Chapter 39 When the college entrance examination is in progress
The 2009 college entrance examination is finally here.
The weather in June is not very face-saving for college entrance examination students, the weather is very hot and humid, and it is not cool at all. The old fans in the classroom were humming and slowly fanning the hot air, which was very frustrating. These days, everyone is like a full-winding machine, studying hard from morning to night, making the final sprint.
The day before the college entrance examination, before the class meeting, Mrs. Yuan asked me to go to the office to get the "Mock College Entrance Examination Voluntary Filling Form".
As soon as he arrived at the door of the office, he saw Lu Li standing with his back to the door, and the music teacher was talking to him.
"Lu Li, last time I sent your information to the admissions director of the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, they are very interested in you, and especially hope that you can join their academy."
I once heard Lin Zhi mention the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, which has produced many famous piano masters, such as Lang Lang. This school is a god-level temple that all piano learners yearn for, but I didn't expect Lu Li to be favored by foreign masters, and even got the opportunity to study abroad.
When I heard the news, I chuckled in my heart, and in just a few seconds, several questions swirled.
Is Lu Li going abroad? Will he still go to Yinda? So what about the agreement that we say will be good for the same city?
I walked quickly into the office with a stomach full of doubts, and listened to Lu Li's next answer with my ears pricked up.
Lu Li quickly glanced at me passing by, and said lightly, "I want to stay in China." ”
The music teacher obviously felt that Lu Li's decision was too rash, so he followed it carefully, "The Curtis Institute of Music in the United States reported that the time is in late June, Lu Li, if you think about it carefully, your talent is very high, if you can get the guidance of a world-class master, it is undoubtedly the icing on the cake." ”
"I'll think about it. Teacher, if there is nothing else to do, I'll go back first. ”
The music teacher nodded, and Lu Li walked out slowly.
Teacher Yuan handed me the form and told me something about filling in the volunteers, I listened absentmindedly, but I kept thinking about Lu Li's departure abroad.
In the last class meeting class of middle school, Mrs. Yuan took the trouble to emphasize the precautions for the exam in the next two days tomorrow on the podium.
I turned my head to peek at Lu Li, who was dozing off with his right hand on his chin and his eyes closed.
I sighed and opened the "53 College Entrance Examination" to do the questions, hoping to dispel the irritability in my heart.
After the class meeting, Gu Zijin took her newly bought digital camera, stood on the podium and waved excitedly, "Zhen Zhen, Wang Ning, Lu Li, come up quickly, let's take a group photo together." ”
At this point, I was halfway through the math problem, so I walked to the podium while doing the math.
Lu Li has been sleeping since the class meeting, and after being woken up by Gu Zijin, he slowly walked to my side rubbing his sleepy eyes.
Gu Zipei had just brought back the basketball he had borrowed from the next class, and he was also pulled to the blackboard by Gu Zijin.
When Wang Ning saw Gu Zipei coming back, she also got up from her seat with great interest, ran to Gu Zipei and stood beside her, watching Gu Zipei show off her skills with her fingers.
Seeing the four of us standing obediently, Gu Zijin nodded with satisfaction, she casually grabbed Chen Fei who was passing by in front of the podium, "Chen Fei, help us take a photo, you count to three, and then press this black shutter button." ”
Gu Zijin quickly ran to the most nearby position, posing with his scissor hands and facing the camera sweetly.
Chen Fei took a few steps back, raised his camera, and said in his mouth: "One, two, three." Eggplant! ”
With the "click" of the shutter button, the years of friendship between the five of us are forever frozen in the camera.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the school was about to be closed, and I reluctantly packed my schoolbag and walked out of the school, still thinking about the conversation between the music teacher and Lu Li.
Lu Li was riding his bicycle when a sharp brake came to a stop in front of me, and the wheels scraped the ground with a sharp creak.
Lu Li patted the back seat of the car, "Ye Zhenzhen, get in the car and take you to a place." ”
Lu Li parked the car at the beach, which was the beach we went to on our birthday two years ago, and the sea breeze with the salty smell of salty fish came to my face, blowing away the heat of these days, and also soothing and calming my nervous mood.
I screamed and jumped out of the back seat of Lu Li's car and ran towards the beach with my arms outstretched.
I went out today in white canvas shoes, and I was worried about getting soaked in the sea, so I took off my shoes and socks and walked barefoot on the beach.
With the blue sea on one side and the turquoise coconut grove on the other, we walked on the silver-white sand beach in the middle, and the fishing boats in the distance were gilded by the setting sun.
