Chapter 59: The Epistles
September is the end of summer, and the sun can be seen pouring in through the windows through the black heads, and although the ceiling fans are whirring and running in the ceiling to bring some coolness, the air is still dry and stuffy.
The head teacher is Mr. Shao. Sheng Shi has always felt that he looks like Li Bin, the actor of Xiaojian in "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, but Mr. Shao has an extra pair of glasses, and he doesn't look very good-tempered, and likes to get angry at every turn.
When the teacher entered the classroom, he saw Mo Qingyou at a glance, he and Mo Qingyou went to the corridor alone to talk for a while, and when he came in, Mo Qingyou stood on the podium and introduced himself.
Mo Qingyou looked very restrained and had some stage fright.
"My name is Mo Qingyou. ”
After Mo Qingyou finished speaking, she walked off the podium with her head buried and returned to her seat, and everyone still gave her a warm applause.
For some reason, Sheng Shi suddenly felt that Mo Qingyou was actually very cool, and when he went home, Sheng Shi couldn't help but tell her about his idea.
Sheng Shi said: "Your self-introduction today is cool. ”
Mo Qingyou pushed his bicycle and turned his head to look at Sheng Shi in disbelief: "Cool? ”
"It's cool. ”
After Sheng Shi finished speaking, he stepped on the bicycle, stepped on the pedals, bowed his body, and quickly left Mo Qingyou behind.
Sheng Shi turned her head to look at Mo Qingyou, and she followed on her bicycle.
"Why do you say cool, I think I'm too stage frightened to think of what to introduce. ”
A cool summer breeze poured into the sultry air, blowing refreshment, and Mo Qingyou's long hair was also swept behind him by the wind, flying wildly.
Sheng Shi thinks she looks beautiful like this.
"See you tomorrow, Mo Qingyou. ”
Sheng Shi raised his hand to her in front of Mo Qingyou's house and said goodbye.
Lunch was served at a restaurant near the school.
There are only two people, Sheng Shi and Mo Qingyou.
This is the first time that two people have eaten alone, which makes Sheng Shi feel a little nervous. The restaurant was crowded with students everywhere. Mo Qingyou found a window seat and sat down. Sheng Shi threw the menu to her and let her decide what to eat.
"Do you want water?"
Sheng Shi asked her.
"Okay. ”
So Sheng Shi walked to the water dispenser, took two clean plastic cups, and filled them with two cups of cold water. He put one of the cups in front of Mo Qingyou's eyes, and suddenly noticed that several boys at the next table were looking at them. They were wearing all basketball team uniforms, their skin was tanned, they looked a year or two older than them, and their eyes stayed on Mo Qingyou's body intentionally or unintentionally.
Mo Qingyou also seemed to notice their gaze, so he raised his head and glanced at them boldly, and several boys immediately looked away.
"Why do they keep staring at us?"
Mo Qingyou lowered his voice and asked Shengshi.
Sheng Shi smiled, he didn't know if Mo Qingyou really didn't know or asked on purpose. He actually wanted to say, "They're looking at you, because you're beautiful." But he couldn't say such words in front of Mo Qingyou anyway, so he could only smile: "Leave them alone, who knows." ”
Sheng Shi secretly looked at Mo Qingyou.
She is indeed very beautiful, more beautiful than ordinary girls, and it is a unique classical beauty. Sheng Shi is strange, he never had this feeling when he was in elementary school, at that time he always thought that the girls in the class with good academic performance were likable and beautiful, as for whether they were really beautiful, he didn't pay much attention to whether they were really beautiful. Maybe after junior high school, Sheng Shi's aesthetics were able to improve, so he felt that Mo Qing was very beautiful, and he was a charming type wherever he went.
"You're staring at me too, do you have something on my face?"
Mo Qingyou touched his cheek embarrassedly, and a red tide flew up.
Sheng Shi hurriedly retracted his gaze: "No, I just remembered that when you were in elementary school, you seemed to have such long hair, why don't you cut your hair short?"
Mo Qingyou looked at him with a shy smile, she said, "I don't plan to cut my hair short, I don't have the courage, if I don't cut it well, it will be bad." ”
"No, you must be cute with short hair. ”
Sheng Shi said from the bottom of his heart.
Mo Qing took a sip of water and didn't say anything, just looked at other places casually.
After a while, the waiter came up with their dishes. Mo Qingyou looked very hungry, and couldn't wait to move his chopsticks and taste it.
"How?"
"It tastes good. ”
After speaking, Sheng Shi also tasted it, and said to Mo Qingyou: "Well, it's really good, you can come here to eat in the future." ”
So the two looked at each other and smiled.
"You're a little different from what I thought. ”
Sheng Shi said suddenly.
Mo Qing swallowed a mouthful of water and asked a little nervously, "Why is it different?"
"I don't know, it's different anyway, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's as good as you should be. ”
Mo Qingyou suddenly laughed, revealing her neat teeth again.
"What are you talking about, Shengshi. ”
Sheng Shi thought about it, as if his words were indeed a bit strange and confusing, so he was very embarrassed and simply didn't say anything.
"But then again, I think you're a little different than I thought. ”
Mo Qingyou said.
Sheng Shi was a little nervous this time, he touched the back of his head uneasily, and asked the exact same thing that Mo Qingyou had just asked: "Why is it different?"
