"In our class, we are not too harmonious, because of the differences in personality, performance, and way of doing things between people, different small groups have been formed. Now there are three big groups in the class, namely the class leader faction, the girls faction, and the neutral faction like me. There are still some very small circles of friends left, but their circle of friends is very small and relatively fragmented, even if the composition of the factions in the class is very important, but they will not be taken out in detail. ”

"And Li Chengtao is a person who belongs to the squad leader's faction."

Cheng Qing took a bite of the sandwich, then opened the milk and took a sip, moistened his throat, and continued.

"The class leader faction was formed under the leadership of the current class president Han Shaoyu, in fact, before the first-year class president was elected, the classmate named Han Shaoyu had already secretly made friends in the class and had a good relationship."

"In other words, the classmate named Han Shaoyu became the class leader completely by relying on favors, and then relied on the position of the class leader to establish a group?"

Wei Yibai raised a question when Cheng Qing talked about the current squad leader Han Shaoyu.

"It can't be said that it is all in the election of class president, only by relying on popularity, you can only control the classmates, because the decision of who will be elected class president in the end is in the hands of the teacher, and in fact, Han Shaoyu, the class president, is very serious and responsible for the management of the class after taking office, and his own grades are also among the best in the class, and even in the whole grade, which makes him enjoy a good reputation in the class and is also recognized by the teacher. After receiving support from both sides, he was able to break through from many of his opponents and become the squad leader. ”

"As for the squad leader's group, it can't be said that it's all about it, some people like to be inflammatory, and think that it is a wise choice to have a good relationship with the squad leader, so they take the initiative to make friends, purely for his rights. And Han Shaoyu's own excellence is also like a magnet, attracting some people as friends. These are the people who really want to make friends. ”

And Li Chengtao belongs to the latter type. He and Han Shaoyu were the first to meet, and when they took the bus to the military training site before the start of school, they sat in a row, and when they arrived, they were assigned a dormitory, and the two of them were also divided into one room, much like me and Xu Huichen. ”

After the official start of school, when Han Shaoyu ran for class president, he also played a key role. There are operations such as canvassing, and most of Li Chengtao has been involved. After Han Shaoyu became the class leader, some key matters about the class were also discussed with him, and even some things that Han Shaoyu was not good to come forward in person were also solved by him. It can be said that Li Chengtao is a very important confidant of Han Shaoyu. ”

"Oh yes, there is also the fact that his father seems to be more famous, he is the director of the Dongdu City Public Security Bureau, under his father's management, the local crime rate has decreased a lot, and his father's authorities have asked his subordinates to start looking through old cases and re-investigating the truth of some things, his father's actions are really admirable."

Cheng Qing talked for a long time before he finished telling the news about Li Chengtao that he knew in his impression.

"I almost understood that even though I still have a blank idea of a lot of the new class in my home school, I have a basic understanding of some of the things in the class."

Wei Yibai was recording while listening to Cheng Qing's words at this time, so after Cheng Qing finished speaking, she was almost finished.

"Oh, by the way, Cheng Qingjun, what did you whisper to you just now after Li Chengtao left?" Wei Yibai asked after taking a sip of milk.

"Well, in our class, the class leader implements a system of changing once a year. That is, the class president only serves for one semester, and at the beginning of the second year, it needs to be re-elected, and the class leader can be re-elected. Whether or not to be the squad leader is determined by two aspects, the first is the result of the election vote, which is the most important. The second one also includes the evaluation of the teachers, and the final election results will be born after a comprehensive evaluation. ”

"And soon in the second school year, the election of the class president will start again, if Han Shaoyu wants to be re-elected, he must take action in both aspects, and Li Chengtao has also begun to help him canvass for votes like last time. So even if my vote may be insignificant in the class, the number of votes for them is definitely as many as possible, and they will definitely try their best to fight for it. That's what Li Chengtao said to me just now. ”

Cheng Qing explained to Wei Yibai in detail.

"Then what are you going to do, do you want to be a favor and promise Li Chengtao to vote for the current squad leader, or vote for some other candidates?"

After Wei Yibai learned about the current situation in the class, he asked Cheng Qing's opinion on this matter.

"There is a high probability that I will still vote, after all, as I just said, no matter whether I vote for Han Shaoyu or not, with his own personality charm and Li Chengtao's extremely strong canvassing methods, Han Shaoyu is very likely to be re-elected. Since I can't control anything, it's better to put the icing on the cake, as you said, in exchange for a favor. ”

"What about the other small probability?"

