The wind in autumn is very strong.
The young Zhu Yun followed her mother to school.
Today is the registration day, but Zhu Yun doesn't need to go through such a complicated procedure, she is familiar with it. My mother is the director of the high school department of the school. The elementary school she attended is not far away. She often comes here after school to wait for her mother to go home after get off work.
Her mother led her to the door of the teaching building and said, "You wait for me here, I'll go and say hello to your class teacher first."
Zhu Yun nodded obediently.
After her mother went away for a while, Zhu Yun looked around boredly, when suddenly, a figure came into view.
The figure stood by the flower bed in front of the teaching building, it was a girl with her head down. A few seconds later, the girl turned her face away as if she had noticed something.
Zhu Yun quickly put aside.
After a while of silence, Zhu Yun secretly raised her eyes again and found that the girl lowered her head again.
Then she started looking at her again.
Zhu Yun's mind was blanked by the autumn wind.
While other students walked around, only the two of them stood quietly at the door of the teaching building. As if killing time, Zhu Yun looked at her repeatedly, and after looking at each other several times, Zhu Yun's eyes were caught straight. Her heart trembled, and just when she was about to turn her head again, she saw the girl waving at her.
Zhu Yun looked around and pointed at herself.
"… I?"
The girl beckoned again.
It appears to be her.
The girl is taller than Zhu Yun, with a thin body, medium-length hair, fair complexion, and fine facial features...
Zhu Yun came closer and was shocked to find that she had put on makeup.
With a pale face and thick black eyeliner, she was gently biting a string of red stamens in her mouth, slender and bright, that was the only color on her face.
Zhu Yun's footsteps stopped.
It was the first time she saw a junior high school student wearing makeup, which was contrary to her previous education.
The girl casually picked another bunch of red flower stamens from the flower bed, and handed it to Zhu Yun.
Zhu Yun took it and carefully held it in her hand. The girl raised her chin and said in a low voice—
"Sweet."
That was the first meeting between Zhu Yun and Liu Xiaoyan.
They only had time to exchange names before Zhu Yun was called away by her mother. When my mother came out of the teaching building, her expression was not very good, and she kept muttering on the way, "Why did I assign this teacher, I have to transfer classes if I have a chance..."
Zhu Yun didn't know why, so when school started, she saw the head teacher, Mrs. Wang, a female teacher who taught Chinese. She was in her thirties, with a slightly fat body and a very gentle personality. No matter what students do wrong, she speaks softly and never criticizes harshly.
Zhu Yun likes her very much.
Zhu Yun saw Liu Xiaoyan again in the class. When introducing herself, Liu Xiaoyan's words were the shortest. After she finished speaking, she returned to the back seat without waiting for everyone's applause. When passing Zhu Yun's seat, Liu Xiaoyan looked down at her.
"This girl is too cold." A boy in the back seat said.
Zhu Yun looked sideways, what's his name... Fang Zhijing
"Unexpectedly, the entrance score is quite high." Fang Zhijing then said to his deskmate.
yes...
Zhu Yun was also a little surprised.
This is the best junior high school in the city. Zhu Yun's class is originally an experimental class, and Liu Xiaoyan's entrance test was able to rank third in the class, which is a very remarkable result.
But in the following days, Liu Xiaoyan did not show the qualities that a "good student" should possess at all. She doesn't speak in class, and she never asks the teacher questions after class. Everyone buys exercise books to do, but she only completes the amount of homework every day, and stops studying.
She seems to only care about one subject, and that is English.
Liu Xiaoyan is very serious in English class. Every time Zhu Yun is on duty and cleans Liu Xiaoyan's place, she can see English books piled up in her desk.
Maybe she wants to go abroad
Liu Xiaoyan also has a notebook, which she writes in whenever she has time, and puts it in the deepest part of her desk.
Except for the first day of school, Zhu Yun didn't talk to Liu Xiaoyan again. In fact, not many people in the class talked to her. Liu Xiaoyan is too self-contained, just because of makeup, it makes her look out of place in the group.
Zhu Yun's mother had also heard about this maverick student. She was very dissatisfied with Liu Xiaoyan's behavior of going to school in makeup. She asked the class teacher to intervene several times, but until the end, Teacher Wang didn't restrain Liu Xiaoyan too much.
