Chapter 40: The Snuggling of the Heart
40 The snuggling of the heart
The time was just right, Wei Gospel walked to the classroom and put down his schoolbag, and the preparatory bell for raising the national flag rang, which meant that the students were given ten minutes to prepare, and they hurried to the open space in front of the teaching building to gather.
The students in the classroom hurriedly put down their schoolbags, rushed downstairs one after another, handed over the homework left on Sunday to the group leader, and the group leader of each group sent it to the office, turned around and ran out of the classroom.
Wei Gospel sorted out the homework and walked out of the classroom, the long corridor was silent, for some reason, she couldn't get rid of the shadow brought to her by the office, took a deep breath, and walked towards the office in a daze with the homework book.
The seventh-grade teachers are all working in an office, Wei Gospel thought of the face he had lost in this office before, and felt faintly uneasy, she gently pushed, and the wooden door "creaked", like a rabbit walking into the tiger's bloody mouth, seeing that the office was empty, he breathed a long sigh of relief, put down the homework book in his hand and ran away.
The "Athletes' March" played on the school radio station was inspiring, resounding over the entire campus, Wei Gospel did not have the heart to get excited, stumbled down from the building, and saw that the bare flagpole was densely packed with people in front of it.
The students of eight classes from the sixth grade to the ninth grade stood in the area divided by their classes in uniform uniforms, Wei Gospel was glad that his decision was right, if she was the only one who did not wear a school uniform, it would be too conspicuous, looking around, fortunately, the principal and the teacher were not in place, thinking that God will help me, seeing Li Li waving at her, she ran over with a slight smile.
"It's so cold today!" Li Li rubbed her hands vigorously, and the tip of her nose was red from cold.
"It's cold enough." Wei Gospel nodded.
She ran all the way from home to school, sweating, just went to the office and sweated again, she didn't feel cold, but as soon as she stopped, the hot sweat on her body was invaded by the cold air that came in, and it became more and more cold, so she had to wrap her arms around herself and touch the wet school uniform, shivering all over.
"Why are you wearing so little!"
Suddenly someone tugged her arm from behind, she didn't have to look back, she knew who it was, she was too familiar with a voice, it was almost said to be deep in the bone marrow, Wei Gospel was about to speak, but then the prelude stopped abruptly, seeing that the teacher and the principal were ready to take place, Wei Gospel shook his head and told Yang Longfei not to speak.
According to the school's custom of the flag-raising ceremony every Monday, the class teacher stands at the front of each class, the other teachers form a square team to stand next to the ninth grade team, and the principal stands on the high steps in front of the school building to give a speech.
Wei Gospel has long been accustomed to this kind of process, her eyes passed through the gap between the dense students in front of her, and saw the principal straightening the speech in his hand, coughing, clearing his voice, and into the microphone, "Hey, hey!" He shouted twice.
Wei Gospel lowered her head silently, she didn't like this male principal, and she didn't want to curry favor with him against her will, although he was in charge of her life and death, and he could decide whether she would go or stay with a word, but if she didn't like it, she didn't like it, she would never fake flattery and lose her principles.
Hearing that the principal was about to speak, the students who were standing in the queue just now quieted down in an instant, and in their eyes, the words of the school teacher were much more effective than the words of their parents.
Whenever Yang Longfei didn't want to do his homework, Wang Fengmei threatened him: "If you don't do your homework, beware of your homeroom teacher beating you." When Yang Longfei heard this, he would obediently lie down at the desk and write his homework.
Wang Fengmei always smiled and said: "It's still your teacher who works, one day I have to hang your teacher's photo on the wall and say goodbye."
The principal cleared his throat into the microphone, looked at the speech in his hand and read: "Dear teachers, dear students, good morning!"
He paused, and the classmates applauded enthusiastically in the audience, and when it came to observing words and feelings, they were definitely no worse than their parents.
"At such an exciting time, I declare the official start of the flag-raising ceremony!" His voice was loud and loud.
Announcing the start of the flag-raising ceremony, everyone turned to look ahead, and then, the flag was played and saluted, and the four flag guards grabbed a corner of the red flag and slowly walked towards the flagpole.
"Hey." Suddenly, someone tugged at Wei Gospel's cuffs, she frowned and whispered, "What are you doing?"
Wei Gospel stood at the back of the girls' queue, according to his height, Yang Longfei was supposed to stand at the last seat of the boys' queue, but he didn't know when he ran to the front.
He saw Wei Gospel holding his arms in the back and stomping his feet, so he squeezed forward, leaned over and stood side by side with Wei Gospel, and asked in a low voice, "Why is your school uniform wet?"
Wei Gospel understood the problem of him breaking the casserole and asked the end, and explained in a low voice: "Let my mother wash it on Sunday, and the clothes haven't dried for two days."
Yang Longfei said in a deep voice: "Then you can't wear wet clothes to school, you will freeze and catch a cold."
"Don't worry, I'm not that expensive."
Wei Gospel whispered, while looking at Zhao Huaide with the corner of his eye, fortunately, the music hovering overhead overhead overwhelmed the sound of their speech, at such a solemn moment, everyone was attentively looking at the bright red flag, naturally no one would pay attention to the two of them.
"You're not stupid." Yang Longfei was a little sad when she heard her words, maybe she didn't think so, but in his eyes, she was inexplicably sad.
