Chapter 20: Autumn Rain
Who stirred up the white waves,
Who is whimpering and beating the defeated lotus,
It's the drenched autumn rain,
Lingering between heaven and earth, unnoticed.
At the moment, the mood for enjoying the rain is not good.
She didn't like the rain all over her body, and she couldn't get rid of the moisture all over her body.
She stood beside the bicycle parked downstairs in her home, motionless, staring only at the wet stone slabs.
She saw patches of moss in the corner of the shady wall, which had been dyed black with an ink pen that could not be washed off;
I saw the wild cat grinning and jumping over the puddle on the ground, running up the high wall and disappearing, although embarrassed, his face was still full of coldness.
She envied the coldness of the cat, knowing that she didn't have claws, so she didn't have a sharp edge.
Suddenly, there was a heavy footstep in the corridor in my ears, which was very familiar.
A heart immediately fluttered, and he didn't dare to be more sentimental, so he quickly unlocked the car, intending to leave first.
However, it still can't match the speed of the incoming.
"Still grinding? It's best for you to bring a raincoat, always don't listen. ”
Her father didn't stop, just dropped this sentence and strode away.
Hua Lin calmed her heartbeat, glanced at her umbrella, and a wry smile crossed the corners of her mouth.
How many girls like ugly and ungraceful raincoats on a rainy day? As long as the rain is passable, riding with an umbrella is the last beauty.
It's the same with flower loneliness.
It may be that she has little stubbornness left, though no one will notice her at all.
Stepping into the car and opening the umbrella, Hua sighed quietly, looked up at the gray sky, and entered the rain curtain.
The autumn wind swept towards her with a cold air, as if a colder winter was yet to come, and spring was nowhere to be seen.
Walking all the way to the school garage, when turning the corner, Hua Lin saw a thick black book on the ground, one corner of which was immersed in a puddle, not an ordinary homework book, and Hua Lin immediately braked sharply.
Next to her is a cool girl with headphones, bending over to lock the car.
Hua Lin patted her lightly on the back, and she squinted a little impatiently.
Hua Lin simply got out of the car and picked up the notebook directly and handed it to her.,The three-letter abbreviation of "LST" on the notebook has been dirty.。
The girl put away her expression that was not very happy with anyone, took off the headphones with one hand, and did not have any emotion to "thank you", and quickly took the book with the other hand, and rubbed the sewage on the book on the surface of her trendy and stylish top without paying attention to it, and then found that the zipper of the schoolbag on the back was not buttoned.
Hua Lin only nodded, not caring about the sincerity in her thanks, and went straight forward to find a vacant seat.
Holding a dripping umbrella, Hua Lin cautiously walked to the classroom.
A rain trapped the boys, who were eager to play ball, and they crowded into the hallway and pushed each other, making a noise.
When Hua Lin stepped on the steps, she heard a commotion.
It turned out that Lu Yinuo was among them, and it was the group that often played basketball together, both from his own class and from other classes, and he smiled evilly at Lu Yinuo with a good look on the show.
Hua Lin found that Nie Hao was also there.
But Nie Hao's gaze only met her once, and he didn't turn back.
Lu Yinuo was not very happy and turned his back.
Hua Lin can't help it, she has to get by, but fortunately, the classroom is next to her, and Hua Lin flashed into the back door.
Walking in the back of the classroom, out of the corner of her eye, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the trendy and stylish blouse, it was the same class, she looked back, and the girl also saw her.
She is still so cool in Hua Lone's eyes, and Hua Lone is still so trance in her eyes.
In fact, Hua Lonely is not in a trance, she is just not having a good time.
She has a new tablemate, Fang Yuan, who doesn't sound more mellow than this name, but she is a very angular female classmate.
"Be careful, put your umbrella in the back and hold it up, it will wet my table."
Hua Lin reacted, she was too nervous just now, and she didn't pay attention to drying the umbrella first.
Returning to his seat, he heard Fang Yuan talking to the front table, chatting about the newly bought notebook and beautiful stationery.
When chatting about happiness, Fang Yuan put her arm on Hua Lin and asked Hua Lin who looked better than the keychain in her hand compared to the classmates at the front table.
This offended question, Hua Lin didn't want to answer, just said that it was all right.
Fang Yuan rolled her eyes and said mockingly, "Look at you, you haven't seen the world. ”
Hua Lin cooperated and laughed self-deprecatingly.
