The next morning, Jiang Yang slept until nine o'clock in the morning, he packed up the table, stuffed a pen into his pocket and went out.

"Chen Yue...," he shouted towards the door of Chen Yue's house. But after a long time, Chen Yue didn't see him, but his mother came over.

"Hello Auntie, ask, is Chen Yue already gone?"

"Where are you going?"

"Fill in the volunteer today?"

"He didn't want to go."

"Don't you want a diploma?"

"Maybe it won't be needed."

Inexplicably having such a conversation, Jiang Yang looked into the courtyard behind his mother in surprise. "Won't it?" Jiang Yang looked at his mother's strange face curiously. I saw my mother turn around and leave, and said, "Go by yourself, my child doesn't go." ”

I wanted to go to school with Chen Yue, but now it seems that I can only give up. As he entered the school gate, it immediately occurred to him that this might be the last time he entered the gate. There is no need to go to class. He looked into the office at the intersection, and the head teacher's desk was crowded with people.

"Jiang Zhitao, how many points did you score?" When he sees a friend, he can't help but catch up with the conversation.

Jiang Zhitao didn't answer, and handed him the score slip in his hand.

Jiang Yang smiled, "Not bad, you can still score 295 points." He was encouraged, and gave him back the slip.

After the people around the head teacher left with their own score slips, Jiang Yang stepped forward to talk to the head teacher. The homeroom teacher has been smiling on her face today and is smiling at all the students. When Jiang Yang approached, she didn't say a word, just pulled out a note from a bookcase and handed it to him.

"Oh, I'm half a pound and eight taels too." Jiang Yanggang took the note and shouted.

Jiang Zhitao snatched the score from behind him with one hand, "Haha, what, it's worse than me." ”

It was really embarrassing, Jiang Yang immediately stuffed the score slip into his pocket. He whispered to the happy head teacher: "Teacher, seeing what everyone is busy filling in, do I need to fill it in?"

"You don't have to." The head teacher replied with a smile.

"So, what about the diploma?"

"Go to the Registrar's Office and get it."

After listening, Jiang Yang turned around and walked towards a group of girls who were busy lying on the table. He marveled at the group of girls behind them, and looked at their scores on the bar, which was really envious to him. She suddenly saw familiar hands and familiar faces. Jiang Yang silently observed behind this familiar person for a long time.

Gu Ling straightened up, loosened his arms, and inadvertently looked back at him.

"You're here." She said.

"Well, you did a great job!" Jiang Yang immediately praised.

Gu Ling bent down again, "Give me yours." She wrote on a piece of pink paper as she reached back with her hand. Jiang Yang obediently put the score slip in the palm of her hand. When she saw Jiang Yang's results, she was not surprised, but a little disappointed, "Oh my God! Gu Ling stopped his pen and complained to Jiangyang, "Why do you get such a score?" ”

Jiang Yang was slightly frustrated, and whispered, "It's really still too difficult for me." ”

Indeed, Gu Ling understood him immediately. But grades have always been what worries her the most. After writing and filling in the volunteers, she showed Jiang Yang. Jiang Yang's face swept over, staring at the key option, graduation intention: Chaohu City No. 4 Middle School.

"Well done! Congratulations! You're finally able to get your wish and get into the high school of your dreams. Jiang Yang was happy for Gu Inspiration.

"That's right," Gu Ling was very happy, and walked to the desk of the grade group leader with the completed volunteer and handed it to the teacher sitting in the chair.

"You don't have to fill it in?" When he came back, Gu Ling asked Jiang Yang.

"Oh, no. I didn't have to fill in this score. Jiang Yang smiled bitterly.

"Then go home. Hey, wait, why don't you see Chen Yue. Gu Ling asked strangely.

Hearing this, Jiang Yang remembered, "I called Chen Yue before I came, but he didn't come out, his mother said something strange to me, I have to ask." Jiang Yang said, patting Gu Ling's arm gently, meaning that she would wait for him outside the classroom, while he himself walked to the head teacher's desk.

