19-year-old Xu Tingsheng was sitting on the long-distance bus to Yanzhou City.
In 2011, it took 3 hours to drive from Jianan City to Yanzhou City, but now, in 2003, Xu Tingsheng just asked the driver and it took 5 hours.
Xu Tingsheng spent a day and a night before accepting the reality of rebirth. This year is 2003, and it is now the beginning of March. After going through the initial panic, perhaps because he left too many regrets in his previous life, he was even a little excited and excited.
There are 3 things ahead:
One is the unexpected death of my father, which will happen on April 15th, more than a month later.
The second is Xiang Ning, she should be only 14 years old at this time, and she is in the first grade of junior high school. As far as what Xu Tingsheng has seen and heard so far, the flapping of the butterfly's wings didn't change anything, but he still couldn't wait to confirm the existence of Xiang Ning, or he just wanted to take a look at her.
The third is the college entrance examination, and there are still almost 3 months left.
Xu Tingsheng once went to Xiang Ning's high school alma mater, Yanzhou No. 2 High School, and accompanied her when she was a senior to cherish her youth, but the bad thing was that he didn't know the school Xiang Ning attended in junior high school.
The long-distance bus in 2003 was not comfortable, and the road conditions were not good. Sitting beside Xu Tingsheng was a middle-aged woman wearing silver-rimmed glasses, who was constantly vomiting due to the bumps of the car.
Xu Tingsheng handed her plastic bags and tissues, and opened the mineral water for her.
"Thank you, sorry."
The middle-aged lady panted with her head up, turned slightly to the side, and thanked Xu Tingsheng in embarrassment.
"It's okay, my mother and sister don't know how to ride a car either."
Xu Tingsheng smiled gently. His mental age of 31 made him look calmer than his peers.
"Go to Yanzhou to play? Are you still a student?" The lady covered her mouth and said.
"Yes, senior year, go to do some errands...the family is over there." Xu Tingsheng concealed his inexplicable guilt.
"Oh, the third year of high school is very hard. I am a teacher, but I teach junior high school."
"Junior high school in Yanzhou City? Or Jiannan City?" Xu Tingsheng asked in a daze.
"Yes, Yanzhou, I participated in a training here a few days ago... Do you want to eat Huamei?" the female teacher said.
"Okay, thank you... I love sour food since I was a child."
"Me too."
Xu Tingsheng took a plum and put it in his mouth, the two seemed to get closer because of it. Xu Tingsheng hesitated for a while, if he asked: Teacher, do you know a junior high school student, her name is Xiang Ning. It will almost certainly arouse the vigilance of the other party.
Xu Tingsheng thought for a while, then pretended to be relaxed and said, "My cousin is in the first grade of middle school in Yanzhou, so she might be your student, haha."
"It would be such a coincidence... Which school does your cousin go to?" The female teacher also smiled, perhaps because she was distracted by the chat, she stopped vomiting at this time.
"I'm not very clear, I don't move around very much. Her name is Xiang Ning." Xu Tingsheng said a little nervously.
The female teacher looked at him with her mouth half open.
Xu Tingsheng raised his eyelids suspiciously.
"No way, there is a girl named Xiang Ning in my class. I don't know if it has the same name." The female teacher said.
Xu Tingsheng was a little overwhelmed, this feeling was somewhere between excitement and nervousness.
"Which school does the teacher teach?... I will go back and ask my family, maybe I will have to ask the teacher to take care of it when the time comes."
"Xinyan Middle School. If it's such a coincidence, it's my duty. My surname is Liu, Liu Xueli, please remember my phone number..."
"I hope so." Xu Tingsheng took down Teacher Liu's phone number.
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Xu Tingsheng lived in a small cheap hotel, 5 minutes away from Xinyan Middle School.
He didn't dare to find Xiang Ning through Teacher Liu.
Suppose Teacher Liu told Xiang Ning that your cousin is looking for you, and then that 14-year-old girl saw a completely strange man... Xu Ting was afraid of scaring her.
The guard tried it, but the school was managed in a semi-closed manner, and without sufficient reasons and proofs, he couldn't get in at all. How dare Xu Tingsheng mention Xiang Ning's name, let alone prove and register it.
Xu Tingsheng tried to climb up the hillside behind the school, and sat for a whole day, where he could see the school's playground, where the students in physical education classes would appear.
But Xiang Ning was not found.
When school was over in the evening, some students from the general school would go home. Xu Tingsheng watched for two days, but there was still no Xiang Ning. She might live on campus. As for the possibility that Xiang Ning actually appeared and he didn't recognize it, he didn't think it existed, even though she was only 14 years old at this time.
Xu Tingsheng began to wonder if this school was really just a girl with the same age and the same name.
All students go home from school on Friday evening.