Zhu Yun chatted with Liu Xiaoyan again, still by the flower bed. It was a free activity class, and Liu Xiaoyan was sitting on the steps, writing something.
There was no one else around, Zhu Yun quietly came behind Liu Xiaoyan, and saw that the notebook was written in English. Liu Xiaoyan's English is very good-looking, proficient in cursive characters, and Zhu Yun's own English is not bad, but there is still a certain distance from her.
Just when Zhu Yun was struggling to identify the above content, Liu Xiaoyan turned her head.
Like a conditioned reflex, Zhu Yun took a stick of red from the flower bed, put it in her mouth, and looked at the playground in the distance, pretending to pass by to watch the excitement.
Why is the pistil a little numb this time... Zhu Yun was surprised, but she didn't dare to show it, for fear that her expression would become unnatural.
Liu Xiaoyan was still looking at her.
Don't be afraid, calm down, Zhu Yun brainwashed herself, I'm here to eat skewers.
"It's a shame you can eat it." Liu Xiaoyan said.
Zhu Yun seemed to have just noticed someone next to her, turned her head to look at Liu Xiaoyan with doubts on her face, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?" Liu Xiaoyan's usually indifferent face showed a rare look of embarrassment.
"Take it out quickly."
Only then did Zhu Yun take out the string of red that was in her mouth. It's not good to see it, but the hairs stand on end when you look at it.
I saw tiny ants crawling all over the clusters of red flower stamens. At this moment, the ants were frightened and were fleeing in all directions.
No wonder my tongue is numb all the time! ! !
Zhu Yun threw the flower, and shivered all over, pee pee pee on the ground.
Liu Xiaoyan couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud. Zhu Yun paused, it was the first time she saw Liu Xiaoyan smiling like this. When she was in a daze, she even forgot about the ants in her mouth.
Forget it, just eat it, original ecological food.
After that day, they became friends. Zhu Yun also knew for the first time that what Liu Xiaoyan wrote in her notebook was the Bible. The original text of the Bible was too difficult for Zhu Yun, who just entered junior high school, and she couldn't understand it over and over again.
"Do you believe this?" Zhu Yun asked Liu Xiaoyan.
"It's not a letter."
"Why do you write if you don't believe me?"
"It's not that I don't believe it. I don't have that kind of relationship with him."
Zhu Yun didn't understand, but at least she figured out one thing—that Liu Xiaoyan worked so hard to learn English, not for going abroad or for grades, but for the God who couldn't tell whether she believed it or not.
Zhu Yun is very curious about Liu Xiaoyan, she attracts her... strongly attracts her. Zhu Yun played with Liu Xiaoyan every day. They ate together, studied together, and sat on the steps to eat flowers together.
The whole class had a misunderstanding of Liu Xiaoyan, thinking that she was arrogant and rude, and Zhu Yun thought it was wrong. Liu Xiaoyan is indeed arrogant, but she is not rude, and her heart is very soft.
On a snowy winter day, school dismissed early. Everyone left, only Zhu Yun was left in the classroom waiting for her mother to get off work. While she was staring at the snowflakes outside the window in a daze, Liu Xiaoyan returned to the classroom.
She bought her a bunch of candied haws.
They sat in the classroom together in a daze. In the cold weather, the color between the sky and the earth was bleak. Fortunately, there were this bunch of candied haws, which were surprisingly red.
In the heavy snow, Liu Xiaoyan told Zhu Yun about herself.
Liu Xiaoyan's parents divorced and she has been living with her grandmother. Just before she entered school, her grandmother got seriously ill. At that time, the illness came on urgently, like a mountain falling. The doctor expressed very euphemistically that the illness was probably more ominous than good. Later, the hospital stopped accepting her grandmother, so Liu Xiaoyan took her grandmother home to recuperate. Her grandmother was tortured by illness every night, and Liu Xiaoyan had nothing to do.
Occasionally, she prayed to God.
"Actually, I begged everyone." Liu Xiaoyan said, "I did everything I could, and he impressed me the most. It may be because I just begged him that night, and my grandmother's illness improved the next day."
"So you started trusting him?"
"It's not a letter." Liu Xiaoyan emphasized again, "When I begged him, I said that if he can help grandma, I will always be with him. He did it, so I have to fulfill the promise."
