After reporting the turmoil, a few of us suddenly fell silent for a while. The notes that weaved under the desks in class were gone, and the muttering chatter in the self-study class was gone.

I didn't dare to take the initiative to talk to Erya, and Erya didn't take the initiative to talk to me. We are like a quarrelsome couple, neither of us wants to take the initiative to bow our heads, but we are both looking forward to talking to each other as soon as possible.

Sijie and I will still "go in and out" together, but we all tacitly agree not to mention the report. We also don't play with girls anymore, whether Er Ya is there or not.

The consciousness of the difference between men and women suddenly drives our behavior, even if it makes us feel awkward and unhappy.

……

Maybe it's because I've been on the edge of the pension area for a long time, Sijie slowly has some friends in the pension area, and he also pulled me to join the topic circle of the pension area.

It was also at that time that I learned that Erya turned out to be a general lover of the public. Almost all the boys in the pension area like Erya, but the reasons for liking them are not the same. Some people like Erya because she is good-looking, some people like Erya because she jumps well with rubber bands, and some people like Erya because she has good academic performance......

The reason for the love in school is actually very simple and naïve. Location reasons such as the same table, front and back tables, comparative advantages such as good academic performance and handsomeness, and even personality elements such as outstanding ball skills and ruffians...... And so on.

I remember a classmate named Zhang Lei, and I remember that there was always a Zhang Lei by my side in high school, college, and even after work. The reason why he likes Erya is the most strange, he said that once on duty, Erya carried the trash can with him to take out the garbage, and then he liked Erya.

You can like a person to take out the garbage, so you can't have a baby if you lift a table? I'm also drunk.

But Zhang Lei's explanation convinced us. "Don't you think that looks like a husband and wife going to water the garden?"

We told him, "Watering the garden is carrying water, not dung." Garbage can be manure, and carrying manure is fertilizing, not watering. ”

However, Rao is one of these classmates who were not admitted to high school back then, and now they have become the backbone of the construction site, even if they don't have Erya's contact information now, at least they still bravely admitted that they liked Erya in front of the majority of boys.

Even many people didn't understand what it meant to like at the time.

They asked me and Sijie if they also liked Erya.

Sijie smiled, "Everyone is a brother, so I won't fight with you." ”

Now that I think about it, I think Sijie's answer at that time was really "petty and cunning". I was the only one who was struggling and pretending to be a good student, "The teacher said that students should focus on their studies, and early love will do no good." ”

Naturally, my answer was despised by the majority of boys. Those classmates in the pension area actually don't care whether I like Erya or not, they just live in their own imagination and live in the happiness of bravely speaking.

Maybe they knew at that time that Erya would most likely not like them.

Now, their children are about to enter junior high school. The jokes that have been told and the girls who have gossiped, including Erya, have probably forgotten them. But at that time, they were simple and happy, they were brave and happy.

The days passed in silence. If I had to choose again, I would have preferred to report it to the teacher without such a head-scratch. I'll check with Erya and tell her that I like her too.

The past is in the wind, and the story will eventually be dusty. In addition to the old times, there are also those impulses and bravery that have not been put into action.

……

Entering the second year of junior high school, there have also been new changes in our teaching.

As if the result of the efforts of the Chinese teachers in the school, the school decided to set aside two hours every Tuesday afternoon for composition training, in order to adapt to and cope with the cruel fact that 40% (60/150) of the composition of the high school entrance examination was in advance.

Those who have the composition have the language.

Every week, the school selects outstanding essays and publishes them in the newspaper. Selected students will receive a free copy of the current issue of the essay report, as well as several notebooks as a manuscript fee. Other students voluntarily bought the essay newspaper.

In this voluntary model, the proportion of students volunteering is not high. Later, the school raised awareness of the importance of essays, and resolutely implemented the principal's major judgment that "those who get essays get the language", and asked each class to purchase at least 20 copies.

Of course, the money is paid by the class fee, and the class fee is, of course, paid by each student.

This kind of rhetoric that everything is for learning and aiming at the high school entrance examination is naturally supported by parents, and it is a great honor to go to the school's composition newspaper with their children's essays for a while. Therefore, parents hope that their children's essays can be submitted for selection rather than paying class fees to buy essay newspapers.

For example, I have heard of parents who have raised the bonus to 100 yuan per article. I don't know if any of the authors of the selected essays have such parents, and I didn't get any prize money from them anyway, even though my essays have appeared in almost every issue of the essay newspaper.

For a professional like me, I don't know if the teacher in charge of article selection will have aesthetic fatigue.

There is a voice of discussion among the classmates, saying that in order to save trouble, the teacher only screens a small group of people in each issue, so basically the people who report are always that group.

Although I have a vested interest, there was a time when I agreed with everyone's voice.

Now that I'm an editor, I understand that the editor was really just sifting through a small group of people.

The most important thing is to be reassuring and hassle-free. Just like the online novel website will give more exposure opportunities to the great god writers, it does not necessarily mean that the newcomers' works must be worse than the great god writers, but it is certain that the bottom line will not be too low by giving the opportunity to the great gods, and at the same time, it can also save a lot of time and cost to find pearls in the sea.

Because of the things reported in the essay, my relationship with Erya has been greatly eased.

One day, during extracurricular activities, before I got up and ran out of the classroom, Erya suddenly patted me on the back.

"Can you tell me how to write a good essay?"

Erya asked me.

I turned around, a little incredulous, Er Ya was looking at me with sincere eyes. Naturally, I can choose to talk about a bunch of theories and a bunch of truths like a Chinese teacher. What to read more, read more, write more, learn from Yi's long skills, and plan the layout......

But the person who asked me the question was Erya after all, and I couldn't be perfunctory to her, I had to treat her sincerely.

"I think there are two things that are very important, the first is the intention." I said to Er Ya seriously, "You have to have a new perspective, you have to have depth and emotion. The second is logic. Whether it's writing about a memorable event or a person you respect, you have to have logic to tell the logical order of the characters' stories. ”

Erya nodded and asked me seriously. "Then how can you have good intentions, how can you be logically clear?"

……

I didn't know that Erya would ask questions in a row, so I didn't know how to answer. "Why don't you take out the essay you wrote, and I'll tell you what I think after reading it."

This is called case teaching.

So, I started to become Erya's composition tutor. Although I couldn't tell why a lot of the time, I just intuitively told her that it might be better. For a while, we discussed how to write essays in almost every extracurricular activity.

Erya's essay finally appeared in the composition newspaper.

In that issue, the study committee took back three essay newspapers and distributed them to the selected authors, but I did not get the newspapers in that issue.

After all, my essay was not reported with Erya's essay. This is not the saddest, the saddest thing is that Erya thought that he was a teacher, and began to pay less attention to me again.

Of course, it was during the time when I was tutoring Erya in writing that I realized that I had the talent to be a teacher.