Chapter 17: Our Seventeens
"Jingle Bell ......"
After entering the examination room, Hao Jianren sat in front of me, turned his head and said to me: "Tan Lige, don't be nervous, now teach you, my brother has many years of clinical experience, three long and one short selection is the shortest, and three short and one long selection is the longest." Choose B for two long and two short, and choose D for unevenness, with a correct rate of more than 80%. He looked confident and put on the posture of an expert.
In the beginning, he and Zhao Xin were always targeting me, and after a long time, my relationship with the rest of the class became less stiff, although I still couldn't say anything.
Hao Jianren and Yuqiu are a pair of happy enemies, Lao Zheng's left and right protectors. Because he has a close relationship with An Yuqiu and Zhang Huaixu, he and I have gradually become acquainted. At first, I was still haunted by his ridicule at the beginning of school, but later, I gradually forgot about it.
I tend to be nervous during exams, and when I am nervous, I like to rub my bangs with my hands and bite the tip of my pen.
The second big problem in mathematics is the number series problem.
[(n+52.8)Γ5β3.9343]Γ·0.5-10Γn=οΌ
Before entering the examination room, Zhang Huaixu taught me that nine out of ten people can't do the number series questions, and if you want to save time and strive for a high score, try to spend time on the first small question of each big question.
After two days of nervousness, the final exam finally came to an end, and the tense cells in the whole body also relaxed when the bell rang for the end of the last geography exam.
"What? One of the main reasons for the formation of the Hexi Corridor is the fertile soil? Well, tease me......." Hagaoka sat in his seat and raised his head to the sky at the answer on the blackboard.
Our geography teachers like to ask the class representative to copy the answers on the blackboard and proofread them immediately after the exam.
Although Yuqiu doesn't care about the results, when it comes to answers, he is full of energy. A few days ago, she signed up for the school's art exam, and she had to go to another school for art training in her third year of high school.
"Have you done the second problem of the sequence?" Zhang Huaixu poked my back with the tip of his pen and asked me.
"Nope. Didn't you say, try to concentrate on the first problem? What's wrong? β
He lowered his head, lifted his black-framed glasses, and replied lightly: "It's nothing, the score is not big, and if you can't do it, forget it." β
"Little pigeon, do you think I can be admitted to college with this grade?" Hagaoka's scratch paper was full of calculations, and she leaned on my shoulder exhausted, rubbing her temples with a helpless expression.
"Didn't you say before that it's just a final exam, so don't worry about it? What, are you good? β
"Don't mention it, it's not because I signed up for the art section exam. If you don't pass the cultural class, the Academy of Fine Arts will have to say good bye to me. The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard, who made me like to paint, I can only accept my fate if I plant it........"
"Okay, don't be pessimistic, aren't you going to have a New Year's Day party?" I patted her on the head.
Hagaoka jumped to his feet.
"yes, and the New Year's party, I forgot about it........ What should I get? Do you think I'm okay with a stage play? β
"You're here to get close to your senior Muxi." Zhang Huaixu said lightly, in one sentence.
"Zhang Huaixu, if you don't say a few words, you'll die, you know me. I don't care, you two, you have to help me. β
"Me? I don't know how to act......" As soon as I heard that I was going to go on stage, I decisively waved my hand and refused.
The embarrassing history of being on stage made me afraid of the stage, afraid of the bright spotlight, and even after three years of everything, that incident is still deeply imprinted in my heart.
"It's okay little pigeon, you don't want to speak, you can't remember the words, I can arrange a big tree, a fireplace, or something like that for you." Yuqiu leaned into my ear and whispered, "If you go, by the way, you can also help me pull a Zhang Huaixu, I just think, he seems to listen to you." β
"Yes....... Is it? β
"Yes, yes, specially. Help, little pigeon, I'm just such a confidant as you......"
If I don't say yes, she will probably be able to put on a miserable one-man show in front of me.
"Okay, then you try not to show me up."
βyesοΌ I knew that my little pigeons were the best. Hey, Lord Zhang, the little pigeon has agreed to star, are you going or not? β
Zhang Huaixu raised his eyes and glanced at me, and spit out a word:
"Go."
"Look, I'll just say, our Lord Zhang also loves you very much, and I definitely can't bear to let you be alone on the stage......
"Wait, you pulled both of us up, and I won't go on stage with you." I asked.
After staying in Beijing for a long time, my Hangbang dialect was unconsciously infected with a Beijing accent.......
