In September 2004, the heat had not yet receded, and the only thing that could distinguish this month from August seemed to be the slightly cooler air in the morning and evening. Somehow, Yi Xinnong felt that this September's acquaintance was twice as noisy as in previous years, and the noise made her upset.

Xu is a junior high school student who is facing the pressure of going to school at the beginning of this semester, Xu is not sleeping well in the afternoon today, and Xu is homeroom teacher asked her to go to the office to hold her homework book in the first class of the afternoon under the scorching sun.

It's the third day of the new semester, and she always feels that she can't get into the state, but studying is obviously easy for her.

The journey from the classroom to the office, she had to walk five or six times a day, but today somehow felt unusually long, only the concrete floor not far away was steaming hot, and the office building in the distance was swaying in the heat, like a mirage.

It was midday, and there was not a hint of wind, and the trunks of the poplar trees beside the playground reflected the sunlight smoothly, so that she could not open her eyes.

Many years later, she thought back to whether that unusually hot September, that season's unusually noisy self, and her sudden dizziness at noon that day were all a sign that an encounter was about to stage that changed the trajectory of her life.

She was groggy and didn't know how long she had been walking in the blazing sun, but fortunately, Mr. Zhang's office was on the first floor of the office area, she had just stepped into the office with a sigh of relief, but she tripped over the obstacle at her feet, and almost fell into a.

She leaned against the window frame and looked back, and it turned out to be a new stack of English workbooks placed by the door, the plastic braided rope that tied the workbooks was loose, and the stack of books was also crooked and spiral-shaped, barely standing at the base of the wall, and it was the bottom part that almost tripped over her.

She thought to herself, who put this book, won't it be neatly stacked and then left?

She looked up and saw a boy with his legs spread and his hands behind his back facing Teacher Zhang.

Teacher Zhang sat on the chair with his back to her, his right arm propped up on the desk, the boy pursed his lips and smiled, glanced at her and quickly looked away, there was a smile on his face, and the head teacher saw the boy's strange appearance and turned his head to look over.

Teacher Zhang saw that it was Yi Xinong standing at the door, so he called her.

"You're here, come and take the homework book away, and send it directly to the class, the next section of art is not on, and it's in English, by the way, all the art will be changed to English in the future, you tell everyone. ”

Yi Xinong snorted, walked to Teacher Zhang's desk and reached out to hold the homework book, she looked up at the boy, only to see the corner of the boy's right mouth hooked upward, and the two slender and neat sword eyebrows were immediately raised upward, revealing a sly smile, Yi Xinong glared at him angrily.

"What are you laughing at, your dad put you here with me, you have to be honest in the future, you're about to go to high school, I hope you can be nervous. ”

The boy nodded again and again, but there was a perfunctory look on his face that was full of indifference.

"Okay, I've already told you a lot, I hope you can hear your heart, go, follow me into class. Teacher Zhang stood up to take the textbook, but as if he suddenly remembered something, he hurriedly called Yi Xinnong, who had just stepped out of the door, "Xinnong, you take this kid back to class first, and I'll be there in a while." ”

Yi Xin's voice was a little impatient, and he stopped outside the door without even looking back.

I only heard Teacher Zhang say in the office again, "Gu Zhanqiao, you also move the stack of English workbooks at the door to the classroom." ”

Yi Xinnong only heard the boy walk to the door, sighed behind her back, and pretended to squat down and pick up the book.

Yi Xin's small mouth deflated, his eyes rolled, and he thought to himself, "Pretentious." ”

The boy had already picked up the book, took a step out of the door, and saw that Yi Xinnong, who was standing next to him, did not react, so he said, "Don't go?"

Yi Xinnong didn't bother to pay attention to him, and walked to the front of Gu Zhanqiao with his homework book in his arms.

The shadow of the office was only one meter, and Yi Xin's thick brows were tightly knit when she stepped into the sun, and she walked quickly, because she really hated the painful sunlight in her life.

At this time, it was a small self-study before class, there was almost no one on the campus, and at first she could still hear Gu Zhanqiao's footsteps walking behind her, but Yi Xinnong, who was about to arrive at the teaching building, suddenly felt that the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, she was startled, and when she looked back, she saw Gu Zhanqiao picking up the exercise book that had fallen on the ground not far away.

I saw him squatting there, his wide shirt and the schoolbag on his left shoulder were touching the ground, and there was a layer of fine ash on it, and suddenly, Yi Xinong felt that the figure looked extremely lonely and helpless in the huge campus, and it seemed that only his black shadow was with him.

The stack of books was indeed too tall and heavy, and although there were not many people in the class, the workbook was the thickness of a thumb cover for each one, plus he was carrying a schoolbag that looked heavy.

Under the sun, which has no shadow, his back has an indescribable loneliness.

She felt a pang in her heart, instantly forgetting the contemptuous look he had just laughed at her, put the homework book in her arms on a clean ground, and then walked quickly to Gu Zhanqiao's side and helped him pick it up.

Gu Zhanqiao was squatting on the ground and seriously picking up the exercise books scattered all over the place, he had to dust off each one he picked up, and he was patting one of them with his hand.

I saw a black shadow covering the top of his head, and then it became smaller, he looked up, and Yi Xinnong was already squatting next to him and picking up the book.

