Chapter Ninety-Three: Untitled (Niu Jincheng Fanwai)
When did you first notice the person who didn't like to talk and always sat silently in his seat to study? Probably from the first time I saw her!
At that time, it was the second year of junior high school, and even if he was divided into classes, he knew most of the people in the class, but because of his acquaintance, he paid more attention to those he didn't know before. And among these people, the one who was too silent attracted his attention too much.
It was the beginning of September, and even though the scorching heat had passed, the aftermath of the autumn tiger still made people irritable and restless. The dilapidated school, not to mention the air conditioning, even the ceiling fan is a luxury, the whole classroom has four ceiling fans, three are broken, only one is left there crookedly hanging, slowly turning, and from time to time it will make a creaking sound, it looks really suspicious if it will suddenly fall, and then hit people.
But this ceiling fan also has its own tenacity, from the beginning of the year, until now, stunned is good, it seems that it is no problem to survive this autumn.
Fortunately and unfortunately, Niu Jincheng was sitting under this precarious ceiling fan at this moment, enjoying the faint cool breeze, but also taking the risk of being smashed.
Still, whenever he saw the men swishing there with their paper-folded fans, he felt that the little risk he had taken was worth it, at least he had his hands free.
And then the person who always sits in his position very calmly and never uses a fan to fan himself has become the most unique scenery in Niu Jincheng's eyes. He was really curious, wouldn't this person feel hot?
Every time he fanned the ceiling fan and was still sweating, he was more concerned about that girl, and he would even wonder if this person was cold, or brought cold air, so she could sit so firmly and not even move.
Later, he learned the girl's name, Wang Xiaoshan. He also learned that the girl and himself belonged to the same village. It's a familiar name, and it's from a village, even if the memory of that childhood is blurred to death, he can guess that this person used to be his classmate. No way, there used to be a primary school in their village, and he didn't know how long this primary school had been running, he only remembered that when they went to the second grade, the school suddenly collapsed, and then the children in their village were transferred to the primary schools in other villages.
That impression was so vague that he thought about it for a long time, and the picture that remained in his mind in the end was just that thin and small shadow. But now, she doesn't seem to be so thin, she's a lot taller, and most importantly, her long, natural yellow braids are so attractive to his eyes!
Every time he wandered in class, he would always stare at her braids in a daze, wondering if this hair was not heavy?
In fact, at that time, there were two or three female classmates in their class who also had long braids, but he always felt that the braids of those two or three people were not as good as Wang Xiaoshan's, one had less white head, black and white, not good-looking, and the other hair was too curly, natural curls, even if they were neatly combed every time, they looked messy, and the other one was obviously not as long as Wang Xiaoshan.
So when she sold her hair later, Niu Jincheng was still very sorry and distressed, but at that time, it was only a pity, because at that time, his concern for her had already shifted from her hair to other places, such as her smile, such as her timidity like a mouse.
However, a month after the start of school, Niu Jincheng's impression of her was only superficial, with long hair and no love to talk.
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He hadn't even heard her voice, and he was a little vague about what this person looked like, and he saw more of her back. It wasn't until that monthly exam that he said the first sentence to this person, and he knew that this person's voice was so good, crispy, not as sharp as other girls, and had a different texture.
And the pen he had taken, he did not lose, and as early as the moment he took it, he planned to give her a new one, because then he could still hear her and have more intersections with her.
And then, he did that, the more Wang Xiaoshan didn't like to talk, the more he wanted to provoke her. He could have been able to get in touch with her step by step and slowly, but the sudden change of seats in the old class disrupted his plan.
He also never dreamed that he would be at the same table with her! The moment he moved the table, Xu Yan laughed at him, saying that he was so happy to change his position, and he thought, how can this be expressed by the word happy, he was simply excited, so excited that he couldn't be more excited. He couldn't stop laughing all day, and even Xu Yan said that he looked like a fool.
But he thought, fools are fools, what does it matter if you can sit together and be said to be a fool. Then, in those two weeks, he really didn't study much, his mind was not on studying at all, although he didn't study much before, but the lack of study at this time was completely different from the previous lack of study.
His current mind is thinking about what to say to Wang Xiaoshan every day, how to let her talk to himself more, how to make her pay more attention to herself, but he is afraid that this will delay her study! Niu Jincheng felt that he had never even worried about himself so much, but he was very worried about her studies. Maybe he was also afraid that Wang Xiaoshan's academic performance would decline, and the old class would not let them sit together!
