1

September 1st has never been a festival, but because of the opening of the school to give this day a special meaning and memory, readers will definitely remember this day, that is the day of the beginning of school every year, the door of the student era is opened on this day, and the students have since embarked on a long road to study.

In the last year of the twentieth century, when He Li was six years old and I was five years old, we entered the campus together on the first day of September.

Originally, I was supposed to start school at the age of six, but in order to keep up with He Li, my mother asked me to advance by a year.

Our school is a "concave" shape of three rows of tiled houses, with offices, kitchens and staff dormitories in the middle row, and classrooms and student dormitories in the next two rows. Three rows of houses surround two small flower beds with two pine trees, evergreen all year round.

On the day of enrollment, my father sent me and He Li to the classroom, and after paying the tuition, he went home. Suddenly faced with so many unfamiliar faces, He Li and I were stunned, I was fine, and soon made a group of friends, but He Li suddenly found the difference between him and the girls.

All the girls either have a ponytail, or a mushroom head, or shoulder-length hair, only He Li's hair is short and short, and there is a scar, if it weren't for wearing a pair of jeans decorated with patterns, He Li would definitely be considered a boy.

He Li didn't dare to talk to any stranger, and sat alone in the back row, the back row on the left.

Of course, I can't leave anyone alone.

I sat down next to He Li, didn't say anything, didn't do anything, just quietly accompanied me, and the panic in her eyes gradually disappeared.

As the students got acquainted, the classroom began to become noisy, until a tall, bespectacled teacher walked in.

The person who came was our homeroom teacher, he said that his surname was Gao, he taught us Chinese, and after a brief welcome to the new students, he asked us to introduce ourselves one by one on stage.

I was the penultimate to take the stage, and He Li was the last, and I could clearly feel her nervousness. The classmates walked up to the stage one by one, and He Li's palms began to sweat.

I patted Ho Li on the shoulder, and I told her, "It's okay, everyone is the same, you can too!" ”

He Li just nodded vigorously, and I didn't think she heard me say anything at all.

Soon it was my turn to take the stage, and as I left my seat, I secretly hammered He Li's thigh to remind her to get ready.

"Speak slowly." I heard He Li whispering behind my back.

Walking up to the stage, I said, "My name is Jiang Xingyu." ”

I looked at He Li in the audience, and finally raised my head, she looked at me, very firm, she knew that I would definitely speak slowly.

Then I started the Tang Seng mode.

I said: "I am 5 years old this year, from Yanzihe East Street, my father used to be a teacher, he painted very good, interested students can find my father to learn, Bao Jiao Bao Hui, my mother is an optometrist, welcome everyone to come to my house with glasses, our glasses are called a good ......"

I felt like I was a salesman.

I continued, "I'm a very humorous person, I'm going to tell you a few jokes and have fun." "I've switched to a cross talk actor again. I said, "The big bad wolf said, 'I'm going to eat you!! 'Guess what's wrong?' As a result, the big bad wolf ate the lamb. ”

What a cold joke.

"A stag, it walked and walked, and it went faster and faster, and finally it became a highway!"

"One day Xiaoqiang asked his father: 'Dad, am I a stupid child?' Dad said, 'Silly boy, how can you be a silly child?' ’”

To be honest, my jokes are really cold, not funny at all, but laughter is contagious, I laughed desperately, laughing breathlessly, causing everyone to follow inexplicably happy.

I stole a glance at He Li, and in the laughter, she became much more relaxed.

Because he said too much, the teacher couldn't stand it, he looked at his watch and said, "Okay, okay, it's almost time for class, I'll talk about the joke next time, there is still a classmate who hasn't come up!" ”

When I returned to my seat, I met He Li in the middle of the classroom, and no matter how much I gave her a positive look, she was still afraid, but some roads had to be walked alone.

The moment we passed by, I secretly gave He Li a fist, hoping to make her stop being so confused. Then she walked up to the podium, walked to the left side of the podium, twisted her body to the left, and her eyes fell on the window on the left side of the classroom, giving people a completely deformed and strange feeling.

How could she have prepared well!

"I ...... My name is...... He Li ...... "He Li said her name hesitantly, and his little face turned even redder.

And then there was no follow-up, because the bell rang just for the end of class. The bell was loud, and He Li's voice was very low, and I could see her lips moving, but I couldn't hear what was said.