"That's... Teacher. ”

"What's wrong, Jiang Yang?" The head teacher was still smiling, which made him very unaccustomed.

"I want to ask, has Chen Yue filled in the volunteer today?"

"You said him?" When the head teacher heard this name, his expression suddenly changed, and he replied, "He hasn't come here yet." ”

"Really?" Jiang Yang left the office with hesitation.

"How's it going, what's going on?" Jiang Yang had just come out, and Gu Ling asked him.

"He hasn't come yet."

"I think it'll be soon, shall we go home first or wait for him?"

"Let's go back first."

Gu Ling asked him to accompany her home, and he readily agreed, in fact, he was thinking so in his heart.

They chatted about old feelings along the way. By the time Jiang Yang accompanied Gu Ling to the door of his house, it was already time for lunch. Now, they had to say goodbye to each other, and he couldn't predict how long that goodbye would last. It just so happened that Gu Ling also thought of this, and reluctantly walked slowly towards the house, just opened the door and crossed the threshold, turned around and ran back, and pleaded urgently: "Or, eat at my house at noon." ”

"Isn't that right?"

"Don't you want to?"

"No, no, no, of course not." Jiang Yang hurriedly shook his head, blushed and said, "I'm embarrassed that you invited me to your house like this." ”

"Don't be embarrassed, let's go." Gu Ling pulled Jiang Yang's wrist. But as soon as she brought Jiang Yang into her yard, she suddenly thought that her mother was at home today, if she saw her taking her classmates into the house for dinner, she was still a boy, what would she think. "Oh, my mom is at home." She shouted.

"Then I'd better not bother." Jiang Yang stopped.

Gu Ling also stopped, pulled Jiang Yang to the side wall, and said, "It's okay, although my mother is at home, she is a TV fan and watches TV in her room all day long." So I thought, you can just hide in my room while my mom and I are eating. ”

"But I'm a little worried." He was really worried, and Yu Xin couldn't bear to trouble her because of him.

"Don't worry, you come with me first." With that, Gu Ling took him into her kitchen and asked him to hide behind the dining cabinet. "Remember, don't come out until I tell you to come out." After she hid Jiang Yang, she retreated to the door and approached again, carefully examined it, and saw that everything was in order, and after seeing no flaws, she left the kitchen, and shouted into the kitchen in a low voice before leaving: "Remember—wait for me to call you." ”

After Gu Ling left, Jiang Yang vaguely heard the conversation between Gu Ling and her mother across the room. Out of curiosity, he bared his head slightly, and looked the kitchen up and down left and right. The kitchen is not very spacey, but the furnishings are placed in the perfect place. A rectangular table leans against the corner with a rice cooker, a few sockets, and some stir-fry sauces, and to the left of the table is the sink, which is wiped clean without a trace of water.

After a while, Gu Ling walked in, "Come on." She said and took Jiang Yang's hand.

In her home, listen to her command, and everything is arranged by her, which makes Jiang Yang bow his head shyly. "Where is this going?" Jiang Yang saw her take him out, and then walked through the corridor to the room, and hesitated.

"My mom is watching TV and getting fascinated, come, I'll take you to my room." As she spoke, she carefully led Jiang Yang into the living room, and then walked around a chair. She opened the door to a room.

The room smelled warm and sunny. Gu Ling settled him down on the chair of his desk.

"Your room is so beautiful!" Jiang Yang praised.

"Haha, not bad, right?" Gu Ling said with a happy smile.

Then you look at me, and I look at you, and I don't know what to say. "I have a lot of books here, you can read whichever one you want to read." Gu Xin pointed to a large pile of books on the desk and said.

"Hmm." Jiang Yang replied, in fact, he didn't like to read, but in order to kill some time before eating, he had to take a hard look. Gu Ling bent down and stood beside him and watched him read. About half an hour later, my mother knocked on the door from outside and shouted, "Gu Ling, it's time to eat." "Gu Ling?" Mother knocked on the door again.