However, this happiness came suddenly and disappeared very quickly. In less than two weeks, the old class found him and told him a lot, and it was summed up in three points, first, he has been very close to Wang Xiaoshan recently, which is a real hammer from his classmates; second, his grades have dropped so much recently, he is absent-minded all day long, and he doesn't take his studies seriously at all; Third, Wang Xiaoshan has to study hard, he also has to study hard, both of them have good grades, and the old class warned him not to delay Wang Xiaoshan's study, nor to delay his own study. In the end, the old class gave the final solution: change seats, or Wang Xiaoshan; Or, it's him who changes.
Regarding the call that Lao Ban said, Niu Jincheng had no excuse, and he had no way to defend it, because this was indeed his recent situation, his mind was not right, and he misled himself and others.
However, he still doesn't want to choose any, he doesn't want to change, and he doesn't want Wang Xiaoshan to change! But today I can't help him. There was silence for a few seconds before he said, "Teacher, can you wait until Monday to change?" Whether it is me and Wang Xiaoshan, and other people in the class have also changed. The reason Niu Jincheng didn't say, but even if he didn't say it, the old class could understand what he meant, didn't refute, nodded, and finally only explained to let him study hard.
After returning to the classroom, his whole person was like a sunburned leaf, the whole person curled up, completely out of energy, looking at Wang Xiaoshan wanted to speak, but didn't want to speak, and even looked at it quietly, at this moment he really hated the person who secretly snitched, but he also knew that such an ending was the best, because sitting together, there would be more and more rumors in the class, and he would become more and more unable to control himself. In the end, he didn't care about his own results, but he was also afraid that he would affect Wang Xiaoshan.
Then, the shortest time in the class happened to the tablemates, and that made it happen
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The person, like other classmates, was confused and complained, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Later, the two changed back to their original appearance, Niu Jincheng would not take the initiative to talk to him, and Wang Xiaoshan would not take the initiative to come to him, although he was very eager for her to come to talk to him. But even if he didn't speak, Niu Jincheng always subconsciously went back to see her, even if she was just lying there with an expressionless face to study, he could watch the whole class quietly.
Later, the matter between him and Wang Zixuan that came out of the class, it actually had nothing to do with him, he, he just, forget it, there is no need to justify, those are indeed made by him, there is only a purpose, there are two, one is to divert the attention of the old class and other students in the class, so that Wang Xiaoshan's learning environment can change back to the way before, and the other is to divert his own attention, wanting to gradually peel his eyes away from Wang Xiaoshan.
It's a pity that he only achieved one of these two goals, and all people's attention was away from Wang Xiaoshan, but his own gaze was glued to her, and he couldn't tear it apart.
Noticing this, it was still at noon that day, he took a lunch break, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Wang Xiaoshan, originally this subconscious action was almost imperceptible to himself, but what he saw that day really told him that his eyes were never far away.
The picture he saw was that the two boys around her kept talking about it, and Wang Xiaoshan also replied from time to time, talking and talking, she actually started to write, seeing that she turned so flexibly, and her fingers were flying, he didn't expect this person to have this ability. Squinting slightly, if I'm not mistaken, the pen seems to be his.
How could he not have seen the pen in her hand that he had given her, although that pen was a very common one in the commissary, but Wang Xiaoshan had only one such pen in his pencil case.
The more I look at it, the more I feel angry in my heart, this person actually talks and laughs with others, isn't she a lover of learning? Isn't she not fond of talking to others? Why don't you study now? Why do you keep talking now!
But in the end, he could only swallow this anger into his stomach. The moment he saw the pen in the dormitory, he really regretted it, regretted that he was too rational, regretted why he couldn't be more emotional, but in the end he returned the pen he had snatched, because reason prevailed over emotion.
Later, he gradually became silent, and became less likely to talk to others, or rather, only to certain people, and more time was spent on his studies.
In the whole third year of junior high school when he couldn't see Wang Xiaoshan, the only motivation for him to spur himself to keep learning was that Wang Xiaoshan studied very hard, if he didn't work hard, he couldn't catch up with the pace of that person, and when he knew that the high school that that person finally applied for was Xu Zhong, he suddenly lost motivation, and in the end he didn't do well, at least the school that he could have been admitted to with his strength, and in the end, his family spent money on it.
Seriously, for a while, he was really decadent, that is, later, when he heard Xu Yan talk about Wang Xiaoshan's recent situation, he regained his spirits, at that time, he was not only to make himself more like Wang Xiaoshan, but also because he felt that only when people work hard and become stronger, can they be more free and do what they want to do.
He shook his head at the people around him, rejected their proposal to play basketball, turned around and walked towards the classroom, free activities in physical education class or something, far less important than studying!
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