Chapter 56: Those Years
Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, once recalled his youth and used "Jin Se" to express the beautiful time of the past:
Jin Se gratuitously fifty strings, one string and one pillar Si Hua Nian.
Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies, and hopes that the emperor will trust the cuckoo in spring.
There are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking.
This situation can be recalled? It's just that it was already clear at the time.
In his book How Steel Is Made, Ostovsky wrote: "A man should spend his life in such a way that when he recalls the past, he will not regret that he wasted his time, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction, and when he is dying, he can say that my whole life and all my energies have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world—the struggle for the emancipation of mankind!"
Indeed, the value of life lies in cherishing.
Cherish the present, not afraid of the past, not afraid of the future.
We must know how to cherish the present, make a little more effort than anyone else, spend every day, every hour, every minute, every second extremely seriously, and strive to this moment of the present.
Instead of regretting the past and feeling anxious about the uncertainty of the future, it is better to do the present and present things at this moment.
Because, time is the fairest for everyone.
It doesn't stop flowing because of a good thing, and it doesn't speed up because of a bad thing.
In the face of time, everyone has the same choice. All life is also the result of one's own choices.
And in that era when "young people don't know the taste of sorrow, and they are worried about giving new words", I chose that unruly path.
Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black.
When the three of us were together, we did everything but study.
The most I do is fight.
If you don't like someone, you will provoke and say, "What are you looking at?"
At this moment, it just so happened that this friend would routinely come up with a classic line: "Look at you!"
That's him!
The three of them will definitely join forces and beat the kid who said the code hard.
Every day is messing around - messing around with nothing to do.
Just like the troubled teenagers mentioned in various media and news reports:
I like to be scared by others, and when I see us from afar, we take a detour;
Like to make a loud noise in public and let everyone in the world know that we still exist;
likes to bully the weak, especially in front of the girls he likes, thinking that it is a manifestation of fashion and coolness;
I like to see the frightened eyes of others when they see us, and the trembling voice when they speak to us;
I prefer the kind of cold weapons such as "sticks" to show our strength in a culturally rich place like the campus......
But in the eyes of Lei Zi, Madman, Jiajia, and Lao Yan, I have become one of the bad students, the "scum" who messes around with the "scum" every day.
I don't do my job, I don't study, and I waste all my time and energy on gangsters.
Moreover, we also learned to smoke with Xu Hui, the "soldier oil".
Every day, I will regularly go to the aqua toilet, the only "paradise" in the school, and enjoy the hobby of "smelling like flies". With the confused expressions of adults learning to smoke, enjoying the mixture of nicotine and ammonia at the same time stimulating the nasal cavity and lungs, "learning" looks like a lot of enjoyment.
Actually, I hate that smell, for the sake of the so-called buddy righteousness, just to save face.
One day, Lei Zi came to me solemnly.
"Dunzi, come back!"
"We need you, to be happy, happy and healthy with us, to study hard together, to talk about life together, to improve our grades together, don't mess around with Zifan and Xu Hui. Beware of the days that mess with you!"
"The madman asked me to be their representative, let's save you together, you can't go on like this. ”
"Do you know what madmen tell us?"
"How?"
"The madman beat his chest that day and said, 'Let's save the dunzi!
The authorities are obsessed.
I still don't think much of Leizi's words, and I still go my own way every day, smoking, fighting, looking in the mirror, growing long hair, and combing my hair...... I have long forgotten all the obligations and responsibilities that I should fulfill as a student profession, and I have forgotten about learning, which is the most important thing in my student life.
One day.
My mother noticed that I was looking in the mirror "very seriously", fiddling with my shiny and parted hair, which had been tidied by myself, and said, "Dunzi, my mother heard that once a boy starts looking in the mirror and starts paying attention to his own image, it is a sign that he will become a bad student, and he will not study well." Mom recently noticed that you look in the mirror very often, and for more than 20 minutes, are you going to turn into a bad boy?"
"It's okay, Mom, don't worry, my son won't let you down. ”
Maybe the children in the rebellious period will be a little unimpressed by what their parents say? Although I was ashamed to give my mother a package ticket, I didn't actually take my mother's words to heart at all.
What's more, after they learned that I liked Fangfang, they also persuaded me with a lively mentality of "bitter mouth", so that I wrote a love letter to Fangfang shamelessly for the first time, and I was extremely arrogant and confessed to Fangfang countless times face-to-face. Not only that, but also asked Fangfang a "love choice question".
