Act I

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In 2003, winter, foggy day.

Lai Xiaochuan pedaled the bicycle pedals hard in the white fog with a visibility of only 50 meters, as if no matter how hard she tried, the wheels of the bicycle were still slowly squirming. She gasped, the edges of her yellow beanie hat had formed wool ice threads, and the eyelashes on her two eyes hidden behind her glasses were also covered in white ice by the white mist of winter.

Lai Xiaochuan raised a hand, wiped the white gas on the eye piece through the glove, and shivered her purple mouth while wiping, she shook her mouth and shouted loudly: "I want to die of freezing!"

Fang Yuan, who was riding a bicycle, quickly caught up with Lai Xiaochuan who was shouting from behind, raised his arm and slapped Lai Xiaochuan's back, Lai Xiaochuan glanced back at Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan exhaled a big white breath, and greeted with a stiff face: "Good morning" (Japanese).

Lai Xiaochuan: "Can it be normal!"

Fang Yuan thought for a moment and said again: "Good morning!" (in French)

Lai Xiaochuan: "This won't work either!"

Fang Yuan: "I have to review what you taught me!"

As the two were talking, a familiar figure pushing a bicycle appeared in front of them. Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan got off their bikes. Fang Yuan sneered: "Donnie Yen, as the sports committee member of our class, a man who is almost 1.8 meters, you will actually be beaten down by the cold, your abdominal muscles are not used now!"

Donnie Yen squinted his eyes and sarcastically: "Although the roundness of your body is not as fat as a fat man, it is still thicker than a thin person like us, and now your advantage is out, anti-freezing! Xiao Lai, don't you say?"

Lai Xiaochuan grinned and replied, "It makes sense!"

Fang Yuan looked at Lai Xiaochuan angrily: "Tend to be inflammatory!"

Donnie Yen propped up the bicycle, crossed his hands under his armpits and sucked the runny snot that was about to flow down and said: "I really can't bear it, this foggy ghost can show its original form when it comes out, let's wait for the fog to clear before going to school, right?"

Fang Yuan looked at Donnie Yen with a frightened expression and replied, "We are all in one class, one is missing and three are missing." ”

Donnie Yen looked at Lai Xiaochuan: "Xiao Lai, you vote." ”

Fang Yuan: "I don't participate in voting. ”

Lai Xiaochuan: "I can't ride anymore!"

Lai Xiaochuan and Donnie Yen turned their heads to look at Fang Yuan at the same time.

Fang Yuan: "What do you two look at?I'm sorry, my grades are behind you, I'm ...... I can't afford to do anything!" After speaking, Fang Yuan pushed the bicycle and left like a martyr's version.

Under the stone bridge not far from the side of the highway, Donnie Yen tore off a few pieces of scratch paper, lit a match, lit the paper, the heat of the paper instantly made the three of them feel that they were still alive, Donnie Yen put the burning paper under the dead leaves and branches he picked up and slowly led the fire to burn on the leaves and branches, Donnie Yen lowered his head and blew leisurely, so that the fire could be ignited quickly, Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan sat on the stone and the two of them also blew together. The fire slowly grew bigger, the flames jumped higher and higher, and the dances became more and more active, and the leaves and branches were burned to make a 'squeak' sound, making the last sacrifice for the warmth of the three of them, shouting their last value. The three of them put their hands close to the flames, rubbing their palms together vigorously.

Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan looked at Donnie Yen, and both of them let out a 'hum' smirk from their mouths at the same time.

Donnie Yen continued to light the fire, and asked, "What are you two 'humming'!"

Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan gave each other a look, Fang Yuan snorted and asked, "Donnie Yen, what are you carrying with you a match?"

Donnie Yen suddenly didn't know what to say.

Fang Yuan continued: "Are you smoking?"

"Nope!"

"What are you doing with matches?"

"Are you two finished?" said Donnie Yen in a hurry.

"End...... It's over!" Fang Yuan said, shaking his head.

Lai Xiaochuan approached Donnie Yen and asked, "Are you really pumping?"

Donnie Yen smiled embarrassedly at Lai Xiaochuan, and Lai Xiaochuan turned around and shook his head.

"Don't say it!" Donnie Yen said to the two of them.

The dense fog dissipated into mist, and the three of them drove on the road again, and the bicycle turned smoothly, riding for about 200 meters, and the three got off the bike and pushed the bicycle to the school gate, and the iron fence gate was wrapped three times by the iron chain, and it was tightly locked with a fist-sized copper lock.

Donnie Yen turned his head to look at the small door next to him, which was also locked. Donnie Yen looked up at the top of the iron gate, a neat row of arrow-like iron weapons soaring into the sky. Looking up, the four big red characters of "Xingzhen Middle School" stood strong and stocky above the sharp iron arrows, and at this moment, the psychology of the three of them looked like Mr. Zhong Kui, who had a hideous face.

Three, you look at me, I look at you, as if you want to get some good solution from someone's mouth.

In the school police room on the left side of the iron gate, the smell of a dime and two strings of strings sold by the school policeman's house wafted into the noses of the three people, and the three of them sniffed at the same time.

