Outside the window, the green leaves swayed, and a black bird perched on a branch, flapping its wings twice and flying away.

It seems to be the third one. Li Ling thought silently in his heart.

Chen Peiying, the Chinese teacher on the stage, was explaining the content of the text with relish, sometimes she sneered as she spoke, but the audience did not respond, some listened to the lecture blankly, some passed notes, some did math and physics problems, and some dozed off.

After the class was divided, the class changed from 32 to 38, and after the second year of high school, the Chinese teacher changed from Zheng Jun, who was full of anger, to Chen Peiying. Her voice is small, and she doesn't use a megaphone, and the people sitting in the back row basically can't hear her speech, and she is not comfortable at first, but after nearly a month of teaching, everyone knows that she will only ask questions to everyone and does not like to order people alone, so they invariably do their own things.

Li Ling is also about to fall asleep, although she is sitting in the second row, Chen Peiying's intonation and voice like a songworm and the uninnovative way of lecturing really make people unable to arouse the interest of listening carefully, but she can't sleep, since Chen Peiying learned about Li Ling's previous situation and corrected several weekly diaries, she found that Li Ling's language level is quite good, the writing is delicate and beautiful, and the reading comprehension ability is strong, so Li Ling has become Chen Peiying's key training object.

Li Ling felt Chen Peiying's love for her, and whenever Chen Peiying's class was in embarrassment, she would look at Chen Peiying with focused and well-behaved eyes, as if to give her the motivation to continue talking.

There are still people who listen to my lectures, and Chen Peiying feels a little comforted in her heart.

But Li Ling was thinking about other things in her head, for example, at this moment, she was thinking: It's the National Day holiday, should I make an appointment with Huang Junjun?

It can be regarded as getting close to Huang Junjun because of basketball. Huang Junjun not only has a boy's head, but also has a boy's personality, claiming that he can't be a soft girl, and he can be called a brother and sister with boys and girls. In PE class, they are the best basketball partners, not because they play basketball well, but because they don't know anything about it, they just like to shoot the ball, dribble and throw the ball. Unlike other girls who don't like sports and are afraid of the sun, they enjoy this rare relaxing process of chatting and shooting, and gradually become good friends.

Finally got up until the end of class, Li Ling went to Huang Junjun's seat to find her.

"Junjun, are you free on October 3rd?"

"Should be available. Want to date me?"

"Hmm...... It's my birthday, would you like to have a meal together?"

"Celebrating your birthday?" Cai Zhiguo next to him suddenly interjected, he and Huang Junjun's seats were only separated by an aisle, and Fang Cai's conversation was heard by him.

"Let's be more lively. Huang Junjun patted Cai Zhiguo's broad shoulder.

Cai Zhiguo looked at Li Ling, and a wicked smile appeared on his chubby face: "If you call me to the same table, I'll go." ”

Cai Zhiguo's tablemate was Jiang Zhiqing, and he was not in the seat.

"Then you'll ask him later?" Li Ling said.

"I called him and he probably didn't want to. Cai Zhiguo shook his head.

“……”

In the class, Cai Zhiguo's orientation is already an open secret, and his attitude towards Jiang Zhiqing is even more undisguised.

They were in the same class in junior high school, according to Cai Zhiguo, Jiang Zhiqing looked very three-dimensional when he was in junior high school, and there were countless people who had a crush on him, including Cai Zhiguo, but he has never been close to people, and his temperament is cold, let alone making friends, Cai Zhiguo also began to get close to him after sitting at the same table with him this semester and became more and more infatuated with him.

"I'll show you. Cai Zhiguo quietly took out his mobile phone and opened the photo album, allowing Li Ling and Huang Junjun to get closer.

It was Jiang Zhiqing who sat on the seat and looked at the silhouette in front of him, the photo was backlit, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, but the contour of his side face was impeccable, and his waist was straight.

Cai Zhiguo grinned with a smile and looked like a nymphomaniac: "I took a picture secretly." Isn't it handsome? Ah, it's so handsome......"

Then he looked at Li Ling with expectant eyes and said, "It's up to you." ”

Dare to love me, this is asking the matchmaker to pull the strings? Although reluctantly, Li Ling still agreed to Cai Zhiguo.

