"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar? How do you translate Wilde's sentence?" The English teacher sat behind the podium, looking at the classroom from the frame on the bridge of her nose, "Who is coming? Translate?… Chen Nian?”
Just as Chen Nian was about to stand up while stroking his skirt, the teacher raised his hand: "No need to stand up."
Chen Nian said softly: "We live in the gutter, but still, some people look up at the stars."
"Yes. We live in the gutter, but there are still people looking up at the stars." The English teacher repeated the description, pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Next question."
On the fourth day, everything was calm.
Wei Lai didn't bother Chen Nian again.
The rainy season was coming to an end, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Kitano bought Chen Nian a small electric fan, which was silent and hung under the desk to blow air.
The teacher was still reading the question, and the shadow of the head teacher appeared at the window. Chen Nian was slightly distracted, but he heard him say, "Zeng Hao, come out for a while."
Zeng went out.
Chen Nian continued to listen to the class, and Zeng Hao came back soon after, looking a little proud.
After class, Xiaomi poked her in the back: "Zeng Hao."
"Huh?" She turned around.
"Why is the teacher looking for you, is there anything good?"
Chen Nian opened a box of Pocky.
"I'll eat some." Zeng Hao reached out and took one; Xiaomi also took one and said, "Nian has been eating snacks recently."
Before and after, as well as passing classmates, all gathered to get it. The cracked biscuits were like feeding pigeons in People's Square, and they were gone in a blink of an eye.
"Wei Lai is missing." Zeng Hao bit the biscuit and shrugged, not to mention how gloating he was.
Xiaomi asked: "Why did you look for you when you disappeared?"
Zeng Hao rolled his eyes: "ask me symbolically. Everyone knows that it was either a prank or that they bullied me. At that time, I was advised not to think complicated, but now she knows to ask me. Oh, she also bullied other schools. 's student, I'm the only one who hates her? She deserves it anyway."
Chen Nian raised his head and said, "Don't say it's so full, in case, she ran out to play and came back in a few days."
Zeng Hao pursed his mouth: "better never come back."
Xiaomi: "Our head teacher has grey hair again."
"What the hell." Zeng Hao said, "Wei Lai was expelled from school and is under the control of his parents. It has nothing to do with the school. In the past, I didn't want to admit that I just wanted to make matters smaller, but the police intervened. To stink."
Seeing Xu Miao behind her, Chen Nian pushed her; Zeng Hao turned his head, seeing Xu Miao's embarrassed face, he turned back and stuck his tongue out to Chen Nian, and said nothing.
In the evening, Chen Nian walked to the school gate and glanced at Kitano across the street from a distance as usual, but... Kitano was staring at Xu Miao on the side of the road and smiled vaguely until Xu Miao got into her car and went away. .
Chen Nian thought for a while, and felt that he was wrong.
Kitano saw her and came over.
Chen Nian continued to walk his own way.
After what happened last time, she was often uneasy, she had to turn back after walking a few steps, and she felt at ease when she saw Kitano.
Only when she turned her head, she heard Li Xiang calling her: "Chen Nian!"
Chen Nian turned back again, saw Kitano staring at her, and took a step to the side with his pocket in. Li wanted to run past and bumped into Kitano's shoulder. He shook slightly.
"Ah, I'm sorry." Li Xiang apologized to him with a smile and ran to Chen Nian.
Chen Nian quietly glanced at Li Xiang and turned around.
Li Xiang felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, and hurriedly explained: "Hey, I went to my aunt's house for dinner again."
"Oh."
"Chen Nian, I heard that Wei Lai is missing."
"right."
"Maybe I quarreled with my parents and ran away from home." Li Xiang said, "It's good to go. It won't affect you anymore."
Chen Nian raised his head sensitively and said, "I have nothing to do with her. You said it like, I want her to disappear. She didn't affect me.
Li Xiang was taken aback for a moment, then quickly apologized and said, "That's right."
Embarrassed, he unintentionally looked back, smiled slightly, walked a few steps, lowered his head and whispered, "Chen Nian, I saw this person last time. I followed you all the way."
"what?"
"Don't look back!"
But Chen Nian had already turned his head. For a moment, Li wanted to grab her hand and said, "Run! Get rid of him!"
