If there is no Tan Ruikang, the distant responsibilities will be borne by oneself. The process of self-denial is the most painful experience in life, especially when I am still sixteen years old.
But fortunately there was Tan Ruikang, so Yuanyuan kept Zhao Guogang's grades at ease. The day after the ranking was released, Tan Ruikang went to the teacher, changed positions for Yuanyuan, separated Lin Zibo from another girl with good grades, Yuanyuan and Lin Zi Bo sits together, and the girl is responsible for taking care of Qin Yao.
Although the distant competitive spirit has always been strong, it is desperate now, and there is almost no room for rebound. Tan Ruikang ranked first in the grade in six subjects, while Yuan Yuan dropped to more than 100, completely convinced. Pack up your mood and study hard.
The psychology of middle school students is often very fragile. There are very few people like Tan Ruikang. On the contrary, most students are like Yuanyuan. Once they relax, they will lose their rankings. When it comes to work, society and competition, there are no dates, only wooden sticks, so people in the class are panicked, as if they are facing the end.
However, grades are not something that can be improved if you want to improve. It takes a day to climb a cliff, but it only takes a few seconds to jump off a cliff. Yuan Yuan still thought he was smart at first, and it only took a few minutes to pick it up, but when he really started to review, when he took the small test again, he found that the score was not high enough, barely, and only five out of ten questions were correct.
How could this be? impossible. Yuanlian Lian failed several times in the next small test, and began to doubt whether his IQ could learn the knowledge that was left behind.
And Tan Ruikang always takes the trouble to say that there is no problem, you are very smart, believe me.
Yuan Yuan was severely beaten in the test, and with a lot of pressure, he felt self-sacrificing. The parents' meeting was held, and the fire couldn't be contained in the paper. Zhao Guogang still knew about it.
Zhao Guogang went home and scolded Yuan Yuan first, then trained Tan Ruikang. In the next few days, he personally drove them to pick them up from school, and went home early to supervise the two children's studies.
Yuan Yuan only felt that the pressure was so great that he was going crazy.
A chalk head flew and hit the distant head.
"Zhao Yuanyuan." The physics teacher said, "Go to the back of the classroom and stand for a while."
Yuan Yuan is very sleepy. I don’t know why I didn’t sleep well last night. I tossed and turned on the bed and couldn’t sleep all night. In the afternoon, I couldn't even open my eyes, so I just fell asleep on the table like in junior high school.
Yuan Yuan raised his head and listened to the lecture in a daze.
"I said." The physics teacher said, "Go to the back of the classroom and stand, Zhao Yuanyuan, do you hear me?"
Yuan Yuan sat still, and the physics teacher said, "Stand at the back of the classroom!"
Yuan Yuan threw the book and cursed in his heart. He got up and walked to the back of the classroom to stand, feeling that he had become a poor student, and felt very ashamed.
Tan Ruikang sat in the last row and listened intently to the lecture. He was punished to stand far away. He was so sad that he was so sad, thin-skinned, and mentally poor that he couldn't help crying.
Tan Ruikang leaned over and stuffed a note into his hand.
[Don't be angry, I'll buy you milk candy later. When my brother was in junior high school, he was often punished for standing. When standing tired, change one foot to rest.]Yuan Yuan couldn't help laughing. If Tan Ruikang said that the teacher was not malicious, Yuan Yuan might only get more angry. However, when he said that, Yuan Yuan thought of Tan Ruikang's dumbfounded punishment, and his anger dissipated.
After school that day, the two were still studying at the dining table after dinner. Yuan Yuan was so annoyed that they said, "I'll take a break, I'm so sleepy."
Tan Ruikang glanced at Yuanyuan and said, "Go in and sleep for a while, is half an hour enough? I'll call you up later."
Yuan Yuan said: "I can't do it, I really can't do it, I'm going to collapse... Let me sleep until I get up tomorrow, and I can adjust it myself."
Tan Ruikang: "Forty minutes?"
Distant: "Three hours."
Tan Ruikang: "One hour."
Distant: "Two hours."
Tan Ruikang looked at the clock: "It's ten o'clock in two hours, an hour and a half?"
Yuan Yuan said with an expressionless face: "Deal." Then he entered the room depressed, only to feel that people were born to suffer. Last night, he had insomnia all night, and he can't sleep today.
The way to face troubles in the distance is to sleep. If there is something big, just take a nap. However, when I encountered a situation where I couldn't even sleep, I couldn't help but want to open the window and jump down.
He entered the room and found a large cardboard box beside the computer desk when he turned on the light.
distant:"?"
When was this carton available? Far away is inexplicable, was it given to him by Tan Ruikang? !
He opened the carton and was stunned for a moment. Inside was a mess of gadgets, including tin candies, CDs, books, pens, snacks, and facial cleansers. They were turned from top to bottom. Below is a box of house-shaped bright milk.