"Good! Welcome new students. As soon as the bell rang, I started to heckle, shouting and applauding, and my classmates all saw me entertaining myself, I was like a cold clown, like a joke without laughter, ridiculous.

But in this way, He Li returned to his seat and breathed a sigh of relief. I really don't want to see He Li embarrassed on the podium, it will be too difficult for her.

So on the first day of school, He Li learned to be silent, silent to the point of no sense of existence, so silent that she didn't have any more friends, and her classmates rarely paid attention to her, and even the teacher's roll call questions were no longer there.

2

In 03 years, the SARS virus swept the world.

The head teacher brought the household alcohol stove and boiled a pot of white vinegar, which did not stop from morning to night, recalling the early summer of that year, and the sour smell of vinegar filled the classroom.

A week later, the school received a holiday notice, and the students cheered, happier than the summer vacation. Before leaving, the head teacher repeatedly advised: "Pay attention to hygiene when you get home, prepare some banlan root at home, and go to a crowded place to join in the fun!" ”

I heard the news that the epidemic is getting more and more serious, and although the town has not been implicated, it is also panicked.

He Li suddenly had a fever and cough a few days after the holiday, and the medical conditions in the town could not be compared with those in the city, so Aunt Liu and Uncle He immediately chartered a Santana to go to the city for medical treatment overnight, for fear that there would be three long and two short.

I wanted to see He Li, but I was stopped by Aunt Liu, who touched my little brain and said, "Xingyu, when He Li comes back healthy, you can play together." ”

I said, "Okay, Aunt Liu, you tell He Li that I will wait for her to go to school together!" ”

Aunt Liu smiled very comfortingly, and dragged a long "Okay~".

I stayed at home after He Li left, listening for any movement next door, and I hoped that she would come back soon. Mom and Aunt Liu talked on the phone several times, but fortunately, all the good news came.

He Li and I also chatted a few words on the phone, and He Li always asked me, "When will school start?" ”

I said, "It's been a few days, you should come back quickly." ”

He Li: "Okay, I'll definitely come back in a hurry to go to school with you." ”

Me: "Hmm! Be sure to get better sooner. ”

Ho Li: "Uh-huh"

However, I didn't wait for the day of school.

When I went to class, everyone came, only Ho Li's seat was empty, but no one cared about the location in that corner.

Wang Fatzi in the front row of me saw that He Li's position was vacant, and he was noisy and said: "He Li is infected with SARS, but don't come back, you have to stay away from her when you come back." ”

When I was a child, Wang Fat Man had a lot of bad intentions.

I scolded Wang Fatzi loudly: "Wang Fatty, you are so fat, you are ugly, you will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law when you grow up!" ”

The fat man Wang was angry, and he couldn't catch me no matter how much he shook his big fat meat.

A few days later, we were in our first class of the afternoon.

"Report!" The voice was very small, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that He Li was back.

I waved at her happily, and she couldn't hold back her smile when she saw me.

I had spoken to Ho Li on the phone before, and she asked me if my classmates were well, but when I returned to school, she was even more left out.

No matter where she went, her classmates hid far away, and Wang Fatzi, who caused all this, was proud. In fact, He Li was just a general cold, but he was rumored to be SARS by Wang Fatzi.

I scolded Wang Fatman: "Fat man is fat, a body of meat, a single, a lifetime." ”

Fat Wang knew that he couldn't catch up with me, so he sat in his seat sulking, and his bulging belly was like a balloon that was about to be blown up.

3

After school in the afternoon, the students lined up on the playground, and the principal emphasized safety and hygiene as always.

Our class was at the front of the playground, with the girls in the front and the boys in the back. He Li is not tall, and she is naturally on the far left of the entire line.

However, the originally neat team was divided into two sections.

"Oh, it's so unlucky to be standing with her," said the girl next to He Li.

"Come and squeeze, let's stay away from her." Another girl said.

The girls moved their small steps, shoulder to shoulder, and squeezed again.

He Li was isolated, and a person was on the far left, and there was at least one fat man standing in the middle of the gap.

The girls' conversation was not loud, but it was not small, I still heard it in the back row, and I couldn't hear it, so she just stood still, she didn't want to, she didn't want to, she didn't have the courage.

Sometimes the gap between He Li and the collective is the distance of a fat man, but she can't take that step to the right. Maybe Wang Fatzi is really too fat, and he really can't find a daughter-in-law after 20 years.