Gu Zhanqiao saw Yi Xinnong finish picking up the basics on the ground, and took away a thick stack of exercise books from the tall pile of exercise books he was holding with an expressionless face, looked at him as if he was a little angry, and then walked away.

Gu Zhanqiao stood up and patted the ashes on his clothes and schoolbag.

Yi Xinong walked to the place where she had just put her homework book, put the book she took from Gu Zhanqiao on the homework book, and then bent down and picked up the whole book with her, she stood there without moving, turned her head and waited for Gu Zhanqiao, the sun shone down from the top of her head, her dense and long eyelashes cast shadows on her face, the broken hair in front of her forehead was fluffy and soft, only a few sticks close to the corners of her forehead were sticky with fine sweat, which contrasted with her little pink face that was exposed to the scorching sun, looking charming and cute.

Gu Zhanqiao carried his schoolbag on his left shoulder, holding the exercise book to his chest with both hands, his steps were quite brisk, he shouldn't have much effort, just now it was estimated that the new exercise book was rubbing and slipping, his steps were not as fast as Yi Xinong, he just walked steadily, the slightly long hair inch was shining in the sun, and a thin black fluffy beard appeared above his lips, and his wheat-colored skin had a healthy and sunny temperament.

Yi Xinnong just stood in place without speaking, and the gaze that looked at Gu Zhanqiao just now had been retracted, and he turned his back to him again.

Only to hear Gu Zhanqiao behind her one step away, "Wait for me." ”

She stopped and thought, "Well, I wasn't waiting for you?" Is he going to be with me? I don't.

Sixteen-year-old ignorant flower season is the age when he is full of curiosity about the opposite sex, and this youthful curiosity carries too much indescribable shyness and scabness, and it is also because of this fascinating curiosity that boys and girls maintain a certain caution when facing the opposite sex. The bright three-eight lines that cut the same table between men and women, and the small groups that are based only on the same sex, all exude a unique atmosphere that wants to be covered.

Yi Xinong is a good student in everyone's mind, but, putting aside the aura of the school bully, she is just an ordinary girl in the flower season, she will not lose a point of shyness, carefulness, and intelligence, and even she has delicate perception, she can better capture those delicate youthful emotions, and she is more careful to deal with them.

She always felt that it was better to keep a little distance from the boys, not to mention, this Gu Zhanqiao had known her for less than ten minutes.

She didn't want to pay attention to him and continued to walk forward, but Gu Zhanqiao stepped in front of her in a big stride, and took the wad of exercise books she had picked up from her arms, and then hooked the corner of her right mouth, smiled at her, showing a smug look, and then strode forward.

This time it was her turn to fall behind.

Yi Xinong suddenly gave birth to a naughty energy to compete, picked up the notebook and trotted until he passed Gu Zhanqiao, turned around and stuck out his tongue mischievously at him two meters away in front of him.

Seeing this, Gu Zhanqiao only sneered contemptuously at first, pretending not to care, but seeing that Yi Xinong slowed down his pace and walked in front, his black ponytail swaying behind her head as if declaring war on him, he suddenly quickened his pace and chased in front of her.

The wide tops puffed up in the wind, and the two chased after each other, and when they reached the front of the teaching building, they suddenly slowed down when they heard the sound of lectures coming from the classroom, gasping softly, and closing their eyes to smooth their chests that were rising and falling from excessive running.

looked at each other, only to see that both sides were flushed and a little embarrassed, and they couldn't help but smile at each other.

Many years later, Yi Xinnong will still be surprised when she thinks back to this scene, although she was lively and cheerful as a child, she has become a quiet and introverted girl when she grows up in junior high school. She rarely shows such childishness in front of others.

And at that time, the heartbeat like a drum was only regarded by her as the next 100-meter race that did not distinguish the winner or loser in the scorching sun, and she didn't care about it, and threw it out of her mind without carelessness.

In fact, this campus has only been built for two years, and the school's infrastructure is good, but there are two obvious design loopholes, one is that the teaching building is too far away from the office building, and the other is that the green area of the campus is too small.

This is a pain for the class representatives and teachers, ten minutes between class, I saw the class representatives running between the office building and the teaching building with stacks of notebooks, if a little slower I am afraid that I will not even have time to go to the toilet.

The teachers also complained. Because the two buildings are too far apart, the female teacher is tired and out of breath when she walks all the way in high heels, and there is not a big tree along the road to shade the sun, so she is often sweating before she arrives at the classroom.

Therefore, many teachers will come to the classroom early, and sometimes they will simply start the class after a small self-study before class.

In the classroom on the first floor, the voice of the seventh-grade teacher was impassioned and powerful.

Because of the smile just now, Yi Xinong seemed to have a tacit intimacy with Gu Zhanqiao in an instant, she held the book in her arms with one hand, and then stretched out her right finger and pointed to the stairs next to her, and compared a three to him.

Gu Zhanqiao understood, and the two went upstairs one step after the other, and there was nothing to say during the period.

Yi Xinong's third and fifth classes are at the westernmost end of the third floor of the teaching building, turn in from the stairs and then walk into the class to pass through the first to fourth classes in turn, because it is the graduating class, the four classrooms are already having teachers in class, the windows of the newly repaired teaching building are huge, you can see the scene in the classroom when you walk in the corridor, and the people in the classroom can also see them.