"Me? Of course I'm in charge of the rehearsals of the whole audience, the lighting, the props, whatever, ouch, I'm busy, that's it, Lao Zheng called me, I'm over........"
"Hey....."
Before I could hear what she had just said, Hagaoka was gone.
This guy is really getting less and less polite to me.
"Don't look at An Yuqiu like this, in fact, she is a person who can have stage fright." Zhang Huaixu glanced at me and explained.
Oh, I see.
In the evening self-study after the exam, everyone deliberately closed the curtains and secretly showed us a movie, which was Hayao Miyazaki's, "Goldfish on the Cliff".
"Students, I secretly showed you a movie, don't let the watering can and Lao Zheng know, do you hear?" Before pressing the start button, Hagaoka lowered his voice and said to us tremblingly.
(Our dean of instruction is a thin-haired, old-fashioned stubborn, and I heard that when he was chasing a truant student, he accidentally knocked out a front tooth, and his mouth always leaked, and when he swore people, his saliva sprayed like a watering can, so his classmates secretly nicknamed him a watering can.) οΌ
"Got it, got it, let's get started!" The class cheered excitedly.
I don't know why, many years later, movies have high-definition picture quality, but whether it is going to the cinema to watch a movie, or watching it alone in a small quilt, there is no such thing, a group of people gather together, in front of a projector with poor picture quality, listen to the very soft lines, sit on a hard wooden chair, and huddle together to watch a movie secretly.
This kind of time has made me feel happy.......
At that time, it was the time when the Japanese were in vogue, and the most popular of them was "Slam Dunk".
Those who sat in the back of the classroom moved their seats into two aisles and sat shoulder-to-shoulder with their good friends.
"Goldfish on the Cliff" is about a five-year-old Sousuke who lives with his mother Risa on a cliff in a small village near the sea. As the captain of the ship, his father has been at sea for many years, leaving Sousuke and his mother to rely on each other.
One day, while playing on a rocky beach beneath a cliff, he retrieves a mermaid Ponyo whose head is trapped in a glass bottle, and Sousuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her in a green plastic bucket.
"Sousuke, do you know? Everyone has his fate, and even if he is sad, there is no way to change his fate........"
I've been remembering this line for a long time. I don't know if what happened to me over the years is considered a matter of fate, but, as Sousuke's mother said, no matter how sad we are, there is no way to escape the reality of fate, and everyone is the same.
If I had heard such words in the past, I would have been sad for a long time, but now, I just raised the corners of my mouth slightly, and I was neither happy nor worried.
People change, don't they?
"Oh, little pigeon, little pigeon, look there, there." Hagaoka suddenly touched my arm, and said in an excited tone in a certain direction of the classroom, "What secret did I discover?" β
In the faint light, I saw two fingers gently hooked together. It was pulled so loosely that no one dared to hold each other's hands.
"Wang Jieyu and Du Yuanyuan? No......" I asked in surprise.
"Why not, little pigeon, I'll just say that you don't have emotional intelligence, they're both so obvious, you can't see it. That little look, tsk....."
Hagaoka shook his head with a snickering expression.
"Ah, it's good to be young, when will I find someone who can hook my little finger with me......." Hagaoka whistled and teased.
"Don't you have your Minister Muxi?"
"Go, nonsense." The corners of Hagaoka's mouth couldn't help but rise upward.
When I was in high school, there seemed to be such a person in each of our hearts, and that feeling was not love, and I don't know if I liked it, but he stumbled into your world like this, amazed the time, and became a person you can remember for a lifetime.......
"Turn off the TV! Lao Zheng is here! Hao Jianren, who was letting off the wind at the door, suddenly rushed in, turned on all the lights at once, and turned off the movie.
At this time, Lao Zheng had already pushed the door in, and when he saw the chaos in the class, he asked in surprise: "You guys, what are you doing here?" β
"What are you guys doing huddled together! I heard your class shouting downstairs, the whole building is studying by itself, and your class is arguing! Don't review it, do you? And you, Mr. Zheng, what are you doing with your students huddled together? β
The watering can rushed in at this critical juncture, with a tiger face.
"Ah..... Director, I'll give them the exam questions. Lao Zheng pointed to the board book on the blackboard and explained.
The watering can's eyebrows raised: "You are a math teacher, tell them geography papers?" β
"No, geography is also a science subject, teach them how to integrate it......."
At this cusp, the computer suddenly seemed to be short-circuited, and the movie interface that had just been turned off suddenly jumped out again.
The face of the watering can went black almost all at once.
"Teacher Zheng, you come out with me. Others, get me back to my seat and sit down! Study! β