I couldn't see He Li's expression in the back row, she didn't move, she couldn't even see the fluttering of her breath, and the quieter it was, the more worried I was.

I think I have to do something.

Not allowing me to think too much, I strode forward and stood in the gap between He Li and the team.

I turned my head and smiled at Holi.

The calmness on He Li's face was beyond my expectations, and he smiled slightly to show that I had no relationship.

It turned out that He Li had long been accustomed to those snubs, and her silence digested all the mockery and uneasiness.

At this time, the principal's gaze fell on me by chance, and we looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little awkward, and he stopped speaking.

I was probably a little confused, and I made a gesture that I still think is ugly, I rolled my eyes, stuck my tongue at the principal, and shook my head, I don't even know where I learned such an ugly expression. As a result, the principal was directly put on the podium in front of the playground, and the speech on the prevention of SARS turned into a criticism meeting.

"At a young age, I don't know the rules, and do I have any shame? I've never seen so many students like you," the principal scolded with a slap in his face, and the stars flew wildly.

When He Li saw me on stage, he became nervous, and I responded to her with a smile and told her that I was fine.

The principal threw down a chestnut, "You dare to laugh!" ”。

I didn't listen to the principal's reasoning, my classmates were waiting to go home, I received criticism and education and quickly returned to the team, with a cry of "Dismissal!" The impatient hearts of the students finally calmed down.

On the way out of school, I was with He Li, He Li walked on the far left, and I was next to her to the right.

"Starfield!"

Me: "Huh? ”

He Li: "Thank you......"

Before He Li's word "thank you" could be uttered, I immediately stopped, and I said, "He Li, you never have to say thank you to me, I was born for you, and we are best friends." ”

He Li smiled and nodded.

Some people, I don't want him to say "thank you" to me, have said it, as if we have cleared it up, and "thank you" and "goodbye" are mostly in the same context.

I'm never going to break up with Ho Li, and I don't want to say "goodbye" to her.

4

The school kitchen is a large wood-burning stove with two pots the size of a bath, one for cooking rice and one for boiling water. The rice in the big pot tastes particularly fragrant, and there is a crispy pot at the bottom of the pot, coated with chili sauce, which is called a delicious one.

It was an old woman who cooked for us, she was not tall, but her movements were quite numb, she got up at four or five o'clock in the morning and started cooking, three meals a day, never late.

My grandmother often smiled and said to us: "I have cooked all my life, I cooked for the cooperative when I was young, and now I cook for the school. ”

A child asked his grandmother, "Grandma, do you have any secrets when you cook so fragrant?" ”

Grandma said, "Concentrate and be single-minded." She always dragged on a long and heavy end when she spoke, perhaps in the hope that we could remember her teachings and use them for it. Every time I finished speaking, my grandmother would add: "You children, you have to study hard after eating the food I cooked." ”

When my grandmother was young, she went up the mountain to chop firewood and cook, but when she was too old to chop it, the school stipulated that each fifth-grade student had to pay 100 catties of firewood or 100 yuan to the school every semester.

He Li told me: "Let's chop firewood ourselves, it's not easy for our two families to make money, and adults don't have time to chop wood." ”

"Okay! Okay! I said yes.

Moms are a little worried that He Li and I can withstand this little body, and Uncle He and Dad absolutely support it. Dad said: "Let them suffer more, exercise and exercise, and be a mother just make up for the food." ”

Although my mother was a little worried, I still obeyed my father's wishes, and every time I took He Li up the mountain to chop wood after school, my mother repeatedly advised: "Pay attention to safety and take care of He Li." ”

"Good!"

In order to make it easier to drag the cut tree to the cafeteria, we chose to be in the mountain behind the school, and it was on this hill that He Li and I met two of our mutual friends.

Yes, it wasn't until the fifth grade that He Li finally had friends other than me, one was Yu Satisfaction and the other was Li Shu, they were students in another class in the fifth grade, and they also handed over to the school by cutting firewood by themselves.

While the other students were busy reading books or playing after school, the four of us started a difficult but fulfilling journey, like entering the map of the game to brush the dungeon, and greater tests and surprises will come.

