"Cheng Ran, Cheng Ran, I called you several times but you didn't come out. Are you really reviewing? What are you doing? Stop pretending and go out and play some games! That Intel tribe has added 'Tomb Raider'! It's so fun that you don't know it!"
Yu Xiao opened the door of Cheng Ran's room and poked her head in. Xu Lan was standing outside the door with a smile on her face. Xu Lan was also very enthusiastic about Yu Xiao's arrival. After all, they were all her son's best friends. Sometimes, she felt annoyed by these best friends because they were always "stuck together" and affected their studies. But on the other hand, she felt that it was good to have normal social interaction when she saw the children playing together.
Today is Saturday. In addition to Cheng Feiyang who was worried about going to the technical institute to work overtime, she was also at home. She went to buy groceries and went to the department store. When she came back, she found that Cheng Ran had not left for a moment, so she locked herself in her room to read and study. Yu Xiao had actually called several times today, but Cheng Ran rejected them all.
Yu Xiao came to see her at night, so she let Yu Xiao in, thinking it would be nice to go out and play for a while.
Cheng Ran raised his head from the table, and the long-lost memories filled his mind again. At that time, Internet cafes were not called Internet cafes. They were called Internet Post Station, Intel Tribe, E Tribe Salon, etc. In short, they were very early names. The Internet in this era was roughly the same as in the previous life. It was almost just starting out, and there were not many people online. In addition to chat rooms and BBS, the only online games that netizens could play were text-based online games called "mud". Of course, these were almost all the worlds of adult netizens. Students like Yu Xiao and most people just used the computers in the Internet cafes as stand-alone game consoles. At this time, most people still played stand-alone and LAN games.
In Internet cafes, there are basically a bunch of people staring at the pixelated screens that would seem horrible in later generations, enjoying the game. Even when the game gets intense, there are often a bunch of people around them pointing and criticizing.
Nostalgia is nostalgia, but for Cheng Ran who is now making a review plan, all of this has to be postponed.
Yu Xiao was very surprised at Cheng Ran's change of character, "Hey, you are really reviewing... You took that bet seriously... I'm not saying this, but can you catch up in the last month or so? You must be kidding..." In front of Cheng Ran, Yu Xiao, who was very familiar with him, didn't care about expressing his disapproval in person, and didn't care about Cheng Ran's expression at all.
At this time, Xu Lan appeared outside the door, puzzled, "What bet?"
Cheng Ran glanced at Yu Xiao, who immediately laughed out of shock, "It's okay, Auntie, we were just talking about a joke in class..." After some coaxing and deception, Xu Lan, who was burning with gossip, was still fooled.
Xu Lan went back to the living room to watch TV. Yu Xiao realized that he couldn't persuade his best friend, so he looked around Cheng Ran's room with a look of sullenness. "Are there any new comics or interesting novels recently? Since you're not going to play, it's not fun for me to play by myself. I'll borrow a few books to read tonight..."
"Are you a bandit?" Cheng Ran said without turning his head, "Take it yourself... By the way, you must return it! How many books have you borrowed from me before?"
Yu Xiao was searching Cheng Ran's bookcase with a look of great satisfaction on his face, while he said, "By the way, we're going to Liu Ying's house tomorrow night. I ran into her today, and she will call you later. I heard that she also invited Yang Xia and some people from the government compound next door." Yu Xiao paused while speaking, and then said casually, "Also, that Lao Jiang, Hong Shao... you know..."
"Jiang Hongshao! She wants to come too."
Yu Xiao's pause and the fluctuations in his heart were also received by Cheng Ran, who knew his best friend very well. He turned his head for the first time and looked at Yu Xiao.
"Old Jiang?" Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment in confusion.
Yu Xiao felt a little uncomfortable, as if trying to hide his inner unrest, and stammered, "Um, the one we met in the government compound before... Jiang Hongshao..."
Cheng Ran narrowed his eyes, and the image of a girl who spoke standard and elegant Mandarin, who made others feel inferior in front of her, appeared in his mind.
Because the unit of Huatong Branch was adjacent to the municipal government residential compound, where many trees were planted, such as guelder trees, loquat trees, pomegranate trees and the like. When the season came, Cheng Ran and his group loved to run to the government compound to steal the fruits.
