In March of Yangchun, the ice and snow in the north melt, the temperature changes from warm to cold, and the sky is still gray and white.
On the first day of school, the representatives of various subjects were in a hurry to collect winter homework, and the classroom was extremely noisy. Yu Ran sat on his seat and arranged the test papers neatly. The students around him were very surprised that he had done so much homework during the holidays.
"I will study hard this semester!" Yu Ran made up his mind and took out his mobile phone to count the days in this semester. After counting, he changed his words confidently: "I will study hard this month!"
"Don't worry, don't you still have Chu Mian who can give you a lecture? He must be more patient than those teachers."
While responding to the words of his classmates, Yu Ran slandered Chu Mian’s shortcomings when giving lectures. For example, he was not allowed to lean on him to listen, and he was not allowed to intentionally interrupt and make jokes. You must correct your attitude when studying, “in this way you can improve your efficiency” and so on. It is still strict to ask the teacher for advice.
"Yu Ran, your partner is here!" Cui He who was by the window saw the car downstairs and casually informed Yu Ran. Yu Ran leaned over and saw a black sports car, and asked, "Why can't I see him inside?"
Cui He said: "The principal didn't drive the Bentley directly, did he? If he wanted to drive it, he had to enter the parking lot at the back door. Who else can park in the teaching building with a big swagger besides Chu Mian?"
Yu Ran suddenly realized, admiring her deduction ability, Cui He gave him a disdainful glance and said, "Forget it, I think you can't even recognize the license plate."
"Recognized clearly, the four circles are Audi, and the 'Don't touch me' is BMW."
"Then what kind of car did Chu Mian's mother drive last time?"
"I know this, you said it!" Yu Ran said firmly, "Male Gobi."
Cui He rolled his eyes, "I think if I tell you that Chu Mian lives in Tangchen Yipin, you will also think that his family is engaged in catering in Shanghai."
The car downstairs backed up slowly, and finally stopped at the gate of the teaching building. Before getting off the car, Chu Mian said awkwardly to the driver, "You should tell my dad, I can go to and from school by myself, so I don't need to bother you, uncle."
I don't know what happened in the past few months, Chu Mian felt that his parents' attention to him had risen to a higher level, and the pocket money was also doubled into the card. The most obvious thing is that they still care about his after-school life when they call, hoping that he can have more activities with friends during the holidays, but they don't mention "boyfriend" at all. Chu Mian wondered if they had any doubts about their son's liking for the same sex, and direct opposition would show that they were not enlightened enough, so she used the way of caring for him to hint at him to wake up.
Of course, it is also possible that conscience found out and wanted to make up for the lack of company he had given him in the past. But Chu Mian didn't take their changes to heart, and arranged her life with her aunt as usual.
The peach blossoms in the school were all in bloom. After a few gusts of wind, the petals fell densely like disordered snow, covering the ground with a layer of light pink.
There was a new poster posted on the bulletin board over there. Chu Mian went over to look curiously, just in time for the tree branches to sway in the wind and the refreshing fragrance of flowers lingering around him.
After he entered work, he was reminded to find that there were several peach petals hanging on his shoulders and hair tips. They were small and thin, and there was a hint of coolness in the palm of his hand.
Chu Mian was silently admiring the wonder of the recovery of all things in nature, and Yu Ran also marveled: "This flower is exactly the same as the fish scales my mother scraped off last night!"
Chu Mian raised her hand expressionlessly and threw it all over Yu Ran's head.
In the first English class in the morning, the homeroom teacher came in, first smiled at the students, and said: "Take care of this semester, if you haven't played enough, take advantage of the Labor Day Dragon Boat Festival to have fun, and wait for the summer vacation to start making up classes for the third year. Never take it easy again."
Everyone complained that she was disappointing, "School has just started, teacher!"
"I just reminded you earlier." Bai Yuzhu said, "Okay, let me tell you something next. There will be a city-level sports meeting this semester. The full name is 'The 3rd Ronggang Middle School Students All-round Quality Games'. Registration will start this week."
As soon as he heard the "sports meeting", Yu Ran immediately asked positively: "Is it still necessary to attend classes after signing up?"
"You think about this every day!"
Yu Ran immediately patted Chu Mian's thigh, and said sadly, "I, am I afraid of delaying my studies! If it affects my class time, I won't sign up!"
