Chapter 9: That She, My Youth
Xue Jiao's famous quote: Time will prove that time can change everything.
It's weird! Liang Chen stood on tiptoe during military training and never saw her, and even forgot the first time he saw her, and forgot all the first times with her.
It's not like the beginning of a love story, indeed! Liang Chen said that this is a tragic ending, the male protagonist shouted "I love you" hoarsely at the end, and the female protagonist moved forward with tears, with a hint of "the ancient conquest of a few people back", leaving only the back of the male protagonist's memories.
This is how the dream ends, and the story seems to end like this.
THE GIRL SENT THE BOY THE LAST WORDS THAT WERE CONSIDERED TO BE THE END, "LOVE THE PROCESS"
He lost her, and when Liang Chen suddenly realized, he was already extremely sad and almost wanted to cry.
And the first thing Xue Ji said to Liang Chen is I can't remember! Maybe it's my name Xue Jiao, maybe!
Her name is very strange, but Liang Chen didn't care about these at first, in high school, the first girl he knew was Tang Rui. She dragged Liang Chen up to act as a player of the game at the opening class meeting, Liang Chen has never been a strong-willed person, if he is not the first, Liang Chen will rarely refuse.
Xue Ji and Liang Chen are really strange, they don't seem to have any intersection before they become friends, and it seems natural to be friends. Liang Chen remembered that the first time he put this name in his heart was when Teacher Mu mentioned it.
After the mid-term examination, Shihe Middle School launched a revolutionary wave of learning from Hengshui Middle School, except for the third year of high school, all the classes of the first and second years of high school were divided into groups to carry out competitive and complementary learning. President Yang said at the mobilization meeting: "The superior students bring the poor students, the partial students lead the partial students, and the group members complement each other's advantages, promote each other, improve each other, and make progress with each other." β
Liang Chen received the position of group leader from Mr. Mu, and Mr. Mu specially assigned a few students with excellent English scores in his group in a vain attempt to improve his English scores.
"Teacher Mu, why don't you arrange an English representative?"
"Who! Tang Ying is still Xue Jiao. Teacher Mu stopped the pen in his hand and continued, "Tang Ying's English test is one hundred and thirty-four, can you keep up with the learning progress of others?" Xue is also the leader of a study group. β
Liang Chen was a little surprised and asked, "Are there two representatives of the English department in our class?" β
Teacher Mu took the report card, pointed to the name in front of Liang Chen with the pen in his hand, and said, "Do you know each other now?" If you have no opinion, you can go back to the classroom and call her. β
Liang Chen nodded, returned to the classroom, and shouted "Xue Jiao", but no one responded, he was stunned.
"Go to the bathroom, she knows it's her next, go back to your seat!" Tang Rui, who was sitting in the front row, said to Liang Chen.
Liang Chen returned to his seat and asked Zhou Jun on the side, "Do you know Xue Jiao?" Representative of the English department of our class. β
"Yes! We have a school in junior high school, what's wrong, you like her? Zhou Sang said with a wicked smile.
"you, I don't even know you, I always thought that there was only one representative of the English department in our class, Tang Ying! I didn't even know there was such a person if it wasn't for Mr. Mu today, and her name is quite interesting! I didn't even notice. Liang Chen's face copied and pasted the original surprise.
"Hehe, of course, you only have Dai Shu in your old eyes, when people handed you water, your eyes were still staring at Dai Shu, I wanted to hit you at that moment." Zhou Sang flicked his fist and took the opportunity to taunt Liang Chen.
Liang Chen was a little puzzled and asked Zhou Jun: "Xue Ji!" Is it? When. β
"The one where you got hurt." Zhou Sang's expression was a little angry and wanted to fight injustice, but Liang Chen really couldn't remember.
"I think I said thank you! Why don't you remind me. Liang Chen looked blaming.
Zhou Jun pouted, showed his gritted teeth, and gave Liang Chen a punch.
