Chapter 16: At that time, we were like July and Ansheng
When feeling nostalgic, looking at Su Wen's concerned face, Xu Leqiu carefully treasured the care from his best friend in his heart. Suddenly remembered a youth novel that the two had read together, Xu Leqiu had never had a hobby of reading novels, and he read that novel entirely because Su Wen was sincerely moved after reading the novel. She thought at the time, what kind of youth novel moved her best friend into an overnight epiphany about life?
With curiosity, Xu Leqiu finished reading the book that was regarded as a classic of youth novels by Su Wen, and she was indeed moved and true, and she first learned about the mood of her inseparable best friend when she read the novel. Xu Leqiu has never remembered the title of the novel, but she has a very clear memory of a certain passage in the novel, and she once learned from Su Wen to copy the exquisite sentences in the novel into a notebook.
"In this world, the most beautiful love words I have ever heard are not that you say you love me, but that you say that you are there all the time. In this world, the best friendship I have experienced is not how passionate and proud, but that you have always been there, silently. Don't leave, don't give up. Because of these 'never leaving', after we have gray hair, we will go through the sorrow of rebellion, and we will still stubbornly believe in friendship and love as we did when we were young. ”
The best friendship I've ever experienced is not how passionate and proud you are, but that you've always been. Don't leave, don't give up.
The afternoon sun came in through the window, covering Xu Leqiu's desk, the golden light and shadow were projected between the girl's lowered eyelids, and the long eyelashes were like dancing butterflies fluttering with the blink of an eye. Time is as long as the storyboard of a movie camera, reflected in the dust that drifts like snow in the golden sunlight to a long, long time ago.
Su Wen and Xu Leqiu have known each other since the elementary school campus.
Xiao Leqiu used to be famous in the primary school class because of her youthful and beautiful appearance and lively and cheerful personality, she was the girl with the best academic performance in the class, ranking always in the top five in the class. She is also the most beautiful girl in the class, and she has heard her classmates call herself the class flower more than once.
Although children in primary school are innocent, they all use beauty and academic performance as factors to judge whether a person is worthy of pursuit. Beauty and achievements, little Xu Leqiu has both. Therefore, she naturally became the center of attention of the whole class, even more popular than the most handsome male student in the class. Not only do the boys regard her as a crush, but the little girls also regard themselves as the leader, no matter what they do, they can always call friends around them to form a small women's fleet. What's more, the teachers also like smart and beautiful children, and Xiao Leqiu is becoming more and more confident in the praise of the teachers, and she is so bright that she is even flamboyant.
She didn't know what vanity was at a young age, and she was growing in endless glory and enjoying the pride that vanity brought her.
She even combed her hair in a completely different hairstyle from the girls in the class, most of the first-grade girls wore two pigtails or a ponytail, and the few little girls had short boyish haircuts. Xu Leqiu also tied a ponytail, but her ponytail was not soft on the back of her head, but tied up high on the right side, and her naturally curly hair swayed on her head like a wicker dancing in the wind. It looks youthful and beautiful, confident and flamboyant.
But this glory did not last long, when the second grade of primary school opened, Leqiu's class moved into the classroom of the second grade students, the teacher was still the original teacher, the classmates were still the original classmates, and the glory and popularity were still the original taste. Just when Xu Leqiu thought that the entire elementary school years would be spent in the appreciation of teachers and the envious eyes of his classmates, the arrival of a transfer student broke the original tranquility and balance.
On the day of the report, a little girl with two long braids walked into the classroom from the main entrance with a small red schoolbag printed with cartoon patterns. The little girl timidly lowered her eyes timidly, timidly swept over the already filled seats of the students, and she did not dare to meet the stares of her new classmates, even though the whole class had paid all their attention to the strange little girl who had suddenly arrived.
There was a commotion in the class, and the second-grade student was still a childish child who loved to play and make trouble, even if he was a well-loved class girl. Xiao Leqiu, who was chasing and fighting with the girls, also followed the eyes of her classmates and noticed the strange little girl, the little girl had a small face with clear eyebrows, and her face was red into a small apple because of timidity and shyness. Xiao Leqiu, who is a girl, saw it, and couldn't help but sigh how could there be such a cute girl.
It is a completely different beauty from Xiao Leqiu's flamboyant beauty, the little girl's eyebrows and eyes are shallow, and her eyebrows unconsciously reveal a touching tactfulness, coupled with her shy and timid appearance, her red cheeks add a bit of delicate color, so that onlookers can't help but feel a little pity.
She stood timidly at the back of the classroom, looking at the occupied seats and the unfamiliar faces in the class, as if she was a little at a loss.
"What's your name? Are you new to classmate? Xiao Leqiu straightened her high-tied ponytail and walked to the timid girl at the back of the classroom with the attitude of a full class hostess.
The little girl was very grateful for Xiao Leqiu's enthusiasm, her little red face raised a very innocent smile, and her voice was soft and glutinous, "My name is Su Wen, and I am a new transfer." What about you? What is your name? ”
What is your name? Xu Leqiu finally remembered where the first contact between the two began.
After briefly introducing himself, Xiao Leqiu enthusiastically led Xiao Suwen to sit in his place temporarily, and the lively scene in the class due to the arrival of new classmates finally quieted down after the head teacher walked into the classroom.
"Come, Su Wen, let's introduce myself on the podium." The head teacher softly and gently beckoned Su Wen to the podium.
