On the side of the road to the town, the lotus pond in early summer is deep and shallow, and among the flying lotus leaves, there are lotus pavilion buds that appear and disappear from time to time. From the morning onwards, the clouds were thick, and on the distant horizon they hung low, as if they were about to touch the steaming earth. The frozen air finally flowed in the evening, brewing a heavy rain.

The sudden demon wind suddenly rolled up a plastic bag, sent it to the sky in a roll, and then disappeared silently, leaving the plastic bag to fall alone. At the end of the road, there were black clouds, as if rolling. God told people plainly that he was about to have a grand weather show.

The school received a notification that there was a thunderstorm tonight, so the day students were notified to go home directly after school. It's been a long time since I've had such a leisurely after-school time, and Shi Jiaojiao and Chen Li are pedaling their bikes slowly. Abnormal weather can only scare adults, and for students, this is a rare opportunity to skip class with peace of mind.

"How long it will rain, I can't guess five minutes." Chen Li looked up at the sky and asked Shi Jiaojiao. Shi Jiaojiao stopped the car, touched the tightly packed bookbag in the plastic bag, confirmed that it was safe, stopped at the same place and said, "Whatever, I'm not afraid to go down now." Chen Li waited for the inertia of the bicycle to disappear completely, and only jumped off the bike when she was about to fall.

The two looked at each other as if they were holding their bicycles on the side of the road, chasing them into the grass and running towards the lotus pond. The weeds at the water's edge had been trampled on, and I thought there were children who thought of joining them. This is a trick often played when I was a child, pick a lotus leaf that is large enough, close it like an umbrella, and pull out a round hole in the center of the lotus leaf according to the size of the head, and put it on the shoulder is a ready-made raincoat.

"What a sin." Shi Jiaojiao picked up the flower bones of a lotus flower in the grass bush and whispered. Chen Li stood on the side of the road first, pursed her lips, pointed to the lotus leaves on the two of them, and asked, "Is this considered evil?" Shi Jiaojiao didn't answer, and carefully put the flower bones into the car basket.

When she got home, Shi Jiaojiao's mother took a bamboo basket and looked for green peppers in the small vegetable field in front of the door. "Hey, don't you study at night?" "Well, the school says there's a thunderstorm." Mother nodded when she heard this, and asked Shi Jiaojiao to go back first, and check all the vegetables that could be harvested in the field by herself, so as not to cause the rain to fall.

The wind kept blowing, but the rain didn't fall until after dinner. Shi Jiaojiao inserted the lotus into the Sprite bottle and showed it to her mother who was cleaning up in the kitchen. Mom wiped the gas stove and said casually, "Lotus can't bloom like this." Before Shi Jiaojiao could ask, she began to talk about her own affairs, "The garment factory is getting worse and worse, and there is no work to do." Thanks to your father, you can make a few hard-earned money......" Shi Jiaojiao knew that although her mother was saying bitter things, she was actually missing her father.

"Mom, can't this lotus flower bloom again?" "Well, the lotus flowers are supported by water, and after they are broken, the neck of the flower is soft due to lack of water, and the flower bows its head and dies." "Isn't it okay to stick it in the water?" "Nope."

Shi Jiaojiao felt sad for a while, she had trampled a lot of lotus leaves since she was a child, but she cherished lotus flowers surprisingly. She held the Sprite bottle in her hand and asked her mother, who was sitting opposite, "Mom, do you remember when I was a child, you once took me to the old factory director's house to borrow tuition?" ”

A flash of surprise flashed in my mother's eyes, "Do you remember when you were so young?" Shi Jiaojiao looked at the tightly wrapped flower bones, nodded, and said, "Well, because the pot of fiery red lotus flowers in his yard is too unforgettable." ”

My mother carefully recalled the dark summer night after the rain, she remembered the huge loquat tree in the yard of the old factory director's house, the black grape trellis, and even the frequency of the factory director's wife in her fifties, standing next to the old factory director's rocking chair and shaking the pu fan...... I don't remember that there was a pot of lotus flowers.

She shook her hand at Shi Jiaojiao and said, "Impossible, that yard is full of things, and it is dark at night." It must be that you are too young to remember wrong. Shi Jiaojiao was not obsessed with making her mother believe in herself, and replied: "Probably." But that pot, to be exact, the red lotus in the dark, is indeed and vividly blooming in Shi Jiaojiao's memory. After many reminiscences, its image has remained fresh for a long time.

Because of her mother's birthday, Shi Jiaojiao rarely went back at noon under the poisonous sun and ate longevity noodles with her mother. After eating, I couldn't hold back my sleepiness and slept for a while, and woke up a little late. She pushed her bicycle into the school gate, went to the carport to park her bicycle, and found that there were inexplicably many more buses on the basketball court that had been empty.

By the time she arrived at the classroom panting, the bell had just stopped. The physics teacher rushed to the podium with a roar, as if someone was stealing the class with him. "Hello classmates." "Hello teacher!" The physics teacher raised his hand and told everyone to sit down. Shi Jiaojiao's ass hadn't landed on the stool yet, and she felt something behind her pat her shoulder.

When she looked back, she found that it was a soft copy that she had lost for a long time, and she took the book with a puzzled face. The students in the back seat stepped aside, Xia Lei looked at the physics teacher who was sorting out the textbooks on the podium, and quickly nodded at Shi Jiaojiao. Shi Jiaojiao's eyes glared, meaning where did it come from. Xia Lei pointed in the direction of the corridor, next to a female classmate in the back window. As soon as Shi Jiaojiao wanted to turn her head, she heard the physics teacher say, "It's class, sit down." Take out the test paper from yesterday's quiz. ”

In class, Shi Jiaojiao found an opportunity to flip through the soft-sided copy, originally just to see what she had lost and recovered, but she didn't expect that there was a note in it.

The font is chic and handsome, and it reads: Shi Jiaojiao, you forgot all the things that fell in the lecture hall, right? My memory is really poor, and I guess I haven't learned how to turn a pen. I wish me a good grade. Behind it is a smiley face composed of three arcs.

Even if you don't make a payment, you can guess who it is! Shi Jiaojiao pinched the note in a daze, her brain was blank, and she only felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat! Did my brother pick up the book and give it to Xia Lei? No, it's for female classmates? Is that what it was given today? …… There are so many things to know, why is this class so long!

Shi Jiaojiao didn't have the heart to listen to the class at all, and finally stayed up until the bell rang for the end of class, and she remembered that the physics teacher loved to drag the class, and when he announced the end of class, the English teacher had been waiting outside the door for a while, and she didn't even have time to go to the toilet!

At the end of the English class, the beautiful teacher said leisurely that because you lost time by changing textbooks at the beginning of the class, you also had to delay the class for a while...... There are only 10 minutes in total, and 6 minutes are delayed, so that even when you come back from the bathroom, you have to call a "report" to the teacher in the third class before you can enter the door.

Looking at more than a dozen students who were late in a row, the usually taciturn political teacher licked his lips and said in a low voice, "You can't just do it because you have less political points...... The students expressed their grievances one after another, and vomited the bitterness of other main teachers dragging the class. The male teacher couldn't hold back his lips and smiled, telling everyone not to make trouble, "When you take the college entrance examination, you are still powerful, look, these buses are also waiting to carry you." ”

It turned out that the bus parked on the basketball court was carrying the senior brothers and sisters to the city for the college entrance examination, and they would adapt to the hotel they had never stayed in tonight, and tomorrow they would carry their pens and go to the most important battle of their student days......