Chen Nian looked at Beiye in surprise, and before he could react, Li Xiang pulled him away.
Chen Nian struggled all the way, but Li Xiang was so strong that he dragged her and ran across the street, only to give up after seeing that "that person" didn't catch up.
Chen Nian struggled to shake off his hand, bent over and panted by the side of the road.
"What are you running?" Very unhappy.
She seldom showed emotions, let alone negative ones; Li Xiang guessed that she might be in a bad mood today, and she was a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid someone will follow you."
"Who?" She stared at him with a thump in her chest, "Who!"
"… uh, didn't follow."
"There are so many schools, people." Chen Nian was sweaty and his face flushed, "How many people are on the same road!"
"Yes. However, it's an exclusion. I'm sorry." Li Xiang smiled apologetically.
Chen Nian didn't look away: "Forget it."
When we parted at the intersection, Chen Nian stood on the side of the road and waited. It wasn't until he saw Kitano from a distance that the sullenness that was inexplicably raised just now because of Li Xiang disappeared.
However, Kitano passed by and glanced at her with a look of power in his eyes; he didn't stop, just walked forward.
Chen Nian walked side by side with him, separated by a distance of two or three people.
Since that day, he no longer uses his motorcycle to drive her, and she no longer returns to his home, nor does he stay at school to study at noon, but goes to Kitano's house for a lunch break. Every minute I'm not at school, I have to be with him to feel at ease.
When he walked to the wasteland, Chen Nian was a little closer to him, looking at him eagerly, waiting for him to speak, and asked her how her school was today.
But he doesn't speak or look at her.
After a long time, Chen Nian said, "Aren't you happy?"
"No." He tore off the dog's tail grass beside him and asked, "How about you?"
"what?"
"Are you not happy?"
"Neither." She shook her head.
The setting sun hangs in the wilderness in the distance, like a big salted egg yolk.
Chen Nian asked again, "Why did you hit him just now?"
"Who?"
"-Li Xiang."
"Oh, weird name."
"Why did you hit him?" she asked to the bottom of it today, "I saw it, you did it on purpose."
"If you hate it, just bump it." Kitano leaned over slightly and hooked the tip of her nose with the dog's tail grass, "Are you going to settle the bill with me?"
"..." Chen Nian blushed and was silent for a while, then asked, "Then why do you hate him?"
Kitano said "ha" and glanced at her coldly, "Don't you know?"
Chen Nian wiped the sweat from his palms and lowered his head: "I don't like him, I like him."
"Then who do you like?" Kitano asked.
blushed.
The sage shakes gently,
There was no answer, only a soft hand burrowed into his palm, like a slippery fish burrowing into the mud, the mud at the bottom of the pond had been prepared, but it still leaked a small hole before the floor, and poured it into a puddle of spring water. A chill.
The boy led the girl and walked on the vast field towards the glowing red sunset.
Walking into the factory, he saw an earring flower. Kitano picked two and hung them on her ears. He pinched her earlobe and suddenly said, "You don't have pierced ears."
"Wait until the exam is over."
"it is good."
"Are you going with me?"
"Of course." He tilted his head slightly, his lips brushing over her cheek like kissing his childhood favorite marshmallow.
He said, "When the time comes, I'll give you a pair of earrings."
"… thanks."
"It hasn't been delivered yet."
"I told you in advance, it doesn't matter."
Hand in hand to go home.
Kitano's phone rang.
He frowned and picked it up, and said coldly, "I said don't look for me at noon and at night."
Chen Nian knew that it was his friend. He only had time to play with his friends when she was in class, especially after that.
hang up the phone,
Chen Nian said: "In the evening, cook and eat by yourself."
Kitano said, "Okay."
Walking downstairs, he found two thick ropes hanging from the mulberry tree. Chen Nian looked at the ropes and then at him. Kitano said: "I'll put a swing for you. After the exam, you can swing on the swing every day. I sprayed the bugs on the tree with potion."
Chen Nian nodded lightly.
When I got home, I found that the rice was gone, the instant noodles were gone, and there was only a handful of noodles left. After boiling the water and throwing the noodles in, Chen Nian looked at him: "Is it enough for two people?"
"It shouldn't be enough, add two eggs." Kitano knocked the eggs into it.
