Chapter 15: The Thorn Bird
In Zhang Yunqi's impression, the first time I saw this girl was very popular with the classmates, she had a breath on her body, slender, fair, quiet, very in line with the characteristics of the campus goddess in the 90s, and was the object of the boys' dreams in the class, but he had nothing to do with the first sight, and he didn't know much about it, just ordinary classmates who met and said hello.
Zhang Yunqi asked her, "What book are you reading?"
Hatsumi shook the book in his hand and said "Thorn Bird".
Zhang Yunqi smiled: "Do you like to read this type of book?"
At first sight, he said "um", pursed his lips and said: "I am usually tired of studying, but I can relax by reading this kind of book, and I can also broaden my horizons." ”
Zhang Yunqi said it's good, you can continue to read.
Hatsumi nodded and said yes.
Zhang Yunqi turned around and rummaged through the bookcase, found his favorite "Walden", read it for about half an hour, felt that the time was not early, and said to Chujian: "It's almost seven o'clock, and it's time to study at night." ”
When I first saw me standing under the bookcase and holding "Thorn Bird", I was fascinated by it, but I didn't hear Zhang Yunqi's words.
Zhang Yunqi reached out and pulled Chu Jian's arm, Chu Jian turned his head and looked at Zhang Yunqi suspiciously, Zhang Yunqi pointed to the wall clock on the wall, she reacted, blushed and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot the time." ”
"It's fine. Zhang Yunqi closed "Walden" and planned to ask Hatsumi to go to the counter to pay for the book, but saw Hatsumi put the "Thorn Bird" in his hand back into the bookcase, and he didn't seem to want to buy it.
Zhang Yunqi thought of something, and glanced at the shoes he saw for the first time, which were just a pair of cheap white cloth shoes, the upper of which had been taken off and patched, and there was a jasmine embroidered on the patch, which was very good-looking, plain and clean.
Zhang Yunqi quietly stuffed "Walden" in his hand into the bookcase, and said to Chujian: "Let's go back to self-study in the evening." ”
At first sight, I said yes.
The two went out together.
After walking down the street for a while, Hatsumi suddenly said that he hadn't eaten dinner yet and wanted to buy something to eat.
Zhang Yun nodded and said, "I'm waiting for you here." ”
A little embarrassed at first sight, perhaps because she thought that going to class with a boy would have a bad effect, she whispered: "Why don't you go back first, I'll buy food and go to class right away." ”
Zhang Yun nodded and turned to leave.
Looking at Zhang Yunqi's back, Chujian pursed his lips, turned around and walked to a nearby steamed bun shop, and asked the boss if there were any sugar steamed buns.
The boss said: "It's sold out, only steamed buns, meat buns and tea eggs." ”
Hatsumi said, "How much is a meat bun?"
The boss said: "Five cents." ”
Chu Jian hesitated for a moment, took out two cents from his schoolbag, handed it to the boss and said to buy a steamed bun.
At that time, the steamed buns were so big and cheap that I couldn't eat them all at first sight. After buying it, she turned around and went to school for evening self-study, but when she walked to the school gate, she stopped again and looked at Zhang Yunqi with a little surprise.
Zhang Yunqi was at the school gate, lying on the window of the security room and talking nonsense with the security guard Xiao Zhao.
There is a saying that the king of Hades is easy to provoke, the little ghost is difficult, and the school guard has a good relationship, and the benefits are great, such as closing the school gate in the middle of the night and returning to the dormitory, so Zhang Yunqi sent a cigarette to the security guard when he passed by the school gate, and contacted the feelings.
Zhang Yunqi saw that he had seen it for the first time, and threw a cigarette to the security guard Xiao Zhao, before turning around and walking in front of the first sight, he glanced at the hot steamed bun in her hand, and said with a smile: "Eat steamed buns at night." ”
When I saw "um" at the first time, I blushed and said, "Do you want to eat?" ”
"No, no, it's your dinner. ”
"The steamed buns are big, I can't finish them. ”
Chujian broke the steamed bun in half, and handed the big half to Zhang Yunqi, in fact, Zhang Yunqi had already eaten dinner and had no appetite, but he still took it and stuffed it into his mouth and took a bite, saying that it tasted good.
Hatsumi pursed his lips and smiled.
This is the first time Zhang Yunqi has seen this girl smile, it is very good-looking, especially clear.
The two went back to school together, and when they first met, they suddenly asked him, "You smoke?"
"Rarely smoke it. ”
"Then why do you have a cigarette to the security guard?"
"I always have a pack of cigarettes on me, I don't smoke them myself, I smoke them for others. ”
"I've only seen this kind of behavior happen to adults. ”
"What's wrong?"
"I can't put it into words, but it's ......"
"But what?"
"Actually, it's nothing. ”
"Just say whatever you want, I'm not that stingy. ”
Actually, sometimes the girls in the class talk about the boys in the class, and sometimes they talk about you, and they think you are more snobbish. I said that you don't have a problem in your heart, this is just the opinion of others, after all, everyone has known each other for a long time, and they don't understand. ”
"It's quite a pertinent comment, I love money more than I love learning. Zhang Yunqi smiled, he knew that except for the joke of blackmailing Zhou Qing to the handheld during military training, he couldn't get anything worth mentioning in the class. In the eyes of many of his classmates, he is not a student, but a philistine, unenthusiastic peddler, unmotivated, making small business all day long, as if going to school is dispensable for him.
At first sight, I was a little surprised, looked sideways and said: "How can you say that, everyone's values are different, as long as it is good, you can do anything, of course, I also think you seem to be more mature, and you have a sense of isolation from your classmates." ”
Zhang Yunqi turned his head to look at Chu Jian, and suddenly felt that this girl was very understanding, and said with a smile: "By the way, Chu Shi, I saw you all the time reading "Thorn Bird" in the bookstore, you like this book very much?"
Hatsumi nodded: "I watched it twice, I like it very much." ”
Zhang Yunqi asked again: "Then which sentence in "Thorn Bird" do you like the most?"
Hatsumi thought for a moment and said, "We each have something in our hearts that we don't want to let go, even if it makes us miserable to death. We are like this, like the thorn bird of the old Celtic legend, crying blood, vomiting out a bloody heart and dying. We have created our own thorns, and we never count the cost, all we do is endure the pain and tell ourselves that it is worth it. ”
Zhang Yunqi smiled: "Don't mind, in fact, I don't think this sentence is very good." ”
When I first saw it, I turned my head to look at Zhang Yunqi.
Zhang Yunqi said: "This sentence is too intense and emotional, like Colleen McCullough's contradictory work. It is undeniable that there are many difficulties and pains in life, but we don't need to blindly magnify and indulge in them. After all, survival is one thing, and life is a poem. Throughout Colleen McCullough's book "The Thorn Bird", my personal favorite quote is: satisfaction is happiness, dissatisfaction is anticipation, and the right sense of satisfaction can provide the possibility of happiness. ”
Zhang Yunqi shook the half steamed bun in his hand, and when he first saw him, he smiled and said, "Just like now, I am hungry, you gave me half a steamed bun, and I got proper satisfaction." So at this moment, I perceive a kind of happiness. ”
Standing on the side of the road, I was a little distracted at first sight.
The street lamps were yellow, the breeze was swaying, and in the shaded street corner of the old days, she looked at his side face in a daze, a little trance, particularly unreal, this is like what a high school student can say?