There was a sticky note on the milk, which read: [Happy birthday to the milk boy. -Brother] Far away: "!!!"
Only then did I remember that today is my birthday! What does it mean to send so many things? Far away only felt moved and amused.
He picked up Bright Milk and found that the production date on the box was marked with a box-tip pen—November 20, 1999.
A circle is drawn on the tin box of the milk candy, and the production date is circled—November 20, 1998.
Distant: "… "
He turned out the things just now one by one, and the publication time of Leslie Cheung's CD was November 20, 1995.
All on his birthday!
Sixteen gifts, the last of which is an old book of Pride and Prejudice, reprinted on the day he was born.
Yuan Yuan looked at these gifts for a long time until Tan Ruikang said, "Xiao Yuan, get up and study."
Yuan Yuan took out the milk. Tan Ruikang was still looking at the exercise book and turning the pen. He smiled without raising his head. The smile was very gentle, as if a beautiful light was injected into the dark world of Yuan Yuan.
At the end of 1999, after watching the grand fireworks parade of the 50th National Day, the past century is coming to an end. On the last day of the end of the century, before New Year's Day, all the students rushed home from school, ready to participate in this unprecedented carnival - everyone can only cross a century at most, when 1999 is about to pass, the first bell rings, 2000 The moment of arrival, the commemoration of the millennium is simply extraordinary for all students who like a sense of ceremony.
Yuan Yuan started to take a shower and change clothes when he got home. Today, he invited friends from junior high school to go out to play, including Qi Huiyu and Zhang Zhen. Yuan Yuan blew his hair in front of the mirror, set his forehead, and sprayed furiously with the purchased hair dye. This dye is temporary, and it can be installed without fear of being scolded by Zhao Guogang.
"You look so good with your hair dyed." Tan Ruikang stood behind him and smiled.
"Squirt some for you too," Yuan Yuan said.
Tan Ruikang hurriedly said: "No no no, I don't dye..."
Yuan Yuan said: "Come on a little—"
He twisted Tan Ruikang's hair with hairspray, making the hair on his forehead look like a rooster. Tan Ruikang's face was thin and handsome, and he was already cool. With just the right messy short hair, he stole the limelight.
Yuan Yuan finally didn't care once, he sprayed Tan Ruikang with golden hair dye, sprayed some himself, and said, "Okay, let's go."
Zhao Guogang just came back, and as soon as he came back, he said: "What is it! Go and wash it off! You still dyed your hair?!"
Yuan Yuan said: "Wash it off when you get home! It's not permanent!"
Zhao Guogang said again: "What does it look like! Wash it off and wash it off!"
Yuan Yuan sat on the sofa with a dark face, Zhao Guogang immediately had a headache, and started non-violent non-cooperation again. Zhao Guogang could almost foresee the next series of results - Yuan Yuan went back to the room, locked the door and did not speak, and the plan was cancelled. Father-son Cold War for at least a month.
Tan Ruikang said, "Uncle..."
The phone rang, Zhao Guogang hurried over to answer it, lying on the sofa far away in a daze, Zhao Guogang said a few words, and finally said, "Happy New Year's Day." He hung up the phone.
"Let's go." Zhao Guogang went in and got dressed.
Tan Ruikang: "Xiaoyuan... get up."
Yuan Yuan's face looked better, and was pulled up by Tan Ruikang. Zhao Guogang stopped talking about letting them wash their hair after answering the phone, and took the two teenagers to the parking lot. Yuan Yuan said, "Are you going to count down?"
Zhao Guogang turned the key, started the car, and said, "No, I can't play with you young people."
Yuan Yuan said again: "Then how did you spend the millennium?"
Zhao Guogang said: "Send you over there, then come back to take a bath and sleep."
Tan Ruikang laughed in the back seat: "Uncle, let's play with us."
Zhao Guogang smiled and said, "Only you children like to play these countdown celebrations. Uncle has already passed this age. Year after year... It's nothing unusual."
Zhao Guogang sent them to the central avenue of the city. At nine o'clock at night, the road was full of people. All the shops along the street were brightly lit, and the traffic jams were long. Many young people were walking towards the Grand Theater.
The car couldn't get through, so Yuan Yuan made a few calls and made an appointment to meet at McDonald's, so he said goodbye to Zhao Guogang and got off the bus. When he got out of the car, Zhao Guogang was still talking on his mobile phone and said to them, "Be careful."
Qi Huiyu came and shouted, "Far away!"
He rushed out of the crowd and hugged him with a smile. This was the first time they met after they separated in the third grade. No. 1 middle school is very strict and does not allow mobile phones. Qi Huiyu's mother went back to her hometown to take care of her grandmother, so Qi Huiyu stayed at school most of the time. The two basically cut off contact.
