The relative silence of the two was interrupted by Ji Fei's father, who suddenly appeared. The sixth father runs a small factory that makes cotton shoes, and the business is not bad, but he is usually not very busy at home. Today, he remembered his daughter's high school entrance examination results and came back from the factory ahead of schedule. Seeing his daughter's good friend, he smiled and asked why the two didn't stay at home.

Shi Jiaojiao hurriedly waved her hand and said that she was going back. The sixth father nodded and asked, "How did you do in the exam, your grades have been much better than ours since you were a child." Shi Jiaojiao reluctantly smiled: "It's okay." After speaking, he picked up the self-portrait car and immediately said goodbye to the father and daughter.

A row of birch trees on the side of the road grew to the thickest of foliage, and there was a long rustling sound when the wind blew. Shi Jiaojiao seemed to hear the screams of the treetops so clearly for the first time, usually with Chen Li, sometimes the sixth child, or other classmates who were out of school at the same time, fighting along the way, and she didn't notice that she was already calling.

The bicycle automatically slid forward when it was going downhill, and Shi Jiaojiao thought of the dejected look of the sixth child following her father when she said goodbye; thought of the way Xia Lei was at the school gate and facing them loudly across the road; I also saw that there was my beautiful transcript in the bookbag in the car basket, and under my transcript was the junior high school graduation certificate that Chen Li received on her behalf......

For the first time, the girl had such a clear feeling of parting, as if she was separated by a clear river, on one side of the river there was the big-eyed Fei Fei, the smiling warm Lili, the ponytail Alalei, and the innocent Shi Jiaojiao surrounded by them; On the other side of the river, the water and the sky meet, there is nothingness, there is only oneself, the one with expectation and tears in his eyes, waving goodbye to "them" on the other side of the river.

Turn around and run to the future! Shi Jiaojiao, don't look back, when you look back, you will find that "they" are becoming more and more blurred, more and more transparent, and finally disappearing. So, don't look back......

Shi Jiaojiao, who has a beautiful report card, burst into tears when she returned home. Mother had already come home from work, she was preparing dinner, heard the sound of Shi Jiaojiao stopping her bicycle, couldn't wait to fry the dishes in the pot, so she took the spatula to greet her, and the woman saw her daughter, her face was full of great sadness that she had never seen before.

"Mom." Shi Jiaojiao said hello with a crying voice, and Shi's mother immediately knocked over the five-flavor bottle in her heart, and the worst conjecture immediately filled her brain: I failed the test! A mother's instinct to love her children always precedes all emotions, so she didn't ask anything, and happily explained to her daughter, "Dinner will be ready soon, you can watch TV for a while." ”

After dinner, Shi Jiaojiao had recovered, and when she wiped her mouth, she realized that her mother had been looking at her without saying anything, and she suddenly realized. She took out her report card and said softly to her mother, "Mom, I did well in the exam. Shi's mother watched it back and forth several times, and finally said to her daughter: "The day after tomorrow, your father will call, and he will definitely be happier than anyone else." ”

Dinner and bedtime are the most pleasant time to cool off in summer. When Shi Jiaojiao came to Chen Li's house, Chen Li's family was eating watermelon in the yard. Shi Jiaojiao was also invited to sit on the bamboo bed in the center of the courtyard, eat watermelon, and listen to Chen Li's uncle tell a little scary folklore.

After the family entered the house, Chen Li spread out on the bamboo bed, one foot on Shi Jiaojiao's crossed leg, looked at the bag brought by Shi Jiaojiao and was casually thrown at the foot of the bed, and asked, "Have you seen it?" Shi Jiaojiao shook her head in the night, "No." "That's how our old class asked you to take my things?" "He knows me and knows that we live close to each other."

