are classmates in the same class, why bother? Calm down, calm down..."
Gao Fan pushed up his glasses and said angrily, "If you want to fight, come on. If I'm not afraid of you, my last name is not Gao!"
Wen Liang said coldly: "Shut up!"
Although Wen Liang had a bad reputation in the past two months, Gao Fan had nothing to fear as he would be able to attend high school for eight years in the future. He pushed his glasses up and prepared to retort, but Ji Su came over and chuckled, "Student Gao Fan, you have an exam tomorrow. I wish you a good grade!"
Gao Fan opened his mouth, snorted, then turned around and sat back.
Ren Yi muttered something about trying to build relationships. Wen Liang moved to his seat, asked Ji Su to sit down, and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Fortunately, I just went to hand in my homework and saw that the test number has been released. Teacher Ye will come to announce it soon. Wen Liang, were you very busy in the past two days? Why didn't I see you?"
Wen Liang was silent for a moment, then said, "I went to sing with Xu Yao on Saturday night. I was a little busy on Sunday. Sorry."
"Is that so?" Ji Su still had a faint smile on his face and said softly, "Don't run around tonight. Let's review each course systematically. I hope we can get good grades tomorrow."
Wen Liang stared at her for a while, laughed, and said, "Okay!"
At the end of the third period, Ye Yuting walked into the classroom and began to announce the numbers for tomorrow's exam. After the announcement, she scanned everyone's face and said, "Today is just a test, don't be nervous. As long as you can perform at your best, I believe our class three will get good results! That's it for today, school is over!"
After Ye Yuting left, Ren Yi immediately burst into laughter, patted Wen Liang on the shoulder and said, "It's God's will. I'm in the exam room number seven. I'm in our class. With the advantage of location, I'm sure I'll have great luck this time."
Wen Liang was in Room 5, No. 19. He had to go to Class 5 to take the exam. Compared to Ren Yi, he was considered to be away from home. He smiled and said, "But Zhang Tianqi is in Class 1. Didn't you just waste half a day talking for nothing?"
"We can just leave things to fate. It's always a good idea to build good relationships. Who knows, maybe we can be assigned together next time? It's called being prepared!"
When they walked out of the classroom, the heavy rain that had been brewing for a day finally poured down. Ren Yi had no intention of reviewing at all. He relied on his extremely strong interpersonal relationships to investigate the six and eight examination rooms in the third examination room. Meng Ke also said that she had something to do at home and left first. She picked up a book to cover her head and disappeared in the pouring rain. The "foursome" collapsed in an instant.
The campus, which had been bustling all day, soon returned to silence. Ji Su and Wen Liang stood under the eaves of the first floor, watching the rain forming countless transparent long lines that instantly swallowed up the world from the sky. The albizzia tree next to them swayed in the wind and rain, its long feathery leaves making rustling sounds. The beautiful pink albizzia flowers that opened during the day and closed at night had already fallen, leaving only yellow-brown pods dotted on the branches.
The two stood half a meter apart for a long time in silence. Ji Su suddenly took a step forward and reached his hand into the rain. The cold rain instantly wet his white palms. He looked up at the Albizia Julibrissin in the rain and mist and whispered, "It's so beautiful."
Wen Liang was a little regretful at this moment. He shouldn't have listened to Ji Su and waited here for the rain to stop after Meng Ke left. He walked over to her and extended his hand like her, smiling, "Speaking of the Albizia Julibrissin, there is also a beautiful legend..."
"Well, tell me about it." Ji Su tilted his head, his beautiful face exuding unparalleled attraction.
"It is said that the Albizia Julibrissin was originally called the Bitter Love Tree, and it has never bloomed for thousands of years. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, a scholar studied hard for ten years and was preparing to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Before leaving, his wife pointed to the Bitter Love Tree in front of the window and said to him: 'My husband, you will definitely pass the imperial examination. But the flowers in the capital are so dazzling, don't forget the way home!'"
Ji Su uttered a low "oh" and looked straight at Wen Liang with curiosity in his star-like eyes.
"The scholar had been gone for ten years, and there was no news from him since then. His wife's hair had turned white at home, and she had never waited for her husband to return. Finally, the day came when she came to the bitter love tree and made the most tearful vow with the pain of reincarnation for thousands of lifetimes: 'From now on, let this bitter love blossom, with the heartless man as the leaves and the infatuated man as the flowers. The flowers will never wither, the leaves will never dry, we will be together for the rest of our lives, and we will be together every night for generations!' After saying this, she died. The next year, the bitter love tree really blossomed, half red and half white, like a bunch of small fans hanging on the branches, blooming during the day and closing at night. The flowers bloom and fade, opening in the morning and closing in the evening, so it is called the acacia tree."
"The flowers never fade, the leaves never wither..."
Ji Su repeated it several times, sighed softly, and looked into the distance. Wen Liang secretly said that this was not good. Such a story was extremely lethal to girls, and it was really not right to say it out loud. Intent on livening up the atmosphere, he laughed softly and said, "Ren Yi is not a good person. He once told me that all the leaders of Qingyi Middle School are perverts. Otherwise, why would they plant such an immoral tree?"
Ji Su's attention was diverted, and he asked in surprise, "Ah?"
"He said there's a kind of martial arts in martial arts novels called 'The Great Compassion between Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang'. The word 'Hehuan' here refers to the relationship between men and women, hehe..."
Ji Su was pure and innocent. Even though she knew the other meaning of Hejuan, she had never thought about such a beautiful flower. When she heard Wen Liang's teasing, she blushed immediately. She scooped up the rain water with both hands and sprinkled it on Wen Liang, laughing sweetly, "I think you are not a good person!"
Wen Liang was unable to dodge and was drenched in water, so he quickly begged for mercy with a smile. His cheerful laughter flew over the floors, passed through the treetops, passed through the layers of rain and fog, and disappeared into the invisible sky.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the rain was getting heavier, with no sign of stopping. Ji Su's face was already vaguely anxious, and Wen Liang didn't want to stay here any longer. Although it was raining heavily, the teachers from the teaching department might be wandering around the school, and it would be difficult to avoid being encountered.
"Let's go!"
"But it's raining so hard?"
Wen Liang took off his shirt and put his hands up to cover his head. Ji Su exclaimed, "Don't, you'll catch a cold!"
Wen Liang smiled and said, "Why are you still standing there? Come in quickly. You will really catch a cold in a while."
Ji Su's heart skipped a beat, and without hesitation, he walked in openly. With one hand, he helped to hold his clothes, and with the other hand, he hesitated for a moment, then slowly reached out and gently placed it on his waist.
“1, 2, 3, run!”
The two rushed into the rain, stepping into the puddles on the ground, splashing waves of youth.
In an era when white clothes are whiter than snow, was there a boy who, despite your objections, took off his coat and covered his head with it
In the season when long hair is fluttering, is there a girl who follows your command and rushes into the rain with a sweet smile