Chapter 7 Growth
If I had to add a color to my growth, I wanted it to be green, the kind of green of the leaves, with the wind and rain swaying, how many years later, it will become the light of the morning light, shining my own memories.
The single player, plus a few boxes of roadside stalls for five yuan and three boxes of tapes, although the sound quality has some flaws, has become the best sound for teenagers in that era to hear the world outside themselves. Who doesn't have so many imprinted posters folded from the cassette box, obliquely pasted on the head of the bed, a few colorful lyric lists, and are reluctant to share, so they have to write them in a special songbook, and they will not forget to borrow and copy them back and forth in class.
Bai Chuan likes to listen to songs, listen to any song, the most popular at that time, Yuquan, Ren Xianqi, Lin Zhixuan, and later F4, Dick Cowboy everyone likes it very much. So under the guise of learning English in the second year of junior high school, he asked his father to pay for himself, of course, this is still in view of the fact that Bai Chuan's grades this year have indeed improved a lot.
On the day when the single player arrived, Bai Chuan still ran to Xiao Ting's house with the unopened box. More or less wanted to show off in front of Xiao Ting.
Xiao Ting opened the door and looked at Bai Chuan, who was holding a single-player in his hand, and smiled with his mouth cracked to the back of his head, but he was not happy at all and said: "What are you doing, isn't it just a single-player machine, are you so happy?" Ignoring Bai Chuan, he went to his house.
Bai Chuan, who was standing at the door, stiffened for a long time by the smile splashed by this basin of cold water before recovering. According to the usual Xiao Ting, she should violently snatch the past, looking at the back of Xiao Ting, who was a little absent-minded, Bai Chuan scratched his head a few times with his hand in embarrassment, followed him to the door of Xiao Ting's house, put his head in, and looked at Xiao Ting, who was already lying on the study table in a daze.
Xiao Ting's "boudoir" has always been a forbidden place for Bai Chuan, since she was a child, Xiao Ting would not or forbade all boys to enter her room, even if Bai Ting came to her house to find her to do homework or play, it was also in the main hall house, or simply just set up a small table at the door.
Today, Bai Chuan stuck his head in, but his body didn't dare to take half a step beyond the thunder pool.
"What's the matter, why are you unhappy today?" Shirakawa asked in a whisper.
"Gao is not happy to care about your business, salty and radish don't worry about it." Xiao Ting's mouth has a strong taste.
"Ao ......" Bai Chuan knows too well that if Xiao Ting speaks in such a tone, the people around him will be in danger of being beaten, of course, from childhood to adulthood, Bai Chuan is probably the one who has been beaten the most. In order to protect himself, Shirakawa also chose not to speak in order to respond to all changes.
For a long time, the two of them didn't speak, and Shirakawa sat on the steps outside the door with a dull ass, and opened the packaging box of the single-player machine with great difficulty. A silver-white solo player with only four buttons, fast forward, back legs, stop, and a red recording button. A black wire earphone, and a charger. Bai Chuan tinkered for a long time, only to remember that he was in a bit of a hurry to run out and didn't bring a tape, and was about to turn around and shout Xiao Ting to take a tape and try the machine by himself. Unexpectedly, Xiao Ting was looking at herself with her head behind her shoulder, this time it was good, the two heads touched together.
Bai Chuan was okay, he touched his forehead, but Xiao Ting touched the bridge of his nose, and he screamed in pain both times.
"You're a ghost! There was no sound behind me. Shirakawa complained first.
"What did you say!" Xiao Ting stopped rubbing her nose, grabbed Bai Chuan's arm, and pretended to be "fierce" and stared at Bai Chuan with a pair of absolutely bright eyes.
"You try to say it again in that tone."
"I didn't ...... What to say! "I can only say that I will have experience after more experience, and the best way to look at Xiao Ting, who is immediately angry, is to "pretend to be stupid". It can also alleviate some of the "pain" somewhat.
And Xiao Ting's principle is to eliminate Shirakawa's resistance in the "bud". Xiao Ting's white, slender and somewhat thin hand shook in front of Bai Chuan's eyes first, and then regardless of Bai Chuan's frightened eyes, she twisted Bai Chuan's ears and let Bai Chuan know that human ears can really be twisted into 90 degrees of deformation.
Tap ,...... Ouch...... Hurt...... Auntie, I don't dare anymore......" Bai Chuan knew that the sooner he begged for mercy, the better, and when he saw Xiao Ting put his hand on his ear, he began to shout.
"When you talk to me in the future, remember to be gentle!" Xiao Ting said loudly.
"Got it...... Got it" Shirakawa wanted to protect his ears with his hands, and at the same time thought to himself, should this be said the other way around!
Xiao Ting nodded with satisfaction, took the single player in Bai Chuan's hand again, turned around and returned to the house.
It hurts to twist my ears today! Did you take the wrong medicine? But this can only be done once in Shirakawa's heart.
"My parents quit their jobs and said they were going to open a store in the city, and only my mom came back every other day." Xiao Ting said a little gloomily while tinkering with the single player.
"There's nothing wrong with it, no one cares how good it is, it's free" Shirakawa thought about it for a long time, but didn't think there was anything wrong.