She only thinks that Fang Yuan is a little princess with a good family background and is very pampered, so she is quite patient.
Besides, what if you don't want to endure?
Thinking about his family background, his father's violent appearance, his mother's humble image in his aunt's house, and the newcomer Hua Lin has no confidence to be an enemy of others, not to mention that he accidentally got into a scandal that was not popular.
And Hua Lin could see that Fang Yuan didn't like herself for any other reason, she just hated the poor.
Being poor, wherever you go, will not be a glorious thing.
Generally speaking, in private, there is a set of standards for students to look at "rich and poor" internally: first, to look at food and clothing, second, to calculate pocket money, and third, to look at the degree of use; None of the three are up to the average.
But there are those who are poorer than her, that is, the official seal and certification: "poor students", some of whom can even get a certain degree of tuition waiver, and some can openly raise funds for poverty alleviation.
Of course, the poor students who can enter G must have very good grades, and the teachers will focus on caring for them.
There is one in Hua Lone's class, and it is a female classmate.
Fang Yuan looked down on her as well, and when she walked past her, she would cover her nose and think that she had a fox smell.
Hua Lin didn't know that the label of a poor student was really unsinkable on his back, and it didn't hurt his self-esteem seriously.
But she still thinks, isn't that a kind of luck?
can be calm enough, nakedly unveiled the real side, no need to struggle, let people see that they are poor, but liberating.
Why bother to be like yourself, holding on to that damn sensitive self-esteem, and keeping a decent dignity that you can't keep.
For example, she will also lie in bed because she doesn't know what to wear, but in the end, she doesn't have a choice, and accepts those old dark old shirts.
The old saying on Hua Dad's lips has never changed, "Study well, nothing matters." ”
But after all, I still know the age of vanity, and Hua Lin can't completely understate everything.
Especially this poverty, in the face of a scandal, will let go of a lot of bad things, which gave her a lot of unkind comments.
For example, Fang Yuan would abuse her, "Why do you think that with you like this, you still like Lu Yinuo?" Did you know that his dad was the director? ”
Isn't this just not knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick?
If you know that the other party's father is the director earlier, no, if you know that Cen Lin is so energetic, whether the housekeeper's father is the director or not, even if it is an ordinary person, he will not say that sentence of causing trouble.
Speaking of Cen Lin, there is one thing to say.
Compared with Fang Yuan, Cen Lin has never had any ill will towards Hua Lonely.
The matter was so widely publicized, Cen Lin also thought about helping Hua Lin explain.
Cen Lin, Xu Keer, and Lu Yinuo used to be classmates.
They know very well that Lu Yinuo is really visible to the naked eye, and he suddenly grew in the last few months of the third year of junior high school, including height, facial features, eyebrows and eyes.
used to be an inconspicuous little boy, a bit of a backstage at home, but he was too mediocre and had no sense of existence, only he liked Chen Huihua, and no girl ever said she liked him.
In the first year of high school, although Cen Lin and Xu Keer did not admit that he had become handsome, they were still quite surprised.
Sure enough, the tall boy has an advantage, and his whole temperament is completely new, and he plays basketball with the posture of a sunny boy.
Hua Lin just said what they were unwilling to say, so she was very impulsive to use her position in public to express that kind of recognition.
Not everyone will sneer at the poor, and the person concerned, Lu Yinuo, is not a person who disrespects the poor, after all, it is not the fault that the family is poor, but Lu Yinuo is young and vigorous, and he doesn't like this feeling of being liked by people he doesn't like very much.
Fang Yuan is just a very small number of classmates who watch the fire from the other side and look at people with colored glasses.
Unlike Xu Keer, Lu Yinuo, and the family background of the leaders of such units, Cen Lin's parents are actually salarymen, and they did not escape the big hand of state-run reform back then.
Especially his parents think very openly, they only have a baby daughter, so they never treat them harshly, they always feel that their daughter's family should be spoiled, and they should bloom like flowers at the same age as flowers, and they are not wronged by their children.
Therefore, it is not a question of whether the starting point of the family is high or low, but that each family has made the choice that they think is right at the time, which brings about a very different result.
Cen Lin's behavior is okay, she has said "Hua Lone, I didn't expect things to be like this", with Hua Lone's temperament, she will not really hold grudges and blame.
