Chapter 25: Behind the Light and Shadow
After eating, Gu Cheng changed into tattered clothes and picked up a hoe.
She asked me, "Hey, Tan Lige, do you want to come and see my vegetable field?" ”
"Nanada? Now?"
The sky seemed to have been scrubbed, without a trace of clouds, blue crystal, high and far away. A round moon, climbing out of the mountain beam in the east, is like a big lantern, illuminating a strange valley covered with rocks, and projecting the shadows of branches and young grass on the path. Resident birds are chirping on the branches, and small insects are jumping in the grass.
The vegetable fields are under this silence.
The Gu Cheng I saw in the past was a domineering and gentle person, she could get along with her classmates, and she could also help the teacher take care of the class well. Everyone in the class knew about her family, but no one would look down on her because of it.
Looking at Gu Cheng, who was working in the fields, a feeling of guilt for An Yuqiu suddenly grew in my heart.
I think everyone is too malicious, and I shouldn't lose my temper with An Yuqiu because of my own reasons.
"Our small town is very hard." Gu Cheng's mother said to me in non-standard Mandarin, "Although this child refuses to say anything to us, we understand it in our hearts." Little classmate, if you can, please help Xiaocheng more, she is every day, in addition to studying, she also has to help cook, farm, and take her younger brother...... It hardly bothered us, and it didn't look like an ordinary child in filial piety....... She studies so hard, that is, she wants to get into a good university, she is real, she likes school very much, she likes to study very much......."
Gu Cheng's mother was talking and talking, and tears welled up in her eyes. It was from a mother's worry and emotion.....
"Tan Lige, don't you really need me to send you? It's a long way from the city, so why don't you sleep here for the night and go back tomorrow morning. "Gu Cheng sent me out of the alley.
"It's okay, I didn't tell my family when I came here, they might be worried."
I'm in a cold war with An Yuqiu, so she shouldn't care about me.........
The cold streets suddenly faded the enthusiasm of the party, and the weather in early spring was as cold as if the cold winter had never left.
Under the street lamp not far away, a clear shadow seemed to be waiting for someone. buried his head low, and couldn't see his face clearly, but just looking at the silhouette, he felt that this woman must be good.
"Hey, little pigeons."
When I heard someone shouting at me, I deliberately turned my head to look at the woman's appearance.
"An Yuqiu, why are you here?"
"Let's not talk about that........ Why didn't you come back so late and talk to us in advance........" she deliberately avoided the topic.
"I didn't have time to say it."
"So you know now? Let's go back. ”
I stepped forward and naturally took her hand.
"Okay........"
An Yuqiu and I, the day-long cold war, came to an end.
When we were young, we were angry and quarreled, because we cared about each other, and we would use such a childish way to express our emotions. However, later on, we will maintain a plain relationship with many people, but in our own hearts, maybe this friendship can no longer be maintained..........
At that time, we didn't even need to say sorry, and we would be reconciled inexplicably. Bowing your head is not necessarily because you admit your mistakes, but because you are afraid of losing your .......
After the start of the second year of high school, our classroom teachers also made changes, such as Xia Mo, who took maternity leave to go home for confinement, and the new English teacher was specially invited from the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University by the watering can.
But for me, as long as I teach well, whoever teaches me is the same.
The new teacher, with smart short hair, a British outfit and a beret, chose a new English class representative according to the ranking table of the English subject on the first day of class.
That unlucky ghost is me.
was able to take the first place in the exam that time, mainly because Zhang Huaixu overslept before the exam and missed the exam.
"Teacher Zheng of your class is on sick leave today, so I will substitute for the teacher, and below, please turn the test paper to page 15......."
And now standing on the podium, the young female teacher with long hair fluttering in a polka-dot floral dress is a famous beauty in our high school days, Shen Jiayi. In her class, no matter how basic the questions you ask, she will answer them one by one.
She always has a bouquet of budding lilies on her desk, and over time, she also has a faint fragrance of lilies, because of her approachable personality, in private, the boys in their class jokingly call her "Sayuri".
I also like Sayuri very much, her classes always take care of most people's learning progress.
"Hey, little pigeon, where did you say Lao Zheng went, he became strange after the winter vacation started, and his classes became more and more boring. But I'm happy to see Sayuri....... "Hagaoka touched me with his elbow."
"I don't know........"
