01 Teasing
01 Next to the teaching building is a sycamore tree that covers the sky and the sun. Every late autumn, the leaves of the sycamore tree scatter all over the ground. When the bell rings after class, the classmates in the classroom are like ducks coming out of the cage to vent the wind, stepping on the rustling sycamore leaves, and rushing towards the playground in all directions.
The auditorium on the other side of the sycamore tree is usually locked and closed. It is full of empty space and has become a paradise for students.
The auditorium is covered with red brick cement roof. It was transformed from a large fertilizer factory in the 1970s. It stands opposite to the white tiled teaching building next to it. All major tasks of the school must be carried out here. This auditorium has always witnessed the glory and dreams of the classmates in junior high school.
Zhang Jianxin especially likes this place. At the opening ceremony of this semester, all teachers and students of the school gathered in the auditorium. He was the one who sat in front of the auditorium to speak on behalf of Class 25 of the junior high school.
I was also sitting in the audience at that time. As Zhang Jianxin’s deskmate, I felt like I had won an award, and I was full of strength. Ye Ling next to
saw me, gave me a few glances, came over and said to me, "It's not that you won the award, you are so arrogant."
Although Ye Ling is one year older than us, she is in the same class as us, and her younger brother is in Class 4 next door, but she is the beauties of our class. When I was young, I saw beautiful girls with a stern face, and I was no exception. I glanced at her and continued to applaud, with a hot face. The story that happened to Zhang Jianxin and Ye Ling after
is still quite sad when I think back many years later. Although I can't remember some details clearly, some emotions gradually fade, and fewer classmates are contacting me. I am busy with my own affairs and don't bother to spend time thinking about anything that is completely unrelated to me. But in my silent life, every time I think of their emotional entanglements, I can't help but sigh in my heart.
They are like a little starlight on my boat road, and they will always get a hint of astringent and warm comfort when I can't sleep late at night. Well, it's probably just that, but it can't disappear from my memory.
02 Fighting
It is said that on the evening of the opening ceremony that day, during the evening study break, Ye Ling forced Zhang Jianxin to run to the main entrance of the auditorium and asked proudly: "Zhang Jianxin, do you dare to go in?"
The auditorium has no lights installed, and there are no windows on one wall next to the teaching building. The lights in the classroom naturally cannot shine here, especially in autumn and winter nights, which are pitch black inside. There is a loud roar at the gate, and a low echo comes from the deep darkness of the auditorium with a cold wind, which is still a bit scary.
It is said that the auditorium had died of military struggle during the Cultural Revolution, and many junior high school students as old as them were buried in it. This place was a pile of graves.
I also saw with my own eyes that the little naughty Zhu Quancai from the next class was carried in and threw it inside, and then ran out crying.
Zhang Jianxin broke away from Ye Ling's hand, blushed, and whispered, "Go away, you're so bored. You're going to class."
Ye Ling shouted, "Zhang Jianxin coward, if you dare not enter, I dare." After that, he ran into the depths of the auditorium, came out from the side door, ran to front of Zhang Jianxin, and proudly said, "Look, I'm out."
Zhang Jianxin stood for a while, bypassed Ye Ling, and returned to his seat angrily. Ye Ling followed in, sat behind Zhang Jianxin, and put one foot on Zhang Jianxin's stool. Zhang Jianxin looked back at Ye Ling's feet, and felt that the feet inside were also very beautiful. His face turned red for a while, and he was embarrassed to turn around and pay attention to Ye Ling.
Ye Ling smiled and pulled up the math textbook to cover his face.
The new semester of the class has been adjusted. The class teacher stipulates that boys and girls have different tables. Ye Ling sat behind Zhang Jianxin, and both of them leaned against the window. During the day, you can see the stretched leaves of the sycamore tree flying in the wind.
At that time, good-looking girls like boys with good grades. The girls envied Ye Ling and sat behind the male classmates with the best grades in the class. But Ye Ling didn't seem to care about this until Zhang Jianxin fought the first and only after the fight in junior high school.