Liang Chen covered his stomach with his hands, pretending to be seriously injured, making a "sizzling" sound in his mouth, his head kept swaying back and forth, and his inadvertent eyes bumped into her who came back from the toilet, no surprise, no blush, the two just looked at each other without any emotion.
Liang Chen looked at Xue Ji seriously for the first time, she was not the kind of fairy sister in the novel who "shaved shoulders and thin waist, long and tall figure, duck egg face, handsome eyes and eyebrows, looked forward to Shenfei, Wencai essence, and forgot the vulgar when she saw it", if this were the case, Liang Chen would not have known him today. She doesn't say it ordinary, she has no face and no makeup, and she is oblivious to everyone's appearance, and she can be rated as a lotus with a bright face and eyebrows.
Xue Ji is tall among the girls in Shudi, not slender, even a little chubby in the first year of high school, the baby fat on the little face is sometimes really cute, and the cheeks in the closed classroom in the autumn and winter are a little red.
"Is she Xue Jiao?" Liang Chen asked.
"Hmm" Zhou Jun sat on the bench and nodded.
The moment they made eye contact, they couldn't get any answers, Liang Chen just knew that there was a representative of the English department in the seventh class of the first year of high school named Xue Ji.
Liang Chen said that Yue Lao gave him a red thread in front of the temple, and he threw it on Xue Ji's wrist, but he didn't tie the knot for a long time.
When New Year's Day is approaching, Shihe Middle School is filled with the sound of athletes' marches, and the annual sports meeting is coming as scheduled, the full name of which is the 11th Track and Field Games of Shihe Middle School.
Before the sports day, according to the tradition of Shihe Middle School, everyone in each class must participate in all sports. In the first seven years of high school, where there is a shortage of male athletes, sports commissioner Liu Hao took the lead in winning three sports, 400 meters, 800 meters and men's high jump.
When he returned to the classroom, Liang Chen sighed, and everyone who was arguing turned around at once, staring quietly at Liang Chen who was holding the English paper, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.
Liang Chen's mind suddenly flashed a lyric - I am most afraid that the air will suddenly be quiet. After his eyes turned a few times in his sockets, he rolled up the scroll in his hand, knocked on his Tianling cover, and said to himself: "Teacher Mu seems to have something to do with me, um!" Right! β
Liang Chen turned around and just wanted to leave, Liu Hao stepped over a few tables, as if he had turned on R flash, and instantly blocked the door, while Tang Song and a few people behind him slowly surrounded Liang Chen in the middle. Liang Chen straightened up, took the scroll in his hand, pointed to the crowd around and said: "Let me tell you, our country has the "Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Law", you are all 16 years old, and school violence is a crimeΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β· Know Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Do you know Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Know. β
"We don't beat you, we just arrange a sports program for you, just one." Tang Songyan said with a smile, and several other people echoed him.
"It's not a good project to see you guys, and besides, I already participated in the team relay run before I left."
"You don't count, all the boys in my class participated in this project."
"Yes, I've been involved in three projects other than that." Liu Hao said.
"It's okay, Brother Hao, the project is complete, you go and ask Mr. Mu to give you a commission!" Liang Chen said with a smile to flatter Liu Hao.
Seeing that Liang Chen was not cooperative, everyone's faces changed suddenly.
"Liang Zi, give you two choices, 1500-meter run or Liu Hao's three events, you choose one!"
Liang Chen tilted his head and said loudly, "Don't go." β
"Okay, hard, Liangzi, I admire your spirit." Tang Song stretched out his thumb and said to Liang Chen. "But then you have to pass one test β eat pears."
Liang Chen paused for a moment, and didn't understand what it meant to eat pears for a while. When he was stunned, Tang Song commanded everyone to lift him up.
"Liu Hao, Lao Maozi raise their feet, Zhou Sang, we raise our hands."
The four of them carried Liang Chen to the outside of the classroom, Liang Chen suddenly understood the meaning of eating pears, his head collided back and forth on Brother Sanjin's fist, and his mouth shouted for help, cursing Tang Song and the others vaguely. And the few remaining girls in the classroom who did not participate in the New Year's Day performance covered their mouths and smiled.