"I understand." Zhu Yun realized, "It's not about believing, it's about fulfilling vows, right? My grandma believes in Buddhism, and she often burns incense to fulfill her vows."
Liu Xiaoyan thought for a while, then nodded, "Probably that's it."
In the evening, her mother came to pick her up from class. On the way back, her mother told Zhu Yun to stay away from Liu Xiaoyan for the 200th time. Zhu Yun was still savoring the sweetness of the candied haws in her mouth, and agreed without saying a word.
"I'm so out of touch at such a young age, I believe in some rubbish things..." Mother complained along the way, "And your teacher, Zhu Yun, remember, don't listen to the messy things she tells except in class on weekdays. "
Zhu Yun paused, Teacher Wang did tell them some warm and meaningful stories in her spare time, but it was just a casual chat, Zhu Yun didn't know why her mother brought it up specially.
Later, as the classwork became more difficult, the English level of the students also improved a lot. In addition, Liu Xiaoyan did not deliberately hide it, and gradually everyone knew about Liu Xiaoyan.
She is farther from the collective.
She has only one friend, Zhu Yun.
Fortunately, teacher Wang, the head teacher, is very kind. Zhu Yun knew that Teacher Wang had been speaking for Liu Xiaoyan in the Academic Affairs Office. Although there are still teachers and parents who are dissatisfied, Liu Xiaoyan's grades did not drop, but instead ranked among the best, and the school leaders turned a blind eye.
On Christmas, Zhu Yun skipped class for the first time, which meant a lot to her, after all, it was the first time in her life.
Liu Xiaoyan took Zhu Yun to go shopping, and Zhu Yun was terrified along the way, and felt particularly exciting. They sat in the middle of the square eating roasted sweet potatoes, and Zhu Yun nervously gave Liu Xiaoyan the gift she had prepared.
"Today is very important." Zhu Yun whispered, "I checked some information."
Liu Xiaoyan didn't speak, and opened the gift box.
Zhu Yun became nervous again: "... I don't know if you like it or not, it's very cheap." She didn't have a good reason to ask her parents for money, so she saved up a week's worth of snack money to buy this gift.
Liu Xiaoyan turned around, lifted her hair, and said, "Put it on for me."
Zhu Yun tied the necklace for her, her fingers trembling, the weather was obviously not that cold.
Liu Xiaoyan's neck is very white and beautiful.
"It's ready..." Zhu Yun whispered.
Liu Xiaoyan turned her head and kissed her on the cheek.
Zhu Yun didn't dare to move, Liu Xiaoyan smiled and said, "I like it very much, thank you."
Zhu Yun became happy, they chatted, Zhu Yun said: "The end of the term is coming soon."
"Hmm." Liu Xiaoyan didn't seem to care much.
"Let's work hard and try to shut them up."
Liu Xiaoyan turned to look at her, "Shut up who?"
"The ones in the back seat of mine."
Several boys headed by Fang Zhijing always gossip about Liu Xiaoyan in school.
"They keep talking nonsense, aren't you angry?"
"Why are you angry? He said that people have original sin." Liu Xiaoyan pinched the cross necklace that Zhu Yun had just given her with her slender fingers, and said meaninglessly, "If you want me to be angry, they have to have that ability. Even if I ask Fang Zhijing to write an essay in the exam, he can't beat me."
Zhu Yun looked at her with a smile.
Liu Xiaoyan glanced over, "Why, don't you believe me?"
Zhu Yun shook her head.
"letter."
She likes to see Liu Xiaoyan like this, beautiful and proud, just like a peacock.
You must win...
Zhu Yun said to her in her heart.
Then, they did win the final exam that semester, and they still won the next semester... If that hadn't happened, maybe they would have won the rest of the final exams all the way to the end.
In the autumn of the second year of junior high school, a horrific terrorist attack occurred on the other side of the ocean, shocking the whole world. For a time, all the media rushed to report day and night, and the whole world was shrouded in an ominous cloud.
Zhu Yun, who was still a junior high school student, didn't pay much attention to this matter, after all, she was too far away. Compared to her, Liu Xiaoyan paid more attention to this matter. Zhu Yun already knew from reports that there were religious factors in this terrorist attack. In those few days, Liu Xiaoyan's words became less and less.
What Zhu Yun didn't notice was that besides Liu Xiaoyan, there was another person in the class who was more silent than before.
