Chapter 4: A Young Face
On Monday morning, students who had a day off started their week again.
Ye Gui came to the school to park the car and walked to the classroom with his schoolbag on his back, recalling the scene that happened at dinner yesterday as he walked.
"Mom, I have something I want to discuss with you." At the dinner table, Ye Gui put down the dishes and chopsticks, looked at Ye's father and mother who were eating, and said.
Mother Ye looked at her son strangely: "Say, what are you going to do?" ”
"If I do well in this exam, can I buy a guitar?"
Ye Gui looked at his parents, his tone was careful, this request was a bit too much for him at present, but he had to say hello to his parents in advance, Ye Gui's main purpose was not to ask for money from the family, but to find an excuse for him to buy a musical instrument later, otherwise even if he made money, it would be difficult to explain that he would buy a guitar home inexplicably.
Just as Ye Gui thought before, Father Ye was not very happy after hearing this, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "You study hard now, what guitar to buy, you are about to take the exam, don't you know." ”
Ye Mu looked at Ye Gui and didn't speak, obviously she also meant this, now is not the time to play.
Ye Gui knew that of course he would not let them agree to such a simple statement, and if he wanted to persuade the two, he had to not use ordinary pleading, but first let them reassure him, so he added: "I ranked more than thirty in the class at the end of last semester, and now there are three weeks to go to the first exam, if I can get into the top three in the class by then, then let me buy a guitar, and I promise that my grades will not regress after I buy it." ”
Don't look at Ye Gui's more than 30 people in the class, but this is a parallel class in their school, and a class can't get into one or two universities a year, so the top three are also at the level of a university.
Father Ye smiled when he heard this: "Don't talk about the top three, you kid, if you can be admitted to the top ten, I will agree." ”
In Ye's father's opinion, if Ye Gui, who has been slowly regressing for many years, can improve his grades this time, let alone the top three, even if he enters the top ten in the first examination, then there will be more than two months to go, and he will have every chance to take a book in the college entrance examination.
Although Ye's father has high requirements for his son in his heart, judging from the current situation, if Ye Gui can take a test, then he will be content, so if Ye Gui can really improve this time, it will not hurt to promise him.
Ye Gui listened to his father's words, and thought to himself that you are too unconfident in me, in the future, I will eventually graduate from the highest university, let alone take a test now. There are three months not to mention the highest university, and he can still earn a profit from the average famous school, so Ye Gui agreed: "Okay, but if you say that the top three are the top three, you don't need to relax the requirements, but if I succeed at that time, you are not allowed to regret it." ”
Ye Mu saw that she was the one who asked, but the two discussed it without her consent at all, so she could only say helplessly: "Okay, Ye Zi, since your father promised you, then I can only agree, but don't come to me to make trouble if you don't get into the top three at that time." ”
"Haha, no, I'm sure of this exam."
"If you're really sure, you won't be able to do this now." Mother Ye saw that her son was full of confidence and didn't want to hit him, but she didn't want him to be too blind.
Ye Gui smiled, his image in people's hearts still needs to be improved, and then he thought of another thing: "Mom, by the way, I have to tell you something." ”
"What else?" Mother Ye looked at her son dissatisfied, she had been giving them confidence since she came back yesterday, but her son had to make a bunch of demands before he did anything, which was not a good phenomenon.
"I'm going to review at school with my classmates tomorrow night, and I won't come back for dinner, and if the effect is good, I'll be studying at school lately." Ye Gui had already thought in his heart that he had to go to class during the day, so he could only use the evening time to do something to make money.
Although this may arouse Ye's mother's suspicions, he can't afford to wait, he has been waiting in the previous life, and finally ended up with a dream of many years of youth, in this life he must seize all the time, so that even if something happens, no matter how bad it is, he can leave something for the family.
And Ye Gui faintly had another idea in his heart, another huge regret in his heart back then could only be made up for when he was in high school.
Ye Gui thought about it, as long as he survived the problem of returning late at night for three weeks during this time, after the first exam, Ye Gui could use his results to make his parents relax their management of him.
In this way, Ye Gui found an excuse to buy a piano and go home late in the evening at dinner.
Now that everything is ready, he is waiting for school to fulfill the plan he had made last night.
