In the twilight of early July, a purple haze halfway covered the drooping sunset. In the old classroom, the squeaking and spinning iron fans barely blew away the pervasive summer heat.
At this time, three days have passed since the end of the county's joint entrance examination. The students of Qingshui County No. 1 Middle School and High School's Rocket Class have already entered the summer vacation, but the teacher on the stage is sitting and staring, so they can only look up at the podium absent-mindedly on the live screen.
On the screen is another classroom more than 1,000 kilometers away. The math teacher from Wenhua City No. 1 Middle School and High School Class 1 is passionately teaching math problems. The blackboard is already full of dense formulas. The teacher speaks very quickly. None of the students asked questions, as if these topics could not be easier.
However, for the students of Qingshui No. 1 Middle School, these questions belong to S-level copy problems. They are used by the perverted geniuses of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School to improve themselves. They are not within the scope of students from poor counties, so they do not listen very seriously. .
Because I don't understand it at all.
Only one male student listened attentively from beginning to end. He neatly recorded the problem-solving process on the blackboard in his notebook. The white T-shirt on his thin shoulders was soaked with sweat, which he wiped off with the back of his hands. Sweat on your forehead to avoid dripping onto your notebook.
"I heard that the final exam rankings will come out tomorrow." Liu Rui glanced at the teacher on the stage who lowered his head to change his homework, and quietly reported the gossip to Tao Xi, who was writing hard at the same table.
When Tao Xi finished copying the last line, it happened that the teacher on the screen had also left the get out of class. He put down the gel pen, closed the notebook, didn't look at Liu Rui, and snorted flatly.
When Liu Rui saw Tao Xi lowered his head, picked up the gel pen and kept unscrewing and closing the pen cap, he knew that this man was sitting here pretending to be calm. With your sophistication and your life-threatening study of the Fa, I bet you must be number one in the county."
The whole class knew how much Tao Xi wanted to get the first place in the county in the final exam. Over the past year, Tao Xi has been studying day and night like crazy, and his grades have skyrocketed to the top three.
Perhaps it was because the county's No. 1 meeting was sent to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School to "study abroad" for one year.
Since last year, Qingshui County, a state-level poverty-stricken county located in the southwestern mountainous area, has cooperated with Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, a famous national school, to "remote live classrooms". Simultaneously taking classes with the students of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, the county magistrate dreams of using this cooperation to wash away the shame of "zero and one" in the county's college entrance examination.
However, the gap between the students of the two schools is too great, and the students in the parallel classes simply cannot keep up with the learning progress of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School. Many students are deeply affected by the strong contrast, and they simply break the jar and fall, but their grades drop seriously.
After half a year of running-in, Qingshui No. 1 Middle School decided to let only the top half of the students continue to follow Wenhua No. 1 High School's parallel classes to study live. The first class of study in the county is the most promising rocket class in the whole county to be admitted to a good university.
Tao Xi is a student of this rocket class. He closed the gel cap for the last time, took a deep breath, and did not speak.
Only he himself knew that he was suffocating with nervousness these days.
The next class was English class. As the class bell rang, the lazy students suddenly picked up their spirits.
Tao Xi also erected his back and stared at the screen with wide eyes.
A young and beautiful female teacher appeared on the screen. As soon as the students appeared on the stage, they began to whisper. The girls enviously discussed the beautiful new dress of the female teacher, and the boys smiled and gave each other a wink.
The English teacher of our school coughed hard and said, "Listen to the class well!"? The students were quiet.
During this year's distance learning in their Rocket Class, they are like invisible classmates of Wenhua Class 1. They know the names of the teachers and many students in Class 1. For example, the beautiful teacher on the screen who is lecturing is named Bi Aoxue. They even know her Her nickname is Aunt Bi.
But they also knew that the teachers and students of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School did not know them at all.
They look at the screen as if looking at another world.
Tao Xi also stared at the screen. He was not looking at the English teacher, but seemed to be waiting for someone to appear.
"Lin Qinhe, are you addicted to being late?" Bi Aoxue on the screen suddenly turned her head to look at the door and said, not sternly blaming, but rather helplessly teasing.
Tao Xi's eyelashes trembled, she squeezed the pen in her hand, and stared at the screen motionless.
"Old rules, read this piece of prose aloud and continue." Bi Aoxue took out a book, flipped a page at random, and handed it to the tall boy who stepped onto the podium.
The classroom of the rocket class of Qingshui No. 1 Middle School suddenly burst into commotion, and the girls couldn't help but whispered the name Lin Qinhe in surprise.
The handsome young man in the white shirt and school uniform of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School took the book from the English teacher's hand indifferently, and read the English paragraphs above without emotion.