Zhu Quancai from the next class, after 10 minutes of evening study, always ran to the window. At first, sometimes he took his butt on the window ridge intentionally or unintentionally, sometimes he held his cheeks on the window sill with his hands, and sometimes he grabbed the thin iron rod of the window with his hands, and looked at Ye Ling blankly; later he started talking to Ye Ling, where did you buy your pen and where did you buy your pen box; then he started to playfully grab Ye Ling's random thing and ran away, thinking that Ye Ling would chase him.
Once, Ye Ling asked Zhang Jianxin to borrow a book called "The Little Prince". I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, so I put it against a corner of the window. Zhu Quancai came and asked with a smile: "Oh, I bought a new book, can I borrow it for a look?"
Ye Ling looked at Zhang Jianxin, as if he was improving his tone and replied: "Don't borrow it, go away."
Zhu Quancai grabbed it and ran away. Ye Ling poked Zhang Jianxin's back with his finger: "Hey, Zhu Quancai took your book away, he will definitely touch his booster."
Zhang Jianxin poked his head out of the English exercises, his face darkened, and said in a muffled voice: "Grandson, come to get your stuff again." Then he got up and walked straight out of the classroom, and took advantage of the fact that I had my schoolbag hanging on the back of the chair to the ground.
Zhu Quancai did not go far, Zhang Jianxin blushed and called him firmly: "Give me the book back."
Zhu Quancai jumped left and right, picked up the book and threw it to play: "The book is not yours, I took it from Ye Ling's, I won't give it to you. You can ask her to get it."
The book was thrown around in the air. Zhang Jianxin rushed up and pushed Zhu Quancai down: "You can't take Ye Ling's, give it to me."
The two wrestled. Zhang Jianxin, who had never fought in school, was finally pressed to the ground by Zhu Quancai, unable to move, and kept shouting, "Give me the book back!"
The students rushed over and heard the sound, and the naughty classmates shouted loudly, "Zhang Jianxin is fighting for Ye Ling!" The female classmate quickly called the head teacher.
Zhu Quancai was pulled away. Zhang Jianxin picked up the book on the ground and stuffed it into Ye Ling's arms with nervous face: "Please take it, I won't lend you this next time."
The two were taken into the head teacher's office. The head teacher protected the short-term security guard and closed the door. Zhu Quancai put a hand on the wall. Later, Zhu Quancai never bullied Zhang Jianxin again and avoided it when he saw it. Our class teacher is usually very gentle, but he didn't expect to be so good, but Zhang Jianxin only told me later.
From this day on, Ye Ling seemed to have changed his individual! A beautiful class beauty with a little temper has changed her attitude towards Zhang Jianxin! I thought it was very strange at that time, and I don’t know why.
She no longer "titled" Zhang Jianxin, never put her feet on his stool, no longer poked his back with her fingers for any matters, and no longer pulled him into the auditorium. In a sense, how can she say that she has become well-behaved, and she is developing towards the way a girl with good academic performance.
03 Change
Ye Ling has a pair of big eyes that are flashing, and the clothes she wears are also the best among female classmates. When all the leaves fell from the sycamore tree outside the teaching building, Ye Ling was wearing a pink down jacket, and the pink light held up the white and pink neck. We boys couldn't help but look at it again and again.
At that time, the troublemakers in junior high school liked to do the most was to chase and intercept beautiful girls. The little bully in the third year of junior high school always leads a few younger brothers, blocks the female classmates selected from the boys' dormitory and sings fashionable love songs.
Ye Ling was also blocked, and two or three younger brothers started to sing "Single Love Song". The little overlord asked, "Song Donggua likes you, do you like him?"
Ye Ling looked stern, standing straight without making a sound. Xiao Ba Wang asked again: "Is there no zero percent? It's good to have zero percent."
Ye Ling replied calmly again: "No, no, just no. If you block me again, I'll tell the teacher tomorrow."
Xiao Ba Wang laughed: "Song Donggua, your uncle, haha. People don't like you. Hey, Ye Ling has body odor, I said, how could the vixen like you?"
