Friday, December 19, 2008, Class 8 (1) classroom, second floor of the Academic Building.

During recess, students gathered in groups to chat. It's chattering, it's not lively.

The warm sunlight in winter shines obliquely through the window, playing, jumping, and chasing mischievously on the desk, like a group of transparent and light elves inadvertently hiding in your heart, sending a trace of warmth.

Wen Er was sitting on the seat to solve a math problem, and suddenly saw that the footprints of the sun had been left on the notebook, yellow and warm. So, she raised her head, met the light, gently put down the pen in her hand, opened her palm, and bathed her fingertips and fingers in a bright beam.

"Err, what are you doing?" Ye Zi walked over and patted Wen'er on the shoulder from behind.

"My hands are too cold to write, so I bake them in the sun." Wen'er's tone was mischievous and light.

"You think it's a fire!" Ye Zi sometimes thinks Wen'er is silly and cute in some ways.

"Err, what are you going to give next week for Christmas? Also, who are you going to give it to? Ye Zi looked at Wen Er expectantly with a gossipy expression.

"Send you, send you, no one can miss the invincible and beautiful little leaves of our universe!"

"I know that Er'er hurts the most!" As she spoke, Ye Zi rubbed and ravaged Wen Er's little round face with her cold hands.

"Little leaf! You're spicy and smashing tweed! I'm iced! ”

Wen Er immediately covered his face with his own hands, trying to drive away the remaining coldness on it.

This year's Christmas, Wen Er has already thought about who to buy greeting cards for, including Du Fei, Ye Zi, two Qianqian, Ren Squeak, and two at the same table.

Before he was in junior high school, Wener had never celebrated Christmas, and the story of Santa Claus was still from fairy tale books. But in recent years, there has suddenly been a "Christmas" craze in the school. About the week before December 25th, there will be various discussions about gift-giving in the class, and a greeting card for the occasion is the most basic plan, and of course, people who are kind will make it themselves to show their hearts. Friends who are closer to each other will also go to the jewelry stores around the school to carefully select some gadgets for them, such as crystal balls, music boxes, plush dolls, beautiful small hairpins, etc.

In the first year of junior high school, Wener had full contact with this kind of foreign festival for the first time, and he could only hold a wait-and-see and "learn" attitude, and he was shy to give gifts. This Christmas, she put a lot of effort into the greeting cards she bought, and the greeting cards she bought were all multi-layered styles that could be hung.

On the page before Christmas, the four girls in dormitory 412 shuttled between the dormitories, and exchanged "peace fruits" with other students in the class. The most common "Ping An Fruit" is an apple without any packaging, which is sold for 1 yuan in the school supermarket; If the apple is printed with blessings such as "peace" and "Merry Christmas" on the surface, and the outside is wrapped in a layer of shiny colored paper, it will cost 3 yuan; The highest grade is the snake fruit, the skin is very red, one sells for 5 yuan, and only a few generous students will buy it.

Wen'er and Yezi brought a big bag of apples from home last weekend, so they just went to the supermarket to buy wrappers and straps.

"Xiao Yezi, how many have you received tonight?"

"It's six at the moment, and I'll go to the fifth floor later to give it to my table mate and the other girls in the class! So, I estimate that I will receive four or five more. ”

The little girls in their school days had a lot of ways to "send things". For example, if you send me, I will send you; If you don't send me, I certainly won't send you; If I send you this time, but you don't send me, there will be no next time. There are exchanges, there are gifts and returns, this is the peaceful way to make friends and give gifts.

At this time, the table of leaves has been covered with all kinds of colorful colored paper, I saw her skillfully pick up an apple in a plastic bag, wrap it in colored paper after dividing it by two, and finally pull out a tie of the same color, make a bow, and a "peace fruit" is completed.

Carrying five or six apples, he passed by the door of the toilet, and the leaves shouted inside:

"Er'er, I'll send it first, and you can take a shower and go up to the fifth floor."

"Oh! You go first, and I'll catch up at once. ”

Wen'er walked to the bed in cotton wool pants and cotton sweaters, and quickly put on a down jacket and socks, the little hot water that came from her could not support her to take a bath in the winter, so she often saved up a week of dirt to go home and take a comfortable bath like everyone else. On weekdays, wipe your body, wash your feet, and change your underwear.

Why hasn't Du Fei come back yet?

Wen Er thought that Du Fei, who was in charge of the class key, should also go downstairs to the dormitory. Seeing that there was no one in the dormitory at this time, she secretly took out a greeting card, a peace nut and a box of postcards from Detective Conan from her bag and put them in Du Fei's drawer. When she was done, she picked up the other apples in her bag and staggered upstairs.

The bell had struck twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the five girls had not yet fallen asleep, so they got up from their beds, picked up the peace fruit that was placed next to their pillows, unpacked it, and ate it with a smile.

"Fei Fei, I'll come to your bed."

With that, Wen Er threw the apple core into the trash, and then climbed down the iron ladder to Du Fei's bed.

"Er'er, what are you going to whisper to Fei Fei again?"

"It's a secret for both of us, you eat your apples and go." Wen Er scolded Ye Zi and didn't care about her.

I saw Wen Er lying on Du Fei's quilt, leaning into her ear and asking:

"Fei Fei, which of us gave you this apple you ate?"

"It's in a drawer."

After Du Fei took the last bite, he threw the apple core to the floor under the bed very neatly.

"You saw that, right?" Wen Er heard Du Fei's answer, and she felt a burst of joy in her heart, she knew that Du Fei must have seen the Christmas gift he gave her.

"Hmm." Du Fei replied softly.

After confirming what he was thinking, Wen Er prepared to go back to his bed and sleep. But when she was holding on to the iron ladder with her hand, Du Fei's clear voice came from behind her:

"Err, thank you!"

Because this was the first time I had received a holiday gift, I didn't think anyone would prepare it for me. Du Fei silently thanked Wener for his carefulness and warmth in his heart.

"Fei Fei, why did you suddenly say thank you to Er'er?" Da Qianqian in the next bed listened to it and was a little confused.

"It's nothing, we can sleep too, Xiao Qianqian and Ye Zi are asleep." Wen Er deliberately lowered his voice and said to Da Qianqian.

The dormitory grew quiet, and only a few rhythmic breaths could be heard in the air. The sound of chanting and crying wafting from near and far outside the window should be a certain person who believes in Buddhism has left the world, and his family is inviting a lot of monks to chant for him!

Eating peace fruit on Christmas Eve, I learned that there was no such custom in foreign countries until very late, and it was the young people who followed the trend to take the homonym of the word "apple" and "ping" in Chinese, and sent good wishes and blessings of peace.