After the start of school, Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shaoan studied hard every day as in elementary school, and there was no waste of time, but as countrymen, they were often ridiculed by others.

Let's just say that now when I go to the county No. 1 middle school to study, the full class leader Li Xiang will always find trouble with his brothers from time to time, once when the class rolls names, whoever is called, who will answer, but when it comes to his brothers, Li Xiang always does not read the name, and says nonsense, "Is the peaceful hillbilly here?" After Zhang Shaoping and Zhang Shaoan heard this, there was always an irrepressible anger in their hearts, and they wanted to beat Li Xiang to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

However, it is not easy for his brothers to enter the county No. 1 middle school to study, if they are expelled because of the fight, it will be more than worth the loss, plus Li Xiang is the son of Director Li of the County Education Bureau, Shaoping and Shao'an The two brothers dare not offend him, and every time they are bullied, they can only grit their teeth and endure it.

Zhang Shaoping's thinking is more mature than his younger brother Zhang Shao'an, he is inferior to his current environment, although he is the tallest in the class, but the word "countryman" makes him feel that he is a head lower than others, but he feels that he is not inferior, he wants to prove himself, tell those city people, although he is from the countryside, but definitely not a good-for-nothing hillbilly.

Every weekend and rest day of the school, the children in the city will rush home to eat the delicious food prepared for them at home, and the two brothers Shaoping and Shao'an can only watch, and finally enter the county seat to study, as long as the school is fine, the brothers will go out from the school to various places in the city: streets and alleys, outside the city, corners and corners, anyway, they have never been to all the places. With the exception of a few formidable organs, such as the county revolutionary committee, the county armed forces department, and the county public security bureau, he walked around the courtyards of many of them — mostly by pretending to go to the toilet and coaxing the old man to enter.

Because they were not familiar with the place, his brothers did not feel the shabby of this ragged clothes in public places, and walked freely in all directions of the city. During this time, the two brothers gained countless new impressions, and even felt that the smell of cooking smoke that permeated the city was unique.

Of course, he could not yet comprehend all the new things he had seen, but all of them undoubtedly had an impact on his spirit. Through the mirror of city life, the two brothers seemed to see more clearly the village they had lived in for more than a decade - in that familiar old world, many things that used to be meaningful now seemed a little unremarkable. And many of the things that were important there that they had not paid attention to in the past have suddenly come to their hearts so vividly.

In addition to learning the knowledge in the textbooks, Zhang Shaoping also developed a habit of reading extracurricular books, whenever school is out of class or free time on weekends, he will run to the corner of the campus library to quietly look through the extracurricular books, he is afraid that he will meet those city people in the class and sneer at him, so he has to take a book on the library shelf and find an inconspicuous corner to think of the world of books.

The first extracurricular book he read was "The Troubles of Young Werther" written by the famous German writer Goethe, at first he thought it was a book about a book called Werther's troubles, but when he read a few pages, he felt that this was a book that was not just about troubles, and he was immediately fascinated by this book.

He emptied himself to the author's world, and he was so fascinated and so fascinated that he stayed in the corner and flipped through the pages when the library was about to close, and he finished reading "The Troubles of Young Werther", which tells the story of a boy named Werther who falls in love with a girl named Greentie, who is engaged to someone else. The setbacks in love left Witt devastated. Later, Werther committed suicide because he was out of step with feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless.

This ordinary foreigner's story shook his young heart strongly, it was dark, he raised his head and was about to get up to leave, but he found himself locked in the library, he knocked on the door of the library for a while, except for a few knocks on the door, the whole surrounding silence could not even see a figure, he began to fall silent, quietly squatting on the ground.

He began to fall into an indescribable thought, this kind of thought is scattered and floating, deep and unfathomable, he suddenly felt how small the place he was in, there was a vast and vast world outside of this place, and more importantly, he felt that he had more choices in life, he was fantasizing that if he was the author of this book, Goethe, then he would never write Werther to death, but let Werther be with his beloved girl Greendy, at this moment he found that he had an extra feeling, This kind of feeling is different from the love between family and friendship, and this feeling makes him unable to let go of it for a long time.

As he pondered, a chair in the library slumped on the smooth floor, and it was so dark that it was hard for him to make out why it had fallen, and then he heard a girl's voice.