Wei Gospel looked malnourished, and the loose school uniform wrapped around her thin and thin body made people feel the urge to protect, Yang Longfei sighed, took off the sleeveless blue down jacket he was wearing and draped it over her shoulders.
Wei Gospel stared at the flagpole intently, felt the weight on his shoulders, and whispered, "No need."
Yang Longfei held a down jacket in his left hand, put it on her shoulder, saluted with his right hand, and whispered: "Don't rub it, my arms are sore, if you don't wear it again, it will be miserable for the head teacher to see the two of us."
Wei Gospel's nose was sour, and he hurriedly took the down jacket in his hand and put it on the outside of the school uniform.
Yang Longfei smiled: "It's pretty good-looking."
Wei Gospel thought to himself where it looked good, could she wear his clothes properly, the bloated down jacket was worn on Yang Longfei, but it brought out a trace of his innocence and cuteness, and it was miserable to wear on himself, the hem of the down jacket was almost level with her knees, and her top could be worn as a skirt, which looked dull.
"Thank you." A warm current surged in Wei Gospel's heart, it turned out that it was a good thing to be cared for.
"You're welcome." Yang Longfei didn't have to sneak in handing over clothes anymore, he stood straight, and Wei Gospel found that his eyes were mild and handsome today.
When the four flag guards walked to the flagpole with solemn steps, everyone's arms were sore, and they whispered below: "My arm is going to be broken."
The flag-raising ceremony began, the national flag was raised, the national anthem was played, and the attention salute was performed.
All the students put down their sore arms together, sang the "March of the Volunteers" with the music of the melody and frustration, and looked at the slowly rising five-star red flag below the frozen straight hands, in the eyes of the students, the flag raising is just to deal with the teachers and principals, they have no special feelings for the national flag, patriotism in their hearts, and it is better to stay in a warm classroom to raise the national flag three times below zero.
The national flag greeted the rising sun and sounded fiercely in the wanton cold wind.
"Rise up, people who don't want to be slaves......" More than 200 people followed the rhythm of the music, watching the rising national flag and singing in a loud voice.
Most of the classmates had a coping mentality, their voices were lazy, Yang Longfei sneered, as if he had found something very interesting, Wei Gospel had long been used to it, and he always seemed to find interesting things in his eyes that others could not perceive.
Yang Longfei realized that Wei Gospel looked at him, and pointed to a boy standing in front of him with a finger, Wei Gospel frowned, observed for a long time, shook his head, she didn't find anything abnormal about that boy.
Yang Longfei whispered: "You see that they all have white smoke coming out of their mouths."
He didn't say that he really didn't notice, Wei Gospel carefully observed according to his train of thought, because the weather was too cold, the students had been standing outside for a long time, their mouths and noses were frozen red, and even their words were not so neat, as soon as they opened their mouths, a puff of white smoke came out of their mouths, drifted into the air and disappeared leisurely, and when everyone opened their mouths to sing the national anthem, puffs of white smoke came out of their mouths and drifted away with the wind.
Yang Longfei noticed this and couldn't close his mouth with joy.
"Boring." Wei Gospel whispered, but as a result, she found that as soon as she opened her mouth to speak, a puff of white smoke also floated out, and she immediately closed her mouth and stopped singing the national anthem.
"Hey, did you see that on your way to school today?" Yang Longfei couldn't bear his temperament, he couldn't stand the rules the most, "The fish pond in front of your house has a thick layer of ice, let's go skating after school." ”
Wei Gospel rubbed his temples, he was touched by him just now.
"Okay."
Wei Gospel pretended not to hear it and ignored it.
Seeing this, Yang Longfei still didn't give up, and gently pushed her, Wei Gospel was pushed by him several times, and whispered: "At this time, the ice in the fish pond has not frozen, do you want to fall into the ice hole?"
Yang Longfei didn't seem to believe it, and said: "How do you know that it's not frozen, I threw a stone on the side of the road this morning and tried it, and the ice surface is solid."
"The ice can bear the weight of stones, but it can't withstand the weight of people now, have you forgotten that I used to live on a fish pond, and now the ice is not thick in some places."
Yang Longfei listened patiently and seemed to accept it with an open mind.
"Then listen to you, wait a few days, and then we'll go ice skating in your pond together."
Wei Gospel nodded.
When the national flag was raised in mid-air, Yang Longfei began to behave again, "Oh, on such a cold day, the national flag has to be raised, and the principal kept saying, 'You are the future flower of the motherland' If he freezes me, the flower of the future, to death, how can he explain to the country." ”
Wei Gospel complained bitterly, how could there be such a person who put gold on his face.
"That's it, it makes sense." The boy next to Yang Longfei who had no intention of singing the national anthem casually echoed.
Yang Longfei raised his eyebrows, smiled more proudly, and whispered: "If I were the principal, I would have been exempted from the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, he just said a few words over and over again, what should be 'law-abiding, respect for teachers, respect for the old and love the young' I will memorize, he raises the national flag every day, I haven't seen how patriotic he is, I also heard that he often accepts gifts from students' parents, such a person can also be the principal." ”
Wei Gospel lowered his voice, not wanting to hear him say those rebellious words, and said in a low voice: "Shut up, raise the national flag, you can't be quiet for a while."
Yang Longfei was obedient this time, and muttered: "Shut up, just shut up, I love the country, but the country doesn't love me."