Chapter 4: Letters Across Time (1)
When Mr. Cao motioned to start with the students at the first table on our side, my heart panicked, because I was the fourth, and I was looking forward to it and apprehensive, and I had been making sentences in my heart. "Fourth classmate, let me introduce myself!" I only felt that the classroom was suddenly quiet, and then I only heard Teacher Cao's voice, but I didn't react to what was going on.
"Hey, it's your turn." Ai Wenxue patted me and whispered, if he hadn't patted me, I was so nervous that I forgot that I was the fourth, when I reacted, I found that I gathered a lot of eyes here, and in an instant I became the intersection of the class, I didn't expect that I was still embarrassed, and I wanted to find a crack for myself to get into.
"It seems that this classmate is a little nervous, and everyone applauds and encourages him." At Mr. Cao's suggestion, the class burst into applause.
But when I stood up, my classmates looked at me even more, and I could clearly see that some of my classmates first looked at me and then muttered to each other, but because their voices were too quiet, they didn't know what they were talking about.
Thinking maybe it's a stain on my clothes? Or maybe the ink on my face? However, I can't take care of it so much, and I'm afraid that I'll forget the content of the self-introduction I thought of after standing for a while, or it will make my classmates misunderstand that I'm dumb, calm down my nervous mentality, and decide to speak: "Hello everyone, my name is Xiao Maomao, I'm from ......" As soon as my name was mentioned, the classmates laughed one after another, I guessed that such a situation would happen, and it was not one or two who laughed when I heard my name, and I was also immune, It's no longer like when I was a kid when someone laughed at my name, I would stomp my feet angrily, and even sometimes I would laugh along with it, and my acquaintances in the town called me pistachio, and gradually I realized that it was also a small skill to bring a good mood to others.
"Okay, don't laugh, listen to this classmate's self-introduction." Teacher Cao maintained order, and the class was quiet again, "Xiao Maomao, please continue!" ”
"yes, okay." Teacher Cao smiled at me, "My name is Xiao Maomao, I am from a small town outside the city, I am very lucky to get the admission quota of this school, and I am very happy to be a classmate with you, I hope to make more good friends here, thank you." ”
Although I didn't get more applause after the self-introduction, it was quite smooth, and I had already expressed what I had thought of word for word. However, I still have some questions in my heart: were my classmates talking about me when I stood up just now? Why are you talking about me? What are they whispering? Because of this, I didn't listen to the self-introduction of my classmates very seriously, but I would follow the applause of my classmates.
The classmates introduced themselves one by one, until the end of the last classmate, because of their own distraction, so they didn't remember too many classmates' names, except for Ai Wenxue, who had known for a long time, the others didn't carefully look at what they looked like even if they only remembered their names, if they stood in front of me at this moment, I still couldn't tell who was who, although they didn't look the same.
The rest of the class is to arrange seats, before entering junior high school, I heard some classes arrange seats according to grades, the better the grades, the closer to the teacher, but Teacher Cao said that she will not randomly label students because of whose study is how, she asked each of us to pack our school bags, in the corridor according to the order of the small man in front and the tall man in the back divided into two teams of men and women to stand in turn.
I found a classmate who was about the same height as myself and walked over to compare with her, standing in the middle of the group, carrying a schoolbag silently and not wanting to speak, when I found a suitable position and walked past some of my classmates, I still felt that they would focus on me and point at me, this time I vaguely heard the topic they discussed: "Look, isn't that Xiao Maomao just now, she said that she came from a town outside the city, I haven't been to the town, isn't it similar to the countryside, The kind of ...... that lives in a bungalow and farms at home"
It's almost "she came from the town", "no wonder she wears so dirt", "just a rural person" and the like, it turns out that the taste of being talked about by others is so uncomfortable, but I think after waiting for a long time, I know more classmates, and everyone is familiar with it, you can explain it clearly, in fact, there are buildings in the town, after all, my father always told me: "There will be a solution to everything, just look at what you use to solve it." "But it wasn't until everything that happened that I realized I was naïve.
According to the arranged order, I was placed at a table with a male classmate, of course, it was not Ai Wenxue, but he was not far away, and I was in a group, and there were three people between us. After the class was seated, I looked around my classmates, and when I turned around, I saw Ai Wenxue sitting in the back, because there were more boys and fewer girls in my class, so his table mate was also a boy. Ai Wenxue smiled and beckoned to me, Ai Wenxue looked quite cheerful on the surface, if she hadn't heard the story he told herself, she really wouldn't have connected him to the family that had domestic violence.