That time they found a place, in front of a row of single-family buildings in the courtyard of the government community, there was a loquat tree that they had not discovered before, and the fruit was big and round, and no one had picked it first, so how could the two of them miss it? Cheng Ran climbed on the top, and Yu Xiao looked out from below. Cheng Ran threw the loquats down after picking them, and Yu Xiao's so-called lookout was finally forgotten after his mouth was full of food. Then they found a girl standing not far from the tree, very beautiful, looking at them calmly, and they didn't know how long she had been there before. At that time, the two who were eating secretly on the tree with their butts sticking up rolled down, wiped their mouths desperately to destroy the evidence, and wished they could find a hole to crawl into.
Later, they found out that the girl lived in a small house with a red door, and the tree was the fruit tree in front of her house. They were caught stealing in front of the owner, which was very embarrassing. What hurt their self-esteem the most was that the girl didn't pursue the matter, and even returned home, holding a bag of fruit and handing it to them. The frustration of the two at that time was like a stupid thief who stole into the house of a generous owner, and the owner finally gave them money for the journey, almost saying "Take it, be a good person in the future..."
Later they found out that the girl was from Class 1, Middle School, and her name was Jiang Hongshao. The name might sound a bit rustic at first, but when applied to a girl like that, the word "rustic" was totally inappropriate.
She moved here when she was in junior high school. She was a transfer student and a classmate of Liu Ying who was also in the same class as them. Liu Ying was cheerful, confident, and good at making friends. On her birthday that year, she invited her classmate Jiang Hongshao. At that time, Cheng Ran and Yu Xiao knew her name. Of course, the girl also recognized them, but was stunned for a moment, then waved to them with a cheerful and sweet smile, just like she did to others.
Friendly, yet distant. Just like her, she is like a sparse shadow in a dark blue ink painting.
Jiang Hongshao's appearance at that time undoubtedly shocked the entire circle of children in the compound. Even Yang Xia often said in private that her favorite girl was Jiang Hongshao, who was beautiful, intellectual, and a top-notch goddess. Although Jiang Hongshao was not in the mainstream discussion during her junior high school years, many people privately called her the school belle. It was just because she transferred to the school later, was very low-key, and always kept a distance from others, so probably many people's first reaction was to stay away from her.
"So... she didn't disappear..." Cheng Ran muttered to himself. As for Jiang Hongshao, even though it seemed like a lifetime ago, he could still remember the throbbing that shocked the boy's heart. He couldn't blame him. I'm afraid no boy would be indifferent to such a beautiful girl. She was so stunning at that time, and she might be a disaster to the country and the people in the future... It's a pity that she continued to study in the high school department of No. 1 Middle School, while Cheng Ran was transferred to No. 4 Middle School. How could he know her information after that
But now that I think about it, Jiang Hongshao is really a mysterious girl. Her overall temperament is very well-educated, which is not something that ordinary girls have. At that time, the inner courtyard house where she lived was, not surprisingly, called the "Red Gate Courtyard", which was a very high-level residence in the government.
This girl seemed to be shrouded in a fog, and was a mystery that Cheng Ran had never been able to decipher during his youth.
"Lao Jiang" has also become a common nickname they give to others.
At that time, she was probably the fleeting beauty that many young people could never forget. For example, Yu Xiao could not calm down for a long time even when her name was mentioned.
"What do you mean disappeared? Are you out of your mind..." Yu Xiao shook his head and said, "In addition to Jiang Hongshao, there are several people from the government compound coming... It's like a dog-skin plaster... Uh... What are you doing, what are you doing..."
Yu Xiao found the newspaper where Cheng Ran practiced calligraphy and saw the calligraphy on it.
He turned his head in disbelief and pointed at the beautiful handwriting, "Did you write this?"
Cheng Ran had lived two lives, and later practiced calligraphy while working. Of course, he had come back with the experience and knowledge of his last life, so he was not unfamiliar with it. However, Yu Xiao, who was used to seeing Cheng Ran's handwriting, saw calligraphy that was many times better than the messy handwriting before. Perhaps Cheng Ran's handwriting could be found flawed from an expert's perspective. But in Yu Xiao's eyes at this moment, coupled with the fact that Cheng Ran's handwriting was written with the state of mind when he was just reborn, those strokes, those awe-inspiring meanings, those emotions that were about to jump out of the paper, were so simple, but they hit him with great force.
"No, no... Could it be that you also wrote this poem... I mean, did you create it yourself?"
"It's someone else's. I changed it a little."
"Can I take this back... and have a look at it..."
Cheng Ran waved his hand, "Okay, remember to return the book you borrowed from me next time!"
Yu Xiao tucked the newspaper covered with calligraphy, and "forcibly" borrowed a few comic books. When Cheng Ran was about to protest against him taking away an out-of-print copy of "Yu Yu Hakusho", he simply ran away.
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