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In late September, the sun at noon was a little bit lower than in July and August, and it was no longer so heroically swaying the heat all over the body. The sultry heat of several months finally dissipated a little in these two days.
When October is over, it will be autumn soon. After a while, it will be the school international festival held every year by N City No. 1 Middle School.
According to the requirements, in addition to the various clubs and student unions in the school, each class in the first and second grades of high school must apply for two programs, and then the selection will be carried out. The programs that have successfully participated in the National Day Extravaganza will be selected after the performance. If they enter the inter-school top ten, the school will issue a small pennant to the class or club where the program is located.
Since the first class is an experimental class, grades are the most important, and the class teacher does not pay much attention to such honors, so the programs in the class have not been fully registered.
Zhang Man remembers that in the previous life, their class only had one show at the end, which seemed to be a dance of a few girls, and there was no splash in the final selection.
After dinner, she and Chen Feier wandered around the school playground.
As the largest middle school in N City, No. 1 Middle School covers a very large area. The school has a total of two playgrounds, one is a 400-meter-long plastic track, and in the middle is a huge artificial green lawn with a wide football field. The other is the cinder track, with volleyball and basketball courts in the middle, where they usually take gym lessons.
The football field is very close to the canteen.
Chen Feier walked back and forth on a hollow concrete pillar lying horizontally beside the plastic track, swinging her arms up and down to maintain her balance, and she had a lot of fun.
Zhang Man was a little worried when she saw her wobbly appearance, and kept standing at the bottom to protect her.
Chen Feier walked back and forth for a while, and suddenly remembered: "Manman, I heard that there seems to be not enough people in your class for the National Day extravaganza. Why didn't you sign up? You sing so well and play the guitar well."
Zhang Man learned guitar and singing from Zhang Huifang.
Zhang Huifang was the lead singer of the band when she was young, and sometimes she was also a musician. She was proficient in all these popular instruments. When Zhang Man was young, she taught Zhang Man to play the guitar at home, from folk songs to rock and roll, and she taught everything casually, depending on her mood that day.
The teaching is casual, and the learning is also casual, but the effect is not bad, perhaps it is also related to the natural sense of music.
Now suddenly hearing Chen Feier mention it, Zhang Man can't help but sigh: "Me? Forget it, I haven't touched it for many years."
She was thinking about her past life.
After Zhang Huifang and Zheng Zhi got married in her previous life, she transferred to H City with her. After that, a lot of things happened, and the tempering of life made the life of mother and daughter very difficult. Zhang Huifang no longer sings and plays the piano, she never touches the guitar again, and she can't even think about it after work.
After so many years, the fingering has long been rusty.
Chen Feier glanced at her strangely after hearing this: "How long, isn't it just over a month? You even played guitar for me on my birthday during the summer vacation, you forgot? Manman, that English song you played. It’s so good, and the singing is so good, I think it’s comparable to a professional singer.”
Zhang Man was stunned for a moment, a little stunned when he heard the words. Well, she is now sixteen years old. She is still at the age when she can play guitar and sing when she has nothing to do.
Fortunately, Fei'er Chen didn't take it seriously, she blinked and said with a smile: "And Manman, aren't you chasing Li Wei? Let me tell you, boys like girls who are versatile and mysterious. Think about it. Ah, he usually knew you, quiet and quiet, and it seemed that you didn't say a lot. Then one day, he suddenly found out that this girl sang so well, would he pay some attention to you?"
Zhang Man was a little skeptical after hearing this: "Is it...?"
Chen Feier walked crookedly from one end of the cement column to the other, nodded fiercely, and patted her chest: "Based on my years of experience in reading romance novels, this move is absolutely right."
She nodded so hard that she couldn't keep her balance and almost fell, but fortunately Zhang Man kept paying attention to her, and quickly pulled her with his eyes and hands.
The two walked for a while, and Zhang Man went to the cafeteria to buy a lunch box for Li Wei, and carried it back to the classroom. Back at her seat, Li Wei was reading a printed paper in English. She glanced at it, and there were several words in the title that she had never seen before.
He looked at it carefully, and while watching, he made notes on the side of some formulas and images. He wrote the words in a straight pen on the snow-white A4 paper, making a "rustling" rubbing sound.
Zhang Man put the lunch box on his table.
"Li Wei... Do you think girls can play a musical instrument?"
She remembered what Chen Fei'er said just now, and she asked such a question.
Li Weigang finished pushing a formula, put down the pen, leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and pressed his temples: "Well, Janet is a pianist. When I was a child, I couldn't sleep, she would carry me to the piano room and play the piano. listen to me."
Although he looked tired, he mentioned his mother with a warm tone.
Zhang Man couldn't help but catch his breath when he heard the words.
"Then... what happened later?"
The young man's expression was a little dazed, as if he was remembering. Zhang Man's heart was tense, worried that he had discovered some memory faults, which would lead to bad results.
He thought about it carefully, and his voice was calm and natural: "Later... I forgot that she immigrated when I was very young."
When she heard his answer, she was relieved and a little dignified at the same time. His paranoia was indeed serious enough to be close to logical consistency.
