"Eh, Song Yu, do you know that senior sister?" During the evening self-study class, Deng Jiaming smiled evilly and pushed the shoulders of his tablemates.

"Yes, what's wrong?" The boy sorted out a stack of application forms and replied unhurriedly.

"What's your relationship? Both of you are surnamed Song, aren't you sisters and brothers? The Deng family was obviously very enthusiastic.

"Ha, you really guessed it right~" Song Yu smiled helplessly.

"Brother and sister?" Deng Jiaming still didn't give up, "Your sister is so beautiful!" ”

"No, she's my uncle's daughter."

"Ah well, my cousin is not bad~ Why do you want to call your uncle's daughter?"

"Why are you talking so much?" The boy glanced at Deng Jiaming, "My dad got married late, isn't it normal?" ”

Deng Jiaming ignored the boy's impatience at all, and put on a flattering smile on his shy face, "Song Yu, can you introduce me to your sister?" ”

"you, do you still want to beat my sister?"

"Then you introduce me to me!"

"Just you? I think it's still going to go! Song Yu smiled, "There are more boys chasing her, not to mention that my sister already has someone she likes." ”

"Huh? No way? Who is it? Deng Jiaming had a sad face and an extremely exaggerated expression.

"How do I know? There is no need to tell you if you know. ”

Deng Jiaming began to scream again: "Ah! My first love hasn't started yet, am I going to fall out of love? ”

"I'll go, how many times have you met? It's still my first love! Song Yu stroked his head helplessly, grabbed an application form and handed it to the same desk for the funeral examination, "Oh, don't you want to know my sister?" Take this! ”

Deng Jiaming took the application form and asked, "Didn't you say that your sister has someone she likes?" ”

"Well, we're not together yet."

"Wow, brother, you're so good to me!" Deng Jiaming grinned when he heard this, and punched Song Yu loudly.

"I'll go, don't say that I dug my sister's corner, and she knew that she would crush me to death." The man took care of the textbook on the table, "Don't cry with me if you can't catch it then~"

"Don't worry, rest assured, ......" The boy at the same table was immersed in his own obscenity and smiled with satisfaction.

Suddenly, Deng Jiaming held the thin A4 paper of the application form of the Literature Society, with a desperate expression on his face, "Ah! I don't like writing essays the most! ”

"You call it self-inflicted!"

"Anyway, how do you write your sister's name? Garden? How does it sound so much like a Japanese name? Deng Jiaming said confusedly.

"Haha, I'm going to tell my sister to go, her Mandarin is so bad that people listen to Yuan Zhi is a garden hahaha~" Song Yu couldn't help laughing.

"Damn, it's my ear problem, don't hit people indiscriminately!"

"And that's the beginning of the short-term?" The boy couldn't help but tease.

"Song Yuanzhi, from "Chu Ci, Nine Songs, Mrs. Xiang": Yuan has Zhi Xi Li Youlan." Song Yu explained while writing his cousin's name on scratch paper.

"It's so complicated!" Deng Jiaming's eyes widened, "What do you mean?" ”

"Kid, I advise you to read more books and play less games!" Song Yu couldn't help but glance at Deng Jiaming, who was at the same table, "Doesn't the great god Qu Yuan always like to write about vanilla beauties and have lofty aspirations?" 'Yuanzhi Lilan' originally referred to the herbs born on both sides of the Yuanxiang River, and was later used as a metaphor for noble people or things. ”

"Brother, teachable, teachable!" Deng Jiaming learned to be an ancient, and bowed to Song Yu.

"Your sister is so beautiful." Su Wen sat in his seat and silently listened to the fiery chat of the boy at the front table, and let out a sigh of envy leisurely.

"Haha, it's okay." Song Yu turned around and said, fortunately Song Yuanzhi was not around, otherwise Song Yu would have to be beaten by his cousin again.

"So pretty, you say it's okay?" Deng Jiaming was jumping on the side, and there was a hint of threat in his tone, "Is this the benefit of growing up next to a rabbit's nest?" ”

"By the way, you're going to join the Literary Society?" The boy ignored Deng Jiaming's wah-wow screams, and directly threw him a roll of the eyes, and looked serious at the girl.

"I ......" actually she hasn't thought about it yet.

With the current situation of fierce competition among the top students in the top class, the glory of Su Wen's once proud of the rivers and lakes in junior high school has turned into ashes, and the essence of the snail has been completely exposed in the top class of Bode Middle School, where there are many talented players. For Su Wen, she really shouldn't have any luck at this time, what capital does she have to choose her extracurricular life when she is lagging behind in the top class? It's hard enough to keep up with her academic performance, not to mention the fact that she has to sprint to escape from the bottom of her class.

Can a snail have a dream? Perhaps climbing up is the snail's only dream. Looking around, always wanting to get too much, maybe one day the snail can't stand on its feet, and it will fall from a high place and die.