The teacher glared at him and continued: "This sports meeting is only held every three years. Basically all middle schools in the city will participate in it. All the assessments are relatively strict. There are not only track and field competitions, but also knowledge competitions. Body beauty and labor' several aspects of selection... ”
"That's over." Fang Zhao whispered from below, "Yu Ran cannot compare with others in 'wisdom' first."
The students laughed and agreed with each other.
Bai Yuzhu said: "Oh, yes, this sports meeting still needs a few students to wear the doll costumes of the school mascot, preferably boys, and those who want to sign up go to the office after class to pick up the watch."
She didn't bother to take the time to introduce other things. A poster was pasted on the wall at the back of the classroom for everyone to read after class.
Yu Ran watched the competition on a working day, so he decided to sign up right away, but he still didn't understand some rules: "What do you mean by 'the school with the highest overall score will have the chance to have a three-day mascot parade'? It's also said to be on the Lanjiang River."
Chu Mian explained: "It should be similar to Rubber Duck."
"Don't talk about foreign language with me."
"Big yellow duck, you should have seen it online last year."
Yu Ran had an impression of this, "Then if all our school mascots also swim in the river... wouldn't they be able to summon Qu Yuan?"
The squad leader told him from the side at this time: "Don't worry, those rice dumplings in our school will not be selected. This competition has been held twice in total, one championship experiment, and one championship one, which shows that the knowledge assessment takes up a large proportion. "
"It doesn't matter. Participation is the most important thing. At least I can save two days of class." Yu Ran said, "Please help me sign up for a sprint. If there are not enough people in the relay, you can fill me in."
The other students are not as motivated as he is. After all, it is a city-level competition. If the strength is too different from the key schools, it will be embarrassing. Fortunately, quite a few ordinary class students signed up enthusiastically, and the quota was almost full after only one day.
Chu Mian agreed to take two days to participate, but he only wanted to play the role of a mascot puppet, which would save trouble.
In addition to Chu Mian, there were four people from the sophomore experimental class participating in the competition, plus Fang Zhao who was forced by Yu Ran to be a volunteer, saying that they wanted to make a fortune.
At Yu Ran's suggestion, the squad leader used the class fee to customize T-shirts for them. "Simple and rude, mighty and domineering" are the characteristics of this clothes. There are a few words printed on each of the six sets of black clothes, which read together: Cheng Jun The most awesome!
Chu Mian took away the exclamation point, and Yu Ran took away the "bull". Fang Zhao got the clothes and hadn't taken them apart yet. He turned his head and saw that the other five people had formed "Cheng Jun is the best!"
He froze in place.
The school has just started, and the courses are not so intense and heavy. Several people have time to practice or memorize sample quiz questions. Late March coincides with the annual Peach Blossom Festival in Ronggang, and the temperature is gradually warming up, making it suitable for outings.
The puppet costume in the shape of "Zizi" has also been made. Chu Mian didn't try it on. She only put it on on the day of the preliminary round, and it was lighter than expected. Due to the large number of members of the school mascot "Zizi Family", when Chengjun's athletes arrived on the field, people from other schools were attracted.
Chu Mian is wearing a "Mianzizi" doll, a costume and headgear in the shape of white rice and bean paste rice dumplings, and bamboo leaves in the shape of hands. And the shoes are two red beans, the size is too big, Chu Mian is struggling to walk, and has to rely on Yu Ran to support her.
The venue for the sports meeting is the High School Attached to Outside Hong Kong. After all, this school has the most complete equipment in the city. Chu Mian has been looking down at the road under her feet since she got off the car, without taking a second look at her alma mater in junior high school.
In addition to the mascot, Cheng Jun's black school uniform style is also out of place in many schools, showing his vigor among the crowd. Therefore, many people will pay attention to them, and they can also meet classmates they met in the past, and they will inevitably stop to chat.
Chu Mian was walking with her head down when she suddenly heard someone calling her name from the side. He didn't recognize his classmate's voice, and turned around only to find that it was a familiar face.
Chu Mian nodded to those junior high school classmates, and had no intention of going forward. Yu Ran thought he was going to chat with his classmates, so he said, "I'll wait for you at the auditorium, you take off the doll clothes now, I'll take it."
"Don't go." Chu Mian said calmly, subconsciously holding Yu Ran's wrist.