Chen Li straightened her limbs and rolled on the bed, "It's good now, I don't have to study anymore." Shi Jiaojiao listened to these words similar to celebration, but she didn't hear the slightest happiness that celebration should have. Lili, actually, it's still early. There are definitely schools you like to go to. Shi Jiaojiao said cautiously. Chen Li sat up and said viciously: "I will never read it again, I have been waiting for this day for so long." ”

Shi Jiaojiao took a deep breath and looked up to see the Big Dipper hanging quietly in the sky.

"By the way, Xia Lei's birthday on the 28th, please go to her house!" "Who else?" "Feifei, it's probably just the four of us." "I don't want to go." "Why?" "It's not much better, weird." Is Chen Li going to distance herself from everything related to school so soon?

Shi Jiaojiao anxiously persuaded: "Go, she especially wants me to bring a letter to you, if you don't go, how can I tell her?" "Really?" "Well, across the street shouting for me not to forget." "Haha, Xia Lei is quite funny." "Go ahead! Go ahead! "Don't be happy, you can't be empty-handed, you must prepare gifts!"

Xia Lei led the two into the old mansion with blue bricks and tiles, and heard someone call herself in a dialect elsewhere, "You two go around casually first, you can play anywhere, haha, I'll go for a while." "Hey, where do you put it?" Chen Liyang raised the box in her hand, and Xia Lei said, "Give it to me." With that, he left with the gifts of the two of them.

If Xia Lei hadn't taken the two of them in from the intersection at the school gate, Chen Li and Shi Jiaojiao would probably never have known that there was such a magnificent three-entrance courtyard hidden behind the crowded and outdated street.

The two heard the voices of many people talking and laughing from the depths of the courtyard, "You said it's just the four of us, no matter how many of her family members there are, there can't be such a lively sound, right?" Chen Li asked Shi Jiaojiao about her guilt, and Shi Jiaojiao knew that she was at a loss, and deliberately looked at her innocently.

Just as they were about to get along, a wealthy grandmother in her fifties appeared in front of them with a smile, "Is it a good friend of Lei Lei Middle School?" The two looked at each other and nodded. I'll take you there, Lei Lei's friends are in the pavilion! The two of them followed after that.

"Oh my God, there's a pond in her yard!" Chen Li exclaimed in Shi Jiaojiao's ear. "It's over there, it's all kids like you, playing happily." The old grandmother said that she was about to leave, Shi Jiaojiao thanked her and asked, "Are you Xia Lei's grandmother?" ”

The old grandmother waved her hand again and again and said, "My grandmother has passed away a long time ago, and I am their domestic helper." After finishing speaking, she left neatly, Chen Li looked at the seven or eight young men and girls sitting or standing, talking or laughing in the pavilion, and said to Shi Jiaojiao beside her: "When I came, the cars stuffed in the alley were probably these people's families. ”

"I knew that her family was rich, but I didn't expect it to be like this." Shi Jiaojiao muttered to herself, and Chen Li nodded with her old god, "People are also outsiders, and it seems that whether they are doing well or not has nothing to do with whether they are non-locals." As he spoke, he didn't forget to look around curiously.

And her unintentional words were like a slap in the face of Shi Jiaojiao, since she became self-conscious, everyone, including herself, felt that being displaced and uprooted was the biggest reason for their predicament, and Shi Jiaojiao even kept taking care of herself and wearing a coat called "pitiful" to protect herself.

Seeing Shi Jiaojiao standing still, her face was red and white for a while, Chen Li realized that there was a different "outsider" beside her, she quickly pushed Shi Jiaojiao and said, "Ah, you know that I was unintentional, and I didn't mean you." Shi Jiaojiao came back to her senses and rolled her eyes, "I'm just careful, hey, I'm injured." Chen Li laughed and wanted to knock her on the head.

Shi Jiaojiao grabbed Chen Lifei's arm and tilted her head towards the pavilion, "Hey, I don't know anyone, and it seems that I can't play together, so it's better to go and tell Xia Lei to go back." Chen Li glanced at the group of peers who were "not of my race" again, nodded, and returned hand in hand with Shi Jiaojiao.