At the beginning of September, the day of the start of school in the town arrived. Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing, like most children, walked into the junior high school campus accompanied by their parents. Compared with the countryside in the mountains, the town dozens of miles away is more lively and prosperous. Luckily, the two inseparable sisters were placed in the same class, in the same dormitory.

The human world will gradually become larger with the passage of time, and the taste inside will become more complex from the monotony of the past. Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing's table mates are both boys from other villages. Liu Jingjing's tablemate is a shy person, and in front of her, a quirky and temperamental girl, she always looks trembling, and she doesn't even dare to look at Liu Jingjing directly. Such a boy is naturally not suitable for Liu Jingjing to play with, so Liu Jingjing and him have nothing else except the relationship at the same table.

Perhaps heaven is a special arrangement for Meng Ting, and at the same table with her is a handsome and lively boy. At all times, his face is always full of confidence. Meng Ting and his first acquaintance, or the other party first started the topic.

"Which village is your family from?"

Meng Ting glanced at him: "I'm from Xitian Village, in the east of the town." ”

"I know, I heard my dad say that your tea leaves over there are better."

"You've been to us?"

"Of course, I've been to all the places we can go in this mountainous area."

"Why don't you know how to be humble?" Meng Ting said to herself in her heart. But the boy in front of him does not make people feel a trace of annoyance, on the contrary, there is a latent charm hidden deep in it.

"By the way, I haven't asked you what your name is?"

"My name is Meng Ting." Meng Ting glanced at him again, carrying a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Oh, my name is Gao Wenxiang, and my home is from Shangliu Village, on the west side of the town, which is exactly the opposite of your home."

This is Meng Ting and Gao Wenxiang's first acquaintance, a few simple conversations can not understand the essence of a person, but they can read their own preferences for each other. Until many years later, Meng Ting still remembers this scene very well.

Meng Ting, who grew up in the mountains, is like a flower that contains it, and rarely takes the initiative to speak to people she just met, especially boys. This boy named Gao Wenxiang, like Meng Ting, is also a student with particularly excellent grades, almost every day with a lively spirit, always willing to speak in class, and always playing with people in groups after class.

has a lively sister, and now there is a more energetic tablemate, Meng Ting at that time felt that her life was never lacking in happiness. After Gao Wenxiang and Meng Ting got acquainted, they often told their anecdotes in Shangliu Village during recess, chatted about the east and the west, chatted about small gossip and then talked about Xiao Jiujiu. In short, for this Gao student, it seems that he has endless words to Meng Ting. Especially for history and geography, Gao Wenxiang is even more gushing. Although, Meng Ting is a girl with a reserved personality, she has never felt bored in the face of Gao Wenxiang's thousand words, but after a long time, she has more and more love. Whenever Gao Wenxiang talked and chatted, Meng Ting would be a qualified listener as always, and return with a sweet smile.

The budding stamens will be the first to open when they encounter the spring breeze, and over time, getting along with the same table makes Meng Ting gradually become cheerful. At first, Meng Ting only played the role of an audience, but later she also learned to confide in Gao Wenxiang, and every bit of Meng Ting's body was also excavated by Gao Wenxiang.

The changes that happened to her during that period, Meng Ting can clearly feel that she can't help but recall it, and it is by no means an order and pressure.

The changes that happened to Meng Ting, Liu Jingjing naturally saw it in her eyes. Liu Jingjing sometimes joked to Meng Ting, saying that she had met the "Cowherd". Whenever she heard this kind of joke, Meng Ting would always immediately say to Liu Jingjing: "Don't talk nonsense." After getting acquainted with Meng Ting, Gao Wenxiang gradually established a friendly relationship with Liu Jingjing. Gao Wenxiang is gushing, the sun is smart, and Liu Jingjing is flowing and eccentric. In Meng Ting, one left and one right, like two generals, it is impossible to think about life without colorfulness.

In the stage of youth, there are always a few unforgettable friends of the opposite sex, whether it is caused by fate or deliberately arranged, in a certain process and place in the journey of life, it will always make people happy. Two sisters, one elegant with beauty, the other with loveliness. Knowing Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing also added a few unexpected brilliance to Gao Wenxiang's world. From entertainment and chatting in after-school time to eating, the three of them are more together and less separated.