"Small probability......" After hearing Wei Yibai's doubts, Cheng Qing thought for a while, raised his head, and began to talk about the small probability, that is, the reason for not voting for Han Shaoyu.

"How to say, no matter who votes for our squad leader candidate, those people have a strong small group color in the class, generally speaking, this can be regarded as standing in line, if you choose not carefully, you will be hostile to other squad leader candidates and so on...... If Han Shaoyu loses the election by chance, there may be some unnecessary troubles. ”

"And during the time that Han Shaoyu fulfilled his duties as a squad leader this year, although I think he did his job well and was conscientious, there must be people who have been controlled and are dissatisfied and resistant. In other words, this election is the best chance for those who want to defeat Han Shaoyu. Of course, if there are too many such people, maybe the situation will be reversed this time. ”

"If it really doesn't work, I can choose to abstain from voting, hand in a blank vote when the time comes, don't covet that favor, and don't get involved with other forces, and continue to be my neutral. By the way, if you transfer to our class at the beginning of the school year, you will definitely need to participate in the voting. ”

Cheng Qing first gave Wei Yibai a preventive injection and reminded her kindly.

"That's right...... It stands to reason that transfer students will have to fit in with the larger groups in their classes when they come here, and if I were to use that vote, it would probably only be to support some of the female candidates. ”

Wei Yibai and Cheng Qing thought about it for a while just now and gave a reasonable answer.

"Among the girls, if they are satisfied with the larger group where they are located, except for Chen Jiayan, who is not interested in this aspect, and who is in line with the identity of the class president candidate, there is only one classmate named Tang Qiuyue."

"Who are these two?" Wei Yibai was puzzled by the two new unfamiliar names.

"The first one is Chen Jiayan, she has a large number of people in the group, and she herself has a wide range of friends. You'd better pay more attention to her after school starts, although you don't pay much attention to the position of class president, but she still has a lot of say among girls. When it came to Chen Jiayan, Cheng Qing couldn't help but think back to some things that happened yesterday, and after a little distraction, she concentrated on continuing to talk about the next person.

The second is Tang Qiuyue, her words...... Actually, you vote for her and vote for Han Shaoyu have the same effect, because she is...... Han Shaoyu's girlfriend. ”

"Huh?" Wei Yibai heard that this classmate named Tang Qiuyue had the identity of the current class president's girlfriend, and looked at Cheng Qing with some interest, waiting for him to continue.

"It's so interesting when I talk about this kind of thing." Cheng Qing raised her eyebrows and looked at Wei Yibai, who was a little gossip in front of her, and complained.

"I've always been very serious about documenting this...... It's also an idea of what's going on in the class...... If there are some people in the class who are talking about this gossip, I can have a common topic with them. Also...... It's not the same as abroad...... I can't even insert a word. ”

After hearing Cheng Qing's complaint, Wei Yibai's face turned red instantly, and he hurriedly defended himself. And her voice became smaller and smaller, until the last sentence, Wei Yibai lowered her head slightly, and her voice was so small that only she could hear it.

"You just said the last thing...... What the? I didn't hear it too clearly, the convenience store was so crowded that the neighborhood became a bit noisy. ”

Cheng Qing looked at Wei Yibai, whose voice was gradually decreasing, and asked.

"No, it's nothing, it's just that I've heard you talk about so many things in the class, and I've already learned so much before the school starts, so if you continue to talk, I'll record while listening."

Wei Yibai hurriedly waved his hand, continued to pick up the mobile phone, opened the keyboard input method for mobile phone typing, and waited for Cheng Qing to continue to talk about the things in the class.

"Tang Qiuyue and Han Shaoyu are the first couple in our class to become a couple, and there doesn't seem to be any particularly obvious phenomenon in the period before they became a couple, but the small group struggle in our class during that period was the most serious. From time to time, there will be some remarks and misbehaving in the class, which will lead to some hurtful incidents, both verbal and actional. ”

Cheng Qing was obviously not too clear about this matter, and could only say the time point when the couple Han Shaoyu and Tang Qiuyue were about to rise and some characteristics of that period of time.

"I see." Wei Yibai recorded this incident in equal detail.