Yu Ran could hear that his voice was deep, so he didn't say anything, and continued to stay by his side.
The classmates who met in the past have already come over, all wearing the school uniforms of the High School Attached to Hong Kong, and greeted warmly. Chu Mian couldn't leave right now, so she smiled politely and said, "Long time no see."
"That's right, you quit the class as soon as you graduated, and we couldn't find you, so we thought you had gone abroad." The boy smiled with dimples, and he glanced at the school uniform on Yu Ran, "Oh, so Are you going to... Hey, which school is this?"
He curiously asked the person next to him, the girl shook her head and said with a dry smile, "I don't know, Fourteenth High School?"
"You're blind, this is the school uniform of No. 35 High School." Another girl retorted.
Several people unanimously turned a blind eye to the school badge on the burning chest, and left Chu Mian aside, guessing his high school. The voices overlapped chaotically, until someone jokingly said, "Could it be No. 44 Middle School", and several people laughed at the same time.
Even Yu Ran could hear the malicious intent in the tone of these people.
Chu Mian remained silent the whole time, only smiled indifferently.
The boy remembered an important matter, and asked with concern: "By the way, Chu Mian, are you still sleeping in class?"
"much better."
"You'll be in the third year of high school next semester. You still have time to find a school to borrow from. It's better to be a phoenix tail than a chicken head."
"No, thank you for your concern."
Several boys and girls expressed their miss for Chu Mian one after another, and recalled the insignificant things in the beginning, and finally expressed emotion to him: "It would be great if you also stayed outside Hong Kong. Many newcomers in high school are strange and weird. There is no way to make friends with them."
Chu Mian smiled at them, and wrote lightly, "Yes, the older you are, the better your vision will be. It's normal for others not to want to make friends with you."
He ignored the embarrassment of those people, and didn't stay any longer, raised his bamboo leaf gloves, and led Yu Ran towards the classmates in the distance.
Yu Ran couldn't help but said, "It's a good thing you didn't stay in this school."
"Yeah." Chu Mian looked straight ahead, "Students from outside Hong Kong basically won't get into Jiangdong District, that's why I came here."
"It's fine if I don't meet my former classmates. If I were you, I would definitely avoid them. What kind of thing is it? It's so weird." Yu Ran clenched Chu Mian tightly with his backhand, "But it's a pity, if you didn't fall asleep during the high school entrance examination, Definitely go to a better school."
"I didn't fall asleep during the high school entrance examination." Chu Mian said casually.
"Ah?" Yu Ran was taken aback, "You didn't say that before."
"It's okay to tell you now, the invigilator does not allow candidates to sleep." Chu Mian dragged her bulky doll clothes and stepped up the steps of the auditorium. And taking too much medicine that year would have side effects, so I only took it before important exams."
"My previous mock exams were all good, but I don't want to pass the city's key exams." Chu Mian sat down and breathed a sigh of relief, "On the one hand, my body can't keep up with that kind of study rhythm, and on the other hand, I don't want to meet the previous exams. My classmates, so I want to start again in a place where no one knows me. But if I fill in the application directly with high scores, my parents will definitely have an opinion, so I just empty the Chinese composition and a few big questions, and the estimated score is also within their acceptable range."
Yu Ran nodded, but still couldn't help feeling a little bit sorry for him: "For you, Teacher Cheng Jun's teaching level is not enough."
Chu Mian put her arms around his neck, with a smile on her lips, "No matter how good the teacher is, it won't affect my grades and my goal of being an assistant doctor. Anyway, I sleep too much, and I basically study by myself when I'm awake. What's more-"
He stared at Yu Ran's side face, and said clearly: "If I go to another school, I won't be able to meet you."
Yu Ran tilted his head and said with a smile: "Not necessarily, Ronggang is so small, didn't we meet once before high school started? Then there must be a chance to meet again in the future."
"But that's not the same as it is now."
The athletes on the track and field began to warm up, noisy and lively, and peaceful.
Chu Mian looked at the light blue sky, opened and closed her lips, and said in a very soft voice, "A small mistake may not affect my future choices, but if I miss you, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
His volume was so low that it was almost inaudible, Yu Ran said "ah" in doubt, and leaned his ear to ask: "Say it again, I can't hear you clearly."
"I didn't want you to hear me clearly." Chu Mian smiled and pushed his head away, and put on her doll headgear.