Suddenly heard someone next to him whispering his name, Ye Gui turned his head to see that Liao Zhichen was looking at him in the corridor downstairs, and when he saw Ye Gui looking over, he hurriedly beckoned him to come over.
Ye Gui saw the appearance of this thing bending over and sneaking around, and the appearance of him turning into a beer belly in the later life appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but feel funny: "What are you doing, like a thief." ”
Liao Zhichen saw that he kindly reminded Ye Gui that the other party not only did not appreciate the affection, but also beat him up, an impulse to let him fend for himself if he knew that I would leave him to fend for himself: "I'm like a thief, you don't look at who stared at the beauty all the way, and you forgot what floor you were on." ”
After Liao Zhichen finished speaking, he also yelled at Ye Guinunu, and motioned for you to look at the side.
There were small laughter and discussions around him, and Ye Gui saw that he had actually walked to the stairs between the second and third floors, and then he realized that he had walked through the classroom thinking about things.
Ye Gui looked at Liao Zhichen with some embarrassment, and then weakly walked down the second floor.
Seeing Ye Gui coming, Liao Zhichen had an expression that I didn't expect to think that your kid was actually this kind of person: "How is it, Sao Nian, how do you feel all the way with the school flower." After speaking, he glanced at the corridor on the third floor, and then looked at Ye Gui badly.
Ye Gui was inexplicably looked at, and then followed Liao Zhichen's eyes to the third floor, a beautiful girl walked over from the corridor, she was wearing a clean white shirt, a beige gown on the outside, long black hair draped behind her head, a black tie on her chest, a black short skirt on her lower body, knee-length black leg socks, and a pair of black-headed women's small leather shoes under her feet.
The girl walked through the corridor alone, like fireflies in the night, her eyes looked a little cold, but this did not prevent the people around her from greeting her warmly.
Ye Gui looked at the girl, speechless for a while, and then thought of her, she just appeared in front of her eyes.
This girl is another regret of Ye Gui's previous life, An Yan.
Originally, according to Liao Zhichen's temperament, he should have laughed at Ye Gui fiercely, but he didn't take the opportunity to ridicule Ye Gui, but said in a slightly sour tone: Ye Zi, I understand you, but An Yan and we are not all the way, and we will never see each other again in three months, just take a look. ”
Every pot-bellied uncle has a dream lover in his heart when he is a teenager, for Ye Gui or all his male classmates in high school, An Yan is the person in the dream, Liao Zhichen is of course no exception, when looking at a girl who is only a teenager but is destined to be with him for the rest of his life, Liao Zhichen has no mood to make fun of Ye Gui.
He has a solid family background, his academic performance is among the best in the whole grade, and he is versatile and very beautiful. Unlike the use of rotten streets in later generations, Ye Gui felt that An Yan really took on the title of goddess of high school.
It is said that when she first entered high school, the tall girl would refuse countless confessions every day, and the boys in high school at that time would even form a group to send her love letters, they knew that they had no hope, so everyone expressed their love to the goddess in their hearts in the form of jokes.
At that time, the teenagers who came to see her every day after school became a unique scenery at the school gate at that time.
But this girl who is cold in the eyes of the boys in the whole school will always be the innocent and cute little girl who grew up with him when he was a child and chased after his ass and called him brother.
Ye's father and An Yan's father, An Jingbin, used to be employees of the aluminum factory under the first factory of the copper market, and An Jingbin was the workshop director of Ye's father's workshop at that time, and the two families lived in the building where Ye Gui's house is now, and Ye Gui and An Yan also grew up together.
But An Jingbin is an intellectual, and he is valued by the leaders of the main factory, so he was quickly promoted and became the second-in-command of the aluminum factory, and at this time An Yan's family also moved away from the building where the Ye family was located, when Ye Gui had just entered elementary school, he didn't realize that he and the most beautiful girl in his life would never cross paths again.
Later, with his solid practical foundation, An Jingbin quickly transformed the knowledge he learned into the technology needed in the factory, and then did several major projects in a row and became the leader of the factory. Then, just like the resumes of successful people in the traditional concept, An Jingbin was promoted all the way after being transferred to the main factory, and finally became a senior official in the province from work to politics.