"Fangfang, I like you...... Especially when I'm with you, it's a lot of fun. I sat next to Fangfang and tentatively confessed to her.
"Actually, I like to talk to you. Fangfang was still so tepid and smiling.
"You're so beautiful when you smile, not only with dimples, but also with two cute little tiger teeth. I stared at Fangfang intently.
"Hey, hey, it's almost enough, pay attention to the impact, there are so many classmates around you watching, don't keep staring at me. Fangfang was a little shy.
"Are you shy?blushing?" I deliberately teased her.
"I don't have it!" Fang Fang touched her cheeks with both hands, "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Okay, okay, I'm not staring at you. I'm sorry, hehe!" I paused slightly, and said the lines that I had prepared in my heart with a cheeky face: "Ask you a serious word, and you have to answer truthfully." ”
"Okay, you ask!" Seeing that I was so serious, Fangfang couldn't help but straighten up.
"I want to ask you, I want to ask you......" Although he had already thought about the content of the question, he was still a little speechless, "Fangfang, I actually want to ask you, if, I mean if, if you choose between me and Lao Yan, who will you choose?"
Fang Fang was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect me to ask so directly, "How can you ask such a question?" I won't tell you. Fangfang's face turned even redder.
"I just want to know, tell me!" I continued to stalk.
"Dunzi, isn't it nice that we talk together every day? Can you not ask such a question, I don't want to answer. Fangfang seemed to have a hint of displeasure.
In hindsight, I really didn't see Fangfang's unhappiness, and continued to ask shamelessly: "I really want to know, Fangfang, I like you, but I want to know what you think, I at least want to know if you like me or not, right?"
"There are so many boys chasing me in the class, why can I only choose you two brothers?" my continued questioning seemed to provoke Fangfang's anger, and she seemed to suddenly lose interest in chatting, and deliberately provoked me to say.
"Someone else chasing you besides the two of us?" The man's instinctive inner possessiveness suddenly sprouted out of his heart, and I suddenly had a kind of vinegar of "anger rises from my heart, evil grows to the side of my guts, opens my eyebrows and eyes, and bites my teeth in my mouth" like a volcano, and all the "vinegar slurry" that is constantly compressed in my heart erupts out.
Between the words, he suddenly got up, walked out of the classroom angrily, and left a sentence for Fangfang without looking back: "I want to see who is still chasing you!"
At this time, the intellect has long been invaded by anger and the selfish possessiveness of men, and there is no distinction between the good and the bad.
I immediately found my "fox friends", Xu Hui and Zifan, and told them that there were still people chasing Fangfang, and that this person must be found, and I would personally "clean up" him......
In this way, Fangfang, who was approachable before and had nothing to say to me, may have been stimulated by my frenzy, and she hasn't said a word to me for a long time, even when she is face-to-face, she always takes the shift of her gaze as the final outcome.
As for me, it seems that for a long time, Fangfang's disdain and disregard for me have been angered on the person who is secretly chasing Fangfang, and I have told myself countless times in my heart: "If I find out who this person is, I will be unkind to him!"
Everyone's energy is limited, and time is cruel and harsh to everyone, and it will not slow down the pace of progress because someone has lost his way and the prodigal son has returned.
Where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and where there is an effect, there must be a cause.
There is a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is especially unpleasant.
All the way up to the exams at the end of the semester.
I had always been very confident in my exams, and I suddenly found that there were many, many problems that I didn't know how to do, and I hadn't even seen them!
Usually, when He Zifan pretends to analyze mathematical problems, prove axiomatic theorems, and complete homework, he always completes it in a fight, and he doesn't listen to lectures seriously, learn and memorize, let alone practice repeatedly.
In this way, the decline in test scores is obvious.
My academic performance plummeted at that time, and I barely passed the "main courses" such as Chinese, Mathematics, and English, and my scores in several other subjects were below 60 points. The mathematics I am most proud of is only 62 points. Where did I end up at the top of my grades?
My parents read my report card seriously and the teacher's comments, and were silent for a long time.
They didn't say anything, and I realized the seriousness of the matter, and I asked myself more than once: Could it be that the time with Zifan and Xu Hui was really messing around? The appearance of the test results also confirmed the admonition of the madman, and also gave me a resounding slap in the face at that moment when I was self-righteous for a long time.