Chapter 2: The Secret of Time

After the New Year's holiday, I started to enter the busiest final exam period of the semester, and Pei Xuan was going to Beijing for half a year of training, which meant that we would not see each other for half a year.

On the day he left, I couldn't go to the airport to see him off because there was an important meeting at school, and I wished him a smooth journey on the phone.

He smiled on the other end of the phone and said, "Fool, I can't fly if the wind is smooth, are you reluctant to let me go?" ”

Pei Xuan usually speaks with a straight look, and it was rare to play a trick with me that day, and I didn't know how to answer for a while.

Pei Xuan saw that I was silent on the phone for a long time, and said with a smile: "Okay, don't joke with you, I'm going to board the plane, you take care of yourself during this time." ”

In fact, I am quite reluctant to let Pei Xuan go, Pei Xuan is the only boy who has made my heart flutter in the past few years, and the only boy I am willing to take the initiative to get along.

I rushed before he hung up the phone and said, "Pei Xuan, I have something to tell you when you come back." ”

Pei Xuan answered a good word and hung up the phone.

After Pei Xuan left, my life was only left to attend classes, prepare for classes, and occasionally have dinner with Gu Zijin, Pei Xuan would talk to me about the recent situation on WeChat, and my life was uneventful.

In the early summer, Gu Zipei returned from the army, Wang Ning also ended her teaching in the west, and a few of our friends finally got together again. After that time, none of us mentioned Lu Li again, as if he had completely disappeared from our world. But I know that Lu Li has not disappeared, he is just buried deep in the soil of time by us, and one day these secrets belonging to time will break through the soil.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells......"

When the bell rang for the end of class, I picked up my textbook and walked out of the classroom after assigning homework to my students. From time to time, students in the corridor of the teaching building greeted me, and I all smiled and nodded in response. On the teaching building of the high school opposite, "Come on for the college entrance examination!" was hung. In the campus radio, the slogan of "Fish leaps over the dragon gate, sets sail, today I am proud of sailing, and tomorrow I am proud of sailing" resounded throughout the campus.

Only then did I realize that it was another year of college entrance examination, and I remembered that I had been one of these students in Yangfan Middle School six years ago. Just as I was remembering my lost youth, a voice behind me stopped me.

"Teacher Ye, please wait." I turned around, and a slightly rounded girl ran over and stopped in front of me, panting.

I did a quick mental search of my network and realized that I didn't know the person in front of me. The girl stroked her chest that had risen and fell violently due to running, and calmed her breath: "Hello Mr. Ye, I am Ding Ling, an intern in the editorial department of the school newspaper, you can call me Adin." ”

"Hello Adin, do you have anything to do with me?"

"That's right, because of the 100th anniversary celebration of Yangfan Middle School, the school newspaper needs to do an interview with the alumni of the school, I heard that you are an alumnus of the school's 06 class, I wonder if you can take some time to do an interview?" Adin looked at me expectantly, his eyes full of a student's eagerness to learn, and I was embarrassed to refuse.

I thought about it for a moment, "Then we'll see you after school at the 'Encounter Tea House' next to the school." ”

Seeing that I agreed, Adin smiled, "Thank you, Mr. Ye, I'll see you later." ”

Then he waved at me and ran away. I laughed in my heart that she was such a lovely little girl.

After school, I arrived at the "Encounter Tea House" as promised, and Adin arrived before me.

"Teacher Ye, what would you like to drink?" Adin asked as he handed me the menu.

"A cup of iced tea," I set aside the menu and continued, "Adin, I graduated a year before you, so you can call me Sister Zhenzhen." ”

Adin nodded, called the waiter to order, and then flipped out a photo from the folder of his notebook and handed it to me, "Sister Zhenzhen, look." ”

I took the photo in Adin's hand, and my hands shook unconsciously: "Adin, how do you have this photo?" ”

"Some time ago, I passed by the bulletin board, and saw this special photo on the alumni message board, and I thought it was very suitable for the theme of the school celebration newspaper, so I tore it off on my own initiative, and it happened that Mr. Chen Fei in the school newspaper room knew you, so I came to look for you."

I whispered, "I see," flattened the slightly folded foot, and placed it on the table to take a closer look. The photo shows five people wearing Yangfan Middle School uniforms, standing side by side in front of a blackboard with the countdown to one day of the college entrance examination, from left to right are Gu Zipei, Wang Ning, me, Lu Li and Gu Zijin. Gu Zipei held the basketball and made a shooting action, Wang Ning looked at Gu Zipei with a face, I was holding a pen in a ponytail to do questions on "Five-Year College Entrance Examination, Three-Year Simulation", Lu Li on my right looked sleepy-eyed, only Gu Zijin looked at the camera seriously with scissor hands. I flipped the photo to the back again, and after six years of sun and rain, the handwriting on the back of the photo had become a little blurry, but I could vaguely see that it read, "The world without you, only half of it is left; With your scenery, we are called - 2009.6.6".

The five people with different expressions and the familiar handwriting on the back of the photo are like a key to unlocking the secrets that I hide in the old days and don't want to be mentioned, and the good and bad scenes of my youth keep flashing in my mind like movie clips.

Seeing that I looked silent, Adin cautiously asked me: "Sister Zhenzhen, the theme of our school anniversary interview is 'Our Time', can you tell us the story behind this photo?" ”

Interrupted by my thoughts, I looked up through the window at the large LED screen lit up on the building opposite, on which a boy was playing the piano affectionately, his figure thin and straight.

I sorted out my thoughts and said slowly: "Our story starts from the first day of high school......