"Quick, squat." Gu Ling hurriedly whispered to Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang panicked and didn't have time to put down the book, so he just squatted down. After the door opened, my mother asked with some dissatisfaction, "Why did it take so long to knock on the door?" ”

"Uh... I... I got a little carried away from reading the book. Gu Ling explained with a smile.

"Dinner, let's eat." The mother walked away. Gu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and Jiang Yang also breathed a sigh of relief.

During the meal, Jiang Yang could clearly hear Gu Ling talking to his mother at the table. I only heard Gu Ling say, "Mom, can I go back to my room to eat?" ”

So, Gu Ling took the dishes and chopsticks into the room. "I'm forbearing, when my mother finishes eating and goes to watch TV, I'll help you go to Sheng." She said embarrassedly, blushing.

"I'm fine, I'm just bothering you, I'm sorry I can't help it."

"What are you talking about, what's the trouble, if you talk nonsense, I'm angry."

Gu Ling brought a chair from the edge of the bed, sat down beside Jiang Yang, and ate with relish. She stared at Jiang Yang reading a book, and Jiang Yang had never observed the girl eating at such a close distance, so he only glanced at her, and then he didn't dare to look at her again.

After eating, Gu Ling returned to the living room, and her mother also put down the bowl. When her mother entered the room, she followed her inside, confirming that her mother was addicted to the TV plot before coming out. She went to the kitchen, washed the dishes and chopsticks that she and her mother had eaten, and then took a new bowl from the cupboard and brought it to Jiangyang's table.

"That's right, why didn't you forget to pick up the vegetables, wait." Gu Ling said, picked up the bowl and helped Jiang Yang walk to the big table and sandwiched a few home-cooked dishes.

Jiang Yang has never been a picky eater, what to eat, let alone in her home. He was really a little hungry, Gu Ling handed him the rice bowl that had been added, and he ate it unceremoniously. He always warned himself that he tried not to shake off a grain of rice, a bad image during eating would greatly affect the woman's opinion, he had to be careful, so as not to eat too quickly and damage Gu Ling's expectations of him.

After eating the last bite, Gu Ling immediately reached out and took the bowl, "I'm going to wash it, don't move here." As she spoke, she took the bowl and left, closing the door casually.

Her careful care made Jiang Yang unexpected, his face was flushed, and his hands and feet were nervously placed. His eyes were always fixed on the book, and he no longer dared to look at Gu Ling. Gu Ling seemed to guess his emotions, so he was also a little shy. The two sat on their chairs without saying a word, and finally, Jiang Yang finally broke the silence of the room, and said, "Let's go out to play in the afternoon, it's not good to always stay at your house." ”

"What's wrong?"

"It's not that your family is bad, it's that I can't stay any longer. You can see that we talk so quietly that it always feels like we're sneaking around. Your mother is also at home, and if she suddenly breaks into the house, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain. ”

Gu Ling thought about it, what he said did make sense. In normal times, I would watch TV with my mother after dinner, but if I didn't do it today, it might arouse my mother's curiosity. "Well, I suddenly remembered a good place, I must take you to see it." She said.

Jiang Yang carefully stepped over the door, and then carefully walked out of the living room, his heart relaxed, and he knocked on his chest. Then, Gu Ling immediately pulled him into the kitchen and said, "Don't look, hide in, I'll go say hello to my mother." ”

He listened carefully, but couldn't make out what was being said. The conversation was louder than he expected. Jiang Yang guessed that it might be that her mother didn't allow her to go out, and she was trying to convince her mother. After more than ten minutes, Gu Ling finally appeared and led him through the courtyard to open the gate.

"What did your mother say?" When he went out, Jiang Yang asked worriedly, worried that his inconvenience would bring trouble to Gu Ling.

"It's nothing, just let me play outside for two hours and I'll have to come back."

"Two hours?" Jiang Yang thought that it was half a day or a day for him to come out of the house to play, and he had never heard of a time limit when he came out to play.

"Well, two hours is enough, I'll take you to a really fun place, you're going to love it."