Zhang Jianxin happened to pass by and stopped. Ye Ling became nervous and looked at Zhang Jianxin in a panic, as if he was afraid that the gangsters would cause trouble for Zhang Jianxin: "Don't block my way, otherwise I will shout. "
Song Donggua said with a smile: "Oh, go... go... go. "A group of people suddenly left in a state of irritation.
Ye Ling folded 365 small stars with wrapping paper, and stuffed them into his desk on Zhang Jianxin's third-year birthday. Zhang Jianxin gave Ye Ling a ragdoll kitten and wrote a small note: let's take the No. 1 first year together.
Ye Ling never pulled Zhang Jianxin's hand. Once he touched his hand with an eraser, both of them blushed. However, Ye Ling, who was in the middle and lower reaches of the grade, seemed to be tied with a rope by Zhang Jianxin. As a result, I began to study hard with Zhang Jianxin.
Ye Ling did not get into the No. 1 Middle School like the plot in the inspirational story, and Zhang Jianxin got the second place in the school and was admitted to the Provincial Key No. 1 Middle School as I wished. I also got into the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, but I didn’t have the same class as Zhang Jianxin. The day when
scored, Ye Ling cried and his face was flushed. Ye Ling had to pay a lot of extra fees to go to the No. 1 Middle School for the results of Ye Ling to get into the No. 1 Middle School for the first time. Zhang Jianxin was at a loss and was silent for a long time. He asked in a low voice: “Can your family provide you with the No. 1 Middle School? "
" My mother said that my brother had better grades than me, so he got him to the No. 1 Middle School. My mother is the only one in my family and I can’t afford the tuition for two people. "
" Then what do you do? "Zhang Jianxin held back his tears, as if he hated his younger brother of the same class as her.
"I don't know. "Ye Ling still cried.
...
04 Separation
In September of that year, Zhang Jianxin dragged his luggage into Provincial No. 1 Middle School, and Ye Ling went south to Shenzhen to work.
At that time, neither of them used their phones, but they only kept QQ, and their respective addresses. Zhang Jianxin did not write to Ye Ling later, but chatted for a while when he went to the Internet cafe on weekends. Ye Ling did not write to Zhang Jianxin, but every time Zhang Jianxin went to QQ, Ye Ling was online.
When he was in the third year of high school, his studies were tight, so Zhang Jianxin stopped going to the Internet cafe and bought it. The phone didn't remember to call Ye Ling. About one month after the college entrance examination, Zhang Jianxin received a letter, which was Ye Ling's, with 6 photos of Zhu and Ye Ling in it. He stayed for a while and put the photo into the "Little Prince" at the bottom of the box.
The next day, Ye Ling called, and Zhang Jianxin took a bath in the bathroom, covered with soap bubbles. There was no one in the dormitory, so Zhang Jianxin grabbed the phone and went back to the bathroom to answer.
I happened to ask Zhang Jianxin to borrow a book and entered the dormitory where Zhang Jianxin was.
Ye Ling asked: "Have you received the letter? ”
Zhang Jianxin replied: “Received. ”
Ye Ling asked: “How are you preparing? ”
Zhang Jianxin replied: “It’s okay, it’s okay. ”
Ye Ling asked: “Where are you preparing to take the exam? ”
Zhang Jianxin replied: “I don’t know, it depends on the results. ”
Ye Ling said: “Do you know? Zhu Quancai was in jail, fought with others, and killed someone... Alas..."
Zhang Jianxin seemed to have a pain in his nerves and replied: "Ah. ”
Ye Ling said: “Well, I really couldn’t imagine it. ”
Zhang Jianxin replied: “Yes. ”
was silent for a while.
Ye Ling said: “Oh, I wish you to get into your ideal university. Then... I'm dead. ”
Zhang Jianxin replied: “Okay. "
I seemed to hear the quietly crying sound, and the sound was very low and mixed with the sound of the faucet in the bathroom.
In September, Zhang Jianxin went to a university in the north, and Ye Ling worked in a city in the south, and it was even further apart.
In the year of my sophomore year, Zhang Jianxin had a girlfriend. When he was walking with his girlfriend on Wutong Avenue in the school, Zhang Jianxin received a call from Ye Ling.