I turned my head to look at Lu Li, who was also carrying shoes and bare feet like me, and suddenly felt that he looked so cute, I asked, "Lu Li, why do you suddenly want to come to the beach?" ”
"Someone has been absent-minded all day today, and I'm worried that she'll play out of order tomorrow." Lu Li had been looking ahead, but suddenly turned his head and looked at me very seriously, "We said that we would take the same city." ”
I looked at Lu Li in surprise, "But the music teacher said that you should consider the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States." ”
"I don't want to go." Lu Li's eyes were very firm, "We said okay, you won't have to run away." ”
His words were like a tranquilizer, so that my originally panicked heart suddenly settled down, I looked at his eyes, and suddenly a deer in my heart sparked a strange feeling, I have never been confident in this kind of thing, it is rare to respond to him firmly, "Don't worry, I will be admitted." ”
On the morning of the college entrance examination, the weather was exceptionally good, and I arrived early to wait in front of the examination room.
I didn't expect Lu Li to arrive earlier than me.
Gu Zijin was talking about the interesting things that happened in the morning with relish, "My mother is more nervous than us, we all got in the car in the morning, and my mother stood at the gate and kept shouting, 'Zijin Zipei, did you bring your birth permit?' Then the aunt next door came out of the yard and asked my mother with a strange face, 'Your child is only in his third year of high school, why are you going to give birth today?' 'It's not funny, you say, haha. ”
Gu Zijin's cold joke instantly refreshed the originally stuffy morning.
But I was a little nervous by Gu Zijin's words, so I stomped my feet to relieve it.
Lu Li walked up to me and handed over a bottle of water with the label torn off, "Here you go." ”
I shook my head, "No, I brought water." ”
"You can't eat candy for the exam, it's sugar water to prevent you from having low blood sugar."
My eyes suddenly moistened a little, and over the years, I watched Lu Li tear off the mask of indifference little by little, and watched him become kind, friendly, and attentive.
I think Grandma Lu Li's wish has come true, and now Lu Li has become a sunny and warm big boy.
I took the sugar water with emotion, took out a large handful of sharpened 2B pencils from my school bag, and gave half of them to Lu Li, "Here, just in case." ”
Lu Li smiled and accepted the pencil, and tilted his head to see what I was struggling to find from my school bag.
Finally, I found the lucky bottle cap that had been placed in the far corner of the bag.
A while ago, I spent two nights buying golden decorative paper to wrap the lucky bottle cap and make it into the shape of a cartoon sun father, and then painted a cute smiling face with colored pencils, and finally strung the bottle cap with red string to make a charm.
I held the lucky bottle cap in front of Lu Li, "This lucky bottle cap is for you, and now it has a new name, called Lucky Sun." Hopefully, it will be like the sunshine that will bring you the best luck and unlimited energy. ”
Lu Li took "Lucky Sun", stared at it in the sun for a while, and deliberately laughed at me, "Ye Zhenzhen, I have thought of a lot of words to praise you, but the word ingenuity really doesn't seem to suit you." ”
"Hey, Lu Li, if you don't like it, you can pay me back."
I jumped up to get "Lucky Sun" back, but Lu Li made a nimble turn that sent me into the air.
Lu Li was too tall, so I had to give up.
"Lu Li, let's go to the playground after the exam, I have something to say to you." I looked at Lu Li seriously, the sky behind him was a little unrealistically blue.
"Okay, see you the day after tomorrow." Lu Li agreed very simply.
I smiled and nodded, "See you the day after tomorrow." ”
The bell rings to enter the exam room. Lu Li and I were not in the same teaching building, and when we walked to the fork in the road, I heard Lu Li whisper: "Ye Zhenzhen, come on." ”
After walking a short distance, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at Lu Li, his back was still thin and straight, his right hand fist was clenched, and the golden color was revealed between his fingers.
Obviously, we can see each other again after the exam, but I have an inexplicable premonition in my heart, as if this fork in the road will eventually separate me from Lu Li.
After the bell rang at five o'clock in the afternoon on June 8, the whole Dragon City felt a sense of relief. Some people can't hold back their excitement and talk about it, some people cry loudly because they have failed, some people open their schoolbags and tear up the test papers they have done, and some people carefully fold the admission ticket and hide it in the pen case.
Now when I think back to the college entrance examination that year, in addition to the chirping of cicadas, all I can think of are the test papers that I can't finish and the empty refills that I have saved up for a year in my desk pocket. There are also high school students endorsing and solving problems on the empty playground, under the shady maple trees, and in the quiet corridors and aisles on weekdays.
But after that, those days of frantically searching for reference materials in bookstores with friends are finally over.
I won't turn my head to find the person I quietly like when I do radio gymnastics.
You won't be running down the road while eating breakfast because you're about to be late, and the janitor who stood at the school gate to check attendance may not remember you......
It wasn't until later that I learned that separation is the norm in life, but the goodbye I said that summer was probably because of the special meaning of stepping into the unknown, so it was especially unforgettable.
But some words, as if they were not spoken, were buried deep in the capsule of time;
Some people, as if they haven't had time to say goodbye, are never seen again.