Xu Tingsheng bought a bottle of mineral water at the small shop in front of the school, leaned against the counter, and looked at every student passing by.
There is a plot of "Don't leave after school", where a little boy is chased and beaten by several other older boys.
There is a phenomenon of "puppy love", where little boys and girls sneak together, not daring to hold hands, and even too guilty to speak, but the ambiguous atmosphere can be seen.
"Did Xiang Ning ever fall in love in the first day of junior high school?" Xu Tingsheng thought a little bitterly. "She talked once in high school. It is said that her boyfriend looks like Wang Leehom, and he is a rich second generation... I can't bear it, do you want to stop it?"
It was the weekend holiday, most of the students could not wait to leave the school, and the flow of people at the school gate quickly changed from bustling to scattered.
Xiang Ning still didn't show up.
Xu Tingsheng looked at his watch anxiously. Notes were left at school and at home. Although parents and teachers were unavoidably anxious, nothing would happen. But it has been 4 days since he came out, and the 200 yuan that Xu Tingsheng stole from his mother has almost been spent. If he had to wait another week, he would have to sleep on the street.
It may be necessary to find several more schools, and in that case it will take more than a week.
But he had to see Xiang Ning, otherwise he couldn't do anything.
The guard was closing the school gate. At this time, the school gate was not an automatic door that could be retracted by electric control, but two tall iron gates. The door closed slowly with a creaking sound.
In the middle of the gradually narrowing gap in the door, the figures of two little girls appeared in sight, rushing towards the door.
"Uncle, wait a minute."
The two little girls rushed out holding hands, looking excited, as if they had just staged a great escape.
The one with the long hair, no.
The other has short hair that reaches the ears, and a tuft of braids is tied in the middle of the top of the head. Eyebrows, mouth, nose tip, smile, although the delicate memory in memory has been replaced by greenness, but everything is still so familiar.
The first time Xu Tingsheng saw her, tears fell down his face.
But I really want to laugh, this dress is very wild... It is not the same route as later.
Also, my skin was much better before I had acne.
Also, coming out so late, wouldn't it be the teacher's detention
"What should I do?" Xu Tingsheng grinned and wiped away his tears in a panic. He had imagined this scenario, but he didn't design his own reaction.
"Go up and tell her that you are Xiang Ning and I am Xu Tingsheng. Eight years later Xiang Ning will fall in love with Xu Tingsheng and we will be together?... This is what I want to say the most, but it is also the first option that should be ruled out."
"Pretend to be a boy who admires her, go up to strike up a conversation?... But I am too big, and she is too young, she will sue the teacher, right? It may not be awkward for a 27-year-old man to strike up a conversation with a 22-year-old girl, but 19 years old and 14 years old, the gap and gap is scary."
"The best choice should be... Just give her a look and leave silently." Xu Tingsheng tried his best to suppress his impulse.
"It's good that you are here... nothing else is important, you can take your time." Xu Tingsheng clenched his fists, his palms were covered with sweat.
The two little girls turned a corner and walked towards the small shop with jumping steps.
Walked to Xu Tingsheng's side.
"Boss, I want a bottle of orange juice."
The voice of the little girl in the voice-changing period was still quite different from her later voice. Xu Tingsheng's hoarse voice sounded incomparably pleasing to the ear, like the sound of heaven.
The braids on the top of Xiang Ning's head were swaying, she focused on digging out money in her schoolbag, her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, revealing a pink and slender forearm.
Xu Tingsheng held his breath, but he had just cried and couldn't help choking, so he shrugged.
When Xiang Ning was paying, she looked up suspiciously at this strange man crying in the small shop.
Her eyes were as clear and bright as they had seen when they looked at each other countless times. Xu Tingsheng's face felt like it was about to cramp. , but there is no way to do it.
Xiang Ning just glanced at it. She frowned and gritted her teeth, trying to unscrew the cap of the orange juice bottle.
"Huh... I can't open it." Xiang Ning pouted.
"I'll help you." Xu Tingsheng held back the moment he blurted out, even though he had helped her open the bottle cap countless times before.
"I'll do it." The girl with long hair took the bottle and unscrewed it with a click, without any effort.
Xiang Ning raised her head and gulped water, slightly trembling throat, slender and long neck, delicate and lovely ears, crystal earlobes... Xu Tingsheng once said to Xiang Ning, every time I see you drinking water, it seems like you are about to die. dying of thirst.
It took about ten seconds before Xiang Ning drank half of the bottle of orange juice in one gulp. Xu Tingsheng only glanced at it, and he didn't dare to look any further.
The two little girls left holding hands.
Xu Tingsheng didn't dare to follow, and watched the figure from a distance, gradually moving away, gradually moving away, until it disappeared.
"Honey, I will prepare everything, and then wait for you to grow up."