When I turned around, I happened to be facing the new tablemates, and suddenly a pair of eyes stared at me intently, and it was a boy who didn't know the name, I couldn't help but startle, my whole body was uncomfortable, numb like an electric shock, I immediately shifted my gaze after a pause, at this time I looked evasive, there was a feeling like I had just stolen someone else's wallet, and the next second I was controlled as an important suspect, I really can't think of a more appropriate way to describe it, obviously I didn't do anything wrong, but I was inexplicably weak-hearted.
"Hello Aunt Xiaocun, my name is Li Mingxuan." He spoke to me first.
I was a little unhappy to hear him call me, and then retorted to him, "Why are you so rude, who is the village girl?" My name is Xiao ......."
"What's your name? Ah, yes, what...... What the...... Mao Mao, anyway, the name is very strange, I don't know if you drank too much when you named you at home, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me, I didn't expect my first table mate in junior high school to be you, I was also unlucky enough, I knew that I was at a table with you, and when someone proposed to transfer a position with me, it was better to agree, I really regret it! Li Mingxuan looked serious.
From the words, I felt that Li Mingxuan was disgusting me, "You ......" was like a fish in my throat, but I couldn't say a word, I could only stare at him with my eyes.
"The little village girl is angry, the quality from the town is not good, I didn't say anything, I was angry, I was so scared with that look!" Now I deliberately pretended to be pitiful and disgusting, so I didn't pay attention to him anymore, Li Mingxuan saw that I didn't want to be with him anymore, and then said: "I still want to ask you something, when you introduce yourself, a few people around are very curious, since I have become your tablemate, then I will be a representative of the righteousness, and ask you for them, is this dress today, are you wearing your primary school uniform?" Did you cut your hair yourself in front of the mirror? He chattered and laughed to himself, and my mind was like a crow.
"You're done laughing? Can you shut up? I held back my tears and responded with a pretended smile, Li Mingxuan didn't look at me, he just spread out his hand and shrugged his shoulders and tilted his head to "cut", this is the first time I have been ridiculed since I was a child, and I can't think of anything to interrupt him halfway, or should this be considered an insult?
There is no shortage of tall boys in our class, compared to them Li Mingxuan is half a cut shorter, so he can only be regarded as a medium height, but according to his appearance, he can be said to be one of the most handsome guys in the class, and he pays attention to his image, from time to time he will take out a small mirror from the pocket of his clothes, look left and right in the mirror, and make a hair that does not know how much gel water he has used in the morning, until he is satisfied, and then put away the mirror.
He also has one of the biggest characteristics is self-familiarity, an afternoon of time, not only with the surroundings, even the whole class of classmates are almost acquainted, and even with some boys have begun to call brothers, and also attracted the attention of many girls, every class will have a few girls come to talk to him, should I say it or not, if at first he did not dislike and laugh at me so madly, but like when talking to other girls as gentlemanly, I will also be attracted by his appearance, then again, Just because he is too attention-grabbing, I have also become a hot topic and become what others call "Li Mingxuan's village aunt at the same table", although some classmates don't even remember my real name, but Li Mingxuan's nickname for me was catchy by the whole class long before school - village aunt.
After school, Li Mingxuan walked out of the class with a few so-called good buddies, one of them also took his schoolbag for him, on the first day of school, he was able to speak well and naturally did what these people called "big brother", and there were a few fans behind him, and I finally succeeded in coming up with the word "handsome" to describe him. I didn't want to walk in front of anyone and listen to anyone comment on me, so I packed my schoolbag slowly, and even sometimes took out a book and put it again after putting it in my schoolbag, until I was the only one left in the classroom, I was willing to carry my schoolbag and boldly walk out, and saw Ai Wenxue at the door of the classroom.
"Hey, pretend you didn't see me!" Ai Wenxue stopped me behind me.
"If you want to call me village aunt too, then the ones we said before won't count, but don't worry, no matter what, I won't tell others about you as a joke." As the afternoon passed, Ai Wenxue, as a member of the class, must have heard others call me, and I thought he would also joke about this nickname, so I never turned around.