Chapter 4: A Light in the Clouds
Jiawei followed the teacher's steps and strolled around the campus, and the teacher talked about the school, such as what kind of honors the school has won in recent years, a few college entrance examination champions, and some changes in new and old students, but Jiawei did not listen to much, but was aroused by the teaching building that has remained the same for so many years, and it is an indescribable emotion, as if the vague picture in a dream you can see clearly but as if you can never hold the feeling, Jiawei gently pressed his chest, wanting to alleviate this feeling of scratching his heart like a cat. But it didn't work.
The students in the classroom are still wearing the same uniforms as they were back then. Occasionally a few students raised their heads to look out the window and found that a teacher had walked by at the door and hurriedly lowered their heads, picked up the pen and scratched something on the paper. The corners of Jiawei's mouth unconsciously showed a trace of curvature, which was very similar to himself back then.
Suddenly the bell rang for the end of class, when the teacher said that the class was over, many students hurriedly ran out of the classroom and chatted in groups on the guardrail on the corridor, but Jiawei's eyes fell on the classroom of the tenth class of the year, and saw a boy being pulled by a girl to talk about this exercise, and the boy's door was wrinkled but he still sat there obediently listening to the girl's explanation. For a moment, Jiawei suddenly felt as if he was in a dream or back to seventeen years old, this familiar scene, the same school uniform made Jiawei deeply into memories.
I still remember that there was once a girl who had to pull herself after class to tutor herself after class because she was sorry, and she was hopelessly defined by the teacher. Just like the popular movies on the market now, girls volunteer to help boys with their homework.
I remember that the sun was brighter than usual that day, Jiawei lazily leaned back in the chair, looked at the girl in front of him with the homework book corrected by the teacher, and recalled what the girl said to herself two days ago.
Suddenly, the girl walked up to her and said to Jiawei, "The teacher said that your homework is wrong, let me help you with your homework." ”
Jia Wei was stunned, he was hopelessly the kind of teacher who let others tutor him in his homework? But the good-faced personality made Jiawei say: "No need, I will." ”
The girl unceremoniously opened Jiawei's homework book, which was covered with red forks.
Jiawei was stunned by the girl's action, his cheeks couldn't help but blush, but his face was very tight. The girl didn't wait for Jiawei to speak, and said, "Let me tell you about your mistakes." But then the girl fell into a deep depression, Jiawei's English was very bad, and the reserve of words was almost none. Mathematics, physics and chemistry are better, but apart from some basic formulas, even the periodic table is not memorized. The girl couldn't help but take a deep breath, controlled her heaving chest, and still couldn't help asking, "How did you get to our school?" ”
Jiawei remembered that when he took the first monthly exam, the head of the squad also asked the same question, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he told the girl with the same answer: "Half a year before the exam, plus I am a child, I pressed the line." Jiawei still remembers that when he said this, the head of the team took a deep breath, the flesh on his face shook involuntarily, and the violent facial expression that was about to occur was finally endured, and the girl had the same expression at this time, and probably reacted the same, Jiawei still remembered that although the team leader said: "You have to work hard, otherwise you will only pull farther and farther." But the sensitive Jiawei still sensed a hint of disgust in her expression, and after that, he didn't care about himself and explained his reasoning.
Jiawei suddenly regretted a little, the girl would probably be as disgusted as the team leader and not take care of herself much. But when the girl calmed her chest, she looked at Jiawei seriously and said: "You have this knowledge reserve, it is very good to be able to be admitted to our school, I will help you increase your knowledge reserve, you will definitely learn very well." ”
"No, what's the use of learning well?" Jiawei moved his eyes to the sky outside the window, the sky was very blue, but he was a bird with broken wings, and he felt that he had no strength to fly.
Jiawei didn't know how the girl left his seat, looking at the girl's back, there was a trace of guilt in his heart, in fact, the boy knew that the girl was for his own good, but he didn't know when he learned to reject people thousands of miles away, whether he was afraid that he couldn't bear this kind of care, or he had a sweet dream, but he was afraid of waking up.
Jiawei turned his head and continued to look at the sky outside the window to immerse himself in it and forget this guilt, but he couldn't help but turn his head and saw the girl suddenly quietly put a note on his desk, Jiawei opened it and saw that it was written: "I don't know what the use is, but my mother said that only by learning knowledge can you control your own destiny and protect what you want to cherish." Do you want to? ”
Jiawei looked at the back of the girl in front of him, still a good student as always. Take your destiny into your hands? Protect what you want to protect? Can it really be?
The girl was suddenly called to answer the question, with a confident expression, clear logic, and a perfect answer. Jiawei couldn't help but applaud her quietly, the sun was scattered on her fair face and mutton fat sweater, Jiawei felt that this was the most beautiful picture he had ever seen, and he couldn't take his eyes off it. Until the girl sat down, Jiawei's mind was still constantly impacted by the picture just now, and his heart was pounding.
Jiawei touched his chest, and now it was as stable as the value during his physical examination. Over the years, my heart has been beating violently, or because of the first national championship, or because of the nervousness of the negotiation during the first financing, but the beating of my heart seems to have never been again.
"Why didn't I memorize yesterday's words?"
"Isn't this question the same as the last one? How do you always make the same mistakes. ”
"Why do you always do math so many times, but you don't practice English very much?"
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Listening to the girl babbling in his ear about his own wrongs, Jiawei couldn't help but roll his eyes, but Jiawei finally obediently lowered his head and listened attentively. Maybe it was because she didn't complete the assigned task on time, the girl's red and swollen eyes, or the girl's ardent expectation every time she looked at the boy's money, or the boy's hope that he was the one she liked in the girl's heart.
"Not next time, I'll fix it." The boy spat out these words thinly.
"I'll ignore you the next time you do this." The girl raised her lips slightly.
"Hmm." The boy swore an oath.
It's hard to tell why, because we didn't think that much at that time. Maybe it's better if you're happy, or if the person you like is happy, it's just so simple.
Jiawei remembered that it was the most simple and pleasant time in his memory, and at that time he realized that learning could be so happy, and there were still such warm corners of the world.
Perhaps no one ever noticed that there was a girl in the classroom who was talking seriously to a boy, and the boy scratched his head from time to time, rolled his eyes, and showed an unwilling expression, but obediently sat in his seat and listened, and hid in his eyes a tenderness that no one could find except himself. But Jiawei knew that this memory was clearly engraved in his soul, marked with the age of seventeen, no matter how the years changed, it would be a memory that could not be erased in this life.
How I wish you were still there, and I would just be by your side and listen quietly.