Chapter 5: Friends

After that day, I was afraid to talk to her for a long time. It may be that my social circle is relatively small, and I have never met such a girl. In my mind, a little girl should be like Little Joe - she should be lively and cheerful at all, and she should be able to control her emotions in time when she should be quiet. But she is like a frozen block of ice, which is daunting.

The "cold war" lasted for more than a month, and during this more than a month, I tried to shrink to the far right side of my desk during class, a few dozen centimeters away from her. As soon as the bell rang for the end of class, I was ready to run, and after the teacher said "class", I ran out of the playground, circled around the playground, and finally stepped on the bell to enter the classroom.

But in the end, I realized that I was the only one who seemed to be immersed in this atmosphere, and I sang a one-man show by myself for more than a month.

During recess on Friday afternoon, I sat on the bench honestly and incredibly taught Chu You addition and subtraction within ten.

I don't know why it turned out to be the way it was, but five minutes before the end of the first class, the math teacher started assigning the weekend homework, addition and subtraction within fifty questions and tens, which was simple for me.

The teacher didn't drag the class, and before the bell rang for the end of class, the teacher disappeared, and just as I was about to get up and leave, Chu You suddenly said, "Xu Chuyang, where are you going?"

I didn't expect her to stop me suddenly, and I stammered a little and said, "I, I, I'll go out for a while." ”

But she stopped me and said, "Don't go out, teach me how to count." Her tone was so natural, so natural that it was like the daily exchange between two old friends.

I glared at her incredulously and asked, "I, shall I teach you?"

She said as a matter of course, "yes, is it okay? I don't seem to know other classmates very well except for you." ”

I think, too, that I have been a primary school student for so long, and the students in the class basically have their own social circles, and they all have their own good friends or people they don't like very much. But it seems that she is the only one, still immersed in her own world, not taking the initiative to communicate with others, not taking the initiative to make friends with others, and not showing disaffection for anyone. Sometimes her presence is too low, and she will be forgotten by the rest of the class.

I remember one time in physical education class, the students all ran to the playground excitedly. When the bell rang, we quickly straightened up our formation, and the PE teacher shouted angrily, "Okay, let's start counting up." ”

“1,2,3,4,5,6,7。 The students in the first row reported in turn, but there seemed to be one less. There are six classes in the first grade, with an average of 25 students in each class, and our class is below the average, with a total of 24 students.

Therefore, as long as there is a queue in our class, there are 8 people in a row, a total of three rows. But apparently, there was one less in the first row, and the teacher shouted, "Why are there only seven people?" Class leader, what's the matter? Are there any people who ask for leave?"

The squad leader is a lively little man, but his parents gave him a slightly feminine name "Liu Duoer", it is said that when his mother was pregnant, she would dream of blooming flowers every day, and when she thought she would give birth to a pink and tender girl, she didn't expect to come out of a big fat boy, and his mother couldn't accept it, so she cried and shouted that she had already thought of the name of "daughter" on her son. In this way, the name Liu Duoer has been used by the squad leader until now. The squad leader put his hands on the seams of his trousers, stood with his head held high, and replied loudly: "Report to the teacher, there is no leave." ”

"Then why is there one person missing?" the teacher asked the class leader again.

The squad leader hesitated and didn't know how to answer, because he didn't know either. The students in the team began to talk to the people next to them, all discussing the person who didn't come.

The teacher personally counted the number of people again and said, "There is indeed one less, okay, class leader, come over and see who didn't come." ”

Liu Duoer was about the same height as me, we were next to each other in the line, and after he went out, I also searched in the crowd to see who didn't come, but because I was in the last row, I could only see the back of the heads of my classmates, so I didn't find the person who disappeared after a circle.

The class leader turned back and forth, watching, until five or six minutes passed, he still hadn't found the missing person, and the teacher said impatiently, "Have you found it out?"