Vision and auditory hallucinations have created a delusional world that makes the scalp tingling and is very realistic. He is completely convinced that the fantasy in his mind is reality, so even if someone tells him that his mother has passed away, I am afraid he will not believe it at all.
Zhang Man didn't dare to ask any more, and quickly changed the subject: "What about the guitar? Do you like guitars?"
The young man nodded lightly: "Sometimes I can't get a clue when I read a book. I also listen to some country music or rock slowly."
So after the evening self-study, Zhang Man went to Dai Qian, a literary committee member, to sign up. Dai Qian herself was one of the few dancing girls. Seeing her signing up so late, she was a little puzzled: "The official performance will be officially held in more than ten days. Is it too late for you to start rehearsing now?"
She wanted to make things difficult for Zhang Man, so she said: "In this case, I won't report it to you first. You will go to the Literature and Art Department with me after class tomorrow, and we will listen to a piece of music. Our minister will be there by then. Otherwise, we will lose the face of our class."
Generally speaking, it takes more than three days to prepare from registration to selection. She asked Zhang Man to participate in the selection the next day, which was really embarrassing for her.
Zhang Man frowned, thinking about the possibility of becoming skilled in one day. She has already thought about the songs in her mind. There is no problem in singing, mainly playing the guitar.
In fact, it shouldn't be difficult to pick it up, Zhang Man nodded, and after filling out the registration form, he planned to leave.
Just as she turned around, Daisy stopped her.
"By the way... Zhang Man, do you like Li Wei?" Her voice hid a bit of happiness that pierced her mind, and her voice rose, "Unfortunately, he seems to already have a girlfriend."
"He usually doesn't get close to strangers, but the last time I heard him call that girl from the school's public phone booth, his voice was very gentle. I think he seems to be cold to you now."
Zhang Man turned his head and glanced at her blankly: "I don't need you to worry about my affairs."
She forced herself back to her seat, and suddenly lost all her strength after sitting down. Because of her rebirth, many things in her previous life were advanced.
Like this rumor.
This incident was something she never wanted to recall, the reason why she separated from Li Wei in her previous life.
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That was the first semester of the second year of high school in the previous life, a month or two before Zhang Man transferred.
Usually at the same table in school, and she has to go to his house every weekend to make up lessons, the two get along almost day and night.
At that time, their relationship was much better than now, at least Zhang Man thinks so. Although it was not stated explicitly, the teenager would always send her home every night after the make-up class ended, and accompany her through the streetlights one after another.
When she occasionally came to school, she would bring him some stomach-nourishing soy milk and breakfast, which he ate one bite at a time without wasting anything. At that time, he looked at her with a soft and warm light in his eyes.
It is the kind of closeness and love that I have never had before.
Seventeen-year-old Zhang Man is simple and ignorant. He knows in his heart that he has fallen into a young love, but he is afraid to understand more deeply.
Or rather, he was actually the same.
Probably for fear of scaring her, he never mentioned his family in front of her. On her side, since she had known about his father's suicide from some rumors, she was worried about poking his wound, so she never asked.
Young love is always like this, wanting to touch but afraid to touch, both sides deliberately keep the distance beyond a certain limit.
The sense of distance brought by this hazy and youthful liking has led to various misunderstandings and even a break.
At that time, Zhang Man was at the age of first love. Whenever he saw Li Wei by her side every day, his heart was as sweet as eating honey.
But one day, she heard that Li Wei actually had another girlfriend.
They told her at the time that Li Wei always called that girl and that he had a tenderness he had never seen before.
They also said that Li Wei's girlfriend's name was Janet.
Hearing these words, Zhang Man thought that this was just one of Li Wei's many unbelievable rumors, so she didn't bother to pay attention to it. She told herself in her heart that she had to learn to trust him.
However, this trust was completely broken shortly after.
Zhang Man remembered everything that day very clearly. In November, it was already early autumn in N City, and the weather gradually turned cold. During that time, Li Weigang came back from the national finals of the physics competition in Z city. She remembered that she even bought him a small gift to pray for him.
That evening, after dinner, she and Chen Feier went for a walk and chat on the playground, walking along the plastic track.
The afterglow of the setting sun and the dark red plastic runway almost merged into one. After walking through a corner, Zhang Man saw Li Wei calling in the public telephone booth next to the playground.
The boy was wearing his school uniform in a regular manner, his tall and straight figure was stretched long in the setting sun, his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, his knuckled hand was holding the microphone, and the smile on his lips was breathtaking.
Zhang Man was excited because of the chance encounter, and approached him quietly from behind, wanting to pat him on the shoulder to startle him when he hung up, but he heard the sound of his call.
The teenager said in a hoarse voice, "Janet, is it cold in Canada right now? You need to wear more clothes, be sure to wear a hat and scarf when you go out, and a mask too... Well, I just came back from the finals, you You can come anytime during this time…”
He rambled on some trivial things in life, his voice was so gentle, his low voice was clearly transmitted to her ears along the autumn wind, as if someone was scratching her ear socket with a soft feather.
Zhang Man was standing behind him, very close to him, but he heard him call another girl with such a gentle voice.
The first reaction in her heart was that there really was such a girl named Janet. However, in the next second, she felt that an extremely sour feeling began to spread in her chest, as if a peeled lemon was stuffed into it.
- So distressing.