Gao Wenxiang's long-term relationship with the two sisters also attracted behind the scenes and gossip of some people in the class. These are inevitable, Gao Wenxiang is also resigned, he feels that he has not violated any "rules and precepts" in his interactions with female classmates, and besides, he has not done any indecent things.

In the human world system, the only thing that cannot be imprisoned is thought and love. For boys and girls who have just entered their youth, the word love does not apply to them, but the surge of inner thoughts will make people not know where they come from and where they are going.

Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing are the two most beautiful girls in the class, and their beauty, quietness, and cuteness have been better interpreted in them. There are always some naughty "hooligan" boys in the class who secretly send exclusive gifts from the mountain era, some are love letters, some are love letters with flowers and plants, all kinds of things. Some boys also brought some indecent rumors in their love letters, which made Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing angry and ashamed. Liu Jingjing was sometimes angry, so she would scold those boys. However, Meng Ting has always been a lady's style, she can't scold boys, and often cry silently.

Since Gao Wenxiang became friends with Meng Ting, he gradually became her protector.

Meng Ting remembered that once, a naughty boy in the class, while she was away from class, secretly put a note in her book, which read: "Ride three horses and marry you home." When the wheat is ripe, you will give birth to a baby. Meng Ting's face turned red with anger when she saw it, and then Liu Jingjing told Gao Wenxiang about it. Gao Wenxiang then made an appointment with a few friends who had a good relationship, and took advantage of the recess to beat the boy who wrote love letters until the other party was bleeding from his nose and his front teeth were falling out. Because of this incident, Gao Wenxiang was recorded a major demerit in the school and was almost expelled.

At that time, Meng Ting loved and feared Gao Wenxiang. Seeing the scene of Gao Wenxiang beating that boy, he was like a lion who had gone crazy. However, under this kind of thunderous anger, I just saw a sense of protection buried in Gao Wenxiang's childhood, which will make a girl more worthy of dating or love with the pace of the day.

After this incident, most of the people in the class thought that Gao Wenxiang was in love with Meng Ting, and some said that they were actually a couple. Facing the words among the classmates, Gao Wenxiang and Liu Jingjing think that there is nothing, why bother with what others say if they go their own way, there is something, and there is nothing. However, Meng Ting thought in her heart that it was always not a glorious thing to let people talk behind her back, and the simple temperament of a native of the mountains occupied all the space in her heart at this moment. Since then, Meng Ting has set a little distance in the middle of the school, whether it is a conversation with Gao Wenxiang or other interactions, but in her heart, Meng Ting knows very well that she has a good impression of Gao Wenxiang.

Although the life of middle school is a little more stressful, it makes the soul of youth begin to sprout hope. After returning home during the winter vacation, Meng Ting couldn't suppress the joy and excitement in her heart and ran to the elementary school to find Teacher Guo Meiqi. This meeting was the last time Meng Ting met her teacher in this mountain, because Teacher Guo Meiqi was going to leave here after the New Year.

Since Meng Ting went to the town to study in junior high school, although the teacher and student have been separated for a short time, Teacher Guo Meiqi has touched the physical and mental growth of the girl from Meng Ting's words and deeds.

In this chat, Meng Ting told Gao Wenxiang about the fight for her. For Ms. Guo Meiqi, she not only regards Meng Ting as her student, but more often as her sister. Therefore, Meng Ting never hid anything in front of her sister.

"Do you like this boy named Gao Wenxiang?" Teacher Guo Meiqi asked with a smile.

"Why, teacher, I'm still young." Meng Ting replied with a blushing face.

In fact, in Meng Ting's heart, she especially wanted to know how to interact with Gao Wenxiang in the face of the discussion of her classmates in the future, and she especially wanted to know the answer from her teacher.

"I think what Jingjing said is quite right, there is nothing about normal male and female interactions." Teacher Guo Meiqi said.

"But it's always bad to let others talk about it."

"Tingting, I understand." Teacher Guo Meiqi looked at Meng Ting's little eyes eager to get an answer. "However, you must understand that you can't stop associating with your friends of the opposite sex because of other people's inconsequential discussions, and that is not good for you."

