16. Guo Cheng
Zeng Fan also had a close look at the neuroticism of a political teacher. It was winter, and everyone was wearing thick cotton jackets, and although there was a small stove in the large classroom, it still couldn't withstand the cold from the leaky windows.
The political teacher who was lecturing asked a question, and Guo Cheng was selected to answer it. The political teacher asked him what was going on, and Guo Cheng replied: I have a cold. The political teacher walked in step by step, picked up a bench leg and knocked it at Guo Cheng without warning, Guo Cheng was stunned, and it took a long time before he remembered to protect his head.
The leg of the bench hit Guo Cheng's thick cotton coat, just like a futon that had just been taken off the kang in winter, raising a puff of white smoke - in the winter of the Loess Plateau, a trip out of the door is enough to saturate the dust in the cotton clothes. Everyone else was so frightened by the political teacher's actions that they didn't dare to make a sound.
After this incident, many people felt that the bench legs that could be seen everywhere in the classroom provided too much convenience for political teachers, and in order to prevent similar incidents from happening to them in the future, everyone hurriedly hid all the bench legs that could be seen in the classroom before each political class.
Although Guo Cheng is no longer the first in the class, he has always been in the top few, and he has hardly been scolded by the teacher, let alone beaten. The political teacher even beats such people, and there are absolutely safe people in the class.
Guo Cheng later told Zeng Fan that the political teacher apologized to him afterwards, saying that he was too impulsive at the time, thinking that Guo Cheng deliberately showed the teacher's face, so he did it, blaming himself for not having enough political consciousness. Guo Cheng didn't listen to it, and after hearing it, he was even more angry, but he didn't dare to show it, for fear that he would lose control of his emotions again, so he could only pretend to forgive. This is the misfortune of many victims, who are still crying in their hearts, but they must also smile and forgive.
After Guo Cheng was beaten by his political teacher, he seemed to be silent a lot, but he was no longer "honest" - no longer bullied.
Zeng Fan had eaten a lot of food at Guo Cheng's residence, and the best one was Guo Cheng's alfalfa vegetables stir-fried in authentic sesame oil, and the alfalfa was brought by Guo Cheng from his own home. That time, Zeng Fan ate three bowls in a row, and in the end, he was almost like a sheep that had not eaten grass for a few days ate alfalfa, and was strangled to death. Zeng Fan remembered the sheep he had seen when he was a child and were strangled to death by eating alfalfa, and thought that they must have been willing to die at that time, because alfalfa was so delicious that it was really difficult to resist its temptation.
In fact, what Zeng Fan likes the most is not Guo Cheng's fried alfalfa vegetables, but where he lives. Guo Cheng has an aunt who works as a teacher in the kindergarten, she rents a house outside, and gives the school dormitory to Guo Cheng to live in, and An Xue's house is next door to the kindergarten.
That night was probably the first time Zeng Fan had slept so close to An Xue. In fact, Zeng Fan didn't expect to go to Guo Cheng's place to spend the night at first, although he had thought of countless excuses to get close to An Xue's house before, but the development of things was completely beyond his imagination.
It was a heavy rain that night, Zeng Fan watched his classmates roll up their trouser legs, yelled, and rushed out of the classroom without hesitation. In the end, only Zeng Fan, Gu Ming and Guo Cheng were left in the classroom, and they wanted to wait until the rain was light before going home.
In the end, the whole school was almost gone, and the three were still in the classroom. Seeing that everyone had no intention of leaving, Gu Ming said silently: "Since you are not leaving, why don't you sleep?" ”
Guo Cheng asked, "Where to sleep?" How to sleep? ”
Gu Ming said lightly: "Of course I sleep in the classroom." ”
Guo Cheng's eyes widened, but Zeng Fan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, I've never spent the night in the classroom, it must be very interesting." ”
When Zeng Fan was lying on the "bed" made up of several tables, he found that spending the night in the classroom was not only boring, but also unbearable. Lying on the patchwork desk, not only the bones in the whole body hurt, but the flesh on the body will be caught in the gap between the two desks if you are not careful.
I don't know how long it took, but the rain stopped, and the moon came out, and the classroom was bright. Zeng Fan suddenly turned over and disturbed the moonlight in the room, and then Gu Ming and Guo Cheng also sat up. Looking at their appearance, Zeng Fan smiled: "It turns out that you are not comfortable when you sleep on the table." ”
Guo Cheng said: "It's not just uncomfortable, it's unbearable to death." ”
Gu Ming frowned.