The school police officer wore a thick school police uniform, his hands were clamped under his armpits, and he kicked his feet in a figure-eight step, shaking his burly body and walked to the iron door. He squinted and smiled, and said in the authentic Henan dialect: "Incense, come in, you can buy it from my daughter-in-law." As soon as he finished saying this, the expression on his face immediately became unrecognized, and he scolded: "What is the name of that class, and who is the head teacher?"

Although the school police officer is the school police officer who guards the door, he sometimes seems to be a stumbling block to "excellent" and "three good", as long as he registers the name of a student and hands over the register to the principal's office, then he will become a pit under the stumbling block, let you fall into it, and when you stand up, you will be covered in mud. At that time, every middle school did everything to strengthen the school spirit and discipline, even the uncle who steamed rice in the cafeteria would stare at you whether you were polite. is a love-hate relationship for the school police, what he loves is the commissary and strings he opened in the school police office, and he hates that he is late and leaves early.

The school police took out the booklet from under his armpit and took off the pen pinned to the booklet, "Report the class, name, and class teacher." The school officer lowered his head and pointed the tip of his pen to the paper, ready to start recording.

The three of them stood in a row, holding the handlebars of their respective bikes with both hands, and six hands clutching each handlebar inside their gloves. The three of them kept their heads down, not wanting the school police to recognize their faces, as if they wanted to bury their faces in the chests that had not yet developed.

The school guard smiled and said, "No one is beating the head, is it? Okay! I'll help you!" The big man reported first. The school police officer looked at Donnie Yen.

The one-meter-eight Donnie Yen stood on the side of Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan, looking so prominent and eye-catching.

"Hurry up!" The school police impatiently clicked on the paper of the booklet with the tip of his pen.

Donnie Yen lowered his head and glanced at Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan glared at his big eyes and said to Donnie Yen, "I'm not a big man. ”

Donnie Yen looked at Lai Xiaochuan again: "Xiao Lai!"

Lai Xiaochuan frowned: "I can't grow taller than you so quickly!"

"You report first, please!" Lai Xiaochuan lowered her head and looked dead, she closed her eyes and bit her lower lip.

The school police finally shouted impatiently: "Have you all lost your voice en masse? That's the time to go to a school for the disabled." Can you lift your head up?"

The school police shouted in a louder voice, "Go to school after reporting to class." Hurry up ......!"

This "hurry up" frightened the servants even lowering their heads.

"Xiao Lai, can you say it first?" Donnie Yen said.

"Lai Xiaochuan, junior high school, class 3. Lai Xiaochuan whispered.

"I can't hear you, say it again. The school police officer looked at Lai Xiaochuan with his head held high.

Lai Xiaochuan raised his head and closed his eyes, shouting at the top of his voice: "Lai Xiaochuan, the third year of junior high school, the third class." ”

The school police casually wrote it down, ......and before she finished speaking, Liu Hongmei, the head teacher of the third class of junior high school, stepped on her low-heeled black leather shoes, and the sound of black leather shoes was particularly harsh in the cold winter. Liu Hongmei shouted in a soft, slightly sharp voice: "You guys get me in!"

Liu Hongmei walked next to the school police and said solemnly and gracefully: "Please open the door and let them in." The school police seemed to have been knocked down by something, took out a large bunch of keys from his pocket, took out a white paper glued with scotch tape from the middle, and the brass key of the "gate" written on the white paper, and inserted it into the big copper lock "butt eye" wrapped around the iron chain on the gate.

The three of them lowered their heads and quickly pounded the small broken steps under their feet, Liu Hongmei turned around with her shoulder-length hair that was smooth and black to her earlobes, and her neat bangs hung above her eyes to look gloomy and sharp. Liu Hongmei handsomely inserted her hands into the pockets of her short red padded jacket.

The school police turned to look at Liu Hongmei with a smile, and shouted in authentic Henanese Mandarin: "Teacher Liu, I haven't finished boarding the ......!"

Liu Hongmei pursed her thin red mouth expressionlessly, and led the three students with their heads down as if they hadn't heard, and walked quickly towards the campus.

At the same time, they looked at the back of the head teacher Liu Hongmei with relief. The servants were looking at Liu Hongmei's back, Liu Hongmei suddenly turned around, and the three of them were frightened by Liu Hongmei's frightened gaze and messed up and down, left and right.

Liu Hongmei: "What's the matter? Are you all suffering from neurogenic head twitching at the same time?"

Liu Hongmei: "You should write a check and hand it to me before self-study, and give me an explanation for today's absenteeism." You are already in the third year of junior high school, not in the third grade. Think for yourself, digest it internally, and reflect on it in your mind. With that, she turned around and walked towards the school building.