As a teacher Guo Meiqi who has personally experienced girlhood, she knows very well that Meng Ting has a good impression of this boy named Gao Wenxiang, and she keeps surging the urge to associate with him in her heart, but she is born with a subtle and simple character, and she just wants to seek answers from the teacher to correct the hesitation in her heart. Teacher Guo Meiqi knows that love in junior high school can only do more harm than good, but she doesn't think that Meng Ting will talk about love. But like a flower, it will bloom at a certain time, and it is natural to do so, and this student in adolescence can't avoid the curiosity and impulse to grow up in the heart of the opposite sex. As a teacher, the best way to do this is to promote normal interaction between men and women.

Every time she chatted with Ms. Guo Meiqi, Meng Ting felt as if she had grown up once. Similarly, that time also allowed Guo Meiqi, as a teacher, to see the bits and pieces of changes in Meng Ting, through Meng Ting, it was like seeing the former self.

After listening to Ms. Guo Meiqi's spiritual advice, Meng Ting began to return to the warmth of her first acquaintance with Gao Wenxiang. Moreover, Meng Ting remembered that in the second year of junior high school, Gao Wenxiang also took the initiative to invite her and Liu Jingjing to visit his village once.

"Are you and Meng Ting free for this holiday?" Gao Wenxiang asked excitedly.

The most terrifying thing in the world is the word time, which is a sentence that Meng Ting often says. It was this terrible time that pushed the pace of time to October National Day on the second day of the Lunar New Year in a blink of an eye.

"I'm sure I have." Liu Jingjing had her usual quirky smile, "But Meng Ting, I have to ask her." ”

"Okay, you can ask her for me."

"What's so mysterious?" Liu Jingjing asked with a puzzled expression.

For a long time, Meng Ting has become more and more enthusiastic about Gao Wenxiang, and has become more and more deeply aware of the temperament that she loves in this boy at the same table. However, Gao Wenxiang has always regarded Meng Ting as his best friend of the opposite sex, learning and growing together. Meng Ting didn't think about the so-called love at that young stage, but she just had an indescribable good impression of this boy.

Many years later, whenever Meng Ting looks back, she will say that it was the good feelings that sprouted in that girlhood that slowly weaved into an unforgettable love, just like the hugging trees in the mountains, which were slowly grown from the young saplings at the beginning.

Seeing the puzzled expression on Liu Jingjing's face, Gao Wenxiang continued: "The last time I went home, I heard my mother say that there was an art troupe that wanted to come to our village to perform on the National Day, and it was invited by our village head. So, I want you to take a look with Meng Ting. ”

As soon as Liu Jingjing heard that it was an art performance, her heart was full of sunshine, and a wave of excitement surged out in an instant, for a person with a dream of stardom, this kind of opportunity must not be missed.

"Okay, since you said it, Meng Ting and I must go."

Meng Ting didn't have much interest in art performances, but when she thought of Gao Wenxiang's invitation, her heartbeat instantly merged with Liu Jingjing's artistic feelings.

During the National Day in October, although it has entered the golden autumn, the greenery in the mountains is still flourishing, and there is no sign of autumn withering. As far as the eye can see, it is still a beautiful landscape painting. I remember that it was the first time I came to Gao Wenxiang's village, and like Meng Ting's village, it has a unique mountain and rural style, poetic and picturesque scenery, and peaceful and quiet mountains and green fields.

This time, what Meng Ting remembered vividly was not the style of the village, nor the performance of the art troupe, but the fact that she met a new boy friend - Wang Letian on the road of youth. He and Gao Wenxiang are from the same village, and they are in the same school as Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing, but they are in different classes. Meng Ting's impression of Wang Letian for the first time was that she had dark skin, a thin body, and a simple and honest face. Among them, especially the eyes are in stark contrast to Gao Wenxiang, full of inferiority and loss.

"Meng Ting, Jingjing, this is my iron buddy Wang Letian, and I are from the same village." Gao Wenxiang pointed to Wang Letian, who was stunned, and said.

Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing greeted Wang Letian in turn, but Wang Letian looked very nervous, his face was red with low self-esteem, and he didn't dare to look directly at the two girls in front of him, facing Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing to greet him, just nodded quietly.

"Everyone else has greeted you, but you should answer." Gao Wenxiang said to Wang Letian.

