Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School, located in the ancient city village of Fengcheng, is a middle school with a history of decades, and it is also the best middle school in Fengcheng.

The main entrance of the school is to the south, as soon as you enter the school gate, there are two rows of French plane trees that have grown for many years, and on the right is the playground of the school, which is much more magnificent and larger than the playground of Gaojiacun Middle School. On the left is the school's garden, with a variety of flowers and plants that are pleasing to the eye.

About 100 meters further ahead is the teaching building of the school, on the left is the staff dormitory, behind the student apartments and canteens, all of which are standard 80's architectural style, the overall building of the school is solemn and elegant, exuding a strong learning atmosphere from the inside out.

The symbol of Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School is a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, which is as thick as four or five adults hugging each other, and its branches are luxuriant.

According to legend, it was planted by Zhou Tai, the general of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms, and the tree is 1,800 years old.

There is a burn scar the size of a basin on the ginkgo tree, and it is said that in July 1938, the Japanese invaders occupied Fengcheng and set up a lookout post on the tree.

One night, the downpour, thunder and lightning, the southwest of the old tree from the top to the root of the bark about two feet wide was struck by lightning, the Japanese army saw such an amazing "heavenly wrath", so they withdrew from the lookout post and cowered in a pillbox in Fengcheng.

In 1945, progressives set up a school here, and the old trees have been fenced around the campus and have been protected to this day.

Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School after 95 years, when those who were admitted to junior college were all family glory, and every year there would be a large number of people who took the college entrance examination to obtain ordinary undergraduates and key undergraduates, and famous schools such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang University were not popular.

At that time, it was no exaggeration to say that one foot into Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School was equivalent to stepping into the gate of the university with the other foot.

If anyone's child is studying in Fengcheng, it is definitely a thing that makes the parents' faces shine.

Although Zhang Mian went to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School, he was a borrowed student, and deep down in his heart, this pride faded before going to school.

That year, borrowers accounted for more than half of all students, and the school's dormitory could not accommodate so many people, so borrowers like Zhang Mian could only rent a house near the school.

The placement information is publicized on the bulletin board in front of the teaching building of Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School on the day before the start of school.

That day, Zhang's father carried a woven bag containing quilts and clothes, and Zhang Mian carried a plastic bag containing ten eggs boiled by his mother, and the two of them rushed to Fengcheng in a car from Zhangjia Village.

When Zhang Mian was ten years old, when his father was still the deputy manager of the department in the Fengcheng Materials Bureau, a colleague surnamed Zhao lived on the campus of Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School.

My father's colleague's wife, surnamed Zhang, is an employee of a medical office in Fengcheng, and the family has an only daughter who is one year younger than Zhang Mian, and the girl is named Nana.

That summer, Zhang Mian lived in Uncle Zhao's house for about a month, and when she left, the girl named Nana was crying in the house, Aunt Zhang comforted her, saying that Zhang Mian would come to the house as a guest every summer vacation, and when Zhang Mian was admitted to Fengcheng No. 1 Middle School, she would let Zhang Mian live in her house and go to school with her every day.

In the next summer vacation, Zhang Mian also went to Uncle Zhao's house to stay for two days, and was hurriedly taken back to Zhangjia Village by his father.

In the autumn of the first year of junior high school, Zhang Mian's father resigned from the Fengcheng Material Bureau to work at the Zhangjiacun Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Zhang Mian never talked about it with anyone, including Cao Xiaoshan, who couldn't help but talk about it.

On the day my father returned from Fengcheng, he was wearing a crumpled suit, with a scruffy beard, and his leather shoes were no longer shiny but gray.

When he entered the house, he put down his luggage and smiled at Zhang Mian, wanting to be like Zhang Mian when he was a child, when he came back every month, he saw Zhang Mian lifting him up, and then hugged him and tied Zhang Mian's face with his beard.

When his hands were already stretched out, he found that Zhang Mian standing in front of him was already a boy about 1.6 meters old, he put down his left hand and patted Zhang Mian's shoulder with his right hand, like a man to another man.

He is no longer a deputy department manager of the Fengcheng Material Bureau, but an employee of the Zhangjiacun Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He did not return to his hometown, but left Fengcheng and returned to Zhangjia Village in a circle, with endless loneliness and regret.

Zhang Mian's father took Zhang Mian and easily found the class placement bulletin board in front of the teaching building.

Zhang was carrying eggs on the bulletin board to check his class placement, and his communicative father immediately chatted enthusiastically with the parents of the students standing near him.

There are a total of nine classes in the first year of high school, and Zhang Mian is divided into the first (1) class of high school, and the head teacher's surname is Dai.

In the few minutes that Zhang Mian found his class and his name, Zhang Mian's father had already chatted with a bearded middle-aged man and almost hooked up and called him a brother.

This bearded man is Su Dong's father, and Su Dong is Zhang Mian's new classmate.

That day, Su Dong stood next to his father, in addition to perfectly inheriting his father's hairy beard, he also grew two thick eyebrows with inverted figures.

He had the same face as Zhang Mian, and inexplicably watched his father and a man he had just met talking happily, suspected of being a long-lost brother.

Next, Su Dong's father and Zhang Mian's father each carried a bag of luggage out of the school gate, and rented a private house of about ten square meters for Su Dong and Zhang Mian in a small alley less than 100 meters away from the south gate.

Zhang Mian and Su Dong were arranged to be roommates in less than an hour after they met, and the landlord quickly charged an extra five yuan a month in rent.

This was discovered a month later when Zhang Mian and Su Dong were chatting with other students who were renting a room.

Their father had left together that afternoon after settling them both in.

The next morning, Zhang Lu and Su Dong found the classroom of the first (1) class of high school and sat down at the back of the classroom.

There was a commotion in the classroom, and among the classmates who had gone to school in the first middle school in junior high school before, they all spoke louder than Zhang Mian's voice, and from time to time they greeted people who were sitting far away from each other, which completely showed the landlord's style.

At this time, a middle-aged man in his thirties wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked up to the podium, and some of the students immediately stopped making noise, and then the whole class fell silent.

He is Mr. Dai, the homeroom teacher of the first (1) class of high school, who teaches politics. He briefly introduced himself, encouraged everyone to study hard in the future, and said that at present, they will sit in the position of their choice, and they will rearrange their seats after the first monthly exam.

While Teacher Dai was talking, Zhang Mian regretted sitting in the penultimate row with Su Dong. When Zhang Mian silently paid attention to those people in the front row, a girl with short hair and snow-white skin glanced back, and the moment Zhang Mian and her eyes met, Zhang Mian immediately recognized her.

She is the girl who cried out of reluctance when Zhang Mian left her house when she was ten years old: Nana.

After a noticeable startle, she immediately turned her head as if she had seen someone she shouldn't have been.

At a distance of less than five meters, Zhang Mian was turned back by her without hesitation this time.

It seems to be separated from her by thousands of rivers and mountains.

Zhang Mian looked at the white back of her neck and smiled gloomily.

The past seems ridiculous.