Several people carried Liang Chen and shook him around, like playing with a child.
"Okay, okay, big brothers, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go." Liang Chen immediately begged for mercy.
"Is it voluntary?" asked Zhou Jun.
Liang Chen pretended to sobb a few times and said, "Is it voluntary, don't you count it in your hearts?" β
"That means we forced you, brothers, to continue."
"Yes, yes, I volunteered, big brothers."
"That's right! We are very democratic. β
"You beasts."
A few days later, when Liang Chen and Du Ruo were watching the men's high jump competition in the playground, they said to Du Ruo with great resentment: "They beasts actually used that method to force me to participate in the 1500-meter run. β
"Did they insult you?" Du Ruo said with a smile.
"Get out! Lao Tzu was very angry, do you know. β
"It's not like you can't run 1,500 meters, when you went to the orchard to steal loquat food when you were a child, you didn't run the fastest that time."
Liang Chen frowned, with a helpless look on his face, and said to Du Ruo: "You still say this, it's not you stupid dogs who ran to provoke other people's dogs, and led them to my side, and the dog caught up, can I not run faster?" β
Du Ruo patted Liang Chen's shoulder, and said a little embarrassed: "Isn't that that because I know that you run fast and trust you!" β
"Lao Tzu believes in your evil." Liang Chen looked at Du Ruo with contempt, and then said, "Someone in your class has entered the men's high jump final. β
"Nope!"
"I'll go, then what are we doing here, go out to eat." Liang Chen took it out and looked at the fool and stared at Du Ruo.
"The next competition is the women's high jump, and our Ban Qiunan has reached the final." When Du Ruo said Qiu Nan's name, his eyes flashed, Liang Chen knew him too well.
"I warn you! Dai Xiaoke is still your girlfriend, you have a lot of junior high school classmates, you take it easy, if you dare to split your legs, they won't be able to control my mouth if they don't tell Dai Xiao. Liang Chen looked at Du Ruo squarely, and said to Du Ruo with righteous words.
"Humph! Liang Zi actually thinks of me like this, our fifteen-year-old brother, do you still know who I am Du Ruo? Du Ruo patted his chest, and a sigh came out of his mouth, revealing a misunderstood sadness in his tone.
The villains in TV series are often in this style, but sometimes the villains may also be good people.
Liang Chen ignored him, he has never liked preaching, since he was a child, Liang Chen's father told him that it is better to act on his own than to say a thousand or ten thousand, when the history teacher talked about Mr. Tao Xingzhi in junior high school, Liang Chen felt that his father was so connotative for the first time.
The final of the women's high jump only began at around half past eleven, and in addition to the student council staff and security guards on the rostrum, there were only a few people left on the playground. Liang Chen was still thinking about why Zhou Sang said inexplicably that he wanted to watch the women's high jump final.
When the whistle sounded, the game began, and Liang Chen saw Qiu Nan in Du Ruo's mouth at first glance, which was indeed beautiful. Dressed in a black tight-fitting sportswear that perfectly reveals her figure, coupled with a height of nearly 170, the convex breasts, and the buttocks, Du Ruo said that her black hair is like black jade, and her beautiful eyes are like antelopes, which is not inferior to Dai Xiao's temperament, Liang Chen also likes her, likes it, and is not in her heart.
At the second glance, Liang Chen saw Xue Jiao, wearing a black and white school uniform on top of the gray sportswear, holding his hands in front of his chest and rubbing constantly, his hands and feet didn't know whether he was nervous or a little shivering.
Liang Chen suddenly realized why Zhou Sang said that sentence inexplicably, he thought that Liang Chen deliberately stayed to watch Xue Jiao's game, he thought that Liang Chen liked Xue Jiao, he thought Liang Chen was pretending.
Liang Chen didn't think too much about it, raised his hand to greet Xue Ji, and said come on with a smile.
"Who?" As if he had discovered a new world, Du Ruo looked at Liang Chen and said.
"A girl in our class, the name is quite interesting, Xue Ji." Liang Chen replied.