Chen Nian looked around: "Hey, there are cabbage and oyster mushrooms. ... Ah, tomatoes."
No matter what, I washed my brain and threw it in the pot.
Finally, I came out with a pot of vegetable noodle soup with red and green vegetables. I didn't put the bowl in it. I put the pot on the table, put a book under it, and squatted on the chair with two pairs of chopsticks and ate it in the pot.
Unexpectedly delicious.
The fans were blowing, and the teenagers were sweating profusely.
"Is it delicious?" Kitano asked.
Chen Nian nodded.
Kitano pushed the beer bottle to her: "Drink a little."
Chen Nian picked up the bottle, slowly raised her head towards the mouth of the bottle, took a sip, bitter, and her eyebrows twitched.
Kitano watched with interest.
"Is it delicious?" he asked.
"It's not good." Chen Nian pursed his lips and looked at Kitano across the table. For no reason, he suddenly pursed his lips.
"Why are you laughing?" Kitano asked.
Chen Nian shook his head: "No why."
"are you happy?"
She thought ignorantly for a while, then nodded, her voice low and small, as if to say a secret: "Happy."
Kitano said "Oh", looked down at the noodles in the pot, and the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously, and he also smiled.
Chen Nian asked, "Are you happy too?"
Kitano said, "I'm happy too."
The two ate all the noodles, and when they saw the bottom of the pot, Kitano asked, "Are you full?"
Chen Nian nodded: "I'm full."
The smell of toast came in again, and he asked, "Want to eat it?"
"… OK."
Kitano then laughed again, and he went down the window and brought back freshly baked bread and a fudge lollipop in the shape of a wolf.
Chen Nian took a bite and saw the Bible on the cabinet in a blink of an eye.
She was holding the candy and suddenly said, "Wei Lai is missing."
"Oh." Kitano didn't care, he inserted the straw into the milk carton and pushed it in front of her.
"Where will she go?"
"Who knows? She provokes a lot of people. It has nothing to do with us." Kitano said.
"Oh." Chen Nian said.
But if the police came to ask questions, it would be very troublesome, she frowned and thought, suddenly got up and walked to the bathroom, not knowing what to look for, rummaging through the cabinets;
Kitano didn't stop, sitting at the table drinking milk.
Chen Nian opened the drawer under the sink, it was empty; she looked around, then came out to look around, and asked, "Where are those clothes?"
"Um?"
"The clothes I wore that day."
"Burned."
"Burn?" He was so cautious, she asked, "Will it not be discovered when it is burned?"
"I know of a place that burns garbage all day long."
What else did Chen Nian say, Kitano asked, "Aren't you going to review today?"
"Review." She went back to the table and sat down, Kitano got up and brought the lamp over.
The two teenagers sat on both sides of the table. She looked down at the book to solve the problem. He read the comic book, occasionally looked at her, and from time to time went to chase away the crickets who were shouting outside the window. The summer night just passed.
Day after day, the two teenagers rely on each other for life.
One night, when the train bell rang, Chen Nian rubbed his eyes and closed his book.
This night the storm is no more, it is very calm.
Chen Nian said: "Tonight, there is no rain."
Kitano walked to the window: "The rainy season is coming to an end..." He paused, looked up at the sky, and suddenly said, "Little stammer,"
"Huh?" Chen Nian turned around.
"Come and see."
Chen Nian went to the window, stretched out his neck like him and looked at the sky, full of stars.
Kitano jumped up to the window and handed it to her. She grabbed it and climbed up the window, jumped off the cement board, and went around the ladder to the top of the building. The train rumbled by.
The two teenagers sat side by side in the night wind on the top of the building, watching the stars.
They looked at their heads, pious and believing.
The starry sky in the summer night is so breathtakingly beautiful that it makes one want to cry.
Chen Nian suddenly crossed the sentence in his mind and read it out: "We live in the gutter, but some people still look up at the stars."
Kitano lowered his eyes and turned to look at her, she was a little confused: "I don't understand."
"Kitano," Chen Nian asked, "what do they mean by looking up at the stars."
"For me, it means this moment," Kitano said.
She was bewildered.
He smiled slightly and said, "May you understand what it means one day."
"can you?"
"Yes," he said. "Do you believe it?"
"You said it. I believe it."