"What are you waiting for? Don't you like literature very much? ”

The girl looked up in surprise and met the boy's smiling eyes. It turns out that he has noticed his preferences?

"I'm not going to participate." The girl had mixed feelings in her heart, but in the end she still said the words that made her heart sad.

"Why?" The boy looked at the girl with a disfocused look in confusion, "I can see that you really want to participate." ”

Eager to attend? Is the mental activity of girls so obvious?

"Dreams are something that only you can have, so I'd better forget it." Su Wen smiled, but she knew that the smile on her face must be unusually ugly.

Sure enough, the boy was stunned, and after a while, a big smile bloomed on the boy's face, "What stupid things are you talking about!" We're all the same, who isn't an ordinary person anymore? ”

This time, Su Wen was stunned, she looked at the boy's eyes full of warm smiles, and said seriously and seriously: "We are really different." ”

The truth lies in front of the girl's eyes, no matter how the boy speaks comforting words and emphasizes that "we are all the same", the truth does not change because of this. The boy, who ranked second in the province in the high school entrance examination, naturally did not understand the complicated feelings of the girl who was at the bottom of the class. It's not that she's looking ahead and hesitating, it's that the cruel reality doesn't allow her to act recklessly.

If reality allows, who doesn't want to let the sky fly high?

"Now, I didn't try, don't say anything." The boy's voice was unusually gentle at the end of the class bell, "I'll give you an application form first, and you can think about it." ”

"It's just once you live to be 16 years old." Before turning around, the boy left a soft sentence.

People live for a lifetime, and 16 years old is just that. She didn't want to regret it, but she had to make a clear choice.

Academic performance and hobbies, one side is reality, the other side is ideal, the palms and backs of the hands are meat, no matter which side you choose, you are destined to face the heavy situation of reluctance and love. A 16-year-old girl is already faced with such a major choice in her life. Many people in life will think, since the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, why not choose both? Wouldn't it be better to have the best of both worlds? While it would be best to assume that reality allows for the best of both worlds, the vast majority of people will not be able to do it in the vast majority of cases. If not, why did Mencius, the great sage more than 2,000 years ago, also exclaim like that: "Fish, I can do what I want; The bear's paw is also what I want, and I can't have both, and the one who gives up the fish and takes the bear's paw. ”

So, take the fish or take the bear's paw?

As early as Su Wen's very young memory, it seems that she understood the hardships and heaviness of life very early, so she knew how to be considerate of her parents who worked hard for the family since she was a child, and set a clear goal in life since she was a child. Putting things more distant aside, before the age of 18, you must have dedicated your whole body and mind to gain fame and move towards a brighter future. Since childhood, the stupid snail who has lived at the bottom for a better life in the future can only keep climbing up, since he wants to achieve such a distant goal, he must take the initiative to give up something if he wants to succeed, in the face of cruel reality, what is the hobby? What is the unbridled boyhood?

The young girl's eyes are not full of ignorant and innocent colors, but she sees more of the sideburns of her parents' early hair and the marks of the vicissitudes of time on their faces. So she was very young and determined to become an excellent person who would bring light to her parents and family in the future, and her childhood growth was like that, and suddenly one day she understood the reality of life, and suddenly from that day on, she took on the responsibility of being a human being.

As early as junior high school, Su Wen gave up his dream of painting since elementary school for the distant goal of the high school entrance examination. And now that she is in high school, she has to give up her other dream for the college entrance examination that thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge - the literary dream?

There must be gains and losses, Su Wen has deeply understood this truth since he was a child. She is only 16 years old, and she has already missed and lost many important things in her life because of the heavy reality. And what about the future? Who knows how many good things you want to have are waiting to be given up?

Choked in my heart, the bitter taste in my throat was like dysentery.

In Su Wen's junior high school days, there was always a copy of "How Steel is Made" in the girl's desk, and she would always remember the most famous life motto in that book: "The most precious thing for a person is life, and life belongs to a person only once, and a person's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret doing nothing and wasting his time, nor will he feel guilty for being despicable and living a vulgar life." ”

You only have one life in this life, and you only have one time at the age of 16. When youth is gone, the traces of time are all over the vicissitudes of life, full of silver hair, perhaps still clubbing crutches, with a pair of eyes that have gone through the world to calmly scan everything around them. At that time, looking back, how many regrets and losses are there? How much success and happiness are there? And what did you do at your 16-year-old?

The future is unpredictable, and the present time is quietly passing away in the fingers.

That night, Su Wen lay on the bed tossing and turning, staring at the white ceiling in the dark, his mind tossing and turning over and over the words left by the boy, and his heart was constantly tortured from the depths of his soul.

People live for a lifetime, and 16 years old is just that. Do you want to regret it?

No, she didn't want to regret it. No matter how many difficulties and difficulties she will face after making a decision, she does not want to regret it.

When I was young, I chased my dreams, regardless of success or failure. Anyway, isn't being young just for chasing dreams?