The girls in Qingshui County didn't understand what he was saying at all, and they didn't know how authentic his spoken English was. They just looked at the boy's face.
Because it's so pretty.
Tao Xi stared at the screen for a moment, the pen in his hand quickly wrote down the English on the screen on the scratch paper, and when he encountered unfamiliar words he did not know, he simply wrote the rough phonetic symbols.
He has a good memory, and even if he speaks at a fast rate, he can remember it from memory.
Soon the boy on the screen finished reading, and after Bi Aoxue nodded, he walked off the podium and disappeared from the screen.
"Brother Xi, you also need to write down this. It's not necessary. This is what Aunt Bi used to punish students for being late."? Liu Rui likes to call Bi Aoxue's nickname, as if he is also sitting in the classroom on the screen.
Tao Xi took his eyes away from the screen, looked at the brief notes on the scratch paper, and said nonsense, "I'll practice listening."
"You are awesome." Liu Rui gave a thumbs up.
The last class was over soon, and at the moment the bell rang, the students rushed to the cafeteria to save time in queuing for meals. Just as Tao Xi was about to take off with Liu Rui, he was suddenly seen at the door. The head teacher Feng Yuan intercepted halfway.
Liu Rui slipped away unscrupulously, Tao Xi slandered his precious time, and asked with a good smile on his face: "Mr. Feng, is there anything you want to do with me?"
Feng Yuan is the head teacher of the Rocket Class and the most senior math teacher in Qingshui No. 1 Middle School. He has a rigid and stern personality. The students would rather offend the principal than the head teacher. He was wearing an old blue shirt soaked in sweat, with a stern face. , but there was a smile that could not be hidden between his brows and eyes, and he coughed lightly and said, "Come with me."
The red sunset was shrouded in the mist of the mountains, and in the dark purple sky, the ground flattened by the mud was dusty due to the swirling footsteps and basketballs.
Tao Xi walked aimlessly around the playground, the beating heart in his chest had no sign of calming down, and he didn't even notice the sound of hunger in his stomach. He didn't realize it until a basketball slammed on him. stop.
"Yo, classmate, are you alright?" a sophomore boy who was playing basketball shouted, ran over to pick up the basketball, and looked at the guy who was standing in front of him, wasn't the guy from the rocket class in the first year of high school, that one was thin and beautiful. It looks like a pretentious, but he is a perverted god of plague who also fights and plays basketball.
The younger brother of the sports committee member of their class and Tao Xi's sister Tao Le are in a junior high school. Last month, because of bullying Tao Le, they were cleaned up by Tao Xi for a few days and did not dare to go to school. The teachers of the junior high school also protected Tao Xi, who had graduated. .
The sophomore didn't dare to provoke the teacher of the whole school as the god of plague, and said a few words of apology, but saw that Tao Xi's face was calm, there was no emotion in his dark eyes, but there was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Is this fucking stupid?" The sophomore in high school whispered, and hurriedly ran away with the basketball.
Tao Xi glanced at the electronic watch on his wrist. It was almost time for his evening self-study. He turned around and walked quickly to the classroom, too late to buy a bread to put his stomach on.
As soon as they entered the classroom, the students cheered and embraced, shouting loudly and not forgetting the wealth and honor.
"I'm not mistaken, Brother Xi must be the first!" Liu Rui hugged Tao Xi, happily as if he had won the first place in the exam.
"Tao Xi, don't forget us when you go to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School!"
"Just go for a year, and I'll be back in the third year of high school."
"I'm so envious, I haven't even been out of the county yet."
"But it's also a lot of pressure. The geniuses in Wenhua No. 1 Middle School are not human at all!"
"Alas, the only handsome guy in our school has also contributed to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School."
The uproar didn't end until the self-study bell rang in the evening. Tao Xi couldn't calm down and study by himself. He opened a notebook with a brown cover. On the first page was the English he wrote with his only pen:
"i?won't?try?to?pick?the?moon.?i?want?the?moon?to?e?to?me."
"I won't try to pick the moon, I want the moon to come to me."
He will always remember the first time he saw Lin Qinhe on the screen, in the tail of last summer, when the twilight was approaching.
At that time, because of his family affairs, he had no interest in the so-called remote live broadcast classes. After the first year of high school, he always hid behind the classroom to sleep.
The head teacher Feng Yuan originally trained Tao Xi as a key student, because this student achieved outstanding results in junior high school, but he didn't expect to be this ghostly appearance after the school started, no matter how much he scolded him, he couldn't get in.