After a short walk on the village path, I went down to the farmland, crossed the streams, the ditches, and came back to the concrete floor. I walked along the concrete road for a while. "It's here!" Gu Ling said, "Take you in and have a look." ”

It was a door guarded by a guard, Jiang Yang was worried about whether he would be allowed to enter, who knows, Gu Ling took him boldly through the door. Then take a detour, and in front of you is a grassland, and at the end of the grassland stands a stone pier. The two sat down on the stone pier and chatted for a while.

"Go a little further, but you see, you can see the lake now." Gu Ling pointed to Jiang Yang in the distance and said.

Jiang Yang jumped up, jumped to the upper floor of the stone pier, and stood on a high place and looked, "Well, I see, the lake is very green." Jiang Yang shouted, then jumped down and made a gesture towards Gu Ling, meaning to go over and take a look now.

The shore is lined with verdant willow trees, their dense foliage just the right shade from the sun, and they walk gracefully along the path by the lake to enjoy the view. Jiang Yang has always been attracted by the lake, and he seems to see a few red goldfish swimming under the lake, which makes him sigh: "It's so clear, I think it will be very comfortable if I can come here to swim and take a bath on a hot holiday." ”

"It's better to put away your dangerous thoughts and take a shower here? Just because you can see the bottom of the lake doesn't mean it's shallow. Gu Xin reminded him, worried that he would really act so recklessly.

After they walked around the lake, Gu Ling suggested that they go further. Walking up a section of stairs covered with flowers and plants, the steps were interspersed with jungle paths, Jiang Yang said that he wanted to go in and have a look, but Gu Ling immediately refused.

After going up the steps, there was a playground with various fitness equipment on the side of the playground, and Jiang Yang cheered: "Oh, what a nice place." Jiang Yang sped up and walked towards the equipment.

"Well, I said you'd love it here."

"Yes! The air here is very fresh, and you can smell the fragrant oxygen with every breath. But what makes me even happier is that there are also these fun devices. Jiang Yang said, jumping, grabbing the crossbar erected on a high place with both hands, "Look at me!" He gave himself a boost of momentum, and then twisted his waist and grabbed his hands forward from one end to the other, very smoothly, in one go.

Jiang Yang jumped down and shouted at Gu Ling behind him: "Come on, you can try it too." ”

"Forget it, I can't do it at all." Gu Ling shook his head helplessly.

"Where is this?" The two sat on the pedal machine, Jiang Yang asked.

"It's a factory." Gu Ling replied.

From the time he entered the gate to the present, Jiang Yang didn't smell a trace of the unique smell of a factory, there were woods and flowers everywhere, and it didn't look like a factory. However, Jiang Yang didn't ask much.

The two of them touched every piece of equipment, and Jiang Yang seemed to be extremely active, and he had enough fun with everything. The time was about the same, Gu Ling looked at his watch, "It's not early, I have to go back." She said.

Jiang Yang stretched his arms up, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Three o'clock."

The two turned back. When he went down the steps and walked on the path by the lake again, Gu Ling took out two small ornaments from his jacket pocket and placed them in front of Jiang Yang. "For you and Chen Yue." As they walked, Gu Ling said. Jiang Yang put the ornament in his hand and looked at it, it was two brown bracelets like ropes, and a small square piece of paper was sleeved on the edge of the bracelet - his and Chen Yue's names were written on it.

"There's no way, Chen Yue's share will be handed over to him for me on your behalf, I hope you won't dislike it."

"It's beautiful! I can't get more out of what you say. Jiang Yang said as he put the bracelet with his name on it on his left wrist. How pretty. He raised his left hand high for Gu Ling to see. Thank you. Gu Ling smiled with satisfaction.

"No, why are you thanking me, you gave it to me, I should thank you." Jiang Yang said immediately.

"I'm still worried that giving you something I bought casually will make you angry."

"Why, anyway, if you give me a gift, I don't have any reason to say I don't like it or look ugly."