"You know a fart, you know how to eat, play, sleep, you know anything else?" Xiao Ting slapped the table and stared at Bai Chuan angrily with her eyes, so frightened that Bai Chuan retracted his head again.
"I can't forget the first time I saw you,"
"A pair of charming eyes".
"In my head, your voice can't be dispersed......"
The familiar melody sounded, and Bai Chuan stuck his head in again, looking at the solo player that Xiao Ting put on the table and pressed the play button. This is the theme song of "Meteor Garden" that Bai Chuan and Xiao Ting both like, F4 was very popular at that time, the clothes bought in the town's market, and the songs played in the barber shop. Xiao Ting has a DVD at home, I don't know how many times I watched "Meteor Garden", I would cry and laugh for a while, like a neurotic, and now the house is full of posters of TV series or singers. Although Shirakawa watched a few episodes, because the word garden in the TV series is traditional, Shirakawa called it a "pop wreath" for the first time. Both of them like this song, and sometimes Xiao Ting will take out her solo player and listen to it with headphones in self-study class.
Just because Xiao Ting's is obsessed with F4, and made a joke, one day Bai Chuan rushed to the market and saw a set of clothes that copied the style worn by F4 in the TV series, but the color was changed to orange red, Bai Chuan took a fancy to it at a glance, thinking that Xiao Ting saw that he was also a nymphomaniac, so he spent all his belongings to buy it, there was no fitting room at that time, and the stall owner just took a look at Bai Chuan and estimated that he took a set for Bai Chuan. What I didn't expect was to go home and find that there was a little tightness, and Shirakawa was uncomfortable, but the thin-skinned Shirakawa didn't take it back to change, so he went to school in this dress, and what he didn't expect was that the physical education class of the day turned out to be a basketball game, and there were few people in the class who could play basketball, although Shirakawa was reluctant to play, but tragedy happened, a dodge jump shot, Shirakawa's pants opened the crotch directly in front of the class, revealing the flower panties worn inside. Of course, later you can think of how shameful Shirakawa is.
This incident is also the reason why Shirakawa never attends class reunions after becoming an adult.
When he came home from Xiao Ting's house, Bai Chuan's two legs didn't know what was going on, he was numb for a while, he couldn't do it, and there was no one on the side of the road, so he had to endure holding on to the tree on the side of the road all the way, and finally moved back home.
Shirakawa's family was frightened, and hurriedly found relatives in the village to take Shirakawa to the hospital in the town on a motorcycle for a full body examination, but the result was a bit ridiculous, and the two words on the diagnosis were clearly "calcium deficiency".
The whole family breathed a sigh of relief and bought a large amount of calcium tablets. There is also a lot of pork bones, in those months almost Shirakawa from breakfast pork bone soup noodles, noon pork bone stew, at night that is directly pork bone soup, my mother always nagging, what the body lacks, you have to use what to make up.
It is indeed effective, Bai Chuan, who has always been half a head short of Xiao Ting, finally ushered in the "day of emergence", and his height has grown by more than ten centimeters in half a year, vaguely surpassing Xiao Ting.
Of course, this made Xiao Ting a little unhappy, at least it was a little inconvenient when bullying Bai Chuan.
Approaching the third year of junior high school, it is close to the high school entrance examination, at that time, the promotion rate of a class is only a few, and the school has set up two strengthening classes, both of which are drawn from the top few of the fourteen classes with the best learning, and the teachers are the best teachers in the school. The purpose is to increase the school's admission rate.
Xiao Ting is the kind of student who doesn't study much, but has surprisingly good academic performance, and is also the so-called "genius" in the teacher's mouth. On the contrary, Shirakawa studied hard, and his best result was just squeezing into the top ten of the class.
When the third year of junior high school started again, it was a pity that Bai Chuan stayed in the branch school, and Xiao Ting went to the reinforcement class of the main school.
Xiao Ting grinded the second uncle for a whole vacation, but she didn't get the permission of the second uncle, and the second uncle replied to Xiao Ting the most: "This is all for your good, the best learning environment can allow you to greatly improve your grades, so as to prepare you for the best high school in the city, don't you always complain that your parents accompany you less, and when you enter high school, won't you be able to live in the city with your parents?" Xiao Ting doesn't seem to have any reason to refuse, it's just that there is one less person around her, will she be more lonely.
Bai Chuan looked at Xiao Ting's empty seat on the first day of school, and was a little puzzled at first, until the teacher informed everyone of the names of the students who entered the intensive class, Bai Chuan suddenly understood, and the indescribable emptiness in his heart was mainly because Xiao Ting should have known it earlier, and he didn't tell himself.
The third year of junior high school began like that, and there were more evening self-study. Every night after eight o'clock after school, Bai Chuan, who came home in the dark, walked past the door of Xiao Ting's house, and every time he wanted to knock on the door, he always stayed for a while and then escaped. Xiao Ting's family also chose to live in school for her, and her parents would take her to live in the city on Saturday, and the meeting between the two was almost all at once.
No matter how heavy the study is, Xiao Ting will take a little time to be in a daze.
No matter how noisy the classroom is, Shirakawa spends most of his time in a daze.