He shouted, "Who are you?" ”

The girl noticed that this voice was somewhat familiar, and said, "I'm An Yuran, may I ask who you are?" ”

After hearing this, Shaoping quickly stood up and patted his pants, and said, "I'm Zhang Shaoping." After saying that, Shaoping walked over to her and asked, "Why are you in the library too?" ”

An Yuran looked at the dark library without a trace of light, and then looked at the door of the library tightly closed, bit her mouth, and said, "I want to ask why you are in the library, don't you want to steal books?" ”

Shaoping hurriedly explained: "No, no, I'm fascinated by reading, I don't know when the door will be closed." ”

After listening to this, An Yuran felt that what Shaoping said was not like a lie, so he didn't ask again, Zhang Shaoping was not very good at dealing with girls, seeing that she didn't speak, he was embarrassed to ask, he felt that she should be the same as himself because he was fascinated by reading books and didn't find that the door of the library was closed.

At night, the library is quiet, and the neatly arranged shelves in the library are full of books, but the light switch in the library is turned on, so no matter how you turn on the light switch, it is not on, but fortunately, the lights are still on in the light stadium, and the light shines into the library through the glass window, making the library more or less bright.

It was the first time that An Yuran had grown so old and stayed in the library because she fell asleep reading in the library, but she couldn't go out at the moment, so she could only quietly wait for the library to open tomorrow before she could go out, but she was very happy that she was not the only one who was locked up in the library, and there was also a Zhang Shaoping as her companion, although she was not particularly interested in Zhang Shaoping from Zhangjia Village, but she didn't hate him either.

In the quiet long night, the two of them sat on the chairs in the library facing the light on the court, the two of them looked at me and I looked at you in the dark night, at first Shaoping didn't dare to speak, and he didn't know what to say, An Yuran felt that sitting was a little boring, so he said to Shaoping: "Hey, what books are you reading in the library?" ”

Zhang Shaoping was frightened by this sudden voice, because he never dared to talk to these city people, because they always looked down on him, disgusted him for his shabby clothes, disgusted that he was so poor that he could only eat C and other dishes, in fact, they didn't know that Shaoping was not poor but thrifty.

Shaoping replied hesitantly: "I'll ...... I read a copy of "The Troubles of Young Werther". ”

After An Yuran heard this, he smiled and said, "Why, are you so shy to answer?" ”

"No...... No...... No...... No...... I...... I am...... I'm because ......" Shaoping is talking nonsense.

"Okay, don't make fun of you, since you like to read extracurricular books, then we can come to the library together to read books in the future, or I can introduce a few books to you, what do you think?"

Zhang Shaoping was blushing by this sudden remark, because he never dared or was embarrassed to talk to girls, and every time he saw a girl, he would blush, let alone come to the library to read books and the like.

His mouth was hesitant, and he didn't know what to say, An Yuran saw that he was a little shy, so he smiled and said, "It turns out that you are still shy!" ”

"Where...... How can there be ...... There is nothing to ......," Shaoping said nervously.

"Okay, good, good, but seriously, you're very interesting, you're different from the people I've met before, we're classmates now, as long as you want to read extracurricular books in the future, I can recommend a few to you, because I also like to read extracurricular books, but my family doesn't allow it, so I can only secretly read it in the library."

Zhang Shaoping felt that she was different from other people in the city, she treated him more equally and honestly, so he also felt that she was more approachable, so he responded with a smile: "Then you have any good books that you must recommend to me, by the way, why don't your family let you read extracurricular books?" ”

"Because they don't want me to waste my studies, and they think it's a waste of time to read these extracurricular books."

"What they said is not right, I think these books are really good books, closer to our lives, not as boring as the Tang and Song poems that we memorize by rote, if I meet my uncle and aunt one day, I will definitely let them support you to read extracurricular books."

An Yuran responded with a smile: "It's really fake, my dad is the director of the Education Bureau, and my mom is a Chinese teacher in our school, can you really convince them?" ”

After hearing this, Shaoping suddenly became depressed, and the whole person was a little speechless, An Yuran said with a smile: "Why, doesn't it feel very difficult." ”

Zhang Shaoping touched his head shyly and sat stupidly aside.