"Ahh

They walked through the farmland where they came, and when they returned home, they both stood in front of the door. "Do you want to come in and sit down?" Gu Ling asked.

"No, no, no." Jiang Yang hurriedly waved his hand.

"Am I leaving?" Gu Ling quietly opened the door and stood by the door frame to look back at him.

"Hmm." Jiang Yang smiled and beckoned to him.

Gu Ling walked into the door, and when he saw that the door was about to be closed, Jiang Yang suddenly ran over. "By the way, Gu Ling, my graduation certificate." Jiang Yang lowered his voice and shouted, he really forgot about it.

"yes, yes, and your diploma. In my bag, you wait. Gu Ling looked at the window of the inner room, and then advised, "Just wait for me here, I'll go get it." ”

After a while, Gu Ling came out and shouted inside: "The courtyard door forgot to close!" Then she immediately jumped out of the door and said to Jiang Yang, "Here you go, put it away." ”

"Your mom her?"

"It's okay." Gu Ling said anxiously, and jumped back into the threshold. Jiang Yang was still standing there, his mood was really heavy, he understood that it was not easy for him to come out to play once, and he annoyed his mother as a result.

The door closed gently, but when he was about to close the door lock, Gu Ling leaned out his face and looked at him. "Will you come to me for the summer vacation?" Gu Ling asked.

"Yes." Jiang Yang replied confidently. The door closed immediately.

On the way home, Jiang Yang was excited, satisfied with his encounter with Gu Ling today, he didn't know how many glances he had at the bracelet on his left wrist, and he never got tired of looking at it. When he was about to get home, he was about to turn around and enter the alley, and Chen Yue walked out of it. Jiang Yang smiled at him, and Chen Yue also smiled. "Where are you going?" Jiang Yang asked casually.

"School."

"What are you doing at school?" Jiang Yang stopped.

"Get a score slip and a diploma." Chen Yue also stopped and replied.

"Only now? It's past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the teachers are still not at school? ”

"My mom wants me to go."

"Really?"

"Hmm."

With that, the two looked at each other and said goodbye. However, as soon as Jiang Yang's front foot stepped into the intersection, he got up and ran back.

"Chen Yue, wait for me." Jiang Yang shouted.

"Huh?"

"I don't have anything to do when I go back, let me accompany you to school, you won't suggest it."

"Of course I wouldn't suggest it, it's just that you haven't been able to rest since you came back, and you have to run to a school so far away."

"Small meanings, all small meanings." Jiang Yang smiled and said generously.

So, Jiang Yang accompanied Chen Yue to set off again. On the way, Jiang Yang remembered that Gu Ling still had a gift to give him, and he reached out and handed it to him.

"What is this?"

"Gu Ling gave you, I also have it, look."

"I want to thank her. It's a pity that it's now a holiday. ”

Jiang Yang patted him on the shoulder, "Even if you don't have a chance during the holidays, you will always meet it in the future, and besides, if you take the fourth middle school, she will also take the fourth middle school, and she will have the opportunity to thank him in person, you don't have to be sad about it." ”

"If you meet her one day, help me and thank her by the way."

"Of course it's okay to say thank you for helping you," Jiang Yang continued, "However, it would be better for you to say it yourself." ”

"I know better, I just wish you could mention it in passing. If I have the luck to meet her in the future, I will thank her again and again. ”

"That's good!"

The two entered the campus. When walking the stone paving road that led to the teaching building, Chen Yue finally couldn't hold back, and said with a raised eyebrow: "When you see my scores, you probably won't believe it, I really failed the test this time." ”

"Oh! I don't believe you to say such a thing, which has always been a good grade. But don't worry, no matter how bad you are, I won't laugh at you, let alone have this qualification. ”

"I may have done lower than you."

Jiang Yang suddenly stood up and was stunned, "What did you say, I may have heard it wrong?" ”。

"Maybe not as well as you did."

"No me?" Jiang Yang asked him puzzled. He wasn't the kind of person who liked to joke and say such discouraged things.

"You'll find out in a moment."