Yu Satisfaction gave our group a name called "Firewood Brothers", and He Li immediately objected: "Why are you brothers, aren't there any girls here!" ”

Satisfied patted He Li's shoulder and said, "But you're a good buddy." ”

He Li: "Yes, then let's call it 'Firewood Brothers'." ”

At that moment, He Li had the happiness of being a friend for the first time.

5

Yu is the grandson of the grandmother who cooks in the cafeteria, and the two of them have been dependent on each other for a long time.

The principal saw that the grandmother and grandson were pitiful, and the grandmother had cooked such a New Year's meal for the school, so he told the grandmother not to hand over the firewood that she was satisfied with.

The principal said, "Auntie, you cut so much firewood for the school when you were young, and this is as it should be!" ”

Grandma: "yes, good! ”

After the principal left, grandma turned around and said to satisfaction: "Satisfaction, it should be yours or yours, grandma can't chop wood, maybe one day the food won't be burned, some things have to rely on yourself." ”

Satisfied said: "Grandma I know, I cut wood for the school by myself, and I don't engage in specialization." ”

Saying that he was satisfied and energetic and ran up the hill, his grandmother shouted to him from behind: "Be careful." ”

Satisfied that he had already run away, only to hear the young man's long response from behind the house: "I know!" ”

Satisfied Mom and Dad left him very early, and when Satisfied told us this story, the sunset was better than usual, the golden glow blended everything into one, a cloud kissed a cloud, a mountain was set with a mountain, a tree wrapped around a tree, they were all glowing with the light of the sun, and there was a great sense of wanting to compete with the night.

The last time I was with my parents, I was satisfied that the scene was also such a gorgeous sunset.

The satisfied father said, "Son, Mom and Dad are going out to work tomorrow, and you listen to Grandma at home." ”

Satisfied: "Okay, I'll miss you and Mom." ”

Too many conversations, I can't remember satisfaction, it was four or five years ago, but after that, satisfaction has never seen my parents again.

Some people say that the satisfied parents died in a car accident in the field, and some people say that his mother ran away with a rich boss, and the satisfaction never pays attention to it.

I asked, "Will you go to your mom and dad one day?" ”

Satisfied: "No." He said it in a low and firm voice, and I was curious about his paranoia, and gave his answer satisfied: "I have to take care of my grandmother." ”

At that moment, I looked at the setting sun with satisfaction, there was a golden light in my eyes, but loneliness was rampant as if I had fallen into the night.

Satisfaction is actually very relieved, most of the time he is giggling, likes to brag, humming a song that never catches the tune when he has something to do, if he doesn't say it, no one would think that he is carrying such a sad story.

Sadness makes him sensible earlier, and happiness makes him live a better life.

6

I remember the words on the walls of the school: "Be a good child at home, be a good student at school, and be a good citizen in society." This passage describes Li Shu as a very good person, and he is a person within the rules since I knew him.

But Li Shu has never been afraid of rules, but more respect, as well as the kindness and integrity in his bones to uphold justice.

At the end of East Street, when you see a mountain of waste products, it is Li Shu's home, which is a waste recycling station run by his parents.

When Li Shu was five or six years old, he was already able to collect waste on his own, and at that time, his parents would go to a distant village to collect waste, and the nearby streets would be handed over to Li Shu. Therefore, Li Shu has become a role model for parents to learn from their children since he was a child.

"Look at how capable Li Shu is, how can he look like you!" This is a lesson that all children of the same age on the street have heard.

At the beginning, Li Shu went to the street to recycle waste products, and the adults felt sorry for this child, so they packed the waste paper and scrap iron at home and gave it to Li Shu.

But Li Shu never accepted these gifts, and he paid for any waste products.

Li Shu said: "I collect waste, and if I don't give money, I will become a rag picker, which is different." ”

Adults always feel relieved, and often sigh: "This child is really stubborn." ”

It was not strange for me, He Lihe, and Satisfaction to meet Li Shu on the mountain, and that day, I heard his sound of chopping wood from afar, which was strong and powerful. When he stepped forward, he saw Li Shu cutting a big tree with a thick bowl mouth, and there was a pile of firewood that he had cut next to him, he was a little tired, sweating profusely, and he was exhausted after a few knives.

Li Shu sat on the thick fallen leaves, panting, and when he saw a few of us, he showed his honest smile.

They all came to chop wood, and everyone tacitly said with a satisfied smile: "Let's go together!" ”

"Good!"