Looking at Wang Letian's stunned expression and flushed face, Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing couldn't help but smile at the boy's honest appearance.

Later, Meng Ting learned from Gao Wenxiang that Wang Letian's family was very poor, his father was paralyzed in bed, and a younger brother was in elementary school. The extreme poverty in life makes Wang Lotian and other children of the same age unable to compare in all aspects. It is for these many reasons that Wang Letian has developed an inferiority complex since he was a child, and always likes to drill corners and avoid crowds, even if he is mixed in the crowd, he is almost silent. In the village, many people of his age excluded him, bullied him, and made him the object of teasing. But Gao Wenxiang has never treated Wang Letian like this, since he met Wang Letian when he was a child, Gao Wenxiang has become his only friend in the village, and it can be said that he is the best friend.

That morning, the troupe set up a stage in the open space in front of the village, and the performance began after lunchtime. The performance is divided into three parts, the first part is the dance, a group of people dressed in national costumes danced a national dance on the stage, accompanied by beautiful and long vocal music, all kinds of dance postures are constantly changing. The second part is singing, a total of three singers performed on stage, each singing a song with national characteristics, which attracted bursts of applause from the villagers. The last part is an acrobatic performance, with different forms of acrobatic performances one after another, and the shouts and cheers of the audience are intertwined.

Meng Ting and the four of them watched the art troupe performance at the back of the crowd. Gao Wenxiang took them to find a small mound of earth, stood on it, looked into the distance, and saw very clearly.

During the whole process, only Liu Jingjing was particularly excited, and during the singing stage, she sang along with the rhythm when she heard familiar songs.

The performance of the art troupe did not end until the evening, and it was already dark when Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing went home.

On the way back, Liu Jingjing was still excited, and kept telling Meng Ting how good the singing was and how wonderful the dance was today, and also told Meng Ting that she would become a star who performed on the stage and won applause and applause in the future.

This time to get together to watch the performance, it was the first time that Meng Ting and the four of them got together. On this day, the crowd surged, the cheers continued, and the four young people achieved the intertwined friendship belonging to their own era in the simple years of youth.

"Today's person named Wang Letian is really cute." Liu Jingjing said with a smile on the way back.

"He is the opposite of Gao Wenxiang." Meng Ting said thoughtfully.

"Oh, I know, you mean character." Liu Jingjing can always say what Meng Ting thinks in one sentence.

"Yes." Meng Ting nodded in agreement, "Gao Wenxiang is a very cheerful person, he is a shy person. ”

The intersection of friendship between people in the world is sometimes at an accidental moment and in an accidental place.

The four of them watched the country performance together, which made Meng Ting's circle of friends have another boy. It should be said that Wang Letian is quite similar to Meng Ting in some aspects, especially in his introverted personality. With the deepening of the relationship and the successive narration from Gao Wenxiang's mouth, Meng Ting had a strong sympathy for this new friend not long after they met. Eyes are the window of a person's soul, through Wang Letian's eyes with inferiority complex, it seems that he also sees a longing in his heart, longing to have his own friends, longing to walk in the crowd and no longer be ridiculed, and have his own respect.

Since meeting Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing, Wang Letian, a boy full of inferiority, is like a seedling after the spring rain, and he began to try to accept more sunshine and rain. After a period of contact, he found that the two girl friends he had newly met did not dislike him, let alone laugh at him, and the feeling of getting along with them was a rare warmth and comfort. Whether it is the outdoor activities organized by Gao Wenxiang or the mountain and forest sightseeing organized by Meng Ting, Wang Letian gradually learned to take the initiative to talk to Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing from the initial "stuffy gourd" who did not say a word. What puzzled Gao Wenxiang was that Wang Letian especially likes to chat with Liu Jingjing, and in the jokes with him, Wang Letian's soul has been in a state of long-lasting high-flying.

Oh my God, what a chasm the gap between the personalities of these two people, one is a quirky, cute and lively princess, and the other is an inferiority boy who is silent all day long. Gao Wenxiang racked his brains and couldn't think of a reason. Young people can't read through the complexity of a person's heart, Gao Wenxiang can only tell himself: Wang Letian is more suitable for girls to enlighten.