After walking the rest of the journey covered with cypress trees, the two came to the junior high school teaching building, where the office was sitting downstairs. The head teacher was the only one left in the classroom, bowing his head and writing something on a booklet. As for the team leader who was in charge of collecting and filling out the volunteers, he was nowhere to be found.

At this moment, Jiang Yang really knew. He thought that Chen Yue said that he didn't do well in the exam before, and he was just giving himself the worst result, but he didn't expect the worst result to be successfully realized. Just as the head teacher handed over the score slip, he looked stunned. However, Chen Yue was calm and calm, as if she had already known the result.

Chen Yuezheng was talking with the head teacher. Jiang Yang took the score slip in his hand and carefully checked the scores and totals of each subject with wide eyes, which surprised him. After that, Jiang Yang focused his attention on the conversation between the two of them, and saw the head teacher say this: "Chen Yue, Chen Yue, you shouldn't have done anything, you should have made trouble in the most critical two days, now it's okay." I knew that this would be the case, and I should remind you not to eat food before the exam, and to increase nutrition more, so as to save an accident when you can. Well, now this accident is for you. It's too late. ”

There was silence for a while. The head teacher continued: "From your first year of junior high school to your third year of junior high school, which time was not the top few? "Stopped. The head teacher looked at Chen Yue with sad eyes, and then continued: "Your parents asked me what to do, what can I do?" It has been confirmed again and again that you don't have any grades in your three classes, and the teacher can't do anything about it. ”

With that, the office fell silent. Chen Yue hung her head down, like a child who had made a mistake. He listened carefully to the teacher's words, convinced in his heart that his experience had nothing to do with the head teacher. When he knew that the teacher was guilty of her dereliction of duty, his eyes immediately soured, and he wanted to cry uncomfortably.

"One misstep becomes a thousand hatreds. Chen Yue, I hope you can cheer up in the future, there is still a long way to go. The graduation certificate is on the first floor of the administrative building opposite, and now I don't know if they are closed, are you now..."Before the head teacher's words were finished, Jiang Yang suddenly interjected on the side. "Teacher! Are you sure you're not mistaken? He pointed to the items marked 0 on the score bar and asked the head teacher.

"Yes."

"Impossible, impossible!" Jiang Yang shook his head and said solemnly.

"I didn't think it was possible when I first received it, but I've made sure that this is the final score."

"Really?" Jiang Yang asked immediately in surprise.

"Really." The head teacher replied, and then looked at Chen Yue and Jiang Yang and smiled, and asked jokingly: "By the way, I still don't know why the relationship between the two of you is so good?" I don't see it on weekdays. "How can there be such idle time?

"We are neighbors," Chen Yue replied, then turned to Jiang Yang and said, "Let's go, go get your graduation certificate." ”

They went up the stairs and into the smooth floor. Jiang Yang knocked on the office door inside, but did not respond. Chen Yue shook the lock on the deadbolt.

"Locked? Closed?! Jiang Yang shouted.

"Ask the teacher."

The two returned to the office of the school building. The homeroom teacher is tending to her desk, and the last student is perfectly solved, and it's time to go home.

"Teacher, it's closed, what should I do?" Jiang Yang asked.

The head teacher stopped what he was doing and sat back in his chair, "Yes, yes, yes, today is supposed to be just one morning, I have asked to wait there in the afternoon, I guess they are in a hurry to leave in advance." But it doesn't matter, you can also come over and get it on the 30th, and ask the people on the other side of the administrative building when it's convenient. She said.

Before leaving, Jiang Yang asked Chen Yue to wait for him at the school gate. "Teacher, I want to ask one last question, which high school can Chen Yue's score line be admitted to?"

"It's low, it's too low. It's only five. ”

He had heard of No. 5 Middle School, which was considered to be the worst middle school in the city. It is rumored that there are hooligans in the society all year round. If it's true, can Chen Yue accept such a high school? Although these messages were inquired about in the small talk of neighbors, there is no definite witness. But everyone said so, and it inevitably became true that it was false.