"Then Cheng Qingjun, let's go home now, it seems that we have finished breakfast now." Wei Yibai suggested out loud after Cheng Qing finished talking about some things in the class and watching him finish the last sandwich.

Cheng Qing collected some of the scattered food packages on the table that had just been opened, and Wei Yibai also helped when he saw this. The two of them put the things together and threw them into the trash can in the store.

"Okay, then let's go back now, it's already ......" Cheng Qing was about to glance at the time, and when she was groping for her mobile phone in her pocket, suddenly, the mobile phone rang with a prompt ringtone, accompanied by a vibration prompt.

"It's ...... Huh? ”

In Cheng Qing's payment software, it is shown that a sum of money has just arrived, and the person who transferred it is Yu Wei.

"It's coming now......" Cheng Qing confirmed the total balance of her account, and then put the phone back in her pocket.

"Is there anything wrong with Cheng Qingjun? If I'm very busy, I'll go back by myself, I just remembered a lot on the way here, and I have a certain understanding of the way to this area, and I can still do it back and forth. ”

Wei Yibai watched Cheng Qing's reaction carefully, and said suspiciously.

"It's nothing, it's just that my mother booked us a ticket to Shangjing Tower tomorrow, saying that she wanted me to take you and Xiaoxi to play, I heard that my mother went to ask an acquaintance, alas, the ticket matter bothered her again. Eh, by the way, do you know the Upper Castle? The way home is still a little far, and I can introduce you on the way. ”

"Oh, I know that, because my dad paid for it." Wei Yibai nodded, indicating that she knew the building of Shangjing Tower.

"It turned out that your father funded the construction...... Ha? One of the two major investors in Shangjing Tower is your father's business? ”

Cheng Qing was ready to introduce Wei Yibai to the Beijing Tower, and after hearing Wei Yibai's words, the expression on her face became richer. After accepting this reality a little, Cheng Qing looked at Wei Yibai with surprise on her face and asked.

"Well, yes, my dad is one of the two investors, the chairman of Mingcheng Group...... According to this statement, I should be a daughter or something, huh...... I don't like to be called that though, because ......"

Wei Yibai replied, but he didn't finish his words, and he didn't tell Cheng Qing what the reason was.

Cheng Qing saw her reaction in her eyes, but she didn't continue to ask, just said, "I know, I won't call you that in the future." ”

"Hmm." Wei Yibai replied softly.

"By the way, if you want to go to Shangjing Tower in the future, you don't need to ask Aunt Wei, it's enough to talk to me, and it's enough for me to ask my dad to talk to the inspectors."

Walking on the way home, Wei Yibai seemed to remember that Cheng Qing just said that Yu Wei went to ask someone else for a ticket to the Beijing Tower, and said to Cheng Qing.

"I appreciate your kindness, but I won't go to the Beijing Tower every day, and it's not good for you to trouble." Cheng Qing said.

"Ding-dong." Wei Yibai just wanted to return to Cheng Qing, but the mobile phone suddenly made a prompt sound.

"I'm sorry Cheng Qingjun, I'll take a look at the message on my phone a little." Wei Yibai said while taking out his mobile phone.

"Oh." Cheng Qing deliberately distanced herself from Wei Yibai, trying not to let her eyes scan the content of the messages on her mobile phone.

Wei Yibai unlocked the phone at this time, and didn't care if Cheng Qing paid attention to her mobile phone messages. After clicking on the dialog box and reading the message, Wei Yibai just focused on the name of the sender of the message, and did not have any other reaction.

In this way, Wei Yibai and Cheng Qing walked together for a long time. Cheng Qing turned her head and looked at Wei Yibai for a long time, and finally couldn't help but speak: "It's not a good habit to look at your phone for a long time on the road, it's not good for your eyes, and it's a crossroads in front of you, it's very dangerous." ”

"Huh? Oh, I see, thank you Cheng Qingjun for the reminder. Wei Yibai looked up and said.

Because of Cheng Qing's sudden opening, Wei Yibai became a lot more sober. She slowed quickly, then looked straight ahead and slowly walked to the zebra crossing, waiting for the lights to change to a passable green.

"Aren't you going to talk back? From the moment I noticed you, you've been looking down at your phone, but haven't typed a word to reply to the person who sent the message. And it's been going on for a while. ”

Cheng Qing looked at Wei Yibai, who was a little sluggish for some reason after reading the news at this time, and asked her.

"Now, Cheng Qingjun, do you want to know what was in my dream yesterday?"