The squad leader replied weakly: "Report to the teacher, no, I didn't find out." ”

The physical education teacher was so angry that he blushed and shouted, "What kind of class leader are you? I can't even remember my classmates in my class, how can you be the class leader? Go to your classroom and see if there is anyone." ”

"Yes. After the squad leader answered, he immediately ran as fast as a rabbit.

A few minutes later, the class leader ran back out of breath and said, "Report, report to the teacher, look, find that classmate." ”

The teacher looked behind the class leader and said, "Why didn't you come over?"

The squad leader also looked back and said, "I, I ran fast, so I came first, and she was still behind." Sure enough, after the squad leader finished speaking, we saw Chu You, who was long overdue. I was shocked that it was her, and I suddenly remembered that when I left the classroom, she was still immersed in the Chinese textbook.

Her ill-fitting white dress had been replaced by a gray autumn coat and trousers, and the only thing in common was that they didn't fit.

She didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, she walked slowly to the teacher, and just stood there, without any shame of delaying everyone's time, and the teacher said angrily, "What are you doing? The whole class is standing here waiting for you, you know?"

Chu You was not afraid of him, and calmly said the reason, "No one told me that this class is sports." ”

The teacher said, "No one told you? The other students are out, can't you see it?" Besides, we have been in school for so long, and our classes are fixed every week, and there is a class schedule, even if no one says it, you should know!"

Chu You looked into the teacher's eyes and said, "I was reading the text after class, and I was so engaged in reading it, so I forgot about it." ”

"You ......" The teacher also didn't know what to say, did she want to blame her for studying too seriously? Obviously, it didn't work, so the teacher had to wave his hand and say, "Okay, okay, don't take an example, let's return to the team!" Chu You obediently stood in the last position of the first row.

The teacher looked at the class leader again and said, "Liu Duoer, you are the class leader, you should pay attention to this kind of thing in the future." Also, remember the names of all the students in your class as soon as possible. Well, you're back on the team. ”

Liu Duoer may also feel that she has been the class leader for so long, and she still hasn't remembered the names of her classmates, so she is a little ashamed, and her face is flushed and she says, "Yes, teacher." Then he lowered his head and strode to my side, and he didn't forget to whisper to me: "Xu Chuyang, what's the matter with you? You don't know if you come to the table or not?"

I whispered, "I don't know, we were shouting so loudly in the classroom that we were going to sports, who knew she didn't hear it?"

The squad leader glanced at me and said, "You are really not an ordinary person at the same table!"

I couldn't deny it, just smiled and didn't say anything more.

Thinking about this, coupled with her own words, I realized that she was really self-aware.

Looking at her face, which has never changed even if she asks for help, I was a little speechless, but I still said, "Okay, I'll teach you." ”

And then it became like this, I taught her seriously, and she studied seriously. To be honest, there is no good way to add and subtract within ten, most of the students are counting their fingers, and then they are drawing vertically on the paper, and then counting next to each other. Only a small percentage of students can do mental arithmetic in their heads.

Chu You belonged to the category of counting fingers before, maybe she thought it was too slow, because I had seen her look of envy because of my fast calculation ability, so she wanted to change. I said to her: "Chu You, when you count, you have to use your brain to think, for example, 5 plus 3, you think, there are already 5, just follow the number 5, and then count 3, isn't that 8!"

Actually, I don't know if I'm right to say this, whether she can understand it or not, but Chu You's comprehension ability seems to be very strong, and when she does the next question, it will be much faster than before.

Then I saw her smile for the first time. The corners of her mouth rose, her big eyes turned into crescent moon makeup, and she said to me happily: "Really, Xu Chuyang, my speed of doing questions has really become faster, thank you." ”

I blushed at her smile and stammered, "No, it's fine." ”

She smiled even more, and she said, "Xu Chuyang, let's be good friends!"

I had a bit of a short circuit in my brain, and I didn't know what I answered, but I heard her say to me, "Yes, we've been good friends, and we'll always be good friends." ”

She smiled, she kept smiling at me, her bright smile was a little dazzling, and it was magical, and it was a smile that was always imprinted in my heart and cherished by me......