All the students from junior high school came. As usual, it was a long-distance treat. Everyone bought a McDonald's Coke and drank it while walking. Following the crowd, Qi Huiyu said, "How was your high school reading?"
Yuan Yuan said: "Don't mention it, I've fallen to more than 100 grades."
Qi Huiyu was surprised: "How come?"
Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "It's good at the end of the period, Xiaoyuan just played too hard."
Far away: "How about you?"
Qi Huiyu said, "I'm still in the top 20."
It is amazing to be ranked in the top 20 in the first middle school. Yuan Yuan is a little jealous, but he is also happy for him, and said with a smile: "You are really amazing, I have to work hard too."
As soon as Qi Huiyu came, Yuan Yuan became Qi Huiyu's. Tan Ruikang could only stand aside and follow behind. Qi Huiyu put his shoulders on Yuan Yuan's shoulders.
Yuan Yuan didn't grow very much when it reached 175, Qi Huiyu still grew a little bit, neither of them was as tall as Tan Ruikang, Yuan Yuan was very concerned about this question and said, "Did you buy height-enhancing medicine and take it?"
Qi Huiyu was 178 cm and said, "No, don't eat that, it's not good for your health..."
There were more and more people, and people began to crowd. When it was about half past eleven, there was a song playing in the center of the Grand Theater, and the whole square was crowded.
Zhang Zhen said loudly, "Hang on the shoulders of the person in front! Don't get lost!"
Many high school students drove the train with their shoulders on their shoulders, squeezed around with inflatable hammers, and beat each other non-stop. Someone shouted, "Zhao Yuanyuan! Zhao Yuanyuan!"
The crowd began to crowd again, and there were fights in the distance. Qi Huiyu's voice could be heard shouting "Millennium Bug Millennium Bug". Everyone was pushing around, and Qi Huiyu and the others were crowded in the far distance, and there was no signal when calling. , the text messages could not be sent, Tan Ruikang stumbled to protect him, dragged his wrist, and squeezed towards the place with few people. Yuan Yuan was silent for a while, then shouted, "Zhang Zhen!"
Zhang Zhen and the others didn't know where they went. People came and went, only Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang were among the tidal crowd.
A countdown sound came from a distance: "Ten-nine-eight-"
Tan Ruikang said: "Countdown, Xiaoyuan, happy millennium."
"Happy New Year." Yuan Yuan smiled.
He put his arms around his shoulders, he was silent for a moment, and looked up at the sky. At the last second, the minute hand and the hour hand coincided. Nearly 100,000 people in the square cheered loudly, and the balloons let go of their hands and flew into the night sky. Fulfillment, no terror king fell from the sky, and no sky collapsed, replaced by countless "Happy New Year!"
The year 2000 arrived on schedule.
Everyone was still in a carnival mood, and shouted far away: "Zhang Zhen! Chicken!"
No one could be found, Tan Ruikang said: "Look for them as you walk, and go to Shennan Avenue."
The crowded crowd moved slowly, and there were teenagers crowding around with their shoulders on the train. Tan Ruikang clenched his hand in the distance so as not to get lost in the crowd. At one o'clock at night, the phone finally recovered.
"Where are you now?" Qi Huiyu's voice asked.
Yuan Yuan was waiting in the McDonald's for Tan Ruikang to line up to buy a late-night snack, and said, "Go to McDonald's, how about you?"
Qi Huiyu was too noisy, so he said loudly, "Let's watch the sunrise! On Lianhua Mountain! Zhang Zhen said to wait at Deng Xiaoping's statue. Let's take the road of No. 3 Middle School! We can't get a car! Go over by yourself!"
Outside all the cars were jammed and honking, the Millennium Carnival crowded into the streets, and McDonald's and Pizza Hut were packed.
Tan Ruikang bought a hot drink and walked slowly on the street with Yuan Yuan. Yuan Yuan thought of Zhao Guogang and wondered if he was still stuck on the road. When he came to the second intersection, he was stunned at the traffic light.
Zhao Guogang's BMW was really stuck on the road. He was chatting with the person in the passenger seat, smiling and chatting. Yuan Yuan bowed slightly and walked over. Looking into the car from the side of the road, he saw a very beautiful woman sitting in the passenger seat.
"Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang said, "Don't go there and listen to my brother."
Distant: "… "
His hand shaking while holding the drink, he thought of going to Zhao Guogang's car to say something, but what can he do? Open the car door and let the girl down? impossible.
Tan Ruikang said: "Don't think too much, it should be just an ordinary friend of my uncle."
Yuan Yuan couldn't stop shaking his hands, some hot chocolate in the cup came out, and he couldn't stop gasping for breath while standing on the side of the road. Tan Ruikang was a little overwhelmed, and finally walked in front of him and bowed, looking up at his face.
Yuan Yuan stood on the street for a while, then left the intersection.
"Xiaoyuan!" Tan Ruikang strode up to catch up.