When I got home in the evening, Li Ling found Jiang Zhiqing's QQ in the class group, and I still didn't know how to start after a long time, and the exchange in the past year did not exceed ten sentences, and it was quite inexplicable to suddenly pull others to celebrate his birthday together, and finally he could only send a message head-on.

Li Ling: Jiang Zhiqing, hello, I'm Li Ling.

Jiang Zhiqing: ?

Li Ling: Do you have time on October 3rd?

Jiang Zhiqing: ?

Will this man type one more word besides sending a question mark? Li Ling secretly complained in his heart, but he still maintained a gentle attitude.

Li Ling: It's my birthday, can we have dinner together?

Li Ling: I made an appointment with Huang Junjun, Zhou Youer and Cai Zhiguo, he was the only boy he was embarrassed and hoped that you would go with him.

This reason should be okay, right? Will he block me immediately?

Unexpectedly, Jiang Zhiqing replied quickly: Yes.

The progress went much smoother than expected, and Li Ling immediately sent Cai Zhiguo an OK emoji, and Cai Zhiguo replied with a series of exclamation points, already imagining how excited he was on the other side of the screen.

On his birthday, Li Ling wore a gauzy pink sleeveless top and white shorts. Her hair has been kept for nearly a year, and she is already medium-length, and she has a ponytail and looks full of vitality.

Li Ling arrived at the agreed Chinese restaurant in advance and chose a table for six people. After waiting for about five minutes, Jiang Zhiqing and Cai Zhiguo came. Jiang Zhiqing's short black hair stood up at the roots, and he was wearing a blue plaid shirt, a white T-shirt underneath, black trousers and whiteboard shoes, clean and fresh.

Li Ling asked them to sit down first, and Huang Junjun and Zhou You'er also arrived soon after. Zhou Youer is Li Ling's back table, studying very hard, often poking Li Ling's back with her index finger to discuss learning problems with her.

"You two sit at will. Li Ling raised his hand and made a gesture of inviting him to take a seat.

Huang Junjun chose the position opposite Jiang Zhiqing, and Zhou Youer took Li Ling's hand and said, "Then the birthday star will sit between the two of us." ”

Theoretically, they discussed the dishes together, but in fact, Jiang Zhiqing repeated three words like a robot: "It's okay." ”

After a while, fragrant fried shrimp with peas, spicy chicken with chili peppers, stewed beef with tomato sauce, assorted cabbage rolls and yam pork ribs soup were served one after another.

Halfway through, Li Ling noticed that Huang Junjun's face was flushed, and asked her with concern: "Your face is so red, is it hot?"

Huang Junjun was taken aback, and replied in a panic: "Ah, it's not hot...... It seems to be a little hot. ”

Then he hurriedly glanced at Jiang Zhiqing, and was relieved to see that he was eating with his head down. Li Ling seems to understand something, and he can't see through it.

After eating, Li Ling was about to get up to pay, but Zhou Youer stopped her and said to everyone: "Let's AA, everyone didn't prepare gifts for Li Ling, and we are still students, so it is more suitable to divide equally, what do you think?"

The others nodded in agreement, Li Ling was a little reluctant to go, but she did not have any money, she had already planned to treat the steamed buns with white porridge for half a month, Zhou Youer's proposal could not only allow her not to have to save face, but also to keep the next food standard basically at the current level.

Even if there is no cake, no flowers, no balloons, no candles, no gifts, it is the first birthday to be truly celebrated in 16 years.

When I got home and turned on my phone, I received a blessing message from Wen Jinxing and a few old friends, but there was no Mo Ziyu. I don't remember how long it took me to remember Mo Ziyu, his class was on the other side of the same floor, occasionally I would meet him in the corridor, smile and say hello to each other, and occasionally he would come to the class to find Wen Jinxing, the two of them were friends who had damaged each other for four years.

When we met, I was able to feel at ease, there was no wave in my heart when we talked, I no longer stared at the screen and wondered if he had replied to the message, I completely regarded him as an ordinary old friend, and slowly he really moved out of a certain position in his heart, and time is really good medicine.

At 23:59, Li Ling closed his eyes and said to himself, "Happy birthday." ”