Su Wen's cheeks were still red, and when she stood on the podium to face a classroom of classmates, the boys' pile instantly boiled. And Su Wen looked at the bright eyes of the audience, and he was so timid that he couldn't speak, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "Hello everyone, my name is Su Wen, and I am a new transfer." ”
"Su Wen used to study in other places with his parents, and now he has only transferred back from other places, everyone has to take care of new classmates, you know?" The head teacher concluded.
The students, who had not encountered anything new for a long time, cheered and extended a warm welcome to the new students.
Su Wen was rightfully assigned the seat on Xu Leqiu's right hand by the head teacher, and they became the same table, and a good story between best friends in the eyes of elementary school classmates began.
Soon after, they became close friends with each other, the introverted Su Wen was always timid in the face of new classmates at first, but under the enthusiastic leadership of Xu Leqiu, Su Wen, who gradually became familiar with his classmates, gradually let go, and was as lively and cheerful as all little girls, and loved to laugh and make trouble.
In the class of dozens of people, there are amazing beautiful Xu Leqiu and pure and lovely Su Wen, and the combination of the two is the most eye-catching existence in the class. The two of them are inseparable "conjoined babies" in the eyes of all their classmates, and no matter which one of them is seen, they will unconsciously associate with the other.
The change of Xu Leqiu's status in the class began with exams again and again, and in less than a year, the new Su Wen has completely banned Xu Leqiu's position as the first female student in academic performance, and even far surpassed her, and began to compete for the title of first place in the class with the best academic performance and the most handsome boy in the class.
The darling in the eyes of the teachers is no longer the outdated Xu Leqiu, Xu Leqiu is at best only a student who ranks high in the class but hovers in the top ten, and she does not have the capital and strength to compete for the first place in the class. There was a strong opponent among the girls, and Le Qiu silently chased after it, but she still lost the character of the girl who had the right to speak, and even Le Qiu herself didn't know when she began to become one of the most girls.
It's ridiculous to think about it, in the class of elementary school, a group of little kids unconsciously pursue students with good academic performance, loved by teachers, and beautiful looks. Its madness and following the trend is not an exaggeration to describe it even as chasing stars.
Feng Shui took turns, and Su Wen, who came later, became the focus of their entire primary school class.
Fortunately, the name of the class flower was not taken away by the latter under the repeated agreement and discussion of the students, which became the only comfort for Xu Leqiu in elementary school.
But even so, most of the boys' eyes turned from Xu Leqiu to Su Wen, and even Xu Leqiu keenly captured that there were not a few boys who admired Su Wen in private.
Before Su Wen appeared, Xu Leqiu, who was calling for wind and rain in the class, was often discussed privately by gossiping classmates, and there were many admirers, and the most worthy of her was the first and most handsome boy in the class. Adolescent boys and girls, all with ignorance and innocence, curiously explore the unknown territory that invisibly attracts them.
However, after Su Wen's arrival, Xu Leqiu's life has undergone earth-shaking changes, one of which includes the boy who was once given Xu Leqiu a red line by his classmates, and suddenly changed the direction of the wind, the handsome and intelligent boy who was loved by the girls in the class suddenly became Su Wen's best partner in the eyes of his classmates.
The change came almost suddenly, how many times did the little Xu Leqiu be among the girls, and I saw and heard the girls chatting tirelessly about Su Wen and the boy she had had a crush on since the first grade of elementary school. No one noticed Xu Leqiu's injured eyes, and no one recounted how well the two names that had been put together were so compatible.
It's all just because the more compatible one has appeared, and it hasn't changed since the day it appeared.
Xu Leqiu listened to the classmates gossip about his best friend, and from time to time he had to echo and echo the heated discussions of the girls, and his heart was dripping blood. But compared to the boys who frequently witnessed their crushes throwing admiration and admiration at their girlfriends, they were still not too heart-wrenching for Xu Leqiu.
Many years later, Xu Leqiu and Su Wen went to the same junior high school, and there were also girls who envied the inseparable friendship between them, but that sensitive issue was as sudden as Su Wen suddenly appeared in Leqiu's life.
What would you do if you both fell in love with a guy at the same time? Are you going to break up for a guy?
In real life, most girls can't resist the torture of this question, and they turn against each other because they like a boy at the same time. No matter how close and inseparable they were, no matter how many promises they made to be friends for life, when the rift came, the friendship disappeared.
Just like the story "July and Ansheng" written by Baby Anne that I once read, no matter how good the sisters are, they are involved in love disputes, just for a man, and they turn against each other.
So, will they?
Xu Leqiu remembered that when Su Wen faced the sudden question of a female classmate in junior high school, she smiled sincerely, she said: "Of course not, I think friends are more important, even if I really like a boy at the same time, I can quit for my friends." ”
Le Qiu listened quietly, and couldn't help but recall in her mind that not long ago, when she was in the fifth grade of primary school, she had a huge friendship with Su Wen.
Su Wen looked at Xu Leqiu, with a calm and sworn smile on her face, and her eyes were full of expectation, she said, "Xiaoqiu, what about you?" ”
The female classmates looked at their inseparable "good sisters" with a cold smile on the corner of their mouths, and it was obvious that the boring spectators were more willing to accept the cruelty of "good sisters tearing their faces and discarding friendship for the sake of men" than the bloody bridge of good sisters giving up love for their great friendship.
Xu Leqiu was stunned, quickly got out of his imagination, and smiled softly, "I'm the same as you." ”
Really, just like you?