A few days after the start of school, the principal rushed back from Wenhua City, where he shouted under the scorching sun and told the whole school that the remote live classroom would change their fate.
"You will have the same educational resources as the best high schools in the country, and have the best teachers and classmates in the country! As long as you study hard with the teachers of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, you can also be admitted to university, get a degree, and take the test. Go to Tsinghua University and Peking University!"
The generous speech of the principal moved and inspired many students, and some students even burst into tears on the spot.
At that time, Tao Xi was standing on the dusty playground, looking up at the mountain opposite the school in boredom. His home was behind the mountain, in a village called Taoxiwan.
This county in the mountains is so poor that even birds are reluctant to fly in, and its education has been backward for so many years that no student has ever been admitted to a primary school.
Everyone is full of hope for the remote live broadcast class. It seems that a rope has finally fallen from the deep well that has been blocked for many years, and they can go to the sky as long as they grab the rope and climb up.
But Tao Xi had just felt the fate of being toyed with. He looked at the mountain and felt that he would never be able to get out.
The class bell rang, and Tao Xi was still sleeping on the wooden table. The English teacher was rusty and careful to adjust the screen equipment. He looked up to inspect, and called out to Tao Xi suddenly.
He sat up reluctantly, leaning back on the desk, half-closed eyes bored at the brand new screen on the podium that was out of place in the dilapidated classroom.
What entered the screen was a beautiful young woman, who immediately caught the attention of all the students, wearing a delicately tailored dress, speaking fluent and authentic English that they had never heard before, like someone on a listening tape, sitting on the podium The English teacher at the school who was in charge of discipline was watching the screen intently.
It was a teaching method that the teachers and students had never been exposed to before. Bi Aoxue did not explain the content of the textbooks according to the script, but had a full English conversation with the students. Wenhua students answered questions enthusiastically, and the atmosphere was relaxed and active. It is a salon of a foreign university.
The students of Qingshui No. 1 Middle School gradually became silent. They found that they could not understand what they were talking about. Those unfamiliar words and sentences were tacitly understood among the teachers and students of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, but they seemed like a fantasy to them.
Silence spread in the class of Qingshui No. 1 Middle School, until Bi Aoxue said with a smile when he was halfway through the class: "Then please let Lin Qinhe, who was absent from my English class yesterday, come to the stage and tell us far away Qingshui No. 1 Middle School. classmates to give an impromptu English speech.”
Shimizu's students suddenly became restless. For the first time, they were pleasantly surprised that the teachers and classmates on the screen knew of their existence, and the restlessness was even stronger when they saw the teenager walking on the stage.
Tao Xi never liked English. He was about to fall asleep from boredom when he nodded his head. He was suddenly awakened by a noise in the classroom. He yawned lazily, wiped his eyes with his hand, and looked at the screen again.
He saw a tall boy in a white shirt standing on the podium. He was a lot taller than Bi Aoxue, who was already tall. He had no expression, was not impatient when he was suddenly named, and was not nervous before speaking. Qing Jun The facial features are in bright light like snow peaks in the sun.
"The students at the far end are all waiting. Classmate Lin, let's start. You can talk about whatever you want." Bi Aoxue said with a smile.
The boy called Lin Qinhe heard that and looked up at the camera at the end of the classroom. On the clear screen, he could even see the changing shadows under his long eyelashes when he raised his eyes.
The girls in the classroom took a deep breath in unison. Tao Xi looked at the eyes that suddenly looked directly at him across the screen, and his heart palpitated for a moment.
Lin Qinhe began to give a speech in English. Even the students of Qingshui could understand the regular beginning. They listened very carefully, but the more they listened, the more frightened they became, because they found that they still could not understand, and this was Lin Qinhe. Boys, the spoken language is not inferior to Bi Aoxue at all, as if they were born with English as their mother tongue.
These are the students of Wenhua No. 1 Middle School, and they thoroughly feel how far apart they are.
They didn't know at that time that Lin Qinhe was not an ordinary Wenhua No. 1 middle school student.
It was rare for Tao Xi to look at the live broadcast screen seriously. In fact, he couldn't understand many of the sentences in it, and he barely understood Lin Qinhe's dreams and future.
There was one of the simplest sentences that he inexplicably memorized for a long time.
"i?won't?try?to?pick?the?moon.?i?want?the?moon?to?e?to?me."
Since then, Feng Yuan, who has been worrying about how to deal with Tao Xi, suddenly found out that this student seemed to have taken a panacea overnight, and since then he will no longer doze off in class and hand in his homework. .
The author says:
Long time no see, looking for a collection of starfish~
English sentence from Hepburn's "Dragon and Phoenix"