But it is impossible to expect Cen Lin to solve it, just like Lin Shuyu and Lu Yinuo are also at the front and back table, and the relationship is okay, it is difficult to explain this matter.
What the truth is, in most people's hearts, it doesn't matter at all, the important thing is to "play" and have "fun" to adjust life.
Besides, it makes no sense to break it up, as if people may almost forget about it and you deliberately mention it again, and it will aggravate the troubles of other parties.
The only way out of Hua Lonely is "silence", and leave it to "time" to fade.
Frankly, Hua Lin still has a lot to get used to.
For example, computer classes.
There are no computers in junior high schools.
Hua Lin heard it when he mentioned the Internet café when the junior high school teacher had a meeting to reprimand them, but he didn't touch it.
Around 2000, computers had not yet been popularized in thousands of households, and only very qualified students would have them in their homes. Maybe now the friends of the post-05 generation can't quite imagine, it's really an antique machine. The cube's huge computer monitor is very bulky, and it also holds a fat mouse, and needs to dial up the Internet.
In order to maintain a hygienic environment in computer classrooms, it is generally required to bring your own shoe covers in class.
The shoe cover is simple, with rags and an elastic band to hold the ankle.
It's angry and funny, and Hua Lone's mother doesn't even want to waste the elastic band, so Hua Lin mostly asks Lin Shuyu to borrow shoe covers.
In the past, borrowing things and Shuyu would send people to spread the word, but this time she deliberately ran out and said, "We have plans to come out for a gathering on the weekend, what do you say is the right time?" ”
"Who"
"Ge Taisheng, Luo Zhehanbei, I don't know if Chen Shuhao will come, this one wants Ge Taisheng to go to Zhang Luo, they are in A. Luo Zhehan is in the upper classroom, and he doesn't need me to inform them, they don't want to run the Internet café every day. ”
"I'm not sure." In fact, Hua Lin missed them very much, and when she heard their names suddenly, she felt a little safe.
"I'll call you then."
Hua Lin was about to say something, but when she saw that Lu Yinuo seemed to be coming, she hurriedly wanted to leave.
was grabbed by Shu Yu, "What are you running?" Shu Yu looked at it again, and his round eyes glared, "What are you afraid of him doing!" ”
Hua Lin thought, this aunt, she doesn't know much about her mood that more is better than less.
"No, I'm going to class."
Shu Yu hated the iron and let go of his hand.
There are no fixed seats for computer classes, and you can sit at will, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Familiar students know which one is good and which one is not.
Hua Lonely came late, didn't catch up with the good play, and found a random place to sit in the back.
In class, there is some theoretical knowledge, and the computer teacher keeps his head down and talks about it as if it were a routine.
How many of the students below are listening, and they have secretly downloaded and connected to OICQ typing and chatting.
Hua Lin is very new to this.,That should be the earliest version of QQ.。
The teacher turns a blind eye, anyway, the things you little guys download will be automatically cleaned up as soon as the computer is turned off.
He only said from the pulpit as if he were walking through the process:
"Everyone follow me and left-click...... Then click the right click...... See? Good...... Now let's double-click on the icon and see if it opens directly? ”。
Click, easy.
This double click,Hua Lonely is so stupid that it is understood as a left and right button at the same time.,So I didn't knock out the picture that the teacher said.。
She could only try repeatedly, "click and click", again and again.
Unexpectedly, this Fang Yuan was next to him again, and when he saw it, he couldn't control his laughter on the spot, Zhang Xin and the others who were far away didn't know why.
"I'm afraid I'm stupid, I've never seen you double-click like this."
She didn't want to explain, so she watched the flowers fall silently.
Hua Lin naturally didn't know what was wrong with the double click she understood, she thought that she must have been embarrassed again, and she didn't know what to do with her head in a cramped way.
At this time, it was the trendy and stylish blouse that floated over, she moved Hua Lone's hand, held Hua Lone's mouse, didn't say anything, slowly raised her slender index finger, and then hit the left mouse button twice in a row before she reached back and sat down, playing with her computer.
Hua Lin suddenly realized that this is what the double click meant, and she blushed and whispered to the classmate, "Thank you." ”
Although the classmate was still very cool and looked like no one wanted to deal with her, Hua Lin didn't feel ignored, ridiculed, or embarrassed, she was very glad that although the situation was very bad, she still had the ability to perceive subtle kindness.
Even though the rainy season is long, sunny days can still come back after all.