Guo Cheng: "The rain has stopped, go to where I live, there is enough for three people to sleep." ”
Gu Ming: "I'll go to a relative's house, you two can go." ”
Zeng Fan and the three of them set up the tables as they were, locked the classroom, and stepped into the moonlight.
The moon in the sky is bright, and there is a moon in every place of water on the earth. Walking in the wet moonlight, Zeng Fan remembered that when he was a child, he went to his own field one night to find his father, he was wearing long rain boots to irrigate his family's dry land, before leaving, his father told Zeng Fan: "When you walk at night, you must see clearly, the bright place of reflection is water, don't step into it......" But he couldn't help but go to the brightest place and took a foot of muddy water home.
In Zeng Fan's memory, it was probably only when he was in the first grade of primary school that he had seen such a heavy rain as tonight. That day, the small river bay behind Shanhe Town was rarely filled by a raging torrent, and the water receded three days later.
When Zeng Fan came to the entrance of the village after school in the afternoon, he found that the intersection into the village was flooded. The road from the crops to the village was also flooded, and my great-father and several other men in the village were helping a few peasant women "cross the river" – the rainstorm was coming so fast that several women who had gone to the fields to hoe weeds were stranded on the other side of the water. In fact, at this time, the water had receded slightly, otherwise the Han would not be able to gain a foothold in the water.
When his father saw Zeng Fan, he told him to stay honestly on the other side of the water and wait to pick him up. Zeng Fan looked at his busy father, and there was a hint of happiness in his heart. He rolled up his trouser legs high, revealing his crooked calves until his knees were exposed. Zeng Fan waded into the water, the water was very cold, but the flow was not urgent; The water only reached below Zeng Fan's knees. Zeng Fan stumbled as if he had stepped on something, but he was not afraid, and immediately stabilized his body.
In the blink of an eye, Zeng's father found that Zeng Fan had already come from the water. Great-father's trouser legs had also been rolled up, revealing his calves that were stronger than Zeng Fan's. Great-father came to Zeng Fan's side, pointed to his feet and smiled narrowly. As soon as Zeng Fan lowered his head, he found that one of his cloth shoes was missing, and it must have been washed away by the water when he waded in the water just now. Zeng Fan also smiled embarrassedly. The father picked up Zeng Fan and walked towards the house, making a sound of "chirp" under his feet. Zeng Fan has been thinking about shoes on the road, how to tell his mother?
"It was stupid." Zeng Fan thought about the past, and suddenly laughed.
"Are you hungry, or may I cook something?" Guo Cheng asked.
"You don't see what time it is, and you're still cooking, I just want to sleep now." Zeng Fan replied with a yawn.
"I have a book here, do you want to read it?"
"What a book, I'll take a look." Zeng Fan rubbed his eyes that were almost open.
Guo Cheng took out a thin, yellowed book, and on the cover was a picture of two people fighting with swords, which turned out to be a martial arts novel. Zeng Fan wanted to flip through it casually, but he didn't expect to read a martial arts novel for the first time, and he didn't know how powerful martial arts is, so he was fascinated by it. Guo Cheng urged him to sleep, but after urging him several times, it didn't work, so he had to sleep by himself. When Zeng Fan finished reading this book, he found that he was very hungry, and he didn't know when, so he could only sleep to escape hunger.
When they came together in the morning, Zeng Fan asked Guo Cheng for the next volume of the novel.
"There is no next volume." Guo Cheng spread his hands helplessly.
"What is not in the next volume, this is obviously only a part, the story has not been written yet, there must be a next volume." Zeng Fan still refused to give up.
"There may be a second volume of this book, but I don't have one, I'll just have it."
Zeng Fan felt a sense of loss in his heart, but he didn't expect to see the key part, but there was no one behind him, like being suddenly stopped halfway through the itch, unspeakably unhappy.
Zeng Fan wrote down the author of the book and went to the bookstore to look for the book, but he couldn't find it. The book is written "Gu Long's book", Zeng Fan searched for Gu Long's novels, but he couldn't find this one. Later, I realized that "Gu Long's book" is a person's name, not Gu Long's book.
Although Zeng Fan saw a lot of "Gu Long Books" later, he still couldn't find the book; It's okay to pretend to be an ancient dragon, but I didn't expect that there are so many people pretending to be even "ancient dragons". Except for the small scar left on his hand when he fought with Guo Cheng, this book is probably the biggest concern that Guo Cheng left for Zeng Fan.