"Really, at such a critical juncture, he doesn't know where to go, tsk, it's so irresponsible."
At this moment, the table behind me seemed to have been hit by something, and Hagaoka and I instinctively looked back. I saw Hao Jianren panting and slamming the bag into the empty table behind Yuqiu.
"What are you doing, fleeing. Go up in your own seat. ”
"Just let go of the gun, you guys are too unrighteous, Sayuri is in class, and you don't know how to notify me."
Putting off the gun is a code between their boys, which means skipping class to play games in the game hall.
"Why don't you come to listen to the class, why do you want to inform you, Sayuri is so beautiful, do you still want toads to eat swan meat?" Hagaoka fired back unceremoniously.
"Hey An Yuqiu, you...... Looking for a beating. Hao Jianren hula wheeled two huge fists, and the joints clicked.
Zhang Huaixu pressed his shoulder with one hand from the side, and said lightly: "You think clearly before you do it." ”
Hao Jianren immediately felt as if he was deflated.
"Okay, you're my brother, listen to you, listen to you...."
I don't know what Zhang Huaixu's ability to pass through the sky is, just a casual sentence can make the arrogant Hao Jianren admit it, in terms of size, he is not as big as Hao Jianren.
"Zhang Huaixu, what secrets does he have, tell me to be happy......" Yuqiu gossiped his head away.
"Go, go, it's a secret between our men, you girls don't ask about it."
"Cut, what kind of big-tailed wolf is pretending, I don't want to know yet." Hagaoka turned around unwillingly, looking very curious.
Thinking about it carefully, Lao Zheng after the start of school is indeed not normal, he is often depressed in class, and he will not play with his classmates.
It doesn't have anything to do with me, though.
After class, I went to the English teacher as usual to get the tutoring materials I needed for the rest of the year. But before I could knock on the office door, there was a roar from inside.
"Teacher Zheng, what's the matter with you, it's okay to be innocently absent from class without the consent of the school, during your absence, Hao Jianren and the group of people in your class also sneaked outside the school to play video games with the fourth class next door! What did I say before, our Fengling's class, even if it is the art class, has to be the same as if the teacher is in or not, you have only taken a day off, and the students are all reversed. ”
Through the small crack in the door, I could just see Lao Zheng burying his head low.
"Director, I'm sorry, I do have an urgent matter at home........
"Urgent? What could be more important than your own students?" The watering can was crossed on his waist, and his saliva sprayed Lao Zheng's face.
"An Yuqiu, you don't have to worry about them, you just need to separate them during class and give them to those students with good grades and tutor them individually. These poor students are no longer saved, but they can't be allowed to ruin the reputation of Fengling's class. ”
"Director, as a class teacher, I will not give up on any student. I'm afraid I won't be able to take your suggestion. Lao Zheng, who was still groveling just now, suddenly became stiff, "You believe me, I will definitely ..... ”
"Zheng Kongyi! Aren't you afraid that I will tell the principal and dismiss you? ”
"I'm sorry, director, I can't do this, I can manage the people in my own class."
Suddenly, the door opened, and I stumbled to meet Lao Zheng's bloodshot eyes, which were already red. I didn't see him for a short day, and he seemed to have become old all of a sudden, and even the wrinkles on his face deepened a little.
"It's Tan Lige, what are you doing standing here? The class bell is about to ring. He wiped his eyes and smiled at me feigned composure.
"I ...... I'll get my homework......"
"Okay, remember to go to class." He hurriedly threw down a sentence and ran away.
Because of us, he almost lost his job, so it must have been hard.......
The English class was changed to a class test because the teacher had to attend the lecture temporarily, so I sat on the podium as required and carefully did the test questions in my hand.
Suddenly, I heard An Yuqiu's sharp scream: "What are you doing, give it back to me!" ”
I looked up and saw Lao Zheng holding a piece of drawing paper in his hand, and I could vaguely see that it was a sketch portrait of a boy.
"You have to believe that there must be a lover in the world, whether you are surrounded by light and drowning in applause at the moment, or you are walking alone on a cold street and getting wet in the rain, whether it is an early morning with a light snow........ An Yuqiu, the teacher is not here, you just do this in class, heh, the writing is quite beautiful, who is this man........"
"You're doing .........this in my class," Hazuka muttered quietly, tilting his head.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Lao Zheng killed the painting into pieces in two clicks.