"Mandarin duck's duck."
"Next to the female character, add a central yang, the self-name of an ancient woman." Liang Chen explained.
"Understand it so clearly, you won't like people." Du Ruo suddenly came to his senses and began to gossip.
"Just came and asked me to go out to dinner, and that brother thought so." Liang Chen deliberately emphasized the word "think".
Du Ruo didn't say anything, he knew very well that he couldn't take advantage of Liang Chen's words. Since he was eight years old, Liang Chen likes to run to the house of an old man in the village who is commenting on stories, and Liang Chen's kung fu of hurting people and scolding has always been above ordinary people.
Du Ruo was especially excited today, every time Qiu Nan successfully jumped over, the applause and shouts of everyone in the audience were no match for him, and the teacher who recorded the results on the sidelines had already reminded him to be quiet twice, and he still went his own way, and he still defended himself to cheer for his classmates.
After three rounds, only Qiu Nan, Xue Ji and the two senior sisters in the second year of high school were left on the field.
In the fourth round, Qiu Nan was the first to skip, Du Ruo's voice weakened, and his voice and hands were a little unbearable. Xue Jiao was the last to jump, Liang Chen made a cheering gesture to her, he could feel that Xue Jiao was very nervous, her hands and feet trembled unconsciously, and now it was her turn to jump, and she couldn't hide.
Liang Chen forgot too many things, he didn't remember how high Xue Jiao jumped, he only remembered that Xue Jiao failed the first jump, and when she jumped the second time, her foot hooked the crossbar, rolled a few times at once, and rolled from the army-green mat to the damn concrete floor.
Qiu Nan and a senior sister on the side went up to help her, Liang Chen also ran over, he didn't think too much, he was her classmate, it was natural and rightful. Oh, yes! Naturally, it is justified, what a good bronze helmet and iron armor!
Qiu Nan and Liang Chen helped her to the sidelines, and Liang Chen asked if it was okay!
"It's okay, my ankle hurts a little bit, it's just that the game can't be beaten." Xue Ji frowned, a little lost, and Liang Chen recalled that she had a little taste of Lin Daiyu at that time.
"You're fourth! It's the highest ranking in our class, go back and I'll publicize your glorious deeds in the class so that everyone can learn from it. Liang Chen comforted Xue Ji.
Du Ruo stood behind Qiu Nan and interjected: "Yes, yes, yes, I don't dare to say the rest, Liang Zi is the most powerful at making up stories, maybe the school will award you a sportsmanship award when the time comes." β
Liang Chen scolded and laughed with a few people.
After the teacher who recorded the results came over and confirmed Xue Jiao's decision not to continue the game, Qiu Nan also followed back to the competition venue, and Du Ruo followed Qiu Nan closely as if he was a slug, leaving only Xue Jiao and Liang Chen under the basketball hoop.
Liang Chen recalled a little bit of a lonely man and a widow in the same room, he didn't speak, Xue Ji didn't speak, Liang Chen didn't feel embarrassed, there were only eight big words in his heart.
Twenty minutes flashed, Liang Chen and Xue Ji didn't say a word, Liang Chen paced back and forth, and Xue Ji rubbed his ankles from time to time. The competition over there was over, and Qiu Nan received the certificate on behalf of Xue Jiao.
With Qiu Nan here, Du Ruo was very attentive, and invited a few people out to eat for the reason of celebrating Xue Jiao and Qiu Nan, Xue Jiao had already asked her friends in the same bedroom to bring food, and quickly refused, and Qiu Nan also said that she was still waiting for her to go back at home!
"I'm not going either, I'll send Xue Ji back, you bring me a copy back." After speaking, Liang Chen helped Xue Ji to leave.
Du Ruo was only frustrated for a moment, then immediately turned his smiling face and said, "Then I'll send Qiu Nan back." β
Qiu Nan couldn't refuse again, but Liang Chen turned around and said to Qiu Nan: "Qiu Nan, be careful Du Ruo, he's a hooligan." In his sophomore year of high school, Liang Chen regretted that he couldn't add a definite sentence in front of the hooligan - he had a girlfriend.
