"Brother Ghost" later asked Liu Jianjian, Zheng Lijuan's real relationship with him. Although Liu Jianshe flickered and used words such as "Huangkou child" and "adults and children don't understand" to prevaricate him, from Mr. Zheng's concern for him that is different from other classmates, Liu Jianshe frequently invites Mr. Zheng to come to his home for dinner on weekends, and Liu Jianshe is overjoyed to see her, and all kinds of signs have betrayed him.

Liu Jianshe was sometimes happy and asked "Brother Ghost" how he felt, and "Brother Ghost" pretended to be an adult and said: Adults worry about adults' affairs, but children don't understand adults' affairs! She also asked Liu Chunyan when she came back, and Yanyan said: It's very good, Aunt Juanjuan even hugged me! Liu Jianshe was so angry that he "gritted his teeth" and couldn't bear to start.

In the midst of laughter and play, Liu Chunyan's internship is over, and she has become a big girl, and she actually has the demeanor of Yang Caixia back then. According to the policy of secondary school student package allocation, she does not have to worry about work, and she is happy to go to the hospital in the town to report directly to work, and she is also consciously glad that they are the last batch of secondary school students who can enjoy the distribution of work packages. So for the "ghost brother", the situation is even more severe, and only going to high school and taking the university entrance examination is the way out. "Brother Ghost" is naturally not bad at learning, but Liu Jianshe still asked Mr. Zheng to "open a small stove" for him every day, and "the building near the water will get the moon first".

In preparation for the high school entrance examination, in addition to studying, they also have to participate in the triathlon sports test, and the school also organizes students to participate in long-distance running exercises every morning, and train for shot put and standing long jump in the afternoon. These are not a problem for the "ghost brother", but the head teacher gave him all this important task and asked him to organize everyone's daily training. So after the "ghost brother" led everyone to read out the declaration of "Farewell to the Hot Quilt Nest" written by himself, and was about to take everyone to run, the head teacher came to the front of the team, followed by a girl who was different from them in terms of appearance and dress.

After a brief instruction by the head teacher, a new classmate was introduced, Zhang Xuemei, and after speaking, the head teacher left. "Brother Ghost" took everyone from the school, ran up the embankment, and then ran back to school. swarmed in, sweating and sitting in his seat, the head teacher also followed into the classroom, letting Zhang Xuemei sit next to the "ghost brother", and the whole class immediately burst into boos.

The "ghost brother" took a closer look, and the green down jacket, black bodybuilding pants, white travel shoes, and brand-new backpack gave him a feeling of "being a big man and wearing a brocade of clothes"; his red leather bands tied up his long hair, which naturally drooped down on his back, and he was "like dark clouds on his sideburns"; and his skin was fair, but his hands were like soft wattles, his skin was like clotted fat, his collar was like a grub, and his teeth were like rhinoceros. The head of the mantis is eyebrows, the smile is smiling, and the beautiful eyes are looking forward to it"......

It wasn't for the teacher to come to class, and the "ghost brother" didn't know what else to see or think, so he said embarrassedly: It's so good-looking! Zhang Xuemei sat steadily, expressionless, as if she hadn't heard, holding her head, taking out a brand-new textbook and pencil case from her backpack, and went to listen to the class by herself.

"Brother Ghost" also felt bored, and turned his head to listen to the lecture carefully. But Zhang Xuemei set off layers of ripples in his heart, rippling in the microwave, as if she was lost in the pregnant spring field, full of rich intimate taste, warm spring breeze, overflowing with emotion; in the chaotic flowers, choking pollen, full of acacia style; chirping noise, full of shameful honey love words; crazy bird song, extremely flattering.

That winter, there was so much snow, as if she was afraid that the cold winter would freeze the wheat, and she was ruthlessly covered with a thick edelweiss quilt. The flying snowflakes were overwhelming, raging and rushing towards the vast land. "Ghost Brother" got up early, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find his umbrella, but in the end to no avail, in desperation, he stared at a fertilizer bag in the carpentry shed, to see that it was too late, put on the bag and hurried to the school, a transparent cylinder was running wildly in the snow.

When I ran to the school, the class bell just rang, and the substitute teacher had already entered the classroom, and the transparent bag of "Ghost Brother" suddenly appeared in front of me, and the teacher was suddenly stupid, holding on to his glasses and staring blankly...... He was embarrassed, shyly stuck his head out, smiled at the teacher and said, "Teacher, I'm sorry, I'm late!"

You're late!?Oh--- yes, why are you late?The teacher came to his senses for a while.

Can't find the umbrella? Delayed for a while! "Brother Ghost" was embarrassed, lowered his head and said, secretly squinting at Zhang Xuemei next to his table, and deliberately hid the transparent fertilizer bag just now with one hand.

