258.The Great War of Youth (9)
"Hey, Junjie, look at this person." Gu Fan pointed to the girl with a short stature, a dark complexion, and a pot lid shrunk in the corner of the crowd: "I can't remember the name for a while." β
"She...... You forgot? The first ugly girl unanimously assessed by our grade, Yang An. Liao Junjie's eyes widened, looked at it for a while, and replied.
"Oh, it's her!" The name Yang An brought Gu Fan's thoughts back to his high school years at once, and countless memory fragments came flooding back in his mind, and it didn't take long for him to remember all the information about this girl: "Why didn't she come to the class reunion?" β
"Please, you've drunk too much!" Liao Junjie looked at Gu Fan with disdain, as if Gu Fan had become Yang An at this time: "Five short figures, even like black charcoal, a mouthful of yellow teeth, and the bottom of the grades...... She is still a foreigner, with an unpleasant accent, and she doesn't know which corner of the city she is struggling to survive now, how can she participate in a class reunion at our level. β
"Hey, that's too much." Gu Fan frowned and said, "People are also our classmates." β
"Forget it, including you, who treated her as a real classmate in the first place?" Liao Junjie poured another sip of wine, and said with a big tongue: "If you really want to accept her as a friend and classmate from the bottom of your heart, why didn't you stand up when she was bullied in high school?" β
"Bullied......" Gu Fan was stunned: "That's right...... The person who took the lead and always bullied Yang An seemed to be Zhou Teng, who was the first in the grade! But I really didn't mean to come out and help her when she was being bullied. β
"I was ...... I ...... at the time, "Gu Fan couldn't remember why he didn't come forward when Yang An was bullied."
You're not such a scared person, are you?
"I know, you weren't afraid of Zhou Teng at the beginning......" Liao Junjie smiled: "It's because you look down on Yang An himself, right?" β
Gu Fan's body stiffened.
"I was bullied, but I didn't dare to tell the teacher...... was bullied for a whole year, and he looked like he was beaten and scolded...... dutifully acting as a punching bag for the top students in the school......" Liao Junjie hiccuped: "Such a hopeless poor worm, who would really care?" β
"You're probably right." Gu Fan frowned: "But I regret it now." β
"I was probably too young at the time, and my temperament was still full of such extremism and arrogance...... But now, I really think that it was wrong for us to ignore the existence of such school bullying back then......"
"Alas...... How nice would it have been if I had been able to lend her a helping hand in the first place? β
"So what?" Liao Junjie pouted: "Time can't be turned back, can you still travel back in time to save her life?" β
Gu Fan ignored Liao Junjie's ridicule, just supported his chin with his hand, and frowned: "I really regret it...... I want to go back in time...... Help her through those difficult years. β
Click-
The crystal chandelier on the ceiling of the hall went out once more, and the entire silver hall was once again plunged into darkness.
Looking at Liao Junjie, who was motionless beside him, Gu Fan had a faint premonition in his heart: "Should it be ......?"
"Another thing that is particularly puzzling to me about human beings is that some of the strong have extremely complex emotions towards the weak in this world." A pillar of white light in the center of the hall struck again, and Peter Pan walked out slowly this time with a wooden cane and a black top hat: "They did not look at the crowd with compassion, but treated the people at the bottom with unusual malice...... and even took pleasure in persecuting them. β
"Obviously, doing something like campus bullying will do a lot of harm but no benefit to the top student named Zhou Teng, but even if he has to risk being known by the school, he still leads a group of bad people to bully the girl named Yang An in every way...... And get a unique pleasure from it. β
What's even more terrifying is that the familiarity and habituality of the surrounding classmates have quietly rationalized this otherwise unreasonable bullying...... The teachers may have heard some rumors, but they did not intervene because of Zhou Teng's identity as an honor student...... In this way, it seems a little out of place for you, the person who intends to go back in time and lend a helping hand to that hapless child...... It's not normal. β
Such a complex and illogical human mind...... It's a bit of a mystery to me
It's not transparent. β
Taking off the black top hat on his head, Peter Pan looked deep and laughed in a low voice, "What do you think?" β
"Why do you always stare at the dark side of human nature?" Gu Fan frowned and said, "Since I find it difficult to understand, I just have an opportunity to observe and observe...... Send me back, and I'll prove to you that you can't look directly at the dazzling brilliance in people's hearts! β
"You really don't cry when you don't see the coffin...... I've told you many times that even if I send you back in time, I can only change the events of a very short period of time, and that's a percentage of the whole time...... In other words, if this bullying incident is an infected wound, the most you can do is remove the abscess from the epidermis...... But the virus inside can't do anything. β
Peter Pan paused and continued: "The so-called change of the past is nothing more than a lie that treats the symptoms but not the root cause and deceives oneself!" β
"Why are you talking so much nonsense this time?" Gu Fan said impatiently: "Won't you just send me back?" β
"Even if the future gets worse because of your intervention and change, is it okay?"
"It's okay...... Hurry up! β
"Okay...... Peter Pan shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "I have persuaded all those who should be persuaded, if you still insist on going...... Then I won't stop you. β
"Less nonsense!"
"Okayβthen ......"
Peter Pan's face became serious again, and he flicked the silver coin in his hand into the air and said loudly, "Go back in time!" β
Gu Fan once again felt that he was instantly wrapped in a dazzling silver light, and the things in the surrounding environment began to gradually blur, and because the light was too strong, he couldn't help but close his eyes.
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"Now I'm going to announce the ranking of the results of this mock test."
On the podium, a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties was holding a report card in her hand and her face was expressionless.
Gu Fan opened his eyes and looked at the classmates with different expressions around him......
Here it is...... On the eve of the college entrance examination, more than a month ago? The results of the last mock test of this semester were announced!
Now, the head teacher at that time is reading the ranking on stage......
"First place, Zhou Teng." The head teacher's face was much soothed than before.
"Second place, Gu Fan."
I did well in the exam that year, Gu Fan thought to himself.
"Third place, Wang Nuonuo."
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"Seventh place, Xu Cheng."
"Sixteenth, Liao Junjie."
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"Last ......"
Speaking of this, the head teacher's face was not very good, she took a deep breath and said word by word:
"Last place, Yang An!"