When I saw An Yan again, it was already high school, and at that time, Ye Gui found that since An Yan moved away in elementary school, the two of them had taken different paths, and the girl who used to follow her in high school had become the object of envy of everyone, and the boy who said that he would always protect her was lost to everyone.
When Ye Gui saw An Yan for the first time in high school, he wanted to go up and hug this girl who had missed him for many years, but seeing her slim appearance and the admiring eyes of the people around her, Ye Gui flinched.
He looked at the photo of the two of them that had been in his wallet, and thought in his heart that there were so many excellent people around her, and he didn't need his own protection for a long time. And maybe the girl had forgotten about herself a long time ago, after all, it had been so many years ago.
So even if the two agreed to meet again when they were young, they were still the best friends, Ye Gui never went to An Yan later, but continued his ordinary high school life, he didn't tell anyone that he knew the perfect girl in everyone's eyes, but just hid this most innocent relationship in his heart silently.
After graduating from high school, An Yan was even farther away, Ye Gui remembered that with the support of her family's economic conditions, An Yan did not choose the college entrance examination in her third year of high school, but chose to study music abroad, and she finally relied on her extraordinary talent and accumulation in music since childhood, and was admitted to Berklee College of Music, the most famous school in the pop music industry, and quickly became popular after returning to China after graduation, and became a famous singer at that time within two years.
But there are many rights and wrongs in the entertainment industry, when An Yan became famous, rumors spread in the entertainment industry, and all kinds of dirty water were splashed on this girl, and then I don't know why An Yan's exposure rate slowly decreased, at that time, some people on the Internet said that she had depression, and some people said that she was hidden because of disobedience to the company's arrangement.
Until one day after Ye Gui went to work for a year, rumors suddenly spread on the Internet that An Yan's father committed suicide because of some problems, and her mother also fell ill for a while.
Then An Yan's life was never peaceful again, first there were various people in the family who came to the door to say that his father had borrowed money from them in order to make up for the embezzlement of public funds when he was still in the factory, and at that time, in the face of his mother who was seriously ill at home and needed to recuperate, and those debt collectors who came to the door like jackals, tigers and leopards, An Yan could only pay off the arrears of these people first, for this An Yan not only spent all his savings, but also had to accept a large number of commercial performances and countless advertisements that refused the company before, For a while, this hot girl became an artist who only made money in people's hearts.
But this is not over, hearing that someone's arrears have been compensated, more inexplicable debt collectors came to the door in an instant, but at this time, An Yan was unable to repay, so he could only struggle to maneuver between various people every day.
Later, An Yan's mother found out, and she was so angry that her health was even worse, and she died not long after.
So this girl, who had infinite scenery in the first half of her life, became an orphan with no father and no mother and only arrears for a while, and then... She chose to leave this world.
The news of An Yan's suicide caused an uproar on the Internet, and it broke all the strong things in Ye Gui's heart at once.
Ye Gui thought more than once that if he had been by that girl's side at that most difficult time, maybe things wouldn't have happened; He regretted more than once that if he had worked hard earlier, he might have been worthy of that girl, and he would not have let her go so far alone.
But if all this was too late, Ye Gui didn't have time to protect the most important thing in his life. Since then, the promise of a boy and the beauty of an innocent relationship have all vanished with the departure of this girl.
Ye Gui has since become a conformist, 9-to-5 office worker, no longer thinking about the future, no longer thinking about what good feelings he will encounter, if it weren't for his family as Ye Gui's last pillar, he would even become a walking corpse.
But at the moment, none of this has happened.
Ye Gui stood at the staircase on the second floor and quietly looked at the girl walking upstairs, at this time she had not experienced the rights and wrongs of the entertainment industry, nor had she experienced the hardships at home.
Although the girl's eyes were a little cold in the eyes of others, Ye Gui still vaguely saw her innocent appearance.
The girl upstairs also seemed to notice Ye Gui's gaze, she stopped, and looked at it with a pair of clear eyes, her eyes were like the boundary between the sea and the sky in the distance, so soft and indifferent.
Ye Gui looked at this beautiful girl, and opened his mouth to say to himself in a voice that was difficult for others to hear, "It's good to see you." ”