The head teacher Liu Hongmei is a middle-aged woman who is married and has a little appearance that is not easy to mess with, she doesn't need to show off her appearance, she has a posture. Her husband is a political teacher in the whole grade of junior high school, of course, since ancient times, it has been said that flowers are inserted in cow dung, and now the society "flowers" and "cow dung" are very matched, as long as the nutritional value of this cow dung and his connotation is enough, the flowers and cow dung are a family, this "cow dung" Teacher, no, it's a political teacher, he's really a valuable and nutritious teacher, his teaching method is something that other teachers can't emulate, and in the end of the laugh, you can memorize all the knowledge with tears, and the worst means is nothing more than standing under the flagpole of the school's flag, facing China, facing the party, facing the bright red five-star red flag, feeling ashamed and sorry for the motherland, and carrying responsibility in the process of corporal punishment. When the political class he led reached the county's mid-term and final unified examinations, if a certain class won the second best grade, it would be a shame for him.

Liu Hongmei only asked the others to write a review of the punishment instead of letting the parents come to see them, based on the fact that the three of them were in the top five rankings in the county, and they switched rankings at will. In the case of a student who dragged the class back, he stopped in front of the student for two seconds in his black leather shoes, and when his body found his center of gravity, he kicked it and asked the parents to come and see him. Therefore, Liu Hongmei treats students differently. I heard that there were rumors that a gangster student was kicked out of the podium by Liu Hongmei, that is true, and the distance of the kick is not verified by history, but the strength of the kick is obvious to Lai Xiaochuan, Fang Yuan, and Donnie Yen. Of course, in the end, the student has to apologize to his parents, and the student bows his head and says why he made a mistake.

The head teacher drove away, and Donnie Yen said embarrassedly: "Xiao Lai, I will invite you to eat meat buns at noon today." ”

Lai Xiaochuan glanced at Donnie Yen.

Fang Yuan teased: "It's really a big pig farmer!

"Yes, every one of my family is as mellow as yours!

Fang Yuan pulled his throat and said, "You are really a poor Dao! Poor to death! Get out of here!"

Fang Yuan and Lai Xiaochuan pushed their bicycles and turned into the passage leading to the girls' dormitory. Donnie Yen laughed and pushed the bicycle to continue walking, and there was a sound in the air, "Fang Yuan, you are more rounded and can roll, a thin person like me can only walk, haha......!"

Fang Yuan: "Communicating with him really damages my temperament!"

Lai Xiaochuan: "You mean...... Is the temperament of a bureaucratic socialite the daughter of your brigade secretary? Or is it ...... What kind of temperament?"

Fang Yuan glanced at Lai Xiaochuan: "You are in a group with him, right?"

Lai Xiaochuan: "Of course not!"

The passage to the girls' dormitory is concrete, and a one-foot-wide waterway is left at the intersection of the concrete floor and a red wall. The two red brick walls, which are not painted with cement, wrap the road that is only more than one meter wide tightly, as if people are breathless.

At the end of the line of sight was a tall weeping willow, leaning to the side in an old state. The willow branches hanging down from the willow tree are as dense as the long hair on the back of the head combed by a man during the Republic of China, bent and smooth.

According to the thick path of the willow tree, there are two rows of broken, new, with a basket, without a basket, with a bell, without a bell, with a front cover, without a front cover, all kinds of twenty or thirty bicycles.

Lai Xiaochuan and Fang Yuan put their bicycles under the willow tree, and the two of them took out a cloth bag with food and lunch boxes from the basket with their schoolbags on their backs, and turned around and entered the same dormitory.

Outside the cafeteria, Fang Yuan and Lai Xiaochuan stood by the pool with their lunch boxes on their gloves, staring at the water droplets hanging from the faucet that had frozen into ice bars.

Lai Xiaochuan knocked off the hanging ice slag with the lunch box, turned on the faucet switch, and the pipe of the faucet was frozen enough. The two of them dragged the aluminum lunch box with one hand, and the other finger was frozen red like chicken paws to wash and rub the rice in the cold water. After grinning and scrambling a few times, the two closed the lid and entered the cafeteria.

The cafeteria was wet and smelled of burning coal, and the large boxy steamer on the high platform was smoking. The canteen uncle with leather sleeves and a leather apron is holding a steamer lid and preparing to cover the cage.

Lai Xiaochuan: "Boss, the two of us!"

The canteen owner urged, "Put it on!"

For Lai Xiaochuan, every time he goes to the steamer table to put a lunch box and walks into the smoky pot, he will always make up the picture of himself going into the oil pot in the sea of fire.

The two of them got on the steamer table and put the lunch box engraved with their own name next to the one engraved with someone else's name. The canteen owner carried a square steamer more than a meter wide with both hands, and the lid was tightly closed, and the smoking steam was instantly covered, and the steam left outside quickly dissipated because there was no source.

Lai Xiaochuan took out a dollar and handed it to the boss. Lai Xiaochuan: "Buy a dollar meal ticket." ”

The boss pulled open the wooden lid on the old blackened wooden box, took out ten meal tickets from it and handed them to Lai Xiaochuan.

Fang Yuan took out a meal ticket from his pocket and threw it in the wooden box of the cafeteria owner, and left the cafeteria with Lai Xiaochuan's arm on his shoulder.

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