Chapter 3 Letters
Halfway through my freshman year of high school, I received a letter from Du Shao:
Xiaoxiao:
See you in good faith!
I wanted to write to you as soon as I arrived at school, but I didn't know what to say when I picked up the pen.
I miss you a lot, I don't know if you've ever thought of me. I like you, from the first time I met you. Although you have Mingyu in your heart and completely ignore my existence, doesn't Mingyu treat you as a sister? So I still want to ask you: be my girlfriend, okay?
Hope to hear from you.
Who said that Yu only treats me as a sister, Mingyu told you? Because I didn't know what to say, I didn't reply.
Not long after, I received a large envelope, which was sent by Mingyu, and there were many letters in it, all of which had written numbers, and the last one was 15.
Seeing such a package of letters, Gillian's curiosity came up.
"Xiaoxiao? What's going on? ”
"It's nothing!" Looking at her blinking eyes, I pretended not to care and accepted the letter.
"There must be a situation! Say! Who wrote it? Gillian looked like she was going to be tortured to extract a confession.
"It's really okay, it's an older brother I knew before."
"Forget it, I'll bypass you for now, see for yourself, I'll go down and turn on the water." After saying that, Gillian went out with two water bottles.
1 Xiaoxiao:
I've been reporting at the school for three days, and the overall feeling is very fulfilling.
I'm on the first team.
Military schools are not the same as ordinary universities, the system of daily life is very strict, now we get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and exercise early, then tidy up housekeeping, eat breakfast, train, start dinner at 12 noon, and then take a nap, training at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, dinner at 6 o'clock, listen to the arrangement later, sometimes training, sometimes folding quilts in the dormitory.
However, it only lasts for a month, and the intensity of training will be weakened later, and classes will have to be held from Monday to Friday.
The lights are going out at 10 p.m.
2 Xiaoxiao:
Today, I checked the housekeeping, and my quilt was thrown out the window directly by the captain. I will have to put in a little more effort in the future, and the captain will definitely remember me.
Two days ago, our team organized a basketball game, and I, as the main player of the first district team, scored 25 points.
I got the real gun, the Bayi rifle, it's quite heavy, we have to run with it on our backs, and we have to practice shooting in a few days.
Recently, there is an extra task, pulling weeds.
We are eating table meals, one table per class, four dishes and one soup, everyone is rushing fast, and we have to wash the dishes by ourselves after eating.
One morning I ate five steamed buns and died.
3 Xiaoxiao:
We shot today, and I hit all five shots.
I had a cold last weekend, took medicine and am now better.
The day after tomorrow is the National Day, and we are going to hike to the Martyrs' Monument to receive the title, which is said to be quite far, ten kilometers. After receiving the title, we started to take cultural classes.
I'm going to run for class president.
Yesterday there was a fight between two squad leaders who brought us, they are both in the same class, they are already seniors, and I heard that it is because of our training ground.
4 Xiaoxiao:
There are 120 people in our team, and there is not a single girl, but there are many girls in the commission training team.
I'm dozing off in class all the time, and I don't know what the teacher is talking about. In order not to fall asleep, I moved to the back of the classroom to secretly play cards with them, but the instructor caught us and punished us for running five kilometers.
Now that the school's bathhouse is open, many students go to take hot showers, and I plan to stick to cold water all the time.
Now that it's starting to get cold, you have to be careful not to catch a cold.
5 Xiaoxiao:
I went to the Confucius Temple this weekend, there are a lot of people, the streets are also complicated, it is easy to get lost, just go a few more times.
We can't go out on weekdays, and we go out on weekends according to the proportion, one place per class, and we want to go to other classes together, and we must go out with more than two people.
I went to get a haircut today, right in school, soon, bulldozing my head, and it was done in a few minutes, and you shouldn't know me when you see me now.
Today is your birthday, happy birthday!
6 Xiaoxiao:
I almost threw up while running tonight, and I was too full for dinner.
Tomorrow night, "Rushing Out of the Amazon" will be played in the auditorium, and we will all lead the team together, and those who are sick can ask for leave and not go. Not only do we sing a song before the meal, but we also play songs between teams before the movie starts, and everyone will shout at the top of their voices.
Our English teacher was very interesting, he didn't talk anything in class, he just showed us the plates, but they were all original soundtracks, and I couldn't understand them anyway, so I could only read the subtitles.
It's 4 a.m. again, and I almost fell asleep standing up.
7 Xiaoxiao:
The final exam is coming soon, and I feel like I've learned nothing but getting stronger.
I'm ready to book my train tickets and I'll be able to go home soon.
8 Xiaoxiao:
The school I arrived at yesterday had already closed this afternoon, and only a military meeting was held in the evening, and I suddenly didn't know what to do.
Send me a picture of you when you see my letter.
9 Xiaoxiao:
I received a love letter today, which was written by a girl from the training team.
Our captain got married and sent joy candy to the whole team, and my sister-in-law was very beautiful and often came to the team.
There's a basketball game tomorrow afternoon against Team Five, one year higher than us.
Last night there was an emergency gathering, and I was the first to rush out. The emergency gathering is usually after the lights are out, and the quilt should be packed with a backpack and a satchel water bottle. The first emergency gathering I was the penultimate one.
10 Xiaoxiao:
Are you ready for the high school entrance examination? Come on!
11 Xiaoxiao:
Du Shao called me today and said that he had contacted an art school in Beijing.
Did he tell you anything?
I went to the library today with someone else's library card to borrow two books, and mine was lost.
12 Xiaoxiao:
It's going to be an exam soon, so don't be nervous and play normally.
13 Xiaoxiao:
Congratulations on your successful entry into the key middle school, or Du Shao told me, go back and celebrate for you.
14 Xiaoxiao:
Today's tactical assessment was done, and the overall score was okay, but my camouflage was hung up with a hole when I was crawling in a low position.
I received another love letter, as if it wasn't written by the same person.
Last night we had a rat in our dormitory, which was 20 centimeters long, and it should have been for the biscuits they hid, and there should have been instant noodles.
There was a guy in my class who was dumped by his girlfriend and cried for three nights in a row because he was in military school and couldn't be with her.
15 Xiaoxiao:
As I said, I'll write to you when you get into the key middle school.
Now that you're in your first year of high school, I'm going to send you what I wrote before.
After reading Mingyu's letter, I was very moved, not because of these shriveled words, but because of the letter itself.