Chapter 3: The Flowers

Looking back now, there should have been a faint sense of frustration at that time.

There are only two types of evaluations: pass and fail.

Moreover, the teacher will ensure that everyone passes. Because if someone can't get a primary school diploma, it's unjustifiable.

There will be no secondary school entrance exams and no investigation of parents' educational background.

Surveys are useless either. All of us, our parents are almost all farmers, except for the four precepts.

When I got acquainted with Sijie slowly, I asked him, why didn't you make any more oil.

The four precepts told me that it was not called hair oil, it was called mousse. As for why he didn't fight again, he didn't say it explicitly, he just said that he didn't want to.

"Students should look like students, and mousse is not what students should be."

When Ermao was talking nonsense, the red scarf on his chest did not flutter in the wind.

……

There is already a flower basket in front of the tomb of the four rings.

I knew it was placed in the center of the tombstone.

I put the flower basket I brought next to the second flower basket.

In terms of symmetry, I should move Erya's flower basket a little to the side, and then the two flower baskets can be placed in the center.

This may have something to do with my profession, as I have been an editor for a long time, and I always have some obsessive-compulsive disorder in the layout of the layout.

Still, I suppressed my obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Erya is Sijie's wife, and I am just his friend.

My wife's basket should be in the center, and my friend's basket should be set aside. Although Sijie always said in front of me before his death, women are like clothes, and brothers are like siblings.

Whenever this happens, I want to hit him. Since women are like clothes, can't you just wear one? Why does it have to be Erya.

……

I had a crush on Erya, and I was known by Sijie when junior high school started.

There is only a wall and a summer vacation between the experimental primary school and the experimental middle school. When I was in the same class as Sijie, I was still very happy.

This summer, there was another thing that made me happier than being in the same class with Sijie again, that is, I developed for the second time.

Even my parents were amazed that I had grown more than 20 centimeters all of a sudden. Trousers become cropped, shorts become leggings.

When we met for the first time in the classroom, Sijie asked me if I had eaten the Golden Sun during the summer vacation. I didn't say a word, I was about to give him a critical hit.

In the face of the four precepts that were a head taller than me two months ago, and now I am as tall as myself, I am not stunned at all, and I am anxious to show my strength.

It wasn't until Sijie grabbed my wrist that I realized that my strength hadn't grown in tandem with my height.

Under my begging for mercy, Sijie quickly let go.

Because of the sudden increase in height, I finally lost the treatment of the first row. However, it also puts us in the same height bracket, and the seating arrangement is not too far away.

We used to sit at the same table, but now we sit in front of us, and I sit in front of him. We were like two fools, overjoyed.

But the joy soon faded. I didn't see Erya, not in my class, not in other classes.

It's been a week since the class, and Erya hasn't shown up. Sijie found out that my soul was not giving up and asked me what was wrong. I said, not really.

Sijie suddenly said that Erya will come back to class next week. I came to my senses and asked him how he knew, and he said casually, just to test the reason why I couldn't give up.

"You have a crush on Erya?" Sijie stared into my eyes.

I didn't answer, just looked away.

……

I don't know if Sijie said it casually, I asked him about this detail at the class reunion many years later, and he didn't say anything about genes, nor did he say it casually, but just telepathy.

I gave him a punch, but the punch was very unwilling, because Erya was next to him at the time, and I saw their hands holding each other.

"Ermao, I'm with Sijie." Erya's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, so I had no resistance.

At that time, "hehe" was not in vogue, and my answer was "haha".

I really can only haha, the second girl I miss in my heart was taken first by my brother.

It was the winter break of our freshman year. We here only include me and Erya, and we do not include the four precepts. Sijie didn't go to college, not even high school. In the third year of junior high school, because of a fight with the class leader, before the results were handled, Sijie chose to drop out of school and went to Beijing.

During that time, the squad leader was holding his plaster arm while being indignant at his friends.

"Qin Lang, this is absconding in fear of crime!" The squad leader said.

Many classmates directly or indirectly praised the class leader's statement, and only me and Erya would have some loss and helplessness.

The class reunion that I said was good has become an eternal pain in my heart. It also directly made me develop the habit of refusing to participate in class reunions at all stages.

Erya abandoned Ermao and held hands with Sijie. And Ermao, that is, me, is like losing the whole world.

……

In the second week, Erya did come.

With her "height advantage", she sat in the third row of the classroom, I was in the fifth row, and the fourth ring was behind me. When she turned back, I gave her a defiant look. I want to tell him through my eyes that one summer vacation, I successfully became the man behind her.

However, I later learned that she was not looking at me, but the four rings behind me. As for what look Sijie gave her at that time, or what mouth shape, I don't know.

The teacher's chalk on the podium flew just right against my scalp and flew into Sijie's mouth impartially.

Fortunately, Sijie's mouth was not wide open at that time, or the stress reaction was timely, otherwise he might not have had the opportunity to be friends with me in this life.

I still remember that it was really simple at that time, and I said this just to not make people feel that I was really stupid at the beginning. The teacher said that the glasses he wore were like the mirrors of a car, and even if he was writing a board book, he could see if we were listening carefully below.

The four precepts of eating chalk later became a joke, which was widely spread in all corners of the experimental middle school. But more than that, he praised the teacher at the time for his precise technique.

Later, when they drank together in a bar and talked about this past, Sijie joked and laughed at himself that everyone else used his mouth to catch darts, but he used his mouth to catch chalk.

Immediately, some friends were not happy and teased Sijie and said, why don't you say that you are a puppy catching a flying saucer. Obviously, the teacher threw it accurately, and you also put gold on your face.

Some people even sighed that if the teacher went to learn shooting, would there be nothing to do with Wang Yifu.

Later, everyone agreed that this conclusion was not valid, after all, the teacher never threw it accurately, and he had hit the heads and faces of all the students.

After junior high school, Sijie's sudden withdrawal made me unacceptable for a while, as for Erya, it seemed that everything was as usual, and she even took the second grade in the high school entrance examination as scheduled, creating the peak of her junior high school career.

The first place is Wang Dachun, who has no duplicate name in the third year of the experimental middle school. My IQ grew along with my height.

Unfortunately, that was my pinnacle. Whether it's in height, or academically.

Erya and I entered the county No. 1 middle school, I was in the experimental class, she was in the ordinary class, and we were still on the same campus. As for Ermao, he has already relied on relatives in Beijing to start real estate.

I heard this from the mouths of my neighbors. In the three years of high school, there are no four precepts in my world. I knew he was in Beijing, he knew I was in County No. 1 Middle School, but we didn't have any information exchange.

……

Now, Sijie, Erya, and I are together again. It's just that the four precepts are sleeping underground, and Erya and I are thinking about it on the ground.