"Alright, let's go!" the teacher was slightly annoyed.

The classroom was then filled with laughter and walked to its seat. Seeing Zhang Xuemei, he looked at him with a smile, which made him a little embarrassed, he didn't want his "glorious" and "tall" image to be erased in her eyes, but his embarrassed appearance today would definitely become her laughing stock.

Although this "like a world away" girl didn't like this school very much when she first came, and these rustic classmates, but under Zheng Lijuan's guidance several times, and with the "ghost brother" and his "brothers", she also slowly discovered the cuteness of the students in the mountain village - no comparison, no pretentiousness, sunshine, positive, just like the poplar tree by the playground, she couldn't help but think of the words in "Poplar Praise":

It was a tree that fought upstream, with straight stems and straight branches. It has no whirling posture, no bending and circling branches, and you might say that it is not beautiful, if beauty is to mean "whirling" or "sloping out" and the like, then the poplar tree is not a good woman among the trees, but it is majestic, upright, simple, serious, and not lacking in gentleness, not to mention its strength and uprightness, it is the great husband of the tree! When you walk on the plateau where the snow is beginning to melt, and you see such a poplar tree or a row of poplar trees standing proudly on the flat earth, do you think that the tree is just a tree, don't you think of its simplicity, seriousness, strength and unyielding......

After taking off her colored glasses, she had a different feeling about the "flattery" of "Ghost Brother", and she couldn't say it herself, she just wanted to see them, and wanted to sit with him in class and study.

Hey—Liu Guixian, didn't you find the umbrella? Zhang Xuemei covered her mouth with her textbook and made a "bang-la-la" sound from her throat.

--- still --- not! Zhang Xuemei talked to herself like this for the first time, which made the "ghost brother" nervous namelessly, and told him with a red face. Zhang Xuemei laughed softly through the textbook, "hehehe", laughing so much that "Brother Ghost" was a little "creepy".

That night, the snow stopped. After the evening self-study class, Zhang Xuemei followed up and shouted to the "ghost brother": Liu Guixian - ghost brother, you wait, I have something for you! "Ghost brother" stood in the snow, looking at Zhang Xuemei who was walking in the distance, still the black bodybuilding pants, pink hooded down jacket, the hat was buttoned on her head, and the fluff on the edge decorated her face like Snow White, running towards herself.

Is it okay - call you Brother Ghost!" "Brother Ghost" blushed, smiled and nodded slightly. She took out a blue folding umbrella from the backpack behind her and handed it to "Ghost Brother". He didn't dare to reach out to pick it up, but his body consciously ducked back, and the snow under his feet made two "creak-creak-" sounds.

A blue folding automatic umbrella, which is rare in the eyes of these rural children, they use long-handled umbrellas, most of the umbrella bones have rusted, the umbrella cloth is newly replaced by the umbrella repairers who walk the streets and alleys, some even feel wrinkled, and the color matching also looks vulgar. Zhang Xuemei looked at the posture of "Ghost Brother" to dodge, and deliberately stretched forward, he also wanted to instinctively hide back, and sat in the snow with his buttocks, which made Zhang Xuemei lean forward and back with laughter, and the laughter of "hehehe" resounded throughout the campus. "Brother Ghost" felt embarrassed and was about to get up, but Zhang Xuemei's hand reached out in front of him, slender and fair, like the tip of a lotus root that had just come out of the water, dripping with water - "Brother Ghost" saw this hand, he didn't dare to lean forward, and wanted to dodge; Zhang Xuemei kept stretching out her hand, and her fingers hooked back, signaling "Brother Ghost". "Brother Ghost" lowered her head and didn't dare to look, a hint of evil smile squeezed out of the corner of her mouth, and even snickered joy, grabbed the hand, stood up, a kind of softness, and a slight heat from her palm directly into the heart of "Brother Ghost".

Patting the snow on his body, the "ghost brother" took the umbrella and said: When I find my umbrella, I will return it to you! Zhang Xuemei looked at him and said with a smile: No, you can take it, I still have a hand-"Ghost brother" didn't shirk anymore, he was a little twisted, he took it a little coyly, and swallowed what he wanted to say again.

Zhang Xuemei turned around and sorted out her schoolbag, turned around and said, "Go back!" "Brother Ghost" looked at her with some puzzlement, Zhang Xuemei reacted and said with a smile: "Oh - you go back - I moved to the teacher's dormitory to live!" "Brother Ghost" turned around unhappily, faced the snow, stepped on the thick snow alone, and walked back; Zhang Xuemei had been standing at the gate of the school, looking at the figure of the distant and resolute, disappearing into the vast sea of snow——