(26) New Year
A few of us stayed at Sister Guozi's place until the reunion dinner was about to be eaten, and then we went home.
After sending them all away, I turned back to Sister Fruit alone and delivered her the small gift I had prepared for her.
Sister Kazuko was surprised that I would give her a New Year's gift, but I could tell that she was very happy. She had to give me something in return, but I refused for a long time, and in the end, I really couldn't help it, so I let her hug me.
Sister Fruit's embrace was warm, and almost instantly dispelled the cool air I had brought from outside, but I could clearly feel that she was trembling slightly as she hugged me. It was as if I was holding back tears, and I felt it quietly, unconsciously hugging her harder.
I think she's lonely too, maybe she wants to go home too. I was tempted to ask her what kind of family she was born into, and why she was still in this empty shop, but reason told me that I had better not ask for the rest of my life unless she brought it up.
That's probably the greatest comfort I can give her.
After returning from Sister Guozi, Fu Chengwen and I went directly to his house. Originally, I felt that this year was nothing special for me, but both families felt that I had escaped death once, and this Chinese New Year must be celebrated. I didn't understand what the four adults meant by "celebrating", and they didn't give me a clear explanation. It wasn't until the evening, when it was about to pass midnight, when Fu's mother brought me a plate of very small and very small dumplings, that I realized that the two mothers had specially rushed at this time and spent the night to wrap me a bowl of dumplings that meant praying for the safety of my family in our hometown.
I looked at this bowl of dumplings the size of my thumb nail, and suddenly my nose was sore, and I couldn't get off the chopsticks. When the two mothers' families saw that I didn't move, they were so anxious that they thought I didn't like to eat, so they took turns urging me to eat them all as if they were persuading children to eat.
The two of them didn't give me time to explain at all, so I could only carefully put the small and delicate ones into my mouth one by one under the eager gaze of the two of them. With the ringing of the zero o'clock bell, the last dumpling in the bowl was also eaten by me, and the two mothers finally put their minds at ease when they saw this, and then began to urge others to eat quickly.
I'm not actually hungry, but for the sake of face, I'm really embarrassed to say that I can't eat that much. I really reluctantly finished this bowl of dumplings, and at the end of the meal, I felt a little uncomfortable. I wanted to go to bed and lie down for a while, but I was too embarrassed to go straight back to the room, so I sat at the dinner table and chatted with them, until Fu Chengwen finished eating, and the two of us got off the table together.
Back to Fu Chengwen's house, the two of us had already sent a lot of New Year's greeting messages on our mobile phones, and after giving them back one by one, I immediately kicked Fu Chengwen out, and honestly got into the bed, relaxed my stomach, which was about to explode, and then fell asleep.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Cao Yunxiao went to another city and started the filming of a new play.
We originally said that we were going to see him off together, but we didn't expect him to lie about the flight of the plane, and when we got up, we found that the person who said he had left in the afternoon had already boarded the plane. When he got off the plane and told me that he was safe, I educated him fiercely, and it was not until I was about to hang up the phone that he told me that he didn't like to say goodbye to me, so he could send me away in the future, but I should never send him, otherwise he would be reluctant to leave me.
I remember when I heard that, I blushed almost instantly. And from that moment on, it became the usual pattern between us. It's just that none of us could have imagined that this pattern would remain in place until we said goodbye for the last time.
It's like we didn't think that one day, we'd really say goodbye and never see each other again.
After Cao Yunxiao left, a few of us didn't come out to get together again, just honestly followed the parents everywhere to pay New Year's greetings. It wasn't until the thirteenth day of the first lunar month that we got together again and started the life of the first semester of high school.
The first thing I did when school started was to rearrange my seats.
This is something that our homeroom teacher is very passionate about, and it is almost every week that she can see the rotation of seats, and after a semester of knowing and understanding, she should think about the seat matter carefully, so as to help her distinguish the seriousness of the students' learning.
And I, because I was the tenth from the bottom in the final exam, was naturally assigned to sit in the back.
I was still a little concerned about the seat, and almost after changing seats, I felt very embarrassed the rest of the time, except for politely saying hello to my table mate, and I didn't know what to talk to with my tablemate. And my table mate is also a non-talkative person. The two of us sat together, and wherever we sat was almost the quietest place in the class.
Fortunately, although I fell behind in the course for more than a month, because of the help of Fu Chengwen and Cheng Zexin, I didn't feel too much effort after the new class started. However, my Chinese teacher, who valued me the most, still felt that I needed some help, and just a week after we changed seats, suggested that Fu Chengwen be arranged to be my tablemate again.
Our homeroom teacher is naturally unwilling, after all, Fu Chengwen's grades are the first in the grade, and she naturally wants him to sit at the same table with his classmates who are also good at studying, so that the two of them can still supervise each other's studies, so she deliberately arranged him with the students whose grades were second only to him in our class. But our Chinese teacher thinks that I can also urge Fu Chengwen to study, and when Fu Chengwen helps me, my basic knowledge will also be more firmly mastered, which is also good for Fu Chengwen, so she still insists on her ideas. The two couldn't hold on like this, until Fu Chengwen took the initiative to find the head teacher, and the head teacher had to give in.
According to Fu Chengwen, he was not particularly active, mainly because our Chinese teacher secretly communicated with him. But later, when our Chinese teacher told me about it, she didn't say anything, but Fu Chengwen took the initiative to mention it to her and asked her if there was any way to let the two of us continue to share the same table. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "A Paper into a Book, a Thought into a Written Claw Book House" for the first time.