Time blink of an eye to the winter vacation of the second year of junior high school, and Teacher Guo Meiqi left. The day before leaving, according to the previous practice, I took the two girls who had watched me grow up day by day for a whole afternoon in the snow-covered mountains.

In the evening, Ms. Guo Meiqi also gave Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing many photos, which she took in the mountains in the past few years. The scenery of the four seasons, the bits and pieces of life, everything in the mountains are frozen in it one by one, and the connection together seems to be an epic of growth in the depths of the mountains.

Compared with the teacher-student trip before entering junior high school, this time is even more sad. The world is big, and I don't know when I will be able to meet this sister who is also a teacher and friend. That night, Meng Ting and Liu Jingjing both cried a lot, and the always sunny and positive teacher Guo Meiqi also silently shed tears. You must know that children in the depths of the mountains have stronger feelings for teachers than in the outside world. The closed environment, the desire for the unknown in the outside world, under this hope and hope, the arrival of the teacher will lead the eyes of these simple and innocent children to a farther place.

After Teacher Guo Meiqi left, Meng Ting always felt empty throughout the winter vacation, as if she had lost a part of her life all of a sudden. Whenever she thinks of her former sister, Meng Ting will open those photos, and on the photos, the scenery is more beautiful, and people are smiling at the scenery.

After just sending off his teacher, in addition to sadness, another sad thing followed.

One evening on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, just after returning home from relatives. Another sister in the same village as Meng Ting, Sasha, came to Meng Ting's house at this time. I thought I was here to chat with me, but the first thing I felt when I saw Sasha was that her face was full of sorrow.

"Meng Ting." Sasha said quietly, without any expression on her face. "I'm here today to tell you something."

"What's the matter? Sasha, I see why your face is so ugly. Meng Ting's face was surprised, but her subconscious feeling told her that it must be a bad thing.

"I'm going to drop out of school and go to work in other places."

"Ahh No... Meng Ting paused in surprise. "Why? Why drop out of school? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that I can't get on it, it's different from you, I'm not that material, it's better to come down earlier." Sasha was sad, and the sadness was mixed with a trace of anger.

Meng Ting knew that Sasha had been living with her grandparents, and her parents had been working in other places for a long time, and they could only come back once a year, and they would leave in a hurry after staying at home for a few days. Sasha is a left-behind child, a girl who is not cared for by the love of her parents, and when she lacks family affection, she will derive endless depravity, followed by a profligate wreckage. For a long time, Sasha often socialized with the young people in the town, stopped at Internet cafes, played billiards, and even learned to smoke and drink.

Since home is not a warm harbor, she simply goes outside to surf, which is what Sasha tells herself in her heart. Gradually, the people of the village often talked about Sasha, and many of the older people mentioned that Sasha was in the company of some social gangsters in the town, and they couldn't stop being angry and complained about her. Her grandparents were old and didn't have the energy to take care of it, so they had to let it go. Meng Ting, who was born kind, has never looked at her sister in the same village differently, and I remember hearing many times from Sasha's mouth how much she envied Meng Ting and envied her for having her parents by her side. Sasha had hoped that her parents would stay countless times, but each time her hope turned into despair again and again.

Meng Ting, who is in middle school, doesn't know how to better persuade and comfort someone, so she can only silently express endless sympathy in her heart.

A few days later, Sasha embarked on the road of rafting, and Meng Ting didn't know where to work.

Meng Ting told Liu Jingjing about it.

"It's no surprise that Sasha chose to drop out." Liu Jingjing said.

"I just think it's a pity to go to work at such a young age, and just give up school." Meng Ting said with a sad face.

"Tingting, do you know that when I was in town, I saw Sasha and some little hooligans hanging out together? She and we are not all the way, and we can't learn what she has. ”

"But Jingjing, in fact, Sasha is quite pitiful."

"Alright, my princess Meng." Liu Jingjing became impatient. "I'm going to enter the third year of junior high school in September this year to prepare for the high school entrance examination, let's think about ourselves."

Winter goes to spring and comes again, the spring breeze hits, thousands of flowers are in full bloom, and in the blink of an eye it is hot summer, and the second year of junior high school has unconsciously become a permanent past.