The traffic lights turned green and the crowds began to rush forward. And Wei Yibai did not walk forward to the zebra crossing to cross the street, just stood quietly in place, and asked Cheng Qing a question.

"If you don't mind, I'll listen carefully." Cheng Qing was distracted by Wei Yibai's sudden rhetorical question and replied.

"Actually, I also talked to you about the taxi back at that time, about ...... A friend's thing. ”

"Because I was not familiar with the environment abroad, I always showed that I was afraid to contact others in the first semester of junior high school. Because of this, I didn't make many friends from the beginning, because if I didn't take the initiative, few people would take the initiative to come and become friends with you. ”

"But at the time, there was one girl who was an exception."

Her name is Shen Tongsheng, and she is also a student who went from her home country to study in another country. She and I didn't have much contact with her at the beginning of the school year. Because the seats in the class are too far apart. In addition, we didn't live together when we were assigned dormitories, so it was difficult for us to have the opportunity to communicate together. ”

"It's just that one day, a classmate in our class, who was also in the same dormitory as me, vacated the bed in our dormitory after changing schools for special reasons."

"At that time, our school may be reassigning people in the dormitory due to problems with the order of the dormitory. Well...... In our junior high school class, some students from other countries and non-foreign students do not get along well, probably because of differences in culture and habits. ”

"As for me, because of my father's business, I have something to do with the school, so the teachers at the school are also very enthusiastic about me, and they have planned for a long time when they first asked me about my dormitory allocation. So the roommates I was assigned to were some classmates who were usually very friendly in the class, and it seemed that the school had told them about me...... It's really troublesome for the teachers to care. ”

Wei Yibai recalled these things and said with some embarrassment.

"Although there are some differences in culture and way of doing things, my roommates are very tolerant of me, they will bring me interesting things to discuss together, good things will be shared with me, and some foreign cultures will be introduced to me, so that I can quickly have a certain understanding of many things in other countries. But I'm sorry for my roommates because my friendship with them has always been a cloud of my dad's corporate relationship that lingers in my heart. Although I can feel that they are genuinely giving...... But I ......"

Wei Yibai's eyes dimmed a lot, and after being silent for a while, he forcibly concealed the state he suddenly showed just now, and hurriedly continued:

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I accidentally talked about me, but something completely different from how I got along with my roommate."

"It's what you said, or the person who sent you the message just now, that is, Shen Tongsheng's bedroom."

When Cheng Qing gave Shen Tongsheng the name of Shen Yibai, she had already guessed that it was this person who sent her a message just now. So Cheng Qing answered.

At this time, the state of the traffic light changed to passable green again, and Cheng Qing tried to take Wei Yibai forward and walk through this intersection first. And Wei Yibai also seemed to have recovered a little because he began to tell Cheng Qing some things in his heart, and he slowly continued to walk in the direction of going home with Cheng Qing.

"Well, that's it. Although the roommate in Shen Tongsheng's bedroom also tried hard to get along with her, the effect was not very good. Because her roommates would always inadvertently start talking about some special events and news in other countries, and the general trend would always start with one or two people, and slowly increase to all the classmates in the dormitory except Shen Tongsheng. Because these topics were all unheard of by Shen Tongsheng in her own country, it was difficult for her to participate in the discussion among her roommates. Over time, Shen Tongsheng became out of touch with the atmosphere in the dormitory, and her state changed a lot at that time. ”

It is precisely for this reason that the teachers also paid attention to some of Shen Tongsheng's abnormal conditions. Taking advantage of the fact that the dormitory personnel were being reassigned at that time, Shen Tongsheng was transferred to our dormitory to make good use of the bed vacated by the classmates after they transferred to the school and left. The reason for being assigned to our dormitory is not only this, but also because she and I are both from my home country, so the teachers probably think that I will have a common topic with her, and I should get along better. ”

"But maybe the teachers were careless at the time, they didn't seem to tell me in advance that Shen Tongsheng was also from his home country to study in another country like me. So even after Shen Tongsheng moved into our dormitory for a while, she didn't talk to us much. However, she would participate in the discussion only when it came to issues concerning her country. ”

"I thought it was a little strange at the time, I didn't expect her to know so much about her country, and I was a little curious about where she came from. Then, during a recess, I asked her about this doubt, and then I learned that she was an international student from my home country to another country. ”

"But the real intersection between us started when she happened to see me drawing comics in my dorm room. Drawing comics has always been my biggest hobby. When I was a child, my parents complimented me on how good I looked at painting after coming back from a long business trip, so I've been working this aspect...... In Cheng Qingjun's eyes, it may be very naïve, for the praise of my parents when I was a child, I put a lot of energy into this. ”

Wei Yibai's face at this time had a little reminiscence, as if he recalled the picture when he was a child.