Xue Ji smiled, Qiu Nan also smiled, and Du Ruo gritted his teeth and raised his middle finger at Liang Chen.
The encounter at the sports meeting was like a spell between Xue Ji and Liang Chen, they met, got to know each other, and became good friends like a fish in water.
After the second medical examination in the third year of high school, Liang Chen told Du Ruo about the dream he had hidden for two years on the roof of the comprehensive building.
"Do you believe in fate?" Liang Chen took a sip of wine and said to Du Ruo.
"Believe it! Aren't you and me fateful? Du Ruo replied.
Liang Chen lay on the railing of the rooftop, poured another sip of wine, took a breath of cold air, and said, "Do you know the story of Yue Lao? β
"Come on, don't sell it, after Old Man Li's set goes to high school, you are playing more and more." With the cool breeze, Du Ruo was a little drunk.
Liang Chen poured another sip of wine, greeted the cool breeze, turned around, and said his dream to Du Ruo, who was sitting on the bench.
On the day Liang Chen sent Xue Ji back to the bedroom, at night, the bright moon was shining on Liang Chen's bedside, he didn't like the moonlight, dragged the quilt over his head, and went to bed early. He had a dream, also in the night of the bright moon, in front of a nameless small temple, an old man with silver hair, with a book spread out on his knees, by the moonlight, the old man looked down and looked intently.
The storyteller Li told him the story of Yue Lao, during the Zhenguan period, in Hangzhou, it was such a night, such a scene, Wei Gu met Yue Lao in front of the West Gate, and knew that his future wife was actually a three-year-old daughter who was in tattered clothes and runny nose from Chen Po, who was a vegetable seller, and was furious, and returned to the store to pick up a sharp knife, rushed to the vegetable market, and stabbed the baby girl to the head, right in the girl's eyebrows, but many years later, Wei Gu was promoted to Xiangzhou to join the army, and was appreciated by Wang Tai, Wang Tai married his seventeen-year-old daughter to Wei Gu. On the wedding night, Wei Gu saw a piece of flower on the bride's eyebrows, and hurriedly asked how it was, only to learn that she was the girl he had assassinated unsuccessfully fourteen years ago. Wei Gu told the truth, Miss Wang remembered that she and Wei Gu were determined by marriage in her previous life, so she wrote off her resentment, and the husband and wife were more affectionate.
Liang Chen walked down the steps, just like the legend, a book of heaven that mortals didn't know a word, and a big bag full of red ropes.
Liang Chen asked the old man if he was the old man, the old man raised his head, Liang Chen couldn't recall his face in his mind, only vaguely remembered his smile, a smile that could melt people's hearts.
The old man replied yes, Liang Chen was ecstatic, took Yue Lao's hand and begged him to tell him about his marriage. Yue Lao stood up, took out a piece of red rope from his pocket, handed it to Liang Chen, pointed to the moon in the sky, and said This is your marriage, and you are Wei Gongzi and Miss Wang when you wrap the red rope.
The moon is like a mirror, reflecting Xue Jiao in school uniform, Liang Chen was stunned, threw the red rope in his hand, the rope was on Xue Jiao's hand, Liang Chen felt that he could fly, he wanted to fly over to tie a knot, but he couldn't fly after jumping for a long time, Liang Chen was anxious, his hand was pressed on the ground, looking like he was about to take off, he really flew up, however, she turned around and left.
Only the cold moon was left, and Liang Chen, who was lost in mid-air.
At dusk that day, Liang Chen, on the last lap of the 1500-meter run, saw Xue Ji turn around on the newly rising moon in a daze, and melted people's hearts with a smile like the old moon in his dream. Liang Chen held his breath, sprinted at two hundred meters, and forcibly surpassed more than ten people in front of him, and after 50 meters, she still left, he was deflated, and barely ran into the top eight, and when he crossed the finish line, Xue Ji was beside him, holding his left hand.
It's just the beginning.