When the summer vacation came, Meng Ting discussed with Liu Jingjing in advance, and found a time to call Gao Wenxiang and Wang Letian to come to their mountain village for sightseeing. After Gao Wenxiang and Wang Letian found out, they also happily agreed.

In the middle of summer, the southern climate is full of humidity, and the undulating mountains are full of plants competing for bloom. On the mountain peaks with green as the main background, countless flowers and plants are dotted among them, some are white like snow, some are pink like xia, some are hugging tightly, some are looking for light, and some flowers and plants are woven into a colorful pattern.

When the morning light first appeared, the fog had just receded, and many of the petals and leaves were still covered with dew, crystal clear and transparent, and the sun shone on it, instantly refracted, like a rainbow embedded in the embrace of the mountains. Facing the ten thousand rays of sunshine after the morning, Meng Ting and the four of them walked through the mountains, and they walked along the road that Teacher Guo Meiqi used to walk. Gao Wenxiang and Wang Letian are very happy, watching the picturesque scenery along the way, and two beautiful girls are accompanied by them, for the children in the mountains, this may be the most heartwarming moment.

Along the way, the mountain road winds over the peaks, and the moisture on the mountain road has not completely receded, and it still looks wet. Meng Ting naturally cared about Gao Wenxiang, and when she was walking on the mountain road, she kept reminding Gao Wenxiang to be careful. When Meng Ting saw Gao Wenxiang's smile on his face, an irrepressible thought even sprouted in her mind: How good it would be if only me and Gao Wenxiang were with me on this mountain road today. When his thoughts were about to come to his mind, his eyes looked back at Gao Wenxiang, but he saw that he was only interested in enjoying the scenery of the mountains, and he never felt the good feeling that Meng Ting's heart fluctuated in.

For a long time, Meng Ting has also been accustomed to silently reverie in her heart by herself, after all, young people can never feel the complex feelings intertwined in their hearts, and even they don't know what kind of mystery they are seeking in their hearts.

As always, Liu Jingjing, the elf princess, talked endlessly, pointing out the country and talking like a tour guide on the journey. has a long-term friendship, Meng Ting and others have long regarded Liu Jingjing's liveliness as a part of their lives, and as usual, they have become qualified audiences. However, Wang Letian has become an excellent supporting role for Liu Jingjing, constantly cooperating with Liu Jingjing to talk about scenery and beauty. Seeing this scene of Liu Jingjing and Wang Letian, Meng Ting and Gao Wenxiang couldn't help but smile at each other. More moments, Meng Ting will also envy Liu Jingjing in her heart, if Gao Wenxiang can be like Wang Letian, it would be great.

The most beautiful scenery in the world in the mountains is the sunrise and sunset. The four of them relied on their strong physical strength to climb to the top of a mountain, and then came down from the top all the way to Meng Ting's favorite hillside. In the middle of summer, once the clear day is over, the night is bound to be starry.

That night, the night sky really lived up to expectations, forming a galaxy of thousands of miles, and the dazzling starlight embroidered another masterpiece for the mountain village at night. The four teenage playmates, like dreamers looking up at the stars with infinite reverie, sit on the silent hillside, intoxicated by this space that belongs only to them.

Meng Ting's mind thought of Mr. Fan Zhongyan's poem at this moment: "The night is silent, the cold sound is broken, the pearl curtain rolls up in the sky, and the sky is faint and the Milky Way is hanging to the ground." "The ancients used the bright moon and stars to express their lovesickness, express their hearts, how many beautiful people's dreams are contained in the bright moon and water, and how many pairs of silk nets and thousands of knots are circulated.

After the start of school in September, this is the last year of junior high school career, and it is a year to prepare for the high school entrance examination. Unfortunately, none of the four of them were assigned to the same class. During that year, they did not go back to the outdoor parade they used to do, but devoted themselves to studying and preparing for the exam. Whether it is Meng Ting, Liu Jingjing, or Gao Wenxiang, Wang Letian, the four of them are all teenagers with dreams, and they all have longing for ideals waiting for them to complete, so they have never been slack in their studies.

After the end of the high school entrance examination, Meng Ting and the four of them were admitted to the county's high school with high scores. Meng Ting still remembered that in order to commemorate the victory in the high school entrance examination, the four of them also organized a march in the mountains.