Ye Ling seemed to be crying and tried his best to squeeze out a happy voice and asked: "How are you doing recently? "
Zhang Jianxin looked back and his girlfriend beside him whispered: "It's pretty good. I already... have..."
Ye Ling laughed at the other end of the phone: "Wow, congratulations...congratulations. "
After a while, he fell into a long silence.
Zhang Jianxin broke the embarrassment and said, "I wish you also find your...again..."
Ye Ling replied, "Okay. ” Then hung up the phone.
Later, I heard Ye Ling's best friend who talked about everything said that Ye Ling got married one month after this call.
Ye Ling married He Zhiwei from the next class. To be honest, it was really beyond my expectations. With Ye Ling's temperament, it seems unlikely that she can marry a boy who used to be a middle-aged school student but now she is doing average.
Later, I heard that He Zhiwei had been chasing Ye Ling, and when he went to Shenzhen to work, he was chasing Ye Ling.
Two years after getting married, Ye Ling gave birth to a child. Zhang Jianxin saw the doll photos posted by Ye Ling on QQ album. They looked very similar to Ye Ling, and their big eyes were also flashing.
05 Reunion
2 years after graduating from university, the head teacher told me to organize a reunion of classmates in Class 5 of junior high school. After greeting him a lot, more than half of the classmates gathered together. Zhang Jianxin came and Ye Ling came too.
found a bar in the county town. A group of people ate and drank, whispered and got excited, and the past was turned out one after another.
Ye Ling changed a lot, beyond everyone's expectations. When we were in college, she studied by herself and took a college degree and a bachelor's degree. She majored in the same Chinese department as Zhang Jianxin. Later, he took the teacher qualification certificate and became a Chinese teacher in his original junior high school. Last year, he was also named an outstanding teacher.
Everyone was making fun of Ye Ling and Zhang Jianxin.
Song Donggua raised her wine glass and said to Zhang Jianxin: "Jianjian, you are not authentic! Look at other people, He Zhiwei, but I have been chasing him for 6 years. Hahaha. Come, buddy, have a drink, I wish you find another school beauty."
I looked at Ye Ling, with a black hip skirt and a tight black top, her makeup was a bit charming, and she held the wine glass with one hand. Now when I think back on my dress in junior high school, I keep laughing in my heart.
Ye Ling pulled Song Donggua's head, drank a glass of red wine, picked up the red microphone, and sang "Shining Days".
Zhang Jianxin also picked up another microphone and started singing duet.
Gathered until midnight, and a group of people were drunk and crawled out of the bar. I helped Zhang Jianxin out, and Ye Ling followed him out from behind.
"Oh, Yixin classmate, I cheated, but I wasn't drunk. You see, Jianxin is not bad, drinking as hard as before in the exam." Ye Ling's face was flushed and his smile was full of smiles.
"Haha, it's good, I've drunk a lot. Student Ye drank so much and sang happily." Zhang Jianxin felt complicated when he looked at this woman.
"Jianxin, when will we get married? You have to invite a wedding banquet at that time, and you can't forget your old classmates."
"Haha, it's not that fast." Zhang Jianxin couldn't smile bitterly. I knew I broke up with his college girlfriend not long ago.
"Okay, don't forget it. It's time for me to go back, so you can go back early too. My husband is waiting for me there." Ye Ling seemed to take a breath, turned around and walked towards the car parked not far away.
The lights on the streets are more dazzling than a few years ago, there are more cars and more people. Everything in front of you has become so strange, and a feeling that seems to be a different life is coming to your face. Everything got so fast, Zhang Jianxin and Ye Ling.
I looked at Zhang Jianxin looking at Ye Ling's graceful black silhouette, with comfort in my eyes.
I asked embarrassedly: "Ye Ling is so good, you don't have to blame yourself so much."
Some things in life are like winding rivers, circling and turning, and you can't see the exit, but the flow of time, after a thousand twists and turns, eventually flows into the sea. Ye Ling is like a small white boat in the river, holding a small sail and floating to his own harbor.