"I think you're a little different from the average boy. ”
"Why is it different? Are you saying I'm not gregarious, or what?"
"No, no, I mean you're better than the average boy, at least that's what I think. ”
Sheng Shi felt warm in his heart, he had never been praised by a girl so much, so he was a little proud, but he tried not to show it.
"It's okay, I just don't like nonsense as much as the average boy, and I don't like to talk very much. ”
"But if you get acquainted with people, you should have a lot of words. ”
Sheng Shi thought about it, as if this was the case, so he nodded.
"Actually, I'm like this too, and when I get acquainted with people, I become very different, which will surprise people. ”
The two looked at each other again and smiled.
Military training began the next day.
The weather in September was still bad, the temperature seemed to be a few degrees higher than usual, and the air became dry and muggy, making people have no desire to speak. Sheng Shi felt as if this summer had been extended again, as if there was really no end.
The instructor was burly, with a stern face and a swarthy skin that was handsome from the sun. He stood straight and ordered everyone to stand still, whistling and shouting slogans rhythmically.
Sheng Shi felt that standing still was the easiest exercise. Still, the bad weather made people sweat profusely after a while, as if they had taken a bath.
Mo Qingyou accidentally fell while running. Shengshi did not see the specific situation. It's just that the students in front of the growth team suddenly stopped, and he stepped forward, only to find that the instructor had hurriedly ran over to help Mo Qingyou, and Mo Qingyou's washed white jeans were rubbed with loess stains on the kneecaps.
Mo Qingyou left the group and sat on a long stone slab not far away, she folded her legs together, and casually watched the students continue to run forward. The sun was like a fireball exploding, the sun was like a falling flame smashing on every inch of the student's skin, Sheng Shiran was sweating, and he could smell the smell of sweat on his body.
After the hard training in the morning, Sheng Shi and Mo Qingyou's lunch went to the restaurant as usual, and they still went to the restaurant they went to last time.
Sheng Shi thought of her fall in the morning, so he asked Mo Qingyou, "Are your legs okay?"
"It's not in the way, I'm really unlucky, I don't think I'm sure how I can fall, but it really doesn't hurt. ”
"That's good. ”
During the lunch break, the teacher straightened up the students' positions.
Sheng Shi was arranged to sit alone at the last table of the last group because of his tall size. However, Song Jinang was arranged by the teacher to sit at the first table next to the podium because he liked to disturb classroom discipline, and Mo Qingyou still sat behind Song Jinang as usual.
Sheng Shi was not very satisfied with the teacher's arrangement, he felt that he was sitting too far away from Mo Qingyou, and there was no one at the same table, so he seemed lonely.
Mo Qingyou's legs were fine, and she joined the team in the class during the afternoon training.
Sheng Shi felt that the temperature in the afternoon seemed to rise again, even hotter and more tormenting than in the morning, and autumn had become distant again. Throughout the running field, the air was filled with the smell of salty, greasy and smelly body odor, which was unbearable.
Sheng Shi managed to survive the intermission, he sat down on a stone slab in front of a bush, drank the water from the glass, and gasped for air. A boy in a white T-shirt walked up to him and sat next to him on a stone slab.
He was not very tall, of medium build, with ear-length black hair, somewhat long. Long bangs are on his brow, his skin is yellow, and deep and shallow acne marks can be seen on his cheeks.
Sheng Shi had seen him a few times in the class, but he hadn't noticed him much.
He looked at Sheng Shi, smiled at him and said friendlyly, "I'm Xu Zhen, can we make friends in one class?"
Sheng Shi felt that Xu Zhen's attitude was very friendly and he seemed to be a good person, so he nodded and reached out to shake his outstretched hand.
"I'm Shengshi. ”
"I know, you and Mo Qingyou are neighbors, you seem to have a good relationship, right?"
Xu Zhen mentioned Mo Qingyou's name, and Sheng Shi suddenly realized. It turned out that it was only because of Mo Qingyou that he came to get close to him, thinking of this, Sheng Shi's good impression of Xu Zhen suddenly disappeared.
Sheng Shi swallowed a mouthful of water and searched for Mo Qingyou's figure on the track and field, he saw that not far away, Mo Qingyou was talking to a chubby girl in the same class, as if they were chatting well, Mo Qingyou smiled from time to time.
"We have a good relationship, after all, we are neighbors. ”
Sheng Shi took his gaze back, turned his head to look at Xu Zhen's face beside him, he said this sentence a little weakly.
"That's great, I have something that is inconvenient to hand over to Mo Qingyou personally, can you do it for you?" ”
After Xu Zhen finished speaking, he looked at Shengshi with an expectant face. Sheng Shi seemed to be able to guess what Xu Zhen was going to give him, and he couldn't think of any reason to refuse, so he took a breath and agreed to his request.
Xu Zhen smiled at Sheng Shi as if relieved, lowered his head and fumbled in his jeans pocket for a while, and then took out a piece of neatly folded letterhead, and the letter paper didn't know how many layers were folded, it looked bulging, and it was not as big as the palm of his hand when he was pinched in his hand. Sheng Shi took the letter and stuffed it into his trouser pocket before he had time to look at it.
"Okay, you must hand it over to Mo Qingyou!"