"I saw those cartoons you drew yesterday...... It's all good-looking, but you, the author, still have to keep improving, and discard a lot of hard-earned manuscripts just to draw the best picture. Anyway, I haven't worked hard in any direction, and I'm not qualified to judge people who have worked hard. So it's not naïve. ”

Cheng Qing remembered the many waste manuscripts she had seen in Wei Yibai's room last night, and heard what she had just said. Looking at the girl in front of her who couldn't see them for a long time because her parents were very busy with work in her childhood, Cheng Qing comforted.

"Really? I'm glad that Cheng Qingjun can also praise me. ”

After Wei Yibai heard Cheng Qing's comfort, he obviously became a little happier from seeing the news just now to later telling about the loss and heaviness of the previous events.

"Well, on that day, because the after-school tasks in school were relatively light, I had time to go back to my dorm room very early and start drawing some more. The dormitory was vacant at the time, as the roommates seemed to have taken advantage of the fact that today's after-school tasks were relatively easy and they had time to buy some things outside of school. At that time, Shen Tongsheng did not choose to go outside at this time like my other roommates, but went directly back to the dormitory. ”

As soon as she entered, she saw me drawing at a table in the dormitory, and she asked to see what I had painted. Because I said yes to her at the time, considering what happened to her in the other dorms. After that cartoon was finished, she became the first viewer. She was also the first viewer of the comics I created my own comics because of my hobby. ”

"Shen Tongsheng was very happy after she saw my paintings at that time, and praised my paintings very well, which was a great encouragement to me who had been painting at that time, which was once again appreciated by others in addition to my parents' childhood."

"However, at that time, I didn't have any specific creative direction for painting, and all I painted were random figures that I created. And when she finished looking at my drawing, she took out a paper notebook from under her pillow and showed it to me in exchange. In that notebook, what was written was a novel written by Shen Tongsheng himself. The outline and character introductions are relatively detailed, even if the content of the text of the novel is only created a little, but the writing is particularly exciting, all kinds of descriptions are very vivid, the characters are also very distinct, and the theme is a love theme, which also has a peculiar charm that attracts people to continue reading. ”

At that time, she seemed to be half-jokingly telling me that I would be the main author of the comic adaptation of the novel. But I kept her words in my heart. Because I happened to lack a specific direction for character creation at that time, I kept in mind the characters in Shen Tongsheng's novels and showed the characters in her novels through comics. ”

Later, Shen Tongsheng learned what I was doing, so he also used all his spare time to devote himself to the creation of novels. And after I drew the characters, I started to continue to draw the plot development of the novel. We're like that, working in harmony with each other. ”

Shen Tongsheng's hard-working novel was published on the Internet two and a half years later, and although she was not too qualified, she was soon appreciated and supported by others. As a result, her novel was enthusiastically promoted by these supporters on the Internet, and this good work is also being known to more people. ”

"Well...... At this time, it was the first year of high school, and when we moved on to high school, we were still lucky enough to enter the same middle school and be able to continue to explore the content of novels and manga. Wei Yibai recalled, "Unfortunately, there was no dormitory in the high school, so the two of us could only seize the end of class every day to discuss how to match novels and comics." ”

"And my comics, with Shen Tongsheng's encouragement, were also posted on the Internet shortly after the release of her novel, and the update time was the same as the time when Shen Tongsheng's novel came out. And because I've already drawn a lot of comics in that year, there's still a lot of inventory available for renewal, and I don't need to catch up with the manga anymore. ”

"By the way, I want to interrupt at this point, so I can ask what is the name of the novel written by your classmate Shen Tongsheng? I've always been curious, and I always feel that the paintings you draw have some familiar feeling. ”

"Oh, no problem, the name of the novel she wrote is called, Symphony of Love, which is about love."

"Is it the romance-themed novel that slowly began to emerge on the novel website not long ago, the symphony of love?"

After Cheng Qing listened to Wei Yibai's words, she was only stunned......