Zhu Yun clearly remembered that it was Thursday, Liu Xiaoyan did not attend the physical education class in the afternoon, and Fang Zhijing was the representative of the physical education class. When she came back to class, Liu Xiaoyan ignored her, and Fang Zhijing had an argument with her. In the evening, when Liu Xiaoyan came back from dinner, she saw that the things on the desk had been turned over, and there was a pile of dark things inside.
Liu Xiaoyan took the thing out, shook it off, and it was a black robe. Her torn notebook also fell out of the black robe.
She looked at Fang Zhijing, who also looked at her.
"Anyway, if you like God so much, just die with them, and you will see them when you die."
At that time, Zhu Yun was called by her mother to the office to change the topic, and when she returned, Liu Xiaoyan had already started.
The students took the initiative to leave an empty space to watch the excitement. No one wanted to meddle in other people's business, and no one wanted to go up to help. Liu Xiaoyan has always been indifferent and arrogant, and there are many people in the class who can't understand her.
It was the first time she was so angry that she picked up the English dictionary on the table and slammed it hard at Fang Zhijing's forehead. But Liu Xiaoyan was a girl after all, and her strength was far less than that of Fang Zhijing. He pressed her on the table and pulled the black robe over her body.
At this time, Zhu Yun followed Teacher Wang back to the classroom. Teacher Wang was exhausted. As soon as she entered the room, she saw the chaotic scene, and she wanted to step forward to stop it. When she pushed aside the crowd and saw Fang Zhijing stepping on Liu Xiaoyan and wrapping her entire face in a robe, the always gentle and peaceful Teacher Wang suddenly collapsed. She rushed forward and slapped Fang Zhijing, desperately Shouting: "Aren't you crazy! Are you all crazy!"
The next class in the class was suspended, and all the parties involved were called to the principal's office, while the others stayed in the classroom and talked excitedly.
"Don't you all know? Teacher Wang also believes in that."
"She believed in the guy who hijacked the plane?"
"That's right, the two of them are deadly enemies in terms of sect now."
"It's so exciting."
"How did you know that?"
"You don't even watch TV?"
"..."
Zhu Yun didn't say a word, looking at the empty seat of Liu Xiaoyan, something fell on the ground, Zhu Yun walked over and found the necklace she gave her.
Maybe it fell off during the tearing process just now, Zhu Yun put away the necklace, thinking about putting it on when Liu Xiaoyan came back.
But Liu Xiaoyan never came back.
She didn't go to school anymore, and Zhu Yun got news from her mother that she had changed schools. Similarly, Teacher Wang no longer took Zhu Yun's class, and they changed to a male teacher who was very strict in teaching.
Zhu Yun never looked for Liu Xiaoyan again, because on the night of the incident, she saw Fang Zhijing return a black plastic bag to her mother on the way home from school.
At that time, Zhu Yun was still ignorant, and she didn't know much about many things. She just had a vague feeling——
In her whole life, she will never see the girl who ate skewers with her again.
"Hello… "
"Hello."
"Hello!"
Zhu Yun was awakened by a loud roar.
She turned her head and saw Li Zhuangyuan's impatient face, holding the certificate he had just received in his hand.
"What are you thinking, I can't even hear you talking."
Zhu Yun looked forward. Fang Zhijing had also received the award, but he didn't come back. He was chatting enthusiastically with the person in charge of the organizing committee.
Li Xun leaned back in the chair and said relaxedly: "It's finally over, I'll go back and clean up later, and I'll take you out to play at night."
As if Zhu Yun hadn't heard of it, she pushed Li Xun away as soon as he finished speaking.
Zhu Yun jumped over Li Xun and grabbed Gao Jianhong on the other side.
"Are you still participating?"
Gao Jianhong didn't react, "What?"
"Competition." Zhu Yun stared at him, "Didn't you say you wanted to participate in the competition before, do you still want to do it now?"
Gao Jianhong finally understood, "I think so, but didn't you say..."
"I've changed my mind." Zhu Yun held his arm tightly, "Let's work together, we'll do this in the second half of the year, okay?"
Gao Jianhong's eyes gradually brightened, "Okay!"
Li Zhuangyuan, who was leaning on the chair beside him bored, finally reacted at this moment. He looked at Zhu Yun with half of his body lying on his lap expressionlessly, and asked in an ominous tone——
"What did you say?"